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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 21
19884
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BRAVE NEW
Gangster WORLD
ENDS AND MEANS
By Aldous Huxley
(Chatto and Windus, 88, 64J
- LDOUS HUXLEY is known to the world as the man who once wrote a book describing the sort of brave now world that we must at all costs avoid.
Now he has written a book in which he describes the sort of world that all sensible people aro hoping one day to build.
But the trouble about him is that ho does not really understand the sort of obstacles thatilie in the way of build- ing He wants to build his world without oned'lifting a hand in anger- against anyone, "Non-violence" Is Bla favourite phrasó,
Dare We?
Now mako na bones about it: there is a vast deal of truth in Mr. Huxley's cala. If la able to point out (whist some of us are still a little Hablo to forget) that war, when it breaks out nowadays, is a frightful and disgusting thing.
Dare we let it break out? Isn't it better to make any sacrified in order to maintain pence? Oughin't wo, naks Mr. Huxley, to train ourselves to bear the first half of bullets without re- sistance so that the war-makers will soon become ashamed of themselves and stop their trickst
Non-violence can, of course, be used by an attacked people if there is a weak spot in the aggressor'a azinour", For instance, when Gandhi used non- violent methods, he knew that the weak spot in ino armour of British Imperialism was the decency of British public opinion at home.
Go far, so good. But Mr. Huxley's pacitiam can never bo a univerial remedy because there are some aggrON- Bors who have no weak spot of decency.
The men who did not finch from bombing Guernica will not stay their hand when they are ordered to bomb Mr. Huxley.
Here's the Danger
In fact, they will rejoice, over him. He is precisely the sort of adversary they want. This book, Enda and Bleans, charmingly And urbanely written though it is, outlines a foreigia policy and also a home polley which, it secma to me, would play straight into the bands of the gangster politicians.
If I were the Mikado of Japan, I should post a copy of it to every Chinese, If I were. Mussolini or [litier, I should post it to every Engilah- man, Frenchman and Russian.
And, what is more, I should place it in the library, of every one of my concentration camps. W. G. Q. B.
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A delightful picture from "Victorian Street Ballads," a superb collection of nineteenth century doggerel, published by Country Life at 75. 6d.
CRIME-JIGSAW
OU have to hand it to Agatha Christio, every time. In Death on the Nilo (Collins, Ta. 64.), she again pops her pea gaily under the thimble, dazzles and dazes with the brilliance of hor sleight of hand and impertinently produces the pea from the very place where It positively could not be.
That it is ten to one against a murder being successfully done in auch a way is in these circum→ stances a small matter.
Proceed wiil Caution, the tile of John Rhode's new.Dr. Priestley story (atso, a Collins seven-and-sixpenny). accurately sumia up a very different method. There is no great difficulty In spotting a moat ingenious criminaİ, but you read happily on for the solid satisfaction of seeing how the lig-saw. falls into place.
In The High Sherift (Constable, 75. OL), Henry Wade provides a study of a man with a secret shame, quicken. ing into a story of detection with a pot to satisfactory solution. Real trouble in the two halves do not hang together. Even so, it is n book above the averago.
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"PAUL" VERLAINE By Bechhofer Roberts (Jarrolds, 183.)
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Verlaine went back the next day and said he had been given a bad coin. The cashier apologized and handed him another five-frase plece. As to was going away the caahler naked him for the bad one. “Oh,” said Verlaine, "I assure you that I had the very greatest dimeulty in passing it.”
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THE EDUCATION OF HYMAN
KAPLAN
By Leonard Q. Náss (Constable, 53.J
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ELCOME to another laughter-ralser from the United States. Mr. Kaplan —or H@Y*&*A*NK*A*P*L*A®N. as he signs himself in various coloured inks--is a gloriously comic character who would have. delighted old Mark Twain. :
A pupil'in a class of adult immi- grants learning to master the Ameri can-languago in a New York night school, ho reaches aublimo heights of logical absurdity, endearing himself to tis by the persistent vigour of his attack and his pitying scorn for his. fellow-scholars » » ·
None of that worn-out stuff about plough," "cough" and "rough" for Hyman. Ils strurales are something now in history. One of them concerns his failure to distinguish between "o" and "n." Asked the meanink I menn " meaning " of the word. " vast,” he answers radiantly. “It's spousink from 'diraction, Vo have, four diractions; do naut, de sol, do heart and de vast.""
Sadly corrected, he volunteers, Hau Kny. Ven I'm buyink a suit of clothes, I'm gattink de caut, de pents an' de vasil” Good for llymon!
Boch (sorry, I should say "Buch ") a man has every right, when he is cri- ticised for signing a letter, **Your animated brother,” to decide," by diş tlaking" that the correct and only description of himself should be that vold "word" to you), beautiful *iegnificent.”
CANDLE IN THE SUN By Edith Roberts
(Harrap, 81. Gd.) JOONER or later, a reviewer of novels finds he is prepared for the worst-that is, he anticl- pates it. At least, I often do.
I see in advance the sad hash which is going to be made of a promising theme, the frightful bog of sentimental Blush which threatens to engulf the So, when I and my unwary author. fears are groundless, when I read a atory by a new writer that not only starts brightly but ends sanely after a steady run, I appreciate it all the
moro.
I had my forebodings about Candle in the Sun. A young American girl romantically married to the apolit,son of a West Indian family: the hint of Negra blood: scenes of exoile splen- dour: the collapse of illusion and the arrival of the upstanding white man You can she might have married.
} understand why I trembled.
But I was agreeably, disappointed. The story doesn't go soggy at any point. It remains a vigorous, realistic picture of Latin-American Ilte, and young Avery, from New England, sud- denly flung into such different and dis- turbing surroundings, is quite a person, as our grandparents used to say.
She resolutely faces the fact that her husband-is a wash-out. Her child has allon blood in him. No one can spare
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