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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.
To-day's BOOKS
'A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LIFE
By Amabel Williams-EBIS ARE
F. J. Fisher
(Methuen, 8r. Od.)
A PAGEANT OF HISTORY Compiled by E. E. Kellett (Michael Joseph, 8a. Gď.)
W
HEN historians can say plainly that a tragedy in English history was due to
the anxiety of a young prince to stand his friends a drink or two to celebrate an occasion, clearly they should have attention,
Mrs. Williams-Ellis and Mr. Fisher are much historians. They invest our history with a humanity that is rore and refreshing.
The too-generous prince was, of course, William Ethling. Bon of Henry I, who tansted the White Ship zo determinedly that soon "sailors. rowers, the bodyguard of soldiers, most of the passengers, the captain, nad even the pilot were all drunk."
Late at night they set sail for England, and by the light of a full inoon that drunken rabble ran their ship full wilt on a rock. She filled and sank at once," And there, with admir- able economy of style, is the story of why Henry never smiled again.
**
The story in typical of this melly- written book, which sensibly soft- pedals the heroes of history to make the ordinary people Bve.
Here is Elizabeth denying knowledge of the sacking of Epanish towns from which the profited not inconsiderably --and here are the authors ndding tan those who are still piratically-mladed might note) that," much less real profit was made than if the English had stuck to more or less honest trade, and kept the peaco."
They quote one delicious profound!ty of General Coering's which surely de- serves a place in history: "When I am asked about our economic polley I say, 'Look at the honest faces of our Storm Troopers. That is our economic policy, and it is-Germany) ***
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Mr. Kellett's book has a different kind of distinction. These scenes from the past depict outstanding chapters In the building up of Western civilisa- tion, ranging from "The Code of Hammurabi” (about 2000 13,0.), to the Covenant of the League of Nations.
How long the Covenant will live is in some doubt to-day. But manifestly the Code still operates: "If a man has caused the loss of a gentleman's 'eye, his eye one shall cause to be lost. II a man has made the tooth of a man that is his equal to fall out, one shall make his tooth fall out."
Typlent events in intervening cen- turies aro described by standard writera, chosen with skill and scholar- ship to make what is at once a store. house of pleasure and learning.
8. E. R. W.
JUR FREEDOM AND ITS RESULTS By Five Women. Edited by Itay Sirachey.
(The Hogarth Presi, 83, 6a.j THE five women who have con- tributed to this symposium are among the important women.DL 10-day.
They are doing uniold good for their sex in every walks of life, for, because of their education and their peculiar chances to make their weight felt, their voleen are heard when they claim that a wrong must be righted.
With a wide experience of contem- norary life, they discuss the results of votes for women. welching up the new position and examining how for women have got and where they are going in their journey towards freedom.
They analyse the case in relation to public affairs. Eleanor Rathbone deals brilliantly with this aspert.
Among the other contributors, Erna kels-her subject is Changes la the Law"-reinlads women of the mea sures on the Statute book brought ahout by feminist agitation.
Ray Strachey, welling on "Changes in Em- ployment," says, women are conquer. ing fresh felds every year.
Allson Nellans--” Changes in Sex Momlity"-points out that poverty les at the root of much delinquency. Mary Agnes Hamilton, discussing Changes in Bocial Life," defends the modern woman's attitude, her makeup and her personal ndernment. She reminds is that a change in our social life has forced women to compete in a market that values workers for thele Jooka.
Women who want to know about the work they live in should read this book. It is definitely an education.
M. F.
WHEN I REMÉMBER. By Lady Muriel Beckwith fivor Nicholson and Watson, 153.)
I CAN imagine young Bocialists taking up this book and reading it with-indignation. Older, men and ,women would do much the same thing, It is infuriating--and yet it is so naïve.
It is an autobiography by the daugh- ter of the seventh Duke of Richmond find Gordon, and the author speaks about the tower orders" and their present emancipation as something rather dreadful. ⠀
The sub-title of the book is " & Re-. fection of the Golden Ape
After sighing for those Good Old Days, Lady Muriel, speaking of the dif- ference between chüdran to-day and those of her childhood, saya
"Compare it (that is, the attitude of to-day's youngsters) also with another precious-and, really, wo considered de- lightful-privilege at Goodwood. After. luncheon the remains of our rice-pud- ding or any other Hittle delicacy of a Dimple natüre uned to ke poliertéd and placed in n covered china dish in a little basket.
"The cldren were allowed, us a treat, to take ilta to some cottagel"
The lintica are mine.)
You get that sort of pillud, all through this book, which was doubti:sa written for those who can share the writer's sentiments--those who may have lived in the reflected story of her. Golden Age, ïï
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
Keep fit this winter
Second daily group of three in series of fifteen
EXERCISES
These three exercises are specially designed to make your hips, pelvis, and legs supple. They will force you to use all your muscles and joints; even your toes will have to work,
Breathe in
Breathe out
Stand upright, feet together, hands on hips. Raise each leg to the side in turn as high as pos sible without bending it, and keep- ing your body straight.
SYMBOL:
They will give you a free and easy movement (which incidentally will help you a lot in learning to suim), and will make your thighs full and round and your legs-on the contrary-slina.
Breathe in
Breathe out
5
Stand upright, feet together. hands on hips. Bend your knees and sink down as low as possible. heels together, knees apart, keeping your balance all the time.
NAME CHART·
DINAH
A woman holding a bejewelled mirror.
THIS name, pightsles clear judgment, deep sympathy and human
understanding.
Monday is your day of fortune, and the lucky hours are' 6.p.m. and 7 p.ni.
The best day of the month for all. purposes is the 25th. Midnight blue and soft silvery grey are your hormonte colours. Use them freely in your personal adornment, and bi
your surroundings.
You will be happy if you have these colours about you. They are in rhythm with your name.
For your lucky gems wear crystals and pearls, and have your jewels set in silver. The white lilac and the wild poppy are your flowers and 7 is your fucky number.
Don't Believe It!
-says the Doctor.
are
NENERALLY accepted Idens
about health witich bused
on supposition und hear- say are corrected by Dr. August A. Thomen, lecturer in medicine at New York University, in this fascinating series of Evening Standard, articles, To-day he explodes the theory
That if a woman who is about to become a mother is frighten- ed, her child will probably bear a birthmark related to the cause of this.
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The persistence of this fallacy among the educated is in some measure due to its use theme in some important novels --notably Lucas Malet's famous "History of Sir Richard Cal- mady"
It is
Wo
Is now definitely establish- ed beyond any doubt whatso- ever that there is not the slighte est truth in this ancient and un- fortunate superstition, for know with certainty that there be- is no nervous connection tween the mother and the un- born child.
White feather
THE rabbit's white tail shows it up as it flies through the grass, and gives the hunter an easy mark.
This seems to be a refutation of the idea that nature always provides protective colouring. But 1 is not.
Breathe in
Breathe out
Stand upright. feet together, and rest one hand on stick to keep your balance. Then throw into the air as high as possible with- out bending them one leg and the opposite arm (as in picture).
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:
The death of both sons "of the Earl of Dorincourt leaves the title open to his grandson, “Little Lard Fauntleroy," who has been brought up in Brooklyn by his American mother. The young- ster goes to live in his grand- father's castle and wins the old man's heart completely, when the startling news comes that there is another claimant to the title.
CHAPTER FIVE
SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
chierme
FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW DOLORES COSTELLO BARRYMORE
A Motion Picture Bosed on the World- famour Frances Hodgana Burnet! Story
The your boy now?"
"No!!!"
"Then I shall be your boy even If I'm not going to be an earl-just as I was before?"
"My boy-yes, as long as I live- and sometimes I feel as if you were. the only boy I'd ever had." Dorin court's emotions are crowding in on him "They shall take nothing Trom You you that I can hold for were made for the place and who It, still. But knows-you may fit t whatever comes to you, you shall have all that can give you all!”
Broken by what he considers his terriße misfortune, the old Earl calls on Dearest at Court Lodge. He tells her that the highest legal opinton he could find has decreed against him. confesses that he is "miserable- He cont miserable' and Mrs. Errol is deeply touched.
I
The amazing tidings that a clan- Imagine a hungry cat smelling its ant has come forward to dispute the way towards a brood, of young rab-right of Ceddie to the title of Lord "Perhaps it is because I am miser- causes a sensation. able that I have come to you," he bits. Suddenly, just as it is about to Fauntleroy
of
ker. the tells
"I used to hate you. pounce, a white flash challenges its Newspapers on both sides
have eyes, It is the mother rabbit leaping Atlantic are full of the story. Ceddle have been jealous of you. away. The cat rushes after it, and himself, greatly excited but not in been an obstinate old foot and is out-distanced. The brood is safe about the task of writing full details I have come to you because you're the least let down, sets immediately suppose I have treated you badly. Many birds when disturbed, turn to his old friends, Hobbs and Dick. ike the boy and he cares for you. and finish their coloured breasts, thus On Lady Lorridaile the blow falls And I care for him... Treat me distracting the intruder from the heavily.
as well as you can-for the boy's nest,
"That boy-the first human beingsake." He takes command of his emotions und finishes: he has ever loved!" she tells her stipping kusband.
"Whatever happens ho will be pro
UNICORN AT LAST
vided for." Because the character of Bevis was
The American woman who claims such that he was just the sort to
Fauntleroy comes to to be Lady make a marriage with a woman like Court Lodge to call on Mrs. Errol. the claimant, most persons were pre-
"I guess you know that the Earl's pared to accept her statement at face given in," she says. My boy's Lord value. However, Dorincourt insisted Fauntleroy now-not yours." that the evidence must be sified to the bottom. He could not bear the thought that Ceddie should not be his heir..
As Erasmus Wilson, eminent DR. FRANKLIN DOVE, of Maine University, has produced a real English authority on skin, says,
live unicorn. He transplanted the "The so-called mother's marks
horn buds of a day-old calf and they are nothing more than
grew as one horn in the centre of its brow.
che dilation of the capil
lary vessois on a spot of skin varying size from a mere
in sl point to a patch several inches square.
The notion of these marks having any connection with the imagination of the mother is perfectly fabulous,"
broken.
“So` I. understand, says Mrs. Er-
"To take rol. Why have you come?"
a look at my future home. I understand this is where the Dow'ger Lady Fauntleroys always Jive."
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ACROSS
5 This subject of Nature Study
is not easy to grasp,
3 This settler stands up some-
times, of course.
# This may enable the injured,
to make progress.
10 A flower from its start.
11 He is associated with rakes in
gambling places.
12 Not a nice person, so take the
reverse line.
14 This in a star is starry.
15 Shrewdness is masculine, in
The Dorincourt tenantry are heart Dorincourt calls on the woman
Outside the youngster to whom the whose son is claimant to the title. Earl referred as an "oaf" is carving Dr. Dove suggests that his opera She is staying at the Dorincourt the name "Lord Fauntleroy" in the The end. tion must have been performed by
Arma in the village. He sees a back of the Dorincourt carriage. primitive people to give rise to all coarsely handsome woman who as Ceddie rides up on his pony. The the legends about unicoms. It may stimes an Incongruously elegant boy Bevis sneers malevolently. Bavis have been considered a means of manner. Snade, a sly attorney, is tells Ceddio he will have to surrender Increasing the bull's strength, which with mother
and son. When the averything he has, even the pony. would explain how, the unicorn came Earl and Havisham treat the woman "No, you can't have Prince," says to Bght the lion for the crown
and Snade with contempt, she berates | Ceddle." Beyls shouts and [ 27 Fart of this garment is meant
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"I'll show you,"
on
10 Dificult to please, but the stage tries to justify the end. 19 A draught from its head?
feature 23 Revolutionary
which much" modern furniture is based 28 Here is a famous cathedral.
to cover the head. 28 Circumspect.
savage sign of hostility (two words). 31 Part of a game may lead to
obscurity of certain features. 32 Cutting down. 33 Value highly.
him viciously.
In London, the Lord Chief Justice the fight is on. After some mugh tella Dorincourt that the evidence leaves him only one conclusion that tumble preliminaries, Ceddle 29 Twist vulgarly isn't put as a
Jets go
terrlile punch that knocks the son of the woman who claims to Bovis down.
Mra Bovis howls. have been the wife of Bevis is the Errol and Bovis' mother rush cut of rightful
of the title of Lord the house, and the latter is about possessor Fauntleroy and heir to the caridem.
to chastise Cedidle when Mary op "But it's monstrous!" the Earl ex- pears wielding a rolling pin and puta claims. "This woman and this boy her to fight
Ceddle, transformed suddenly, from Back at Darincourt Castle, the Earl a sweet little boy into a thoroughly goes to Ceddie's room... The boy is in roused young tiger, refuses to be bed but not asleep.
sorry for his conduct until "You've heard bad news, haven't mother's sadness melts him,
arc
utterly unit!"
yourne very prat, the Earl sighs.
Dearest," I'm
cries.
"If you like fil. Tet him have my
he
"I'm
not Lord Fauntleroy any pony." more, am 17"
She folds him in hör armas » Yeri- petuously.
"No.:: She's besten mo,"
Then the other boy will have to
(To be continued.)
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1 This sport is apt to have a
damping effeo..
2 This has kept many a bad man
in suspense.
3 To do this
one moy need striking netion.
4 Foodstuff with clear mixture
In It.
9 An Italina helps to make ma-
alc.
It's the start of this instru- meat
that may help one
master the trick.
7 Wherefrom
many a lesson.
to
one may have
12 This may make things less ob-
scure for you.
13 In a fling this lady, is ostenta-
tious in dispiny.
14 The home of the screwdriver
(two words),
17 A mere tittle.
18. The vital matter
does not
happen to be in the vein here. 20 Hardly propitious.
21 A writer joins to impute.
22 A job for the fisherman? 24 This alight injury might be a
sporting handicap, 25 Entrance or exit, perhaps.. 30 Fish
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