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Uncommonly Good Thriller
{"The Avenging Ray," by "Sea- mark"; Hodder & Stoughton, 7/6 net.]
OLD AND NEW
The Trouble of the
Critic
The following remarks by Mr. Frank Swinnerton, in an article in "The Manchester Guardian," on the older and the younger generation difference between the work of the
terest: of novelists will be read with in-
. He Ands occupation for body and mind on a coffee plantation run by a Major Allard, but soon comes into contset with Monica and Arthur West, their neigh- bours. The first impression one geta of Monica's character are not good and she, by her actions and words, proceeds to prove that she is as bad as can be.
Philip unwittingly falls inta Do you want thrills? Mysteri-her trap and once again his life ous forces at work, "when the is made unlivable by a woman. wind do blow cold on the moor He tries seclusion, but Monica of a night": a mad scientist: a will not allow it. His mother A friend of mine, turning upon girl of elfin beauty whom the comes to visit him only to be kill me rather indignantly the other country folk all hold a witch: a ed in a motor cor accident in day, uttered some such words as gallant gentleman as the here: a Mombasa, and this does not help these: "What's a man to do?" he police officer who Beems quite Philip to settle down. His only said. "I want to read good books. Thoman: and Anally a world that real friends are those hardwork-I see under the title of every book stands within an hour of annihila-ing Jadies at the tion? If such appeal to you, stop Miss Blakeney and
Mission, that's advertised a quotation from her Warda newspaper to the effect that the up, my masters, and buy "The Madelaine; but In his efforts to
book's a master-plece, enthralling, Avenging Ray," by "Seamark." forget his own troubles he neglects readable from cover to cover. And It really is an uncommonly good them.
when I plunge I find it's something thriller, and we found it quite So his life runs Its course,
I can't stand, some clever, prigglab, impossible to lay the book down Arthur West Is before the thunderous crash of
am I to do?" smart stuff that I don't like! What
the final explosions assured 018 the world was safe.
another suicide-and. locat gosalp
found dead
connects Philip with the cause of it. The end is conventional. Philip and Madelaine marry and one is inclined to say that in a book full of trouble that the last page is the best.
any such
The story is frankly senea tional, and must only be judged by the standards applicable to that type of work. It is perhaps unfair to point out that, to speak
One certainly hopes that Kenya colloquially, if at point blank is not inflicted with range you unsuccessfully shoot a characters as Monlea West, since, man three
the tummy although she does try to change timea in with an automatic, you would during the latter part of the probably try to put the rest of book, the old Monica remains. the magazine into his face.
But many people find "thrillers" extraordinarily restful reading after a hard day in the office. One does not wish to concentrate but idly to absorb the sensations which from the author's skilful construction tickle the tired
A readable book, but one that will not have an appeal readers of Miss Peterson,
FRAGMENT
to all
My friend, who exaggerated his dislikes for the sake of effect, was thinking in terms of noveld; and his question was a hard one to answer, because the truth is that novels nowadays are generally very well written, very ingenious, very effective, and
very deserving of praise. Оле reads A now pressed by the author's skill and novel, and сло 13 much im-
cleverness. One does not care very much for characters; one would dis-
like very much indeed the thought of reading the hook over again; but one cannot deny that, such as it is, the book is frequently very much superior in craft to those novels which older people read en- thusiastically in youth.
What is the critic to do? He is
senses pleasantly. To those, who The Silent Grandeur of bound to praise, because there is
regard the matter thus, and es- pecially to those who enjoyed "The Master Bystery," we strong- recommend "The Avenging
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1-Construct
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15-A descendant 17-Back of neek 19-Understood 20-One of the Cyclades 22-inflamed
23-Indefinite article 24-A maratime county
of Ireland
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27-The goddess of the son (Norse Myth.) 28-Self
29-A bargain
31-Produced
33-District of Columbia
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35-Banga
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6-Obearvo B-Merit 7-To call into a bail Ancient business
quarters of Venice 10-Dash 11-Not concerted
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contained in Book of Common Prayer 16-A dental 18-Treating of morals 20-Natives of Denmark 21-Vehicles on runners 24-Angry 26-Era
27-To sprout from a .root planted the
previous year
130-To Invade suddenly 131-Fomalo horse
32-Feminine name 33-8mall valley 36-Musical note 37-A tiresome parson 39-Abound 11-Complated 43-A rae (Scot) 48-Citizen (abbr.) 47-Road (abbr.)
(The solution of the above crossword puzzle will appear in Monday's issed along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
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The Rights of Foreign Lawyers to Practise
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The actual reorganisation of the Court, it is stated, will be effected at the latest by April 1. next.
In regard to the question of foreign-lawyers practising in the new Court, it is reliably learned that rules governing their ap pearance and conduct In the new Court have already been drawn up by the Ministry of Judicial Ad- ministration. All foreign lawyers must first obtain certificates from the Ministry and, according to the
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A LOVER OF BEAUTY
["Artificial Silk," by Christine Orr; Hodder & Stoughton, 7/6.1
the Hills
so much to praise. He cannot pos- sibly say, "This 1s extremely It was a gold day. Rusty fields, clever; it is dazzling; but you will green hilis, purple mountains and not enjoy it!" If he did we should over ali a curve of blue sky flocked never hear the last of another in- with white clouds. All through the justice to the young, It la по rosy dawn and joyous morning he wender that my friend was puzzled. had followed the rolling country, We are all puzzled. How can wo Pushing to the top of one hill only discover, among so many praises, ping now and then to admire a to find, beyond it, another. Stop which of the new novels we shall like? Is there any solution-other neglected meadow, where the red, than the Book Society? I have Margaret Maxwell, a lover of sorrel ran like a ragged flame, or thought of one extremely simple beauty and all that is good in pausing to catch the distant guide-the age of the author of the this world, is told by her doctors note of a bird's call. So the morn-
book. It ought to be printed uponj that she has but one more yearing merged to a glorious golden every dust cover.
As men and of aight. A promising artist and afternoon, and now he could see, women grow older their work be-l blessed with the gift of original- | far ahead, the object of his pil comes kinder. It may not be as ity she has taken up a position grimage, the great purple mountain, good as it was, or it may be better as designer of patterns for
than it waS, Looking upon its massive beauty,
It may be familiar large firm of artificiul silk manu- those well-loved linea came to him facturers. The news of approach-again- ing blindness makes her realise that her life's work must be given up but she does not confide her secret to her friends in the happy- go-lucky Manchester boarding house in which she lives. She merely tells them that the doctors have ordered a long rest. Each of her many friends wish to help and the suggestions as to how she shall rest are both numerous and fantastic.
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She leaves Manchester and stays for some time in the Sussex home of Simon Templeton, the owner of the Artificial Silk business, and uncle of her great friend Viola. Life is good in this old world place and when she leaves to live in London matters change siderably Viola's great ambition
con-
to the point of tedium. But it will. be more humane. There are ox-
"The mountains they are silentceptions of this rule-young men
folk
They stand afar, alona ... They hold their forests round
their feet
And bolster up the sky." But the shadows were growing longer now, and he roused himself from reverie to push on to water and shelter for the night. As he reached the first clump of trees that marked the base of Blue Knob, a deer lifted a startled head plunged away into the underbrush. Following a dim overgrown trafl, he found it opened after a short dia tance on little singing spring. He sank down beside it and lent himself to its lyrical music.
and
When the humble camp had been made for the night and the fire
Is to found a Repertoire Theatre over which he had cooked his food and throughout the story her
had become but a handful of em efforts to accomplish her ambition bers sending up a thin spiral of aro interlaced with the terrible bitter blue smoke, he went softly struggle Margaret has with her through the trees and came out
self and her affliction.
are
The end of the book comes as delightful surprise which is ró-, markably well worked up. AL- though Margaret and Viola the two main characters Humphrey Houston and Simon are essential and portrayed in such a way, as to make "Artificial Silk" a very readable book,
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A STORY OF KENYA
["Dear, Lovely One," by. Margaret Peterson; Ernest Benn, Ltd., 7/6.3
Philip Grantham celebrates his
coming-of-age rather too well and on his way home falls into the
after realises
The following unclaimed tele hands of a woman of the streets is lying in E. Ewho takes him to her untidy and Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong: dirty room: They quarrel and
Robert Schmitz, Pentsula Hotel, Philip, some time from Hollywood, Cal.
he has killed her. Horrified, he 8. LACK,
Jeaves the room and inakes his 2. Superintendent. Hong Kong, March 20, 1980..
way, home, to, and his mother has | remained up to great him. His mother is more worried about his father than about his present con dition. One suspects that there is something mysterious about Mr.
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and also only in the following cases Canning, from Amoy.
1-Whore foreign gants are
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Where the Shanghai Mung cipal Counoll is a complaindulgy &
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Elizabeth Brown, Helena Institute, from New York
Shewafoko, from Oiaka
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Meanwhile the woman of Phäip's birthday night has been found May dend and the hue and cry raised, but not in Philip's direction. His mental state, is such that has be- leves it for and he decides to:Have
Ho choo
who are old before their time- but in general one must read the younger author's for their sharp. ness of eye and criticism, their ekill, their virtuosity. The inter- mediate authors have skill, vir- tuosity, sharpness and a growing, struggling benevolence, and may be read with a mingled approval and suspicion. The older writers can be enjoyed, sometimes with a
yawn.
again into the green. The sky above the treetops had faded to a soft yellow. In the east a single star shone a bit uncertainly when the darkness settled; and when ho returned to his blankets beside the embers, it was with a singing heart. The dawn would come again, in shafts of gold and fawn, and it would find his feet early on the trail pushing on foward the summit of his dream.
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