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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1925. A GERMAN A TOPER'S JOURNAL. NEW NOVELS. SPUTE IN THE 1 Cloud Cuckoo Land." By torn I Mitohtson. (Cap.

7a. Bd.l BOOK TRADE Th Diary af Thomat Turner." (Lane. 6d.) A learned society has already printed this America und seln Problem (2) Everything Mrs. Mttohison writes is pr- gem among journals, but the general reader meated with the aense of the past. Seen wlII feel that he has true friends in the pub- through the windows of her art and soholax-Usher who now issues it; in the diarist' ship, Athens and Sparta seem as actual and descendant who does the editing; and inas teeming with life aa London does looking Mr.

J. Priestley, who gives a felicitous out of a window in Fleet-street. Her char-introduction. Turner lived at East Hoathly, acters contrive to be oomploteiy natural and in Sussex, where he first taught school at convincing as people, and yet to belong fees of threepence a week, and afterwards unmistakably to their period. Athens at became a general shopkeeper.

He started the time of the narrative towards the his diary in 1754, bat the date matters more 1,16 century, B.C., was falling Die Krlsis der Europaischon Demooratle." By M. J. Bonn. (Meyer und Munchen.) (By H. W.

C. Davis.) These two little volumes are the fruit of a visit which their distinguished author paid to the United States in 1924. The Crisis of European Democracy contains six lectures which he then delivered to a New Kn gland audience. They can be obtained in an English version, published by the Yale University Press. But those who can appreciate a crisp and idiomatic German stvle will be well advised to study Dr.

Bonh in his own language. America," which has into decav like a rose that has onened to us than it would have done to him. A On behalf of the London Publishers who are members of the Book Trade Employers' Federation it is announced that they are generally in a position to supply their publications, including the newest books, to Circulating Libraries and Booksellers. Vt-t-n 1 v. ana 11s oeauiy 100 viae, ene naa keen reader and a glutton for theology (he her sweetness and light upon the world, would read half-a-dozen of Tillotson's serin on I and the failing of her Btrength was the signal to a friend of an evening), he Bhows only 1 fr tbe rise ot Sparta, a nation of disciplin-the most casual response to the movement prepared to devote their Uvea Bolely of hi.mrv ,1,,, firf.

111701, tne cause of the State. With the contrast Wilkes between the8B two ideala drawn mon deulj iNorth Briton an extreme good paper," than at any other point in history, Mrs. notes the accouchement of Queen Charlotte, 1 Mitchison has had no difficulty in creating and records with sagacious incredulity the protagonists for both sides, but at th back disagreeable news of the French being the stg81e lnd 8ea, we landed at Dover." But in the main he is true ngt" ot 'J?" to the kindred points of Heaven and oa mlnfLSL 5f JSL Hoithlv allle8 'or a conception of liberty, of a larger Th ain jiloyty, that would set them free from both resolution? eh VPhS, good pSparta and Athens and maka them equal as th our aM "viHsed people to stand against the first time.occurs the opportunity to acquire the works of JOSEPH been translated, is a brilliant sum-, mary of American characteristics. Dr. Bonn firmly believes in the existence of a general American type and of the methods employed by America to i trip ruirnartn rarnion I mart mm.

rniTni- i 111a uuun ia full of genial epigram. We do not know if Dr. Bonn has studied the mind of Mr. Puncn, never upon a0n'a deliehtfullv informal nrose is like Koing ..1 rt the inrougn some illustrated dook wnere au thrmnrh snrne if any terms or perswasion to drink more than eight glasses, each to hold no more RAD pictures are in clean, vivid colouring. Diuxes in Babbitt.

But when Dr. Bonn tells us that Heinz, with his flftv-seven stand than half a Quarter of a nint Tlnhimnilv. H. Bashfard. Book Trade Employer' Federation 5th November 1925 "Ths Happy Ghost." By (Halnamann.

7a. Cd.) ard sauces, and Seers arid Roebuck, of Chit-ago, who twice a year dictate what clothes fifteen millions of Americans perswasion often had the best of it, for the commonest of entries is Came home drunk," Very drunk," Very far from sober," or Very much in liquor." Next day he would be pretty bad all day, with the F-tmps ot a fruilty and tormenting oonscience." There is a surprising and gratilying range in this book of Mr. Bashford's. It contains shall wear, are the most democratic I inslihitiuns in America, recognise 'the Babbitt touch. In this countrv we one of the most uncomfortable, unpleasant i oere vvpre virtones as weU as defeats.

Mr. Tamer attended a lionBre for the taking of stones we have ever read; it contains j.M.Dent uSZ i a pi nrt'ion. ana came nome in a manner's" exceueni spool story, several tales vtiuuu (j'Jite soher." find on another occasion he'onlv iust rise ahnve the level of the com- CHAPMAN HALL "UUS SbOT' considerlnB the house we i petent magazine article, and several which JRasfar cfSfups, JJfastevcftfie SiylwP language on terms to suit the modest purse TO you who know the joy of possessing good fine CONRAD Library will make an unusually strong appeal. Here you have CONRAD'S Works uniform and beautifully produced, each containing a vastly interesting frontispiece dealing with some incident or phase in CONRAD'S work, in the EVERYMAN'S 1 announce tv. i 'have imaeinatWe beautv and emotional in- Experiments A LIBRARY a mUi niffbL ilown a warning 1 f091 -in hlKh de: Mr Bashford has "to Phm thut hatful Mce of drunkenness." fou.ht ese against that tendency to lir.

t-nr-nifhmPnt ihft diarist alwnvs i senumeiUahsm whicli marred some of his -j t. i earlier work: and the result of the conflict scellany have- hitherto known Dr Bonn chieily as the learned ami thoughtful historian of the Irish aflrariun problem. Tli4'se booklets show that he is; still learned, still historically minded. But they alo reveal an accomplished man of letters, a sane and vigorous critic of modern 'politics, and linally, one of lliuie ambassadors of knowledge can pass freely to and fro between the educated circles of different nations, i acting as interpreters und peacemakers in the intellectual Commonwealth. 1 European Democracy starts from the assumption Unit Parliamentar bus nr-vr-r with an auecUon of desrinir.

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net. ijouth Wind-' TKli new boolt hv nnf nf rh mnaf rHfrivtrlml too, really thrill the reader. There is a catch in tfie Ptory; but "The Brink" really tears the reader's nerves for a moment: and The of the age CTjntmitu a Dumber of emyi und short tone and. Plea fur Belter Manners." ibe retort mnnl effort, even when fortified hy perpever-nip iet, Tiiust iehi only chequered retuiUs. Wf very clearly that puhhc opinion si nver-teinperanre, and the village tift-rm ftBures a leader in Borne orpios.

JTortihly has a glimpse nf the great world (u a when The Puke of Newcastle MEDALLION EDITION Human Factor" is an extremely eood in dcteace of Maarvce Mfttnua to l. Lawrcnc: ample of how, even in the narrow space of the short storv, a complete change of charac- mbica wi published a a rnnte mod hmteJ edition a year bo Do you know CONRAD'S great stories own to Halland, hut for the most part oe. auainie. ao not care L- f.pnrTnn,l JMHrtt-ie, a war-tory iiyr- lieu it i t'(iintilrtH society. from over-cmotionaliMn but 11 The Gentle i uii.inlirtcd hy ennui, and rei in tr Boa Anglo-Catholicism By SHEILA KAYE-SMITH, Author ol man Upstairs is an extraordinarily, good steamer smitten by the typhoon.

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The Silver Treasury oi ism 13 on its tii.il in Kurope The different schouls of thought by which it is attacked are to be found all over Kurope: thi-y are ns vigorous in France I and Italy they are in uerniany. lint the most aliiuble puges of this vork are those which explain llie dangers lo 'which (icrman democracy hns been exposed since the -rmislicc of 1S11S. Dr. Bonn writes as a democrat and a Parliamentarian. But he is nut a funo'is I partisan, and it would be ditlicult to decide frim his book precisely where he stands in politics.

He dislikes, of ci urse. Ibe divine right doctrim of retired He respects the old Prussian bureaucracy, but he is afraid that it will tight hard to retain the con- 'trol of national policy and To bridle Pai liarnentary Ministers He detests the I.iehknechl "school of vim were, he so vs. 1 pacifists abroad A Vision of Greece. By Vera Willoughby. hu surprisingly saccharine developments, for (P.

Allan. 3 3s.) sentimentality, has now written a novel en- Mr1. Willoughby's Greece is seen with tirely unlike either of his former selves. We astonishing clearness, an unsentimental pan-1 ail know the inhuman, hut highly benevolent. Hon, a wholehearted devotion which wilt profess jr of fiction, with the innocence, the English Lyrics A supplement so to speak, to Paljjrave's Golden Treasur." oen; m.r iecU Hore he is, in Mr.

Bottleby, with the In-loved. It is not the whole of Greece. a an(i a difference that makes for Therr iHile in her vifiun of that Greece in humorous lnitividuahtj'. Mr. Bottleby is which we find in Kuripulea or in Plato.

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rriwul. infiuitpl- fas'-maiing Greece of E.u, inn, if Hpr-nai'is and of certain of the Only- a vrry frr capiat no i remain of r'h-'Wn it The jp. ft til i of nrtri Rlbtr Ma's Th' t'n'ry JIi i( tw rolumcx and terrorists at but he liasi much SMtipatliv for the outlook of thej Social Democrats, who are, in his. arguments fur behaving like a man and a brother and even a lover, and (incredibly eventually a bridegroom. The Bottleby brand uf unconsciousness suggests a tongue in the Bottleby cheek.

He ia delightful when the irascible captain throws him overboard arid 1 Vroposj 10 repeat the experiment; delightful when the censorious committee wish to I hinder him mini harbouring his lad-i lliologt-jts. Il -JuU be fr-nhrih to com that her i-na IhJ limited for it! Name Address inapt likely to start I i altlioiiL-h tln-v Cwlb neS Library EttuhnL 3 net 770 DR JOHNSON'S LIVES OP 771 Archer-Hjid, M.A. 1 Vols. 772 WATERTOVS WANDERINGS- 1-N bOUTH AMERICA zr. EMrnund Selous TTjTHi: MEMOIR5 OF SIR THOMAS POWELL BUX-TGN.

iJilidry Onirics Buxtrn. Jo J-MUcr, ty Lurd B'jxton in rind who can reveal upinion, nit a nn'liniht''dl FICTION at 7s. 6d. net psirr lo nationalise me 01 mat 1 (hi- wrpsli tiiir. plaving in tlie the foul trust, tvli annual limitser.

tint: trusts, siirl tnt-y regard aa emi touting at UUmpia: i I seerc iry in a housmg-ahortage and delight. f.ll when he finds sonorous and convincing jus! ifscfttion ior embracing her, having married her ostensibly to score pfF the corre ii.itlpc ThT book is farce for'the fastidious and a welcome new departure on the part uf an author whom the fastidious had beeun to the rankr.itnuits with the sudden, death- dealine activity of the wild beast; the runners with their wide ribs and deep. draw a 1 AL S-'W REVISED EDITION Or GIT'S THESAURUS It- at Ideas The Spite of: Heaven OLIVER ONIONS, author ol "Peace in Our Tim." "Mr, Ouioai hn done no better worV Bfrmirtf-ham Pst All ths eKCitertunt of a myterf tory without ihc erodene. An xcredinl inttrrc-tinfl i 11 -wriitea no vj I. 0irTrr-.

Hers Mr. Ohio hat moit nrtQtly (ivcn the bet of binief to the Thia novel oontmtQV lin cltrca and must pot set aiil cntmun of rjt tl relational ft a hcrv labtlc. rbe-rc dramatic and bra rantlr 1 laminate the problem with which ao af inftnor novel itt arc oon fumbhDl H- iiaW9d in the Gtlwk. despair of a little. their ridges and splendid thighs, their wirie-spreiid, gripping feet; the dise-tiirnwprs, em i ce tit rating ee and hand on a hiiir's breadth vi Jim or whirling ti the the henvv-arirjeii runner: the thrower By Ward Muir.

(Lana. 11 Jones in Paris.1 7s. Gd.) the -ppar: the wrestler and boxer; al It is rather satisfactory to know that the tn Ihc Life tirim lirim pp ct describing 773 Volumes. Post Free Ws that. Ills experience of war-i-onlroR lias made him scopln'jl uf the lilrssins of the Soi'ialist State.

He be-lit-vi's t'liat the private entrepreneur will fur a lout; time be indispensable for 1 1 1 pnrjin-ie nf reorganising and reviving dernian nnlnstrj. Hilt he is eotivinoed that the great' industrialists, in their fear 'f Snt'ialisin, have heroine a dts-tiirliing fnrre in tieniiail polities; tn hem more than to any other influence iie allnlaiti'-s the abortive schenn's have been fnr deeen-Iralismg the lien.li All these srheme-n lined, 'it aplH-iir-. '-i-cirnii; the jut-ii'tnatinu of pm.Hr industry nne ii id rial ri 1:1011 or another. He tlnnk oilu CUCKOO- suprpmest morupnu with its carefully ri libraries have taken some objection to this, jui-tpd relations uf hiuiy and brain. hnok, because that will presumably give the Mrs Willuughhv gives 11s a lyric contest; she eustomary serviceable adverlisement to what hiisrers 11.

the heavy atmosphere of Corinth, a verv clever piece of legitimate art. The ami slie can catch thp deep peace of the library objection, we take it, is to the pronnn-, mi.untain.-i. 01 show us Athens, queen and "of a French voung woman who, by' mistress nf all ni.u.d-, and all men, guarded thrift and perseverance an improper pTO-1 the put triumph of the Akmpolis. It fession, is accumulating the necessary dot it- a full, -umtipiit ijmli, even if we only cun- for her matrimonial settlement. That is -liter lis hut Mrs.

Wlllnughby is one nf nrnirramiriH which 1.0 moralist car, rvn-rj with 1 3 Ln spite of the dispute in the By DOUGLAS COLORING, amhor "Nobody KnoJs." "Mr. Gnldrvi i able in trv dUpvltv ii niAial talent for clever eharacteririna ma.4 rcv diatotue He has both mtclh fence and imitination ISo combination ia rrer-" CWioi. "Thwep tea." the vmiif jVb7, "actarkle and with ihc authealic f'aJ an auaiiiht "Pat to a. different bat equally entertamiat ne aome of ihoae experience" nf tbe Italian Kiviera vvhich tmnsed ua Goo: Abroad" a oc-f-cllv le(Hi3)ate and yrz told lifht corned? ''--Times LuerJrj Sapplrmtnt fail the II n-: of llli.dPrn nlbcr than ri isnlpa sure, but since it in a wtl- I i In 1,. id rlTIUUSlV IllOrC nrl.cln.l r.hr.nr,T.,t.r,n In unftlnn lk.

owing lu the nilisi party h- her lllllSlral a ivliv Ihp nnvelil coll dook trade Messrs. onatnan Cape Ltd. are still able to supply all libraries and booksellers with copies of ril rra The -e of lie- Ilial (he lit-, it tbey i '-r( a regi le egiine representations- nf her paint- with it if his artistic vision, sense of sue, i pml. except ihat the tion. and laste are adenuate to the tAsk.

In that sb Hut and It v. ill In "'ia I a rime re; I III fn cut reprenen 1 -'V bold logetber. nf Hudit'itl ears In cmite prirt.T h.is we think, exaggerated the lone the eac of Mr. Ward Muir those conditions' if her grei-np ami her reds. The conventmu are amply fulfilled.

The strange mixture of 1 1 1 a i tji tierm.in i i. ir.iii.-iu. m-ii-uiuicliuh, j.m anci rt nangcr ui iiLrinait iu ir re with the art ti i or White? Brown Wife oi mil-. Might is even wuh the earlier art of Mycenae a portrait the more telling because of those if the principle of majontj Brn i the npare subjects there are delight- features which the English temperament cam alcohol. if M.Tinv.-hile tt unity is the tl the negation uile All tl inneli inrltne A story hr Hast of lo and elephaata.

tlerinall minorities nre'ii i.inii.-rape, com. grave, and serene; and scarcely begin to comprehend. Mr. MoiT's 1 tn abuse Parliaments asl'" drawings of the Marathon warrior landscape of the "pleasure" side of Paris Christina Alberta's Father by H. G.

WELLS REGINALD CAMPBELL. snd of the runner Mr. Willonghby gives a will cnmmt no one. but rather riiser.nhr,r hv and to think of coin-1 unworthy saerifice of 1 i-arvcllnus representation of force and of the quiet indications of its mechanism. And Iu'pr' his humour and buoyancy are of a high shops promise as the principle-.

It undor-tood that i- not yet generally wi I limit il iccnssinn ati-l gcrmicitiai vaiue. Some Call It Love By JOSEPHINE JE SOROC Colelte jlnor of Sfmonetta Perkins." A FORLORN HAMLET. By L. P. Hartley.

(Putnam. 7s. 6d.) To call a book unique is to run all kinds ilboitt eom promise 111 system ot popular government ran be made tolerable. Ami, of i nurse, smiie of the critics to lieln-ve lli.it popular government, through -soveteign legislature, is eitb- desirable or i uevitable. England's Groan and Pleasant Land.

Chajmin HJ1, LtA, M.HeBri.ttm of risks, but there is a quality ahout 1 Simonetta Perkins" or rather a mixture of (Jonathan Capo. Da.) Wf all are eager to "build Jerusalem England's (Jrern ami Pltnaant Land qualities, we have not come across before. To begin with there is the theme. A rich. ui legist to repair and reform an existing Bonn, tin lie was i America, oimg American girl looks out from her Dr Jerusalem; but thr rightly anonymous i hotel in Venice, sees, and falls in love with.

The story of Mr. Preemby, whose whimsical, lovable nature has already endeared him to all readers. Mr. Preemby has, indeed, come to life, and will con- tout to exist long after the present generation of popular heroes has passed into i author of these essnys must nurse a more I 11 gondolier. She and her mother take the powerful desire than most of us.

The bond gondola, and Miss Johnstone, for Simonetta unity in a book which its popularity in rVu ,3 BV Tf, i viJl THE LORING MYSTERY JEFFS RY FARNOL 76 net RUB THE HANDS Take a little Atkinsons' Eau-de-Cologne in the palm of your hand; notice the cool refreshing effect, eloquent of the strength and quality of this exquisite perfume. Rub the hands together so that the warmth develops the fragrance. The superior ity of Atkinsons' is mainly due to two factors (1) Atkinsons' use a large proportion ot the valuable oils of Orange Blossoms, serial praducrion extended much beyond the the gondola as much as she can and fills original scheme, is a determination to per- her diary with an analysis of her emotions, suade us how miserable are the village On her last day she tells him she loves him. hovels, how unhealthy their inhabitants, how I Ti amo." she says, having carefully looked i uniiOAri the phrase up. At first he does not hear her, arrogant are the better-boused, and above all lhenp he aBkB what time the Signorina would how inadequate are Lh Cnurch and its I like to go home.

That is all, but told as Mr. Hartley tells it, that ia, with a half-smiling seriousness, with more than a hint of malice, inisters. 'the book achieves truthfulness, or the correspondence between word and thought; but misses truth, the double correspondence FIRST LARGE EDTTIOM SOLD OUT SECOND EDITION IN THE PRESS The Fortunes of Sally Luck HEXRY ST. JOHN COOPER iv.icr c' Sun D'" nct- between word and uiougut and thougnt and oblivion. 1 I THIRTIETH THOUSAND 7 6tL net Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford London thuies.

Il a visitor, quite strange to Eng i and with a beauty and smoothness of phrase it is a story, not of charm only, but of real importance. The Flight of ths Heron." By D. K. Brostor. Heinsmann.

7s. 6d.) The romance of the '45 dies hard, and, of viMtivl Lnwi'i Canadu and was much impressed by the skill finrl ten-ority with ulnrli the French Canu- iinns huve pursued the grand object ttf pn1 servinp their ivn culture and the management of their own afFuirs. He thinks that the Dominion of Canada has gained much more than it has lost by tolerating this experiment, and that the French-Canadians are not onlv a main bulwark of Canadian independence, but also valuable as constituting a distinctive type which relieves the monotonous uniformity of North American civilisation His chapter on Ihi subject is a gratify-in tribute to the statesmanship of the British race. But he regrets that the United States are not diversified by many nation il blocs of ibis description. We doubt whether lie does justice in this matter to American statesmanship, and to the enormous nsk of disruption which must have arisen if the most strenuous efforts no been made to Americanise the immigrants through the medium ot" the elementaxy schools.

No doub; American public opinion has been a rrood deal les tolerant of social idiosyncrasies than seems to us either land, read this book, tie would carry away the impression that most cottage bedrooms have ceilmes a thing in the reviewers ex- n.inuiirin in VrnnCC Iklll Ttiilo-iTitri nnrl while many manufacturers use the leaves. (2) Atkinsons' Gold Medal Eau-de-Cologne is matured before you buy it, 1 i 1 1 4 1 .1 haFnuo Vi nlnvv Hnnnia rare i-ngianaj inai uvea were snort ana luk avuuurwm tJ-, the physique and health of the children Prince Charlie remains the most pTennially wretched; that not one parson in three was attractive. Mr. Broster introduces him in his AN UNTITLED STORY DONS STRNE. of an use to his Hock or to himself If the stQ oJ the rebelUon iast enough to give an description wM a Bmgie, par-; n-l vtn V.r, ticular hamlet om1 wuum accept it as a 7.

7 TL and perfume, like wine, improves with age. moving and even dramatic representation of umewnaDUMB nw-wwcuKi- whose lives net if tain and an English officer, are strangely intertwined. A Highlander had foretold that they should meet five times, and i Mr. Broster takes care these meetintrs shall a corner of hie; but the writer strays away, and falsifies bv his efforts to hide the identity both of himself and his hamlet. So, wittingly or unwitLingly, he leaves the inference that these wretches in their vtar.

I always be accompanied by a good deal of KUflnense and excitement, and that the fifth -THE HOUSE OF SAMPSON LOW ndemned hovels are characteristic; that Prices: 23, AI-. 716. 13-. Wickered Bottles, 26. 46, 10-, 19-, 36-.

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Rue de la Paix B-iliSh v.nage is orZTsUy S3 lyu on the sands stabbed of E-wen's and making bv one men protesta tions of eternal friendship to Ewen, who nearly gets himself cut off from his boat, though he remainB till Williams dies. 1 TsVCiliO-A NALYSIS i), rar- nt- rmc navs blii-k, and Jj -r- t- r. rnj. L.i ihrir por iwtuch Up i to ru kt rrac uon; pr-hftl- i j-a zorni wrMce tbey can "Ltuticr ou thlnJk of ''Dnooks, 2 V- Canities anJ Deiiptive Byokiet 5 J. E.

BUMPUS, Ltd niixford London, W.l 1 Test the Low Cosl per Tesull of Ufa better Classified jJ dveriisemenis. PUNCH ALMANACK. mnraity, man me uruan sium. inaeed, he df-fiiiitely warns people to avoid it. Granted this inherent defect in truth a big concession the book is compact of virtues, and it may do good.

The author knows hia community with real intimacy. He speaks guile strsightlv of things that the Miss Mit-fords hide and greater realists foolishly slur or cloak. There are insanitary hovels in most villages and good sanitation in none. The Church of England lost a erent onportunitv of domR good and getting good after the war. The town has no monopoly of sexual vice.

All this ought to be confessed. The author knows hiB poor because equiNLblc or expedient. But we seem to have heard that, on the Pacific coast, racial enclaves are hy no means uncommon hough hey are individually small; and they certainly thrive in the reat American cities. The law does not prohibit them, it seems that public opinion has 'nly been actively hostile since the war, and in consequ nee of events which occurred in the war period. Tlie Oxford Book of English Prose," r-hoTipn and edited by Sir Arthur Quiller- ATIINSONS Punch offers his usual good shilling's-worth for Christmas.

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