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pilgrimage it involved long distance and
protracted effort. Even with a non-stop
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special train, Great Malvern is three good
*·He crept further into the room.
Has Irene forgorten that she
hours from London, and to reach it in time
On the other chair, among some
wanted to call Wilhelminc a mur¬
for luncheon means an early morning start,
underclothes Godltherc it was
deress to her facce.. And is
always a pull in England and on Sunday a
a pursc he held it in his
Wilhelmine still aware that I am
convulsion of nature. But the hours are in
hand Atthat instant he heard a
her lover, though I have called
fruth good. You pass and repass the silver
faint crcak. Wich a quick move¬
upon her in the middle of the night
flash of the upper Thames, then the spires
ment, he lay down full-length ar
wich a strange woman?“
of Oxford, then rolling meadows, gray cot¬
the foot of the bed . .. Another
—rom" Diad Gebrie“ (page 111]
tages banked with flowers, thatched sheep¬
crcakhen all was silent, pro¬
folds, little rivers overflowing the grass and
foundly silent He had done it!
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banked with bushy Bewick trees. Beyond
He had che twenty francs and now
Evesham is a world of orchards and
This book of Archur Schnitzler
he could say to his brother Von
pleached alleys of hop-vine, where the air
has just been published and all
scc l'm nor a thicf!... and today
is heavy with apples. All at once the
over Amcrica, as in Europe, thou¬
they could start on their wander¬
ground rises sharply and something back of
sands of readers arc now discover¬
ings to Bormio, through che
vour brain begins to repeat
ing for chemselves che great mo¬
Valtelline to Tirano to
ments in Little Novelr.
Edole to Lake Isco.“
On a May morning in Malvern Hilt
—rom“ Blind Gerenime and Hir Brether
I was wveary of wand’ring...
page 130)
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You may indeed lay by your wander¬
In 1925 THR INNER SANCTUM had ihe
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staff; you have reached the shrine of Saint
honor and good fortune to publich
Bernard.
Arthur Schnirzier' : FRAULEIN ELSE.
Why did he send for mer Had she
I had meant to make this three-hour jour¬
That was almost sive hears ago. During
confessede Why is he staring at me
ney like a proper pilgrim, if not on my own
ehore hearr, Artkur Schmitaler, long ac¬
like chate Why am Isitting herc at
feet at least at my own charges, but just as
ceptedk on ehe Conkinent as one #
Molde on a verandah wich a
I was pluming myself on being able to buy
Europe sg atest writer:, has mort hir
Pierrot? Can it be all a drcam after
a ticket for the sold-out first public per¬
way with. Kreating, zuccert in Amer¬
all? Perhaps 1 am still aslegp in
formance I received one for the private
ica. In rapid zucce““on and with
Klare's arms
press production, carrying with it transpor¬
growing acclaim „sve orher bookt were
—frag The Fe#selthe B-ren“ (pe 4 21]
tation and a luncheon whose wine-liste!
publirhell. nparRich, NONR NU
brought away to send you, büt of compas¬
THR naxVR, RHAPSODY, DAr¬
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sion forbear. Church was out in time to
BRRAK and THBRESA. Ir ir withe
rente that Schnitzler## same ir on the
give the townspeople a chance to gather at
Then she became a model and
point of a brilliant consolidation that
a respectful distance and watch the critics
walked on at a small theatrc. The
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troop into the Winter Garden for this enter¬
things she told us about the Dircc¬
tainment. They scemned to me to regard it
tor!... Then she fell in wich a
with a cool eye; if I wanted kind words
medical student ... and she often
Ade nentenn
from British journalists I think I would not
came to fetch him from the dis¬
SIMON and SCHUSTER
feed them first; it might put an extra coat
secting-room or morc often
on their determination not to be got at. The
Pelluher. 37 West S7ch Strect Ni Vert
stayed wich him there ..“
Mayor of Malvern told us what it would
—rom“ TheGrest Dewing-Giel (page 71]
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be only fair for us to tell the world about
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Malvern as a summer resort—and indeed it
is a charming place, curved around the
LITTLE NOVELS' a new book
lower slopes of the mountain whose side
rises sheer from the doorway of the bright
5y Akrnun SchNirzzkk
modern theatre. Settled here, a discreet
turning of heads indicated that a tall gray
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figure was looking over the house from à
corner of the balcony. In the intermissions

he came down and even permitted himself
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to be photographed with Miss Edna Peters,

now admirably representing America in
these islands. But the divinity or otherwise
A Poetry Clan Selection
that doth hedge G. B. S. kept the crowd at
a distance, watching as he talked affably
cnough to one friend or another, always
longer, straighter, younger, than anyone
BBECE JUNATA
with whom he was standing.
The time of" The Apple Cart'’ is some
fifty years hence; not long enough for short
By MALCOLM COWLEY
skirts to have gone out of fashion, but just
enough for present tendencies in English
This collection of fifty-five poems covers the history of Mr.
politics to have worked themselves out to a
Cowley’s mind in the last ten years. Like all of his writing,
relluctio ad absurdum. Politics is no longer
it is beautifully finished, and as poetry it is of an order very
a gentleman'’s game; labor holds the office
rare in the American scene: Mr. Cowley not only has a specific
and takes instructions from Big Business;
talent for poetry, he is a highly trained man of letters, and
the real power of the proletariat is vested
his verse is a fine example of the discipline of craftmanship
in Breakages Ltd. Wages in essential in¬
that few Americans achieve.' Allen Tate, The Neao Republic.
dustries, such as the manufacture of choco¬
A genuine and refreshing lyrical gift, and a corresponding
late creams, are so high that poverty is not
precision and limpidity of language.' N. Y. Evening Post.
even a memory. (This statement, taken as
a prophecy, was endorsed in the keynote¬
By an ill adjustment Malcolm Cowley is best known as a
speech of the Confectionery Show now tak¬
critic and translator, whereas his verse is by far his most
ing place at Olympia, by the way.) Let
importänt contribution.“ Kenneth Burke, N. T. Herald Trihune.
others worry over impending starvation;
“ Blue Juniata' is important not only because it gives us the
Mr. Shaw’s concern is with the terrors of :
assembled verse of a new and definitely interesting poet, but
fat prosperity.
because it sets itself up as a self-confessed logbook of literary
The Ministers representing this prosperity
youth in America during the ten years which followed the war
call one another Joe and Bill and act Plike
and which came just after the first fruits of our modern
un overcrowded third-class railway car¬
literary revival had been harvested. The Nation.
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riage.?' By this serio-comic Government the
King is supported and suppressed. But it is
JONATHAN CAPE & HARRISON SMITH
no easier to suppress King Magnus than to
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cuppress a goldfish by pushing it under
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water. Diplomacy is his element, and he
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can swim rings around any of his ministers.

He can tam Bill Boanerges, the labor
P leader, who roars like anv lion, and by
its heart in its nnou
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are two ladies in
sat still and talked
utes the King has
tion, almost as if
Royal Prerogative
When this speech w
and then the slowly
storm of applause.
it was like breaking
What really brol
the interpolated va
ond act. The Kin
with whom he has
lation,? based on w
and re-assert is her
Evidence in suppo
course be furnishec
providing the seco
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there is no break
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returns. The Kin
surrender the Roy#
of course in favor
begin the usual sp
retirement from
them that he has
He will at once s
which the Royal B
triumphantly retur
someone to form a
may call you, M.
me.“ The apple-
ance. The ultima
King, left alone f
his immediate victc
ridor of Heartbrea
leads him away to
Next day, in com
of devotees, I hearch
of Doctor Faustus,
Christopher Morle
Marlowe), perforn
ter House of this c
and breathless com
grims. Again we
scarce any action, a
the discussion of i
lieved, by the autho
of life and death.
held this audience
more thanten minu#
are in the great t#
ligious drama; Dr
the audience out of
Cart'’ to steer it aw
democracy. Mr.
like Marlowe's Mei
admitted,Why, th
of it.)Cm
just when he migh
money’s worth of
us dispute again, and
and dispute in Mal
of England.
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