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MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES

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MEET ABRAHAM Guide To The New Books

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HAUNTED BY

FUTILITY" OF

LITERATURE

Poet's Deliberate Silence.

MR. PAUL VALERY

A offices, her car and chauffeur, a and Leonardo--the second, after 17.

some-

ANOTHER ELLEN

THRILLS OF

THE GRAIN RACE

P.E. N. CLUB AND HITLERISM

Heated Debated At Ragusa

TERRY BOOK Important Addition To Her Biography.

Clever Description From H. G. WELLS CONDEMMATION

*Conrad Of Fact.”

"The Conrad of Fact" is a des

Vienna.

There was a heated debate

re-

At the hiem, in a squall in which which was to unite the nations in

THE LAST PHRASE

It was a bet in a London club

Five years, almost to a day, that sent Jules Verne's Phineas The business woman in America

since Ellen Terry's coffin was car- Irled into Smallhythe church with Stories about all sorts of famous Fogg round the world in eight is the constant preoccupation of people-Queen Victoria, Queen days. It was a bet in the Knicker Miss Baldwin's novels. Here we Paul Valery has had two periods a guard of honour of haymakers cription of A. J. Villlers, who has cently at the annual congress of Menon, Lord Kitchener, the ex-becker Club, New York, which have Cathleen McElroy, who be- of creative life, the first when us and shepherds, appears an import Finnish barque of which he is part- under the presidency of Mr. H. G. written "Voyage of the Parma," the the P.E.N. Club, opened át Ragusa round the gan life as an office girl and has very young man he wrote verses ant addition to her blographs,wner. The Parma last year won Wells. Kaiser, Admiral von Tirpitz, and started the air

attained when the book opens the under the influence of Mallarme, which has been brought up to date told many other-are

by Lady world described in this book

Mr. Wells is reported to have Captain Vietorit is a Swede (the status of "progressive realtor." but refrained from collecting them by her daughter, Miss Edith Craig, the Great Grain Race, out of a score Maud Warrender in her autobio

She has her choice suite of in a volume-he also wrote M. Teste and by Miss Christopher St. John of sailing ships, and her time from aald in his presidentia! address graphy "My First Sixty Years," book is a translation), and we must

that the object of the P.E.N. Club, Cacsell.

not complain that the hero is

Miss St. John has unearthed some port to port was 103 days.. ublished by Case of the late Lord Swedish aviator and that final vie- good fat, clothes, food, all by the years of silence, when ch produced candid remarks headed About the ship was nearly lost, "Captain a great fellowship, could be attain Ha allows age of thirty; and she has, more-La Feune Parque and Charmes. L Most of Ellen Terry's com- de Cloux, who had been dashed ed only if freedom of thought were Balfour. Lady, Mand had been in-tory goes to Sweden.

The young man had achieved a ments on Henry Irving are compli- vited in 1898 to "dine and sleep at Great Britain a place. The race over, the comfortable "alone I did

began with every nation In the it" feeling. It was Bill Burke certain celebrity. The middle aged mentary: obviously she adored the cross the deck, his leg severely bat guaranteed. In future political Osborne:"

tered, one finger gone from his questions would have to be dia- "After dinner," she relates, "the world represented by ita crack"insufferable, arrogant, attractive" man whose long interval of silence great artist in him and "his paband, after three hours brought her cussed in the congress because poli- Great with is shock of snow-white hair. had been spent partly at the Minis-tience. his strong. practical will lout and she lay hove-to in safety. tics were a part of the spiritual usual ceremony of sending for the aviators; it ended with guests one by one took place, and Britain and the United States of Bill Burke himself a "self-made" wry of War, partly at the Havas his gentle courtesy

Moses, one of the three small striving of man. Arthur Balfour was the first to be America rushing to what looked advertising man, who threw doubts News Agency, soon. ascended. be

But she tells us that he was "in-boys of the crew, who was old like a dead-heat end, when the tiny into her mind.

M. Jules Romain (France) pro- would have us believe, almost in capable of caring for people, sons, enough to have been in prison for posed that representatives of both In Bill's opinion there was no spite of himself to the position of friends, anyone," and showed "asmuggling, asked "If this was a the old and the new German P.E.N. "I noticed with some amusemant Swedish 'plane dropped out of the

famous poet, lack of that when he stood in front of her clouds and won by what appears to such thing as a self-made woman; an internationally

enthusiasm for

other great storm. Assured that it was Clubs should be heard by the con the tip here, a hint there, and a lift writes Mr. Peter Quennel in the chair he had both his hands in his fave been little more than

(width of a wing.

further on, from men in the know "New Statesman" in the course of People's work." A note of 1897 he expressed a desire to see a hur gress, in view of the assertion of trouser pockets.

The great thing about this book are necessary to get a woman goa review of a new critique of Paulus;He is not improving with ricane."

the new German delegates that the "The Queen fixed her eyes first

louter world had many, false ideas Fame has not increased age... His illness has made him on the right hand with a look of is its pace. While all the other ing. With which forceful doctrine Valery.

(look queer. He is stouter, very

[of recent events in Germany. astonished disapproval, and it was nations entered vast many-engined he preached her into marrying his productivity; aphorisms, short

grey, sly-looking. Bother!”

"MY FIRST SIXTY. YEARS”

After a long debata a motion removed, and then the left hand craft with large crews, Sweden him, and later into giving up her essays, an occasional dialogue, a

Again: "He is the wonderful- on his the preface to a commentary one-engined seaplane, business. He leaves her on had

Lady Maud Warrender has pub. clearly directed against Hitlerism treatment, and finally he straigb-manned by Lieutenant Jan Nord last page so reduced to essential own verse elaborated by that fer-lest man, for he is not richly gift-

a book called: "My First was supported by delegates from 16 and Karl Bong. B monstar feminine elements that she is mur-midable critic, Alain, have left the ed, except in constructive brains."lishing

countries. The German delegation tened himself up."

mechanic.

muring at thirty I-“Bill, do you fountain head in a precious and

Towards the end Ellen Terry Sixty Years," with Cassell.

It has descriptions of her homes declared that if the motion were to And The Queen Sald-

I feel sure that boys are going think I'm too old to have a child?" irregular stream, to be caught up "was a prey to the teror that she Here is another story of Queen!

Which goes to show that even stored away in expensive boklets. might go mad. Miss St. John writes: in Dorset and Kent and anecdotes be adopted it would leave the con Victoria and Lady Southampton, to read about the adventures of

of royalty, peers, statesmen, diplo gress. The Swiss, Greek, Dutch "Futility Of Literature.

The B.B.C. had arranged a spe- one of the Royal ladies-in-waiting these two for many years to come. progressive realtors have

This dualism Mias Bosanquet

cial Ellen Terry programme on mats, artists, singers, and actors and Austrian delegates shared the whom Lady Maud describes as "Captain Victorin has raised their thing to tearn.

MYSTERY SHORTS. who doings to that pitch of the fustian-i

jcarefully emphasises. Valéry has sanctimonius, pious old soul

her eightieth birthday, and a mi-ranging over Great Britain, Amer- opinion that German internal af- the The Best Mystery Stories of 1980. Jannounced that, even to-day, he crophone had been installed in ica, India, China, Italy, Germany fairs were outside the province of the P.E.N. The Italian delegate liked to talk of the world to come, jheroic that is irresistible to

(Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.)]finds the whole busines of reading

said that Italy was in favour of to- the house where she was staying. and other lands. and whom the Queen found at times young and to many who

Here Arc How they fought

twenty-five longer young.

short and writing tedious and unsym- One of the latest "portables”

lerance her Minister of Finance rather tendious."

and

new pathetic as a form of work, Like; was brought down in order that

was a Jew-but he was against "Oh, your Majesty, won't it be with Bedouins in the desert. swel-stories by old stagers

Maurice de Guerin, and to a lesser she might listen to the progrem-

meddling in the affairs of other wonderful to see all those we read tered through the tropics, froze in comers.

hurled them- to the stratosphere,

So many "mystery" stories ap-degree Jules Laforgue, he is haunt- me. I recall as the most plog-

{countries or in the Bible when we go

the Showy fast-pear in the course of a year that led by the futility of Hterature and nant moment of my life hearing Some years ago Edward Seago, Heaven! Think of St. Paul!....selves through

the mad scene from "Hamlet" the painter of well-known pictures "Yes, dear Lady Southampton cases of the Anden; how they when they are sifted down to the something inherently vulgar about

rocked in typhoons: how snakes best twenty-five it may be depend its expression.

with Fay Compton as Ophelia, of sporting and circus life, joined a truly wonderful."

and monkeys came aboard; how the led on that the chosen ones will He is more interested in its me- downstairs, while upstairs the travelling show. His Circus Com- "And think of meting St. Luke

con-have the authentic thrill or twist thods than its results: "From the fair Ophelia of 1878, now a dis-pany" is one of Putnam's new books. and-or, the Prophets, your Majes.mammoth Bong played his

certina to keep them awake at God that is the bull these writers aim moment, I said to myself, that a traught old woman....was play- In this book, which Mr. Seago Mr. G. Wilson Knight has done ty. Isaiah and Jeremiah."

thousand feet at. That is certainly so here. A principle has been recognised and Ing hear." "Yes, dwar Lady Southampton. knows how many

himself has illustrated, he tells his remarkable work as an original and grasped by someone, it is quite use- Never on

any stage did Ellen readers that "no animal whatsoever individual interpreter of Shakes Indeed." (Getting rather bored). when all was numb save the will good book for the holiday bag...

"DIFFERENCES" IN CANADA. less to waste one's time applying Terry appear in a scene more dra-can be made to perform through peare. Macmillan will publish "And then, your Majesty, David!to win: this is the matter of

By Wilfred Bovey. it...."Hence his seventeen years matic than that book that goes with the roaring [Canadien,

soon "The Christian Renaissance," And Solomon!"

(Dent. 10. 6.)]

of absolute silence. He is, none

in which Mr. Knight: has applied "Yes; yes; yes." (More bored, and pace of the planes themselves.

Here is

A consideration of the case of the less, a poet whose sense

This method of Shakespearan Inter- Karl Bong in action: with a sign).

pretation to other" pocta, "especial- "And finaly, your Majesty, fancy "Out of the blazing bungalow came the French-Canadian by one who words, whose feeling for the volup

lä barcheaded giant with singed brings both sympathy and know-tuous sadness of physical beauty,

ly Dante, Goethe, and the poeta of bair, his collar torn

[the Romantic Revival, as well as to and flapping ledge to his task.

has over-flowed in half a dozen in-

The the New Testamen, and Christian That finished it.

The geographical background comparable passages. "No. No!" said the Queen fur-round his cars, dragging a human

E. E. Wilenski which Faber and English Eccentrics," by Edith Sit-dogma generally, Round his and the historic movements which

A Classical Writer. usly. "I will not meet Abra wreck in each hand.

Faber publish. Mr. Wilenski has well. The reception accorded tol neck was 3 window-frame, and put Europeans against that back- He possesses, in commou with ham!"

after him trailed half a wall." ground are first dealt with; and the greatest French poets--a gen solution of present problems in tie characters in the great days of

written especially about Ruskin's Miss Sitwell's survey of the fantas That, undoubtedly, is the stuff to then follows an examination of the aralisation that might be extended this startling but carefully docu- Bath suggests that this will be toria and Her Ministers" will come When the late Lord Kitchener give 'em!

present status of the Canadien in to cover Mallarme, whose obscurity was in command in India, he show, UNREAL BUT DESIRABLE. education, government, art, and so has often been exaggerated-a facul-mented book.” ed Lada Mnud his collection of Ori"A Meave Must Marry."

By

ty of direct and lucid statement: iental china, of which he was ex-ị Dorothea Conyers. (Hutchin- The author's aim is not critical: that marks him down, willy-nilly, ceedingly proud, until he was in- Bon, 78. Gd.)]

It is simply to set out what he has as a "classical" writer. Elsewhere, formed by 10 expert "You have, Meave O'Connor at 39, beauti-observed, to claim some recognition he shows the trace of his Symbo- beru stuck." then he disposed of it. ful, heiress of the desirable estate for the "differences" of the list origine. He is nauseated by and with the help of those who or Crom, was saying, "The Meaves French-Canadians. He has put his the silmy track of personal roman- realy knew started collecting the never marry."

case in a way that interested me ticism.

meeting Abraham....!"

"Words" With Kitchener.

real stuff.

Proudly displaying his orl- ginal collection which his guest was duly admiring, he turned to her and said, “in his gruff way; "Of course I know, Lady Maud, that you know absolute- ly nothing about Oriental china. Intensely annoyed, I said nothing, but just left him and walked away; but the sting remained, and I wonder. ed how could I get even with him for that quite uncalled-for

rudeness,

are

no

of Meave. There was Darby:

forth.

Barry Barry of Barryville; there HOW D'ARTAGNANquent letters. "Metrics is (was 资料 English diplomat; and plenty more. The diplomat was worried about Crom, When he

DIED.

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There was, of course, no lack of very much. The book is finely "Sentimentality and porno. men who would have embarrassed illustrated.

juraphy," he wrote to Gide as themselves with Crom for the sake);

young man, "are twin sisters, I loathe them both;" and, in a sub-

kind of algebra....Verse is equation, rightly stated when the solution is equality, which means looked at its pastures he realised Mr. Churchill's "Life" that it is symmetry," He is an how sheep would sweeten them;

xious to take the poetic machine to but the advice was received with

(pleces, cleanse it of the oilly, de-i scorn. Sheep would tempt dogs to

posit of romantic feeling, and re- be worriers, aud

History and romance are joined compose it on a more mathematical no good dog: should have such temptation put in in a thrilling chapter of Mr. Win-plan.

ston Churchill's new book, "Marl- He dreams of mathematics as

its way.

Of Marlborough.

"I had my revenge when, two "Dogs are the first things," said borough: His Life and Times." the Symbolists dreamed. of music.

nights later, he took me in to din-Meave; "then horses, and then-

ner at Government House, where pears."

She

It describes the death of D'Ar- It is generally difficult to gauge also thought that tagnan, the renowned hero of the the effect on a writer's work of the previous evening there had "Jorrocks" should be a task at all romances of Dumas: He was In his extraneous intellectual inter- command of the French Musketeers ests and the exact part which they been a concert, which Lady Minto boys' schools. asked me to arrange, and at which Miss Conyers strength is in da at the siege of Maastricht in 1675 have played in his composition. I sang.

pleting this sort of feckless, light-The Duke of Monmouth, John Would Valery be an easier poet IL, She gives us Churchill (afterwards Duke of in his youth, he had not devoted "The Viceregal band had played hearted person. a lovely programme. Said Lord Kit- grand days in the open air with Marlborough) and other young himself to mathematics and psy- chener to me; I say, Lady Maud, horses and hounds, with rod and English gallants were fighting, on chology and pored over the note- that concert last night was all very ne on the salmon streams, with the same side.

books of Leonarda? Certainly, we barricade should have had a very different well, but I think you should have the wasp-hunters among the pears. put the muzzle on the Viceroy's is all a little unreal, as Heaven strongly held by the Dutch. There valers. band. It was a bit too highbrow itself is unreal, and, like Heaven, was an opening, where only one But then, the question, like most It is a desirable haven and escape tagnan counselled prudence, but the fact that it is not his interests man could pass at a time. D'Arquestions of the same kind, ignores "I leaped at my chance and said:

the Duke would not he held, back that determine the poet their effect "Well, Lord Kitchener, of course I English people are too sensible to and the brave old Musketeer went may be important, but it is always know that you know absolutely have anything of that sort in the forward and received his death secondary-so much as the individ-

for some of us.

"My answer was: I'm afraid

nothing whatever about ́ music. British Isles.* Whereupon he shot round, amazed, and said: "That's rather 80 UÒ- kind thing to say, isn't it?" "Yes, perhaps it is, I said, 'but you were very rude and very unkind to me about your china two nights ago,| and now we're all square.”

“And then we both laughed and

were good friends again.

A Bet With Tirpitz.

we shall, Admiral, in fact. I am ready to bet you a sovereign that there will be Civil War in Ireland within a month from now."

"He said, 'All right I will take your bet'.

"And I should have won it if what happened on August 4,had

Lady Maud was one of the guests not transformed every Irishman in-

They attacked

wound in that deadly breach. jual poet who determnies bis inter Mr. Churchill tells the thrilling eats. Narcissus's, long debate with story in detail, and gives a letter his own image needed the assis to the British Foreign Ministeritance of some sort of external mir- from Lord. Alington, who was him. ror. self in the thick of this desperate {ighting-“the bravest and briskest action they had seen," some old commanders' said.

of the ex-Kaiser at the now historic to a Loyalist-from that wonder-}·

· PAGES ON · PAGANISM.

Kiel Week in 1914, and she tells of jfully dramatic moment when John Nell Gunn's

"

new novel "Sun

a bet which she had with Admiral Redmond stood up in the House of Circle" is published by the Por Tirpitz, and of a talk with the ex-Commons, and led 'God gave the noise Press. The setting is once Kaiser,

King.!

again the north country, near the¦¦| Every one of us was anticipating "Old Tirpitz, of course, as things scene of "Morning Tide.. civil war in Ireland, and she saya; turned out, thought I had said this The time of Sun Circle" in the "Admiral Tirpitz at dinner on purpose, as apparently the tron days of the Vikings and "the small spoke of Ireland, and I told him ble in Ireland was one of the and active Pornoles Press, Bays how noon the trouble would come, things Germany counted on to that the clash of paganism and Hesaida...I do not believe it."you to keep us out of their war.

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