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MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1933.

RULES ABOUT HOWARD SPRING'S

WRITING.

Famous Novelist's

to be wrong.

Opinion.

Guide To The New Books

Story Of A Family That Shocked A Suburb:

Vendetta Against Police In A Novel

THE CHINA MA

'OCCASIONAL NOTES Literary

Journal Of Horticultural Society

Notes And News

The second pumber of "Occasiony H. Thomas said to the King dur You and me will bunk together," al Notes" the organ of the Honging the general strike in 1926. At Kong Horticultural Society has the end of their talk the King said been published. Coples have been sent to the members and the pu- If the worst happens I suppose all a little sadly:"Oh, well, Thomas, 3. The Drive. By F. O, Mann., Hampstead, but X would get you blication is on sale to the general thin, Indicating with a gesture (Faber and Faber, s. 6d.).

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If it comes to that, sir you and

(Mr. A. E. W. Mason does not be- lieve in rules about writing the famous novelist In his opinion, "Nobody allve can lay down laws about it, to start with because al- though everybody is laying down Jaws about it as quickly and as pe-

by day or night. You might be dantically as they can, the next

shot, or sand-bagged, or slit open, public at $150 per copy.

the palace and grounds, generation will upset them. Any-burban streets (they exist princi- manhole that opened suddenly at ber of orchids which can be cult-Thomas's face, as he replied: "0f, The Drive was one of those su-for find yourself falling down a It contains an article on the num

Ish." A smile spread over 1

Mr. body who is going to make rules pally in the imagination of novel-your feet. about writing is going to be proved ists) which are very, very subur

vated in Hong Kong, several of Mr. Porlock is as good at this about writing. The only thing you is an old and amusing game to ap-read for a long time. He main-been introduced to the Colony, and stories which Basil Fuller has told There are no rules ban, rather like a torpid liver. It sort of thing as anyone I have them being species which, have me will bunk." This is one of the can say about writing is that there ply a jolt to a street of that sort tains the ascending curve of ex- which require special care. This is a sort of tact which may or may It has been done in various ways:citement and achieves fine article is illustrated by a number

in his Life Story of Mr. Thomas, not keep you right..

the young couple suspected of liv-|climax. "If you look at the people who ing in sin is the favourite device;

of beautifully coloured plates. have survived from 'generation to but Mr. Mann chooses to shatter

"Scottish Abbeys and Dr. Herklota deals with several Life" is a book by G. G. Coulton Social generation, the pundits have usual-the bourgeois tranquillity by en- ly been wrong. Jane Austen was flading it with

Goolden. (Chapman and Hall, flowering shrubs and has contriwhich the Cambridge University family that is never a great "swell" in her day but like a machine-gun. The children

[buted a number of aźcellent draw- she is the dickens of a 'swell' now. roar and rush about and talk a lan-

jings.

Press will publish. Dr. Coulton'a This book is about a woman who Other articles deal with Balzac the Frenchman, is alive'

fhe book has many illustrations, to-day. He was supposed by the unge indifferently compounded wanted her children to live accord-growing of Carnations and other

from books and the gutter."

ing to her views, not their own. plants and also with soils and fer- These are ill days for such tilisers. Books on gardening" are an experiment, and it is al-reviewed at the end of the number. most needless to Bay that

SCOTT SELLS IN FRANCE.

Sir James Fraser.

Separate Paths. By Barbara

78. 6d.).

"England, Their England,” by As G. MacDonelt, one of Macmillan's new books, is a study, in the form of a story, of English character and characteristics made by........ a young Scot from Aberdeenshire.

French critics to be writing for his

They all have mad nicknames: day only. So was Dumas, but both Lighters, Horrors, Penny, Saug have survived all the people whom gers, Tongu, Whiskey. They are the Press happened to shout about like "gawky fairies," their mother Emma did in their day.”

not succeed." She i like "a stately and amiable

even learned the wisdom of stag": and their father, 10

standing out of the light. Many a professor, is "a half-tamed yet book has beer built on this frame of whose death was commemorated Sir Walter Scott, the centenary It cannot be often that a scholar wholly humorous animal." Every work, but I cannot recall one at the Sorbonne recently is still a who himself still lecturing has a body in the house paints or curiously dry, so lacking in glam best-seller in France. His only lecture foundation named after sings

"The Enchanted Isles, or our, as Miss Goolden's. him. This tribute is, however, en-music.

There's rivals in the English language are in the Hebrides," by Alasdair Al- joyed by Sir James Frazer, the au- is rather like going out with the not a sight of earth or sky, not a Kipling and (somewhat unexpect pin MacGregor, is one of Alexan-

moment of human relationship, edly) Fenimore Cooper. thor of that famous work "The Beggara' Opora;" and, as for dress, that catches the light..

der MacLehose's new books. Golden Bough."

The Kipling chiefly, read by "Sometimes they spent whole French students is the Kipling of "A Book of Scottish Verse," Sundays on the river, or went "The Jungle Book" and "Plain which has been chosen by George for long and tiring walks in the Tales from the Hills. His poetry Burnett, is in Methuen's list. country. Presently they were is practically unknown in France. separated for fortnight.....Sep- Dickens and Thackeray are less

or writes novels A walk with these Otways

"comfort before decency any day" A Frazer Lectureship in social is the rule. anthropology was established in. The book is merely a series of 1921, and the addresses are deliver-snapshots of this family in action ed yearly, in rotation, at Oxford,}—and, believe me, action is the Cambridge, Glasgow, and Liver word. They come, they explode inf pool. Eight of them, by "divers the Drive, some pantechnicons hands," as the modest announce-gather the pieces and remove then ment saye, of as many eminent to Oxford, and once more there is men, are

appearing in a volume peace. The book has no develop which the Macallans announce. ment; but the Otways are highly They published "The_Golden{amusing, though rather unreal, as Bough" and Sir Juntes Frazer's long as they last. Not unlike that other books, and his association old music-hall turn "The Ten with them must now be as long as Loonies." John Morley's wan.

BOOK RETURNED 38 YEARS LATE.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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X v. Rex. By Martin Porlock. (Collins, Ts. 6d.)

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pine missed her abominably, and admired by the French than by the AUSTRALIA AND THE HUXLEYS. they had a touching reunion in Russians, Meredith, Hardy and Richmond Park.”.

Wells are little read. Probably

For Australia to put a ban" of, sort. Miss Goolden seems to have with: Aldous Huxley, Virginia "Brave New World" is like slap- It's all dry statement of that more French readers are familiar exclusion on Mr. Aldous Huxley's felt nothing about these people.

Wolff and David Garnett than with ping one of its own children, or

for the Brontes, Fielding, Smollett and great-grandchildren,

Aldous By Defoe.

Huxley's grandmother, the wife of the famous Professor, was Henriet- to Anne Heathorn, of Sydney, She met Huxley while he was serving]

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Maria Jane Jewsbury. Erle Gillett. (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 6s. 6d.)

One of this year's minor centen- The "First Efforts in Criticism" in southern waters as a surgeon in Farles concerns Maria Jane Jews-bring out her claws very well the Navy.

bury, who was born in Derbyshire, and

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must have scratched # Mrs. Huxley had. literary gifts X was the unknown which had spent much of her life in Manches-number of sensitive. contem-which found expression in a vo "Fineless week" at the Cambridge pitted itself against Rex, the law of ter, and died of cholera at Poona porary skina. Mr. Gillet should lume of poems, and from one of Public Library has resulted in the the land. X struck at the law in 1833.

be thanked dor recognising them Prof. Huxley chose the thres return of a book, "The Story of through the police. A police| Mir: Gillett has written a brief, that Jane Jewsbury deserved to be lines which were inscribed on his Scotland," which was 38 years man's life was decidedly not a hap- charming memoir of Jane and bas rescued from oblivion. byg overdue.

py one when X was on the war-followed it with a selection from

Be not afraid, ye waiting hearts Fines on the book, which origin-path.

her writings. She is a figure of The Art and Craft of Writing. that weep: ally cost the library 2-4 in 1890, You might be a dear old ser- some interest because of her friend-

For still He giveth His beloved would have amounted to £58-the geant comfortable in a suburban ship with Wordsworth and his cir-

sicer, sum the borrower escaped paying station, or a hefty young prize-cle; and her writings show her to Mr. J. W. Marriott sets out in And if an endless sleep. He wills, by virtue of the cancellation offer.[fighting bobby on a beat in Mlay-have possessed a dash of that wit-"The Art and Craft of Writing" so best. Records show he borrowed it in fair, or a gallant equestrian con- ty malice which flowered most per- 1994--Reuter.

stable riding a white horse at fectly in the work of Jane Austen.

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that which should be known on the subject by "intelligent, young men and women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five."

It is mostly plain common- sense, but I quarrel with Mr. Mar- rictt, as I would with anyone else who preached the old heresy that it is a good rule to stick to Anglo- Saxon as much as possible.--

"There are," he goes on to say, times when circumlocutions - are· permissible," and that sentenco is a queer comment on his own doc trine. The word "liar," says Mr. Harriot, hurts more that the word "prevaricator," so we must circum- locute. But one would not call a man a liar unless one intended to hurt him. The plain truth of the| matter is thut. English as we write It to-day is not Anglo-Saxon, but something infinitely richer and more flexible, an amalgam of ton- gues. New instruments have been

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