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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929.

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LADY WRITER

"LOVE AND THE LADIES"

Stephen's idyllic love affair with Playgoers, who have already had Lou Buckley, of Covent Garden an opportunity of seeing Ben Flower Market, together with the Travers now play, "Plunder," happy issue of Malvina and Stephen which is a worthy successor at the out of all their troubles, is the Alwych Theatre to a "Cuckoo, in ["Love and The Ladies" by Eleanor motive of Richard Dehan's beaut-the Nest," "Rookery Nook" and "Thark," may like to hear that Hallowell Abbott. London:ful and absorbing romance,

Mr. Travera is at present engaged Appleton's Colonial Library.] The note on the jacket of this | ["H.R.H.; A Character Study of in writing "Plunder" as a book; the Prince of Wales," by Major after which he hopes to follow-it- The big scene very charming book says "Eleanor

F. E. Verney, M.C. Hodder and up with "Thark." Hallowell Abbott's public knows

Stoughton, Ltd., London, 5/. in the play, one of the most amusing that she is a writer who never die

From the publishers.]

acenes on a London stage today, appoints, and that everything from

The popularity of Major. Verney's la the interrogation of Tom Walls her pen will be fresh, endearing and

book when it was first published two and Raph Lynn by a Chief In- In- Individual." This is a very c

at Scotland Yard. curate description of her new book years ago is a full and sufficient apector

reason for the present cheaper spector Weasley, the police officer of short stories, "Love and the

who had charge of the Gutteridge edition, which should meet with a Ladies,"

case, and who has seen the play. "Love and the Ladies" is con-wide and ready acceptance. posed of six short stories, "The Verney has accomplished a supreme- said that it was the only true to Other Jasper," "Thursday's Swanly difficult task with tact and dis-life representation of Scotland

on the stage. Yard methods that he had even seen

had a Crumpled Wing," "Turkey in the Oven," "The Prompt Trousseau," "The Length and Breadth of Real. ily" and "The Steps That Went Up Into the Sky." The Other Jasper is the longest and certainly the most

Major

tinction, and one instinctively feels that his portrait of the Prince, drawn carefully and without any excess of adulation, is a true one. of special interest is the account the author gives of the Prince's

Among the books now in pre- paration, is

historical A nov

with "The Early Life (1860-1678) memoir by Marjorie Bowen dealing

Orange-Nassau.” The story of these critical and eventful years in

meritorious tale, and deals sympa. / South African tour, and of the en- of William II of England and

thusiasm which everywhere greeted "Little him

thetically and charmingly with the rather empty life of Tyndall." "Little Tyndall" is "the ..the last of the Tyndall banch. was such a tiny thing, so sort of nondescript and indefinite in her first tomboyish knickers that people just naturally got tired of making 'Is It a boy or a girl?' and called her Jasper Little Tyndall' instead. Kent is introduced to her by her old dog Jasper, and their love story is original and very well handled by

the author.

"Turkey in the Oven" is another extremely readable table, racily of quaint written, with touches humour, and ending just as romanti- cally as "The Other Jasper'in fact, the four remaining stories do likewise and "Love and the Ladles" might be described as a series of promising beginnings and happy endings.

A capital book to while away lazy

hours.

Orczy. London: Hodder and Stoughton.]

William's life, which has not been related in English with such detail before, concludes with the fall of Bonn.

throughout his itinerary. And if anyone supposes that the life of the Heir Apparent is an easy one, and his royal position a secure, his illusions will have been dispelled after reading this book. Major Verney relates many good

the Prince, while the Guest," Wom Garrett, was stories of Wustrations to the book are both called to the Scottish Bar and practises 2.3 ап Advocate, interesting and characteristic.

following the example of Robert

1919. only Beven

The author of "The Professional

Nursing Mothers.

Stevenson. He lives in ["The Tragic Empress," by Maurice

Paleologue. Thornton But Edinburgh a few doors from the terworth, Ltd., London 13/6. house in which R. l. S. lived, has From Albert and Son. Ltd., published several novels, and Perth.]

lectures on International Law in M. Palcologue": was the last Edinburgh University.

He has to Russia in also written a story for children, French Ambassador

He is also a mem- "The Grand Buffalo," on the lines pre-war days.

This ber of the French Academy, and in of "Alice in Wonderland."

was recently broadcast to the the present book he describes a

A number of intimate conversations Children's Hour by the B.B.C. he was privileged to hold with the S-act play, "The Professional late Empress Eugenie between the Guest," based on his novel, was years 1901 and 1911.

Actually, M. recently produced successfully by Paleologue's Jast meeting with the the Edinburgh Repertory. Com- "Skin O' My Tooth" by Baroness Empress took place in December,pany, and there is some prospect of months be-ta production on the regular stage fore her death at the great in- London or elsewhere before the

Like most end of this year.-U. age of ninety-four.

of advanced years the people Empress lived a good deal in the past, and although few royal personages have had more tragic

Women nursing babies should memories to look back, upon, she was able to speak about old, unhappy carefully watch their own health events in that spirit of resignation and daily regularity, for failure to and quiet acceptance which is the do this lets loose poisons into the best gift Time has in its power to blood which rob the baby's food of beatow. Referring on one occasion purity and strength. The most to her friendship with Queen efficient laxative for the nursing Victoria, and the hopes that were mother's uso is Pinkettes, which act centred on the young Prince Im-as gently as nature and neither perial, the Empress sald It was gripe nor purge. Pinkett's diapel our dream that he should, marry sick headaches, biliousness, 'flatul- Baroness Orczy has written some

Their tastes ence, keep the skin clear and the quite acceptable fare in the crima Princess Beatrice, line, though it is never likely to ap- and characters were wonderfully breath swet. Of chemists, or poat proach either in quality or popu- well matched; everything pointed to free. 60 cents the vial, from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse larity her Historical novels of the their happiness. And that dream Road, Shanghai.

on June 1, 1879, also vanished, In her

After under the Zulu assegris 1" reading this book one realises that to the very end Empress Eugenie retained something of her old unconquerable spirit. The.. Eng- lish translation is by Mr. Hamish Miles.

a

It is a comparatively rare thing to find a woman writer successfully entering the ranks of thriller or detective fiction. Perhaps it is because so few women possess logical brain; perhaps it is because books of this nature deal more essentially with man's aphere than is the case with the general run of fiction. The leading characters are almost of necessity males, and it usually needs a man to interpret a man's reactions and reasonings amid the highly-coloured action the public demand.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Scarlet Pimpernel series." latest production she has once more deserted history for modernity, and even the best-intentioned reader will experience a slight feeling of She regret for the circumstance. has created an Irish lawyer who, owing to his ability for releasing innocent people from the clutches of the law, has earned the nickname of "Skin o' My Tooth." She tells

Among the list of Exhibitors in some of his experiences in a series this year's Royal Academy, one of short stories, some fairly good found many names of artists who and some indifferent. At best, how-

have illustrated Bodley Head ever, they only attain a medium level hooks. Among the seniors, not- as judged by modern standards of ably Sir David Young Cameron. detective fiction, while throughout Other names are Donald Maxwell, she perpetuates the old-fashioned J. Nicholson, Miss M. Howard, Idea of portraying the professional E. A. Cox, Misa Violet Brunton, police as congenital idiots.

Mrs. Burleigh, H. Alker. Tripp. Laura Knight, A.R.A., and Miss E. J. Rivers.

After reading 'Skin My Tooth" one cannot help feeling that, while Baroness Orczy holds a niche

of her own in historical fiction, she Muriel Hine js.

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BOOKS IN BRIEF

["The Lovers of the Market Place," by Richard Dehan. Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., London, 6/-, From Albert and Son, Ltd., Perth.]

Ladder of Folly," at Kingsgate Castle In Hent. The opening sceres are laid in and around this place, and Miss Hine is visiting there scenes again before passing the whole for press.

General Brace, the well-known Hlinalayan traveller and explorer,

Sequcis are not always satisfac has written the foreword to tory, but the present book is a Major W. Brook Northey's and worthy successor to "The Pipers of Captain G. Morris's book on the the Market Place." Indeed, in Gurkhas, has just left: England respects, Richard Dehan's to spend a month in Switzerland. story of what befell Malvina Braby Both he and Captain Morris were in the Mount Everest expedition of,

some

and her son Stephen, after the formere separation from her hus-1922.

band, the half-distraught Wilfrid Braby, is an even ner plece "of

During the recent

enquiry

Cpm-

work than its predecessor. Mal by the Special Committee Into

Police Methods, ope vina is the same loyal, upright and

mitteo read out Bodkin an extract For the Information of visitors Indomitable woman, whose Integrity the following list of some of the of character has endeared her to highest points on the Island and so many readers, while Stephen, Richard Muir" by E Mainland is published:-

now. grown to manhood, la the in which Muir's opinio worthy son of a worthy mother ments made by Pris

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The time of the story. Is the later. seventies of last century, and the scenes alternate between th Brabys country cottage in Hert fortshire and London-the Lordon, of Covent Garden and Its Inimedi ste surroundings. The pervedu, tions which Stephen and his mother. endure at the hands of Whfrid Braby and his partner in wicked- дель Grenson Grundell,

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