A Literary Comer

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 12

A Literary Comer

(Conducted by

R.A.L.)

• WHAT A tAPn WHAT A Before our righteous &4ig»»t{e» evaporates, bring to V * rhyming dictionary, verlet. We navo been provaked. and -when we «w» provofced pur cfceler west effeetfvdv. manifesto tW? in njetrinel form- P« r IPW n “(30001 Biitslri’e Pauper' —pot a lady, but a novel. In many way#, tf i» five most novel novel we bwe raw w years, However, , . . Meet Count Blitski's dauabtoi-^ba Wes as Wild as enaJWl could be, \ Plain <and cptoured) taen and &MW Prophets, priests ana would-be Pings, One *4 these, a echempr vain. With * very *wy brew, fo the chsaw of pefcrjrfrf* Dodging newel kwve* » ebotfEvery thing’s of course Q,E. . In file grand did British nay , When Hhrishta hurts her eherms late her dear Baron a arffie,; » or««ked"

'fe&mSp** 4*|w*iw* Uh« ns eenoffldv anyhow.<{3opy from i “AM- ABOUT WJBSLf^S” Then toft* s $* 4f*4*y- ?$m tite“Pree<fc*st Library,’' wbJSt the British world »w«s to the enterprise df Meswe . onsl Stoughton. Tbra h°oh, by ?• Eak* ersley, Mw-tO ft> being, wo tottere, the tetiftt addition- The editor, of the ‘Ttibrary’’ is .Mr J•, £ S#ft b A ieg director of the Bwftiswrt Company,” and the eptnor of w weftknown “Bro»d«MS Over Britain. 1 * M* Bait* has hunt op wireless broedewrting hy hie energy, rtfß and ergsmwtf power, and jftsdisto.wwdertnJ wage for wireless broadcasting, some of wfiftfe are coming true, while others wdi prob--nSfy remain in Urn region of done* for » good time to some, if ever ft does some. His editing ft » guarantee that this “Wiawd of'Wireless” otherwise .sailed “all about your wfrel«»:»t’f=* is anthorj tati ve, end exhaustive, Morris over, Captain gcfcersley, M-LE.E., k ehief engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, His aits in this honk is to. wqdid thingß » sseh fashion as to enable these who like wireless to under- * stand something of its mysteries,': With this intention ho discourses pleasantly and non-teehnfc.alJy of electrons, wavw- ' lengths, and the machines, or, rather, the apparatus, of which the constant mysterious handling «o irritates Ifttenere The gallant captain and hie Managing director grp keeping the werid fairly well abreast 9f toe march of • ♦‘Wireless Broadcasting.” (Copy from Hodder end Stoughton) "TH« RECLUSE OF FIFTH AVENUE” ’ Wyndhawir Marten having given the /erid “dntfcony Trent, Master Criminal/' has, the right to daim that this book of hie is a masterpiece. The evidence ef/-Anthony is certainly good enough to ensure a fair trial. Anthony why,we reviewed him was a very wondefftu, person who did many wonderful town, each as “crooking*’ in New York, becoming, an officer of honour and dftfangtron in toe American army during too Great War, and securing entry into* an English nobleman’s fam*!/afterwards, winning the confidence of toe head thereof, and the heart of tie daughter thereof also, apd finally triumphing over the inevitable exposure of his crookdom. There ' are credentials for the “Recluse of Fifth Avenue” which cannot he resisted. In the avenue there assemble . several creeks to do a deed of righteous rescue. Ihs lady to be rescued is glad of their eerrieee—what young lady threatened ■with oppression would not he N—but but takes toe lead‘in her own cause with rather amazing results. (Copy from Herbert Jenkins.) "HURRICANE TEX'* 7 ' George Goodchild’e new novel tells the story of a gentleman moving in the beet society forced by fate to go out into the wilds of the great continent, where trappers have their wandering homes and the climate is rigorous, and men’s brains are sharpened by bitter experience and their characters are hardened by struggles with the elements and unscrupulous men. A very readable yarn. (Copy from Hodder and Stoughton.) "THE BLUE CIRCLE’* , This story just added to Hodder and Stoughton’s 3s fid “Library of Fiction.” It maintains the reputation of the author—Elizabeth Jordan—as a writer of fascinating fletfim. A young man finds himself living in a house inhabited by a gang of criminals, tries to circumvent them, and has strange adventures, one of them a delicate love story. (Copy from Hodder and Stoughton.), The Irish litterateur, who makes bis home in England very often incurs unpopularity in his native land. George Bernard Shaw is not universally liked in Ireland, where 1 his candour has not been relished. “Sir, Ireland is my mother I” shouted an indignant Irish-American to Mr Sbaw in the course of a diatribe against certain passages in “John Bull’s Other Island.” “You may he right after all'” was the rejoinder. “I have heard before now of sons who left their mothers to starve I”

Vjropp AND THE FAMILY” , y, H, afqttraw, professor of physialogy at London University, sets himself to the task of demonstrating what food is, what food sap jde, and what food’ is nndjesirahlOr f» tbd course of his jfemoßsi ,ralio * 1 be b#e web that is amusing, as well as instructive, to say about the h«»y'if*de whist feoubte mankind in t© matter of feed. He has much to say about . meals Spd iil«F poursee; and <d» e order in which they should be served; #nd about tho (dangers in modern foodstuffs he is. very esßshteswgk tier..# we question of copt left put j>y any meansa wy useful , #ftd jnstrun&vnhook which Should be jp every .family ljjbrrary. F§r ejamyls, cfewfder thw prpnoupsempni °» by j Sijish so mßsh alsre used tp he »te«# jpn stiiJ. Js, , . , “This propess ponsisty in «jh;actin« the milk tp » &>&■, fef QO mifl»tf», The fajlkjauWuß , mtsrooj# are destroyed and *hp/«!Ik hoew hetfer' Bai.tite spores werous p#hhp»nw m&rofeswnMk unhwbe& .Time may grow apd render we wJfc.wfe*'fism* or town, with no other nwprsfce* to keep them dswu m nwshers md , mpppuous, in fast pasteurised with ffEdrt be, thpiogb perferay good .#4O, taste, ahaSupiy deadly, frw&pe yvfcich pasteurisation destroys, -Some <?? the vitamin and # ssbseaueM heating fas for justunue - is pwsjss . up in&jfe fupd er pudMW). wdl destroy, the remainder. wwesrmetwn. » upt all t& blessing it was thought to he, —except to wholessle merchant^ and m w cent. of tww » p«Md»srigpdThis yerdfet is mmugfeP Stefte£*“f pi® use great cape a&C weugbt w m matters pf foodMuch will fee of flavour is food, about Md on iooda,aboutgu»ed foods, as 4 ihe regsow fo/ them satisfactorineo»--=^C < W. fM® ‘ “wSue* and Co-, Perflurs stfset). Carl S- Browsing, Bacteriology ¥r>bacteriology for the SsHue ymvprstty Library-' IJmset «e ? e write, ■ terest is given to the By the ouWicatjon of the rnfprmatkm; that, the bacillus of cancer hestftew found,, measured, and "&W trimls jife,” says the author, "is pasted in the closest confect with a teeming j world pf minute living creatures from Which wo never escape. Bacteria are tbo cfejef inhabitants of that world, gome pf them ,esb tssentigl to us: without their aid the. farmer neuld ur4grow' his mpps- ■ Others are most insidious end deadly enemies,-for hnc> • terlai infections p&y ibs chief part in cutting life premafurgbr shaft- Brows i hiU in » day, others fake yesm. but compass the end nans the lew m~ 1 Having thus introduced Jrierwry im- < portent subject, he tells Ss*#n*he dis-o cove/y pf these - important creatures, : describes thg'unode qf investigation applied’ to their 'numerous tribes,, expatiates op their foods, their conditions of growth; the part they ptey Jn ferments, their circulation m nature, and the various methods of desllng with them.- The pictures of soma of thaw princes of was un*een wor)d .are the shuulest s»4 most harmless things is the world, hpt when ypu have mastered what fbe professor has to say about them, yotor opingfe will grow,-as will your terror, or your admiration, according to restate. The hook id such as to give a general understanding of a subfeet apout which everybody ought to know something. A working knowledge, however, must not bo expected. The book will give a step in that direction. (Copy from Williams and Norgate.) “THE LITTLE BROWN BABY" ■ ' The author'of this diverting book l» Hr Pater Blundell, who has amused many readers with such books o# the "Fingeri of Afr‘ Blee’’a_and much humour and ingenuity will be expected of .him here. There will be no disop pointmeat. It is a story of the East in an island off the coast of Malacca The details are perfect, manhefs,’ cos tepna of diverse races, characters—officials, . planters—Chinamen Malays—drawn td the life, nothing in the way of local colour to be desired. The story turns on the outrageous behaviour of a wealthy planter and merchant, who owns most of the island, and thinks be’ owns the whole earth, with the incidental right to insult everybody, especially the people of. polour, and a wife who henpecks him in the most comical fashion. Between them they bully the population, Wack and white, in the most snobbish manner. A Japanese lady (a charming creation) resente this 1 treatment,- and, being the wife of a European . doctor, has opportunities. Out of this situation grows the etory—ingenious, highly original—a new plot very welcome in the deserts of monotony the novel reader complains of so bitterly—comical exceedingly, and in a style too good for a single line to be miseed. (Copy from "The Bodley Head.’’) LANCASHIRE HUMOUR Lancashire /humour has’ one clement by which it makes its overwhelming appeal; Lancashire jbkee are almost always at the expense of "the other man." They require, for the most part, a simpleton as a condition ' of their existence. Here, is an example: .A man met his friend wheeling a piano, about the street bn a handcart, his little bqy by hie side. “ Elio. Bill, ow’d mon, bast bin-buy in’ a piano P” , "I- bowt it t’other day for young Joe,” Bill replied, "an’ I’m just takin’ ’im fer is fust lesson.” And here’s another:— Bill Simms’s poultry-yard adjoined the railway, and he, had lately had some of his fbwls killed through straying on the line. Bill, therefore, bought a railway guide, hung it in the foWihouse, and addressed the occupants : "Ther y’are; if you get run o’er neaw it’ll buyer own crimson fault.”