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Measure Before Convocation

Nonconformists and the Sacrament." The B.B.C, the admission of Nonconformista to Holy Com- munion, and ecclesiastical discip- line, were among the subject dis- cussed by the two Housea of the Canterbury Convocation at their opening session.

have formed of it. Many of us

Position of Nonconformists.

An important debate arose on the consideration of a resolution from admission Nonconformists to the Lower House dealing with the Holy Communion. The motion in turn arose from other resolutions

of

The Archbishop of Canterbury presided over the Upper House. He opened the session with a re- ference to the economic ills of Eng have been few lovelier contribu-

A well-constructed and admirably land and the world in general. He tions to the art of fiction in recent years, fow nobler tributes to the written detective story in which a pointed out at once the signs of titude of character which had essential goodness of human life exceptionally clever criminal sue-gradual improvement and the for- and if we were challenged to nams ceeds in making the police believe made the period less hard to bear. A motion was moved by the Bis- one lovelier or nobler it might that the murder is the work of an- easily be an earlier novel by Miss, other man. The body of one Wil-bop of Winchester (Dr. Garbett) the Christian religion arranged by Lather herself. With flying colours, son from America is found dead in welcoming the series of lectures on she passes the test by which writers & room of the Grand Hotel, Spurs the B.B.C. for alternate Sundays of fiction stand or fall, so far as Cove. In his luggage are the in 1933, and drawing attention to their quality as artists is concern-plates used for counterfeiting bank" the valuable opportunity they in religious knowledge" "There ed-that of portraying the world's notas of the Republic of Sanford of promoting adult education quieter people, the humble men and Felipe, also a threatening letter are," he said, "a large number of to what Christianity, really is... women of uneventful lives. After written to Harry Bronson, living people who are totally ignorant, as all, brutality and sensationalism near the hotel. Obviously, say the Again and again those who attack are for the coarse brush." The de police, thieves have fallen out, and the Christian faith are not really licacy and tenderness of the story Branson, who has disappeared, is attacking Christianity; they are at- But Inspector tacking some false conception they entitled "Neighbour Rosicky" are the perfect. Rosicky is an old emi-, grant farmer in the Middle West Cranley's fiancée, clerk at the ho- admire the writings of Bernard and widely-read of America who has worked hard to, and Bronson's own fiancée are Shaw; in whom we have one of the authors. But in his last book on rod honestly and lived contented not so surs. The one does a little most brilliant

(and perilous) detective work on her religion he displays a lamentable ly with his happy-natured wife own account and the other calls in ignorance of the meaning and the and family. In his youth Rosicky the help of Investigations, Limited, teaching of the Christian Faith."

The resolution was unanimously had struggled as a tailor in a city a private inquiry basinase. Gra

dually evidence is accumulated to adopted.. - shop until the spring, came, when gether like bits of a jigsaw puzzle te felt the delitiousness of nature, and a deeply laid scheme slowly even from the distance, and re-emerges. Mr. O'Dufy has his pre judices--amusing fings at the capi- sponded to it. By scraping a lit-talist system, for instance; but that tle money together he was able to only adds to the vivacity of bis make his way into the country, pages. where he bought a strip of land, and there, on the farm he built, we see him with the sons who help him to wrest & livelihood, from the soil. The picture is like music in And when its complete harmony. the old man dies the end is like music fading. The principal Aguro in the second story is a feminine counterpart of Rosicky, the an cient Mrs. Harris, a grandmother who is loving, kind, unobtrusive even as ho. The remaining story, "Two Friends," is more rugged in theme, although just as exquisite cut in a laboratory attached to the ly written. It tells of two

house Dunça, a tall man, given monplace business ren who quarrel occasionally to fits of ungovernable over politics, in spite of their mu impatience, was sitting out on the tual affection, and never

lawn one nitemoon when, 'Bomo again. From the technical stand- neighbours arriving, he went into point the best impression left by the house to look for his wife, Car- this book is of a complete avoid lotta. From that moment be dis- ance of overemphasis, a completa appeared dramatically from the absence of so-called fine writing..

world. About half an hour later Carlotta came out on to the lawn T. M.

and greeted the guests. The com- pany included Leonard. Colvin and, notably, his wife, Erminie, with whom Searle was passionately in But on a vote Dr. Frere's re- love. Among those also present who solution was rejected by 16 votes were important in view of subie to two. A number of amendments quent events were Austin; Duncan's of minor importance were then

brother, ·and younger

Ronald put and subject to these the Booth, who was in love with Caz- resolutions were passed. lotta. As time went on without any sign of the missing man the official police had to be called in,. In the Lower House Canon hat the mystery was finally solvedL. W. Bird moved the adoption by Fleming Stone, an unofficial de- of a report on the Benefices (Ec tective, who has figured in other clesiastical Duties) Measure and a tales by this authorces.

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Lower House and had received long and thorough consideration, involv EARTH. By Catolya ing the presentation of four commit- FULLER'S

Wells. A Fleming Stone De-tee reports. The majority report was obtained only by the, casting tective Story.. 7h by 5, 319 pp.

vote of the Chairman. The Arch- Lippincott 78, 6d. n.

bishop of Canterbury explained Duncan Searle, the head of a that the House was now asked to New York Grm of importers, had consider certain

country house in Massachusetts, named Silver Spray Farma. His spare time was devoted to useful

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tained in Minority Report No. 2.

It will be recalled that the Bis- matter

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CONDENSED HISTORY

have been the subject of much comment from widely separated schools of opinion in the Church,

The Bishop of Truro (Dr. W. H. Frere) at once moved the post- ponement of the resolutions (which would imply their setting back for an almost indefinite period). He pointed out that almost every sec tion of the Committee had-ared the propomls, "doing shots ad enormoms, damage." Daly, one re- Port, he said agreed fully with the proposals.

Discipline.

request to the Upper House to teka steps to amend the. Measure, This is a step towards the removal of the admittedly unsatisfactory state of affairs in regard to en olesiastical discipline which has THB RICH CARGO By F. E. Mills been brought to the fore by re- Young. 7 by 5, 319 pp. John, cent cases. Canon Bird said that

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tees be set up in the manner of civil grand juries. Furthermore there should be diocesan funds to meet the costs of clergy involved in disciplinary cases,

The motion was carried.."

A fastidous critic might and Mr. Warwick Deeping's psychology ahardheaded reader summary; that he sweetens life too lavishly with sentiment. But nobody could fairly deny that in OLD WINE AND New Cassell, 78. d. net) he fulfils that primary function of a nove- list, which is to start a story and keep it brisky rolling. One may Lot feel quite so affectionate as his creator evidently does towards. Spenser Scarsdale, that cup of rather thin old-or rather middle- aged wine either in his first self-

i was objected that the Bishop was revelation as a hospital orderly in

This book is less a novel than both prosecutor and judge, and it the War, given to inopportune pizzlements about the meaning of condensed history, of South Afri- was proposed that elective commit the great horror, or as an ineffce- ca, written in the form of fiction, tually genteel journalist contending from the earliest days of white against the angry effervescence off settlement to the year 1932" In the new wine of aggressiveness and these words the author sums up al licence in the post-War years. But work which to remarkabls alike for Mr. Deeping sees to it that you the impartiality with which con- the scope of its information and must be interested in Scarsdale's' fate and in surpense about his next flicting views and controversial misadventure, whether profession-problems are put to the reader's al, as his incapacity to write what consideration. "The rich cargo" is the cargo of civilization which the the new world wants becomes more ships of the white races have and more obvious, or amorous, as hi quixotically absurd wooing of brought to the black man's shores, Julia Marwood, the hard, rapa a cargo, no history shows, rich in.] cious young daughter of a War trouble as well as blessings. The time comzade by whose death-bed author is not, however, concerned

Raos Bowed on April 1. he bar stood, progressor to its in so much with the clash of colour

inevitably struck by European Jan. 20-The Cambridge Univer ovitable tragicomic catastrophe.

penetration with racial anti- And what next: Mr. Deeping pathies among the Europeans them-Bits Boat race crew tried a new set of ours during their training. The has always a now scene set, a new selves; here the responsible factors oars will be used in lock-to-lock figure ready to enter on its ene; have little to do with civilization trial to-day from Victoria Bridge and it is for him, not his review but are derived directly from polito Little Bridge. The eight bad a 6 to tell how Scaredale went cies and temperaments singularly down to the depths of penury in difficult to reconcile. These difi- long piece of rowing at twenty-six London before he was stripped of culties are illustrated by the mu to the minute on the return four his gentility and learned to write tual actions and reactions of the ney yesterday, and were unchanged about a life of which he had a Boer family, Van Zyl, and John for the second day in stipcession. tually experienced the sharp teeth Dale, the English settler, with the Oxford, who were unchanged, Fis might have still remained the consequences to their descendants. made two journeys to Litley, and

ribbit" that lie accused himself. As a romance it is inconclusive and back, and with the exception 20 often being but for a different rightly so, owing to its historical one or two short beysta were woman, wine. from the old bottle perspective; as a social study it stricted to paddling at a but of a stranger, rural quality, teaches conclusions with which of eighteen to twenty.

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