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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950.

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT-

5

YOU HAD GOT

TO SHOUT AND

COULD NOT MAKE,

A SOUND

AND THAT

YOU WERE FURSUED BY A HORRIBLE UNKNOWN BUT, COULD NOT

MOVE ?

?

24

26

25 Necessitous

20 Cold

1 Feeler

2 Amaze

DOWN

a Object of worship

5 Submissive

0 Save

0 Changes direction

11

Attacked

12 Minor actor

13 Project

14 Seized quickly

18 Dig up

22 Commotion

D-Across: 3 Pampered, 8 Hubbub, Oral, 13 Deter, 18 Siren, 10 Lark, 25 Sultry, 20 Disperse. Down: 1 4 Abet, 5 Peer, 6 Revere, 7 Diddle. kraku e, 16 Placid, 17 Pranks, 20

23 Ness.

in

jovel this

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DREAM

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MEANS:

This is puro panic-an anxioty dream of the worst typo, based mainly on physical dis- comfort of the dreamor.

Indigestion or colic has played a

large part hero, and has momentarily interfored with

Watch the Mr. Bates

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

2301312503}LISTOI

THE SCARLET SWORD. HAVE gaiety, urbanity, fri-

By H. E. Bates. Michael Joseph. 10s. Od. 248 pages.

wrote

The ATES

Purple Plain: scene Burma; dreadfu! suf- ferings of white man after air crash. Then he wrote The Jacaranda Tree: 'scene Burma; dreadful sufferings of white men and women fleeing from the Japanese. Museum Now he writes The Scarlet

Archbishop." He plans to finish the story by the end of the 250,000 year. It will run to words,

• Beauty

Note:

Press tell me they are publish-Sword: scene Kashmir; ing a novel. "Untamed," by American Helga Moray, and, dreadful sufferings of white furthermore that Miss M. is men and women in Pathan good looking and sophisticated. attack on a convent. We must wait till New Year to see how she writes.

vality gone out of literary Then here is Sleve- fushion? king to restore them to favour

with an

THIRD WAN OF THE WOODEN

HORSE

Oliver Philpot, 37, tells his escape story of Stalag Luft 11 in Stolen Toumey.

his first book; he wrote it in thres weeks.

ingenious thriller

in

the heart's action, causing palpitation. Or you may have found yourself lying on your back.

In short, this dream of ufter paralysis— unable to shout, unable to move-is getting on for a nightmaro;*moro physical than psycholo- gical.

curry,

THE WALL. By John Her- Boy. Hamish Hamilton, 158. 632 pages.

THIS novel is based on the THIS SIEVERING BBC's Warsaw Ghetto and its drama script editar; born Harrow,

* LANCE

ATTE

in Long Acre 1920,

1806, produced first (experimental people and how they resolved In hopeless battle television play from roof of Daird's that death

was preferable to destruction STOLEN JOURNEY. By in Himmler's gas-chambers,

Oliver Philpot. Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. 412 climax to an era of horrors,

pages.

THEN "John" and "Peter," of The the two escapees Wooden Horse arrived in Swe- of their as- den at the end

found tonishing Journey, they

Rowe" that "Flight-lieutenant had arrived a week before.

man the third "Rowe" was in the escape tunnel which led out of Stalag Luft III through the sandy soil of Silesia to hope The and, possibly to freedom. "Rowe" of The Wooden Horse is the author of Stolen Journey, which tells how Philpot, the third man reached Sweden.

It seems to be impossible to write a bad escape story. Phil- pot has written an excellent one, although in fact his dash for freedom takes up only a

Bates is a good cook but need which the English language is third of the volume.

all his dishes taste of curry?

"When does the raping When he went to Malaya,

asked the Lowland Lockett-tough, start?" Major Jeffrey scarred and 35-left a manu- lady of Lord Elcho during the Admitted the Rising of '45. In The Scarlet script behind.

Sword it starts on page 56. major: "I'm more used to hand-

But, There is quite a lot of it, pro- ling men than a pen."

a thread of the having served with the Chin-viding, as it were

in a

tale that is Burma, the Arab continuity ris dits in

of Legion in Palestine, he felt he otherwise little but a series of

He waits brilliant snapshots. had a story to tell. ieur,

Bates might now take tropical should be whether publishers ople, to learn

scenery and horrible atrocities off the menu.

think that way too, Lant

• Back

Civil they come. vent ings servant Hugh Talbot who found st fame in the summer of 1934 nd"

when his "Gay Pagan" won an - Evening Standard Book-of-the-

has written It Month award,

TV

now

the

A

new novel called "An Inch of Taper." Breaking 10 years' silence is Enid Bagnold, whose story. ""The Loved and Envied," appears in January.

D.

used with civility.

He was a fast-and lucky- True

the tale enough,

is worker. From the moment he incredible, left the prison camp until he than a little more

was hidden in the coal bun- the jig saw the pieces of

of a Swedish ship at puzzle it together with all too kers complacent a click. But to so Danzig, just 48 hours clapsed. blanda con man, so adept

And luck? When his papers German were inspected, the writer, lat us be indulgent,

That a murder committed, in police were so busy pointing his photograph had 1914 in a grubby London square out that

solved in 1945 in not been stamped at Dresden failed to notice it! Monte Carlo ispreposterous? that they No doubt.

was not his photograph at all. But since it brings you Into When Philpot, travelling the company of Walter Cream, Norwegian businessman massive impostor. Alec in English, his German that

found it high-spirited artist companions with mysterious Indy-loves, to good joke.

Behind Fornas- say nothing of Mme

and Count d'Oznobi- strokes of chine, one a pathetic, and the reasonably Mertz other a sinister relic of Ed- sence of a singularly imperturb- with his- should able young times -- you wardian

trionic gifts. complain!

H. E. DATES, born 1905, Nor. thamptonshire; joined RAF 1941- as first State short commissioned

writer f England under Larch, name of Piving Omcer X. married with four children, lives in Kent..

story

A TOMB WITH A VIEW. Sleveking. By Lance Faber and Faber, 10s. 6d.

303 pages.

M

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

as a swore train- a very

such remarkable fortune, we

By assume the pre-

"CAN'T YOU JUST CLE 'CELIA TORN GREEN

WHEN SHE SEES THIS

COAT

mor

A

terrible heroic episode,

potential theme of great action. What has Hersey made of it?

With misguided but consider- able ingenuity te has sought to make The Wall look as little like a novel and as much like a collection of historical docu- ments as possible.

The Wall has to be studied, not read. But for the patient, there emerges the enduring, from so many words, so much much that seems learning, so

a final or irrelevant, trivial image extraordinarily vivid.

An

image of life still vigorous, human and dignifled (although certainly not glamo- rised) at a level where might well have been left but animal outeries of fear and anguish.

there nothing

* JOHN HERSEY, con of Ameri- can missionaries in China; wrote A Dell for Adano and Hiroshima.

LIBRARY LIST

Vingless Victory. By Anthony, fichardson. Odhams, on 6d. 200 gon. The story of Bir Basil Da foot from Embry's escape Occupied Prance in 1940, Admir with illustrated apir told photographs taken, after the war. in the prominent of scenes narrativo.

Pierrot By Raymond Queneau. John Lehmann. 9a. Bd. 190 pages. A briliantly amusing atory from the French of life in an amuse mant park in Paris Translated by J. Maclaren Ross into a slangy contemporary English admirably suited to the subject-matter.

Thráugh the Unicorn Gates. By George Millar. Heinemann. 100.6d, 207

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