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MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES

NEW BOOK

ON CHINA

CONDEMNED

Mrs. Cecil Chesterton's Many Inaccuracies.

COOL RECEPTION FORECASTED This book is a baffling problem

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ja - the depth of, a book. It is Helen Keller's explan. Tables of Content. By Andre Lvised and margined volumes of

Windus. 58.)

Bunyard. (Chatto and To the British Museum all his other volumes of "Zion's Works" By J. C. SQUIRE.

and the MSS. thereof, the typed There have recently been signa copy of "Snilobites Bible," notes on of a revival in gastronomic inter- the "Apocrypha" (Hebrew and est in this country. George Saint Greek), "Fifty Tears of the New bury, with his "Notes on a Cellar Date and the Semi Biography of Book," was the herald of the dawn Zion's Visible Career," and £1.000] (which has still a long way to go to the trustees of the British before daylight is reached), and he Museum to meet the expenses of has been followed by the late custody of the same and of publica Earle Welby, Mr. Morton Shand, tion when a suitable time comes. M. Marcel Boulestin, M. Andre L

Simon. (Constable. 78. 6d.) "Zion's Works" and the coypright tropical forest a man found a willation of how she, blind, deaf and which meant for him the loss of a dumb, yet keeps contact with the The Anatomy of Dessert, with a few thereof to Howard Jefcoate, of

Notes on Wine. By Edward Balsall Heath. great estate, and if that man de-world at innumerable points, and sired nothing more than to keep not only with this world but with to the reviewer. If he delivers the estate for himself and was pre-la deeper world than many of us himself up to the charm of Mrs. pared to use any means to do so, know.

that man would "She is," says Mr. E. V. Lucas in Chesterton's butterfly style and en-then I believe

Mr.is introduction, "one of the beat tirely disregards the fact that she have destroyed that will.

Hutchinson asks us to believe, that appreciators of the beauty of life, apparently sets out to instruct her he kept it lying about where any of nature and of human nature, fellow countrymen concerning the jone might come upon it.

ịthat can ever have existed.” If a woman and her child were It is a remarkable tribute to a conditiona in China he will be drifting on a rapid, in an oarless woman who had such shackles to compelled to applaud it and to skiff, towards almost certain death, shake off. This book leaves little compliment its accomplished au- do not think the woman would doubt that it is but the truth, thor on the liveliness of her style, indulge in a lot of quasi-religious! the lucidity of her description and talk about "Dad" who had been Brasstacks: By George S. Royds. Simon and others.

dead for some Ume, waiting by (Nicholson and Watson, 58.) * It will take a long time before the ability with which she holds that threatening tree stump to pull

Mr. Royds is the head of a fam-the average English hotel-keeper the interest of the reader.

hem out of the water. She would ous advertising agency; and, as to resumes an interest in either food

country in which its setting is placed, a different story has to be

conversation.

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But then this book is brought have been THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LTD. into gelation with the facts of the her skirt for she was athletic. Mr.!jobs is an employment I can rarely indifferent and ignorant. But if working man in Los Angeles. The Hutchinson is all for the "Dad" resist, I turned with some eager the educated classes can be taught Bible contains 8,048 pages and ness to this exposition of "the case to demand something better than weighs half a ton. A person with they usually get, and to discard the good eyesight can read it from a dis If a passing hawker of Irre.for sanity in advertising." told. Airs. Chesterton is really the proachable rustic virtue had res- Mr. Royde, I find, is all against puritanical notion that it is wicked tance a fit feet.

the body's Mrs. Nickleby of journalism. cued the child, knowing well who some of the cherished beliefs of to cater carefully to

Hardly a fact has she assimilated he was, I do not think he would modern advertisers. He is a man harmless needs, and godlier not to have carried him off in his cara-from the North, like many of the know good comestibles when they in the course of her journey with ran, even though "Laas," his wife, best at his game, and has a Nor-see them or what to drink with out standing it on its head, taking were just bereaved of her own in-thern forthrightness in expressing what, some wider effect may ulti- it out of its context, and some-fant. Mr. Hutchinson tells us he his contempt for the "frills and bal-mately be produced upon a nation iyhoo of the business." The "ar which was long ago described as times projecting it from the dis

religions and If the gardener who had seen the tiness" of the Empire Marketing having a hundred tant past into the, immediate pre-skiff drifting had rushed to Board; the specious attractiveness only one sauce. sent with complete imperturbabi- danger point, I think be would have of "Germanic lay-outs," the nice- been there in time to see the haw.lookingness of advertising that is lity.

In the eircumstances it is imchinson says he wasn't.

ker abducting the baby. Mr. Hut. "all spruced up and as cold as dead fish" those things do not interest possible to notice the book with- If a butler used as many "sirs" him. out severely commenting on the as this "Excuse me, sir, I wouldn't gross inaccuracies from which the have intruded

did.

the

He is a pragmatist who, entrust-

01

An Epicure On Dessert. Nobody in his senses wants to copy whole-sale the eating habits of any other nation. Each nation has its own tastes and traditions, and can grow certain kinds

of

of

on your, sir, re- led with the spending of a client's meat, vegetables. fruit or cheese, membering poor Mr. Maxwell's or money. applies only this teat: as they are not grown elsewhere. auther should have protected her ders about him, sir, but that he isj

What return

Climate makes a difference not only has the money. brought in? How a man of that to products, but to appetites: whis- self. Mrs. Chesterton is a profes-60 very insistent, sir"-I should!

jky, however natural a stimulant in sional journalist and on her, there- s3y: "Go back to the cheap play type faces the daily exercise

the mists of Scotland, could hardly fore, Hes some responsibility for chinson thinks he is a real butler advertising this book admirably Other social habits are bound to in- where you belong:" but Mr. Kat-power in this colossal business of

ibe the 'nations! drink of Sicily. tells.

fluence eating habits: a race men who wish to keep fit for games A SHAKESPEARE cannot indulge so heartily as

more, sedentary people. But any RECORD

kind of food can be well or ill- done, and good wine is good wine the world over, grateful to the pa- late and not disconcerting to the inside. And these two new books ara very educative.

checking her facts.

in a house called "Shipmates." Fortunately the reviewer is able] In short, there is no end to the

As made absurdity of this book. to reproduce the comments

for Mr. Hutchinson's style, it remains by a resident in Shanghai who has one of his incurably soft spots: most reason to complain of Mrs. "Could he? his weakness. re- Chesteron's decision to use him as celving the weight of his embar- a lay figure on which to pin her rassment, inquired of him. gorgeously airy opinions, The he told his weakness that No, he victim writes:

jscarcely, in decency, could.

A Victim's Comment.

I find it rather difficult to

"And did not.”

And

There is a woman named Marion, as taken comment on the work as a whole."which she pronounced, The chapter on the "Shanghai from her sweet lips did I, as Bar-

rion." Mind" seems to me like an at- tempt to apply the "cubist art":

£14,500 For A First Folio.

A

AMERICAN DUEL AT

They are both very well written; ROSEBERY - SALE

epicures usually do weite well, as they combine enjoyment of life "Published at five dollars in Bunyard appears to break

with a sense of fine shadea.. Mr.) Where the old-fashioned nove-1623." according to American school ground; I at least have never seen pew Ideas of distortion to literature list, said: "And now, dear Read, books, a superb copy of the First a book on dessert before, to say nothing of the distressinger, let us return to our hero," Mr. Folio of Shakespeare's plays flashed

inrough stages of spectacular bid- ding at Sotheby's recently until the

auction rocket had soared to £14,500,

Hutchinson says: "Return ̧ we, mis-statements of fact which ap-i pear not only in this chapter laying aside "The Fortunes, to our but throughout the whole book. man, left thus."

Aside from mistakes of fact; If you ask nothing but a "story" at the instigation of Dr. Rosen- the author takes' a great deal of and care nothing

[bach'a deputy, Mr. Rham. for probability! wince at nothing in the way it is The example which wrought this literary Heence in drawing 00 her imagination as for instance told, then "The Soft Spot" may be family copy which the late Earl of} ber allusion to a bowl of roses on commended. my desk which never existed.

Policeman's Lot,

saleroom miracle

was The Manley

Rosebery was stirred to acquire on Her account of her interview Policeman's Let. By Henry Wade. Jan. 16, 1908; for the, then, herole with me is so distorted as to be (Constable, 78, 61.)

These are short stories of detec hardly recognizable and at-

sum of £3,000

He loved to own a winner and he tributes to me statements which tion, mainly concerned with In-new that America was beginning to are quite inconceivable and are spector John Poole, who "came yearn for First Folios. He had hardly a credit to the author's down" from Oxford in 1921. They been thwarted in the previous year,

intelligence.

are good stories of their sort.

1 should imagine that the book that one or two of them might have if published here would receive been written by Conan Doyle. a rather cool reception from foreigners generally and her own

Islands Of The World,

countrymen in particulur because Enchanted Isles. By Stanley of its political outlook and the light in which it places British policy and activities in the East generally..

opens in medias res:

He

No fruit la more to our En- glish taste than the Apple. Let the Frenchman have his Pear. the Italian hle Fig, the Jamaican may retain his farinaceous Ban- ana, and the Malayi-hià Durian but for us the Apple."

In a careful pomological study of my fellow-men I have met but one who really disliked ap born in Bavaria, educated in Eng ples, but as he was a Scotsman

land, domiciled in Italy, he is quite obviously ruled out.

in his endeavour to buy the famous airy, but knowledgeable and never He then proceeds, in a light and The highest praise I can give is Frederick Locker copy in the Vas too facetious way to discuss the}

Antwerp sale, which then fell at British fruits, both from the epi £3,000 to Alfred Quaritch on behalf curean and from the historical of young Dr. Rosenbach, sitting by point of view. Most of his readers his side but too timid to bid openly.will add odd facts to their store; Ro-Rosenbach, in turn, was acting for I for one, and for example, had no gers. (Harrap; 7a. 6d). the American "Lycidas," Harry idea that the pedigree of the mo- Widener (afterwards drowned indern strawberry does not contain Beginning with lost Atlantis, the Titanic), who bequeathed the the wild Europan fruit, but is Mr. Rogers writes about islands, Shakespeare and all his wonderful purely of American extraction. Mr. In many respects it is inter- that have had their part in the books (with the exception of Bacon's Bunyard ends with some sensible esting and amusing and abounde minds and imaginations of men. "Essays," which went down with notes on wine and nuts. in trenchant and caustic obser- Cocos with its legend of burled him) to his beloved Harvard. vations which would probably millions; Tahiti that Loti loved; After Lord Rosebery had bought appeal to certain classes of read-the Marquesas that Herman Mel-his First Folio privately from the

ville made illustrious with Brm of Quaritch he took

era

mis- AMAZING STORY OF

FAMOUS WRECK

After all its is merely the im-Types:" Capri, Venice, Mauritius, chlevous delight in asking that arch- pressions of an interesting wo- and many other famous plot of sea-authority, Six Sidney Lee, to dine man whose inconsequential obli- girt land is ransacked for its his with him, in order to get him on viousness to actualities is truly tory and legend.

to the subject of the greatest feminine and not without a cer- Mr. Rogers has made a most in- examples known, and then to show tain amount of charm of its teresting book of it all, and has il- him a copy which he had never seen

lustrated it himself.

OWN. Mrs. Chesterton really should!

Law Reminisences,

before.

America's Longing."

Mr. Churchill's "Life"

Of Marlborough.

In his "Life and Times of Mari-

know the difference between roses More From a Lawyer's Notebook. As Lord Rosebery had divined, itborough" dr. Winston Churchill in the buttonhole of an esteemed (Secker, 58.)

was America which would eventually gives hitherto unpublished details of official and the, frivolous enormity The anonymous author of "A long for his First Folio. Asking famous wreck which nearly broke of a bowl of roses on his desk. But Lawyer's Notebook" issues a se for an opening bid of £2,000, Mr. C. the succession to the Throne....... that is characteristic of her. cond instalment of bis reflections des Graz (Sotheby's auctioneer for The Duke of York, afterwards and meditations upon things with the day) speedily obtained it. James H., left London for Scotland out'end.

Home-bidders, after a short pause, in May, 1652, on the frigate Whether he is considering : "The rattled the arithmetic to £7,000, Gloucester. Two days out the ship Innocence of the Female Typlat," and at £7,500 Mr. Gabriel, Wells, of foundered off the mouth of the Hum or giving us a surprisingly gener- New York, made his first move. At ber, and of the 800 souls on board ous estimate of Horatio Bottomley,£8,500 Mr. Rham made a shot, and starcely forty were saved. "The Alec Waugh's new novel, "Wheels whether his subject be Pullmanslacemed to go fato ambush, while Duke and John Churchill (after Within Wheels," le published by or Puritans, Dickens- or Divorce, Mr. Wells continued to fight "a com- wards Duke of Marlborough) were Cassell. The action of the story family papers or Fabian profun-mission on the bookes

ALEC DAUGH'S NOVEL ON THE SLUMP

{among those who got ashore in a

takes place simultaneously in Lon-dity, he has an individual humour, At 211,000 Mr. Rham came into bosts in prodaj

don, New York, New Orleans and 1 basis of common sense, a subtle the open again, and the dual found. In the secount of the digaster ne island in the French West wrist-play in the twist of his prose; Mr. Uskriel: Well (who K* which Churchill gave to his Indies, and with the lump of 1929 that make his book an excellent last bid at £14,200) silent when |attributed the2 loss öz As the central theme be illustrates companion for the odd moments of Rosenbath's friend algnalled bis Vanity, and obatláney the interlocking of modern life.

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