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BOOKS-BOOKS-BOOKS The Very Idea!
By ROBERT LYND
There are few things more first sight. Many people undergo difficult than choosing books for a gradual conversion to Milton or other people. One thing is more Sir Thomas Browne as they un- difficult, however choosing bocks dergo a gradual conversion to for other people to give to other the music of Bach. people.
THE FIFTH TEST
By Edward Kelly, Bored of Central,
Only our own special wire-
I confess, when I first read less organisation can provide In the course of the year, I get Dickens as a boy, I stuck But you with this hitherto un- a good many requests from car-when the conversion came, I near-published description of the respondents to suggest suitable ly blinded myself with residing fifth test match, on which we books, to give to their friends in him into the small houra. regard to whose literary Lastes
they are curiously vague. Thus books for other people I realised We wouldn't have embargo against both
air
lost the money, only we happened to make the bet with Robert MacWhirter.
Woodful took first strike-just
all others who "plot against the State, but the promulagtion of autocratic measures along the lines now indicated raises a doubt whether the Nazis may not go too-far in their repressive actions and thus aggravate the troubles which they seek to sup press. To sit too firmly on the valve is a sure way of inducing a disastrous explosion.
The Arms Embargo
How difficult it is to choose lost our last month's salary. Britain's declaration of an
one correspondent wants the name when I read the request of a cor- For 1933
respondent for "at least a dozen China and Japan is less import of a book that would make ant than the next step. There ice birthday present for a retire of the best, story books, new and ed lawyer, aged about 70"; an old, for my open-air friend of 30 New beauty distinguishes the is general recognition of its other wisher to give a book, not years of age." If by "story behind the car to Larwood. The unfairness to China; it is sus- too expenalve, as a wedding pre-booke" he means fiction, one thinks 1933 Rockne Six Bodies are lower and more richly appoint pected that Japan has standing sunt to a curate; another wants immediately of "Lorna Doone" and second ball was a head-break and a girl in her middle Hardy's Woodlanders" and "The Woodfull fell into the trap and ed Features include Free orders with British firms for the a book for Wheeling with Synchronized supply of munitions which will teens, another, a book for a boy Return of the Native"; and there Oldfield's arms. Ponsford was lg a cherry-tree which brings the deceived by Verity's mystery ball Shift and silent second speed not be interfered with 'under of nine.
It is not possible, of course, to open air, enchantingly into Mere- a jaw-break with a shoulder- ... 70 horsepower six-cylinder terms of the Government's deci engine.. automatic starting sion. The opinion is also strong. name a book which will be ac- dith's "Egoist." But I doubt whe-break action--and adjourned to
ceptable to all lawyers who have ther novels can be divided into electro-fused steel bodies ly held that while assistance in reached the age of 70. The law those that will appeut especially the casualty room. Bradman's safety glass. windshields military activities should be yer may be an archaeologist who to "open air" readers and those head work was good but after a closed models wired for denied to Japan, the countries, cannot read fiction, so that it that will not.
couple to the nose he
was out endorsing the League's Report, would be useless to send him one Surtees, for example, wrote ribs-before-wicket to one from on the Manchuria dispute should of the masterpieces either of "open-air books, but, much as I Larwood that kept remarkably low. See and drive. the New lend aid to China rather than Hardy or of Edgar Wallace. Or like the open air, I cannot enjoy
to he may care for nothing but horses "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities. batsmen went out right out to Then the rot set in. Three Rockne Six to-day!
deprive her of the means
or bridge, in which case it would I like much better the open fight her own battle. There is
Verity in his next over; and plete works of Tennyson." "The Roy" and "Redgauntlet"; but less-five, hospital cases for to be a fairly safe gift to send to readers in the stuffiest studica. any lawyer but probably the law The same thing is true of Bor-
McCabe meanwhile was going yer has already got it from the row's "Lavengro," Kenneth Gra- along steadily, making nice shots library and been presented with hame's "Wind in the Willows" and from the point of the chin, and it also by several friends.
Conrad's "Typhoon," which has timing his car-strokes well. But Curates, again, differ extra-enough open air in it to wreck a beautiful one from the York- shireman made him epit his tooth ordinarily in their tastes in books. a fleet. The stage curate, no doubt, would
The best "open-air" books, in- oat-the modern equivalent of be satisfied with "The Rosary, deed, are not Ection at all, but gnashing the teeth. Oldfield de bound in tooled leather. But are books such as White's "Sel- fended surprisingly well with his have known curates who would barne," Thoreau's "Walden," Cob. left eye until a full toss got him prefer "Murder in Bermondsey, or bett's "Rural Rides, some of W.H. in the right eye and he retired
BEH. (both eyes hurt.). Cut-throat Joe. Some curates Hudson's essays, Shakepeare's like Freud; others revel in war plays and the poems of Word- books; others prefer psychological sworth.
is such a change fiction because
enjoy Outlines of Everything
As for the correspondent who There is no certainty that, be wishes for a short list of books cause one likes a book oneself, which would not only allow good other people, whether curates or reading" but would increase bis
They're still arguing aboát it not, will also like it. It is almost knowledge of various subjecta impossible for anyone who loves such as geography, history, re in the Telegraph office. Dickens so intensely that heligion and science," Mr. Wells's Which reminds us that she was reada him again and again to "Outline of History" and Outline only a cricketer's daughter. But being of Science" will probably be the how they fell for her body-line believe that any human
are and leg theory. reasonably intelligent and cndow-books for him; and there ed with an, average sease of other excellent "outlines" of al- humour, will find Dickena positive-most everything that will keep him ly unreadable; yet I have known busy reading for the next year several highly intelligent people. or two, with as good sense of humour as their neighbours, who could not read Dickens. I happen to be one of that vast majority of readers
something to be said for Sir John be useless to send him the com-that we find in Scott-in "Bob | Australia's position looked bope- THE HONGKONG HOTEL /Simon's argument that it is im-Life of Lord Carson" might seem these books "can be enjoyed by twentyeight, and ten head-byea.
GARAGE.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933.
possible for Britain, acting in- dependently as she has done, to differentiate between the com- batants, but it holds good only if it can be established that the injury inflicted is. not more se- vere as regards China than it is to Japan. Sir John Simon has plainly thrown himself behind the League's Report and he would not be committing Bri- tain any further by differentia- tion. However, the value of the embargo, if it has any value, lies in its probable, reactions abroad. If it compels other arms-produc- ing countries to a quick decision, it will have achieved its objec- tive. If armaments firms in state. Nowhere is this more
other countries are
powerful apparent than in the capital, enough to block attempts to in- which has just been the scene terfere with their business, as of an incendiary outrage the they appear to be in America, Betting fire to the Reichstag the decision will be reviewed and building-which has aroused presumably, the embargo will be the ire of the Hitler administra- withdrawn. It is probable, in tion to such an extent that the deed, that America's indication of her inability to take action arrest of all Communist Deputies has already sounded the death has been ordered. In other knell of international embargo words, close on a hundred mem- efforts. If United States muni-
RESTLESS GERMANY
Germany is still in a troublous
from real life; others theology."
bers of Parliament are to betion factofies begin to run at who regard "David Copperfield" held in connexion with the in-high pressure, arms-producing eident. Justification for this countries on the Continent are most unlikely to follow Britain's example.
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It was Australia's turn to field, bat, as ten of the original ekven were in hospital, substitutes had to be called. The rules, however, state that a bowler must not bowl two overs in succession, and that the match was called off. a substitute may not bowl. So
WE WONDER. ·
wonderful things that will doubt-
KING'S ENGLISH.
The latest new American phrase As learned in the Talkie
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The next time you feel the cares of the world sitting heavily on The Best Book in English
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man who disliked Dickens than
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Many stories are being told to The truth is, we differ in our Probably the best book in Eng-] why women with thin legs are gi→ lution. It was only four days pre-illustrate the eccentricities of powers of digestion among hooks lish for anyone about to form a ven to gagging, how sweet peas viously that Karl Liebknecht's the late Vladimir de Pachmann. as among foods. To some people library is Macaulay's "Essays." know they're sweet peas and don't House was closed down on the They also illustrate the craving the luscious strawberry is a po- Macaulay may occasionally use come up. nasturtiums, why Mr. ground that treasonable leaflets of the great public for persons eat almonds; oranges" produce a an astonishing genius for exciting and what happens to the water Ison; others become sleepy if they misleading colours, but he has Maxton doesn't have a boyish bob, were being published there. In who have the audacity, the show strange irritation in others; an the appetite for facts, and making when the tide goca out, and how the circumstances, it must be ship, the charlatanry-call it unenviable minority would roll on the acquisition of knowledge an hedge-sparrows know what colour assumed that these documents what you please to break away the floor in agony if they ate a entertainment.
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Starting from Macaulay, the their children, and why men always The only fault of endure cream; and I have known reader may set off in one direction look at their tennis rackets when wise, surely steps would have Pachmann was that his tricks people-but not in Lancashire-after another in his exploration of what's on the other side of the they've made a bad shot, and been taken to frustrate the had begun to stale with long who would rather starve than eat history and literature with ever- scheme. How far the Com-repetition. The eccentric whose a dish of tripe.
growing curiosity; and he may re-moon, and if it hurts an egg to munist M.P.'s are actually im- eccentricities always move in the body to do is to eat and to read later with enough knowledge to when they lay foundation stones, The best thing, then, for any turn from his explorations years fry it, and why officials don't cackle plicated in the outrage remains same circle is really little better the things he likes best. Except, upset 50 per cent, of Macaulay's together with thousands of ather to be shown, but the order for than the frock-coated and top- perhaps the young. The young, I judgments. But it is to Macaulay less occur to you. their arrest is sufficient to show hatted worshipper of convention think, should give an acknowledg- that he will owe his power to the strength of feeling on who may be always depended ed masterpiece a second or even a refute Macaulay. That is why the part of the Nazis against upon to do the correct thing a third chance before they dismian Macaulay should be read by every- the extremists. This was cording to the social code of the it as boring. We do not always body by everybody, that is, who vividly shown a week or so moment. The true eccentric fall in love with a great book at can read him. ago when Captain Goering, would be constantly adding to the Nazi Minister of Interior in his stock of tricks, so that it Prussia; ordered the police to would be impossible to forsee shoot down Communists with-what he would do next. A per- out hesitation, adding that son of this sort would be ex- weapons might be ruthlessly tremely popular, whether on the used against organisations hos-concert platform or elsewhere. tile to the State. This is tak-The calculability of "human ing matters to a dangerous limit, conduct accounts more than any- and, with feelings so highly thing else for the monotony and charged, it is scarcely to be boredom of life. We, are sur- wondered at that the Com-rounded by hosts of people of munists, 50 far from be- whom we know not only what coming more subdued, should they will do next, but also what show an inclination also to in- they will say next. They go on dulge in terroristic methods. doing and saying the same thing The Hitlerites, before they came all their lives, and though this into power, talked freely of plans may be all that is required to for "purging the Reich," fore- raise them to distinction, or at shadowing far-reaching social least to respectability, in various changes, ranging from Jabour walks of life, it does tend at conscription to other extreme times to make the less amiable of measures, and they have pro-us wish to see them step upon a mised a relentless nationalism piece of dynamite or into in foreign policy. Their ideas uncovered manhole. Pachmann, have aroused much criticism and drew the crowds partly because opposition not only in Com- of his playing and purtly be munist circles but amongst other cause of his play-acting. It is factions as well. Now that they significant that when anyone are in office, can they "restore spoke of him it was always to a German Reich of honour, free-his eccentricities that the con- dom and social peace," as they versation flew. His virtuosic have undertaken to do? That is functioning did not really matter a question of far greater mom- so long as all the expected tricks ent than any other. Ruthless were there. But no one ever did war on the Communists is part more to sweep the low-brows of their plan. The country cer- within the magic orbit of Chop- tainly needs to be saved from in's music than this deft génius these dangerous extremists and and astute artist.
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