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CAROLA OMAN'S NEW NOVEL
WARS OF THE ROSES
["Crouchback"; by Carola Oman;
It would be interesting, too, to picture the poet Swinburne halt-
absolutely ing."
through blind penny
ate such features. There is also bring the past more vividly before "Piccadilly: Bureau," which is me, there in a chair by the fire of Jane Austen's calculated to interest and assist lay a copy readers abroad who contemplated | 'Mansfield Park,' reminding me of
thet a visit to the Old Country. Hong Fitzgerald's remark
Miss read Kong residents may be assured of Austen's works,
after a cordial welcome at these offices. Sanskrit studies, composed the
The following are some of the Professor's mind like gruel." regular features in a brightly Hodder & Stoughton, 8/6d.] Those who like the historical printed, capitally illustrated, and novel will rejoice at the publica-ably produced journal that ought tion of this book. It is the his-to secure a large degree of sup-chance before the magic torical romance proper in which the port and popularity in Hong Kong box. But a writer in an Ameri- can review maintains stoufly that protagonists are themselves the and elsewhere overseas:-
the real discoverer figures of greatest importance in
of that frat their age; it is not merely a story
edition was the lawyer and philo- of love and war with a carefully
logist, Whitley Stokes, the secret suggested historical background.
being shared at once with Rossetti, Britain of the closing period of
who, in his turn, made a confident. the Wars of the Roses is the
of Swinburne. "They visited theatre in -which Miss Oman
Quaritch's then, already aware of stages her drama of the loves and
the existence of the translation, deaths of the great Warwich and
and perhaps having already read Be this as it may, his peers; and of the tragedy of
it! the enigmatic Crouchback and his
fantastic results came from that! sad, tired queen
visit to who so
the penny
box, results afraid of the greatness that life
which A. C.. Swinburne himself by no means foresaw, for thirty-six | years later, in a letter to the late) Clement Shorter, he wrote: "Wel invested, I should think, in hardly less than six pennyworth apiece, and on returning to the stall next- day for more found that we had sent up the market to the sinfully extravagant sum of twopence, an imposition which invoked from Rossetti a fervent and impressive Not so very long afterwards, if I mistake not, the price of a copy was thirty shil- linge."
was
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ROMANCE OF FITZGERALD'S FIRST EDITION OF OMAR
The real Cinderella of English mosphere and feeling are satisfac- literature is Edward Fitzgerald's tory, and he will leave it to pro- world-famous rendering of the fessed historians to approve of or "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. cavil at details, except perhaps A short time after publication, the occasional intrusion of words copies of the first edition were and phrases in their 15th century sold at a penny each; one of spelling. When the greater part these copies, in its original wrap- of a paragraph is in modern spell-per, was recently sold in America ing, surely stars will do as well for £1,500. as sterres ?
While praising the vivid char- acterisation and swift movement of the novel, one cannot help wishing that the author had at- tempted a less crowded canvas. Feuchtwanger can write an his torical novel and make it epic, but we would gladly sacrifice here a good deal of minor incident and character (though not the charm- ing portrait of the servant Ankoret which is one of the best things in the book) for a closer study of the strange mind and character of its nominal hero.
GIRL'S HOPELESS. PASSION FOR A MAN
["Clare Drummer" by V. S. Prit
chett; Ernest Benn., Ltd., 7/6.] The Drummer menage was a péculiar one, the father musical and perhaps a little hasty-temper ed, the mother definitely garrulous and interfering, the daughter Clare one who did not know her own mind. It is the life of Clare that we are supposed to follow and un- derstand. She has a hopeless passion for a man who cares noth ing for her and her mother by various obvious intrigues attempts to cure this passion. That prac tically describes the book but not the language.
It is a book that many will buy and perhaps understand, but others will buy and pretend to under stand. The clotted epigrams and peculiar descriptions which eling together render smooth reading next to impossible, and it is because of this that Clare Drummer could perhaps become the "bible" of a certain set who just dote upon remarkable descriptions
*
*
["The Children Reap," by H. B. Drake; the Bodley Head, 7/6-1
remonstrance.
"Qutis" in T. P.'s Weekly."
"LONG LANCE
CHIEF BUFFALO CHILD LONG
LANCE
Early in 1858 Fitzgerald sent bis translation to "Fraser's Maga- zine"; then, as month after month went by without publication, he determined to publish the "Bubai- yat" (the Persian word for qua- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance trains) himself. His name did is an extraordinary personality. not appear or the title page, but More than thirty years ago he was as he had known the famous book-born on the western plains in what seller Quaritch for some ten years, is now Alberta. he took the liberty of inscribing Early in his 'teens he was taken on the page the words: "Lon- out as a trick rider on a tour with don: Bernard Quaritch, Castle Buffalo Bill's Wild, West Show, treet, Leicester Square, 1859." later became a cowboy and in The simple, inscription was to be 1909 entered Carlisle where he come historic in the annals of made a remarkable scholastic and first editions. There have been athletic record, playing football endless version of the transaction,
on Jim Thorpe's great team. but this is the account as relat- While at Carlisle he twice receiv ed to Fitzgerald's biographer,ed wide attention In the press for John Glyde, by Bernard Quaritch: his skill in woodcraft, once "In 1859, Edward Fitzgerald went through tracking down thieves to the shop of Mr. Bernard and again for finding the lost Quaritch in Castle-street, Leices- Alice Arnold in the Tuscarora ter Square, and dropped a heavy Mountatus when a posse of 300 parcel there, saying: 'Quaritch, I had failed. He graduated from make you a present of these Carlisle valedictorian, books." The parcel consisted of senior honour graduate, captain of nearly two hundred copies of the a dismounted cavalry troop, pre- first edition of the Eubaiyat ofsident of the literary society, Omar Khayyam. Mr. Quaritch member of the debating team, tried to sell the books first at half- vice-presider of the school gov a-crown, then at a shilling, and ernment, president of the Y.M.C.A. again descending he offered them and treasurer of the senior class, at sixpence, bat buyers were not-and first clarionet of the school attracted. Then, in despair, he band. reduced the book to one penny, and put coples into a box outside his door.
Poet's Discovery Still, even in the penny box the glamour of the beautiful quatraina might have been for ever hidden but for the inspired loitering of two poets, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne The versions of their discovery have been more or less distorted by time, but the following note from Edward Clodd to John Glyde is both explicit and authentic
as
Now a Scholarship
and
Long Lance won a scholarship to St. John's Military Academy, at Manlius, New York, where he was honour graduate and where (subsequently) he has been voted the most distinguished graduste. His great record there attracted the attention of President Wilson, by whom he was the first Indian ever appointed to West Point..
When the war broke out, Long Lance joined the Canadian Army as a private and, after being al- most times, and twice decorated, rose in mortally wounded three
rank to captain,
A story of Formosa telling of the Swinburne told me that a lives of two young people whose day or two after he bought his parents had always been wan- derers.
returned to copy he
the penny He remained overseas a year after box, but found the stock sold out, the armistice, his talents winning The fathers had, prior to the and Mr. George Meredith has him the distinctive recognition of introduction of the two important characters, searched for gold in ten narrated to me how, when Formosa and had found it but only Swinburne at Esher, he saw the awaiting a visit from Mr.
one returned to civilisation.
The survivor takes upon himself poet approaching and flourishing the education of the two young brown brochure which he must children and with him they travel fain sit down to read to his bost, to all parts of the world, finally in spite of a cooling luncheon to going into the heart of Formosa tempt him to postpone the read- This expedition is arranged in order that the old man may see again the peace where he left his partner and failed to return.
ing. And an immediate effect of Fitzgerald's verses on Mr Swinburne's mind was the com- position of some of the stanzas of Laus Veneris
being taken into the secret service ment, general staff. branch of the intelligence depart
About this time his own people, the Blood Band of Blackfoot In- dians, in recognition of his career among the white people, made him Chief and resurrected the dynas tic name of a great ancient chief, Buffalo Child, and bestowed it on him, Informally, he is regarded as leader of the, Plains Indians ..
It occasions little surprise to
Boxing Champion read that the man left to die has Sweet Scented Manuscripts? Incidentally, Long Lance had be now become a powerful tribal
It would be interesting to pic come light-heavyweight boxing lender and that the explorers whose ture Edward Fitzgerald in the champion of the Canadian Expedi- history we have bean following are Bodleian Library at Oxford tionary Force. On his return captured by the tribe, Naturally stumbling upon that original copy home, he was told by Jack Demp- explorations are forthcoming, of the "Eubulyat In actual sey, with whom he used to box, that neutral recognitions follow one fact, as all the world knows, it he could be made light-heavy- upon the other, and the two young was Professor E, B. Cowell who weight champlon in three months. people have learned the lesson of discovered it. But apart from Long-Lance passed up this oppor
this, without Cowell, as Mrtunity and movie offers to work as Thomas Wright insiste in his bio reporter for three years on the graphy of the poet, Edward Calgary Herald, covering every Fitzgerald would never have beat He became particularly suc learned Persian at all. Cowell cessful as a sporting reporter and was seventeen years younger than for years most of the large Cana Fitzgerald; and survived him by dian newspapers had him cover the twenty years. Visiting him in championship prize figate later days, Mr. Wright found the Being known throughout Cans- appearance of the professor a da and bemg greatly in de rooms scarcely altered since the mand hy he has developed days when Fitzgerald visited them into
llent lect
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