A modern biographer might well and in Tahirth all the qualities which bulla a fescinatiag story. Miss Root has suggested. these—a_ medieval 5 feiety in the nineteenth century, the aughter of a Mohammedan priest who has east aside the vell, one who contrary to custom carried on re-Tigious controversies with men and publicly took part in religious cone ferences. 'The' author has described 'Téhirih as a "poetess whose work sought by scholars in every land," yet Dut two of her poems are translated man appendix. rental scholars of the character of Lord Curzon, Valentine Chirol and Sir Francis Younghusband have writ ten of Téhisih with admiration Abundant testimony of her remark. fable personality and gifts exists. Yet this Book cannot satisfy those who want an unbiased interpretation of that personality ran, New Fiction Miss Barbara Cartland has written a lively tale in "Bitter Winds" Glut chanson, London. 7/6.) It is a pleasant) combination of dramatic situations} and lively humour with an undercurrent of seriousness. The characters, however unimportant they may] be, are true to life and the dialogue! fs easy and natural. Lydia Bryant, is a very sympathetic personality. She finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation as chaperone to Anne Tave~ rel, a pretty, flighty girl on a visit to her mother in Egypt. Mrs. Carlton, Anne's" mother, who lived with Gerald Carlton' before she married him, 1s a chronic invalid who can talk of nothing but her lost beauty. Gerald has a mistress in the house, but he promptly falls in love with Lydia, and Anne makes matters more Jdimeult meanwhile by having an affair with a very unsavoury Egyptian, Fortunately Lydia has the three great assets of beaut sensitiveness and tact. She persuades Gerald to take his wife home to England and en. courages Anne to engage herself to a pleasant young subaltern. Lydia is left behind in Egypt to All in time ley working in a hospital until Gerald's wife dies and she can mary him. It Is not an ideal ending. One feels that Lydia deserves a better fate than wailing for dead men's shoes, but "Bliter Winds" is a pleasant book and It the principle of interest rightly understood had nothing but - the present world in view, it would be very insulleient; for there are many sacrifices which' can only find their recompense in another; and whatever ingenuity may be put forth to demonstrate the utility of virtue, it will never be an easy task to make that man live aright who has no thoughts—Aupas De TocquevEtz.
Europeenne avec la Clvillsatie, Japonalse. "Father H. Bernard, Librairie" Paul Geuthner, "Pari, and Mitsukoshi Ld, Tokyo). seit! Determination 1919. F. W. Kallen, Bach (Jarrolds, London. 3/6)
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