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The End of the House (Cassell and C6), is a book to be enthusi. astro about, Novels of such striking power and such great literary merit ay few and far between. It towers loftily ahove its contemporaries, a monument Its author's genius. The novel has taken! two years in the writing, and one can readily believe it, for it is chamcterised throughout by its exquisite literary art. There is not a word too many, not a dull. line, not a phrase that does not tell, to- wards the completion of as capable a novel, as we have read for the last twenty wara" - "Cleanly Miss Kare Smith in our greatest living woman writer, This book will live long after the bulk of modern fiction is forgotten for it is something more than a novel-it is a social history in our time. It shows how the changed conditions of tolay are ending the long- established heirarchy of the squires; how the great states of noble familles are pasing back to the yeoman and the pen- Sant orger. Once again the setting is in Sussex, but it is just as applicable to any county in the kingdom.

THE STORY.

The Alards of the novel are a typical "county" family. They live in Cunster Manor, a beautiful old house, surrounded by what ought to be rich and prosperous farms and farm lands. Ancestors can be traced back in direct line through five or eix centuries, A representative of the house went to the Crusades,

The reigning head of the house at the time of the story is Sir John Alard-falt of the pride and prejudice of his race and full also of testiness and goat. There are three boys Peter, George, and Ger- vase, and three girls, Doris, Mary, and

Janet.

WEDNESDAY COIOBER 24TH, 1923.

De heary blow after another eventually

Sir John's life, and on the very Chigub of his death. Peter, brooding and diappointed beyond measure, because the doctor and his daughter are going WEET from the disfett, depriving him of his Dhe remaining ray of happiness, blank out his brains before he learns that t last his is the title, and he has become head of the house.

Thus the last of a once great family is Brother Joseph of the Order of the Sacred Pity--otherwise, Sir Gervaso Alard No- thing wwerres bim from his resolve to put an end anally to the great shank,

For

The family's taken enough. five hundred years it has sat on the land, and at first it dit good, in eared for the poor and it worked its furzua to the best advantage, and the estate But it's outlived those daya only an incumbrance now; holding back fand from proper develope ment; it's keeping seamen, and penant landowners out of their rights

It can only be kept up by continual sacrifices of the land of the tenants E its own children. It's like a wicked old dying god, that can only be kept alivo by ster fires

There you have the essentials of this great story Some of us may not be inched to find its inner teachings pala- table, but there is no denying the truth of them, Everywhere similar social trage dies are being worked out from causes itself. that are as inexorable as destiny. Alards exist in real life as they do in the pages of this powerful novel, and Miss Sheila Kaye Smith is merely recording certain phases of the social history of to day in the form of a moving story.

The reader way speculate on two points. Que is whether, Gervase Alard would be likely to retire to the seclusion of Abbey. As the character of his high- souled, very lovable boy is sketched. per. haps it would not be so very unlikely, especially as he was faced with all the un- happiness of unrequited love, and a pen- urious future. But where Miss Kaje Smith is wholly unconvincing is in the matter of Peter's suicide, Can imagine that such a man, who was strong enough to sacrifice everything for the family good, would weakly give way at the very moment when his strength and

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were most needed The chances are all against it for the breed and blood of centuries make for immense courage when the hour requires it. The suicide is the one little bit of melodrama that is rather inartistic Peter end ought to have been accomplished in a manner more natural and less hackneyed. Even with the small faults "The End of the House of Alard is a very great

bcak.

Old Sir John, knows full well that the family is on its last leg. Every acre is mortgaged; farms are crumbling through lack of ready money to repair them; the land requires modern appliances to make it productive to its full capacity. Tho truth is, that taxation takes more money than the estate shows in profit, and when every available security has been pledged, as it were, there can be only one end to things Peter is the heir. In a few years will devol upon him the task of straigh

Sir tening things out if it is not too late. John bluntly sells his son that he must

marry money."

oney Now Peter is madly, passionately, in love with the compars tively noor daughter of the village doctor. Here, therefore, is a pretty pro blem for Peter. Shall he remain loyal to the family traditions, or marry the girl he loves He comes to the conclusion that he must fulfil his obvious duty and stick to the Manor and all that it signifies for tion. him. So he jilts Steila Mount, and marries a rich Jewess, whose financial TosGurces certainly help to stave off the end for a time! Sa

EVADING PROHIBITION. LONG CATALOGUE OF CRIMES.

WaRINGTON, September 13th. One of the most tragic epochs in American history relatives to law enforce ment" is the description by the Attorney- General in a special report to the Pre sident on forty-one months of

prohibi

Mr. Daugherty an appalling re

cord of conspiracies to emmit crims involving a member of the judiciar prominent members of the Bar, high Fed eral and State oficials, multi-millionaires, am scions of the nation's aristoerney Criors, including bribery, agination, and carruption, have been found in the very sanctums wherein the inviolability of the law, it was presumed, would have born held stered."

THE GREAT NAME BESMIC Next comes the problem of Mary, who has apparently married wall. Her hus hand is a war profiteer, whose business instincts forbid him to lend money where there is no tangible surity to offer," so. of course, Mary is somewhat estranged from her father. But a very great blow comes to old Sir John's pride when Mary decides that she has had enough of her husband. She married for love, but the love did not last, and on the flimsiest evidence ber husband diyures her, bring- the historic name of Alard into the ing Divorce Court for the first time. There were no solid grounds for the decres, but Mary was so glad to be rid of her husband that she willingly martyred her honour for the sake of freedom. Sir John wishes her tomary the co-respondent, and this brings another son, Georgy into conflict with his parent, for. George hold the time-honoured living of Leason, and true abandoned,—l'imer,

to the stern interpretation of his date to

his Church, he refuses point blank to

Tho report deals with over 20,900 prosecutions, 72,649 convictions, fines im posed amounting to $12,300,000, and son- tenera of imprisonment, awarded during the last twenty-three months, aggregating over three thousand years imprisonment. Prosecutions averaged over 3 daily since the enactment of the prohibition law during last year they averaged 11 daily, the Government is coping with the evil, his figures show a steady increase in viola

ions of the law. It is known that in some large cities, notably Detroit, efforts to enfores the law have practically been

While the Attorney General says that:

allow his sister to be married aguia. RESPONSE TO HOSPITAL'S WIRE- There is an angry scene between father and sots.

The living is in your gift, sir, but at present I hold it, and as priest of this parish I refuse to lead my church for the marriage to the

LESS APPEAL.

A remarkable response was made on September 4th to a wireless appeal made

fact, for the marriage."-in on the previous night for half a pint of

***Bunkum! Print of this parish You'll be calling yourself Pope next If you can't talk sense you can clear out

The row was the beginning of the end of poor George, for he died suddenly shortly afterwards, Doris, the ckler daughter, is ala disappointment. She has had several suitors, none of whom Kho considered sufficiently highbred (dr. wealthy)

to mate with an Alark

THE YOUNGEE GENERATION.

Thus we see the heir, Peter, unhappily married, but still in love with the doctor's daughter, Mary who has disgraced the family unnecessarily turned out of the

bosom of her people by her father's irate temper and George practically killed by his father's constant nagging hind bullying

But the

children of the house halk in their ideas. are more Jenny is sensible enough to realise that her. only hope is to break away and marry the man, abs loves in defiance of the nuwritten Law of ato Businest of a tale of land brings her into contact with a neighbour yeoman farmer, and aided and abet- ted by her younger brother, Gervase, she marries the farmer ia secret

Young Gervaso had already y voluntarily given up the idea of wasting the family's money at Oxford, and had found an in

learning-the-business of a motor much to the family's harrified disgust that an Alard should come home every evening to Conster Mauer: covered in messy oils and the grime of honest work. Gerrase, too, has fallen in love with his elder brother old sweetheart and when he finds that his love for bu cannover be fulfilled, he makes up his mind to devote his life to the Catholic faith, and resolves to enter the Order of the Sacred Pity

blood on behalf of a patient in King's College Hospital. Thirty-five people pre sented themselves at the hospital, and the telephone bell was going all the morning with inquiries from others who had been attracted by the appeal. The patient was a young woman who had to undergo a soriaus operation prxt day.

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