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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
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NOW I'M SIXTEEN
By Douglas Pope (Dent, 81. 04.)
TOW I'm sixteen, with no settled job, I have decided to write my autoblo- graphy," says the author in the Arst sentence of this book. And, when you get your breath back, you feel like saying, "Well, what check!"
You might as well save your breath. Mr. (or Master) Pops is disarming and discerning. His satch of autoblo graphy is astonishingly fascinating- and, sometimes, astonishingly discon- Certing:
For, no sooner has this young man intrigued you by his complete lack of nophistication, when-bang-ho brings you up with a fork in a passage that might have been written by a grey. beard of sixty-one la Douglas Popo
'a man of considerable years "),
Young Pope seems to be a very human boy: playing with the "gang," getting in and out of scrapes, nating exams, qualiing at the prospect of singing solo in the church choir, wear- ing out the seat of his trousers. Any
But this boy is different
Many things exclled him tremeŋ- dously, set him asking "why?" and "wherefore?"—and providing his own
answer. Original diswers, too.
Whether he is philosophising over hop-picking in Kent (and the decline of good Kentish voleca caused by the influx of Cockneys and gipales), de pressed at the poverty of his parents, thrilled at moving from a coltage to n council house, cheerfully, embarrassed at his first tea in grand tea-shop" -whatever the incident, he catalogues it and adds a comment that takes you inside the mind of a chiki.
Young Pope could hardly avoid win- ning n scholarship from the National school, but ho kept his sense of pro- portion
"The new arrived on my birth- day... I was filled with some sort of Jay, for it was certainly a means of lift- ing myself in the world, but I was also alted with fear, for I loved the old life. even if it meant, probably, having to work dammed hard for the rest of my days....."
The scholarship was useful. But his parents couldn't in the end afford to keep him at the new school. So one night ho went home and started to write Now I'm Sixteen.
It
It deserves all the superlatives.
is very nearly in that tiny class of books that can truthfully be called great. And Douglas Pope had started something.
B. E R. W.
Bernard Falk's delightful volume of reminiscences, te Taughed in Fleet Street, is published today in a popular edition. thoroughly revised and brought up to date, as Number One" in the Bookshelf Library (Hutchinson, 38. d.).
The Most Dangerous Game Is Golf
SAYS OSTEOPATH
MR. T. Mitchell-Fox, an osteopath,
MR.
is a brave inan. He had dared
to shout "Fore!" to golfers.
He declares that "golf is the most dangerous game in the world, as on exercise is Infaelous and is a posl- tive source of income for the osteopath."
He was speaking, says the News Chronicle, at the conference in Lon- dou of the Osteopathie Society of Great Britain. And golf, he said, was bad because:
1. Any exercise the golfer gels in lost by the nineteenth hole. You get as much exercise going for a walk in the country..
who 2-The majority of people play the game do so at week-ends, when they are not prepared for sud- den athletic activity. Tempers are frayed, they hit like fury, and some- thing happens,
3. Everyone of any age who wants to play golf should be conditioned for the game..
Here is the first divòi (Agurative) to descend on him. It is from J. H. Taylor, contemporary of Brald, Var- don and Herd. "What nonsense, what proven nonsense, Life assurance gures show that the age of a golfer is prolonged by exercise. It is bene-
but ficial not only to physical mental health."
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And doctor: "Practically every afternoon during the summer you cân find doctors playing on overy private COUTRO In London. What better hulges could you have of its value of health? As on exercise it employs overy part of the body."
The last word, and must unkind cut of all, is from Mr. Mitchell-Fox.
"I have played golf, but I do not play nowadays. I take part in more manly sports-boxing. swimming,
fencing, riding and running.”
-edited by- Roger Pippett
THE SOUTH
WIND OF LOVE
By Compion Mackenzie (Rich and Cowan, 108, 68.) .
W
ITH an almost chemical akill Mr. Mackenzie con- tinues to mix romance with reality, in this second instalment of his vast novel, The Four Winds of Love.
The progress of his four heroes-a Scol, an Irishman and two Jewish brothers—was held up too often, in the previous volume, by heavy, intermin- nble descriptions and prolonged purple passages. And the skeleton of the story ratlled too loudly to let me forget that it was there,
But, as the years and the pages pass, the author finds his narrative feet, ranging from 2011 to mid-Wax, from Paris to New York to Baloniko and the Aegean, where John Ogilvie tumbles into adventura after adventure as a British intelligence officer (did someone whisper. Epy "T) with a flair for phrases and an eye for hand- Bome womçu.
The Irishman and the Jews manage to get a few hundred words in now and then.... And there are scores of other charneters butily talking and writing (Mr. Mackenzie was always a deft composer of correspondence in his atories). Discussion dances pleasantly round art and politics and moralA; In short, a dead world is romantically resurrected.
**
Altogether a competent and enter- taining performance. In which the skeleton only rattles friptly now and then. But I wonder whether Mr. Mackenzie knows when to stop. Already his novel runs to nearly fteen hundred pages-and there is pre- sumably as much again to come, Almost a million words, ali told.
Tolitoy could have pulled it o But I can't help warning Mr. Mackenzio.
R. P.
JOHN
CORNELIUS
By Nugh Walpole (Micomillan, är, td.)
|IR HUGH WALPOLE wanted
S
write this book just to please himself. It took him four years -other work intervened-and it alows us yet another Walpole.
John Cornelius was an ugly, lovable, romantic, imaginative boy.. the son of an indigent gentleman and a washer- woman, who tired in o Gicheshire fishing village.
Like Ibsen's Peer Gynt, he clothed He in a roay glow supplied by his own imaginings, but, unlike Peer, nil ho wanted was peace and reat, where a man may makó his own world to suit his own desires.
John falied.
3, 1987.
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1937, or they will not be recognized, To comply with the General Bond- ed by the Company's Surveyored Warehouse Regulations consignees Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas In the must have a Revenue Officer in at- presence of the Consignees at 10.00 tendance when damaged dutiablo
on Saturday, 8th, November,
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1037. He was famous Many people loved him. Yet in his manhood lie played
Consignees must have a Revenue like a boy, and fame came to him when he wrale fairy storica for
Oficer in, attendance when any dull- children
able goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.
He went to the War... returned ... married... and died in 1921.
Who was this John who wrote to his friend: "There are two things I've found that you can't, in these days, talk to others about without making a fool of yourself-love of God and love of Man?
☆ ☆ ☆
"You could once. Chaucer and Donne and Dunyan and Wesley and Wordsworth and Diekena didn't have any fear of it, and weren't fools either.
'But, right up to the War. I wIN sure that God was good and that my companions on this earth were nobly to be loved.... But I'm lost now. I'm confused. There is so much noise around me. I can't hear myself speak, I don't know the way to the place where. quietly and without any fuss, I can stand and listen and know those two things to be true."
He was, you see, a romantic egoist who was eked by 11fe. He will ex- asperate
mon the practical
and womun, even though Bir flugh has written about him with distinguished charm.
M. F.
HOW SLEEPS THE BEAST
!
By Don Tracy ?Constable, 78. 64.)
(ENSATIONAL and yet soundly constructed, this is the story of
sharp, almost talkie technique that Mr. Tracy has perfected. And it is staged not in the villain- ous Deep South but near com- paratively civilised Baltimore...
An amiable. shiftless young Negro, swindled by a storekeeper into buying " rot-gut" "whisky, murders a white woman in a fit of drunken' frenzy, NOL A woman her puritanical, sen faring neighbours thought much of,
but that doesn't matter-now. . . . The same beast that, was unleashed by drink in the Negro roars through the whole community. And the wretched creature, atil half-doped and hardly aware of what has hap- pened or is iuppening, is dragged from jail, tortured and killed.
In a series of fightring-lit shipshots the various especta of this cut- break of barbarist are significantl;" shown. Which is what makes How Sleeps the Beat more than another crude thriller. A terrifying and cau- tionary social document, reminding us of the abyss beneath the paper floors which man still precariously trends.
R.P.
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7 A fish worlby of your rod.
9 They sound eminently suitable mounts for toy soldiers (hyphen, 3, 6).
10 Remote.. for à change. Yes,
thank goodness, it is.
11 What grandmother says many
a lady is not nowadays.
12: Spice.
14 The east side of Loch Leven. 15 Fedlars or gypsies of trumps, they're all at home in a spinney, Edna (hidden).
18 Solvers would do well to avoid
being enuight thus.
20 Mokes one run ill-that's all.. 22 den in Clue 10, 24 Little by little.
20 A cumnunleation about a letter that sounds as though it might be meant for you. Lawyers re- Hard
Ka property. 20 A famous smeur, 30 Mako fresh start.
31 Turning with cane from one thing to another, eats llyer and absorbs it all.
32 Makes much of the little beasts.
DOWN
1 Sounds as though Benjamin was suited at last, and was all the better for it.
2 When film stars are, it la cer- tainly not for partial conceal- inent.
3. Refuse to lose power.
4 Fis nicely in East London,
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another, has its shady side.
6 Bird measures?
9 A schoolboy whopper.
13 Hidden in Clue 13.
10 The assistant paid everyone at
the junction,
17 Eastern guides take a graduate among mythical monsters perfect safely.
10 They are often made with beads, 21 Quite a good clue to-day. 23 Golfers should take time for this
green.
25 Struggle In defence of the
family girl.,
27 Hidden in Clue 15. 28 Lip.
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