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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1931.

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THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM.

Recognises Himself In "Gin and Bitters.”

a book

Maugham never wished to hurt late Lord Gladstone did anyone's feelings, there are a good something of the sort, but there many people, particularly in the may still be occasion for a pure Far East, who have their ownly popular volume, views.

One of the great treasures of which Benn announces.

The Cambridge Press is publisht English literature, the manuscript

under the title, "The Way of Bit is concerned; "the land of the terness."

glens, the bens, and the heroes." The chateau country of the ] He is a well-known scholar in their Dordogne is the subject of a work | traditions and history, and now by Mrs. Katharine Woods, which he re-tells somo of their "folk-~ John Lane will publish at once. stories and very well he does it.

A serious but. also entertaining He draws on various versions of- Ecount of China's confused affairs some familiar tale, or he gives us makes a book by Mr. Manico Gull, something original, the fruit of

his own research. "At any rate. Mrs. Elinor Mor

Either way ha In connection with the recent

makes us feel really in touch with publication in New York of a book daunt, who is a well-known travel. by Mra. Elinor Mordauntinler and author, is as well acquaint of the first book of Milton's "Para-g a book by Mr. L. S. B. Leakey the delicate yet robust character of and Bitters," a New York cerres Ceylon, the Dutch Indies and the Morgan Library. We shall, how-

ed with the Malay States, with dise Lost," is now in the Pierponton "The Stone Age Cultures of the Celt; a charactor deeply root-

Kenya Colony."

ed in the past and to-day still in- Forthcoming new novels: "The fluenced by old beliefs and hap The New York papers have Pacific Islands, as Mr. Somerset ever, be able to see what it is like Greek Slave." by Mr. Douglas penings, though lately been reproducing letters Maugham himself, and it seems in a reproduction, with a.type-set

#now world from Mr. Hugh Walpole regarding pity that the latter, should take transcript, which the Oxford Press Sladen (Laurie) "Who Goes reigns. a book called 'Gin and Bitters, umbrage at what he imagines to will publish. The work has been Home," by Mr, A. P. Nicholson edited by Miss Helen Darbishire. (Bean); and "Pyramid," by Mr. written by Mrs. Elinor Mordaunt be a portrait. under the nom de plume of A, "The book has been published the new Principal of Somerville Lionel Birch, sald to be a remark able first, story- (Philip- Allan), y Riposte, in which it appears that by Messrs. Farrar and Rinehart in College, Oxford. Mr. Somerset Maugham is unfor, New York, but so far the British tunate enough to fancy he recog-publishers have shown themselves nises a likeness to himself In the afraid of hurting Mr. Somerset character of an author who has Maugham's feelings by publishing

It" accepted hospitality from residents

pondent writes:--

In the Far East and other friends and authors, or, as Mr. Hugh Wal-

pole artlessly puts it, other liv-

PAGES IN WAITING.

*

Perhaps everybody did not know that books with the name Mrs. L. Adams Beck on the title-page come froni the same pen as those sign. ed "Edith' Barrington." Mrs. Beck, who is now dead, won the fame attached to. "Edith Barrington,"

ing and dead persona ́of renown, Is there room for another blo-chiefly by her "Biography-Novels." apart from himself," and then used graphy of Gladstone: a personal But she continued, under her own them in his books. All this in re-one, in contrast to Morley's very name, to write Oriental stories, ference to Mr. Somerset Maug- political "Life"? One nake the and a posthumous one by her Is ham's latest book 'Cakes and Ale, question because Lord Klibracken appearing with Benn, "Perfume of In which one of the characters tells us in his memories that he the Rainbow.” was suspected to represent the was not only invited to write the gront Thomas Hardy..

official blography, but, after it my Though Mr. Walpole asserts peared, a shorter account of the his conviction that Mr. Somerset G.O.M. As a matter of fact, the

While knowledge resides behind

this Highland folk-lore, it is also entertaining because it is often dramatic, For that reason. Mr. Mackenzie, who has already thrown HIGHLAND FOLK-TALES. || many lights on the ancient kingdom of Scotland, may hope to attract ["Tales from the Moore and the the general reader as well as the

Mountains," by Donald A. particular reader. Mackenzle; Blackie, '7a, ·6d.1-! We sometimes forgot that 'racial ly Scotland. Is two nations, High landers and Lowlanders. This was very well expressed by John Morlay when he said about Gladstone, whose mother belonged to one race and his father to another, that "he was a Highlander in the custody of a Lowlander."

Princess Peter Walkonsky has It is with the Highlanders, with written for Methuen an account of the once Galle-speaking area of her experiences in Soviet, Russle," Scotland, that Mr. Mackenzie's book

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