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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23,

LITERARY NOTES

THE MODERN WORLD

STUDIED

Social Changes In

East And West.

FUTURE POSSIBILITIES

(A Review by Rev. W. E. Botejue) "The Horizon of Experience" A

study of the Modern World by C. Delisle Burns George Allen] and Unwin Ltd. (12/6 net).

Dr. Delisle Burns has produced a masterly treatise teeming with trenchant and acute observations which are bound to illuminate our whole field of vision. Obviously the book in moant for the scholar and not for the layman.

It is a searching attempt scrutinize the present horizon of human experience and also to ex- plore the probabilities and p08-1 Bibilities of the world of to-mor

TOW.

His competence in this direction cannot be seria sly questioned. The chapter entitled "The Modern World" is refreshingly candid. The anthur discusses the recent sociali and cultural changes and when he Rays. "The Chinese, Indians and Atrians may be neither behind us mar ahead, but on an entirely dif ferent journey," he does not mince! words.

Dr. Burns has sacient cour- age to admit that "we are moved deeply by Chinese, Indian und African art, which our forefathers. would have thought ugly."

Fine Arts and Religion The second part of the book is mainly devoted to the study of the different fine arts. According to the author, works of art are typi cal of the age in which they are produced. "I

commonplace

THE CHINA MAIL.

Frances Marmalls and Helen Richey, who recently one hours, are pictured standing in ront of their won the women's endurance flying record by staying plane, Outdoor Girl, as they arrived at Floyd Bennett in the air at Miami, Fla., for nine days and twenty- Airport, N. Y. They wear their new honors smilingly,

HISTORIC CASTLES

IN ITALY

Illustrated Volume Of Romance.

"A VERITABLE CHRONICLE"

“PUNCH” LIBRARY OF LAUGHTER.

Social History Through

Jester's Eyes.

EDGAR WALLACE'S SUCCESSOR 1

Sydney Horler Works At Famous Author's Desk.

RAPID WRITER OF “THRILLERS"

Excitement, hy Sydney Horler.

(Hutchinson, 18%).. Mr. Horler makes use of Edgar

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-The Xew Punch Library," paldished by the Educational Book |Co. at £6 Be the set of twenty that the arts of any period in any The Castles of Italy, By Professor volumes, and edited by Sir John, community reveal its character and! C. T. G. Formilli. Black. 158.) Hammerton, forms ## delightful outlook. The form of contempor- Some such volume a the pre-epitome of modern humour. These nry dance, drama, poetry, musicigent was inevitable after the suc handy-sized books, beautifully pro- Wallace's chair, table, dictaphone and the plastic arts will therefore;] cess of the author's "Stones of dured and strongly bound, contain and secretary. He has had a silver

indicate the difference between Italy," and he has been wise the modern mind and the earlier

following the same uilitude towards life and the world."

in the cream of "Punch" through the plate inserted into the chair, record- prescription last thirty years. The work of ouring that Wallace sat in it' for some For with enviable versatility he leading comic draughtsmen and years.

has again supplied both text and humorass writers has been coneen-! Thus, in sympathetic touch with In discussing the horizon of ex-illustrations. and he handles 8 trated in these twenty-volumes, and the man whom, no doubt, he ad- perience in religion, Dr. Burns water-colour pencil with dexterous the result is' a book of laughter. mires more than any other practi- tries to demonstrate that all the effect so far as historie und ro-Not only that. We get a panoramationer is fiction mass-production,} great religions of the world are mantic landscape is concerned. The of social history seen through the Mr. Horler hurls at the world those rapidly undergoing changes. 24 charming colour-views he gives eyes of the nation's privileged jes-[booka whose co-operative slogan is

While one is prepared Lo neus, from Moncalieri and the Sforza

"Horler for excitement." He has knowledge that religious beliefs to the Odescalchi and Sant'

1 is a work that should become dictated as much as 14,000 words a ure changing, it is not ensy to gein are only a few of the

La bedside library in many homer. day; his average weekly output is agree with him that "Religion is castles he deals with, and always For "dipping" or for an evening's 25,000 words; he has produced 50 the greatest and the commonest of with an eye to their associations reading its suitability is obvious. books in 13 years. all the Belda of illusion." Reli-jand vicissitudes. gion, according to our author

"kind of art."

Horizon of To-morrow

the horizon of to-morrow.

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ter.

An-

MADY

he

writes; and he is altogether so en- gagingly frank about his objective and achievements that one wishes more power to his dictaphone cylin- der.

Much cure has been expended on the One of those books was called Sometimes when the Commenda-illustrations, which give the effect Writing for Money" and that Lore tires of retrospect, he is too of the actual "Punch" page, but on might be the title of this one, too. apt to fall back upon apostrophica smaller scale. Though reduced, cannot remember ever having In the last part he leads us to spasms of the dithyrambic order: they preserve the finest qualities 01posed as an artist," Mr. Horler

In the but this is only another outlet for the artists' work. political horizon of the future, Dr. his patriotic enthusiasm, and pos Burns assures us of Inter-Imperia aibly without that sentiment

Revolu- would never have undertaken the lism, Dictatorships and tlons, while in economic life, there labour of love. It is not

An artists of to-day who show them- is to be super-production and

selves so thoroughly in key with ancial oligarchy.

the fighting ages when, as the Altogether, the book is vivid

author says, it wait considered-al- and arresting.

mosi a disgrace to die in bed; nor However much we may disagree are there many who can trace with with him his lucid exposition 18 such tender molancholy the story

many

commendable and opens out new of Catullus's return to his "all- vitas of thought.

but-island, olive-allvary Sirmo."

WORLD IN CAMERA AND PEN.

Major Blake's Picture Of Famous Ports.

The result is not morely a ram-)

and history

ble through scenery

Ports of Call. By Major W. T. Blake season.

(Grayson and Grayson. 5.) Major Blake has travelled widely and so well for the Empire

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GRUESOME RECORD OF THE OGPU

Secrets Revealed In New Publication.

HORROR WORSE THAN WAR

"Excitement" is the story of his progress from reader's boy in a newspaper office to a study furnish- ed with Edgar Wallace's table, chair, dictaphone and secretary.

NOVELIST THEME IN NOVEL

Muriel Hine's “Dull" Book.

A Man's Way. By Muriel Hinc.

(Bodley Head, 7x. 6d.).

Secrets of the Ogpu. By Essud- Bey. (Jarrolds, 12s. 6d.). This is a record of how the So- but a veritable chronicle of 50 viet "Cheka" came into being and 60 of those italian castles and

into the Ogpu. The record is detailed and fortresses which combine artistic changed in due course beauty with historie interest. Nordreadful. The general intention of will there be a more attractive the Ogpu and its particular atrocl- book in the illustrated field this ties alike come under review.

Emaid-Bey tells us that, on the most conservative estimate, 1,700,-

This is the story of Clive Martyn, the successful novelist, who married 1000 persons were killed by

Cheka in the three years 1928-30. Pauline, widow, rich, food of horses That is horrible, but, lest we should and country life. She did not un- lose our sense of proportion, ft derstand his work, Interfered with should be remembered that the its carrying on, grew to dislike and i gure works out at little more than despise him, and finally almost half a million deaths a year. In the literally drove him to death. four years 1914-1918 civilised na Her own life, crashed thereafter, tions beat this record easily. The though the sudden discovery of deatha amounted to 24 million will that left her bereft of estate. Year. There is no circumstance of it all works on backneyed lipes and horror mentioned in these pages has not the bright colour of Miss that could not be matched on a line's Italian novels, modern battlefeld.

Marketing Board and other worthy BREEZY VOLUME OF

'HAPPY” WRITER,

causes that he has special qualifi cations for making this choice of

famous landing-places and record. A, A. Thompson's New

Novel.

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ing them with camera and pen. He has a shrewd eye for effective picture, but he' has also the thinker's appreciation for any-Borders of Enchantment. By A, A. thing in the way of a fertile and Thomson. (Jenkins, 78. 6d.).

Mr. Thomson in what is called a "happy" writer, but he can't be

important fact

That is why he touches so light ly but no surely on episodes of happy till he's made you happy, 100 Most Interesting is Emad-Bey's

history that turned the fate of And if you can't help him to the

view that the Ogpu is already old.

nations, or changed a busy port or happiness he wants, then you're fashioned and has no part to play FRENCH HISTORIAN, arsenal into a haunt where it la curmudgeon. "always afternoon,"

in Rusla's future. That future

He doesn't fish deep. His fly is be conceives to be nothing but the

PASSES.

He is catholic, too, in his tastes, ficked cunningly across the surr Americanisation of Bush M. Pierre de La Gorce. and writes with equal freshness of face of sunny waters, and if at immemorial Asiatic idea of a “com- Spain or Italy, Rhodes or Palma, times he permits the illusion that pulsory paradise in which everyone the West Indies, or St. Helena; a dark pool la yawning before us in forced to be happy” is trying to and whether one stays at home and that is only because he's going to express itself through technical and reads bil, or adopts his book as land the gayest fish of all

commercial development, the souvenir of a pleasurable Why bother to outline the plot! cruise, the vasase, of satisfaction You are safe with Mr. Thomson -- and Approval will be much the breezy, debonair, with a happy end

ing up" each alsove, ind

Paris-The death occurred on January 2, at the age of 85, of the famous-French bistorian, Pierra Today the American "building de la Gorce the author of in Russia just as his ancestors founded their colonies

forests of the

History of the Second Repul Second Empire and the French Re- Ivolation.

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