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THE CHINA MATE.' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956,
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A British Crossword Puzzle
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11 Property (7)
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18 Talked wildly (3)
19 Made wealthy (8)
20 Artist's land (5)
21 Store-room for food (8)
He Read Through An Encyclopaedia Twice
TEN NOVELS by":
Forester. Penguin. 26. each..
THE fuckicat day in the
him Forester found
in Portsmouth, looking at the shelves of a second-hand
THE life of Cecil Scott
$18LE" bookshop. He was a middle-
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1 Drive back (5)
2 Deduce (5)
3 Multiplies by two (7)
4 Demure (0)
5 Deathless (8)
Act (8)
10 Lays bure (8)
12 More than one (7)
13 Make angry (8)
14 Trial (6)
18 Happen (5)
17 Royal line (5)
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aged author, tolerably suc- cessful, in need of new and rich vein of ore, a theme, a setting, but what was the battered volume he had plcked up?
Randymany
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acres: 1 Ants, 4 Tempest, 8 Över, 9 Stud, 10 Parades, lil Dais, 12 Pows, 14. Defendis, 17 Inane, 19 Laden, 21 Einetabl. 20 Sect. H Lees, 28 Minaret, 20 Earn, 30 Gear, 31 Staminser. 12 Tidy Down: 2 Holton, 3 Bodden, 1 Tepat, & Brised, 9 Place, 7 Speed, 12 PRÉ. 13 Suge. 18 Nude, 10 Sent, 18 Allege, 20 Assert, 21 Behoed. 23 More 24 Hemlin 23 Deter
The writer who created Captain Homblower, RN-Cecil Scott Forester -is one of the fastest readers alive.
And his fame and fortune started when he browsed through a second- hand bookstall In Portsmouth.
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
The author of the most popular notion novels of the day I a
how complicated technical An old Admiralty Sailing operations are carried out
where to do faced cripple." tion that nobody was ever warship is attacked by fire- likely to need any longer. ships, how to get a heavy For who, on all the seven gun up a precipice, and so seas, would want to know on. He is the Homer of the
to how
antil British practical man. man-o'-war of the time of Nelson?
ล
The answer
The answer was the man who, very soon, became the author of the eight volumes of the life of Horatio Horn- blower, RN, the most re- vered naval hero in modern fiction.
The noises and the amelly (rum, powder and seasickness) of a Nelsonian ship of the line are faithfully and matter-of- fectly recalled as background to the majestle figure of Hornblower.
Great seaman
That great seaman has served his creator well. He has given him first a big public in Horn- blower's own country and now. coinciding with America's rise to Forester needed the Sall- sea-power, да big a public
Forester once Д ing Manual, because it is there.
wich schoolbuy: then a Guy's part of his unwritten bar-
medical student gain with his readers that he will show them, in great detail, how things work,
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THANKS FOR THE
VALENTINE,
DEAR /
"THEY'RE MAKING OUR VALENTINES — ER- IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS/
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NO PRESENT/
NO NOTHIN'?
Dhul-
after that, a writer of
"Allers" ai guinen a gols, at 55, affluent and famous. He is engaged
on
a book of equni Interest on both sides of the ocean—a history of the Anglo-American navul war of 1812.
He livos 200 mities from Hollywood; makes, it is sald, £35,000 D year Thirteen weeks of the 52 are devoted nim scripts: "You apoll another fellow's work. Someone then ne-writes your work. For that you get enough to live on for a year. There are worse ways of making money quickly,"
Every
Club tie
Butuner Forester, wearing his Savage Club tie, visits Britain. He is no longer able
walk for any distance, In 1943, in the Behring Sea on USS Tennesser, he contract- ed arteriosclerosis of the legs.
It's The Thought That Counts
"WHAT ARE YOU SQUAWKING ABOUT?
MY
BIG-MOMENT IS TAKING ME
TO THE
FIGHTS!"
BY HARRY WEINERT
"MY VALENTINE, BE NOT FORSOOKIN'.————
PLEASE TELL ME DEAR,
—WHATS COOKIN'?"
IT'S THE THOUGHT
"THAT COUNTS- (HE THOUGHT)
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VALENTINES
LEFT OUT."
ADORABLE,
ENCHANTING,
BEWITCHING,
AND
LOVELY!
SWAIN 2007. HE WAS "TOLD NEVER TO PUT
YTHING IN WRITING.
THE ARDENT VOORR-
CAN
IF YOU FORGOT TO SEND A VALENTINE-WRITE YOUR OWN-YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE THE DAY.".
SOME ARE HAPPY
WITH SOME SIMPLE SENTIMENT"---- (THESE GIRLS SWARE RARE)
HAPPY
He writes 1,000 words a day in one hour flat or exhaustingẾ labour. Few of those words are wasted. He is still one of the fastest readers allyo; bellevou to be the only man who has read through the Encyclopacdlu Britannica twice.
What he reads he puts to When he wrote "The good st Ship" (story of a light eraser action in the Modserranean), the Navy searched its pages for
not It could
fault Forester, who had documented his novel carefully.
стота.
"The Ship" has just been imanskied into Hebrew s textbook for the now Lerncli Navy.
Reading through theso ton anveis, a certain
sameness
manifest. There is a Forester Each nevel is built formula. around a single man, a solitary individual, facing a desperate emergency bringing to it native cunning and the powerful stamp uf 3 fighting machine the Navy (Hornblower and Brown the Resolution), on
-Bruwb
Rifle Brigade (Rideman
Matthew Dodd of Death to the French), the cavalry
(Sir
Herbert Curzon, KCMG in The General).
Of this sinowy, raw-boned portrait gallery, emblower is It is the most fully draw. sart of Forestor's talent to nee slightly that Hornblower is
well ag heroic.
Hdiculous
He is pompous, touchy, socially
sure of himself, slow
with
int-
tres of ambition burn Hornblower learns credulity that he is the kind of man who appeals to women.. Her loses little time in putting this proposition to the test.
He has made
& lamentable marriage, out of sentimentality to that harpy waiting to ge men who venture ashore, Poor
weepy, bloway Maria-Horn- blower is genuinely remorseful when he is unfaithful to her with glamorous Barbara, Lord Wellesley's sister.
If Hornblower is a figure of comedy
as well as of heroic adventure, Bush, his foil, butt and right-hand man, la puru comedy. A touch of primness, almost old-maldishness, suggests that, if Bush were not a tough fighting seaman, he might be passing the plate in a chapel.
The banner
Ten novels demonstrate that, in un age that was reacting violently against militarism and discipline, Forester held aloft the banner of the
the disciplined
man of action, in whom training has turned into instinct
Streaming against the wind, the banner has drawn countless adherents to 11. The modfin age abjuring discipline for itself, is prepared to admire it in the heroes of fiction.
LIBRARY LIST
The Vblanta. By Ernast Frost. Andre. Deutsch 12a. ed 254 pages. Henry Taggart, painter In the sixties, marries Shella, 29-year-old niece of an old friend, The marriage starte
chain reaction of events. comic and not-so-comic, in a novel which switches. -all - through from being good pod v not-so-good,
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● The World that Fred Mada, By Bernard Darwin, Chatlo and Windon.' 21s; 356, pages,—--- The world that Fred made Bund Darwin celebrates is
sired by the win
en a thousand golf courses. An and gracious life hy healthy..
delight here. fully recalled by one who has forgiven the most diabolical bunker and forgotten the most perverse of missed puits,
The Ultimate Viking. By Erie Länkister, Macuaillan, -£15. 296 pare-If anyone could make à. Viking interesting, and, .-. printworthy, it is Ednklater with his wall-natured and urbane ·prose, style, Int account of a fellow Orkneyman, Sweyn Asleifsson, who came to a violent end in Dublin (1171); be powerfally renews: the impell. of a distant reckless age."
PARADE
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