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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

At laat, into his new, short novel, "The Quirk and the Dead" (Heine mann, G.), Mr. Gerald Bullett has put the whole of himself. His onglier books bave made him known as a novelist and short-story writer with an instinct for cool, clear-cut prose, and an unshakable belief in fiction as a means of crystallizing life's fundamental problems. We have long know that he has the gift of distilling the essence of childhood and adolescence, Д direst belief in heanty, and in the natural innocence of men and women, and an equally direct haired of cruelty, injustice; and culpable ugliness of that sort.

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MR. GERALD BULLET'S

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MR. SQUIRE'S STORIES Mr. J. C. Squire, who has long been known as a poet, a critic, and an editor, now appears for the sa stories, and not, as one might ex cond time a writer of short

peet, poetical or intellectual stories. but pieces in a light, popular man- "Outside The stories in Eden" (Heinemann, 75. Gd.), are hardly to be taken seriously, per- haps, by the reviewer. They

ELIND they not badly written, nor brilliantly written. They are the sort of pieces a writer throws off in the intervals f more serious of a Cockney tipster who tins a work. But there is one good story

man a winner that he pretends to back and doesn't, with disastrous results, and there is also a stimu- lating piece of satirical comedy, "Professor Gabbit's Revolution," in which the Shakespeare Bacon business is mercilessly handled. The best piece, however, is the shortest; a slight sketch of a man who came unobtrustively, day after day, to read in the British Museum, not speaking much to anyone and looking like a very respectable Continental

His shopkeeper. name WAS Vladimir Uliano): otherwise Lenin."

MURDERS!

In fact, a courageous directness seems to me to be the quality which distinguishes Mr. Bullett. It comes -out in his prose, which is free of all tricks. It comes out in his often disconcerting understanding ond dismissal of conventional ideas of religion and morality. It comes out

MR. BROOKS' NEW STORY. in his choice of characters, which are generally simple people, funda The only complaint about "Mr mentally innocent (like the shoe Daddy-Detective," by Mr. Collin Brooks (Hutchinson, 78. ed.), is that maker and his wife and son in this there is not enough of Mr. Daddy book) or inexplicably evil and fien in it. He makes an excellent en- dish like the preacher, Mr. Floer) try into the book, with bis mild All of Mr. Bullett's books have been odditics of London topography, and manner and his knowledge of the

experiments directed towards one this disappears for far too long, end-to discover some new way of in fact until the story is almost stating the problem which the told. Mr. Brooks will have to think and work a little harder simultaneous existence of joy and before he writes as good a story sorrow, beauty and ugliness, good as his natural talents lead one to and evil, love and cruelty, sets for expect from him. He should know mankind. It may be a problem that it does no good to dub & de- tective inspector "Doleful" Doben- without a solution; but we can atham and then give him no special least struggle to get a clear sight character in either speech or man- of it, that the working philosophy ner. His failure here is due to by which we contime to live etion, since the elusive Mr. Daddy not be founded on chaos. -

Supernatura Hieror. “

In Mr. Bullett's philosophy. it scems, man begins in natural inno cence, and evil is the result of its perversion. Mr. Fleer, the embodi- ment of malevolence in "The Quick and the Dead," is the cause of the unhappiness and final supernatural horror which overtakes Shoemaker Calary and his wife and son. The Fleer is not a person,' but a fiend; Mr. Bullett, I surmise, needing an object for his hatred, had to banish every human quality lest his syn- pathy should betray him :--

no want of skill in characteriza-

is quite convincing. It must be "dua" to the erroneous belief that

an epithet is enough. Edgar Wal lace, from whom this trick is ob viously borrowed, knew much better than that, Mr. Brooks also knows much better, as the bulk of his en tertaining book amply shows.

The Motor Bally Mystery."

There is a limit to the ingenuity and complication of the murders which can be admitted in detective stories and I think that Mr. JOHN RHODE, has by a little overstepped it in "TaE MOTOR RALLY MYSTERY (COLLINS, 75. Bd). In agree that the detective story is in essence a fairy- Mr. Fleer began, most probably, story and that one does not expect with a reference to Calamy's shit to conform to the realities of sence from chapel the previous Sun life. But it does use the machiners day evening; and from that point of real life, not of some other proceeded with oily sorrow to dis world, for its development, and it cuss the behaviour of my mother, of ought not to make one think a which, in fact, he knew nothing bu hundred times that no murderer what idle or malicious tongues had in his senses would employ a me told him I cannot but believe that thod which involved a hundred he get pleasure from bis task, and chances to one against his victim I conceive it to be more important

even being killed. Of course, in to understand than to blame him. Mr. Rhode's book, as in all books of this sort, one begins with the death, and in Mr. Rhode's books of the sort, one is inevitably drawn on to admire the process of detec- tion. But though I wa thus drawn on to the end of this book,

for that.

The dilemma is between that last sentence and the hatred that will cut in with oily BOTON" You an only hate a man if you forget he is human, and so in spite of

that interpolated forgiveness, Mr. I venture to put in a plea for sim- Fleer inevitably becomes inhuman pier murders.

- ghoulish, unforgettable horror.

And yet hin evil essence is extract.

ed from conventional piety, chas tity, and respectability; --

Sydney Fowler's Complicated

Story,

Mr. Sydney Fowler is too good, A Strange Heroine,"

and not quite good enough," for what he has attempted in "Arrest Or the other hand, Essie, Calamy, ing Delia" (Jarrolds, 78. Bd).); he cannot quite allow his band to be the shop-maker's wife, although in

Ea the first year of her marriage she subdued to what it works in, allowed a secret lover to fathen her and he wants to manipulate char wants to work a complicated plot Bon, and told the truth about it to actors with living and interesting Calamy seven years afterwards, yet motives, and he cannot quite man- retained unhurt her husband's won

re both. He does each by flashes, dering affection. her own innocence and each in its turn wail, but he and happinese, and her love for the

never gets them to agree. How- real father. She is tely beauti-ever, no one who reads his account ful a erenture as even Mr. Bullett of how a young lady paused be has portrayed for us, her beauty tween reglster office and honeymoon unfolding and revealing, itself in fathes as the tale goes on, But she is (like love itself), in the worda el conventional piety, chastity, and respectability, a sinner, and under the rebukes of these unsparing vir- tuce under the baneful oyes of Fleer the sickens, is deformed, and dies.

to look in at her "let furnished" flat and there found a bleeding corpse, but will pursue the my". stery to the end.

"The Fellowship of Five." There are no murders in "The

Fellowship of Five" by Mr. Frank Johnston (Long, 78. ed.), only E Space will not allow me to tell demonstration of what mugs maka more of the story. The book is up the racing community, in this written in the form of a man's country. Tive Mancunians are de- memory of his boyhood, and the puted to balance their country's golden air of the dream of the past hopeless Budget by ingenious frauds mon déncately recorded. Not run ung vunny & rict Vitrées, una Am I sure that the mild, wise they succeed. I do not suppose humorous, nad loving old shoe that the story would pass the ex- maker is not an we better. exam amination of an expert, but what ple of the art of character drawing does that matter? than Essie herself. In The Quick und the Dead Mr. Bullett han done justice to all four the w the poet the humanist, and 1 child that live m bim, Frank Ken don, in John O'London's

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