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THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

"MAIL" REVIEWS Speeches of H.M. the King

["King George V.: In His Own Words"; Ernest Benn, Ltd., 12/6 net.]

rived in Chelsea on May 29, 1928 after having motored over fifteen thousand miles and sailed three thousand in about three hundred and fifty days.

ABOUT PALESTINE

A Volume of Happy

Reminiscences

"Above and Beyond Palestine," by C. E. Hughes; Ernest Bonn, Ltd., 10/6 net.]

Besides giving an Interesting aummary of the Journey Capt. McCallum has many interesting digressions of topical subjecta such as the Boxer Rebellion, present A well written 'book, with a During the first three decadea

day Peking, the Chinese imbroglio, notable absence of technical details of the Twentieth Century

ban

etc. Very entertaining, too, are often found in similar works, deal- become more and more fashlon-hia notes on the many differenting with highly specialised branches able to publish books dealing with peoples of Indo-China, the Chams, or the Services during the the lives of great men, while they the Mois, the Khmers, etc., their The reader is not allowed to become are still alive. Usually they are past glories, wonderful buildings bored with heavy expianations but of the reminiscent type, and deal and present eclipse and inertness. is carried, (one might say) gally largely In anecdote, They are Quite a large part of the volume on, through a very descriptive series pleasant and easy reading, which

Is given to these little-known of anecdotes, full of pleasantries commends itself to almost every peoples.

and happy reminiscences. class of reader.

Mr. F. A. MacKenzie has not produced a book of this kind. His task has been to select excerpts from the speeches of His Majesty, King George V., to arrange them, and to provide the alight connect- ing and explanatory narrativo necessary to form the collection

into a book.

of

Thirty-six full page photo-

graphic illustrations and four maps help to enhance this on thralling and modestly-written book of travel.

We take off our hats to Captain McCallum. Mr. Lovel and Mr. Rumsey Williams; and do so twice to Mrs. McCallum.

THE LOWER DECK

For Everything A

Reason!

war,

The author has a pleasing knack, when relating incidents, of hiding the sordid side of the war and sticking to the original ides of the book, which has as its object, the bringing to light of the little known body of plonoors, the East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron. Like the branch of the 'Services' they were attached to, they were, a 'Silent Service! To the man-in-the- street, the title of the EL & E.S.S. conveys very little and still less when the sphere or operations were so far away from the major strug- gle.

One only requires intelligently to "Three. Rows of Tape: A Social Follow the incidents so ably describ- Study of the Lower Deck, 1915-ed in this hook, with the aid of 1918." By A. Trystan Edwards, maps at the end, to understand the (Heinemann, Ga. net).]

significance and importance of the Scores of books about the Navy work carried through by them, The have been pubished since the war,

*side-show' idea is soon displaced, most of which make good reading and one can have nothing but praise But this book is in a class by itself. and appreciation for their splendid It is the first intimate study of the this book that he was no mean ob- work. The author has shown in lower deck, and the first to reveal the modern bluejacket as he really server and has made fult use of his is. For that reason alone it would Powers (both of observation and be welcome, It is made doubly se descriptive writing.) The clear and by the author's masterly analysis of

facile manner in which Mr. the personality of the naval rating, Hughes describes the many places his duties, his surroundings, and his of interest visited makes the reader philosophy.

feel that he is actually walking through the places with the author. On the whole this is a very inter- esting, descriptive and well written book. Fleasant and light, it is well worth reading.

It is hardly probable that the result will form a volume parti- cularly acceptable to the casual reader. It is to the historian that it will most appeal, and by "his- torian" we include not only the writers of histories, but also all those who are interested in the study of political history. In these speeches the student will find much of great interest, for often many events are the more casily understandable when one CRD obtain another angle vision. And often one does ob tain such a different angle from A perusal of these speeches.

There is also another aspect of the book. From it one may got a closer idea of what manner of man His Majesty is, It is not, of course, to be expected that His Majesty should draft and write these whole speeches himself. But after the drafts had been pre- Mr. Trystan Edwards enlisted in pared, there is no doubt that the the Navy as an ordinary seaman in ultimate expression is that which 1915, and served for the duration of was dictated by His Majesty. the war, chiefly in destroyers. For And, on perusal of the speeches, three and a half years he lived on one is left in amazement, not only the lower deck. Strange as the at- at the grip of detail which is dis- mosphere must have seemed to him, played, but also at the intense he found it congenial probably be personal feeling which

His cause he began his new life in the Majesty displays.

right spirit. "I remember," he says, "that it was one of the happiest and proudest moments of my life when I donned the baggy trousers, the tight-fitting jumper, and the dark blue collar,-with-its three-rows of tape. There is, indeed, no more honourable uniform in the world. The surprising thing is that, antif, now, the publle has been told so little about the men who wear it.

An interesting book.

-V. V.

Through Asia

[“China to Chelsea," by Captain D. McCallum: Ernest Bean, 21/- net.]

This book, which the author calls "A Modern Pilgrimage along Ancient Highways," is a narrative of a remarkable motor car jour-

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A Searching Test There could be no bigher tribute to these men than the fact that the public school and

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the service," and in this case the greater very definitely includes the less.

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Take, for instance, what is some- times

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tinual deck-sweeping,, scrubbing, Polishing and painting, which im Presses the civilian vialtor, ia based on the soundest of hygienic prin ciples. Where many hundreds of men are cooped up together in a confined space It is essential that their quarters, their domestic gear, their clothes, and their Varsity man, found them excellent clean. The men themselves, appre

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kept scrupulously in the face of appalling condi- companions, both socially and in- cisting this, are the first to protest tiona by Captain and Mrs.tellectually. Mr. Edwards appears McCallum and two friends, to share the reviewer's opinion that against any attempted breach of Messrs. N. G. Lovel and F. life on the lower deck of His what have been sometimes described Rumsey Williams. The most Majesty's Navy constitutes the most as spit and polish" rules. direct route from North China to Europe is by Siberfa, but several things forbade our travellers go- ing that way, and at the last minute they decided on the hotter and wetter route by the countries lying to the South of China. In two Buick cars the party motor The long service bluejacket is a ed from Peking. to Tlentaln. Then natural gentleman, disciplined, self- By three different steamers they controlled, imperturbable, resource got to Haiphong, trans-shipping at ful, to the strong. The whole Shanghai and Hong Kong. From Navy resembles a well-ordered de- Halphong they went by the Man-mocracy, the members of which, darin Road through Indo-China, rank by rank and rating by rating, Annam and Cambodia to the work together for the common Siamese border, thence by inun- good. dated roads through Siam, after which they seem to have had tro-

In the hour of battle one and all pical rains most of the way to share the same dangers. "The men Singapore. Ship was taken again of the fleet see the Admiral's flag at Singapore; for Calcutta this floating in the breeze, and they time.

com- India was crossed by the know that he and they are Grand Trunk Road, then through radea. Complete liberty and the Baluchistan Desert to the equality there can never be among execrable roada of Persia, then men. The ideal of fraternity is by through Mesopotamia

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Ensign."

The merit of Mr. Edwards's book ho never uses the word "bad man- the rest was comparatively plain that it depicts the lower deck as nered." If a messmate lapses from sailing or rather motoring. A

Owing to last minute change seen from within by one who was the lower deck standard of be of plans Indo-China, Glam and critical but sympathetic eye, and a to be "ignorant."

gifted with powers of observation, a haviour he is charitably adjudged Upon chronic Malaya had to be negotiated in talent for expressing his views in offenders, if such there be, the lower the hot rainy season when low scholarly prose. In these pages one deck practises its Incisive and lying parts of the country were learns, in full but never tedious de under water and bridgen frequent tall, the routine which governs the ly washed away. Yet they carried bluejacket's day, from the moment on bravely although delayed, not when, in obedience to the time for days or weeks but for months, honoured ritual Reave drlash up The bold voyagers ultimately

and stow, come along my hearties, throw a line, rise and shine"he turns out of his hammock in the chil dawn,

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

Fraternity

men partake of the fullness of social communion... In a variety of ships and on over a thousand occasions I have sat at table and have followed the cross-currents of banter and merriment passing from mess to mess, nor have I tired of the lively and vigorous personalities thrown together in this Intimate association.

For here are Bri- tone, in some respects much mora | highly disciplined than their civilian brothers,, yet in other respects re loved from social restraint, which causes shyness, self-consciousness, and similar unattractive character! istics. This atmosphere, far re moved from that of the drawing room, is highly civilised, neverthe less."

In such surroundings a 'man must

mordant criticism, but even then kindly feeling inspires the rebuke, which is always pointed, if some- times oblique and allusive.

Bluejackets have decided views on every question of the day, and fr. Edwards Interprets them for us. His chapters on Rank and Man- cd bors,” “"Naval Esthetics," "Domes To the landlubber many of the tic Reactione," and "Religion on the customs and methode of the Navy Lover Dock"." are no replete with may seen trivial, it not futile. But quotable sentences as to be an al for everything that is done, in the most irresistible temptation to the | Navy there is a reason, and usually reviewer He has written a book sound reason. Investigating some which may be said, without hyper "apparently, archaic and footling re- bola, to reveal the soul of the Navy gulation, you will presently discover as that great service is exemplified that it was framed with the object by the men who constitute the bulk fox ensuring

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