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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.

This crass-word puzzle hes been made by an expert but our seeders are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and aliko.)

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HORIZONTAL 1-Human chest or

brozet

4-Funeral hymn,

8-Prefix.

11-Saucy

Thrice

12-Regulated by the

tide 13-Cauteriza

14-Extreme violence.

15-Smoky

18-Datast 17-Feminine name 19-Partion of circle

(pl.)

21-Lake (Scot.)

23-Percolate

25-Bed covering 28-Scoundrel

31-Lles in ambush 32-Jewish feast 3+ Beverage 35-Bafore (prefix) 36-Claw of a bird 37-Support 38-Mathematical

symbol denoting Indefinite "power" 39-Ancient port of

Rom 40~ Allow

#1-Governoan (Sp.) 48-Ecclesiastical dignitary

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 45-Pronoun 47-Fungus disease of

grain

48-Embanay

52-One who wagers 55-Contest of speed

G6-Silp-knot 68-Volcaniq matter 58-Minerale 80-Fragrant oil of-

rosas 81-Ireland 62-Married 63-Theater attendant 64-Trained

VERTICAL 1-Extreme breadth

a ship 2-Impel

3-Star-ilka +-Wither 6-Date of Roman

calendar

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(pl.) 7-Sweet, colorless

Ilquid

-Rend

VERTICAL (Cont.) 13-Stora 18-Substance resulting

from electrolytic decomposition {pl} 20-Two or more horren 22-Combining form.

Liver 24-Stumbord 25-Members of negroid tribes of Africa 28-Suppta 27-Flower

29-Unit of weight for

previous stones 20-Solitary

91-Rode of authority of 33-Uttere boisterously |28-Wives of former

Aussian rulers 37-Chatterer

39-Burden 40-Viseld cement 42-Smella

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46-Truth

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49-Famala horaa |60-Covered with loũng

9-Destructive animal 61-Promise to pay

(pl.)

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12-Beaten path

| 53-Darnel 154-Roman poet

59-Brawi

}67-8ardinia (abbr.)

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issuet along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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TWO OF THE LATEST MYSTERY NOVELS

1.

"Life-And Fortnight"; by Margaret Peterson; Ernest Benn.] When Dick Stanley found the body of the murdered South American millionaire Thomas Bacon on

the verandah of the | Ruanda hotel at dawn that was the beginning of events that were to lead him through suffering to ultimate happiness.

Helen Dawson, beautiful and fatally attractive in spite of her forty years and dubious past, with her young companion Esther Blain had been travelling in the dead man's company and at his expense, and circumstantial evidence point- jed to qne of them as the murder-

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As. one reads on, however, it "And the Americans are becomes more and more patent alone. The librarians of the

young detective is the Dominions are beginning to luckiest sleuthhound who ever was that they cannot be without old edí the bane of a Chief Commission- tions. Even the Continent of er's existence. Clues-real jaley Europe has its emissaries in search clues-appear to sit up and beg of standard editions of important directly he comes on to the scene books in our own country.

of a crime that has troubled other Policemen. arch-criminals but escapes with a He is captured by facity that merely emphasises his luck.

This series of short stories (with one long one thrown in to make weight) must have been written merely as a pot-boiler, and there is no doubt that had it been cut short after the introduction it would have been one of this popu- lar author's best.

["Sea

M.

by G. Ernest Benn,

The habit of serious collecting for professional purposes has grown fessors and lecturers in literature very much. Many of our pro-

and history, and not a few of our undergraduate students in these subjects, are collectors in their modest way. That is all to the good, but the results are apparent.) Books which a few years ago were more than plentiful, seem to have disappeared.

"A comparison of values tells the same story with even greater em- phasis. Let me give an example.)

In 1922 I bought a slightly imper- fect first edition of Percy's "Re liques of Ancient English Poetry" for 5s. Only a year or two ago a prompt telegram secured a better copy for 9s. A few weeks ago 1 saw a copy priced at £6 68. This is not yet a collectors' book, but it soon will be, when the price will be,

Farmers," Boumphrey : -Ltd., 7/6.]

The bar parlour of the Mermaid Inc., Fuddlecombe. "Devon, Corn- How Armstrong the "ferret" of wall, or Dorset-wherever it may the CLD. accumulated his evi-be" was the scene of a meeting of dence, how Helen faced her trial, wreckers who were bemoaning and how Dick and Esther at last the fact that no gales found happiness, while Helen and had arisen to bring them plunder. £20.” her old-time lover were reunited, The meeting is interrupted by the all these form the plot of a story entrance of that passionate, cruelly beau- tiful Africa of which Miss Peterson is so accomplished a por-, trayer.

The character-drawing is not particularly subtle, nor is the writing ever artistic or really akil- ful but the book is readable and will give pleasure both to lovers of a mystery and to those who like the good old type of happy ending romance.

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["The Ainceworth Mystery"; by Gregory Baxter: Ernest Benn.] From page one to the end this story holds the render ensnared in a web of adventure and mys- tery. Bruce Nevill found an Eng- lish girl ying unconscious by ai dead man in a park in Bucharest and when he took her in his charge and cared for her, he little realised into what strange ways his kindness would lead him.

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Here are all the ingredients for first-rate 'thriller'; we have missing papers of great inter- national importance, a lost Air- Minister, a gang of criminals of the most ruthless and persevering type, and two love stories which form an integral part of the plot and are not merely intrusive and distracting.

Anyone who wants

a pleasant afternoon's occupation would do well to buy this book and solve for himself the riddles at which we will not even hint further lest we spoil his pleasure.

["The Human Chase" by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Hodder & Stoughton, 7/6.]

Dr. Chapman suggested that Imperfect copies of certain books) ought not to be beneath the notice of librarians. He urged that libraries should publish lists of books which they required, as was done by the Bodleian, when the response was by no means negligible.

of 3 "furciner" who soon persuades those present to board a derelict in the cave. This they rather unwillingly do to dis- cover that the stranger is a super- natural visitor out to punish them. He sets the ship adrift, telling the unfortunate landsmen aboard that "Let us do all in our power to they will now become pirates. stem the American invasion," he

The actual voyage lasts some proceeded. months and the

"But it is foolish to becomes resent it, and ungenerous to impute pirates capturing a Portuguese it to low motives." vessel and finishing up in the Sar- gasso Sea from which a merciful them back to Puddlecombe sadder storm releases them; and blows

and wiser men.

crew

This is 1 fantastic, thoroughly, enjoyable story.

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"It is not the wealthy collectors who are denuding England of the

"Acquisitive Monsters"

"Some Americans, no doubt, en- joy the ostentation of great wealth, but they are not collectors because they are rich. If the seething pot of American life throws to the surface these acquisitive monsters that is because American civilisa- tion is profoundly conscious of a need which it cannot satisfy with American products.

"We are better off in this country. However fast we try to efface it, the traces of antiquity are all about us the earth's surface is subtly modelled by Old Time.

re-

are

our

Libraries," said Dr. R. W.. Champ is raw and looks like an unfinished common books-it is the American "In America even the countryside

man, Secretary of the Oxford job. The public buildings, libraries, University Press, when speaking museums, into which millions are at the annual meeting of the Society poured, remain hardly perceptible of Friends of the Bodleian Library. in that wilderness. We must not He emphasised the danger of de- wonder if Americans are eager to lay in the purchase of old English buy what we show so little books, not at present rare, by Eng- luchance to sell them. We lish libraries.

beginning at last to realise danger, but we are constrained to admit that the Americans have taken what they have taken, not| only because they are richer, but also because they have wanted it] more than we wanted it.

"Many of our recent losses are due not to poverty but to indif- ference.

There are some indica- tious of a change of heart. We are, however, still apt to wring our hands as in the presence of inexor- able destiny, but the situation is,

"Our secondhand booksellers so time the distribution of their cat- alogues," he continued, "that the American buyer, if he is quick in sending his cable, is not at a very serious disadvantage.

"At Yale, I have been told that? On opening this book one first two or three assistants in the reads an admirable introduction library spend their time in check- which promises good reading to ing up the English catalogues and follow. The promise is in a way filling the gaps.

American upheld and having started to read librarians and professors on adventures of Detective vacation drive through our country Benskin it is necessary to finish towns and buy up whole shopfuls in fact, not altogether beyond our them before retiring.

of books.

control,"

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There seems to be a fixed idea,. especially among husbands, when the bill for the latest feminine fancy comes in, that the foibles of fashion are confined to the fair sex. These everlasting changes of styles in hats, and shoes and dresses---but most especially in hats!

No, sir, conditions like that don't even exist in the fashion life of the male, he boasts. In fact, there are

so few changes," he says, he could wear the same straw year in and year out, without ever knowing the difference. N

The Hat Institute, which has been designing men's summer head- gear for more than fifty years, could supply wifey with some graphic illustrations to refute that vain argument. Since 1872, when I the first straw hat was de signed for men, there have been gradual changes, so marked in contrast between the two extreme ends that any man venturing forth to-day in the old-style hat would effectively tie up traffic until he finally ducked for cover, utterly de- feated,

That first hurt was woven of NO LATE SITTINGS heavy straw and sat like a little acorn on top of the head. It was PRIME MINISTER ON A "BUSI-thick, heavy and generally un-

NESS HOUSE OF COMMONS

wieldy, Obviously this would never ANAR do, so the text change found a hat My aversion to Late sittings is more symmetrically designed, to well-known, said Mr. MacDonald in combine comfort and style

Male Hat Styles

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What with one thing and another, the evolution of the straw hat wILE painful process. That is the sight, of a straw chaponia an the head of a beau' of the nineties would be not to excite more sympathy than any.... thing elsa for the victim under it. Gast your eye around the rim of this that, and truse thị cáo of the straw from the ludicrous scorn, affair of

the early 1800's to the smart "sailor of today,

least that is the opinion of most platters from Lorraine, the birth. recent Interview, Inte sittings Various changes governed the men.

We place of her mother, to introduce do not make for good work. No shape of the hat until some Afteen businem man would do it and I take years ago, when it began to take on

had their earliest be the new industry. very severe business view of the the general outline it has to-day It

headgear made of So if anyone should question that ited

that the working the straw hat has passed through House of Commons"

continued to dergo different little people fent Greece amployed various and radical changes, he la deballs for improvement in com- when they tolled in the Gelds. From simply reminded that scel

yle until

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Hong Kong 8th Augu.

1929

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