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SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN WRITING A ‘THANK YOU LETTER

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS,

SOME OF THE NEW NOVELS.

THE CRUELTIES OF DIVORCE, himself lucky to get a job in the

"THE TOILS OF LAW." By Barbara Goolden. (Chapman and Hall. 78..6d.)

„Abel_factories. But bqually,of COUTSO, there are compensations. The young peoplo no longer make Alliances: they marry to please And so Blakes can themselves. marry Abels, and if the ghost of the old Squire utters a protest, it is not likely to be, beard. Mr. Marshall is thoroughly at home with his people, whether they are going up or down. This is not the most dramatic story he has writton, but it makes pleasant reading, and its authenticity is never in doubt,

ARABIA AT WAR,

"BOTTLES IN THE SMOKE" By Cle ment Hankey, (Longmane. Bs. ed.)

SEATS HIMSELF GRUMBLING AT DESK. TELS WIFE HE DOESN'T SEE WHY SHE COULDN'T "TAANK COUSIN EM FOR HIS PRESENT WHEN SHE WRITES

STARES AT PAPER, GROANS AND ASHS WHAT SHALL HE SAY

Miss Barbara Goolden's new novel, "The Toila of Law," is short and sharp and very much to the point. Of recent years the laws of divorce have undergone changes for the better, but are they not still cruelly archaic Miss Gioolden can see both sides of the question, but her views are never in doubt. She tells you the tragic story of a sensitive man married to a hard self-centred woman who puts her "career"she runs a florist's shop' -before everything else. They have one little girl. There is no ques- tion on either side of loose living, but the tension between then ho comes too great to be borne... And

Mr. Hankey's Bottles in the o. technically, he becomes the

Smoke" is far from being a grent guilty party, permits himself to

book. It is not even a very good be divorced, and is not allowed a

novel. But it is something new say in the futuro of his child. In

and piquant, and is not without its a mad but understandable moment

excitements. It is much too long. he abducts his daughter, laying and its story is much too diffuse; himself open to criminal prosecu-but there cannot be many other tion, and takes the easiest, but books, whether 'fition or not, which saddest, way out.'

lift the veil so dexterously from

It is just possible that there are life as the Arab sees it: Hia lovel of intrigue, his treatment of wo. American girls who from the age men, the part both religion and of twelve onwards have some ideas manners' play-all these emerge other than bonux" in their sleek with a clarity little short of re-heads, though much contemporary markable. Unfortunately Mr. American action does not encour- Hankey does not always write too age such a hope. Now comes Car

This is a good book. Husband, wife, and child are etched in with suro touches. The final scene is pitiless but almost inevitable. So long as the Kyrle Drydens of the world marry the Amiers something

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بن عب

A YOUNG MAN IN LOVE ́·

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REMARKS AT INTERVALS HE DOESN'T SEE WHY HE HAS TO WRITE TONIGHT, IS SHE SURE SHE HAS THE ADDRESS, AND ARE THERE ANY STAMPS

YOUNG AMERICA,

SIGHS, AND SAYS WELL HE DOESN'T THINK THERES ANY NOTE PAPER. WIFE FINDS

IT FOR HIM

WRITES 'DEAR COUSIN EM' AND ASKS WHY COULDN'T HE JUST DICTATE A LETTER AT THE OFFICE TOMORROW

SIGHS AND GROANS HE CAN'T THINK WHAT TO SAY, TILL WIFE SAYS NEVER MIND SHELL WRITE TO COUSIN EM FOR HIM

(Copyright, 1931, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

BEAU LOYER. By Carman Barnes.

Werner Laurie. 75, Ed, net.

well, and he has yet to learn how man Barnes with "Beau Lover"-- her second book though she is but a story should be told.

seventeen. It is written in a curi-

His chief figure is an English-

ous manner, addressed as though man who, years before the war,

to the writer; and is the story of had put aside all Western ideas, Gloria's tentative ventures in the turned Muslim, and prospered. In 1017 he is a powerful Sheik. Un-pays tendre" with callow youth fortunately he has his domestic and selfish and sophisticated man- "PROLOGUE TO FREEDOK." By troubles. His wife has gone apart. hood, while waiting for a true

Michael Romain. (Nash and

He takes others, but the trouble lover. Gloris was an artist, but romantic dreaming over lovers ap only increases. And as the war | Gragon. 78. Bd.)

"Prologas to Freedom" is a first progresses he becomes immeshed in peared hor main preoccupation novel which begins awkwardly but a net of intrigue which, frankly, It is. I im becomes a little boring. There is rapidly improves. agine, the work of a very young so much polite chatter, and so man, but a young man who will many complications. Nevertheless, probably make himself heard. The this book will repay careful read- story of Cosmo Rule is not striking, and if it does not altogether ingly unusual, but it is not

succeed as a novel, as a study of Attractive. This young man, more- Arabian life it comes near to be over, though a sensitivo and poetic-ing in the front rank.

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mal, which surely shows courage

The various milestones in Gloria's

life aro cleverly indicated; and there is sufficient promise to show that one day Carmen Barnes may write something really worth while, In the meantime the reader is apt to feel that all these young people's experiments ie "lovo" are hardly justified, since American marriages are not noticeably happier for the wealth of pre-marital experiences; but Gloria, having clung to some very unmodern,ideals, is left with some justifiable hopes of happiness BAMBOO. By Keith West, Jarrolds. with her Peter-who-made-boxes.

78. 6d. net.

on the part of the author. He gors A TALE OF WOMEN FIRATES. through a bad enough time during

the period of calf-love, but sur- vives for better days. Incidental ly, the portrait of the old father shows what Mr. Romain can "do.. There is callousness in his pages, but there is also some most delect- able entertainment.

THEN AND NOW.

GREEN AMBUSCADES.

ADVENTURES IN THE BOLIVIAN FORESTS.

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RETIRES CHEERILY TO PAPER, RE- MARKING BY THE WAY HAS JUN- IOR WRITTEN TO THANK GRAND- MA YET, HE OUGHT TO DO IT RIGHT OFF

a good life on the whole-better than a pot belly, anyway!" As tho Spanish Ambassador points out in his Introduction, the au- thor makes us companions in his business of dangerous living: "We simply live your life with you. Wo are blinded by the sun's glare, scorched by its rays, entranced by the glow of its setting, cowed by

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BOLIVA, By Julian

na useless as the drones in a bee-ta Victoria: 8 days, 7 hours, 1 Duguid, with an Introduction by the Marques de Merry del hivo. No explanation can be found minutes. Val. Illustrated from Photo for this strange degeneration. graphs taken by the Members of the Expedition, Jonathan Cape. 10, ed, not, "Green Hell" is that forest pri. ago, but that was because Paraguay maoval, the largest in the world, had lost nearly the whole of hor which extends from Argentine to male population in the wars wage] Moxico and from Ecuador to Per. by Loper the Dictator.. nambuco, Mr. Duguid and is there is so much that is so strange companions, a cinematographer, and true in this vivid picture of and a Bolivian diplomatist on holi. the South American jungle, with day, passed through its endless amite sombre waterways, that no re- buscades when following the route-view can de justice to its far-flung of one of the conquistadores, Nuflo fascination.

Mark Barrage is the only son of a Hong Kong merchant who had gone native" and sent him to be brought up and educated in | England, where he is earning his living as a schoolmaster when the story opens His father dies and leaves him a competence; charging him, however, to find his long dis- Two FAMILIES." By Archibald carded Chinese mistress, Mei Fa, Marshall. (Colline, 78, 0d.). and hand over to her the large When the chapter-headings of a residue of his catate, But Mei Fa novel called "Two Families" are bitterly resented being cast off and, more dates, böginning with 1805 having become the louder of a and ending with 2018, and when verot society of pirates, is plut Mr. Archibald Marshall is its au- ting to seise his son and make him thor and when, further, in the the subject of her merciless revenge. opening chapter you learn of the After escaping several of her subtle old squire's vexation that after a stratagems, he is caught and tortur- little trouble over roligious ques ed mentally and physically, the tions his village blacksmith has climax of horror being reached coolly migrated to the neighbour when Ab Chaan, the woman's ing town, you can form a Mirly daughter and supposed to be Bur- accurate idea of what is to happen. rage's child, is ruthlessly flogged The Blakes of the Hall will go in his presence. Mark, who is bim steadily down, and the Abois of self half an Oriental by disposi the smithy will go steadily up, tion and rules himself by the And so it is. You have read their maxims of Confucius, had been story many times before, and will helped to endure his captivity by no doubt road it many times again, Ab Chaan and, not dreaming that but it is a good enough story, par.she was his sister (us it turns out ticularly when, as here, the au- she was not), had fallen passionatolivia and Paraguay.

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thor's cine-camora has been not at a rather novel angle.

When the nest of piracy is de The Blakos make their fight, of stroyed and the girl pirate is kill course, but the oddi are too great. ed, the English half of the hero The Squire's son, a cleric, keeps provails, but his marriage with a his land, but his son is forood to rather porploxing girl of his own soll. The Hall passes to the ex- TROO is felt as an anti-climax blacksmith, now Mayor and M.P. Nons. the less this first novel of and a war baronet, and the Blake incident and emotion never loses of the fourth-generationthinkal its grip-on-the-reader.

de Chavez, part of which had nover

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They chose this adventara. 1657.

because the Bolivian Government wanted information-about--the little-known Gran Chaco, which lies east of the Andes and is now a causa of dissonion between

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