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AY, AUGUST 7, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES

PLACE THAT

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HOWARD SPRING'S

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Guide To The New Books

DICKENS

The creator of the Gollantfz fami- His style is calm and persuasive Iy, those charming Jews, here gets the narrator knows how to stand Gravesend Landmark Toon to new ground. The scene is a back and chuckie at himself, and Yorkshire industrial town. the how to intersperse a light moment Be Demolished.

main characters are the family of nere and there in the heavy going. The motive, too, is simple, and in Jan artisan.

The Millers The famous old boat-roofed house

are the sort of itself credible: murder for money.] the banks of the canal at people who "get on." Though the Not a bad book this.

Cheerful Banter. Gravesend is to be demolished in a father is but a check-weighman at

on

The

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(Jenkins; 7s. 6d.),

THE MASTER MELODIST

Monetary Policy And The Depression

International Affairs," well suc

the

PROMISING BOOK FOR AUTUMN

Biography Of A Dog.

monetary school lays much strongest emphasis on it A Shrewd Point

The success, both in London and Latest Poems Of Walter

De La Mare. Trade Slump Effects On The monetary school and Profes

sor Oblin would like to see an ex-in Edinburgh, of "The Barretts of Productive Enterprise.ension of public works, in so far Wimpole Street." has given new in- POETRY OF MUSICAL POWER

at terest to the Brownings. Everyone as confidence was unaffected. This admirable volume, "Mone the bottom of the depression. The who has read "The Victorians" It is 12 years since Mr. Walter tary Policy and the Depression," "structural" school objects to pro- knows Lascelles Abercrombie's 'an- De La Mare's last collection of described as "A first report on in public works generally, but the lysis, to use the editors werd, of Now the London "Tin.es" in its a group of the Royal Institute of not indicated when, if public works few days despite protests and ef- the steel works, the eldest son is Heart's Content. By A. A Thom poems came out, and some have international monetary problems by shrewd point is made that it has Robert Browning:

terpreted the long interval as "his

that one of the most promising forts to induce the owner to spare already an under-manager,

ter be undertaken than at the

books of the autumn is. Inspired by By means of nothing but cheer-final conversion from verse to im-ceeds in its aim of giving the must be undertaken, they can bet account of "Books To Come," says it.

second 'son, a shop-walker, marries

trough of the depression. *IN Ja dog with literary associations. this Many believe that it was

the daughter of his rica employer.ful banter, Mr. Thomaan can evoke aginative prose as the medium of general reader an account of the

the charm of rural life more surely his most ambitious work. They nature of the monetary problems short, the objection is political This is Mrs. Browning's faithful quaint structure which gave Die-One of the girls is engaged to

with which the World Economic rather than economic, and is spaniel, "Flush." which was given and the other than most earnest writers about kens the idea of Pegotty's upturn-municipal official,

should never have believed it.

Conference must concern itself. partly based on the fears that theo Miss Barrett by Miss Mitford. ed boat home on the sands at Yar-lands a wealthy "city father," the rustic,

Here he is back at Marigold Cot- They should have known that su

The membership of the group, of Government will not know when to "To Flush, My Dog," is one of mouth. For Dickens knew it well much older than herself, who hea long before he came to reside at raade her conquest easy by becom-tage in Steeple Thatchby, full of perb as his imaginative prose can which Sir Charles Addis was chair-stop, and will prove a bad buyer Mrs. Bowning's poems. Gad's Hill. He must have passed ing, indiscreetly, the father of her wise sayings like "Even the worst betray, his incomparable spirit, man, included. Professor Her and so raise the cost of building Virginia Woolfs has written for

when he child.

government can't interfere with

materials."

the Hogarth Press a blograph of it often in his rambles

V. Hills, Mr. O. R. Hobson, Mr. As appendices there are a dis-Flush," which was Mr. Brown stayed at Waite's Hote!

The adventure of the eldest son springtime." He is having trou-which can find its highest expres Clay, Mr. H. D. Henderson, Mr. S.

cussion of the future of interesting's constant solace in Wimpole, more), not very far from the old with a married woman of "coun-bies with gardeners and with odd-sion only in poetry. At any rate, Pethick-Lawrence,

ty" birth never leaves the ruts of job men about the house-men acThe Flecting and Other Fooms." Robertson, and Sir Arthur Salter, rates, an estimate of the amount of Street before Robert Browning en- af State-controlled capital expen-tered her life, and har companion Curiously enough. history is worn convention, and altogether companied by "an indeterminate just published, refutes them with and represents many shades

opinion. But however much the diture (it rose from £121.400,000 in in their fight to Italy and freedom" strangely silent on the age and ori-Miss Jacob does not seem so happy youth know as "Ere, you!" The

genius, his genius in especial, tence, and guide books pass it by. The hard young Vera, who knew ripple the placid surface of the being one, writes Charles Powell tive exposure of the problems to be 800,000 in 1931-2, and fell again to venturas and misadventures in her but hundreds of visitora every what she wanted and got it out of Essex countryside made up a book the "Manchester Guardian" dealt with. Later a second report £95,000,000 in 1932-3), a chronology letters.

lin year have found their way along her city father, and a young Jew that should hit the taste of thai- the promenade to the entrance to who plays a subsidiary part, are sands of readers. It is light as this For here he reappears not only based on their discussion of solu- of the depression, and a tabular

boat house.

(now no

Mr. D. H.

gin of this unusual structure. Lo-with thuse people as she has been queernesses of his neighbours and the finality of all inevitable thingmembers may contend about solu-1929-30 to £146,800,000 in 1930-1, after their mariage. Mrs. Brown- '

the canal to see this relic of bygone day.

Century Old

view of exchange

restrictions in

tions is promised. replete in his knowa qualities- the two living beings of the book. ledown, and as graceful.

Three Points of View

Admirers of "Omar Khayyam" various countries. Too Much Oxford.

will be able to read. "Some zari- They are well understood and

This aerie imagination, dream en-

The book begins with an account sharply presented. The others are An Oxford tragedy. By J. C. Mas-

the international monetary Arthur Gilligan's "Sussex Cric-tiea" from Fitz Gerald's pen in “A terman (Gollancz: 78. 6d.). trancement, magic imagery, unlm-of Until recently it was inhabited, rather a blurred lot.

Lure Of Money.

More Oxford than tragedy. "Aaginable music, apocalyptic vision situation on the eve of the depres-ket" will be published shortly. Big Fitz Gerald Medley." Frank Brang.. The Town Council condemned it as

lour to this book. By Frederic Day in the Life of a Don" might be of childhood, and power of creation, and goes on to examine the advance orders have been already wyn bas done a frontispiece in co- unfit for human habitation, but The Golden Piper.

Arnold Kummer (Hitchinson, the subtitle.

tive enterprise and the facts of the Auspended a demolition order

The ceremonial of dinner in Halling newer and lovelier worlds for effects of the depression on produc- received by Chapman and Hall. 78. Gd.). give the owner an opportunity of

It was estimated that old Rock and of passing the port in the Commore spatious minded, profounder Frice problem, writes A. P. W. in preserving it. This He nas found Lou expensive, and the house is to well was worth $26,000,000 now mon Room are lovingly dealt with. in thought more variforts, fuller the "Manchester Guardian." The go, together with adjoining cet he lay dying. He had summoned The whole collegiate background in humanity.

all his relatives so that he might of custom and tradition is put in

tages.

to

himself to dwell in,--he reappears

"structural school"!

next chapters set out broadly the varying views of the economists on Sense Of Reality.

the measures to be taken for re- The Boat House must have been run his eye over them before mak-with the rich deepness of a Dutch

Those who thought him bounded covery, which is seen as the res built more than a century ago. ting his will. There they were: master. And then comes this mur- was there before the Thames and jackals in expectation of rich pick- der, leaving us feeling as we should by the dream mind. and with no toration of a proper relationship

30 opulent a corpse: if a corpse dangled by a thread wing-power beyond the lyric, are between costs and receipts. Medway Cana! was constructer, ings from

Three points of view are taken: and that was well over 100 years crooks and grafters, gamblers and from the ceiling in an interior by now confronted with a dramatic

Not that this was scene-"Heresy"--where the sane the "monetary" or reflationist ago. The boat used as the root-chorus girls, licking their lips and Vermeer.

school, the hanging; it was a shoting that end-of reality is as great as the energy tree belonged to a smuggler who manoeuvring for position.

That the love of money is the cd the brilliant career of sardonic of imagination, and both are Eliza-(which believes that recovery can did a very good trade in the river.

bethan in their force, as the lan- come only when confidence is res- When caught by the searchers the root of all evil is not a new theme: Shirley.

The clearing up of the mystery guage is in its evocative fullness tored not by a rising price level precursors of preventive officers but Mr. Kummer has chosen a

but by a drastic and salutary cut-' and Customs officials) the boats of bright mdoern frame for the dis-is a common-place enough piece of of life.

Next they are confronted with a smugglers were seized and burned.play of the ancient masterpiece, work but the book is worth looking

of uneconomic units in all parts of In this case the boat was reprieved and he contrives a nice ironic twist at for the opening chapters, which narrative poem, "The Owl." It is ting down of costs and bankruptcy are on a level that Mr. Mastermana tale, but through it the Docts the system), and an intermediate imagination, intellect, and musical

Professor on a promise that it should not be way of "moral" at the end,

High Doom. By J. L Morrissey does not maintain. used on the river again.

power so work that every syllable, view represented by (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.).

Ohlin. Still some degree of har- Yisroel. The first Jewish Omni-even in words that tell of the com- Even a "thriller"-perhaps par-

mony can be constructed. The owner carried out his particularly a briller"-should keep bus. Edited by Joseph Left-modest act, is touched to poetry, of the pact by building a house some hold on probability.

wich. (Heritage, 10s. 6d.). land to poetry moving mightily to and using the boat as an upstair When a the oarly pages of this This book contains a hundred love, or pity, or wonder, or tragic

The outside was book I met a bustling young news short stories written by Jews in fear. covered with ships' canvas and paper reporter investigating the many lands and during some cen-'

ure English, And then they are confronted of cheap money as contributing to kept regularly tarred, but the mysterious death of the Foreign tures. The sections weather has torn part of the can-Secretary, I was not prepared to American, German. Yiddish, He- with the long stanzaic poem called that end. All agree on the impor

Lance of private spending, but thell vas to ribbons and the bout now find him a httle later taking the brew French, Russian Dutch and "Dreams." leaks badly.

Foreign Secretary's daughter out Miscellaneous.

To Be Buraed,

ream and roof.

Jewish Omnibus.

Dream Philosophy. ·

two

in these Here bundred and fifty lines is the

A Sheerness man took a fancy ton his car and marrying her at the The contributions from English whole dream philosophy; but so the boat and tried to remove it in-end. Young newspaper reporters Jows range from Disraeli to Louis high is the poetric voltage that, tact but found it could not be done do not marry Foreign Secretaries' Golding; and in the other sections for once at least, poetry stands re- Mr.vealed as philosophy's twin, for without destroying much of it.

daughters. That is a pity; it is there is equal catholicity.

Leftwich's Introduction is scholar-the writing itself from beginning There is now no other fate for

also a fact.

the best proof of the quotes to end Instance isly and interesting. He

"Only poet's claim that symptomatic of the whole book. It Anatole France's saying:

All knowledge is foredoomed,

forlorn-

it than that from which it was re- prived more than 100 years ago. For when it is taken down next week it is to be burned.

GRIM PICTURE OF SOVIET LIFE

This one blatant

in unsubtle, in thought and writ-the fastidious is able to savour the ing, and all its effects are wild and excellence of a short story, while melodramatic.

"Face Of Death."

the gluttonous devour novels indif- ferently: good, middling, or bad. The Face of Death. By Mark The short story is sufficient for all ends....an elixír, a quintessence, "Out of the Depths" is a collec- Gault. (Methuen: 7. 6d.)..

Mr. Gault might be read with a precious ointment." There are tion of letters from Soviet prison camps, which Hugh Walpole has advantage by Mr. Morrissey. The plenty of little tales here that come introduced. "Through the lignt happenings in "The Face of Death" within that definition.

they throw on a vast section of the fare no less exaggerated than those Gault rural population," these letters, in "High Doom," but Mr. "The Times" anys, "present a grim knows how to keep his improbabi- picture of life behind the scenes of lities from sticking out like fingers the Five Year Plan"

of derision.

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A GERMAN TRANSLATION

One thing is certain-that when There is not a continent on the "Other Women,” by Katharine globe to which the films have not a minor prophet from Cambridge Brush (Cassell, 78. 6d.). penetrated; the people they enter-certifies Mr. De La Mare's work as Shop girls, good girls, bad girls,tain speak- a greater diversity of minor.poetry we have at least this who tongues than the faithful were en-book to trumpet the truth that; if Great events have left their stories Door-little-rich-girls, women

A panorama of the Carrick coun- try, on the west coast of Scotland.

behind in the hill and villages. work, play, gossip. We all, know dowed with ou the day of Pentets author is not a major poet, then Caves along the coast are relics of the Miss Baxter, who fits from cost! they can vizualise every sub-there is no major poet in England smuggling days. Local supersti. house to house, picking up news ject under the sun, and ocularly de-to-day., tions about ghosts, witches, and here dropping scandal there, emi-monstrate the manners fairy rings abound. Such legends broidered by her own expert touch. toms of every nation from the

and ens-

as that of the unfortunate knight Sketches of all types in a crisp and North to the South Pole, and from ties of Hollywood. On the subject

China to Peru.

of the making of a film, that he to who married a mermaid, with dis entertaining style.

They are such a modern develop. say, the actual photographing of a astrous consequences at the chris-"Paid in Full," by Laurence W.

Meynell (Harrap, 75. 6d), ment that there must be hundreds picture, Mr. Rudolph Arnheim de- tening of the son and heir, reveal!

Amateur theatricals are about to of people alive who can remember votes a large space of his book. an unexpected streak in the tradi

Court start at Oldmendow

Sir their appearance on the limited And what of these favourite ac- tional hard-headed Scot. "Featured on Broadway, by Ann John Watterson, business magnate horizon of this world; and such tors and actresses whose names' Knox (Hutchinson, 7a. 6). with a a shady past and with every being so, it is needless to point out and traits film fans retail more The sacrifice of everything in a promise of a shady future, is found bow little literature, comparative- fluently than they can the Shorter woman's life to the development of stabbed by a degger from the ty speaking, exists on the subjects of Catechism. Mr. Arnheim does not a stage personality. Humour and "props." A mystery with surpris- their growth and the endeavours even mention some of those prime of pioneers to exploit their ses-favourites who have lately crossed pathos behind the footlights of ing twists and turns. A. Broadway.

"That Summer," by Priscilla John-thetic value.

our vision. K The book "Film," by Rudolf Ara-" He does, however, discuss Grets "As the Earth Turns," by Gladys Ston' (Duckworth, 7s. 6d.),

H. Carroll (Macmillan, 7e: 6d) Develops from a rather tiresome heim, which is translated from the Garbo in extenso. Plot, according -Bound up with the soll, the lives beginning about modern young German by L M Sieveling and Iran to Mr Amheim, "does not parti of the Shaw family reflected the things who talk earnestly about E.. D. Morrow, by reason of the cularly matter. What is essential progress of the seasons. They met "life" and play "sardiness" into a minute manner in which it dis-ito observe is, how an individual with prosperity or poverty accor tale of considerable premise. The cusses every aspect of its subject,picture or an individual scene is ding to the fertility or barrenness joyousness of two ridiculously is not only the most up-to-date so mounted, photographed, acted, ent.” of nature. Over them alt was the young people acts as a fail to Chris-to speak, but one of the most, au-

An English translation of Kari calm fafluence of Jen, who tooked tins, passing through the troubled boritative, whether it is expounding and sewed for them, quietly com- depths of her affection for a man the technique of the screen, the Barth's book on "The Resurrection forted them, and eased their trou-out of her generation. Thoroughly outstanding qualities of one of its of the Dead" is one of Hodder and

"stars,” or criticising the triviali-Stoughton's new books, bies, and as quietly found her own lamusing dialogue..

All three views are agreed on the need for capital development and increased activity in the investment industries and on the desirability

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