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STEP-BROTHER KILLED WITH

PLAGUE GERMS

Murder After Repeated Failures

FULL STORY OF CRIME

Calcutta, India, Feb. 16.

[LITERARY NOTES

NEW FICTION

Wit And Satire From Thornton Wilder

"HEAVEN'S WHY DESTINATION":

Mr. Thornton Wilder has pro- duced, surprisingly, a most amus- ing, light novel. If "Heaven's My The bizarre case, in which three Dostination" had been written by prominent Calcutta physicians were someone with a reputation Jess im

Than

Thornton Mr. involved, reached a climax te-day portant when Bennyendra Pande, a young Wilder's it, would he receiving the Brahmin, was sentenced to death usual couple of paragraphs ac- for the murder of his step-brother, corded to an amusing light books Mr. Thornton Amarendra Pande, by administer-Since, however. ing plague germs.

Wilder is its author, all sorts of Benoyendra, after a long trial, deep significances and erudito sub- together with Doctors S. P. Bhatleties, are being read into It charya, D. R. Dhar and T. N. Bhat- The fact is that Mr. Thornton tarcharjee, was found guilty of the Wilder, undeterred by the fuss charge that he conspired to murder that was made of "The Bridge of his step-brother in a plot whereby San Luis Rey," has knocked off a he hoped to inherit Amarenda's wittily satirical little jeu d'esprit on the excellent old theme of the

eatnie.

Two of Beneyendra's co-accused Innocent's Journey. His book, and were acquitted,

its central character, are a kind of; cross between Don Quixote and Mr. Somerset Maugham's Sheppey, spiced with Miss Rose Maclay's Oxford Groupers.

Amarenda was murdered after repeated failures, by infecting him with plague rerms.

STORY OF MURDER

George Brush is a travelling

It was alleged that the culture book salesman, a terribly earnest non-drinker, of plague germs was obtained from young non-smoker, the All-India Institute of Health, Fundamentalist, and all the rest of it. who had imbibed a arge docs of built by the Rockefeller Fund:

The story of how Anurendra was religion and tried very hard to live murdered was told in court during up to it. The book tells us of the the trial of Benoyendra' and his ro-adventures that befell him when he pursued this aim on his sales accused.

It developed that Benavendra journeys. Mr. Wilder draws him. and his step-brother were co-heirs cunningly. He must have been a to large ancestral estate. It was most exasperating young man, and claimed that Beneyendra insured we are not surprised that almost his step-brother for $20,000, and everyone he meets should find him stipulated on taking out the policy. Impossible, and yet he has that no Inquiries, should be made sympathy all the time-on paper.

For Entertainment: into the manner of the insured 'man's death,

One need nof bother to consider After consultation with the ac whether Mr. Thornton Wilder is cased doctors, Benoyendra was al trying by his satire, to prove that leged to have concocted the plan of ft is impossible for anyone in the infecting Amarenda with plague modern world to lead a simple,

germa,

GERMS ON SPECTACLES

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Mad Bad Outcast

Of Venice

Self-Styled Baron Corvo

LIFE-STORY OF A STRANGE CHARACTER ·

FACT AND FICTION OF "WILD WEST":

Gunmen, Rustlers And

Desperadoes

TWO SPLENDID YARNS.

White Wolf's Pack By Hal Dun

ning Ward. Lock, London 3/6.

ini

GODKIN LECTURES

COSSACK AUTHOR

IN LONDON

Best Seller By Command

In Russia

FETED IN ENGLAND

Michael Sholokhov, author of

Walter-Lipmann's Wise Conclusions

The Method of Freedom-By Wal-

ter Lippmann. Allen win, London 4/6,

Un-

Mr. Lippmann's Godkin Lectures jare here reproduced. They explain" ment with clarity und no little the problems of modern govern

of democracy.

Mr. Lippmann comes to the basic

White Wolf is back again show {ing his fangs, against evil-doers

the Wild West Jim-Twin that world best-seller, "And Quiet fexibility of mind. Their topical Allen, hero of Hal, Dunning's Flows The Don," arrived in Lon-appeal is, of course, in the light stories and famous 38 a gunman don, recently on is his first visit to which they throw on the modern and outlaw, has put away his guns England.

tendencies to resort to dictator and sworn that he will use them He will be entertained by the ships as escape from the problems no more. He rides Princess with Society for Cultural Relations with out his six-shooters at his hips. Russia. Although he speaks no News of the depredations of the English, he will deliver a lecture.

He will also consult with his conviction that ibe State is the sex- Black Hawks is brought to him and English publishers regarding the vant and not the master of the he is invited to clear out the gang English edition of his "The Virgin people and so he challenges the that is terrorising Beavertown. He

Soil Upturned." By a Bolshevist fundamental position of Hitler, refuses, but, seeing the sufferings | of the people and learning that the tive farm to of a collec. Mussolint and their in

and their imitators. girl whom he loves has been shot ive farm is forced to read this His criticisms of the weaknesses

book. by the Black Hawks in the belief

which lead to the desperate return Sholokhov, who is 30, is a short, to autocracy are well worth study, that it is he, White Wolf once more powerfully-built Cossack, and likes They may fortify the castle of takes to his guns, goes in pursuit farming and travelling, His wife, liberty against further assaults, and relentlessly destroys the gang: who accompanies him, is an attrac There is a second story in the live, dark-skinned Cossack woman. book in which Jim, figures, equally

if not more thrilling.

Both stand in awe of Sholokhov's mother, a vigorous old lady, who

Hal Dunning writes with his gets up at five in the morning. (usual flourish. His books are typfeal of the Wild West and are

always worth reading." This is no ...DEPRESSING LITERATURE exception.

HUMOURIST WRITES SERIOUS NOVEL

American Author's Mystery Story

to peep

because

ABOUT WOMEN

NEW NOVEL FROM HAROLD OHLSON

A Happy Ending

Inseparables-By- Harold Ohlson. Ward, Lock" London, 28/6, A

Generalising about women has The been a favourite pursuit of in ferior writers in all ages, writes Ray Strachey in "The Spectator.".

The author of "Beggars Would In the seventeenth century there Ride" has given us another excop existed in Italy a library catirely tonally good story in "The In- composed of works of this nature. separables, which, though not to and another very large one could be compared with his previous

2 O'Clock Courage-By Gelett be gathered together now, if all masterpiece should be enjoyed by

Burgess. Iyor. Nicholson & the works which have appeared

most renders, T Watson, London, 7/6.

since then were to be collected to The author has written a first-gether.

> The main characters in the book class detective (story in which an If anyone had the patience to Elizabeth Challoner, Martin original plot in maintained with read all these books, little sense Hume Hugo Averill - and Uncle consummate skill, and it may be would be found in them; for all the Alfred Shuttleton. The red-hair- asserted that the reader has either topics which have caused rubbished and quixotle Martin bad per- honest, and God-fearing life with-

at the end-how many to be written, this is probably the formed a sympathetic not for-an- out being thrown into prison for

other girl, some time before and he it. The natire is not subtle enough To say that a man is. mad is Boasen, a stuttering little Chrysos- people must confess to doing that worst.

case for that; "because generally a way of saying that you,tom of a priest, with the Cam-or wait till he has reached a Most of the books make do steth whom he loves dearly, that

is unwilling to confess to Eliza With the help of the medicos, one in any

most the last few pages, of the tempt to deal with facts. They do is the one and only girl-for of whom was connected with the George Brush, though simple and violently disagree with him. The bridge manners of a Vaughan's

dove, the face of the Mad Hatter book before he solves the mystery not examine women

as they are, All-India Institute of Health, it was sincere enough, is shown as little curious fact is that madmen seldom out of 'Alice in Wonderland, and of the murderer of John Saxon nor their lives as these are actual him, in turn, Elizabeth is press claimed that Benoyendra smeared more than half-baked.

Wilder's aim is probably fail in finding a select few to be the figure of an Etonian who who to quote the words of a ly passed; they deal instead with ed by her aunt and stepmother to germs on the bridge of a pair of sectacles, and pressed them on his merely to entertain, and not to lieve in them. These may be rich sanely neglects to take any pas race, was "a fit and proper subject charms or the faults of wothen are,

famous politician about a certain theory, and explain what he make a more convenient marriage,

with Hugo apion of a wealthy step-brother's nose.

draw any terribly clever morals or old ladies while they are living or at all with his temple of the Holy for atrocities/" Following this, Amarendra de point any awfully subtle signi- acute young critics after they are Ghost, but wears paper collars and

what they ought to do and be, and family, who alone can get the step- Ja black straw, alpine hat." Thera The book can be recommended where their duty lies. It would mother out of her debts. There veloped a virulent case of tetanus,ficance at all.

dead; for madness often takes the is an entertaining gusto about this!

the author's liberary be hard to find another branch of are many critical situations but complicated with sinus and other

the particular, at the expense of exhilarating to grown-ups form of the desire and pursuit of abuso, since mud-throwing is as ability is above the average of the literature so futile and so depress-Mr. Shuttleton comes to the rescue

as to usual detective story writer. ing

and all's well that ends well.

boys, but Corvo forgets to leave The posthumous volume left by any visible features of the ori that reprehensible conglomeration gina! to emphasise the disfigure- of hate, ingratitude, and industry, To him the whole human race is self-styled Baron Corvo, and born to misery under the name of Fre derick Rolfe, now appears as literary curiosity. Mr. A J. A. Symons skilfully disinterred the Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton burial island of San Michele in the corpse ignominiously hurried to the While Amarendra was standing have issued three remarkable cheap Venetian lagoon, carried from re-t is like an approach through at- in a Calcutta railway station, he editions of books by well-known pulsion to enthusiasm as he, delved felt a prick on his arm, and noticed writers, which should appeal to all into a character as horrible and class of readers of fiction. They tragic as the world of letters has a short, black man brushing pastare priced respectively at 3/6, ever seen, and fell himself under him. Then Benoyendra appeared, and, it was claimed, rubbed the pol-book-shelf size), 2/6 (the "Yellow the spell of this misanthrope. For son into the injured spot, to make half-Crowns") and ninepence (the in his recent admirable biography

"New Year Ninepennies"). sure that it would take effect.

his judgment is anaesthetised, and It is perhaps invidious to give a Amarendra developed ↑ high

at the close he accepts Baron fever with swelling glands, and desist of the writers who figure in the Corvo as a genius, pite the attendance of doctors of his differently-priced editions, for

through.

Then, the prosecution alleged, Benoyendra and his accomplices, after many failures, managed to ob- of plague lain a deadly culture germs from the Institute of Health: They first experimented with the germs on white ruts, it was claimed, and the rats died within 24 hours of having the germs rubbed on their bellies.

ARM PRICKED

own choice, he died from the effects

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a certificate of death from septic to the "order of merit" of the Ermenegilda, rescued by Nicholas | pneumonia, but a låter blood analysis series: but on the whole there is

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mospherics ao Bome unattainable

of another world. symphony, the half-heard music"

Wild West Again

Blood of the West. By Paul Evan Lehman, Ward.. Lock, London, 3/6.

With the blood of the West flow- ing in her veins, Patricia "Land, product of the East and daughter tains works by authors of world-his valet-gondolier, and sails away to claim the PL, Ranch,

These editions should very short-to Venice, there to caricature and This is no easy matter after an

Calcutta in five years, and the ar./the selection. Each edition con dresses her up as a boy, makes her of Lucky Lane, comes to Saccaton

rest of Benoyendra and his accom-wide reputation. plices followed,

chaser.

A high point in the case for they be seen in Hong Kong and prosecution was that while Beno should And a wide circle of pur yendra did not come near hia brother's bedside during the fatal illness, he was one of the first to appear at the cremation ground. United Press.

FILMS AS PART OF GERMAN

SCHOOL CURRICULUM

By the end of January 2,000 schools in Germany will have been equipped with apparatus for the showing of films. This is part of

MOSCOW ADMIRES G. B. S.

Scarify everyone, who has shown unscrupulous man has been left in descriptions of Venice, strangely comes to consider the ranch his him a helping hand. There are long charge for seventeen years and accurate, microcosmic, like the

own

vision of a reversed telescope, Alonzo B. Pally is ambitious. He there are other long descriptions, wants to keep the ranch and he microscopic, of his enemies, like wants to obtain control of the en- the vision of a distorting morror.tire valley, even if he has to aplil It is reported from Moscow that various works by George Bernard Father Hugh Benson offered to blood to attain his ends, p Shaw, fomain Rolland and Henri couple his fame with Corvo's to When Pat arrives to take over, Barbuse are to be translated into scurity, but the tandem was speedf. Al claims a big sum as salary, the Bashkirtan language for the ly overthrown. He figures In this which has not been paid to him, be first time and published this year. book as the Reverend Bobugo cause he well knows that Pat.can- not pay. Accordingly, he secures alien on the property, so Pat: lg- stead of finding herself head of the ranch finds herself forced to earn counter of the local store. SENARAI O Clay Dennison butts in and Pally Then he reaches - Rome and finds nearly succeeds in

etting him inexhaustible subjects for descrip- volved th bloody battle with to have all the 50,000 schools Mr. Ion Munro, the author of tion and meditation in ita haunts Buck Morga throughout Germany equipped in the host history of Fascism writ and its people, the same way during the course of ten in English here enables us to One cannot read a the next four or five years, share his knowledge and love of book without Already ten instructional nima Italy, and Italian life. In Beyond new about Ital have been shot and 6,000 copies the Alpa be ranges all over the pen lian ways, past made. Eighty more of such filma insula. Lake Garda, orphoe, and read

the plan of Herr Rust, the Reich ITALIAN

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