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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
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NOW I'M SIXTEEN
By Douglas Pope (Dent, Bi. Gd.J
TOW I'm sixteen, with no Bottled job, I have decided to write my
autablo- graphy," says the author in the Arst sentence of this book. And, when you get your breath back, you feel like saying, "Well, what chock!
You might as well save your brealli. Mr. (or Master) Pope is disarming and discoming. Ia snatch of autoblo graphy astonishingly fascinating- and, sumclinics, astonishingly discon certing.
For, no sooner has this young man Intrigued.yoti by his complete lack of sophistication, when-bangi-he brings you up with a jerk in a panego that might have been written by a grey- beard of sixty-one (to Douging Pope "a mau of considerable years").
Young Pope seems to be a very human boy: pinying with the "gang" getting in and out of scrapes, hating exams, quailing at the prospect of singing solo in the church choir, weAT- ing out the seat of his trousers....
But thin boy is different.
Many things excited him tremen- dously, bet bim waking "why?" and "wherefore?"—and providing his own answers. Original answers, too.
Whether he is philosophising over hop-picking in Kent (and the decline of good Kentish rolces caused by the influx of Cockneys and gipsies), de pressed at the poverly of his parents, thrilled at moving from cottage to a council house, cheerfully embarrassed at his first ten in a "grand ten-shop" -wuntever the incident, ho catalogues it and adds a comment that takes you Inside the mind of a child.
Young Fope could hardly nvold win- ning a scholarship from the National school, but he kept his sense of pro- portion.
The news arrived on my birth- clay. I was filled with some sort of joy, for it was certainly a means of lit- ing myself in the world, but I was also filled with fear, for I loved tho old life, even if it meant, probably, having to work damned hard for the rest of my days.
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The scholarship was useful. But h parents couldn't in the end afford to keep him at the new school. Be one night he went home and started to write Now I'm Stricen.
It deserves all the superlatives. It is very nearly in that tiny class DI books that can truthfully be called great. And Douglas Pope has started something.
S. L. R. W.
Dernard Falk's delightful volume of reminiscences. He Laughed in FireL Street, is published to-day in a popular edition. thoroughly revised
and brought up to date, as Number One in the Bookshelf Library (Hutchinson,
35.
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The Most Dangerous Game Is Golf
-SAYS OSTEOPATH
MR. T. Mitchell-Fox, an osteopath,
is a brave man. 1le hnd dared to shout "Fore!" to golfers.
He declares that "golf is the most dangerous game in the world, as an exercise is fallacious and is a post- tive source of income for the osteopath."
He was speaking, says the News! Chronicle, at the conference in Lon- | don of the Osteopathic Society of Great Britain. And golf, he said, was bad because:
Any exercise the golfer gets is Jost by the nineteenth hole. You get us much exercise going for a walk in the country.
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2. The majority of people who 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 diyot (figurative) to descend on him. It is from J. H. Taylor, contemporary of Braid, Vor- don and Herd. "What nonsenso, what
Life nonsense.
proven
assurance
figures show that the age of a golfer is prolonged by exercise. It is benc ficial not only to physical butto mental health,"
And a doctor: "Practically every afternoon during the summer you con
-edited by Roger Pippett
THE SOUTH WIND OF LOVE
By Compton Mackenzio (Rich and Cowan, 108, 68)
ITH an almost chemical sk Mr. Mackenzie con- unuca 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 Bcot, an Irishman and two Jowish, brothers-was held up too often, in the previous volume, by beavy, intermin- able descriptions and prolonged purple. passages. And the skeleton of the atory rattled 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 1011 to mid-War, from Paris to Now York to Balonika and the Acgean, where: John Ogürte tumbles into adventure after adventure as a British intelligence officer (did someone whisper, "8py "?) with a flair for phrases and an eye for hand- Dome women.
The Irishman and the Jews manage to got a few hundred words in now and then... And there are scores of other characters busily talking and writing (Mr. Markenzio was always a deft composer of correspondence in his stories). 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 tho skeleton only rattics faintly now and then, But I wonder whelber Mr. Mackenzie knows when to stop. Already his novel runs to nearly fifteen hundred pages--and there is. pre- sumably as much again to come. Almost a million words, all told.
Tolstoy could have pulled it off. But 1 can't help worning Mr. Mackenzle.
R. P.
S
JOHN CORNELIUS
By Hugh Walpole (facmillan, 81. ed.)
M HUGH WALPOLE wanted to write this book just to please himself. It took him four years --other work intervened-and it shows us yet another Walpole.
John Cornellus was an ugly, lovable, romantle, imaginative boy, the son of an indigent gentleman and a washer- woman, who lived in a Glebeshiro nahing village.
Like Ibsen's Peer Gynt, he clothed life in a rosy glow supplied by his own imaginings, but, unlike Peer, all he wanted was peace and reat, where a than may make his own world to suit his own desires.
John WAS successful-and Jolin failed. He got to London. He wrote. He was famTIOLIN. Many people loved him. Yet in his manhood he played like a boy, and fame came to tim when he wrote, fairy stories for children.
He went to the War... retumed... married... and died in 2021.
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 Clod and love of Man?
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"You could once. Chaucer and Donne and Bunyan and Wesley and Wordsworth and Dickens didn't have any fear of it, and weren't fools either.
“Bul, right up the War, I was 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 to much noise around mo. I can't hear myself speak. I don't know the way to the place where. quietly and without may fuss. I can stand and listen and know those two things to be true."
He was, you see, a romantic egoist who was licked by life. He will ex- and practical mas asperato tho woman, even though Sir Hugh has written about him with dutinguished charm
м. г.
HOW SLEEPS THE BEAST
By Don Tracy
(Constable, 73, 6d.).
«ENSATIONAL and yet soundly constructed, this is the story of
a lynching, told in that short, sharp, almost "talkic technique that Mr. Tracy has perfected. And it is staged not in the villain- ous Deep South but near com- paratively civilised Baltimore... - An amiabic, shiftless young Negro. swindled by n starckeeper into buying rot-gut" whisky, murders a while woman in a fit of drunken frenzy. Not a woman her purilnical sea- 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, stil half-doped and hardly aware of what has hap pened or in happening, is dragged from jail, tortured and killed.
In a series of lightning-lit snapshots the various
Out- aspects of this break of barbarism are algicantly nhown. Which is what makes How Sleeps the Beast more than another crude thriller. A terrifying and cnu- tionary social document, reminding us of the abyss beneath the paper. floors which man still precariously treads.
R. P.
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7 Ash worthy of your rod.
8 They sound eminently suitable mounts for toy soldiers (hyphen, 3, 0).
10 Remote, for a 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. 10 Pedlars or typsies of tramps, they're all at homo in a spinney, Edna (hidden):
10 Solvers would do well to`nvold
being caught thus,
20 Makes one run till-that's all. 22 Hidden in Clue 15. 24 Little by little.
20 A' communication about a letter that counds as though it might be meant for you. Lawyers' re- gurd it as property.
29 A famous aimeur.
30 Make a fresh start.
one
31 Turning with caso from
thing to another, cats liver and
find doctors playing on every private) absorbs it all.
course In London. What better 32 Makes much of the little beasts. Judges could you have of its valuo of health? As an exercise it employs every part of the body." ...
The Inal word, and most unkind
cut of all, is from Mr. Mitchell-Fox.
"I have played golf, but I do not play nowadays. I take part in more inanly sports-boxing. swimming. fencing, riding and running."
DOWN
1 Sounds as though Benjamin was suited at last, and was all the better for it.
2 When flm stars are, it is cer- tainly not for partial concent- ment.
3. Refuse to lose power,
4 Fiah nicely In East London.
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5 This Irish seaport, like many
another, and its shady side. Bird measures?
9 A schoolboy whopper.
13 Ilidden In Clue 15.
16 The assistant paid everyono at,
the Junction,
17 Eastern guides take a graduate among mythical monsters in perfect safety.
19 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 giri.
27 Hidden in Cluo 18. 20 Lin.
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