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THE CHINA

Indomitable Heart Of Joseph Wright

Devoted Wife Writes Of Famous Figure

FATHER A DRUNKARD

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WODEHOUSE AT HIS SPLENDID BEST.

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"HIGHRROW'S "ADVENTURE

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The Macmillan. Company, York has received from John Mase field, England's poet laureate, the In the Vacation Court recently, be- manuscript of a new. volume of fore Mr. Justice Goddard, Mr. Noel There is nothing to be done with verse to be published in the Fall. Coward, actor and playwright, and Mr. Wodehouse except to hold your Mr. Masefield calls, the work "A| Mr. C. B. Cochran's company (Pic- sides, and it is no use starting on Tale of Troy," and the poems tell cadilly Productions Ltd.) moved "Hot Water" unless you are pre of the taking of Helen by Paris, of for an interim injunction against pared for that fatigue of the the wrath of Monelaus and the Mr. Gordon Courtney - and Mr. diaphragm which comes of Inor-setting out of the punitive expedi-Thomas Arnold to restrain them dinate laughter." He gets you both tion for Troy, of the famous wooden from performing Mr. Coward's ways He gives a story of cinema-horse stunt of Odysseus, and other sketch "Oranges and Lemon" ex* tic irresponsibility (but, happily, similar tales. Wasn't there a chap cept in the form in which it was more than cinematic drollery). If namer Homer who once did some written by him. you are preot against that you gothing of this sort?

Mr. A. C. Edgar, who made the rattle of his his down under the

J. W. N. Sullivan, the well-application ex parte, stated that "The Life of Joseph Wright," by But more than these were his wife, is one of the finest of high courage and his pride, which verbal artillery. He has no rival known English writer on science. Mr. Courtney, was the manager of mathematics and music, is the the "Leicester-aquare Theatre, and biographies. It is in two volumes. held him to his work through every at the diverting phrase..

In addition to his mother-wit he author of "But for the Grace of Mr. Arnold was the licensee from These two volumes are consider-discouragement and enabled him ably more than the record of an to bring it to a grand conclusion. seems to have absorbed the tricky God," which Alfred A. Knopf will plaintiffs for the performance of

to be the sketch. industrious lexicographer who He was a proud, and yet a humble, and ingenious spirit which lies at publish. The book is said compiled a world's classic when he man. "You have no conceit about the back of the best American written in a form which suggests The allegations were that the made the English Dialect Diction-you, his wife wrote to him after slang. "If you never come back, fiction, but there is much internal sketch, as it was performed by the ary, remarkable though that re- they had become engaged; "you says the crook's angry girl, "that evidence to indicate that it is auto-defendants in non-stop variety at the Leicester-square Theatre, had en-only know your powers." That was will be too, soon.” cord is; they are also, and

When the hero, for hist part, Ellswyth Thane's "The Tudor been substantially amended, ⋅ un- thrallingly, a record of a high his great gift: he knew his powers; heart and a singularly, courageous and, knowing them, could not be de- makes a faux pas he is described Wench." announced for publication pleasant suggestions and some un- as "pensively rubbing the scorched in September by Brewer, Warren & savoury words having been includ- terred from their exercise.

patch on his cheek where her yes Putnam, is the story of the child- ed, The result was that. Mr. Those priceless six volumes of

"Learning Too Easy,"

had rested."

hood of Queen Elizabeth of Eng-Coward felt that his reputation Wright's Dialect Dictionary," as "He gladly approved of the great

The Vicomte is introduced to sa, land. The book ends with Eliza was being damaged. Mr. Baldwin called them, are an advancement in education and in

ay the fellow who first suggested beth's coronation, which is where immense monument of patient re-libraries, but there was a danger the title, What Fun Frenchmen most accounts of ber career Mr. Justice Goddard granted an De interim injunction until next search and wide scholarship and that these things made learning too

Have'." Another character sug- gin.

Wednesday, and allowed Mr Edgar their easy for us," he assured an audience indefatigable purpose, and

definite "God's Angry Man," a novel to insert in the writ the name of value can scarcely be overestimat-at Windhill when a. library was gests to an observer “a

picture of a libertine operating on based on the life of John Brown of Mr. Frederick Forbes, the actor ed or cease to be great. They were opened there.

There was nothing like having all six cylinders." Whatever may Kansas and Harper's Ferry, is an-performing in the sketch, as sub- made, too, just in time to save the

be wrong with Mr. Wodehouse'snounced for publication in Novem-licensee from Mr. Arnold.. history of dialect in these islands to make an effort for the acquisition stories, you cannot deny their ber by Simon & Schuster.. The au from disappearing from our know- of knowledge." Wright did not beeffervescent quality. Perhaps they thor, Leonard Ehrlich, was born in ledge, and by the one person in the lieve in the existence of obstacles do more, and prevent your looking 1906 and received his education in world who was capable of carrying merely for the sake of having at them except in the light of their the New York public schools and in the job to a fine finish. But this obstacles, but neither did he be- Life of the author of the Diction-lieve in velvet paths. He proved in ary, devotedly done by his wife, is his own career that a man of mettle "Hot Water," in particular, is an Important to its readers, less. for and high heart cannot be restrained- its account of a gigantic task from great occupatione, and estab-ill match with cold blood.

opens with an intimidating Ameri greatly performed than for its lished beyond a peradventure, inspiring story of a man's magul- despite what Mr. Bernard Shaw can wife, owner of the Chateau Blissac, vowing to get her re- ficent conquest of misfortune... now so singularly asserts, that there luctant worm of a husband ap Continued from previous column). In these times, when even men is everything in "this great man pointed American Ambassador to tive mind that has the happy idea of genius can be found ready to stuff."

Paris. There arrive an American of persuading his "host and the flatter the witless mob with the This was no whining," anivelling Senator (part-Prohibitionist), the Vicomte that each has, in celebrat- assurance that there is nothing in victim of his environment, per-Vicomte aforesaid, an English ing the festival of St. Rocque, kill- "this great man stuff," it is apetually crying out for someone to novelist, (very modern), and a sur-ed the other. relief to turn from shallow asser-do something for him, but a brave prising cohort of American toughs,

The highbrow, as usual.in Mr. tions that we are all as good as man who, when he encountered an guys, bunco-steerers, and beasels. Wodehouse's novels, has a bad time one another, to such a tale as is obstacle, removed it. His indomit There are alarms and complica-of it, and the general ideal is less able heart could not be quenched.tions till in the end nearly every that of Bloomsbury than of the Mrs. Wright has, perhaps, leas He rose out of penury and illiteracy body turns out to be somebody else, Yale football field. But Mr. Wode ability to select facts than could to be Professor of Comparative and the hero complains that the house can always promise us be desired, and her volumes are Philology at Oxford. Universities Chateau Blissac seems to. have good laugh, and keeps his promise. anduly full of irrelevant informa- at home and abroad hurried to con- burglars the way other houses "Hot Water" is the best of books tion, but from the mass of detail fer honours upon him, and he was have mice." It is the same inven-for a Heat Wave, and its fun won't with which she has narrated her everywhere renowned..

[Continued at foot of next column).change if the weather does. husband's history, there. emerges, Yet he remained until his last plainly and impressively, the fact moment, an unaffected man, essen- that he was a man of extraordinary tially simple in character, and so courage and tenacity, destined to indifferent to fame that he did not greatness as the sparks are to fly instantly, as a vain man would have upwards. The English Dialect done, read the Press tuttings in Dictionary is a great work, and its which he was praised, but put them greatness will become more ap-aside while be continued in his parent as time passes and dialect work. He began by serving scho disappears, but Joseph Wright was larship; he finished by mastering it. greater than his Dictionary, great By such men the world is made. in his life and his nature and his work,

here told.

"“GOOD MORNING,

He was born in Yorkshire in NY 1851, and he died in Oxford in 1980. Between those years, fn his history, stretches a record of un- dauntable determination, of great achievement, of happy marriage, and of great sorrow sustained in

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the early death of his and daughter. At the end of it, Wright could say, ав he assured. audience in his native county, that he would gladly do it again if the

Judge Albano la magistrate of choice were presented to him. The the Third Criminal Court, Newark, tenacity with which he held to his N. J., and in this book, "Good Mora- task is clearly perceptible in all ing Judge," he writes about his acts. He was as resolved to the varying phases of that marry Miss Lea, who was not recourt's work, Illustrating them con- solved at all to marry him, as he stantly with reminiscences of his was to compile his Dictionary and own observations from the bench punctually deliver it to its sub Thus, one chapter deals with young men and young women in the police court and the subject a leads the author to reflect a little When he could not obtain publisher for it he valiantly decid- on the relationship their upbring- ed to take the financial responsing may have with the kinds of bility for it himself, sinking his crime with which they are charged, entire savings in the publication and to discuss the influence which Nor did he ever fail in his engage-the parental attitude may exercise reupon the young. Then he brings ment to his supporters, who ceived each part of the great workout many reminiscences of cases fl- on the day on which it was promis-lustrative of his reflections, little ed for delivery. His energy and tales full of that appeal which enap- industry and devotion were extra-shots from actual life always make ordinary, and he had exceptional Other chapters that deal with powers of concentration.

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