DAB and FLOUNDER
BLOW
DANLIKNE CRAMEN
FROM HERE AND THERE :
THE (OSTRICH)
FEATHERS FLEW
CAPETOWN: People waiting on pet. They watch his whima and his the aerodrome for a light plane to, pockets are always full of elgoreties, land at Worcester, 80 miles from toffee and sixpences." -Capetown, were attacked by two wild ostriches, which had eventual- ly to be shot before the plane could Jand.
LONG LIFE RECIPE
centenarian, NEW YORK: A
Bronxville. Francesca La Sala, of
the New York, broke away from usual recipes for longevity. His re- cipe-a daily dozen, plenty of home- made wine, big black clgars, playing cards all night,
BACHELORS -BEWARE
and
A Viennese Inwyer, VIENNA: Leddihn, aged 75, has asked permis- alon of the Austrian Minister of the Interior to form a "Reform party." The main polat of the party's pro- gramme is the introduction of com- bachelors pulsory marriage for all between 30 and 65; Leddiht, told a press conference.
FLASH-BACK
CAPETOWN: Saved from drown- surf near Kommetje, ing in the Aubrey Lehmann, 47, a visiton from a country farm, said much of his past life had flashed through his mind while in the water, but more im-
WHAT NEXT? · WASHINGTON: A breakfast tray of glass which radiates enough infra- red heat to fry eggs, make toast and warm coffee, but not enough to damage the bed-clothes, will 5000 cethe on the market.
SQUAD 'SHUN-PLEASE NEW YORK: Orders have gone out to sergeants training recrults for America's peacetime army to say 'please' to the recruits as often possible.
35
HIGH RANKING CLUB STOCKHOLM: A tail men's club has been formed here. Members in good standing must measure at tenst There is a Junior mem- seven feet. her division where 6 ft. 7 is the minimum
requirement. One hui- dred and sixty feet of members en- rolled on the first day. They care from all walks of life, including policemen, actors, and circus freaks.
NEW(S) STORY
produced
correspondent, has newspaper at his own settle a breakfast table
expense
THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1949.
A Briton always
'SORCERER'S 'AP- PRENTICE. By Elapoth
Huxloy. Chatto and Windus, 18. 366 pages.
THIS book ought to havo two things: (1) a large publle; (2) an index.
T
It should have the publle becntiso It gives a first-hand, expert_impres- alon of contemporary East Africa, a strategically vital segment of earth's surface.
the
pays
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON on the NEW BOOKS
**
"
even seems to wonder at times why the British taxpayer pursues his ex- pensive, intoxicating, but so often discouraging task.
Prida perhaps. Not the expectation of thanks..
THE MEMOIRS OF COR» DELL HULL. Two volumes. Hodder and Stoughton. 50s. 1804 pages. FIGHTEEN
HUNDRED
AND
FOUR pages. About 000,000 Mr Hull's despatches Words. It while he was Secretary of State were on this scale, his Ambassadors can nover have been without something to read.
of
Put Your ear to the covers these massive volumes. You may detect a persistent tap-tapping noise, That will be the picks of the miners nt work down below.
Buried here, a rich lode of modern history awaits the prospector. Critical data on foreign affairs gicam amidst the great mounds of trivia-
The photographs agriculture. The Sorcerer's Appren- alone are an education in the scale, tice is a record of achlovement as beauty, squalor and complexity of well as a catalogue of perplexities. the land,
For instance, the 1943 defeat of As for the Index, no book of this the locust invasion. But for the Anti- factual nature in doing Its job Locust Directorate and its intel- efficiently if it locks the basle Trence service, tens of thousands equipment for reference.
of the King's subjects would have Anybody who supposes that there starved. One of the few swarms to la a single African problem with break through destroyed a thousand simple solution will have his acres of wheat in ong night. assurance ruffled by Mrs Huxley,
But here are While expiollation? wealthy negro landowners paying not a penny in income-tax while along HERE are white men who groan Aldo them nal-very-rich British Dia- about the Government and white
up between the Western trict Cominissioners pay 95, in the men whe groan about the country. grow
White men
dream dazzling Powers and Russia, consult Chapter £.
should African superstition
dreams of progress and other white 108 (page 1451). Churchill wished hand" in "play the wiped out? Quile so.
But If, in men who fall in love with the native Russia to
the District Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria in wiping it out, you destroy traditional way of life. Like
Oficer who turned up at Govern 1944. He thought it was possible to morality-what then?
and Better niedieal
veterinary ment House, Nairobi, in the costume concede this, without agreeing that services? Most desirable. Yet and with the arms of a Masai war- the Kremlin should have a sphero of influence there. Mr Hull was not Africa has already more men and rior.
*O optimistic. animals than it can keep alive and
by existing methods healthy
be
who
The White Man's Burden 12
no
of merely form of words. Mrs Huxley
OH! THE VANITY
OF AUTHORS!
"NO ORDINARY CHEYNEY." By Peter Cheyney.
(Faber, 95. Gd.)
lily.
*ii wish to know how distrust
you
MEREDITH. By Siegfried Sassoon. Constable. 158. 269 pages.
IN the Tate Gallery 15or was-a dead, painting of Chatterton. The model for It was Meredith. The off paluter was the man who ran with Meredith's first wife.
Meredith was the son of a tallor and secretly believed himself to be of noble origin. As a novelist he was damned by brilliance, Failure pursued him through a great part of
failure
Enst
partant, he had finally remembered with his wife-that thereument do not object to being called me back to Wales again, where I notes like: "The dulness of vapid
"where he had hidden, his gold
watch.
is'
as the blurb to
never "Cheyney fans.”
Fis news nowadays.
But I do not believe any good paper, which will be circulated free
as amiable and easily to about 160 readers while his mency good news. 1sts, prints only Samples 50,000 Arabs live peaceful- ly In Palestine, juvenile delinquency drops in Chio, better tirinking water for Pennsylvania, Sald owner Jung, "I'm tired of the scare telegram and the terrible times."
they are pleased
reviewer.
"Should ould acquaintance be forgot-I'll swap yer two dozen pair of nylons for a case of Scotch, Charlie, boy--and never brought to mind."
YOU MAY KNOW.
THIS
"THE FIFTH
FAMILY
CHILD," by James Courage (Constable, 8s. Ed.)
blissful happiness in templating the future.
But
stituto
He can manage without her, sho his writing career. When, at A DOMESTIC novel - that success came, the taste of
never sounds exciting, but decides. She has money, of her own. When her baby is born sho will lingered.
Employed as a reader for Chapmany this one. The scene is New stay on in town. She has moments PETER CHEYNEY has apatchcocked what looks toj Mwrites
Zealand; and the characters are of novela about me like litter disinterred from and Hall, he rejected Ouida,
there are, of 'course, the Hubert Warner is a prosper children. In the present they con- NEW YORK; Robert Jun, a Swiss crime. They are read apparent the bottom drawer of his desk. Lynne, Erewhon and a meteoric suc-real.
cess called The Heavenly Twins. toly by the kind of people who
On rejected MSS he would write ous sheep farmer; His wife,
problem enough, Young Alec, attending a day the town, keep her liveliness marks the style of this Florence, mother of four chil- Susan and work," "Written in sighs of languer." dren, is, at the age of 46, with school in
human, ing, untidy, unruly, silly, Ho would have made a good book indignation rather than plea occupied two such graceless, bicker- sure, expecting another. She pathetic and lovable children. The for the older pair ore no casier to 'handic. has come into town winter and rented furnished Barbara, vain, inconsiderate, is deep Ronald, the house. With her are Susan in her first romance.
about his is preoccupied B DARWIN writes so well that and Alec, the younger children. elder san, on the threshold of man- he hardly seems to write at all. Her almost grown-up son and carcer.
Patiently, tactfully, Mrs. Warner After a few practice strokes on Tin daughter, Ronald and Barbara,
controls them all. When her baby Soldiers, A Day in Bed, and Watch-are away at college..
vision is born hor
of freedom' After 20 years of hard work on Ing Cricket, he takes a full tee-shot to Sherlockdiana: The Falth of the form, the respite for
Mrs Vonithos. Sho realises that the can- Fundamentalist.
Warner is like the fuißiment of a not evade her responsibilities. Sho
return to the farm. It-no! because-It a condition comforting dream. Why, she asks must
of husband-and- of enjoyment in reading that the herself, has she never before known -In parents-and-children rela- writer should first have enjoyed such freedom? Why need she return wife and
tionships, in its characters, and in essays In Every Idle writing, the
develops, you Dream will spread joy everywhere Bolween herself and her husband the situation which
unusual hero. there is no longer any love. Always will find something pleasent companion for easy chair unsentimental, he is now az irascible What is unusual is its likeness to
life unadorned by fancy. —DANIEL GEORGE. | and sick bed.
as he is emelent.
his latest book Petor Cheynay suggests. It de- scribes this as pre- an "ideal sent" for them. The book
MR
Lamentable bits of verse ("Oh let may breathe of God's good air are jumbled up with odds and ends of excruciating facetiousness, articles which have appeared in periodicals, and two or three stories. FULL EMPLOYMENT
tolerable.. The stories are
The EVERY IDLE DREAM. By other stuff is not. Evidently his Bernard Darwin. Collino. MELBOURNE: The keenest com.
best friends have shrunk from tell [126. 6d. 255 pages. petition in Australian business is for
ing him: "Stick to crime, old man; office boys and junior typists who
don't try to be funny." fabulous are disdainful even of
IIls book wheedling promises of light wages, work and considerate treatment: The
vanity of authors. Not content with Sydney
fame as the best-selling of all best- highest bid is made by a
sellers, he craves the esteem of the firm which offers a bicycle to any
intellectuals. My information is that boy who will stay one year and has
gin Mary on several occasions. Ac-ingly unfunny
them read him in secret. plastered its front window with an invilation to passing boys to come companied by doctors, priests and piece about "sinister, unwashed That ought to satisfy him.
Mr Cheyney's spare time could be be thousands of people the girl stands inaldo to view the bleselo and persuaded by a respectful bass with her hands together. "I can see critica, smelling vaguely of gar-
to the dreary round of duties? onic lic, and living unmentionable more profitably devoted to master
ing the simple grammatical rule Even this brings more promises to the Virgin standing near the
It closes with an "ap- lives." "think it over" than purposeful ap-
"whom." plications. The boss Goys "When I was a boy a messenger was a slave thorities are looking into the mat-peal" to reviewers. Between which governs the use of "who" and they are read. The book is
SECOND BERNADETTE? MADRID: A 'Emall girl claims loopens with embarrass- have seen and talked with the Viran
She is surrounded by a bright light"
the irl says. Ecclesiastical au-
and drudge. Now he is everybody's ter.
these puerilities Mr Cheyney
some
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
i' WAY YOU GREAT-
BIG SO- AND
OF ALL THE BAD- TEMPERED FEMALE.
JERKSY IP I HAD A . DISPOSITION LIKE
HERS I'D GO HOP
IN A LAKE?
an illustration of the
**YOUR AUNT MINNIE JUST PHONED TO SAY THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY IS STRANDED
THICKSVILLE WITH
A BUSTED AXLE
AND THEY WON'T
BE ABLE TO GET
A HERE TOR
DINNER
*
1
hood,
"Things to Be Thankful For”.
BU KEMP, STARRETT.
,” LOOK! THE ONLY
DRESS SHIRT TOWN.
"WHAT AACT GOING TO DO? STAY HOME—-
MISS THE CONK
SOME MEN ARE THANKFUL, NOT FOR HEALTH ORG RICHES, BUT JUST THAT THE WIFE ISN'T A MIND-READER ALL THE TIME
A
METOO!
A BACK
ALMOST KILLS ME EVRY NIGHT!
WE'VE HEARD OF MEN WHO· CAN SMILE WHEN EVERYTHING.
GOES DEAD WRONG
COME ARE THANKFUL FOR. A. CYMPTOM OR TWO TO MATCH THE COMPLAINTS OF THER FRIENDS. Ledger Syndicate
ITS REMARKABLE HOW THANKFUL SOME FOLKS ARE FOR THE MINOR TROUBLES OF OMERS... ESPECIALLY WHEN THE ONERS HAVE HUGE APPETITES.
"YOW!
ONLY NIKE ..DOLLA
THE RADIO MUST → BE BROKEN...t. `
TURNED IT ON AND
HOMING
"TOO BAD!
* HAPPENS!*
SOME FOLKS ARE TRAUKFUL IF THEY CAN ONLY HAVE THE BREAK- FAST EGG BOILED JUST RIGHT...
WE KNOW PROPE WHOD JUST: AS SOON FOREGO ANY THANKS
AT ALL FOR SHALL FAVORS.
ERS ARE TRAUZFUL"
BOT ÖVER
|
· COMETIMES IT'S DIFFICULT TO
CONCEAL YOUR GRATITIDE.
SOME OF US BREATHE | Á PRAYER OF "TRANKS"- GIVING EACH TIME WE GET HOME SAFELY AND IN ONE PIECE : AFTER, A TRUP IN TAB ELEVEA)-YEAR-OLD'#,
• MEAT-GRUDERS.