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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933.

LITERARY NOTES

HAROLD-LARWOOD'S

OWN STORY

Strong Case For His Tactics.

PETTY CHAPTER ON BRADMAN

Orgies Of Haroun Al Raschid

The Human Side Of A Great Ruler

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As a young man, the Honourable How sick and tired we shall be of the body-line bowing controver

Among the countless books on Galahad Threepwood, the chief m before the summer is out! Many

Russia this stands out as one of the character in the story, had earned the reputation, and it was a dis- of us. I daresay, are tired of it al-

very few which do not need an "an-tinction of which he was still just. ready, but there is to be no es-j

tidote." The books that damn and ly proud, of having been forcibly CS|N Here 16 Barwoned a stifying |

the books that glorify, each call for jejected from more clubs and his tactics, and in due course Jar- dine. Hubbs, Nobile, Kippax, and a

was carved into three pieces, was ex-a study of the opposite extreme iftaurants by irate managements than any other man of his genera- Cew others will show that in these making his film based on the life posed to publie view for three year, the bewildered reader is to arrive at tion. strenuous days + mcket and author- ship inevitably gu lugether

of Alexander Hamilton one of the on the three boat bridges of Bag. something like the truth. Things have reached a pretty Hollywood "executives" raised andad. pass when players are ubliged Lo

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First and foremost, we have to that this ing pory con. metals red herring LA

realise tracersy

(By R H. BRUCE LOCKHART).

When Mr. George Arliss

But Mr. Patrick has written one (which goes straight to the heart of

Marriage Plot,

After the fall of the Barmecides things. Indesd. If a time-passed The passing of years had done write books in order to defend He protested against the use of aroun'a reign was a mere shaduw reader were anxious to find a single hard spirit and, although he no little to dimniish nis piratical, die- themselves

the words Alexander Numilton njof its former glory. He lingered volume which would give him all charges of had spot-manship. seems to me that we are in serious the title, on the ground that the on until March, 809, when illness the relevant facts about Soviet longer organized broad-throwing name meant nothing to 90 per cent. ended his life at the early age of Russia. set in a connected narra contests within the gilded walls of of the great American public. To forty-six.

Live and illuminated by construe with his former days by compiling Mayfair, he kept in close touch He had raised Bagdad to a pin-¡tive_comment. this is the book to prove his case he rang his beil and summoned his secretary "Saynacle of splendour never seen be-read.

a book of reminiscences which it fieorge, do you know who Alexan fore or since. He had made it the

was averred, contained more tales It is not merely that Mr. Patrick for the youthful escapades of Bis- drawn across the tead of far wider der Hamilton was?" "Sure," was world's centre for medicine and is a level-headed critic, more in hops and Cabinet Ministers than up gave to the world its first paper, Having set forth the achievements bliention of that epic tomo "Sixty I imagine that the British public And in spite of his extravagance, and failures of the Bolshevik re- Years Near the Knuckle leg theory is in much the same position with he left to his sons and 14 daughters vime, he is not satisfied to leave the

regard to Haroun Al Raschld. We treasure of £36,000,0001

peture in confusion. Be explains) conjure up visions of the Arabian

A deputatlon of his victims, But, neglecting the stern and how and why Soviet policy has veer- „Nights We remember

Con- vaguely simple virtues of the desert, which ed and changed since the revolu- headed by his sister, Lady from a schooldays a poem about had been the strength of Islam, hetonary victory, and shows howtance Keeble, did its utmost to the sublime virtue of the good Hur had sown the seeds of the luxury stern necessity has dictated actions suppress this book, but Gally was Larwood is eared insist that oun. And there knowledge which was to undermine his king-which seem stupid or brutal to the adamant. He would, he said, with- the otheint welcome extended to słups

Idom. Within a generation after unins'ructed foreigner.

draw his manuscript only if his nephew, Ronnie Fish, were allowed to marry Sue Brown.

Larwood's as out of the the answer, "he was a great British science. The mills which he set 'terested in fact than argument any book of its kind since the pu-

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The team was extremely generous New, un Mr. Peter Davies's exhis death Bagdad had lost for ever and hospitable: wattanade this cellent series of short biographies as place and prestige as mistressplicing Soviet Russin in historical This book is also notable де was discounted his tntolerable Mr. St John Philby has given us of the East.

perspective. Other authors have barracking

1. Victraman the great man's lilo ("Haroun A!|

Lady Fish Steps In. Book of Many Toples

traced the events which led up to crowd- and this is resportistale and Raschid," Peter Davies, 68,1 in all

1917, but few

The marriage had been strongly scuri logs attacks winch appeared its light and shade.

Readers of Colonel Graham Se-such absence of tediousness as Mr. opposed by Lody Constance, for Sue

so deftly or with

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Its fascinating story of that on Hutchison's "Fontslogger" and Patrick does In his brief introduc-halled from the ranks of the chorus, There is no devi and esidence brief but golden period during Warner" will find in his new vo-tory chapters. He carries the story but in the face of her brother's ul- other than Larsmod ~ ~ spot this whie) Haroun raised Bagdad to be lume "Meteor" (Hutchinson

and from Peter the Great down to the timaium she had to consent. that unless the Australian au- the hat of the civilised world. [Co. 18%) Bome of the qualliles Metropolitan Vicker trial, provid thday can control tot spenta- Buro in

af which made his previous efforts so ing a framework within which his Fish, Ronnie's mother, arrived

All went well until Lady Julia a refreshingly entertaining. They studies of industry, agriculture, the scene. The will find others which are

She, good woman did more socat life and the organisation of not appreciate the terms of the to send foundations of his Caliphate were open to criticism.

the O.G.P.U. achieve aid by his grandfather, Mansur, a "Metror" is a strange book.

doubled bargain and pointed out in no in- who built up

[significance. fur fast leg theory bowling, Jonqueror,

definite language that it was not her vast is a vast compendium of the au- 4

Finally Mr. Patrick discussess Intention to have her son's future here we encounter sharply divided treasure ly plundering his enemies. ther's experiences and his views on the

The austere Manaur had indulg. politics, on health (complete with Anglo-Soviet relations.

ever-recurrent question opinions Larwood makes out

of happiness sacrificed upon the altar anded neither in music nor wine. Muh-fchart of physical exercises), on art, tenance or severance of diplomatic straightway forbade the union.

The main-of other people's reputations, and strong case for hi Fa fres quotes in his favour such astute di, his son and Haroun's father. Jon religion, on leisure. He takes run,tact be considers of minora and experienced critON J. W had eschewed wine, but had south- us to Germany and shows us a filt practical importance beside the house deals with this ingenioas The manner in which Mr. Wode- Trumble and M. A. Noble The led himself with song while care-ter whitewashed and glorified ኪ.

Englishman has yet deified him point he puts forward a highly in-Britain's master humorist of the central question of trade. On the plot definitely establishes hím as Opis of Noble particularly significant, for he wrote.

"I love Germany." he writes, "be-teresting proposal, in view of the any. cause it has discovered strength fact that the trade balance has al- from which to heal the wounds of ways been the world." Jewry will not

against us and that

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its seductions.

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us to Germany and shows us a Hit largely in order to purchase from

America and Germany.

like Russia sells goods to this country

Reign of Pleasure, Haroun, who came to the throne at the age of 23, was a devotee of the trinity of wine, women, and lerism. That goes a long way in dispossung, and throughout his reign his ing of any suggestion that Larwood frourubines, dancers, deliberately intimidated, the batsonstituted a monster chorus man, and it is interesting to note beauty and talent beside which the that although he sent down 1,777 splendours of Hollywood pale into balls during the tour only two bats-insignificance. men were severely hit, and one of He had his virtues. He was them. W. Oldfield, promptly admitt-patron of the arts and of learning. ed that the fault was his.

Duel With Bradman.

More important, to my mind, is the question whether fast log-

Next he takes us to India, where and singers at one time he was principal of an quantities of Russian products we Let Britain carefully decide what

te has, of course, a remedy for In- disadvantage to ourselves, suggests" of Indian Military School at Poona. Jean buy without direct or indirect

dia-education for leadership.

Mr. Pairick. Then let us inform

He thinks the best form which the Soviet of our readinose to make public school system for india un-only on condittion that Russia boya that education can take is a new these scheduled purchases, but He was a bigot in his devotion to der which Indians would be taught British the Islamic faith and the first Mus- the qualities of leadership instead system of

manufactures to 1 in impose a distinctive dress on of subordination.

barter; which Mr. Patrick believes to be the Jews and Christians,

only His book ends with an appeal for equivalent value. It is virtually a theory clases up the game unduly, This great Caliph, whose nights recruits for his National Workers' satisfactory alternative to a com- und here we have to remember that were passed in orgies, actually Movement. The appeal may be plete cessation of Anglo-Russlan Farwond, with his exceptional pare spent four hours a day in the form-described As lyrical political trade. and cuatrol, is the only modern act of devotion. Small wonder manifesto. It le pro-British, anti- bowler capable of exploiting it that he had little time for his ad- alien, anti-corruption, anti-vested successfully. Actually, Larwood's ministrative duties, and that he interests. It is a kind of Hitler

Lueties seem

to me to reveal the was content to relegate the cares manifesto composed for the special rison to power under the Soviet weakness of modern batsmanship, of slate to his ministers.

needs of the British people.

egime. It is written without blas, which makes use of the pads as a

These were the famous Barmaks In "Meteor" Colonel Hutchison without any, trace of political pro- second line of defence.

or Burmecides, of whom Yahya has used a scaling ladder which paganda, and it gives a more in- Here we find Larwood advocat-

was the virtual ruler of the realm falls short of the wall of his am-timate and more guest picture of ing an alteration in the lbw rule to

for all but six of the 23 years of bition. Some parts of the book life in Soviet Russia to-day than Haroua's reign. the extent that a batsman is out if

His son Ja'far will provoke anger and irritation. any book I have ever read, he stops with his pads a ball which was Haroun's favourite and the or- But no one

can depy the fierce The mentality of the peasant, the would have hit the strumpa al-ganiser-in-chief of all his plea-energy and the breezy courage with wide gulf between the new genera,

which he attacks problems which It was Ja'far who was the final have bafied the best brains of the I could wish that Larwood had cause of the fall of the Barmecides. world for. the last decade.

though it pitched off the wicket on, the off-side only.

sure,

stuck to a technical discussion of

There was, of course, a woman in the case-none other than Abbass,

Romance In Russia.

tion and the old, and the whole at mosphere of the Russian town and countryside are revealed with con- summate skill. It is, too, in every his bowling, and omitted a some the favourite sister of Haroun. To novel, "The New Commandment lixity of most Soviet writers

sense of the word a story, pleasantly what petty chapter on his duel with enable Ja'far and Abbasa to

My third book this woek is a free from the Introspective pro Bradman. Still, we must admit that he had every excuse for wish-Present simultaneously at his noc Romanoff, perhaps the most inter value becaues of Its Russian sete (Benn, 78. Gd.), by Pantaleimon And, although It has a special ing to hit back at his critics; the led that they should be married on sis

turnal orgies, Haroun had arrangesting novellet of present-day Rusting, it deals with a problem-the pity of It is that there should ever the strict understanding that the have been any need for a book of marriage should never be consum-beautifully treated, of the love of work-which will provoke inquiry Intereference' of a woman's all- It is a remarkable story, quite absorbing love with a man's life- a bourgeois-educated woman for a and heart-searching in almost

this kind,

IMAGINATION WITH MEMORY.

Record Of, Emotional Experience.

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be

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The tout proved too severe for young peasant Communist who has every home in the world. Human nature, and Haroun, ill and, [Perhaps weary of night-life, exact, ed-a terrible vengeance. Ja'far was done to death,, and his body,

tham is not at all that of the ordin ary struggle against reduction, but Neutral Ground By Helen Corke. Jons of far more subtle content.

(Barker, 76. 8d.), For Ellis wishes to divide Rane's This novel, is the record of an whole nature, ruling out the emotional experience, slowly un-physical side of his love, and yet folding, and yet, to the very last, claiming eagerly the other side for never quite ripening. Ellis Brooke, herself. The tragedy that follows a school teacher devoted to maste, has the sense of inevitability which falls under the influence of Angus la so rare in merely well-made Rane, who gives her lessons in the novels, "Neutral Ground" has in violin, He is a married man with it the real fusion of imagination a family, and the conflict between with memory.

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