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INAY BAY, 'AN 'Whe said in a “Grand Giggo melodrama, the plot was

BOOKS and READERS bound to thicken and it thuck"

HOW AN EMPIRE WAS DESTROYED.

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How an Empire was Destroyed.

"The White, Gids." By Richard Friedanthal. Translated by C. H. Lumley. Heinzman, 101. Oda

Writing of the Russian persect tion of the Jewa, Swinburns thus

apostrophised the Almighty:

When Thou seest this, and sees

those hounds. of thine, run raven- ing as the Cadarean swine: Kny, say was not this Thy passion, to foreknow, in death's dark, hour ths works of Christian men? He might well have made the same inquiry regarding the Span ish conquest of Mexico. For the of the behaviour of Cortes and onvoys of Charles V. was so un Gaumont Sound Mirror believably vile that it is hard to

Programme

Caught by Camera

Chic Beach Costumes, at

Le Touquet.

Whence a City gets its

--water-

Birmingham Reservoir.

Defying the Deep-sea

Death. Special photo graph in conjunction with British Admiralty, showing new safely apparatus. Tropical Talkies.

H.M.S.

Musical Blizzard at Cry-

Launching of "Leander."

stal Palace.

200 Bands

Record.

31

years

Called to the Baa! Sheep dogs exhibition

Mr. Gandhi in the Cotton-

ahire.

Welcome to Kaye Don.

Drama in the City.

Scene showing suspen ding of Gold standard.

Scintillating City. South Africa calling the

British Isles.

Q

Sicily in song.

Oriental & Ornamental.

Mr. Kaneko designing

lacquer work.

Mr. Barrington Hooper.

The Thunder of wheels.

A Railway Symphony.

FEUD SETTLED IN

CHURCH.

FOUR KILLED IN SHOOTING

AFFRAY.

London, Ont., Jan. 18.-Two war

A WARNING TO PACIFISTS.

and an utterly unexpected solutiois is reached. Here ia a Arst-rate mystery story, which in also in its way

work of literary art.

THE OLD TRADITION.

"Crutch" By Seton Pencry Faber and, Faber, :18, 6d.

who failed to win it, aru,described in a way which makes one picture. the man themselves; in short, nothing which could reasonably ve The estate of Crutch was a sur expected to figure in the book has vival of the good old days when been omitted.

education was for the elite, a la Beautifully illustrated and clear-bourer was not quite worthy of his

the squire was ly indexed, this is indeed a work hire, and without which no sporting library monarch of all he surveyed. can make any claim to be consider

ed completo.

PURPLE PATCHES AND PLAIN.

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"The London Book of English Prose." By Herbert Read and Bonamy Dubree, Eyre sul Spatti woonte, Tx, but.

Somis years since, "O" gave us the "Oxford Book of English Prom"--which was Oxford all over, full of beautiful paragraphs as

Oxford is full of beautiful quad- rangles and cloisters.

ronlise these were human beings who, in the sixteenth century, could so wantonly, so unjustly and Here we have its London scunter- so cruelly have destroyed an an- part. London has buildings as beau- cient empire, whose inhabitants tiful na any college, and streets as had welcomed them, had shown thom every consideration and kind Inese, and had showered gifts upon

them.

Trus, there was much in Mexico that was horrible: the worship the gods, and the human sacrifices; as described by Mr. Friedenthal, are very loathsome. But the gods Kods: the were their own Mexican

were slf-inflicted. ie victims willing and the cult nat tional:

tordures

HOW CABINET WORKS.

SIR J. SIMON MAKES A

:-COMPARISON.

VALUE OF DECISIONS ON RECORD

How in recent years the Cabinat'v- method of conducting its business and dealing with the affairs of the. nation have changed was describod by Sir John Simon when deliver- theing the "Commemoration Oration"

at King's College, London.

This tradition had been carried on by the Contessa Valletri, and at her death she seemed to have ar- Tanged that the old order should not changé.

'Sir John is one of three members of the Government who wore Cabinet Ministers before the war. In each case there has been a break of Afteen or sixteen years between. The reader hoping that it will, in their periods of Cabinet respon told fairy tales, in which the figure | sibility.

of the Contessa is interwoven, ant "In 1913, when I became Cabinet renda of slight incidents fairly uneventful life. In spite of Mr. Peacey's appreciation of the beautiful, one is able to view the end of the house of Crutch with equanimity.

for in ber Minister

the Arat time," Sir John asid

Simon, is the methods by which a British Ch binet conducted nud got through its business were much less highly, organised than they are to-day,

SUBURBIA. BOHEMIA.

"Cat and Fiddle" By Nancy Morison Sampion Low: 7s. Bil

The Old Method,

"There was no Cabinet Secre tariat and there were no Cabiner

officer or one of the other Ministers outside the Cabinet,

The main topic on account of which the Cabinet was areembled was, it is true, usually known in. advanco, as the result of previous arrangement or by intimation from the Prime Minister. But second. джу matters were raised by in- dividual members only, when there was time for them-usually as thos result of asking the Prime Ministar to allow them to be brought "up when the Cabinet met

minutes. No one was present at Cabinet meetings exoopt Cabinet fair as the "High." But it also has

on the Ministers themselves, save its warehouses and its business Marcus Stone's pictures, stags

rare occasions when, in connection thoroughfares, whose loveliness has hands in the drawing room and a to be found in their utility. arif-righteous mother drove Davidith some particular piece of busi So with this anthology, the object Anderson and his father away fress, the Prime Minister asked for the attendance of some other officer of which is to show that, while home. In artistic London "they

specially concerned-usually a law oranmental press is not to be des found congenial friends, adopted pised, plain business-like prose, waif and worked gaily.. But len it nobieves its end, is of no lessing even this exemplary life com- warth. The editors do not give uplications arose. Mias Aforia "arple patches merely, but solves their difficulties aerisitively, simple letters that tell the corses and does it allow her dislike for pondent what he wants to know, suburbia to distort her, view of its This is a terrible book, describaailing directions informing cap. comfortable life, ing as it does, the gold lustful, bar-tuins how to steer in a monsoon, baric, brutal Spaniards on the ons judicial dieta defining the law, des- hand, and the gentle, pacificcriptions of the habits of shrimps artistic, but apathetic Mexicans o

and prawns. They might, had they the other,

thought of it, have added Brad- shaw's explanation as to the right | Millard, Daniel. 28.

. This is a reprint of the presiden way of using his Quide,

address delivered to the It is six hundred pages of sound | siał common sense, and worth much Scriety of the Medical Officers ut Health Dr Millard "advocateu more than the price asked for it.

that individuals, who "have obtain ed to years of discretion, and who are suffering from an incurable discase, which usually entails a alow and painful death, should be allowed by law, if they so desire,

An Empire Exterminated... Pacifists have sometimes sugges, ed that an attacked

person, 21 country, should anresistingly allow invasion: they would be trampled under foot, but their moral victory. would be so great that all wars. would cease. Montezuma and his subjects accepted the Spanish "y-

TRAVELS-ANTIQUARIAN AND GASTRONOMIC.

HOLIDAY. By Frances Noyes Hart.

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mann. 78. Bd. net.

ing down with the result that they were utterly and entirely ex- terminated, with unparalled fero.

It is pleasant to chance upon the city; and their empire and

book that is 23. lamp on the palh very memory of their civilisation without being a guide-book or a was Annihilated. It is a sad warn-sententious catalogue of the things ing.

one-ought-to-se. Such a book is the achievement of Mrs. Hart in "Holiday;" when she and her bus

Mr. Friedenthal's picture of the decadent American empire is un-

THE RIGHT TO KILL.

"The only record of what was

"Euthanasia” By Dr. Killick discussed on decided was contained

in the

report which the Prime Minister made after each meeting to the King, and, of course, that report was communicated to no one else.

to substitute for a'slow and pain ful death

a quick and painless

cne

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BRIDGE HUMOUR.

"A Pack of Cards" (Rowley and

The New Secretariat,

"Now all this has been altered. A most responsiblo civil servant, who is known as the Secretary to the Cabinet, attends every messing and sits at the Prime Ministers sider 11, for any reason, he could not be present, his place would be taken, by his deputy,

"He makes a full note of every Cabinet decision, together with Buch record as is necessary of the considerations which led, up lo, it He draws up the recorde which, after being circulated in draft, bef come the official minutes. Before every meeting 4 paper, containing. the agenda is prepared under the Prime Minister's instructions, and

forgettable as is his description of and took a car and wandered over Rowley. 2. 8d.), by E. Sefi, is is circulated with whatever

the invaders journey across the mountains to Mexico City and his

account of the Feast of the Chosen,

full as it is of the terror which haunted Lawrence when he wrote "The Plumed Serpeat," A magni ficent piece of writing. "The White Gods' is no children's 'ment,

THE GREAT CHASE,

France is the spirit of caprice and gastronomy led them. She caä, un- like, most women, wax, as lyrical

over

*

a perfect meal as cathedral. · She can oven (still rerer accomplishment in her sex). appreciate good wine, though ab deprecates the snobbery of the aver age person on this subject Any intending traveller to France, na- certain of routes and all the subtler joys that make the true romanes, of travel and can turn a Con

BY CAPTAIN. HEATH, "The Grand National, EBAF-EFAR." |tinental tour into an adventure By David Hoadley Munroe. will be well-advised to take hints Heinemann. 25t."

In The Grand National-1838

to 1931, the author has compiled

a volume which is certain to be

acompted as the standard work on

the great steeplechase.

from this gay and entertainingly discursive record.

A DOUBLE MYSTERY.

As a woric of reference the bock THE POLO GROUND MYSTERY. By

Robin Forsythe John Lane. 1. ed." not,

collection of "jingles-irresponsible digressions from the pleasant but serious game of Bridge, Auction and Contract Here, for a speci- men of these verses and reverses, in a short pites entitled "Informatory Bidding":

In Surbiton I chanced to play With such a dear old Dame day.

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pre- paratory memoranda are necessary. that every member of the Cabinet knows beforehand exactly what business the Cabinet when meets will have before it, and in what order ip will be taken,"

"A Minister who has an import. matter arising within thi ant sphere of his department to bring before the Cabinet, has, of course, always had_the oppertunity of pre- oneparing Cabinet paper and dir

culating it in advance to bi vol- leagues. But under the new systemi I called “

ong spade"? she looked these papers are all stat first to

the Cabinet Secretariat, which dis put out,

||tributes' them to every member ot Then asked for accents full of the Cabinet in advance with the doubt:"

I go,

If two of minor mid

"One pule 1 beat?" "That's 10.1"

agenda.

Lord Oxford Objection.

"The result is that, whereas 20 years ago..members of the Cabinet

Thea that old lady simply bean- |į usually met with little documen

ed;

Intelligence all over gleamedo, "That makes it easy after all, "O diamond and one club call"! The many

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tary material, and sometimes with only a vague idea of what topics the former system, never actually Sir John said that was a good would arise, nowadays, papers, for took part in the working of the of evidence that the innovation Cabinet consideration-each mark-

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over,

not so great as was supposed,

is invaluable, for it contains full

parodics fncluded do not duly indexed are all issued under "The change was introduced in that Cabinet minutes were kepts dolails of every content since the inception of the race nearly one Mr. Forsythe writes very well rench the Calverley standard, but a continuous system of distribution the later stages of the war by Mr. the last half of the eighteent

vatories of the game will find them through the Cabinet secretariat Lloyd George, When, after they and the early days of th

nineteenth century. He gave ZEN and the printed or typewritten But Mr.indeed, has a gift for characteriza mildly amusing hundred years ago.

the continued stances, of how, during the lola documents accompanying the war was Munro has done very much moretion; and can always be relied

apenda often amount to quite existence of the Cabinet Sodretariat years of the nineteenth centur bulky collection.

dame under Parliamentary discus serious misunderstandings had co than supply us with à mere list of upon to plan an original plot, His

"This is a surprising change lesion Mr. Asquith expressed a precasionally arisen in the absence dates, horses and jockeys' names, new drama of detection opens with

have taken place within 90 years. ference for the old method, though authoritative record, dug to differ etc. He has treated the Grand a newspaper account of the dis-

It is not the result of any statute, he was careful not to utter an unent impressions of what was in fact, National from every aspect, trac- covery at dawn of a "millionaire: ing the history and development of sportsman" dying from pistol- "Blow, Bugies, Blow. By Ed or order in council, or Parlia reserved condemnation of the new decided at Cabinet meetings,

The Cabinet sitting as a deli the race from the time when wounds on the private polo ground ward Mousley Hutchinson, is, 'dmentary resolution. To is one of

A Nossainty, Change, berative bedr said Sir John steoplochasing was hardly tho at Vesey Manor, his country hous "Blow, Buglas, Blow" is the story those adaptations which are charac

"Other Ministers, such as Bir Simon, “in the main-spring-or ring families selected a church in thing" when all sorts of crooked in the Surrey hills. A burglary of sinoere young man who man|teristic of the free working of

Austen Chamberlain, and Lord jexecutive action. The responsible. this city for their battle-ground practices were commonly the vogue has also taken place at the Manor ages to retain his sinceriy through British institutions".

-until the present year, when during the night, and his wife's the disillusion of the war. While Sir John Simon said the most. Curzon, who had actual experienes Minister who takes part in Revolvers were produced instead of there are grounds for argument wonderful necklace of pearls has we do not lose sympathy with Mr.authoritative critic of the new order of both dispensations, defended the Cabinet decision has been to mar

a. Decessary | sure that it is drẫy carried out that the Grand National should be disappeared..

Mousley's hora, we find it a little was the Inte Lord Oxford: No change, not only as regarded as the principal race, of Inspector Heather, or Scotland difficult to believe in him. But his one who had the privilege of serv. reform under the pressure of war his department, and the wenk

Yard, and the clever and charming love affair with a young Germaning under that distinguished man business, but as an improvement of the old system, whatever its in any sort, in the world.

Wo are given inside details of amteur detective, Anthony Vero girl has moments of pathos and no one who Has been in the post- which should be retained in times oidental merits, lay in thing

tion to measure the breadth and of penon. I think that after fur there were coace in which if happenings which were hitherio not her, both of whom, hava bgured in beauty

And these who have enough balance of his judgment will ever ther experience, it would be diffi authores who had to put generally known; the breeding and the author's "Missing or Murder. the day was to have been on the producing of the ideal 'chaning ed?'-Mr. Forsythe's first success imagination to carry them over Mr. be disposed to belittle the impert cult to find anyone who would pro-wheels of government in mace

docision to which they had to subject of Turn ye the other type is discussed in most interest work on totally different lines to Mousley's rather stilted style will ance of that opinion. But it has pose to return to the mors ansient did not exactly know what we

ing style; famous horsemen, bat solve the twofold mystery. Of the find a quiet enjoyment in this to be remembered that Mr. Asquith, I'mode,"

who bad thirty years' experience of In a detailed historical reyslect. cheek."

those who won the ranes and those story of their aimcable rivalry we novel.

hymn books and in the exchanges that followed four men wore killed

and three wounded. The sermon pr.