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FATAL ENDING TO THREE MEN'S JOY-RİDE

Los Angeles, April 28. Three men, all of whom were described as "apparently intoxi- cated," were killed in an aeroplane accident here to-day

The dead are: William Oviatt, Ray Scott and Mack Fuker.

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GEORGE MOORE

AUTHOR BURNS HIS NOVEL

BIRTHDAY STORY

Was

WELLS AND TOLSTOY

IRRITATED AND BORED

The other day Mr. Arnold Ben- nett strongly deprecated

the

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Mr. George Moore, the famous practice of authors writing This may appeal to those who essayist, novelist, poet and playtroductions to the books of other are interested in Soviet propa-wright, who seventy-seven living authors. A book, he said, has burned the ari- should not be led into the ring ganda but not to the lover of his recently,

like Cew

a performing horse at novel. tory.

ginal story of his

Aulia."

A year

eircus.. That objection will not "Aphrodite in ago, while ill, be made a memor hold against critical introductions able struggle to complete the work to the work of authors whose fame been established before undergoing a serious opera- has long since

and who have themselves departed tion.

of literary com- from this scene petition. One usually expects however, that such prefaces shall be sympathetic and appreciative. At any rate, it is presumed that

оп

As a sidelight on the policies of European Statesmen during the critical weeks just prior to the outbreak of 1914, it is misleading, the net being the intrigues of

Mr. Moore revented the destruc- France and Russia, aided by Britain

tion of the story in a "birthday to Jure Germany into war.

The book ends a rather interview." At present he is re- theatrical note, regarding the pre-writing the whole story.

He began the original story in paganda of "Truth" as propound-

book in question has 1927, and it had all but reached. ed by Lenin.

the last chapter when he became spicuous merits which make it! worth reading, and the introduc- ill. His doctors, who at first

tion is normally a critical ex- thought an immediate operation

position and analysis of these advisable, granted him two

merits. A startling exception to months respite, and he made a the rule has been provided in the

'LEWIS CARROLL, MSS

REPORTED OFFER TO OXFORD

Rumours are current in Oxford University circles that an offer has been made to Christ Church. of certain manuscripts and first editions of "Lewis Carroll,"

The exact nature of the manu scripts has not been revealed, but it is understood that a desire has been expressed by the pro- posed donor that a Lewis Carroll shrine should be established at Christ Church.

Probably the rooms at Christ Church occupied for so many years by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson ("Lewis Cerrol") would be devoted to this purpose. They are at present in use by a don, and diffieyities are be lieved to have arisen regarding the conditions suggested. For the time the matter remains in abeyance, and it may be some before a public made.

weeks or months announcement is

Wins Annual Award

the

con-

course of the publication of the admirable 21 volume edition of the works of Leo Tolstoy now being issued by the "Oxford University Press," When we open the volume containing "Resurrection"" we find an introduction in which Mr. H. G. Weils explains why he does not think much of this novel. He leaves us in no doubt of the fact that it both irritates and bores. him. He denounces its author for distorting fact in order to point his moral, and not only at- tacks Tolstoy himself but knocks the Russian novelists in general off their pedestals, describing Dostoevski, for instance as "that clumsy great idol.”

Many admirera of, Tolstoy will doubtless be indignant with Mr. Aylmer Maude, the editor of this centenary edition, for allowing an! introduction of this type to be printed in it. Mr. Robert Lynd, on the other hand, thinks the experi- ment deserved to be commended. "Tolstoy," he says, "above most writers, has been made. dull by discipleship, and Mr. Wella's thwackings not only do not de- ! stroy Tolstoy, but may even incite readers who have

grown indif- ferent to him to awake out of their indifference and read him in the spirit of a rescue-party." In this connection it is fitting to mention a recent incident that re- brave effort to finish his bock-flects credit upon one of the young- the last book he says he will ever est firms of London publishers. write. But he dictated only an As Soviet Russia stands outside cutline-of the final chapter.

the Berne Literary Convention, no Russian writer can secure transla tion right, in Britain. Messrs. Gollanez, however, in issuing an English version Countess Tolstoy, the original of which appeared in Moscow in September, are paying the Tolstoy family a royalty equal to that which would have been due to then if the book had been first

Perhaps it is early yet to es- timate the place of Lewis Carroll in English letters. In his life- time there was no one to chal-

The annual medal for the best book lenge his supremacy as writer on child development has been awarded for children,

to Dr. Arnold Gesell, Director of the and no author is

Psycho-Clinic, Yale University, for his clearly seen who has imperilled book. "Infancy and Human Growth," that supremacy

since his death, by "Children, the Parents Magazine," What coming generations may the publication whicbrakes this year- think of the "Alice" books only ly award. time car show, Admittedly, the market valuation among collectors at-the-moment-is-of little worth in estimating a writer's standing, but the prices paid of recent years for particular manuscripts and rare editions have been colossal.

For the original manuscript of "Alice in Wonderland;" when it appeared last April in Sotheby's saleroom, Dr. Rosenbach, the American buyer, paid £15,400. It has since passed to Nr. Eldridge Johnson, of New Jersey, U.S.A., who has given £80,000 for the pre-

Now he has burned the story of a young Athenian who lived in the days of Pericles. It was in terrupted by my illness," he said, "and I had to begin it again. I think with three months good health I can finish it.

"Have I kept the first story? Why should I? I simply burned it, but the present novel is the cious sheets and will issue a fac-

same story, differently told. simile edition. The one purchase missed the architecture the also included two copies of the first edition of "Alice."

MISS MAYO AGAIN

ANOTHER BOOK ON HINDU INDIA

first time," he said, "and very few stories needed architecture more than 'Aphrodite in Aulis, because it is a story of two generations. The second generation achieves that which the first failed to achieve. Thereby occurs disloca- tion in the family. The son is ad- mired but envied; the father and mother are jealous.

of the diary of

published in Britain.

EVOLUTION

WOMAN WRITER'S 24 ESSAYS

There seems

was

to have been a revival lately of interest in the stimulated question of evolution Miss Katherine Mayo, author of

"All the Greek part is imagin- perhaps by the Fundamentalist "Mother India," has written an-ary; there is only one thing com-

controversy in America of which other book about India, which is ing from personal knowledge the "Dayton monkey tria!" to be published shortly.

portrait of a wolf. I had a wolf the most notorious incident. Miss Frances Mason has therefore, met According to Jonathan Cape, that was a very Tame animal and

a need of the hour by the publica- Ltd., the publishers, Miss Mayo | more devoted than any dog, or any again appeals in her fresh volume cat. And he was one of the most tion through Macmillan of the volume she has adited under the for the "release of India's degrad-beautiful animals but not over-. ed souis." The book, "Slaves of obedient. I was a great deal with It consists of 24 essays, in which title of "Creation by Evolution" the Gods," takes the form of a him until he was about half leading British and

por-grown,

of

collection of stories which tray exactly what it means in Hindu India to be a child-wife, a temple prostitute, a victim suttee, a child-widow, an "un touchable," or a sacred cow.

Twelve records, described as dramatic and forcible, are given, each taken from real life, and said to be carefully verified. It may be recalled "Mother India"

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American authorities have shown in "He was given me to look after, technical language how the but one day he was taken away principle of evolution affects their because the offer did not wish own special subjects.

It accord- to keep him, and was still more ingly provides as its subtitle au- determined that I should not, andnounces, a "consensus of present gave him to the Zoo.

day knowledge" respecting this "He did not like the keeper, problem. but when I went to the Zooto

It opens with prefatory notes see him, his joy was overwhelm- that ing. The keeper told me not to by Professor H. G. Osborn pre- caused intense go in to him, but I did and be sident of the American Museum of feeling in India, where the truth threw me down. People shouted Natural History and Professor Str of Miss Mayo's forbidding picture-but he only wanted to lick me ate president of the Royal Society. Charles Sherrington, of Oxford, of Indian life was hotly contest- ed.

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The field attendants said all the meni appeared under the influence of alcohol when they entered the machine-United Press

After Aphrodite in Aulis is finished I shall write no more.. I The first essay, written by Dr. should like to hire or build some David Star Jordan, the doyen of American evolutionists, discusses small house-If I have enough the meaning of evolution money--somewhere in the South

of France where I can sit among The book suffers from the dis- the recke by the sea and amid a advantages that inevitably attend few, friends and aesthetic thea composite production-i.e, the days away, with my feet in the essays are of varying quality and bluest and beautifullest of seas!" there are occasional clashes of on- lon and overlappinga. Many readers too, will be disappointed to find no discussion of the relation be tween evolution and religion. But it would be hard to discover else where so authoritative and read- able an account of the various. phases of this fascinating subject

MISS HALL'S BOOK

NEW YORK PUBLISHER ON TRIAL

Miss Radclyffe Hall's novel, been for long time managing you!" class Pinkettes are the great- "The Well of Loneliness" was in director of L'Epargne Franco- est help, for they so quickly restore New York declared to be "obscene" Chinoise in Tientsin and Peking. daily Intestinal regularity. stimu by the magistrate trying the case He is now the senior partner of the late the liver, revive jaded digest which Mr. Donald Friede vice Jegal firm of Mancini & Brault, with tion, up-lift the spirits.

president of Covivi and Friede, Inc., publishers, is concerned.

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