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9 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1929. '-THer NONESUCH ENGLAND. THE HORRORS OF AN AFGHAN PRISON. THE EDITING OF SHERIDAN. Thrills Mystery Suspense AGATHA mamm fi- mi'im ii ii Tn aff trrh Ur-ato Ya-nriffiM mrffToirfi "This is a story brrjojrhcnsnal rucky "r-fintatf Pott An Elizabethan Jaurnal." By 0.

B. Harrl-son. (Conatabla. 31a. Id, net.) (BY IVOR BROWN.) Mr.

Harrison has attempted to construct the diary of an English gentleman kept during lite tlrst four years of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist. He has written In A tfiorougniy enuirainng story Datfy sitae' "Ah tmusual, novel, the climax i parrinilarly mtriipiing" Cork Examaur Rather different from the usual lUndesian atoiry JJm'fy Mirror apfctanbf "A book which! wtardy commend to'those rha; txt'cd the loiakout lor work- I' clear, and aaar-arell told" SJtetefc -0 iMSS THE murder yrmffnivfl The Ptaya and Poama of Riehard Brlnalsy Sheridan." Edited, with Introduction, Appen-dleea, and Bibliographies by R. Orompton Rhode. 3 Volt. (Blaskwall.

3 3.) (BY I. A. WILLIAMS.) Sheridan, one of the great figures of English literature, is also one of those who present the most difficulties and problems to OF ROGER sV 1 1 ll ACKROYD' Star From Lelpeie to Cabul." By Q. Strain-Sauer. Translated by Frederick Whyte.

(Hutahlnton. IS.) (BY SIR GEORGE MACMVNN.) From Leipsic to Cabul is the story of a tragedy which only just failed to be supreme, and is as pretty a warning to adventurous young travellers as is to be seen on this but partially civilised earth. Its interest lies, of course, in the word Cabul or Kabul, which, by the bye, is pronounced to rhyme with bauble that city of passing kings, for the moment in the world'B eye. Dr. Stratil Sauer, a developing young German professor, burns to do as their editors.

Tills handsome and much-needel edition of his plays and poems should, therefore, in a perfect world, be reviewed from two points of view, and assessments attempted both of Sheridan's genius and of Mr. Crompton libodes's editorial skill. As things are, however, newspaper space is not an unlimited commodity, and some selection has to be-made. thB style of the period, but never oppressively so; the blight of ys oldo Is not upon his prose. He has had for his material the Acts of the Privy Council, Stow, Camden, the Stationers' Register, family papers of the great houses, news-pamphlets, and such references as contemporary drama and literature afford.

The result is an extremely vivid panorama of that quick and cruel, baleful and brilliant England in which Shakespeare painted his garden of laughter and his wilderness of pain. Our eyes are made to dazzle at the social glitter as our sensibilities are appalled by the great abysses of Ignorance and terror and persecution. It Is the best tribute to Mr. Harrison's comprehensive survey to suggest that his portraiture en- DIALS MYSTERY "A clever story with a denouement that will take most readers by surprise." Sunday Times. rAotfaOr of Joan TodJ7 dreams of at fcrdcht but the meantime then ia Irew HaUatn and dan of cornea to ber datJDiatairjjerit, tmry full of subtlety and charm.

"TOlrd stOgr in J3SLSSSSI, I lierefore. since happen to nave bad. some GOLDEN ROD personal experience of the traps which the text and canon of Sheridan set for the un Vf H. M. K.

fAirtfcor at The Oraar' Oatt aaej A wary (and to have been caught in a fair LUXURY UNLIMITED ACTWR (ABtrwafThaAetraR'naaabaaBjaBd InmmljeMMslirqTfcfartieafesartalrMiaiait of novel. Tbesorrcpbc erf oyabMKaoWV'Aaeaei XliurUt aaaf vMrr. vivid afcsccfc ef -tba aaeateia aaaaeafo-aBaaaBai life bd by dMidht rich. A mat saaa'a aade. proportion of them), it is lo the second aspect of this book that the present review will be devoted.

HI avMBCIl JOC An'aMTWal MHaT tattaWVatQaf umcs one to unuerstona Macoetn ana Lear as easily as the Arcadies and Alsalias of the comedies. There is nothing tendenclous in Mr. Harrison's selection. He is concerned neither ISLE OF DESIRE To lake first, for reasons of convenience by DtnratM: (o "debunk" the delights of Glorl ana's in the days of yore, to visit and explore the uttermosl ends of the earth before he begins to leach about them, and decides to ride his motor bicycle to Kabul. Well and good; by road and rail and sea be gels to Trebizond and starts for Persia via Kzerouin, Kara, Knzwin, and thence to Bagdad, after a visit to Teheran, and by sea and rail from Busra.

to Karachi There he finds that metal roads run not through Sind, and he rails to Lahore to find himself quickly shepherded through to Peshawur. It is a road that many have travelled, and traversed these last few years, and except for a pleasant slyle the account has no merits rather than of logic, the matter of text. Sheridan never authorised the publication of any text of his greatest play. The MY WIFE 'FIONA and tke ThJa annyiof ery trylna mortal, rbo carobd a awn old enobabtp be her fsttellniarrruiaherwMlK ttUlersdicMwiU.boU the nonsafTna interest ofoid and young Umi KiV nngiana nor to exaggerate tne sptenaour ot aspiring minds in a world set free from vrlrh her rather. naM M'Ma Ktm medieval restraints.

His business is to de scribe lb at astonishing scene, not to explain Its paradox, how could an sge.be so sensitive In Its arts, oo brutal In its UvUucT. THE THREE PASSIONS As we see the classic light of the Renaissance breaking in through an avenue of fJT atfja awwta.cae man aa.aaaj ricteld ie lffw with skill, and Mr. HsmUfoo's hard Wrdaat at numrmtms in the aocial auudure reafcaa this a diooW-oiDToUW JHMai ara-iaa aanHrwei. 5araef GDiclliuG rtfiahlrm haa iMwil a "The moatfiul xoe scory move clash of loyaltiea which may haraaa apenoa lifing a. txranay oiWaajaJasW itaelf is well devrib''-eAic liuviuauiaa -jyw i NBajaaiBpsr THE SEVEN BEST DETECTIVE NOVELS OF THE AUTUMN The White Crow PHILIP MACDONALD The Cluny Problem A.

FIELDING Supt. Wilson's Holiday G. D. H. M.

COLE The Velvet Hand HULBERT FOOTNER The Hammer of Doom FRANCIS EVERTON Without Judge or Jury RALPH DODD and The Sea Mystery FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS ROBERTSON THE HIDDEN CABIN "A Wild West Story with copious excitement and a touch of mystery." Star. ROBERT J- HORTON BANNISTER OF MARBLE RANGE How 8 thief, gun-man, and murderer made good and won the love of the Queen of Marble Range. shortly ARTHUR MILLS THE BLUE SPIDER A thriller of French Indo-China, where Emperors still rule from their golden temples where the agents of the dreaded society of the Blue Spider plan revenge and destruction in the opium dens of Cholon and Saigon a country where anything may happen and that breathes the very perfume of romance. COSE BROWNE AN IMPERFECT LOVER "On every count deserves the great success it is bound to have" (S. P.

B. MAIS in The Daily Telegraph). "Unusually readable, direct, and genuine" Sphere). oL-iioui ior ocanaai, ana mere was a gap of nearly twenty years between the first performance" of The Duenna and the publication of an authorised edition. The result in each case was a cloud of piratical versions, the true history and nature of which were never understood until Mr.

Crompton Rhodes set his mind to unravelling the tangle of them. It was known, in ihe case of The School for Scandal," that "the edition printed in Dublin" (the phrase is Tom Moore's a niasterpie.ee of vagueness) was essentially correct, and derived from a manuscript of Sheridan's; arid this edition was always Identified with an undated one bearing the printer's iifuiih of I. EwIIiik." which bib! lu-rujicrs i including. I grieve, to suy, niysL'lf unsuspiciously and uncritically presumed lu have been published about 1777 (lappily, however, the manifest inferiority of the text of this edition to thai or Murray's edition of 1841 prevented its use by any recent editor. Now Mr.

Rhodes demonstrates that the Publfn edition was really one dated 1799, and that the Ewllng edition was not even a tlrst piracy, but was reriainly prlnled late in the century, eighteen or nineteen years after Ihe first piracy appeared In 1780. He lias, therefore, established what is the first piratical text, what the first good printed text, and more, important still he has run lo earth a copy of die latter winch Moore corrected from manuscript given by Sheridan to Mrs. Crewe. Three years ago Mr. Hhfidi kindly supplied me with a bused on the Moore copy, for use in a simple, tinnnnolaled edition of Sheridan which I was Mien preparing.

But on more consideration he has changed his view of certain of the readings, and he lias now produced the nint really good text of this play lo be issued with a rrttical apparatus of variant readincs, and the llktv-surely a Ihing whfrli one of the greatest comedies In English richly deserves. The matter of the pirailcol versions of The Duenna is even more complicated and interesting bit of literary history, though It is of less importance textual))' since there bos never been any doubt as to which edition gave the authentic text when at last it was published. "tirrppreiMU GERALD-- GOVU Observer. WITH ALL AUITS By LOUISE VALMER 70 net Te net Gotmc columns ana giving mellow trams-lucence to the stained glass of medievalism, we are right to stand and slake our hearts with admiration; none the less, the shock must come; we must turn round to discover that rival radiance of the faggot-fflare where some wretched old woman is being burned to death for witchcraft before tlie cheering mob. Shakespeare's England was also Webster's England.

Mr. Harrison's Journal abounds In torture as it abounds in deeds of great chivalry and adventure; Grenville's Revenge was one gallantry of many; so was such an entry as this; On the 7th April Alice Samuel and her. husband, John, and her daughter Agnea were executed nt Huntingdon for having bewitched to death the Lady Cromwell, wife of Sir Henry Croinwelh and for bewitching the daughtcra of Robert Throckmorton. The dread of devilry took devilish forms; an old woman might be informed against, racked into some confession of magic, and so destroyed. Whether the mutilation of tlie living bodies of criminals was as horrible as the bare records suggest is doubtful there is some evidence that the victims were stunned before the formal horrors were perpetrated.

Tlie Elizabethans did not view physical outrage as we view it, but they seized much else with a relish unparalleled, like men seeing the world for tlie first time. Mr. Harrison gives us a comprehensive Journal which covers politics, foreign affairs, crime, gossip, theatre, and literature. Into his engrossing record, which must certainly bo continued, and, If possible, mode available in cheaper editions, he has compressed both the spring-song of the hew, restless, and adventuring England as well as the fiendish relics of that old mental slavery which was as real a heritage of the middle ages as the other legacy of loveliness in handiwork. The black-and-white scpiares of tlie Elizabethan chequer-board are fairly spaced out before us aueen.

She hai a vtun 'Mt 6 cttMs a now! which teas ertdettity L. P. HARTLEY in Tkt, mtmi- Miss Valmer hat Written rmtii-iSl fettly enjoyed writing this cannot am to mi I lain lllMilijiijll.MH llius tar. Nor does it tell us anything- whatever of the Afghanistan of Anionullah and Hubibulla lihazi, the water carrier's son. For the simple reason that the young man buzzing along the road to Kabul when rinse to the city picks up a fallen Afghan who attacks him.

In self defence lie shoots and then spends nine weury months in a Kabul prison in daily expectancy of a short sharp shock. But where after a trial worthy of Alice in Wonderland he is sentenced and pardoned. The inside of a Kiibull prison is told of in agonised palhos In the Doctor's miserable, frighlcued diary, and that la all there is to il. It all seems so in-credilde to any one brought up in the ways of Kiirope, a Portuguese prison worsened a hundredfold, and perhaps the very best illuslnition wo have ever hud of the why and wherefore uf capitulations and why you rabnnt accept the justice of Kabul, of Persia, and of China for Europeans whose callings take (hem to surli places. The trouble began by Ihe Afghan horseman essaying in his vanity to racy the motor-bike and being thrown from his horse in the process.

The kindly German goes to help Ihe man, who sels on him and Iries to shoot him. in self-defence Die doctor uses his revolver. The Afghan is brought into Kabul to die. Twenty witnesses swear that the doctor tried to rob the Afghan. Dr.

Sauer is arrested forthwith, and after nine months of lire and fever is saved only by the exertions of the whole Ger man Colony. In the prison is a rolonrl, arrested for not training his Mnngul battalion properly, find an ex-Governor of the kidney of Bildnd the Shuhite, I have heard, my dear doctor, that your affair has taken a turn for the worse, Now and again Hcrr von Platen, from the Knihnssy, comes to romfort him. "You niusl keep your nerves in order. It is possible the death sentence may he passed on yrm. But it will certainly no( be carried out." The.

Afghan advocate wants him to put up all sorts of false pleas, to say that be was drunk. Ou uric occasion the judge nsks the doclnr: Do you ask the other side to give their evidence as to vour guilt on oath or do vou not? What is left for Nflf 716 NOVELS. THE CRYSTAL RABBIT MARGARET by knight, bishop, and pawn are quickened at 48 Pall Mall London SW1 CdDILILEJMS Aether, el "Tie efc. "A ckenalea aae) dsSeau aeval kUhdly ib. hot Hmm.

JUS DIUUlIlg, RELIGION AND ART. A massbbb Eriaaaier. ctaara OMaaa Cwmrim. tak tat) whk bin. a r.

all ea in Eoemtag book tktl neu To the canon nf Sheridan's plays, as usually printed, Mr. Rhodes has added two which have always been known, with certainty, to be partly by Sheridan The Camp and The Forty Thleites." He was clearly not entirely resporibrS-B these Iwa pieces, aia what his share was will probably never he known exactly. It Is perhaps enoucb here lo soy lhat there are pails of the dialogue of The Camp which are entertaining enough to be by Sheridan, but lhat it is inconceivable Unit lie bud nnylhing more to do with "The Forty Thieves (save possibly lu one or two songs) than the drawing up of the scenario, for which he is known to have been responsible. One final word about the poems. Mr.

Illiodes is their first editor, and he has added to the generally known Sheridan poems several trifles, and ona long poem sool to ml, ajaaifgjaj -b PRIDE OF RACE Tba Prlnalplt of Chriatlari Art." Party Gardner, Ult.D. (Murray. 1e, ftd.) Dr. Gardner, the author, is identified witli two subjects Greek art and the Christian religion. His new book is built on the foundation lhat Greece is the fountain-head of sane views In regard to art, as Palestine Is the fountain-head of sane views In ethics and religion." This work, therefore, not only completes the sludies ofhe author, but appeals to him by supplying the gap that, apparently Overlooking Mr.

Eric GUI. he allcees to exist be by 3E AN DARK Arnold Zweig's EIRBISAIOT Tb. ar pkkatM to cBaaawaa aee a pnaunaa -a IViMduaj pvaSe. be stsa to km ionn weeb fnaa the us Hi him to say? Both the women, who are tween modern art and Christian principles. BiiAuV'wAMa-aaa iadtih aa.

w.aW of, antiTa crouching near the wall at the back of the court, are already- showing how happy tliev would be lo take Ihe oatii. nave muy a necessary connection lr to.tlia.ead. Wv aaloed' af art must be nafuraltfcr Christiana hi C1 of 4a Dm Roae yaa aaj. lot UJmm But'i 'Pkuk icear liaUtUfol ia ha dncnpb'oat. oruer to Include, tne masterpieces of pre-Christian times.

In which case the term Christian art is almost tautological. If tt aee -taWeca Prtu. For nine monllis this bitlcr opera bonne went on. men trie donor ue not. the activity of art can render visible.

seniles a nay when thirty prisoners PALLUDIA but need not be limited to, Ihe themes of ot importance, a ramuiar bpistie to tlie Author of the Heroic Episiie to Sir William Chambers," first published in 1784 as an anonymous pamphlet. Since, within the last Ave years, two considerable poems of Sheridan's have been discovered, and one generally attributed to him has been satisfactorily discredited by Mr. Rhodes, there is probably a good deal still to be found out about Sheridan's occasional verses. Hut this is a necessity which is no slur on Mr. Rhodes, and no blemish on the very flue edition which he has produced.

ROSBWOOD tt MAHOGANY: Christianity. In truth, Christianity and art can exist and have existed indepen have been taken out for trial. Ihey return, or some of them. illi curiosity and excitement a noisy crowd ANNA ROSSSON BURR jitliered round ihe few prisoners wlio Anther of Wot of At Moon." etc dently, though they have often borrowed from one another, and will do so again. By Christian art Dr.

Gardner means art dealing sympathetically with Christian subjects and the principles which he seeks lo establish ore. In substance, the three ways in which erarjhlc and plastic art can la tail aovj'tta via Ik alaeaVaW'aB4-lraa''eBaaBaaial ay a alarp 1 auaat.aei ehswflan lira, aadayejr-PaaaaiiBliiliaaii IK Mkta. Cbmi mai iblfnt-W moA h.t. be of service to definite religions (pp. 167 THROUGH HOSTILE EYES.

Tha eorU el hen, iM viarJif learn, of sad isdeiaaueeaj ioiriaija ai htadlad with Ma. Bab's daft ana me), rnougn we near sometning oi ud raKaaotna loooa. truin to nature, symmetry, ana rnytnm, there is nothing to make us feel that the 34-H. Fottrnaltr Rom, E.C.4. venerable scholar has cared for art, apart rrom tne representation ot zorms or surj- Jects that happen to be dear lo him.

The Tb. Impulse that led him to devote his life to THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT. the study of art and archeology seems to Sir Philip Gibbs writes I have read it with enormous admiration. To my mind it is a really great book written by a man of rare genius who shows how the machinery of war entraps the souls of men and women caught in its wheels. It has made a deep impression upon my imagination.

Twentieth Thousand. 7s. 6d. Phoebe Fenwick Gaye's There is a kind of spring perfume about this beautiful novel Julie the Vivandiere, so simply evoked without one touch of sentimentality, remains in the memory as a creature of rare courage, unwearying fidelity, and sincerity of The Spectator. 7s.

6d. SECKER nave been external. possibly Kuskln wrttmes were tne cause. WALLS "Thi Oaoaat irrartv Hhrtery af Weman'a Movamant araat Brlulrivu Ray ttraahay. (Ball, lia.

had come back frmn the great. 1 rial. How was il? Whal luck have you had? Where are the others? bur questions broke against a wall of silence. Pale and nervous, a fixed look in their eyes, as though they had gazed on something terriblp. Yes, 6ome of Ihe party hud been set free among them the roadway robber, he who, panic-stricken by tiis bad conscience, had spent his time mumbling prayers.

Most of them were to spend a couple of years in the penal prison of Sheipur. And the others who had nol come back? Shot! I thought of my little shepherd and his sonrr. Trembling I asked about him. Hp also had been sef up before the All this was terrible experience the docior, who, at last pardoned, was rushed out of the cnunlrv to Poshawur nnil Hombay, so that you rould not see his heels for the dust, fly nil means read Ibis book if you wnnl to fee UI(. horror of inunl ties' where these things happen, and especially if you tuive been irmoruhited by the lint-air merchants who cannot see why Great Britain will not willinglv lei her subjects go East where Capitulations do not exist.

The large public which will read books on arf but will not look at pictures will revel In tins worK. Artists -ana utose wltn receptive imaginations need no reminder Mrs. Strachey's boot ought to become the first text-book of alt who Wish to itlldy the emanclpdti-jn of tticitif it la this fttiffrncn fa nirjl1 ina rlat nt 4Ve. that principle in art is to lie inierreclirrom the various practice of the masters, and. 'J.

HQ: emancipation. Tho benighted tat of -the. Early Victorian iBveautttioh: when set up independently oi Uleir inflection, is very likely to mislead. Apprecia i tion of an cannot be acquired from books. wage-earning, legal disability was far-? Most of the comments wortli hearing upon it have been made by artists, not by teachers, though the.

comments of an artist often contain an Implied defence of his Veraalllaa." By Karl Friedrleh Noarak. Translated by N. Thorn aa and C. W. Dlckoe, (Gotland.

15s.) 1 his is a depressing and distressing book. As a contribution to history its value is slight. Dr. Nowak is, indeed, a superb descriptive reporter, and his account of the reception of the German delegates at the Peace Conference is a brilliant piece of journalism. But an eye for superficial detail is poor equipment for such a theme as the resettlement of the world, and Dr.

Nowak's mind matches his eye. Again und again effect is obtained at the expense of accuracy, and there are passaies. notably ihe asserlion that the Dominions were, only brought into the war by ill: dcllnih promise of the German Culouits, which Cross the border-line of absurdiiy. Moreover, the characterisation is puerile Whatever tlie leading Allied statesmen may have been, at least they were not mere characters of the commedia de.lVarta always living tip to their labels: Mr. Wilson, Pantaloon; Mr.

Uoj'd George, Harlequin; Colonel House, Clown, and M. Cleiueuceuu the Policeman. Figures of caricature people die background of Dr. Nowak's stage Marshal Focli as a bloodthirsty militarist, and the aged Lord Balfour'' (at Hits time neither aged nor Lord Balfour.i rousing himself from slumber to inform tin: proceedings with Hie mellow wisdom of an ancient of days. the book is worth reading.

Its errors and exaggerations only serve to emphasise the impression which the Peace Conference left on the Teutonic mind. We are back In the war atmosphere. Prejudice distorts the motives, malice assailB own and ins ravourne master 6 worn. reaciung. ana Mrs.

has had lb trace die advancef in alltliese matters. He statement itt both eff ective ahd eondae and her sketches of necessarily slight, are always definite. Begfnnlnet with Prtsnn'Ifouse'of Home," she gets a rnarvellotlsly human document from Florence NljtmgaltH-the concentrated bitterness of ''Cassndra. a hitherto impublisb frayrment, shows now A LONELY SANCTUARY. -i Bird Watohlns Saalt Head." By E.

Turner. Country Life-" 10a. waariaaaeaysKai-ai. Miss Turner's lonely vigils in the sanc energetic spu-ii: nroiraB orton "exernpn-; flen'thB mother's helhless po.fm-ln reftM tuary of Scolt Head during two seasons are to. her ono of the most romantic episodes auu UJiuerwuiiuiia.

oiuw uio tJMesuon THB DISAtPhMltANCB'itim the annals of bird watching: but the nttmrner wage-earner; ana me governess. NORMAN' LAKGltjuiii wutclier, herself let romance be and kept whom cnarioue uronte numingiy snake clincs to her ladyhood thourh most strictly to Business, uurtng ner time there she accumulated: so much srist that paid a servant's wage. Tbe bold spirits who nrst tooK up too cause ui woman jougnt asainst the whole social order, and had to endure not only tne anuse of their oppo-, EE nents but the spocKea-misery of their rlM r.rJJJ.mvwwaaeaaeei DONNE wtiaMIra1aatisiiiieiir'' I the characters of the enemy statesmen. The lvuce Conference is a wrangle culmin-jatiuj; in a snarl. No hint of goodwill iiinong members, no hint of genuine il-'sire for rnuiual understanding.

Onlv STANLEY PA10. itiby UL, TUB ANGLICAN TRADITION. The Ana Moan Communion." The Report of the Ohuroh Consraaa at Cheltenham, 192S. (John Murray. 7a, Sd.) Among the resolution on the ngenda of a recent session of the Church Assembly wns one to the effect, that the Church Congress 18 now no longer required njuj" hurl heller le discontinued." The report of more lLaii cue oongresB held since the wnr hus seemed to justify such a niollon subjects such Christ and Youth, Christ and Recreation, have been worn ill rend bare.

hut this volume is oi a different mid larger ititereel Tii Congress met last year under the nresi-dency of the Bitdrop of Gloueewier. unci llii-i hi itself was a ifuarntilce thul sound It-ummp: nnd Hcholurnhip wonht be kept in Ihe diecu.iFtniiH Wc see the fortunes mid traditions of the. Anirl ic-jtti Communion traced, in the vnriotis from the early centuries, through tfie Ite-foruiatinn. through each of the great, religious movements that have rtffeeled ita jife. down to the modern interpretations of its penius ami ils teaching, ami relation of that teaching to the wider thought of the Wi'rld to-day.

Such a conspectus would nol have reen wtthoul reference lo the other Churches with which Aaslicaris fliol Uiem-M-lve- in touch, both in East ami Wesl: ami ihe I'unniii thfit none Inn nn'nibers of Ihe i u' i I i r'lutrch should read paiicr hi oiiiin-ss hroken id w.ll broken fnliiilii.in i'kr, of the K.isj.tc CUitrcli. and of the nun iai Form itig 'hitr-ches in r.i i 1 r' nd and on the Cnnlmenl. ilouli' iti any one volume there found ei areiul and scholarly a colieclior oT statemenlH on the spiritual ideals And historic iradilionB of the National Church, oetuys, uunnue. had temper, antl finally a irenly made posHinle tiy Mr. Wilson eur- render of evervHiinn for the sake of the l.eRjruc of Nations.

At this stage the Ger- ttona and tneir own areaaitu sense or nemg unmaldenly-" 1 Barbara Lelgh-Smttlu the Garrett family. Emily Davis. lohh. Stuart UiO. Lydfa Becker, Sophia -lex-Blaks; and beautiful, wonderful Josephine Biitler are some of the courageous souls on whom Mrs.

Stracbey'a story rests. It Is inevitable, perhaps; 'that the older part of the story, when these pioneers were biasing; the trail, has a deeper interest than, the part that hetongs to our own time. But Mrs. Strachey has shown the solidarity movement, and has made clear how much the woman war-worker of our day 1nherlt4d from tbew. Early and Mid-Vctbriahflghters.

In 1W the Inrant societies for womantfnjffrage believed that with lghtr Parliamentary frierds the hbt ha far off. Vext year, or at' most the year after, the thins would he done." Their hopes wtrr fulfilled in 1918, i iruins enter, nun all Dr. KowaK sympathies she could go on turning her mill for years without giving us any vain product. This book deals largely with the terns which are the outstanding marvel of both scolt and Blakeney; hut the charm oi this book, as of almost all she has written, lies in the mind of the observer, as surely as any lest in the ear of the listener The zeal is infectious, and tlie book is exciting to read, or no we are skilled in-birds and can distinguish a common from a Sandwich tern. A lonely watcher with so good an eye, and so good a camera, gees more lhan she sets out to see, even when she re turns disappointed.

She went to Scolt to watch birrls- yet the most memorable passage in her book- Is an account of snowstorm of migrating butterflies. It is as good as anything In "The'Voyage of the Beagle." She is modest to the point of depression over the small results of the long drudgery of turning out at' regular hours, early and late, to watch miirratory movements; but she had her golden moments and has added a valuable quoin to our knowledge of bird routes and datps and social behaviour, such as the segregatior. of the sexes. The numerous photographs of birds on the wine well as at rest help the volume, which should have a general as well as a special popularity. i are with llieia.

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Will irW war :betote.l and wlttbla i trcruianv Mien? Noske wobbles; Erz- h.Tufr thrnws up the sponge. The treaty, auungO) rrreiimrr wiUHf. good books win be written. if Vl nhetarfni'ruf'hrrartimilu nti i' model nnie imputation of war dilr. and Germany is be- tmv, i nnil inn raged.

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