1933-07-24 — Page 5

MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933.

LITERÁRY NOTES

VICKI BAUM'S MAGIC WAND '

HOWARD SPRING'S

:

"She Creates An Illusion

So Skilfully

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:

the reader does not realise that it Titans. is an illusion; she waves her wand.

THE CHINA MAIL.

AN ELIZABETHAN OF

OUR DAY

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Guide To New Books Odyssey Of A Wanderer

and

We

so heroic,

of

The Book of Talbot. By Violet

Clifton. (Faber. 15.) Titans of Literature. By Burnton, contrived to "die like gentlemen;"

This astonishing book fits, into Ruscoe, (Routledge, 12 6d.) in the easy Englishhan overcom- none of the normal categories. As WORK OF FLAWLESS TECHNIQUE This is a series of short studiesing odds of four to one; in the rat- one reads, it becomes more and of famous men of letters. All men. tle of "Ms fois !" and "Mon Dieus:"

more difficult to believe that. Miss Vicki Baum is more of air. Rascoe, combing through the in the gentleman who picked up are following the life history of * conjuror than a novelist. She ages, has, apparently, not found one small square of cambric and creates an illusion so skilfully that woman worthy to mate with his white lace" and presses it to his man of our own times,

so Elizabethan does it all seem. burning lips again and again. Beginning with "Homer This is how the people talk: There is heroism in plenty around us, but not this heroism which is or perhaps her fountain pen, and Greek Legend," he touches on La-"Monsieur," I said, "I am in some heroism for its own sake, a deli- there, in "Martin's Summer," is Martin Heil, a penniless chemist in literature. Italian; the medieval pain; but not so much from my in-berate search for self-probation

England, jured arm as from the apprehenfar away from the precincts earning his living as a swimming France, Spain, Germany, America: sion that I have proved a source of civilisation, among savage and ela

all claim his attention, and coming grave inconvenience to these upon mental forces. instructor at a small resort in the Austrian Tyrol, and beloved

**The Book of Talbot" is the every woman within hailing disn to such modern figures as Ana-whose charity I have no claim and

George whose kindness I can never hope life of an English aristocrat, Tal- tole France, Proust and

Did anyone ever talk bot Clifton, written by his widow, Moore. he concludes with "A Short to repay."

eras born in '1868, amusing by the fact that he fallHistory of the Development of Like that on this earth? I doubt itTalbot Clifton

the heir to vast estates in the Fylde district of, Lancashire. He

but his restless spirit soon carried him into a sterner academy.

Before he was 20 he had been twice round the world.

tance.

The situation is rendered

of

more

Fletters of France.

terature since the Victorian Per

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Macknil Collection.

in love with a girl whose twin sis-lod." ter is practically indistinguishable

Necessarily, walking so long a Having Fun. By Denis Mackafl went to Eton and to Cambridge, from her, and that he is waiting to hear of the fate of an invention road with Mr. Rascoc, one differs which if it succeeds, will make from him now and then concerning

him rich.

(Hodder and Stoughton, 6d.)

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There are more than '600 pages the significance of some signposts and landmarks; but he is a refresh in this book. It should see you a Flawless Technique

and enlivens the long way through a holiday. Even Meanwhile, he is doubly amicteding companion

Of these travels, and of other by a lack of food and a surplus of journey with salty individual opin-, if you are lucky enough to be able

claim that his errors to take a month off, you have one early adventures in California, in admiration, including that of an ions. His

Mexico, and elsewhere, we hear eltin creature called Puck, and of are the honest errors of an e-story a day.

For here are 30 short stories in only echoes in this volume. We

pupils and acquaintances ranging cape from pedantry" is freely ad-which Mr. Mackalt has done his begin with "The Little Book of ↓

less as that of her later novels.

Entertaining While it Lasts.

the north

from a waitress to a doctor's wife missible.

best as he tells us in a foreword Alaska," telling the story of a He rubs Milton's nose --not to mention the girl whose!

pretty to enliven railway journeys and trek to the Yukon and the Klondyke affection he returns and her some hard in the dirt, though cousenting dentists' waiting rooms."

rivers, the year before the Gold to leave him half a wing to flutter what shadowy sister, Carla.

The jacket saya: "Pretty girls, Rush. "Martin's Summer," it appear, is away with: and he rejoiced me, shy young men, newly-married Thes comes "The Book of the

Baum's at least, by finding Henry James couplas; an early product of Miss

pompous personages, Barren Lands," an acocunt of a pen. but the technique is as flawa fat. wistful remittance man with waiters, hostesses, and literary journey by sleigh, boat and ship to

la passion for elegance." It is gents: he likes them and laughs at the unmapped tracts to

pleasing to know that, in Mr. Ras them." And in those expanding of Hudson's Bay, to search for It is not until the swimming sea- coe's opinion at any rate, we have moods when you feel that people some trace of the lost explorer

ended Balzais superior living to-day-are likeable son is over and the story

and laughable, Mr. Franklin. that the reader realises that, how- Theodore Dreiser.

Mackail is the man to turn to. At From the frozen North we pasɛ ever credulous he muy be,

When Mr. Rascoe says of Dick the worst, as he says, his work will to the furnace one

of Africa, from swallow do not make a summer. jens, "His humour deprived him of

The glittering gold of the con- a sense of proportion." I do not fot-ot do you "any great or perman- Africa to Siberia (The Book of At the best you will Boreas," to Tibert, to Burma, to juror proves but tinsel, and the low him. It seems to me that have some fun with a determined-South America (bere Clifton met

- sense of humour and a sense or rabbits which have come so

lly breezy companion. are almost the sama turally from the hat are only cot proportion ton wool; the entertainment, how thing. Who se disproportionate as Statesman's Year Book. ever, while it lasted. was excel the pompous ass? lent.

PETER WARLOCK'S WRITINGS.

ent harm."

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$17 WILL

Violet Beauclerk, who was to be- come his wife), to Baghdad, and Persia. and again, after Mr. Rascoe put his foot in it The Statesman's Year Book. Edited years, to Africa. The whole world by M. Epstein. (Macmillan, £1) animinishes before the energy of (with Mr H. G. Wells, calling him a

This is the seventieth annual this magnificent English glant, F'good concoction of scientifle my-

publication of this famous reter-carrying everywhere his courage, stery yarna a la Jules Verne": a view of Mr. Wells's achievement ence book. The editor reminds us hla cunning, his volume of Shakes which he himself protested against how times have changed since its peare, and his flute.

There is something so grandiose in the preface to his collected tales, first appearance in 1864.

There were then in Europe 18 and world-embracing in his manner And, indeed, what Wells did and monarchies and one republic; to- that even the Great War what Verne did are as different as day there are eight monarenies and comparatively unobserved. a Euro- jetalk and cheese. But many jare the points on which one differs eleven republics. That is a sensa-pean Incident, Mr. E. Arnold Dowbiggin, an from Mr. Rascoe, he has produced tional change; but all over the world on his way to Africa again.

there are changes which even the This is rith eventful book of analytical chemist

works a racy readable book.

alertest eye is liable to overlook. more than 400 pages. It is im- manager at a Lancaster factory,

They are all tabulated hare. possible to convey its extraordinary

A Collector's Task.

and

London.

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Oriental Plot.

has for two years been collecting the writings of Philip Heseltine, Immaculate,

passes

He died in 1928,

Every country in the world is quality. Composed partly of the By Maud Flannery dealt with and information given diaries which Talbot Clifton -him- under these headings: Constitution self kept in a bright and concise

better known as Peter Warlock, the (Hutchinson, 75, 60.) young English composer who met We meet the bachelor Sir Henry and government, local government, Elizabethan English, and for the

end in December, and his sister Lady Caroline amid area and population, education, rest, so for as Violet Clifton

with a trazic

1920, at the age of 36.

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the punkabs and ice and eternal justice and crime, finance, produc- concerned, in a highly charged ro- Mr. Dowbiggin's cask has been a sunshine of Rangoon. He is the tion and industry, commerce and mantic prose, the book is unique as difficult one, and has

involved. conventional English governor, ob-communications. There is added art and as biography. among other things, the writing of sessed by a formal sense of "duty" after each country a list of books It is remarkably vivid and visual: over a thousand fetters, innumer- she the woman to whom.

conven" which will fill in any gaps that the hundreds of scents are “realised” able telephone calls, the insertion tionally, despite her forty years, reader still finds.

as only well-written acounts of of advertisements in every musical every subaltern makes love.

An invaluable book, not only for actual adventures can be. in the country, and the Back from a narrow society in the statesman but for anyone who paper scrutinising of hundreds of Sles, which they are everybody they wishes to be well informed. Mr. Dowbiggin spoke recently to a come to a changed England in which reporter of some of the difficulties they are nobody. Lady Caroline of his task.

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For Country-Lovers. The Landscape of England.

Charles B. Ford

6d.)

By

(Batsford,

Mr. Ford's writing, the drawings

falls in love with Abel, a mad com "I felt," he said, "that a book of poser fifteen years her junior, and Peter Warloch's selected writings marries him. Sir Henry encoun- for his writings were almost as ters Beth, a"modern" girl, running brilliant as his composition-ought an estate agent's office. Poor elder- to be cumpiled, and so my leisurely Galahad! She calls him "Hen, by Brian Cook and the excellent for the past two years has been takes him to a party where he pro- photographs combine to make this 12 true presentation of the hand- marriage, spent in trying to collect them." poses

she answers: Not one single answer did I get "Dear man! There are such things scape of England. from the dozens of advertisements as lovers,"

ECHO OF BATTLE

OF JUTLAND.

Admiral Von Hipper's Biography.

The new house of Rich and Co- van 'will publish a blography of It is not merely, a collection of Admiral von Hipper, who found

British naval opinion has ranked.

in this

I inserted, and many of the sources: The book on the whole disap- pretty pictures. The busy stir of fame in the Jutland engagement. which I thought would be most pointed me because I felt that, the Pool of London is here as well He commanded the German battle fruitful have proved utterly blank.somewhere beneath a load of Buff, as the quiet waters of Lakeland: cruiser squadron there, and after- Another difficulty arose from the Miss Flannery has vital talent. She the blazing factory windows of the wards he was Commander-in-Chief fact that Peter Warlock wrate un- seems here to be writing about North as well as the pastrol charm of the German High Seas Fleet. der any pseudonym that came lato 'people out of books, not people out of the South and West, the tumbled his head, and I only learned this of life. The one being you feel hills of the Peanines as well as the him high as a sailor, and, needless

placid flats of Norfolk

|to aay, his biographer, Capt, von after months of research, through she has herself created is the mu- writing to his many friends who dician Abel. He, in his madness, and should help to foster

It is in every way a good book, Waldeyer Hartz does so

book. knew of this little pecularity of which is little more than savage habits of "loving observation" those contempt for the caricatures that Mr. Dowbiggin said that It was are called sane people, is distur- which Mr. G. M. Trevelyan speake through his songs that he first bingly real and a creation any no- came into contact with Peter War-velist might be proud of. lock. Warlock's songs. entirely But Miss Flannery needs to con- fascinated me, and I did my best to centrate; ahe lacks form. The get his works better known in the pruning-knife might easily help' North. In this connection I cor- her to produce a really pleasing responded with him for many yearsį book, before I met him, when we became

his."

on 'very friendly terms. In fact,

A Gentleman In Paris.

of in his foreword.

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The death in a London nursing home was announced recently of Professor John George Robertson, Jaincé 1908. Professor of the Ger-j man Language and Literature at the Miss Delafield's play, "The Glass University of London, and since Wall," which has been produced at 1924 Director of the Department of the Embassy Theatre, is in Gollan- Scandinavian Studies. He was also the very last song be ever compos- Tricolor, By Dora Barford. (Hod- cz's latest list. Three of Gollan-editor of the "Modern. Language ed, entitled 'Bethlehem Dawn,' was} der and Stoughton, 78. 6d) cz's, new books have been described Review.. dedicated to me, and on the very! This is the tale of how Philip by Norman Collins, who has "dis- Born In Glasgow in 1867, Profes- day before his death I got a ban-Moreland, gentleman, of London, covered" them since he joined this sor Robertson was educated at the dle of manuscripts from him.” . fared in Paris at that point in the very interesting house as Deputy Universities of Glasgow, and Leip

Mr. Dowbiggia said that he had Revolution when the Bastile was Chairman' compiled his book under the sus-jtaken.

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He was the author of several books, and was a leading authority jin this country on German litera

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