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MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES ·

Table Talk About Books

A New Sen Story by Harry Edmonds.

known as a writer of

No

STORM JAMESON

AUT

Challenge To Modern

Women.

sailing ship At the beginning of jcended from Alexander Stuart, ting book. the story the ship is leaving Rigs Earl of Buchan (son of King Ro bound for Valparaiso under sealed bert II. of Scotland), a lawless no

as "the orders, with instructions to touch bleman who was known

na Wolf" of Badenoch. at no port. The ship carries wireless and, when soon after sail ing the crew begin to disappear in Jonathan Cape, Ltd., have just

A Friendly Book On Tea.

tion that her book is directed.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Literary Giants Are Fewer

Memorable Era Draws

To A Close.

By IMPRESSIVE WRITERS PASSING.

who are still with us we have to place some well-appreciated namas of others who are resting quietly after their labours. They are well Time Like the Present

content to have withdrawn from five small daughters with him to Storm Jameson. (Cassel. 68.)

the hurly burly of literary life, yet|| worship the Sun-God to the time The world is not yet a rap better

The recent losses sustained by their stories and plays have suffi Harry Edmonds in already well when the little girls of Victorian because women have been let loose literature in the passing of several cient vitality to make the retire- ses stories England learned "the use of the in it. Our effect upon its major of its leading contemporaries, silment hardly noticeable. Such are his North Sea Mystery having been globes." Miss Stuart, with a cycle evils-war, poverty, and what be- within a few weeks; have crested Sir James Barrie and Mr. W. W. compared to that famous book. The of poems, won for Great Britain longs to them-is nothing, our ac- the sombre feeling that an era la facobs.

Each in his way is Riddle of the Sanas. On March the Silver Medal in the Internation-hievement of our independence no-drawing to an abrupt conclusion, unique, and the position of both of Since the War the number of them, in the theatre and the short 31st the Bodley Head are publish-al Literary Contests of the Eighth thing."

This is how Miss Storm Jameson death of great and nearby great story respectively, is unlikely to be ing a new sea mystery by him, en-Olympiad in 1924, being the first titled The Death Ship, which deals woman to win such a prize since sums up the position of woman in authors is sufficiently impressive challenged for a long time to come. with that most romantic subject, the 6th century B. C.. She is des the modern world, in this hard-hit- to make us wonder rather anxious- Bir Henry Newbolt, Sir William ty how few remain, for the gap left Watson and Mr. Sturge Moore will She offers the volume as an "ed-by the removal of Thomas Hardy, always be remembered among the mirable example of the way ideas are Robert Bridges, Joseph Conrad; poets of the early twentieth cen corrupted in a mechanical civilian-Charles Doughy. Arnold Bennett. tury, and Mr. Augustine Birrell tion," and it is against that civilisa erael Zangwill, Conan Doyle, Ed-and Mr. Arthur Symons have alled ward Carpenter, and quite recently particular places as critics and It indicts a materialism which George Saintsbury, George Moore bookmen. a mysterious manner, panic seizes published To Think of Teal by takes for granted not only our alums, and John Galsworthy,

Can the writers who are now in all on board. It is not until the Agnes Repplier. E. V. Lucas, writ-our unemployed, our wars and the likely to be widened much farther, the full tide of their matarity, or secret of the ship's strange missioning in the Sunday Times, says: perpetual lif-destroying inventions says a writer in the "Liverpool the oncoming generation, give as brought to light that the solution "Tea having played so disruptive a of our scientists, but a religion so di-Post." Add to these such other surance that when next there is of the problem is found. Crown part in our relations with America, vorced from the Christianity of the names as John Morley, W. H. Hud-talk of an era closing down they it is well that a friendly book on, Sermon on the Mount that "if usury, son, D. H. Lawrence, C. E. Mon- will offer names as impressive as A Poet of the Yorkshire Dales. the subject should be coming from if poverty, if war are ever abolished tague, Neil Munro, Alice Meynell, these to illustrate the unbroken Dorthy Una Ratcliffe has achier that country, and especially just no part of the credit will belong to Herbert Trench. Maurice Hewlett continuity of letters and dispel the has condoned all Katherine Mansfeld. Jerome idea that we can speak of an era ed a reputation for her interpreta- now. Not that Miss Repplier's is a Church which tion of the spirit of Yorkshire in the first; for did not the Autocrat thre."

Jerome, Hall Caine, Gilbert Par-except in a vague way for working prose and verse. A selected vol of the Breakfast Table summarise

writes, "have ker, and John M. Robertson, poets, purposes? Dare we say that, in lume of her poetry of the Yorkshire his philosophy of life, when in the only added to the quantity of hu- novelists, and critics of outstand spite of much shaking of heada Dales is being published in a small eighties, by a final causerie, chiefly man activity, and little so far to ing merit and influence, who have about the future of literature, ap- volume by the Bodley Ilead OD on acocunt of a visit to the Eng. its quality. If were true that gone from us within the same perpearances are deceptive, and that March 31st, under the title of Dale land that he loved, in a volume call- women have no values as natural tod of a dozen years, and the feel there are as many giants, or nearly Courtin, at 1s. 6d. net. It includes ed Over the Tea Cups? And the to them a women -as their ing of something finished is inten- giants, in our midst as ever. some new work as well as poems Autocrat came from Boston, too! shapes are, we should have to be sided. from her published work, and isSuch is the wit and wisdom and issued at a low price in order that distinction of style of Miss Rep her work may be within the reach plier, who is a Philadelphian, that) of the Dale Folk themselves.

Bro./73. 68. net.

Now Cheap ditions.

I read everything by her that comes

my way, and I shall certainly read] To Think of Tea.

"Women," she

seems un-

quoting similar length of time. Daly by KING'S THEATRE

tabulating them, indeed,

are wa

pleased with the spectacle of wo- It is to be questioned, moreover, men in football shorts, women if in the past literature has ever scribbling for the newspapers, wo-sustained losses as heavy in any men flying, preaching, shares, and all that.

"But it is not true. Women able to realise their weight. This have not naturally the same atti-means, of course, that while the COMING SHORTLY! tude as men to all that touches dead writers were with us, they breeding, marriage, and destroy-and their contributions to the var- ing life. They have a mind, an ious branches of an inexhaustible attitude, a gesture of their own.jart were taken far too much. for For them to pretend otherwise is granted. z

Their Best Work Dane.

Forceful Charges.

THE FIRST GREAT

FILM FROM THE NEW GAUMONT-BRITISH STUDIOS

ROME

can ESTHER

RALSTON

EXPRESS

On March 31st the Bodley Head are publishing, at 8s. 6d. net, the Merciless Tale of Gay Paree first cheap odation of Mrs. C. S. Miss Helen Simpson (author of Peel's well-known book, The StreamBoomerang) has prepared and of Time: A Study of S cial and translated an abridgment of Louis. Domestic Life in England, 1805. Sebastien Mercier's lengthy Le conTableau de Paris, which Harrap's 1861, fully illustrated, from temporary sources Mrs Peel is have just published under the title, a denial of life....it is treachery now working on her reminiscences, The Walting City: Paris, 1782-88. and desertion-since the human But in human life there is no which will appear in the summer In this work (written in short, dis. destiny is not complete without end and no beginning. It under the title of Life's Enchanted connected chapters) Mercier the working in it of women think-never be said at onë especial point Cup.

play-wright, pamphleteer, and es- ing, feeling, and acting also in in history that an era completed, "The Girl"" follows "The Boy." sayist-mercilessly displays the terms of their womanhead." despite our acceptance, for the The success of The Boy Through Parisians of his day in all their ac-j

sake of compactness and general the Ages encouraged Misa Dorothy 'tivities, leaving no vice or folly un

The Church, the State, the world convenience, of the historian's dis- Margaret Stuart ("D. M. S." of described; he thus provides an in-of science, the novelists (whom she position to fit things into water. Punch) to embark on a similar tensely interesting picture not only accuses of using life without criticis tight compartments. And if we book dealing with the other sex. of the character, diversions, grie-ing it) are all in the dock to Miss consider the names of the older au The Girl Through the Ages, which¦vances, and hopes of its citizens Jameson's forcefull charges.

thors who are still with as we will good Harrop publish on April 3, traces while Paris waited for the storm) Fiery attacks on Dean Inge and realise that there is as little justi- People. with much picturesque and amus of the Revolution to burst... Arnold Sir Arthur Keith are also contained fication for our thought a collec ing detail the daily life of the tyBennett fecords in his Journals in the book. Quoting a pasage from tive breaking-off in literature, pical little girl from the time when that he was charmed by Mercier's a book by Dean Inge, in which he chain sundered, as for the conse King Akhnaten of Egypt took his light and witty style.

speaks of the "reluctance of our de-quent apprehension of increasing generate population at home" to emptiness emigrate, Miss Jameson adds:

True, a number of these elders "To a mind which (I assure are veterans in the sense that they LATEST CRIME CLUB SELECTION you) is not degenerate, there is have done their best work-and

LORD BRENTFORD

"Jix" The People Did Not Know.

A was published on April 28.

The latest Crime Club selection

a singular horror in the spectacle there are several Instances, not of a mean and insensitive priest." difficult to pick out, in which a dis-

is Alice Campbell's Murder of In a discussion of Sir Arthur tinguished pen has definitely been Caroline Bundy, a creepy yarn of Keith's "war as Nature's pruning. put aside. But Mr. George Ber- the brutal killing of an eccentric hook" speech, she states:

nard Shaw, at the age of 77, is still old lady-with lots of red· her- Jir, Viscount Brentford. By H. A.

"....a responsible scientist writing, and writing vivaciously. Taylor. (Stanley Paul. 21s.girl; a young American writer; rings; a glamorous half-Russian)

able to tell himself that gardeners So is Mr. H. G. Wells, and he is cut down their healthiest trees only 10 years younger: Mr. Taylor has written..a very tors.

and a couple of Cockney conspira- in order to improve the rest...... As for Mr. Eden Phillpots, he is a fine trilogy, half- able official biography of the late;

No one, not even this Lapetan 71, yet, with Viscount Brentford. The book

among the scientists, has yet ex-completed (apart from new plays plained in precise language how as successful as any dramatist it strengthens succeeding genera- could wish for) he is continuing tions for a million men to be kill-his Dartmoor cycle of novels as ed and an incalculable number Powerfully as he began it. Mr. W. maimed or apolled...."

B. Yeats is another whose artistic "No Time Like the Present" is inspiration has not yet exhausted very rightly lays emphasis on his of the murder of

The lulter is a fast-moving tale not only, an indictment, it is also a itself, although nowadays he is a Fleet-street confession of faith. The author inclined to neglect it for the mun- brilliant organising pbility.

night editor.

writes:

dane, Inspiration of politics. The "If this country got into an-name of Mr. Kipling frequently other Great War I shall take every naturally less thrilled by It. than

the public appears, but means in my power to keep my son out of it. I shall tell him that it in the old days.

It will keep you guessing well into the wee sma' hoora-as will the other two Crime Club efforts,| "Jix's" courage and sincerity. Death on My Left, by Philip Mac- unimpaired by a series of setbacks donald, and The Mystery of the and disappointments in the earlier Golden Angel, by Francis D. stages of his career. have always Grierson. been recognised. But Mr. Taylor,

FULL SCORE

is nastier and more shameful to Resting After Their Labours.

The biographer reveals that in 1904, while walking along the street on his way to an appoint- ment. "I opened an interview with Mr. A. 8.' Cardew, now the Rich and Cowan send out three senior partner in the Joynson- good bookshelf pieces; in Full Hicks firm, with: "I want you to Score, 25 short stories by, among be my understudy. I am keenly others, Caradoc Evans, Shane Les- interested in politics, and it is my lie and Louis Golding; Five Three- ambition to be a Cabinet Minister." Act Plays, including work by Arately sincere book, Twenty years later his ambition told Bennett and Val Gielgud, and was fulfilled.

Mr. Taylor has some excellent

Eight One-Act Plays, again withi an Arnold Bennett and a clever study by J. J. Bel)—an author who

chapters on the Joynson-Hicks is still awaiting due appreciation.

Home-Secretaryship, rebutting in- cidentally, the widely held theory that "Jix" was a killjoy.

volunteer for gas-bombing than to run from it."

A courageous, thoughtful, pasalon.

A PIONEER PUBLICATION,

"The Formation of the Gospel Tradition" Is the title of a book by Professor Vincent Taylor which is

The electricity for the London docks, in Macoiillan's Ket. "It is believed,"

are

Against this not unimpressive list of long-established authors

QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER PREMIERS

Two Publications

Pending.

Arcos Raid, the Savidge and God-when the ordinary supply was cut the writer of Macmillan's Weekly Mr. Philip Guedalla hopes to re- dard cases, the Lawrence prosecu-off.

|Bulletin says, “that this book is the turn to London from America with tlon, and the perpetuation of "On 'the attainment of high first attempt in English to deal at all the second volume of "The Queen, D.O.R.A. shop-closing regulations|

office" (Mr. Taylor writes), "he fully with the subject.

': 'land Mr, Gladstone” more or less ́are 'all put into their proper

showed at times an exuberanca It shows that the author is well complete. His lecturingˇtour, has perspective as the acts of a man which was distasteful to those acquainted with recent German and been strenuous enough, but he has of high principles whose respect

whom experience of high places French studies, and it represents the habit of taking his manuscripts for the law as it exists was the

had rendered cynical and evan pioneer work in more than one direc about with him and working on main, motivating force.

blase.... He made no secret tion..

them.

BEST SELLERS.

We are to have the first, volume of the book, now appearing serisi- ly in the "Sunday Times," early in the summer, and the second should London. appear in the autumn.

of the fact that he enjoyed to the full the social experiences which came

to those who -hold high office in the State. He was too candid to affect boredom when he was inwardly, delight- Lady Rhondda's "This Was My Sir John Marriott approaches World" Mr. Sarah Gertrude. Mithe Victorian era from a new angle

ed."

It is revealed that "J" object ed very keenly to the popular be- lief that he himself was respon- sible for the "Flapper Vote.” "He resented deeply, and to the end," a friend wrote, "the fact that no effort was successfully made to relieve him of his burden of un- Justified abuse, which bore bitter-"Jix" was nevar uppopular, and Sutherland's "The Arches of the ray. He illustrates the practical ly upon his mind."

m the final picture which emerges Years" and, "Lime" by James working of the Monarchy by a set- During the General Strike, Mr. from this blography is of a singu- Spenser are the best selling books, fes of sketches of the 10 Prime Taylor tells us, "Jir", authorised ajlarly attractive and able" (though “All Men Are Enemies" by Ministers of the reign, and a study. submarine, to come up the Thames perhaps not always discreet) per- Richard Aldington is the most of the relations between them and and generate with its engines sonality.

anccessful novel-Beuter.

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