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Characters Life For "Common Man"

THE FORTRESS " PRAISED

The Fortress," writes Gerold Bu!" lett in the London observer, is an excellent work of Hugh Walpole.

The novelist who knows how to give semblance of life to a diversity

no more than that can always count on a warm welcome. The

is

MISS PRESCOTT HAS

THIRD SUCCESS. ·

Historical Novel Is

Full Of Energy.

* NO LACK OF COLOUR,

Libraries On

Liners..

Passengers Always Voracious.

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It is during a sea voyage that theoretically, a good deal of read-

BOOK OF ESSAYS IS PURE ENGLISH.

Author Shows Love Of

Countryside.

HEART IN THE LIFE

In Son of Dust," her third

There, is no mistaking Mr. Loc- novel, Miss H. F. M. Frescott in passenger goes on board with the English countryside, its pursuits ing should be done. Nearly every ker-Lampson's deep love of the still delighting in the past, but the idea of bringing himself up to date and phrase, historical novel," is de with current literature or making is "The

Its traditions. "His latest Gentleman Country pressing. It scarcely calls up the We may sometimes wish for a

up for lost time in reading some and Other Essays!" He can write more fastidious workmanship than colour, energy, and the peculiar books which he likes or with which with Mr. Walpole has the patience to spiritual quality to be found in this he feels he should be familiar, For poacher going about his unlawfal as much insight of the She deals this time with in the hurry of modern life we are occasions by night as he can of the give us; but we cannot ask that an story! author should be more deeply ab

"SHAW'S FOOLISH

CRUDITIES.

New Book Fails To

Hit Mark.

"

squire giving himself to a round of

·

of characters, and is content to do sorbed in his creation than is he, the eleventh-century Normans inapt to get behind in our reading.

Nothing is more evident than that France before they bad time to

But it does not always happen unrewarded public duty. he is a novellat by virtue of an "in-jahake off the habits of their nordic

His heart, indeed, is in the semi- Common Man-by which I mean the ward compulsion, and that he en-ancestry. She reminds one a little that way. Nobody cares to carry Man each of us, in some degree, joys every page he writes. For Sigrid Undset in her determined many heavy books among his lug-feudal family life of the country-

isgregarious and endlessly in- this reason if not other (and there

are, in fact, many other reasona), detail and her sense, of propinquity, sage, and, naturally, in a large the small communities more or less quisitive creature, with an insatia he is something to be grateful for but she lacks the winding, in liner with most other luxuries, It dependent on each other, which are ble (and perfectly goodnatured) appetite for gossip, scandalous or in an age when every day there is sinuating quality of the Scandin will be assumed that a good and passing out of existence never to otherwise; and he likes. nothing born a novel of which one can only vian writer. The past bere appears well-chosen library of books will return. It is not easy to catch and

say, despairingly: "Well enough!! better than to see himself and his well enough! But why did the au- objectively, but through a tempera. be available. In many, if not most. retain the peculiar fragrance of customary sentiments displayed.

thor trouble to write it?".

ment. Miss Prescott's story bristles cases the library is pathetic.. One the old, ordered life of the big under various aliases, in a work)

with action, alarums, and incur wonders who is responsible for the house and the village, and 'if. Mr. of fiction. He does not want the exceptional, even though it be the!

sions. They are a necessity of the choice of much of the dull, out-of-Locker-Lampson has not wholly exceptionally significant. And he

times and of her plot, but one feels date, in some cases boring litera-succeeded one can point to none does not want that vital illumina-

ture, which is all that is offered to who has. To write, as he does, of that her imagination does not en- tion, in a word poetry, which is (is

gage itself fully with the violence, the passengers in many of the best a loved thing dying is bound to it not?) the specific glory of imagin

What he does ative literature.

the cruelty of action. The blows liners. One exception, has struck import a wistful atmosphère, want is the opportunity of taking

and cleavings of her feudal lords us among the numerous ships on It is very much an autumn pic- a semi-impersonal pleasure in

ure soundless as in dreams. Her which we have travelled. We see ture. "For good or evil his doom: events which, had this or that been

main characters only emerge into no reason a little different, he himself might

for withholding the is sealed." Thus does the authör complete life in their moments of owners' name-the Union Castle lament as he holds up for our ad- have experienced. Introduce him to

""Doctors' Delusion" is Mr. G. B. emotion. The love of Fulcun for Line-for the excellent libraries nitration his portrait of the coun- an imaginary family; promise him inside information about its births, Shaw's newest book.

the wife of Mauger; forbidden by are obviously maintained as a re-try life which is described with so deaths, and marriages; and there is Mr. Shaw is an enthusiastic con- conscience, custom, the treachery sult of a real understanding of li- much knowledge and sympathy in no end to the circumstantial detailtroversialist; anu his life has been of fact, has a queer smoldering in-terature on the part of those re-these pages. he will eagerly accept from you. largely devoted to the defence of tensity. The passion of these two,sponsible and a recognition of the

heterodoxies. He has a racially Beginning and End

inherent impulse to trial his coat; at first covert and in fierce secrecy varying classes of people who, travel This universal appetite for yo8nd this he does with gestures and because of all against which they on modern liners. sip-an amiable characteristic of antics often highly entertaining. must contend, seems to become as our common human nature which He has sponsored many.

Owners of passenger ships are The post much of the spirit as of the senses. has, however, little or no connexion of advocatus diaboli is an important Set down in this civilised" yet bar-

aware that many factors go to with literature has given rise to one, of high social value; and the baric period, in which violence and make a liner popular or unpopular,

Other essays touch on political the belief that to cater for it, by present generation owes very much means of a painstaking verisimili to Mr. Shaw. To do it justice, it death are attendant upon any and there is no doubt that a good subjects, and the book opens with chapters on "the Premiership" and tude in characterisation, is the be has fully recognized its debt. Un-transgression of code, these som- and fairly large library, specially the Political Careerist." In these ginning and end of a novelist's

fortunately, the average Briton, not bre passions move us with a sense when the voyage is long, will help Mr. Locker-Lampson is so business. This, I suggest, is a mis-sharing Mr. Shaw's volatility, often of mental reallty which one could greatly towards causing the passen- the realist that he will be accused" conception; for, though it is true mistakes fireworks for serious not find in a love tale of to-day, ager to leave the ship, at the end of of cynicism. Altogether a volume that an illusion of life (not of this!

munitions; while comments and sense, too, that the spirit. is a his trip, ready to praise the vessel which like sound wine will improve or that life, but of "life") is essen-criticisms which, by reason of their dangerous though beautiful force on which he has voyaged.

with keeping. tial to any fiction, the questions commonly asked of a novel-"Are very hyperbole, are admirable pro-

vocative agents are liable to be taken not as caricatures of con- vention but as true portraits.

the characters lifelike? Is the story convincing?"-àre not the ultimate questions which a critic must set himself to answer. The Nearly one half of the present accurate representation of surfaces book is devoted to an "exposure" of la not enough: the novelist's real what Mr. Shaw calle "doctors' de- quarry is the human soul, in purlusions"; and had the author been suit of which he must transport us better informed the criticisms of to a region at once less "solid" and so alert a mind as his would have more significant than the world of had much value. As it is, many of phonographically recorded converhia blows fall on the air, rather sation and carefully noted physical than on those whom he would zes oddity, Granted his characters, labour. "The great majority of with their names and addresses, our doctors to-day," he writes, "are their appearance and tricks of man- both poor and ignorant, with the ner, the best of his work-that by conceited ignorance of obsolete or virtue of which it may become im-spurious knowledge"; while "our aginative art--is still to do.

surgeons obtain the highest official qualifications without having had a single hour of specifie, manual To say this, however, is not to training; they have to pick up the deny, ungratefully, the value of the art of carving us as paterfamílias Actitious family chronicle when it picks up the art of carving' a' is the product of a genuine creative

800se."

Mr. Shaw announces, as exuberance, and is shaped by the though the opinion were peculiar to hand of an artist; and certainly it himself, that, "in his view," "sur- is not the preamble to a belittle geons and physicians should be pri- ment of Mr. Walpole's achievement.marily biologista," illustrating his The magnitude of that achievement own notions of biology by a state- can be measured only by those who ment that Mrs. Eddy and Mr. Hack- have read "Rogue Herries" and enschmidt "are safer guides than "Judith Paris, though "The Fort the Harley Street celebrities who ress," even in isolation, will yield laugh at them, their secret being rich enjoyment to anyone capable simply that they have had the of sharing its author's immense in gumption to guess that it is the terest and delight in the spectacle mind that makes the body and not of human existence. Mr. Walpole the body the mind."

Not A Criticism.

is no mere copyist, but a creator on the grand scale. For sheer fecun- dity, indeed, he is unmatched in his generation, nothing comparable. in acope and size with his Herries'ser- les having been written since Mr. Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga.""

TREASURE

Now the white-sail moon Weighs anchor down reaches of the

sky

Different in much, he is like Mr. Galsworthy in this: that he suc- For her. splendid journey across ceeds in creating not only a great vast space.. number of characters, but a world Now your body wakes-"{ recognizably his own, and in giving And

the accidental moonlight

us not only the copious chronicle of touches it,

a clan, but the reconstruction of a Turning warm flesh into a cold vanished epoch, a fragment of our

statue.

social history, and, more particular Now the bugs break along the

ly, a study of the English charac-

boulevards

ter (for the Herries are as English In Night's womb.

as the Forsytes). His people do Hear the bursting of the buds!

not exist to illustrate a theory or Comes your kiss

point a moral. Having (it seems) That can dispense with the reign

a vigorous life of their own, 'quite of Time. independent of their author's will, And all this,

they crowd into his brain from Mouth, Time stopped, leaves and

the white-gall moon, heaven knows where, and force their way like Tufty unborn chil- Is treasure of the soul's full argosy dren, Into the world he is compelled JOSEPH BRADOCK in to prepare to thing.

Spectator:

It is not that Mr. Locker- Lampson idealises his types, bat he somehow invests them with that soul of his which makes even fall- ings contribute their part to the gracious whole.

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