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THE CHINA MAIL,

What a glorious book for the young (or old)

THE ESSENTIAL UNCLE

REMUS. By Jock Chand- ler Harris. Cape. 108. Gd. 288 pages.

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by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

onor-

He is the liveliest sprite of world of gay and lawless

there is poetry where mous mischief and no malice,

where "do Liltier and creature is, de mo sense

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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for

mighty glad now I know dat Perhaps The Essential Uncle de fools Rin't dead-en Remus, with its unfashionable EFORE you have read all

may dey live for ter emphasis on Initative and indi- five pages, you un- long

vidity.

the Is not

best derstand why those imme sumplin ter dol"

"mental preparation for chilly rectitudes of the Welfare storics are

of the

other Bul

In every classics of the modern

State.

n glorious lengt world. The Essential Uncle

ret sect-what of high spirits for young, Remus, in a book which, in

old, for Christmas, for any dey Ume!

And now we are оп one form or another, adults

got, kaze dey bleedz ter have." the subject) what a pretty have for generations been

publisher the book

Cape Not that Frer Rabbit Is giving to (and borrowing

only hero. Jy no means, Brer made of it.

Harris from) their children.

Joe! Chandler his affairs Terrapin conducts First of all, with

born in Georgia in 1848 and he The reasons?

notable address.

on till 1908. It was in the stories ore te muster- there Is also Brer Bull-frog, lived

made pieces of narration, as natural with his impertinent song:

1878 that Uncle Remus as the air, as cunning as Brer

Ingic-go-Jang, my joy, my fs bow Rabbit himself.

And what

newspaper joy.m miracles af blandishnient aro

was then working. conceal performed

canning!

the

10

Uncle Remus

distance

nothing. Uncle

Dipe

slowness.

tending

to

the

alory

with Uncle

while

that

looking Into

and saying

Remus filing

exasperating

Ingle-go-jang, my joy!

And

has

2008

in the columna of a Harris on which

DRER RABBIT

A feast for the children

DOOKS are the Opium of Remus pre- have forgotten the Nursery. Money

young eyes grow rounder and shinier with spent on books for children all the greater will buy a longer respite for an impatience because it is confident of early parents than money

in any other direction. deliverance.

What

is this a character Uncle Remus, incidentally, al- is he though never ones described! How well we know the genial old negrol

But it is on another figure l the vanity of the stories

In

in

Alkinson (The

1 Ascribe.

Ward off.

7 Very hot.

Deluge.

10 Tumult.

12

Wayward.

ACROSS

10 Broadside.

id Bundle.

17 Stretch.

¡y Come in.

by Kitty

20

2 Inclining.

21 Accurate.

Malcolm Saville is one of

Bodley Head, Os. 60.), an Illustrated novel those authors who have done a

the for teen-agers. great deal lately to raise

Dusty's Windmill, standard of children's novels.

Borne his Strangers' at Snowfell

(Dent, 89. fd.) is of In

Press,

75. 8d.), the same type (scene: Sussex), (Lutterworth spent

line drawings. adventures begin when a train with handsome Scotland-bound sticks

Marriotts Go Noth the And In With this axiom Ormly

(Heinemann, 88. Bd.), the es- at Shap mind, step towards the book-

Lorna favourite Ruth Manning-Sanders, that tablished

an adventure shop (there is also a telephonel) charming writer, has made Lewis composes

1 towards the shelves, bright as touching story out of the life

West Highlands story of the a medieval tournament, where, of Hans

Andersen, Swan of with a romantic flavour which Tor instance, The Seven Stones Denmark (Heineman, Bs. Od.), 10-and-upwards girls will not Mystery (Evans, s.) beckons, and from Hugh Lofting comes despise. with Gladys Mitchell's name the latest variation on a pros as guarantee of quality.

It is, in fact, a school deter. tive story whose Ingenuity adult would despise.

no

la chiefly founded, the delicious and dominating personality of Brer Rabbit. Never was there and attrnc- u more shameless

at school But it is aimed than this Live Scoundrel

of girls, and you have a nephew Falstaff-Puck of the world

In that case, the beasts. And never one more in mind?

Percy performer, successful.

orime,

ndroit

snow

perous theme, Doctor Dolittle bad the Becret

Lako (Cape. Ds.)

Animals for fun rather than science, that is the appeal Spring Show (Collins, s. 6d.) in which Helen O'Clery, help- Ged by excellent drawings, tells how a plebald pony is entered for the Dublin Show.

Very different is the golden

bc-

Lest anybody should think an English setting now obligatory, here comes The Voyage of the

Indian Brig, by Winifred Holmes (Bell, 39. 6d.), a modern sea story of the Indian Ocean. Mainly for boys? Nowadays one cannot be sure.

no

23 Treat with contempt. 24 Kind of wool.

25 Coarse,

26 Eager.

115

DOWN

1 Return on capital:

2 Offer.

3 Hard work.

5 Letters in order.

6 Tell.

9 Spike.

11 Pets.

12 Occurrence.

13 Lingering.

1s Rite.

18 Column.

22 Bill-of-fare.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 3 Sportive, 8 As- tute, 9 Artifice, 11 Admitted, 12 Berg, 13 Stolc, 18 Elder, 19 Open, 22 Lectured, 24 Toreador, 25 Valour, 26 Mackerel. Down; i Canal, 2 Stump, 3 Statute, 4 Pert, 5 Raid, 0 Irises, 7 Energy, 10 Tepid, 14 Oiled, 15 Central, 16 Tomtom, 17 Metric, 20 Prior, 21 Adorn, 22 Lade, 23 Cove.

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Monk's Work Looks with Prestolite

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A white cowled monk, working at a potter's wheel, is reviving an art which may not only bring dollars to Britain, 6) but make the monastery-that of Mount Saint Bernard, in Charnwood Forest-famous for its medieval reproduction

stoneware.

local

the

For younger children, with inhibitions. imaginative

Lions comes Elleston Trevor's Brer Rabbit is a Napoleon of Griggs, is at your service with 493.

Badger's Moon (Falcon 65.), and The Essential The Bard's Cloak (Pilkin,

treats of dunger- kind

which tells of a voyage to the Uncle Remus

of Od.), which

in a cave under

moon by a quartet of animals. Christmas holiday from morals. ous business

norse in Dana Faralla's Dream (There

are the in the Stenc (Macdonald, Bs. In more sober veln The warning is scunded on the the Welsh mountains.

sheep and goats of The potter is Father He collects clay from dunno really is such a cuve.)

6.) with is scene in Denmark ponies, frst page: "De crceturs

White Winter, by Eleanor Vincent Eley, who has been factories, stone dust and ashes nothin tall 'bout dat dal's

Tho Return of Long John and its theme in the no man's

for glazing from the rocks and child's) land

Helme (Eyre and Spottiswoode, (bul every

at this Cistercian Abbey for trees of the forest. He makes dat dat aln't good. good and

Silver

Gs.). in (Longmans,

Ds). Des dunno right fum wrong."

which Joha Connell has bor- tween fantasy and fact.

nearly 20 years. He studied his own moulding tools. Artlur Stanicy, who characters

has

And here comes a sheat important

Visitors from of 14th century pottery, writ-

all over Let nobody suppose, however, rowed

the anthology to an

books of all sizes and several that any harm can be done by from Treasure Island, is a bold raised

for Gollancz this

bowls, tankards, candlesticks, brief Suspension of

prices from the storyteller-in-ing to museums for infor- world buy his work, stone jugs,

tomation, and then began to and brooches, make chief Enid Blyton. Enough discipline. A deep common sense

The legend, spread by in (Bs. Gd.),

a few names: The experiment. the child's surrender Koverns

writers, thai pirates bed more attractive than sleep. mention

(P.tkin, 35. Strange Umbrella and the Judicious

Father Vincent is convinced whom wildest fantasy

archaeologist to with the And for young biologists, that 8d.). My Bedside Book (Arthur out of fashion

6d.), My arc

were that his work will sell in the his work is there overthrow of laws.

not formidable group, to Brer contemporary young, will

they United States. Some reproduc- convinced Oxford Berker, Os.), A Story Party at examples of The

with volume five minutes In what survive

(Hodder and shown

gone (Oxford Green Hedges a state of agreeable shivers 15 Eric Linklater's The Pirates of Junior Encyclopædia

formulae for glazing which he thore. The Victoria and Albert (Sidgwick discovered have his Caravan and

has asked for Will the Deep Green Sea (Macm linn, University Press, 30s.) devoted Sloughton, Cs.), and Mr Tumpy were genuinely medieval. Two tion work has already

been adopted Museum Ss). Obviously, by a pottery firm.

Cor- and Jackson Of 10s. fid); fantasy with whimsy to natural history.

Nottingham specimens. Firmly built оп modern firmly excluded. Linklater had

Miss. Blyton has not been

Father Vincent spends four poration have bought a number and laid In Dartmoor

their pieces for idling.

or five hours a day making the of Is he not the chief of the probably the 12-year-old public facts

You can allow three (natural feature, not prison) is smart

pottery. boys, a rabbity Harry in mind.

The 13th Adventure, by M. E. Lime whose philosophy is: "I'm years either way.

to

surrender

Rabbit is complete.

his latest coup awaitedi

be pull it off this time? course he will

venture, justified In the event, art, compiles

The Bedside Book for Children

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