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MONDAY, MAY 22, 1933.

ENGLISH TOWN HAS ENGLISH

32 NAMES.

KING'S Wokingham Controversy

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LITERARY NOTES

SILVER IN

BELGRADE

Heavy Coins Cause Inconvenience.

MINTED IN LONDON The real naine of the old-word Berkshire town of Wokingliam is

Belgrade. -Workingham.

The new silver 50-dinar pieces But it was

far more difficult (worth 4 each) which were mint than it would appear to decide this, ed for the Yugoslav Government in for the town has had 32 names, and London, are causing temporarily only long research has shewn the considerable public inconvenience. original name of the town.

All civil servants have been paid

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"THE FOUNTAIN":

London.

The Hawthornden Prize has been awarded to Mr. Charles Morgan for his novel, The Fountain."

Published just over a year ago, A strange book has been hands to another, but with the pathise with her in her bitterness

this book has had a phenominal- published.

difference that Bobble persuades and with her unhappy-knack of success on both sides of the Atlan- Mr. Arthur Lambton is well him to do the things which express killing the things she wanted to tic. American producers have ac- known to thousands of people, his real nature.

cherish.

[quired the film rights of this book. and The Galanty Show (Hurst and Blackett, 18s. 6d.) will find a

-Relter. wide public.

It is a collection of Memories,

Incidents,

Sidelights on criminology,

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To the outsider, Trandie-square As a man with decided limits- was a haven of peace, and like one tions, Mr. Baldwin may be admir- happy family

led.

To Stella Tucksoft it was like a Even as a party politician he lai wet mag tied too tightly round her an able person, but as a leader of head. Its inhabitants threw a the nation Mr. John Green branda cloak over reality and lived in him as a failure,

"A BRIGHT- COOKERY BOOK.

Wokingeham, Wookingham, one-third of their wages in these Wokinge, Wokkyngham, Wolynge. large and heavy coins and even

A famous love letter, and".. inzo, Wokyngham, Wolynbain, contractors receiving thousands of Wokinglane, Bokyngham, Vokyng. pounds from the government have vivid short story of most petty world of petty emotions: "Mr. Baldwin (Sampson Low, often look so dalt Sauce and Why is it that cookery bookr ham, Woking, Wokinghone. Wook been forced to take large sums in unusual type.

This book is packed with Dudeney draws the lives of two the character of

But out of this Mrs. Henry 10a. Gd.) throws a cruel-light enj ingham, Okyngbam, Oakyngham, silver-often necessitating the call-

■ man whose Sage," by Eva Willis (Frede Ockingham, Ocklingham, Okenham, ing of porters or even motor-cars wealth of experience. Travel and people to fulalment Dekingham, Oekingham, Okenlinn, for their convoyance.

a keen observation have given Mr. and humour soften the telling of made of him.

Tenderness ability fell far below, the demands Warne, 5a), is a pleasant exc Since the issue of the new silver Lambton a fund of anecdotes to Trundle Square" (Collins, 78, Onkinghan, Okelaghan, Okching-

tion. It is most attractively His tactful inaction" - was his ham Woakingham, Wokenham, currency a few weeks ago there has tell. His only difficulty, he Bay 6d.). Even the perverted form of greatest weapon at a time when/duced and Its type is clear and Workingham, Wockingham, Woke been an absolute glut of silver in was to make a choice.

There is a story of the lunatic her husband makes us able to sym-needed.

affection which Maria feels for constructive energy ~; was most bold. Miss Eva Willis writes with ingtou. Wookingbain and Wohng the capital. Than.

¡freshness, humour and good sense The total number of 50-digar who cut off a ward-mate's head to Controversy about the correct pieces in course of being issued cure him of snoring, and a form of the name has long con amounts to 1,850,000, representing description of the lynching of a tinped, but it has now been ended (a value of £950,000. All of these negro in Texan-two pieces of by the decision that the original coins were minted in London, while writing that you will never forget. [name is that given is a document those of smaller denomination, In fighting the causa of

dated 1146.-Reuter.

amounting in all to a value of ap

legitimacy, Mr. Lambton, became proximately £2,750,000, were mint. well known to the public. Itin led in Belgrade under the direction considered that he was largely

of British experts.

The coins are instrumental in the passing, of the legal tender up to any amount and represent about ten per cent. of the total currency in circulation.- Reuter.

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Personal Pars.

London, Saturday. Mr. O. E. Linquiest, of the Inter Doctor Schacht,, President of national Harvester Co., arrived in the Reichsbank, arrived here yes- the Colony, from Iloilo, by the as. terday afternoon. Ho specially President Hoover, this morning. broke his journey from the United States to Berlin in order

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Princess Paul Troubetzkoy, the wife of the well-known sculptor, says that she does all her writing Jin bed.

With her typewriter on her. knees, she works from early in the morning till lunch-time.

She has used her native district of Westmorland for the setting of "Storm Tarn." The lives of the Sollitt family are shadowed by the

to see Mr. D. C. Mecker, representative grim crags.

Mr. Montagu Norman Governor of of the Palmolive-Peet Co., arrived A slow, steady hatred of Robert, the Bank of England, greeted him in Hong Kong this morning by the the father, spreads from one mem- at the station and warmly shookas. President Hoover, from Manila, ber of the family to another. bands with him.

on his way to Calcutta,

Dr. Schacht refused to make any statement regarding his talks with Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Grove, arrived President Roosevelt, until he had here this morning, from Manila, by reported to hisa Government.

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Even the animal vitality of Jael is poisoned, and the mysterious illness and death of Robert neem a fitting culmination to a drama" in such a bleak country.

Princess Paul lived on a sheep farm in Westmorland while - Che studied types for her characters.

[.. Who has not fallen a victim al some time or other to an auctioneer's eye, an overdraft at the bank, or a children'á party?','!

Through Miss E. ́M. Delafield's . eyes we can sez ourselves at these unhappy moments, but kith' an outsider's sense of humour, at the situation.

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Two versatile young men have |collaborated ⠀ In the writing of] “Under London” (Rich and Cowan, 78; 6d.)

Mr. Val Gielgud started as an Jactor and is the brother of John

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A man who has cornered - the dobe traffic in London and lives á double life in society " and the underworld. provides the sensatión of their thriller," The "Boss”, rules his gang with an fron hand, but fights them with his back to the wall,

If you want to learn about the underground, rivera: of. London" and the tragedy of a dope fend you will enjoy this graphic shocker.

The man who is imposed on always wina sympathy and Keith Meldron gets his fair share of th "Magic. Quest" by Stephen Me Kenna" (Hutchinson, 78. Bd),) the fentire "Meldron family place their responsibilities of the shoulders of their brother, who, from habit, feels that he must be the beast of Burden to a crowd of selfish, shift- less relatives

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