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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL,

MARIE

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RE-PURCHASE SYSTEM.

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of the Month Circle."

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a "Book

Under-Dog

Crisis That

That Changed Galsworthy's Life

NEVER HAD

debated

TO WRITE FOR A LIVING

(By Edward Shanks.)

in

TO

HER MEMOIRS

Three Volumes Written In Two Years.

WAR TIME INCIDENTS.

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In the books the Queen not only of the book which in the opinion of

discusses her private life, but also) the Selection Committee is

"the

writes her impressions of many ce- lebrated men and women with outstanding publication of the

It has been sald that among the It was in this mood that, probab-whom she has come in contact. of Manchuria, that it is possiblo

dayı, month." The titles of five other Edwardian and Georgian novelists ly without any expectation of Its

Race Meeting to be held in Macaol She portrays ber grandmother,

Badges admitting to Members' En- "recommended" books will also be II. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett becoming a lifelong companion, he Queen Victoria, as sho remembers

to introduce certain effective re-jon SUNDAY, 23rd April, 1933, closure will NOT be on sale at the shared between them the role of began the "Forsyte Saga," which, her, and her Russian grandparents

medies against banditry and law may be obtained at the Sports On No Fretext will Children be per

Race Course. circulated.

Dickens, while that of Thackeray out of all proportion to ita consid- as well.

lessness which will prevent the Club, Hong Kong Jockey Clubmitted in either Enclosure during the The "Book of the Month Circle" was sustained alone by John Gals-erable bulk, is the most important The books describe her youth in worst of those calamities which Stables, or at the Offices of Masers. Meeting are obtainabis at the Club of Charing Cross Road, however, worthy. This judgment implies a part of his work. This series, Malta from where her father, the

afflict the people, and that with- Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming, 6 House provided they are ordered from will buy back from members any

belief in the superiority of Dickens which developed from a single no Duke of Edinburgh, commanded the out any serious interference with

Des Voeux Road Central

the No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephous over Thackeray, but, of course, vel to a cycle including six full-British fleet in those waters... Al-

Entries CLOSE at 4 p.m. on 21920. book within one year of the date of Dickens was the superior, much as length novels and a number of most from the schoolroom, she re

China's sovereign rights or the WEDNESDAY, 12th April, 1993. publication at one-half of the ari- the question may have been inex short stories interposed as connec- lates, she was married to the Hon-

dignity of her rulers. ginal price.

plicably

Victorian ting links, is simply the story of a enzollern beir to the Rumanian Victorian family whose fortunes throne, Ferdinand, in a political A monthly "bulletin" will be issu- times.

And, that implication under-were founded by an able young alliance. stood, the more modern parallel is man from Dorset in the early nine- In her second volume, Queen For many people overseas, this not without its uses. Wells and teenth century and followed the Marie has reported to friends here, looks like rather a Good Thing-Bennett had the more abounding trend of the times as far as Gale she discusses with frankness the Redter,

both of them, like worthy was able to take them. And great difficulties which she had to Dickens, more exquisiteness of the family is a real family. No one face in her new home, in a country artistry than is always perceived; old enough to remember the clan-unknown but Galsworthy, OR his own nishness of the upper middle-class governed according to German cus- ground, moved with extraordinary families of Inte Victorian times toms. She also tells of her life as Burefootedness. In an age which can fail to see how Galsworthy haala Crown Princess and as a mother. especially endeavoured to portray put down on paper once and for all

Queen Mario is still at work on itself in the novel he ta one of the the atmosphere of it, the typical the third volume, in which she outstanding novelists. Neither persons, the typical relationships writes about the World War and the historian of literature nor the land the typical quarrels. As a so- her desire to see Rumania on the historian of manners will ever be leial document it stands with Ben-side of the Allies. She relates in- able to neglect him. Nor will the nett's "Claybanger" and Wella's jcidents of her war work as a nurse. Jordinary reader of good books. Tono Bungay." It covers, from

Did Not Write For A Living.

Throughout the three volumes the point of view of time, a broad-the Queen stresses her English out- His career

was different from!er canvas than either.

Book and sympathies, As yet she It is 34 years since "The that of his great contemporaries. It is more than & social docu-has chosen no title for the work.— River War" was written by a Wells was draper's assistant, ment, for two points of high beau-Reuter.

Galsworthy's

THE RIVER WAR

Early Brilliance Of

Mr. Churchill.

Right

The River War. By the

Hon. Winston Churchill. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 7s Gd.)

life.

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young cavalry subaltern who bore Shaw-to go over, for a moment, of Irene-in

Bennett solicitor's clerk, and ty distinguish It. One is the gure

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to her and in a court

OF FASHION.

a namie made famous in polities by into his other field of the drama words, "a concretion of disturbing POPULAR NOVEL OUT his father, and stil more famous a young

who Beauty impinging on a possessive man from Dublin seemed for several years to be in-world." Irene was, to begin with, A remote ancester. Doubtless helped by this reflected calling. But Galaworthy was edu-Mall and Kensington and Parklane capable of earning à living in any the Helen who set this Trey of Palli

light, the book altracted an atten- ealed at Harrow and New College, and Hampstead on fire. But the tion which its own merits deserv- Oxford, and he never, as he once second point developed more slow.

ed, but not so much as they do. publicly remarked in his Interly in Galsworthy's increasing af

served.

After

İyears,

10

Treaty to maintain a certain LAST FEW DAYS

number of armed men for the pro- tection of the South Manchurian railway; she has thus been able. to prevent banditry and militar- ism from over-running, those

three provinces, We ourselves showed, on a smaller scale, whit could be done at Wei-Hal-Wei, where a very small British of- ficered force for years preserved | that district in a state of com- plete prosperity and contentment. Another example, of benevolent) intervention has been supplied sending of the Shanghai Defence by the beneficent results of the

force in 1927.

Other items include a reprint of Court Uchida's speech in the Diet Jon January 21, a review of the im- provements effected in Manchuria under the new administration, and, of interest to China, an count of the Wei Pel irrigation

AC-

Spanish Tendency To work carried out in Shenal by the

Return To Classic.

*

Madrid, to write for a living.fection for Soames Forsyte, Irene's

The popular novel is no longer (This, aps, was the cause of his first husband, of whom his creator popular in Spain, declares & well- The book is now launched afresh, effective arrival in literature being said: "The tragedy of his life is known editor here, who says that in first cheap edition.

later than that of the contempor-the very simple, uncontrollable since the advent of the Republic aries I have mentioned, although tragedy of being unlovable, without wealthy people have stopped buy- rending it. one feels thankful to- they had to struggle with the world quite a thick enough skin to being books. wards the publishers for 18 reis-before they could write at all. thoroughly unconscious of the

But the number of readers among. sue, but one also feels that there Galsworthy lived something like the fact." There is hardly any more the working and middle classes are is a bad reflection on public taste:

'ordinary life of a young man of conspicuous instance than this in said to be increasing fast. Their reasonable means, did this and that all fiction of the character growing interest centres on books dealing in literature when so good book and went here and there. Inci-under the author's hand, and with social problems, history, and; hae had to depend on its author's dentally, he went on a voyage to compelling even in the author politics. There is also a tendency

the Cape in a ship in which Joseph deeper understanding, a greater to return to the classics. Its proportions are so good, as But, though this was the beginning

Conrad was serving as firat officer.pity, and a greater love. well as its descriptive power. For of a long and significant friendship, extent, makes Galsworthy's great libraries in Spain, and

The "Forsyte Saga," in its full time there will be 500 more public He estimates that in five years".

a young writer of 25 it was an Galsworthy was not, as has some- contribution to prose fiction. amazing tour de force. there in the reflection one may ab-j

my times been alleged, the young pas-wrote also poems and essay's which book-buying publie will have in- serve the influence of his imma-senger who encouraged Conrad to had merits and demerits not to be creased by 25,000 readers.-Reuter.

considered here. It was only in] turity, or, perhaps more truly, of proceed with "Almayer's Folly,"

public fame for revival.

even better than his elder self.

Ha

These occupations prevented him the theatre that he competed with

that the

But

the immaturity of the period from writing his first important himself as a novelist. Many (but generally, not before), one knew to unquestioning us rightness of British policy and is ture age of thirty-nine.

to the divine book until he had reached the ma-all) of his plays were very effecbe the dramatist's devices, not He had, tive on the stage, and some of them life's. There was talent and to goal. But in the style, as in the indeed, both written and published were as successful as they were apare in his plays, and they richly proportions, the author of 25 seeme before, and, under an assumed effective. He excelled in the pre-deserved the success they obtained name, had attracted to himself asentation of some formal, public not only in England but also all There is a tautness in the prose certain degree of attention. It is, occasion. Give him a meeting of over. Europe and in America. which offers an interesting com-I think, a piece of this period which shareholders or a strike meeting, the future of his reputation de- parison with that of Mr. Chur-first mentions the Forsyte family a police-court or an auction and he pends, and not uncertainly, on his chill's more recent books. The in describing an extraordinary could deplet it with uncanny mas-novels.. latter, for all their splendour event in the career of one of its tery, underlining all its human sig He achieved, finally, a reputa- have a certain loosenes which members. And Galsworthy's talent nificance without departing from tion which was international as gives the reader the impression had been evident from his earliest formal realism. But something in well as national. The award of that they are dictated. The River ¡years. At Harrow he was Head the technique of the theatre seem-the Nobel Prize was a tribute to War" combines economy of phrase of his House, and in that House Ited to hamper the wider sweep of his success as a painter of English with vividness of phrase.

was the practice that each Head his gifts. He lost his tolerance, manness and the award of the Or If space permitted one could fill should write in a book kept for the he handled his characters unfair der of Merit was a testimonial that columns with comments and epito-purpose a "character of the Head ly, he made them do things that, the English saw and appreciated mes that are worth quoting. The who had gone before him. A friend once the curtain was down (but, the justice of his painting. causes of the Mahdi's rebellion, so of mine, who was one of. Gals-| fairly presented; the contrast of worthy's successors at a distance Gordon and the Maldi, so aptly of a quarter of a century, toid me hit off; the evolution of the rebel-that, turning over the pages of tion, summed up in the sentence-this book and peering into what "Fanatics charged. at Shekan; was, for a schoolboy, remote anti- patriots at Abu Kiea; warriors atquity, he found this one Omdurman."

leaping at him as real literature amid a waste of well-meant com maplaces.

ITALY'S LITERARY

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LITERARY CHATTER

Dean Inge's "Outspoken Essays" his diary in the English Review," will be the two new volumes in and his "Farmer's Glory." In a re-

cent article in the "Countryman The Turning Polat.

Longmans excellent Swan Library, Mr. Street confessed that he wrote The talent was there, but it re-

in bed after a hard day's work, be quired, apparently, some turning.

Storm Jameson's novel, "A Day fore falling asleep, ready to rise. point in life before it could come on is one of Nicholson and Wat- at half-past ove for his milk round to fruition. The precise nature of that turning-point is a matter for son's new books, Storm Jameson's in the morning. Mr. Street a new the future blographer. It is ex-husband, Guy Chapman, is the book, "Idle Thoughts of 4 Busy ough to say here that a perspaal writer of "A Passionate Prodigal has tos of his broadcast talks of Farmer which Faber will publish, Lome crisis not only changed Galsworthy A novel device to Increase the from an amiable and gifted saunty the latest war, book in Log: Iast summer, and short articles sale of the works of Italian authors terer in letters to one of the first lish,

and sketches of rural life, and has been evolved by the Fascist writers of his time, but also per

thought. Writers' Syndicate,

unently faced the floating ele- JB. Priestley and Gerald Bul From time to time a special day ents of his temperament, and set- lett, have written a "frolic," "I'll Admirers of James Joyce are will be devoted to one particular tied, once and for all, bis point of Tell You Everything" which is one now able to read Two Tales of autlior, and all the bookshops in view. The effect of this crisis was of Heinemann's January, books, Shom and Shaum They hava Rome will be asked to display that beneficial in a human de well as in

been reprinted from the limited: author's works prominently a literary sense. Hereafter his

AG Street, the writer of "Straw edition of Joyce's Tales from Shem their windows

de main characteristic was zealous-berry Hoang which is the story of and Shaum which were publish

· The first author to be thus ad- meas in the cause of the under dog, a cow, is a farmera Winifred ed in Paris. These two tales have vertised will be Signor Massimo tempered with wide charity for Holtby, who in a Yorkshire far been described by t ar offs Bontempelli, the poet and play the top dog combination which mer's daughter, has praised Mri blurb ad two of the Jollfest fables wright-Reutersit

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