A Great German Who Loved Little · Things JOHANN Weltrang von Goethe is one of the great men
world literature, Poetry flowed Itke music from his heart. He loved lițite things and wrote about a shy violet which hoped a shepherdess would pluck it. And you have probably wong his the Kon about the red rose-bud on heath and the boy who broke 1.
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Goethe WAR also *A dramatist, novellat, and scientist. Napoleon met him and said afterwards: "There is a MAIL,"
Now the Germans eommemorate Els birth 200 years dro with a set of Ave stamps. This one shows him as he was at the height of his fame.
Face value: 15 přenales (about 18. 1d): Perforation: 13-by 134-
-(London, Express Service)
FROM HERE AND THERE:
This Modern Daniel
Milked
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 12, 1949.
A 26-year-old girl who writes with wicked insight into
The Far Cry. By Emma
Smith. MacGibbon and Kec. 91, 6d. 279 pages:
H
TERE is a clever young womani Here lo Д girl who can writo! Emma Smith.
MIN SMES.
human nature
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
1
REVIEWS THE NEW BOOKS
CÍM:LLECTERENTZIAI) (ITA) 1316||LİTESIZERENCSELLE
You remember Maldens' Trip which told, with such galety and verve, the adventures of miserable. Ruth. We are left stark simpiletty must be the three girls on Britain's canals supposing that Teresa and Ed- design. The search and nothing during the war? That was our win will one day fall in love but the watch one tenuous clica after another; ono indifferent or brutal officiat after another; one An abrupt finish. Almost heart-sickening disappointment petulant. The dolls are banged after another, back into their box.
Now comes her first novel. The verdict? A complete
KUCCESS.
It has fun and pathos, wicked Insight - into human nature, Above all, charm,
The special charm of youth which is made up of so many ingredients panic, alarming candour, fantasy; a short supply of cummon sense but a discon certing equipment of logle; a enparity for idle wonder verg- inst 11 sheer vacancy. They are all here.
The weariness, despair, hope But. In the meantime how they have lived Mr Digby, in of the father. The corrosion of the light of an affectionate mind, nerves, body as the un- malice,
A blustering alarmist bearable weeks pass by. That is teetering on the border between the patterna single, wavering, force and tragedy,
But it is dogged line, Tercien herself who Alls most of the stage.
Authorisa EMMA SMITH
sion ont at Somerville College, Or- ford. Since then ska has developed a wide range of intaresta, erpecial. lu in traveler publisher-hua-
food, clothes and de corations,
band, Mr John Howard, she lives in the Hampatead house that was once owned by Mre Siddons, as tron children aged six and sight.
Confession of a Rebel. By Jack Clomo Chatto and Windus. 10. 6d. 246 pages.
QUEEN 6sh, a misfit, a man with a kink, Jack Clemo, Cornish poet and novelist, is, coming up the hard way.
He has been blind and is
his total years, dent, Over
a feny carnings amounted to shillings. His mother's pension Wilding kept them both allve. Graft, published last year, gave on the him his first foothold But Marghanita Laski was ladder. But s thio auto- ders off it. To tell
us that blography
shows--it was the Teresa and her unkindness to Hilary, the father, is a Left outcome of years of work and
Wing Intellectuni As if the ugly girl on the linert Tere-
we discouragement. That Hilary may with care.
con- and her friendship
Joyce "Sho Sam, the
Indian descend to marry scandaloun It tells the story of Teress. A servant: Teresa watching-with reads the New Statesman every
week and schoolgirl and her father, Mr what
takes nu informed brilliant, remembering
interest in politics, helf WA and of Teresa'a
Also she's was too shaken to do anything | Digby:
eyes--the worship in the temple nod.
Ruth, and her husband, of Kall; much
ban
The
in love with me." It will serve terribly Teresa wedding will be a quiet affair Edwin
happy, frightened; Teresa the Hilary right. the explains Daniel,
Teresa's
hud Art: Teresa growing up. so her. Whe ught of an elaborate cere.
divererd Mr Digby ten years
19
with Youth ster hits
| before, is about to return from
of the sentiment of America Mr Digby, fearing bulton
And
descriptive whal that his ex-wife will stent the foils.
19 disclosed
The Juhn Trean hum, sautches Teresa power When CAPE TOWN:
In ber panorama of India, lovely, ab- from school and hurries with Ferguson
charged
aeross the world murd, squalld, magicalf
You will read The Far Cry. Grunkenness, the constable who het e-skelter
A Lioness
JOHANNESBURG:
Tell 22-year-old Daniel handsome, Esterhuyes han just returned to Johannesbank from
the wilds
of South-Wit
Africa
quarter of a
pint
1.
with A
BODY of Honers'
Dawet
milk to claim his bride
loved Queria,
20-year-old
Johannesburg typist, bul
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had arrested him gave evidence Put Ferguson's eyes and boll "Gu red and Hallamedi and look at them now," ordered The constrb.e reported that both eyes were
mal At this, Ferguson re nuved
glass re not showed the magistrate charged.
公
"Bebop" battle
Ir
NEW JERSEY: New Jersey
must settle who copyrigha
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by the Africans, bound
Alder Dalri thre the Honess tu a tree
bush.
trunk with lip knols
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fara a
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precious bottle of think, sucky. yellowish milk.
Daniel
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public domain,
tled the loose ends of the keots to the bumper of his car
arlengar It, thus and drove
the tones-just as her mute.
A
huse,
black-mantr
dashed up to the rescian. The wa Outraged
bensta nid innu led endeavoured to chase the car. but Darzi drave tor heading for hune and beauty
Queda marry he asked as he handed milk. Father father the
"Well,
now
her
can
1
is in the
Never satisfied
ANGELES: It is not
for
LON enough
the American housewife that she can buy her minced teak frozen and package all ready for the grill. A grover proudly produced a minced refinement Frozen
islots cleak with a frozen bulter on 1 p.
nister
b the Assum ten-garden where Ruth ros Edwin live.
The trouble is that Ruth and Edwhe are Et as all likefy to be the
refuge Mr haven Digby is looking for. Nice, sen- utive peuple that they are, Ruth Elwin are very unhappy in their lea-garden.
and
Mr Digby too fussy, panje- ky, muddle-header to notice. He might have got round to the truth But Miss Smith kills him
off-und Ruth, too, benutiful,
Here
un-
M
Meanwhile Hilary hns the dreary affate with Nelly, a pro- stiute. When the tension should be acutest, it is outrageous to let such a triviality slacken it,
the end, linry Ands a boy and, by an Ingenious de vice, Is able to prove him his
2011.
Bed Is Essential For Jaundice
By The Doctor
to
men
Now it i
Long incubation
/HEN a patient complains of started In the intestine and
feeling out of sorts" for a travelled upwards. few days, the doctor thinks of known that a virus gains entry Jaundice. At least he ought to do into the blood stream-some-
transfusion. Clemo in a convinced, fana-o. (In practice, I am afraid few times when an injection of blood
the
doctors succeed in diagnosing is given or after tical Calvinist, disliking
Jaundice before the appearance
During the war A number of genial Methodism in which he
of his of the yellow colouration,) Portraits was reared.
bo due Jaundice may
inoculated against yellow heroes are on his cottage walls:
But the result fever broke down with Jaundice Browning. T. F. Powys-and various causes.
00 days later: for the means that the liver calls are not 30 to Spurgeon, the famous preacher,
dealing properly with the bile, so incubation period is one of the Since then a He had some sympathy with that too much is present in the longest known.
number
of casca have boon the dictators. He, the prole blood.
Jaundice in which tarian, voted
The commonest cause is infec- reported for Churchill in
tion of the special cells of the followed the injection of a small coloured per- 1945 vivid,
of adult's "blood to That possessed soulky qualities of leadership because this was due
its difference it was aware of from the presale massCI.” EMMA SMITH! 20. Her
Nothing but sensationalism is bank, Maiden Trip, has recently
But the book, with its im- big enough to save the world, bron wanted the John Llewellyn
is a advantage, Rhys Memorial Prize for 1040 Ear-
mense illal
failure. ter in 1948 Emma Smith hath we comparative
It is a Rockefeller Atlantic award for
#lever; Agreeable to" rend. 250, and with the special permia. mon of the Treasury the worst should be painful to read. Fred use this money Buing for should take the reader by the * month in France While there she wrote The Fur Cry During the throat, war when only 1 she worked pair of canal boats between London броска and Mirmingham, After the
she went to India na serli turiter for a documentary flim unit
trar
to
*
fira!
Little Boy Lost. By Margh. anita Laski. The Cresset press. 9. 6d. 216 pages.
WHAT
ព
ply! Murghanita
Laski has muffed it. Gifted, witty Marghanita Laski wha hit upon so poignant a theme.
The theme? A little boy lost in the right of war. A little boy whose mother is killed by who disappears the Gestapo.
trace, who leaving hardly
identity be hopelessly obliterated. And whose father searches,
may be dead,
4 whose
may
searches.
af
MARCHANITA LASKI
Is only There handle such
ODE
a story.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"HA REMEMBER THE FOLKS
WHO SOLD US THAT
LEMON OF A CAR?
*CLOSING UP/ BUSTED
SMORE
wuy to
Utter,
LASKI, "MARGHANITA daughter of Mr Noville Laski, KC, wde educated in Manchester, Lon
Kiya man.
the iver. It used to be believed that the onset of measles in
opfidonated
h Clemo,
JACK CLEMO, the man of n kii:1- worker who died during the frat World War, was born in 1930 in the temple Cornish clay-mining village Goonainarris, where he has lived ever since
-Landon Express Servics)
LIBRARY LIS TA
CHARACTER
AND SITUA TION, $ix stories by Christophat Sykes Collins 8 6d. 252 pagel Sykes is more successful the chaser he keeps to facts. The most amusing of his new stories tells how the cholics of a cathedral in Cyrenalco was offered as a cup in an army horse-race--and won by an kish priest,
• DEAD LION. By John and Enary Bonolt, Michael Joseph. B 60, 216 pages..
Abare-average detectiva story. Cyprion Druse "could scorch a repu- ration with a few sentences... ho never produced any creative work, but only destroyed. Like a blight, fattened his like a rompira, he
the blood of his reputation an
victims," in other words, a reviewer. Cyprian is very naturally, murdered. six likely Question is, which of women did the job?
• A SUMMER IN ITALY. Sean O'Foolain. Eyre and Spottis
woods. !2x 6d. 234 pages.
8,
A gentle, pleowntly described and highly prejudiced omble through modern Italy. The photographs might have been better.
• A CLEAR DAWN. By Winifred Pock Faber and Faber. 9 6d. 253 pages.
I cannot think why Lady Pack troubles to pretend that her McWatts live anywhere but in Edinburgh. The navci in steeped in the atmosphere of the city she perrorsets colle "Castleburgh."
to a germ which
DAB and FLOUNDER -by WALTER
children.
A survey just published in the British Medical Journal puts the figure of jaundice after trans- fusion at 11.9 percent when blood plasma from a large-pool blood-bank is used. On the other hand it drops to 0.8 per- cent, when injections of blood itself are used. The total death rute is given as two per 1,000
cases.
Death from jaundice is rare provided that treatment is given
at once.
Koop off fats
Bed is essential. If there is nnucca then nothing but water or fruit juice by mouth is permit→ ted. Carbohydrate intake should be high; fats very low.
The patient must be kept at rest until all tests for the func iloning of the liver are normal A number of tests are again. now available to show whether there is gross damage to liver cells. The liver can have a largo percentage of cells made useless without permanent ill-health re- sulting.
But there are limits; and it it necessary for the doctor to be satisfied that the Umits have not been passed before allowing the patient to get up.
(London Express Serulco)
THAT'S THE FIRST STATIC I'VE ENJOYED IN AGES!"
"Sympathy"
BY KEMP STAREETA
BLOOP
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CRACKLE
CRACKLE
THE GRILYOK NEWS OF A
BUSINESS RECESSION...
AND DOES IT GRIEVE US WHEN THE LANDLORD, WHO REFUSED TO FIX THAT BUSTED STEP, GETS A TASTE OF AT?
WE'RE COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED WITH SYMPATHY WHEN THE ROADHOG WIO ALMOST DITCHED US, GETC A -CHANCE TO "CONTRIBUTE
TO THE STATE MOTOR 133
FUND, Ledger Syndicate
WHEN THE STATIC SPOILS THE COMMERCIALS FOR A CHANGE.
"1000" "OH, YOU POOR
CHILDHIA HAS
WILA HEC GOBBLED UP HALF
OF YOUR ONLY BOX OF CANDY.
"OH, DEAR/MOTHER, WOHIT
BE ABLE TO SPEND
THE WINTER VITA,
US THIS YEAR
"TOO BADA NO. UMBRELLAS?
REGRETFUL
MIK.
POZETC IN THE RAIN GET ACC SWIPATHY AS MOUD GAE FROM, ČEADE
#
TO FALL APART.
IT'S STARTING
GUESS I'LL
REALLY HAVE
TO GID
RID OF IT.
"THE SAD SAD NEWAS