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them, forward: with ́a respect ̈ horrified eyes of Bush (whore which seems to be only a more vlows his matter are un refined form of insolence. Even complicated by sentiment) we the dog-like admiration of. Bush watch him Fuccumbing ta Is severely tested at ono Mario, his landlady's uncomely
daughter.
Daos' ho fall in love with
In the latest recruit to the moment.
Whera ... too, a darker caga (which, racers to a com- paratively early stage in the mystery. The chip of the line hero's career) who is it that in which Hornblower sets out her? Far from it. She tells in thinks of MOVING his runs on his momentous cruise to the love with lilm, thus establish- from one end of the ship to the West Indica has a mad captain ing a blackmailing, hold upon other so that she may be cased What is to be done about 17
LIEUTENANT HORN-
BLOWER. By C. S. Fores tor. Michael Joseph. 125. Ed. 304 pages
77HAT is there about the illustrious
off a zandbank; Hornblower that.
FIRING the gung all at once appeals to all of us? This za that the explosion may break to begin with: He 18 the suction of the mud;
the surprise not he is, indeed, vory far LAUNCHING
on the Spanish from being a copybook: land assault hero. The serpent rather
PREPARING red-hot than the lion should be the shot to lob on top of the
enemy ships? Hornblower symbol,
fort;
Who conducts nego by George Malcolm Thomson
All this is providentially his chivalrous heart.
captain ไอ solved when the
Our last, allmpes and
of him in * injured badly found, quile Insane, at the bottom of a Lieutenant Hornblower 1s, how- The short, hatchway. Can it be that Horn- ever, a happy one.
more about the, odious peace is over. Through blower knowa
No, the streets of Portsmouth tramp business than he lets on?
tho, press ganga, cudgela in hand. At the whist table Homblower has struck up
an alliance emerson with Admiral Lord tallons in Spanish, out- smarting the enemy in diple- no. It must have been an ac- Parry and has won himself a thing cident. The reader, shuddering, command of a sloop. The im- macy as well as war,
is glorious horrid aus mediato, prospect that has never happened in the puls away his whole of British history?
picions, noting at the same time even if, further off, lurks the. figure cl A certain hollow-checked, how well things turn out from wistful, competing
cruise, of view. Maria. Hornblower'A hungry-looking, juntor leuter- Hornblower's point
while it lasts, has been a great moroso taciturnity could ant whose
with Forester Let nobody suppose, however, experience, Area of cunning,am- conceals
luck is with the young well documented imagination unscrupulous that bition, perhaps
a result to put beforò us the sighio and hero all the time. As ness.
in St sounds, beauty and squalor of a hla immediate of his ship's operations wonder
man-of-war plunging across the superlǝrs find it a little hard to Domingo he wins £100 of prize Allanite in the north-east
100 bear one whose ideas are admirable to be ignored and too money, which he blues in two Trados. numerous to be easily tolerated. deplorable nights in Kingston, Besides, young Hornblower puts Jamaica. Worse is to come.
Put to it, he will do as well with a cutlass In hand an But he Infinitely another man. pecters to win by an intellectual exercise. Just like us.
We may doubt with more ar les experience to support our scoplleism-whether we rie to the deathless heroism that wins the VC. But the subtle stratagem which, at the Jast minute confounds the toe? Now that we might manage, nt pinch. At least. In our rosier diy dreams. Hornblower can manage it about every 30 pages, It is just his tot ef ruin.
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Returning to England in a
than Nobody better ship of his own, he ands that making us see a gun deck pre- the Government have wickedly paring for action; at describing and recklessly made peace with the tackle by which a gun is Benaparte, His commission as towered into a small boator commander-to which he has bolted up, a cliffside. If the wen promotion-is not confirma un is 50 unfortunate s ed. And the Admiralty villain blow a hole in its breech, here 20 Immediately adjacent (4) of every navel story, proceeds is Forester to tell us with an 27 Sharp (4) to cozen him out of his "hal- 'Infirilly "ör vaētäll,"**"what the 20 Alma high (7) pay
mogter gunner must-do-to-r20 Metal (4) pair the damage.
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Movi: Techniques Can Help
a balloon which grows ***SUC-" UST 25 years ago test sum-
were creatively bigger Bang! mer, home movies Arst introduced to the public Such a sequence tells a story motion picture the just
It is a starveling Hornblower with the appearance
that we meet in Portsmouth. A But while it is obvious that motion sequence might. first complete 10nim.
But the iden of p'eture con- Hornblower who is making ends Forester could And his way picture outfit-camera, film,
carried tinuity can be
fur- meet by playing
of those cards for blindfold round one and projector.
for money,
old ships, the strength of mill on ther. A vacation album, cs:imated Today an
ell, in some- story Hes, after families own motion picture example, should hdd up as a
At times Eko ihese, one Becs thing else: the four-square yet cameras. Most of these people complete account of your holl-
characters: the till cameras
at day. Just as a vacation movie the greatness and the weakness unconventional also or
from of the min. Nothing endeara inscrutable - Hornblower; and one time used them. The fun would tell of the trip
cad.
Hornblower to us so much as Bush, his eye lighting up with focus, beginning to demental knowledge of
it falls upon sure, and pictorial com-
And dozens of little home his Imperception on the sub-disciplinary lze na exposure,
be carried jeet of women. Through the some Impudent midshipman. position, which applies in using movie tricks can
over .in.
In the project...... still cameras, applies in motion
You pictures also.
might, for example, title your road Offhand, I suspect that both pages with snapshots of still and motion pleture fans zigns, placing each scene. Try shot, the long shot, medium much can learn
from each
technique. and close-up
Or other. Certainly the still
work out an advance plan for photographer can take cues, on
still the technique of picture stcries your pictures sort of
camera shooting script-which from the home movie maker.
will insure your getting the For the latter-it his movies
tell, the shots you need to ure interesting-works with a
atory. in sense of picture continuity
For whether you shoot still which cach sequence in the Aim builds up to a well-round pictures or movies the end you boek is the same: graphic ed story.
From time to time In this account of some scene or in- cident which conveys to other we've urged fellow
to make picture people the sense of what took
exam place.
page
"Gulders"
series: four shots, for
ple, of a youngster blowing up
John van Guilder
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
142
YOU WERE”
KNEELING BEFORE AN EMPTY GRATE WITH ANOTHER MAN. YOU BOTH LOOKED UP THE CHIMNEY
SUDDENLY THERE WAS A HEAVY FALL OF BOOT WHICH COMPLETELY COVERED THE OTHER MAN, YET YOU HAD
ONLY A FEW SPECKS
olués.
-THIS DREAM MEANS: To interpret this dream one needa mziore The empty grate survests a conflagration that has gone out in extinguished fire. Was this an altair of the heart in which you and he were rivals ? Or does the other fellow symbolise part of your personality? Otten, different characters in the dream represent different aspects of the dreamer's personal sty
At any rate, the result of the whole affair has been to cover the other fellow cor, part of you with ignominy or disgrace, ie, the st
Dreaminterpretation un't ukė pulting pen- nies, it alot the same dream imsge, may baye many different meanings To know which you have to know something about the dreamer and his way of living and thinking
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