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RADIO & READING'

WIRELESS LEADS TO WIDER READING

"That growth is reflected in the made him independent of echoes increased number of people who ask like "Slow falls the eventide.". us for musical compositions. This "The moon is up." "Snow-capt pin applies to other works, too. Peoplenacles," and "High o'er their royal hear a man in the wireless and then state," to say nothing of senti they like to read books by him or mentalising the "Alpine Gentian"

LONDON LISTENERS WANT MORE about him.

The fear that wireless would lead to a decline in interest in music and books has been effectively dispelled, according to London librarians,

The report of Ilford Public Libraries Committee, for example, anys!

"The music section has been in creased by the addition of a selec- Lion of miniature musical scores of symphonies, overtures, etc. These scores are in considerable demand in connection with the symphony concerts that are broadcast from time to time."

more.

THE ALPS IN POETRY

after the manner and in something very like the metre of Burns's "To Ja Mountain Daisy." But whatever else he did. Mr. Blakeney should have avoided the extraordinary anti-climax to all his pomp of phrase, in the close of the last poeni before the Eplingus, "A Moun taineer's Furewell"—a sort of amalgam of Moore and Eliza Cook- Comes the hour to depart.

Never more shall I stand With the white-covered ranges

stretcht out on each hand:. And I yearn for the heights,

not the levels, You guess Why it's time for good-bye?

"Anno Domini?" Yes!

To poetielse the Alps and to celebrate them in poetry are two different things. In Alpine Poems the Author, 17, Edgar Road. Winchester), Mr. E. H. Blakeney writes for the most part as though he were officiating at some high Olympian ceremould. It is nearly always the voice of the office that you hear, seldom the voice of the man "Morn's guardian angel, love- Croydon goes even further. illumined star;" "The sun's all

The best thing about the book is **Whenever Sir Oliver Ledge glowing ear" "Day's emblazoned the printing. It is in the fine four- broadcast a' course of lectures," an ensign floats unfurled;" "The mulleen-point Baskerville type, and is official at the Croydon library told titudinous heights Glow in the the author's unaided work. an "Evening News" correspondent, azure;" "Streaming fields of ice "we simply cannot get enough of Glister like burnished argent;" his books to meet the demand. Liko] "Robed in immortal calm, star dia, Oliver Twist the public ask for demed....Unslumbering sentinels that proudly guard The silent val ley." The poet seems to be còn" tinually held in awe by the illimit able sublimity, the transcendent might of "this august assemblage." "this tremendous temple of the

It was a very long trail indeed world." The calm, the silence, the beauty are alike "awful." One aup-which ended in Mrs. Bradley bag- poses that it is possible to feel the ging her tiger, but the account fa Alps like that, even to-day; but it all the better for that. The work. so it has been the habit of modern indeed, is more a book of travel poet-mountaineers to spare us their than a treatise on tiger trailing. feelings. Mr. Blakeney is a com. The trouble is petent verseman. that his obsession with the dread vastness about him projects the poet in him as something larger than human, and his words swell. When-and that is not often-he

things with words- resumes the man he can do good

**And when Mr. Bernard Shaw gave a reading of St. Joan we could have circulated copies of the play if we had had them."

TRAVEL AND TIGER

By Mary (Appleton.

[Truiling the Tiger. a hundred

Popular science courses on the wireless, anid the librarian, always brought about a demand for works of scientific interest. Library talks inevitably led to inquiries for books which might be mentioned; and, besides, the usual requests for scores of broadcast music often made people curious about books like the stories of the operas and the

lives of composers.

"There is no doubt," he said. "wireless has introduced people to books they would ordinarily never have road. In that sense the radio is fulfilling a distinct educational purpose."

Hampstead concurred. "Listening-in," was the official opinion from the Public library, "has produced a growing interest in music.

The daylight slowly fades:

each waterfall Proclaims a solemn compline:

the still lake

Hastings Bradley.

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It in obviously written by a most observant person, and one whose sense of humour can rise superior to many tribulations. Some of the

most interesting corners of Asia were visited by the party, and the authoress's impressions of the way other people live are not the least interesting features of the volume, She has been fortunate in her photographs, too, and the book is enriched by nearly 100 of them.

Adventure in various forms was

Takes to its heart the farewellmet with both when after the tiger and when merely sight-seeing. Mrs. Bradley can put the thrill of It is an ability that should have it into writing very successfully.

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Among the plums in this volume

bath, the prelude to divorce; the (which contain none of the letters scholar quoting Euripides, and to Atticus) are, a glorious descrip- Homer to Caesar, the statesman tion of the row in the Senate dur- giving invaluable advice at inor-ing the trial of Milo, Cicero's inter- dinate length about government to change of letters with Cato about| his brother.' The translator his failure to be given a triumph; modernises the idiom of the letter- his superb plan with his brother to writer to a degree that will not keep his temper; his reiteruted everywhere find acceptance. "An principle of true government The owl to Athena" may perhaps he al- greatest possible happiness of the lowed to pasa sa "coals to New governed."

castle, but there is less excuse for Whether he is describing the "The what you are up to moving of his stove from one end specially in the translation of the to the other of his dressing-room or letters of so fastidious a stylist as of his affection for Caesar or his thes man who complained of the children, he is at all times, enter misuse of “fidelitery when applied | taining, and always very human.

Right, is an artist's conception of the killing of

wham Stevenson was enamored. Lower left shows Homer Jenkins by Shariff Stevenson, as his wife ■ typical Florida convict rond gang similar to the Packed on. Intet on left is Mrs. Hamar Jenkins, of one from which Jenkins escaped,

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"I killed him in self-defendi,” nago. So Stephenson wont along Stephenson declared, "It was zu-

remote

spot looked forward to an acquittal-

IX: A dark-eyed, bris-n the elegumstances leading up to found Sherin

Mr. him deputies. The body had heal nette girl conducting a the killing. Here they are: roadhouse. in Florida's Jenkins was afraid to meet her bus found by fishermen. balny lake country; a husband alone when she got his mes band "doing time" in jail, and with her-Stephenson and birning to'ki mo, Burely the law with escaping a dapper deputy Bonnie Pearl Holland, ́a friend atand behind us." His attorney sheriff, fond of the lonesome They drove to a roadhouse proprietress; six screened by swamp gross and tall while the accused deputy grow more shots fro the deputy's gun palms.

and more desperate. Suddenly ho that killed the fleeing husband-

There they met three men clad in switched to a confession, claiming convict, and finally the young convict garb, Homer Jenkin and no mitigation. officer's insistence on a guilty two tellow-prisonera who had His attorneys seemed not to know plea and life imprisonment broken jail with him. The convicts what had motivated this romark- Btephenann's automobile] able change of front. Even as it when he might have gone free,enterud What have you?!

and the party drove toward TR-was, Stephenson faced considerable One thundery Summer night netvaros, Florida. Quarreling as they dimeulty explaining how he came long an Chris Stephenson stayed went, Jenkins wanted his wife to to be helping thres convicts to es- EXla case was bad enough, at the Blue Chip roadhouse, owned accompany him in his dusts into cape.

by Mrs. Homer Jenkins, whom he Georgia. She refused, and Stephen-Nobody could understand why be

son took har side. (.

chose to make li wome-make it in admired lavishly. The next morn-

Finally the party paused pear the fact, well-night hopeleis ‚ing Homer: Jenkins, escaping from Jati, summoned his wife to aid him shore of Lake Eustis Mrs. Holland,

If the young deputy'e coconei

In his Dight. She took Etephenson Mrs. Jenkins and the two convicts know why he chose to take his and a woman friend along. By noon walked up the road, leaving Jen-medicine they protected him. Re- Stephenson had quarreled with the ins and Stephenson to talk things: porters at the jail found him, wilest and morose, whereas he formerly fugitive and killed him.

had been quite; talkative, oven op-

she'd told her story......

To that point you have a simple. Presently six shota sounded. AF friangle, ending in a shooting. But the last report rang out the terri. Amistic. In another call of the some Jah Mrs. Jenkins also had the kick-back, the aurpries, was yet dod Mrs. Janking hurried back. She

Ehe, banintained *****to come.

saw her convict-husband lurch and nothing to war. Stephenson told police he slew in fall, riddled with lead. Stephenson

There was nothing to be done self-defense; the convict was des held a smoking revolvers perate and understandably jealous. Leaving the lifeless body of Jan now except pass sentence. Stephen- Then, without explanation of any kini where it fell, the party again on etusk to his amazing, ples. He kind, he entered a forthright ples resumed its journey. At Mount was told that a life sentence. wAN of "qulity to the murder charge Dom Blephanson told the remaining virtually certain. “I know It” bæ and" took his "rap-lile imprison two convicts they 4 have to shift nodded. "But Fye acted and it's for themselves. He let them out of

ment.

Why?

the ear He then returned to the Just why he did so may never be Perhepe, you say, there's a clas sowne of the shooting. There he known,

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