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ACROSS

aggregation of ob- 1 Birds (5)

3 Dense

jects (4)

7 Pattern (5)

B Sediment (4)

9 Not in doubt (4)

10 Chooses (7)

12 Spineless creature (4)

15 Zodiac sign (5)

18 Pronounce indistinctly (4)

10 Faftish (5)

21 Pursue (5)

22 Adversaries (4)

23 Claw (5)

26 Face (4)

20 Deserved (7)

DOWN

2 Discloses (7)

4 Rovile (5)

5 Slaughtera

0 Rip (4)

Agitate (4)

11 Condiment set (5)

13 Responsibility (4)

14 Be listless (4)

16 Track (8)

17 Plays a part'(4)

18 Wise (4)

20 Merciful (7)

22 Escape (4)

24 Sumclent (5)

25 Centro (5)

31 Storage chamber (4)

30 Mature (4)

32 Trop (5)

33 Sharpen (4)

27 Labour (4)

28 Forepart of a ship (4) ·

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,--Across: 1 Spares, 7 Trip, Plant, 10 Error, 11 Auks, 13 Despondent, 15 Gear, 18 Rise, 19 Irreverent, 22 Earl, 24 Needs, 25 Trend, 26 Dons. 27 Delays. Down: Peals, 3 Ratlo, 4 Siendy, 5 Stranger, € Kirk, & Route, 12 Strut, 19 Dirge, 14 Peerless, 17 Siren, 18 Ceased, 20 Extol, 21 Enemy, 23 Anon.

BRUTAL? YES, BUT

told with charm..

MITTEE.. By Daphne Rooke. Galloncz, 10x. 6d. 207 pages.

Mittee across veldt to

ET there be no mis- to the rifle that lay on the grass when understanding. Daphne behind. Paul. Only Fanle and I journeys Rooke is one of the know that he lies at the bottom the

of that terrible gorge." most impressive recruits to

These quotations may suggest the novel in recent times. that Daphne Roolte does not goes with her. And how recent a time it, throw words wastefully about.

It so, they suggest correctly.

IFL

du

marry Paa! Plosals, Selina Nothing in the book Is more

than ปาง

truly and subtly relationship tween

the

Iss than a year has passed

It is, indeed, a possible criti- told since A Grove," of Fever Trees, cism of Mitice that it marches the first astonishing tour de forward at too brisk o force of this South African The foreshortening

расс.

.

be-

two

excessive, girls, the white writer, burst in upan the The sense of time is weak-za it and the coloured. Northern hemisphere. And here may have been weak in the They love, fight, already comes another novel mind of Selina, who tells to confirm the hopes and pro- story. phecles that were uttered over

the sulk at, hate and

weep in the arms

of one another,

This is how it beween Mitte

"We song and-

ly, though WD did not know what sadness WAS,"

the first. Mittee is an outstand- Selina is a coloured girl, ing plece of story-telling.

devout, playful, poetle, im

sexed-mental and Selina: pudent, highly What are the distinguishing age about 12. She hates weRT- qualities of a Daphne Rooke Ing shoes. She loves dressing- [ktory? (1) A mixture of Idyllic up in the white girls' finery.

charm and savage action. (2) A gift for entering the mind and seeing through the eyes of primitive beings. (3). All a special through the story, brand of irresponsible humour a sense of the keeps clbowing

And tragic and the horrible,

inally (4), its narrative, pas- sionate and strong, is unfolded with incomparable economy.

This was war

Mitice, Consider how In

In novel luid

the Transvaal towards the end of last century,

By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

Don't think your affairs are important to me, Selina, sid Mittee. It would be foolish for me to mix myself up in colour- ed people's affairs, I thought, It is the second true that I won't, tell her anything about Daphne Rooke has projected a. Jansic, and if he cuts her novel through such a person. A heat it will serve her right,” Grove of Fever Trees was scen through the eyes of a mental

"I love her and I hate her; defective, prone to fits of homi- cidal mania.

Selina is, however, more than the seller of this story, more

pletures like

this

DAPHNE ROOKE An impressive recruit.

Ho kills on old while trader,

who has tho on Outlander, misfortune 10 surprise him with Selina one night when sho and takes too much brandy tempts him. He shoots Jansio

attack after his insane Selina. And there is worse to *come.

the advent of the Boer War is. than the painter of simple yet by Grandma van Brandenberg, emotions, carries the impress of

introduced, thus. In one sen- tence!: These were, English,

this was war,"

sensuous backcloth to

a tragedy: "It was

you could never understand."

This tempestuotis, inseparable pair were brought up together

whose face had been hewn by virtue and experience. Between a day of hope. Never had

handsome young seen a sky so tender, beautiful am there fails the shadow of

Boer whom Mittee is to marry, a single word, the writer can as the robes of angels, never Paul, the insert a culminating event of had felt cun so sweet upen my

Selina GIRO A the novel (in this case, a mur- face." der) into the crevice between character in the action one sentence and the next:

She and Mittee van anden- Fanle, ber, the proud Dutch pointed have grown up together, and

Or observe how, without using

By

-whispered'

dead, and 'Rebecca is

to

YOU WERE

IN A GARDEN IN WHICH THERE WERE ABOUT A DOZEN CLOTHES LINES, CHILDREN WERE [SWINGING ON THEM AND

SO WERE YOU - YOU NOTICED A SMALL

BIRD FLYING ROUND

(YOU CALIGHT THE BIRD

AND TIED STRING TO ITS LEGS. THEN AS YOU HELD ON TO THE STRING THE BIRD FLEW ROUND WITH YOU. A FEW PEOPLE. STOOD WATCHING

YOU

بهمن

main

:

girl,

THIS DREAM MEANS:

A garden symbolises one's life or a period of Innocence and happiness, like one's child. hood. The children and yourself, swinging and playing, suggests you are full of simple joy and happiness.

The bird symbolises the free soaring spirit. and you nying with it represents your soaring exhilaration...

The fly in the gintment in the watching crowd, which reveals your feeling that people are watching you critically and regarding you as frivolous "and childish.

Obviously you do not care very much; is there any reason why you should?

A

Violent

"His eyes were dark," as it "a lamp. had been it behind them" to give "warning of nis passionate

hen:l soul. My throbbed with the hoorbusta of the horse as he came alosgcide the waggon."

In Its dry bones such a story, of primitive people and savage crude strength. In the telling, it might be ugly as well as cruel. tells it, it As Daphne Rooke has pity and beauty and fun.

Even the brutal Paul loves Mittee and is loved by Selina -- and both emotions are compre- hensible. Even Jansie, the bad coloured boy, is somehow for- given by the fierceness of hits feelings.

Gentle End

Afler-all-its terrible...events,. Selina's story at "Mittee" comes But it is Selina wio mys

to a gentle conclusion: "For me that, for Milice, who marries the shine of the stars and the Paul, does not love him, And colour of the sky have grown

Was

twenty Paul, for whom Selina is just dimmer. When another coloured girl, gives her I would sometimes stand alone chlid, which she is glad to on a kople and reach my hands have. The child is brutally to the sky. I used to laugh to killed in her body by Janste, a loudly, then that Mittee would coloured boy who is mad abaut, shake me to quielen me.". Selina.

It is Mittce

This is a violent story and Jansie's deeds caly one of the Paul, for killings it rev„unts.

the Selina, and the the of twenty whom

from reader will carry away this touching melodrama,

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