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EDGAR WALLACE YET AGAIN!

The manner in which she sets out BOOK COLLECTING to do this is"described in language

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that leaves nothing to the Imagina | INVESTMENT ON COMMERCIAL tion and must be one of the most straightforward pieces written in modern times.

"Again the Ringer," by Edgar

This book dramatised would un- Wallace; Hodder & Stoughton,

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played as it could be done would Those who are already acquaint-be a play well worth seeing. ed with that elusive and almost

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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE

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At sea

11-Mineral spring

court

4-A river of W. Africa

16-Chance

7-An American

naturalist and

author

18-Daughters of the

American Revolu tion (abbr.) 19-Ardor Inspired by

enthusiasm 22-Conjunction

28-Constrain

26-A rodent

27-Considers

:29-Arabla (abr.)

3-Attack

3-Egyptian dancing

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for tio 35-Couch 36-The Indige plart 38-Greek god of war 39-Toward

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The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issued along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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In no aspect of the world race for aircraft of greater speed, range, and power is rivalry now keener than in the ceaseless striving to fly higher and higher above the surface of the earth.

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So, by secret work in laboratory and workshop, scientists and de- signers are endeavouring to in crease by thousands of feet the "ceiling," as it is called, or height limit of aeroplanes.

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wife, his "Sportaman" opponent Detective Inspector Bliss, and the luckless and foolish Inspector Mander will need no recommenda-

tion to induce them to buy this

book.

A "THRILLER”

The recent sensational sale of the Jerome Kern library at auction for over G.$1,700,000 gives book collectors in Britain and America) much food for thought, and ope may well ask the question whether book collecting-once the fascina- ting hobby of many should now

[Heart Cut Diamond" by Sydney be regarded as a financial invest-

Horler; Hodder and Stough- toa.]

Clinton Hale, quest of a multi millionaire, whose yacht is anchored off Cannes, is tired of the artificial life of ease and walks out into the night. His adventures begin when he rescues a British girl from street robbers to find afterward that during the scuffle the unknown has disappeared.

ment.

That book collecting is now look- ed upon in a light other than the sense of mere possession is appar ent to anyone who das watched the book market closely. Probably the tremendous price realised at the Kern sale has been an incentive to other would-be-collectors....to ia their buying along commercial line.

To write a short story is a diffi- cult art but Mr. Wallace is a skilful craftsman. Here is abundance of good material, and the variety of

This is indeed a bad thing for subject and treatment provides an He meets her again in Britain the genuine collector and for the excellent afternoon's entertainment, and, as she is obviously in trouble, trade in general. It was not long Murder, robbery, forgery, all offer sets out to help her. This help, ago as one remembers, when booke problems for the reader's ingenuity. freely promised, is rather difficult were passed off on a few guline Perhaps the best fun of all is the to make effective, because Mercy, American millionaires at large sams last story "A Yard Man Kidnapped" | Wentworth, as the girl is called, is with the assurance that the publica- which the stupid and pompous aurrounded by criminals, who object. tions would increase_in_value. The Mander is put by the "Ringer" in very strongly to outside Influences result was that when the facts were what that witty person (not too and curiosity, and prefer to use realised the plausible salesman con- unjustly) considers his own place. Mercy for their own personal gain. cerned were sent to jail for obtain-

Everything works out as expecteding money by false pretences. A RARE TYPE OF NOVEL

in the end, but not before Clinton Hale has been through sufficient ad ["The Crine

ventures to kill an ordinary man.

These situations, however, are explained by Mr. Horler, who has again shown that as a writer of thrillers he has little to learn.

The number of book collectors in America has considerably increased,

many rare volumes have found a place in the shelves of these professional collectors. To-day one finds most masterpieces of literature

once the pride of Britain-over the Continent,

and of Lady Cresswell," by E. F. Spence, K.C. (E.F.S.); Ernest Benn Limited. 8/6.] It is quite a change these days to pick up a book that is neither the complete thriller nor the com- plete love story, and in his "Crime of Lady Cresswell" Mr. Spence has given us one of this unfortunately rare type,

A BOOK FOR BOYS

Cannot Be "The Thing That

Named," by Margaret Peter- son; Benn, Ltd., 7,6.1 The story itself may not be con- sidered absolutely original, the This is definitely a book for boys beauty depending upon the treat- and is a good hook for boys. The ment accorded it.

scene is laid in Africa around the Herbert Barnewell, whose bio-country already made familiar by graphy is given in the first few Rider Haggard, but the country is chapters meeta Lady Cresswell, the modernised to a certain extent.

Tony and Bob, school friends, young and very beautiful wife of a successful doctor, and the two fall sail for Africa to Joir Tony's father madly in love.

to the in an expedition into the heart of Unknown husband they five together in a Africa. Shortly after the expedi. is mysteri- flat and finally Lady Cresswell kills tion starts the leader Sir William, whose death is put ously killed and the boys auspect down to cardiac trouble. The two A. E. Hopkins, who had joined the lovers then marry but a sudden shock turus Lady Cresswell's mind back to her crime and she repeats. A religious mania seizes her, and, ignoring her new husband, con- feesses to the murder, is tried, and sentenced to detention for life. She is quite med at the end, and it comes as a sense of relief to read that an accident to the car taking her to the house of detention results in her death.

party two or three days before. The boys decide to go through with the search for the hidden treasure that was the reason for the expedition. Their adventures, both with A. E. Hopkins and with the natives, are thrilling, and, last but not least, the actual meeting and death of "The Thing That Cannot Be Named, provides a climax that should be exciting enough for any ordinary boy.

A sequel is promised, and if the first book has been read, the second will be looked forward to.

This book will make an excellent birthday present for boys, both young and old.

So much for the story, Herbert Barnewell is portrayed as a suc- cessful barrister who is rather forced into his adulterona position by the wiles of Lady Cresswell, who before her accident is a young, passionate creature. She was so young when married that, on meet- After all is said and done the ing the handsome barrister who best policy would be to buy pri- compared so favourably with her marily for your own delight, and inclined-to-be-bullying husband, she one day your descendants will bless disregarded the sanctity of her you for your taste and discrimina- marriage and openly set out to tion. entray Herbert.

-C. L. C

European Prize Beauties

Even Burns* works, Gray's Elegies, first editions of Dickens, Thackeray and Goldsmith are no longer for the collector of moderate means, and the number of this class of books is continually becoming smaller. The genuine collectors are therefore forced to turn--by the fact that money plays such an im- portant part in the book, collecting of to-day to authors of less estab lished fame than the Napolcons of literature.

Does It Pay? One may, therefore, ask whether One this form of investment pays. thing is, however, certain that a man who never bought a book un- less he could see himself getting his money back with interest would get precious little pleasure out of life, but quite as much as he would deserve. He had better leave books alone.

There is, as always, the other Unless a col- side of the picture. lector is wealthy enough to regard his collecting as a pleasant way of dissipating his useless money he cannot afford to ignore altogether the financial side of the hobby.

It cannot be also said that spe- culative collectors do not run 接 to other lines xt risk similar

for in the long run investments, although fashions and occasional freakishness may obscure the fact, only books of intrinsic merit com- mand high prices in the sale room. Also a slump in Wall Street tura books into waste papers in a night,

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(Continued at foot of preceding Column.)

Six beauties of European beauty contest, whose pulchritude failed to arouse the desired in- tercnt of Uncle Sam. L to r, Angela Joyce, England; Natli Blair, Russia; Jeannette Gaubert, France; Nita Smolinska, Poland; Jackie Cobra, Spain; and Joly Ashley, England.

THEATRICAL TOUR ENDS IN DISASTER

indifferent, and of all ages and countries look as much alike as possible.

wear hang-dog expressions instead of the stunning costumes they had been promised, and many lost their trunks for unpaid hotel bills.

The Statue of Liberty wore her usual sphinx-like expression when One day a curious-minded newa- the femmes passed her by, and, al- paperman wondered what had bas though they arrived in "The Land come of that beauty expeditionary of Golden Opportunity" with a force. He found out! It wasn't after another grand blast of publicity, New York long before one managers looked them over indif-cropped up in various mid-Western" ferently and made no flattering towns, working out their board

New York, May 2. Beauty experts contend that the knee-length skirt, bobbed hair, small hat and boyish figure have been standardized, not only for Broadway and Palm Beach, but for What are contemplated are Constantinople, Japan and even the offers. great streamlined machines of steppes of Russia. metal which, rushing up till they are six, seven or eight miles high, In consequence, six European may whirl above the Atlantic at prize beauties came to grief when such speeds that a flight between they landed on these shores, deter Europe and America will be ac-mined to refute the contention that complished in not more than 12 for the first time in history- or 15 hours.

women of all kinds, good, bad and

bills while they waited for pa and Attributing this indifference to ma to send them passage, money poor judgment, Howard Lichey, home. their manager, far from being dis- All these ladies, sadder but wiser, couraged, took his hand-picked had been selected for their outward peaches further West, where, as loveliness, not their intelligence. everybody knows, men are men. Yet, in the end, they had been But, as time went on, and suc forced to le not by their beauty, cess did not, the girls began to but their wits.

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