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TOILERS OF THE NORTH SEA

Two Books That Smack Of Ocean Thrills.

Rubber. By Madelon H. Lulofa for there is bound to be a good

(Cassela, Ta. 6d.).

Ideal of loose swaying among un- London Seene. By H. J. Masing.

Dr. J. G. Renier and Irene rooted things in those conditions. Sail and Our: A North Sea Sketch- ham. (Cobden - Sanderson. Clephane have translated this Altogether, this is an unusually) book. By Ernest Dade, 108, Gd.).

novel from the Dutch, and their able book, well worth translating Cruising and Ocean Racing. By (Dent: 78. 6d.). This is always a stimulating, ni les are a guarantee that it, though occasionally an axaspera-reads as lucidly as though it had Film-World As Plot.

John Irving, E. G. Martin, and Įting, book,

been written in English,

others. Such Power is Dangerous. By

(Seeley, Service. 218). Most authors have too few orl Europeans in the East is the

Dennis Wheatley (Hutchin-the North Sea

"This is the fisherman's life. of sinal ideas; Mr. H. J. Massingham theme; not Mr. Kipling's admir- has, if anything, too many, some fable Europeans, with "If" on

son, 78. 6d.).

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Nos. 25313,

about London.

king

the

. and the Silver Pita (so preverse and wayward that he their lips and honour in novel "The Forbidden Territory," south." Thus in largo simplicity ara some miles farther to their hearts, but Mr. Maugham's showed himself to have a clear does Frank Wheeler, a plain Asher- every accepted view Europeans, reacting to the understanding of what a sensa-man of Filey, introduce Mr. Dade's climate like blotting paper: tional novelist should write and fascinating book of a hundred He scarcely so much as regi- tolerably stiff to begin with, but how he should write it. ments his clever sayinga; he demo-in the end a mess.

drawings of the fishing vessels of bilises a grand army of epigrams The Dutch rubber plantations no less able in devising incidents fore the internal combustion engine Here he is no less improbable, the Yorkshire coast in the days be- In a single chapter. A whole bene are the scene; and the time to rush the reader over the put a stop to weary tramps round ft night supply of fireworks will covered is from be let off in a single page. The pioneering activities of one com-lity.

rough chasms which yawn in probabi-capatans and to long pulling by reader is delighted but dazzled: pany, through the growing pros-

hand of heavily-laden boats. after a while he cannot help blin-perty of the boom, up to the concentrate the world's film in-record of things passed away. As

The story

concerns a plot to These drawings are indeed the decline which caused the planters dustry in a few hands. All the Mr. Peter Anson has aptly said, the So many ingenious books have to rush their money into Wall best-known people in Hollywood Yorkshire fishing coble and smack been written on London lately that Street in time for the crash. Mr. Massingham almost despaired

appear under thinly disguised of the past century were among the The author has pictured the names; and we English must finest examples of English ses of saying anything new. "It is crescendo very well. The steam-take what consolation we can going craft ever devised. None the essence of London," he saying country itself lives vividly. from the knowledge that the were better fitted if it has one, to baffile dogma, to and so do the men and women-arch-villain is an English peer. const which was their home or for for the rugged | elude the club or the caress of a Dutch and native--who inhabit Lord Fortescue Is the tradi-the rough seas which they encoun generalisation, and to make hay or it. "Here," says one of the tional master crook of a thousand tered. Every man who has sailed in an impression by its contrary." Nevertheless, undeterred ulike by cut flower whose stem just fails and the morals of an ape. He the fisher-life of Filey and Flam European women, "I feel like a novels; the brain of a superman them, and who has known and loved the immensity and the minutiae of to touch the water," and that is it is who lets loose murder in borough, as his theme, he issues forth to catch the sense the spirit of the London months community-It has no roots, and ambitions which, needless to say, and memory-stirring tribute

we get of the whole two continents in pursuit of his will be thankful for this intimate Mr. Dade has done, from May to April-It is character-even its cut stem does not touch are frustrated by simple worth them. istic of him that he will not start water. on Jan. 1-and from the analysis

in league with a fair lady.

The racial and industrial pro-

to

New Cruising Volume, of a thimbleful of Thames water blem is presented by means of thng, you are not likely to get and for sail the true Briten would If you care for this sort of Without his passion for the sea he divines the secrets of London's interesting personal relationships, it better done than it is done be something less than the man be

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soul.

Every Phrase Of Life,

In the quest he starts a multitu- RABELAIS

dinous company of ideus and sets them dancing the oddest, maddest measures. while every now and then there comes a flashing thought which illuminates his text like a instillation of flood-lighting.

To quote a few obiter dicta from pages which deal with every phase! of London life; women. NtRiUER. shops, pictures, houses, books, and

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Heredity,

is. Interest in cruising and ocean racing is probably at a higher level) to-day than for some years past, in

THE MAN Translate No Further. By Dore- spite of the motor's intrusion into

Presenting Coarseness

In True Perspective.

SOUND SENSE IN NEW BOOK

thea Bussell (Graysons, 78. Gd.).

the yachtsman's sphère.

The cruising volume now added Katherine was the daughter of a

to the excellent Lonsdale Library Swedish professor who had written It was overdue. Its chapters, con- will be welcomed by all men of sail a book on heredity. Living in atributed by well-known experts, English cottage, she

was translat-

ing it when the question became more than academic.

know: that both his father and a

humble.

of invaluable

contain all that the practical yachts- It is quite time that the adjective

man needs to know about design, a million other things as well: "Rabelaisian," meaning "dirty," The man she loved was given to

The British Museum resembles was retired from

rig, management, and navigation active service, ungovernable rages, and she dis and cover every type of craft from a cold bath in this, that a plunge and "Laughter for Pluto" is a likely covered what he himself did not the most elegant to the moet is invigorating, but long immer-book to perform that public duty. slon brings a mortal chill.

Mr. Watson's very delightful sc. remote ancestor had killed people in Besides a number She (a mannequin was of acount of Rabelais and his works blind passion. Married, her pro- diagrams and a splendid collection good clipper-build, but of no neither excuses nor disguises that blem was: should she gry children Ocean Racing" contains the author of photographs, "Cruising and eculpturesque line.

aspect of the great French antirist to her husband-children Whomised fing etiquette, and the chapter James II. (his statue near the which is most familiar to those who the, dark streak might recur? Admiralty) might be a diffident know only his name. But it re- book-minded public servant

Mrs. Bussell writes well and her devoted to it "has been reviewed by the retired list hrow-beaten by truft, and presents the coarseness human beings. They are perhaps

on stores the perspective to the por- characters are presented as credible the Admiralty, who have accepted

|it as correct.” his daughters to go to a fancy, for what it is an expression of slightly clouded by a feeling that dress ball.

that intense delight in every as-they exist to work out a theory. The parsley (al Covent Gar pect of humanity for its own sake, There is no harm in that if the den) is an fresh as the beginning which is the very core of the Re-novelist, having let them go to the

naissance.

end of their tether, could leave the

of things,

In Regent's Park you feel no Facts about Rabelais ure as rave reader himself to say, involuntarily, j thing out of the common can and cherishable as facts about that so, inevitably, those things ever happen. Only the yell of Shakespeare. Inevitably the bio-must have been. It is a different an infant falling on the asphaltgraphy must be apun, out with its thing if you are conscious all along disturbs its regulated repose. quota of "we-may-prosumes" and of the novelist gulding the crea- Lol those Londoners who from "probablys." long familiarity have ceased to seo,

tures on to slippery slopes of de- Mr. Watson shows a good deal of monstration. And I had something and feel the quidalty of Londor sound sense in dealing with inter- of that feeling all through the book. take Mr. Massingham for their nal biographical evidence, and his guide if they would be recalled to thumbnail sketches their "senses." As I have said contemporaries Etinne Dolet, and of Rabelais's he will stimulate and exasperate in Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de La turns. His big defect-and he congey, the successor of Bayard fesses it is that he does not ven-excellently done. erate antiquity for itself. No

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Land And Sea Thrils.

Sunk Without Trace." By Bydney M. Parkman (Hodder and Stoughton, 78. 6d.). ̈ Villainy, on land and sca; with a Bourbon conspiracy in the remote background.

Best of all is the general Renais one can be a perfect lover of Lon-sance atmosphere--the bubbling ex- don who does not worship her im-citement produced by the new learn- mortal age as well as adore hering which flourished amid the aplen

A scheme to wreck the Bank of perennial youth.

doura and barbarisms of the most Franco by suddenly flooding. tha exciting century that Europe has country with false notes, some im- Men Of Good Faith, ever known.

One Thing I Know. By A. J. Rus-

sell (Hodder and Stoughton- 55.)..

The author who gave us that re-

REFRESHING BOOK. ON CRICKET.

patient villane who could not wait for the grand moment but began using the notes for their private convenience, an English Innocent mixed up in the conspiracy: it all makes a breathless rushing farrago

the thing most desired.

Maniacal Murders,

markable book, "For Sinners Only," Free From Leg-Theory that can be recommended if pace is

has not been deceived about the size and sincerity of his audience, for the British edition has gone

Controversy.

"Homage to Cricket" is free from Murder on Shadow Island. By through, fourteen editions, and the acrld torrent of flotsam and selling brisky still.. Here, ho takes fetsam from Australia," a London a larger ambit than the Oxford reviewer says this book by

Garnet Weston (Hutchinson, Group, for he raids all the men of "Gryllus," which has come from Shadow Island

78. 6d.). divinity who have struck him as Harmsworth.

·was on the St. Lawrence river,. and it was an having something real and human

"Here, indeed, in a cricketer's unhealthy spot to live in.

Four people disappeared in pretty

to reveal concerning the inward- Odyssey, written with elegance, ness of sin and repentance, and charm and forethought by a man quicktime and what WAS 50 the phenomens of spiritual con- who not only loves but knows his unnerving was that the murders version.

No form of open-air meeting tes:{ timony is too hysterical for him;] no page of William James too cold- ly scientific. He weaves into liis text life-slories from Gyapy Smith, first-hand sensations from busy Journalists, apgacious and cheras- teristic: counsel from the Bishop of London, and talk of extrema frank- Iness from Father Woodlockin

ericket."!

TIMELY BOOK ON TOLSTOY,

Written By His _____ ́Daughter.

tended to be accompanied by shouts of maniscal laughter and the rapid |flight of a leaping figure towards. the woods figure with "änasev thing bestial and apish in the way arms and legs whirled it towards the dark wall,DE REVERSEN

Good properties of melodrama seem" to "come: "natural" to, Me,

and

Readers of Tolstoy have an in-fossly

which the well-known Jesult pres-terest in bis daughter Counter cher counters anti-Boman theories Alexandra Tolstoy's bool and answers challenge with chal-Tragedy of Tolstoy." Th lenge in the true Queensberry of Allen and Unwin's stylane

It is timely, too, beck

There is tonic est about the a new issue. It the book, and it does one good to sien, of War" and and so much practical, strenuous lives long, after faith in evidenca to-day,

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