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HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT-

MONEY WAS

CASCADING INTO YOUR

·LAP ---

-THIS

DREAM

2.5

MEANS: This is obviously only part of a dream; tho wishful part. A droom is usually the result of a conflict between a wish and a fear. This is tho with.......

Tho monoy and jowolled wealth suggests that you are deciding to aim at security obtained

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

DOWN

1

Name.

2 Limit

Foncie.

5 Cut up

8

Defraud.

9 Deliver.

10 Alm.

11 Exhaust.

12 Ancestor.

2 Run before the wind.

4 Refreshing drink.

Splendid.

Makes reparation.

7 Poison.

14 Nauseated.

15

Drown

17 Gain advantage.

13 Expressions.

16 Lower.

18 Trade combination,

20

22 pemic period.

23 Eyot.

Sheen.

10 Arrays.

10 Gets up.

Loafer.

24 Row..

25

20

Mechanic.

27 Weird.

28 Stupid.

29 Walk heavily.

21

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOR D.-Aerom: 3 Opus, 7 Slang, 8 Agog, 9 Kiln, 10 Invited, 12 Dish. 15 Caper, 10 Wept, 19 Osier, 21 Obese, 22 Pats, 23 Raise, 20 Myth, 20 Ultered, 30 Airy, 31 Bran, 32 Flout, 33 Golf. Down: 1 Flank, 2 Entices, 4 Pride, 5 Sand, 6 Nous, 9 Kept, 11 Taper, 13 Iris, 14 Hire, 18 Roast, 17 Doom, 18 Welt, 20 Steeple, 22 Py, 24 Aural, 25 Venue, 27 Yarn, 28 Hang.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1951,

AND THAT YOU WERE PLAYING WITH IMMENSE QUANTITIES OF JEWELS?

by monoy and position rather than at affection and love.

You would be wiser to aim first at affection and love. If you consolidato your emotional relationships with others, you will build a conto of security sounder than anything wealth can over creato for you.

The Adventures of a Reluctant Out-of-date

AUDIE LITTLE Lancaster's "album,“

M HAMPTON represents and

even

"Facades Faces," published by the under-privileged aristo- John Murray; and in doing so

they will buy something cracy who,

in order to more delightful than Maudle. maintain their accustomed

New satire style in an unaccustomed

although Lancaster Maudle's eyes pro- commerce without getting trude on about half the pages, them soiled enough, conduct he uses the other half of the bitter price-cutting wars album to produce what I think Is an entirely new form of with neighbours

world, soil their fingers in FOR makes

the over

Something to READE

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON PICKS THE BEST OF 1950

BOOK" OF THE YEAR :- Bonwell's London Jounal, 1762-1766, Heinemann, 21a.

NOVEL OF THE YEAR: Behold thy Daughter. By Nail Patanion. Hodder & Stoughton, 10%. 6d. Strong dramat Scots setting. Alternative: A Town Lika Alice, by Narl! Shute, Heinemann, 10%, 6d. 168,000 copies sold.

SHORT STORIES 1 Such Angus Wilson. Secker & Unkind Satire,

Darling Dodos. By Warburg, Ed.

THRILLERS OF THE YEAR : A Tomb with a View. By Lance Steveking. Faber & Faber, 10s. 6d. Private defectivas at work. The Simple Art of Murder. By Raymond Chandler. Hamish Hamilton, 10%. 6d. Not so simple,

TRAVEL : The Traveller's Tres, By Patrick Leigh Farmor, Murray, 218. Caribbean Odyssey,

, and this is a new ono

Blame it on Bligg

THE

TRAVELLER'S TREE. By Patrick Leigh Fermor. Murray. 218. 403 pages.

-NCREDIBLE to think, while read- ing this gay, sympathetic, obser- vant account of a journey through the Caribbean that there have been dull books on the subject. But so it is.

of material in

umbrellas.

MY 19

HUMOUR: Some Notes on Lifemenship. Dy Stephen Potter. Hart-Davis, 6s. How to avoid friends and double-crom people..

ADVENTURE £ The Kon-tiki Expedition, By Thor Heyerdahl. Allen & Unwin. 12s. 6d. Sla men on a raft.

One man in a war.

WAR: Private Army. By "Popski" Cape. 16.

HISTORY: The Age of Elegance. By Arthur Bryant. Collins, 15s. Regency reviewed.

By Cecil DIOGRAPHY: Florence Nightingale. Woodham. Smith, Corntable. 15. Saint without

PEOPLE.

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by Jon Hope

NOVEL-A-YEAR

MAN

Á novol a year for 30 years: that is the record of Dornford | Xatts, whose story, "Lower

Than

Vermin,"

out week.

this

His Arst book, "The Brother of Daphno," still sells steadily. Dornford Yates is a pen' name. Real namo-Captain C. W. Mer- сег He was called to the Bar 1909. Success at short story writing persuaded him to con- centrate on books instead briefs, From hla home In Southern Rhodesla he keeps his COUNTRY LIFE: The Poacher's Handbook.

publishers up to the mark with By Jon Niat! Heinemann, 81. 6d. Rural Industry.

stream of cables about com- mas and semi-colons when his blamed the laziness (and free-books are in the proof stage. dorn) of the blacks on the News of Nobel Prize winner, wicked Digg who introduced novelist William Faulkner, Pub- the breadfruit treel "Bligg est le lishers Chatto and Windus say. coupable mosaicurs."

they are preparing for this year volume of new, hitherto unpub- Bligg? We call him Bligh, Oflished short stories: "Knight's the Bounty.

Gambit." Faulkner fans will be surprised that stories are high- class whodunits, an unusual de-. parture for Faulkner.

FERMOR .. Woutward Ho!

•

There used to be a carnival in Martinique. I: ended when eight lepors, escaping, donned C. 8. Forester has found a dominoes and mingled with the

new hero. He calls him Charles crowds. Theme for a macabre Randal, and he will made his opera?

debut in

in novel callett "Randall and The River of Time." Fores It was in Martinique, too, that ter intends

feature two Creole causing had their a soldierly character in several

Randall fortunes told: "You will be an books to come. Does this mean empress; you will be more than that Hornblower, that man an empress." The first girl the sea, is to be deserted? Not was Napoleon's Josephine the at all. He will be Second; Mille. du Buc, captured "Lieutenant Hornblower, "pow by Barbary pirates, became in under way and the seventh of Stamboul the powerful Sultana the series that has helped to Valide.

send Forester's income soaring beyond the £25,000 a year class.

*Kent

rates of admission to state salire is called Afternoons with The only possible explana- ly homes, and smartly ex- Brodeker.

Each "afternoon" consists in tion is that writers have Papiamento and Creole laid his readers maybe, port themselves to the United States before the which, though imaginary, epito- profusion

part of a double-page, drawing been daunted by the tropical on top. flood of cheap foreign coun- mises a place the wealthier this necklace of lalanda Creole? It is French in tesses can spoil that mar- part of Manhattan, the more where

European which the "" bag a dozen of a French lown, deadly part of ket.

cultures have sought to replaced by "" the more portentous part of a Bavarian estate.

But the drawings are not left

Through Osbert Lancaster's pocket cartoons every Dally Ex- press reader knows her trials her wooing of elderly ambas sadors for their Uplomatic petrol, the hardship of having a politically minded cook ("Well, dear, I expect you'd be spend ing a lot of

time in the Ritz nowadays 11 your cook were gallantly con- testing a Tory stronghold"),

her

unstinted effort. to pro- mote Anglo- American good will ("What I

t got straight about Civil your

War, colonel, is whether George

MAUDIE

of

Here is a new Babel with half a dozen ita European tongues as foundation and Gombo, But Halti is for Fermor, and the most

Of Godfrey Evans, fascinating of all the islands. and England," has written his Catholicism is the official re-life story. Title: "Behind The Evans used to bo ligion and Voodoo the hidden Stumps."

late power, perhaps destined to be- habitually

for school In come through playing cricket. School- come the state cult. Latin American republics the master warned him: "This is no good. You cannot expect to make Catholic Church is criticised for its obscurantism and reaction; a living at cricket," Schoolmaster in Halt! it is not obscure should now make a note in his enough, not "magical" enough, diary for February to look at to compete with the Intoxica- "Behind The Stumps," tion of Voodoo.

been French

imprint themselves, Bome without the sharpnese, to themselves. Each is accom- по deeper than a breath French without shears. panied by some verses; and it is blown on a window-pane, from combination of verse and others like the Spanish- drawing that the full satire very deep indeed. emerges.

As for Fermor, he is The statue of an Irish-looking not in the least daunted. figure in Grecian robes standing He was fascinated by all In a cheerless square against he saw, and liked most of blackened sky is accompanied

What it. by this verse:-

Just once the satire is savage,

The distant Seychelles are not put

so remote

Nor Clesiphon

dead

On

he could not Costa, paper, Greck photographer in at- ultimately tendance, speared with his

Ar this damp square round camera,

which tired echoes float

Of something brilliant that

George Moore once said;

Result: a brilliant series of impressions, liable to citizens want Where, still, in pitch-pine snugs make many

pale poets quote

to jump on the next banana Bodley boat. Verses rejected by the

Head. For in this drained, aquarium no

breeze

i.

Washington under review was on Abra- by J. P. W.

Lincoln's ham

MALLALIEU, side or Vivian Leigh's").

H.P. Those who do know her have 8s. 6d. to spare will with- out further recommendation That clings for ever to these of Montego Bay, all

at once buy Osbert

lotion and striped

from me

and

architecture, Deposits pollen from more for- from the crumbling splen-

tile shorer

dour of Christophe's palace Or kills the smell of long un-of Sans Souci to the glitter

opened drawers

Here

Ís

sun-

burn

dripping trees......

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Then there are the con- tumes, so magnificent for men in Trinidad, so hand- some for women in Guade- loupe where the ends of the turban speak amorous sign If one

A kid of What is Voodoo?

of Catholicism with relics parody of convulsive African rites. Its chief symbol is a wooden cross an draped in an old morning coat with a bowler hat on top. This language is Baron Samedi, god of the end projects it cemeteries, chief of the legion means, "I am free"; two, of the dead. "You come too late"; three,

In Jamaica, Voodoo -takes ai "There is still room for Protestant turrno saints, no you."

Virgin.

our

At every turn is a surprise!

It was in Jamaica that Fermor The swept, clean Kitts after the tumbled, jungly cult

lines of St encountered

a more primitive even than

the Voodoo, riches of Martinique. The Rastafari, who wish to make village of Hell's Gate where the Halle Selassie king of the world houses are chained to the rocks and grow beards to "look like

they lest

blow away. The "English"

Fermor emperor." parish churches

of quired of one of them Barbados, where in one church don't you grow a beard?"

Ferdinando Palaeo- yard rests Byzantine emperor.

got the sad reply: "I can't grow Logus, descendant

the last no beard, but boy, I'm beard-

minded." Fermor met an angry French civil engineer in Martinique who

of

In-

Why

He

Outstanding travel-book of this year.

"But it's all in the cause of science- ta'a volunteered to attempt the first rocket trip to the moon!":

Giving Thanks

· London Espress Bervice.

BU KEMP STARRETT

THANKFUL THAT'S OVER, THE GUESTS GONE AND THERE'S HOTHING TO DO BUT CLEAN UP THE MESS.

"C'N YA'MAGINE ME IN SOIP 'N

FISH4

THANKFUL THEY DON'T HAVE

TO DRESS FOR DINNER..

| SOME ARE TRANKTIL. TORL

DEFICIENT· EARS. AND ''THAT="THEY CAN'T AFFORD

A READING ADU

FOR, I DONT BE-

YOU LOOK CÁC VONG

LIEVE YOU!

AS YOU DID VILN

OTHERS VE KNOW ADE TRANKFUL TOR. A RICE QUIT SPOT IN WHICH TO SLEEP OFF ALL THAT DINNER.

· SOME FOLKS ARE THANKFUL THEY HAVE YOUNG FRIENDS WHO DON'T AUND FIBBING A BIT, TO HELP AN OLDER. BOY FEEL YOUNG AND VIGOROUS.

COPR. 1980 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORF, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED..

A THE LAD WHO

· HACK'T HAD A RAISE

IN TEN YEARS IS THANKFIL TRE

OLD BUT IS

STILL HANGING- TOGETHER

TO HOLD

COAT OF

SOME ÁRE JOST TRANKTIN. THEIR. CIT-SPRING: BAVE

ATIDIETY KYRI

MANY A MAN. IS THANKTÓL JOST FOR. HAVING A WIFE WHO'S A- DIRA GOOD, COOK ... AID THAT HER RELATIVES LIVE A THOUSAND MILES AWAY..

* HOT

DIGGITY

SOME FOLKS ARE I THANKFUL THEY WERE SMART ENOUGH TO

STOCK UP OF ALL THE THINGS THAT MIGHT

BECOME SCARCE.

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