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A TRAVEL BOOK
["The Lure of Sussex"; R. Thur- ston Hopkins, Ceoll Palmer, 8/6).].
of the Chinese imbroglio” an ambi- tious young politician who caught up in the whirlwind set in motion by Sun Yat-sen and enmeshed in the labyrinth and topsyturvydom of
A companionable book this; one the Chinese puzzle is now tonging to keep beside you dor dipping pur- for he scarcely knows what. He held poses. When it is raining, or you ernment at Hankow and assisted open it, and go for a walk in a high post in the Nationalist Gov. are tired or there is nothing to do
Mr. Eugene Chen in his negotia Sussex. You may stride in good tions with Mr. O'Malley. A dis company with the author and his friends aver the high Downs appointed member of the extreme
to the rich soft dia of Leftists he fled, in order to save hla
contains
From
["South Africa Calling," by Alys Lowth (Cecil Palmer, 7/6).]|| Travel books fall roughly into two divisions; those which we read for pure delight that we may voyage over uncharted seas and unknown lands which we cannot in person head, to Russia when China made sheep-bells, and the ery of visit, or which recall to us some-it apparent that she had no inten-irda; you may wander through villages as old as Time, unspoilt as thing of the remembered pleasure tion of being bolshevised
yet by traffic and the ubiquitous! of past travel, and those which have the Muscovite spider's web he went charabane; or your may take your
to Berlin where evidently he has ease In no pretension to do anything be sonsoled himself by putting on to where you make acquaintance with some low-ceilinged inn, yond conveying accurate informa- paper what he could not put into the veritable and gonial landlord of
Mr. Woo's book, which English tradition, and where yo tion to intending travellers and practice.
and are sent to bed 'with a candis and settlers.
many Interesting The Author of South statistical facts, is not easy read- pewter of ale. There are plea. Africa Calling toured in a "Bual, ing. Now and then his style smacks sant glimpses too of the great men nass People's Party," not perhaps of American Journalese and some of of Sussex. Hilaire Belloc, and the best initiation into the secreta tests in a dictation lesson to some of their company, for he knows and his paragraphy would make good Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Hopkins is
and charm of a new country, and of our senior, classes. We fear the cherishes every inch of this beloved in this account of her journey she author is a disappointed man who county, and is steeped in its has attempted to combine the two in spite of an attempt to appear intimate history. As he walks he types, and has written a book Impartial cannot altogether hide his tells of its antique fairy lore, of which has the merits of neither chagrin. While he trumpets the the olden trades and pastimes, of good intentions of his scattered ancient houses and churches and If you open it hoping to leave for confreres and continually harps on windmills. His information is a. while the humdrum world of the necessity of remembering the based on wide reading and personal every day, and to wander with a three fundamental principles laid knowledge, lightened with touches down by Dr. Sun Yat-sen be scarce- | of Puckish humour, and the most companion whose wayside Com-
ly mentions, the man who are now diverting digressione into byeways menta and conversation will tehse at the head of affairs and who, in literal and metaphorical), while you out of thought" you will read spite of Mr. Woo's diamal prophecies the writing is always easy and that there are 441,180 square feet concerning them, seam to be evolving graceful. To those doomed to live of concrete floor space in the Elec- some sort of order out of the away from England, not the least tric works at Bloemfontein, that appalling chaos into which he and pleasure this book will bring is the Ivories may be bought at Victoriake to believe that this book is out tonbury,
his party plunged China. We should music of the place-names-Chanc
Glyndbourne, Twitt's Falls, and that Hout's Bay on
of date in so far as its gloomy out- Ghyll. As the list unfolds itself the Cape Peninsula is developing look is concerned just as we actually in page after page, like those into a modern seaside resort with believe that China will find a path Canadian exiles, the reader in his Ane hotels, and you will put down to peace and progress without the dreams will see the Hebridea." the book in disappointment. If on sinister help and methods of Mos
cow. But China must and will the other hand, you want facts and change. Since the advent of steam thor to be lured into the film world. Rudyard Kipling is the latest au- figures, you will find a good deal the world has been growing steadily He is going to help the Empire of patriotic sentiment about "Em- smaller, and now the internal com- Marketing Board to prepare the pire Trade," some data about muni-bustion, engine, wireless, and other scenario of a film of general Em- oipal development, and remarks on scientific inventions are renderingpire interest. hotela ("The cuisine was excellent impossible that Isolation which
China's geographical position gave Signor Mussolini has just pub- baths hot and cold ad lib."her so that the Chinese must, willy Hisher his first novel in America. at Kimberley) interspersed with nily, have intercourse with the reat It was written. when he was twenty- reports of conversations at lunches of the world. To all thinking Chin six and a violent Socialist, and and dinners, and much valueless and ese this is apparent, and the result | Coals with the love affair of a car- irrelevant comment on people and
is a spirit of uncertainty and rest-dinal and a beautiful woman. places of no intrinsic interest or provinces. The younger generation lessness throughout the eighteen
Carl Van Vechtan, the author of importance. The style does nothing is shaking off the traditional "Nigger Heaven," has a curious to redeem the poor quality of much Celestial complacency, thousands of hobby; he colllects the paper dust- of the matter. The descriptive ambitious Chinese students are covers of books. He is white- passages are either trite or studying in Japan, Europe and haired; though only 48.
America, while those at home are grandiose; sentences so badly con-
giving thought to the future instead structed as to be almost meaning of mechanically accepting the pre- lees abound; while scarcely
asent and proudly pointing down the X paragraph is free from clichés, and long vista of China's past. Time LONDON DIRECTORY there are several annoying in-and again China's very existence bas accuracies; for instance a chapter been threatened by invading hordes with Provincial & Foreign Sections and
Huns, Mongols, Tartara, Manchua Trade Headings in Five Languages, heading is quoted as being from-but she always managed to awal. cnnbles traders to communicate direst Sir Thomas Browne's Utopía.
with In low and assidiate her would-be fact the best feature of the book conquerors. However, something
it.
Is the photographs which illustrate more subtle, powerful and penetrat ing than armed, hosts fa' now shak. ing her age-dong traditions and antiquated customs so that a poli- tical transformation or at least
LEFTIST'S VIEWS
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