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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER
28, 1936.
S
SHIPS
A MILLION OCEAN MILES
By Sir Edgar T. Beliten
{fiutolinson, 86. 68.)
BHIPS AND WOMEN
By Bill Adams
7Davies and Dickson, ks. 5A)
IR EDGAR BRITTEN, com- mander of the Queen Mary, finished his book of reminis- cences shortly before his sudden death at Southampton. Dill Adams writes the story of his son lite from the shore to which he was compul- Earlly retired through fil-health.
Yet, though their lives wero very different, their stories have a common base of understanding of men, of a love for the ocean which gave them their living and of a true seaman- like quality.
Bir Edgar Dritten was, at one time or another, in command of all the big Cunard-White Blar ships. The skipper of a modern ferry boat has to bo
business man, a statesman, a diplomat and a seaman-navigater all rolled into one.
Influential passengers need more plocating than a boss, and much more nursing, while the problem of con- veying thousands of people across thousands of miles of ocean, enter- talning Bem, feeding them so that They will always travel British and always in perfect safely and wih na much comfort as the nastiest bit of water on the globe will allow, is one which night well baffle the auavest.
Well
Sir Edgar Brillen natved this problem no
that passengers fought for the privilege of mailing with him. and, in this summary of his enreer, he tells stories which show un- consciously why he was one of the Inost popular masters the Canard Line ever had.
The book should have a large mate with all who follow, or who are luter. ested in, fe at sea to-day, and the chapter on subinarine losses during the war is full of vital interest, especially to the thousanda inentioned in it.
There are yams, too, of cardsharpers, pleasure cruises, troopslips and storms and gales-all the adventurea which come the way of an ocean wonderer. And te volume closes with n short desuription of the sea funeral which Canlin Britten had always desired.
THE
BOOKS of the Week
EDITED
Bill Adama has been known for some time as a writer of aliort stories about· the koa.
This autobiography is his first full- length work. It tells the story of him apprenticeship in all, of a day which han gone, and tells it a thrilling series of epizodes.
To ro through it is like taking a IL four-year trip round the world.
in frank and, in places, crude, but it is the real stuff-nots of your heroles, just an unvarnished, very readablo account of what it used to be like to bo of the Horn in a howling gale, under- manned, with the salts in rags and living on hard tack and poor coffee all Ühe time.
There are adventures in simnge porta and a grand story of how, for four hours, Bill Adams stuck by the wheel, all hands busy and ho one to relieve him, with the binnacle light put out by a heavy sea so that he had fo.ateer by the feel of the wind on his neck in a howling galo in which three degrees off her course would have osp. sized her.
The book is like a breeze in the mouth.
B. O. J.
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BY
ROGER PIPPETT
The lato PETER LEE
JAM and HONEY
TRINITY TOWN By Norman, Collins (Gollanes, 88, Ga.)
RINITY WAS one of those quiet little towns where nothing seems to happen.
But things began to happen thick and fad when that seedy speculator. Mr. Broster, heard that a big firm of jom manufacturers proposed to build a
when factory there, sudd
Captain Charles Ets tond he was n ole. I proper eneb returned to his unwel coming family,
For Mr. Broster was out to buy pro. perty cheap and sell it dear when the boom came, and Charley Emma was Inspired-ordinary reasoning does not suftige to explain its motives-to thwart his efforts,
It is an bilarious stary of trickster meeting kit, and the result verges on pandemonium. In the end. Jam
Factors did not come to Trinity, Mr. Broster was landed with a pile of use- less options on unsaleabio premises, Charley Emms entered another perlod of exile and pence resumed its away.
Meanwhile you have been introduced to a number of characters who are, if not convincingly lifelike, nt Jenat cognisable and gental caricatures of their various types-people who get into just the sort of predicament atid muddle you would expect.
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Trinity Town is in the English tradition, for its general attitude is a sly pride in our gullibility and an acceptance of jokes against ouracives rather
But as compliments.
Mr. Collins must have enjoyed writing this easy chronicle of provincialism. and you will enjoy reading 1.
Charley Emma, drunkard. har. muddler and humbug, really was a
one....
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'R. GERHARDI is an elusive writer--and one whom it is dangerous to underestimate. Witness this long novel about a woman and the men who loved hor after their fashions.
In some moods a righteous reader might all too easily throw the book down with an angry · What silly, in- effectual people) What a clever clever scene! Why should I waste time on Auch nit-wits?
A more sympathetic reader, on the other hand would endure the more laboured passages for the author's sensitive staging of tragi-comic nitus- tlons and his quiet, almost experi inental handling of a typical modern theme...
Righteous fury
sympathetic ricceptance? It depends on you.
R. T..
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RURAL
A TRAVELLER AMONG THE FARM9. By Freda Derrick (Allen and Unwin, 63.)
FI were asked to sum up in one word the quality of this little book of one hundred and sixty- four
I pages, should choole "fragrance.
It is fragrant of a forgotten England and Wales, a real countryside that sull lingers in parts that have never en- countered a main rond, districts where wind-mills and water-mills may be found passing in silent dignity to their end with the the bars and the anclent cottages that county authorl. ties would fain destroy but can never adequately replace.
A clergyman's daughter, the author travelled the byways on a bicycle with but little in her pocket, and, perhaps because she was ill provided with the world's goods, the village folk, who; were no better off, opened their homes and hearts to her.
Her story is simple, and its lustra- tions are her own-milia and barris, farms and market halls, cottages and blacksmiths forges, the porch of an inn, a form worker's kitchen, a bake house, all simple drawings enough, but touched with fine lines of appreciation and sympathy.
Well done, Miss Derrick
S. L. BENSUsan.
MINER
PETER LEE
By Jack Lawson, M.P. (Hodder and Stoughton, Sa.)
N
O one who met Peter Lee, the tall, handsome miners. leader whom, because of a certain likeness, his friends called "Old Shakespeare," is likely to forget him. And Mr. Lawson has seen to it that no one who reads this affectionate and most human blography will forget him, too..
He was born seventy-two years ago in Duff Heap Row, Five Houses, Trimdon Grange, Durham. At ten he began work as a pit-pony driver. And before he died in 1935 he had helped to change the face of the grey North-East.
"Peter Lee was always, late in Anding his place.
*
"He was nearly forty years.of age when he really came to solld public work, fifty-five when he was elected to the chair of the Dur- County Council, nfty-six ham when he became a miners' agent. sixty-six before he was General Becretary of the Durham Miners' Association and nearly seventy on his election to the Presidency of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.
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His earliest memories were of moving from village to village, viewing our English lanes from the top of a wagonload of furniture or silding behind the wagon on a cold winter's day." Restlessly his father went from colllery to col- llery, In twenty-two years the ttle home was sold twenty-one times crossing from Durham to Lancashire and buck over the Pennines....
As a young man, Peter Leo wan- dored farther still-to the United States and to the Rand-before ho settled down to serve his own people.
CASES
BIR TRAVERS HUMPHREYS By Beckhofer Roberta (John Lane, 158.)
THE FAMOUS CASES OF BIR DERNARD SPILSBURY
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By Lestic Randall (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 8s. Ed.)
ERE are two books which will be pored over for hours by those who are interested in great criminology-one about ndyocate and a great judge, the other about a figure who has become almost legendary as being concerned with the conviction of many of the murderers who have gone to the gallows in the last - twenty years and more.
No one, wo aro' told, has an experi ence of murder cases that even ap- proaches Bir Bernard's, Mr. Randall puts the number of them into the hun- dreda and his post-mortem examina- tions Into many thousanda
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But not the lenat interesting part of the book that which deals with the famous "scientist-detective" himself,
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Beddon, Bywaters and Mrs. Thomp son, "Mr. A.." Brown and Kennedy, Rouse, Leopold Harris, Mra Ratien- bury and Stoner-these are only a few of the multitude of names concerned in famous trials that are plentifully The case amount to spread out. nearly a hundred. and they are pre- sented with an admirable mixture of discernment and vividness. *
Here, again, is a book which gives many interesting glimpses of the resi personality of its subject.
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
. Those were the days when work- ing men carried dog-cared and heavily pencilled copies of Britain The Steamship, for the British and Merrie England in their pockets, reading them
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everywhere. When "staid Trade Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via Union leaders demanded that ports etc... arrived Hongkong Unions should be kopt out of Saturday, 28th December, 1936. politics." When'Peter Lee saw his Consignees are hereby Informed work clear before him on the Rural that their goods with the exception and County Councils,
of Opium, Treasure and. Valuables And, at last, in 1910, when are being landed and stered into the Labour swept the county and the Godowns of the Hon. Ltd., Kow- Kowloon Hongkong Wharf and Godown' workers were called on to govern
whence delivery may be ob- for the first time in the history oftained immediately after landing. our local administration, there was
All calms must be sent in to me only one man whom they wished on or before 6th
1937, or 8th January to lead them-Peter Lee... Some of they will not be
recognized Mr. Lawson's most significant Damaged Packages will
be examin chapters are devoted to the sequel jed" by the Company's Surveyor Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 31st December, 1930,
Revenue
and its success.
"Consignees must have a
But in all these pages the man is shown clearly against the compel- ling background of his mission Omeer in attendance when any dutie Peter Lee spending his honeymoon nble goods are examined by the at the coal-face "I stand here as Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected President of your great organisa- tlon," he told the miners years by us in any case whatever.
R. QIIL. later, because of the love of two
Agent, women, my mother and my wife "),
Hongkong, 20th December; 1936. living so sparingly that, in accept- ing expenses for oficial duties, ho felt he was "lowering his fing." laughing at the furious attacks on him in the papers....
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
The Steamship,
"YALOU"
No. 2 AEO/37 Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk via Hongkong on ports etc.. arrived
and Valuables
Falling during the Gresford inquiry, he said, "I just want to get better in time for the next stage, I know where that explo- sion started, and I want to get into that pit." Not long afterwards he died and his legend lives on. Saturday, 28th December, 1938.
If anything could stir latices social Consignees are hereby consciences, it is such a life story as that their goods with the this, told simply and straightforwardly. of Opium, Treasure and with no faked high lights and no are being landed and stored into the downs of the Hongkong Kowloon pretensiona
God and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- Well may Mr. Lawson write, "If his Wharf torians know as much about the deeds loon, whence delivery may be ob- of the black arttien
which have tained immediately after landing. tunnelled the nether reźling to build All claims must be sent in to this civilisation of steel, Napoleon, on or before 6th January, 1037, or crossing the Alps with his troops, they will not be recognized. would not seem quite so romantia.”
Damaged Packages will be examin-11 For, in the shade of the Peter Led by the Company's Surveyor the little corporal does not look
Messrs Goddard and Douglas in the romantic at all.
R. P presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday 31st December, 1030.
Fact SHORTS Fiction
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MEMORIES OF JOHN GALS- WORTHY, · by M. E. Reynolds (Robert Hale, 65.). In which tho sister of the creator of the Forsytes recalls him in the days of his youth and the years of his prime. A fo of "amazing sanity" With many Interesting family photographs. ANGLING YARNS, by E. Marahalf- Hardy (Herbert Jenkins, Jn, (d.). Of the Blissful Ignorance of Two Fishermen,, of a Keeper, a Potato and Bomo Carp, the Trout That Gave Itselt Up and many other strange happenings. Not forgetting the Goldfish That Drowned and the Pike That Lived. KENT, by Arthur. Mee (Hodder, and Bloughton, 108, 64), Being another chapter in a new. Domesday Book of ten thousand Engiùh villages anɑ' towns. From Allington to Talding the county is painstakingly but at tractively covered. With num GEDUS 11lustrations.
WILD HARBOUR, by Ian Macpher son (Methuen, a 64). When tho first guns boom in the next war Hugh and his wife hide in a cave in the "Highlands Food 'is scarce and bandita rove. A gripping.story,
ana
me.
Consignees must have a Revenue Omeer in attendance when any duti able goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors,
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
E. OHL. Agent. Hongkong, 20th December, 1938.
frankly raising the question: Can Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori
wo, and should we, attempt to stand, outside the conglotz
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1 Nippy. 8 Colour nothing that has been
borrowed: it's seented.
It is necessary to interfere here, and one is reminded of the reward of a brave action. Why did etch Umbrian scenes, rather than do pen and ink sketches? (hidden).
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12 The French join the English In
Dolivion,
13 Stalk.
16 Although we suffer it in this country no one really enjoys it as Pierre does, You'll
17
a Scotsman before long: very windy.
19 A rascal to drink, and, what's
more, sticks it.
21 Hidden In Clue 11.
23 They wouldn't think much of
her in Indin, I'm afraid.
24 Slave dance?
25 Winds up many a composition, 20 Limited, according to American ideas, in woman, for show,
20 Make users bid to make pay-
ments, 30 Just fancy! red rng being made
into something to eat
DOWN
1 Went round and round."
2. The bird takes a good number, thus giving you a heap to think about.
3 Finished Jack in prison?
4 Not frosty.
5 Treason, with a very obvious.
issue.
0 Striped sateen (anag.).
7 Chemical salts that make
permanent gas.
10 Hidden in Clue 11.
14 Showing how a
3
considerable
number about middle age re- semble he-men,'
15 It isn't very suitable to sleep
It? in it,
10
A striking description of car- ringe horses by Oulda.
20 Here you see an English river
in the air.
21 Part member from member
without schlam.
22 Shouted out before being de- capitated, and even then rowed. 26 There's something in front of
the vessel: look closely..
27 A discreditable finish, I fear.
Yesterday's Bolution.
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