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BOOKS and READERS

TWO PLAYS BY A. P. HERBERT

NOVEL

ROYAL NAVY

PRECEDENCE RULES AND

REGULATIONS

MODIFICATION IN METHOD

OF INTRODUCTION.

(Special Air-Mall Service)

ceremony and official inspections be modified.

THE FRIGHTENED LADY. By Edgar Willuce. 7x8, 312 pp. Hodder and Stoughton. 79. ed. n. This novel, we are given to be- lieve, was the last that Edgar Wal- lace wrote, and among all its many predecessors we can remember none TANTIVY TOWERS! A Light Opera land to a foreign land. This bio- with a more balling and complicat- in Three Acts DERBY DAY: A graphy by his wifą displays an un- ed plot. Its solution dependa very Comic Opera in Three Acts. By fortunately limited outlook in re much upon character, and the dif A. P. Herbert. (Methuen, 55.lation to Japan, and also in rela ficulty, we prematurely is due to not.)

tion to many of the large issues the extraordinarily difficult, almost Well printed, cheerfully bound regarding both the future of China. impossible, and certainly impro

London, Jan. 28-The Admiralty and the future of missionary work. bable, problem of character which and decorated with witty little Japan's casa may ba, right or wrong the author set himself. That it Fleet Orders state that it has been drawings by Lady Violet Baring: but she certainly has a case, and not wholly improbable is owing to decided that the practice of intro this book is cheap at its price and

the failure here to give any rea Edgar Wallace's remarkable skill ducing officers in the order given will make very welcome pre-sonable account of it to balance the in carrying-the reader along with in the Navy List on occasions of sent To have heard Mr. Har- bort's two operas performed. is strong criticisms Japan illus him; so profound and convincing trates the lack of perspective and was his knowledge of crime and to enjoy reading them all the more, of background which diminishes the police methods everything to him because the verse of the one, the value of this record of a great man. was a matter of course and routine mingled verse and prose of the But as a personal record the book that the reader is scarcely aware other, make a complete unit of each, is very good. Three wars are vivid of the hopeless tangle of action and independent of auch embellishment, ly described as they affected the character to be resolved.. on the music could give. Mr. Her subject of the book-namely, the bert never merely leads up to algino-Japanese War-in which, in

The "frightened lady" is the song, and never puts in a song only cidentally, Dr. Christie acted ns young secretary of the proud and because it seems about time to have Correspondent of The Timer-the domineering Dowager Viscountess one; and both his plots develop as Boxer rising, and the Russo-Japan Lebanon; the cause of her fear, if naturally by the development of ese War. A great number of in the foundation of the mystery. The the idea of the two, Tantivy cidents are described which vividly mystery would also be revealed by Towers is much the stronger. Con- illustrate the effects of the Great anyone who could explain the pre- trasting Chelsea and the County, War in China and also many phases sence at Marks Priory-the seat of it contrasts two ideals of life; and of more recent Manchurian history: 30 generations of Lebanons-of two Mr. Herbert's little attack on The personal record makes inter American footmen. A knowledge, "blood sports

is only an episode esting and sometimes exciting read on the other hand, of the shady in a much wider theme. Derby Day ing, and the story of the rise, pro- past and present practices of Dr. is capital fun: but there is no gress and vicissitudes of the Muk Amersham is not as important as fundamental opposition in its den Hospital takes on here occa-one might suppose, though, psy- forces, and so the fun is not much sionally something of the romance chologically, his place in the story more than jolly, fooling.

and grandeur of epic poetry. It is of considerable importance. The Clearly, it does Mr. Herbert's may be indifferent history but it same may be said of the game muse good to be compressed with is very good biogmphy of the more keeper's pretty wife and her sus- personal kind. It is also book picious husband, More we cannot its limits of the dramatic form. which no missionary to

China say, except that this novel, though For all his metrical skill, some of should miss because of its wise ad it is not among Edgar Wallace's his independent poems go on too vice and useful hints on practical very best, fully maintains its an thors reputation for swift and long. In the operas there is not a word too much. Once, and once

easy dialogue and masterly con only, he is merely facetious; it is

struction, and at moments, indeed, in Captnin Barebecky address to.

enhances it. Hugh Heather;—

May I add, this spacious mansion Might receive a large expansion But would still too tiny be

To contain both you and me? But it is hardly fair to bring that up against the poet who wrote the eight, lines for the Flunkey's begin

ting: --

There are some things which are

not done;

To shoot a fox, of course, is one or Jenny's verse (as if she had re- membered it out of Love in the | Valley."):-

:

On the sunny hillside the old

house dreaming,

Becs in the borders, swallows

in the eaves,

Down through the tree-tops the

sil river gleaming

Drowsily the tiny boats drift

fike fallen leaves...

matters.

ROMANCE OF AVIATION

A MODERN MARCO POLO

CHINESE WHO CROSSED TWO CONTINENTS.

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Rome, Feb. 1.-A Chinese young" taan, Joseph Wei, who is called by Italian journals "rival of Marco Polo," is at present in Milan. This traveller, Catholic by religion, left Penang on foot in January of 1931 planning to come to Rome covering daily 30 kilometres. The stubborn walker crossed China, Siam, Bur- ma, India, Persia Asia Minor, and alestine. Then he boarded a ship for Marseilles whence he continued his hiking through Switzerland and Italy. After a stopover chapel at Assisi be will proceed to Rome where he hopes to see the

in tho

will

In fature, officers are to be in- Pope. troduced in the following order: (1) The Second in Command of the Ship; (2) Commissioned Officers be building Company, Govan, ing Heads of Departments, in or commission for trials on January der of seniority; (3) the remaining 30, and subject to the acceptance trial being satisfactory will com- officers, in Navy List order.

Staff Officers, borno additional, mission at Portsmouth on Febru- will be presented as the Fing orary 3 All these destroyers will Commanding Officer considers de join the First Flotilla, Mediter ranean Flest, in placa of War- airable.

built vessels now obsolete,

"

This decision does pot affect the order in which officers are shown in the Navy List, which will re- main unaltered.

New Flag Appointment. London, Jan, 20.-The Admiralty announced the following fag ap- pointment yesterday: Rear-Ad miral John K. im Thura, C.B

be Bear-.. C.M.G., C.B.E, to Admiral Commanding the First.. Oruiser Squadron, in succession to Vice-Admiral George K. Chetwode,. C.B., O.B.E., to date May 19. Near Admiral im Thura, who will leave London in the Rajputana on June 8, is expected to assume command about Juna 20.

20.4-Inch Gun.

Gruisers in Commission. The cruiser disposition of the Royal Navy at the beginning of 1933 shows that out of an effective total of 51 ships, only 30 are in commis sion. This is inclusive of the two in the Royal Australian Navy. The total in commission on foreign sts tions is 20, of which mine are in the Mediterranean, six in China, five on the America and West In disa Station, three in the East In-

The largest gun in the world has dies, and two each in Africa, Aus- tralia, and New Zealand. The been built in France, according to Home Fleet has now only four crui a German service periodical. It sors in full commission, three in is a 52cm (20.4in) howitzer on a railway mounting, the latter being one, the Cairo, serving as flagship peft in length and weighing 205- of the destroyer flotillas. At the tons. beginning of 1923 there were 11 cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, as the Home Fleet was then called, stations was only 24. hut the number serving on foreign

Berve commission than at present. then, however, more cruisers in re-

There were

The gun itself is 29ft long and weighs 45 tons. It fires & 3,060lb. (1 3/8 ton) shell and has an ex- treme range of -114 miles.

NIGHT FLIGHT. By Antoine de FOR CLASSICAL, SCHOLARS the Second Cruiser Squadron, and

Saint-Exupery, Translated by Gilbart. 7x0, 908 pp. Dea- mand Harmsworth. 6s. n.

SOCRATES. By A. E. Taylor. 75), Riviere, the protagonist of this 182 pp. Peter Davies. 58, n. story, is a man who has organized

A good statement of the historic. an air-mail service which operates al problems connected with the life by night. We find him in Buenos of Socrates, arising from the pecu-

Speculating on the purpose of this weapon, the German paper Aires, his head-quarters, anxiously liar manner in which it is made awaiting the arrival of mails from known to us by Aristophanes, Plato,

New Destroyers.

suggests that it may have been the south on their way to Europe. and Xenophon. Three very dif

built to throw its hells over the Hina anxiety is increased by re feront Ficture of the man 'seem

no target London, Jan. 29.-H.M.S. Decoy Maritime Alps, since ports of stormy weather and delay to emerge from these three authors. of the Patagonian mail; and the Professor Taylor ärgnes for the was handed over to the Navy at worthy of its metal is to be found on Tuesday by in the Rhenish zone. On the other reader is taken up to share the substantial accuracy of the Plato- Southampton apprehensions of the pilot, Fabien, nic portrait, and holds that there Messrs, Thornycroft and Co., and hand, the gun may possibly be in dying to ultimate destruction. The is no absolute contradiction of. Fact left for Devonport. She is a sister tended for coast defence. action returns to land, where Fa- between it and the other two, while ship of the Daring, delivered by

Hitherto the British 18in nava! same firm in November. bien's wife is waiting for her hus- the wide discrepancy in the nature the band with a mure intimate concern / of Socrates's activities may be ex- H.M.8. Duchess, at the Palmer's Picos, built during the war and mounted in H.M.S. Furious and than Riviere's. The book is built plained by reference to different Shipbuilding yard, Jarrow, is to the monitor Lord Clive, held the round this situation, which is one periods of his life or to the dif-commission with a navigating par: world's record for calibre. A 20in of more than simple excitement. ferent purpose of the author whoty from Chatham on January 24 In Derby Day there is no less ac- The character of Riviere and his depicts it. Consistently with this, for trials. H.M.S. Delight, at the gun was designed at the instance Ship-of Lord Fisher, but was never ac complishment. Indeed the intro-philosophy of life emerge clearly much of the philosophic doctrine works of the Fairfield

from his ruminations during the commonly supposed to be Plato's, (Oontinued on next Column) duction of what Lady Waters con-

tually manufactured. sidered the human weeds," pub- night. As he conceives it, his air including the famous Theory of lican, barmaid, tipster, jockeys and mail service is something more than Ideas, is attributed to Socrates, the rest, gives it a wider range and a prosaic matter of business be whose place in the history of a more bustling action than there ees some fundamental opposition thought thus becomes much more are in Tantivy Towers, But Mr. between the world of action and important. But what becomes of He remains B supreme Herbert's gift for song-writing a danger which his project represents Plato? subdued to the complexity of his and the tranquil, domesticated literary artist, but can we speak scheme as a whole; and Rose's ad-world symbolized by Fabien's wife; with Professor Taylor of his "sup reme greatness as a philosophic dns to the pretty, pretty horse," an opposition which leads to con for instance-a little gem of artful flict in himself, as though he must thinker," when his only original artlessness-must take its place in choose between two sets of values, doctrines are those of the Philebus. the rattling whole. It is not safe This generalizing of the situation Sophistes, Foliticus, Timaeus, and is perhaps more romantic than Laws? And is there not, in fact, to mention Gilbert even in relation to such an artist in metre and logical; but it endows the story some variation of doctrine in the rhythm as Mr. Herbert; but it is with a certain rhetorical impres "Socratic" dialogues, which sug- siveness which the author skilfully gesta a superstructure of Plato, on not likely that Gilbert would have much fault to find with Nick's maintains. His prose, in what apa foundation of Socrates 1. patter-song describing the race, or pears to be an excellent transla with Rose's song about her education, is sensitive to fine shades of

Lion.

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AN AGREEABLE STORY

An important thing in the book flight. is the long" Preface to Derby Day in heroio verse, " It is all about racing, and it moralizen without reaching, or preaching, the moral-that betting in migg game. But there is no denying that it is very readable:--

All day across the ledger and the

loren,

Across the coal-face and the en-

gine-room,

Dance distractingly horse (or

mare 1), : Filly (or colt1)—we neither know

nor care;

We never saw it and we never

shall,

It is a name and not an animal, It is an instrument of God do

signed

mankind:

It is the thing that links us with

the lord,

TOKYO MUNICIPAL

SCANDAL

THE CITY PAWNSHOPS TURNED INTO GAM- BLING DENS

STATE FAIR. By Phil Stong. Wood- cuts by Ulrica Hyde. 7x5, 288 pp. Arthur Barker. 78. ed. . The action of this agreeable story begins a day or two before the "State Fair of Des Moines and chiefly concerns a farmer, Abel. Frake, and his family. Abel is

Tokyo, Feb. 8.--The Tokyo Muni- bent on securing first prize for his hog, Blue Boy, at the fair; Mrs. cipal Social Bureau scandal threa Frake has her eye on a prize for tans serious developments. Sever pickles; and Wayne, the son, bas si officials of the Bureau, includ been in assiduous training for the ing Mr. Shinozaki, "Chief of the hoop-la stand. In all these fields Public Welfare Bection, are already the Frake family wins high bon-under arrest, and the Procurator's ours, but pickler, hoop-la and pign Omic of the Tokyo Ku Saibansha become minor slements in a story is directing further investigation which develops round two love of the case, To redistribute wealth sumong affairs, those of Wayne and his

: Kanzaburo Matsunami, who was aister Margy At the fair, chance acquaintance brings each lover, formerly in charge of the public and the amours which follow are pawnbroking business, is alleged brief, but passionate and conclu to be the central figure of the sive-literally conclusive, for they scandal. He is a retired Major, are over and done with when it who is entitied to a pension of Quieter attachments await. Wayne office in the Social Bureau, he and Margy here; and it is made seems to have indulged his last for plain that they are the richer for money by ... instigating his auber. experiences which it would have dinate officials to all sorts of irre- DUBALD.. CHRISTIŻ OF MACHURIA,

Pioneer and Medical Mission been folly to have prolonged. The gularities. Polics inquiry at the ary. The story of a Life with story is perhaps slight but in no public pawnbroking shop at Otsuka that a Purpose by His Wife. With Foreword by His Excellency way tedious, its characters talk revealed the starting fact the Suo Ke Alfred Ste 8x6, 939 and behave naturally and are ob- some municipal councillors, muni- 1. James Clarke, 78. 6d. n. served with a very pleasing cipal officials and habitual gamblers In the troubled-annals of Man. humour; applied to Blue Boy, this have been in the habit of gambling bereres some fow bright observation shows a sympathetic in the storehouse of the shop day knowledge of the nature of hogs. and night. Bribory, blackmail and which accompany the other criminal acts are being re- and at vealed as the examination of the

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