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(pl.)
30-Center of a wheel
(pl)
12-Animale using
horns for piercing purpaks
13-To graft by uniting
two trees
18-Basket suspended
beneath balloon 16-Alded
18-Ancient military
engine 20-Ralted structures
for burning Incense #2-Quiet 24-Approaches 23-Play on worde 27-Those easily tricked; 28-Soapstone 29-Famous English
post
31-Ruselan radicale 32-Cure
33-Popular baverage 24-Wash 37-Experted with confidence
39-French for "bath" -42-Dabters
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
FERTICAL (Cont) 44-Edwards "nickname | 12-A ̈helmet
46-Adhered closely 48-One who goes by 48-Winged insect 49-8uffix forming
superlative of adjectiver 60-One who reviews and amends 53-Pronoun (84-8parlah name of
Cuban capital 68-Kitchen utens
14-Abhorred 15-Delicately favored
maion 17-Journey
10-Harald
21-Bowman 23-Lasting [25–8take marking turn
In airplane race 26-8melled {29-Explamation of contempt
58-Overlapping portlanį20-Ba drowsy
of cost 89-Performer 20-Reaseertained the
weight of
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and wither 4-Latin for "to be"
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sophistry
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9-Human |11-Gather laboriously by small savinge
88-On a level with the
wavei
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around 40-Originator 41-Smalt creek 43-Mexican blanket 46-Ointment of oil and
wax
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NOBILE'S FLIGHT
("The Tragedy of the Italfa," by Davide Gludiel. (Ernest Benn Ltd., 12/6 net).]
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This book gives for the first time, so far as any one man can give it, the story of General Nobile's flight over the North Pole in the airship Italia and the subsequent miraculous rescue of several of the explorers who were marooned on the pack los |Signor Giudici who was the only foreign journalist on board the rescue ship Krassin was repre- senting the Milan newspaper
Corriere della Sera. He has straightforward telling style which makes his book one of the finest descriptions we have read for a long time. In the introduction ho tells the reader about the organisation and aims of the l-fated Italia ex- pedition. His Introductory chapter nishes thus: "At 1 am. on May 24, General Nobile flew
over the North Pole and let fall there the Italian national flag and the cross that Pope Pius XI bad entrusted to him before the departure from Rome. Then, Bghting against very difficult atmospheric conditions he began the return journey. The airship kept up regular wireless communication with the Citto di Milano, anchored at King's Bay, until the hour of 10.27 a.m, on May 25, after which all signs of life suddenly ceased.
volved--sentences that would cause | everything except the navy and Messy Fowler and Qufiler Couch to † the sea is with us yet in othar squirm. Some of them jarred on us guises; the kingdom of Barataria badly and others had to be read two le not too distantly related to or three times before we could get that of Ruritania; while colonials the author's meaning. It caused us at any rate will still chuckle over surprise that Oll was not discussed, Pooh Bah, who found his duty as for although Mr. Amary, who is an Chancellor of the Exchequer In- American, devotes some spate to volved him in a dispute with him Persia's Industrial outlook he self as Private Secretary to Koko. scarcely mentions those oilfields And the verbal wit is of course which have been the cause of so unataled by custom much heart burning and speculation in Europe and America. But Oil and Mr. Shuster are avoided. There- in one probably sees the hand of the diplomat, for Mr. Amory was at one time American Charge d'Affaires at Teheran. Strange boo is it that Teheran is not described.
The author devotes. some pages (by no means too many) to Persia's kaloldoscopic history and mentions such resounding names as Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, Sargon, Valerian, Alexander, Hulagu, Persepolis, Susa, Isfahan, Shapur etc, but fails to seize the chance such names, redolent of romance, and glamour, offer to the writer. That, of course, may again be a diplomat's restraint.
It is this very wit that makes inadequate any attempt to give the story of the operas in prose; even the libretto read silently palls, for apart from the fact that the words and music are in- separable, one misses the neat and pointed enunciation, the vigor- ous acting, and the polished and clear-cut phrasing, which, thanks to the D'Oyly Carte Company, are always associated with the operas. Try reading aloud Take a pair of sparkling eyes' or 'A Wandering Minstrel Remember Bertha Lewis singing the part of Butter- cup. When she is described in this book as 'a, buxom woman carrying a large basket on her arm, the most tolerant critic will sigh for the rich humour and vitality that cannot be expressed In the dull medium of prose.
Nevertheless with all these omis sions and shortcomings the book is well worth reading. But we are not enamoured of Persia with its an. cient caravanserais, trackless moun- Again the plots in themselves tains, sun-smitten, bristling hills, are often very confusing. The dreadful salt deserts, maximum Yeoman of the Guard treated, an heat, crystal atmosphere, bad lands, it is here, as a short novel, with smelling cities eta. The call of its substitutions and disguises Perala might appeal to some mis- completely mazes the mind, but to anthropes or certain types of far-an audience in the theatre, all is It was the catastrophe." Follow-ties, but scarcely to the man of clear as day. Others, like Trial ing that
we have two hundred ordinary tastes and dislikes. As by Jury, are too slight to stand- palpitating pages describing heroic Mr. Amory in one of his best pas analysis. The author takes the battling against the awful condlaages remarks: "It is like so much stories too seriously. In her zeal tions prevailing round about of Persia, a superworld of space and to amuse, she adds humour of her Spitsbergen, of hopes realised and light, where Nature's work seems own, usually in the form of the hopes shattered, of a lone lay land only half dalshed, a place for clouds worst type of heavy journalistic fit only for the Polar bear and the and storms and sunlight, but not for periphrasis, and leses all trace of walrus. When Nobile's messages the trivialitles and meanesses of the original fun. Any novel with- suddenly ceased brave men of many men: where distances have no end out enough' conversation is apt to ngtions offered to go and search for and men seem but accidents, where hang heavily, and most of these the silent explorers. One of the silence and remoteness are your versions are unrelieved by a scrap first was Amundsen, conqueror of companions and eternity your des- of dialogue,
And what is per- both poles, the intrepid Norwegian tinstion.” That may be all right who in searching for the Italians for poets and hermits but not for disappeared into the Arctic horror | the average full-blooded citizen. never to return. To Signor Giudici
haps most annoying of all, the personality of the narrator is 'con- tinually obtruded in such phrases There are fifty-one excellent illus-as 'It must not be Imagined' and the frequent 'Now' at the begin- ning of a paragraph. Even the prammer could well be corrected in such a sentence as this "They asked Hannah if it were not pos- sible for she (sic) herself to marry."
map.
OPERAS IN PROSE
| Amundsen said: "Ah! if you only trations and a well-drawn endpaper
know how splendid it is up there! That's where I want to die: and I wish only that death will come to me chivalrously, will overtake me in the fulfilment of. a high mission, quickly, without suffering," "The great explorer's wish was B000 granted.
It is a pleasant surprise to learn how ready the Soviet government was to send the large ice-breaker, Krassin and her crew, as well as several scientists, to the rescue of Mussolini's countrymen: also to see
how the men of various nationalities and conflicting ideas and Ideals lved together in trying circum- stances like a big happy family.
"The Tragedy of the Italia"
da
(Gilbert and Sullivan, a Romantic Prose Version of the Famous Operas: Lilian Bradstock. (Cecil Palmer, 7/6).]*
written on Gilbert and Sullivan
The books that have
have been would almost, stock a library, but a new book on so well-known a
The book is useful for refer- ence, and gives slightly more than the ordinary, synopsis, for those
song or incident, but it is not to who may want to place and give be read for its own sake, except by the very uncritical. If you want to enjoy Gilbert and words set to their own music, and Sullivan, you must have their own
of that there is 'No possible doubt whatever."
Ideal for Women.
subject must always arouse inter- The operas appeal to people of est, and 'recall happy memorles.
every age, and that is one of the secrets of their perennial popular- ity. For the child there is fairy land with all its glamour; the clean, healthy, ennabl-
gleaming wings of Iolanthe, the iag book showing man at
chorus of peers with their ermine- his bravest and best 03 he
decked robes and their coronets, battles with Nature in her angriest and the shepherds of Arcady Pinkettes are the ideal laxative For women, also for the aged, and deadliest mood and in her most mingle delightfully with the Lon- because they are so mild in ac- impregnable stronghold, not for re-
don policeman, the pirates, and tion yet so efficient in 'results. ward or glory, but just in order to
the other unexpected Inhabitants They are not habit-forming and snatch from the jaws of the ice fond
of that enchanted country, a few daring explorers. In this Sorcerer, the Lord High Execu- many purgatives do. Used when The do not upset the stomach as so book we have laughter and tears, tioner, and the other villains give necessary they heroism and information sufficient the same thrill that Barrie's Cap-gularity, banish biliousness and ensure dally re- to form the groundwork of a dozen tain Hook and his Crocodile ré- novel's Thus on page 178 we get: now so pleasantly every Christ purify the breath.
sick headaches, clear the skin, Of chemists "Nois the Norwegian is one of the mas. while much of the sly everywhere, or post free, 60 cents very few hunters-there are Dot
humour, for mare bhan three or four-who re- within the range of a child's ap- cine Co., 60, Kiangse Road, Shang- all its subtlety, is the vial, from Dr. Williams Medi- gularly pass the winter on the N.W.preciation. For the older mem- hal. coast of Spitsbergen, absolutely bers of the audience there is alone, occupying a primitive log hut, romantic sentiment. Who can for facing with incredible indifference get Henry Lytton as Jack Point, the rigorous season when the tem
and the grotesque, heart-breaking perature sinks as low as 40 per cent, pathos of his laat below freezing point, the solitude
"I have a song to sing you. aggravated by the Polar night and
· Sing-me` your song, (01. privations of every kind. They kill There is just enough sting in the bears, on which they throw them aatire to tickle without wounding, selves while the beasts are still a kindly, mockery with no bitter- struggling "in their death-egoules,ness, and there is the unforget in order to suck the warm blood table music, often as witty as the which gushes out from the wounds, words, and Rta engaging melodies etc."
that may be "sung in the bath," There are thirty-three excellent which is one of the tests of a photographic Hustrations and A
really good tune. And the oldest map which shows the routes of the hearers of all may renew their Krussin in her search.
youth in happy reminiscence.
A splendid book well worth the money!
A STRANGE LAND
True, some of the satire: dates rather badly; Hunthorne languish- Ing over his fly loses some of his absurdity if the Yellow Book and the cult of the green: carna- ["Persian Days," by Copley. Amory tion are forgotten, while Ida and
Janr, (Methren 10/6 net)].
the Lady Blanche, with their In our opinion the title of this horror at the cigar", "case" "may: book is a misnomer: "A Motor Tour seem to the modern "co-ed", rather Through Fart of Persia" would be antediluvian.But much of It A. more accurate name for it.]lanta, The First Sea Lord who For the information of visitors "Persian Days" is Interesting but has wide experience of almost the following list of some of the Dever exciting, entertaining al- highest points on the Island and though lacking wit and humour, and Mainland is published
educative despite the fact that a Foot.great deal of relevant data at hand 1828 has not been made use of. In many 1774
ways the predece, and what the 'aus 1734 thor calls digressions are the best 17215
parts of the book the chapter on ruge:And "fig-making and the few, pages, about the ethics of opium- production being exceedingly (inter, esting. Too fuch of the remainder suscks of gulds book
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