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Dickens-like author began in brickworks
NEPILATION came to wealthy Alexander Kielland when ho was manager of a brickworks. He started writing. and in a few years was recognised as one of Norway's literary glant
In novels, drama and poetry he led a Dickens-like campaign to improve condi- Lions for factory workers.
Ella wit and frony spared neliber his rich friends nor the Government, and the Cabinet refused him a writer's pension.
Now Norway commemorates the oen- tenary of Kielland's birth.
·Face value of the to ore Imme, ple-
·tured here: 54: Perforation!. 131⁄4 by 131⁄44. It is Norway's best for some time, the She
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FROM HERE AND THERE:
Holds
Virginia
Her Fire
JOHANNESBURG, Because shoulders which American
she hated the publicity which designers are pushing. followed her first hunting trip
THE HONGKONG ́ ́ TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,” AUGUST 27, 1949.
So Father Took To
WITH MUCH LOVE. By
Anne Green. Geoffrey. Blos. 12s. 6d. 276 pages. N the world of the Greens, pleasures lasted a long time. Disappoint- ments, however well de- served, were Invariably alleviated by presents. Good children flourished, but bad ones escaped punishment, In difficulties one parent could usually be played off against the other. Mamma against Papa.
Papa, ruined by speculation in cotton futures, is exiled to Paris, poverty, and a job as agent of the Southern Cotton Oil Company. He is good na- fured, optimistic, a Mr Micaw
with a Southern ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈nécent brought all the Way Savannah. A Mr Micawber who, in the end, reaches bel- ter times.
bor
from
The Bottle
Then
comes.
by George Malcolm Thomson
suddenly Eleanor
maug Marica away
Marx is voluntarily
some money. He appeals to Kraut, one of his employees in the devotional articles business.
Kraut is the little man,"
cnvlous, solution drawback from Max's point of disappointed,
He lures finds Bennett view he has promised to take nant examining the contents of her along with him Mrs Morgan's from Marx. In his search for handbag In which she keeps son Jimmy Chero number the girl.
Heaven- two), who suffers from Ots. sent to дл her private letters.
She boils
camp. sent opportunity!
In Poland, the pair full In with rage
and breaks off the engagement on the spot.
with the Sireeters, Americans. Mr Streeter Is a mining en ANNE GREEN, sister of Julian gineer, а ruthles emclent Green, lived in France from age of character who despises de six months. Ameried. First book published in mocracy,
Spent war years in 1930. The Belvys
stay
the
killing memorial
extermination
THE NEW PEOPLE AT "THE HALL”
By J. W. Taylor. ILLAGERS of Shardlow, near Derby, are not quite sure about the new people at the Hall" the team of eighty overall or corduroy-clad men and women who keep the 17th-century sprawling, stone-built house humming with activity all day long.
The farmers of Derby- Here are experts in every shire, Nottinghamshire, Lol branch of agriculture, barticul- ture and stock farming ready to cestershire, Rutland and
advise, without charge. any The second part of the book
know farmer who Northamptonshiro
cared to apply. brings Marx and Marika to- their work quite well, for to They aim to make every farm gether again after the war them it often means the in the United Kingdom 100 per- Marx is going blind-he does difference between success not sco that Marika is
now
only a fat, vulgar prostitute and failure, profit and bank who hardly remembers him. ruptcy.
Or does he know? An ironic story told with Immense force.
low
cent efficient.
too complicated for the county Bristol University officers to tackle,
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Every week they analyze 603 samples of soll at a cost of da. Mr Streeter, efficient in her
coch to the taxpayer. Later, a BOYS AND GIRLS COME gan.
own way seduces Jimmy Mor-
leport is sent to the farmer But in her good-natured, For three years now: Shard- telling him all he
wants to OUT TO PLAY.. By
sluttish way, she looks after
Hall has been the know, When Hitler invides Poland, him until he dies, paying for headquarters of the East Mid- THE "Deat export" Nigel Dennis. Eyre and Divver is told that
is Mr A Streeter him with money earned he
Province of the National
Roebuck, whore colleagues In Africa, Virginia Brooks, now
Clant discovery
Spottiswoode, 11. Gd. means to
behind and knows nut how.
Agricultural Advisory Service
vice help him in an endless fight nged 18, mfused to shoot any-
work the mines for Hitler.
of the Government, which con- against cel-worms, wire-worms, JOHANNESBURG: A cave Mamma,
440 pages. sharp - thing on her second trip, which
Ho tongued,
goes off to kill the en-
trols the six counties agricul Colorado beetles and scores of used as a workshop by a ruca preity, gay, she has just completed.
Her of
scolding
gineer.
tural executive committees and other farm pests. With him prehistoric father, Berry B.
Papa THIS promising and amusing glants 60,000 when Brooks,
he is nt home, mii-
fretful
deals with
farming problema Misa Margaret Kembres, first novel mile years ago has been discovered about him
suffers from lionaire and
Streeter Da soon as he is
does hunter in the Drakenstein Mountains of out of sight. brom Memphis, Tennessee, has Cape Province by the South
one misfortune: the author'a Divver becomes a interest is divided too equally number of Forward. Just struck camp in Northern African
archaeologist
between two "heroes." Nyasaland after
When Papa taken to won lengthy anfor! Sawyer. These primitive South dering about Europe in busi- Max Divver,
Good fun here. in which he took 18,000 feet of Africans were a clumsy, heavy ne
But some here number thing Mamma's anxiety grows one, is supposed to have been when it leaves the New York book Kocs, out of the colour film and over 1,000 stills,
sulin fowled
from race, averaging seven
day to day. Ho Virginia contented herself with
will rude to Mussolini. For this liberal" circles. acting as photographie assistant, fost tall, who often killed and never return, finally, her nag reason he becomes
their follow
• leading ging
has driven him away. Left Wing Journalist men, says During a hunting trip through
in New NIGEL DENNIS. Ho Sawyer. A
in drinking-look at
nephew preliminary
of the York und writes for Mrs Mor- Phyllis Bottoms, has bean alarded the Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and
*x-
slovenly signature on this let gan's progressive the Congo in 1947, Virginia, ploration of the cave has re-
Harrap 8 63 paper For- the Eure and Spattistoode Hough- ter, These I's are not dotted ward. ginia, vealed a number of massive properly he is in a hurry, un
ton Migtin Literary Fellowship for then 14, shot lions and rhings tools, and experiments with one doubtedly going
the best American novel for 3863, and was
An Englishman, he has been eight the youngest person ever to shoot an elephant. Her hugs nxehead showed it could
years on the stag of Time maga- zina in New York. feats were published throughout still cut down a large tree as the world and "I got sick of it", quickly as a modern axe. she says.
ate
E. J.
You with man.
•The
to n rendez- some stranga Wo-
'Greens
time flourish.
in
The
and
Max is physically powerful and morally weak. He has o passion for self-analysis a sincere multiply.
talent for self-pity. BLIND MAN'S BUFF. By Too much TV
Paris, even if they do not, for zoon after Max
He and his first wife part
Robert Noumann. Hut- realises that NEW YORK: Tolesquat and long
only his cowardly telzerune are the names Ameri- | French-born brood are better in preventing him from telling
ishonesty chinson International than the Amertean, her he thinks her stupid. hasbehaved medicat profession
Authora. 12s. 6d. 304 given to two new ailments re-
but not much. They are, In ulting from
short, one of those spirited, at-
pages. too much T. Vfectionate, eccentric
1in relations with
Llly, his Telasquat-slumping for hours familiesLife
American
second wife, are tense. How with Father"
could they be otherwise? on end in chaira produces back-transposed from the key of ex-
Teleesane straining travagant farco to that of After forward to watch small screens nostalgle comedy.
Italian produces headaches, necksches and eye strain,
The soul of wit
NEW YORK: The
world's cu's Fhortest letter, received by a New York landlord in reply to an eviction notice "Sir: I re- main, yours truly,"
Dry air....
WASHINGTON: Anxious to serve cocktails and highballs in
Juxury kheir
planes. America's domestle airlines are
new
planning a lawsuit against areas which are sill dry. These dry communities claim it is just no legal to serve drinks in the air above them as-it is on land.
Which look?
aches.
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THIS comic, pathelle, moving.
and cruel story, is based explained upon a simple, effective, it
says, hardly originel, Iden. Italy, does
he has policy, Lily "Speaking about Eleanor, the lovely daughter anybody know where the Su- of the Greens, Taking their seats
tramps for bersteins get their gorgonzola?" miles through the forest of And when he hands her A OTTAWA: Outsize chairs are Fontainebleau being made for two of Canada's English writer,
with a young Press-cutting about one of his largest men, who
"who proposes books, saying casually, take their marriage and threatens to kill seats in Parliament for the first himself if the answer is un- time when the House of Com-favourable. mons meets on September 15,
the friends. in and calle an Mr
Mr Marx, head of an Aus- Irian Arm selling "devotional articles," Ands himself hope- lessly bankrupt, insures hla iffe well and decides to com- suicido. His plans go
"Not
too
bad, ch?" Lily takes the cutting and instine- tively turns it over and reads
mit
WTY.
They are John Garland, 35st. When Eleanor says Yes, he what is on the other side! 10 lb., new member for a Nor-telegraphs all thern Ontario constituency, and England NEW YORK: Autumn Montreal's mayor, fashions, now showing along Fifth-averse, present Amertean Houde, who is 21st. 6lb. Reine, in frockcont, top hat and
forced
Camellien
ia
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emotional
He gets mixed up with Mr Katz (mainly
responsible for his ruin), who is pushed by sform troopers Into the Danube wearing Marx's coat. Marx (supposedly Katz) finds him- self
the guardan
of Katz'a legitmate daughter, Morika,
white gloves, to ask formally chairs, six inches wider for his daughter's hand.
the Tho The than normal, are being put in family
life of the Commons. Two more
beyond Divvers being at this low ebb, mortifed are words,
that Minx is ordered to go to Po- for they know look being made, for their offlees. Eleanor does
and another pair for the parlia- love
not in the least land on the eve of war. Lily this
Englishmani
for mentory restaurant.
(his fles
divorce. a petition
Marx decides to stay alive name is Arnold Bennett). - The expedition has only
one which means he must get
women with a choice this season. The new look from Paris or the back-to-the-twenties hobble skirts half-way up the leg, low waistlines, and baggy
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
BLAH!
BLAB
BLAB
a delightful girl af 10.
AND IT'S ALL SIXTEEN-GUAGE COPPER GUTTERS AND FLASHINGS...
I INSISTED ON REAL SPLIT CHINGLES
AND
TELL THEA
ABOUT
THE BRICK WORKS
"ПОПКИТ NEUMANN'S books have bem published it lo gunger, were burned by the Nazis. Dorn Vienna, 1897, studied medi cine at Vianna University became bank errcuitve, Tim is married.
LIBRARY LIST
pages A good,
By Max Calfs
The Flanser itrons, simple story carrying complate conviction Johnny Flanagem, a young boxer, is taken up by Chuseppe, the promoter, and talis madly in love with Loma, Giuseppe young American wife in consequence, he kills Cluseppe and then, himsel! The outstanding quality of the novel springs from the volcank Bower imparted to the love alfile.
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19.0.54 Princesa Margaret in Halt By Ian Coster Pitkin 2 Gd 32 PAROS A pictorial record, infrably produced of a royal four attracted many photographers
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* The Holiday. Chapman and Hall Bt od 202 pages. By Stevie Smith The best way to approach this novet is to forget that I is a nova at all junt tax in the goofy pros You
will find plenty of good senso and some boelry Miss Smith manages -managed by one of the most original tents in the business
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The Lion Roars. By Robert Payne. Heinemann 9 66 258 pages Thi is not so much one novel as Iwo short novels sharing the tama central
character Lanny is brought up in East Africa the son of a mad missionary, and the Friend of a handsome black chistiain named Mluku Atter living for time in a native viitage, he goes home to New England where be folin In love with beautifu italian girl, Elizabeth She dies; Lanny's marriag Is not # success tie-goes back to Atrics to seek-end find-Muku
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The Little Sister. By Raymond Chandler Harrish Hamilton Ed 256 pages A fine new detective story by a master, at the b. Mr Chandler sees to it that the tension begins with paragraph one
Lindas Kipruso Service
BEGINNERS, PLEASE
DAB and FLOUNDER
by Walter
DASH BICRITARIAL COLLEGE
Dictation
Class
who is an
graduate, жно
a lonc crusade against the wood mice, so barrh ful to the crops. Poultry, crops, grassland, plant discasca, machinery-all have their little band of Investigators at Hall,
the.
The Province also runs 500-ncra experimental farm near Mansßeld, and numerous experiments are conducted 010 forms in all its areas. At the head of it all is the Director, Mr Arthur Jones, formerlyin a similor post in Wales.
One day the lówasman, Inger-and maybe even “Th Lady in Green," who is reputed to haunt the Hall will know that the whole future of dgri- culture in six countries of Eng- land lies
the
at
vil-
capable work largely in people
AST year 7,000 samples of animal feeding stuffs were examined and the farmers con- cerned advised how to prepare a balanced dlot for their
anl-:
of tho new the Hall."
mals. Other types of analysis averago 50 a week, and include tests of fertilisers and poisons, tissue test of crops, etc,
Mr J. E. Splckernell, fruit expert, hundreds of
that the
drals with
the thu
knotty problems from all types of fruit farmers.
Mr W. L. Steer is the glass house and vegetable expert.
Greatest regret of Mr R. J. Kerr, the livestock adviser, โป famous Derbyshire shire horse is dying out against the increasing competition of the tractor. Even so, sheep and rattle breeding is on the crease, and his gont is good pedigree and disease-free herds.
"How to Fascinate Feople'
BY KEMP STARRETT,
♫ AND I DIDNT
HAVE TO DO
WITHOUT A TING I
LIKE TO
BAT
etc
in-
GIVE EAL A FORTY- ALNUTE RESUME OF LAST NIGHTS BRIDEE OR SUNDAY'S GOLF.
AND THE DOCTOR
BILLS AND TAXES..
AID THE WAY
THE KIDS WANT
TO SPEND MONEY...
CLOTHES, CLOTIES,
CLOTHES AND
THE WIFE...
NEVER A MINUTE
PEACE...
瞞
"TELL 'EA YOUR
“TROUBLES.
GIVE IMPERSONATIONS". LOFS OF EATE
KAND SHE SAID> [T
DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFF~~ ERENCE WHAT I BROUGHT TO THE PICNIC AND I SAID
IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO ME SO SIE SAD...
AND ON AND
ON AND ON JAD ON
|· CALL'EM UP AND
TALK ABOUT NOTHING- FOR FORTY, MUINUTES.
DRAG THEM ALL OVER THE NEVHOUSE-OR THE REHUDDLED ONE, AND TELL THEA HOW YOU BOSCED THE WORK AND TOLD THE MEN HOW TO DO THIS AND "TILAT GIVE THEM ALL THE MEASUREMENTS, TOO. THEYRE FASCINATING.
THE BOTTIS ARE JEROIC Ở H TABILITIES. TREY'RE AFRAID I'LL TAKE CHERTLER JOBS! HOW-
"TELL'EM ALL "TRÈ REASONS"," WAY YOU CAN'T GET A JOB.:
TELL ALL YOUR THIN FRIENDS, VIOD LIKE TO GAIN A FEW OUNCES „Now to REDUCED FORTY-TWO POUNDÉ IN TWO MONTIC.
Ledger Syrdiente",
*YOU CAN'T CURE A COLD · THAT WAY. THE DOCE DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT. NOW 1 FOUND A SIDE-FIRE CURE... PRACTICALLY OVER NIGHT...
YOU TAKE PLENTY CE BI- CARB All' ... TELL'EM HOW TO, CURE A COLD... AND BE BELLIGERENT ABOUT IT.
GNETE GIETS ALL THE DETAILS ABOUT HOW YOU BUILT THE CHELVES IN FRE CELLAR