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As usual
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Spring
ROGER PIPPETT
suggests a
Novel Holiday
W
HEN I go on holiday I invariably pack two or three books in my 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 sulce- 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 rend it, gives you that pleasantly exciting holiday feeling. Buch a story is R. C. Sherriff's Greengates, a simple, satisfying novel in which you micet the author on his own ground-in Buburbla, that world of quiet pleasures, middling hapes and moderate routine.
And. incidentally, if you have not read his earlier book, The Fortnight in September, which has a holiday plot as well as a holiday atmosphere, how
the time.
TN that extremely amusing tale.
Mfrs, Rudd Writes Home, Bybl Bolitho and Cen Fearnley exploit the comic side of "seeing ourselves as others sco us," showing you a caper- of highly sophisticated, ing group world-weary folk through the eyes of a sensible, elderly woman. It will de- Hght you, especially if you happen to be staying in Bournemouth.
Stelin Gibbons Miss Linsey and Pa is another holiday story, wiso and witty and never whimsical, about ni incurable optimist who. though weighed down by her own troubles, staggered on bearing her neighbour's burdens. It has the true "Once upon a time," fairy-talb touch.
And there is Norah C. James' Sea View, which tells how the little constal village of St. Don's was swallowed by prosperous, vigorous Northsea, leasing one gap the less to the lengthening promenade of our shores. A well-told and convincing novel of conflicting hotel proprietors and lovers who win through nt last.
It is a far dry from sleepy St. Don's, to the steaming Niger. where Joyce Cary sets the scene of The African Witch. But the journey will be well worth your while, for the nuthor knows his characters — men and women swayed, whether they are Negroes or European residents, by power- empire-rocking Jul Jungle-shaking, tabxas,
To anyone who still believes that human nature can't be changed, Owen Rutter's memorable Clear Waters should provide the necessary
Block... Here is life, presented not na a freak Easter show, but as it was lived in Borneo be- fore the white man'a ships sailed into those. tropical. treo-fringed harbours.
And you will surely be moved by Mulk Flaj Anand's The Coolie, one of this summer's most distinguished novels.
The tale of the pilgrimage of Munoo. an orphan of 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 las already in- terpreted the nightmare of Chinese polities for us in masterly style, turns west In Days of Contempt and holdn n mirror up to Naziland. The refler- tion is unforgettable. By no means a conventional holiday story, but one of those rare, hypnotie baska that you will be unable to resist.
Spain argues and struggles and boils over in Ramon J. Bender's Seven Red Sundays, a strange, poetle, mystical, intentionally chaotic tale of the birth of the Republic. It will help you to in the dark background of the Spanish crisis-and it is always burn- ingly alive.
cheer Historical fetion fans will Robert Neumaun's long and rewarding. story of that astute and unscrupulous egliteenth century adventurer-dicta- tor, Struensee, The Queen's Doctor. And they will be charmed by Wilhel 3peyer's The Court of Fair Maidens, which threads the intriguing mazes of remote duchy a hundred years
ago.
C. S. Forester traces the Rise. Decline and Fall of a Drass Hat during the War In that quietly composed, overwhelmingly tronical little masterpiece (yes, I said masterpiece "), The General-while Arnold Zweig follows up The Case of Sergeant Grischa with the relentless anti-war barrage of Education Before Verdun.
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 Chicago's South Side takes on a more-than-American" significance In James T Farrell's bulky and brillant- Studs Lonipar.
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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 uure- generate man, and Mr. Priestley, in his North of England moods, are sym- bolle of our day and age.
The gentle, searching wit of Rosa- mond Lehmann glows through the
SCARF
Happy is the Reader..
carefully written pages of her novel of domestic life and sceret 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 rend It I should have liked it even more, ...
Short stories are ident summer road- ing, and Evelyn Waugh's collection, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, can bo unreservedly
recommended — espeel. ally to those of us who like watching Bo other people taking punishment. book a ringside sent for the latest bout of the still unbeaten Drilish light- weight champion.
Leslie Halward also proves himself n master of the craft of short-story writing in the twenty-three faithful. unsentimental talca contained in To Tea on Sunday-and Doreen Wallace offers you a trio of long-short love stories in Going to the Sea.
DETECTIVE Action? Here are four
A
old
out of, perhaps, four score. cinssle sequel, an original essay in sen sationalism, a super-novelty and s cunning problem set by an favourite.
E. C. Bentley kept us waiting ever twenty years for Trent's Own Case, which he has written in collaboration with H. Warner Allen, You may find old- his amiable, Jeisurely style fashioned, but what a wide and enter- taining world he travels! Definitely
holiday book.
A gunman goes to Graham Greene's head in splendidly sensational fashion in A Gun for Sale, Assassins and and armament makers, detectives alum-dwellers, Midlanders and Lon- doners, you watch them all fleeing be- fore the winds of chance and time. A vivid and exciting story.
The Thriller Which Has the Clues Pasted In, Murder of Miami, by Dennis Whentley 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.
der
And, Instly. Agatha Christie's Hur- in Micropalania. In which Ze Great Poirot is set one
the of toughest problems of his spectacŲ- kor
Mrs. Christio career. What doesn't know....
Well, there are a few to choose from. Romance, reality, battle, murder and sudden death-packed flat between two. covers for your big. And happy is the reader whom the aan chines on.
TEST ANSWERS.
The Duchess's Diamond
The note to Marta 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 s what Playfair read:
You will And
what is wanted covered with filth ... on the shelf... in the kitchen. As Playfair remarks, it is just ns well to have one's wits about one!
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· Peter
the Monster
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PETER THE GREAT. By Alere! Tolstol. (Cullancz, 1Gs.)
ETER ALEXEIVITCH, "Peter the Great," was born in Mos- cow in 1672: he became Tsar when he was five years old: he died in his own clty, of Petersburg in 1724,
In that half-century (effectively in twenty years) this one man, by. his neree will power and illimitable energy, by his passion for novelty and con- tempt for tradjon, changed the face
of Russia.
His methods were ruthless. Hic beat down all resistanco. A grent cyclone of a mno, aweeping destructively through all opposition. But a tremend. ous worker, n bulkier of the new as well as a breaker of the old.
A creative dictator who gave to Russia & new army, a new fleet, new cities, new industries, a new political aystem, a now social order: a man who forced Europe upon Russia and Russia upon Europe: making with his new order a new nation, which could repel the western Invader, claim mastery en the Black and Balle Seas and compel recognition as a Great Power.
Tortured. His Son
Bo Peter is a man who is well fitted to become, as he is becoming. a national hero for Stalinist Itussin; the Tsar who may become one of the worthics of Bolshevism,
Only there is the other side of the picture: the Peter who who a crazy drunkard and debauchees who loved cruelty and torture with censual de light: who loved himself to wield the knout and the axe: who tortured his own son to death; who could pick up Mary Hamilton's head on the scaffold, kiss
pasalonately. fling it on tho ground and order it to be preserved.
An obscene monster, this Peter. Peter the Monster makes, however, little enough appearance in Alexel Tolstola Peter the Great. Only once or twice do wo have a gilmpac of the torturer: and then of a man half- reluctantly doing some stern unavold. able thing.
Instead, we have the Peter who pre- fern the workers to the nobles, the Peter who honours the men who "bullt a water-driven sawmill from a German model without foreign craftsmen'; the Peter who furiously denounces shoddy clath: the Peter who wants to shoe, clothe and arm regiments and give Charles what he deserves."
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OU can make this scarf out of plain or patterned material; a yard of georgette would suit it very well. Have it knife-pleated on the cross, and wear it folded corner to corner the way of the pleats.
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If you don't want, to cut your dress, slitch on two straps instead of the slota.
Wear an emerald green scarf with a black dress, a plum scarf with a blue dress, a sky blue scarf with a brown dress.
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