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MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1933.

THE CHINA

FILT

THE BEST SELLERS IN DEFENCE OF THE OTHER NEW

THE

TIGER

name Pirandello is general- When I tell you that it is a Crime "Brave Beast Who Will ly considered frightening by Club book, and that in addition it is

Fight To Death.” people with ordinary, or human, recommended by the Book Society,

you may or may not be impressed.

brows.

None of us need be frightened this time.

"The

NOVELS

Crystal." By Caroline Ken- woman was found in the same nedy (Hutchinson. 78. 6d.)] place. Meanwhile in the village The scene of The Crystal" itself two women had disappeared, opens on a coffee plantation in one a mental case who would only Southern India, where little Laura have gone away with someone sha A CLASSIC OF THE JUNGLE Loaming aged eight, is devoted to knew and the other a cripple who But when I tell you that the story

two people, the handsome young could not possibly walk herself. London. man, Tim, and her Eurasian nurse, And finally the inmate of a nearby is about an unknown killer, "X,"

Brigadier-General R. G. Burton Annie. The scene shifts to Eng-public mental institution had been Pirandello's book of short stories, who commits murder after murder,

some has killed tigers by the hundred. land--the child is now in the sole missing for some daya, "Better think Twice About It," pub-leach one having for victim Ilshed by John Lane at 7s. 6d., is a guardian of the law, and that this Now he has written a book in their charge of Mitzi, her dead mother's This was indeed a problem for a

"X" defence.

friend.

Yard man to get his teeth into, but work that takes us a long way from unknown death-quantity.

though General Burton Here the transplanted Annie, the chief constable of the county the volutions of Pirandello the plunges the country into terror, and For

involves the Cabinet-then, think, agrees that tigers must be kept who is inclined to talk the language would have nothing to do with him. playwright.

within bounds they still kill more of the English suburbs rather than He was determined to solve ; the you may be interested.

than a thousand Human beings of Southern India, tells Laura her problem with his own force. You will And there tragedy, Anyway, you ought to be.

every year he has been all his fate as revealed in a crystal. This For answer readers must turn to comedy. farce--all in the true tradition of the short story-little HERE is to be something inter-life a devoted student and a fervent sort of thing is by no means new, Mr.Rushton's book, which is right- short tumulating Testing in a twose that talks, admirer of his brave beast who put the author has contrived to by named, for there is version especially when it talks about the will fight to the death, give to the windings of Laura's incident in every chapter, and a The tiger, General Burton de life story exactly that impress of development on neasly every page. people who live in it.

Houses do, indeed, seem to have clares, has been unjustly stigmatis. fatality which the crystal had re- will read the other thirteen stories a life of their own, to be the hared as cruel and bloodthirsty. He flected. It is a promising first ["Gun Cotton-Adventurer." By

bourers of secrets that generations is no more bloodthirsty than cara novel, and, apart from Laura, Afft Rupert Grayson. (Grayson

Fiew,

+ * *

Read "The Jar," and then you

that make up the book.

This is the first time that this famous Italian writer's storids have appeared in English as a collection.

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of men and women have left behind verous man, except, he adds them in the walls.

Here in "Penny Get," beth Fagan (Grayson, 78. 6d.), TEPHEN GRAHAM is a name house is made to tell the story of

STEPHEN GRAM Jio a name these is made

and journalist.

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zi is a distinctly well realised

** 75. 6.)]S That he does his own killing character drawn in the round.

"Gun" Cotton, Mr. Grayson's while man usually has his kill

dashing hero, is becoming a fami» By Charles liar figure to readers of adventur ing done for him, amounting in [Terror Tower." by Elisa-

Great Britain to 40,000 crea- Rushton. (Jenkins. 78, 64)]

oua fiction. In this further instal- tures slaughtered daily for A Scotland Yard detective

onment of his experiences our latter- food. The animal killed by holiday found a man's headless day D'Artagnan rings the bell the jaws of a wild beast prob- body floating at the edge of an

again. ably suffers no more than one evil-looking and evil-reputed loch.in New York "Gun" Cotton" be done to death with a pole-axe Scarcely had the local village re- comes involved in a desperate bat-|

covered from this astounding re-tle of wits with beer barons and or even a "humane-killer." "The Book of the Tiger" (Hut port than the headless body of a other lords of the under-world, who chinson 12/6) certainly deserves' a

resent bis intrusion in their liquor racket. For a time things go very

has to be put on his mettle before

It is the table of a family penny. wise and life-foolish.

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And you have a murder and novelist--n good ghost laying.

Here, published by Benn at 38. Od.. is an example of Stephen) Graham GR

example.

Bricks and mortar speak dramati-place among the classics of the His book, "One of the Ten Thou-jeally of flesh and blood.

jungle. It is packed with anecdotes and information. ---Reuter. Band," tells the love story of a crook.

This crook is imprisoned for a R. HALLIDAY SUTHERLAND, crime of which he was innocent, although he had been guilty of

many.

He is known to the police as "one of the ten thousand" whose records are on the files.

In this tale, if he obtains his re- lease, he runs the risk of ruining an innocent woman. What is he to

do?

Dis already well known-in-

deed, better than well known-is

TURDER

SUGGES-

his own profession of medicine. "M TION" by Edward Ache-

Here in his book, "The Arches of

a detective

the Years" (Geoffrey Bles, 10s, son, is

story about 6d.), he reveals himself as a man which even the publishers, Messrs. Hutchinson, refuse to say anything.

of adventures and memories.

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he visited the Shetlands, and went both.

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TEMPLE THURSTON the full extent of his resource and

daring can be displayed. After The Wandering Jew" somewhat leisurely beginning [Mr. Grayson increases the pace, Brings Fame.

[and his beat chapters have all the speed and colourfulness of a first- rato gangster film.

EARLY SUCCESSES

The death of E. Temple Thurs["The Boat of Longing." By O. E.

year up to four.

As a child he learned the curious This is because you have an un-ton; announced recently, brings the Rolvang, (Harpers. 78. 6d.)] Those who like Scandinavian Hi- legends and superstitions of the usual plot and an unusual method, number of deaths of famous au- Highlands. Later, when a student, and to talk about either would spoil thors in the first few months of the iterature will enjoy this book. It George Moore, contains some descriptive passages John Galsworthy and George of real beauty; and only occasion- will Saintsbury had lived their three ally is the effect marred by a Od. Thurston has died comparatively the writer is not using his native score years and ten, but Temple crude colloquialism that hints that

young man, in his 54th year.

He language

Read this book and read it forjon a whaling expedition. this, if only for this-that you will find an astonishing picture of life in prison besides a drama that will hold you.

But I will tell you this-you And then, a6 young doctor, he find excitement--a sound 75. travelled to the south of Spain to worth of it. work in a clinic.

But he became a lover

tells

some

of bull-

clated with an almost incredible de

heart-stirring gree of fatuous credulity; for was stories of his experiences as not Dr. Watson the patient whip-doctor. ping boy of the insufferable Sher- lock Holmes?

was thrice married, the last time

The characters are well drawn, THE name Watson in detective ighting, and even took a hand in it story of "Rome Express"-one

DY this time everybody knows the in 1926.

if all very much of the same type] The name Wet Treat cove himself.

In 1895, when he was only 16, two—and that a type not famillar here. of the best films I have seen, and books of poems by him were The author knows his landscape British at that

published. His first play, Red and the mentality of his "people Well, here is the novel of the film, and White Earth," was produced in very surely. A brooding melan- There was, for example, the written by Ruth Alexander (author 1902. * From: | 1905,' novels, playa choly fills the atmosphere, and of the book of the play. The Ghost and poems flowed from his pen at there is a feeling that Fate, un- working woman whose husband had Train") and Clifford Grey. ** the rate of one and often two hurriedly, is shepherding the char- died in a building accident.

It is published by Arrowsmith at year. His play "Charmeuse" was acter to their doom. Now here is a book, "Transatlan- She called at the dispensary one

In the same year Lie Ghost," by Miss Dorothy Gar- day with a boy of eight, and asked

he had two other publications, "The diner, published by Harrap at 78. the doctor if the boy's chest was

Have your money ready, please. Rosicrucian" and "The Man in a Gd.. and containing a nervous detec- sound.

Black Hat," One of his most auc- Live with the fatal name of Watson.

There is also a Cairn terrier who'

78 6d, and it is good, exciting written in 1930. entertainment all through.

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THE

equally strong wills becomes

Dr Sutherland thought that she 66 THE 'conflict between two cessful novels was "Over the Hill." helps him to solve the mystery of was the boy's grandmother, but at,

"The Wandering Jew." how twp people were shot in a this she protested that she was only a fight to the bitter end. The His fame rests, "however, on his haunted room.

his foster-mother.

actual finish is a thrill of startling powerful play "The Wandering

Jew," written In 1920. "I had fourteen of my own," she delight.". Incidentally, Miss Gardiner was said. “... When all the children In these moderate words Messra The Ceylon Dramatic League born in Italy, and had her finger-left home I took this one.... My Mills and Boon conclude their re-chose this for their first production. prints taken when she was three husband and I had become that fond marks concerning the novel "Lady It netted about Rs. 9,000, but the houra old-all because her father, a of the child we couldn't send him Gone Wild," by Phyllis Gordon C.D.L. profited very little by it, the pupil of Thomas Huxley, was help-to the poorhouse.

Demarest (7a. 6d.), which they production expenses being over Rs.

ing Sir Francis Galton with his "Sa we adopted him legally.". print on the inside fold of a jacket 8,000. ma work on finger-prints.

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One might almost say, therefore, that crime is in Miss Gardiner's blood.

►

The child was

was

The Wandering Jew healthy enough, showing a most attractive. young but Dr. Sutherland found in the female seated on a champagne cork legendary Jew, doomed to wander mother's neck a serious disease. When I say that the young female till the second coming of Christ, be-|

Yet she

had never complained, is called Roxazie, and that she has a cause he taunted Jesus an He pass- never thought of going to a doctor. perfectly fearful time of it with one ed bearing the cross, saying "Go Kirt Paton, a gambler-"society to quicker," Jesus replied, "I go, but And side by alde with these little boot-you will need no further re- thou shalt wait till I return." This A

ND here is another crime book tragedies you will find comedies. commendation. You will obviously legend first appears in a pamphlet "X v. Rex", by Martin Per-And at the end the far and lovely read the book if only in order to find alleged to have been printed at Ley Bek. (Collins, 78. Gd.).

islands of the Outer Hebrides.. lout what I have, not told you. A.P. den in 1802 The legend met with

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