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Notes and Notions

MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1923,

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another know that the author is going to unsuccessful" moustache, who MODERN YOUNG WOMAN. nose in one former make this aspect of human frailty has found nothing to keep bis

jcaused by too much liberty, which into a romance. Matters move soul alight except the dream of

she has not yet learned to: swiftly with this impossible hero, travel, fostered by the cinema

Her Ambition and View of use. The majority, found no for ho falls in love with the girl | and made explicit by the colleo-

Modern Man.

fault with their parents, end On Current Literature.. he meets there, and marries bar!tion of tourist programmes. It is According to a canvass made though quite a number considered

He returns to Peking, assumes this "spark of grace" in M. by the New York Times among the that parents are too conservative. Yet another, handbook on the "abe is my wife, so what Wreen, fanned by a windfall of girl students of Vassar College, 90 and too old fasioned, few thought Malava (British Malaga, that is) about It" attitude, and prosum- a few hundred dollars, that even-"

per cent. of modern young women they are too indulgent. One or has been issued, and will be ably is greatly surprised when tually kindles courage, energy, still rogard marriage and children two complained tragically of the? welcomed by all who want to get given the sack from his post. He and all that lay bonesth his rou-as their highest ambition, as op- lack of paraan al interest, with "noi: in small compass a treatise og returns to Japan, and decides to tine-ridden commonplace. Mrposed to a professional career, and link but that of prosaic duty.** the country, its people, their become a subject of that country. Lewis allows himself some licence the great majority have thoughts The overwhelming majority language and literature their Later, war breaks out between in the figure of the sophisticated very similar to those of their declared that modern man is history, arts and crafts, the Lora Britain and Japan, his wife com- young country woman who amus mothers and grandmothere. The conceited and selfish and too food and fauna and geology, industries, mits suicide, leaving him a notated herself with Mr. Wrenn in inquiry was promoted to test the of liquor, with a tendency to con- commerce of the past and future, telling him he must side with his "Yurup" but, granted the cop-criticism of the modern girl-that centrate on making moneyinstond and the present administration own nationals, and he apprcditions, his attachment certainly she is intoxicated with her new of facquiring culture, but that he under representatives of the King priately shoots himself. There played the part of "a liberal educ-freedom, dabbles in dangerous is not half-bad at that."--Daily of England. All this is embodied in is the whole thing in a nutshell.ation," and his development runs herosice, religious, social, and

Telegraph. Malays: The Straits Settlements Quite a good plot for a modern very truly from the point where political, and expects to shirk

EASY MARKS. and the Federated and Urfoderat melodrama, on the whole, *he know that she had made jokes the responsibilities of bome- ed. Malay States," edited by. Dr.

Scene, Germany; Time, now But where the author does for him, but he didn't exactly making and motherhood. Moet Railroad Ticket Agents "Bere R. O. Winstedt; illustrated with harm to those he would exalt in know what they whore. Mr of the girls questioned believed you must have your baggage photographe and maps (Constable, in his suggestion, throughout the Lewis bas the knack of touching that there is nothing fundamental examined before you can leave, 12. not). Dr. Winstedt is in- book, that prostitution is a off the reciprocal impressions of ly wrong with the modern giri, Traveller That isn't my bag ternationally known TA an astional institution in the land of the two hemispheres.

and that her worst fault is selfish-gage; that's my pocketbook. authority on the literature and the rising sun, that the women of "Roast Leviathan," by Louis art of the country, and his helpers easy virtue, there are all most Untormeyer (Cape, 7/6) is a colleo- include the authorites" on the honourable, are accepted into the tion of poeme, some good and different sections of information best circles, and so on and so others not, with an uncertain style dealt with; for instance.Dr. F. W. forth. All thie, of course, is no and American leanings. Some Foxworthy, formerly of the highly exaggerated as to do harm of the bost have Jewish subjects ; | Philippines forestry research, to his originalides. He bae some many disclose the influence of deals with

that branch of interesting observations to make Browning. On the whole it is al Malaya's wealth.

on the Europeans in the East, book for the collector of modern, The book is well printed and especially with 麤 background and modernised, versification. arranged, and there is a valuable coloured map included among the hai Club. It is a book worth illustrations. Altogether it is a reading, provided one knows ba essential possession for anyone forehand what the real facts of who has to do with the country.the matter are. We tool real We cannot conclude without the sorry" for the future tourist, or following extract (by Dr. Winsted) new comer, to the Far East who which all who have known the forms bie, or her, impressions of real Malay will agree is an ex- the place from a prior perusal of cellent description:-

The Impeseive features of the Malay have a frank, ready amile for friends and for the ludicrous.

or

consisting of the bar in the Shang-

this novel.

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To friends bois loyal so long as of Mr. Sinclair Lewis, wakong Optical Co., successor to they can serve or interest him, published in America nine years Clark & Co., refracting and and perhaps an enervating climate ago, but is now reigned for manufacture opiticians, located prevents him from cherishing English readers (Cape, 7/6): The in 53, Queen's Road Central great passions and undying en-well-meaning of American bu manufacture lenses as safe, a thusiasms. His wife bo loves manity, and pathos of its impri-nearly perfect and as satisfactory. frantically in youth, and later sonment and standardisation in as can be produced by the com defers to her from the babit of an the service of the machines,"bination of human ingenuity and easy-going temperament and perare distinctly presented here, constructive machiney of the

the post war haps the subconscious obsession as in

booke highest type. of bygone centuries of ma- which have, become so well- doll known in two hemispheres. triarchy: she is never

Entertain your friends with a shrewd, Mr. Lewis has the feeling of the a chattel, but

VICTROCA onergetic helpmate. The only true humorist. There is not a common occasions of polygamy, touch of real disparagement or divorce and infidelity are the impatience in his portrait of temptations of high rank, pride of the little sales clerk with the purse and childlessness. Children the Malay loves, and, though he indulges and never strikes them, his method of upbringing produces paragons of perfect mannore "and. filial love "and obedience. Bork into a society with an elaborate etiquette, which it is his pride to observe, be is a good judge of the social standing and breeding even of foreigners. And albeit a con- vinced if tolerant Muhammadan, he judges actions: instinctively, not by Muslim commandments, but ae seemly or unseemly as one judges the 'complexion of a flower." He has a keen and cynical souse

but pride of humour, hie race, his breeding and bis religion rather than humour Bolaces him when he is the victim of rudeness from a foreignar. 'His courage,' ar Svettenbäm says,is as good as most men's, and there is about him an absence of servility, which is unusual in the East,* Ha resents insult) bitterly, is sar sitive to ridicule and sarcasm, but responds to praise and encouragement. „Ás a youth he is inclined to swagger and be extravagant; with the coming of years he tightens his purse-strings and turna agriculture. village politics and religion. Always he is adroit and diplomatic. And except when! spoilt by an English adunation in & cosmopolitan welter of foreign students, be has the charm of a gentleman trained from the cradle in good manners and social tact.*

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A Novel of Nippon.. "Save us from our friends" might be the exclamation of many Japanese on reading "Flower of Asia," by Gilbert Collins (Duck- worth & Co, London. 7/6). The author's sub-title for the book is A Novel of Nihon," and he might more correatly baro oalled it a fantasy. No doubt he has been in Japan, but he has bad little more, we fear, than the globe-trotter's impressions of the country. What be did not actually know, he has made up for with a fertile imagina. tion. He writes well, and his novel sbould become popular with those who do not know the country" of which he writes, or its people: And the pity of it is that Mr. Collins is friend of the Japanese -be rooke to defend their doings, whilst merely making matters wores. Presumably he read Kimona," and decided on acounter-blast. Here is the outline of the story he tells

The hero, a Briton in the Fe king diplomatic service named Barranger, arrives on a steamer at Yokohama, and finds his way, by aid of companion, to brothel there. Baright away we

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