1951-12-22 — Page 14

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YOU WERE OUT WALKING AND it

WAS TEEMING W.TH RAIN

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951.

THEN YOU SAW YOUR FIANCEE COMING TOWARDS YOU THE RAIN WAS NOT

TOUCHING HER, BUT BRANCHING OFF AT HER HEAD AND OUTLINING.

HERAL

Poor Mrs. Jordan!

THIS DREAM MEANS: Water symbolises one's subconscious mind or emotions rain often represents the fertilising. simulating, enrichening effect of emution on one's life

While you are swamped with strong emotions to the extent that you must proiect yourself against them you wear your maci, pour Cancer seems to br untouched by them, cool and detached (she needs so mac the mic cannot touch ber

You don't know whether to admire her as a BRATH (the in mines her with a halo or pity yourself for bring so at the mercy of your emotiona You probably feel. 100, that these emotions could lead to joy instead of wo analety

She

could never say 'No'

MRS JORDAN AND HER FAMILY. A. C. Aspinall Arthur Barker.

30%.

UEEN VICTORIA'S staid morality may well have been a reuetion against the radishness of her royal uncies, all of whom were involved in adventures

by which he must have been hurrified and far from amused.

There was George IV, secretly Tarrid 10 Mrs Fitzherbert and always scandidously busy: the Duke of York, publicly em- barrassed ま The revela Tons of Mary Ann Clarke:

Duke the

of Cumberla

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has sires, wrote to her, "and kindness she

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careless generosity. shacha anagle tree with her purse Shu as well as her affections. 3924 10 woman who could never bring hers to say No BEYOND EUPHRATES. Freya Stark, (John Mur- ray 25s.)

ROHIT once in a century the small shores and moist airs the Berlish Isles produce a hazeller of genius, whose spirit e drawn to deserts and burning sons, uni who has the rare BF beng able 1 interpret the

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simply.

who could one abble even a haste letter to a Brands withnet lumanating the page a zlozen Lutes with felirties which have the expressio et of litle points of light.

FREYA STARK On each page, points of light.

something precious-sometimes a kind of minute Inspired observa- tin. sometimes wisdom.

Consider these sentences on youth and age. scriobled in her dary when she was 38: "In spite of all that i said, it is

happier Fater where the joy and the value of learning about it all is dis- self comes to covered, and our taunt for so little that its un- happiness scarcely troubles one

ageing lady need not inpere the surit very much.

But never

for a moment, it one desires this true contentment, can one think in terms of this life anh: the pro- po Lion with eternity must be

The travels and lonely Arabian kept." adventures. of her youth have

Beside this wisdoll.. which For Fand contine to Lear)

capacity fur hot beause she seems to have springs from her

(as well as reat actuched thinking been

great

not the intellectual toughness which writer

drove her to become a fluent Persian and Arabic scholar when once she had given her imagina- tion to the East, her writing is full of a debrious quiel hummu, Brul the favour of a singularly generous personality. As well as scholar, traveller and distin when the 1

of guished writer, this rare being letter writing is almost tc. has always been a woman Hi Es second volume Ced her great vitality and attraction, so autobiography stands up like that her life has had the added lasse monument, being largely richness of great friendships and of wonderful letters affections, which shines like a composed written from the mudsl of her hidders lamp through all her adventures (very often in haste wink. and discomfort and even danger )

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They now, tenderly preserved The

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Happy Holidays!

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their recipients,

QUIET GENTLE- MAN. Georgette Heyer. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.)

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HOM her own private vision. Regency England, Miss Constructs 3 fictional never land in which varls. formidable beautiful heiresses

Laconic

the adventurous story of her later thirties, when she wandered in Persia and Arabis, lived in Bagdad and earned her living where.

hunted treasure wagers,

or and plan, common-sense Jane- slopes

Austenish heroines are enter- tainingly deployed. The Earl of

Janing

Luristan.

and the

Freya Stark

as not the first St Erth; her latest hero, makes Englishwoman to be fascinated no claim to be taken seriously: by Arab life, and by the great but she has a respect for her emptiness, leisure and vitality of reader which maxes her

that great sandy continent, but seriously presise about all the she brings a rarer mind to her local colour, dress, slang and experiences thar: any other dialogue of her characters. One traveller of our time. She is a feels there is a scholarly back- contemplative; out of every ex- ground to this lightest of feather- perience she distils.

a drop of weight tales.

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