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GERMAN OBSTRUCTION OF PEACE EFFORTS.

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the native Troops follow their war work, now already seeming English leader against another so remote. Gwends is a lightly

Title native tribe, instead of attacking, natural

girl. lovable, the little garrison of Europests. Į plucky, and not violently There is a really dramatic touch intellectual. for all her smart about this, that it failed, the white nass. The little father with whom man would have been furced into the book begins is allowed to fall A COMMUNIST ROMANCE

treachery to his own people. Hejout of it too early. We could It is not easy to associate

risked all on the chance of being has done with more of Selwyn Communism with romance. The able to divert the attack, and & Silchester. His death was naad- history of the Soviets has been breathless moment of suspense is ed for the impoverishment of the writ in blood And misery.achiered for the reader All the family which was an incentive to Whether there i a brighters is absurd--especially where Gwenda's work beyond har future before the Bolsheviks Time

the hon. Bertie is comcerned. patriotism. But it is like fondling! must tell yet it is difficult 10 Spelt with a small b." and A rabbit that has to be killed, tol believe that good can come out of dragged in a hundred times a contract a liking for a character a tegime that executes thousands chapter, this horrid little sole cismin a novel who is doomed to perish after a mockery of a trial and is repeated until exasperation out of it so soon. has nothing to show in the shape early makes you shut the book: of constructive work.

Everyone, from his intimate This has not deterred Mr. R H. friends to the authfit, speaks of Barbour from making the Com-the poor man in this way, until munist State the subject of anthe climax, when he himself, in optimistic and, in its way, not disguise, is asked, Who are worthy novel. England not Russia is the scene of the outbreak pictured in Against the Red Sky "(Danisi. 7). The outbreak is more or less accidental, and Mr. Barhour preserves a fairly |obj.ctive attitude, giving us a

good sketch of the conditions)

"The Street of the Gazelle "by innder which something of the sor

Dulcie Desme: (Fisher Unwining.

It stated that there was no might conceivably occur, but the 03.) is a story of the Roman

offer on the part of transition from the capitalist to occupation of Palestine in New peace

in The summer of the Communist organization Testament days. The story deals Bazlard

a marked prob ⚫too smooth and easy to be quite with Greek slaves and galleys 1917, or even

that peace might convincing There is fighting, it and brutalities and touches on the ability

event of Scriptural be obtained, but that when the is true, and there are executions teatest by the Communist leaders, re

history. The language of the day. Papal action for peace was began ferred to rather casually; but being hardly susceptible of real re- there were possibilities of peace what the picture lacke, to make it production, has wisely been freely which out by been cursor SHORT SLEEVES correspond with reality as translated into modern idiom. examined by Germany. know it by recent experience, is The whole narrative is pictur-nds that in its formal treatment any suggestion of that inevitable eaque and full of action and of the Papal action Gerar plunge into a sea of blood and colour and romance. The licen-made blunders, though it considers ruthlessness into which revolutiousness of the time is dwelt on that, in view of the situation at tionary leaders are forced in their in rather protuse detail, but this the end of August, 1917. England counter-balanced, by theland France may have regarded attempts to master the immense s chaos which follows the break-spiritual quality in the love of the Papal action as not tending to down of established conditions. Evan and Cassandra. Revels their advantage. Mr. Barbour's Communists amash tion" was a better book: bus this the resistance of the White troops. shows the same vitality and equal

imagination.

we

and simultaneously improvize a new social organization with ap lease which is. from the revola- tionary point of view, a good deal

to be true;

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If "Snow Blind" by Katharine Newton Bart (Constable, 7s. 6d.) were ill-written it would be unlo

Herr Erzberger's statement that Gerniang obstructed the Papal efforts for peace in 1917 has now published the summary of its find-

ft

It further considers that the'

wbether the Pope's question peace move W&5 wrecked solely by German delay in giving & declaration with regard to the liberation of Belgium cannot be answered in the affirmative.

The Tageblatt, commenting on this finding, says that the care with which it is drafted shows that it is intended to convey only what is quite incontestable. If it is considered in conjunction with contemporary documents there can be no doubt that the pos- sibility of peace was stifled at birth by the deliberate treatment of the Curia inquiry.

REALLY GOOD SPECTACLES

The character through whose drama, almost from start to finish experience we see these happen. As the author's style has something ings is a young literary man. of restraint and terseness at the Richard Constable, who turna violent moments of the story, it is "Red" at a moment's notice. pore drams, and would make a apon instinct. as it seems, and excellent shortish play. The plot becomes a prominent figure in is new and strong. Character is the new order. There are, there, shut always subordinate to besides, a number of excellent action. The psychology is sacri- portraits of typicat figures in ficed at the end. No passion for the revolutionary world; the ex-a young, new face would have treme Labour leader, the Jewish been so easily satisfied by the sub- intellectual. the cynical news.stitution of a despised and long- paper man, and an ardent young familar one, under however novel Irish girl revolationist, Mr. Bar an aspect. This is lost sight of boor is good in most of his in the swiftness of the drama, are such a comfort to tired or individual portraits: so good, in- and would probably escape the strained eyes that their value If deed, in them and in the two

cannot be over-estimated. critic in a theatre. The rale is chapters in which, turning from clever, vivid, but no more.

your eyes need glasses, they his general view of the ravalu.

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That means (1) careful and expert From the title of his novel, examination; (2) precision in the attention upon two small, isolated Tyranny," (Collins, 7s. 6d.) one making; (3) adjustment to a incidents of the struggle that be may, perhaps, assume that Mr.icetz: (4) the best of materials. makes us feel that he is too spar- Holloway Horn is in rebellion All the above, the Hongkong ing in his use of his gifts for against that fiat of the Roman Optical Co., successors to Clark! fiction proper, and too much in Charch that admits impediment & Co, manufactoring and refract- clined to write in the general to the marriage of true minds ing opticians, the most competent terms of the historian, instead of when one of the minds belongs to optical establishment in South asing the novelist's method of a Catholic and the other does not Chips, located in 53, Queen's regarding external events only He shows so singularly little bias Road Central offer you. Testing in their relation to the thoughts in the working out of his story the sight and fitting glasses is and ernotions of individual that it is possible, but for the title, their exclusive business.

to take it as propaganda. The sturdy little Catholic heroine and In a farrago of sheer poosense, the high-principaled priest are оде episode stands out and both characters to be respected justifies Mr. Mar Pemberton in Most of the book does not deal Hindookban" (Mills, and Boon, directly with this question. It | 7,6d.). That is the episode where ¦ shows again the days of women's

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