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BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
The Picture Book of Trains.-
Ward Lock, London.
PLEASANT VERSE
Dawns Ago.-By Jolin Thompson. Methuen, London, 2/8,
This is of the series of Opal John Thompson fully earns his Picture Books and unlike several place in the select company of of its predecessors which contain The
Poots. Pulished, Gateway
pictures only, it possesses reading light, and yet always in the poetic text printed in a large bold type bere presented which makes it doubly interesting
· deserve their place i pring and i to boys of from six to ten years of in memory, Some of the verses ago, Twenty-four colour plates and were written in Australia, so "the numerous illustrations depict very roader is taken on a broad sweep instructive, amusing and unusual of imagination and description. incidents, with reproductions of That does not
that Mr. original reconditioned locomotives, Thompson has attempted any This is a book which should be on geographical excursions, but it is the bookshelf of any boy and we plain that the. vision which he in- venture to say his paternal parent vokes does not depend on the nar- will find it equally interesting rown boundaries of a single couay.
W.J.M try. Of his graver method an ex- ample may be givan:
MELA
Behold, the grey river sprawls
nad lolls
Like a drugged woman in a
misarable swoON, And men are gathering in the twilight, men huddle at each And the night wipes out their river as the day wipes out
tree trunk
their moon.
And each shadow of a
tosses all night. Like a cold dark pulse of a dark
fah sunken deep, But the earth swims on, while sach pulse prays to the dark-
ness,
For a weariness so heavy that he could not help but sleep!
And when he is lightly sophisti vated he inay give the reader some- thing like this:
It is a fatal mistake To tell a woÐLAD
That you understand her. She is moet happy In the belief
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The Picture Book of Games-
Ward Lock, Londoo, The Picture Book of Games deuotes its titlo, for it contains throughout games which all child- ren of any age have played from time
immemorial-from 'Oranger.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1935.
REVIEWS
"DRURY RANDALL"
RETICENT DIARY
Daughter being the" intimate memories of Gervée Baronte.
THE ACCOUNTING STUDENT
The Arst issue cf the Accouni- Ing Student, published by the Ac- countants and Secretaries' Stu-
dents' Society of Hong Kong, is In It there are
Baronti Press, London. 12/6. There will be many in Shanghai who will remember the author of this interesting book, for Gervée Baronte lived in Shanghal. for just to hand. some years, during a portion of articles of prime importance, te
was the first woman
book-keepers and others who are reporter ever engaged by "North-China number of daims are made for the
Daily News.” A et gaged in mercanti'e firms.
A very able editorial "On Seek- book on the dust cover, which the ing Jobs proves interesting read- book itself does not justify. In
Keyed very quietly, the scene of Life and Loves of a Prodigal "Drury Randall" by Mary Johns- ton (Thornton Butterworth, Lon- don 7/8) la laid in Virginia, the story opening in 1837 and ending about 1870. It is concerned with the lives of the Randall family in the town of Elderfeld, where James, the father, was proprietor and editor of the "Albany County Herald," and more especially with that one of them whose name gives the title to the book, Trage dy befalls Drury when he loses his wife and
two children in the wreck of a amall Chesapeake Bay steamer--a disaster described with a restraint which eschews all' sub- limity and gives a sense that it was a real happening.
which she
the
fact it does not adequately supporting to parents as well as to those its own title, for the impression who are about to enter into formed after reading the book working life. The editor has, n' that the writer has not been quite the short
space, alloted him: so frank as it is claimed would be,
drawn an illuminating pen ple- but has developed a' self-conselota : reticence which deprives the work ture of of that amount of Attle salt which wilds of to their convictions. Albany County what she has written suggest due precautions against the dan- should be there. Gervée Baronte!
The story passes on into the Civil War in which James and his 80. against the war from the be-
ginning, stick, unobtrusively
and Lemons to "Tobogganing" It is suitable for both boys and girls of six to eight years of age
had lain for long outside the night- and contains 18 plates in full colour, silhouettes and other illusing area but eventually was suit- ably reduced in spirit by a raid trations With Christmas so near at hand the fond parent will from Northern soldiers just to re- find this book a happy solution to mind them that there was a war on. So comfortable homes were the perennial question of "What to buy."-W.J.M.
burnt, crops destroyed, livestock looted, and 'everyone reduced to a Atting state of poverty. The latter part of the book shows the dimcult efforts at pulling round again when all wag over. One son dead, a
"THE LONG TUNNEL"
"The Long Tunnel" by Sidney Fairway, (Stanley Paul, London. 7/6), is written by an author who knows all the details of medical life. An Improbable plot and an uneasy style are compensated by the vivid touches of realisin drawn from a world with which the average reader is unfamiliar. The result is a very readable story, Dr. Richard Carford is suspected, tried Deep as the furthermort reflec and acquitted of the murder of a
tion
That she is somewhat mysterious And has w je-ne-nais-quoi And keeps an invisible remote-
ness
Deep deep down.
'Of her own eyes in her own eyes
As she looks into the eyes
Of her lover,
It is a fatal mistake
To tell her
That she is quite simple, Mr. Theimpson has entered the fiateway and his further explorn tions will be awaited with interest.
-E.H.
colleague on the staff of a great hospital, but many still belleve him guilty. He retains his post th order to clear himself by obtain- ing evidence of the guilt of the real murderer.. The evidence is obtained through the publication of an article in the medical press relating to the work of the mur- dered man. For the sake of the hospital, Carford-in the meantime
THE HUMBLE BEGINNING
OF "A FORD CAR
Experiment In Kitchen Forty Years Ago
It move
On a large theatre "buuding in, engine!-and make downtown Detroit a bronze tablet borseless buggy. tells the passer-by that a Little more than 40 years ago an im- portant event occurred on tha site. It was then 58
Aveque: a young engineer with his wife and child. ved there.
An
CAR AND SHOP AT DEARBORNTM
Both car and shop are DOW preserved at Dearborn. For year: Bagaley Mr. Ford had been collecting for the historical,village and museum at Dearborn the story of American
.ordinary two-story double invention. But it is not a show.. brick house, it possessed on the piece now any more than it was aley at the rear a smal brick at first.
A young felow still building in which the two ten-
works where once a young fellow Data stored their coal and wash-
worked in his spare hours four tubs and other household gear decades ago. The engine that was An experiment begun in the kit i tested at the kitchen sink still chen of No. 58 and completed exists. fastened to the little alley structure accounts! for the bronze tablet which marks the site to-day.
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its plece of plank And the old car also has its place there:-sold many years ago for $150, it was recovered by
a fortunate chance. This is the
lover killed, a son-in-law crippled and everybody's money gone this was the Randalls' share
war.
Mai
of the
It sounds a sad book but it 13 not. Lives are depicted going or In spite of stress, the better of them buoyed up by a faith in the eventual rightness of things, and courage rebuilding out of wreckage. The author's name is a guarantee of the correctness of the descrip- tions at the time, and her gift for vivid representation of a beautiful countryside under all the varying aspects of the year gives many moments of delight.-G.C.
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married-keeps the secret and re- tires to a life of research in the Channel Islands.-G.P
A man going into the Africa without taking
was a woman of great force of gers of the veldts, and a man en- character. Σ mast Independentį tering into business life without outlook on life, a disturbing dis-
equipping himself with the neces- regard for the conventions, SA
sary knowledge of commerce. outspoken and sometimes quite un- comfortable directness and yet. The journal is well got out and possessed of all the good qualities has twenty four pages of reading of her faults. That is a paradox matters. We wish it every and so is the writer of this book.
But with It all she fails to come up to her own promise contained
in her preface to the book For example:-
A
success, C.L.C.
"La Revue Nationale Chinoise”. Circumstances have often de- for Noveinber has an article on the manded the last ounce, of my Northern situation by Mr. Cheng strength; but something has chi-chia. The writer is favourable reinforced me at the breaking to the development of the policy point and driven me on Reel- of economic co-operation between ing through incidents as if China and Japan. He considers suffering from on attack of that such co-operation might give vertigo, I have stumbled on-a serious blow to Western trade in events flying past ke scenes China; but that it would be pro- from kn express train. Howfitable to China and not merely they
have flashed past-the for the benefit of the Japanese struggles-the difficulties the exploiter, He thinks that the unfair opposition-the accusa- movement should be founded in tions the escapes-the adven the basis of sincere friendship and tures in love and passion-the equality. The journal contains the few scarlet triumphs. The gld- usual excellent reviews of events in diness of it all makes my brain the outports, the, calendar for the reel my alarming impetuous month, and economic studies of brain; for ever fighting a losing much interest. The survey of the battle with what. tranquility :15 press in China is also well done.-
can muster..
MOTOR
Motor Firm's Good Year
STANDARD MOTOR COMPANY'S PROFIT INCREASED
A highly successful year in which profits exceeded 60 per cent on the ordinary capita has just been completed by the Standard Motor Co., and the chairman. Mr. C.J. Band, was in the happy post- tion at the annual meeting of being able to inform shareho`ders that indications pointed to still better results for the current year. For the year just concluded a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent was declared and a 10 per cent. bonus, while the chairman foreshadowed an issue of capital on bonus terms at an early date. The new capital is required pri-
ENGINE FROM PIPE
little car which freed the auto-marily to meet the cost of erect-' The experiment may be simply mobile industry from its bondage" described. A small plank was camped to the kitchen sink, Pass a tightly licensed monopoly.
REFLECTION
ing and equipping a machine shop at the Canley works. which will result in very considerable say-
JOTTINGS
WILL YOU BE GUIDED BY POPULAR OPINION?
Experts On 1936 Design
Well-known people in the ma- toring world have given their im- pressions of the outstanding im provements in, the new cars. The following three additional con tributions are by presidents and past-presidents of some of the big organisations
Mr. R. A. B. Smith, president of the Commercial Motor Users' As- sociation, enumerates his impres- sions of the Improvements as fol- lows:
"The tendency towards increas- ed elbow-rocm in the front seats Improvés road safety. So does the improved type of rear mudguards adopted by several makers by pre-.: venting mud being splashed up of overtaken or fo ̈lewing cars. More rigid frames should be valuable in' reducing creaking in the body.. work The open cars which can ORDERS. FLOWING IN
be made reasonably weather-tight The chairman stated in his speech that, whilst the models ing up a car from within closed -as also the, possibility, of jack-
produced last year proved most bodles should prove, attractive to satisfactory and popular, since many commercial drivers. Ob- the new season's programmeviously the greatest advance is was announced orders had been flowing in
the larger engine due to the re- in such a
duced horse-power tax. ner that their utmost efforts were being taxed. The new Flying Standards" Were ze- ceived enthusiastically At the Motor Show by their distributors, agents and the paoic, and a very; large demand was anticipated both at home and from Overseas.
tened to the plank for Armness.... was a little engine made of a
ings.. Standing within the little room. piece of gas-pipe, a simple piston, of the nor historic alley shop on: in small fly-wheel turned by hand, reflects on the power of an idea two ordinary brass check valves, to clothe itself in appropriate a pair of gears that ran two to forms, and the influence which one and an off cup. The electric that particular idea has had on cord from the light socket above the life of the people. One, thinks the sink was.split to create an of the country where within less electric circuit, one strand of wire than half of one man's lifetime, being the spark, the other ground-such achievement and service are ed on the water tap. While the possible. A boy from B farma. young engineer manipulated the without finance, with B useful fly-wheel and critically watched idea, found the world ready to results, his young wife poured use a useful thing. And, so'‘he the gasoline damp by drop from a believes to-day, it remains that little of cap through a funnel kind of world. into the intake check valve. Then
came the insistent put-put-put
Quick Thinking
o tiny explosions which have since echoed round the world. A candidate for the constabulary The think was dore. The young, "was undergoing the oral examina- engineer had learned what he tion at a provincial police station. wanted to know. The principle "Now," said the Inspector, "what of the gas engine was sound, he would you do if you were orderen. had proved it for himself; he was to disperse a crowd?" ready to go ahead. He would de velop an
typ-cylinder
"Pass round the hat, air" came the,prompt reply.
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Mr. Band referred sympatheti cally to the great loss their com- pany and the motor trade in: generat had sustained by the death of Mr. RW. Maudslay, the late chairman, who founded the business over 30 years ago when the motor trade was in its infancy. He lived long-encrush, however, to
CHASSIS AND BODIES Major E. G. Beaumont, past- president of the Institution Automobile Engineers, says:
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noticeable in the details of both chassis and bodies, with the result that running performance and riding comfort are improved to the evident advantage of the purchaser. The process of 'sini- plification of driving control continues and the when travelling, or preparing to travel, finds still dess demand upon his time and effort. The déstre of motorists for fresh air and an unhindered view of the country is becoming insistent, as shown by the increase in the exhibite of open or convertible types of bodies."
IMPROVEMENT IN
- COACHWORK L-Col. TB. Browne, O.BE., M.L.Mech.E.. M.LAE, another past-president of the Institution·· of Automobile Engineers writes: The most noteworthy impro- vements are stizer chassis, bet- ter brakes, spring suspension, steering, and driving visibility, all making for greater safety and comfort. Am Impressed with general improvement to coachwork all round. Special care taken in design and con- struction of seating results in greater comfort and reduction of fatigue to drivers and “pas- streamlines are pre-
turning more to normal, enhan cing appearance and avoiding unnecessary, weight, One inds also roomier and more. acces sible accommodation for luggage and tools. The quality of ac- cessories on the cheaper cars is generally improved
"Minimum turning circles are In some
improved, but many are still too great!
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