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"COCO EDUCATES SASHA”

One of the platos from "Circus Parado," by John S. Clarke, profusely illustrated (Batsford, 7s. 6d.)

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LITTLE

BALAVIN

By Georges Duhamel

(Deni, 89. Ed.)

ERE. in one well-printed volume, are four novels by a French author honoured in his own country and widely known on this side of the Channel.since The Pasquler translated.

Chronicles

were

They all concern a little man named Louls Salvia, who is one of the strangest and yet most understandable chameters in the wide world's fletion,

We meet him first in his office, where an uncontrollable impulse to pinch his employer's ear gets lilm the nack. We follow him to his home and hear hùn tell his mother that be is out of work. We live with him in that tiny Paris flat while he is unemployed—until he leaves it because he can no longer bear to be a burden to his mother and their young neighbour, Marguerite.

Later

him married to Marguerite. We share his adventures In a secret political club and his even more mysterious adventures in Tunis

E

WA

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Allegory

THE CROQUET PLAYER By 11. G. Wells (Chatto and Windus, 38, 6d.Į

XPLOITING that fear of war which is obsessing so many minds to-day, Mr. Wells has wellten an allegory of the widest significance and appeal.

We follow the story through the eyes of a difdent. reasonably minded." ordinary young man, who, almost in spite of himself, is frightened into Thinking About Things before the tale is told.

A doctor down in the Fenlanda is haunted by a terror. that 15 destroying the quiet of those marshes, setting husband against wife, committing horror after horror. A prehistoric skull in a local museum comes to sym- bolise the savagery of the world to hln.

"The little curator watched me as I surveyed his prize specimen and marked the snarling grin of its upper jaw. and the shadowy vitality that stil Jurked in the caverns whence its eyes had once glared..."

In comparison with his overlord- ship our Inter human rule was a thing

of yesterday.". the doctor mused.

I leave the tremendous acquel and its warning for Mr. Wells to tell.. Once

he begins you'll have to listen to him.

RAPID Reviews

THE NONSENSIBUS, compiled by D. Wyndham Lewis (Methuen, 35. Gd.). Merriment from many minds.

Mark Starring Dickens, Twain, Hilaire Belloc, Lewis Carroll, Oliver Goldsmith, Don Marquis, James Thurber, E. O. Bentley, Anonymous and others, RUSSIA, VAREWELL,

Yurlova (Michael Joseph, More Cossack Oirl atorica by the author of the previous sprightly autobiography. Amusing, with plenty of full-blooded adventure. But there are too many ex-Russian Royal Highnesses in these pages. THE OLIVE TREE, by

by Marina

s. 6d)..

Aldous Huxley (Chaito and Windus, 78. Oct.). A collection of essays, sub- neid and otherwise, on writers and readers, English snobbery, literature 'and'examinations, waterworks and kings. Not forgetting the now- fashioned Christmas.

THE ASCENT OF MOUNT STALIN, by Michael Romm (Lawrence and Wishart. 78. ed.). The exciting story of the conquest of the highest peak in the Pamirs-hot as a record-** breaking effort, but as part of the Soviet plan for exploiting natural

MAN

-unt, sick and dying, he returns ni

Inst.

To outward appearance he is an ordinary little man, living a quiet life, content to follow a humdrum roatine, What makes him so restless and dita. satt fled that he twice leaves home and lives for years in a strange land under an assumed name?

It is not love of adventure for its own sake, for he is a timid soul. It in that he continually destrøs to be helter than he ....

*

He may lie on a sofa all day long and play the flute while his mother slaves to keep him, but he is not just simply selfish and lazy. He has in hun tite makings of a sint, but he has as little chance of becoming one as he has of getting a job.

His abilites and his intentions never nutch. His apportunities never coin- elde with his aspirations. He wants passionately to be a better man-and he spends his life running away from himself,

Although this is essentially a tragic theme, Selavin is far from being gkomy. Many of the stumbling blocks in Laus' path to perfection are comic. and he often assumes the cane-twirling gaiety of Charlie Chaplin. His vision of the world as it might be is a sturions

one.

Unquestionably a great book.

VERSE

THE OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN VERSE: 1892-1935 Chosen by W. B. Yeats (Ozford University Press, 85, 61.)

W

HATEVER they may have thought of Mr. Yeats' method of reciting verse, those who listened to his re- cent broadcast must have been stimulated by his original out- look and even more delighted by his generous attitude to the younger generation,

in-

In this valuine ho hns "tried t clude all good poets who have lived or died from three years before the death

Tennyson of

to the present moment.

And, though nobody

antholo ovor entirely applauds an Rist's choice (I myself prefer at least one other selection to this one?, he has done his work in characteristle fashion, provoking thought and excit ing opponition.

*

Wilfrid Owen, that "purest" of the War porta. is the most startling omission. And. elsewhere, Mr. Yeats' bias in favour of rhetoric is too evi- dent. But over four hundred pages al personally sifted poetry from Hardy to George Barker Is as good as a feast.

And the Yeatsian challenge echoes repeatedly through that long Intro. duction.

"A Shropshire Lad is worthy of its fame, but a mile farther and all had been marah."

Ellot confronts n world growing nl. ways more terrible with a religión like that. of some great statesman, a pity not less poignant because it tempers the prayer book with the results of mathematical philosophy."

"Perhaps in this new, profound poetry, the symbol itself is contradle. tory, horror of life, horror of death."

*

That is the authentic, cautionary note. The note, perhaps, of a prophet marching through the desert, but n prophet with a mind of his own ani the will to speak it.

But I have one quarrel with the propbet before I leave him.

Discussing The War pacts, be argues, If war is necessary, ar necessary in our time and place, it is best to forget its suffering as we do the discomfort of fever, remembering our comfort at midnight, when our temperature feli or as we forgot the worst moments of more painful suffering."

No, no, Mr: Yents. Men like Siegfried Bassoon have not forgotten. So why should you and 27

R.P.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

BOOKS

OF THE WEEK

Edited by Roger Pippett

"O

UNDERWORLD

LOW COMFANY

By Mark Denney (Peter Davies, 98)

NE must study the under- world," said my father, a devout if somewhat un- imaginative clergyman, and, wrap- ping a muffler round his throat and pulling a cap well down over his eyes, he strode off to the Folies Bergères to gather material for his next Bunday's sermon.

To many the polite improprieties of silen establishments still represent the final degradation of sensationat wickedness, Such innocents should read Mr. Benney's book.

He presents Д real underworld people by magniflerntly robust vii- Ininз-creatures who have overflowed from the most violent pages of Defoo and Dickens and Oork, experts in nuances of vice and criminally un. dreaint of in suburban philosophier, reallots so thorough-going in their practices that they would class French music-half performance with churades ne a vicarage At Home.

Mr. Benney himself was the son of nalick young Jewish bookmaker." But his mother, an impulsivo. tem- pestuous amoral creature. provided han with a varied succession of roster fathers. Her child was born into a society which divided human beings into two kinds-those who were mugs and those who were "wide." It was the function of the latter to prey on the former and the privilege of the farmer to submit,

Mark grew up a dutiful member of society. "That is to say, he took to crime as a duck to water, became a

4

burglar and in due course gradu ated by way of an industrial school and Borstal to Chelmsford Prison.

But, because his career took a coura? all too familiar in this distorted civ}- isation of ours, let it not be imaglued that his story is the equally familiar literary exploitation by the criminal of his sensational experiences.

This book is a superb plece of writ- ing, in which the author has succeeded in giving his history a more than More- merely personal significance. over, within these three hundred and are half-a-dozen fty pages, there characters that I shall remember n long as I remember Mr. Jingle. Einer Gantry, Polonius. Raskolnikov, Trimal- chio and Leopold Bloom.

In and out of prison. Mr. Benney lins read an astonishing number of books. learnt several languages and fortified himself with a culture and a specula- tive philosophy that many would envy.

No one, having read Low Company, would blame him for having been a burglar, but une would be seriously critical of any future misdemeanour that might prevent him from writing another book as soon as possible.

OR

STUART FLETCHER.

THE DANGEROUS SEA By George Slocombe (Hutchinson, 108. Gd.)

Handbook on the Mediter- ranean is the supplementary title this book should have borne.

There are few new idens in it. But, in view of the ever-increasing im- portance of this sea in present-day polities, the wenith of valuable and Interesting hiformation it contains should be its recommendation.

An index would have been helpful.

B. M.

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4 Questions

for

Wives

1. What is wrong with the follow- ing menu: Curried multon with rice; packet peas, potatoes; boiled Jami roll?

2. How can you ensure that you will not lose household keys?

3. White soups appeal to the eye as well as to the appetite. How many can you make? Give one seasonable recipe.

4. Speaking of soup, what forms the basis of white stock and what is It that makes any stock turn sour?

Answers

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1. Everything. Twiće-cooked meat, no fresh green vegetable or fruit; too many carbohydrates.

2. Tie to each a label with the dea- tination written on it and keep all on special pegs or in a key box. Treat trank and suitcase key likewise untess you prefer to the them Armly inside trunk or case.

3. List can include potato, chicken, celeri), asparagus, cucumber and artichoke. Here is one made from Jerusalem artichokes. Clean. peet, then cut in thin slices two pounds of artichokes. Add two sliced onions and two sliced turnips. Put all in bailing water and cook until tender.

Now press the cooked negelables through a siene, add the water in tohich they were cooked, one pint of milk and (if possible) a

a gill of whip ped cream. Otherwise add an ottee or two of butter. Season with a good teaspoonful of sugar, add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer slowly

to the boil and serve with sprinklings of chopped parsley and diced toust.

4. White stock is generally made from poultry or veal bones, and from calves' feet. If you leave bread, toast or vegetables in your stock it will turn sour.

BUSINESSMAN'S TOUR

| MR, SYDNEY C. DRIVER PASSES THROUGH COLONY

Mr. Sydney C. Driver, a Director. of Messrs. Edward Young & Co., wine and spirit inerchants, of London, established 1791, has been visiting the Colony, representing Messrs. Renault & Co. of Cognac, France, a firm pre-eminent as distillers of fine brandy, and the first Cognac house to ship that brandy in bottles to the United Kingdom.

Mr. Driver sailed-from-England-on a pleasure trip to the Far East, but has been able to combine business with pleasure. He visited Shanghai as well as Hongkong, and, having met many Important Chinese mer- chants and others, was greatly im- pressed. He left on Saturday for London, hoping, as a writer of some renown in the trade, to publish an account of his very pleasant experi-

ences,

Mr. Driver was

entertained at the Kam Ling Restaurant on Friday to a Chinese dinner party, by Messrs. A. S. Watsons and Co., when he met prominent Chinese merchants. Mr. J. D. Humphreys presided, and the function was a great success.

REPORT BY Z.B.W.

TRANSMISSIONS DURING THE PAST MONTH

The report on Z.B.W. for January slate that actual hours of transmis- sion totalled 277, of which 180 were devoted to European programmes and 01 to Chinese programmes, as follows:

Morning transmission Including commercial news and church relays, European 81, Chinese 2%.

Evening transmission, European 125, Chinese 88%.

Monthly percentages are European 67.15, and Chinese 32.85.

Canadian Pacific

Trans-Pacific

Empress of Japan Empress of Canadu Empress of Russia Empress of Asia Trans-Canada

The Dominion Soo-Dominion Train

Trans-Atlantic

Empress of Britain Empress of Australia Duchess of Atholl Duchess of Bedford Duchess of Richmond Duchess of York Montcalm

Montrose Montclare

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

salfs for VANCOUVER

via SHANGHAI, JAPAN & HONOLULU of NOON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23rd

Information from Telephone 20752

EMPRESS OF ASIA

zails for MANILA at 4 p.m. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th

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6th April. 6th May

6th June.

Agents:

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OUR BRITIsh crosswORDS

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126

128

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ACROSS

3 It would certainly seem that there are plenty of these veins, # Adriatic country.

Puts in situations.

10 Legitimate ejaculation, if not quite accurate as to spelling, on dinding that it's twins.

11 An awful muddle of a game During the month the following (ono spelling). Items were broadcast:-Dance pro- 12 He's changed. grammes 32, European studio concerts 13 Our great-grandmothers used to 33, Chinese studio concerts 18, Euro- pean local relays 22, Running com- their heads,

ride in one with another

ON

mentaries 4, European Daventry re- 14 Hot air is, largely, this kind of

nas. lays (including newa) 05, Chinese relays 6, European lectures 7. Chinese 10 This hound is apparently more

17 By the way, Lectures 9, European children's con- certs 4, and Chinese children's

than Henry 15. con-23 Such certs 7,

nickety.

one Scots call per-

New licences Issued during Janu-27 What a doctor must needs be

and therefore is in African walers,

ary totalled 4,044.

In addition to the

programmes

broadcast by Z.B.W., forty-four Euro 29 Three consecutive vowels in pean and Chinese progammes were 30 Horrible Yankee orthography · broadcast by ZEK. on a frequency

constitulion.

for ghosts.

of 640 kilocycles:--European 23131 Girl's name that would do for hrs., Chinese 60 hrs.

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE

twins.

92 Hardened (rev.),

33 Here you see a mallor, obtain

something for a pol-shot.

34 They are let in by the dress-

anaker.

1 The best-known. Hun.

Acupuncture, Moxvenusis and Bon folder of Japaness and Hongkong ment License. Cures Sprained Ankles Wrists. Recommanded for many Local Hospitals and Doctor,

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2. Numbers or pontificals.

3 Dispensed with extravagance..

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4 A Nonconformist practice.

4. Wyndham Street. (1st floor).

Tel. 20051.

5.Lops it. and so made, useless.

6 Arab Interested in cotton goods.

7 Tell at length. 13. Where

milk.

yachtsmen get their

13 What the Silent Service keeps

for emergencies.

18 Much the same as Norwegian. 10 Trouble from a dagger without

a handle.

20 Heraldic circles.

21 One is pleased to see these

hikers in the garden.

22 Duller than a dull sermon, yet

brighter in paris.

24 Ceremonial headpiece,

23 Spiny plant.

20 Early Beef-ten.

28 Common or garden objects in

novela.

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