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MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933.

A Study Of China's Problems

Political And Social

Disorders

DESCRIPTIVE." BOOK

MARRIAGE THEORY IN AMERICA.

Undemocratic Outlook Is "Second-Hand Wife.”

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Second-Hand Wife By Kathleen Norris Murray, London, 3/6.| This is a cheap edition of a novel juet published, readably expound- ing the theory of marriage as un- derstood in America. Whether the author has her atmosphere correct must be a matter for Americans to

THE CHINA MAIL,

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Cambridge As Scene Of Murder.

“TERRIFYING...... BOOK”,

UNUSUAL MYSTERY

STORY.

Early Discovery Of Murderer.

THE

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Dead Man's Alibl-By Leonard

Hollingworth

don, 7/6.

(By E. C. Bentley.)

["Murder at the "Varsity,"

This unusual mystery tale, starts By Q: Patrick. (Longmans, out with the discovery of a mur 7s. 6d.) 1

derer instead of a corpse. A "lost Another of these agreeably memory" man is found, who in one judge, but the whole social outlook written and spirited stories about of his two personalities confesses strikes the English reader as ter-homicide at an ancient universi-

[ty!

This study of Chinese economic a Government strong enough to ribly undemocratic.

-re

to murder.

life has a background of insight in-maintain it, or she will be compell The gulf fixed between the office This time it is Cambridge The steps which the police take to the history of agarian conditions ed, under one guise or another, to worker and the representatives of where, by the way, I thought the to find the body involve numerous and industrial development in acquiesce in one Imposed by big business seems to be far deep expression "Varsity" was re-entertaining individuals, from other countries that few books on foreign action." The first problemer and wider than could ever be garded as incorrect. But this China have had Mr. Tawney is for an independent China is the imagined in England as between, may be accounted for by the fact tramps to titles, including a Harley one of the most distinguished of creation of an efficient system of say, the yeoman class and the land that the teller of the story is an

Street mental specialist who dishes English economic historians, and government-some region. musted gentry. Ou this point, how-American undergraduate

in the murderer's subconscious for his analysis of Chinese conditions play the part of Prussia and Pied ever, the author presumably feels grettably referred to by the vil-clues to his victim's Identity. But as fast as the police and a plausi- is Illuminated at every point by aug-mount in the Europe of the nine- that she is on sound ground. lain, on his unmasking, as " gestive parallels and contrasts. If teenth century and spread new The characterisation is well done poor little American."

ble object of the murderer's On the

sault, the victim turns up very it were nothing else the book would standards by the influence of Its and quite an attractive story is other hand, the American tells a be one of the most helpful descrip- example.

the result.

much alive and a new theory has typical Blue, with perfect truth, tions of a

to be constructed. peasant economy that: Mr. Tawney looks to the schools

that he is "really rather rapul- written, have been

But it has and universities to provide the HE HAS WRITTEN 200 BOOKS sive."

The inal conclusions of the De- also a more topical value. Mr. makers of the new State to be

There is an excellent plot totion of the dual personality must partment and the last manifesta-] Tawney was one of the Western built with modern technique on

Leningrad. this story of a talented but un-be left to the reader to discover. experts called in by the Chinese Chinese foundations, but his cri Extensive celebrations at the popular undergraduate murder The characters of the novel Government, through the League, ticisms of the new educational Soviet Academy of Sciences have ed in his rooms just when his re-well differentiated and the mystery to advise on the application of its system ("a pyramid standing on its marked the 70th birthday of moval would smooth the path of maintained to the end.-E. B. advanced social policy, and one point; the universities "auspend-S. F. Oldenburg, the Oriental two of his fellow-collegians. suspects that he must have disap-jed in the air," largely divorced Scholar.

just notion of the manners andį, customs of present-day Cam bridge, of both sexes, is convey- ed by this baffling story.

pointed the more ardent bellevers from contact with the common life) He is the author of some 200

and Oriental subjects.-Reuter.

in the magical properties of Wes-are frank almost to the point of works on Sanscrit, Ethnography, tern ideas by the candour and scep-despair. ticism with which he treats some of the objects of, their enthusiasm. Rural Problems,

The first half of the book is an

examination of rural problems, and

in a brilliant survey describes the

effects on the peasant of the ab

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lowing verses appear in the cur-

We are helpfully assured-rent issue of the "Isis:"

and it is true-that one need not be a bridge-player, or even know

some-

"You are old, Father Ramsay, the

young man declared,

"And your head has become very grey: Yet still you contrive to govern the State-

It,

Just how do you manage pray?"

"In my youth" said the States- man "my principles free Caused a great deal of trouble to

But now that they might cause

annoyance to me,

"Rinehard," by Thomas F. Tweed turns to his life, but not as former-one card from another, to enjoy sence of a tolerable system of com-(Barker, 78. Gd.), is a book about ly.

this story. And I might add munications, the miseries of civil what should happen in the United The change, and the lesson it that the most devoted of British disorder, primitive methods of cul-States.

brings with it, form the competi-bridge-players will find tivation, the exploitation of deal- Colonel Tweed, who is Mr. Lloyd tion of this admirably written nothing beyond his experience in ers and money-lenders, and the un-George's chief lieutenant, has de-vel.

the world of New York bridge| satisfactory character of land ten-scribed in this first novel the dic

experts, behind whose scenes this ure in parts of the country. There tatorship of a man who finds him- In "Half the Seas Over" by novel takes us. is even reason to belleve that, with self elected President of the Clifford W. Collinson-you know We get an idea of it from the the increased pressure on the land American Republic. And he calls his broadcast travel

talks-you newspaper reports of recent caused by the growth of population the story "A Melodrama of the conditions in some parts of China Nineteen-thirties," adding that the couver, move on to Alaska, more rival authorities on the game.

many; Canada, go to Van- deadly conflicts between pairs of may be actually worse than they story is written as in 1940.

again to San Francisco, jump to Here you get the atmosphere of were two centuries ago. The fun- One interesting thing is that Yokohama, glide imperceptibly to such affairs. Also you learn I find that I haven't got any." damental conditions of agriculturalthough the book was intended to Shanghai and Hong Kong, and in the end-how the habit of al progress Mr. Tawney sees in im be only a work of imagination it proved communications (the most has proved to be a work of pro-vaat pleasure cruise, written by a one open to a subtly ingenious But why go on? The book is a constantly using cards may lay effective means of helping China to phecy. a large measure of economic well- Rinchard, the President, sets out man who not only knows how to

wring every ounce political stability), to deal with the chief problema of out of travel, but who also knowɛ of enjoyment being science and education, co-operation American life-Prohibition, unem-how to talk about it. in credit and marketing, and con-¡ployment, the rule of the gangster, solidation of holdings.

the debt question, even interna- He reminds us that outside halftional affairs. a dozen cities the industrial revolu

asid

In this case he talks entertain- ingly for 280 pages-large ones If you wish to listen to him, it will

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By

"He Arrived at Dusk."

R. C. Ashby. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.

A story of a haunted-a very seriously haunted-house on a Northumberland moorland, and

He overrides Congress, the Sen-only cost you 12s. 6d., to be paid of a rascal with a quite unusual tion has hardly more than begun. ate, all the forces of the American to Messrs. Hutchinson. In cotton-spinning the 127 mills are Constitution. What he does and fewer in number though, of how he does it will give you some efficient than reading that you had better not be course much more those of this country in 1795, while without.

equipment for the business of rascality, is told with notable Comedy (Harrap, 78. 6d.), again by. I pay her this compliment Joy Baines' new novel, "Bitter mystifying power by Miss Ash- takes Dartmoor for its background. [because the conclusion of the It is a tale of incompatible loyal-whole matter took me by surprise

Mis Baines is a London school!

case

lities are unusually narrow.

An extremely well-written and rather terrifying book.

China's output of coal is equal to that of Britain in 1820, and her In May Edginton's "Holiday" ties, of a war of obligations, and completely, in spite of the consumption of iron per head is, in (Collins, 78. 6d.) you have a novel of a Jove that solves its problem at being one in which the possibl- comparision with industrial Eu-by a practised mistress of the art the end. Tope of the United States, almost of telling human Lalea. negligible, writes A. P. W. In the There is a man, rich, attractive, teacher, and the daughter of "Manchester Guardian" Mr. Taw-successful in influencing women, school-master. ney takes a cautious view as to the and a girl, not rich, used to a bum- And not content with being rapidity with which machine in-drum suburban life. They meet in novelist under her own name, she dustry is likely to advance. Keliner during a pleasure cruise, and, writes adventure stories under a suggests that China's future may for the first time in his experience, pseudonym-which she keeps very lie in the expansion of secondary the man finds himself powerless dark.. Industries rather than of primary, where a woman is concerned.

of manufactures based less

on the

J

a

'LENIN-THE AUTHOR,

Moscow,

A book entitled "How Lenin The film rights of one of her Wrote his Books" will shortly be I shall not give away any more Dartmoor novels, "Wife of Hugo," published here by Madame Krup domestic production of a large out of this story. You can see from were sold to Metro-Goldwyn, I am skaja, Lenin's widow.Trans- put of iron and steel than on cheap what I have already said that there told, for a considerable sum power, manual skill, and imported is enough to make you want to

machinery.

Industrialisation will do. · little-

more than merely mitigate the pres

rend it.

"Pitigrill" means "Little Cric-

sure on the land; it will not dimin-kets," and is the pen-name" of one]. ish it. If fresh waves of popula- of the best known Italian humor: tion do not sweep away the gains, ¦ísta.

the modernisation of Industry In "Mr. Pott" (The Bodley Head, makes possible a higher standard [7s. 6d.) he gives ua hla frat novel of life.. But it is also true that to be publlabed in English, without the exercise of wise social "Pitigrilli" has been described polley the standard of life of the as a name which la "a byword for worker in manufacturing industry naughtiness”—and nickname

may bo'depressed to the miserable that, the publishers assure us, has level of that on the land. A des been generated for him in France cription of factory conditions leads is "the Italian brother to 'Anatole to some practical suggestions for Franco.”

the establishment of improved con After that, you may expect to ditions by practicable stages fp-find the story. of Mr. Pott distinct stead of the fruitless proclamation ly lively. of unenforceable regulations.

It tells of a Parisian magistrate Political Disorders, ........': in search of love-a "magistrate But economic reconstruction-in turned cosmopolitan circus clown," schomes for which China is so fer As Mr. Pott himself saya, on Tage ille-and even national indepen 112, "I am thirty-five..........At my age dence itself depend on whether the one must be on one's guard agatost frst conditions of a modern State the allurements of love. They are can be created. The problem is not as dangerous as gastritis at the age who shall govern the State, but of one, and chills at the age of fifty.” -whether there shul!, be a› Stato at. It is not at all a respectable book.

all. Yet, as Mr, Tawney points out, China is not unique in her "Barry royln," by Charles Gilson, political disorderan

the author of "Wild Metal"!” (Jar. Civil war, banditry, private rolds, 7s Bd.), Ja a romance with armies, nepotism, the absence of the tropics for a back-ground and public spirit and solidarity outside unhappy passion for part of its the cirold of the family—all have themo-the passion of a man for been known in the Europe of the woman whose fark

door he believe that the nearly, destroyed, him.

con He seeks to renew his

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