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MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES

ARABIA'S GREAT SOUTH DESERT

Region Without Any Living Thing,

THE CHINA MAIL-

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Correspondence.

MISS GRANADOS.

"Fog," by Elizabeth Ford (Chap-, Describes old customs which have man and Hall, 73,6d.). A welcome (survived the centuries, and the change from the "Grand Hotel" past and present personalitica“of plan.

the Old Bailey, ~33

Sir E. Marshall-Hall, one of the The experiences of a number of households in a country, district outstanding defence counsel at the

(To the Editor, -"China Mail.") - during a fog The stocktaking, of Old Bailey, complained to Carson The Empty Quarter, being a de-thought and facing up to restities. that he always came out badly in

Sir,-At the Peninsula Hotel on scription of the Great South Strange things happened in a tho-his encounters with the Bench. Friday night there were probably Desert of Arabia known as Rub roughly convincing

Carson replied, 'When I have a row only a scant 100 people mostly com- al Khali. By H. St. J. B. Philby-startling, but not morbid, portrayal with a Judge, I'm always tight prising French, Portuguese and

of the workings of a lunatic's mind When you have a row with a judge. Chinese.

(Constable. 21s.)

In this fascinating record of Ars- adds the thrila. bian adventure Mr. Philby, one of the most intrepid of modera

•plorers, restores to the map the

ex-

fur

"Faithfully, fanatically, refent-

manner. A

world-famous

In Tokyo she packed the Imperial Theatre night after night at 6 Yen a seat, and yet Hong Kong gives her. very little attention.

Two or three years ago when I

in

+

you're always wrong!"

Round World By Car.. "Beyond the skyline," by Rex "Idols and invalids," by James Hardinge (Eldon, 7a. 6d.). The Kemble, Ch., M., F. R, C..S. "Empty Quarter" of tradition. He ups and downs of a small compausthuen, 6s.). Some

¡of people who could not live within characters in their private lives.was in Madrid staying at an hotel- set out on his journey in the spring four walls or sit on office stools. Not an attempt to show up feet of 200 rooms, 800 baths with French of last year-a journey that had Hard drinking and hard-living, clay, but how

often the illness cuisine-I tried to find something occupied his mind and heart

they appoint themselves chaperons makes the man. Also, how false is entirely Spanish fifteen rears

to a homeless girl with the tempera- the common conception of these Finally on calling on an old friend in the town.

romance in the African diamond for instance, not suffered intoler- could get some real Spanish food writes, "I have stalked the quarry Helds. Plenty of fighting and much¦ably, his epithet might have been and see some real Spanish dancing! which now, in these pages, lies be

humour.

other than "bloody." fore the reader-dissected,

"Hardy pornnial," by Helen

The replied "You will have to go backį "Round the world in a baby auto New York." belled and described,"

Hull (Cobden Sanderson. 78. 6d.)-tin," by Hector Macquarrie (Hold. There has probably never been His great disappointment was

as been allowed to clear-cut and polished tale of alder and Stoughton, 78. ed.). The that he had

Jan artiste in Hong Kong of equal make the journey a year earlier woman as sensitive to the happi-first "Baby," Emily, went down rank since

ness of others as to her own. Be-with the Tahiti.

Heifetz. Certainly she For thanks to the fact that the lief in the right of her children to were rescued with the rest of the The Bull fight and the Peasant dance Her two owners is just as interesting as Argentina. Emir Abdullah ibn Jilawi did not mould their own lives demanded find it convenient for Mr. Philby to constant and painful readjustment achieved the world tour intended admission.

passengers and crew. Emily are at least worth the price of the travel in 1931, the opportunity was

Happiness came for her deceased relative. Taking given Mr. Bertram Thomas of mak

CUTTAR. ing his pioneer dash across the Peninsula from Dhufar in Oman to Duha on the Persian Gulf.

lessly through all these years," he ment of a firework Adventure and characters. Had Judge Jeffreys, the Bank and asking him where I

bela-

And Mr. Philby pays due tribute

to Mr. Thomas. "I have but gienu!

Too Far East.

the changes. to

in her realisation that love had the journey as a whole, there were perennial quality, flowering afresh but few occasions when Emily II.).

did not behave as a perfect lady.

with every season.

An in-

SPANISH DANCER'S PROGRAMME.

At Hong Kong Hotel To - Night.

Russia Of To-day.

She had one lapse in the middle of The Balcony," by R. G. Coulson the Baluchistan desert, and was ed where he reaped." he declares. John Murray, 7s. Gd.). A White put back into action with the help Russian colony across the Soviet of a bit of string. Incidents and However, it is superlative glean-frontier. Returning to claim his personalities colour the journey,

Russian property, Charles Brock rather than descriptiona ing. Mr. Philby makes it clear that Mr. Thomas missed the Empty finds only this pathetic remnant of rentive to wanderlust

For Dog Lovers.

Senorita Asuncion Grandos, the Quarter by travelling too far east the old order that tradition counts as the result of for nothing-only the dreams of

dog owner's guide," by celebrated Spanish dancer and her The latter, journey, was, therefore, incliued to the old Russia remain. Desire to Erie Fitch Daglish (Dent, 78. 6d.). accompanist Jose Gil Serrano, who

the Learn the joys of being a dog scored a success in their first per-. believe the Quarter to be a myth, rebuild the past meets with But Mr. Philby on reaching Shan- cold fact that there is no place for owner. Sound practical advice on formance at the Peninsula Hotel

those who do not conform to the every stage of breeding and every jon Friday night, give new regime. A moving tale

of breed of dog, and the best way of formance to-night at the Hong broken lives and hopes

making the most of your dog, whe-Kong Hotel Roof Garden. C.ther as fireside companion or ex-

is The following

na turned north-west and so came upon his Promised Land.

"The

their per

The desert he found to be ea-

"An Oxford Tragedy," by J. tirely water-less; his camels col- lapsed in the heat, and he had to Masterman (Gollancz, 75. Gd.). turn back after making 147 miles, revolver lying on a table of an Ox-lightful wood engravings and line 1-Oriental ........E. Granados |

Ahibit in the show-ring. Many de- gramme:--

the

.pro.

Its existence was known drawings

Am-

Jose Gil Serrano (Piano)

On March 5, however, he set out ford den.

certain people. That the "Iris gray," by Emmeline Morri-2-Del Sacro Monte once more "the sands of Naifxonly to receded behind us in the gloaming college gates were shut when Shir son (Hutchinson, 78. 66.).

killed and these people bitious and adaptable. Iris Gray 3-Laçaleta as we marched north-west towards les was Adraj. eleven mer with 15 camels established alibis added to the com- goes through the mill in her effort (plications. Professor Brendel, of to become a "lady." Assistant in a Vienna; was in the happy position shop which goes bankrupt, decoy to of being able to say, "I could have a set of gambling, crocks, married told you so" when the murderer to an irresponsible drunkard, bring was discovered.

her in contact with the coveted so- "The old bailey," by Albert Crew clety. Minx, snob, and prude at

and a dog."

. In due course, after arching hours at a stretch for days on end, they were in country where there was no sign of any living thing.

Ruiz de Azoagra Romero Asuncion Granados (Dances) 4.-Carmela

Gil Serrano Jose Gil errano (Piano) 5.-Zambra ...... Fonty de Anta 6.-Cumbamba

Castellanos Asuncion Granados, (Dances)

1. Albeniz Hard-

Jose Gil Serrano (Piano) of the pillory and Newgate Prisonship and bitter struggle on a farm8-Danza Triste ...... Granados to the

present Central Criminalin Natal are the final prelude

9.-La Corrida to

The record of one day's march was (Ivar Nicholson and Watson, 18a.). the start, she evolves into a lov- 7.-Leyenda only a single Desert Waroler. n butterfly and a swallow. "The life-Progress of justice from the days able and fine personality.

lessness of the country was rather depressing." They broke the back

of the desert on the sixth day, and Court built on the old prison site. triumph.

on March 13, after having covered.

375 miles, reached Sulaiyil and-

water.

Journey's End.

"A slave rose from the shade of

a spreading tamarisk by one of the

wells to greet us in the name Sulaiyil's

LANDOR AS POET

The Man Of Many

af

Contradictions.

mayor. Welcome to

His eight lines to Rose Aylmer's memory, and the vallant epigrams

.....Q. Valverde Asuncion Granados (Dances)

Interval

10.-El Delirio 11.-Granada

12. Los Panaderos

...A. Cano ...I. Albeniz .Arcas

Asuncion Granados (Guitar)

13. Cordoba

.I. Albentiz

Jose Gil Serrano (Piano) 14.-Castilla (Seguidillas)

L. Albeniz

Asuncion Granados (Dances) 16-Retrato (Album de Viaje)

life and The Works of Walter Savage Lan. The wrote in view of death, assure 15.-Fado Lisboeta Quiroga,

you, he exclaimed, 'and welcome agami Good give ye strength."

dor: Poems, Vols, XIII-XIV.

J. Turina

him of immortality. But with all And in that characteristic Arabi Edited by Stephen Wheeler. their fulness and felicity of utter way ended one of the boldest ex-

(Chapman and Hall. 30s. each.)ance, and in spite of many lovely ploratory journeys of modern

pussages, these dramas-of-the-study

Jose Gil Serrano (Piano) times Packed into it were

Landor was an authors' author, defeat themselves by their tough-17.-El Amor Brujo (Danza del coveries of craters formed by me-jas Spenser was a poets' poet, and jness and occasional obscurity. He teorites, and pieces of glass in this complete edition has long been worked his disapointment off in

dis-

the heat of the meteorites; dis-

which the sand had been fused by needed. He himself condemned postscripts almost as long as Bir. Shaw's prologues, and bewildered coveries of sbells and flint imple-the "disinterment of garbage," but the already alienated critics with b. ments, and the finding of maths of he was not the best judge of his display of learning. a variety hitherto unknown.. jown work, and its bulk is due to Mr. Philby records his achieve the fact that he was writing for

ment modestly but not even

mo-

desty will rob these glittering sixty years.

pages of what is almost a satiety] At eighteen he wrote the best both of adventure and diction. An-¡ Latin verses at Oxford, and at other masterpiece has come out of eighty the best epigrama ̈ in Ea- Arabia.

ARNOLD BENNETT'S LAST JOURNALS.

Author Who Disliked

To Be Outdone.

glish. Mr. Wheeler, who increased our stock of Landorians years ago without lowering the poet in our estimation, has devoted forty years to the task, and we get the harvest [now.

The poet described himself as a horrible contounder' of historic facts." and this certainly applies to his narrative poems. For his plats he took "Gebir" from Clara Arnold Bennett's last journals) add little, the London Times Lit-Reeve. "Andren of Hungary" from erary Supplement states of "that from Gibbon; but in each case he Mrs. Jameson, and "Count Fallian" Intimate understanding" of Ben- nett promised by the first volume twisted the story as his fancy list-

ed. The strange thing

was that

The third volume, for the year such an incorrigible champion of 1921 to 1928, is certainly, more the classics should have gone to readable than the second. The 1929 journal was published, great-uch romantic and mediaeval sour ly abridged, in Bennett's lifetime. Ces for his dramas.

Scarcely less regrettable," In Rewarded in the case of "Gebir the reviewer's opinion," is the gap by the admiration of his peers, he which appears between the dates, was gettled by the absence of that February, 1922, and September, popular applause he affected to 1929, Bennett disliked, na a craft-despise. But, to enumerate the -aman, to feel himself outdone by many contradictions in this aristo- others, to have to admit, cratic republican, this daspotle hu- after some, "for me, very quick danist, this "unsubduable-old Bo- work." that "Trollope beat it man, as Carlyle called him, would practically the whole time," exhaust both space and patience. while Scott's rate et production! The fact is that success as

As a poet seemed to him so "miraculous" came to him in Inverno ratio to bis that he commented half-envious-length, and posterity has confirm

I suppose It's true!!!? ed the verdict:

Mr. Wheeler, most devoted of Landorians, Illuminates the poems with, masterly notes.

Fuego)..........M. de Falla 18-La Rosa del Azafran (Las Espigadoras) ..J. Guerrero

Asuncion Granados (Dances) 19.-Danza V. .......E. Granados Jose Gil Serrano (Piano) 20-Bulerias

... Romero 21.—Balin Mana. (Jota).. Monreal Asuncion Granados (Dances)

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