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lished two

an immense

re written

waiter and they were something of a revelation to those whose knowledge of waiters and ste- wards was confined to meal-times.

It was obvious that the man could write, and that he knew what he was writing about, and it was very soon suggested that his material was more than suf- ficiently interesting to be turned into a book. And here it

How It Began

"Coming, Sir!" (Harrap) is the

of title of this autobiography o waiter who gives his name Dave Marlowe, though this, his

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WAITER

ed him to go on. But he at

him to leave the

alone for the momen his own varied experienced.

As long as he wrote sincerely and clearly he could be sure of interesting us, said Mr. MacCar- thy, for we want to know what life is like to those whose circum-

too

rative domestică

of adventure

And adventure

there

of a very surprising kind.

He has been mixed up in boot

amount of

solidatio

legging, worked as a bar-tender Always The Optimist in a speakeasy, was "highjacked” by thugs on the waterfront, and And was held up by bandits

dare different from our ^ through it all he seems to have re-

We are so bad at guessing

the shoes of others pinch And what could be more intriguing, he, exclaims, than to hear at first hand what lies be

tained his quick intuitions and sensibilities. It is all very sur- prising and I should like to meet Mr. Marlowe one day.

hind the smiling, self-effacing fa- Brett Young's Latest

cade of those who stand and wait, and what happens behind. the festive scene?

publishers tell us, is a pseudonym Surprising Adventure

as he is still employed as a wait- er. And it is as moving and re- vealing a story as you would ex- pect from those two initial ticles.

Mr. Desmond MacCarthy writes a foreword in which he explains that he first made Marlowe's ac- quaintance while he (Marlowe) was waiting and he (MacCrathy) was being served. (How awkward the English language is!) He then discovered that he (Mar- lowe) had tried his hand at writ ing, prose sketches with a vein of poetry in them, and he enco

Well, here is Mr. Dave Mar- lowe ready to give you any amount of peeps behind the scenes, and as waiters must very soon become shrewd judges of human nature, one way and an- other, you will find much of the book very illuminating. You may even see likenesses to yourself and your friends here and there

But Marlowe has not only been a waiter he has been a steward and has sailed the more or less seven seas and so, although much cerned with of his book is

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And then there is the new Francis Brett Young novel, which is apparently one of the results of his recent return visit to South Africa. It is called "They Seek a Country (Heinemann). It is very long and it is dedicated to Lord Baldwin, "with the homage and gratitude of a friend and neighbour.”

Pm afraid I am not much use with Mr. Brett Young. He writes a great deal and at very great length so that he must obviously have a large public but -spell seems to have missed me and 1 find no great, joy in any contact

the

As far as I am. with his work. concerned there is something lacking some spark which might

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THE IDEAL TONIC LAXATIVE

The hero marries a young Dutch girl, daughter of a farmer, and the story of their love is thrown into relief against the larger background which is occu- pied by a people in search of liberty

There is much clash and coun- ter clash in thet course of the story, but Mr. Brett Young re- mains an optimist and he puts the following very estimable senti ments into the mouth of the wife and mother at the end of the book.

"Half Dutch and half English

Yes, you are right,” she said. "But he will be neither one nor the other, I think When he grows to be a man he will call himself a South African or an Afrikander” (The Brett Young spelling, not mine.) "Some day, perhaps, that will be a name to be proud of

Trreproachable sentiments, but he leaves us a little uncertain about the actual name of which we should be so proud. Not that It matters, but it suggests a cer- tain vagueness of approach. Fascist Viewpoint

English literature, even the po pular literature of to-day, is so soundly democratie that the Fascist point of view doesn't get much of a chance of literary ex- pression. Which must be very annoying to those earnest people. who feel that the world is

going to the democratic dogs A

But here, for a change, is a book written from a strongly Fascist and pro-Franco angle: "Heroes of the Alcazar," by B. Timmermans (Eyre and Spottiswoode). As an additional attraction for those who will think it an attraction, there is an introduction by Ma- jor F Yeats Brown

The book gives a story of the defence and relief of the Alcazar from the point of view of those who defended and were relieved. But the account is inclined to be sketchy as the writer himself was not actually present at the time, and though the onlooker is usual- ly said to see most of the game it Is important that he should not look on from too far off.

Picture Of Heroism

In spite of this, shght handi-

however T

mage to ge

the heroism of the

children who

in the Alcazar for month during which

ere killed

born and a newspaper ed every day.

One these days one who

defence

book

ich will

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