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23-Because *29-Crooked

31-Plot

33-Hindor

24-Corroded

35-Strike gently

38-The goddess of the

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Bohemian London In New Setting Lawrence's Letters In Handsome Volume

MR. PRIESTLEY'S REVIEW

(By J. B. Priestley.)

the letters of D. H. Lawrence.

There are far too many scrappy

And

days tends to waste his undoubted

WORLD OF ART AT Hugh Walpole's Big Family

HOUSE

Novelties As Well As Literature.

GIFTS FOR EVERYONE,

SLOW-MOVING TALE'

OF HERRIES.

Link With Forsytes.

book-remains the

of

tlet; 80 does unhappy John, Uhland's victim, with his strain of weakness; and so in a perverse way does the half-crazed Uhland The World's Art Service is a

himself. And for a more charm- fitting title to the House of Tuok,

In The Fortress Mr. Hugh Wal-ing representative of the placid pole aa avery year betters thoir previous volume of his long chronicle of the take Uhland's sister Elizabeth, whe achieves the penultimate and Arm-willed Herrios we may display, which places their array of Herries family. It runs to over runs away from home to become a artistio productions in a definite eight hundred pages, and he showe governess and marries John in de- class of refinement and superiority. no disposition to quicken his pace, fiance of the feud; and, finally, by

relying with a good measure Once again Raphael Tuck & Sons, justification upon the vivacity of his neglected old age within the of returning to her father, Walter, in Ltd., have produced their yearly his dialogue and the beauty of his gloomy fortress, docs most to end contribution, to brighten the festive descriptions, particularly of the the feud. In Elizabeth, again, Mr. This week has seen the publica-, folie de grandeur---that ought to conson, with their fina Art Collec. Lake scenery, to componente for Walpole seems to be amusing hira tion, in a large handsome volume make him a figure to catch the tion of Christmas

any lagging in his narrative. The self by breathing fresh life into a. Cards and fortress," which is the vast, cold typical "period" figure, for Eliza edited by Mr. Aldous Huxley, of imagination, but somehow he does Calendars, and have prepared an Gothic mansion that Walter Her- bath has all the qualities and ad-

not catch the imagination. I felt that he and his family were not

oven more elaborate selection than ries bullt on High Ireby to over-ventures of a Bow Bells heroine, For all those people-and their creatures plucked dripping from usual of their distinctive calendars, frown the house where the widow-converted into terms of literature.

ed Jennifer Herries and Judith numbers are growing who are the waters of life, but the products cards and Christmas novelties.

The Third Feud. Paris dweit In Uldale, 18 deeply interested in Lawrence's of a conscientious novelist.

Among the latter are ohoicely de- the

And still we may discern a third the chief theme-the sale of a re-

symbol of the fero- work and personality the book is mute Welsh estate in the 'Nineties coated hoxes of dainty paper cious, but causeless, feud between the feud between the expiring feud running through the volume, treasure house, even though to a city corporation, which wants doyleys and sorviettes in all sizes. the two branches of the family, the eighteenth and the swelling nine- much of the correspondence has to flood the district to make a re- The artistic workmanship of the beginnings of which were related

teenth century. "Madame," in her. obviously been severely edited, servoir-never achieved any kind calondars covers a great variety of in the last volume. It is an evil delicious old age the scores her of significance. That is probably picasing designs and colourings, re- business, leading to such catastro- To the general reader who cares my fault, because the old-estate produced on the best quality boards phos as the death of Jennifer in century in the last pages of the little about Lawrence but wants theme in fiction, died for me

eighteenth- a and papers. The carde bearing Judith's arms at the very moment some good letters. It will not, long time ago.

Christmas and New Year greetings when the insulting music of the century woman, gay and fearless,*~ fancy, make a very strong appeal suggest that Mr. Brett Young these priately worded.

But I will be bold enough to are distinctly original and appro- dance that is being held to cele- pagan and outspoken, in love with

brate the completion of the fortress the simplicities of life and penetrates the walls of Uldale, and beauty, and more and more whim- The Royal cards which are repro, to the discovery side by side of the ically fretful at the solemnity and gifts on novels that are too novel duced by the Tuck colour process hot corpses of the two enemies, prudery and pride of power of ish and not sufficiently novel. Per are exquisite works of art, featuring John, the son of Jennifer, and triumphant Victoria-and-Albertiem. haps if he were kidnapped to Man-historien landscape and scarpe Uhland, the crippled son of Walter, everything of that time seemed to Looking back to the last century, Army he would immediately turn

or joined the Salvation paintinga by well-known artists. who is an ingenious resuscitation out something terrific..

A pretty line of card novelty will of the melancholy "monster" of the her to have lightness, brilliance be found in the delicately, perfumed Romantic period-"little of Man- and form. Everything in 1854 was "Queer Street."

handkerchief tucked into neatly de- fred, but not vary much of him."huge, heavy and static, wrapped, The long introduction, by Mr.

The second long novel, Mr. signed card "flaps.

too, in a sort-of damp fog," Well, Huxley, who points out very wisely Shanke's "Queer Street," has a

the fog does not hinder Mr. Wal- Gift books and annuals for the But this external feud is itself pole from some fine bravura pas- that Lawrence was essentially an good idea behind it His setting is children are brighter and artist, is an excellent piece of work any of the regulation Bohemians-wide range of colourful subjects for tween the two sorts of Herries, the the turgid pomps of the opening of

more only a symbol of a deeper cleavage Bages, such as the Chartist demon-". Bohemian London, but with out fascinating than ever and cover a still within the Herries soul, be- stration on Kennington Common, and should be studied by every no starving poets and musicians, the little people. body interested ir, the subject. It artists' models, and studio parties boys and girls the Golden Treasury the sort that "belleves in things ly spirited account of the Sayers For the older sort that "believes in facts" and the Great Exhibition and a high- is a welcome

change from the in Chelsea. He has had the wit to Library is a remarkable fine series behind the facts."

see that this period has produced of beautiful books containing a Walter, with his brutal lust for it would have been) by a strong If the bully Heenan fight in 1860, attended (as efforts of the hagiographic school, a new type of Bohemian, fellows variety of interesting titles.

After a first and necessarily who sell things on commission,

domination, embodies the harsh contingent of the Herries clan. At hasty reading of these letters, 1girls who manage little dress mas, and Toy Blocks are listed in "Madame," Judith Paris,

Paintings Bocks, Picturs Panora- and positive Herries nature, old the end we are left in the eighteen-

venture to make the following ob

whose seventies watching the emergence making establishments, young grent profusion for the younger mother was a gypsy and whose of Benjamin, the unruly child of couples in two-room flats who are servations.

always heavily in debt. These are

husband was a French rascal, and John and Elizabeth, and Vanessa, For all his constant biting and the kind of people who spend their A pleasing gift for young and old whose son Adam was ben out of the beautiful daughter of Adam scratching, Lawrence reveals him evenings in the cheaper gort of can be solooted from the great wedlock, stands for the elusiveness Paris, and his German wife, Mar-

"Zag-Zaw " and wilfulness and night clubs, and one of these clubs, variety of Tucks

Chartist insatiable garet (daughter of the self as a more lovable person in the "Bran Pie," occupies a central puzzles which cover close on one questing of the other strain within Kraft). They are to carry the his letters than in his books. The position in this Queer Street of thousand designs, ranging from the family. So does Adam, when chronicle down to the time when war was a very bad business for Mr. Shanks's creation..

2,000 pieces to 55.

he grows up and becomes a Char-the Herries link on to the Forsytes. him. So, too, was his restless wan-

All this is to the good, for dering after the war, if only be territories and types for us. Mr. novelists ought to disengage new cause it increased his detachment Shanks appears to know these from people. If his health would people and their modes of life very have permitted it, he would have intimately. His portrait of Mona, been happier, if he could have the bed-sitting room girl, is a very stuck it out in England, where he convincing one. And he weaves really belonged.

his people's lives into an excellent

ing

notes here for good general send I hope the publishers will bring out a small selection of the best of these lettera, later; in a cheap edition.

churia

Again, he was unfortunate in his pattern. friends. I do not mean by this The novel's chief weakness is that they were a set of poor that it is much too flat for its size. creatures, only that they were It needs more colour, more ups and wrong for him, constantly feeding downs, more gusto. Mr. Shanks is his irritation and sense of disillu- so determined to be the sober alon. And again, I feel that some- chronicler that he has forgotten thing-perhaps his stato of health; that he is a poet, with the result perhaps the mischievous "Lady that his tale lacks atmosphere, Chatterley" business-rather dark which his what no big novel about ened and twisted his mind during London ought to lack. his last two years.

- The alternating gloom and glit A Misfit.

ter of the city are missing. It is The postscript of the very last like a colossal dry point instead of letter we have here, written when canvas richly loaded with paint, be' was very ill indeed, says simply And the people, though justly ob and terribly, "This place no good." served, suffer from this rather black-and-white method. And this place was no good. We arid, can produce many reasons why

They are not sufficiently amusing. Lawrence could not fit in with this They are dullish people, and their I world. But perhaps it is time we "Bran Pie" ia à dullish club. examined the reasons why the hope when Mr. Shanks a writing world could not fit in with Law his next big novel he will give his rence, who was better equipped, in characters fewer drinks and take the strange potencies of his senses, to enjoy this life than most of us

are.

a few more himself, for in this one they are too drunk and he is too

gober.

Brilliant Short Stories. This week also sees the publica- tion of two lang novels. One of After these two large novels you them is by Mr. Brett Young, It is may imagine you are not getting an ambitious performance. It is much for your money in Mr. written in very good prósé and con- Bullett's new book of short stories. tains a hundred beautiful little It is a tiny affair for seven-and-six. descriptive passages. (You might But it has quality, not only in the call Mr. Brett Young the last of writing—and the title story is one the Old English School of Water- of the best short stories I have colourists). It is well devised and read for a long time--but also in firmly knit together. Every scene the printing, the binding and the carries conviction. Its people be charming little engravings that have as we expect real people to serve as head-pieces. A book for behave. You cannot read it with connoisseurs, this.

Any critical attention without feel- Another small book that should ing that its author has all the gifts not be missed is "Kamengo." This of a distinguished novellat. is by Mr. Homer W. Smith, who Yet something is wrong. (Writ apparently is a young American ing for myself, of course. I can scientist, and his book-le-almply a not speak for anybody else), dialogue between a scientist and Chapter after chapter slipped a

that priest.

dialogue smoothly away, and nothing hap- begins with idle chatter and ends, pened to me. 'I admired, con- with an attempt to gropë into the tinually I admired; but I was never mystery of life. Oddly enough. I caught and held, except in one or thought the scientist's final argu- two passages,

ments the 'weakest thing in the

Tregaron, the central charactor, book. What is so good In it is the is boldly drawn, and has every quality of the writing, especially thing-Including a raging, inferi- in the early descriptive passages, ority complex, red whiskers, a taste which show us the Red Sea. for low love affairs, bad temper, author could write a superb travel energy, charm, and an attack of book."

Its

children.

Appealing to the taste and pleasing to the throat!

The Herries Soul.

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