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LITERARY NOTES

A GREAT ANIMAL SCULPTOR

Tragedy Of Arthur Putnam.

VICTIM OF MADNESS

(By 'SIR JOHN SQUIRE)

Desert Cactus.

By Julie Heyne- man. (Geoffrey Bles. 10s, 6d). Dear, dear, these fashions in tiles. At present they all incline to be metaphorical and omit "a" and "the." For some reason both the definite and the Indefinite arti- cles seem to be considered Victor- be contemned fan, and hence to

and condemned. Mustapha Kem

nor a

Was

Messiah.

al is "Grey Wolf." Gaudier-Brzes- ka (whom I knew. and who neither savage. though he cut his hair queerly) is "Savage Messiah." and now a good of the highly American sculptor respectable family of Putnam exhibited under the sobriquet of "Desert Cactus."

is

The appellation might conceiv.

ably have been given to such

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man as D. 1. Lawrence, who was

a solitary, and thoras.

vovered with Arthur Putnam. about whom this book is written, was oh- viously a uciable person and not in the least thorny. He did, it ap pears, write the sentence. "If you water a desert cactus it dies." But

but not later.

Polish Visitors in Chicago

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1937.

Dr. Joseph Mosciki, son of the President of the Polish Republic, and hi wife. Sofja, pictured as they appeared at the residence of the Polisi Consul at Chicago. They are making a brief tour of the United States

YOUNG MAN FROM SCOTLAND

Modern Civilisation Attacked.

FIRST NOVEL OF NOTE

MADE PRESIDENT

BY TELEGRAM

Masaryk's Story Of

His Career.

STARTED AS BLACKSMITH

President Masarky, whose father was a coachman, and his mother a cook, reveals himself in this vivid} biography, taken down from his own lips in his Slovakian home, as a man of amazing vitality and industry. Rescued by a former teacher from apprenticeship to a blacksmith, bef

Professor of eventually became a Philosophy, taught himself many languages,

entered politics, and worked ardently and indefatigably Jon behalf of his country. Now, at the age of 84, he looks back on his carcer:

In the course of his patriolic pro- paganda during the war he visited England in 1915, staying firat at a Hampstead boarding-house. He was In New York in 1918 when, at the

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age of 68, he received a telegram MAID OF SILVER

announcing that he had been elected "I President of Czechoslovakia. simply hadn't thought of it till then," he is recorded as saying.

"It is no small thing to be thei first President of a new State, with

LAND OF JADE

SPIRIT OF THE VINTAGE

RED AND WHITE FANTASY

弥瘫

CARNIVAL OF RHYTHM

no governmental and representative QUEEN OF VANITY tradition. I saw mistakes made: I

made some myself. One small de-

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my

DOYEN OF BRITISH for example: I forgot that I was

President, and promised friends that the day after taking the onth to the Constitution I would

PUBLISHERS.

Romance Of House Of

Longman.

Although he retired from active

meet them at the cafe where

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used to hold our political discussions in 1914. I went on foot from the Castle Into the town; of course, the people flocked in huge crowds. So I

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"Trained" On Novels President Masaryk expresses somo

unconven..

late Mr. Charles Longman was etill to Mr. Michael Murray, in a pro-regarded by British publishers aa I cannot see how that applies his life. Of water, in the sense of mising first novel, "The Noblest the doyen of the publishing world.

In the nineties he played an Im-very definite and often encouragement, he had some, but Prospect," also depicts the unsa. it did him no harm, and could do tisfactoriness of modern civilisa purtant part in the formation of tional views, including a strong be- Association, and lief in the value of fiction for deve- no artist any harm; of water, in tion; his attack, however, centres the Publishers'

attended the Publishers' loping the paychological Insight that| the more literal sense, he seems to Jupon England in general and always have partaken freely in early youth, upon a certain section of London Circle (a luncheon club) in the is sa necesary to politics.

life in particular; while his story, days when it used to meet at De "For seventy years I have been! told in the first person, is of a Keyser's Hotel. When his contem-reading novels every day; it is only He was sensitive, highly strung. Scottish university youth who set poraries died off, he stayed away. now that I sometimes omit a day, and ultimately mad: like many ar forth to encounter, in Dr. John- His firm was one of those fam-so as to rest my eyes. I live in tists in all media, unable quite to Ron's phrase, "the noblest prospectily concerns which arc handed fiction. 1 should never have held that a Scotsman ever sees"-name-down from generation to genera-out without it; it contains a vast fly, the high road to the South. tion. He three years old amount of experience and know-

But Kenneth Morrison did not when his frm published the third ledge of the human apul." a shock and an "in-actually find it very noble, for and fourth volumes of Macaulay's He believes in the equality of

woman with man. creasing anxiety to his wife even his first sight of the postman History.

When Mr. Longman entered the "How, I wonder, can people ask when she began to realise that, delivering letters in the back-i

is man's equai? for the first time since she had streets near King's Cross Station business, 140.000 copies had been whether woman

wonder "who sold in the United Kingdom alune. How should the mother who bore the| known him, he was drinking, as inclined him to

the The £20,000 cheque pald to Machildren not be the equal of the she felt, far more than was good would ever wish to write to for him.

He was never drunk, inhabitants of these houses." Sure-caulay made a new landmark but be seemed to have recourae ly a rather easily puzzled youth literary history.

cope with this world, which has! never been quite the same since) the Fall from Eden:

'It was

to whisky

reason.

or without rhyme

'It is probuble that be

Later, having spent and gambled away his money, he took on a job

as waiter at a night-club and met

felt

there a highbrow music critic who

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the need of a stimulant to whip showed an interest in him; after! up the energies that had begun which the narrative develops to flag. and also that it may lines similar to those of Mr. have temporarily relieved phy. sical symptoms of which he had Sharp's play. "The Green

begun to feel the disturbing dis comfort

Tree."

Bay

Mr. Murray's novel is sincerely written and delicately handled. buti

"It was to this unaccustomed one does not overwhelmingly be- Indulgence that Grace attributed lieve in its central characters. the shaking of his hands, which,

at times, he seemed unable 10 MORE SHORT STORY

control."

That passage docs show some understanding of the passionate

COLLECTIONS

Paradiɛnical kind of artist; drink Interesting Glimpses Of

Soviet Russia.

INDIFFERENT TRANSLATION

was

FRENCH DETECTIVES

AT WORK

Truth Of Perplexing Burglaries.

ENGROSSING NEW BOOK

in

father who begot them? And if a man really loves, how can he love I see no someone beneath him? difference between the intelligence of men and women."

He concludes that the under-esti- mation of women is a sign of a poly. need gamous society, and that we education for monogamy.

HISTORY OF THE SUEZ CANAL.

Sir Arnold Wilson's Analysis.

come

The Complent Crook in France. By

Francis D. Grierson. (Thorn Lon Butterworth. 78. 6d),

"The Suez Canal: Its Past, Pre- Mr. Grierson's book is the first Jaccount of the workings of the sent and Future" by Sir Arnold French detective system to be pu- Wilson, M. P., will shortly blished in this country, and It from the Oxford University Press. containe a great deal of new and This is a history of the canal from its inception and an analysis of highly interesting information.

Here disclosed for the first time the vital problems involved in its is the truth about a series of my-administration. which burglaries

to them, as drugs were to Cole- ridge, in something which they take to subdue their aching hearts, which long for the lost Eden. "Money had always flowed through

The question of dues in particu- per- Are we seeing a revival in the sterious Care- his hands, in generosity or

They lar is gone into at length, and the lessness;" that again is typical. popularity of the short story? Here plexed Paris not long ago, And the odd thing is that, al-are two more collections of them, were carried out at longish inter-question raised whether, instead vals, but all bore the marks of of being a highway, the canal The burlought not rather to be regarded as though the hero of this book dies and both are of a high standard.

Both, incidentally, are also on a the same perpetrator. mad an unfulfilled, one can't help loving him, because one feels that much higher level than the snippety glar was, it turned out, a highly an obstacle. amongst his other excesses there bits of that curiously over-rated respectable German business man was an excess of love, both

beauty and of people.

American Art Exhibition?

of author, Mr. Ernest Hemingway. living in Frankfort, Every now "On the Volga," by the author of and then he took a brief solitary "Three Pairs of Silk Stockings," is holiday. The holiday was always

¡in Paris. [the belter,

The case, given interesting

He was an American sculptor.

Here we are

as Mr. Grierson

re-

LORD DUNSANY HONOURED.

Literary Award.

He has left behind him a few glimpses of life as it is lived to-day marks, is remarkable in criminal

by annals. So also must be another The Irish Academy of Letters fountains and a certain number of in Soviet Russia, illuminated

under-case, which illustrates the picture-has conferred the Harmsworth L- bronzes of pumas and tigers, all humour, observation, and magnificent. He was proud to standing; and the author is crafts-sque methods of the French police, terary Award, for the best work have sold bronze, done by a design- er of the New World, in Rome, the man enough to be able to show Monsieur 2, was found shot in his of imaginative prose by an Irish character through action, not mere-flat. Madame Z much distressed, author published during 1988, on

Elernal City.

ly through talking. The translation proclaimed that it was the work of Lord Dunsany for his novel. "The The Illustrations, not numerous is indifferent, and peppered with a masked burgler. But the police Curse of the Wise Woman"

were not so sure. With great care The final adjudication was made enough, are extremely impressive. that dreadful solecism "alright."

who had Mr. Caldwell, the author of "God's they constructed a waxwork figure by Mr. John Masefield. This young American, such a struggle, was such a wit, Little Acre," has his own method. of Monsieur Z. and secretly placed

she

To Light,

and died so young, was one of the In "We Are The Living" he gets his it in his own armchair in his fiat Diplomat's M.S.S. Comes finest animal sculptors who ever effects by repetition, and this is Then they confronted Madame Z. lived. It is not possible for the sometimes effective, sometimes not so with it.

"Madame saw what appeared to

An unpublished manuscript by Royal Academy, which has in re-successful.

Occasionally he is top allusive, so be the ghost of her husband, and

the late Ronald Firbank has recent- cent years given us so many nobla Winter Shows, to give us a show that one really does not know what her cheeks blanched,

screamed.ly emerged, and it is to be publish.' of American art? It couldn't com- he means, and he belongs to the "Mon Dieu! pete, having no. long past and school which credits ordinary per- 'C'est lui The shock was too ed by Duckworth under the tillo, It deals with diplomatic life and working under pioneering condi-sons with deeper feelings and a much for her. She broke down and "The Artificial Princess." *tions, with the art of the old coun- finer sensitivences than they nomal, confessed that it was the who had tries of Western Europe. But It ly possess; but the futility of the shot her husband, after a violent was presented by Mr. Firbank to does exist; and it might as well be South in the United States is well’quarrel.” remembered that Bargent, Whis- caught, and the humour occasionally "tler and Abbey came from Americs, makes one laugh aloud.

a diplomat. Gay and fantastic in- Without doubt they order some ventions such as characterised his

work abound in the story. things differently in France.

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