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LITERARY NOTES

ROMANCE CAUSES

LIBEL SUIT

“Depraved Character"

Identified

RE-PUBLICATION

STOPPED

A libel action concerning a pass- age in "A Glastonbury Romance," written by Mr. John Cowper Powys, was settled in the King's Bench -Division .recently,

The plaintiff, Captain Gerard William Hodgkinson, of Wookoy

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934.

The Feeble And The First-Rate

Countryside Settings For New Novels

loys For laded Readers

(By Howard Spring)

Hole Caves, Somerset, sued Mr. Moddler's Ground (Mac- this love for Chaddesbourne by

TR. Edward Shanks's new novel, heritance. He wished. to express

Powys and the publishers and

printers, John Lane The Bodley millan, 89. Gd.), is contained within ensuring the continuance of tradi Head Ltd. and Ebanozor Baylis and a jacket cleverly decorated with ation; Hackett's devotion broke out | Sou (Ltd.).

design of candles burning at both like a vulgarlan's, pouring garish gifts into the lap of a lovely Captain Hodgkinson, sald that "by And that's what it's all about: mistress. the good sense of all the parties about young Tom Fiorey, son of a

Mr. Norman Birkett, K.G.. for ends.

of the world.

Very Ancient Cavex

There was the conflict: a common

the case has been settled on terms." Cornish pub-keeper, who did this love; one man with money and no It arose, he continued, in a rather and that, and might have done so taste; another man with taste and remarkable way out of a rather much more if and unless

Partino money. remarkable book written by Mr-cularly if he refrained from bura-

The conflict is fought out againat, Powys and called "A Glastonburying the candle at both ends.

a rich and varied background. Mr. But Romance." It concerned the Tom did not refrain. He did not Brett Young's knowledge of his famous Wookey Hole Caves, in achieve much. He was always a village goes deep, and Into the ser- Somerset, which were visited by "coming" man, but he snuffed out vice of his tale he presses the thmsands of people from all parts before he came. He snuffed out complete roll-call of the villagers. after an unusually heavy debauch. Parson, doctor, school-teacher, pub- keeper, farmer, miller, police man, Tom's weakness was both of body shop-keeper, poacher: they all come These caves had been In Captain and ind. Not much

good, that, Hodgkinson's family for at least body. There was always a woman cosm of the world itself, caught at on parade as large as life, a micro- three generations, and were very to tuck him up or a doctor to turn the crossroads of our contemporary] ancient. They

introduced him down; and his mind was not dilemma. were ints the book, and there was also a strong enough to forge a weapon richness, that humanity now com

How shall the great] character called Philip Crow. of abstinence. He was apt to be manda expend itself

Anybody reading the book might found holding on to the coat-rack destructive vulgarity? That is the without Identify and in Mr. Birkett's in a club lavatory or spilled among dilemma; and here it is studied in opinion would identify Captain the overturned chairs on a restaura concise edition. Hodgkinson with "Philip Crow." ant floor. His drinking, perhaps,.

with him.

dona #1.

MIRI HANHO. Three hours after being found guilty of the murder of the Aus trian Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss, Otto Planetta, shown in this first radiopicture, was hanged for the e rime. Planetta, one-time sergeant

in the Austrian Army, was dismis ned for Nazi activities.

He con- fessed the shooting but claimed it was an accident.

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The Little Geisha And

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NEGLIGENCE

1

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FAR EASTERN WANDERINGS found there were only 39. That

was the first indication that two

"One's Company", by Peter Flaming boys were missing, and the alarm

(Cape, 88, 8d.).

was raised Mr. Fallon, Inspector In

Mr. Fleming enjoys penetrating charge of the Home, arrived, and into the remotest parts of the enquiries were then made, world, and he writes about his ex had gone to the back verandah, and It was found that the two boys periences as entertainingly as any, there succeeded in prising up a man living.

There is no doubt that "One's in place. They had then climbed staple holding some wire netting Company" will prove to be the best down the pipe to the ground floor, travel book of 1934,

and from there made their way to Last summer he went to China the school room. They took ten and Manchukuo, by way of Russia, stools from there, and placed them where he discovered that Bolshe against the back wall, and so made vism does not breed beautles. The their escape. The constable on gate women seemed to be startlingly and and ground patrol duty was equally universally ugly.

unaware that the boys had escaped, The men were at difatory as This man was dealt with depart- ever. The Bolsheviks have no idea mentally. of window-dressing,

Mr. Hamilton, in imposing the fine of $250, in default six months' hard labour, sald that although

In Number 13

It takes eight days by the Trans-there was no collaboration between Siberian express from Moscow to the accused and the escaped boys, is nothing he found him guilty of gross

Manchukuo. There

whatever to do. You lle in your negligence.

berth and read.

HONOURED

On the seventh night, as Mr. REV. FATHER YEUNG Fleming got late his berth, he, noticed for the first time that it was No. 13, and he was not unduly surprised when he woke to find that his compartment was tilted drun kenly, and that the Trans-Siberian express was aprawled foolishly down an embankment.

Silver Jubilee Of Ordination

The Rev. Fr. Joseph Yeung,

At Harbin Mr. Fleming visited Director of Shumchun district, was his first opium den... It was small honoured on the occasion of the and stuffy, empty except for a face silver jubilee of his ordination by a I think it is a fault in the book| It was not necessary now lu in- would not have been excessive for that the problems are not so much

tious attendant and one very old large gathering at the Chinese dicate points of resemblance, but most men; but, coupled with his solved, as shelved by a mechanical

man on a wooden couch.

Catholic Club, Caine Road, yester- the book spoke of the owner of the weak heart, it induced the condition working together of all things for

Very Hungry

day morning. His friends and well- caves and of an airplane flight to that made his friends shake their good. Lions and lambs are tucked Thriller Chosen As Book

in his honour at Chinchow, and

There was a geisha party given illuminated address and a cheque.

wishers presented him with an the eaves by the owner.

hends and mutter those ominous snugly and optimistically under a Captain Hodgkinsen Wis a. dis-"ifs."

Among those present were the common quilt, and all the flyaway

Of Month

geishas were as disappointing as Rt. Rev. Mgr. Henry Valtorta, tinguished pint in the war, counsel Tom always just failed to come birds come home to roost in peace

the opium den. went on, and the character in the off. A promising lad in the local and at least prospective prosperity."Seed of Adam", by Violet Camp.

Later they went on to a cafe, G. Byrne, A. Rossello, Gallagher, Bishop of Hong Kong, Rev. Fathers hook could and would by ordinary grammar school, he didn't go to But, all the same, it's a grand book.

"The Origins of Modern Spain" pronounced "coffee" by the Japan Peter Lam, Anthony Ma, Francis readers who knew him be identified Oxford after all. Engaged in the

beli (Murray, 78, 6d.). "Dew On The Gras”

is the title of a new book by Pro-ese in Manchukuo. "Seed of Adam", the "Evening fessor J. B. Trend, which is pub was given an enormous beef steak. Joachim Wong and other members Mr. Fleming Chan, Phillip Lo, Francis Wong, family of a famous German drama- The point is that Phillo Crowtist, he had to leave in a hurry Lewis (Lovat Dickson, 7s. 6d.). is an unusually powerful and graphic lished by the Cambridge University brandy, and a lady with the proud Baptista and Mr. Chan Kwok-

"Dew on the Grass," by Eiluned Standard" Book of the Month, is

a glass of whisky, a glass of of the Catholic clergy, Mr. J. in the book is a man of the most because a secretary seduced him also concerned immoral and depraved character."(Women found it easy with Tom), countryside, but here it is seen not

with the English first novel.

title of "Miss Chinchow." Ir. Birkett continued.

Horace Mullins A little eminence among the war with

leung, Secretary of the Club. WVGA a hair-

The book takes the form of a

She could not speak English, but 8 contemporary eye, but dresser's Assistant, gloomy and

Mr. Leung Tin-cheung, "Happily Marked"

time bureaucrata was levelled out through the rosy mist of retrospec competent.

collection of intimate

she was very hungry, and while Mr. Chairman," presented Fr. Mr. Gertzberger, the

personal

Yeung "Captain Hodgkinson. I am glad by the war's ending. Thereafter, tion. "Heaven les about us in our manager, did not

Fleming's hosts were dancing he with the cheque and the address, of sketches of the reformera approve to say, is happily married, and has nothing, for, him, lasted long. His infancy" is the theme. Pengarth Horace, because he had no small educators of the generation of 1868. whole of the steak, thus escaping the gathering in Chinese, paying

and

surreptitiously fed her almost the after which the Bishop addressed been for many years. He is quite marriage was disastrous, and per lay upon

the young Severn-a talk and never a smile for a cus and deals with the whole revolua charge of grave discourtesy. a distinguished man in the county hapa it was not all Isabel's fault. charming scatter of "roofs, chim-tomer.

tribute to the work which Fr.' of Somerset, taking part in all One does not

feel that Tom was neys and weathervanes."

As he had eaten a large dinner, Yeung had accomplished, Delia,

tionary movement, both political Horace was brooding and biding public activities. He has been a capable of any rooted allegiance.

he still regards that girl with wishing him health to carry on and Lucy Maurice and Miriam lived his time. Headaches and horrible and educational.

Iaffection, member of the Somerset Cricket, This Odyssey of a second-rater there with their parents. Della was longings tortured him, and he got

with it. Club for many years, and has hunt-la deployed through a quarter of a eleven and Miriam three and a half no rest until, one ed with all the famous packs." century of time and through chang.I fancy it is Della who in this book Holiday, he murdered a girl moat

horribly,

Eastor Bank

Mr. Birkett added that whening scenes: a ruined little Cornish "wishes" herself back Into the Captain Hodgkinson issued a sum-town; a romantic Gorman village; golden years.

It is a marvellous recapture of and Horace felt at peace with the

The crime was mona for an interim injunction the London, before, during and after

not discovered, defendants very properly gave an the war; and post-war Berlin the spirit of childhood. Ne shades undertaking that there should be no There is contact with a great many of the prison-house have yet begun world, but only for a time.

people. Those strata of republication of the book at all.

literary to fall upon the young hearts open Horace killed another girl.

bestial longings came back, and The printers paid a substantial and artistic society which achieve ing to the magic of Ilving. No

She was a kitchen-maid in the

made an

and

of

The

sum to Captain Hodgkinson their small purposes in an atmos theme that the adult would call service of Sir Herbert Lancaster, unqualified withdrawal phere of drink and chatter are well imposing is worked into the texture the judge, and in due course an apology. The other two de-portrayed; and there are glimpses of this tender symphony. fendants were paying a dum

of "big business" which seem con Magical is the word for it. The Lancaster to atand his trial for Horace came before Mr. Justice money which was satisfactory to cerned rather with its furnishings most jaded reader will feel as I Captain Hodgkinson. His purpose than its functions. The book's imagine an old horse feels when,

murder, never had been damages.

Horace had never received the

to claim heavy width is greater than its depth; after a lifetime spent among the benefit of a father's guidance. He

but in its sweep alone there is dust and fangle of city streets, he something satisfying and signi is turned out on tender grass beside was the illegitimate son of a Mai- ficant.

Offending Passages Removed The defence, counsel added, had agreed that subsequent editions should contain a special imprint

"This Little World" Another long novel published is

headed "Author's Statement and Mr. Francis Brett Young's "This Apology," pointing out that Philip Little World" (Heinemann, 8s.

Crow was an imaginary character, ed.).. Mr. Shanks considers tho and was never Intended to reflect!

failures of A second-rater: Mr.

upon any particular person. They Brett Young gives us the achieve had also agreed to remove offendments of two first-raters. ing passages.

Mr. Valentine Holmes, on behalf The activities of Colonel Miles of the author and publishers, ex- Ombersley and Mr. John Hackett pressed their deep regret that Cap meet and clash in the Worcester tain Hodgkinson should have to hire village of Chaddesbourne→→ complain of the book, "which, as my one of those delectable places "by friend has said, is really very re.Nature after David Cox." Both markable, and might in a few years be a classic."

still waters.

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Los Angeles. Booke for the blind from the free. these men loved Chaddesbourne, lending library of the Braille In- and so, clearly, does Mr. Brett stitute of America, Inc., at 741)

denhead girl, who had never seen the boy's father, a Cambridge ùn- dergraduate, after a night's spree in 1908.

To Sir Herbert's horror he real- ised that the prisoner, in the dock, the very lowest type of murderer, was his own son, and he himself was forced to sentence the wretch-i led creature to death.

NOTABLE BRITISH WOMEN

New Reference Book

Mr. Justice Acton stayed all fur-Young, who does not fall into either North Vermont Avenue, have gain "The Woman's Who's Who" a ther proceedings and ordered pay-of two commen errors. He does ed a wide distribution. ment out. of the sum in court. not see the place as a paradise or aald to reach 185 borrowers in 34 tish women prominent in every They are reference-book about notable Bri- Mr. Powys's address was given a cesspool. He is of the party states and four foreign countries. phase of women's activities, is in in court as Hillsdale, Columbia neither of the Kallyard nor of the While Braille readers are County, U.S.A. He is, however, Green Shutters. Chaddesbourne is couraged to borrow from the include sections on selence, educa- en preparation by Hutchinson. It will an Englishman one of three Just the English countryside as it library nearest them, perhaps one tion, medicine, drama, music, litera author brothers.

happens to be, beautiful. Incon- of 29 such institutions designated ture, social welfare, and sport. venient, lovable and obstinate, in- by the Library of Congress to dir habited by a mixed lot of people culate books printed under its ap- who have a good deal to put uppropriation for that purpose, there

POETESS FORGOT HER POEMS with, and put up with it very well seem to be more calls than can be

D. HENRY'S DEATH DESCRIBED

0. Henry's death has been des-

Mo-

Hackett's people sprang from cared for promptly, and so readers "I am not very good at reciting Chaddesbourne, but had not lived in have turned to the free library of my poems," confessed Mas Rose It for many generations; but there the Braille Institute here, Mr. J. cribed by Lord Castlerosse in Fyleman, the writer of children's had always been Ombersleys at the Robert Atkinson, Becretary and Valentine's Days," one verse and stories, in reply to a Hall When the book opens, John manager, sal recently, teacher's request at the conclusion Hackett, Immensely rich, vulgar, The volume of circulation car

thuen's books. of her after-luncheon, address to the likeable enough, has come back to ried on by the library has been in ing him, and the nurse said. The light seemed to be bother City of London vacation course fu Chaddesbourne and built a great creasing rapidly, Mr.Atkinson education. Eventually Miss Fyle faunting house there. Miles Om-added. In June, there were 284

"Would you like me to turn out man was persuaded to recite,but bersley, after a lifetime of military volumus loaned from the collection

the lamp back destroy in the middle of her poem she for- service, has inherited his astate; a of 1011 volumes, comprising 819'

"Oh, no,” replied O. Henry, got her lines.

troublesome, poverty-stricken in- titles.

"You see, I'm afraid to go Home in the dark

Press.

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