Wolf Solent, a mai ugly as rew-turned black earth is rrives in King's Barton, childhood, to assist Squife Urquhart in the compilation of a history of Dorset. It is to he an unusual history, recording all the human and scandalous stories that regular histor have missed. Mystery surrounds the end of Redfern, the Squire's previous seerstary, and Wolf's lifo is haunted by two shorts, the elusive Redfern and his own prodigal dead father. Two loves also enter Wolf's lite.
One is Gerda, whose wraith-hey beauty, strange attribute of the daughter of a lumpish tombstone maker, and shrewish spouse, sets Wolf aflame with desire; whi the other, Christie Malakite, draws him by a subtler bond of spiritual communion As if to round off his life in Dorset, two men, a scho, l-master and his pet brother, inf. ence Wolf's life profoundly. His] incessant struggle to preserve his personality in an age of mechanism and mechanized people is ma' still more difficult by the strength of character in his mother, whom he loves passionately but cannot ike.
These are but a few of the extensive community that populates Mr. Pows's pages. Of the minor characters probably. the most outstanding is the saintly vicar, who is seldom sober. The plot is one dent but wth the symphony of] that is not easily summarized, for it is concerned not with one inci-
Wolf Solent's life in Dorset. tance, torn the personal, the political aspect of their doings lies for the mast part outside of Mr. Hackett's scheme, What interests him mest is the play of ch acter, the strength and weakness of men and women, the melodramatic contrasts of this eay, grim, brutal, boisterous axe. Not once does the narrative fag or the vio en the rendee's attention relax.
Person See gto out Avondale Prean NOW York twas regard] by most a toy, 2 glorified magielane teen show tsetul for tiling in that dll stretch at the church, hasaat between the jumble auction (the auctioneer the views) and" Se, Jarley's Waxworks. \To-day, however, the cinema ts" one of the four most important industries in t he United State, and bids fair in the future to becime one of the staple, industries of England, says "John O'London's Weekly."
But the elnoma has become something: move than a gigantic indus: tay" of sudden mushroom. growth, its short existence of hardly more than fifteen years, has bee ome a powerful rival of the Press {nits effects on the everyday liven indent medium of expeesion The sinona has bycemo the mos
the world and is In daly Sommanien tion with countless milans of neaplo 4 powerful medium for the diffusion all doprees of intelligence, "Iie
social and even political hoagie! an rately emationtl It 18 a haw, Drmaiy and det ed to the unintelligent masees, the ity of which la estimated by. ducers in" America Yourteen-year-old child, Saser and got the Havel "opin for higher emotions uro Mr, Seabury in this admirable and searching survey has some wite things to say of the part played by the cinema as the means of spreading injurious propaganda, not merely national war provoking but the more subtle moral-destruc tive propaganda, He deals, too, with the Censorship, with the ims portant relations of "the cinema and world trade. ard, more ime Portant still, puty forward a aug-reested solution for these urgent The average cinema-goer has-probably not realized to. the full Mr, Seabary's warning that:— sity of the Bresice, position of the whale white, race Hhrough, the "widespvend "disseminate tom "of "thorough hol pictures through¢ ne the Far Tonnot ye averestinated, Tt is As, Sexbury's opinion tha dawning upon enlightened publicists in America that legal censorship is futile and "Obviously," declares here is' only one xistingg organization which has Jurisdiction and power to set up and create facilities for a com potent examination of such a subject and for its effective and per= manent treatment, That organiza tion is the League of Nations."
Among Mr. Seabury's xecommendations are that:—
A group of, nations should define the pletarer to. be prohibited from entrance whd. from exhibition im each nation comprising the group. And "that!
Bach such nation should agree tov admit such pictures. ov any res until they" hava been inspected Inthe country of their origin by Inspectors designated Uy oF in bee As one lags down Mr, Seabury's book one is convinced that tha nema, morally as well as econo. tically, provides a problem paramount importance to our poli jeans. With Mr. Scabury's nssistance, however, they may come within solution of it, The Princess Der Ling, whose book "Old Buddha" was walk received last year, has brought out another volume, "Kow-Tow, and in its she recounts further incidents. of her unusual and eventful She begins with her recollections as a child of six in her father's home in China, where the life" about her is already. half-familiar, half-strange, due to her. unusual background. Charming pictaros of Chinese family. life are depicted in each succeeding chapter; the record of her career being carried through. the days when she lived in. Pairs, where her father was China's ambassador, and later. in other countries where her father, a political exile, found it necessary to dwell, Her selection as first Lady-in-Waiting to the last great Chinese empress is described in detail, as well as many of the atest practices ofthe Chi
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