WAitag ose, Wages Heder & Stoushe The Golden Age ig a will-o'the-ithe chronicle of the Forsytes, wisp to mankind, always sought, Martin clu Gard was engaged on a ton, London. 9/8 From the first chapter of this de-
Giways cluding us. Some have plac: [similar work, which he was publish-tective story, in' which Perrin of edit in the mists of pre-history and of "Les "Perrins, Investigators," receives a the good old days. Some would postillate it under a future. pol Fystem, Some, believing in neither the past nor fature, would seek tio the world here and now. The author of this book belongs to the fast group. Tired of the normal restraints of life in California, he sailed away fora sabbatical year in Tahiti 'Unlike most adventurers in the isles of the Pacific, he took ife and family with him. Did he Hind Eden?' He Ys quite convinced that he did. The steerage passage to Tahiti, the luscious vegetation of the Society Islands, the simple and care-free existence' of the natives, rergthing he encountered enthral fed him, Even the beachcombers, jone gathers, have a niche in his Elen Bat in ie of much, ome and ani enthusiasm that ought to phasis, some word-p
contagious, the author fails to. cone Vince the' reader that his tile Justified. On the contrary, the im-Dression left is, on the whole, one sadness. lad the effect on the reader. been as the writer intended, the three hundred pages and the high price of the "book would have been reasonable. As it have published the first two books, "The Grey Notebook" and "Th Reformatory"—in one volume, translated by Stephen Haden Guest, "The Thibaults" is the story middle-class life in the suburbs of
picture of" present-day life. in is, IE is, in "feel, a complete France. The price of the volume issued by Messrs. John Lane is 7/6.
Messrs. Thornton Butterworth have added "James Joyce" by Louis Golding, to their Modern Writers Series. Mr. Golding deals with his. [subject's personal history and, his development as an author. The rice of the books in this series is "Careers for Students of Chinese Language and Civilisation" is the title of a symposium prepared through the American Council of Learned Societies and published by Jthe American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations and the University lof Chicago Press. Among the contributors are Mr. Berthauld Laufer, Mr. Arthur W. Hummel, Mi. Kenneth S. Latourette, and Mr. visitor anxious to have a mystery Cleared up, until the last chapter, when all the masks are', removed, "the Prime Minister's Pencil" gone long series of Untlls of the Edgar Wallace type. The greatest of all, of course, is the murder of the Prime Minister of England while seated in his room at the House of Commons, with his secretary at another desk in the same room. As might be guessed from the title of the book, the Prime Minister's cil is ultimately' traced down as the {instrument of, destruction, scientific explanation of how the pencil manages to accomplish its terrible task, manipulated by' the Usual ang of unscrupulous politic fans and financiers and. a_Harley Street specialist. Perrin of Perring Investigators, and Scotland Yard combine to Unearth the "criminals but not until there has been present.
the reader a long series of brilling episodes—r.w.F,
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