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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. (This cross-card puzzle has been made by an expert but our reader's are warned to look out for occasional phonetis spellings, such as harbor, plow, and althe.)

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CRITICS' CRITIC

ON REVIEWS.

London.

An author who modestly de- scribes himself as "a third-rate no- velist" has started in The Man chester Guardian a first-rate dis cussion on the canons of reviewing.

He tells us that he published this Summer a new novel. He cannot complain that it was neglected by the press, for It was noticed by about thirty papers in six weeks. It accurred to him that, before be-! ginning a new book, it would be warth while to look through the re- views of this one, in order to at-

THE CHINA MAIL.

Rodney Gilbert's Work Reviewed

Books On China As She Looks To-day

EAST AND WEST VIEWS

QUITS SOLDIERING TO PUNSHOWN'S NEW

WRITE.

American Marine's

Strange Duties.

CRIME YARN,

"Truth Come Out" Is Entertaining Book,

Among the best police detectives.

Life in the United States Marine in. fiction are the pretentious In- Corpa la just one queer Job after spector Carter and the meek but another, according to Arthur 3. more than competent Sergeant Bell, Burks, former Lieutenant in that They return in "Truth Came Out," I am glad to organization and author of "Land by E. R. Punshown.

His Wilder-

COMING SOON

TO

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of Checkerboard Families.". Dar report that as a result of Bell's ing his two and 1 half work on the very baffling mystery years' service in Santo Domin- of Ellerslie Court he has at last ob go, the island of which he writes tained promotion. As for poor Car- in his book, he was called upon ter, irritating as he is, he hardly "What's wrong with China" by ly resents the success of others. at various times to make an official deserved what he gets in this in- tempt to steer clear of the faults Rodney Gilbert, "Economic rival- There is no hatred like that of the map of the islande, keep a Presi- genious tale.

Mr. Panshown gives one here as which might have marred it. For ries in China," by Grover Clark, conselous inferior for the superior. dential candidate from being as

to young China,

Enemy of China, a roview, in his opinion, should "As it looks

sassinated, treat natives for itch, thrilling a surprise, when the vil- Accepting, then, this basis, Mr. teprosy and stomachache, act as an lian is disclosed, as I have exper- serve two purposes. It should be edited by William Hung, "The a signpost for people who want to world's danger zone," by Sherwood Gilbert has to decide whether the obstetrician, jump from parachu- lenced for a long time. And bis Imow what to read. and it should Eddy, "The capital question of Chinese are a superior or an in- tes, locate missing relatives and pecullar vein of dry humour-never help an author by criticizing his, China," by Lionel Curtis, and ferior breed. His book analyzes investigate gun running. When he obtruded as humour sometimes is

"Business and politics In the Far Chinese character, and he reaches assumed charge of, the Secret Serin twentieth-century police work.

by These particular reviews, how-East,"

Edith E. Ware, harsh conclusion. For instance: vice one of his most trusted agents manco-is as agreeable as ever.

Any one who shows signs of dis- was a black woman with a purple aver, offered him no enlightenment, are a collection of books which di

The book is in Hong Kong hook- In his sheaf of newspaper clip vide themselves into two natural agreeing with this point of view by past who spoke what Burks de stores. pluga, some commended his char groups: (1) those which were writ falling to conform to Chinese ways scribes as "low Marine Corps Eng- acterization. But one reviewer ten by persons who have lived long and adhering to his own is, in the lish." Her chief qualification for own words: found his characters unconvincing in China; (2) those for whom sight of every Chinese, living, and the job was, in her and another quite uninteresting. China has become an object of enemy of China; and this is the "I'm such liar, dat if I to my Several reviewers thought his "lo- special study. The distinction be whole root and substance of anti- fren's I work for offisher intelli- cal atmosphere" admirably convey- comes obvious as one reads, for in foreignism, under whatever form it gencin day won't believe cock-eyed ed. and then came one who was the second group there is something may-manifest itself. To be not word." After eleven years in the sure that he had failed to convey synthetic, something unreal, some only the object of latent antagon Marine Corps, Burks resigned in any local atmosuhere. Some pro-i point to be proved, whereas, no lem but to be positively and bitter-1928 and took up writing. nounced the book dull, but others matter whether one agrees or not ly hated, one has only to find the first novel, "Rivers Into

ness." was published last year. He declared it "full of imagination and with the volumes in the first group, Chinese and their ways amusing. vigour." The story was to one crl-, they pulsate in harmony with liv It is, of course, a serious loss of collaborated with General Smedley tic entirely satisfying, while to an- ing China. They are of the reali-face to be laughed at, but mere acts D. Butler on a juvenile, "Walter of cowardice or treachery which Garvin in Mexico," and he boaste other it was entirely uninteresting. ties. And so on.

In the first group we place Rod-are dexteroualy concealed entail that he has written for seventy Criticism, the writer admits, can ney Gilbert's "What Wrong With no shame. To cheat and be caught pulp magazines. never be an exact sclence, but is it China," Grover Clark's "Economic in the act and to be proclaimed a much good to any one, he asks, if Rivalries in China," Sherwood Ed-cheat beyond hope of explanation there are no main principles to dy's "The World's Danger Zone" entails a loss of face, but there is guide it, and if nothing is needed and "As It Looks to Young China, no loss of diguity if one cheats and to make it except the reviewer's a compilation of essays by Chris-

is not detected, or if when caught clusions; some will Accept none of personal prejudices?

one can make a dignified retreat un them. But no one can with in- tian Chinese.

der a smoke-screen of bluster and cerity question his arudition, his In the second group; Edith lies.

grasp of the essentials of Chinese the Far East," and Lionel Curtis's Finally, that what is really wrong paychology or his ability to bring "The Capital Question of China," with China and will continue to be to the surface characteristics hid- Rodney Gilbert's "What's Wrong wrong with her, is that the Chi-don to the average foreigner. Since With China" published in England pese are children, that their world In 1926. The essays were origin-is a world of child's make-belleve; ally planned, and, in greater part and that they have no more right, written for publication serially in in their own interest or in human! "The North China Daily. News" ty's larger interest, to govern them- When a publisher states that the For many years the "North China," selves or shape their own course of first printing of a new book has has been the foreigner's Bible, by education, than the pupila in a been entirely exhausted on the day which he swore, and from 1920 school have to boss the faculty and of publication, that statement may to 1927 Rodney Gilbert was the dictate what they will learn and they see their country in terror mean little or much. In the case foreigner's philosopher. What he what they will not. of Mrs. Pearl S. Buck's new novel, said the foreigner accepted as ab- "Sons," published by the John Day solute truth

Mrs. Buck's New Ware's "Businées and Polities in

"Best Seller"

"The Good Earth" Still Leading Novel.

Company, it means precisely 50,449 If there la such a thing as the copies, an extraordinarily large "Shanghai mind," Rodney Gilbert fizet printing. A second printing was its leading architect during of 20,000 coples was ordered before the years of revolution from the publication. This places "Sons" Students' Movement in 1919 to the on the best-seller lists, where Mrs, success of the Kuomintang in 3927. Buck's earller novel, "The Good To understand, then, what the for- Earth," still holds a place, although eigner belleved and thought and nineteen months have elapsed since accepted as truth it is only neces it was first published. Seldom, if, aary to read this book. ever, has this record been equalled.

ENGLISH WOMAN'S YORKSHIRE TALE

Phyllis Bentley Has Fine Background.

American Journalist.

Bodney Gilbert came to China as an American newspaper man in 1912, just after China had become a republic. To see the interior, to learn Its language, he travelled as a entesman. He not only speaks but reads Chinese. During his travels he came into the closest Phyllis Bentley, whose latest no- contact with Chinese of all classes. vel, "Inheritance, was published He first attracted attention to him- last month by the Macmillan Com self by a series of letters describ- pany, was born in 1894 in Halifax, Ing his travels in Chinese Turkes- a busy manufacturing town in the tan.

West Riding of Yorkshire. Her It was the old China that inter- family on both sides was intimate ested Rodney Gilbert. He found ly connected with the local woollen the new, revolutionary, changing textile industry, and she has early, China unreal, imitative, perhaps memories of visiting her father's even un-Chinese. Furthermore, he mill and watching the various pro- developed what the Chinese like to cesses of cloth manufacture, call a "superiority complex" He She cannot remember a time believes that the Anglo-Saxone are when she did not invent stories and a better type of man, all things con- mean to be a writer. At the age sidered. His philosophy of man is of six she gave her father, as perhaps most-adequately summed birthday present, an original poem up in this paragraph. on "The Volcano," with illustra tions.

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Character Review.

Since "Inheritance in a saga of An unbiased observer, golog to the textile trade in the West Rid: and fro in the world, must observe ing of Yorkshire and of the varying that breeds of mon differ, almost as fortunes of a family engaged in widely as individuals, in tempera- that trade. it is evident that the ment and capacity as well as in author has drawn heavily upon her physical appearance, language, cus- own recollections for the back toms and culture. There are In- ground, of her tale and that her ferior races in the world, just as familiarity with the lives of the there are inferior men in every Yorkshire textile workers has help community. There are nations that ed to make her characters live cannot govern themselves, but must have a master, just as there are upon the printed page.

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men in every community that need 8 guardian and are a menace to the community if granted the unquali- fed right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Races, like men, bave their limitations. Edu- cation and environment, law and the exercise of it, may make the In- ferfor man a more useful and less dangerous member of the communf ty, but he is born with certain dia- tinct limitations beyond which o amount of education of training can carry him. When such a man kind sentimentalist that other and if led to as

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Grasps Essentials.

No Chinese and few foreigners who have lived in China will agree

with all of Rodney Gilbert' con-

Arthur Smith's "Chinese Character- istles" no one has quite grasped the personality of the Chinese.

Of course, no people remains static. The Chinese are changing and changing rapidly, but Mr. GII- bert's book will explain why they do not change more rapidly, why

and suffering with a placidity of mien which wholly disappears whones foreigner loses his temper over a triviality,

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