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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1947,
DAB & FLOUNDER
by WALTER
CHESS TOURNAMENT:
300,000 WORDS THAT MAKE
YOU GO ON
"The Web and the Rock,”-
S
by Thomas Wolfe.
(Heinemann, 12s. 6d)
INCLAIR LEWIS wrole about this author's second
novel, "Of Tima and the River": "I don't see why Mr Wolfe should not be one of the greatest world writers. His new novel is so deep and spacious that it deals with the whole of life.”
DIPPING
JAMES AGATE famous literary critic, died last week. This is his last column of re-
views.
Walpole's
"The
ductor back to Castle of Otranto" or Aphra Behn's "Oroonoka"
And I challenge with all possible vigour the writer of the blurb to make good his boast that
"These twenty-three great classics are re- told with the simplicity, warmth and wit of the originals,"
"The English Townsman," by Thomas Burke. (Batsford, 129, Gd.)
THOMAS BURKE, who completed
this fascinating book shortly be
Not, you nota, with a little about America, by an essentially exuberance and genius. Had? Alas, bit of life, a tiny slice like American writer, young in outlook yes, Wolfe died in 1930 at the age "Vanity Fair,"
or "Le Pere and feeling, who had the energy and of 37, having with three novels and fore he died, has this passage:
courage to put down almost all that one more posthumous book "to come Gorlot," or "Anna Karenina.'
he thought and felt. Fifty sociologi- added to the literature of his coun- Just the whole blinkin' lot, as cal treatises on the recent American try. the golf caddie suid when asked scene would not tell us as much about which of a group of chimneys the place and the people as Wolfe was the line to the hole.
But to be a wond writer you must have a world of readers, and, if "Of Time and the River" did not have the success it was entitled to, it was because the modern reader just hasn't. time for books of this length, which is a pity.
docs. We have heard 1 great deal during theso last years
about the American Way of Life. That way of life is on show here, presented by a man of gentus."
Right! Nobody but a genius could Eet away with a book containing as to select, the over-describing, the in- many faults as this one-the inability toxication with words.
condensed by Anthony Praga.
Twenty-three Great Classics"
Jests And
Jeers
Vladivostok banned the foxtrot.. says news item, because It was: getting the place a bad name- people were calling it Vladifoxtrot. Serves them vindi well' rightf
And what's Tibet on Sinklang?,
A United Nations' interpreter says! Italian is the best language for love-- making. But it's all Greek to the Russiana.
Though more girls are invading: business offices, the mall will always: have a place.
Sympathy is what one woman offers another in exchange for de- tails.
To keep your friends, treat them kindly—and often.
Overheard at the bar: "Is your wife fond of listening in?” "Not half so fond as she is of speaking out."
WIRING
CUSTOMS
TRAVELLING CURRENCY Regulations
"George has the baggage He will only be five minute or six months”
"Generally, one may say that the country is the right place for chil- dren and for the retired. It is not the place for young people. To them, monotony and restricted socie ty is torment. They need the con- tact of mind and mind; a succession (Claud Morris, 68-)
of new interests; spurs to achieve- mel ment: all those enthusiasms, epheme- HOME, comel Half a loaf is better ral perhaps, which spring up in a occasions when no loaf at all is bet-
and give mind and than no bread, but there are needed food and exercise ******* heir
I entirely agree. ter than twenty-three crumbs. Mean live in London's
I would rather Thus the story will be held up ing that I personally do not want to never leave it than on some Cumber- worst slum and "The Web and the Rock" is for a long literary discussion as to have twenty-throo great classics land fell with a dreary lot of lakes 642 pages long, running to some the comparative merits of Dickens condensed into 117 pages. On the to look at and only Wordsworth's 300,000 words, which means and Dastolevsky with long quotations other hand, I have no doubt that the that it would take a quick reader from "A Tale of Two Cities" and man with very little time for rend shade for compok is all about the
DON'T YELL, HONEY Burke's last And ing, a man with a full-time job and life of the English townsman, and 18 hours without lifting his then suddenly you come across a a wife and kids to look after, will more particularly the Londoner, from
NEW YORK-William Thomson.. eyes from the page. Allowing piece of writing like this:
be none the worse for learning with medieval times to the present day. assault charge when he apologised om23, a music student, was freed of an for the ordinary traffic of life,
"He was the Lord of Life, the mas- a minimum of effort what twenty- There are
100 superb Illustrations profusely in court to Joan Lobdell,. eating, drinking, sleeping, exer- ler of the earth, he was the city's three classics are about,
ranging from the misdoer in conqueror, he was the only man cising, shaving, say four days allve who ever had been 25 years skeleton plots
the strawberry blondo cabaret, singer.. And It is possible that these stocks to the mild-mannered man of He had pulled her skirt over her Now let's go this straight. ald, the only man who ever loved or render to go to the book itself. All day with a game of dominoes at the playfully potted her legs. "Don't may tempt such a our own time who likes to end his head in the subway at 3 a.m. and The reviewer does not breathe ever had a lovely woman come to the same I doubt whether there is Ideal. A good book with which to yell, Honey, don't yell," he told her who can devote two-thirds of neet him, and it was morning in any point in sending, say, a bus con- have said goodbye.
October;
as she screamed for subway police. his working week to the perusal of any one book.
On the other hand, the reviewer who has a flair for his job, has the mysterious gift, which he can't ex- plain to himself, of taking a short cut to the heart of a book.
"The
Brothers Karamazov,"
of the city and sun, the people passing in the slant of light, all of the wine and gold of singing in the air had been created for his christening, and it was morning in October, and he was 25-years old.
"
And you decide that this book is Say a
not just one to put down, and you literary divining rod. The present re- go on with your dipping, and before viewer agrees with Mr Priestley, you know where you are the morn who, in his Introduction, says that in ing has gone, For it is incontest- this book we have “a huge novel able that Wolfe had power, vitality,
Writing Japanese In The Western Alphabet
By ERNEST HOBERECHT
HONGKONG BREWERY & DISTILLERY, LTD. his office, will be composed of ly and "above politics."
PROBING THE EARTH
(Continued from Pazo 9)
ARE YOU SURE?,
ANSWERS Questions on Page 9
the
various rea where the
ore
THE MEN WHO
THE MONEY
for
MAKE
Otherwise there
aro no special
precautions against theft, but no large-scale losses have been reported: for many years.
There are no hard and fast pro-- duction targets. District branches of banks
may and their stock of, say,
●HERE are 500 men in Lon- don who, between them, make millions of pounds a to the cinema, how England is doing are asked for a further supply.
in the Test, if the ground will be With hetd olice stocks dwindling year.They have been making too hard for a bit of digging in the the Bank of England is approached more and more every year since garden on Sunday,
to meet the need, 1986. In 1945 their total was £8,885,915, and this year they expect it to be even higher,
No. They wonder what's supper, whether 16 make it a beer forins running low. Head offices: and-daris evening or take the wife.
But ask them how it feels to have such wealth in their hands and-looking surprised and just a little impatient-they will reply: "But money means no- thing to us,"
Mint for 40 years or more.
'THAT'S NOT NONEY!
Working at machines
They are civil servants, they will Finally, the Bank of England tells. tell you. Just like any other civil the Mint that so many more florins servants.
are needed. The Mint workers, Wage scale for workmen ond under the direction of the £2,000-a- learners is 158, Cd. to 60s, a week; Year Comptroller, Sir John Craig, basic salary of craftsmen is 07s. 6d. proceed to make some more.
technical to 20 109., while senior assistants may earn from £525. to £750 a year.
FAMILY TRADITION
The actual process of transferring. money from the Mint to the Banic of England is, rather unexpectedly a very, prosale business.
Plain vans are used, but there is: There is a certain amount of family no uniformity about their plainness;" tradition about the work. Some of that would defeat the purpose of the boys who enter for training are making identification dificult sons or nephews of employees.
VAGARIES OF DEMAND Daughters, too, because, although the manufacture of coin is now re- served exclusively to men, a certain number of women and girls are em- played in medal-making.
Huge furnaces melt the coin metals, which are poured into
What could pardonably be assumed to be a Billingsgate-bound fish lorry might well prove to carry £100,000 in Uttlo bags filled with the coinage of the realm.
- (United Press Staff Correspondent)
TOKYO.—Plans are about completed for the organi- sation of a 50-man committee to study methods of writing the Japanese language with the western alphabet, the Japanese Minister of Education told the United Press. The Minister said this body, He emphasised that this is an en-
These men are the literal makers which will study the question tirely now way of forming a commit-
tec and stressed the point. that at of money-the men of the Royal and make recommendations to should be able to function impartial- Mint.
Of a staff of 800, about 500 ore representatives of various fields "We hope that this committee will engaged in actual coln-minting.. of endeavour, including experts vitles will fall under the scrutiny of hold open sessions and that its neti-
Their output is 1,500,000 colis. on Romaji, art, business and the citizens of this country," he said. day; half for the Dominions, Colonies. education.
Unices the number of observera is too and some foreign countries, the
burden upon the facilities other half for purses at home.
Seasons and sport Representatives of
contribute to. meetings
the vagaries of demand. the groups to be represented on committee will be selected by groupe It restrictions are necessary, provi
held, there will bo
Cold Many of them have worked at the moulds to form thick coinage bars. restrictions, no
weather sharpens the These are passed through ma- appetites of gas and electricity slot and will not be they represent
chines which "iron" them to the meters, with a renewed demand for There is no doubt that his descent, Agatha Christie. Edward J. Mason. Education. He said he will merely and radio representatives to attend Coche yard, chosen directly by the Minister of alons will be made to permit press
thickness of the coin to be made. more shillings. and other daring expeditions into the 3. Colour of lead. 4. Ford 1934, 5.
forecasts Blank dises are cut, sofiened and grayhound racing tracks necessitate
Two-shilling lote mucky unknown of the oceans, will John Roberts, jun., at the Court of extend Invitations to the groups and the meetings.
women The Minister of Education said he "nish" nearly 100 coins a minute, cleaned before passing through the a more fluid flow of florins accomplish much of scientific value. Jeypore, India. 6. North, East, West. let them pick the men or
Riding was at one,
thriding, they desire to send to participate in was glad to know that there is so tossing hundreds of pounds worth coining presses which, in one action, But it cannot show much about the
the study of this question.
much interest in Japan and abroad of shining half-crowns into the stamp the design on both sides and every year since 1938. Last year third
Currency has expanded In volume: London rock structure of the sea floor, and a part. 7. Pleman,
There will be three
the in the Romali question. -from
experts on
machines, counting
staring at mill the edges. two British scientists, M. N. Hill and literary club took the name
the Mint produced: "This is because this is one of the millions of florins, shillings, bright. P. L. Willmore, of Cambridge's Des meeting in house of Christopher Cat. Hepburn method of writing Japanese.
greatest sixpences as they come gliding down of partment of Geodesy and Geophysles, pleman, in 1700. 8. Union of South in the western alphabet, and three cultural problems of the
Japanese are going about it another way. Atrien (formed 1910). 9 (a) Mer supporters of the
The Minister said other commits present and future the checking belt, they look at you
the Minister
The coins are conveyed by belt said. "I and say:- delssohn; (b) Handel: (c)
for inspection members will come from organisa- feel confident an equitable solution
for flaws, passing They are using a method found (d) Elgar,
tions interested in the overall
"Money? That's not money-it's finally re- can only be achieved by a free ad-
Into counting machines ખાવામાં successful in subterrancan expiora-
a job. Money is what we get in our which automatically feed them into: formation of the Japanese language, vancement of carnest and active ar- wage packets at tion of Witwatersrand of South
the weekend. bags-£100 for silver, £5 for cop- linguistic societics interested in both guments from all angles." Africa-seismic prospecting. It is
Those things"-indicating a vast pile per. English and French. aclentile The Minister sold that he per of coins might just as well be accomplished by detonating explo-
Across: 1, Synagoguo; D, Wond; 10./societies, educational research bodies, sonally favottrs a way of romanising brass buttons or fampot da sives on the sea foor and measuring
writers' groups, the major Tokyo Japanese Which would be suitable tiddly-winks," the shock waves which are of dif-
newspapers and press associations, to the construction of the language ferent and intensity depend-
magazines, radio, the business world and at the stine time most accep- length
Are their minds on money when ing upon the type of rock they go
and the five majer pollucal parties. table by foreigners.
they go home at the end of the day? Thus a sicilled scientist can fell by looking at a chart of the waves whether mineral-bearing rock was penetrated or not.
through.
Successful Readinga
"In the years Immediately preced-
time
Haydn:
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| Even; 20, Ella; 21, Ears.
ing the war considerable progress transmitted by the water itself from was made in studying submarine the bottom and successful readings geology, and work was carried armado.
fast as 100 fathom line," the two "There seems no reason why this aald in a
a recent letter to the sclent method should not be used in the ne magazine, Nature,
any
moro.
-
It was difficult to
cult to study the terrain cep ocean," wrote Hill and Will deeper, they sald, because
dell-
I their suggestion proves praete eate Instruments, whi
which had to be able, man might at last have a lowered with the explosives could method of determining the exact not survive water pressure below 100 compoallion of the enormous rock fathoms. But during tho war folds under the sea. If he can. do British and American researchers that, there le little doubt he found that instruments could be sus locate mineral deposits to dwarf any». pended in the water at a reasonable thing yet found on the surface of the "depth stid rolamle waves would bo|carth.,
can
THIS IS
B6% KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK
to the
THIS 15: ...BE KIND-TO FANIMALS: WEEK
which
or
PRECAUTIONS
19,032,980 half-crowns, 25,380,110 florins, 20,084,449 shillings.
39,390,338 sixpences. 32,000,000 threepenny bits. 80,241,600 pennies,
50,410,300 halfpennies..
24,000,000 forthings.
at
Every ounce of metal is weighed This year the total is expected to before each day's works begins, and be rather in excess of those amounts. workers are not permitted to leave until colns and the remaining metal have been weighed again.
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Betty Harley
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