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Very definitely this year, pack the "Alice" books for them, and Ed-| ward Lear and Kenneth Grahamo. Dent's Children's Nature Series is delightfully illustrated by Mr. Eric Fitch Daglish. Choose from it "How To See Birds" or "How To See Plants.” Or, if Inquiring minds must fly beyond hedge, wood, and garden, any of Black's admir- able "How and Why Series" ought to lend wings. New titles are W. J. Turner's "Music;" "How The World Builds," by Humphrey Pac-| kington; "How Things Behave,” by J. W. N. Sullivan; and "The Story of the Wheel," by G. M. Boumphrey.

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Historical Romances On The Book Shelves.

The

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Queen's Secrets

Interesting Biography Of Noted Woman

"Sarah,

POWER BEHIND THRONE

(By HOWARD SPRING).

Duchess of

SCOTT'S WORKS

SURVIVE.

Greatness Of Fiction

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"The Waverley Pageant" contains In the distant "seventies two

the best passages from the Oxford undergraduates might have. novels of Sir Walter Scott, been seen occasionally breaking selected, with critical intro-stones on a road on the outskirts ductions by Hugh Walpole, of the city, to fully the theory that with notes by Wilfred Parting which John Ruskin held in common. |manual labour is beneficial to all,

ton. This is worth studying with Mr. Wackford. Equeers.. Only a few weeks ago there was One was Oscar Wilde and the published, appropriately to the other William Collingwood, who died racontly. Neither kept on al Centenary year of Walter Scott, a the job for long; Wilde found the borough," is

Marl- constant and faithful friend, and selection from his correspondence blus china in his rooms at Magdalen written by Mrs. Kathleen Campbell wows us down with his impartial Partington. The excerpts from his musetar satheticism, set out to get the title of a book, we four must never part till Death "fathered" by Mr. Walpole and Mr. mard to his taste, and Collingwood, proferring academic distinction to (Thornton Butterworth, 10s. net), hand." about the woman who loved moro, So necessary had the vital vivid books in the present volume show the Lothian Prize and a first "in quarrelled merc, and exercised Sarah made herself to the sluggish him, in a sense, in a more public "Greats," and succeeded. upon the march of events in her dull-witted woman, ever ready to and external aspect; yet the per- Rankin as did the Severns, one of He became as close a friend of time a more direct influence than endure her boring conversation any other woman of whom we have (though she admitted she would Ronal note is maintained, both whom introduced me to Collingwood knowledge.

"rather have been in a dungeon"), through the intimate enthusiasm of at the Aris Club a few years ago. When she was 83 years old, im to play cards with her, to sym- Mr. Walpole's biographical fore- in addition to being a sort of He was a remarkable men in that, mensely rich, greatly feared, al-pathiae on the death of her chil-word and by the method adopted Boswell for. Ruskin, he wrote ready a legend, owner of wide ter- dren that were born with greatį

Surveying the progress of a cen-

"In the last hundred years the English novel has experienced profound changes and, at the same time, has not changed at all......

It is impossible to maintain that the novel of 1930- shows any advance on the navel of 1880. The good novel of 1990 is no better than the good novel of 1880, and the bad novel no worse...

Son of Dust. By H. F. M. Prescott, ritories and many mansions, she regularity, and as regularly died of in collating the various groups of brilliantly and pointed nearly as

well. (Constable). took out one day a bundle of old water on the brain, and to be kind extracts, each to illustrate some.

and faded letters. She was getting and understanding about Anne's special aspect of his creative (Continued from previous column). Village. By Christopher Buah. ready to leave this world. "I am husband, the Prince, of Denmark, genius.

(Cassell and Co. going soon," she wrote, "and am who spent his life eating and

being asthmatical.

Are the Waverley novels still tury of fiction, Mr. Walpole holds The Losers. By Bridget Lowry, parking up."

rend? She opened the bundle and read

A Stubborn Queen. (Hodder and Stoughton.

Mr. Walpole strenuously that It is small wonder that when maintains that they are, and pooh- The Georgine, House, By Frank again the passionate letters that

had come to her nearly seventy Anne, come to the throne, went to poobs Mr. Donald Carswell's con- Swinnerton. (Hutchinson,

Whichever may years before from "handsome Jack Parliament, Marlborough carried trary assertion, Loads of Love. By Anne Parrish Churchill." They were both poor the sword of state before her and be the case, this hook, with its in-

(Bonn,

then. She had not become the Sarah stood behind the throne. geniously analytical arrangement (Reviewed by Huge Kingsmill) Whether Duke William of Nor power behind the throne; Ramil- Then ange went swimmingly. and display, as it were, of the mandy, popularly known as William lies, Blenheim and Malplaquet were Sarah Jennings was at the height, author's paces, supplies the most

still unfought.

of her power. She made Minis effective possible form of introduc- the Conqueror, gains in vividness

She turned over the letters one ters; she brought her beloved tion to those for whom he may be and verisimilitude by being called! Duke Guillelm is a question which by one." will not dare to expect Whigs into power; and then she as yet but a name-not to mention the numerous admirers of Miss more favour than you shall think began to neglect Annie. Surround-its critical value for the already Prescott's mediaeval novels will fit to give, but could you ever loveled by a wairl of wit and intellect, converted. doubtless auawer in the affirmative, e I think the happiness would be she began to abaant herself from Walpole's Opinion

To the latter it may be of In- Nor will even those who are less so great it would make me im the dull woman who had always

mortal." enthusiastic about her reconstruc-

bered her, but on whose favour all terest to know that in Mr. Wal- How the phrase must have depended. Another stepped into pole's opinion the supreme six tions of life in the middle ages be able to reproach her with parading brought back the man who wrote her place; the breach widened; among Scott's novels are "Guy It-the young Colonel who was "a and after a stormy interview that Mannering," *The Antiquary," her erudition unduly, or indulging courtier among courtiers, his per-ended in tears and protestations on "Old Mortality," "The Heart of in more than an occasional touch of net ungraceful pedantry,

sonal beauty and finished elegance Sarah'a part and a dull, stubborn Midlothian," "The Bride of Lam- "Son of Dust," is a story of notable in that brilliant company," opposition on the Queen's, they mermoor," and "Redgauntlet" But even Scott's few failures, he do- and possessing the Gods supreme never met again. | eleventh-century Normandy, and

To the end she treasured the clares"The Black Dwarf," "St. Miss Prescott gives the reader gift to any man-charm? everything which, he is entitled to

memory of the man who had sent Ronan's Well," "Peveril of the expect in a tale dealing with that Perhaps there flashed, too, before a courier spurring across Europe Peak," "Count Robert of Paris," rude age. Here, for example, is the the old Duchess's vision the pic-with the news of Blenheim, not to and "Castle Dangerous"--contain ture that her mirror must have his Queen but to his wife, and one grand things, and even had he clash of battie: They had been at shown her so long ago tall and feels with Mrs. Campbell that "If written only these "he would have it not more than ave minutes when, slender, with a small head exquí- to love mach wins forgiveness, made a deep mark on English and then a shout, the old bridge sitely set upon its slim. neck and Sarah of Marlborough has little to literature and survived

hundred years. broke and sagged and crashed into crowned with masses of aliken, fear."

with a crack and sudden silence,

Her Beauty.

the river, and the crowding men honey-coloured hair, à mobile face

¡ and horses' ou it went down with a

horrid great cry." -

in whose vivid dark-blue eyes, sét wide apart, the changing moods were mirrored."

How

Mias Prescott, a brilliant writer who has not yet found herself, mis What & pair they were? takes simple phrasing for sincere they had loved, and how they had emotion. None of her characters lived! And now everything WAN comes to life, and the hero, Fulcun passing. Marlborough was long In spite of all the pains she has dend and some of the children lavished on him, remains a knight were dead, too, and times were that never was on sea or land. changed. And Anne was dead- the rustic queen, clinging to whose skirts they had climbed the steps "The Case of the Unfortunate of a throne. Well, there Wag Village" is the titia Mr. Christopher nothing to do now but destroy Bush gives to his thriller. **Un- these letters; they were no que'a fortunate" is a mild term to apply affair any longer.... The next to a village whose inhabitants are year she died.

*

*

*

Bush Thriller.

came

exposed to the murderous attacks Sarah Jennings was the daughter of a man driven to his fell work of a squire in Hortfordshire and by the joint inspiration of Voltaire she was born in a notable. year and the poet Parnell. To be in 1860, when the Stuarta poisoned for one's money, or be back from exile. By the time she cause one is an obstacle to a grand was thirteen ehe was at St.

James's, playmste to: James, "II.'s passion, is a reasonable risk.

But to be pushed into a well, or daughter Anue, who was nine years have one's brains blown out, by old, a shy and inarticulate child, someone whose reason has been un- over whom the dashing and tem hinged by the perusal of a couple pestuous Sarah established an as- of urbane eighteenth-century fabucendancy such an probably no other

woman has had over a queen. lists la too much.

She, had no illusions about the In short, Mr. Christopher Bush has been over ingenieur in his attempt character of the Princess Anne. to escape from the hackneyed "A little card-playing automaton," themes of detective fiction. Com she calls her; but she knew Anne's plicated action, not complicated value to her scheme of things; and paychology, is the essence of a good when Anne's sister Mary, with her detective story. Still, he has made husband, William of Orange, wAS the best of a radically faulty theme, about to return to this country in Whatever one may think of the mo tives of his murders, the murder themselves are admirable both in design and execution..

Fully Recommended.

bid for the throne, Sarah saw to it that her husband's sword, till then in the service of James II., was transferred at the right mo- ment to the right alde.

Informal Friendship.

The rameining three novels may So close grew the bond between be recommended with hardly any the two women that Anne begs her reservations. Miss Lowry's "The dear Lady Churchill "not to call Losers" is really charming; a little me Highness at every word"; and Bentimental, perhaps, both in theme they adopted fancy names, the and characterisation, but the sen princess becoming Mr. Morley and timentality is checked by a genuine Sarah becoming Mrs. Freeman; insight into burzan nature and by a and the correspondence between wide sympathy. Mr. Swinnerton, Mrs. Morley and Mrs. Freeman is "The Georgian House, proves that astonishing when you remember a novellet who made his name in that Anne was "punctilious in pre-war days can handle the post matters of etiquette. war-world sa easily as lls younger Even when Anne had come to contemporaries, and with more the throne and Sarah and her breadth and humour. And Anne husband, owing to some trouble Parrish, In Lenda- of Love," per- which had arisen, threatened re- What forms the almost impossible feat of signation, the queen wrot making a delightful and entertain ing character ont of a novelist hero, who is also the apolit darling of his mother and the adored lover of two charming girls..

is a crown when the support of it is gone?. I will never forsake your dear Bolf Mr. Freeman or Mr. Montgomery (Lord Godolphin's, fancy name) but always be your

Appealing to the taste and pleasing to the throat

WD & HO. Wills

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"It is because Scott-whatever the changes in fashion and- technique, during the last, bun- dred years-was engaged on the eternal and unchanging preoccu- pations of the novelist, narrative and character-creating, because his personality was firat-rate and because he never learnt how to be false to his duty, that he is of so much real value to us to-day.

It is to be hoped that with this Centenary year will begin the real examination of Scott- Scott as a novelist just, as Field- Ing. Jane Austen and Thackeray are novelists-Scott, one of the few supreme creators of charac- terin, the world's literature."

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