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1922.

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MR. WELLS' NEW NOVEL

The work of Mr. R. G. Wells a moralist, which after all is his impart. Nevertheless he imparts *** most successful rats (not for-it. Sensibly enough, as between gating the cordial reception of jease and adviser, he discusses his "The Outline of History"k bas wife's failings as well as his own, beon rather broken into of recent and, sensibly enough, the failings years by his miscellaneous of his most permanent mistrəns Bi the author of well as of his wife. All that is to activities. As Tolumes upɔa + new call the point; it seems less necessary, system and others dealing with though it makes the wory easier! the scientific aspect of the reading. that he di vieses that universa Mr. Wells commanėls | mirrigas « using; Marto Lamas, many readers; but it is as the young pain er of distinction, creator of Kipps and the author whom we are, however, allowed of "Love and Mr. Lewisham." to see only through her reaction. "The New Machiavelli," or "Mr. on his mind, until the end of the Britling Sees It Through" that book, where she makes's brief ap- "H.G." is most popular. In his pearance, not thereby to be rec- works of fiction he has given fognised. zir Richmond has con. expression in the most accept sulted Dr. Martinesu because he able form to the social and believes himself to be on the verge scientific theories adumbrated in of a breakdown through overwork his other works.

fas he calls it but the doctor In "The Secret Places of the demurs in connection with some Heart" (Cassell, 66. Mr. variety of Commission enquiring Wella draws a convincing por-into the world's fuel supply. trait of a strong, hot silent, man, Martin Leeds, he seems to fancy, and then gets so frightened of his could make him whole again with barp that he must hire that mur-her love; but she, suffering from Demand, Boubay ... 1931

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In Yokohama......... 119 told. The story opens in the foolishness in one who is the Harley-street consulting roghn of mother of a three-year-old child Jemand, Manila

At Bath, sa ardentemand, Singapore, 11 Dr. Martineau. His speciality in by him. therapeutics is pot clearly de- and volable young American Demand, Batavia fined; for Sir Richmond Hardy beauty gives, or perhaps onlyn Haiphong

berself On Saigon gica bounces in on him and demands offers tonic for overwork as he might him, with both hands As she On Bangkok pick-me-up from the apothecary. bad already gives bersalf Sovereign Whereupon the doctorcourteously to an unsavoury artist shot for implies that he is a psychologist, cowardice.in France, one feels Dot a pharmacist, and launches vaguely surpised that Sir Rich- into

dissertation against mond had not the wit to admonish trifling with drugs, which shows her that ladies who make it a him to be an acknowledgeable custom to give themselves with fellow as regarde the pharmaco-both hands are prone to end with pais, but an incredible neuro-their hands full of gifts terrifyios locis:; for he trips up all edorts those of the daughters of of his patient to open his mind to Danaus Yet the love passages of him and, when forced to listen, the twain are handled with skill.

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ita contents. The man appears an intellectual solution of the to be not a medical practitioner, problem here posited of a strong. but a sociological amateur, burar- but no altogether ecallers, man ng with the pride of authorship torn between three loyales. The

doncs ment flooding his pacients ears and nervous systems with stream anticipated. of citations from his treatise unj the "Peychology of a New Age"

"Self," by Mr. Beverley Nichol Sall, grant that Martineau was Chatto and Windus. 7s 6), is a uccessful nerve-mender, or rattling study of an aventuress deemed by Sir Richmond a like with red hair and green eyes. ly enough nerve-tinker. to be Nancy Worth gets through an worth calling io, and you will amazing amount of life in an ex- have no fault find with hitremly short time.

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for his talk with Sir Ricbmo d We find her leaving the school makes "The Secret Place of the where she has heen a pupil. Heart" one of the most stimulat-teacher and we leave her hardly ing and human of all Mr. Welte more than two years later drifting human and stimulating book hack to a lascivious boxer in) It is almost as inconclusive 29 squalid Pimlico after some very "Ano Veronica, but nobler or successful adventures which in let us say, more robust. Witha,clude blackmailing an amoroos despite the somewhat sardonic vicar, marrying a wall-to da man. temperament of the

central becoming a mother, and putting fizara, it conveys an ebulliout herself completely in the power

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it is being lived. "in spite of who can give her seventy-fire in Mr Mayuabang 42 Bonbam "verything, in this England of a hundred at the game of exploit- | Road, from Shanghai. to-day.

Dr. Martineau, consistently There is nothing at all serious reversing the role of leech and about this extravaganza, but it patient, confides to Sir Richmond moves very briskly in the realm that he is fifty-seven. Sir Rich-of farce, tinged with melodrama, mond, with a grown-up son and while it lasts. The episodes at ▲ married daughter, though be Millfield. whore Nancy becomes claims to have married young, governess in the house of a very appears to be no less. The two greedy vicar and his coommand-Shanghai. make friends and go motoringing wife, is a typical one in this together; they arrive at Maiden kind of story head:--

A resort of honeymoon cou. ples," said the doctor, and then rather knowingly; "Temporary honeymoons, I fancy, in one or

two of the cages."

But her suborning of a young servant to hide behind the stady curtains while she entraps the vicar is a little too much to swallow. She gets two hundred pounds and blow on the month Decidedly temporary," said from the vicar, and starts again shocking Sir Richmond-considering the London with company-in roost of the episode in the Cafe Racine, after cases, anyhow. The two in the which she sobere down to corner might be married. You steady course) never toow nowadays."*

He became reflective...

After lunch and coffee he rowed the doctor up the river towards Cliveden.

Hiacheong 44 First Floor Das Voeux Road, from Shanghai.

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#bose brother narrian her. It would bare seemed almost be- rond stage stupidity that some months after her marriage she should have allowed her husband to take a furnished house for the summer at Millfed; but so it

"The last time I was here," he said, returning to the sub- ject, "I was bere on a tempor-was, because Mr. Nichols has ary honeymoon."

contrived & melodramatic finale.

The doctor tried to look as though he had not thought that sould be possible.

...

It would be diverting to see

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M.E. F. AIREY,

Superintendent

Hongkong, June 22, 1922.

This fragment summarises their the face of an exhumed and warmth, and individuality of Mr. attitude towards one another.resuscitated Puritan when Mr. Mais's man and girl. His novels Sir Richmond is concerned with S. B. P. Mais "Caged Birds" have a headlong realism tempered

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of Mr. Mais. the energy of man's soul. He in ear.

Temperature.... 85 81 85 No modern moralist will blame Humidity not a mere Bonaparte.-hrieking in strangely altered times when a

78 tha throes of bloody victory for a husbeind can discuss bis imcend- bis man for trying to escape from wench, but, in his subtler way, heling elopement with (1) his titularso unmitigated a nagging shrew is avid for women. Consciously wife; (2) ber officially recognised as poor Dings has in bis * sub-consciously, he wants "tame cat"; (3) the girl he pro- beauteous Ann. Anu is a little Weather ......... Martineau to prescribe for him as poses to clope with; (4 the parents beyond the limit of the convincing. Rain.... did the Harley-street of Jeru-of the girl; and (5) varicas friends She is the type that you may see Highest-open 2 salem for Darid; but the doctor, of both sides. Everyone or pursuing a mild mate until he

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being a kindly and broad-minded fearly everyone is really very turns upon her, then clamouring Temperature on the 22nd 87 seläntist still thinking Victoriably nice about it, in the style of the to all and sundry. Denys Lowest oper with them who tore down the characters in "Getting Married." eventually betakes himself to to en-There is a great deal to be said for another fair lady of less exacting anthropomorphia Jove throne the graven image of Mrs. the frank, straightforward type. We may pity Denys bla Grundy shakes bis helpless head method--and certainly * 707 matrimonial experience-but the and murmure: -- Gall, dominoes, great deal for the sincerity, Puritan would gasp.

Temperature on the 23rd 81 T. F. CLAXTON, Dizsator. HL. Observatory, June 23.

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