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BOOKS and READERS
THE INNER SENTINEL.
A DULL BOOK AND BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
THE OPEN LIFE.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1931.
TRAYKH WITH A DONKEY By Rothe robala than to the press.” I
bert Louis Stevenson. Illustrasympathise a bit with the robals, for the authorities di thu: school are od by Edmund Blampied very pernickety and the rules bo Moasra, Joku Lano. 158.
ther the girls about little things," This gift-book is a credit to the which nobody worries abeura
boys' schools. priutor's craft and the illustrator's
It is rather rufreading to turn art. The charming account of to The Flying Schoolgit!" (Har- Stevenson's wanderings in tie rap, 5. net), By Roland Walker, with illustrations by Ernest Avis, Cevennes takes on a new freshness. The author is an airman who knows țin such a pleasant setting, and Edall'about flying. Patales unele and mund Blampied's delicate drawings cousins go off in an airship to dis cover a treasure city, and she dis give point where paint is needed guises herself as an air mechanic,
By L. P. Jacka. (London, Hodder ADVENTUROUS VOLUMES FOR to the progress of the narrativo, and hides on board. De they have
and Stoughton, 7/80.) .
BOYS.
Onu in particular Father atowaways on real airships. They Michael, a
Are plotted against by a pirate air pleasant; fresh-faced,raw, but they find the lost city smiling maa, perhaps of thirty-fivin the Mountains of the Moon and The Inner THE BOOK OF THE A1. By G. G. took me to the pantry and gave Pataie gets some wonderful jewels.
On the back of the dust-cover the
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Jackan. Collins. 58.
publishers include Sentinel in a list of important new books," and on the front An admirable book for the mo- of the dust-cover we find the joyens dera boy. The author, who is an authority on his subject, shows his ly platitudinous advice: Face Life renders how dying came about, and squarely/Think", sleurly/Act deci-" the successes and failures of the sively Underneath the dust-cover pioneers.. Is is a mine of informa wo had a book, bound in a stodgy tion about present-day aircraft and red that is horribly reminiscent of their use in peace and war? The Latin Grammara or School Alge. story of opic flights is graphically bras, and containing dull thoughs told, and the value and interest on the dpller side of religion and of the book are increased by a fine philosophy, Despite two charming collection of photographs whica chapters (one "Catholic
illustrate the chief features of aid เก
and now aircraft.
Nisbet. 38. 01.
mo a gines of liqueur to stay me Is is exciting 6 times, but I should until dinner.lingers. in the have had the airship captured by
aboard as a stowaway. gorillas, and made a hippo go
memory.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. By Izank Walton. Blustrated by Arthur Rackham. Messrs. George Har rap and Co., Limised. 75. net. This delightful edition of "The | Complent Angle is a muitable gift for old or young. The illustrations, white, by Arthur Rackham, are no both in colour and in black and only a delight in themselves, but also add point to the sage obser vations of Izaak Walton. Fisher- man of all ages will be glad to have,
copy of this edition among their pessoasiona,
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For the 28th your in succession the over-popular Binckie's Christma Annual makes iba
appearance.
· Dénominationalist" and the other "All men are soldiers?) the book THE PERCY WEBTRIMAN OMNIBUS. (Blackie, 38.) The many atories of fairyland and adventure will an- seems merely a repetition of what
peal to all young boys and girls, our nurses-mau's first moral tea On the grounds, which no ene
And besides pontos and puzzles.. chers-gave us to understand," by will dispute, that one cannot have short play eminently suited tr including a cross-word-there is a words as well as hy rice-padding too much of a good thing, the nursery production. The Annual is | and spinach, and what, since then, Publishers have issued is one volume well illustrated. There are numer the experience of a hard world has three complete books by the well-drawings and tints, as well as
fourteen beautifully -tended to show: namely, that the known writer, Paroy F. Westorman. coloured plates. good is usually uninteresting and immortal truths are only platitudes Givo. e Castiglione's "tolerable vices
"every time!
Heaven, Hell and the Devil,
reproduced
The Omnibus," the first to be Annual (Religious Tract Society, The publishers of Chickabiddies" published of boys' books, contains 38. ed.) obviously have a cemplate The Pirate Submarine," "Cap-knowledge of the requirements of tain Cain," and The Flying Sub
the very young. This Annual is a atrongly bound quarto volume, filled; 'marine.'
From gover. to cover with stories. dear to the heart of a child. Every rhymes, and pictures such as are pago is illustrated with black and white or tinted drawings. Here is
or a very, modest sum a full measure of children's delight
PETER GARNER, CADIT. By John
C. Westerman. Ward, Leck and Co. 38. Od.
On page 6 is an admirable argu ment against immortality, whic contrasts strangely with the refresh: A good story of a boy's life at ingly 9th.-Century ideas ofa, told in. a. fively fashion withour
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Heaven, Hell and the Devil express in dul interlude. Peter Garner's
The Wonder World Fairy Tale Palmer, as), would make a delight- Book, Gwen, Bougue (Ceil
children..
ed in most of the look. (But per- experiences and shipwreck make a ful gift for smaller haps I am wrong: Dr. Jacks failed to define Scul" or "Mind.")
But the whole atmosphere of the book is best expressed by tw: s tences on page 26:
"Every honest book is a book
first-class adventure" story,
Charmingly written, it is illustrat Led with many colour plates and THE CRUIER OF TIK AIR-YACHT drawings by Harold Gnze. Another SILVER CLOUD. By Rowland (book that small children would love Walker. Nelson, 5s,
is. The Land where Tales are Told." by Stella Mend (Nishet. 10d.),
Mr. Rowland Walker has given really up-to-date yarn, with
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GIRLS' STORIES.
BY A REVFEWER IN THE " FIFTH FORM.
about God, provided. always the jan" anisual and fascinating mixture writing of it be good, the style for of rival expeditions in a treasure cibin, the dioicn adequate, the hunt, one in a schooner and the thought honest and the ravaningofher in a small airship, to the transparently clear. Every sertucandian Ocean, where the Island of ditto."
Súlyme awaits them with a heat With this gem of platitude and of surprises and adventure." TH bad English we may dismiss the book, "which is vividly written, is ago somebody said red hair was book,
well illustrated;
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The funny thing about this sea Ho's stories for girls is the glorify. ing of the red-heads. Some time
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gift of the gods "Frend is in
a paper. I am a red-head myself but all I have got out of it so far is a nickname. The Red Hends! (Oxford University Press, 5s, net),) by Josephine Elder, is n really good story which will amuse every- bady, even grown-ups. When the story opens Cicely Eleanor are the only two red-headed girls in the school, and they are extresnely an noyed when Nüney. another" girl with red hair that outdors thairs; in brilliance arrives at a member of the Fourth Remove, to share the distinction they have had in the But they think it simply outragecus when a new Sixth Form girl and a new gym mistress, both with red hair, turn up. How these five red heads come up against one another, but eventually. become friends makes a most entertaining book, and if I were buying a new year present fore a school friend. it would be book, and I would choose "The Red Hends.""
past.
"
Margaret Plays the Game’“ (Oxford University Press, 25, Ud. act), by Winifred Darch, is also an enjoyable story. The plot is ordinary, but the characters are life-like "The Honour of the House" (Nisbet, 9s, Dd, net), by E. M. Channon, is the story of Paulina Pryde, who, on going to school for the firet time. is pu into the dud house, which is last in everything, work or play. In the holidays she tells her Uncle about it, and he urges her to try and pull the house up to the standard of the others. This she attempti with the help of the Kibbles, a queer, disappointed, lot, one it whom brings about the return of her father, a lost explorer.
A Countess at Schoot" (Shel- don, 2 Od.net), also by E. M. Channon, in the story of Harriott, who is a most awful red),
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is ashamed of her mother's success- ful private hotel. She finds outi that an Italian. Countess is coming to her school, and makes friends
DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN with a horrid new girl with an
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Italian name, whom she believes to be the Courtess. How she finds out that the rent Contessa is a little, meck, red-headed girl, and how and why she and her mother go to live at her rich uncle's beautiful, castle mako.quite a good story..
The Foud of the Fifth Farm" ( Girls' Own Paper," 2a, net), is an amusing tale of another awful anch by name Bronda, who gets up
a rebellion against the prefects which brings more unhappiness to
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