1 dome May, rnc ott award the prize to a novel not honestly deserving of it or else they must cancel the competition and make no award. Neither course desirable they have settled \upon' an alternative that they feel t0 be the only satisfactory one. This alternative is that the period of the competition is extended to May 31, i938.
This is one of the most successful novels of its type that the writer has had the privilege of reading for 3 considerable time past and ranks easily, with such works as "Quo One of the most distinguished connoigseurs of detective stories. in the world to-day is President Roosevelt Among the many stories which the President took away with him on Vadis" and "Et tu Senajus" to men= his {hie trip, to. Hawaii was Anthony son couple of comparatively recent Wwnne's "Case of the Golden Coins," examples of this class of work' The story is a stirring one of those colour-published by Messrs. Hutchinson. ful days when Rome the builder of!
European civilization was holding the "The Censor, the Drama and the gates against the menace of Carthage, Film 1900-1934." by Dorothy Know-fi self, the centre of a civilization lies. is published by Messrs. Allen founded on horror and beastliness. & Unwin at 7/6. It brings the study The story is one of the attempt of of dramatic censorship up to date Hannibal to fulfil his oath to redues ter discussing the arguments for Rome to nothingness, to bring Italy and against the censorship inthe to ruin, and moves with great rapidity theatres. In the sphere of films it from his sack of Saguntum, to hishs the frst comprehensive study of rear march over the Alps into the the censorship system and censorial Ballan plains where he meets ultimate activities are examined in the prin-defeat at the hands of the younger cipal films. affected. The innumer-Scipio. Concurrently with the story acts of censorship, political, of Hannibal's oath and final destruc-religious, sociological, moral, ete., tion there runs the tale of a young, are discussed, and censorship itself Roman, severed from his bride suggested to be but the express the sack of Saguntum, his own eap- (sion, through some recognized central tivity" and servitude as a lave in executive, of the will of the majority Carthage as a personal attendant to oF of powerful vested interests. the glamorous Sophonisba, his final escape and participation in the great "the Idea in Fiction" by H. W. hhattle which brought to him the ful= iment of his own vengeance.
Leagett, it another of Messrs. Allen For a first novel this isa remark: E'nwin's "publications, price 8/~ team untechnical but not. merely able piece of work. Mr. Gerard operiial study of the, methods of "ureoeded in maintaining a wonderful peverteis) study, the general balance between the glories of that Tender even more" than forthe ge, and its horrid sordidnesses. "His welter of novels" and' short stories. descriptions are at all times powerful "ction enables" an. individual and on ecasion are almost malest plement his own. Limited he succeeds in revivifying past periences by seeing and experiencing history in a manner which makes the Rfe"through the more. sensitiveot pictures he presents stand out vividly before the eyes of the reader. The ist tesstSinterent=mind and tem-Perament of the novelist. After exthor's sense of the dramatic is Pinining the genesis of an "idea" for ichly developed and he assists i ina story and tracing its development srofucing his effects by the swiftness his motion through the many in-idants he so effectively describes Tneaed the book is so attractive: that tig to be hoped that he will very enn have another on the market, 19 which hanpw event at Toast one re-Viewer will look forward—arnvc. into a. plot, the author shows how unexpectedly subtle the relationship [ie which exists between novelists, jeharacters, and reader. The ability to create and maintain this delicately Balanced relationship, he suggests, is essential to the story-teller as hie "vision"; while, for the reader, failure. 10 understand what is involved
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