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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934

Men Of To-day Whose Names

Will Live

(Continued from Page (8.)

Thomas Hardy has occupied

Cujini, would have found, his per- manent niche in the halls of glory. There in a brief space he gives us the portrait of the gipsy dancer, and envelopa it in the atmosphere high place in contemporary writing, of Spain as if he had crushed and but there are many who have been macerated in his alchemist's pot its more famous in their day and are history, its romance, its climate, its now almost forgotton. The archi- passions, its yearning Ideals; and tect in Hardy has dominated his distilled all these into fine essences. work. We enjoy the descriptions Ah, there is style!

Alexander Irvine I hardly ever of that part of the world which he made peculiarly his own, but none hear mentioned, yet "My Lady of of the elements of immortality seem the Chimney Corner" is a wonder- ful book. The whole history circles to be there.

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles," his round a cabin in Antrim where best work, la wrought out like an nothing, takes place that might not elaborate piece of moenie on which happen in. a thousand such. little the pictures were afterwards dwelling-houses every day, but by sheer force of sympathy and sin- stamped.

Meredith, often associated with cerity he tells a tale that may move him, though of a very different a man to the very deptha of his type, has a brilliancy of style being.

and which, though often forced

fantastic and even disagreeable in

Wee Macgreegor

Bart Kennedy, ill-educated, rough-

its show of effort, is in the inspired hewn, wandering Bart, hobo on oc passages wonderfully effective. His casion, and striving idealist at books have never been popular, but times, had a style of his own, and they will be read by choice spirits here and there he has produced

fine passages. in succeeding generations.

Cunninghame

Graham ranks G.B.S. Can Be Silly And Shaw the witty, the Hudson; the naturalist, among the brave, the daring, the paradoxical-finest writers of our time; even will he live? Yes, as a "character," better I find W. R. Calvert in his in the manner in which Johnson, nature studies. That fight between Carlyle, and Dean Swift live; not the grey and the red fox thrilled to be read except in parts by theme. Ardent love of nature, keen book lover. and dilettante, but to observation, felicitous and graphic be cited again and again for his touches, all are there. "sayings," and quoted by learned from his prefaces.

the

A. G. Hales in some descriptions -the fight of Peter Jackson against Frank Slavin, the race of Harry!

JPMORGAN

66 STITUTE

RARIANS

RELIEF

The solitary picketing of Helen Crowe at the J. P. Morgan Library in New York was not in vain. The city assessors put it on the tax rolla, disregarding the claim that' as an educational institution it was entitled to exemption. Investiga- tors found it was not open to the public. The senate probe showed multimillionaire banker did not pay Income taxes for a while either.

NEW HEAD OF STAVISKY PROBE COMMITTEE

Paris.

His plays are, not dramas; they are big chapbooks with magic lan-Hutchens with Samuels the abori-l

Deputy Philippe Henriot will tern illustrations; and, the stories ginal-surpasses Pindar himself.

Sliam O'Flaherty writes with Im-

assume the chairmanship of the of the chapbooks being too mersed in the fleeting things at graphic force and a drive of his parliamentary committee investi-

Peadar O'Donnell, Own.

greater gating the Stavisky scandal in which he laughs, they will. have no

stili, has a certain power of ex-place of its former president, M. especial interest for later words,

Sean O'Casey was in Georges Mandel, who has become He is daring but not great in pression. orginality; a mind that could be comparable within his sphere till Minister of Post, Telegraph and led by second-rate thinkers in that craze of German "art" be- Telephones.

Ibsen, Bergson, Wrayed him. Padraic Colum and every domain.

James Stephens gives wings to His aberrations on Sidney Webb.

their words. Einsteinism may be forgiven on the score of want of thought.

Finally there is J. J. Bell of the delightful Wee Macgreegor.

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He fine pictures of the clan life, and the led him and he lost his job.

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