LITERARY NOTES
A RADICAL IN CHINA
WANG AN SHIP'S BIOGRAPHY
A GENEROUSLY HATED PERSONALITY
The name of the men of whom this book, "Wang An Shih." by R. H. Williamson, is a biography, has been anathema to millions, Reformer, genius, hero. he was radical enough to have been gen- erally and generously hated for nearly 900 years.
A practical man if there ever was one, living in one of the most delightfully impractical eras that the world has known, he was na- turally misunderstood in his time. He was born in an age when the holy Buddha Maitreya, Saviour- to-be of all mankind, could be envisioned as a good-natured pot
Reichsfuehrer Hitler attended the Bach Festival in Leipzig last month. In the picture can be seen Dr. Goebbels and the Mayor of Leipzig, Dr. Goerdeler.
ellied old roisterer when artists THE RESTORATION "SOUND AND FURY" YOUNG NOVELIST'S
were able to inse themselves, as never before or since, in nature-- to lose themselves so utterly that man.and his problems almost ceased to exist. It was a time when
men and strony
great officials girded up their loins in earnest. all unmindful of crumbling national defences. for contests which concerned longevity of a drop of tea.
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Interesting Speculation
the
A: An Shih.
DRAMA
An Encyclopaedic History
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YOUTH IN SEARCH OF THE UNATTAINABLE
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MOUNTAIN OF
MYSTERY
Exploring A New Playground
ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY
The Coastal Range of British Columbia, of which Sir Norman Watson and E. J. King write in "Round Mystery Mountain.” may one day become as sophisticated winter playground as Switzer land is to-day- Scenically it com- pares favourably with the E- gadine Lakes and the Bernina Massif, but it is still largely un- mapped and totally uninhabited. Mount Waddington has the name fof Mystery Mountain:
On his first visit Sir Norman, Watson only had a glimpse of the range between banks of drifting mist, but he was so impressed by what he saw that he decided make a crossing of the whole range as soon as he could.
Plan Fulfilled:
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Last year he fulfilled this plan His Approached the moun-
Beautiful Evelyn Bostock and George O'Brien... in a touching scene from Fox's latest Western thriller, "The Cowboy, Million- aire” which will be released-st the Alhambra Theatre shortly.
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF ADVENTURE
Search For Inca Treasures
story of a search for Ines gold in Peru, "The House of Dawn by C. E. Scoggins, the an-
thor has given such an air of tea!:
thenticity that... in its class the book is outstanding. A party under "Red McDougall sets out to find Iscacinga. "the mountain riven to its base” Here, he beli- eves, the Incas obtained their guld and here they concealed the majority of their treasures during the Spanish invasion.
Charged with: Suspense The atmosphere becomes charg ed with very real suspense when, at the moment of the party's suc- cess, modern gunmen arrive and refuse to make a move until the " gold is forthcoming,' and then, upon its discovery, calmly await, a suitable opportunity to massacre the entire outfit.
The situation throughout and the ultimate solutions are handled
WOMAN SCIENTIST with easy skill and restraint, and
IN PAPUA
Exciting Travels Described
"Mr. Scoggins has succeeded in making a very convincing story from an old theme
tain from the east To do this they had to travel by pack pony through the thick forest belt,; then wade laboriously through the damp, snow up the lower glaciers, carrying their loads. The skiers climbed Fury Gap and ran down a 30-miles glacier to the
À LIVELY ACCOUNT Pacific, while the rest of the party returned the way they had Primarily Miss. Evelyn Chees- man's book. "The Two Roads of
In the elusive personality of It was a hard journey for they Papua," is designed as the ac Ethne Brent, Mrs. Baillie-Saun-
FANTASY AND FACT
Elusive Novel Of Gipsy Life
fernale
*
Without having encountered either of Mr. Desmond Ryar's ear- "The Playhouse of Pepys." by lier works-nor, indeed, ever being Montague Summers. latest acquainted with their titles--one It is one thing to write a bril- come. work from an extraordinarily in-is unable to hazard any opinion liant first novel and quite another dústrious and prolific pen, is a very as to whether his third and latest to follow it up with a second out-were entirely dependent on the count of an entomologist's visit
food they carried on their backs. to the hinterlands of Papua colders in "Jill-o-The-Wisp has detailed history of the earlier opus. Saint Eustace and the standing success. - "Wilderness,"
cleverly intermingled fantasy and specimens for our Whether the noble, carefree. Restoration drama. It has no real Aligtross marks an advance or so far from disappointing the But judging by the authors cheer-lecting
But it is much more fact, and has treated the some- .aesthetic spirit that then held connection with Pepys, but con otherwise in his literary career.
many admirers of "Livingstonesful style the party enjoyed them-museums.”
theme of the -- The than a heavy scientific travel what hackneyed and the thorough. practir stitutes the send part of a series sway
According to the publishers. it will undoubtedly consolidate Mr.selves very much indeed.
gipsy lass who in reality is of descent of Franklin glacier made book.. cality of Wang An Shih. could:
in which the author proposes to is "quite unlike anything that has Derrick Lean's reputation
Miss Cheesman has a lively pen, aristocratic descent in a whimsi long have existed side by side is
cover the whole field of what is ever been written.”. and though He has a keen feeling for words, up for all their hardships.
acute powers of observation, and cal and unusual way, weaving the; interesting speculation.
Ent the loosely called the Restoration the phrase may strike the reader expressed in a direct style which
Fine Ski-run
a gift for doing exciting things mystical' and concrete serenely volume in hand (the first of three) stage, ie from the return
together. jas ominously ambiguous, if not only occasionally leans towards the
"We got up a high speed and ex-with the utmost non-chalance. It forms a complete Charles II to the death of Dryden positively severe, he will probably precious is history.
(perienced the delight of an eight-
"Jil-o'-the-wisp," the Unexplored Regions biography..
The first instaliment of this unfind himself sadly in agreement
Real People
mile run down a glacier new to us. Papua, which is one and a-half Will-of-the-wisp. brings to every Although condemned by Chinese dertaking was contained in his with it before he has skiuped
Perhaps an even rarer gift is under almost flawless ski-ing con-times the size of England, is still thing a very delicate and ethereal scholars for centuries, it is to volume. "The Restoration Thea
many pares.
ditions. In a few minutes, dod unexplored in much of its interior. touch, leaving a baffled. impression that of creating real people. His Chinese scholarship that we, there," which appeared last year, and.
ging the larger rocks, we ran right Miss Varying Testes
Cheesman therefore was on the mind as to whether she is berei two chief characters are author of the present work and was devoted to describing the con-
or elf, witch or madonna. Concerning tastes, admittedly drawn with an impartiality and down to the very last of the snow continually following forest posterity are indebted for a true ditions under which the player there is no disputing, and it is lack of sentimentality that enable at the snout of Franklin glacier mountain tracks where no white
Holiday Reading Discovered as picture of Waag
had ever been before.
a singer in therefore conceivable that to some one understandingly to enter intolin the early sunshine of a perfect woman the beginning of the 19th century
History Continued
April morning.
Her companions were naked fortune-teller's tent in a travelling certain Tsai Shang Hsiang This present volume carries the People Mr. Ryan's novel may ap- the points of view of both.
"In the thrill of that descent savages, in whom a taste for can-fair, the reader follows her for Thus, one can sympathise', with published a "Critical Biography," history and productions of the Pear amusing. It may be explain- the result of life-long research, theatres from 1660 to 1682, leaved that the Albatross of the title the mature novelist here who, we had forgotten the long hours nibalism and head-hunting had tune with interest and pleasure:
suppressed rather success and with of the day before and the fact that been
than her remoteness, and feyness, in- more ing out of account the rhymed is a public-house in Bloomsburyatiated with
herited from an and this together with
Irish grand- a literary affairs of the beart, is expected to we had scarcely slept... Behind exorised by white rule.
create problems which mother, help: to
mystic recent work, on the part of the heroic drama. Two other volumes, and "Saint Eustace late Liang Chi Chao, forms the still to come, will complete a very Bohemian who presides as a kind live up to the ideals of a passion-us lay the winding glacier with
of tutelary genins over the conately romantic girl. At the same the mountains ever-increasing in confront white administrators atmosphere. basis for Mr. Williamson's book large undertaking.
makes Some In the rest of the many charac Mr. Summers's knowledge of the rivial meetings of its habitues-time, it is clear that the girl's love height and capped by the great Miss Cheesman
of the summit rocks of illuminating comments.
ters, with the exception of Sir exiled Sinn Feiner, an exis a vital thing. Her suffering as, mass Material Well Handled
The book has some attractive Marcus Praed, the essential values photographs and is well written are a little too blurred to trouble. While the author has seemed encyclopaedic. He certainly has Black-and-Tan Tom Popperpipe. step by step; she is forced to re- Mystery Mountain, lit by the early
the reader overmuch, but the too ready to accept at their face acquired more information about it the Colonel, the Demure Lady linquish her dreams and to accept morning sun."
a situation which becomes increas- The reader may prefer to wait and extremely interesting.
whole collection contrive to work The book is composed chiefly of ingly impossible, is handled with at home till he can visit Mystery illness, poverty, the age of once than any man living, and in this and various others.
No student the stories-prolix and pointless great delicacy.
Mountain by funicular railway, this wild landscape through the out a very enjoyable book and one value the customary excuses of series he is giving his learning out
but in the meantime he can spend eyes of Mr King and Sir Nor- that can be recommended for grandmother. etc. and although with a copious hand.
A Way Out
holiday reading. he has erred in translating digni- of the period can afford to neglect which the members of this mot-
From the latter part of the book a few pleasant hours in seeing man Watson fied sentiments in gallopingt, for it is a repository of facts.ley company inflict on each other, but a certain vague unity is main rhyme his material is well hand many of them new and
tained, partly by the centralit would seem that the heroine's Detailed Treatment led and he has contrived to he
All the productions of the period figure of Eustace himself, and misery symbolises the general dis- thorough and fascinating at the
are treated in detail Of many of partly by a fantastic conspiracy, content and dissatisfaction felt by same time...
What a bombshell A Shih the writers the author gives the which, unearthed by Detective some part of post-war youth with first really up-to-date biographical Inspector Pilkington, is frustrated the existing order of things. Not dropped in the midst of Sung officialdom when he criticised account and he does not omit to by the Abatrossians.
a
their training:
Restoration theatre is, of course, an
notice even the very minor pieces
only the hero and heroine, but all the minor characters, are victims
Yet the book does not and en-
Modelled on Rabelais for the men of one play whom the The author has apparently aim of this sense of wanting something Not only does the present system ordinary histories ignore. This is ed at modelling his style on that that life does not hold fail to produce the type of man-re- quired (he wrote in his Memorialno small part of the value of the of Rabelais, and the story of the of a Myriad Words] it positively book; but on wider issues he is conspiracy, of Zellor and his tirely in a minor key, for there is and Secret Order of the Sable at least a suggestion that a way ifts them for the task of govern also frequently suggestive ment administration.
original, as, for example, in his Croakers, and the final flight of out may be found, and in the very last page the baroine sets out to Referring to the educated, he discussion of the importance of the the Brobdingnagian Bird, is pos and it said: Fractically all are of Ben Jonson school among the play-sibly intended to recall the fam the mediocre clase." Accusing the wrights and critics of the time a ous war between Gargantua and officials of incompetence, bribery school which produced incidentally Picrochole and nepotism, he recommended the very famous dramatic satire, military training, higher salaries,The RehearsalTM and regulations :controlling ex-
penditure
on wedding, funerals,
Emperor Admonished
He accused the Court of being afraid to act and admonished the Emperor himself. He could do
PERFECT CRIME
Ellery Queen Does It Again
Something very near the perfect all this because he knew the rules crime has been achieved by Ellery of the game and observed them. Queen in "The Spanish Cape My- The writer Introduces 1 up to a point. It was only when stery." he had attained respect and house-party of thoroughly unplea power that he released his righte-sant, or, at the best distinctly not ons wrath and promulgated his likeable people, and then comes the amazing to quote the very classics murder of the nastiest of the upon which the ruling class was crowd. He deserved to be put out built and ever harking back to of the way, as law officers, detec the Golden Age which they re- tives, and his personal associates all admitted when they learned of Of course he fell, but not before his mode of life. he had devised and actually put into temporary operation swee ing financial educational, milit and economic reforms, agricultural loans
-vered-
being re-intro
The book
Government and Irishmen
Dramatic Murder
That, however, is not the fault of the worthy Canon of Chinon, been who, indeed, might have tempted to include Mr. Ryan's book in his catalogue of St. Victor's Library, along with ""The History of the Hobgoblins" and "Tartaretus de modo Cacandi.”
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