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and
now
for 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 invarl- ably, they come back unread, My subconscious mind obviously insists on a close season for literature. But, for most people, hollday-time is reading-time.
"What shall I take with me?" Well, since the publishers have sent out hardly any new books this week, let mo suggest for your selec- tion a score or so of novels that have attracted me this season,
Sometimes you come across # tale which, whenever and where ever you read it, gives you that pleasantly 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 Suburbin, that world of quiet pleasures, middling hopes and moderate routine.
And incidentally, if you have, not read his earlier book. The Fortnight in September, which than a holiday plot as well as a holiday atmosphere, now
the time,
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IN that extremely amusing tale. Airs. Rudd Wittes liome, Sybil Bolitho and Cen Fearnley exploit the comic side of "seeing purselves as others acc us," showing you a caper.. ing group of highly sophistiented, world-weary folk through the eyes of n sensible, elderly woman. It will de. light you, especially If you happen to be staying in Bournemouth.
Stelia Gibbons Miss Liniep 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 "Once upon A time," fairy-tale touch.
And there is Norah C. James' Sea View, which tells how the little coastal village of St. Don's was swallowed by prosperous, vigorous Northsca, leaving- one gap the less in the lengthening promenade of our shores. A well-told and convincing novel of conflicting hotel proprietors and lovers who win through at last.
It is a far cry 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 author know's his clinracters — men and women awnyed, whether they are Negroes
by power- or European resklents, ful, jungle-shaking, empire-rocking tabuds.
To anyone who still believes that human nature can't be changed. Owen Rutter's memorable Clear Waters should provide the necessary....
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Here is life, presented not as a freak Eastern show, but as it was lived in Borneo-be- form the while man's ships aniled into those tropical, tree - fringed harbours.
And you will surely be moved by Mulk Roj Anand's The Coolie, one of this summer's most distinguished
ovolá The tale of the pilgrimage of Munoo, an orplan of the hills, it forms the second volume of a trilogy which wil prove n'revelation of what, in the view of one Indian at least, the rule of the Raj has meant to his people.
André Malraux, who has already in- terpreted his nightmare of Chinese polities for us in masterly style, turns west la Days of Contempt and holds a mirror up Naziland. The reflec !!on unforgettable. By no means conventional holiday stor but one of those rare, hypaatte books that you will be unable to resist.
Spain argues and struggles and bolls over tu Ramon J. Sender's Seven Red Sundays, a strange, poclic, mystical, intentionally chaotle tale of the birth of the Republle, It will help you to fil the dark background of the Spanish crisis-and it is always burit~ ingly alive.
Historical Action fans will cheer Robert Neumann's long and rewarding story of that astute and unscrupulous eighteenth century adventurer-dicta- tor, Struenace, The Queen's Doctor. And they will be charmed by Wilhelm Speyer's The Court of Fair Moldens, which threads the intriguing mazes of a remote duchy bundred years
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O. 8. Forester traces the Rise, Decline and Fall of a Brass Hat during the War in that quietly Ironical composed, overwhelmingly Ittle
(yes, I Bald "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- eut and shredded in Maurice L, Richardson's swift and riotous soelal 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 James T Farrell's bulky and brilliant Studs Lonigan.
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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 liat of Required Reading." For Mr. Huxley. In his increasing concern for uare- generate man, and Mr. Priestley, bis North of England moods, are sym- bolic of our day and age.
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carefully written pages of her novel of dumestic life and secret love, The Weather in the Streets. A refreshing, intimate tale, despite the lightness of the theme. I fancy that If I had been on holiday when I read it I should have liked it even more....
Bhort alories are Ideal suntner read. ing; and Evelyn Waugh's collection, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, can be unreservedly recommended — especi ally those of us who like watching other people taking punishment. 80 book a ringside went for the latest bout of the still unbeaten British light- weight champlott.
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Leslie Halward also proves himself a master of the craft of short-story writing in the twenty-three faithful, unsentimental tales contained in To Tea on Sunday-and Doreen Wallace offers you a trio of lang-short love stories in Going to the Sea.
~ DETECTIVE detion? Here are four out of perhaps, tour score. classic sequel, an original essay in sen sationalism. super-tiovelty and a. old set by cunning probicm favourite.
EC. 'Bentley kept us wolting over twenty years for Trent's Oton Casc which he has written in collaboration with II. Warner Allen. You may find his amiable, Icisurely style old. fashioned, but what a wide and enter. taining world he travela! Definitely a holiday bock.
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A gunman goes to Graham Greene's head in splendidly sensational fashion in A Gun for Sale.. Assassins and and armament makers, detectives slum-dwellers, Midlanders and Lon- doners, you watch them all fleeing be- fore the winds of chance and lime, A vivid and exciting story.
The Thriller Which Has the Clucs Pasted In, Murder of Miami, by Dennis Wheatley and J. G. Links, in not, simply a remarkable plece of book pro duction, it is a really puzzling yarn with a nicely Limed surprise. Put it down on that list.
And, lastly. Agatha Christie's Mur- der in Mesopotamia, in which Ze Great Poirot 18 SEL one of the toughest problems of his apretaen
career. What Mrs. Christio doesn't know....
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Well, there are a few to choose from. Romance, reality, baille, murder and sudden death-packed flat between two covers for your bag. And happy is the
The gentle, searching wit of Rosa- mond Lehmann-glows through the........ reader whom_the_sun_lines_on....
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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 is what Playfair read:
You will find ... what to wanted.. covered with filth'. . '. on the shelf
In the kitchen.
As Playfair remarks, it is just as well to have one's wits about one!
Wock-and Problems
PROBLEM I
· CYRIL'S JOURNEY Cyril walked 3 miles.
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Peter
the
Monster
TETER THE' GREAT.
By Alexei Toistol. (Gollancs, 105.)
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 elty of Petersburg in 1724.
In that half-century (effectively In twenty years) tuls one man, by his flerce will power and illimitable energy, by fils passion for novelty and con tempt for traditien, changed the face of Russia.
His methods were ruthless. Ha beat down all resistance. A great cyclone of a man, sweeping destructively ihrough all opposition. But a tremend. ous worker, a bullder of the new as well as a brenker of the old.
A creative dictator who pave to Russia a new army, a new fleet, now elties, new industries, a new political- system. new 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, cinim mastery on the Black and Baltic Bens 'and compel recognition as a Great Power.
Tortured His Son
So Peter is a man who, is well nited to become, as ho is becoming, a national hero for Stalinist Russia; the Tear who may become one of the worthles of Bolshevism.
Only there is the other side of the plcture: the Peter who was a crazy drunkard and debauchee; who loved cruelty and torture with sensual 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 it passionately, King it on the ground and order it to be preserved.
“An obscene monster, this Peter.
Peter the Monster makes, however, Hittle enough appearance in Alexei Tolstol's Peter the Great. Only once or twice do we have a glimpse of the torturer; and then of a man half- reluctantly doing some stern unavold- able thing.
Instead, we have the Peter who pre- fers the workers to the nobles, the Peter who honours the men who "built a water-driven sawmill from a German model without foreign craftsmen": the Peter who furiously denounces shaddy cloth: the Peter who wants to “shoë, clothe and arm regiments and give Charles what he deserves."
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