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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20,, 1947.
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Here is an eloquent book about one of their achievements, the com- paign for Trieste in the spring of 1945. Almost as if by chance it alves a vivid character study of that great man who led them, General Freyberg, V.C.
A
by
JOHN PUDNEY
good week-end, if you can stand the cricket. Never quite a lost week end, even if you fail to conceal your loathing of the game.
of
a
series of
that I, for one, looked forward to her prattle ilke tea with a favourite aunt.
Shrewd, calliest at her kindest, aver-wrought, long-suffering, yet always fun. What a monument of happy mediocrity Misa Dolnfeld left
125,
This omnibus contains four books written by the Provincial Lady,
GERMANY REVISITED, by Victor Gollancz. (Victor Gollancz Ltd., 9d.)
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MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Strip-and-End. Play Makes Little Slam
It bristles with racial tension..
The "I" of the book in young Negro. It is not an apologetle tale, The mercilessness and savagery of a bora fiction writer show us the faults on both sides.
"The provocation of the Negro boy is acen in its innocence. His grow- ing sense of injustice is real. He
Little is known about their pro- Hollis portrays in
BEER HAS A HISTORY, by blunders and tumbles towards a fate greas through Ravenna, Padua, and fictional letters the lives and Frank A. King. (Hutchinson, that whispers the terrible word Venice into Triesto. The whole fortunes of Ladies and Gentlemen.
12s. 6d.) lunch. This is a partisan book: but world at that time was preoccupied They are people of good breeding TN every land but France, where written with enough generosity for it with the Wagnerian finale in the
IN and to play upon the spiritual values of Relch.
sober good taste, people made
I have rarely scon n drunks, familar to us in two earlier books, people work out schemes to every reader,
Mr Geoffrey Cox, now returned to "Death
stop Gentleman" and This
1947 postscript
others drinking. What a motley of of "Uncle his ploughshares a poiltical "Fossell's Memory." Tom's Cabin has been read in journailst, tells the story of the set
legislation! They were The Chicago Sun sald that battles and the sharp
I could not have a drink with a formerly people of Americn.
encounters it "lustrates the
In the which swept the Germans into the food fortune. With a note of nostalgic meal in Canada; in Sweden I could change
regret, but with a nice vigour, Hollis not have a drink without a montulity of the American Negro bag, and which ended In rather
shows them to us without all the In Britain, they open at six (when from the humble supplicant for troubled handelnsps between New Justice to an enraged and rebellious Zealanders and Yugoslave.
good fortune. They are left with
we are lucky). In Australia, they people."
Cox
was Freyberg's Senior In- charm, resourcefulness, and crickety close at six.
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY background enhanced,
I telligence Omcer: his description of
recommend this theme to the the functions of military intelligence
many ambitious would-be writers A DIFFICULT problem faces the
In in the field makes good reading.
secking literary careers
declarer
he has the when piling anthologies of other people's queen and several of a suit la one LETTERS TO A SISTER,
hand and the ace with ons or by Christopher Hollls.
The drink restrictions of the in the other hand. Should he lend (Hollin and Carter, 8s. 6d.)
world would make a diverting an- a small one toward the queen? In thology in this thirsty age. It today's hand, for example, should DEADING Mr Holila is like having
should be accompanied, of course, declarer cash dummy's nee of clubs by a few atomle maps showing how and then lend to hole can get from one place ten in his own hand?
Mr. King's History of Beer-and the restrictions drinking atarted this train of thought. Mem he would say, "Poor guess." Tho
expert player tries to bership of the Committee of Our some other line of play. This hand Working Men's Club, which has came up in the matters mixeri just caused me to take my turn of
championship tenm-of-four bar-tender for an evening, sustains it.
THE ROAD TO TRIESTE, by Geoffrey Cox. (Heinemann, 12. d.)
REMEMBER
those square-faced, quiet-voleed, sharp-eyed New Zealand Service men? Remember their reputation in Greece, Crete. Libya. Italy? They always seemed a week-end in the English at once the most rugged and gentiest of people, highly organised battle, highly democratie way of life.
I wonder if he does not sum him
self
kind up on page 1797 "The Englishman always tends to say something nicer than the truth. partly out of good nature and partly out of indolence."
THE PROVINCIAL LADY, by E. M. Delafield. (Macmillan, 12x. Gd.)
countryside stimulated by the com- heir only of a disputatious mind Tile Provincial Lady wrote her in and by cricket played more endlessly dlary in a weekly newspaper than even cricket can be played. with such persistence and Ingenuity
'The most original and distinguished writing' says George Malcolm THOMSON of this year's Christmas batch of
BOOKS for
work.
another.
on
com-
This Beer-History beging with Osiris,and ends with the Committee on War Damaged Licensed Premises. It is rich with diverting information showing how the pattern of society has been intimately concerned with Based on the daring idea that what, where, and when the people children are not necessarily pleased drink.
with
rubbish.
- Omnibus lavishly
children
The
Youngest The interest In Mr. King's faith- (Nelson, 12s. Gd.) is a ful record not confined to amateur illustrated miscellany obar tenders swillers, tipplers and
GBH pages for six to
the like. The student of poolry, for eleven age-groups.
Instance, may find much to admire In the Reverend John Skelton's
customer: Portrait of the backdoor about 1500:-
The Rainbow Book (Harrap, 78.
is a ad.) collection of poems and and transatlantic some true. For instance, the story not.
For the boy who looks for his of Snowshoe Thompson. the mail adventures in
less carrier
skis to who introduced romantic age, The Radium Rebels, - Sierra Nevada. Suliable for both by Geoffrey Meredith (Nelson, 75. sexes: ages nine to 14 approximately. fd.) may be considered.
our
own rio
THERE are books for boys, of swords, spears, shields and what- stories, mostly
books for girls, and books for children. And, strange to say, it is the last type which exhibits
the most original and distinguished writing,
Somewhat more firmly footed in A slim anthology likely to appeal the plausible, and above the average in its coloured jacket Is A Gateway Poetry (Gramel Publications, Take, for example, Stuart Little, in writing,
Forest Holiday, by to by E. B. White (Hamish Hamilton, David Severn
(Bodley Head, 75. Os.). 75. Gd.) It is the story of a mouse ed.).
adventures here might who was, rather unexpectedly, born conceivably have happened. There
The
For a younger audience Adven-
to lady in New York. The are some excellent descriptions of tures with Benghazi, by Rose Fyle- family accept the newcomer with camping in a forest near Lotklon man (Eyre and Spottiswoode, commendable sang-froid.
75.
And and of goings-on-in which gipsles 6) will do very nicely. It is a cat. their confidence is well-founded. take part.
be series of fairy stories about a This book should
In Jungle Stories, by Muriel Green,! Stuart grows up at least, he grows popular.
illustrated by Alfred Wood (Evans Bros., 7s. d.) the pictures, with their distinct decorative charm, are, as important as the tales.
lo be two inches and n shade more into a mouse of terse and incisive wil, well able to hold his own in a cruel world.
Life in a "dude ranch" in the no- longer-wild West is the setting of Montana Adventure, by Kitty Ritsom (Faber, 78, ed.). A dude ranch is I commend Stuart to readers of not quite the same as the real thing. to seekers after But it has possibillies as a scene most ages, and Christmas presents for children. He far adventures. The story will ap-
of peal particularly, to children character, a mouse with no trace of like horses.
mouse complex, n
la a mouse of merit,
a mouse
an inferiority with a little of A. A. Mine and a ille more of Groucho Marx.
who
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
puzzle.- Solution of yesterday's Across: 1, Taximeter: 5, Aryan;
6, Yak: 8, Rolypoly; 0, Moisture; 12, Apricol; 13, Thorough; 15. Lion- In a gentler, more fanciful vein heart; 17, News; 18, Cab; 10, Serve;
1s
Tho
Little White Horse by 20, Eye, Elizabeth Goudge (University
of
to
Down: Torpauling 2, Aromatic: Boy's stories, being obliged
London Press, 6s) Maria goes 103, Xylophone; 4, Eyot; 7, Fresh; 10, conform to a rigid paltern, are
live in the mysterious mansion of Troner; 11, Sir; 14, Gray; 10, Acc. somewhat robbed of individuality, Moonaere in the West Country. She to say nothing of humour.
meets
some exceedingly queer
The ae- people,
book calm. adorned in colours.
prettily
Improbable events must be crpled with an Olympian Bloodshed may be on a tremendous Selina, heroine of Party Frock,
illus scale. But it, too, must be taken written by Noel Streatfeld, for granted. Conversation should trated by Anna Zinkelsen, and be slangy, but not too slangy.
published by Collins (Bs. 5d.), gets
cream organdie
frock
from America.
Obviously a
Karment so splendid calls for some "great event But, if the story be laid in some as a setting." Selina's cousins, with ern of the remote past, an altogether a perception rare in cousins, realice special, dignified and declamatory what the situation demands. style is de rigueur. "By St. Glies! no disparagement to say that this he will rue this deflance," remarks is a book for girls,
a character in King Harold's. Son,
It is
The Glass Slipper (Allan Win-
by Richard Strong (Nelson, 7s. Gd.), gate, 95, Ed.) is the text of the where all the personages speak in already fairy play, here prettily, it
harmoni expensively, produced in the same exalted strain, sing with the clashing and clanging form.
Rupert and the Three Guides-54
While the three Guides vace away to Galler large Rupert dashes back. to his own cottage. His mother hears him come in and go to his room. She follows him and, finds him with his head under the lid of his toy-box and tossing things out in all directions."I know it's here somewhere," he mutters, and i've only got half an hour. What ever are you up to "asks Mrs. Bear.
Bur, without answering- Rupert grabs something and rushee. out again.
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"Some, tothe to be capyde, Strait in at the backe syde Over the hedge and pale, And all for the good ale."
CHESS PROBLEM
By F. DUBBE Block, 3 pieces,
P2
White, 10 pieces,
White to pinu and mate in threa Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, RX Kt, any; 2, Q, R, ́or B mates.
two
toward the queen-
The average player might handle that way, and if the finesse lost,
reason out
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Tournament-Nolther vul.
Pass
South West North, East 14
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3
Pass
3 N. T. Pasa
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3
[4 N. T. Pass
Opening-2
and
several good teams made the con- tract.
Dummy played low on the open- the Ing spade lend, West played Jack and declarer won. Then he cashed four moro spade tricks. West discarded first the deuce of clubs
then the four, then the eight;
and when the last spade was led, ho finally let go the nine of clubs. De- clarer realised that West had let his worthless clubs go in order to pro- tect hearts and diamonds, and thus he marked East with the king and Jack of clubs.
If East had been alert, he could have protected himself against de- clorer's strip and end play. North now cashed the nce, king and queen of hearts, then he cashed the king of diamonds.
a small and led diamond toward the acc. East was not on the job. He played the six and five on the two diamond tricks, so declarer next led dummy's third diamond, throwing East in the lead. There was nothing for East to do but to lead away from the king of clubs up to declurer's queen.
Skeleton Crossword
CLUES ACROSS
1. The sort of
ticket for
army
poon
to clip. 10. The study is in need of a clean-up for
a change, 11. He gives s
only half tim dah, tho niceía, doy!l1 13. Castillo in a corner, 14. Endeavoured to speak in the middle.
7. Aa4ombieų around The Old Bhip" in the trading centre.
10. this
school they get their material by weight.
10. This should appeal to one of
one 2 ACTOST
20. A.divine drink this. (Enough to but on a trance ?) 22. We should all have at least.
nvo.
24. Suppiled with "iovels grun, la-
cluding beer.
27. Que in harmony.
28. The beverage from 24 AcrOME 29. I MAKA on estimate in
pacific fration.
-0. Epot were involved in th
traite you would violent speech.
1. Perfectly 0.1., in a wet sort
of way three words).
1. Ite may be alfected by a tobs- ank Mason thres, words).
9. One of the U.8.A.
17. It soems the girl is not dumb
when.civic..
15. The outloo le black in the
o
10.
20. Old bloycla tor * couple of
coppers.
CLUES DOWN
Victor's tune". Innaz.).
3. He has money to come.
4. Ating of soveral colours.
-South-East, Mtem
one can "kili“ tiniò tharp i
21. A Hitlerite ideo from a mil
tary angle.
23. She starte to do some Freas
work
If it is missing, would the
angier May E OLE blow it
26. King of Little Arabia.
TN the Skeleton Crossward the black square and clue Bum. bera, na well the words, are left for the solver to all in. Four binek squares and tour clue num hers have been inserted to give You start.
The rack squares for $ 470- metrical pattern in which the two sides of the puzzle balance each other and the top half,carresponds with the bottom half. You can, therefore, all in more black Huares to correspond with those elven.
Note that there is no N Down, so that the second square from the left in the second ne eau be blacked in, also the three corresponding ones.
There are three clues between 18 and 24. Two of them. Nos 20 and 22. must oceny positions bal outer one, No. 10, must come
1K and its predecessor, achieve
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on the central- iina symmetrical design.
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