MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1933.
LITERARY NOTES
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New Books Not To A NOVELIST SORDID SIDE OF
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Best Of 1933 Publications
Those who would like to read aj"Y. Y.," which is a collection of
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Some Adventures In
Journalism.
IDEALLESS LIFE "Vain Battle" Written With Clean Charm.
A COLOURLESS STORY
Out and About: Random Remini-Vain Battle. By Joan Dunkels,
scences. By Archibald Marshal,
(Eldon. 78. 6d.) (John Murray, 10s. 6d.),,
Illusions or sentimentality have no We know Mr. Archibald Marshallplace in "Vain Battle," yet the story
for his stories of English country sordid side of the idealless life is Most of tako nurselves serious. lot but have leisure only to read a Robert Lynd's excellent essays best as a novelist and particularly has a clean charm; somehow the
ttle find holiday-time useful for (Methuen, 78. 6d.); "Capajon," aware of the catching up."
volume of short stories published fe, with a modern Anthony Trol-purged by the freshness of the Peter, a young journalist OUT Amali
Looking back over the books that by Cape (78. 6d.), and "The Even-lope note. He has also, however, writing. sebrs and the Universe as to be have been published since January, ing Standard Book of Best Short had his experiences and advantures falls passionately in love with The Cape in Flect-street, like many another Elaine. He learns that she has been there stand out a number which Stories" (Archer, 54.). HOTIONA
many people will want to read and book skims the cream from contem-good writer, and here he recalle married before and has a daughter
And American them.
of twelve. hess as soon as we hate caught our have intended to read when oppor.porary English
He says he has dropped into
The marriage was unhappy and Burtunity offered. Personal taste en-writers; the other selects from the selves beng serioas
list of best work of writers of all time journalism at various times, as Mr. ended in a divorce.. Peter's love is tors largely into anyone's
Wegg occasionally dropped into unshaken, and he takes Elaine and I know too much; I have stuffed books; and this list Indicate, bow- and many countries.
For those who are new to "eruls- poetry, and this remarks suggests her daughter to Greece, where fever briefly, what the books аге
Heartbroken, Peter ing I would recommend "Cruis- the pleasant conversational vein in Elaine dies. Luo many of the facts of History about.
Books of scholarship and of the ing In and Around the Mediterran- which Mr. Marshall sets down his and the girl return to London where,
a book memories. Beginning with “Granta,”
as the years pass, She gradually My eyes have grown di aver books; serious import that belongs rather can" (Burrows, 28. Gd.).
many takes the place of her mother in than the deck-chair packed with practical advice, is of Cambridge, they cover
"newspaper stories," themes, and Peter's eyes. But she married and beleving geological per.ods, 10 the study
Inne "thrillers" and "mystery recommended.
harbour lots of Peter is left alone. persons, and they Dynasties,
Current Books. Istories" which abound is easily ac
The author handles her charac and the fixed stars has premature frescible standardised cartone that best thing recently read individual tales and anecdotes. Thus
of events asters very effectively in a direct style, jevery reader can lay his hand on is "Brazilian Adventure," by Peter they are a causerie nged me.
Gd.). Mr. Mr. Marshall encountered, them in which is the more pointed because One book by a new Fleming (Cape, Why am I to blame for all that is fure left out
practitioner of this gold game,haing's writing is at once vivid Fleet-street and elsewhere, and alt is colourless. Wrong in the world"
Terri- and accurate like brilliant sword-jehronicle of friends and celebrities however. "The Forbidden
Lord Northcliffe and (ut-play. The tale he has to tell is a 'seen close up,
LIFE AND DEATH Vent Sin and tate and laughter,tory," by Dennis Wheatley
at my duty, waybow, to chinsun. 7s. Gd.), has all the dash fine romantic tale, and the modesty Edmund Gosse come into contrast;
OF A POET. Who mad
and keep and derring-de that any quiet cove he brings to its telling endears Mr. Belloc and Mr. Chesterton are, hoods for its for hix) enlivenment. [him to the reader. The adventure as usual, in companionship, and My
Tragic History Of There are two books which cam tin quest of a missing explorer) Conrad and Henry James are in the
As Mr. Fleming himself says, įpicture, and these are only a few. Aliandean, stiroiders ally then! 10 Sine Mcholarly research with a pre-WHA.
a thickly-peopled
Da Todi. Its indeed, "for which Rider Haggard; blation
*xcellent
them might have writeen the plot and serven, and often. swiftly as he to mention cannot forhear
Mr. Marshall contrives to]A Watch in the Night. By Helen C. the scenery." moves. leven ta holiday readers: Miss Edith Conrad designed ¡Sitwell's "English Eccentrics." This is a book to be recommended impart to us something we did not White. (Macmillan. 9s, ed.).
know and are glad to remember. "A Watch in the Night" Faber Lam.), and Mr. Henry with no qualifiation whatever.
"Water on the Brain," by Comp-All through his book gives the im- novelist's record of the Ba- Chrane's "The Ludwigs of No Be Turna
The on Mackenzia (Cassell, 7s. 6d.), is pression that he found pleasure in 'death of Jacopone da Todi, the varia (Methuen. 78. Gd).
and it could have no Franciscan poet of pietiam and my- anything Ben Travers writing 11,
for readers stricism. Only the barcat facts of Lall the eagerness of us udi to be first tule explains itself; the - gay an
cond concerns the Wittelsbach over wrote, but the galety is barb-1better recommendation
his bic are know to history, and "all beautiful and all dam-fed and bristling. The Secret Ser-of all sorts. family
Helen C. White has made imagina- more briefly, if also would seem vice, known med"
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Mr. Mackenzie succeeds, in one tos. Heat 18ish, durky, song, w
shot, in Here are some good novels:-
ridiculing "Intelligence," ken advertoon as I walked to Beg,
Should I think of "Hostages to Fortune." By El-Turtively secret in pursuit of non- Arabet of of exuth brids, of Arat zabeth Cambridge. (Cape, TR. 6d.) existent crime: in ridiculing the of those great Condors Bringing up a doctor's family in Secret Service, and in giving an S who sleep at their outspread wings the country in post-war conditions, jgloriously funny book.
112 kame"
Jusses, of
2018 above The "When Adam Wept." By A. R.
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se u Kwal! What how I done, or And the shadowy
Mainly (Gallunez. 7s. 6d.) Craig. eased set in South America, which is vi kit un-vidly described
"Station." gures That seemed to meinave and pursue (Gollancz, 78. 6d.).
Mute?
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By Marguerit Steen. Grand passion
VAGABONDS AND ROGUES.
IN FICTION
this existence.
Comedy And Satire Insi, but the salace of quietude that
New Novel.
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Saddened by the loss of his young! wife, Jacopane took the road to As-
The sought was denied him. He be-
comes embroiled in the struggles of| the early Franciscans, and suffers) disillusionment in Rome.
to
"THE GROCER'S WIFE"
Then comes the call of service to the plague, and Wife. By J. S. miniator umidsi The Grocer's
Fletcher. (Hutchinson.7s. Gd.), Jacopone sacrifices his life in minis-
There 18] othera. the trationa introduced
wellne Wetherfield family un terms of in-austerity and pathos as Story Of Stage Life
timacy, so that you know all that learning in the telling of the tale. In Holland.
proceeds in their mansion in Dry- salter-street from the attic to the Jenny Heysten's Carcer. By Jo van cellar. You come to know the oc-
Ammers-Kuller. (Jarrolds, 78. 6d.) 'cupants of this
house eat in the
Yes, I had wronged them; atfin an English country scene.
"All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's." was again those Polish Poets, it was
(Cape, ba.). Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Szymonowicz, By Hugh Edwards.
century stylistic Krast hi. Menawisks and I had An eighteenth
bed one word of all their showpiece for connoisseurs.
It may be partly due to the trans-street which is the very high water- ! "Little Man-What Now By
flation, but there is a curious air of mark of gentility in the Yorkshire | Hans Fallada. Putnam, 78. 6d.). unreality about this story of stage!
(town of Normanshot with almost ¡Translated from the German. The
Galsworthian completeness. best novel as far about unemploy War
tel
Surks!
with
He ho reached an age w The own felicities, in which he pro Datly dues not bother whether he has read the Polish poets or Bol.;
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"The Gun." By C. S. Forester.
hfe in Holland during The Great The characters seem outside in ordinary experience, to belong.
He may even lauga te (The Bodley Head, 74, 8d.). A tale fact, to the remote age when actors
who are earnest about the
Polish
poets as he says, "the denuncia
By
Nicholson and Wal-
And астевнен were regarded as
roguer and vagabonds. Perhaps cigar-smaking,
If the younger generation of the Wetherfields have little force of character, there is character enough About Mrs. Wetherfield. She is a domestic autocrat of the Peninsular War
“Knight Without Armour."
whose tyranny is unchallenged unti! Holland was like that fifteen years, tion of the young In il necessarJames Hilton. (Benn, 7. Gd.). A part of the hygiene of older people tale of the Russian Revolution.
ago. The author does not convince she seeks to interfere in her chil
dren's love affairs. and greatly assists the circulation
For her fe's text Mr. Wether- "Here Comes the King." By Phi- us that it was. al the blood." What is probably tip Lindsay.
The hero is an unmitigated prigi and the charming Jenny Heysten field adopted the motto "The wise One of our best his-would not have tolerated him for an/woman buildeth her house," but in hour. She would certainly not have her unwisdom she took on the role match-maker. It Was easy saerified her stage career for such of
to make her hus- bore. But some of the sidelights enough for her
band, proprietor of the largest on Dutch theatrical life are inter-
In Normansholt, M.P. and [stores enling.
baronet, but the control of the love affairs of her children was not so easy of accomplishment.
certain 18 that no Polish poet, nor anybody else, has ever written any thing in the least like these "Trivia" They are unique in their stulude, construction and conglomeration of thought, wit and beauty; and prose in which they are written is impeccable: musical, clear, and in
HOB, 7 Gd.).
the
torical novelists deals with tragedy of Katharine Howard,
"The Old Man Diet." By Eli- zabeth Sprigge.
(Heinemann, 78. the Gd.)
The English moneyed mid- dle-class depicted on a wide and varied canvas.
dividual without being eccentric. **Tandem." By Violet Trefusis, SEQUEL TO How many badly-trumpeted works (Heinemann, 76. Gd.) A witty no-
of our time this little book will survel of the French and English "up-
vive!
per classes."*
"Rinehart," By T. F. Tweed. (Barker, 7s. 6d.). A shrewd pre. diction of American social and po-
AMERICAN LOVERS litical developments in the form
IN ENGLAND,
Charming Story By
Popular Author.
"GREAT
VICTORIANS."
Personal Studies Of Historic Figures.
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There is much comedy, Batire, well-drawn characters, and an entertaining story in Mr. Flet- Icher's record of the intrigues of in her match Mrs. Wetherfield against Cupid,
R. C.
Ivor Nicholson and Watson will
since of a swift-moving romance.
publish carly this month "The figures in English history "Creatures of an Hour,"
By Post Victoriane." This book is a Edward VIL ascended the Throne. Doreen Wallace. (Benn, 78. 8d.) sequel to "The Great Victorians," Hugh Walpole, H. W.Nevinson, One of the best novels written this which was highly praised and Bonamy Dobres and Humber Wolfe year. A Suffolk-county scene. widely read last winter.
are a few of the 'writers, "Frost in May." By Antonia The new book, which Dean Inge Sheriff, the well-known dramatist, While. Desmond Harmsworth, 78, has introduced, has personal has written about "Scott of the [Gd.). A tale of great sensibility | studies of
outstanding Antarelle." (Methuen. 78. 6d.).and charm, dealing with education In Roman Catholic girls' board. ing school.
With Julliet in England. By Grace S. Richmond.
On both rides of the Atlantic Mrs. Grace Richmond is popular na
"Peter Abelard." By Helen Wad. writer of love stories that have
dell. (Constable, 76, Gd.). The both sentiment and reality, not a blend which every author can mix. old story of Helofse and Abelard We find the two things in her new exquisitely retold.
"Ann Vickers."
story, which has Americans for ita Lewis thrashing, as usual, like an By Sinclair
Joctopus in the modern pool, layi
chief characters and England for its scene.
many
Philandering In Two Countries
New Book On Old Flames.
LOVES OF A JOURNALIST
ing his tentacles on this and that Old Flames. By Collinson Owen,
A. Frank Dary.
greater lover spends a happy time: at Cap d'Antibes with Rita, a French revue actress, and then returns to Paris to find that he is still the alaye of a persistent American woman who had recently divorced her husband,
Then back to Margaret in London, (Jarrolds, 78. 8d.). {where he diacovers that the "nearest
One of Mrs. Richmond's old characters, Jullet Marcy Robeson, in Vol. III of the "Journals of the chief personage in the story, for Arnold Bennett" (Castell, 10s. 6d,)
If George Moore had not already and dearest", must always remain a she bringe the others to England is a record of our times as shrewd used a similar title Mr. Collinson mystery ma
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fusniha, vivacious lass seventeenth century,... from the Western States, and Aguês
is not a less attractive American appeal are "Mozart," by Marcia girl.
with her. Particularly she chaper and frank sa Pepy's record of the Owen might have called, his new Mr. Collinson Owen can write] novel "Frank Winton and Some well. He makes the Fleet-street, of Women."
the pro-war days vividly renta ̈and, The two biographies which bave
The hero is a younger journalist interesting, and the end of the Davenport (Heinemann, 125, Ed.); with the unique distinction of havGazette" is an authentic slice of The love adventures of the two in and "Baudelaire," by Enid Blarkie in been called a genius by his edi-newspaper history. England are related by Mra. Rich (Gollancz, 18.). Each flohly for it was before the war, how There is a very graphic account mond, whose little descriptions of creates the period in which it is over!) and be given carte blanche to of the Brat attempts to fly the Chan Torquay, Oxford, the Lake District set, and has the readability of a roam through France and Switzer-nel, and some fascinating pictures of and London are always good. What romantic novalchan
Jand..
Bege Frank Winton, through the war, for we got, allorother, is a travel-love For odd half-hours of reading
As his wife has her career to pur- be leaves the reader curious to know atory charmingly done,
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