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THE CAMFORD VISITATION

By IL G. Wells (Methuen, 2s.)

F you had been in the uni- versity town of Camford this spring you might have heard and scen strange things. For, just about that time. a Volce made itself known in the sacred precincts of learning. A slightly metallic, very elvil Voice -but merciless and inexorable.

I myself wasn't there to hear it. Neither, 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 hima within m year. A hint to some of our hesitant younger writers? But, then, H. G. almost always has something to say...

Well, that Voice frat apoke in the dining-room of Holy Innocents Col lege. The Master was talking to some colleagues, deprecating a monstrou proposal fur setting up schools ins modern commercial and industrial h23TM- tory. The Early Greeks had got on beautifully without all that cortof crudity. And so could Camford.

At which point the Voice said, very clearly and distinctly, "What do you nean by education?" It seemed to come from the carpet. But, when they lifted the carpet. there was nothing there. And then the Volce was heard by little Trumber, one of those donnish folk who play around la a genteel literary world and hate and detest "the "self-eduented frrand-boy Tu garity of Shakespeare, Hardy or Dickens. The Voice didn't spare his feelings

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

After which the Volce really got down -to-business-telling professors...and. deans what hopeless, helpless failurea they were. “You realise neither the dangers nor the possibilities of human Jife. You fall to organise. You fall to educate...

Intelligence Barred.

"In quite a little while now, in a few decades at most, it will be pos sible for any small body of desperto men to polson your whole atmosphere. sweep your world bare with infections or blow you planet te pleees. You here will do nothing to anticipate and pre- vent that.

When the catastrophe comes may- be it will still find Camford dressed up in its gowns and its Gollte, perform- ing Ils 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 my that the Volce, which speaks in oddiy fani- llar, Wellsian accents to the end, says its 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 farm perfectly suits the author's comminatory genius. Not a word is wasted. Individuals and types are sketched and piloried with a few held touchen. The humour is deadly. The indictment mounis almost imperceptibly until, suddenly, mankind itself is up for judgment., ..

I should like to think this tale would tead all our universities-especially the older ones-to hold inquiries on them- Gelves. Meanwhile, The Camford Vistiation nako. In slightly metalic, very civil, inexorable accents. to bo read.

KATRINA

Ny Sally Salminen (Thornton Butterworth, 75. Gd.)

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

In my view, the Author would deserve that praise even if the world were not so full of anobethat finding a servant to be nrilst did not arouse surprised comment. For alio has a natural talent for storytelling-and she had used it to write about tho things she knows.

boar

Herself the daughter of a Finnish sailor and former, ale telís un about just such a woman as her child- hood neighbour, might have beeŋ. Life on the Aland Islands is not easy, and Katrina, married to a shiftless hun-

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The Time of My Life

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*** REVOLT ON THE PAMPAS, by Theodor Plivier (Michnet Joseph, 35. Gd.).

** FLAMES COMING OUT OF THE TOP, by Norman Col- lins (Galianez. 75. Gd.).

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band, had-a-hard-time-But-she-also- had contage and integrity.

She and her children worked on the land while her irresponsible nate was at sen. Existence was an incessant struggle with poverty and the elements. Yet it was a full and useful life, and, for all those tragle experiences and bitter disappointments, Katring left me stimulated and admiring.

Sally Salminen obviously did not brood over hier pats and pans. Remem- bering what was best in the land she had left, she has recorded it faithfully and joyfully here.

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By Mex. M. Thumpson (“ Dangio") Introduction by Lord Snell (Routledge, 159.)

Y friend "Dangle" has written one of the livellest auto- blographics I have read for a long Lime.

Born in Germany acventy-six years ago-" through no fault of mine "-he went through the Paris Communc, be- came a 6ocialist in the old ploneer days, drifted into Journalism, anw France, Belgium, Stockholm, Petro- Hrad and Moscow during and after The Great War. served under North- cliffe, became a playwright and now. in his ripe old age, ends up where ho began, a convinced Socialist.

A to like this cannot help being full of vivid memories and striking personalities. There is, for instance, that Bocialist function in Manchester in the early days when Banger's circus всп a lion cub, which Katherine Conway named "Dangic" by pour ing over its reluctant head a bottle of champagne.

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