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THE BOOKSHELF.

"JOURNEY'S END:" THE NOVEL.

Those who have seen "Journey's End" as a play, as well as those appearance in novel form.

DAY BY DAY.

'TIS MUCH TO WOUND A FOE; -*TIS MORE TO SAVE HIM AND TO WIN A FRIEND-Eric Mackay,

+

The Very Idea!

"That cheque I gave on our bank has come back," complained the wife to her husband. "What do

"No funds, I suppose."

to realize on industral capital would who have not, will welcome its from Manila by the as. President you suppose they did that for?"

be increased. Its extension would be restricted. The desire to invest abroad would be increased. The "light from the pound' would mean a higher Bank rate at a time when industry is looking for it to go lower and yet lower."

Taking the situation as it is, the

Mr. and Mrs. P. Jacks returned it Lincoln.

has been so published by Messrs. Victor Gollancz, of London, at 73.* 6d. net, and is now on sale prac-! Mr. A. V. Valenteal, Consul for tically all over the world. Vernon France in the Philippines, arrived Bartlett has collaborated with here by the B.8. President Lincoln, R.C. Sheriff in writing the book, en route to Paris. and the result is a novel of out- standing merit.

During the week ending Thurs- day last members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade made 2,371 vaccinations, free of charge.

Little need be said of the theme, for by now it is well known. fact is becoming evident that cou-Suffice it to say that we have in ditions do not pormit-and will not "Journey's End" one of the most i permit for a long tims to come-of impressive and realistic presenta- | Among the passengers who all tions of life in the trenches evered by the 8.8. Sauerland on Satur proceeding further along the path put on paper. What is more, it day was Mr. Rupert Laldwin, or of social expenditure of the Widows has a moral which cannot be es-ganist of St. Andrew's Church, Pensions and Unemployment In-caped. Not all plays make good Kowloon and Mrs. Baldwin. Dur surance Bill type of expenditure, books: "Journey's End" is a ing the absence of Mr. Baldwin,

notable exception.

the duties of organist will be taken The authors that is to say, which is concerned have admirably kept the theme on over by Mr. R. H. A. Woolley. with the redistribution of wealth, the right plane, and have shown and which is essentially unproduc- war in all its grimness and tra- After being re-conditioned st gedy. It is n, book which will be Home, H.M.S. Cumberland (Capt. tive in its character. On the con read more than once, and so LF. Potter) arrived in Hongkong trary, one of the clearest morals of powerfully has it been written over the week-end and is now Britain's present difficulties is the that the reader will often find moored to No. 5 Buoy in the Naval himself imagining that he is an for a few days and, it is under

Anchorage. She will stay in port- ruinous wastefulness of our large-

eye-witness of the happenings scale unemployment. It remairis a around which the story has been stood, will proceed to Shanghai

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Mister Jackson, er-1 would like to-er-that is, I have been going out with your daughter for Avo years."

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*

(The "love age" is regarded as the dangerous period for motor- iste.)

With a "honk" or a "hoot" Stre

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Come from Phyllis, divinely

seraphic. ......

Cupid's bursting with zcal when..

there's youth at the wheel. And the pace becomes faster

and faster,

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When a lnd courta a lass-and

disaster.

*

"Has this book got a love in- terest?"

"Yes, sir." "Humour?" "Yes, sir," der? Action? Drama?"

"Cowboys?

Detectives? Mur- "Sorry, sir, try this dictionary at

maintenance of every unemployed "The Newspaper of To-morrow." Kowloon Bowling Green Club man imposes a direct charge on

Harold Herd, who has writtened a most appetising steak and members and a few guests enjoy- public funds, equivalent to about many books dealing with literary kidney pie dinner at the Club one-third of the wages he would subjects, has some extremely in- earn in work, and a much larger in-teresting forecasts of the future Lane, Crawford's did the catering house on Saturday night: Messrs. of journalism in "The Newspaper and provided a direct charge when the consequences of To-morrow," published by Following the toast of the King, 5s. 6d.”

substanial meni. of diminished national productiv-Messrs. George Allen and Unwin, proposed by the President of the ity are reckoned in. It remains Ltd., of London, in 3s. 6d. and 29. Club (Mr. H. Nish), an excellent

6d. editions. true that a vigorous policy of na-among those pessimists who pre-

The author is not musical programme was contributI told my wife I was going to be Husband, at West London: When tional development is one of our diet increasing domination of theed to by Messrs. Nish, L. Jeeves, boss she hit me on the head with great needs, that, there is large Press by financiers and a

Blackley, Davidson (banjo), Fer- & poker. cor-

guson, Whitta, West, Danks and responding decline in real

Clerk, at Highgate, to woman— scope for such a policy, if it is tack-

fluence. On the contrary, for piano. It was a most enjoyable

Fraser, with Mr. Fleming at the Will you answer my question?

Woman-If led in the right way, and that it reasons which he sets forth, he night, and the hope was generally put an end to the case, and 1 I do it will. would be calculated: té relieve the believes that the newspaper will expressed that there would be want to air my point of view. burdens of the present situation, not it will play a growing part in Brimany similar functions in the fu- tiine to pay a fine. P.C.-He has

steadily gain in quality and that

A Willesden prisoner asked for

to add to them.

Telephone to America,

in

COM-

are

tain's national life.

in-

left

ture.

£3 on him, sir. Prisoner (aghast) It is shown that the cause that

But that is my capital. brought about the last great

In the Times of March 29, it was Liverpool Magistrate (to woman, change in journalism (the North-announced that Commander E. G. accused of having been drunk, who cliffe influence, which has

Morris, from the Senior Officers' was making her 151st appearance), its mark on all popular journals) pointed to the Tamar, depot-ship have had 150 chances. The woman Technical Course, has been ap-What can we do with you? You was universal education, and the at Hongkong to succeed Com--I will go into a convent. author considers that the be the rising standard of general 11. Commander Morris specializ-tempt to stop my wife's tongue. of the next transformation will complete three years there on May I am certainly not going to at- cause mander F. H. D. Byron, who will Man at Shoreditch County Court culture. The change, he hazards, ed in torpedoes, and when war may be evolutionary rather than broke out was torpedo lieutenant revolutionary.

In

manner,

Modern Fiction.

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of the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, Lady with jug. (after twenty

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Peace must no longer be an in- terval between one war and another, liberate accepted state of life be-.- but must be established as the de- tween the countries of the world.- Mr. Clynes.

STALKY?

With the provisions of Mr. Snowden's Budget still in mind, it is interesting to observe that for some time past there has been considerable discussion within the

Considerable discussion has Labour Party on the possibilities of followed the suggestion increased taxation of the rich. England that when the projected Controversies within the Party, telephone cable is laid between arising out of the IL.P. pro- Britain and America the contract | paganda of "Socialism in our time," will be awarded to Germany. It have long made it clear that this was announced in the House of

a thoroughly interesting in which he served until after the minutes gossip); Well, I must be Commons last week that the

the author gives his Battle of Jutland, when he was goin'. My husband is waitin' for issue was lurking in the back-

British Government

views on Cuture trends, both in appointed to the will

his milk to cool his tea with. ground, but, as a writer recently tribute half the cost of the new

staff of the regard to newspapers and perio- Vernon. He was promoted in pointed out, its implications have cable, providing that it gives reaches would appear to be based was executive officer of the Sydney do a public wrong-Mr. Clough

dicals, and the conclusions he December, 1920, and in 1924-26 There can be no private right tos: been obscured until recently by the satisfactory results, This deci-on sound grounds, refleeting as when flagship of the Australian Williams-Ellis. fact that all sections of the La- sion has been reached in order they do the considered opinion Flect. He afterwards served in I am not an intellectual-Mr. bourites have stood for policies en- that Great Britain shall maintain of one who is thoroughly qualified the Torpedoes and Mining Depart- Baldwin. tafling large increases in the volume its position as a telephone centre for the task which he has essayed. ment, Admiralty.

and is one to which no exception of social expenditure, and have en-

can be taken. The possibility of

fanatie, who believes he can re- tertained a vague belief that these the

A further batch of Ward, Lock volutionise the world by certain new cable being made in policies could somehow be carried Germany, however, has justly Company's novels, all of treatments of patients who come into effect without increasing taxa-given rise to concern and since Colonial Library series. is

which are included iza their under his spell. The main plot Were another life offered to me,.. tion very much.

the contract for the cable alone hand.

to is cleverly worked out, and there I would travel the same road with Thrillers and mystery are thrills galore, especially in the same companion-Mra, Philip is likely to run to well over two stories predominate-not of More recent developments have million pounds, it is a matter of cheap and badly-written variety, the doctor's clutches of a beautiful

the connexion with the rescue from Snowden. brought the divergencies of La- considerable importance that it

I feel tremendously sorry for but well up to the standard which girl. Mr. Dawe is well-known as those girls who choose their work.. bour on the subject into sharper should be Aecured by Great

we always associate with this the writer of many gripping rather than marriage, BA108 outline. In this connexion, few Britain, where there are two firms

well-known firm of publishers. stories; those who know his work Charlotte Cowdray. Socialists were prepared for the engaged in the manufacture of Stephen Keller, is one of the best best efforts.

"Thieves' Nights," by Harry will concede this to be amongst his The best you can say för govern-

ment is that it is a necessary evil.- situation confronting Mr. Snowden, cables. The only other country in of the mystery novels in this Jesse Templeton is at his best Sir Hugh Bell. who, even so long ago as Christmas, the world in which cables batch. Being the chronicles of in "Clay-Face," which is note- made is Germany. One of the Bayard de Lancey, King of worthy alike for excellent charao- painted out that even if the pre-British cable companies, has just Thieves, it comprises many stories terisation and thrilling incident.

not spent shown a trading loss for the first conceived is the book that

within a story, but so cleverely it is the story of a mysterious WHO WAS- a farthing, increased taxation time in the present century. Tt

the leader of a band of crooks whose would be inevitable, owing to the laid the first Atlantic cable in 1866 tangled skeins are all unravelled face has never been seen by even when the end is reached, The his most trusted lieutenant, for he failure of revenue to come up to and has for long held an unsuspense is maintained until the always wears a mask. How he expectations. To the school of rivalled position in submarine very last chapter. Mr. Keeler succeeds in kidnapping Ann Dixon, thought represented by the more cable manufacture. The sugges, has written many vivid stories, a pretty typist, and forces her to forward element of the Party, in- tion, therefore, cannot be credited but none more exciting that this make a mysterious marriage with-

that the new telephone

The hero is a man of ad-out knowing how she is tricked cluding Mr. Maxton and Mr. Wheat-which, if a success, will certainly a father to impersonate his dead movement and hair-breadth adven- cable venture, and when he is paid by into it, is told in a story full of ley, the solution of the problem has be followed by others, is to be son, the situation is created been the imposition of heavier manufactured in Germany. Still so remarkable a set of events that "The Fighting Spirit," by Effic taxes on the rich. They have ar- there has been no definite state no over of the ingenious can Adelaide Rowlands, is an enter- gued, however, that caution must ment from the British Post Office. afford to miss this book.

taining novel of a rather different be observed, and that the wealthy The Director of Telegraphs and Of a different atamp, but just type to those already mentioned. as full of thrills, is "The North It tells of a young Society girl with must be gradually accustomed to Telephones recently stated that the higher burdens they will have sections of cable for testing is Submarine Division and the Naval professional dancer and incurs the Sim-a passion for dancing, who makes the experimental work of making Sea Mystery," by Harry

monds, late of the Naval Anti- the undesirable acquaintance of a to bear. Unfortunately for this still proceeding and that tenders Intelligence Division. This is jealousy of his partner. The prin- school. Mr. Snowden apparently will not be lovfted for another story of how a group of ex-Ser- cipal character is well drawn, and does not appear to ahare their view. six months. He added that he vice officers, under the direction a feature of the novel is the treat- Evidence of this fact has been hoped that Britain would get the of a war-time head in the Secret ment of her courageous innocence found in the circumstance that, Mr. contract. If Great Britain is con- Service, set out to investigate which carries her through and en-

suspicious J. H. Hudson,

Chancellor's tributing half the cost of a highly some

circumstances ables her to rescue the woman who the

expensive cable development, then that had been noted on a lonely hated her. It is a wholesome Parliamentary Secretary, has point she should be in a position to part of the German coast. They story. excellently written, edly declared, in the course of an ar- influence the placing of the con- conspiracy to destroy the British Katharine Tynan, is a novel which, unearthed a gigantic international "The Admirable Simmons," by ticle, that there are dangers in tract and no agreement should be Navy, and how this was check if opening somewhat slowly, deve- pushing the taxation of the rich signed unless a British industry mated by the audacity. and lopa until it holds the reader's at- too far. He shows how easy it is helped by the expenditure of cleverness of an English spy tention by reason of the vivid would be for various classes of tax-something like a million pounds.

makes one of the most exciting treatment of the principal charac- tales of adventure written for ter and the surprises which he payers to escape the attentions of

many a long day. There is more causes. Simmons was the ideal the Inland Revenue by the expedient

over, a pretty romance woven into man-servant, animated, seemingly, Vessels arriving from Swatow the tale. The author stresses the, by self-sacrifice and self-abnega- yesterday reported that the Mas point that this is a novel, and that tion. But as the story develops he kee has, again returned to Swatow nothing in it should be misread or comes out in his true light and, in view of the unfavourable occa misrepresented to be a slight to of course, opinions of his "ser- She has set out from any persons or nationalities in vice" have to be considerably re- tie, and might, if taxaton were Swatow for Hongkong three times

volved.

vised; in what respect, we will not largely Increased, gain much by and on each occasion has had to Dawe, is exciting to a degree. It reader's enjoyment. Quite a well "The Missing Clue," by Carlton say; to do so would spoll. the transferring their offices abroad. return, winds and tides being concerns the activities of Dr. written story, maintaining its in- “Any rapid increase of taxation," against the junk,

Warling, prominent alienist and ferest to the end.

of residence abroad. He points out that this applies not only to individuals, but to various classes of companies, which would lose lit- slons.

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forture.

In spite of the fact that the adventures of Stalky and his cronies, Turkey and Beetle, provide the most deliriously amusing school story ever written, "Stalky and Co.," it is more than likely that Stalky in the flesh would cause, more annoyance than amusement to He the majority of beings. was a difficult boy to under- stand, self-willed, more than a little conceited, and possess- ed of a diabolically acuto intelligence which found its main outlet in practical jokes for the discomfiture of his fellows and the exasperation? of established authorities,

Stalky cannot be called a typical · · English · school-boy. He was too aloof, too much of an individualist for that, and he did not grow up into a typical Englishman, yet for all that he was of the stuff on which the Empire is built.. He had all the virtues of his. unsocial characteristica. En. crises he was self-reliant, End the very perverseness which made him stubborn at school, made of him an indomitable fighting man. The junior subaltern whose ingenuity had baffled his masters Land" school-fellows did "splendid work against the crafty tribes of the Indian border.

The original of Stalky was a school-friend of Kipling, and. recently been published his reminiscences- have