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MISS Z JOINS THE GIRLS WHO WRITE ABOUT DADDY
SIX PEOPLE AND LOVE. By Stella Zilliacus, Putnam, 131. 6d. 233 pages.
TELLA ZILLIACUS is
the latest of tho writing daughters,
What a to-do there was when he heard of the plan to
ensnare Mr Nehru
of
NEGATIVELY, to have no part whatever in this thing called Progress. The national Anthem of the Mrsal WGS written a few years ago. It is called Civilisation It tains the lines: "Bingle, bangle, bungle. I don't want to leave the jungle,"
Them's the sentiments of the Masal, except that they are not
Nobody knows why literary talent should run from loving daughter's portrait of in the jungle. They ore In father to daughter. But the him, a kindly, ilkable, faintly Kenya, where they arrived after
ridiculous figure.
from evidence is impressive."
full of ideals walking (for 700 years) Stella's father, Konni Zil- about peace, progress, the seit- the Nile Delto. At the end of
expression
children, the their journey. they ran smackc lincus, old Left Wing war- League of Nations, etc. His into the British Empire. It horse and
Socialist MP, children are brought up to know might have been worse,
figures In inter- inde- all the main writes worried,
The French would have con- national affairs and to have no scripted them. The Port guese fatigable books
with titles roots in any land, people or (of would have married them. But.. like "Why We Are Losing course) religion.
what the British did was bad When his wife conspires
te enough. "The Road to the Peace,"
With the best motives off a plain little niece. in the world, they destroyed the War," The inquest on Maria, Konni's instincts #S a Masal's Way of Life.
"Between
the man
Д and
rationalis! KTO roused. An attempt is made to ensnare Into matrimony an Indian visitor named Nehru.
Zilliacus explodes, "He's one of the genres of our age. You can't seriously think that he would have the slightest interest in Marla,"
Peace," Wars," etc.
Stella writes about Daddy. Daddy ly
favourite Ц
theme among the writing daughters.
Konni Zilliacus turns up 4 curly
as line Reven at his daughter's novel, emerging from behind Hansard ("his favourite breakfast rending, except on the days when the New Statesman had arrived"). He
in his
"He is a man and slic woman,' his wife insista. she is willing enough
Krishna
that consisted to hunting.
POSITIVELY,
devotion massacre, cattle-lifting of the carrying-off
women.
und the enemy's
Thus they combined
virtues of the ancient
the
Romans
(Rape of the Sabines) with
Is a those of the not-so-ancient Scot
But (Rob Roy).
The Kikuyu, to settle
former victims until of these national sports, say the Menon,
In Masal have just "He lives
come down After
from the trees. The Masai wish
1 Others
Veronlen for Include: Henriques, author of "neme is the Zilliacus says, Heart" and daughter of best-seller Bloomsbury, you know." Robert Henriques; Brigid Brophy, that the quest for a husband for the Kikuyu would come out who wrote "lackenfeltër's Apo," in
Marla swings off in a new direc- the daughter of hard working author John Brophy the father of tion, towards a Russian count Clare Almon ('Oh, the Family"! I who runs Count Michael' de la Bedoyere, whe wrote books on religion and liliary: and Ann Faber ("The Image") is tho daughter of Sir Geoffrey Faher, the author of "The Oxford Apostles."
by Walter
Parle
a fashion house
in
from behind the British.
The Masai have the beauty of
Their greyhounds.
girls have the physique--and the clothes
In this collection of six slight sense of the goddess Aphrodite. Their religion has a like sim- sketches tenuously strung to- gether, the first is the best. The plicity. It is the worship of the principle. To one pf story of how husband was creative
their festivals Koenig devotica fourid for poor Maria comically Swelve reverent, and observant, Illustrates a conflict of Ideas between radical Zilliacus and his conventional wife. When father fades out of the book, most of the fum fades with him.
Stella Zifacts has а nice talent for gentle satire--and, in her first book, does not give it enough to do.
THE MASAI STORY.
By Oskar Koonig Michael Joseph. 181. 190 pages.
Way of Life of the Masal is in danger. It seems
4hat nothing can be done to preserve the outlook and cul- ture of this African people.
And what is that way of life?
BY HARRY WEINERT
IF YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FOR A ROUND OF GOLF
TRY THE NEXT BEST THING.
THE BOYS ARE BACK ON THE SCENE FEELING
MORE LIKE A FISH EVERY MINUTE.
OH, YES!
PAEONIA.
| ALBIFLORA ---
VERY
COMMON .......
NOW MY PAEONIA
·BLAH...
pages.
He emerged from the experience, shaken and a little ashamed. It is a strain to play Peeping Tom to an entire nailon, Among the Masai it is a lucky child no, it is a crystal-gazer who knows her own father. Now that the wild beasts of Atrica
are dying out and the Kikuyu are protected by the British Empire, the future of the dellant Masal, this immovable, race is in grave jeopardy.
"In our frenzy to create a new and better world, we nave for- gotten," anys Oskar Koenig, white hunter and author of this graphic and sympathetic Brudy of the Masal, "the true aristo- cracy of Africa, which is now frustrated and embittered."
But, If the Mnsal will not conform to civilised ways, it is hard to see what can be done to save them.
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THE JUDGE AND THE HATTER.. By Simenon, Hamish Hamilton. 13s. 6d. 308 pages.
QIMENON la the alinglest writer I know.. He really holes to part with words. If six words can be made to do the i work of seven, Simenon will
probably settle for five.
The first story in "The Judge and the Hatter" shows the master of his tersest. It tells of a French judge and a murder trin
the
As Xavier Lhomond, Judge, hears the evidence in the murder trial of a young
thug whose prostitute wife has been found decapitated on the rail- way line, he thinks of his own ilfe.
His wite, after one brief love affair, has lain a bed-ridden and querulous hypochondriac, Every night he counts out the drops of her medicines, which contains strychnine.
The night before, having dropped the bottle, he had gone to fetch an extra bottle from the chemist's. The chemist's night beil was out of order. The judge went into a disreputable bar to telephone. He was ocen by a colleague coming out. He took a glass of spirits before coming do count. Another colleague
melt drink on his breath,
If his wife were to die, how easily suspicion might build up against him: his long martyrdom as a husband: the recent signa of demoralisation; the polson found in the body.
A prey to these thoughts, the Judge almost unconsciously manages the trial so that all the doubts favouring the accused are given full weight,
UNCGE=
an enig-
CTKL But to the very dainty remains. The acquitted man gives the judge matic mocking smile. And the Judge's hypochondriac wife dies. Into 154 avaricious pages, Simetion hos.condensed, a life. time of inelght and scepticism which he presents in af, the shades of grey,
NEW
BUILDING
GOING
UP?
ES THE SPRING SALAD-TOSSERS ARE AT IT AGAIN -----
AND ITS EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF,
WITH NO HOLDS BARRED.
|THE SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS EMERGE AND
RESUME THEIR INTEREST IN CIVIC AFFAIRS,
THE BIRDS WHO WOULDN'T DEIGN TO CALL A' PEONY MERBLY A PEONY ARE STILL AROUND.
EAGLE ARGENT: An Italian journey, By Donald Hall. Methuen, 18s. 235 pages.
S Hall is endowed" "with", an A instinct for natural beauty. and, a lively historical curiosity, he has written a travel book of
charm immense
and the pleasantest kind of
modem humour. It is the deceptiv humour of a chest-eyed, obes with a bend to motifs hill base
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