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TOOK OFF MY TIE. Dy Hugh Masilogham Heinemann, 74. Gd.)
this HE author of magnificent (and, re- 'member, I am very spar- ing in my use of that particular adjective) book only ventured a mile or so cast of Aldgate Pump. But he has written onc
the most of remarkable travel stories of his generation.
It la a record of what happened to him during a prolonged visit to one of London's poorest quartera, "It is not an anwer to Tolstoy's thunderous question, What, then, ought we to do? It in n plain atatement of fact set down with all the objectivity of which I am capable, with no political bias and
o desire to make a case.”
. Curloaty was Mr. Manolighnav's He had explored compelling guttle Buth Wales and met more saintly people there in a week “than in all the. rest of his Rie. And he made up bis mind to continue that education.
From the moment he took off its collar and the and realised that le City policeman was regarding him with Auspicion und hostility to the moment he groped his way down Mrs. Morgan's ataira for the last Linte, Mr. Mussing- hum was earning the lesson of his life-aut yaith and mine....
With he snobbialiness nud a great deal of understanding, patience and Courage, he set out to see how the poor exist. It became a precarious, petal- tent priers in a world where He zertland rund 1 feet until he made what the East Eul cotalders a false nep and the people treze into a solidi walt agalet him.
He knew and it is the book's great- il virtue that he could never really htcome our of tarpoor, But he brought back & sigolfkeant zeries of portraits in Le sketen-boat of his memory.
Here in Mr. Hewins, the pawnbroker. a devout Christian and an enthusiasti Horisat, "The way you walk and the Any you talk," he told the author, "the maturalis nssiin vor're a $fterlive. And Mr. Symons anri Johnston Alki thu Shepherd d
And above und angelle Giovanni. beyond all. Mrs. Morgan's Aunic.
Life and the folk who live it-hero they aro, net dowo without fuss uni without a trace of condescension. I did not find a single attempt at ken- Aationalkam in I Took Of My Tic. And, because of that, the book will be a sen- sation. for no on has travelled that ront ro far and no faithfully in a Song. loug Limes.
UNDER MOSCOW SKIES By. Maurier lindus
(Colloncz, 10s. GŒ.}. · ·
MORE than any other observer,
Mr. Hindus has shown us, in Humanity Uprooted, Red Bread and other works, what la going for- ward across the frontiers of
Soviet Russia. Here his great Lalent for straight reporting shines for the first time in a fictional frame,
The story is set in the critical phase of the First Five Year Plan with its necompanying destruction of private trade and the collectivianlion of the land,
Wandering through the crowded
Lo, the
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FIG TREE JOHN
By Edwin Corle
(Werner Laurie, 71. Od.)
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terest anyone who has over bewitched by 'the been glamour of the Noble Savage or wondored about the He of Lo, the poor Indian. For it tells the story of a White River Apacho, who
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streets and the bustling factorics is n not too convincing love-affair between an American Journalist and the wife of a "leather-jacket" Bolshevik Dut that need not concern you long.
What will concern-únd stimulate- you is the immense, sharply seen, con- selentiously composed background of anecdotes, dialogue and Impressions- a background which, after a slow opening, lakes in more and more of the scene and convinces you that you are witnessing Something That Has Never Been Done Delore....
*Moscow's are moody skies, chang- ing swiftly and ceaselessly in shape, Always thero colour and movepient.
are clouds adriť." And, whether in sunlight or in shadow, this long, some. timen verbose story moves authen. tically under the Soviet sky.
AROUND THE WORLD IN ELEVEN YEARS
By Patience, Richard and Jotun Alibe (John Miles, 33. GJ
WWE are not told where and when
any one of ibis boisterously shrewd trio of child-authors lays down or picks up, the pen, but I fancy that 11-year-old Patience insisted on doing most of the work,
The daughter and nons of an Ameri- cari camera-man and his actress wite, they have Journeyed round the world with their nomadic parents, visiting- and often going to school in-France, Austria, Germany, Russia and Eng. Jand before they "bettled" last sumner on a Colorado ranch,
This is the ecstatic record of what they saw, loved, hated. insted, smelt and laughed at,
On the bont going over to New York, "Mamuna bought Two chairs on deck. She thed one and mat there all day reating. She said I we reported every once and awhile to her so shed know we hadn't fallen overboard we could Ro where we liked."
They are so lively that It's a wonder they didn't fall over the side in their to know more all those junxirty fishes But, on the whole. I'm glad they survived tell her slick,
la amusin. precocioum atory.
R.P.
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THE STREET MARKETS OF LONDON By Mary Bonodotta (John Milos, 7s, ¿d.) THANKS to Mary Benedetta
For her vay and charming guidel
Bargain hunters can't do better. Than talk or run or take a ride To the market streets of London, There's variety in abundan- Cc: Etchings, cel and embroca-
tions,
Nuts and beauty preparations, Sausages and Christmas tree, Cricket bats and groceritos,
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Plokies, pistols, poster, pens. Tra-trags. Talrooms, watches.
hens,
Saucepans, satin, car's meat, rojs, Nightingales and telescopes. This useful author tells us all About the contents of cach stali, Describes the people tee can see, And adds some sociology.
A Hungarian photo, acc With pictures fills the extra space.
You
THE UNTOLD STORY OF EXPLORATION
By Lowell Thomas (Harrap, 8, 66)
'O, scarcely untold. The title
of this book is a little mis-· leading. What the author
He
in done is to become an explorer of lesser known exploration. has dipped into tomes that few-
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Life
MAJGH OPERATION, by JamCa Barke (Collins, B. dd.). A paralonately inerte novel of Glasgow life. Alive with poli- tical significance. On the grand scale.
Thrills
SIR PERCY LEADS THE BAND, by Baroness Orczy (Hodder and In which Blaughton. 7. Od.). the Scarlet Pimpernel rides again-and honour sati ned.
Love
THE DOCTOR, by Mary Robería Or Rinehart (Cassell, Ta Bd.). How Love Came to a Proud, Ambitious, Young Burgeon, And
tho yet he married
wxing
WOLAN!
Biography
BCOTT AND BCOTLAND, by Edwin Muir (Routledge, Ba.). What Scotland Did för Scott and Scott for Scotland...
Poor
Indian
wandered from his tribe, settled in the Colorado desert and came to grief in the desert of modern American civilisation.
He did not mind being poor, and his "untutored mind "held a great store of knowledge of how to live
at peace with the gods and in
honour among men, even in an alkaline solitude. He despised the
white folk, wito despised him. But
that did not matter elthor, since he had a sure confidence that he knew boat, as poople who go in for desplaing always do.
The tragedy of his life was not his ignorance of machinery nor his poverty in worldly goods. It was that his wife was murdered by escaping gunmen, and he felt bound to stay on the spot until the goda sent an opportunity for re- venge on the murderers.
Bo he was cut off from his tribe and unable to bring up his son in the old ways. But his son did not feel the lack. Ho Uked white mon and Ford cars, and he married Mexican girl and anally fought his father to the death,
An unusual story, written without a trace of sentimentality, eller of the Fenimore Cooper or the D. H. Law- rence variety. In Ita almple, vivid fashion, It conveys completo convic
M. tion.
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With provocative asides on Scot- tish Heraturo.
THE LIFE AND EAGER DEATH OF EMILY BRONTE, by Vir ginla Moara (Rich and Cowan, 183.). A sympathetic biography of the greatest of the Three Bistera of laworth.
History
FAIR COMPANY, by Doris Leslie Claim Lane, . .), A long, rich, fictional survey of English domestic history in its widest sense during the last 130 years. · Mystery
THE POISONER, by George Trendy Hutchinson... 78.00). Thrills in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth. The humble and rightly honest policeman, is remembered.
Romance
VAGABOND
MINSTREL by Thomas Burke (Longmans, The real-life Green, 15. Gd.). romance of an untucky and long-forgotten Irish poet. Sym paletle and convincity.
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And at that sort of thing there, nobody who can rival Lowell Thomas. He could rewrite a llur Book on, moy. the itabits of Herring, in ruch a way that it woukl be alive with rotour, full of drams and romance.
It was he, you may remember, who pul Lawrence of Arabla into the lime- light. And, incidentally, Ircturing and writing about Lawrence putt Thomas into the limelight, too!
Mir.
I range is wide-frum the advr tures in Central Asia of a Chinese ex- plorer who Hved in the second century B.Q., to those of Bertram Thomas in the Rub' Al Khali desert of Arabia a few years ago.
lie helps us to realise that there are many to whom this world is in debt for its knowledge of remote regions of whom wo know little or nothing. For instance, those Indians in the Survey of India who gave the Western world its first knowledge of Tibet. Some of them were away for four years and more at a stretch, travelling thousands of miles on foot-always measuring, mensuring
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And have you ever heard of Wi Adams-not the Bill Adams who alleged to have won the Battle of Waterloo, but the Cockney ship's car penter who became a power at the 12 the Japanese Emperer's Court sixteenth century?
If the East Indla Company had taken the advice of Master Will, then Japan might now be in the Brish Empire. At least, one gathers as much from 'rending Mr. Thomas...
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The Showman
there is one thing that Mr. Bert Buttonstick and I are crazy about, it is n BECRET WEDDING. And, if that be fol- lowed by a SECRET HONEY- MOON, well, we just put straws in our hair and begin to dance and
scream.
It is the secrecy of it, my lads). No one knows a thing about it except the bride's family and the bridegroom's family, and the parsou (or the regin- trar). Bo unusual
Mark you (as the Tattooist said to the salior), any old secret wedding won't do. The brido must be a relation of a titled man. We prefer her to bo a peer's daughter, but we are not £nicky. A late knight's step-grand- niece will thrill un.
We keep all the cullings from the papers and all the piciu is; and when. a couple of years later, we read about the diverce or get just a hint that they are not living together, our delight is completo.
That's us-romantic.
Side Issue
I KNOW, however, that you are not all romantic, and the following anecdoto of the Man With the Iron Teeth is inserted especially for those without hearts.
A noise like a mixture of freworka and a dog show brought a neighbour to the back garden fence, and sat him ruminating.
"Ab," he sighed, "It's a pity that your pup and the cat don't get on better.
"Yes," and the Man With the Iron Teeth, biting of his words. "They lead a regular man-and-wife life."
A Bit About Blondes ON the front page of one of the newspapers I always road there appeared, inxt week, this heading- Nino Blondes Hurt In Conch Smash. Now who will say we lack a sense of proportion, badgered though we are by One blende would horrtic rumours? have passed unnotierd in a crash (I hasten to say that this creah had no serious effects): tree blondes might have been mentioned on an inside pago: but nine. very properly, tąke their place among the most important news.
And what a kindly atillede this hending reflects! A hundred years on. It may well be reproduced in history
of our customs and manners.
"Father." a little boy will say, "what were blondies?"
"They were young women who pre- ferred gentlemen, but very murely got them.
That is why people were so sorry for them."
Sympathetic Storks
LAST Saturday I began this column with a reference to Ramsgate's elvic marringe bureau, and is muccess ful work.
I wonder if you saw a report, clse- where, that "AIX storks moved this morning to a field at Ramsgate, close to the main Ramsgate-London rond."
In all didence, I suggest that here is, at least, a very pretty coincidence..
Optimism
A MOTORIST at Willesden Police
Court, admitted that he had only ong brake on his car,
Perhaps he expected the magistrate to give him one.
Wags' Corner
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