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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1932.

LITERARY SALONS

OF PARIS.

Bookselling An Art To Be Encouraged.

VOGUE IN PAPER KNIVES,

Paris.

If the booklovers of Paris geti their way we shall one day find book buying in the French capital taking its place as one of these ceremonies that no tourist can afford to miss.

Bookselling, it has been lamented

will never do.

the

to him over a counter in the aume

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The proverbinl Gorman virtue of Miss Mackenzie, as readers of "Keith of Kinnellan" know, has the in the "Admiralty Staff" history of thoroughness finds full expression same high sense of romance as Mr. the war at aen. Thirteen volumes Mason. Her hero in "Between Sun of this monumental work have and Moon" is no less. jealous for been published; at least service than Mr. Mason's. Indeed, more will be necessary to complete the fact that Eneas Mackay is a t fugitive from Culloden is enough in

The German work has not escap- itself to prove his quality of selflessed the taint of propaganda. Much devotion to a cause. If only Miss

space ja wasted on minor Mackenzie had kept him in Scotland, exploita which lack confirma. what a stirring romance this would tion, and there are gross have been..

insccuracles in the account of

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You have, I imagine, often found | I only wish that Mr.. Mason had of late, is gradually becoming more of a business than an art and, this yourself in the odd position of fore-given himself time to reveal more!

A bookshop must not knowing precisely what is going to of that testingtime. He might Thore la a memorable picture of operations by the German naval go on being merely a bookshop. It happen to you, who you are going to have beaten Kipling on Kipling's the burning of a house at the begin- air forces. Nor have the compilers ought to he, has been and once more meet, and what each person is going surest ground.

jning, and of his arrest as an Epis been able to take the detached and .shall be an intellectual centre.

copalian in the end that make all objective view proper to serious We have, alas, scarcely learnt to the interim in France mere flum- historians. M. Jean Tharaudt, president of to say for the space of the next few

French Booksellers Society, minutes. We cling to these strange love the valiant young tribuno be-mery. And this in spite of the fact For example, they write with bit- declares that a man who really loves moments of revelation as clues to fore he is hewn to death before the that Miss Mackenzie employs every terness of the "hunger blockade," books is not happy when his new the continuity of life.

eyes of the Britlab girl, Sergia, on artifice to keep our interest alert in as though blockade were a new de- parchase is wrapped up and handed

On some such tenuous evidence whom he had set his scal of love. the French episodes. Eneas fights velopment in naval warfare, instead

a duel, falls in love with his host's of being its invariable concomit-i way as a shirt or a pound of cheese, we lay claim to proofs of reincarna- "Another life in other days with wife, and has the mortification of ant, and as though it were feasible

Kipling's clerk clearly re-me," he promises, and dies. It is therefore proposed that. book-tion.

accusing her wrongfully of wanton- to maintain an effective blockade sellers shall set up little literary calls the galleys.

You and I have he rises again centuries later as pess, and of being the occasion of an without inflicting hardship on those Balnas where they will hold open fintor recollections of fighting for Anthony Scarr, a Tudor youth, in innocent young girl's death.

against whom it is aimed. love with Sylvia Buckhurst, in his house and invite their clients, like

But somehow he ceases, once he is

But, these blemishes apart, the chose, browse about the shelves and have. listened to Socrates

in the singham's service, and end his days He is a man of phrases, admirable interest and instruction. The Ger- then sit and hold discussions with market-place of Athens and sung swinging from the yard-arm of a as companion and tutor, but blood-man higher command comes in for one another, their suggestions to be serenades. under the walls of Spanish galleon in Tobermory Bay, less. This is not to suggest that trenchant criticism, and individual freely tendered and gladly received

his duty bravely done, but his love Miss Mackenzie's descriptive powers exrora on the German side are ex-| unfulfilled. It is only in our own are flagging. She still retains as posed without mercy. Emphasis is by the salesmen.

No sort of flatery ensnares Having established the book-that-

us day, in the person of Adrian Shaw, strongly as ever her power of con- rightly laid on the lack of vision in ing parlours. there are ideas for the so completely as that which reminds secretary to a Cabinet Minister, that juring up the Scottish scene so high quarters which prompted the

of the correct treatment

books us of our affinity with corsair or our original hero's passionate de acutely as to make our senses ache. notorious "Operations Befehl" is- chosen and purchased. Fages must

We like to believe that votion is rewarded and his love con- It is only that her people occupy a aued just after the outbreak of crusader. not be cut in our crude modern

summated.

less sure place in our affections. war. fashion with the first possible in- we are, indeed not only of the came

How deftly Mr. Mason draws

A Prose Fantasy. strument that comes to hand. A breed as Sir. Philip Sidney or the these white maidens in their blue

Keown's novel, "The Cat writer in the "Temps" goes so for Black Prince, but that we so close- gowns, all compact of simplicity, as to suggest that there should be

candour, and quietude. They are Who Saw God," is in a tradition thereby condemning the High Seas Premier Edouard direrent types of paper knives for ly resemble the chivalrous knight as worth waiting eighteen hundred that is in danger of becoming wear-Fleet to inaction at the very - France the first decoration to go to University librarian, discloses in-

ment when its vigorous intervena Frenchman since 1914. Hers is not the first cat in tion must have dislocated, even if German Ambassader,. Dr. Leopold teresting facts about books.

The cutting different books. An instru- to be definitely hie eincarnation.

Mr. A. E. W. Mason in "The years to met, but less comon, one some.

fiction to indulge in conversation but temporarily, the whole ment of tarnished copper, for exam- ple, is considered appropriate for Three Gentlemen" gives full rein to fancles, now than then,

von Hoesch, presented the Goethe his annual report to President Convincing as this romance is, with man. Lovers of "Saki" are not

plans of the Allies: the revelations of opening the "Legende des Siecles"this pleasant fancy. Ever since

with Mr. Maxon had altogether likely to forget

Medal, commemorating the post, In { Nicholas Murray Butler, he says The volume on Jutland is perti- Paris before departing for his new care and prosecution have reduced Four Feathers” a knife in mother-of-pearl is recom-the days of "The mended for Mallarme, crystal for and "The Broken Road" he has had eliminated the living generation, Tobermory, who suffered frem no

gaps in the British version of the

This graceful act by the German book thieving to a minimum, buł Anatole France and ebony for Poeme completely under his spell. He with whom he is obviously leas ac-repressions. Miss Keown's cat is cularly valuable. It fills up many post in London or Baudelaire! M. Georges Duhamel's the prince of romantica of ourively in sympathy, and concentrated|icss witty if more regal, more battle, discloses a number of inch Government is deeply appreciated that as long as favoured 'volumes dants previously unknown to us, by France. The Goethe Medal can are conveniently placed they will, boasts a paper knif that "has eyes, time, and if he gives his vote for re- on the Wall and the Armada. Here sanctimonious, and more postic..

& personage and does full justice to British be given only to scholars who have for one reason and another; ` grad- ears and a flair for what is good "It incarnation, I am not the man to were two superb opportunities for Her cat is no less

his descriptive powers and he burk-than the Emperor Nero, search of herolam and leadership. can interrogate book in ten raise difficulties.

written learnedly of the author of ed them both.

virtue as a change from the hell of

Until this volume appeared we "Faust" Recently M. Herriot dis-ually disappear. .minutes better than any examining

It is ungracious to cavil where so which he is now very tired. After had no positive information aa "to

played his knowledge-he held an magistrate."

This time he shows us the same noch is first-rate, and it is an pouring out some very pretty verses the circumstances in which a num audience spellbound for two hours ardent young hero, intents solely on exhilarating change to read of young into his mistress's eat, and enter-ber of our ships were sunk in the J. Y. T. Graig, who recently edit- his country's good, regardless of men who think solely in terms of taining her with metaphysical specu night fighting at Jutland. From it while he gave Goethe his due. ed for the Oxford University Press his own danger, frustration of service, and are willing for the sake lation, he is converted from his we learn for the first time of the a definitive two-volume edition of love, and personal oblivion, in three of a cause to let fame go, ease go, tiresome plety by Miss Eliza, who almost incredible gallantry with than one of the mastodons out of "The Letters of David Hume," has incarnations. Firat he appears aa and even love go. Of such stuff we tells him how she first saw God. which certain British destroyera, line. written a one-volume life of that Attilius Scaurus, despatched from were in our earlier incarnations. A British philosopher and historlan, Rome to make good in Britain. Bea-change seems to have overtaken which the same publishers will Hadrian's Wall in his test, and a us to-day. Speed and comfort-have Issue on Oct. 18. The book is sald severer trial of character and forti-bean secured at too great a cost. to be based on fuller material than tude than service on the wall has not They have made us forget the stole any other biography of Hume. lyet been invented.

virtues of a nobler age.

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This decree virtually forbade the German admirals to take any risks;

FRENCH PREMIER'S DECORATION † INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT

BOOKS. Germany haa bestowed upon

Mr. Rodger Howson, Columbia

war

Herriot of

In

Writing on book margins can only, be regarded as a definite evil.

Yet Luther, Voltaire, Coleridge and Pos did it and made the booka priceless. Mr. Howson explains

"I stopped making any effort of having fired away their torpedoes, Incidentally, the German histor- the psychology of the marginalist any kind, I threw off those shoes, opened with their 4in "pop gung" inn is satisfied that Admi. Jellicoe-Something he reads stirs him

with the author

and I sat under the thorn tree, on the German Dreadnoughts, took the right course in deploying and he just has to argue it out allowing any blessed thought to smashing up searchlights and the Grand Fleet as he did. blow through my head that cared bridge positions, and driving more

to come my way instead of worrying myself stupid, hammer- ing facts into my head which could never hope to reach my heart, I let go, let the natural streak in me have its fling.

It's imporant, terribly important, to be natural."

The result upon the cat and Nero can be Imagined.

Prose In The Way.

My "complaint about this novel is that the pattern becomes plain too late, which may mean that the author only decided on, a pattern when she found that the fantasy couldn't stand by itself. Its bast feature by far is the incidental verse. This is first-rate. I am not at all certain that it was necessary to surround, the poetry with so voluminous or grotesque a garment as the prose fantasy which only gets in the way;

I am not an authority on the work of Mr. L. A. G. Strong, nor am I a devourer of short stories, so I pro- bably am doing less than justice to the sixteen stories in "Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow," when I say that one of them is a happy experiment (in grand guignol, and a few others show-sympathetic observation. We watch with some anguish the last moments of a dying rook "and a dying gardener, and accept each ne accurata presentations of their sub- ject. We watch with more pleasure a village Lotharlo tarred and fen- thered by a band of his victims.

Life's Waywardness,

The most successful of his por traits is that of a girl and her flance'a brother at breakfast, each suspecting the other of enmity, and after a miserable bout on conversa tional fencing, miraculously achiev ing understanding and friendship. Here Mr. Strong gots right into the heart of things. This is an inter pretation of the waywardness of life, showing with complete convic tion how hate can grow and dwindle lightning-like with a phrase and a

uch surer ground when

Is revealing the tortuous though the immature than he is:

in the guise

mat

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sons one that he nct to inviti

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