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The Love of Ivone" describes her to develop her ericisms fur- SIAM'S TRADE WITH the struggles of Hugh and Irene to ther than bix, and she has, besides, raise themselves financially out of the subsequent maturer work of the the rut of suburban life. Irene writer To the Lighthouse," nikartel a Beauty Parlour" 39"their" ** Orlando,"--"The Waves, and own home, and was at first sue "A Letter to a Young Post "to cessful. But she couldn't attend to deal with. Her greatest sin is tho her family and business, and the pardonable one of idolatry; sho former were neglected, and all fell | does certainly at times, pitch "tha SUNSET SUNG, By Lewis Grassic through, and if the people are tallin alarmingly rapid succession pipe too high. Her next in the
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yuine extent symbals they nia un
implications. Altogether an excel. lent piece of work, which should not be judged from the open passages where the author is un duly causcious that he is a seats man writing in dialect for English
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tention of Singapore as a freel port is indicated in an inter-i view which Mr. H. Christian. so, trade commissioner to the Sinmese Government, who is on a visit to Malaya, gave to the Strait Times last week. Mr. Christiansen, who is a Dane,
He ex-
conscious of the honour and the Finally Irene collapsed herself and tendency to take too literally some quarrelled with her husband. Bills of Mrs. Woolf's pronouncements are owing, and even the wale! | but this affects more general criti- pipes burst. However, Irene and viving than her analysis of the 110- Iugh make up their quarrel and eels, and it is the latter that is
a more hopeful the valuable part of her work. the book ends on
No detailed account of the facts note. The possibility of such a large quantity of coinciden had luck may be questioned, but the of Virginia. Woolf's life is attempt **The "Hair Shirt" als involves pictures of suburban life is well prese. We are given a picture of her has been Siam's trade commissioner as an incident, but is sented and the characterisation, cultural and domestic background for the past two years.
sy far, an it affects her works-the plained that he had come to Mala The first of these novels is the otherwise as far removed from Mr particularly of the children, is
daughter of Loslic. Stophen. then to see how trade between Malaya good.
sister of Vanessa” Bell, the wife of ) and Siam could be developed to a story of the passing Scottish crof-1 Gibbon's crafters as it could be. ter of dry humour and hard work It concerns Stephen Courtnes," s
Leonard Woolf and then plunged still higher, degree than it stood at in Kinraddie, beneath the Gram-nervous secretive boy; unfortunat
into an analysis of her writing.
present. pians: of the families who lived tely brought up, and mentally A duftie there, their lives and 'daily gossip, smashed by the war. The heroine is real and unromantic, poet childe" they would have call- ed him in Kinraddie with his quite capable of having a scrap with her husband, unforced by the nathor both in her tragedy and more hopeful onding. Like all Kinraddie, folk she is alive and cannie, and the dour charm of the place runs through the book like
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Living quitely with an old, sens faring uncle, whose chief interest is in flowers, Hester Truman can never forge: a double bangle on her right arm, exquisitely tattooed in
His was only an informatory visit for the time being, artnally; and to prepare for the possible in- troduction of a Siamese department of trade in Singapore, sending a trade representative hore attached
to the Siamese Consulate,
Siam's Favourable Position.
"Despite the depression,' re
Mr. vealed
Christiansen
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difficulties with regard to sterling.
and the change in constitution, Siam's trade is moving as auto- matically as before and there haa been even an incrense in our rice exports. Our crop, for next year promises to be good, too."
Experiments in Technique. Before Mrs. Woolf wrote "Ja friendship for old Heinrich Ernst
cob's Room," she published a small volume, called "Monday or Tace .of the animal shop and all-sustain-
day," of short stories experimental ing intimacy with the rich protec- tor of his youth. Nor would they
in technique in which she stretches prose to the fullest limits of in- eastern arabesque. On the oven- have had any more sympathy with
ing when the story, starts this tat- telligibility, trics how far it in pos- the belief that pain is only mentalton brings into her very ordinary sible to discard description, discard in which he ultimately finds happi-life danger and a mystery which is narrative, diseard the link-senten- Bess, when success has already
got explained until the end. The ces which hind ideas together. come to him as a poot,
ingredients include a dangerous Without writing poetic prose, sho criminal, whom she meets as a adopts the method of poetry for her friend, an Oriental hypnotist, and prose. This is the technique she a sinister society of the type which develops from now on, this toge Sax Romer has made familiar. Wether with the dorpping of plot are asked to believe that Hester like the poets she will present has never in her life questioned her satious, emotions, and processes of uncle, about the tattoo she hates, thought with only lightly indicat and that there exist in Upper ed backgrounds. There are accord Burma unknown valleys of price ing to Miss Holtby, two stages in less jade, ruled by a noble who is this development, the first repre- afraid of the turmoil which would | sented by "Jacob's Room,” which
"Siam," he continued, "would follow their announcement. she calls the cinematograph where like to increase her exports to The first few pages of this story, ensation, emotion, thought, and Malaya in other commodities be ling do not interest us vory pro describing life in the East Side of action appear as a series of visual sides rice, We know that to foundly, either in themselves or New York, built by the Irish pictures, and the second, represent this we must import more fron Mr. Foster's presentation off and run by the Jews," give one an ed by all the subsequent movies Malaya. Biam is mainly an agri-Į them. And the eventual pairings inkling of what the writer could right up to its final perfection in cultural, country, but it is develop **The Waves,” which she calla the ing it every direction and the
The Saga form is becoming too fashionable. It takes something bordering on genius to keep such a structure homogeneous and Mr. Foster's rather rambling story of two families, fortunes from 1880 to 1932 has not that magic touch. The Gullivers were descendants of an Elizabethan grotor, while the East ings had come over with the Con- queror; but, truth to tell, their feuds, love affairs, buying and sel-
off are more than a little trite,'
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Mr. Christiansen conceded that they were not getting the same price for their rice as before, of course, but they were selling all they coul produce.
fancies, the impact of the outside tion, world, action, and conversation each play a different instrument.
Mrs. Woolf as Critic,
Preserve Transhipments.
from
The trade commissioner explain. ed that Siam was interested in the
a possible destination for her sto-archestral, and in which senses. whole large market of manufactur rics. These pages are full of thumb thoughts, emotions, will, memory, ed goods awaits Malaya's atten nail sketches of quite remarkable intensity and power. Then the his- tory of Nora Ryan's adventures as lady's maid begins, and we' are in a movie, world at once. But in spite of that the story is told with immense gusto, and it Nora is rather "hard-boiled" at times, we can hardly blame hor when we con- sider her luck in the matter of her employers, and her initiative, de
sirves kuccess.
Mystery.
"Missing from His Home" is certainly a mysterious mystery. The twin disappearances of Captain
Guardedly, Mr. Christiansen commented that he did not know what would be the effect of the Ottawa, agreements upon trade be dweeb Malaya and Siam but oh- viously it rested with Singapore to preserve its ability to trans- ship goods to Siam in order tu supply Siam with the manufac tured goods it needed,
In her final estimate of the no-export of, besides rice, timber, cat- wels-a very just one-ia Holt-tle, fish, and agricultural and gor by ventures to prophesy that Mrs. den produce, to Malays Wooll's range will remain limited, her contact with life delicate and profound rather than comprehen- sive: that her novels will grow inore subtle and intricate in Eer criticism grows more orderly, stif fened perhaps into some kind of system. There is no evidenco na yet in this second series of "The Common Reader" of the stiffening into a system. The essays are for the most part reprints from the Baye in England and Italy, hia" Times" Literary Supplement, "The Na- "Life and Letters," reasons for doing so, and what
Meanwhile, he understood local tion," and other periodicals; and manufactures were growing in Sin happened to him, start the fast and they exhibit the anme elasticity of
gapore. furiona fun. His cousin, trying to mind, the same catholic taste, the find him, comes upon an old plot same sanity of judgment as made the first series both important cri- for revenge which began in any es
ticism and delightful reading. They pionage caso during the War. An are written, above all, in a wonder much yet
"Elizabethans, and the poetry of Siam had not bear so badly hit Italian gang, & crooked solicitor the clarity of thought, the undi by the present depression as Mala- several people who are not what vided and orderly mind which pro ya. They were not so entirely de they seem, mistaken identities, induced them. The range of interest
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Trade relations between the two countries had not been effected very
efficient shadowers, and unexpected is very wide, from the Strange, pendent on rubber and tis. There Elizabethansa and thepoetry of was no unemployment problem in attacks all play their parts in the Donne (full of the evidence of en- the country,
joyment) to the novels of Gissing, and Meredith and Hardy In these inst Mrs. Woolf nude consi
well worked out problem. This is not solved nutil the last chapter
Bystematic Relations Needed.
to the sound of anticipatory wedderably to what she has already Mr. Christianson said Siam with ding bells, the result of an inci-written of the modern novel in the dental love story.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
VIRGINIA WOOLF
By Winifred Holtby. Os. net. Loudon Holtby).
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sive aspect of her own work. Both Malaya. He had in mind how to as critic and se novelist she is one bring that about but he could not
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