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Any vacationist might be proud to bring home a shot such as this to mark a city which he has visited.

Pictures to Mark A Visit

NEVERAL weeks ago we urged vacationists to seek three types uf pictures — pictures which would show where they travelked, pictures which would show what they did, and pictures which would show the enjoy mcnt which their activities brought them.

out

might have pletured,this building from any of dozens of angles. But he chose this particular angle so as to have good composition to secure the three- dimensional feeling, a frame of this sort gives.

and

"Framing" is one of the oldest tricks for lifting snapshots from Such pictures, as we pointed the commonplace. But it's only You may find, for instance, then, provide a rounded unc. vacation story. How effective that an unusital camera angle is this story will be, however, de- what you need: pletures pends on how well the pictures statue taken in this waywith fell it. As a result, you'll want the statue outlined against the effective pictures of every type., sky-often are truly striking."

of

Naturally, then, you'll want to The choice of how you picture strive for striking picture of any building is, of course, up to buildings, monuments, or other you. And your Succc33 in architectural features which show picturing it well depends upon where you've been. You'll find you, also. One thing you should that the surest way to get such reniember at all times; don't tilt snapshots is to study the scene, your camera. Titing it upward not from one angle but from makes the verticaj lines of A several, lining your pleture up building appear to converge.

the camera's

makes the bullding appear to be viewfinder several times until you find the Q So, if you plan to in-

in

best angle from which to shoot.,

the whole structure, move back far enough so l'a all Today's picture, for example, included in the viewonder of gains in interest through the use your camera when the camera's uf the foreground columns to held level. "frame" the building In the

renr. Obviously, the photographer,

-John van Gullder

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* THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1953.

A British Crossword Puzzle So Grandfather Was Rowdy!

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ACROSS:

3 Couple (4)

7 Purloined (5)

Kind of lily (4)

Not so maby (4)

10 Wind about (7)

_(4)

12 Scheme

15 Fireplace (5)

18 Profound (4)

19 Advances (5)

21 Hoard (5)

22 Celebrity (4)

23 Express (5)

20

30 Tax

(4)

20

Everlasting (7)

30 Beasts (4)

31 Expensive. (4)

12

16

19

20

12

DOWN:

1 Scatter (5)

2 Dive (7)

4 Wakeful (5)

File (4)

Kind of leopard (4) Round (4)

11 Garb (5)

13 Solitary (4)

14 Organ of smell (4)

16 Exelie (5)

17

site

18 Crazy (4)

20 Gem (7)

(4)

22 Lard, butter, elc (4)

- 22 Lard,

24 Abounds (5).

25 Hesitate (5)

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MY DEAR TIMOTHY, By the seeming divisions" in nature justice. Ho can hardly admire a case" In hor writing-rooni Victor Collanes. Collaner. 12% that mask the Oneness of the flower- without ''seeming to hung tho quotation, "Punce, od. 439 pages.

Whole,

patronise Nature. Не is perfect peace; with loved ones arrogant: never more so than far' away" Y dear Timothy,

when he is being meck.

Musing on the hearth-rug, Your grandfather

breast-beating, his neute sense of yawning, sometimes sirotching has written you o Bat, when grandpapa can keep in, have an excessive quality. himself Maugham (as his volume

for Proyers

forgiveness are of late 'essaya rovdals) is still letter, and has published it bis mind on the job, he gives thundered at Heaven.

capable of a mwift stroke with the as a book..

you a vivid picture of his up- Your grandfather draws the claws. bringing In

reasonably

interfering As some geara may pass be- orthodox, middle-class Jewish picture of a noisy, -fore you read it, and as it is home in Maida Vale, It includes dear Timothy, may come as a

sort of man. All of which, my LORD HERVEY'S MEMOIRS. quite a long letter, let me, in a endearing glimpses of his father, surprise to you. This quiet. old

Edited by Romney Sedg- few, sentences, give you some upright in business, loval to his gentleman by the fireside, with

wick. (Kimbar, 25%.). idea of what you have to religion, humane. When your

grandfather's sister became a he have been that tempestuous, ing if equivocal figure of the bold pairiarchal: head--can RIPECH

GRD HERVEY is a fascinat rowdy person? Well, my boy, 18th century England, Bom 1600, open your grandfather's letter. he was handsome if effeminate Judge for yourself!

Remember, you must at least pretend to have read your grandfather's jetter; you may even

be

CI.

pected to send & reply, al.

though I doub

it.

The old chap fells the story of himself, in- terspersed with selmons. There are times when I think he was born to be a clergyman, like General Booth or Brigham Young. There are times when he

Thinks

50 himself.

10

VICTOR COLLANCE

. thunder in the air.

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

reviews the NEW BOOKS

in looks. He married a famous

beauty, Molly Lepel; ho dislike He was the favourite, some think hor, had eight children by her. the lover of Queen Caroline, wife

of George 11. Kr he took

and

THE VAGRANT MOOD, by W. Somerset Maugham, Heinemann, 12s. 6d. 241 pagos.

the side of the

and the XTHAT was the reason Court against the Prince of Wales WHAT

for the appeal that H., and the Opposition. The Prince

of Wales had G. Wells, fat and homely, mistress Mins Volen Hervey's. had for women? Somerset of the Queen's maids of honour. who was one Maugham was fond of A political Enemy called him Wells but did not lot affec- "a pretty little Master-Miss”. tion stand in the way of his Hervey challenged him to fight curiosity. He put the ques duel in the Green Park. He was and was badly wounded in a tion to one of Wella's then rash enough to provoke the mistresses. "I expected her

poct Alexander Pope into writ to say his acute mind or ing one of the most savage his sense of fun; not at all; satirical portraits in the English

language. she said his body smelt of

When

Carolin? Queen

died. When the Rabbi, declined to Christian, her father should have honey."

fell from political power; marry your parents, your grund- cursed the apostate and sat in

Wells could never understand died at

at 47,

prematurely, aged. He father, after the register amce mourning as for the dead. He

resent it left behind him Memoirs, overcame his why, women should ceremony, married them himself did neither; he

pene canopy, he even her the contain the most

vivid picture of the wineglass-breaking and all the proper share of his little estate, often mistake possessiveness for trating

the fashionable life There is also a portrait of your passion and, when they are left, Court grandfather's mother, who wrote it is not so much that their heart of his time. Sald Thackeray when plays, read naughty novels "lo is broken as that their claim to they were first published-it as a Pompeil was opened frequently see what the most modern people property is repudiated." Impel, 10 Pylon, 11 Ideo, 13 Reluctance, 13 Asia, 16 Ne diverted from its straight narra are writing," and would some- Maugham, in reminiscences of to us" se remarkable were the 10 Represents, 22 Stir, 24 Aside, 25 Cavil, 26 Lien, Tussle, Down: 2 Expel, 3 Relle, 4 Repent, 5 Delleate, 6 Fine, ve path to salute the joy of times ask for a whisky and Boda novelists he has known, paints a revelations,

This new edition, taken from a 8 Modes, 12 Aways,

and drink it, shuddering, with a half-malicious portrait of the 13 Ranks, 14 Uttering, 17 Arise, spring, or denounce some sin in

take it Lace, wry

as young Arnold Bennett, living in manuscript at Windsor Castle, Thimself, or deplore (in italics) medicine

somo uncensored a Montmartre apartment, filled includes

material hitherto printed only in The complicated Jewish ritual with fake Empire furniture.

a limited edition. of the home-burying ment Az-a man of letters and a knives in the lown after they had Bohemian, he must have a mis- been in contact with cheese, and tress; as a thrifty dative of the

the boredom of so forth-and

Five

he addressed his Towns, the Bayswater Synagogue. friend Maugham: "I have a mis- great deal of that may bo

with whom I spend two puzzling to you. It is all sub-

has another ordinate to the central self. #ights a week. She bag

gerticman

eman with whom she spends portrait,

two other nights. She likes to more feeling than sympathy, have her Sundays to herself and about the typical Kipling hero. she's looking for someone who'll "He is everywhere that is a long make the two nights she is fros. way off. It is that indeed which A man fond of food, music and I've told her about you."

makes him endurable” Now Maugham rung an cigars (passionately), who dis-

Expert CYG kes lits (claustrophobia) and even when Bennett added, "She window, picks out the cholocat, Maugham was not tempted, over the wates in Kipling's shop- has an anxiety neurosis. He is, reads a great dent, Madame de and In principle, vegetarian, Sevigne and all that,"

and,

In his introduction, sums up shudders at the thought. of a

32 Strange (5)

33 Strake in writing (4)

27 Accustomed (4)

20 Measure (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Terror, 7 Emit,

18 Ardent, 20 Sacks, 21 Novel, 23 Tall,

Venables

THIS

YOU WERE

SITTING ON A HIGH WALL UNDER A TREE

EATING A PIECE OF

FRUIT CAKE— TWO BIRDS PICKED UP.

THE CRUMBS

DREAM

MEANS: The tree which shelters you is a molber symbol, the high wall on which you sit is a post- tion of privilege and advantage: the piece of cake you cat represents the good things which You accept your lot. It is a fruit cake and you feel you have the "plums" of life. Inciden- tally a garden offen symbolizes one's life,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHY DON'T YOU

JUST READ THE LAST PAGE ?"

MYSTERY FAN-THREE AIM AND THE PLOT

THICKENS

I'LL TAKE THIS AND A BOX OF

CHOCOLATES"

LOVE

"WHERE IS THE [DICTIONARY ?

PRACTICAL USES

OF BOOKS

[FOOD FOR THE INTELLECT AND SOMETHING A LITTLE

MORE SUBSTANTIAL.

COM 1962 BY CENTRAL FEATURES

TALWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

PRINCE OR "PAUPER

THE

ENJOYMENT

IS THE

SAME

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rest.

The letter 18

THEN YOU WERE ALONE WITH ONE BIRD WHICH BROUGHT YOU AN EVERGREEN

LEAF AND PLACED IT IN YOUR HAND

£1

prawn cocktail and for a long-

Elizabeth Russell,

author of

Waa

A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S PROSE. Solocted by W. Somerset Maugham, Mac- millan. 151. 338 pagos.

ONCE Maugham wrote, with

as a story-wrlier—“our

test," alone it to rank with time could only eat meat if he once-famous Elizabeth and her Maupassant and Chekhov. The single bird represents your sout

cut it with a silver. fish knife. German Garden, was a person This selection of stories

stories has spirii: here you are alone with it. It offers you (And this is the man who has whose tart flavour Maugham treasures for all and some something which endures (the evergreen) in re-junt been denouncing the could appreciate. When he asked omissions to cause surprise (no turn, it encourages you to elve away the good absurdities of Jewish ritual-but her if it was true that she read Stalky, nothing from Puck of things you can spare (the crumbs).

must not encourage you in to her husband while he lay Pook's Hill). Its publication can This is a conscience dream. Your better disrespect for your elders.) dying, a book in which she had be regarded as the latest stage · павило (medical psychologists, call R your He is carnest, greedy, voluble; drawn a causle portrait of him, in the recovery of Kipling's "super-exo") bids you give to others and your has a fine gift for indignation; is she replied. "He was very ill. Iterans reputation, which begin reward will be a lasting one.

unjust-and with a passion for He would have died in any when Ellot reassessed him

The Reading Public

'ANYONE SEE'

THE PHONE BOOK ?"

BOOKS ARE NOT MEASURED FOR SIZE

CO. INT

NINTH

75.

BY HARRY WEINERT

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

MOTHER

GOOSE

"IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THIS WATTER WAS

REALLY THE · CROWN PRINCE

IN DISGUISE ETC.-ETC-

TTING A BLOW BY BLOW DESCRIPTION=

OF THE LATEST LOVE ERIC

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great Verse writer, Gleatge Orwell judged him a good bad poet and both mentaltow- that he preachedin gospel of imperial responsibility not without grandeur. Kipling: alive, was hated by Intellectuals; now he is being captured by them.

The student oces, reflected in these storles a powerful, prickly, prejudiced man of genius,

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