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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
SAPPER AGAIN
Bulldog Drummond and More Thrills
PL CHIRO HARE ERA
AS
["Bulldog Drummond, His Four
Rounds with Carl Peterson,” by Sapper; Hodder & Stoughton.] Nothing is more annoying than to find one of a series of one's favourite books is missing when the desire comes to re-read them, and when books are as popular as those written by "Sapper" about the now world-famous Hugh Druni- -mond this state of affairs becomes.
JON
MAP OPE CASE
NEATER LARDY DATED
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS.
"MAIL" REVIEWS
“WING PO "
A House That Survived! Misrepresentation of
Four Wars
"The Boundary Post," by Liesbet
Dill, Ernest Benn, Ltd., 7, 6.
"Blaison Blanche": Built 1728. Destroyed by the Prussians 1815; Looted by the Russlans 1816. Rebuilt 1835,
Burnt down by the Bavarians 1870.
Rebuilt 1877, Destroyed by the Germans 1914-18. Rebuilt 1920,
This is the inscription to be found on A house in Alsace Lorraine and it embodies the his- tory of the country and also the spirit of "The Boundary Post."
In reading this book we follow very closely the history of a family of Lorrainers, which, merely on account of international quarrels, and subsequent occupa-
Events in China
SOVIET SERVICE
British Financier in Russia
"An Expert in the Service of the Sovlet," by M. J. Larsons: Ernest. Benu Ltd., 10/6.] At an outbreak of the War M. J. Larsons-was a financial expert, and
Outright misrepresentation of events and inexactitudes as to facts would not be too high a charge to place against the author of "Wing Po," the creator of which calls "Amanager of the Petersburg branch of an important Russo-British joint- Romance of Modern China." The
stock company possegging gold. writer prefers to be known thus: copper and iron mines in the Ural Mountains. This company was compelled to place itself at the dis Pogal of the war and furnish sup plea for the State. The Revolution and subsequent condition of choos was responsible for his dismissal, hero of the so-called romance anand in the early chapters he gives Australian journalist, refrains from a vivid description of the immediate effects of the overthrow of the disclosing his own nationality!
monarchy on the business cond tions in Russia.
Hin Me Geong (John Armitage). He claims to have been a news paper correspondent in "China, Korea and Japan during the period covered" but he, while making the
Irrespective of what he is, he has gone out of his way, by clumsy con- tortions which will not even' pass
tion of their home by victorious muster as presentable colouration armies, has become divided, by in-permitted, perhaps, by the licence termarriage. Half the family of authorship-to show Britain, have French ideals, the remaining Britons, Hong Kong and other for half Saxon, Bavarian, Prussian or anything but French.
eignera in an unfavourable light.
In 1918 he entered the Soviet em-
playment as a financial organiser and his first talk was to reorganise the State Bank and during the course of this he travelled exten- sively, but received little thanks for his efforts. The conditions under which he worked were such that he found it impossible to carry oa The story concerna Isabel That his endeavour is to "give and he retired to Germany as a pri
In 1923 he was Mathieu, widowed during the war, his readers a glimpse of the mat-vate individual. who had tried hard to live and ters embodied, as the Chinese Ng persuaded to re-enter the service, and at once took charge the Treas
educate her sol in Germany, to which country she owed allegiance tionalisis see them," is maintained sury Commission, and this and love on account of her marri- in the foreword. age to a Prussian officer.
The remaining part of her family are French, and after a hard struggle she becomes naturalised as French and returns to the country of her birth, Lorraine.
en.
If he purports tailed the collection' and examina-
lutions.
to place a view or some views of tion of valuable documents and Chinese Nationalism before the tremendous quantities of gold and world, he has done China nn im silver confiscated during the revo He was responsible for mehse Injustice.
the disposal of these and during the course of this work made many enemies who did not agree with his methods.
Wing
Fame as a Pirate First of all, Wing, or She is unhappy and her rela-Po, who is made the hero of He did not join the Communist tives by their kind but unmistak-
the narrative (the Australian party and as a result was perman- able efforts to change her love for Germany Into 21 passion for journalist, Jack Adair, and a Missently a centre of suspicion, and his France, do not help to make her Isabel Waters, who is a novelist and every movement was watched, his life happler. She returns to Ger- many, only to find that since her income is derived from Lorraine
she cannot live comfortably. Then she ceases to struggle and
settles down in Lorraine.
speaks "softly slurred English be- tokening a North of England origin," supplying what element of romance that has been inserted here and there) aspires to fame at the beginning as a pirate!
correspondence examined, and even his telephonic communications listened to: The ever increasing worry
that accompanied his tremendous task, coupled with the numerous attempts to get rid of him finally forced him to leave the country.
This book is written, for the benefit of the student of economics
The whole story, a good one, is
After taking service in the Kuo- really pathetic, in that it so truly sama up the feelings and lives of mintang Army (by which name it rather than as fiction but it is by those who are, by fate, forced to I was not known then), Wing rises no means uninteresting, and had it live in a country lying between two rapidly) ultimately to become Com-been made more sensational by the
mander-in-Chief in the campaign inclusion of his personat ex which resulted in the eradication periences, the value from the point of view of Business Conditions in of the Northern and other militär Russia at the present day would
have been reduced. ists.
great powers.
After reading through the "Boundary Post" we can agree with the author when he writes
"You poor; poor country. Will you hever reach peace? Will you always bring strife And war among the peoples? Will mon rise up again in years to come, to do battle
for your possession? Or will you, at long last, gain the
freedom you have earned."
["Another Part of the Wood," by Denis Mackal, (Hodder and Stoughton, 7/6).1
Can Wing be taken to mean Chiang Kai-shek?-one is tempted to ask more than once. And mind ful of the glamour attaching to the personality of the present Fresid- ent of the State Council of the Na- tional Government-who is a true hero In the eyes of Chinese TO498e8 in spite of his short-comings the critic is led to ask also "What will Chiang Kai-shek say?"
The title suggests that the events
Much of the matter in the book recorded in Mr. Denis Mackail's is set down in wrong sequence. most recent novel take place in a Some of the sidelights though, are wood, but nothing in the book itself fairly interesting. One is brought bears out that suggestion. Still it in touch with Eugene Chen, the late is impossible to quarrel with the Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Mrs. Sun Yat-sen name given since it is the book that (who is praised to the skies), a Bri- counts, not the title.
tish Consul-General in Shameen Written in a style peculiar to Mr.who is not maligned, West Point (of Mackall there is, in this book, suf-Hong Kong), flower boats of Can- ficient amusement to please even the ton and places and people in several most exacting reader.
parts of China.
Ursula Brett Noodles, is leaving school, or rather the very select academy conducted by Misa Mul berry, and, as is the usual custom on such occasions, la presented with
The book can be interesting. But it is dedicated to the late Dr. Sun Yat-aen, along with those Chin- ese Nationalists who have given their lives to an ideal, and to
the only prize Miss Mulberry ever better understanding between awards a going away prize: This East and West."
always consists of a volume of Lord Tennyson's poems. When she ar rives her home Ursula finds she
Not Clever
non-
Therein the book belles itself. As has lost this valuable, memonte of has been stated, it is not even her recent incarceration, and she a clever plece of distortion. But counts the beginning of her troubles as to "better understanding," nol from the time she discovered her It might serve as useful pro- loss. Mr. Cottenham, Ursula's guar-paganda. for disgruntled dian, is a studious but bad tempored Chinese and for Chinese agi- gentleman, whose only hero is Glad- taters who have an axe to grind stone, and life with him is for (for example, the procuring of in- Ursula nearly impossible. For some come from, say, royaltles) In Ameri- alight peccadillo abo is sent back to [ca and Europe.
school only to run away with a Those who are able to think for concert party musician. Then the themselves and those who are not fun of the search starts and the purposely blind to the truth are remainder of the book is a riot of unlikely to set any value on the delightful fooling.
velled thrusts. There must be black sheep in every fold and so it
B C D
monotonous. Messrs. Hodder & GOODY-GOODY BOOKS In the first chapter is a descrip- behoves Hong Kong to take serious-
Stoughton must have had this idea.
in mind when the brilliant idea of Dr. Lang On The Kindly,
Majden Aunt
J
tion of a South of England railway ly to beart the question of whether
station on school breaking-up" official publicity is necessary. combining the four volumes into
day, which is simply splendid, and A book like this can do no harm one was conceived. Whether they
well worth reading. several times, among the right people, it might be had or not a long felt want has
and a revue of "Another part of argued. Neither can the vitupera- been supplied, and we now have a The "goody-goody" literature of the Wood, without any mention of tions of a number of prejudiced big fat volume of thrills to keep Victorian times was referred to by "Gertia" would be rather like roast writers in Shanghal. Yet the au us Interested. The great trouble the Archbishop of Canterbury when lamb without mint "Gertie" is a thorities of the International Set- now is that the "friend" who bor he presided at a meeting of the motor car deserving a niche in tlement in Shanghai thought fit to rowed a single episode and failed Society for Promoting Christian history together with Inn Hay's commission spokesmen to put mat to return it at the right time, now Knowledge in London.
"Boanerges and Louis Vanco's ters right in other parts of the has a glorious opportunity of ret "There was a time," he said, Fast Lady. Surely that should world. And when a former Hong ting away with all four. However, when the publications of the be enough to make would-be readers Kong man assigns to himself the the pleasure of possessing this at-S.P.C.K. were associated a little ask continually for "Another Part job of doing the Colony harm (as trastive – omnibus volume is well perhaps unfairly-with what might of the Wood.""
by trying to "fake" history) the worth the risk.
be called, without any disrespect,
thought arises as to why Hong Kong goody-goody literature. There may ed the function of a wise, kindly does not make any move to, counter Rowlatt commenced he a place for that kind of litera maiden aunt one of the most bene, malicious literature from abroad. if a claim by the Attura in ancient Victorian homes, cent functions in the world," Dr.
WP.C for the Crown, to but it has mostly gone. Lang said, "and that is precisely,
471 taken by the police from Some had called the B.P.C.E the it seems, to me, the function of the | L-Wing Po, A Romance of Modern which it had been handmaid of the Church; he con 8.P.C.K. It is always kindly, it is China, by Hin Me Geong (John creant George sidered it the maiden aunt of the always wise, it is always resources Armitage) The Macmillan Co,
Church: "I have always considered as beger, som
kof Canada,, Ltd, Toronto.]
Perhaps some day M. J. Larsons may reveal to us his experiences in another volume, and readers will be able to obtain an impression of Russia from another angle.
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