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MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.

THE WORLD'S

STRANGEST

FRIENDSHIP

New Book Causes Discussion,

H. M. THE KING'S RETORT

London.

Considerable discussion has been aroused by Mr. George Sylvester Viereck's Jock "The Strangest Friendship in the World," which; purports to tell of a secret "Gentle- men'a Agreement," made in 1916, whereby the United States pledged to intervene on behalf of the Allies.

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Faith And Failings Of Cecil Rhodes

Candid Biography Of A Great Imperialist

THE

COLOSSUS OF EMPIRE

(Mr. J. B. Firth.)

and Dutch

with

THE CHINA MAIL.

AUTHORS

FORTUNES MADE BY IN SCOTLAND AGAIN

FOR PUBLICATION. Another Delightful H. V. Morton Book.

Victor Hugo Heads List With £300,000.

GEORGE MOORE'S WILL

London.

OTHER NEW ISSUES.

London.

Methuen is shortly bringing outf

Mr. George Moure, the famous another H. V. Morton book, It novelist who died on January 21. will be entitled "In Scotland Again” left £75,143.

and is a sort of supplement to that In his will he wrote: "I have great success, "In Search of Scot given a great deal of pains to the land". writing of my books, and at one Next month we shall have Com- time had to overcome serious op mander L. C. Bernacchi's life of Cap- position before reaching the public. thin Qates-"A Very Gallant

"

But-

"I am anxious to secure that after Gentleman"-from Thornton It is an opportune moment for the place than any, cathedral made my death my works shall not be terworth. |uppearance of A new "Life" of hands. The author states that the agree-Cecil

merely issued, but published in a Round the world flight is the sub- Rhodes. The great Im Jameson, ment arose from conversations be perialist is in danger of being for Jameson

whom he loved, the way which I should approve, and Ject of a new book by Richard Halli- who tween Sir Edward Grey and Colonel gotten by the older generation, while fatally "upset his apple-cart and them to Charles Douglas Medley, Geoffrey Bles.

so tragically and for this reason I am bequeathing burton, to be published shortly by House in 1915. A "definite the fashion of the new

He calls it "The formula" was reached and embodied proves" of Imperialism itself.

"disap-involved him in disaster, once ask-who understands literature and Flying Carpet and it will contain by Sir Edward

ed Rhodes how, long he expected to likes my books. 'Grey in

descriptions of some thrilling ad- memorandum, which was formally Rhodes's faith-the

Moreover, another great article of be remembered. "I give myself," "As regards the proceeds, 1 wish ventures, approved by President Wilson with-gether of British

drawing to was the superb but casual reply, him to retain these ir emory of his A portrait of the richest man in out the knowledge and consent

in "four thousand years."

old friend."

the world, the oil king John D. of South Africa and the appeasement the United States Senate.

Rhodes believed-and, believing, George Moore was luckler than Rockefeller-whom the American of racialism-shows The agreement, according to Mr.signs of revival after the long set-greatest people that the 'world has of popular successes.

promising said that "the English were the most novelists-even many authors banking crisis finds actually "short Viereck, gave England the right to back of the Hertzog regime.

of cash" at the moment of writing demand American intervention

lever seen, whose fault is that they

Here are

some other "literary these Notes-is contained in a book at This new biography her

of Rhodes, do not know their strength, their fortunes": convenience and bound theby Sarah Gertrude

by John T. Flynn, on the eve of United States to support the Aliles Africa's leading novelist, is a

Millin, South greatness, and their destiny." Hence Dr. A. C. Benaon £112,000 publication by Harrap. unless Germany accepted

re the simplicity and passion of his Stanley Weyman a peace murkable example of

100,000 dictated by her foes.

the modern Imperialism.

Charles Dickens Time and again, however, Ameri-Lences and paragraphs are vivid and episodic style. Its staccato sen-

Charles Garvice ca is pictured as frembling on the epigrammatic at all costs, and really believed that England might W. J. Locke

At times he spoke as though he Rider Haggard

Anthony Trollope brink of war with Great Britain asionally mercilessly realistic. But regain of course, by consent-her Joseph Conrad over blockade questions. Even after the so-called agreement Wilroad. The authoress is conscious of ether rule the world in joint bene done better still.

and it will be lost American Colonies, and both to-

20,000 With great delicacy and simpli- son is said to have described the her theme.

Some of the French writers have city Mr. Phil Stong unfolds the lives Eritish Government in a letter to

A romantic idea, the instance, left £300,000.-Reuter.

Victor Hugo, for of a farming family during the House as "poor boobs,"

few weeks before the fair and un-, which animates ardi

Itil its close.

The four members of this family domestic interests, and the son and the father and mother with their

daughter with their love affairs- are described with crystal clarity.

The picture of Blue Boy attacking his mash is a tribute to the author's knowledge of his hog.

it lives and moves.

Pawer for Great Ends.

"You

Rhodes's Imperialism.

icent away. spirit of

The justest saying her book con-irradiates the Rhodes Trust. Mr. Vierek tells also of a conver-tains is George Meredith's. Bation which took place between worship Rhodes," he wrote to

And yet he would threaten, when Colonel House and the King at friend in 1902; "I would crown him Buckingham Palace early in 1915.

"Impressed by the King's energy," he writes, "House asked: 'I wonder why Your Majesty refrains from

him with

the

and then scourge crown still on him."

Well, that is exactly what Life it self did to Rhodes, He was crown-

AN

at the

80,000 PIG IS HERO OF "STATE FAIR" 71,000

70,000 Blue Boy, a prize hog, is the real 61,000 hero of "State Fair" (Barker, 78. 24,000 Gd.).

British policy irritated him, "to HUSBAND AND WIFE

ihoist his own rag!"

CONFLICT.

Loveless Marriage Theme.

"

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But his Imperialism was also founded on another conviction, viz.. that England was losing her old; speaking to the British public fed and he was scourged, just

commerical supremacy because she the same forerfel manter in which others of the world's greatest have markets by tariffs.

was being stut out of foreign you have talked to me

"'i don't,' the King replied, "be money was nothing to Rhodes exChamberlain's conversion to Tariff 7a. 6d.) by Mr. A. P. Graig, deals:

leen. He amassed millions. but Rhodes played

I believe that a larger part in "When Adam Wep?" (Gollancz, cause my distinguished cousin the Kaiser has talked so much and made for power.

cept as an Indispensable instrument Reform than has yet been revealed. with the conflict between two peo- euch a fool of himself that I have aand he used it for great ends.

Power was everything,

A striking, if pitiless, picture is ple, utterly opposed in temperament distaste for that kind of publicity.

given of Certainly

the triumvirate, Rhodes, jand ambition, with nothing but he was unscrupulous. Then, too, ours is a different kind A man of scruple, I fear, would meson, and Beit, who for a time strong physical attraction between of monarchy, and I not desire to in-have stood

held the immediate destiny of South them to bind them together. trude myself in Buch matters." "~~~~

a poor chance

Africa in their hands: Reuter.

Kimberley diamond fields.

Clair Challoner was an individual. Strange to think of these three list, young, talented and Hard-work- men, these three sickly bachelors, ing; she thought life could be all born in the same year, an Eng-planned and worked out according lishman, a Scot, and a German to that plan. Jew, making this great untamedį Then she married Peter Armit- The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. 'country the work of their lives. of

age. Rhodes had tubercular lunga When a conventional man marries and an aneurism

aorta.jan of the

individuallat, cherishing the Jameson had tubercular lungs, fond ides that "marriage will haemorrhoids, and gallstones, change all that nonsense," it is as Beit had dangerously unquiet clear as daylight that he is storing

up trouble for himself. They were nothing like Rhodes' Peter's. hope lay in the possibility Ideal Englishmen. No one would of moulding Clair to his way of have chosen them to be thinking. The strong spirit in her Rhodes Scholars.

was atiffened, not crushed, by op-

At one time he was held up by the fabbiest Home Government that lever set itself for muddle-tended UNUSUAL STORY OF British Empire, and to the last be reasons to prevent the growth of the

THE SAHARA. was pursued by the execrations

the Little Englanders, a purbind and self-righteous race. The

"Air Adventure."

Liberal Imperialists were a power. ful but always a small minority of An eye quick to observe is essen. the Liberal party. tial in a writer of travel books. T Above all,

Rhodes had to get There is no doubt that 51r. Wii-things done quickly. He knew liam Seabrook possesses this ability.himself to be doomed to early death, In addition, he is quick to observe and tw longed to see results. In the incongruous,

part he saw them. He rescued

nerves.

ever

It is probably this latter quality Bechuanaland just in time; he creat Rhodes all through was the leader position, and her success In her which makes "Air Adventure" ed the two Rhodesias: laid the foun- and inspirer. Destiny called him work aggravated her husband's (Harrap, s. 6d.) such entertaining dation of the All Red Line to the Far North, and the others had to go resentment, which was inflamed still North. He was also the true be with him. The discipleship of more later by his own failure

reading.

The general idea of what would getter of the Union of South Africa. Jameson 18 intelligible enough. through over-confidence and be seen in a journey across the though the supreme blunder of his That Alfred Beit believed and fol-stupidity. Sahura by air or in any other way career-the Jameson Raid-seemed lowed is a much more astonishing 10 many when he died to have ahat-tribute to Rhodes's marvellous power

is more or less stereotyped.

We wait for the Mr. Seabrooks tered his dream, for it had

of the world to tell us that the two cipitated the South African War. principal stopping places in the

Sahara are an American bar in the

Dre-

of inspiration and attraction.

Matabele Horror.

Men to "Square." Rhodes believed in "squaring' his| He once suggested to Mrs. Millin extenuates nothing. Opponents,

COLLINS' POCKET

CLASSICS.

and when Parnell

the Irish priests

Collectors,

Paris Ritz style, and a petrol pump. She is profoundly conscious of the Chinese Gorden that he should Great Opportunity For

Tales about records of Josephine irrecuncilable elements in Rhodes's "square the Mahdi" instead of Baker blaring in Timbuktu, and of character-the good and the bad. smashing him, an Arab father unable to manage During the conquest of Matabele./complained that his young daughter since she had lund which ended savage rule south were against him, he replied quRfe | heard the records and become fired of the Zambesi many deplorable simply "Can't you square with a craze to go to Paris-such incidents took place. tales present us with a more human

of the author's writing.

ROMANCE FROM THE OCEAN.

Pope?"

Pocket classics at a price to suit

the all pockets are the latest venture of Messrs. Collins and Sons; A

and colourful picture of the Sahara cident" which befell the

One of the worst was the "ac- I have often wondered why thirtieth birthday gift to the public than those usually given us.

three Rhodes never really set himself to will be a new series at 28, each of ment of this book are made all the Company's armed force stond eager is going to cause

The combined interest and amuse-to make peace just as the Chartered meeting had said, "That young man novels which have earned their Matabele envoys sent by Lebengula "square". Kruger, who at their first famous books, including ''modern more attractive by the lively style ly waiting the order to march in, Krugor came

mc trouble right to immortality. to call Rhodes, "the A splendid opportunity is offered Peace was got desired. The en-curse of South Africa." But it of collecting books in an attractive voys were shot while "trying to any other President had reigned at binding as well as at an attractive cape." That left a dark stain Pretoria except that preposterous price. which still remains. Mrs, Millinajold Dapper Boer, who believed that Mr. Wells' admirers will welcome comment is that while the Matabele the earth was flat, agreements could the chance of buying Mr. Britting" War could not be described as have been reached either by Rhodes in this series "My Lady of the just war It was an inevitable war or Milner, which would have pre- Chimney Corner," by George Ogilvy In-white men being what hey are vented in one case the Raid, and in Reid, and The House With the and black men being what they are. the other the South African War, Green. Shutters," by George And she might also have added The amazing thing, however, is Douglas, are sure to be popular, and speculators, being what they, are, that so clever In these days of mechanical trans-

a mukas Rhodes Dumas fans are not forgotten. never believed that the Transvant Illustrations of great religious port, of railway engines and alr planes, there is romance in the Rhodes ever enjoyed was when, al-

Yet the greatest moral triumph Boer could or would defend their masterpieces makes a special edition

country: thought of a sailing ship:

Jameson, only three of the New Testament Whispering voices from the air, parley with

most alone and unarmed, he held months before, the Raid, had boast-pensable volume,

the Matabele chiefs ed that "anyone could take the Transvaal with half a dozen re-

Mystery And Murder "The Death Ship.”

Dr. Jameson's Raid,

B

the mysterious disappearance of during the insurrection and per volvera." Even when the South

other, murder

These are

an india

one, mumber of the crow after an-suaded them to peaceful surrender. African War was very close, Rhodes ascendancy which Elodes catablish

They called him "Father," though a few of the ex- he had taken their country from Was still completely contemptuous ed over his accusers at the Parlia citements which crowd the story of them, and he made his grave among of the Boers' will or power to resist mentary Inquiry in London la most "The Death Ship" (The Bodley them on the great granité hill called Head, 78. Gd.); '

A Colossus.

surprisingly missed. the "View of the World,”;

-Rhodes bestrode them like a The salt tang of the sea blows

He paid a bitter price for his mis- Colossus: Re: beatrides them still Io chose it as his burial place takes, and Mrs. Millin' gives a mov-to-day. His vision, was magnificent; through the pagas along with the (when first he behold it and stood ing account of the mental and moral his faith in his ideale sublime. But thril

apell-bound by the wild majesty and collapse of Rhodes after the Eald, always, he knew himself to be work Mutiny on the high seas is alsolitude of the scene, muttering when, all his Dutch friends at the ing against time, with Instruipents ways sensational, and Mr. Edmonds of its peace, its chaotic grandeur, Cape turned-overnight Into implac- often unequal and unworthy, in raw

an accomplished narrator into the and the littleness of man. A ablo and vengeful foes, 1 bargain

surroundings not yet or but yeater- On the other hand, the dramatic day snatched from the wild,

vaster and more solama: burying-

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