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WI L M E 1' T E £·1 P J! September 14, 1928 thing is explained, he ·was only shielding a long-dead friend, and--l>ut what else could happen? ( Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS about China as Mrs. Miln ~ven to find new titles for them and new names for our characters. Louise Jordan Miln has gone far beyond that, she has found a new plot. "The Flu.tes of ·Shanghai" is one of those charmmg not hair-raising novels of life of the English in China. There is always. the girl, usually a visitor in t~e. Or1ent, and the man, perhaps a v1s1tor and perhaps, as this time, havi!lg lived all his days in China. There IS usually a match-making mother or aunt, they must be common in those regions. John Cadell is the richest . bachelor and best catch in Shanghai, though most of the maidens and widows have given him up long since as a bad job. But Ruth Blake having just arrived with her match-making aunt doesn't know he is hopeless and has the inspiration to laugh at him on first meeting. · This is an excelle~t ~ove for while it makes them mad tt p1ques their curiosity, and anything is better in the · confirmed variety than boredom. But even with interest roused all is not plain sailing. These are grave days in China and Cadell is interested in her politics and her weifare to the extent of often quite forgetting Ruth's existence. He has also had the poor taste to make himself the center of the most delightful scandal in Shanghai. But aided by the flutes which are a charming touch the ;eal music of old China, every- "RYDER" By Djaaa Barnes Horace Liverigbt "And speak not of Me, for thou knowest not of what thou speakest, nor knowest what thou hast given or taken, thou knowest not where thou h beganest to ravel and where I caug t ·thee · up on my needle." Truly might these its own. words, be written at the head' of a review of "~yder" this. decidely amazing book gtven by DJuan Barnes to a censoring world. (The book was censored in manuscript, has been censored again, and is probably due for and certainly by most standards would profit by a third course in asterisks.) "Ryder" is a bo<;>~ conceived a!ld executed in the sptrtt of Rabela1s and James Joyce, Cabell and the Elizabethans. It is not a book to read aloud to a .child. It is not a ~ook to read to · yourself unle~s you hke _ the j'lusty" "robu~t': joy ·!1 the physacal elements of ltvmg wh1ch a so-call~d higher civilization is supposed to ~IS· courage. It is written in beaut1ful prose with one or two chapt~rs th~own into Chaucerian verse. It 1s deltghtfully illustrated by the author. It has altogether the masculine and not the feminine touch. · Djuna Barnes is one of the "Little Review" group which made perhaps the most distinguished and memorab~e cago. September 10 saw the publication of a distinguished biography of the poet Francis Villon by D. B. Wyndham Lewis, an Englishman critic, journalist, and playwright. The book is. a scholarly one but, if Mr. Lewis' account of his life furnished to his publishers is a criterion, it is also ·a lively one. Part of his history runs "Was to have read for the law had not the Great War broken out to my greater .relief. Joined the Army and by the time of the armistice had risen without influence of any kind to the rank of secondlieutenant. Went into the trenches, distiked them, kept on disliking them, disliked them more and more and then got shell shock. . . " After telling of a man condemned for a murder he didn't commit in Scotland, and describing the' account of the case which is soon to be published, the publishers naively conclude uThe British Government compensated Slater for his imprisonment w~th a liberal sum of money." 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