DAB and FLOUNDER
by Walter
FROM HERE AND THERE:
Americans Told How To Be Well-Bred
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1948.
SEXTON BLAKE
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VIRTUE PAYS
BOYS WILL BE BOYS. By.
E. S. Turner, Michael Joseph."
269 pages, 10s. 6d.
TTERE is a careful, entertain-
H
ing investigation into the origin and evolution of boys'
by
BOOKS
during the war. Stuart's novel is placed in the post-war period and in iho French zone at occupation. Its theme, impressively stated, 15 human suffering,
"The great change in Europe has
charneters,
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON token place in the prisons and popular fiction, its authors, grammatical errors. thus defeating concentration camps, rather than on publishers, readers and demi- the purpose of a national system of the battlefields. Stuart was for eight gods. It is n worthy "book of education. What else could be ex-months in prison in Austria. A the week."
pected from stories written, as the French prison. Northcliffe cditors Earlier writers have discussed univeralty men who had given way less civilised. in the sense that wo alleged, by And what is the change? We are the social implications of this to the temptations of drink?
belleve less in worldly existence as school of fietlon. Mr Turner
Overcome by this righteous. In the supreme good. But we are a little sticks to facts. For example, dignation, the penny dreadful died, more spirituallsed, purified in heart. he reveals that Sweeny Todd, ignominiously. The penny "blood" These thoughts Stuart put into the) most English of villains, had, in reigned in its place. Virtue pays. mouth of one of his all likelihood a Frenchman as of self-distrust in the motto of the
But was there, perhaps, just a hint Petrov, n Rumanian. NEW YORK-A new American nine-year-old boy who started col-
need .Dot
The main thread of the story is be book of etiquette-four years in the lecting them during the war when his prototype. So much for Union JackYou
ashamed to be seen reading this the relation of Malone, an Iriuman writing calls the person who can the Germans had strictly forbidden national pride.
suspect by the French, with two not sland in
During the carly years of the book." without it. Piet Neef's plcture, offered by a queue
sisters, walls of war, one dying of sneaking up to a higher place" unti- the Federalle Afrikaanse Kultur Revolution, a barber in the Rue CINCE those pioneer days, the tuberculosis, the other, a victim of social. Other tips: It la wrong to vereniginge, which was supposed to
brutality in prison. pronounce oll cri; tomuto should be be refused, has a place of honour. de la Harpe, Parle, systematical- "blood" has come under criticism, George and Queen Wilhelmina intends to usely assassinated his customers, in on broad social grounds.
The iden of purification pronounced the English way
suitable presents such as partnership with a neighbouring school of drugging the minds of the achievement is to give it fresh life. Gem-Magnet suffering is hardly now. Stuart's Orwell accused, the not tomayto, as most Americans do; all the telephone should always be used, table-cloths, blankets and a violet pie-maker."
stories younger proletariat with Instead of phone,
cape sent and whisky and ostrich
The
A book drawn up from a deep theme
mobbleh, cheaply was that were
pa- soda rather than the more popular African Govt. highball Frowned upon by the
naturalised in Britain, in 1840, triotle, funked sex and poked fun at well of experience.
foreigners. authors: fake fireplaces filled with a
by Thomas Peckitt Preat, an
* nnswer came Dignified
from author, whose other claim on Charles Hamilton, who pointed out THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF PARIS-The chateau of Fontain-immortality is that he indus- that the higher you go in the social. bleau, once the home of the Grand triously plagiarised the works scale, the better manners
you find Monarch. Louis XIV, and setting
for the firmer principles. As of Dickens under titles like and FAIRY CODMOTHERS
for many of the incidents In Dumas
Twins and "Three Musketeers," lies 37 miles Oliver
foreigners, they are funny. Martin
And who was lamilton that he NEW YORK-Americans are soon southeast of Paris, surrounded by Guzzlewit, thus helping to found should be drawn into the con-
At present it houses to be told that they may now buy forest,
the the fortune of his publisher, troversy? The author of 40 or 50 Music Conservatoire
million words of this kind of litera their friends in Britain coupon-free Fontainbleau
turct British-made clothes. All they will in one wing and an artillery school Edward Lloyd.
other. It was Napoleon's have to do is to send a cheque for In the
and it was there SEXTON BLAKE, the great
k whatever the clothes cost. Needless favourite home to say it will have to be a dollar that he signed his abdication. Ils celebrated feature Is its cheque.
The clothes will then be most delivered free of coupons, customs horseshoe-shaped staircase. duties, or purchase tax to the British recipients.
fake coal fire lit by electricity: shawls on pianos; pop-up cigarette
boxes.
..
HOUSE-PROUD
by the
MEMORY CORNER
LAURELS
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VIENNA A gold razor has been awarded to Otte Prachiellt by the NAIROBI-A elderly African Barbers' Congress. He recently native is sitting unperturbed in his shaved a customer in 14.5 seconds, primitive grass-roofed mud but on which is claimed to be a new world
of Kenya's new goldfield at record. Klbigeri, ncar Kisumu. All he wanted was the assurance, promptly given by prospecting settlers, that his home would not be disturbed. "The find was made by a Danish far- mer named Andersen, and the Mines Department reports that the strike ts quite promising."
OUTWARD BOUND
Savoury
•
by
PAUL BAUDOUIN. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 168. 308
pages.
TOREIGN Minister under Petain,!
the welter reveals how, in the summer of 40, French polilletons blamed one another. French genernis were concerned to shield the army (Le., the generals). from blame: the fault lay with the politicians, CLOUD. the British, or the impendinst Gollancz. revolution, of which there
not a sign.
This diary of a sincere pessimis!
detective, must be the oldest of boyhood's current heroes. He THE PILLAR OF first appeared 56 years ago;
By Francis Stuart. 9s. 6d. 232 pages. since then 200,000,000 words have been written about his ex-
LTHOUGH ho was lecturer in
was
Irish and English literature at makes an admirable companion to
ploits. Students will be in- terested to know that his assis- Berlin tant, Tinker, had a Chinese pre-. decessor, Wewee.
we
University for Live years Churchili's first volume.
WRIST-BAND CAMERA
The UNICH-A 42-year-old German
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watch scientist sald that he has per- ounces, looks like a wrist 2
will take 400 pictures on a roll of beek snys it is foolproof and so fected a wrist-band camera that and is about twice as thick, Stein- ordinary 35 mm. minteam film. simple that it will take pictures at "a moment's notico," without being removed from the wrlat,
Dr Rudolf Steinbeck, the Inven- tor, has spent the last two years
But it is unsatisfactory that cannot be informed with certainty whether the detec-MUN tive's famous, Pedro, was CAFE TOWN-The 87-ton yacht bloodhound or a bull dog. I Caried left Cape Town recently on should be willing to bet a large a world voyage vin St Helena, the West Indies, Panama, and the Southsum, Buy, five shillings, that this Scas. A last-minute member of invaluable animal was a blood- the crew was a Zulu cook boy, hound. But the absence of working on the first model, tucked The film is about four millimetres Joseph Mbayi, formerly of the Cly thoroughness in Mr Turner can-away in a spacious mansion on the in diameter at the point of exposure. of Lincoln, which was stranded at
two years,
not pass unrebuked. Quoin Foint for salvaged.
Northcliffe launched Blake and similar heroes on a tide of moral and patriotic fervour. The slogans were "No more penny dreadfuls"- and "Blake is a British detective," is a large gilt cup given by "Bertie, JOHANNESBURG-Huge swarms Elizabeth and May. The largest is of mice are raiding the groundnut a thrust at the interloping Yankee, a modern Gobelins lapestry sent by crops in the northern Transvaal Nick Carter.
TREASURE TROVE
AMSTERDAM—The most Hor- goous among the thousands of pre- senis offered to Queen Wilhelmina on her jubilee, now on show to the public In the Amsterdam palace,
HUNTING GROUNDS
but
shores of Lake Starnberg near here, and may be enlarged to slightly The house, nestling in the foot more than two-by-three inches. hills of the Bavarian Tyrol, once Special films can be used to provide
greater enlargement capacity, belonged to a Bavarian nobleman.
He said he completed the Arst working model this summer and it,
He will go into production soon
The lens is a 2.5 special lens, which will shoot in focus from one. metre up without adjustment
said his little camera is an answer. The camera also can be used for the French Government, and the and kiling them off. Fortunately, Not only did the penny dreadful to his wife's complaint that cur- colour photograph, Steinbeck said. most touching an exercise book however, Sworms of hawks are Inflame the imaginations of boys so rent cameras are too
The price of the new camera will compllented containing all sorts of pictures of following the mice and killing them that they robbed their employers, for a layman. Steinbeck made sim- be set after production has begun the Dutch Royal Family sent by a off in Jürn.
but it was also full of spelling and plicily the keynote of his invention. and costs determined.
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