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GENTEEL SNOBBERY

["The Broken Lily" by E. N.

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LAST CENTURY PLOT

"Lady Isobel's Indiacretion," by John Halvewood (Cecil Palmer, 7/6).] VAR.

Here are the Ingredients of a

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PRIVATE DETECTIVES

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"Jennerton and Co." by E. Phillipa Oppenheim. (Hodder and Stoughton).] . S

Hackett. (Cecil Palmer, 7/6)] Her lover, Hugh Griffiths, is the

This is not Mr. Oppenheim at son of the man who had seduced her mother, and broken her life,

his beat. In the series of short and when she learns this, Razel, ten by a very genteel little gover- stories in which he recounts the the rich "lady of the Manor, reness early in the last century, had varied cases dealt with by the firm. fuses to marry him, because she there been one found who could of Jeanerton and Co., private de is an Aveling, and "the Avelings abandon her mind to write with tectives, probability is stretched The famous often to breaking point, and the never forgive.” Hor thwarted suficient vulgarity.

new outlet in tenor Vencetti, who is of course re long arm of coincidence must have affection finds a her love for David, a young clergy-markably handsome, goes incognito been wearied in their service. was a protege .of her to be music master-in "a- girls' Perhaps we are growing too criti- father. She gives him a good liv-boarding school; that reads like cal of this type of story, now that is in her patronage. A parody of 1. T. Meade's worst there are so many really first class ing which

"poor, blinded misguided tales, but is all perfectly serious. detective novels coming so fast This

little from the Prese, but it must be spirit longing for the vividly exotic There is the ill-treated

who is naturally, an bloom of passion, and in her blind- drudge,

to the prevalent weakness for "de- ness not seeing the sweetly per- heiress who has suffered at the confessed that most of us who own fumed rose of love, that was ever hands of the wicked cousin, the tective" flotion like to have more beside her". determines to marry heroine is Lady Isobel who mag- David, and one evening when her querades as a gipsy and so wing of problem to solve. The cases mood is utterly feminine, and the love of Vencetti; there is there varied; blackmailers, kidnap- Mr. Jennerton's path charged with all the allurement red-haired "vamp" who murders pers, lunatics, murderers, all seem- that a clinging helplessness has the little drudge, whom Vencetti ed to cross for a strong masculine dominance" has married to save her from tor- quite frequently: bat on the whole she puts into words "all the pasture at the hands of the wicked the collection is not worthy of its sionate invitations that has (sic) school-mistress, and it sounds in- ever been woman's since Eve Arst credible, but it is the truth-there tempted with the Apple of Life."Is the apparent death of Lady Their marriage is a failure, and Isobel from brain-fever, and her was only in a David goes back to his first love, recovery, for she the simple fisherman's daughter, trance! Further comment is un- necessary; any adequate remark and Razel at last realises where would be too impolite for publica- her own happiness lies.

tlon.

Mixed up with this love story is a good deal of rather sickly sentiment about religion, an uncon- vincing attempt to give the sort of picture of the life of the English clergyman that Trollope has given once and for all, in an atmosphere of genteel snobbery that would have been unpardonable in a "Indy novelist" of the 'Aftles. The ex- tracts quoted above give an idea of the style. The character draw. ing is exaggerated to the point of absurdity, and the dialogue stilted and affected in tone, while the narrative is so slow and cumbrous that few readers will persevere and

sce Razel united to her lover,

A LOVABLE CHARACTER

["The Prisoner in the Opal," by A. E. W. Mason. (Hodder and Stoughton, 7/6.)]

Mr. Ricardo, a retired tea chant, is passionately fond of the red wines of France, and as a re- ault invariably visits the neigh bourhood of Bordeaux during the vintage period each year.

BLUE-EYED SIR GALAĦAD:

skilful author.

THE NOVELS

Ot the novels most discussed during the year, Mr. Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," an exquisitely-written work. cannot here be discussed, since it was published late in 1927. It was by an American, one more of ['Like a Rose," by Margaret the many Americans who are be- their debt to Peterson,

Benn, ginning to repay (Ernest

Mr. Wells, Ltd.)]

English literature, Jennifer Postle is the only with "Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampele daughter of a beautiful woman, Island," and Mr. Galsworthy, with,

Song" reminded who, to use the phrase adopted by "Swan

:

Mr. Hugh!

their

Mr. Breit- her relatives, is living in sin. On readers of their best works with- her mother's death she goes to live out equalling them. with an elderly and respectable Young, with "My Brother Jona- aunt, whose only son Billy, a blue-than," fortified his reputation as eyed Sir Galahad, falls in love with a novelist, careful and elaborate, her and she with him. When Billy in the old manner. goes to Africa, Jennifer, too, leaves Walpole, In "Wintersmoon," wrote the aunt, and in order to make a what is probably his best book. living, goes as nurse to some though it is marred by unsupport- children in Ireland, but after trialed allegations, the conservative of the boredom of such a post, characters and the reformers both runs away to London, where she having Ideas imputed to them becomes a theatrical star at once, which are never illustrated, or and gives herself to her manager, justified by practice: the first Harland.

hypothesis of, the book, the mar On Billy's reurn on leave, she riage, moreover, being one dificult mer-abandone Harland and the stage, to swallow, granted the characters. and hides in-Brittany till Billy Miss Margaret Irwin's "Fire Down comes to take her away to Africa. Below," though in places, Interest- Harland finds her, spends a week lug, did not quite fulfil the promise end there, and when Billy returns, of "Still She Wished for Company." novels this year summoned to her by a telegram The two

gave most pleasure, One year before setting out on (for she has tried to drown her which

Mr. Henry Williamson's his pilgrimage he meets Joyce self, and gets pneumonia), and were Whipple, who asks him to make marries her, he discovers the secret "The Pathway and Zweig's "The a special point of visiting the of her past life, and she leaves Case of Sergeant Grischa," a Ger

man war-novel; remarkable for Its Chateau, Sulvac, and there en him. deavouring to find out exactly what

After some years in London and fairness, sympathy, strength, and

Jennifer is wrong with Diana Tasborough, Paris,

becomes the vividness. the owner. Joyce is, in her own

protegée of a Russian prince. Her mind, convinced that evil influences last meeting with Billy and her sui- are at work which are affecting | cide and the story. Diana, and she wishes to counter. It is a pity to write novels like act them.

this. Miss Peterson can tell a Mr. Ricardo undertakes the story, but character drawing has task and, helped by his great never been her strong point. None friend, M. Hanean, a distinguished of the people in this book is con member of the Paris Surate, auc-vincing There is no reason why ceeds in exposing a vile plot to Jennifer should sell herself. She obtain mastery of Diana and her seems to take that for granted at possessions.

the time, In spite of Vaja remorne A murder of a most revolting later. There is no struggle to earn type, the abduction of Joyce her living except by the oldest of necessary they ensure daily re- Whipple, and a description of the professions. In any case most gularity, banish billiousness and sick headaches, clear the skin, blasphemous Black mass are in- people will fail to understand, as cidents which make the "Prisoner Billy did, that "the soul of her purify the breath. Of chemists In the Opal" exciting and almost loved Billy, that she had always everywhere, or post free, 60 cents thrilling. The author of "The kept that soul of hers apart from the vial, from Dr. Williams' Medi- Four Feathers" has once again her life with Harland." It is im-cine Co., 80, Klangse Road, Shang- given us readable book and a possible to agree with the notice most lovable character in Hanean, on the cover which describes this the French detective, who delights book as a brilliant psychological in misusing English Idioms.

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