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LITERARY NOTES

LOGICAL ARGUMENT AGAINST WAR

"Cauldron Bubble

WORK OF IMAGINATION

AND SINCERITY

STORY OF MODERN CHINA

“HO MING"

FAITHFUL PRESENTATION

OF CHINESE LIFE

To Snd a new book by Mrs, Lewis, after one has read her first story, "Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze." "Cauldron Bubble." by Leslie is to experience real pleasure. The Read, is a novel of events rather only question is, which group will than persons, with perhaps a slight] welcome the new book more eagerly diminution in consequence of the boys and girls or their elders. In argumentum od hominem against format "Ho-Ming" (John C. Wins war: but as a piece of logic against 100 Co., Philadelphia, G$2) is de war's facility it is excellent, and I lightful-black and gold cloth hope that it will be widely read. binding country scene for the endj

papers and a wealth of illustra-| | tions scattered through the pages. A novelist could not be more happy in an illustrator than is Mrs. Lewis

International Strife

At first I thought that it was going! to miss the mark through the feel ing of unreality induced by the Setitious names of the countries and peoples shown in it writes a critic of the Daily Telegraph.

Kurt Wiese. Mr. Wiese lived for many years in China and there is delightfulness in the drawings..

The story begins with Ho-Mine's After all, it is little use (1 childhood in the Sung houseñald thought) to try to make our blood near Wahu, where three genera- curdle over the horrors of the next tions present the changing views of war, if that war is only to be be modern China. The old-grandmother. tween Belmark and Grendel over Lao Po-Fo, loadly lamenting the the buffer: State of Edwal, Show changes, is a character whose nun- the war as between Fruire and Reat remarks add spice to the book.. Germany, over Luxemboury, and Mel-Li, the elder sister, with heri. there is some point to it. At the meek acceptance of what the elders same time I began to feel a little deem best, is an excellent foil for irritated over the characteristics of, the eager, restless Ho-Ming.

these warring States, which at one. But Ho-Ming herself does potj moment seemed thin disguises for stand for the extreme viewing. "of real countries, and at another not young China. The role is filled by For instance, Edwal at times apa girl returned from schooldays in peared obviously meant for Wales, Shanghai "Custom!” says this girl, and Grendel for Englaxit but since; snapping her fingers, "Of what use there is 30 State neighbouring is custom to-day" But of her also Wales on the West. the circuit is briefly said "In spite of} stances which, are shown to involve liberty-this one was not happy." them in another war could never

"THE CHRA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1935

New photographs of Mr. Irene Davis, widowed mother of three children, who recently was honoured by a civic club and a newspaper as the "greatest woman in Alabama," showing her on ber farm. The presentation of a trophy, awarded" in recognition of her single-handed battle against the depression, is pictured. Even with four months to feed and no one but her to do it, she takes in boneless animals, and the above cat is one of her guests.

The constructive impulse of the SUICIDE CLUB” AT | AMAZING EYE

arise, and so the point was lost. story is centered in Wei Ih-Senc, Then I began to think that perhe young woman" doctor, whose haps Mr. Reid might be more subtle work in the village binds together than I had suspected, in depicting the various elements.

fictitious countries which, combin- Ho-Ming is first attracted to the ing characteristics of national ter-anti-malaria campaign of the doc- per and environment, could be incor by an amazing misapprehension terpreted as applying to an Euro-grounded in old superstition. From pean States"

HAMPSTEAD?

Woman's Allegation To Privy Council

OPERATION

One Eyeball Grafted On To Another

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this beginning her life is more and Edith M. Cameron, of West End-

A grey-haired woman, Miss WOMAN'S SIGHT RESTORED This, I think, must have been the more an attempt to reconcile mod- intention, but on reflection 1 andern ideas with her own

Lane. West Hampstead, addressed | How a woman who had been family's that I have returned to some ex-theories of living.

the Judicial Committee of the blind for more than a year has text to my first view, and that Mr.

Privy Council vigorously for had her sight restored by part of The scenes of village life are Heid has weakened his case by realistic and

more than an hour, recently, in a young man's eye being grafted picturesque. The opposing a scheme of the Eccle-on hers is described in the British giving us fictitions countries

of eclipse of the moon with its attensiastical Commissioners for the Medical Journal by Mr. B. W which

the reader of any dant ceremonies and poises, nationality can say: "Oh, but our dragon boat festival, the silkworm Trinity and St. Paul's, Kilburn the Royal Eye Hospital, St the union of the benefices of Holy Rycroft, assistant surgeon at; circumstances are quite different feedings, the building of the new This could never happen to 9***

The scheme provides for the George's circus. SE, and Mr. G-| tea house-these and many more demolition of St. Paul's Church. H. Andelsman, the senior house Logic Against War provide the vivid colouring of the and Miss Cameron argued (surgeon.

book.

strongly that it was still greatly The Woman. Mrs. Eleanor. Anyone who has travelled by bus needed in the area As examples Winder, of Birkbeck-place. West of criticism, one has nothing but along a Chinese country road will of the anti-Christian and sedi-Dulwich, SE first attended the praise for this sincere, imagina-jinevitably chuckle at the episode of tious forces in the district" she hospital in 1920 with a serious tive, and. within this limitation. the Wuhu bus and the approaching said that there was in existence disease of the right eye, which in convincing picture of how another water buffalo.

Ja Suicide Club consisting of 1924 had to be removed.

Sex war may arise, and what it will be The place of the westerner in young people who were pledged years later the left eye develop- the Chinese community is more to commit suicide if reprimanded internal inflammation and by

Apart, however, from this point

like.

Mr. Reid appears competent to faithfully shown in this book than led by parents or employers. 1933 her vision had become "so write of military strategy and in many which purport to study the She told the Committee she reduced that it was considered tactics; his grasp of the military problem particularly. The wester had received a printed leaflet sug-necessary to issue a certificate of character is admirable; and the aer seen as teacher and as doctor,gesting that the church was an blindness.

progress of his war is logical. We not as usurper or exploiter, but as ocean of iniquity" and, a few In November 1934 Mrs. Winder are not spared horrors, as is quite friend. is a true representation. years ago, there were distributed came" under the care of Mr. proper; and the use of the novel "Ho-Hing" is a good story and leaflets inviting membership of a Rycroft, and it was decided to in bringing home to the unim-shows a China as real and fine "Roger Casement Republican attempt a plastie operation. aginative, what actual conditions human relations are real and fine Dance Club.”. She added that! outside their experience are or may and deep. - be like is excellently fulfilled.

DISTINCTIVE WORK OF FICTION

Hereditary Impulses And Destiny

FINE NATURE-PAINTING IN "THE POACHER”.

A PSYCHIC STORY OF REAL LIFE

Maintaining Contact In

The Hereafter.

*NO MORE TEARS”

This is an extraordinary account of how a mother knew her son) would die at a certain age, how he E. Bates's Dew. novel, was killed on that date in the war, Tae Potcher" (Cape, 75. 6d.,) is a and how she a non-spiritualist, mature and beautifully written made and maintained contact with

bim thereafter.

Mr.

piece of fiction. It is the story of zon whose father was a poacher She is

*

now a spiritualist,

Now Able To Read

(anti-Christian Communism was A young man was found who very strongly represented in the had a severe, penetrating injury district St Paul's Church, she to the eye. Although the injury said, was consecrated only 37 had destroyed the back part of years ago.

the eye, it had left the cornea The Committee approved the (front of the eyeball) intact and scheme:

healthy. This, therefore, was [available for the graft.

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GILBERT FRANKAU

IN DECLINE

These Englishmen”

OLD ETONIANISM AND SNOBBISFENESS

A circle was removed from the: cornea of the woman's eye, and

the healthy portion from the man's eye was then grafted.

A month after the operation Mrs. Winder was able to see to walk about the ward

She has now returned home, able to recognise her family and friends, read newspapers and letters, and perform her house- hold tasks. Mr. Frankau, I'm afraid, is suf-Mrs. Winder said

Describing her experience, fering from two affictions, both of though the electric light had sud- "It was as

and who himself had poathing i course. On the evidence she ten-which interfere with his readabil-1denly been switched on It is a

his blood. His career is traced from ders it would be unavoidable.

But whatever your views on that the author of "Peter Jackson" is them enough at the hospital

ity and the one thing I expect of miracle, and 1 can never thank boyhood to old age, the obsession with traps and nets breaking out red subject you cannot fail to be that he be readable.. again and again, and proving the bed and moved by the recital of her. The diseases are Old Etonianism

uncanny experiences.

ruin of him at last.

ONLY ONE REALLY GREAT MURDER STORY

and Fancying Himself.

"Three Englishmen" has "Cavalin

cade-ish" pretensions as a picture Mr Frankau has never written of the period from the Boer War so erratically or so snobbishly. to the present, particularly as it There is the undeniable merit, affects three men

however, that there is, and the

It is a finely proportioned book There are just so many character that all may move freely and show! as their points and mettle. Beauti- fully observed and recorded they are, too. But perhaps the book's greatest delight is its sense of the

But it is not as a Coward 1 ima-irrelevancy and, at times, labori A leading London critic writes: gine Mr. Frankan fancies himself lous atmosphere, plenty of action. country and of wind and weather, I know of only one murder story It is as a Galsworthy, not as things to be written about written in our time which is a great There is just that over-attention things happen.

Mr. Frankau sees to it that lots of ne words, but as real factors book, and that is Oliver Onions's to detail which, without being true Yet if the author did not himself the life of Luke Bishop. "In Accordance with the Evidence." Galsworthy, is reminiscent,

append the dates of his labours one There is a wonderful description It is great, not because it is about a At Eton one boy wants to be a might condone this, on the subjecti of nature in ita stillness round a murder, but because it is about the soldier, the second deserted country house in antumn-¡doom and darkness of the human third to make money All succeed

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.. THE RELIGION OF

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Fascism or Socialism? The Choice Before Us By Norman Thomas, One of the high priests of this religion of Socialism which has its

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"The Pursuers”

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The Thunderer" in the Making, the story of the Times" 1785- 1841 (The Times," 15s.).··

It is a popular fallacy that old Constance. Leigh is the person newspapers were dull and their whom Miss Erskine uses for the creators the same. This scholar

avowed supporters, its azarowed observation of the pursuers Cons scrapalously documented, yet followers, its pharisees) is Norman tance was a mistress in a girls' dramatic and exciting book proves Thomas. His sect stands for in school, and a social worker in her the reverse. What is more impor that is highest in human life by the spare time. She was the centre of ant. It gives an authentic" and standards of any religion, and a web of people: a company promo-jelear picture and history of Eng whether one chooses to be a follow-ter, not too straights a sound busi-land in those years. er or not of this preacher one conness man who had risen from ham-

of virility, but admire him at people have ad-ble beginnings: a couple of selfish courage, and clear, good sense the mired in the past teachers like Sur women; an artist of genius, andļfirst “Times” editor-the first real Augustine and Cardinal Manning- others.

editor of any newspaper-set for

What a standard

And by that which is highest 1{ They were all pursuers of some his successors in the high and re- mean altruism, the sanctity of lifer unattained ideal of happiness. They sponsible office of editorship. His and the faith and hope of better pursued it in money. in society, in name was Thomas Bameser things to come.

power, in beauty, in love.

Suam boxed and played cricket. A Practical Teacher

Miss Erskine has composed her more than well Mr. Thomas is more practical group well, and worked out with Once in later life he took a chai- than most teachers. He hopes for skill the actions and reactions of its lenge and swam in the Thames and believes in the perfectability of component personalities. She has from Chelsea to Westminster. haran economic, political and made a readable book which never moral life and he believes he can falters in its direct story-telling.

show us the means of achieving

| these ends, but he sorely troubled

He wrote Greek verse. He knew poverty and affluence. He thrust himself into 'politics with vigorous broad shoulders and a hard head..

by the rise of another religion, and under the banner of Christ or So It was a phrase of Barnes” în this is called Eascism. He sees cialism or any other group, or feel disparagement of the public intel- grafted on to some of the best despondent and wish to take no Egence-you must fire ten- economic theories of distribution part in the fight, we must take pounders at the (John Bull's) the idea of nationalism, he sees the cognisance of the turn of events densely compacted intellect before ideal of peace being nullifed by and prepare for the future or risk you can make it comprehend your the hope of brute force.

being swept away in a movement meaning”—that camed for the over which we have no control. paper its famous nickname, “The

This book by the greatest living Thunderer." American Socialist is a guide to This is infinitely more than the this knowledge and, this prepared-history of a newspaper. It is his-

tory itself.

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