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A MASTERPIECE OF EARLY

SCULPTURE,

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TEMPLE OF THE WARRIORS.

· Difficulties "Overcome.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26,

ligent novel based upon anything of the Rebellion, and they becomes 80 out of date as the sanctity pta pacifist, Mr. Barry was awarded maxxiaje,

Arst prize in the Tailipany literary campetition for this book, and his work is vivid, moving and sineses

PAGES IN WAITING.

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MONARCHIST PLOT

THWARTED.

HUGE HAUL OF ARMS-MADE- FROM CHURCH.

1931.

Madrid, Nov. 16-Twenty-one

New Johnson Letters: A. Galsworthy | monarchists including students, daw-

Novel: Old Sea abarties..

loan régime.

The conspirators were all arrested together when they met after midnight in the vostry of a church to discuss their luat preparations,

-But if it is startling it is also very agreeable, and such a novel Is Mr. and Mrs. Pennington. “ by Mr. Francis Brett Young.

Mr. Young has realised that the bulk of humanity is composed of ordinarily decent poopla, nos exoit-

yers, priests and soldiers have boon Anchwologically, the grontesting people, perhaps often they are The Marquis of Lansdowne Farrested in connection' with the triumph of the excavators was the bewildered and depressed--but peo-sonsly found in the library of latest plus to over throw the repub- discovery and rostoration of a curple, for all that, whose dreams and lier temple buried beneath the sup-loyalties and struggles air tar more Bowood, the family spat, a series porting pyramid of the Temple of interesting than the inanities of of letters written by Dr. Johnson the Warriore. From an examina the pseudointellectual minorny, to Queeney Thrale. He has now,

those It requires courage in tion of its plaster, it is estimated The complete story of whac that this earlier temple was in us sophisticated days to tell an olo-edited them, with exhaustive notes, for only 15 years before the order fashioned story based upon oid-for a volume which Constable will the biggest work af probably

enine for its domolition and the fashioned virtues, but Mr. Young publish next spring. They throw a The police got wind of this mest- wholmale arzhaolggy „ever under-building of a larger structures has done it, Susan Pennington, hie

how light on Johnson by showing ing, allegedly through a member of taken is told for the first time in But though the earlier temple was central charactor, is described as

Very pretty, very vain, and his fatherly care and affection for the aristocracy sympathising with The Temple of the Warriors, largely destroyed, the

were careful to preserve undamag quite inexperienced; an averags (Scribners, 215, net), by Mr. Eared a state of the god Chad Mel, product of Midland suburban like young girl who was left in his the republic, and raided the church

guardianship. H. Morris, who for four yours since recognised as a masterpiece Bo anxious to be ladylike that you

where a thorough search revealed large storce of ammunition. AR directed excavations in the ruined of Maya sculpture, and the autheran ace she isn't a lady; bay she's

Everybody will welcome. records that the surrounding ma-strong and possibly courageous, Maya eily of Chichen Itza, Yuka-son showed signs of having been anu, if they're happy, well, no-novel by Mr. John Galswortny, arrested men are stoutly maintain- 'tan, ou' behalf of the Chrnegie In- deliberately placed by the work-thing else matters much." stitution of Washington.

men so that the earving should be

Unfortunately, she and her or which will appear. shortly. It hasing their innocence of any plot, in- undamaged.

dinarily decent young husband were the title "Maid in Waiting," and sisting that they had met in the A jigsaw puzzle, in more than

The auther tall graphic story not entirely happy. Their baby around its chief character, Hubert vestry merely to guard the church half-a-million cubic feet of masonry,

of engineering difficulties. Tools was still-bor; there were money was the result of the condition im had to be fashioned, Indian work troubles; Dick lost his job, and Cherroll, Mr. Galsworthy groups against a threatening moh attack. men induced to use a modern dump Susan began to think of married every species of intrigue 1 gti posed by the Mexican Government machine, coment cajolod from

life in terms of the cinema. She circles. He is true to the complex ridiculing their statements, insist. Dentists instru falt that she was wasted on the ader. that all buildings excavated should handless druntry,

menta were utilised in picking plasing but unimaginative Dick, that ity of modern life in using a naming that they have definite proof be repaired is permanently as poster from painted frescoes, and the she was destined for a Grand Pas ber of sub-plots, and the huk be of a treasonable plot and that th sible, and of the determination et doorway of a ruined church was sion, and when that particular bug tween everything is Cherrril's sister, armas found in the church were pur- chased with 120,000 pestas collected the axervators to examine the whole unconventionally used to support began biting her, the trouble start

the maid in waiting." the pulley tackle whereby painted ed.

in monarchist eireles for the purs building.

stours were hauled for sternge up an impassable bill.

pose of fomenting a coup.

In addition to the recrvery, ofter From a considerable distance, and the correct placing of more than 31,000 plain-faced stones, some 3,680 sculptured stones were unearthed, all of which had to be allocated either to the great friezes surround ing the temple pyramid or to the decoration of the main building.

NEW NOVELS.

A GOOD BOOK ON DECENT PEOPLE.

MR.

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AND MRS. PENNINGTON By

Francis Brett Young. (Heine

9a. Od.).

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An elderly admirer gave Dick a Capt. David Boue, of the Anchor job which took him away. From Line whe ia well known for home, and while he was nwny, the Brassbounder " and other Susan played the foot with a weal books,

now one coming Bu is one of thy young Jew. The affair reached along with Faber. its climax, and the next morning the few sailers, still on the active she tried to comfort herself by sayist,who have served an apprenti

ceship to sail and heard the chan-

The authorities, however, are

FAMOUS GOLF PAIR IN LOVE MATCH.

At last! You've lived danger-ties sung by cld-time seamen. 'n MISS JOYCE WETHERED TO

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MARRY MAJOR C. K. HUTCHINSON.

Loddon, Nov. 10. Miss Joyce Wethered, the famous woman gol- fer, is engaged to marry Major Cecil K. Hutchinson, who is also a well-known golf player,

A photograph of the mound be

ously You've expressed your tras der the titles "Capstan Baru," he as fore work was begun shows only a single piece of masury menyerel THE HEADLERH Horno. By R. H.self and resolved all your inhin-giving us a selection of them, not the contemporary Mottram. (Chatto' and Windus,tions. They may call Harry what formalised The finished work shows n building)

7H. ed.)

they like he remains Great fashion is, but as they were actual- n white as new, bearing some of

You've sinned magni | ly Bung, the host Maya sculpture in exis Guadas. By Dermot Barry. Lovor

úcently (Hamish Hamilton, 58.)

You have actually com bener and supported by ecnereles foundations which should at. a, cun The pendulum has swung so committed adultery. That word-shá

Miss Beatrice Chase has lived for servative estimate double the apanpletely from Victorian convention had read it often lately with mingi of its existence begun about A.D.ality to modern Inxity that iséd awe and excitement; but now, thirty years in the region of Dart almost startling to find an intel when she breathed it to herself, moor and written a la

it took on an ugly wound, and we about it. We are shortly having thing that it represented when from Longmans a volume in which stripped of its mystory was she collects Ber best and most illus Miss Wethered won the British

"Dartmoor Snapshota. longer alluring-much less "magni

Ladies' Open Golf Championship in fiteat. The Botting of her blind The pictures ny be said to pre- escapade that disordered. room,

sent five gallerica the landscape, 1029, 1024, 1995, and 1999, and for Mr. Bulgin's walnut bedstead, ter the rising generation, the passing four successive years (1920-1924) held rumpled clothes, her unidy dress-generation, occupations," including ing-table-was mean ancugli to, desavating, hand-sowing and hand the English Ladies Clown Cham- troy the last shreds of illusion." shearing, and the most in winter.picnabij.

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Poor Susan! She had been fuc- lish, and she was forced to pay the price. Dick was told the truth in an anonymous letter, and rushed pleasant and also an accurate title home. He set out to kill Harry, but for a book by Mrs. C. Peri, only succeeded in startling Harry's which the Bodley Head is publish undle into a fatal seizure, whiching. It is a study of social and was enough to have him arrested domestic life in England in the fut for murder. Naturally he was no half-century between 1506 and 1801. quitted the story demands it. We learn how John and Emily Lon- Susan was appropriately courage. don-for that is the way of the

narrative-lived from Waterloo un ous, and we leave the Penningtons til the death of the Prince Consort, setting out to build life anew.

This is an old-fashioned novel, a period of demarcation which no hat Mr. Young ringa the changes body else seems to have hit upon,

on his familiar situations splendid.

ty. He writes with sincerity and

sympathy: there is a satisfying n

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Lord Crowe's "Lord Rothery'

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Finally cames

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Sir Alfred Pease's "Elections The Headies and Recollections will as p Hound, by M. R. H. Mottram, pear with Murray at the end of a collection of short stories, mostly this month.

Sir John A. R. Marriott has al dealing with Victorian, times, in

"Makers of Mr. Mottram's usual "deliberate, most rewritten his

Modern Italy" for a new edition 'patient, unexciting manner,

Tom Creagan, by. Mr. Dermet which the Oxford Press announces Mr. Stephen Graham has "Barry, a short novel describing the

Stalin: An Impartial Study fife of a young Irishman who takes an active part in the earlier stages about to appear with Benn

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