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THE CAMFORD VISITATION

By H. G. Wells (Methuen, 28.)

Fyou had been in the uni- versity town of Camford this spring you might have hoard and scen strange things. For, just about that time, a Voice made itself known in the sacred precincts of learning. A slightly metallic, very civil Voice but merciless and Inexorable. I myself wasn't there to hear it. Nelther, I fancy, were you. But Mr. Wells tells us all about it in this little story—his latest parable for the world and, incidentally, the fourth book we have had from him within a year. A hint to some of our hesitant younger writers? But, then, H. . almost always has something to say....

Well, that Volce first spoke in the dining-room of Holy Innocents Col- lege. The Master was talking to some colleagues, deprecating a monstrous proposal for selling up schools in modern commercial and industrial his tory. The Early Greeks had got on beautifully without all that sort of erudity, and so could Camford,

At which point the Volee suld, very clearly and distinctly." What do you mean by education?” scented to come from the carpet. But, when they ifted the carpet, there was nothing there. And then the Voice was heard by little Trumber, one of those donnish folk who play around in a genteel literary world and hate and detest "the self-educated errand-boy vul- garity of Shakespeare, liardy or Dickens." The Voice didn't spare his feelings.

"What is this iterature you are talk- ing about?" it asked, "What in tha name of time and the stars do you think you are doing here?

After which the voice really got down. to business. telling professora and deans_what_hopeless, helpless failures they were. "You realise neither the dangers nor the possibilities of hum3331 life. You fail to organise. You fall to educato...

Intelligence Barred

"In quite a Rile while now, in a few decades at most, it will be pos- sible for any small body of desperate men to polson your whole atmosphere, sweep your world bare with infections or blow you planet to pieces. You.Here will do notdog to anticipate and pre- vent that

"When the catastrophe comes may- be it will all And Camford dressed up in its gowns and its Gothic, perform- ing its age-old functions of keeping education within limits and obstruct- ing the growth of any controlling in- telligence in the world."

I shan't disclose the climax of this strange affair, Suffice it to say that the Voice, which speaks in oddly fami- * Jar. Wellainn accents to the end, anys lis devastating say and leaves the unl- versity two clear alternatives-to stew in its complacent juice or to See What Can Be Done Before It Is Too Late.

The parable form perfectly suits the author's commluatory genius. Not a word is wasted. Individuals and types are nketchrd-and pillarled with n few acid touchica The humour in deadly, The Indictment mounts almost imperceptibly until, suddenly, mankind itself is up for judgment,

I should like to think this tale would lead all our universities-especially the older ones-to hold inquiries on thern- selves. Meanwhile. The Camford Visitation naka, in alightly metallic, very civil, inexorable accents, to be rend.

KATIINA

By Sally Salminen (Thornton Butterworth, 73, 68.j

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ERE is a novel written by a kitchenmaid while she was working in the household of an American millionaire-a novel Go good that Nobel Prizewinners Bigrid Undset and Selma Lagerlof have sung its praises.

In my view, the author would deserve that praise even II the world were not so full of snobs that finding a servant to be artist did not arouse surprised comment. For she has n natural talent for storytelling-and she has used it to write about tho ihings she knows,

Ierself the daughter of a poor Finnlah sailor and farmer, she tells u about just such a woman as her child. hood neighbour might finve been. Life on the Aland Islands is not easy, and Katrina, married to a shiftless hus-

The Time of My Life

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band, had a hard time. But she also "had"caursgo and integrity:

She and her children worked on the land while her irresponsible mate was at scn. Existence was an incessant struggle with poverty and the elementa, Yet it was a full and useful life, and. for all those tragic experiences and bitter disappointments, Katrina lef! me stimulated and admiring.

Bally Balminen obviously did not brood over her pots and pans. Remem- bering what was best in the land she had left, she has recorded it faithfully and joyfully here.

R. P.

"DANGLE"

HERE I LIE

By Alex, M. Thompson ("Dangle") Introduction by Lord Snell

(Routledge, 155.)

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friend "Dangle" kas written one of the livelient and most entertaining auto- biographies I have read for a long time.

Born in Germany seventy-six years ago" through no fault of nine"-he went through the Paris Commune, be came a Bocialist in the old plonter days, drifted into journalistri, anw France, Belgium, Blockholm. Petro- grad and Moscow during and, after the Great War, served under Noru elife, became a playwright and now," in his ripe old age, ends tip where he began. a convinced Bocialist.

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to like this cannot help being full of vivid memories and striking personalities. Thero is, for instance, that Socialist function in Manchester in the early days when Banger's circus sent a lion cub, which Kathering Conway named "Dangle" by pour- ing over its reluctant head a bottle of champagne.

There is William Morris-"; glant of a man with a heng of naturally clustered curls ...with the breezy air and even the rolling gait of a Viking."

Then there is H. M. Hyndman, the frock-coated and alk-hatted stock- broker, a long-bearded county cricketer- like W. G. Grace, standing on swap- boxes and selling Justice, the old Boctalist weekly paper, in the Strand. And Kelr Itardie,"In his light brown trousers, his short blue cloth jacket, his purple mumer and his cling-soled boots,"

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