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THE CHINA MAIL,
What a glorious book for the young (or old)
THE ESSENTIAL UNCLE
REMUS. By Jock Chand- ler Harris. Cape. 108. Gd. 288 pages.
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by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
onor-
He is the liveliest sprite of world of gay and lawless
there is poetry where mous mischief and no malice,
where "do Liltier and creature is, de mo sense
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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for
mighty glad now I know dat Perhaps The Essential Uncle de fools Rin't dead-en Remus, with its unfashionable EFORE you have read all
may dey live for ter emphasis on Initative and indi- five pages, you un- long
vidity.
the Is not
best derstand why those imme sumplin ter dol"
"mental preparation for chilly rectitudes of the Welfare storics are
of the
other Bul
In every classics of the modern
State.
n glorious lengt world. The Essential Uncle
ret sect-what of high spirits for young, Remus, in a book which, in
old, for Christmas, for any dey Ume!
And now we are оп one form or another, adults
got, kaze dey bleedz ter have." the subject) what a pretty have for generations been
publisher the book
Cape Not that Frer Rabbit Is giving to (and borrowing
only hero. Jy no means, Brer made of it.
Harris from) their children.
Joe! Chandler his affairs Terrapin conducts First of all, with
born in Georgia in 1848 and he The reasons?
notable address.
on till 1908. It was in the stories ore te muster- there Is also Brer Bull-frog, lived
made pieces of narration, as natural with his impertinent song:
1878 that Uncle Remus as the air, as cunning as Brer
Ingic-go-Jang, my joy, my fs bow Rabbit himself.
And what
newspaper joy.m miracles af blandishnient aro
was then working. conceal performed
canning!
the
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Uncle Remus
distance
nothing. Uncle
Dipe
slowness.
tending
to
the
alory
with Uncle
while
that
looking Into
and saying
Remus filing
exasperating
Ingle-go-jang, my joy!
And
has
2008
in the columna of a Harris on which
DRER RABBIT
A feast for the children
DOOKS are the Opium of Remus pre- have forgotten the Nursery. Money
young eyes grow rounder and shinier with spent on books for children all the greater will buy a longer respite for an impatience because it is confident of early parents than money
in any other direction. deliverance.
What
is this a character Uncle Remus, incidentally, al- is he though never ones described! How well we know the genial old negrol
But it is on another figure l the vanity of the stories
In
in
Alkinson (The
1 Ascribe.
Ward off.
7 Very hot.
Deluge.
10 Tumult.
12
Wayward.
ACROSS
10 Broadside.
id Bundle.
17 Stretch.
¡y Come in.
by Kitty
20
2 Inclining.
21 Accurate.
Malcolm Saville is one of
Bodley Head, Os. 60.), an Illustrated novel those authors who have done a
the for teen-agers. great deal lately to raise
Dusty's Windmill, standard of children's novels.
Borne his Strangers' at Snowfell
(Dent, 89. fd.) is of In
Press,
75. 8d.), the same type (scene: Sussex), (Lutterworth spent
line drawings. adventures begin when a train with handsome Scotland-bound sticks
Marriotts Go Noth the And In With this axiom Ormly
(Heinemann, 88. Bd.), the es- at Shap mind, step towards the book-
Lorna favourite Ruth Manning-Sanders, that tablished
an adventure shop (there is also a telephonel) charming writer, has made Lewis composes
1 towards the shelves, bright as touching story out of the life
West Highlands story of the a medieval tournament, where, of Hans
Andersen, Swan of with a romantic flavour which Tor instance, The Seven Stones Denmark (Heineman, Bs. Od.), 10-and-upwards girls will not Mystery (Evans, s.) beckons, and from Hugh Lofting comes despise. with Gladys Mitchell's name the latest variation on a pros as guarantee of quality.
It is, in fact, a school deter. tive story whose Ingenuity adult would despise.
no
la chiefly founded, the delicious and dominating personality of Brer Rabbit. Never was there and attrnc- u more shameless
at school But it is aimed than this Live Scoundrel
of girls, and you have a nephew Falstaff-Puck of the world
In that case, the beasts. And never one more in mind?
Percy performer, successful.
orime,
ndroit
snow
perous theme, Doctor Dolittle bad the Becret
Lako (Cape. Ds.)
Animals for fun rather than science, that is the appeal Spring Show (Collins, s. 6d.) in which Helen O'Clery, help- Ged by excellent drawings, tells how a plebald pony is entered for the Dublin Show.
Very different is the golden
bc-
Lest anybody should think an English setting now obligatory, here comes The Voyage of the
Indian Brig, by Winifred Holmes (Bell, 39. 6d.), a modern sea story of the Indian Ocean. Mainly for boys? Nowadays one cannot be sure.
no
23 Treat with contempt. 24 Kind of wool.
25 Coarse,
26 Eager.
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DOWN
1 Return on capital:
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5 Letters in order.
6 Tell.
9 Spike.
11 Pets.
12 Occurrence.
13 Lingering.
1s Rite.
18 Column.
22 Bill-of-fare.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 3 Sportive, 8 As- tute, 9 Artifice, 11 Admitted, 12 Berg, 13 Stolc, 18 Elder, 19 Open, 22 Lectured, 24 Toreador, 25 Valour, 26 Mackerel. Down; i Canal, 2 Stump, 3 Statute, 4 Pert, 5 Raid, 0 Irises, 7 Energy, 10 Tepid, 14 Oiled, 15 Central, 16 Tomtom, 17 Metric, 20 Prior, 21 Adorn, 22 Lade, 23 Cove.
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A white cowled monk, working at a potter's wheel, is reviving an art which may not only bring dollars to Britain, 6) but make the monastery-that of Mount Saint Bernard, in Charnwood Forest-famous for its medieval reproduction
stoneware.
local
the
For younger children, with inhibitions. imaginative
Lions comes Elleston Trevor's Brer Rabbit is a Napoleon of Griggs, is at your service with 493.
Badger's Moon (Falcon 65.), and The Essential The Bard's Cloak (Pilkin,
treats of dunger- kind
which tells of a voyage to the Uncle Remus
of Od.), which
in a cave under
moon by a quartet of animals. Christmas holiday from morals. ous business
norse in Dana Faralla's Dream (There
are the in the Stenc (Macdonald, Bs. In more sober veln The warning is scunded on the the Welsh mountains.
sheep and goats of The potter is Father He collects clay from dunno really is such a cuve.)
6.) with is scene in Denmark ponies, frst page: "De crceturs
White Winter, by Eleanor Vincent Eley, who has been factories, stone dust and ashes nothin tall 'bout dat dal's
Tho Return of Long John and its theme in the no man's
for glazing from the rocks and child's) land
Helme (Eyre and Spottiswoode, (bul every
at this Cistercian Abbey for trees of the forest. He makes dat dat aln't good. good and
Silver
Gs.). in (Longmans,
Ds). Des dunno right fum wrong."
which Joha Connell has bor- tween fantasy and fact.
nearly 20 years. He studied his own moulding tools. Artlur Stanicy, who characters
has
And here comes a sheat important
Visitors from of 14th century pottery, writ-
all over Let nobody suppose, however, rowed
the anthology to an
books of all sizes and several that any harm can be done by from Treasure Island, is a bold raised
for Gollancz this
bowls, tankards, candlesticks, brief Suspension of
prices from the storyteller-in-ing to museums for infor- world buy his work, stone jugs,
tomation, and then began to and brooches, make chief Enid Blyton. Enough discipline. A deep common sense
The legend, spread by in (Bs. Gd.),
a few names: The experiment. the child's surrender Koverns
writers, thai pirates bed more attractive than sleep. mention
(P.tkin, 35. Strange Umbrella and the Judicious
Father Vincent is convinced whom wildest fantasy
archaeologist to with the And for young biologists, that 8d.). My Bedside Book (Arthur out of fashion
6d.), My arc
were that his work will sell in the his work is there overthrow of laws.
not formidable group, to Brer contemporary young, will
they United States. Some reproduc- convinced Oxford Berker, Os.), A Story Party at examples of The
with volume five minutes In what survive
(Hodder and shown
gone (Oxford Green Hedges a state of agreeable shivers 15 Eric Linklater's The Pirates of Junior Encyclopædia
formulae for glazing which he thore. The Victoria and Albert (Sidgwick discovered have his Caravan and
has asked for Will the Deep Green Sea (Macm linn, University Press, 30s.) devoted Sloughton, Cs.), and Mr Tumpy were genuinely medieval. Two tion work has already
been adopted Museum Ss). Obviously, by a pottery firm.
Cor- and Jackson Of 10s. fid); fantasy with whimsy to natural history.
Nottingham specimens. Firmly built оп modern firmly excluded. Linklater had
Miss. Blyton has not been
Father Vincent spends four poration have bought a number and laid In Dartmoor
their pieces for idling.
or five hours a day making the of Is he not the chief of the probably the 12-year-old public facts
You can allow three (natural feature, not prison) is smart
pottery. boys, a rabbity Harry in mind.
The 13th Adventure, by M. E. Lime whose philosophy is: "I'm years either way.
to
surrender
Rabbit is complete.
his latest coup awaitedi
be pull it off this time? course he will
venture, justified In the event, art, compiles
The Bedside Book for Children
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