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HAVE YOU EVEN DREAMED THAT-

-THIS

DREAM

YOU WERE NOTORING LAND AN ABYSS OPENED

BEFORE YOU, YOU PLUNGED IN BUT FLOATED →→→→→

Brant Unables

MEANS:

Some experiences of the day have made you over-confident; you feel you can do almost any- thing and get away with it—even murder.

In the dream, oven the yawning abyss doos

What is not swallow you up; you float over it.

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Contest.

5 Wearled.

8 Chief.

9 Reddish colour.

10 Infectious fright.

11 Dwarfs.

12 Tardy.

13 Cowboy show.

18 Heavenly.

Bite.

20 Church land.

22 Musical work.

23 Young animals.

25 Shun.

20 Ejected.

27 Birds.

4.

14

VAND THAT YOU | WERE:CYCLING

AND RAN HEADLONG ||INTO A TREE BUT

PASSED THROUGH / }}IT WITH NO SENSE));

OF MPACT ?

an obstacle to others--the treo-is no obstacle to you, and you glide offortlessly through it.

Most of us swing in our moods a little; ou are on top of your swing and right on top of the world. Be careful about now plans or you will sot yourself tasks too big or too sustained for you. Now is the time to use your energy to com- "plote old tasks--not to plan now anci.

E

THE

SPOT

WINNERS

→

By JON HOPE

In the book busi- Laurence Earl, with Yangtse In-. .ness

the pace quic, eldent,

kens, Onco again And the story tellers? I am there has been that banking on a surprise entrant

Duty Sir

Cooper most lucrativo of all objec Heartbrenk). Other favourites- (Operation tives-the gift scason sales. John Uersey (The Wall); Net

the

There is speculation on which torson (Behold Thy Daughter);

John Galaworthy (with author will top the sales. In the non-fiction class I tip James Bog Ilustrated Forsyte Saga). well (1740-05), His recently dis- covered London Journal should thrust him well in front.

• HBary St. George Saunders, who recently gave up his job on House of Commons librarian,

He has written his first novel. Runners-up--Ceel! Woodham- Smith, with her Florence Nigh- calls it The Sleeping Bacchus, Saunders Js Ungale biography: Sir Osbert Out February. Sitwell, with his Anal volume of spending the winter in France. self-revelation, Noble Essences; Self-imposed chore that has

mixed

Prince K.

revolutions

THE ANARCHIST PRINCE. By George Wood- cock and Ivan Avakumovic. Boardman. 21s. 463 pages.

THE successful revolutionary becomes a tyrant;

the failure writes books, usually bad. Prince Kropotkin is an exception. He failed but his books

B

10

10

KI

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

are good, especially "Memoirs of a Revolu- tionist" from which much

by

24

of the material of this new

biography is taken.

Kropotkin, son of * very grand Russian aristocrat,

20 Went to and fro.

20 Engraver.

DOWN

1 Clucking,

2 Nautical.

3 Recess.

5 Endanger.

4 Lattice-work.

6 Motive.

7 Banish.

14 Consign

15 Uninitiated person,

10 Feared.

17 Wordy.

19 Constrain.

21 Horizontal. 24 fat.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Spur, 7 Wrath, 8 Omit, 9 Foul, 10 Puerile, 12 Erse, 15 Aroma, 18 Stop, 19 Golop, 21 Allen, 22 Levy, 23 Seene, 26 Pant, 28 Retreat, 30 Rook, 31 Lido, 32 Agony, 33 Dyke. Down: 1 Fraud, 2 Iterate, 4 Proem, 5 Role, 6. Hias, 9 Flop, 1 Irons. 13 Rely, 14 Espy, Average, 22 Leck, 24 18 Agents, 17 Warp, 18 Sign, 20 Crook, 25 Canny, 27 Avid, 28 Trod.

squabbling. was sectarian

his

lasted three years comes to an end soon with publication of

compre- Victory Cavalcade, a hensive What, Where, When of World War II.

Book has been compiled by

This

side "the butchers in the dun-Joseph Fenston, who took time Keons, the dishonour brought off from theatrical and musical on Socialism." Before dusk he impresario dutles to do it.

s his arst venture into author- way back in his cell.

ship. But he seems to have ven- pinces-from atured most other оп

selling jewels in China to ex- parting oranges from Brazil.

So, bitter irony, bitter winter's day, passed a pioneer of Russinn freedom who had lived to be its last repre- sentative. Benevolent,

nnive and winsome, he had got mixed up in another man's revolution and was crushed by it.

Kropotkin's charm appears in this story of a failure-along with too much about the doc- trinal feuds of his comrades.

THE HUNTER. By James Aldridge. The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d. 204 pages. disap-

brought up in the noble quarter pointment. But the worst was

of Moscow and became a page still to come.

to the Tsar. A serious youth, he grew bored with dangling about court and went off to ex- plore Siberia.

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But, politics

more fascinating than georgraphy. He took a look at Socialism, held his nose

Marxism (a over

Idea of bureaucrat's German

and, houven, as he decided), concluding that all governments are alike wicked took up with the anarchists, to whom the state, any state, enemy.

*

is the arch-

~(London Express Service)

New National

Park

Sir Patrick Duff, chair- man of the National Parks Commission, recently sign- MAN Against Nature! Recipe ed the designation order for for some of the dullest the first national park in the It came with the Russian slabs of pretentiousness ever Peak District. It will be Revolution and Kropotkin's written-but here, just for once, sent to Mr Dalton, Minister return to his native land. producing a splendid story.

of Town and Country Plan- Kerensky offered him a Minis-

"The Hunter" is a novel of ning, for his approval, with- said the old try. "I consider."

the Great Open Spaces for "the trade of a

in the next few days. revolutionary,

strong; rings true; shoe-black more useful." Lenin adults. It is

The ares asked his advice and persecuted avoids the sentimentality which

designated covers lles in wait for unwary travel-about 624 square miles in his anarchist comrades.

lers in the backwoods. Its here Cheshire, Derbyshire, Stafford- of the Bol is Roy The

MacNair, not-so-simplej "Why

shire and the West Riding of sheviks shocked him.

son of nature, trapper with a

Yorkshire has the revolution no noblo

and in territory

the

the Musk-o-gee

county side?" he asked on his death country of Ontario.

Borough of Shefeld. Ordera concerning the Lake District and Snowdonia National Parkes will be submitted to the Minister in the next few weeks.

meanness

beneath the

bed. His funeral in

1921: was Moscow's last mass demonstra-

Being intelligent, Roy knows tion against the new terror.

that he is "trapped out" and A hundred thousand followed that, every season, by exceeding The state responded by lock-

black his legal ing Kropotkin up in the Peter the coffin

quota of skins, he and Paul fortress, St Petersburg. flags of anarchism, and banners hastens his own economic ex-

In a statement the Commission His escape, after two years, is which declared, "Where there is tinction. Being stubborn, he is said that the act of designation

there in one of the authority,

is no told by himself

free loath to take up farming. Being would not effect any change and classical narratives of its land.

dom." The Internationale was tempted, he joins in a raid on the land in a national park Forty years of exile followed, not played, Kropotkin having the Silver Dollar Game Fre-would remain in the hands of mostly passed in Pinner and compared it to "the howling of serve, 1.000 square miles, teem-the present owners. There was he was famed hungry dogs." An anarchist. ing with beaver, mink and such- no reason why designation Bromley, where

should interfere with färgning for the like forms of wealth. as a gardener. Forty years of released from

the grave- fil-health,

activities. poverty, agitation, day, denounced at

prison

-(London Express Service)

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