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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1936 BOOKS OF THE DAY Wales, India, and Spain in Fiction Tl Heyday In the Blood. By Geralnt Goodwin. Cape. Pp. 287.

7s. 6d. Tb Coolie. By Mulk Raj Anand. Lawrencs and Wishart.

Pp. 343. 7s. 6d. Ftr.

Orcr EngUnd. By A. E. W. Mason.

Hodder and Stoughton. Pp. 316. 7s. 6d.

litzt Awakes. Letters of Love. Edited by M. B. Kennicott Allen and Unwin- Pp.

287. 7s. 6d. By Charles Marriott Beautiful and tragic story" OBSERVER HANS TOLIWf's "Comfortable Words II ID II Ift Nl ful cowherds in his native village, in order to earn his living, he goes from bad to worse as servant to a native bank official, boy-of-all-work in an un-prospering pickle factory, and hand in a Bombay cotton mill, and ends up and dies of consumption as a rickshaw coolie at Simla. The employees of the different industries, with their jumble of races and resulting conflicts under a system of raftt truck, and fines, provide the disquieting background to the story.

If this is the real India the sooner something is done about it the better. To say that Mr. Mason makes his hero. Robin Aubrey, already shaken by Adventures in Darkest South America "An impassioned love of simplicity and natural beauty inspire many of his passages" Times "Vivid unbearably poignant" Daily Telegraph. "Wholly delightful -Sunday Times "Fascinating" Spectator Illus 15- 6 world-famous detective story writers in one volume SIX AGAINST THE YARD MARGERY ALLINGHAM ANTHONY BERKELEY DOROTHY L.

SAYERS RUSSELL THORNDIKE FATHER RONALD KNOX FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS They have each committed the 'perfect" murder! Then, to solve them, comes Ex-Supt. CORNISH of the CI.D. PUNCH: "I can unreservedly recommend an ingenious piece of collaboration 76 By the author of "George Ash bury" (7th imp.) O. S. MACDONELL's THORSTON HALL People who look in vain for the kindot novel they only remember should make a note of it" Morning Post How rarely does a man produce two classics with his first two books Daily Sketch 76 SELWYN MEDICAL.

EDUCATION IN MANCHESTER The Foundation of Provincial Medical Education in England, and of the Manchester School in Particular. By Edward Mansfield Brockbank. Man-- Chester University Press. Pp. xi.

192. 8s. 6d. By A. A.

Mumford Dr. Brockbank has already presented us with some very interesting and illuminating studies of the life story and work of the physicians and surgeons who have been attached to the Manchester Royal Infirmary since its opening in 1752. He now places us under a further obligation by relating not only the way in which the present system of provincial education in special medical schools has grown up in England but the pioneer work which Manchester physicians and surgeons have taken in combating the self-sufficiency and inertia of the vested interests which opposed such an essential element of social progress. Dr. Brockbank might perhaps have added a note on the still earlier work done in Manchester in pre-Infirmary days, by the Nonconformist academies and the lectures on natural philosophy given by Caleb Rotherham at the Angel Inn, Manchester, in 1743, notes of which were kept in the diary of Samuel Kay, M.D.

References to the teach ing of anatomy at academies are also given in Dr. H. AlcLachlan English Education under the Test Acts." Such teaching was, however, partial and spasmodic. Dr. Brockbank' book deals with a complete and hichly organised grouping of medical studies in special schools which naturally came later.

High praise is given by mm to the Society ot Apothecaries, London, whose members are credited with being the real founders of modern medical education by establishing an effective examination system. Their public services at the time of the Black Death in 1345 and durinir the London epidemic of plague in 1664-5 are also recognised, it was. too. the members of the Society of Apothecaries wtio alter being deteated in the struggle with the Kcal Uollege of Physicians in the High Court of Justice applied for a writ of error. The House of Lords reversed the judgment of the Lord Chief Justice, on the grounds that the wants of Society, if not the law.

sanctioned the existence of the practising apothecary." It was natural therefore, that the Society of Apothecaries, having been tailed upon to justify its services to the public, should take the lead in promoting better standards of training general practitioners. Neither skill in recocnis- ing the nature and course of sickness nor skill in prescribmsr drucs pro vided a scientific starting-point for the training ot the physician or surgeon. The dry bones and the preserved speci mens ot disordered or diseased organs needed to be interpreted in relation to life, and to health. A general preliminary trainirg in biological science as well as in natural philosophy was neeaea. inis want was supplied by inoraas i timer in his lectures on anatomy and physiology, for he had studied in Paris before he came to On the amalgamation of its old provincial medical schools with the Owens College in 1871 a much fuller and very complete system of preliminary and later training for the practice of medicine in all its branches was finally established in Manchester.

Dr. Brockbank's book is full of interesting points about the establishment of medical training, and many who are concerned with the ultimate results of our national system of general education will find" material for thought as to the need for providing adolescent scholars with such a wide preliminary, training as will prepare them for their special work afterwards. The book is in very clear type and its style makes it easy to read. THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN Chase of the Wild Goose. Gordon.

Hogarth Press. By Mary Pp. 279. 10s. 6d.

By B. Ifor Evans The story of the Ladies of Llangollen has never been told with any completeness, and perhaps never can be. Yet their legend is widely known and has always possessed a fascination, sometimes idyllic and sometimes, though without evidence, scandalous. They were both highly born Irish ladies of the mid-eighteenth century: Sarah Ponsonby could claim relationship with the Earl of ileath and Eleanor Butler ivas a descendant of the Earl of Ormonde. Marriage was obviously their profession, and marriage they refused.

From the moment of their first meeting a deep friendship possessed them, a passionate and yet seemingly an innocent love it remained with them throughout the long years of their lives. Xever for a moment does it appear that their gentleness or love was shadowed with regret or even with temporary disputes or bitterness. To our common humanity such a relationship must seem unique, but there is much that is unique in the "Ladies." They had the courage to follow their love, to leave Ireland, to face the protests and anger of their families, and to settle at Plas Newydd, in Llangollen. They lived according to their own pattern, intelligent, kindly, and incredibly sweet-tempered. Dr.

Gordon has told their story with sensitiveness and understanding, constructing a continuous narrative out of the somewhat fragmentary materials. Some will regret her fantastic epilogue and her suggestion, never fully warranted, that the Ladies were leaders in the emancipation of women. Yet this conclusion helps to explain the attraction which the Ladies possessed for her. She has riven a vivid account of their double flight and of ine nome at rias Jiewydd which they made Gothic with panels and carved doors taken from the rains of the neighbouring Abbey of Vale Cruras. A The Strange Death of Liberal England.

By George Dangerfield. Constable. Pp. ix. 420.

12s. 6d. By R. C. K.

Ensor This is a novelised history written up after the manner made popular by Lytton btrachey ot the period British affairs between the death of Edward VII. and the outbreak of the European War. In a foreword Mr, Dangerfield stresses rightly enough the continuity between pre-war and post-war tendencies. "The war," he says, hastened everything in politics, in economics, in behaviour, but it started nothing." But his way of interpreting this is more question able. mm the true pre-war Liberalism," comprising, among other things, "the Ten Commandments and the illusion of progress," is dead.

But it was killed or killed itself in 1913." Mr. Dangerfield adds: "And a iery good thing too." To discuss this thesis fully would exceed the space of a review. Let it suffice to observe that not all of us believe progress to be an illusion or Liberalism to be dead in England. Even the displacement of the Liberal i -i pany irom us oia rant (a very different matter) may be traced almost entirely to events occurring after, and not before. 1914.

But, passing that, how does Mr. Dangerfield tell the story of these ears 3 Novelistically. Everything tends to be sensationalised and thrown into high light or deep shade. first two pages illustrate the method. They are based entirely ou two gooa ana well-Known pages (86-8S) in Asquith's "Fifty Years of Parliament," from which all the facts are taken and to which nothing is auueu sae imaginary touchings-up one of them almost certainly wrong.

The main effect sought by this method, as the book proceeds, is to present a phantasmagoria. To anyone who, like the present reviewer, not only lied xnrougn the period but was proles sionally concerned to follow its happenings carefully from day to day the amount of distortion and exaggeration here will be apt to seem tiresome1 and even silly. The detail is slipshod in the extreme. On pae 3S4 we are told that in Julv, 1914, Sir George Askwith "recollected the too anxious interest which for the past year Prince Metternich and Baron Marschall von Bicberstein had shown in the progress of the Unrest." Unfortunately Metternich left London in May, 191-2, and Marschall had died in September, 1912 one might add that the Metternich in question, unlike a more famous namesake, was not Prince but Count. On page 253 we are told that at one of the meetings during the 1911 transport strike Mr.

Tillett cried, Lord! Strike Lord Devonport dead!" He did not, and anyone who was through the 1911 strike must know that he could not have; the episode belongs to the 1912 strike, when the circumstances and the tone were entirely different. On page 295 we read of "Caidinal Manning, who had settled the dock strike of '87 almost single-handed." The only dock strike that the Cardinal helped to settle occurred in 1889; and so far from his doing it single-handed, he was only one of half a dozen mediators, some of whom (notably the late Lord, then Mr. Sydney, Buxton) did far more than he. On 266 we read that Mr. Lloyd George "in a speech at the Guildhall took occasion to remark with all the flamboyant accompaniments of his most excited rhetoric that should there be war England would fight and fight on the side of France." If Mr.

Dangerfield only read the speech he would find that it does not say that at all, but is addressed to a more complex danger that of a German-French deal behind Great Britain's back; while as for the "flamboyant," "excited," and rhetoric," it may suffice to recall that it was widely (thoush wrong v) believed at the time that Mr. Lloyd George's phrases had been drafted for him by Grey. This sort of thing is all right for the sort of reader who wants to he amused or stirred and does not care whether the events really happened in that way or some other way. But the reader who does care needs to be warned against it. WINGS OVER EVEREST When an expedition sets out to climb Mount Everest its progress is followed in detail from the time it leaves this country.

The journey through India, the trek across Tibet, the whole of the organisation leading up to the actual climbing are matters of interest, and when the written accounts appear one reads about all the early stages and the experiences of different members of the expedition as a matter cf course. But after the Houston Mount Everest Expedition had flown over the summit, and taken the series of remarkable photographs, attention was naturally concentrated on that aspect of the adventure. The difficulties caused by flying at great altitudes, the complicated apparatus for heating and for providing oxygen, the achievement of taking photographs in those conditions, and the skill necessary for handling aeroplanes in the dangerous air currents off the mountains these were the facts which made the expedition seem one of scientific rather than human interest. Now, in The Pilots' Book of Squadron Leader Lord Clydesdale and Flight Lieutenant D. F.

Mclntyre (Hodge and pp. svL 208, 10s. 6d.) redress the balance by giving us the story of the expedition as they saw it, from the beginning to the end. They describe the flight out to India, all the incidents of life there, on the way, and at their base, and the two flights over Everest in which they each piloted an aeroplane. Like many books written by men of action, this book is always clear, brief, and vivid; it amplifies our knowledge of the expedition admirably, and it is well illustrated with photographs taken at every stage.

M- C. HISTORY LIKE NOVEL. A novel about Wales in which not all the characters are either criminal lunatics or ineffective angela is something of an event Apart from this, the great merit of "The Heyday in the is the way in which the story is told by implication, the action depending upoa emotional relations between the characters which are mainly below the level of consciousness. Thus, it is only when Evan, the bankrupt miller and poet, has shut the fox in the granary and Llew, the "young cock bird," orders him to let it out that the village of Tanygraig in the division of Powys is really in a position to know that they are rivals in love for Beti, the daughter of Twmi, landlord of the Bed Lion, though the reader has been prepared by a dozen subtle indications in the contacts between the three young people. Mr.

Goodwin has, indeed, a remarkable gift for suggesting the accumulation underground of feelings which only come to the surface and reveal their nature, whether of liking or disliking, at a crisis, and he deals with the crisis itself with shorthand brevity in dialogue. Beti herself is kept charmingly and convincingly fluid between the young men, who, though contrasted, are not exclusive in their characters. Llew, who is Beti's cousin, is the born sportsman and occasional poacher, but he is not illiterate, though he failed the London matriculation, and if it is Evan who is "chaired" at the Powys Provincial Eisteddfod, Llew wins three pounds for a short story. His -violence, too, is redeemed by an impish humour, as when he peppers the keeper, Mathias, caught Lending. The story gains interest by being set in a border country at the end of one age and the beginning of another, and the menace of England realised at the end in a projected arterial road creates the atmosphere of the book.

Twmi is the dominating figure, and his defiant and sardonic humour, both with the police in the matter of closing time and with the Ministry officials, makes him lovable, in spite of his brutality. The mixture of earthiness and idealism in the Welsh people is admirably conveyed, and the Welsh inflection in dialogue is to the life. Some hints of caricature in the more familiar characters the Lancashire foreman at the Sir George White factory in Bombay, and Mrs. Mainwaring, the English subaltern's Eurasian wife with an extremely variegated past lead one to hope that Mr. Anand has darkened his picture of Indian misery in a period of economic transition.

The suggestion is not that he has wilfully, or even consciously, distorted the "truth but that like Gissing in contact with "mean streets" he has trusted too much to the effect upon his own sensibility. making every allowance for subjective colouring, this is a harrowing tale, and, since a first-hand acquaintance with the facts is evident, 1 it is well that it should have been written. The story is one of a peasant boy, finding his way like a bewildered little animal through the muddle for Mr. Anand does not mistake a muddle for a malignancy caused by thp intrusion of Western capitalistic methods into the native society. Munoo.

with his flashes of boyish mischief ami glimpses of racial philosophy in the quest for food, which is his chief occupation, is an attracthe little figure. Cast out by his uncle from being a leader among the youth- CHRISTIAN The Desert Father. Translations from Helen Wnddell. Constable. Pp.

312. The secret of Miss Waddell's renown is the skill with which she contrives the marriage of the eternal i critics and the revealing small talk of human character. Her learning is ast and deep, but there are others who share it. Her skill as a translator is indeed great, but in this field she has her worthy competitors. The gift which crowns these initial assets is a point of view, steadily held, from the illumination of which she survejs the immensities and the littlenesses of life.

This point of -view is conspicuously Christian and its artistic fruit is to be seen in the steady balance and poise in which she holds these opposites so that they are no more twain but one. She holds the single life as equally important with the full range of eternity, and she knows that the con sciousness of eternity is what gives to the single, life its real significance. The resolving of the tension existing between the modern view that the uriherse is unknowable and theism therefore insignificant for life and the modern sense of the cosmic littleness of is Miss Waddell's supreme achievement, and it is the secret of the revealing power implicit in such books as "The Scholars' and Peter Abelard." "The Desert Fathers" makes The tenth edition of Win Isr's. the German Who's Who (Berlin Verlag Hermann Dogener, pp. lxxv.

1.8J3. Rm.44), contains some 18,000 biographies and discloses the real identity of 5,000 pseudonyms. The previous (ninth) edition was published in 1928. A glance through these 1,833 pages reveals the immense efforts taken to bring this latest edition up to date by the inclusion of biographies of those who have since come into prominence, particularly during the past three years. Vacancies had been provided by the exclusion of many well-known figures of post-war democratic Germany who have since disappeared from the scene.

In a compilation of this kind the official world is apt to be more fully represented than, for instance, literary and artistic movements, but modern artists like Barlach, Feininger, and Nolde find inclusion, though neither Heckel nor Schmidt-Rotluff. The name of Dr. Hugo Eckener. the Zeppelin pioneer, appears, followed appropriately enough by that of Eckermann, the South American expert of the Nasi party. A brief biography of Hitler in fifty-five words appears alone on the first page, according to the express instructions of the Baich Chancellery, which furnished the particulars.

The scope of this volume also includes outstanding notabilities of other German-speaking countries. Curiously enough, while Alfred Adler, Karl Barth, Bela Bartok, Carl long, and Prince Stsznemberg are menoonea, then la no trace of Freud. The Pilgrim's Way. By Humbert Wolfe. Nicholson and Watson.

Pp. xx. 240. 6s. One of the various ministrations of the B.B.C.

is to those who believe or feel that the spirit of man is the fundamental thing about him and seek to relieve their stresses and distresses, in part the heritage of a great war, by recourse to good and comfortable words and music. The Pilgrim's Way," in a group of seventeen broadcasts, was so designed and for this printed record of the words, chosen from the poets by Mr. Humbert Wolfe, spoken by experts, and interpretatively crystallised, mood by mood, in pro logues of his own composing, the original title has been kept. The music, selected for its relation to the poems, is recalled by exact reference to the compositions and their reproductions. Altogether it is an impressive concentration of spiritual beauty and wisdom.

The range of sources is wide from the Hebrew prophets and psalmists and the evangelists of the New Testamenc, through the finest English mystics and metaphysicals," Ijnsts and contemplative poets of four centuries, down to the poetic revealers of the great sublimities and realities in our own day. It is an anthology with a difference. The difference is that familiar poems brought in to illustrate a specific mood or emotion lose the hackneyed aspect they tend to wear when chosen for their own sake alone. Thus, in the Courage" section Henley's "Invictus," standing between Henry Crispian speech and Don John of Austria Going to the War," takes on a new and shining valiance. Not that Mr.

Wolfe has chosen chiefly from the familiar. A vntue of the collection is the rich and strange aptness of choice after choice. The prologues, too, are for the most part sensitively in tune. They are written in his characteristically figurative style. Sometimes, indeed, the figures troop so copiously that the lucidity of his exposition of "the inner meaning of each mood passes into the dazzling.

He is at his best in such a passage as that in the prologue to There has always been in the mind of man the urgent wish to reach out beyond himself to that which is flawless when he is flawed, bright when he walks in shadow, and timeless when he faces death." The poems and extracts are well set out, and the only regrettable thing about the production is the number of inaccuracies in the text. The effect is always unfortunate, but in Wilfred Owen's sonnet The End it is disastrous. There Shall life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will He annul, all tears assuage 1 actually appears in the second line All death will be anew Valiant-for-Truth on a pilgrimage is well enough but Vigilant-for-Error is important, too. C. P.

THE NEW DEAL SURVEYED An American Experiment. By E. M. Hugh-Jones and E. A.

Radice. Oxford University Press. Pp. viii. 296.

6s. On May 27, 1935, the United States Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, and on January 6, 1936, it equally adjudged the processing taxes which were the basis of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to be illegal. Consequently now is a time when an impartial survey of President Roosevelt's New Deal is extremely welcome and useful. Mr. Hugh-Jones and Mr.

Radice are two young Oxford research students who held scholarships in the United States while the New Deal was in force, and their opinions are neither unduly academic nor unsympathetic. Their conclusions are that whereas in some respects President Roosevelt's experiment assisted the undeniable economic recovery of the last three years, in others it retarded it. On the one hand, it achieved some degree of financial and social reform, it stimulated trade unionism, restored price levels, created public works which diminished unemployment, and restored solvency to business and agriculture. Against these advances are put the considerations that agriculture was made undulv denendenf. ii nnn the domestic market, that the raising of industrial costs by the N.R.A.

codes tended to have an adverse effect upon employment, and that the policy of giving wholesale doles to industry was not offset by any material increase of State control, but, on the contrary, strengthened the power of monopolies. Furthermore, the experiment was too piecemeal and scarcely bold enough. General Johnson, the "former recovery administrator, is quoted as saying "We hammered away, sometimes hitting the nail, sometimes the thumb." But of the three specific causes of the depression mentioned by the authors maldistribution of income, financial excesses, and mismanagement of agri- uuiiure -none was grappled with thoroughly. There is still, in hW opinion, room for banking reform, a oemer aistrioution oi incomes and a more realistic handling of agriculture. Finally, they conclude, as is indeed plain to even the most superficial observers, that no big advance in Government economic policy is possible without an amendment of the inflexible American Constitution.

M. P. A. In Trout Heresy (Philip Allan, pp. 206, 8s.

6d.) Mr. P. B. M. Allan does some clear tMnk ng about trout and trouting.

It will pain the wet-fly no less than the dry-fly fisherman to hear that the trout is lower in the scale of intelligence and duller of sight than the barbel. After that we are readv for all our cherished beliefs to be demolished. Some comfort, however, is vouchsafed us, for, according to the author, if we study carefully the presentation of the fly and make it behave like a natural insect when it alights on the water we shall be better and more successful anglers. Mr. Allan has written highly provocative bnt interesting and enlightening book.

the death, by his own hand, of his father, whom he had come to save, account for four Spaniards in fighting his way out of the nut in the Calle des Forcas, Madrid, and still manages to "get away with it" is the best indication, of that fictional experience which distinguishes Fire over England." Mr. Mason except when he reminds us that there were no telegrams, cables, wireless, or telephones in the days of Elizabeth never makes the mistake of addressing the reader directly, but there are passages in which one seems to catch the solemn wink of the old hand engaged in piling it up. The plot is ingenious. Robin, who is introduced at Eton, devotes his youth to a scheme tor avenging the supposed death of his father at the hands of the Inquisition, but is induced by Walsing- ham, who tells him that his father is alive, though reduced to misery in Madrid, to go to Spain and Portugal to spy upon and report the preparations for the Armada. He fulfils his mission, but is several times betrayed, unwittingly by his love, Cynthia, and his father, who stabs himself in remorse, and deliberately by members of the Catholic party who are playing a waiting game at home.

He is saved in the nick, however, and actually comes back to England in Our Lady of the Rose, commanded by Oquendo, and swims ashore, having previously fired the magazine, to land under the lee of Portland and find Cynthia waiting for him at Abbot's Gap, his childhood's home. Prodigious But one cannot sufficiently admire the skill and pace which lend plausibility to the exciting narrative. The Heart Awakes," translated by Cyrus Brooks and Marjorie Laurie, suffers somewhat from the combination of a love story with politics and economics. Since, however, the letters in which the story is told are from "living persons" it is difficult to see how this could be avoided. The love story itself is of extraordinary interest because, though there is growth in it3 expression, the love between an Englishman of about sixty and a German woman of nearly forty is full-grown and complete at first sight.

This at once removes it from that swapping of sentiments," with occasional misunderstandings, which is the usual course of a love story told in letters. From the very first everything is taken for granted, the only question being whether marriage will interfere with Monica's work as a publicist. This, with the contemporary view of marriage in mature persons of such high intelligence, strikes one as a little odd and "old-fashioned." Monica is the more practical of the two. and thouch shar ing the doubt it is she who finally takes the bull by the horns. The letters themselves are a delight and quite unemoarrassing to read.

ANCHORITES the Latin, 7s. 6d. with an Introduction bv abundantly clear the secret of Miss Waddell's power, at which her earlier books are content to hint. The body of the book consists of translations from the literature of the early Christian anchoriteB of the Egyptian desert, whose austerities so pained Lecky and amused Gibbon. To these she has added an introduction a supeib piece of writing and possibly the.

finest thing she has ever done. In it she seeks to estimate the real significance of St. Antony and his fellows. The clue is given in her insistence on ortngmg out evorv revealing trace of the essential humanity of the hermits, which leads her to find their significance chiefly in the fact that their denial of the'life of earth has been the incalculable enriching of it." One naturally is hesitant about declaring boldly that iL' i introduction is ine most revealing piece of writing about the Desert Fathers for manv hundreds of vpnrs but it is a judgment which time mav very probably endorse. Those who know the period onlv from what Leek-s and Gibbon said about it in their blindness certainly owe it to themselves to read Miss Waddell's intrndiiftinn At the very least it will be a great testneuc experience.

K. B. L. The title, The Lost Historian, which Major Desmond Chapman-Huston has given to his memoir of the late Sir Sidney Low (John Murray, pp. sdx.

388, 12s. 6d.) seems meant to suggest that had he not given his time and talents to journalism Low's name as a serious author woidd have stood very high. This may be true, for the quality of his two most ambitious works, The governance ot and the last volume of the "Political History of England" (where, however, Lloyd Sanders collaborated with him), was beyond question memorable. But from 1879, when he left Balliol with a first in Modern History, down to within a few months of his death in 1932 he was constantly drained of his best by journalism. He wrote freely, he wrote well, he was well paid, and though twice married he had no children; yet he never outgrew the bondage, and died badly off.

Why I Partly, it would appear, because he was generous, hospitable, and socially ambitious. One reads of his giving large dinner parties to prominent people in his London house; a leader-writer's cheques will not go far with that. Bnt his contacts provide much matter for his biographer, who is here able to throw sidelights on very many Victorian and Edwardian figures. Incidentally, Low was the first person to print an original article by Sapling in any English periodical. VITAL PEACE A Study of Risks hy WICKHAM STEED BLOUNT Constable WRITE TO.

Adelaide St. HACHETTE Whin you need Foreign Books Prompt and aecurats atttntian to all snqulries. Strand, Leaden, A Letter to Ladies Dear Madam, Did you ko to school in England, France or fiermany If so, you will delight in FOUR MISS PINKESTONS by Rachel K. Davis, a book of reminiscences of four Girl-Schoola and their Headmistresses. FOUR MISS PINKERTONS Published by WaEasv tc Ksriats at 76 are already published and three more will follow shortly.

Growing Wings Mr. Filson Young, who recently learned to fly at the age of SB, is to publish with, Michael Joseph, a "fragment of autobiography" under the title "Growing Wings (6s.) on July 6. The book enables the reader to appreciate the emotions, ti problems, and the progress which a novice-actually experienced' from lesson to lesson, and throughout it presents the point of view of an amateur and adventurer rather than of one who is technically at home in the air. ShaJcespesuv The final volume in the "New Temple Shakespeare will be published on July 8 by Dents. This is "William Shakespeare: A by if, R.

Ridley, the editor of the edition. It. consists summary of Shakespeare's life, a chronc-lofical and critical surrey of 'the. 'develop ment of his writing, essays on the theatre' in bis time, on leading Sbakespeare's language, an analysis' of his verse, and a sftsdy of the textual determimv tion of the edition. I W.C.2 10'- FORTHCOMING BOOKS Soviet Rutxia On July 6 Koutledge will pubh-li I Search lor Truth in Russia," by Sir Walter Citrine.

This book coiisitts of tlie diary which Sir Walter Citrine kept irom day to day during a visit to the U.S.S.R. He sees the U.S.S.R. factories, transport, tenements, and buildings with the eye of the practical man and notes both achievements and faults in workmanship and material which would not strike the eye of most visitors. The American Lanzuage On the same date Kegan Paul will publish The American Language," by H. L.

Mencken, a completely new edition entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged of a standard work, containing approzimately 800 pages, with a full word list and index. It lists more Americanisms than any existing dictionary. The growth of the American laneuate is dealt with hiRtdnV-allv. But the chief stress is laid on the language as it stands to-day. A Disctusiera of Discussions The Discussion of Human Affairs," by Charles A.

Beard, will be published by Hacmillan on July 14. This book is described by its author as an inquiry into the nature of the statements, assertions, allegations, claims, heats, tempers, distempers, dogmas, and contentions which appear when human affairs are discussed, and into the possibility of patting some rhyme and reason into processes of discus- A Cosntry Anthology In "The Open Air," which Faber and Paber announce for publication on July 9, Mr. Adrian Bell has selected the pleasures, humours, amusements, and intimacies of English country life. It is a surrey of the way the country and all country doings appear to the countryman in short, the Tray they appear to lfr. Adrian BelL Biography Kewnes hare issued at the price of half a crown a series of biographies called; The Private lives Library." The boots, which have a striking -wrapper bj Bex Whistler, are veil bound and printed-- Three title1.