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Novel Holiday
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shock... Here la life, presented not na n freak Eastern show, but as it was lived in Borneo be
the while
Men's ships sailed into thosc tropical. tree - fringed harbours.
́HEN I go on holiday I Invariably pack two or three books in my
fore bag, and, as invart- ably, they come back unread. My subconscious mind obviously insists on a close season for literature, But, for most people, holiday-time is reading-time.
"What shall I take with me?" Well, since the publishers have sent out hardly any new books this week, let me suggest for your selec- tion a score or so of novels that have attracted me this season.
Sometimes you come across A tale which, whenever and where ever you read it, gives you that picasantly exciting holiday feeling. Buch a story is R. C. Sherriff's Greengates, a simple, satisfying novel in which you meet the author on his own ground--in Suburble, that world of quiet pleasures, middling hopes and moderate routine.
.And. Incidentally. If you have not rend his cariler book. The Fortnight in September, which has a holiday plot as well as a holiday atmosphere, now is the time.
IN that extremely amusing tale.
Ara, Rudd writes flome, Byt Bolitho and Cen Fenruley exploit the comle alde of "secing ourselves as others see us," showing you a caper- ing group of highly sophisticated. world-weary folk through the eyes of a sensible, elderly woman. It will de- light you, especially if you happen to be staying in Bournemouth.
Stella Gibbons' Miss Linsey and Pa
is another holiday story, wise and witty and never whimsical, about an incurable optimist who. though weighed down by her own troubles, staggered on bearing her neighbour's burdens. It has the true "“Onge upon a time." fairy-tale touch.
Arul there la Norah G. James' Sea View, which tells how the Httle coastal village of St. Don's was awallowed by prosperous, vigorous Northsen, leaving one gap the less in the lengthening promenade of our shores. A well-told and convincing navel of conflicting hotel proprietors and lovers who win through nt Inst
It is a far cry from sleepy St. Don's to the steamlög Niger, where Joyce Cary sets the scene of The African Witch.
But the journey will be well worth your while, for the author knows his characters men nnd women swayed, whether they are Negroes or European residents. by power- ful. jungle-shaking, emplic-rocking taboos.
To anyone who still believes that human nature cau'l be changed. Owen Rutler's memorable Clear Waters should provide the necessary
And you will surely be moved by Mulk faj Ananda The Coolie, one of this nummer's most distinguished novein,
The tale of the pilgrimage of Munoo, an orphan at the hills, it forms the second volume of a trilogy which wil prove a revelation of what, in the view of one Indian at least, the rule of the Raj has meant to his people,
Andre Malraux, who has already in- terpreted the nightmare of Chinese polities for us unsterly eLyle, turns weat in Days of Contempt and halds a mirror up to Nazland. The reflee- tion is unforgettable. By no means conventional hallday story, but one of those rare, hypnolie books that you will be unable to resist.
Epain argues and struggles und balls aver in Ramon J. Sender's Seven Ned Sundays, a strange, poetic, mystical, Intentionally, chaotic tale of the birth of the Republic. It will help you to All in the dark background of the Spanish crisis-and it is always-burn- ingly alive.
Historical action fans will chicer Robert Neumann's long and rewarding Alory of that astute and unscrupulous eighteenth century adventurer-dicta- for. Struensee. The Queen's Doctor. And they will be charmed by Wilhelm Speyer's The Court of Fair Maidens. which threads the intriguing mazes of a remote duchy 訊 hundred years
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C. s. Forester traces, the Rise. Decline and Fall of a Brasa Hat during the War in that quietly composed, overwhelmingly ironicui flttle masterpiece lyca,
sold masterpiece "), The General-while Arnold Zweig follows up The Case of Sergeant Griseld with the relentless anti-war barrage of Education Before Verdun.
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THE Old School Tie is turned inside. out and shredded In Maurice L Richardson's swift and riotous social satire, The Bad Companions. A killing story. And the tale of a Tough Guy from Chiengo's Bouth Side takes on a more-than-American signißrance James T Farrell's bulky and brilliant Studs Lonipan.
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I was disappointed with Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza and J. B. Priestley's They Walk in the City. But both should go on your list of "Required Reading." For Mr. Huxley. in his increasing concern for unre- generate man, and Mr. Priestley, in his North of England moods, are sym botic of our day and age.
The gentle, senrching wit of Rosa- mand Lehmann glows through the.
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Happy is the Reader..
carefully written pages of her novel of domestic life and secret love; The Weather in the Streets. A refreshing, Intimate tale, despite the slightness of the theme. I fancy that if I had been on holiday when I read it I should have liked it even more...
Short stories are ideal summier rend- ing, and Evelyn Waugh's collection, Mr. Loveday's Litt! Outing, can be unreservedly recommended —espçel- ally to those of us who like watching other people taking punishment. 60 book a ringside sent for the intest bout of the still unbeaten British 'light- weight champion.
Leslie Halward also proves himself a master of the craft of short-story writing in the twenty-three faithful, ansentimental tales contained. in To Tea on Sunday-and Doreen Wallace offers you a trio of long-short love. stories in Going to the Seo.
DETECTIVE fletion? Here are four out of perhaps. four score. A classic sequel, an originai essay in gen- sationalism, a super-sevelty and n cunning problem nct by an old favourite.
E. C. Bentley kept us waltlug over twenty years for Trent's Own Cuar. which he has written in collaboration with H. Warner Allen. You may find
style i amiable, telsurely
old. fashioned, but what a wide and enter taining world he travels! Definitely a holiday book.
A guminan goes to Graham Greene's head in splendidly senantional fashian A Gun for Sale. Assassins and armament
and makers. detectives sium-dwellers, Midlanders and Lon- doners, you watch them all fleeing be. fore the winds of chance and thine, A vivid and exciting st ry.
The Thriller Which Hos ile Clues Pasted in, Murder of Miami, by Dennis Wheatley and J. G. Links, is not simply a remarkable piece of book pro- duction, it is a really puzzling yarn with a nicely timed surprise. Put it. down-on that list:
And, lastly. Agatha Christie's Mus- der in Mesopotamia, in which Ze Grent Poirot is set one of the toughest problems of his spectacu for career. What Mra. Christin docan't know....
Well, there are a few to choose from. Romance, really, battle, murder nud sudden death-packed flat between IWO covers for your day. And happy is the render whom the egg rhines on.
TEST ANSWERS
The Duchess's Diamond
The note to Maria obviously contains a code. The clue to the code is the opening phrase, the last three. Taking the last three letters of each sentence, this is what Playfair read:
You will find. what is wanted.. covered with fith'.. on the shelf in the kitchen.
As Playfair remarks, it is just as well to have oue's wits about
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PROBLEM 3 CYRIL'S JOURNEY Cyril walked 31⁄2 miles.
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Peter
the Monster
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PETER THE GREAT. By Alexel Toniol, (Gollancs, 163.)
ETER ALEXEIVITCH, "Peter the Great." was born in Mos-
cow in 1672: he became Taar when he was five years old: he died in his own city of Petersburg in 1724.
In tin half-century effectively in twenty years) this one man. by his flerce will power and illimitable energy. by his passion for novelty and con. tempt for tradition, changed the face ut Russia.
His methods were ruthless. Ito beat down all resistance, A great eyelane at a MAIL. sweeping destructively through all opposition. But a tremend- ous worker, builder of the new as wellas a breaker of the old.
A creative dictator who gave to Russia o new army, a new fleet, new ellen. new industries, a new political system, a new social order: a man who forced Europe upon Russia and Russin upon Europe: making with his new order a new nation, which could repel the western Invader, clain mastery en the Black and Baltic Seas and compel recognition as a Great Power..
Tortured His Son
So Peter is a man who is well filed to become. as he is becoming a national hero for Stalinist Russia: the Tsar who may become one of the worthies of Bolshevism.
Only there is the other side of the plare: the Peter who was a crazy drunkard and debauchee: who loved cruelty and torlure with sensual de- light: who loved himself to wield the knout and the axe: who tortured hla own son to denth: who could pick up Mary Hamilton's head on the scaffold, kiss it passionately. Bling it on the ground and order it to be preserved.
"An obscene monster, this Peter,
Peter the Monster makes, however, little enough appearance in Alexci Tolstol's Peter the Great. Only once or twice do we have a glimpse of the torturer: and then of a man hall- reluctantly doing some stern unavold. able Wing.
Instead, we have the Peter who pre- fers the workers to the nobles, the Peter who honours the men who "built a water-driven sawmli from a German model without foreign craftsmen"; the Peter who furiously denounces shoddy cloth: the Peter who wants to "shac. clothe and arm regiments and give Charles what he deserves."
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