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...eccentric U. S. dowager, could not love him, though she frequently saved his life. From the bold wind that he sowed against the Bhingis and their Catholic teachers, Barboas reaped a whirlwind of remorse. Safra, returning to her people, was slain by them in the arms of a young Briton who, through Barboas' fault, was late for the rescue...
Most of all, the people are important to her. The Boer, the Briton, the Jew, the Asiatic, the half-caste?with each she deals separately because each is in himself an entity. South Africa, she seems to say, is a melting pot that lacks a fire. Finally she considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy...
...never so carefully last week, he read only half a dozen sentences about the cause célèbre precipitated last week by an 18-year-old girl who was studying to be a typist before she married Charles Spencer Chaplin, born at London in 1889, still a Briton...
...son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike...
...WORLD OF WILLIAM CLISSOLD - H. G. Wells - Doran (2 vols. $5). An intelligent 20th Century Briton recapitulates frankly...