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How bad were
THROUGH THE VALLEY. By Robert Henriques. Collins, 12s. 6d, 630 pages.
·ENRIQUES'S novel
H
opens with the de-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950.
the good old days?
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
reviews the NEW BOOKS
which Charles was deeply im- pressed by the religious fervour of the Moslems. It drove him back to Christianity.
He became monk, went to live alone in the Sahara, wore dress, became halt an The native Arab.
he lived in a Algerin, sole new religious himself. by founded order During The Brat war he wag Jie killed in a tribal revolt. for had made not a single convert,
Kor Mr Henriques in full of DESERT CALLING:
For 15 years story of Charles de Fou- wringings of scription of a foxhunt social broodings,
cauld. By Anne Freman- wretched hut in in the Cotswold country at hands, and tellings of bells. The
tle. Hollis and Carter. 15s, member of o Christmas in the year of the Old England is passing. By the novel it in pretty end of the
313 pages. General Strike.
well past. The Old England of (with J2 benters hunia, shoots enjoying themselves
It is just about as exciting
· a hunt as a man ever tuok part in while sitting com- fortably in his awn arm chair. So long as it lasts, the reader is willing to sus- pend his doubts about the characters and the philoso-
pansing? le that the purpose of your the novel? The trouble
phialngs which come nosing indiferent novels. You do not him from the betting.
their way into the story.
But even the
mest thrling of foxhunts cannot at for 639 DOCES. The time comes when we are left with the people und the ideas.
The people compre!
Icarly M.F.JI,
Sentimental landowner
the road to rula;
on
Hard-faced business man on the road to landowning;
Some naughty wives; and A Bad Man, whose con- questa among the women are hardly Justified by any charm he displays.
These characters are so busy being true to type that they
forget to nearly
come alive. spruce, pink There they are, and pre-war, the last generation of a stuffed-shirt class, nicely done up in tissue paper.
*
Yet his
every F.one had been looking
In the eightles likely faints as much as the fox does on lif
out), Big Houses in the of last century one would not day county and villas at Cannes.
omcer.
example triumphed French cavalry young Does Hentiques deplore its have pleked that fat, dissoluto
de where his preaching failed. His Vicomte Charles about Foucauld.
with memory is the strongest but-E His conduct
of French civilisation in! others of her klad treas him is that he, la not quite sure. Mimi and
itself, have excluded Africa. Now he is revered in He has the cross-bench mind. would, in
second only to SL France bad politles and It makes for
one of Joan. Charles became Yet
the officer
with write good novels by behaving
outstanding
Laperrine, as st you were the Liberal the
modern French Catholicism and whom be worked most closely, notebook con- Party.
modern French Imperialism-li kept a mauve
decide which role taining 103 names of those con- was more important. There nected with Foucauld's murder: a doubt how far he remained, "When I have managed to kill One I scratch him out." one, The old order had its nasty to the Inst, on agent of French
was executed as Touaress, of the killers horrid intelligence. farming, sice had
ita the village, who killed him, had no doubt late as 1044. Many more are illegitimacy
still alive. starving tramps on the ronds. at all. But the new order? It is worse,
black with
is hard to
The
Agures
The transformation from markets, rake to saint look place in bureaucrats, snoopers from the consequence of an arduous ex
in Marocco during Ministry peering into the barns, ploration and ends from the City buying up
yout
504
This account, gushing, some- times cheap, cannot conceal the remarkable stature of the man and the story.
Orchestra Players
LONDON.
Where your
money goes |
BIG myntery may be clear-
Ded
by Bosworth up MONCK. 17e has written "How The Clell Service Works." It will come from Phoenix House.
The aim of the book is to bridge the gulf between the taxpayer and the Service.
Mr Monck is an engineer. That's quite a gulf you've pleked, fir Monck
Next mystery.
BET- Who is Don TERIDGE, author of "Spies Left7
None other than the king of all clonk-and-dogger men the inimitable Bernard NEWMAN,
Sir, you may now uncloak. would BILLANY Dan probably have developed in- to one of the finest of our young novelists, His story,
The Trap,"
being 15 published without revision by Faber. It was written an Italian prisoner-of- Billany was war camp. martally wounded in an en- counter with an informer.
Exciting subject for an
author. exciting
In
Graham
BOOKS D PEOPLE by ION HOPE
GREENE is working on a blography of R. L. Steven- so th
Julian AMERY has com pleted volume 4 of Life of Joseph Chamberlain, started for Macmillon by J. L. Gar- vin.
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BOOK BUSINESS in big business now. Last year's furnover-more than million-was a record. bent the 1948 figure by £2 million. Renald Barker, or the
Association, Publishers tells me that in the last quarter of
of 1049 Britain's book exports were running at an annual rate of £10 million.
In Well up
the of queua customers the U.S.A.
After American best-seller Rose Franken produced the latest in the line of novels about her creation, Claudia, her the said, referring to characters: "If I write an other book I shall have to kill them all off." She may, cancel this muss slaughter. Too many Claudia fans have protested.
Disagree:
Chiefs
Quit May
by MARIUS POPE
First, admit you're jealous
by Canon HUGH WARNER
MY HUSBAND works 17) an vince where he 15 brought into contact every day with a number of attracitus typists. To my shame, I find I am feeling just that sealousy for which I used to condemn others, I can't got rid of it.
OST people in your posi- Mion will not numit their
own feelings. They drive it all underneath their con- sclous mind in an orgy of self-deception, and every- body suffers.
Jealousy is a tricky buai-
ness.
("*ie ta a soul'a game," nan husband said, when no returned to me after ten desertion for months another woman, He was plad to be back home, for we have boon happily married for 20 pears. During those months, however, the woman's husband had gone for a divorce. She has falled to get her husband to forgive her, so she pleaded with my husband not to leave her high and dry. He has noto gona back to her, but they are He is utterly miserable. tangled in such a knot that r don't know that to advise him to do."
STICKING out a mile is one
of
It is often muddled
fact. You belong to with the sin of envy, as your husband, and he be when a woman runs down longs to you until one large families because some you dies. "In sickness or in one she dislikes has more health" is not to be limited children than she herself. to something physical. Sick- That's envy.
ness can be spiritual.
who
It is better to reserve the word those occasions Jealousy for when we feel we are threatened with the loss of someone
really our own. There is a good and a bag kind of posses- siveness in love and marriage.
"
own
BEHIND-THE-SCENES harmonia Concert Society a intera, hit to my the wrong to fac
the land. So where are Contrast all this swithering with the passion that comes in- to Henriques's writing when he of Danny pleads the cinim
David, Levine and his Jews, lo be Englishmen and nothing but Englishmen.
The maln effect of
these . social gropings in to subtract shape, speed and energy from the novel, Hounds have found
trouble in one of Lon- for this threatened blow to rut in a dozen new works this
year and not suffered at all." and are off,
But ton many foxes
may London's musicnl life.
I that after LIKED—the exclung it is deplorable full ery, after the lot of them don's top orchestras
precision of the BBC With fewer scents, themes, Inbring a change in control.
they had done so much last string bur trigues and people we should.
the way planist Cause: a rift between Mrs year through the generosity Phyllis Sellick "clowned" enjoyed a better have
opening night And a shorter one.
Joan Ingpen, manager of of the Maharajah of Mysore the the Philharmonia Orchestra to enhance the reputation of singing of the Alaxandra Choir.
the present since its foundation, and Mr the orchestra,
should have to Walter Legge, of the Phil- situation harmonia Concert Society. arise.
It in as if the cast of one of Mr Lonsdale's comedies, rein-
by one character forced rowed from Me Arien, had been the West brought olong from End, costumes and all, to enact
Jun.
a drama of social glance in THE ODDS AGAINST US. Leamington Spa.
LIBRARY LIST
INSIDE THE PUD.. By Maurk Cortar and H. McG, Dunnett, Archi- tectural Press; 18: 130 pages The Dutille house in art. Hibody, having read this book, will be conscious only of what is alde ha glas is be in a Cin Palace, #coy Is Hie decora Mon cairied out le bhear' Tudor or brewer's Caorgian? On such question this informative book will put Me mind at rest.
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Confucianiem. Tantummode Zen, Tang and Yoga household words amon
sceptical West,
Ibn Khaldun wat time Arab Amoki Toynbee of the 14th century.
ge
THE Arst
German
Orchestra
now
t.
отп
A the
I DISLIKED-Basil Cameron's rnhappy knack of picking the most awkward templ for Bach works.
this year
young
The sin he committed was a symptom of spiritunt illness, for
which he was responsible be- cause it was self-induced. His primary loyalty remains to the
To call it a "Tool's game" is- true, but not enough to relieve-
carrica one-time lover. If he him of responsibility towards his
on his "affair" he is not really helping her at all. The break must come.
even
Let
The bad kind arises when the one to whom he made this vow tho feeling of possessing one's part-to you. And you have ner is felt in the same way as responsibilty of helping him
or bac. to health. a parrot one possesses washing machine. You
think of your I do not blame the Phil- With the box-office appeal of children's concerts is in no way them. If you
Promenade programmes. Indeed, right to say it is wrong to feel the Prom planners could study jealous. You are merely afraid the children's schedule with pro- of losing a piece of property.
When. however, two people FEATURE of Britain's fall in love, they don't merely post-war musical fe is feel they want to be together,
before Detter soon, to cach to belong want the profusion of summer they
other. At the heart of their worse complications ensue. schools.
kindness Ernest Read,
veteran married love la o conviction of him beware of false
something they don't by prolonging the agony, and Identity, of Conductor
postponing the inevitable weople's orchestras, has put there, but find there. his orchestral training course | If you cannot trust your hus- separation from her.
from August 4-12 band's loyalty, his association Response has been great from with charming women is fear- well as ht, tho must not resent WHAT SORT of musle Instrumentalists, soloists, con ed.
A third person cannot, strict the suffering that is coming her who just Sir ductors and people
What your husband must way. do children Ilke?
do is to see that she has to- This year he speaking, ever break Robert Mayer asked the want to watch.
you are one by suffer a little as possible at children's
plans to graduate the players marriage, for audiences at his
the point where he can help, concerts last season and into three orchestras. Sir Adrian the inner nature of love.
She might, however, set up so namely, Cnancially. found that most popular Buult will visit the school for
strong a competing clairn for were Saint-Saens's Car- nne day as guest conductor. PROMS,
She must get a Job- and be- AT THE
Summer school in amateur exclusive love, that your hus-
аз possible- Composer Elisabeth Lut- nival of Animals, Mendelssohn's yens, whose viola concerto Fingal's Cave and Rossint's opera neur Cambridge under the band would be emotionally torn come as quickly
on overture, The Thieving Magpie. directorship of Summer Austin, to shreds, and unable to be the financially independent of him. performed be
can for her. He must not add I should say that a referen- formerly of the Sadler's Wells whole person your affection has Until then, he must do what he- September 2 is the only
audiences Opera, charges £7 7. for a right to. completely new work this dum among Prom
would
Such Jealousy, you see, has to her emotional difficullice by Students may same week's course, aive nearly the stood among the year.
somelling quite seeing any more of her, Although
types of its roots in Sir Robert study four different
reflects those de- Promchaders listening to Harriet result.
Only In this way can there bo Cohen, Is Miss Lutyens pleated chooses his pieces especially for opera, selo or chorus singing, natural, and in the country at being the only composer in children, and to has to rule out opera conducting and theatrical mands which love, by its inner anything like a final solution to
Now which is your brand of this ugly and tangled story.
-{Lamann Express Bervige). its formation five the new work class? Not at a long works and tedious pass costumes, lighting and make-up, loric, delights to meet.
"It's disgraceful," she told me. ages, the general level of the World Copyright Reserved--Londen Jealousy?
for this year's "What are the BBC afraid of? programme years ago.
By Hans Werner Richter, MacGibbon and Kee, 9s. 6d. 301 pages.
It may mean the present My forecast: Mr Legge war novel by a
management resigning.
will buy the orchestra, and soldier to reach
In that case the company volatile, irrepressible Mra Quality English
average,
Limited.
Ingpen will turn up with an though mercifully free from the Philharmonia
solemnities
Gennan which of
controls the dire
or other orchestral organisa- novels of the first war. These chestra, may be bought by tion.
cynical, foul- 1 mouthed at who cannot escape Mr Legge. Talk in musical from the 11ghting quickly circles is that a number of enough.
soldiers are-
ambition
Their sole
Is to renet a prison camp in America. that they Their chief Year is
the Philharmonia's players would then resign.
I hope a solution will be may be sent to Africa to build found to prevent the disin- a railway for the French.
tegration of what has be- America turns out to be a
The prison come one of the leading or- disappointment, camps are ruled by Nazis, with chestras -No
a Gestapo. At the front if had
since been diferent. There the Nazis kept their mouths shut.
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
·AND WHAT A BATTLE
THAT FISH PUT UP!
IT WAS THAT LONG
IF IT WAS AN
INCH!
I HAD TO GIVE HIM- SOME BEANS AND CARROTS"
AND SOME PEACHES.“
"SHALL VE
GIVE THESE
TO THE
CAT
Express Service).
your
Since the was to blame as
Angling Angles
By KEMP STARRETT
POSTED
WATER.
O FISHING
ALLOVED
THEY'LL SHOW YOU THE SIZE OF TREIR FISU EVEN OVER THE PLONE ........
VITHOUT BENEFIT OF TELEVISION.
KEEP YOUR BOD UP-UP! HOLD THE LINE TAUT -..
PLAY EASY.
LOOK OUT!!!
ONE PLACE YOU CAN BE SURE OF GETTING MORE ADVICE THAN YOU CAN USE.
THEY WON'T ASK YOU IF YOU WANT SORE FISH...ESPECIALLY IF YOU GROW VEGETABLES: THEY'LL GIVE 'EM TO YOU AND YOU'LL HAVE TO RECIPROCATE. ITS BLACKAMIL, BUT LEGAL.
YOU
PORTRAIT
OF A
HAN JUST
BACK AT
THE OFFICE AFTER A TWO WEEKS
FISHING
TRIP
AND A YEAR.
TO WAIT
FORLABOTRED] THOSE
LUNEXPECTED: HOLES.
KNOW I
HATE FISH!*
AND SIE NEVER EXPECTS
YOU TO CATCH ANYTINGS
COPA, 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THEWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
ARE THEY CLEANED
IT'S SURPRISING HOW MUCH OF MOTHER. NATURE IS OWNED BY UNCO OPERATIVE PEOPLE.
'WITH SOME! FISHING IS
A SWELL
EXCUSE FOR CATCHING Up On
SLEEP
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