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Brass Hat
declines to
Bath Chair
Are
HERE
not many the novelists who, in American editor's phrase, could write "a whale of a yarn about a pump-handle." Ent C. S. Forester is surely Among them, He gave us one of the finest thrillers of our Mine Papment Deferred, and he Tollowed it up with a dozen other rattling good tales,
Now cumes figa' mʊsă rabitions woyed yet, The General (Michael Zephi, 2s. 6d.), which records the Re, Decilne and Fall of a Bras Hat during the World War, AL The top of his form, the author has given us a Fant, exciting.
readable book. extremely pensations are always authentle na its Trong never degenerates into caricature
Ets
Herbert
Lieutennial - General 196 Curzon, R CMC, CB, D90, who wil probadały stw in tech, rawy be new ridin
12 chair on the Bourretmeneti tron, with Lady Enilly, tdi, raw-lined, aweed-skirted, string behind, He has a large, rougher reed face; e le 14
-in-law of a Duke nos and then he purses up bays Tips in die querrest
fel-križaljada Mov
And it awory hes bettisid him, from that blodermit Inat hacky Bestly Airtan dag when he fed la squadrona gainst the Bere is to that March R 1918 vlammeheli shattered he ratloged texturds the
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fog
N obstinate, comagrouR, bard-driving honehend. I came to commi thand then, dinging amaa needlessly to death because
roi murement was the only He delighted in ult he revoltech howing the pole leans as in the real 161 lap, tròc po This one ferrer was The tear of betiet "unsturk by the
West Ban patting at a round-tachile enteretire at Hennarters, after
sinnfritas "at-85,"
hi putne ways it was lite the debate of a aginip of tyases as to how to nx- tract serew from a place of wood. Acrustoned only to malis, Hary Tand made une effort to pull out the screw by malo force end, now that had led, they were deviank more elfeleist wetande of applying more for atit,
they could Imrily be Llamed for ne questing B, If they rotated the rep, it would eine out after the exer- tid of for less effort. That was a nation za different from anything they hd ever encountered that they would laugh at the man who singested #1,
tu much passages. Mr. Forester's } logy is averwhelming. All the more so
ter it comes to late to caed the init." itona who died under such leadership a thousand battlefelds; But it is
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quiet, relentless exposure which,
to me, sets The Geuvral apart, giving
A an urgent and terrible quality of
G
EORGETTE Heyer is an engagtugly deceptive author. When I started to read her new mystery story. Behold, Here's Polson Hudder and Stoughton, 7 d.), I thought, I've met most of these people before." But I was wrong
For, in the Lwinking of a detretive's eye, the author sets her characters alive and kicking, Scotland Yard may retire baled, but you will read on to the end. A skilini, entertaining, re- warding tule.
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N The Grand Old Man (Methuen, 108.
George Edinger
Bd.). and
E. J. C. Neep have not been content to paint a full-length portrait of the Liberal leader. With vivid, impressionistie strokes
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"A Ragamullin Husband and a Rantipoling Wifo," An 1893 photograph of Mr. and Mrs Gladstone. From," The Grand Old Man," reviewed here.
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HAT oud mixture of irritability
Beli- and complacence which has symbolised Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald's political pilgrimage in recent years is not absent from his second volume of travel essays, At Home and Abrond (Cape, 78. ed.).
When the mood in on him he can even write that "no one to better equipped for doing homage to the past than one who as a craftsman creator is moulding human affairs so that na the generations end he may be able to survey his work and feel that it is good and is evolying according to a desirable plan,"
That in the Lord President of the Counell at his worst. He is more toler- Able when he is visiting Niagara, Fail- ing towards the Arctic from Vanenuver. standing in the sunlight at Annapolis or sifting the dust of dead empires la North Africa.
But then the mood descends on him again. When debates are dull and body and mind are weary on the Green Benches at Westminster, I can close my eyes and ears and... return to the Open Road, the Green Rond, the Golden Rond, the Rond that winds up- warda from the init door over the hills 1 the Atara,"
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Percy Proton and Elsie Electron
NY day now we can expect "Einstein for the Teeny Weonies,"
out and theл children will be having relativity nightmares,
The popularising of seleneg in carried one alage nearer the nursery by You and the Universe: or Modern Physlex for Everybody, by Paul Karlson (Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d), and I am sure there must be Professor a Andersen lurking somewhere who wil write:
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"Once upon a time, Percy, the Proton, and Elsie, the Electron, livel happily with their brothers and sisters in the little village of Nucleus in the country of Lithium.
grent ogre. Lord Rutherford, was jealous of the mity of us happy family. With a thunderbolt he separated Percy al Elia from the rest, and changed them into an Alpha Particle and Lithium into Aluminium.”
Why not? None of un need be achamed of admitting that we are mere children in the stuntly, of physics and the universe,
And there will be many university professors who will be grateful to Dr. Karison for giving them such graphic Arc light-hearted word-plelutes to explain the mysteries of apace m time, Relativity, the Quanttun Theory. the nature of clentricity and light, the structure of matter and the modera theories of the atom. The physicist
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ROFESSOR W. BRAGG. F.R.S.. the Nobel Prize winner, how- ever, shows in Electricity (Bell, 8, s.) that without. Dr. Karlson's elaborate
ful liquid fuels, attempts are being made to shoot a rocket to heights of 25 miles and over. Testnorrow, 60 miles will be the height aimed at, and he safely It may then a hundred. assume that miniature rocket ships, Instruments, landed with recording will
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