The Argentine Reminds
The British
Tuis stamp is a souvenir
the Argentine. When
from
S:CORRIOS
to
the country starjed develov, her people naked Britain to build her railways. Wo bullt We owned them. And WO them. carried
passengers thousands of free-woldiere, sailors, postmen, and police.
Last year we sold the railways to the Argentine for beef. Now the makes Government run them and
everyolto pay. And just to remind the British that they are no longer the boss it has issued his which says: "The rail is ours."
stamp
"
Face value: Ten centavos (about 1d.); 1314 by 12.
Perforation
-(London Expren Service)
FROM HERE AND THERE:
Michael Struck Rich On
A Rocky Ridge
DARWIN: For three years "The sales people operating John Michel White had been them risk damage to the tissues shooting kangaroos and wallables which manufacture blood," they for food near his modest farm cald. in Rum Jungle, Northern Ter- ritory.
programmA
מזרח
often took him across the rock
IJ
SEVILLE; A "dying bicycle"
be
Sticklers for truth
NEW YORK: Those biscutis
Insists upon
JEW
THE 'HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949.
BOOKS
Your mind
was his business
AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Sig- mund Freud (Hogarth Press 8s. 6d.) 80 pages. IGMUND FREUD died in Hampstead in 1939 at the age of 88, a re- fugee, and a pioneer who had changed the thinking habits of the civilised world.
He left unanished at his death a book intended to be his suraming-up of psycho-analysis, the revolutionary theory and technique of inental healing which had been his life's work, and which han Inspired as slavlah an acceptance
on the one hand, and as great Indigna- ilon and hostility on the other, nan new religion,
Froud, more than any other scientific explorer, more. cvia han Darwin, has changed our ideas about ourselves, and has eertainly nat changed them for the better;
which is why the world had found him difficult to forgive.
He has taught us to see below surface of our
thensetous
credit.
by
MARGANET LANE
moves by our own will power, or force of character.
Wordsworth's Immortality.
Intimations of
"Beyond this, dreams bring lo Rpht material which Coul 1100 originate either from che dreamer's adult life of from hi jorgotten childhood.
ого obliged
to regard it as part of the archate heritage schich a child brings with him into the world, before any experience of hla aten, de a revult of the ex- pertence of his anerators, Drema ofer
A source of human prehistory" which is not to be despised."
This not work however, now published in Britain for the first time, la not perhaps the It best choice for a beginner.
Is a summipg-up, a re-statement of belief in sucli major premises as the Oedipus complex, the significance of dreams and in- Innille sexuality, and so on; and naturally takes for granted a certain knowledge of Freudian theory in the reader.
WHAT
IS PSYCHO- Many people would seriously
ANALYSIS? Ernest disagree, and indeed we can rit
men, pro- Jones. (Allen and Un- ! think of successful foundly lusioned about them-
win, 78. 6d.) 121 pages. selves, who have achieved their success in life chiefly through AR better for the Inquiring their enviable lack of personal misgiving. Yet I
nyman who happens not to ing. Yet I cannot belleve
have read any paycho-analyticnt that everyone is not the saner literature before and yet can-
10
eminent
is. the newest Spanish invention dut thousands of vipers in the tand this withering discovery? clearly and act rationally and list of books for further reading. I
LIBRARY LIST
known for centuries in Britaninds, where there is nothing for a measure of self-knowledge, not believe the subject is quite ridge where two years ago ha
whatever to be seen to anyone's even though Freud's discoveries the nonsense that Hollywood ginger nuts, are to be re- first found a strange ore, which.
je rnynil*r}
us self pretends is Dr Ernest Jones's) Although he was a prospector, med "gingers' before they can
What is Psycho- ! The T exported to Ameries.
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axiom that all our which is often crazy and always iftic book." he could not frlentify.
He let
analysis? Pure Food Ad- [||] he United States
dearest molives lie conceal- impossible to like. there until recently, when ministration
theed, and when uncovered always To understand something of
Dr
Jones in he read an article in a
do not because they change submitted
turn out to be by idealistic and that part of the mind (seven- Freudian and a very clear and Inving pamphlet.
romantic standards, disgusting. eighths of the whole, like a readable interpreter of the samples to the Northern Terri- contain any nuts,
Viper invasion tory mines branch White HOW
He outlines Freud's is not drifting letberg) called the un- master. What is astonishing
explored theories, glances at the differ- knows he has found uranium
ROME: Vipers have
met conscious, which he that Freud should have and in entitled to the Comnion followed white butterflies and with such passionate resistance, ne patience and philosophic made (or is capable of making)
with his unique blend of selen ence
ences which paycho-analysis has wealth reward of up to £3,000, Colorado beetles tu plague but that he should have mil
approach to politica ។ Northern Italy. The Flying high
Intense inspired so devout a following- umility is to Improve our per- in our
soal equipment for elv Used medicine, education, religion heat and dryness have brought for how many of us can really fiving. It helps us to think and art and gives a most useful}
illusions about so to deal countryside near Varese, north To give up our
more successfully The Inventor, Minnucl Bermudez, of Milan. The makes have even ourselves is mal sicrifice, like with the difficult demands of 30-year-old civil servant, says: invaded farmhouses, Special
renouncing comfortable blankels llie. "My bicycle will fly very much quad's
of men have bren in the winter. like a bird. Two pedals working organised
to fight this new
this in Is there any value through an ordinary gear-
le Bacrifice, will give the machine a
No smoking ban "He
heroisms, fullie? bird-like fight,"
muy costly would not
NEW YORK: Smoking rooms is it not the mechanical details
more pleasant and reveal "because the authorities have the for schoolboys are to be installed comforting, and therefore more matter in hand." Public opinion this term is the high school at sustaining in this difficult life,
rural in Seville is that Manuel is
Goshen, la New York to believe ourselves noble,
Charles unozifish, State. Headmaster
moral, dreamer.
拉约 jar, as Hooker announced that he would possible? Danger: X-rays
permit open smoking by his NEW YORK: X-ray machlues
pupils because a questionnaire in shoe shops can interfere with h: sent to
all parents showed the norm. development of a
that must of them did not mind. child's feet, Two Harvard doc- tors (one of them
Catering for caminos special assistant to the director of HOLLYWOOD: A give-away Atomic Energy Commission's programme for dogs offers the Division of Biology and Medi- winning dogs theso prizes-Ave cine) have announced cases of days in "glamorous New York," children whoso feet have stopped a new car with plenty of tail growing after excessive exposure room. a TV set, a Hollywood.
ditions, svod swimming pool, to the machine's
inchace.
or
FREUD was far from being the only explorer of un- known mental territory In his generation, but he stands head and shoulders above his con
his contem- poraries, and one is tempted to think that this is because be- 'des being a great discoverer, Ee could also write. His rivals are largely unreadable to the layman, while Freud's work is usually clear, simple and (even Ja translation) at times beautl-
Many people-most, I should at the blankets ray-prefer
seem oiten to illusion, and have a wonderfully comfortable fu
time inside them, to the envy of all shivering disillusioned bo- Consider holders. Yet it seems impossible not to believe that it is safer to know what one is up against, than not to do so; safer to understand the machine travel in than
to belleve
this paragraph, which after a concise statement of his famous theory of dream the interpretation, sonds imagination öll on a migratory we fight which seems to follow the it same submerged. coastline as
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
DAB and FLOUNDER
-by WALTER
ĮLOREY CHICKET AROUND
11
Adriana Is A Bad Woman
By George Malcolm Thompson THE WOMAN OF ROME, and-ruby compact from Gino's -By Alberto Moravia. mistress, and gives it to Gino
when he complains. Gino, Socker and Warburg, odious little coward, passes the 12. 6d. 390 pages.
DRIANA is a beautiful
AD
compact to Sonzogno, who kill "fence" cheating him over
This Sonzogno, a sinister and repels
girl, an honest girl, a good girl-and a bad unpredictable brute, woman. She is not merely Adriana, yet somehow she feels
man. He becomes the father of her child.
Roman
a woman of Rome; she is a closer to him than to any other woman of the streets.
With Mino, a young student Her life la atrocious, But it and amateur revolutionary, ls described with such candou Adrians falls in lovo, When and almplicity that the reader is Mins betrays his comrades to prepared to believe that it is not the police, and commits suicide, Adriana in never cal- she feels there is nothing to live vicious.
"tough." culating, never
Her
for except Sonzogno's child, story is without sentimentality, whom but she has the wholesome senti whom Mino's rich parents will
support. gir! meat of a working class
goes (occasionally) to con-
11, in fact, a revulston of sentiment that drives Adrian on to the streets. Glao, her "Asnce," has been concealing from her the existence of a wife and
child.
Adriana dlakes her profese sion, but acknowledges that nature has given her a certain aptitude. In other circumstances she would have settled down happily as a wife and mother. As it is.
To celebrate her release from respectability, she steals à gold-
First Festival Modern
Of
Literature
There is perception in this novel that is never over-subtle. The story, sordid as it is, in dia- infected by a splendid matter- or-factness
Pornography? No, Mr Attor ney, it is too near the bone of
fe for anything ko that.
bom Wrote
ALBERTO MORAVIA, items 1907, architect's 10%, frat novel 1923. Foreign Correspon dont lin London, Jarts. Linoka banned under Mussolini, During German occupation of Baly wrni
Now liver in Rome, into hiding,
THE ESSENTIAL NEVILLE CARDUS. Cape, 12.. 6d. 316 pages.
wo hundred and fifty pages TWO
of Carlus on crleket; 60 pages on composers. Riches aro heral
་་ Too much on cricket? And too litilo for music? Maybe, why complain? Carduc is faithful to both in his fashion.
But
And his fashion is to write mag-
on the
confers
map
EW towns in England have The National Character and nificently, with the same pro- shown as much municipal Nigel Balchin on "The Novel and fusion of ideas, about the Fifth enterprise as Cheltenham. In the Film" while Compton Mac-Test as about the Fifth Sym- Gloucestershire.
In kenzie, who is at present en phony. especially
You feel the summer organising festivals of the Arts. Eaged on a war. history of the sun of Canterbury Week; you Indian Army, will discuss "The
hear the violins of Salzburg. Novel." The Festival of Contemporary Contemporary Music,
What distinction this which WOS
planned
distinguished speakers Other during World War II and was include Ivor Brown
our "trade of upon launched in 1045 has quickly writer's raw material"Words," journalism, If the Royal Com taken its place as an important Peler
had
pronounced "Travel mission оп Fleming event in the muzle calendar. Books" and the poet Cecil Day different verdict on us, we could Now Cheltenham has initia- Lewis, giving a "Recital of Con-have said in mitigation of the ted a corollary Festival of Con- temporary Verse with Com- unjust sentence: "WIN Your lordships bear in mind in our temporary Literature which is ments." for the part of Aaron Gadd
favour that, for your few cop- Hall
pcrs a
day, we have given
THE GOR-SIENER. Sinclair Lewis, Sin- 11einemann 12/61, 297 pagus. clair Lows, who has written so murry bitter social satires in the past, clearly one aim is writing this comple nad historical novel about 19th century missionaries to the American Indians namely, to sell it to the movies Even magure on the cover hints share- bely 4 Cary Cooper, who may be Csit already to all know
being held at the Town There ha part for Paulalte Goddard too, and it between October 3 and 7.
corlam to be made in Technicolor a
10 The *st of saritual wccesso Unconquered, to which closely seproximates in dooth and sincerity
LINE ON GINGER. Robin Maugham, Chapman and Hall. 7/6), 136 pezas. A short, slight, D'asantly written story at a young man who went wrong, and why Excellent for a train Journey: duration London to Birmingham
THREE OF HEARTS. James M. Cain, Robert Hale, 10/6), 405 pages. Three long short stories short novely-by loading exponent of the American 1oughs-taconic-school-Vistence with a certain style. If you stiß lika urstallaved violence
London Express Service.
Twenty-four leading publish~ | tavoi crs in Britain have
co-
It is claimed that this is the operated in forming an exhibi- you first festival in England to bo tion of 2,000 books covering devoted entirely to contem- the whole held of contemporary porary books and authors.
literature, and a special display The programme ranges over has been organised of some of the whole of the literary scene. the best examples of contem- The speaker at the inaugural porary na printing and bind- .uncheon will be Sir Ialph ing.
Richardson, the eminent Eng- It is hoped that this festival
born at will become an annual iish actor, who was
event, Cheltenham,
the matching
contemporary Arthur Bryant, the historian music festival in the quality and blographer, will speak on and scope of its programme.
#
And in the lot that followed, the name of Cardus would have
god near the top. *NEVILLE CARDUS, former music critic and cricket correspun- ent of Manchester Ussardian; bor 1889 in quburb of Stanches or Larned money as a child by setting chocolates in a Manchester theatri and no pavement artist. Workad seven years in Insurance office. then as pasitant cricket coach a Shrewsbury School and secretary to the headmaster,
(London Express Service).
'Temptations We've Resisted"
BY KEME STARRETT
-OF-COURSE I DID.
DON'T YOU THINK
I HAVE ANY CENSE
THE TEMPTATION TO GIVE THE RIGHT ANSWER.
"STOP AL IF YOU'VE HEARD TIC QUE...
THAT TEMPTATION
TO REALLY
STOP IN..
AT TRU
HECK..
'YOU DON'T
THINK I'M GETTIN' TOO HEAVY, DO YOU"
"TIE TEMPTATION TO TELL-- THE TRUSTU....... BUT OF COURSE
·YOU RISICT AID SAY HOT
IT'S QUITE À TEMPTATION TO KOSE DOWN MA-IN-LAW... AFTER SHE'S CTAYED HER TWO WEEKS... PLUS SIX MONTHS.
Ledger Syndicate
THE TEMPTATION TO BE DONE WITH THE OLD CEMENT- AKER, ONCE
AND FOR ALL.
ONE OF THE TEMPTATIONS VE'VE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO RESIST, UP TO NOW, IS CALLING THE ATTENTION... FORCIBLY.., OF THE CNCOTY WAITER, WHO DOESNT CARE A HOOT WHAT. YOU MAY WANT OR NEED,
WHEN THE BOSS HOLDS
THAT SPIKE...
ot BROTER...
WHAT „TEMUTATION
THE DENTIST'S WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY
WITH THE GUY
WHO FORGOT TO PAY IS BILL
AUD AS ALL FOR COCIALIZED MEDICINE.