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AMOUS SECRET GENT MARRIES

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BAUCHENVILLE

Mias do Balzac was born in

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JAISSAC, one of the most Mauritius. She decribes her. essful secret agents working self as "a dull sort of woman.” France during the German pation, has been married in Spare time is spent at house-

to Gustave Villameur.

work and dress-making.

bw a quiet, smilingg, grey- led woman of about 40, she worked, cinco the war, as a alator and nows reader in European service of tho She lived in Hans Road, ghtsbridge.

However, others take different view. Colonel V. D. Buckmuster, her wartime chief, ways she is "one of the bravest women I ever know."

Miss de Boissac was one of women parachutesi in intelligence the first lons earned her the MBE Into France as a cocret agent.

bravery

Croix de Guerre.

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A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

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iding Lleo de Balasac, awarded The MBE and French Croix da Cadere, has married in Paris.

Another stomp error to spot.

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CROSSWORD.—Across: 3 Prevails, 8 Rook, 9 ersed, 11 Toreador, 13 Lean, 15 Despised. 18 Director, 10 21 Resigned, 25 Martinet, 20 Hobo, 27 Dissents. Down: 1 2 Moor, 4 Rued, 5 Veer, 6 Issue, ? Sedan, 9 Kapid, 10

r, 12 Opera, 14 Alone, 10 Siren, 17 Debit,' 10 Humid, 20 ks, 21 Rife, 22 Sect, 23 Nook, 24 Doom.

la the second "error"

among

recently issued Briilsh coloniala. It is a 50-cent red, Issued in

July among

A set of 15 for *North

Borneo.

You won't spot the mis- take, but the name of the town be- the neath clock tower is spelled Jessleton.

It should be Jesselton.

Face value: 15. 2d. Price: 25. unused, in Britain. Perforation: 13 by 14%.

British North Borneo is rich and there is big money to be made thore, producing timber and rubber, and panning for gold in the rivers.

Sir OSBERT brings out the family gems.......

NOBLE ÉSSENCES. By 'Osbert. 'Sitwell, Mác

millan. 21a. 324 pages.

T is impossible to refrain from applauso at the conclusion, with this fifth volume, of so grandiose a project as the Sitwell autobiography-or from the suspicion that It might, with advantage, have been shorter by one volume,

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Osbort Sitwell speaks of the "design" if no departure from it was possible. In fact, the "design" was originally

for a four-volume book.

No harm at all if writer finds he has more to any than he had expected. But Noble Essences has different character from its four predecessors and only with some effort' elbows its way into their company.

by ・・・'. GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

looked

ihe "faunal

faroucheness," the mind "bril- lantly coloured as a tropical bird."

distinguished birth; Gosse," anob who found his perfect achie no librarian of the HOUED OI Lorda.

Ronald Firbank, rich, invalid author of precious novels, lenyes a fainter impression. As the writer of Д postcard: morrow I go to Haiti. They may President is a perfect, dear." As the owner of a palm-tree which he carried front 'one Lan- don flot to another. It was watered twice 2 day by a gardener whose green baize аргоп pleased Firbank—"just like being in the country."

Walter Sickert, the artist, selle! a litter of pictures for £40, and Respectfully sidling away when Sitwell expostulates, from this prodigy (hat in hand plies, "Supply and Demand. The avoiding to priceless inexorable laws of Supply and

The in just In Demand, carpein), the party

young wanted my pictures and ↑ wanted his money."

It is a series of blographical and articles. The main performance is over. After the last chords time to see thot sister Edith of the finale have died away we (aged four has swept into the bear the prattle in the boxes, room and "seems to fill it with And lively prattle it is, sprinkled her personality.” with anecdote and spiced with mallee, Now and again some Observe, whispers our guide, the twenties is the Byzantine or Sienese profile, minar poet of dragged out from under the the hooded, tragic eyes. Late

where thoga Wicked to this snatch of conversation: Uncles the years have burled

"What hit, so that he may be chlyvied. when you grow up?

are you going to

"A genius."

Jeaves

But it would be wrong to suppose that Noble Essences is a compilation of stories. It ja rich in detalled descriptions

yot vivid of scents and people, the product astonishing memory. Is clones

of pasabgo eloquence touched approval.

be

in

A

of Sir George Sitwell, the author's father-victim, we are, alas, afforded only a fleeting

Such privileged occasiona glimpse. But how characteristic! cannot be of long duration. Having evicted

some peasants from his Italian palace, Sir George typically misunderstands their sullen look: "You see I can always

myself popular when I want to!"

make

Unlike St Sebastian, Sache- verell is hot-tempered: "I neucr lose my temper unless someone docs something to annoy me!' Then he will refuse to cat. In similar circumstances his brother will smash 24 cheap plates put out for the purpose by his housekeeper.

Sombre with golf-

And are we to have no more Osbert Sitwoll? There is hint

of a new "design"--"If I am allowed the time."

In such matters there need be no undue haste. As Lytton Strachey replied to the young man who said, “Do you realize it's five years since we met?”—

"Rather a nice interval, don't you think?”

When the eminent critic Sir LIBRARY LIST.

This is not to say, however, that the public is denied a fresh Edinud Gosso brings the new Inspection of the Sitwell family complete edition of Swinburne treasures. For from it. As if he has edited, it is through sheer

the ho were

owner-turned- nervousness that Sachevercil curator of a property

handed exclaims:

"How delightful to over to the National Trust, the have them af last in a cheap author points out to the con- edition!"

his party ducted

brother Sncheverell at a time when. although

the officer

he united Grenadier Guards, "something of the Gothic saint, St Sebastian perhaps with some. “Not so cheap as all that!”* thing of the young Bacchus." Note the “untidy grace,” which the sergeant-major

en

Startled that St Sebastian can shoot arrows as well as be their target, Goose retorts:

Yat the displeasure did not has over- last long. The Sitwells were of

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