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genius is very rarely a successful Thomas Co- cr a happy man." chrane' was no exception to this general rule, though his achieve- ments were remarkable. This story of his life and exploits in-fas- cinating account of a man cf in- terise individuality, and, therefore, almost inevitably, of a rebel and a reformer. Intended originally for the Army, he succeeded, through the influence of his uncle, Captain. Alexander Cochrane, in getting to sea oa a midshipman at the age of 17 and of reaching Captain's rank at 8. Dismissed from the Navy, he was, after many years,

Allen and Unwin. 78. 6d. One ikon to show the truth (when one can);

simple, or transparently cunning, as the actions of children at play. The plot is invariably that honry old favourite of a beautiful spy who plucks a document which als the fate of nations from the vest pocket of an amorous diplomat.

"There is no doubt in my mind, madamo, that it was you who stole the papers from the Office of the Master of the Ordnance."

That is how Mr. Dilnot, trúe to type; and faithful to the friends at romanee, does it.

"

The Expensive. Halo" observes the modern convention in fiction that the parent shall be exhibited as a thirsty ogre, feeding on the love, life, and liberty of its child- ron. I am sick and weary of 10 patent an aberration from the truth That Fence was a crook is very of averages. But, once having rais true;

Med "this objection to the tyrannical But suppose he protests (as he

Papa of Mr. Daviot's novel (not ought to do)..

At being called The Devil Man because the author draws him bad- Well, anyhow, he was a king ofly but because he has been drawn too often), I can find only praise for the sympathetic depths of un- derstanding in which the author perpetually moves.

killers;

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Here's a good one for you to dictate.

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Charles Pezoe, indeed, is just the sort of character who might have been on the side of the dark on

Again this is a story in which Time pays the piper and calls the tune. Again it is the post-War world. Only hera, the scene 19 "ser, in England and not in Germany,

reinstated with the rank of Rear els if Mr. Edgar Wallace had and Nemesis is on holiday. In:

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of broken heads.. Chronicle, Nature, in competition with the novellate of crime, crept As a piece of social comedy aris up and surpassed herself in designing out of a bloodless social re-

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The story has the wild interest strangeness: romantic love in will), and set him in n Lyceum-

romantic places interrupted by: like limelight of demoniac inven- something that is midway between tor, secret inventions, and missing the romantic and the supernatura formulae. I am not sure quito

A bey-and-girl love-affair is and- how much of this was necessary denly rent when the boy discovers The real Charles Peace, the hymn-that he has the gift of healing. The singing hypourite with the revolver trapped to his wrist and his desky turns his face towards spiritu al things and awa from his lass to return in a graceful curve to stuffed with the pawntickets of stolen goods, was quite enough to the things of the flesh. There is fascinate me. And fascinato me it load of unashamed, sentiment and

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RIDING AS AN ART.

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The outlaws are the youth Germany, who, after the war, drift ed like wind-blowns sparks between Royalism and Communiam, wait ing to fame up at one end or the other of pubile life. The central character is shown examining over corner of every pillssophy, like a mouse nosing round the box it is trapped in. Finally, he kneels with his mat spread out towards

universally acknowledged, wrote a series of articles entitled "The Art of Riding" for the London Morni ofing Post journal. The serice is now republished in book-form, l'and' the author, in revising and aug menting his work, says he has been much helped by the namorous lat ters received from renders of tho original articles. And, in view of the fact disclosed by this corres pondence that there is a lack of books for those who know almost nothing about horses and riding generally, he has added twelve sec- tions (Part II) dealing with ele That his spiritual pilgrimagementary matters. The "taxt" of Brazil, Cochrane not only laid the leads him not to an earthy para Ibis admirable treatise is embodied dise, but to the State Prison, is in the advice he gives to all riders, one of those incidentals of the story old or young, experienced or in- that, in real life, are apt to be experienced, at the end of his brief mistaken for essentials. It meant Preface: "Ride with firmness, nothing to the man to when it sympathy, and patience; sit in the happened. When he came out this saddle with a scat that is balanced. inna how he felt:

with legs that convey clearly to the horse your intentions, with hands that support the indications of the legs; keep the wrists supple and maintain a sympathetic but firm contact with the horse's mouth."

foundation of that lose friendship between Great Britain and South America, but to him is largely at tributable that great trade between ourselves and the Repulics.

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Not the east interent in the book is that it is a study, of a youth to whom life is not, so much an ad- venture as nu ofscasion.

His chief fortune and blessing in, When I made up my account for ife was his beautiful and fearless the last five years there was a ba wife, the account. of whose lance on the credit side. How fortitude and adventures contrasts could I have borne it otherwise not unfavourably with the adven-But I must not et myself succumb tures of her modern successors of to the hourgeois point of view; for to-day. Her only recorded dismay it is lethargie, flexible perhaps, Boocurred when their son, aged 6, but not alive. And I must lives was convoyed on board his father's live! I had been benumbed far too ship and in a diminutive sailch long to be able to wait for life any. suit, made by the sailors, stood longer. side by side with his father in one of his furoost flights,

Padan Here is a book for sericus stud. ents and boys alike. It should find its way without delay into the Mr. Dilnot alacư Gita hing charges possession of every boy who loves ters so firmly into their background tho sea and who loves a fighter, that if you removed the one the whether it be against physical or other would straightway fall over, piritual foes. It is of interest to "The Storm Riders" is a tale of record that the Cochrane record of espionage in those spy-infested days' fearlessness and adventure remains that opened the last century. Of unbroken, for in the late war Cap-|its kind it is neither better · nor tain Cochrane, after being caught worse than the romances of Baro in his submarino in the Dardanel; noss Orczy ; and that is high praise. les net and made a prisoner, escap.! Novola liko. this, usually get con 1/5 23/32od with His companiona with an: siderably less than their fair share *T/F23/32 | Ulysses-like", skill and during cof-compatuatione-Butts perbapa,“

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