1934-05-07 — Page 7

· MÓNDAY, MAY 7, 1934.

LITERARY NOTES

MORE IMAGINATIVE

FICTION

'Another Satire "A La" Wells.

DARING FLIGHTS OF FANCY

"The New Pleasure" by John Gloag George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

Another work of imaginative; fiction by the powerful pen of the author of "To-morrow's Yester- day," the book under review is so ably written that at the end of

it the reader is almost persuaded into the belief that what he has read is a vivid description of actual events and not a pure fig-| ment of a very fertile imagina tion.

The writer has chosen as his subject a news story which lends itself readily to daring flights of fancy and the Utopian world, into which he projects the read-j er, is a satirical picture of what he world would be if the progressi of science is maintained.

Mysterious Powder. The story centres round the

Professor discovery by a

of Chemistry of a mysterious pow- der which he calls "Camma 8"- the chemical properties of which made one hypersensitive. Aided by this sixth sense-a highly developed power to smell the inhabitants of this Utopian world! have for their motto "cleanli-1 ness." They discard the use of all oils and gases, and incidental- ly present day cars and trains and they do away with shims and -congested areas. Everything is worked by electricity and the pollution of the air by poisonous fumes is thus entirely avoided.

As for their social system this extra sense of theirs enables them to eliminate civil and domestic strife. In the case of marriages the man is able to smell his ideal mate and hence

the course of their true love al

ways runs smoothly!

Conference of Titans in Wax

No, things are not always what they seem. The group of dictators shown here agree so well because they're made of wax, The excellent likenesses of Chan cellor Dollfuss of Austria (left), Chancellor Hitler of Germany (centre) and Premier Mussolini of Italy are features of the famous Madam Taxauds, London.

Priestley Hits

Target

The

THE CHINA MAIL

ENGLISH DIVORCE LAWS ATTACKED

Mr. A. P. Herbert's New. Book.

"HOLY DEADLOCK"

The stages by which Mr. A. P. Herbert reached the title of his new) noyel "Holy Deadlock" are amusing. This scathing attack on England's divorce laws was first to be called "Unholy Matrimony," but it was fomd that two novels of that name existed and one was still in circula- tion.

There is no copyright in. Lilles,! but gentlemen prefer not to use Jother people's, and therefore "Un- holy Wedlock" was adopted although, not entirely to the author's satis- ifaction.

The next stage came when Mr. Herbert who was being rather tool Egle

hĩa proof-correcting, wasi rong up by a member of his pub- lisher's staff and factetiously told that unless he made haste the book would lead to a state of "Wholly Deadlock." Mis-hearing this joke

on

the telephone, Mr. Herbert thought it a serious suggestion and; with a modification made it his own :) "Holy Deadlock", a very apt descrip-i tion of his brilliant exposition of the case.

LITERARY GENUIS LAUDED.

New Autobiography Of

D. H. Lawrence.

No English novelist of this cen- ty has been the subject of more, books and articles than D. H. Law- rence. Both Mr Norman, Doug-

Recent Volumes Of Distinction las. In his autobiography, and Mr.

HUMOROUS

During the autumn of last year

FIRST NOVEL

aald their piece about Lawrence, Lawrence, it seems, was ungrate ful to his friends Both "Time and Tide" and the Bookman" like Norman Douglas's eleven "mas- of reminiscence" of go-thieterly pages

Riches:

Lawrence.

Mr. Eliot thinks so highly of Lawrence that he says he was "a

(By HOWARD SPRING)

How he bus let himself An ideal world to be sure! Mr. J. B. Priestley mude a journey realist turned romantic! But the glorious uncertainties of through England." He took a mo- being his theme, they must life are sorely missed.

مدا

of

to die-

torbus along the Great West Road. riches beyond the nightmares This type of fiction. which bound for Southampton. Thence he avarlee; and, as an author with H. G. Weils has already made so worked through to Bristol and mountains of fairy gold popular, is certainly enriched Swindon. After a sojourn in the pense may choose whom he will by the addition of the book under green Cotswolds, he went to Bir- for his pensioner, Mr. Clark has review.

mingham and the Black Country, gone right down into the mud andi Leicester and Nottingham, and his with one grand gesture elevated a native Bradford.

prostitute to the command of the

NOVEL TOLD IN FORM le rested there awhile, but rest-greatest fortune in the world.

OF LETTERS

Correspondence Between Artist And Writer.

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ed observantly; and, taking up his Sue had been kicked out of journey again, looked upon the Canadian brothel. The anow fell Potteries. Lancashire, the Tyne, what would our authors do with.

very much greater genius, if not a greater artist than Hardy."

FATE OF GREAT WAR HEROES.

Katherine Mayo's Investigation.

"Soldiers What Next!" is a book

East Durhum, and the Tees. Then out snow when a girl is driven by Miss Katherine Mayo, the writ-

The came home by way of Lincoln from home? Frank Fullerton er of "Mother India." Mise Mayo,

and Norfolk.

found her and carried her up the has investigated the fate of solid-

The book in which he tells us almost sheer face of rock behind lers of the Great War in the years Belated April. By Marion Reid-what he saw ("English Journey," which his cave was hidden. A that followed it.

Jamieson and Nan Rose. Miles, published jointly by Heinemam queer bird was Frank. He had She believes that Britain han 78. Od.)

und Gollancz, 8s. Gd.) may well been living for ytars in the cave, treated its veterans better This is a novel told in the form come to be regarded as ita nu- and no one else knew of its exis- any other country. Miss Mayo's of letters. Two young women, one thor's most important work. Ittence. What # cave! Crusoe's book is in Cassell's list.

than

a writer, one an artist, had been glves a fair and rounded picture place was a dustbin to it. It was looking forward to the time when of contemporary England which no divided up by rack walls and pas the writer's uncle should fortunately other writer has equalled: its sages into a commodious residence die, leaving her a fortune and ufpeople and its landscape, its towns with every modern convenience. 6d.), who has produced a work of cheerful house on the Devon coust. and country, something of its Subterranean Midas.

real humour, and I do not mean Unhappily, when the reluctant old sports and pastimes, much of its Frank had enough wood to last by that a funny man's book. The gentleman at last slipped his coble, courage and its despair.

for three years if he never chop-stream of humour in England is the artist was taken with lung trou. Though so many things, are ped another log; sides of bacon, tending to run thin because the ble and went to a Swiss sanatorium.jcovered in the book, attention is enough tinned food to start a gro- demand is for humour divorced The writer went to take possession inevitably attracted mainly to the cery store, enough booze to cur- from reality. True humour can- of the Devon house, and the book picture of Lancashire and the rupt the electors of a good-sized not exist outside a context, andi consists of the letters which shuttled North-east coast. There is no borough; chests of clothes and that is why the books which keep

with

men.

to and fro between the sanatoriumspace here to go in detail into linen; a bath; a library; and there you littering from end to end are and Devon.

what Mr. Priestley has to report in the long northern winter night not the works of humorista at all, This is always, to me, a difficult from those places. Great areas he he was se snug as a bug, with the but of professional funny and artificial medium; but Mias dismisses

a contemptuous fire roaring, the lamp lit, the bot-They keep you in a simmer of Reid-Jamieson and Miss Rose have kick. "This hideous muddle tle not inconveniently remote, and (cheerfulness, like the young men succeeded pretty well in making a where industry had had a dirty the complete works of Shakespeare in immaculate evening clothes on novel of it. The one girl caught up black meat and done no washing on his knee.

in a whim of day-to-day scandal, up."

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the music-halls; they don't Into this snuggery Frank car-down through rich layers of com- gossip and chatter, the other isolat- In these places and among their ried the suffering Sue. There she mon experience to some funda- ed by illness from participation in inhabitants Mr. Priestley made bore him children, fought with him mental sap which the old come- her friend's concerns, are well con-minute investigation, and all that against wolves and applied her dians knew how to reach, veyed. The clever skimming of ex-is to be reported in mitigation of mind to the major classics. All Mr. McGraw has taken a collec- perience that one expects from lettheir plight is here faithfully set this helped to give her the polsetion of ordinary people and pre- ters, rather than its exploration, in down. But when faure has been she found so useful when she hesented their daily lives with the note of the book.

added to figure on the credit side came a countess! Yes, she did!!authentic feeling for comedy. The the debit is a spectacle that can-Unknown' even to her, there was seene is the office of an electrical not be contemplated with comfort. a secret river in the remoter- rn-engineering fim, and the charac

Here, then, is an English Jour-mifications of the cave; dally ters are the clerks, office boys.. ney, described by a man who can Frank visited it' and caqually wash typists, assessors, with a handful see, think and feel. Mr. Priestley ed out a few thousand pounds of heir bosses. There is not a has no panacea to offer for the worth of dust. He had been docharacter 'in the book who is an Is he describes, and it is not his ing it for years; it was all stored estimable person. They scamp jab to provide one. But he is in the cave, he was worth untold their work; they drink too much, Fame to stand for heroic remedies millions.

the young men chase the girls with

BOOK OF POEMS ON FLOWERS.

Volume By Niece Of Famous Writer.

:

Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, the them. "We

if anyone can find and administer When this subterranean, Midas blatantly dishonourable Intentions, famous nineteenth century autho-great

may have to risk at last emerged with wife and en- and the, girls are out for all they ress, recelyed much encourage-latence. But rather than live on. Frank only just missed being bur

deal, perhaps our very excumbrances, what a time they had! can gez ment from her father's friend, meanly and savagely, it would be led in Westminster Abbey, and the tor-bikes and pillion-riding, their But they live. With their mo John Keble. It was at his aug better to perish as the last of the countess, his relict, married a poor "pictures" and cheap hops, their gestion that she started writing civilised peoples." stories to illustrate his viewA

reporter. Throwing which crumb shady week-end adventures to *R Realist Tarns Romantic, church doctrine and morality.

of comfort even to the aidewalks which they bring an efficiency un- To-day a cousin of hers, Mar- The two novels which already of Flest-street. Mr, Clark winds matched, in their working hours,

stand to the name of Mr. Gidzon up bla extravaganza, garet Yonge, has written a book Clark art faithful portrayals or made it readable and amusing all cynical towards their employers as He has they are all alive and kicking, as f poems on flower, "A Christian Garland," which may be compared the probable, They may fairly be through with Koble's Th Year

Christian

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