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JOHNSON IN FICTION

FRIDAY, CCTOBER 26TH 1025

STA HEW AUTHOR'S ORIGINALIT V

It is rather puling to know how to

The begin a notice of Jane

House of Memory Heineman Flare

is a novel that in different that far mo model, as lacking in definition as a ci hist picture Even the publisher's sota osi the jacket admits difficulty of description. It anyw

In his new hitrical novel, Midwinter (Hodder and Stoughton), Mr John Buchan has conceived the original idea of filling up a period in the Efe of Samuel Johnson about which little or nothing is

It would be impossible to give tha known. The great scholar is here shown unusual favour of this story in a résumé as having fallen. on lean days, compelled

of the plot. There is in it a brooding to heene a tular in the family of a horror, there are phrases that now and rebleman about the time of the Jacobite then cause the r

• reader to lowe 26 heart rising, when the shires wero split into two beat The flap of an owl's wing above"

and Camp

scarcely sny man knew to one's head in a black country fine which side his neighbour Inclined. John-

ghostly footstep up the corridor dark son but in on this tempore hot ph with the dreams of centuries; the prickly of the daughter of his employer. The

fear that comes with the inexplicable-- has eloped with a knight who has adopted there are like censations here, ANN the Cause, and is hurrying north to join The anther is a new writer who chooses his Prince at Derby. In great distress of to make her debut through the medium of mind Johnson has followed her, when be

a most delicate and difficult branch of seeks information and assistance from literary art. She has succeeded to a cer Lord Comburg, at whose house the berotain extent, for to have maintained of the stary, Alastair Halen, a dashing Scot, is engaged in intelligence work for the Prince's army,

throughout the pages the sense of subtle Uggestion of the unknown is no small feat. It is a strongly individual book, and amazingly clever. But it is not easy to read, and will appeal only to those who can appreciate an almost plotless novel of daring originality of form. •

TO LET.

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But if Old Puffin" was broken "aud speat, he has, in the pages of -Buchan's novel, a heart of stout courage, and he follows the hero of the story pretty closely through many adventures until he makes his final bow resolved to spend what days the Almighty may still allot me on the broad highway of humanity. When I have found my task. I will adhere to it like a soldier,

Mr. Buchau's novel gives guod account of the plots and counter-plots and intrigues, that made England an un The his safe place during the rising. torical neter overshadows: the romantic, however, and Alastair Maclean's "story of adventure is as full of gallantries and feats of arms as one would wish. The narrative bustles along at a brisk pacey' and Mr. Buchan's vivid pea gives the romance an air of wonderful reality.

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Edgar Wallace has written another bright and chatty romatice called "The Books of Bart (Ward Lock), „There is usually nothing very ambitious about Wallace's work, but his novels are gener ally I into ad. Batholomew Foreman is a curious character who maddles through various people's matrimonial tangles with the good luck that seems to smile always on people of his kind,

"It was something of a tragedy that Mr. Milton, dying a year after her. brother, should have made Bart For man the sole executor of her estate, and co-trustee and guardian of her sixteen- year-old daughter. Bart was twenty eight at the time, and in the eyes of the girl an aged man. At syentees the respected him, at sighteen felt superior to him, at twenty she looked upon him with the contempt which capable youth

has for middle nge failure,"

So Fay Milton, to get rid of her encum brance of a guardian decides that it is high time to entrap this good looking failure of a bachelor into a marriage

with

a pretty widow. Result-complien- tions in which several people become mixed up in the muddle, a little drama of jealousy and hate, and finally a happy Mr. solution to the various problems. Wallace writes brightly and interestingly without ever soaring to any great literary heights. He has a rare gift of eccentric characterisation. Some of his characters are rather amusing, particularly Mr. Sten- ton, whose ideas of breaking out" when he inherits a large fortune are confined to a trip to the Cornish Riviera and the purchase of a tricycle Alma Roche is another queer girl.

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