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NEW BOOKS by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
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A CURE FOR LOVE
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THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF in an age when Liberalism STENDHAL. Gollanci. equalled Red Revolution); 25. 570 pages.
partly because of an ingrain- ed zest for mystification. ENRI BEYLE used 200 pseudonyms and has become famous as novelist under one of them -Stendhal. Why did he false names? use so many Partly out of fear of the political police (as a Liberal
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ACROSS
1 Narratives (5).
4 Stress (6).
8 South American plains (6).
10 Make suitable (5).
12 Smoked fish (6).
14 Forgive (7).
17 Undraped (4),
19
into being (7).
20 Answers (7)...
22 Extent (4).
Meat ball (7).
27 Bear witness (6).
29 Loafer (5).
30 Extreme fright (6).
31 Unexpected (5).
32 Catalogues (5).
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DOWN
1 Subject (5).
2 Fruit (5).
3 Military head-dress (5).
5 Snare (4).
Biblical mount (6)..:
Caught (6).
Earnest (7)
Excludes (6).
13 Persevere (7).
15 Past (4).
16 Swell (6).
16 Actual (4).
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20 Dangerous part of river (8).
Chimes (6)
24. Purloin (5).
25 Monsters (5),
26 Merits (5). 25 Accurate (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Massacre, 8 Hock,
9 Emulated, 11 Complete, 13 Frud. 15 Relented. 18 Directed. 19 Ashy, 21 Piloting, 23 Harridan, 26 Pool, 27 Desolate, Down: 1 Chic, 2 Scum, 4 Acme, 5 Sole. -Cater, 7 Ended, 9 Eland. 10, Utter, 12 Ovens, 14 Ocean, 18 Timid, 17 Demon, 19 Ached, 20 Hires, 21 Pi, 22 Last, 23 Iron, 24 Gull.
naive, solemn industry to be come a great writer of comedies why people laughed.
For that it was necessary to know
realise
PARADE
How
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
and the other
to
the
was not, it appears, MATING The man who rode Swedish Ministry of Educa- solved. It
tion." a motorcycle with
just thrown CALL
up by the ancient in th
Brilons of four thousand years his spouse sidecar had one great advantage The question was brought up ago. It was put there as part cl over his cat-owning brother. through two male pupils in a' a master plan. Short of his wife having co-educational school in Stock- of the most brilliant accounts.
leather lungs and a fognom holm who got into a sentimental Professor AlexanderThom, free from the entanglement with their female Professor of Engineering Science of a battle in fiction.
of voice, he was contempt He acquired a
The Board of at Oxford University and a part- the soldiera "Posterity will never persecution of back-seat driving. classmates.
the vulgarity
But the scientists, bless them, Teachers gave the two girls full time archatologist, says and
rocks in Wiltshire, stupidity of these people of have put an end to that happy conduct marks, but the teacher Stenchtags,
megaliths found their battlefield.”
the school pro scattered over the country from of religion in After 1814 state of affairs,
A British radio firm has tested. than Stendhat had no more occasion
England are we produced an inter-communica-
to inculcate southern to suffer from this vulgarity,
character. Food Hebrides, were probably erected tion system to link' rider with strength
It works by means manners and the fear of God to a common book of patterns. He fell with Napoleon: made
passenger.
the to of A clumsy, flustered attempt
headphone Inside
into our pupils when we con- Atter 20 years of research of
such
behaviour?" he
sites, Professor ne more than 250 "Moreover the lessons Thom finds that certain of the Both eaked. "the scum of the earth") of
set in ing convince the restored Bourbons rider's helmet and an amplify- done"
the sidecar,
been deliberately his loyalty to them. It failed.
parties
have noise.climinating on the curriculum of sex educa- stones have
tion, taught the children from sighted on stars adding to older He was a corpulent man of 31 | microphones.
that some of the . Granted that an exasperated the age of ten upwards, instruct knowledg with no job, debts amounting to 37,000 frares: and a policy husband could always unplug his ing them in the use of prevent rocks pointed to the position of
headphones. But doubtless the lives, merely serve to incite the the rising and for immortality."
scientists will And some way children to experiment in the certain times of the year. te combat that,
It certainly is a world,
Stendhal went to the philoso chers for the answer. He could And
better nothing Hobbes's "Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory." Night after night he would go to the theatre in Paris with an open and carefully note down the copy of the play on his knee 5t which the audience
the
in
This
woman's
a
overrule
setting sun at
star rives and sets has changed through the centuries. From this Professor Thom calculates the stones were erected 'about a century either side of 2100 BC.
But two big question marks remain-
The diaries now published cover the dozen years of his life from 20 onwards. They reveal an intelligent young points Frenchman whose eyes had laughed.. sparkled with * sardonic
He was on flemer ground humour; intent on literary when he sought what he called greatness and turning the juice of facts, the "tle
field of sex.” aside from it to chase the true facts" which become
Ahead lay Italy, obscurity;
Others suggest they were once teacher has The religious nearest woman. Love plus raw material of the novelist.
the writing of two great novels;
appealed to the government to pointers to other bright stars a work equals happiness; that Instinct told him that he must the creation of one of the most
in lite women literature
the rejection of his their rising and setting. There Was Stendhal's recipe, look far into the future for his bewitching
fame. He was out of tune with (Gina, Duchess of Sanseverina ARGENTINE I was the first plea to the Board of Education, are not more than a dozen first
"The Women came first.
Charterhouse of WELSH time anybody but the Board. has appended to magnitude stars which cross the his times the heady, rhetorical in
horizon in the British latitudes; from Wales ever this appeal a demand that the and the direction at which intentions times of Napoleonas a public Parma": tame by 1900.
Welsh Yet although his
protest be disregarded. analyst
is out of place in a would not have surprised him, attempted to found
and it has were bad and his insight into
ཧོནཏྟཱ་ must He would have been less pleased colony overseas champagne cellar.
But it has taken 0 on his falled.
long character uncanny, a strange always work for the 20th cen- by the Freudian verdict 1 sup-time for the hardy Welsh in SMELLIES "Pass me my Even- timidity often stood in the way tury," he said. "I stand a chance amours that he was
Valley Chebut
Passion," or love pleasant'
"Who's of being read in 1900 by the pressed homosexual
got my with his mother.
Argentina, to admit that, they NOW THE souls I love."
have failed.
Morning Eau de Cologne" look The youthful, notebooks of this Ninety years ago there were like becoming household phrases premature modern
in France Two translated 50,000 of them there, and they from now on into brisk sub-English ("Zowie!" i had made it another home. papers in the Jura have started Stendhal exclaims. during the
there are Today
5,000 left running editions that are de
perfumed, and Paris Fire of Moscow,
whe
still speak Welsh and licately carriage
I saw M. Dari's catash Spanish-but they are being magazines are getting ready careen and finally tall into the crowded out by immigrants from bring out "smellies."
of Argentina who This ditch" yields the juice of facts other parts of
is going to make it ARTIST London's artista. about
rebellious
of think this a pleasant spot too. child's play when the wife says TRADERS have found genius, good, bad intelligent- There is only one
problem-they have suspiciously, "Hm: What's thi
be allowed to but not stupid and one of the left, a grey-haired. 77-year-old scent I can smell on your cont?" to pay to
Fell few. great novelists whose life is man in charge of the 15 Welsh "My dear, I was just doing the their finished products. Artis.s as fascinating as his books. churches. But the churches are
who wish to sell their paintings on the street in Hampstead will have to be licensed as sweet traders Nike any barrow-boy who hawks his wares at the curb- side, officials said.
Accordingly, eleven
of umorcus success.
A scoundrel
Ke Was perpetually going about with a thermometer tak- ing his own emotional tempera- tur: "The more I love her, the more bashful I am"-it was all
in the
he could moontime. "I could casily devote himself to love and an very puzzling: have a little mistress, but I'm so official carcer. Stendhal anted artificial toothy, At last an Italian beauty Napoleon's juzy."
him the gave
alioi for his smile: decided that he fallures: "the courage necessary scoundrel, and jumped on his
band wagon. for the exécution killed the sentment." Stendhat made her his mistress,
'Sudden glory'
On the journey between one boudoir
the (Melanie's) and
Was
2
Through family influence, he became an official in Napoleon's SUDDIV service covered with rold lace enjoying an income of 10,000 francs a year in salary and "perquisities.***
not prevent him from coting
He got about the world as few novelists have done, viewed with. distaste the burning of Moscow next. (Victorine's) he made (a bad attack of toothache, did odd, incidental discoveries." One day in Brunswick he noted
"An his diary:
efficacious remedy for love: Ki peas. Tested today, March 25."
in
So far this discovery Jacks corroboration.
Busily peering into his own motives, he stumbled on truths about human nature immensely valuable to a novelist. "I know nothing of myself." he com- plained. This thought, when it
a
*from
man
my
minister
to
Why were they ever erected? Who-in a comparatively bar- baile nation--had the engineer- ing know-how to build them?
#
a new
short of Welsh bibles and hymn word, waiting for the late books because money cannot be train, that's all," sent out of the country.
Now the few that are left have HOT ECC. Somebody has done
it et lest found been given new hope b news
HOLDER
way to hold a hot THE GOOD SHEPHERD. By from home that a fund h. been
artists Michael started to buy hymn books and egg while cutting the top off it . C. S. Forester.
bibles for 288
the little colony of without burning the fingers. A have applied to become perish 6d. Joseph. 12s.
thought! commercial Welshmen, most of whom have Frenchman proudly displayed the pages.
never seen Wales.
his revolutionary grip-tight egg- traders, cup at a Paris show of new in- ventions last week.
Among the others:
the "copper-coloured" smoke): DEDANTICALLY assimilating behaved well during the Retreat, the complex technique of EDUCATORS Should an over-rated experience which convoy op:rations in the war,SPLIT
he Look "like a glass of Forester composes а modern
teenage
girls and boys in co.- educa
A needle-threader which a
in the dark. For the muddled
DARK BLUES While IN PRISON
on a debating tour of colleges and
lemonade"; had the misfortune story fit, in its narrative power, icnal schools lose good conduct housewife can typist, a key- universities in the United States
never to take part in an impor- tant battle.
་་
A headache
marks if they "bcome parents?
to be set beside an episode in
The Swedish Board of Educa- board which will not function if -the Hornblower saga.
she
than one key presses more thin drastic tien thinks not. Such
In at the same time. With one exception: his hero, action -not warranted
Is
And among the prizes: Commander. George Krause these cases, the State Superin valuable vase offered by French U.S.N.. novice in embarrassed tendent ct Schools holds, be President Rene Coty, a silver command of veteran British.
cause conception is not sinful cup, an "Oscar" and a $3,000 Canadian, Polish destroyer cap-if the parties in question really cast awerd. tains, lacks the magnetism and love each other."
colleague. parache of Nelson's He is withdrawn, moody,
.
recently, the Oxford University debating team also visited the Norfolk "State Penitentiary in Massachusetts, where a team of convicts indicted on them their only def
defeat of the tour. Norfolk is an exceptional pri- son, and the Oxford men were While the Battle of Wagram
fold that it was considered so rage, Stendhal was stretched on
much of a country club that a chaise longue with a splitting
more was probably the only prison mystery of where you had to have political because he had an irrational
Stonehenge the influence to get in! desire to fight. but because over this grey toned, brilliantly conduct marks children caught MYSTERY would have
The inmates book their debat- made
excellent imagined scene of grimmest smoking in public. "because great pre-historic monument that **copy" for a novelist, Thus war. Best of its kind since The this is a recognised offence on stands like a gargantuan fairy- ing very seriously, and their handicapped, Stendhal wrote one
the ring on Salisbury Plain seems team had been undefeated for three years in contests with Harvard Princeton, Yale, Wa.
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The Superintendent admits
comes to me at night, plunges headache. This he regretted note and well chosen to preside the justice of punishing by bad STONEHENGE One
me into melancholy. Am 1 good, bad, intelligent, stupid?"
What was certain was that Stendhal had set himself with
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
IF IT ISN'T DONE HER WAY --
IT ISN'T DONE RIGHT.
WHAT'S THE USE? AS SOON AS IT'S ALL SHINED UP SOME FLY
IS SURE TO WALK
ALL OVER IT -
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lian
nearby
College and TUMETOUS universities,
Dick Taverne, one of the undergraduates in the party,
said
the team first toured the premises and dined with the authorities, And was then conducted to the Debating Hall, where the prison orchestra was playing. Their chief opponent, the president of the Norfolk debaters, was a genial" Irish- man, an ex-lawyer who had been in and out of prison several times and enjoyed great prestige among his fellows, He was a model of good conduct when inside but outside could never resist the temptation of putting someone else's name at the bottom of a cheque,
"No one was quite sure whether he did this for the money or to get back to his 1amiliar surroundings and the title of best debater on the American East coast," said Taverne,
There was A voluntary audience of about 700 out of 1,200 inmates, SAC many reporters and photographers were also present. The subject chosen for debate was The Need for a Free National Health Service," Norfolk opposing
the
motion. The verdict was given by three judges following a system of points for subject matter, logic, analytics, refutation and delivery.
After the contest the visitors were each given souvenirs ‘and a beautifully decorated certificate of parole,
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IN THE One of the deadliest SHADE snakes (a cobra) has just, saved a new. born baby's fe at Junagadh, Ebdia, Left exposed in the full sum the baby would have died. of sunstroke but for the prow tection for its head given by cobra's raised hood. Generally the cobra extends it hood only when it is about to attack. Thi time just raised its head.
PICTORIAL All weddings per- in the REMINDER med
parish church of Wickham, Hampshire '(pop. 2,600), will be photographed from now on and shown to the. couples once a year.
The rector, the Rev, Marcus Retallack, who is movie camera enthusiast, says he will shoot the films with the help of a parishioner,
"If a couple are going through a difficult time it may help to remind them of how they felt on their big day," he says. I will be done in a nice way cover," coffee and biscuite "