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How Paris Visitors Are Duped

Mrs. Bessie Sullivan Heptig, noted Chicage attorney, whose distressing Paris, experience with the rosary racket is described below. Right, F. Barclay, sentenced by a Paris court to thirteen months at hard labor for attempting a "rosary racket" fraud on Mark Brandelas, an Amerigna-

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VARIATIONS FOR THE UNWARY | ed to find the contents untouched. Then Mrs. Heptig's friend offered to ape the gesture. When he came back, his money, too, was intact.

Paris, city of sophisticates, has just witnessed the outbreak of a new variation on the old "rosary racket." The latest development of this ancient gyp theme employs, instead of the sacred beads, gloves, handkerchiefs and keys.

Several visitors victimized in this fashion have made known their losses lately, mest prominent of those who were "taken" being Mrs. Bessie Sullivan Heptig, former assistant district attorney of Chi- cago.

Here is what happened to clever Mra. Heptig, as reported it dis- patches from France: While she was stopping in Paris a young man -English-of pleasing address and polished manners was presented to ber. She was travelling alone and

the dapper stranger took pleasure

In pointing out the sights to her. As they were sitting at sidewalk tables in front of the Cafe de la Paix one afternoon, a venerable pedestrian dropped his key ring as if by accident in front of them.

Mrs. Heptig's escort called the stranger's attention to his loss and, following, the exchange of thanks and don't-mention-its that ensued, the three got together in a genial social huddle.

Said the stranger: "I have just come into £50,000 left me by a philanthropic relative. A clause in his will directs that I distribute. £10,000 of ft to charity. Do you know of any deserving charities?"

Mrs. Heptig volunteered several names. After saying that he would send her a cheque on their behalf, the mystery man switched the con- versation to theme of personal honesty.

Drawing a well-stuffed wallet from his pocket, he put it on the table and, as a proof of his faith in human integrity, said he would walk around the block. He return-

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It was then suggested that Mrs. Heptig make obeisance to the nobility of the race in similar fashion, but the woman lawyer de- murred. She couldn't help being enthralled, however, with the tales

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"MAIL" REVIEWS

SOUTH SEA TALES

"White Shadows in the South Seas," By Frederick O'Brien, (Hodder and Stoughton, 7/6d.).

IN POLITICS

AMBITIONS OF HOME LEGISLATORS

Ile is no less scornful of the mis- sionaries and their efforts to eradicate the old customs and ceremonies, and bewails the fact that the peoples of Tahiti and the Marquesas are but shadows of a once happy race, ard опе полу Men who have already won a fast dying out.

reputation in the literary world He draws a merciless and

are not always immune from the poignant scene and betrayals, from the early their laurels by aspiring to a Par- of butcherings temptation of seeking to add to days when Captain Cook's meiamentary career. shot down the natives "for sport" (yet Cook was a god to them), to the more recent invasions of the islands by traders and beach al-combers, who buy, and barter, and bleed, and leave the sordid imprint of

western civilisation

"The First and Last of Conrad."

(Ernest Benn. 7/6d.). "The Chimney Murder." By E. M. Channon. (Benn. 7/6d.).

(By "Bookworm") The South Sea Islands. though they have been sadly over- written, and cruelly underwritten,

can

never be over-praised. at feast, not so far as the idle read- er is concerned. Their charm has urged the imaginations of many of us to forsake a conven- tional existence, sever our domes- tie ties, and sail off in a trading schooner to the coral-roofed shores of Tonga, or the Society Islands.

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Existence there is one long. de- light we imagine, where abundance of clothes is a sure sien of insanity, and where the cool waters of the lagoon take the place of electric fans. And, it the author of "White Shadows" is not too enslaved by his enthu- alasms, we may accept his opinion that there is happiness to be found in the Pacific Islands. The danger, however, lies in the dis- concerting fact that we are not ail daring. philosophical, and sure in our heart of hearts that western civilisation is a YLOSE mistake. Mr. O'Brien is, and it is that sureness of himself that has prevented his becoming Intus-eater. He stays the islands because he is interested in their human history and in their natural history, and because, he loves the islanders and their Ways. le can live among and with them and still be a man of culture. A different type of traveller stays because the isles hold cut 30 many temptations, and in yielding to them he often "goes native."

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not at its most ideal.

Frederick O'Brien, without a shadow of doubt, has imprisoned in his pages the sad, lyric beauty

of the South Seas, and une can not turn away from them without pangs of regret and yearning.

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one remembere, was once a can- didate for Offord City. In quite recent times Mr. H. G. Wells and Mr. J. C. Squire have twice stood for Parliament unsuccessfully. gir

Gilbert Parker and Mr. Hilaire Belloe have actually sat in the House, but without making any mark there. On the other hand. John Morley and Mr. Augustine Birrell adapted them- selves so skilfully to the demands of politics as ultimately to reach Cabinet rank.

But the House has gained sev- eral new members. who have dis- played conspicuous ability as au- thors. In most instances their published work has been concern. ed with the subjects with which an M.P. is called upon to deal.

Norman Angell

Joseph Conrad is the antithesis Frederick O'Brien. It is doubtful whether they have been bracketed together before, yet both write of the South Seas, and both capture their allure. Conrad is the greater artist, and the

He mare perfect stylist.

There is Nr. Norman Angell, merely describes the driftwood for instanec, the author of "The of humanity that floats from sea Great Illusion"; and Professor to sea, but enters into the very Philip J. Noel Baker, an author- souls of mon. He is an acute ity un the problems of disarma- and sensitive psychologist, with a ment; and Mr. Ernest N, Bennett, gentle, almost disillusioned style an Oxford don, who has written that reminds one of a melody of several volumes recording his ex- Chopin. This collection of his periences as a war correspondent; tales includes "Almayer's Folly," and Mr. Morgan Philips Price, which deals with the Malayan anther journalist-author, who is Archipelago, "An Outcast of the a specialist on questions of Euro- Islands." "The Arrow of Gold," pean politics; and Mr. F. and "The Rover"-that charming. Markham, who assisted Sir Sidney pathetic tale of an old sea adven-Lee with his "Life of Shakes- turer at the time of the French peare," and the official biography Revolution. These four tales not of King Edward VH., and com only contain much of his best pleted the latter work after Sir work, but illustrate his develop-Sidney's death.

ment from an inspired beginning All these, curiously enough, to a maturity of rare accomplish | belong to the Labour Party, ment.

ફ્ does also Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, whose liter. ary output Das been unusual- ly varied, for it includes several. novels, sorne textbooks of Gresk and Roman history, the book on Carlyle in the "Roadmaker" series, and biographies of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Miss Margaret Bondfeld, and the late Mary Macarthur,

There is a grave beauty about Joseph Conrad's writing, parti "White Shadows" is Rot cularly noticeable in those four good as its predecessor Mystic tales, which makes it appear al Isles of the South Seas," either most an affectation for people to instyle dramatic interest. declare that they cannot read Parhaps it were as well to point him, or that they can "make no- out at once that neither of these thing" of his books. Perhaps in books are novels. "Mystic Isles" the least happy of his works, was the closest approach to fiction "Romance," he took a threadbare it is possible to achieve, and it theme and painted his canvay in contained some brilliant pieces of too rich, heavy colours. Perhaps, descriptive writing and charac- too, as in "Victory" he shows a terisation which lead one to hope vein of weakness, of self-confess that the author may interest himed pity and sentimentality. Bat self one day in the writing in his aca tales and the stories of a legitimate novel. "White of the South Sea islands he is a Shadows" lacks the human cle- ment of its predecessor. The pen pictures it givės of wayward white men (always with a touch of philosophic scorn), lack the bumour and vivid colours of those magnificent descriptions of "Ly ing Bill" and "Scent of the Jasmine. The account of the islanders, however, their keen sense of humour, their childish simplicity (vide their delight and astonishment at the sight of the auther's brass bed), their deep affection and pride, is an excel- lent piece of writing by one who obviously loved, and was loved by, these once savage peoples.

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The author makes no effort to conceal his bitterness towards the French and the traders who have bequeathed to the natives of of war and adventure the stranger Tahiti the vices of the Western told. He was a marvellous racon- World, and taken tour-so marvellous, in fact, that health, their happiness and pride. away their

when he had made his adieux Mrs. Heptig came to with a stari, dis covering that $5,000 worth of her diamonds, thousands of dollars worth of travellers' cheques and a large sum in French money had taken wing. So had her "guide. philosopher and friend," the dapper Briton.

In the list of defeated candi- dates one finds the names of Mr. Philip Guedalla. the brilliant

and essayist

historian; Mr. Francis W. Hirst, the bicgrapher of Thomas Jefferson and Lord, Morley and a writer of reputation on the problems of economics; Mr. Ramsay Muir, distinguished Ax an historian, and Mr. H. Hamilton Fyfe, a playwright and author of remarkable versatility.

wizard among writers of romance, and glides among his living crea tions with all the vigour of Jack London, and the irony of Robert Louis Stevenson. Conrad, une feels, loved the world, and loved and pitied the mankind that in JOHN GALSWORTHY habits it, cruel and foolish, weak and chivalrous, in those settings he gives us which are as lovely as the isles of which old Homer sang.

THE OUTPUT OF 30 YEARS

The bestowal of the Order of Merit on Mr. John Galsworthy Gruesome is the very

least synchronises with a striking evi- characteristic of "The Chimneydence of the high reputation he Murder," which is almost the has gained on the Continent. mildest murder tale one could "John Galsworthy: A Survey," ever hope not to be thrilled by. published by Heinemann, is not A perfectly ordinary boy and the work of a compatriot, but the girl discover a paper parcel in a translation of a book by an Aus- chimney, and are horrified or trian literary critic, Herr Lean opening it to find a man's arm 'Schalit. Presumably, it was pri inside. The police are summoned marily intended for foreign read- and find the rest of the body iners, who were already so interest.

neys, and the head in the cellar. newspaper parcels in other chim- ed in Mr. Galsworthy's writings that they wished to know some- It transpires later to be the body thing of the author. As a "sur- of a friend of their father, a City wey," this volume is complete. It man living in a suburb-"a can- not only gives a biography, but tankerous, domestic tyrant." The summarises the atories of all the rest of the book (the finding of novels and the plots of all the the body occupies half a dozen plays, together with a note on the pages in the beginning) is a not poems. Literary criticism, in the very original description of in- narrow sense of the term, is sub- solent police inspectors, gossiping ordinated to a warmly apprecia The following unclaimed tele-neighbours, and commonplace, un- tive study of Mr. Galsworthy's philosophy, his intense humanity, have been dug up a Saxon er Nor- are lying at the office of the dramatic family life.

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The book, however, contains merit, and shows that the au- thoress might be more successful with a less-ambitious theme. So many brilliant novelists have en- gaged their ingenuity on detective fiction, that the amateur has real ly small scope in this very limit ed field.

One interesting point that is brought out is the conflict which persisted for many years between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, and which was not re- solved until he found an, artistic mean in the later Forsyte Volumes. Many readers will be surprised None of the characters really to discover how large Mr. live, or, as all characters should, Galsworthy's output has been. dominate the pages and each Since he started writing a little

They are like those dull, more than 30 other.

years ago he has unreal-phantoms we pass by every produced 25 volumes of novels, day of our lives on the bus, in stories, and essays, 18 full length the street, or entering and de-serials, a few one-act plays, and two parting from shops and offices volumes of poetry. He had been They are faces and figures once writing for nearly eleven years.

seen, ever to be forgotten before the appearance of "The

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"The Chimney Murder, al-Man of Property" won general re- though not written in a convinc- cognition for his genius. One of ing style, and full of a somewhat the attractions of this book to a stilted dialogue, may have a ver British reader is that it gives us, tain appeal among those who find as one of the reviewers puts it.. Mr. Edgar Wallace a little too the unified and continuous view strong for midnight nerves of a foreign observer as he One can at least be assured of a watches such eminently English dreamless night after reading institutions as the works of John Mrs. Channon's talels

Galsworthy.

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