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BALCHIN DUSTS THE TRIANGLE

A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD, By Nigel Dalchin. Collins, 101, 6d.

251 pages.

IN

this novel, which is the story of Jill, of James her husband (and the narrator) and of Bill, Nigel Bulchin takes up the Eternal Triangle and gives it u dusting-off. He brings life and intelligence to this ancient theme, re- minding us that, after all, it really is Eternal.

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opparent

This Book of the Month is a imph for Butchin's unforced, incon.c. alandst ensund writing. is success is ageurest from the Bust few pages. Balchin, wi.h fort using the resumes of t deceptively conversational English, brings his people to life. It we have not met them. well, we

may du 0 at any

farment.

for instance, in her chave and beauty, her runningly self- alverised wenkness of churac- fer " a really no good, su don't be surprised it behave badly") her steely determina tion to eat her eke and have ut.

She is not a bad woman, but meitely worthless, Given better luck or a Wane husband for at least a different one), Jill might have

done

But. well: Very instead, she mar

Jarnes, a marries decent chay, little bit of a tells us). prig (as he himself Who som becomes an expert th whic hi Calls

Jill

mancevre," that is a methot of geting somebody else to insist an you dong what you want to

to anyway.

That senterre puts Jill before you in a flash.

Balchin deals in perso35, LG types. And he is meticilious. Just. Bill Bule, for example, Jill's

unsertineb lover.

cynical, a-moral, charming.

picasan

companion

mistrese's husband.

apex

for

Fi

bo

tir

BOOK of the Month

GEORGE by .. MALCOLM THOMSON

Thi

rory house umebody" soos na' stup, Janes, a local JP. is bitterly alignant over the incident, and Avea moze so when he bapins to

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peet the Bill is responsible

must refute the charge, own or be denounced. That is James's idea to which listens with Incredulity.

That Jaines should be such a "irany"

matter at But James Justle me! vs right is righ'; justice must Je dore of the leayeas full-and So he rails on Bill, forth.

prevarication

what after rome

ices to own hi

Mi

*

She

It is a short-lived triumph for dunes. For now ill tell him

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was driving Bill's cor. And she killer Joe. and What will the pompous JP, hampion of Justice-must-be-

dene, ete, do about that?

James's alti ude is not logical at all. He simply becomes an husband wanting to anxious

held his wife 11:0

slaughter

Is that

from

consistency

James's conduct which

man-

In

upse's

of some triangle in sho bounder? Perhaps. At any rate, one who cast. " don't feel strongly about Justine Fairness and all the other abstractions, sten't think that James desavers about th

love affair makes a gallant for domed attempt

temut to yave hi wife from the boils of Bill.

J (according to Bill).

But before that judgment on Janies is uttered by his wifes lover a great many things have The most importan! happened.

anit

is, a just or far business, ant. ! see no particular reasons why: On the other hand.

dislike

tuss

shalt de

I intensely inconveniener and discomfort

poss

a

The closing phase of the novel.

a wild race by car- deribes So my sole reaction to this mess you know how Bulchin excels was how

out of it ps at that sort of thing-to prevent to get conveniently and pleasantly as fil from owning up.

"A Way Through the Wood" oss ble."

foreinating and deeply grip- Thi

"R:ONS"

of which 1:1

because, with speaks is a by-uruduet of his bing book just elandestine affair with Jill. I remarkable balance of judgment. It laces one after another. the cornos about this:

emotions Somebody, driving a fost ens questions tangled

☺ broken marriage-and along a narrow. lune, tils Joe and Pearse, aband of Elie who dots su in a narrative of master- works for Jill and James at y economy.

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MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY. Edmund Wilson, 388 pages. (W. H. Allen, 12s. 6d.3.

W

tent to which everyone drinks from morning til night very nearly produces the symptoms XHEN this book was of hangover in the reader), and the siege is prolonged. because published in the USA and apparently hopeless, he five years ago it caused the plunges in'o a love affair with a kind of stir that publishers girl be picks us in a cheap cance hall. Love affair is no', perhaps dream about. On the one the

violently an hand it was acclaimed for right expression, for though

appe liu are high literary qualities, on cerned with women, his eniotions the other donounced for are not. He is a man to whom sex is as vitally important as the obscenity by the Society next highball, and he shows an for the Suppression of Vice. qual absence of reruple in the

enjoyment of both.

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It a curlous book, extremely

. The author moke: no discern- Meul. to area. It is a collec. ion of six stertes set a New ble effort to engage one's pity" York and in flat part of New for Annu, the girl picked up ure of for a couple of Bland which is 1 saminer mode

well-off years, and Anally dropped be- the alayground eetion of the city community. cause she belongs to a lower They are all told in the list eluss and his become a bit of

We are even perzen. and, since the same "complication."

to see that her Food characters reappear from time made 16 time, the separate parts have qualities and her pathos are a complication, and to acknow of continuity appearance

truth of the hero' which in fact they do not possess. ledge the

hepe tha. Bightly shame-faced

he will die under an operation since her death would get him

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The longest--"The Princess with the Golden Hair," the one hat eated all the rouble--;a novel and as long as a short

a kind of t written with

seriousness that honesty and make it a very remarkable pro- duction.

of

out of a throsome mess.

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nu: Anna does not die. Por- with realism which frayed

she does what she would do in conecats an indet tenderness, lifemureles a sordid little Pule without she despises, whom scenes or fuis. when she knows there is no hope of marrying her lover. He is thus Tree to con- himself centrate once

his more 03 a mis- friend's wife,

the wife's bressed women friends, and on his own when she comes "regttlar girl" back from California.

It is the story

a hero's entanglements with women during the two years while his "regular ga!" is away in Call and he Ands forgia uncomfortable without tros

He becomes with the beautiful wife of one of his drinking friends (the, ex-

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT... YOU WERE CHASING A LOG BUT NO MATTER HOW FAST YOU WENT THE LOG ALWAYS WENT FASTER UNTIL IT VANISHED DOWN

A RABBIT HOLE

-THIS DREAM MEANS':

This is the dream of an over-ambitious man; an individualist rather than a co-operator; ever- striving for more, never satisfied with what you havo.

The faster YOU go, the fastar the log goes, until it disappears: the more you TRY to pick up the coal, the loss success. The more you over- reach, the greater the danger of losing all.

The dream is trying to tell you-from the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

*CERTAINLY I'M GOING

-OST-IN IT.

WHY NOTS TELL ME THAT!

A British

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ACRONS

Certify 10). Concise to). Expement (5). Chane (8).

10 Schular (5).

11 Nude 13).

12 Gem (41.

13 Territory 13.

14 Demure (0)

18 Supposed (01.

10 Song (8).

29 Prejudice di..

25 Trainple (5).

24 Enthurles 101.

20 Domesticating (0),

77 Declined (61..

21 Scold (B)

20 Obstinate (0).

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3 Stupefy (4)

Treaclicry (33.

5 Narrowed (7).

6 Dodges (0),

Uprot (81. Dreating (0)

18 Kneaded ju

10 Germ 171.

Argued 17).

Marked (a).

21 Lad (3).

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2 Lower part of room-wall (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-A row: 3 Aeld, 7 Green, 6 Exit, D 19 Adept. 21 Ruler, 2 Serf. 13 Inulate, 12 Trok, 15 Overt. 1 Brew. Fied, 2 Troop, 26 Bath, 20 Annoyed. 20 Arid, 21 Hurl, 34 Relax. 33 Tree. Down: Grung. 2 Restore, 4 Cheer. 5 Deft, & Fine, D. Stew, 11 Aver 13 Rued, 4 Kite, 10 Talon. 17 Grub, 18 Diot. 30 Deposed. 22 Ford, 24 Radke. 23 Cedar, 21 Arum. 20 Hall,

AND THAT YOU WENT TO PUT COAL ON THE FIRE BUT EACH PIECE YOU TRIED TO PICK UP JUMPED OUT OF THE SCUTTLE AND RAN ABOUT THE FLOOR

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wisdom of your subconscious mind-that you are allowing your living to get a little out of focus, out of parspective; you are running ahead of yourself; you have become too identified with the means rather than the end; with striving instead of consolidating and using and enjoying what you have.

It is trying to tell you to relax, to balance your life-to stop log-chasing. It is trying to tell the little boy in you to stop running races; and to get on with living.

"OH, YOU'RE -DOING BEAUTIFULLY!

Women Are Braver Than Men

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Lighting your own cigarette In this fashion may be impossible,

JUST

but you can take a picture of it

FUN WITH DOUBLE EXPOSURES

as

You

We have

【UST about the most cominon Now for subject matter.

photographic blunder is the may have someone lighting his

cigarette, double exposure-the miserable, own unhappy result of forgetting to shown in our pleture; or perhaps Dud playing draughts with him- wind the atm between pictures, self; or sister Susie as a guest We have all done this at one. ut her own ten party. There time Dr another and have are innumerable good stunts wondered afterwards how we you can inske up. could have been so dumb.

to

The procedure is very simple. But there is a kind of double For example,

p'e:ure Dad exposure that you make inten- beating himself, seat him at the tionallyJust for fun. This is board making a play; the back- the stunt of presenting the same ground in dark and there is no person twice 13 the same chair on the other side of the picture. It's no. at all d'eult table. Take one exposure. Then to do--and can be hilarious as move Dad, chair and ail, around

to the other side well as mystifying.

of the table, where не sits in contempla.ion. Since the

The first essential is a black Make another exposure on the background, one in which the same of m.

same picce

camera

form

will not pick up any black background did not detail. This can be a doorway, an image on the Bim in the

or an arch, beyoud which is original exposure, there will completely darkened room. Or now be two picures of you can improvise a dark back- I: makes ground-a wall, a black cloth, board is doubly exposed, for it has not been moved between

na no difference if the

or perhaps night sky beyond an open porch. If the background shots, Just remember that the is not dark, detall will show camera, should be on a tripod or

poses through the various

other solid support, your subject and spoll be effect. slightest camera

would rula your picture.

of

since the movement

The second assential is to find some way of making sure that

Once you have experimented the various poses of your sub- with few double exposures, ject do not overlap. You, can you will want to Iry triple end do this by marking the two quadruple exposures. The positions with chalk on the floor possibilities for unusual pictures or lable. Your subject should in this type of photography not be placed beyond these are really endless. markers, or the flesh-and-blood illusion will be lost.

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