1935-07-01 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL" MONDAY,

HILY 1-1935

LITERARY NOTES-

“HIGHBROW” WHO IS AFFABLE

Mr. MacCarthy's New Essays

SOME DELIGHTFUL

“EXPERIENCES”

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Anti-Semitism And

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. BENES

··OVERSTATING A GOOD CASE

“STATESMAN OF CENTRAL EUROPE"

Phases

Its

An Effective Study Of Jew-Baiting

DISPASSIONATE AND FAIRLY BALANCED

"The Intelligent Man's Guide to Jew-Baiting." By George Sacks, is an effective and dis-

are straid, why "He began active life as a Uni-passionate study of the various and My Desversity professor," writes Pierre phases of anti-Semitism. The an mann Warfache cannede the a« Crabites, in "Benes Statesman, ther contends that anti-Semitism is an indication of class mirest - fallare Innemaïketi

**The war of Central Europe.**

and a need for the overhaul of An hagninn Lin admissing that be

turned him into a conspirator-the social institutions of the na The thighh

it has rompired The duties of his new avocation tions where it appears.

converted him into a propagat! He dismisses such warnings: dist. He soon outgrew. this role, as, for example, have been voiced - by men ke Dean Ingve who the thimme of the and became a politician..

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not schemed He developed into a man of the pointed out that, the Jews have And because leadership stood by the graves of all their union world. remon_chin every walk of life entered by oppressors. finest writers him bad become a habit, his pri- Mr. Sacks argues that the macy in foreign affairs made Dean is thinking only in terms him. in due course, the soundest of Divine revenge. For instance, the reason that Spain materially statesman of Central Europe.”

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Royalty attends the pre-wedding reception at the palace at Stockholm for the Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and his bride, the former Princess Ingrid of Sweden (foreground). Others, left to right, are King Gusta" of Sweden, grandfather of the bride, Queen Astrid of Belgium, her sister, and King Christian of

the groom. Denmark, father

But the biographer, who has deteriorated was not because she never seen, or seven corresponded expelled her Jews, bat because

sho CASTLE IN SPAIN with Eenes, goes further to call in ridding herself of them

of destroyed the bourgeois element, ihim "the personification

peace, and declare: 7 am con-which was hated because it was

Life In The Country vinced that Eduard Benes is the in conflict with the established

Described it subsequently cour-order, although who has the ∙one⋅ шал

of structure age the driving power, and the transformed the

other European states. Race brains to save the world.”

hatred, in the author's view, is a and relic of the stupid past. race glorification a modern T2N

ant of ancient folly.

..

This is rather overstating. a good case, and at times one feels that the biographer loses per spective in enthusiasm for his subject. For instance. in deal- ing with the Mafia, the Czechos

DURING THE TROUBLES”

A TALE OF THREE STEPCHILDREN

Widow's Re-Marriage And Its Results

Promising First Novel

PILGRIM FATHER'S

STORY

"Beachcomber In

America

CHEERY TENACITY XIF

PURPOSE

Clever Writing In A Thriller

TWO GOOD CARDS

Ernest Summerfeld, in "Boo hind the Evidence,” by Leonard Blackledge, was tried for the murder of his wife, found guilty and hanged. There was no rea ison for the jury to suppose he

Because he traversed the At-was not guilty. There were good lantic, like the passengers on the reasons why he should wish als Maylower, to seek fresh fields, wife out of the way; there was Mr. Gay Austin (note the strong assumption that he pois American touch) compares him oned her. But he didn't. We self to, nay calls himself and his never have any doubt that he

was innocent book a "Pilgrim "Father.”

He is publicity writer for That is Mr. Black stage and screen artists and a strongest ward. He works up a song and lyric writer," an aver-powerful feeling of hotter round Burlishmen this fact, that we know Ernest age, middle-class with the usual public school to be innocent but see his doom education and ideas, but faced closing. surely, legally, inescap in 1990 with the difficulty of ably upon him.

Who, then. committed the educating two children on a **- lary of between £400 and 700 a murder? This is the second best year, decided to go to New York leard in the author's winning where he had acquaintances and hand. Not a reader in a hum- some likelihood of doing better dred will guess who was the murderer, and when the truth is in his profession

revealed we find ourselves pre- Adapting Himself

sent not merely at the unravell- Manfully putting all motions ing of those firesome and arti or superiority aside. he went pre-scial knots that crime novelists pared to find anything and adapt complicate so wantonly, but at circumstances. the unmasking of dark places in himself

"NETS TO CATCH THE WIND Miss Elizabeth Sprigge bas

a novel about Spain. Miss Worsley-Gough has had written "Castle în Andalusia" tells of the bright idea of writing about The author is stating the case

2 a relationship which existed in talia. Spaniard of the ruling class, who against anti-Semitism from an English girl married to

There

to any

This is a first novel Let Me the result is that after these a human, heart rears of varied experience be and his family like the people. Blackledge go on as he has be and the free and easy ways of gun He will make this crime more real life. in spite of intermittent pos-and-mystery business

than we are now accustomed to When Mr. Austin arrived, the find it-HS..

ately just beginning, to make

2- the title lovak "Foreign Committee” and Jewish point of view, but he doesnds that her new life contains law but hardly in fact.

make, f the National Council,” he draws it with a sense of fairness andther less romance and consi-were three young people. whose xreat depression was unfortun~]

bust bris thimme. In You may nenn's largely on My War Memoirs of logical calmness which commands derably more drawbacks than she widowed mother had married chaos in the United States. but has many interesting observa-

A he was lucky at first. secured ations, to man they had never seen. Beres, and thus hardly does jus respect and should prove a valt had anticipated.

To begin with, her husband.

few weeks later she died, and cood post as a director of radio tale of commercial habits and tice to the part played by Ma-jable corrective to much for ance and prejudice now prevail-

Don Ramon, proves to be a good

extrava Americans which differ so much. saryk

ing even among those who

sideration for his young wife and dled with

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After all, it: was Masaryk who strongly resent the present sur/deal of a tyrant, with little caz-there was poor Sam Allen sad-programmes and only lost it be speakeasies and the ways of the was the beloved leader, and Beferings of the Jews in Germany none whatever for the peasants who meant no more to him then france of the proprietor," which from the ways of the. Elish

new fa-

nes the loyal lieutenant The two together created a tion, just as it took Mazzini, Ga-! ribaldi, and Cavour to create a wazified Italy.

Diplomatte Game

M. Pierre Crabites tells vigor- weniously the story of how the

and Calimpatan The Dada makers of Czechoslovakia played

mhinna their diplomatic cards with the ename, Bulma Allies, but he is perhaps inclin- ed to underestimate the impor- the tance of the Austrian factor, and

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"CAT ACROSS THE

PATH”

An Out Of The Way Story

three

A small private income gener

step-children cause of the fatuous of any three orphans from the work-led to batranicy. Then he tried will be welcomed by the English leasing a theatre and running who do not know so much about on his estates. On the ere

show, but was beaten by be uni- the country and generally have. the revolution, his

Srst impulse house. is to escape to France, and It was an uneasy situation, and versal racketeering and union some difficulty in understanding though he changes his mind be Miss Worsley-Gough has handled jism.

Mr. Austin's remarks about Zare reaching the frontier. and it skilfully. Two of the children) professes himself as ardently in were pushful and independentally maintained the family while the morals of American young Favour of a republic as he had They frankly repudiated the re-lit became more and more impos-people and their scandalous ways formerly declaimed against it. helationship, and their careers, sible for an EngEshman to find of disporting themselves on the eventually engages a Monar-making good" on their own, are work, 'ard at last ther went to beaches and at dances are new The live cheaply and happily in stories to the English. The iden? chist plot. By mischance, he is sympathetically followed. shot by one of his own retainers, third, a "clinging girl, allowed Florida while waiting for some of satward respectability and in- tara UD Here the ward hypocrisy means nothing to but Catherine succeeds in con-Sam to interpret the situation so thing to

turmed

themselves into people who live in a free atmos- asentimentally that he wanted to have

"beachcombers.” exec-vincing the police that it is

so-called and phere. exist in health and hope. - sånen Thee in modo in exaggerate the German one. attive jacket of "Cat Across the case of suicide, and feeling that marry her.

It is one of those books

*Interesting Observations mrinumst in kinh andomeniem in the the same time not distinguishing Path" by 3uth Feiner, are jus her life in Spain is over, she re-

clearly enough between Vienna tifed by the story, which is suf-turns to England.

Though on more or less con- which all comes right in the end. Sciently out of the ordinary to

place situations are He stresses strongly the Czech stimulate jaded appetites. It is ventional lines, the story is in-A great many fairly common that Mr. Austin has had any un-verse comparison. On hopes his

with some skil and it makes Tanteed not in natortgin. intense and all-consuming ha-translated in an unpolished butterestingly told and with no of Jocal colone. Miss and litom vatred," of Germany and German curiously effective, style which lack

knows her easy unexciting reading. in convey Sprigge evidently Vīzas Culture; with unaffected parti- succeeds excellently -~

Ger-Spain well, at any rate its more with hike the het zanship he discusses the Euing the atmosphere of its

the Anschluss, man setting.

picturesque externals. and her kunditions at the posay here inegarian menaceTM

Poland, the Little Entente, and Proč na to symort

Two young Berliners, different observations are described with Hitlerism the Nazi regime as possible in character, wealth considerable gusto.

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which has effected new groupings and position, grew up as friends in Europe, and helped to show bound by the tie of a Common more clearly than ever the love for music. Both had zen- Czechoslovakia and lius, but there the likeness ead- its permanent Foreigned. The one was light-hearted. Minister who has given his coun- generous, popular — and fortun-

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However, while critical, Mz Austin is not condemnatory, and It cannot be said, on the whole.resists the tendency towards ad- exploited usual adventures. As an alien cheery tenacity will be rewarded in the States and success come to the "beach- Iduring a critical period he combers."

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try a prominence greater than its The other was earnest. By The World's Best

size or population perhaps war-poor, shy, plain and unlucky:

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Writers

44 TALES COLLECTED BY GILBERT FRANKAU

It is astonishing how the pa-

ne so. To je ne migħ aħna",

that One may wonder to what ex- Circumstances having parted Basin Tim gemanistinn

tent Benes is the personifica- them, coincidence brought there Kom Statsamaa auû. Kati pone

the up together again in their love for which moet of theas Ineuhratianation of peace," since

--but this time 29. orionako gom licht, semuneratio, holding of the status quo against the same ziri

the revisionist bloe by Francejantagonists Miss Feiner brings am zivotu af coripi matino.

ant and the Little Entente is as much a readable story to a dramatic blishers turn out a book like this mamops) aptlook, and he is

One conclusion.

for the price of 3/6. It is well -། -ndr

PTalon a font war-provoking as pacific.

There is fine irony in this printed on good paper: well- *-~~~~ ** "the aristocram of the wonders, too, whether, in these

emotional days in Europe, Benes study of a youth so warped by bound; and it contains more than nhbishness" has the personal magnetism that suspicion of fate as to have lost a thousand pages. The authors Is mam tumiga! af M- Macl ̃arthe moves people and changes his-the capacity for happiness. For who write the forty-four stories mist in methane to, shrewd, adroit, and hard-his own inherent persimism is are the best of past and present

anchi

on

Hokim satiment incalist. Enhanc no -hat ha робивой maranamke ka ha tsjet He claime to have moreirañ in z'Þorgs

volana" Haf, emmer-fine analike.” a

headed as he is. Yet certainly in the event, the cause of the

Dickens, Trollope, Balzac, Bret

* few men to-day have earned so disasters that he blames on the Harte, Dostoevsky Hans Ander

thoroughly the high title of malignancy of fortune, ""statesman”

wmepection Park öne Mr. Pamãe tempted to ruin his over-rich self

MAN WHO WROTE 240 BOOKS

A of B-dev.sbroot_ aww in the vain hope of entertaining. Mr. J. S. Fletcher Dead

eine Piyat - Halespon partain, hem** even for a moment, Louis XV.;|

senare among the long famous; and in the contemporary, list are found such names as H. G. Wells. Katherine Mansfield, A. E. COD- pard, Walter de Is Mare, and Eden Phillpotta

Mr. Frankan's selection from among the writings of this" var-

The wee that the serving of gune and with some general resections 250,000,000; WORDS WRITTEN fled bunch has kept in mind read-

who, anchar ka romanlt him shout on snobbery of the past.

melankomiau pranainees they might fsel with regard to their social position."

al menfassian. Mr. Pon Leonsmitarī karse out to he

Ir skilled practitioner, saneonefully tented. “ and Kim Jondara and

festions of social

colorite and

What an mense surprise reverberates through old liter

IN 53 YEARS:

ability as a first consideration. Nothing is here that is not, above all else, a good tale and so Millions will feel a sense of loss many good tales, fn so handsome ature that the great are also hu

price, and come to dust, what at the death of the veteran thril-ja book, for so small

ous and we may fairly ler writer Mr J. S. Fletcher, which make something to wonder about what humourless humility, has occured at Dorking, Surrey, and give thanks for ilar thoughts seem to have in-at the age of 72

red in the great themselves!

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