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WASHINGTON: American newspapers are carrying a story that Britons so short of food they are now eating moorhens, black- birds, starlings, I a pwings, and grey squirrel. It is said that all these things find a ready sale in the markets of Britain. It is apparent from this report that hedgehog is best eaten roasted and that moorher should be
seagulls also treated as whalemcat. But
be puted in high demand-must
specially cooked to get rid of the taste. This, too, applies to cormoranta, which, it is said, great demand in most large town."
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but wild sens area and
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in
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949.
This Best-Seller Has A Lesson
For Publishers
SHE. By H. Rider Hag- gard, Macdonald, 8s. 6d. received. 320 pages.
ago, romance
this
WR8
people of Besh blood. And
Conan Doyle became the slave of Holmes.
not the only pebble on that beach.
of
LIBRARY LISTA
Brows
Na die Words, By Ivor Cape, 128 pages Rare, surprising. or forgotten. the leals of briefs words are made essays, fyll ut strange and pleasant speculation. Uncle Willie and the Bicycle Shap. By Brock Williama Harran, 78. Bel 173 pages. Novel, A light-hearted story set in the first years of the cantury, Has a distant family likeness 19 Lita with foiler
Cone Charket - Kingstøy, By: Una Pope-Hearters Impetuous and song
Chatio and Windus, 1294
CONAN DOYLE was show- Hio advances were 111- Arthur Conan
Doyle
hading the world that he was Something Blowed opened the door to wealth and abotter man than his imagined, from She's hand that "chilled fame—and and handed himself and detested, hero. me back to common sense and over to a hobgoblin. Holmas
In the last Holmes stories, be knowledge of propriety and became Пл passion with the found the best solution. IXTY-THREE years the domestic virtues. Enough publie; a being more real than Holmes, he made it clear, was
most fantastic of this wanton play, she said
and not simply the creation
Conan A best with a touch of sternness
Doyle. He So, after all, Sho was 乳
was Conan Doyle. BOOKS
times wrong-headed, Kingsley is por John Dickson Carr
trayed, a great Victorian, toweling abave the prosperous signitaries who writes a most rend-
ruled the Church of England In tris. able, sympathelle blo- "Sympathetic if sightly oueated graphy of this vigor- blugraphy.
Drink. ous, combative Irish-
Duka, bir. Simon writes man who brought to about wine: condescends to cocktails life Ds · well
and the lesser hovelsges A book halt. gulde, halt-anthology,
of
1
Boorge Malcolm Thomson
seller which, within three victorian months of publication, had But with all its flatulent He tried to cacape sold 25,000 copies, a lot of writing, the story is distingish- the incubus by writ-
wild Ing hooks in 1886. Longmans. ed by a steady flow
books of its publishers, had decided invention, by speed, by a gift different kind,
and for creating atmosphere -out of that with She they might little beyond bombast. In his publie did not, see was angry when the defy the conventions and own way Haggard, was a poes how vastly superior the circulating libraries by (as his masterpiece Nada the they were 10 the
Llly, proves). For him Africa publishing in one volume in was mysterious, and the ancient stead of three and at the must was filled with wonder.
He six shil. He could transmit his sense of popular price" of
those marvels.
She is not literature. It wil
It can be read
linge.
deflance
Today a bold publisher might not Inst. But Imitnic Longmans in their with pleasure by most people libraries between the ages of 12 and 16. the of by putting out new novels in Their chters
that may And paper covers at popular prices. they.
following the It should be considered as an preposterous effective retort to rising costs diminishing condescension. In book-production
To that extent. the best-seller She, a 30- of 1880 has murvived.
correc-
too, are
Lalo with A
362
The author of year-old Norfolk man who had
* been a colonial official in South MAKE-UP RUSH
usually sweep Africa, wrote the story in six the ship
THE lies weeks, with scarcely a
LIFE OF
SIR JOHANNESBURG:
ARTHUR CONAN Africa staged a record rush on fathoms deep under sand. Be- tion. commetle shops recently when sides boxes of gold barn brought
from India, the ship's cargo t- lle began with nothing in DOYLE. By John Dickson the news was published of new cluded a jewelled Mogul Em-mind but, the vague idea of an Carr. Murray. 18.
restrictions. Lipsticks, import
throne. peror's
One of the Immorini wamun and an im-
pages. lations, face powilers, and per hazards is that during the war mortal love. The rest came as fumes were rapidly sold out is
the South African Air Force fast as he could put it down. many shop as elamouring wo-
a practice barb wear|He was a slipshod writer, bus THE man lald in huge stocks, the dropped men
natural story-teller and wealthier
spending hun- the wreek which did not ex- ones
man of boundless Industry. dreds of pounds. Shopkeepers plode. declared that if the present rate of buying continued South Africa would be devoid of im- ported cosmetics in a month.
TIME SAVER NEW YORK: The milkma the voulsh from may Amerlenn scene. An Indiana
soon
Holmes alories.
to
deelded
murder Holmes. He did murder him -but in ten years was forced 10 reinstate the demon. He plunged into public life; fought spot of his life) fought an en- two elections and (herole high teric epidemic in South Africa.
Me did Come admirable dolectivo work on his own ac count the Oscar Slater case, and, less well remembered, the vindication of the Parece, Edalji. Holmes was George
to
letters a simple, con- fident philosophy and a disinterested love of battle.
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15% 272 pages.
By André Simon.
In his new novel he tells of o girl, a musician of genius,
becomes who
deaf, to the wicked delight of her father, a musician who is sinking through failure to degradation, and of her mother, a nagging hypochon- driac.
NOTES
VATICAN Clly follows the an-
nouncement of Rome's forthcoming basilicas series with a set of two now Jorgo type air mali stamps The 280 Jire, grey-black, and the 000 lire. blue, have a re- production of a famous Italian oll painting showing on angle walking between a small boy and his dog.
·
POLAND makes ils bid to com-
bat tuberculosis with four-
3 semi-postal lamps, The złoty plus 2 dark groan, 5e plus 5 brown, 6z plus 4 violet and the 15z plus 10 carmine all bear the likeness of a child. Ench Afth stamp in a sheet of 50 has a different label attached to it, Instructing the public on precautionary mea- Bures to ward off tuberculosis."
THE MUSIC SLEEPING, By Alan Wykos. Duck worth, 8s. 6d. 247 pages. WHEN Wykes
stops playing about with technique, this Auriol's hearing is saved at member of the post-war school last by Surgery, The main in- of writers will mature into an terest of the story, however, accomplished novelist. He can get inside the guilt-ridden
and dependable lies in the character of tho father and the skin of his characters;, ha hua horrible quack herbalist to a taste for the unpleasant and, whom he sends the girl, priceless asset, the power to Alan Wykes; a name to re-pERU offers three now provis- build up the tension of a story, member.
Women are natural
who created Sher- HAVE just read four lock Holmes was born in
novels written by a Edinburgh just ninety years
women, and, having sur- ago, of Irish Catholle stock on both sides-Doyles, Conans, vived
the experience, feel Foleys, Packs,
and such like, that we might relegate all his father an ineffectual artist, fiction writing to women.
strong-minded
After all, with
psychologists say)
woman
So
the My-
hla mother a
much Inflamed family pride.
Educated by
growing
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SO
Women
the (so spend their
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experts on fiction!
Read this strings.
BOOKS
by DANIEL
GEORGE
much on heart-
Another recent issue from Poland is the souvenir sheet of three stamps with por- troits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gen. Pulaski and Gen. Kosciusko. The valuca arc: 80 zloty, 100 zloty and 150 zloty.
ional áir mall stamps by surcharging the 70 centavo air mail of 1038. The double- Ilno overprint
tically in red
appears ver-
brown, using -10c, 20c and Bão as the new de
nominations.
●ERMUDA celebrated the cen- - tenary of its Arst postage stamp-the 1 penny-black- Issued in 1048, with three stamps 2d, 3d and Bd.
IRAQ
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dairy farmer, Jack Stambaugh, WAT appeal has She for an
has issued THE ICEMAN STAYETH
six new air BKC
which is not cialmed that he is on the way easily Impressed by
mails NEW YORK: A poll to de-
using three pictorial the Jesult at inner lives weaving fantasies movement' and mist"). This in Rosalind Wade's novel "THE to perfecting a new process
frames for the set. The values American elde which
of Africa writer for
milk,
stery Expert tinning
as it was in Stonyhurst, he was oppressed by and playing in imagination the rather more than Val can bear. WIDOWS" (Macdonald, 09. Od.)
and colours are: 3 mils geven, would be regarded as a elastusters who have sampled milk the eighties
a severe theology. His romantic parts of victim or vamp for He is a great artist himself, the story of a by-election- in the year 2000 пave
of Kor
4m rose-violet, 5m chocolate, first
The Caves
where mother was ready with cassoln-which reality has afforded them isn't he? So does Deb make a does not play which had been in a tin for five
20m blue,
and 50m olive Sho
few held
musi, Eughno place to pinywright
court, Bald they
opportunities. weeks
lon: "Wear flannel next your fantasies are fed by fiction writ- novel and see.
These noble renunciation? not could O'Neill (The teeman Cometh, distinguish it from the freshest British Government is at pre- belleve in enternal punishment "ten by women who have made
100m violet. lie just estimate,
where the
skin, my dear hoy, and never Dealre Under the Elms ele, dairy milk. All that remains,
Peter, the Labour candidate. TSRAEL will issue six new Lewis. Fifald Stambaugh, is a series
sent Sinclair second
fiction fantasies. prosaically
In Margaret Gregory's novel is not so occupied that he has of
Arthur Conan Doyle grew
"INTERFERENCE" (Hutchin no time for Freda, Mildred, and
with stamps
the word teenth, Albert Einstein.
the groundnuts. That sort of thing. experiments to find out
up to be a doctor and a Deist,
"Israel" son, Os. Od.) we are concerned Hester,
in SNAKE BY THE FOOT
printed
Latin the three SNA
best container for the milk and handleaps a romantic author.
attractive And, on a renewal of acquan- put up his plate in Southsea,
with medicine rather than art, widows. He wins the seat and n
characters. The 3 millemes, PRETORIA: A ft. python, then he will be ready to sell
and, while patients tarried, be-
The first She proves to be
(the one with the and with stronger emotions bride (guess whom), and, what's
5m, 10m, 15m and 50m will belonging to the Pretoria Zoo fresh milk which the house fance,
long-winded wench. gan to write.
duckiest jocket), "THIS BRIT from homeller material.
depict anclent coins of Israel has been sold for £5.10s. a wife can pick up with her Plaguey,
more, finds a flat at Hampstead One day, recalling the com-TLE GLORY," by Stella Morton When she invites a friend to
Lorne, after three years in a well suited to his needs.
while the 20m will bear 1 foot. The buyer, Mr A. Van- groceries, And that, he said.
sit beside her on the sofa she pelling personality of his old (Hodder and Stoughton,
comparatively 95. Japanese prison camp, becomes
new coln. dermerwe of Tegents Park, would make milk threepence a
professor like this: "S
at Edinburgh. Drd.), is about a little girl named the wife of Guy Cameron,
A sensible story, this, keeping begins
More new issues are expected Johannesburg, who will keep art cheaper.
o deterrent to PUSH-BUTTON COMFORT me. It is by thine own wist, Sherrinfort not
Holly, sit where thou canst see Joseph Bell, he evolved
the Deborah (Deb for short) whore doctor, who is loved by Margaret, close to probability.
from-this great detective, father figure of a
worked for the "A python is
Sherlock--
gas Many a good tune can be played WASHINGTON: What 13 remember-again. I
blame say
Recompany. much more effective than
on an old triangle. Holmes. An extraordinary new 4 called the perfect chair is now me not if thou dost wear away character was added to English dog. and it is better than
Deb wanted to be an artist. In on the market. It can be ad-thy little span with such
If that were literally true, this Modern love is the making of having. £1 woman round the junted by buttons
nction between breakfast and due course she became one and triangle might have to eight sick pain at the heart that thou
surprised "A CAT AND A KING." by house."
different reclining positions. In wouldst fain have died before supper by young man who married another, Valentine me more. But anyhow, If I did Dinah Forbes-Robertson (Cape, FULL FATHOM FIVE'
of the arms there lo σεις
a practice worth £300 à Borek, a man with all the not fall for Lorne, over thy curious eyes were set.
I loathed s. 6d.)—theatrical love behind CAPETOWN; A company radlo, bookshelves and con upon me."
who weighed 15st. 71b., symptoms of genius, and an old Margaret and was glad when and before the scenes. formed to has been
recover cealed Buorescent lights, And
of the WB "one
rafect flame named Sadie,
Guy slanured the door on her. This novel can be safely pro- treasure worth
£10,000,000 there are three electric plugs to This goes on for another 14 Association backs in Hamp When Val came back from the And when he found Lorne again, scribed for men as well as for which went down in the which can be attached a razor, lines of print. By that time shira"
war, after being a long time a and "at last they travelled women, though perhaps not for British ship Grosvenor, wreck electric blanket ntxi
a fan Holly remarks "I could bear in
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prisoner, he found that Deb had through the wildness and dark- children, Vivacious, with on ed close inshore on the Naint There is a matching footstcol no longer." But he is stunned
out-arted him. She wins the ness of their kiss to quiet," I Ironical edge, it is a "first" no- const 12 1782. The exact which opens up into a linen by her beauty not
ND with that, the trouble Embassy Arts Medni with her crept away, sailing through my vel which never leaves tho position of the wreck is known, chest.
picture ("a miracle of light and tears.
the python as burglam, said:
verbosity..
my
had
year, and
her
A started.
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FOR FREE.
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SOME LEAD WITH THE CHIN AND THE EY THIS ONE ADMITTED HED FORGOTTEN. BIRTHDAY AND REVEALED THE WHOLE SAD TALE IN THE OFFICE.
SHE LED WITH HER CHIN WITH THAT INVITATION TO COME SEE US SOME- TIME... (LOOKS LIKE A
DELAYED KNOCKOUT.)
"THE TIME YOU
INVITED A GUEST TO SAY
A FEW WORDS.
"THANKS!
DAY VA
BACK NEXT MOUTH
I THINK?
"THE MAN WHO BRAGGED ABOUT SOME EASY MONEY HE WON.
"AHOH!
ARU!!
THISIS
JUNIOR
THE TIME
YOU ACKED.
TO CEE
HIS
PAWITINGS!
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NEVER SEEN THE CAMERA FIEND'S FAMILY.