NIBBLES FROM NEW BOOKS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 18, 16 July 1920, Page 14

NIBBLES FROM NEW BOOKS.

It was an "uplift" hook where tAj heroine receives whacks with smiles. Fate boots her from ^ post and she blesses Fate and is obliged. That most deadly reproacHj degenerate human nature — the iccii«K tal fact of sex — had been so j|| fully extirpated from those pages ti like chaste amoeba, the characters merelj multiplied by immaculate subdivisii "The Dark Star;" hy R. W. Cbamber^ Clocks have personalities. Theyl semble the well-meaning individuaJ can never endure a silence, who mwij the gaps in a serious conversation wl' stupefying load of words.— "The Inscral able Lovers," ,by A. Macfarlan. A person accustomed to live nniler i roof and suddenly condemned te.Mii the open, suffers nothing for theteUw hours. Then there gradually comes opau him a weariness and distress almost iin imaginable to those who have not experii enced it. He craves not only for a roolj but for walls around him to protect him from the great open spaces that seem sucking away his individaality. A ma living absolutely in the open, without tent or cave or house wherein to concen trate himself, would surcly and without either become mad or descend to the level of the beasts. — "The Beach of Dreams,", by H. de Yere Stacpoole." And what was marriage after all! An excuse for unlimited self-indulgence undcr the patronage of law and convention. And afterwards a dreary hond of habit ^ mutual interest. . . • Marr%* nothing but a prison which its preferred to freedom because it wJf4 and safe and comfortable.— 1 "The Will h) Love," by Hugh Lunn. To Wyndham's house with Squitoi and to see Sir J. Barrie s playi Brutus," a most excellent comedy ® fancy and wit. The humour of it 13 give all manner of wedded pcop e 3 chance, which t-hey do hy their goin? j magic wood. Bnt, Lord ! having g° chance, their condition is found no 6 , (save only du Maurier's). Wiucf'S'. knows, a thing conceivable, an ° Jj manner reconcile me to my own con of being wedded: so as, commg and my wife in bed, asleep, 1 . j her with kissing her ; my fh'st j1"® ^ ing it in a great while.-'A ^ of the Great Warr,' by Samo junior. When you get a great artist andJB lover combined — ah! then t ere ^ tically no limit to his power. Sand," by Farren le Breton. . l0 a She left off crying, and w® ^ ^ mirror with her vanity- ag, prety play with a h«dkj^ J der-puff. Women shou the person who inventc , They are cheaper than wDsk ^ a or even cigarettes, and seem as gooi effect. — "TTie P«»to' | by Keble Howard. J 7T" noutedfl "Then I am not ration^L P ^ Jeune. "Yoa are cha»« ^ which is much betfcer' ]ipn v/o^11 ^ but the age of chivalry, w ^ jj treated as children or pe£ of # Austen's heroines were Mereditb ^ type. This is the age ^ f,rDi is Wells." ''Never heajd^^^el/ in Oxford street. ^ pard's Leap, by