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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933.
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We may take it as an ideal figure realistic ́· surroundings. The squeamish among us will shudder away from the scenes in what ved to be called Bohemia. Mórals 1. They haven't, even caution." Nick tires of hubbih and squalor and takes refuge with his highly re epectable hall-brother; this return to confort jan admirable pas- sage, and the reader shares the The Man Who Liked Heil!
bero's pleasure in a hot bath," The Twelve Years in the, French chance implies something of ane- Foreign Legion." By Ex-Seageant city in the disorder the artist A. B. Cooper, in collaborations faced, et it seems that his with Sydney Tremayne. (Jarrolds with this solid, punctual world. life gains in value from. contact 12s. Od.)
And here comes in the fine and This is remarkable' book by remarkable man. It is entirely significant relation in the book. truthful and, sort from a few Nick revisits his old drawing.
very dif of melodrama-its title taste, an artist of, a among them is simply and effect-ferent kind, faithfully painting his best appearing in the "Manches.vely written. The son of a former perpetual subject, the marshes. ter Gabrding over the initials.
British Vice-Consul in Baghdad,
It is sometimes said that art is A JIB These initials are those of yet another member of an
young Cooper Shad sequired four in this finely imagined com- already famous family. Mr. Bone English, by his early teens.
Languages, which did not include dechip we nerteive that it is is not an old man, but he is old had also developed an ungovern. He
Ordered Life: Progh to have put in twelveable temper which neither schools hausted by the ordered life. He Back to London comes Nick, ex- years under sail mud another
nor the sea could tame, and in his finds a good girl who mothers him, serve in steam. He dedicates his fifteenth year, just after the out- book to Foreign, ports that break of war, he joined the marries him, and does her best to Lenght me to like home," and, Foreign Legion. At the Darda ontrives for him something of the make a human being of him. She stirred to reminiscence by the melles, where his battalion was wip heedom he craves, and he has right of a picture in a newspapered out in, less than two months, spasmodic, doubtful success. They Blowing the bowsprit of his fast he being the last but two to be have a aby to him it is a slight- ship, the bowsprit from which he wounded, he won the Legion'sly disturbing incident, while she With once washed inboard by a first croix de guerre. His fathered it no more than any other of great sea when two of his com having claimed him, he spent the generation" Mr. Mottram panions were drowned the bow-rest of the war in the Britikes to remind us, from time to sprit from which necaught his Army, but in 1910 rejoined them that we are well on in the Erat sibacore," he lets his memory Legion His record was at fistentieth century and must leave range from one subject to another, bad mough He drank heavily sentimentalitice behind. The silmakers, captains, apprentices, and was a persistent rebel agama on reis met continue to endure sea-lore, bourding masters, beach authority. The Legion deals with th solences of the artists and go combers, dockland, rum-running, such types in its Penal Battalion on Mying their pictures. Even and the temporary end of British and its methods are almost in the admirable wife "did not, desprea sniling-vessels." There credidly harsh. But it was the have been hundreds of books that battalion's commanding officer who have tried to reconstruct the old first put proper kgionary pride life at sea his brother David's into young Cooper, and on com pleting his term to rejoined, hav ere among the beat), but never one that has done just what, almost the simple device of reversing the
ing made himself new inan it would seem, unintentionally, he order of his Christinn has managed to do..
From now onwards he set himself to become a good soldier. The and twice lost his corporal's way was hard and he twice won stripes. In the end he became a sergeant, and had he stayed on for another term could have be come an officer, His reformation was due to his officers. It is not only in the British Army that the right type of Commander can do anything with his men. The book is primarily n-record of personal. experience. It is also an account of the Legion's work in the Riff War a horrible business and in the duties, in the desert or in rest- less country, which pass for peace.
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Captain and There is nothing of the quarter deck about his manner. He writes of captains as an apprentice, not as one of themselves. He records things that most captaing hardly think worth noticing, intimate de- tail that is not elsewhere to be found. He never raises his voice: He might be talking quietly on his watch, anxious not to wake the Old Man. And he tells us alt kinds of little things, of how the mate watching the crow com ing on hourd picked the men he wanted for his own watch by chserving the sea cheats they brought with them and the work they had put into their rops handles; of the aviary on the fore hatch, of why cats who live in Toplar have friendliness and canadenco they lack in most other places of the Sailmaker whose hobby was the making of his will, of why no sailorman can bear to kee fresh water ninning to waste, of the cheering by turn of every ehip in a port by the homeward ounder leaving with the off-shore brocre, and of the coloured Fghts
THE ARTIST
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old not, never would understand what he was after Ile did not quite understand that himself, and when he had wished his great pic
rena platforin and was killed. ture or was it futility 1-he stopped back to admire it fell
the wife managed to acquires Criticism hesitated over him, but
3lettram's portrait, but it is re new perspective," We may not asprecinte, all the details of Mr. murkable one..
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Those three books by Mme. Nietlispach, which are well-known on the Continent, are encyclopae die in scope, though the recipes Dazzle By F. H. Mottram, Lon-useful alike to the cook with a are so simply treated as to be don: Ward, Lock, and Co. Pp. large staff of helpers and the 319. 75. ed. net. Mr. Mottrain's here is an artist single-handed housewife. It would of the Oanssionist, group, the hard to find any dish omitted particular principle of which is in either of the three departmente selection in terms Nicholas is obsessed by his at and of omission.
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divorted from ordinary life. It is is difficult to envisago, a man o mistakes practically impossible, the forestry, coming down to indeed, suggested that he is a
of the books is the photographi the last shanty with all the other shilpa taking up the chorus in thegel, and Mr. Mottram is skilful illustrations: most coolery.book darkness, food-bye. Fare thee enough to do this without Break illustrations are far too elaborate: ing the surface of a realistic stan
at so well done that a cook INTERS IN "One of those, helpless per. | With any experience, at all, especi There are a lot of pickings on sons whose art is used as a kind ally in the hors d'ouvre and sweete this Bone: His first is rich of buffer against Inconvenient con-sections, could make the dishes book, but no one who reads it fod tacta." Why on earth couldn't he without reading the recipes at all. is interested in the sea will pitt get all that living business est. Mme. Nietlispach is to be compli- it down; without hoping that its | fled, so that he could devote himmented on her excellent undex; author ihna falready started on an | self entirely to kin, work!!!. Tomu i here everything is arranged 'accord- uther His mece's wood-engrav. world which moves with difficultying to "arbject and there is no ings are charming but there are among laws and coonomic prob-end for the render to waste time not enough of them. His book lems be opposes his innocence.wading through song and sh deserved at least three times as He haigedly enough sense to test when she is looking for a way o many
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