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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Lisle, 4 Abused, 1 Relled, 10 Odour, 12 Vermin, 14 Diocese, 17 Less, 19 Spouses, 20 Feather, 22 Last, 23 Rosette, 27 Teuton, 20 Spurn, 30 Fauks, 31 Sweets, 32 Livie. Down: 1 Lurid, 2 Salvo, 3 Steve, a Boom,, 0 Stones. 7 Durent, & Duport, 11 Dilute, 13 Reproof, 16 Idea, 10 Cutter, 18 Seel, 20 Flaske, 21 Astute, 24 Snail, 25 Tells, 20 Enue, 28 Unit.
YOU WERE WALKING
WITH A GIRL IN THE
SUNSHINE AND
YOU HAD YOUR
ARM ROUND
HER
DREAM
THIS
MEANS : You are thinking of love and happiness (courting in the warm sun), but children in- terfere with the actual achievement of that happiness
The dream reveats a straightforward con- lilet between the desire for love and a fear of the responsibilties that go with it: You are concerned not about the girl (it is "a" girl)
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958.
A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT
He fell in love with landlord's daughter
WILLIAM Hazlitt lay
dying. "I have had a happy life," he murmured. But by ordinary standards, it was a miserable life.
He seems nover to have been out of trouble. Domestic·quir rels, rows with publishers, un popular political views, all em tributed to an existETICO that few would envy.
Then there was the wild
for hin passion
landlord's daughter. Sarah Walker, which resulted in his wife divorcing
him.
· ifasiiif's ZocDNE
All the work was able to read this story in "Liber Amoris." But, instead of marry- ing Sarah after the divorce, he married
Mr Bridgewater. The couple parted after a year.
Hazlitt WAS then 41. He made no secret of his infatua- tion. He had to tell all his friends the story, each recital lifting Sarah to 1 pedestal Hazliti was, the son of a
Q
higher than the hard any right. Unitarian minister, and to either socially or otherwise.
Ho
KELAA
born at Maidstono, spent some love-letter, of his childhood
in America,
kept every every record of this strango and returned 10 Wem in love affair in which he idolised Shropshire.
the "Glut" into a romantic Agure of his imagination -- i
material excellent divorce case.
A
theological abandoned
Но
to went a college for a year, for
the intention to become
and took to painting. minister,
that painting He soon docked was not 'n living, and he begon to write.
WILLIAM BNZITE, 3778-1830 Essayist. bied Here
A close-up of the plaque.
BUT EVERY TIME YOU TRIED
TO KISS HER, CHILDREN
INTERFERED
Honey
Venables
but about the consequences, to you.
conflicts is between One of the eternal selfish love and the creative love which con- siders others beside the one who returns your love.
Hmlts the In the long run, selfish love number of those who can love you: creative love adds to that number, and therefore your real sense of security in life.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
#
HAVE YOU TRIED THE NEW
LUXURY BATH
-"WHY DON'T YOU' FIX IT ?
to
His essay
"On the principles of human notion," look six years to write. It attracted little attention.
Then came his first marringo
with Jane Stoddart, a woman; little suited to Hazlitt's" moody character,
They lived for a time in her own house at Salisbury, then moved to Westminster, so that Hazliit could become a critic for the Morning Chronicle,
During the next
few years he
produced some of his best
his work, including
Round Table, his Lectures on the Eng- lish Poets, Table Talk, Charac” ters of Shakespeare's Plays, and other volumes of essays.
He was
the attacked by Quarterly Review 100% his politics; he rowed with Black- wood's Magazine, and quarrel- jed
with
his friends Lojt Charles Lamb, Coleridge, rdsworth, Southey and Shel-
All this lowered his credit with publishers.
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCĂȘTER
JACQUES HAI
“The strapless top alternates with the wide décolleté V-line in tulle.Waists are ́nipped, [bus ́ dropped to the natural
QUOTES TAKE IT EASY....
with
Winston Churchill
• MANY REMEDIES ure suggested for the avoidance of overstrain. worry and mental But the element which is con- stant and common in all of them is Change.
CALL HIM CYRIL
SOCRATES
IDEAS AND PLACES. By: Cyril Connolly. Wolden- fold and Nicolson. 161. 280 pages.
YRIL VERNON CON-
·NOLLY is a wit and..
the best living paro
But never, never treat Mr. Connelly (of Irish stock) as an Irishman
dist; he has been a brilliant authorship! was a half-crown, breakable toys of the mind,
scholar, a tempestuous edi- postal order, tor and a humorous auto- biographer.
mudples that endure."
His best book is "Enemies of Founding and editing the Promist." Many who measure magazine Horizon, during the dazzling, wayward talent against
Connolly extended the a comparatively meagre output. His wartime magazine, Hort war,
appealed to Ameri- will judge Connolly his own zon, had more fame than cir- gesture;
had enjoyed any worst enemy of promise. culation. Noticing that it was Calle who
most articles to send a food parcel to sometimes "precious,"
* people failed to notice, that it. the author:
"Brain workers would like IN THE WET. By Novil was frequently funny.
Shute. Connolly was born in Coven
Heinemann. 12s. try, 50 years ago. He belongs,
6d. 355 pages. on both sides, of the family, the Irish Protestant gentry who have given Britain most of her generals and Ireland many of her patriots.
orange
Julee, torrinto Julco, butter, bacon rice, tea, honey and tinhed mlik.”
Charged with "bartering the SHUTE brings his Immense
pride and honour
for a tin of spam,"
he. retorted,
knowa
no
"Art
tron- tlers.". Knowing no
But Connolly's highest mlit- tary rank has been that of pri vato
nothing ro (Eton OTC); annoys him so much as to be treated as Irish,
with
Fett
*
11
'no
مة
fur
frontiers, tinned milk poured from Iowa Into Horizon's "American Begging Bowl."
In a tormented survey of the state of civilisation, Con- pronounced, nolly
"It is closing time in the gardens of the West."
of England
natural gifts as a narrator
BOOKS:
to a story that, ali most defeats them; He tells, In the : form of a vision Communicated to an elderly clergy- man, how the Royal Family are forced
scek refuge, in Australia from Socialist ope pression at home. The
story. read- able In Rscif, is manifestly intend- ed to convey political Ideas and warnings.
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Horizon (1940) did what at closing time, comes easiest
In the tough world of Eten
a King's where he went as Scholar, he cannily survived by salning a reputation one He liked who was "amusing." white roses, decadent authors; showed
enthusiasm games, yet was elected to "Pop"
the exclusive Eton Society),
Departing at last for Balliol scholarship, Connolly tersu but incomplete verdict on himself in, an Eton It closed.
"sentimental cynic,
It had been moody, precious, superstitious atheist."
After Oxford, he made the witty and grave, at times up- the mirror of 4 usual pilgrimage to Spain during roarious; the Civil War, pleased neither haggard age; the image of
and the TERE is side; wrote a novel "The Rock temperamental. editor
attack on vice which
tastes patrician
heits which There is, however, this differ-Pool" an
the living cells was held to be too dangerous for ence between
balances against progressive quality: of the brain and Inanimate publication in England. articles. One cannot mend the
yearnings. frayed elbows of a coat by rub- bing the sleeves or thoulders.
A man can wear cut a paril-magazine, cular part of his mind by con- tinually using It and tiring it, just in the mme way as he can wear out the elbows of his cont.
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cor-
sentence, 'We
The essence
re ture.
A
A
The Sea Shall Not Havé
Thom,
By John Harris. Hunt and Blackett, 6d. 256 pages. ·
reporting.
91.
a novel which, owes
success to A singla
the
An Incident
gift of graphic
of the war, no ot Horizon 14
more harrowing than a thounitie But the tired parts of the In a dedication to the Parts preserved in "Ideas and Pisces, more important or herole or
a collection of Connolly's mind can be tested and streng-edition, Connolly spoke
others, is told pallently, cxpertly, but with glamour, thened not merely by rest but temptuously of "publishers in essays most of which first ap- without
Fund in its pages. their dark sulis and dark um-
humanity and tension. by using other
Parts. I FOUND I could add nearly brellas and their habit of be
Connolly
now lives in the "The Sta Shall Not Have two hours to my working day ginning overy
country, gardens ardently; is a Them", belongs to a well-defined bed for an hour are afraid." by going to after luncheon.
Becoming a critic ( drifted connoisseur of wine, a lover of and valuable class of post-war BRICKLAYING is an oc into
through Good food; collects fine fun stories, of which, perhaps, the
•
the profession which you must lack of moral stamina"), Con cupation to
-rare books, above all," Anest is "The Cruel Sea.” give your whole attention.
exotic animals. His' guests. be- It
nolly revealed himself as mark. It is not merely mechanical,
Gladstone's ed by melancholy, hypochondria, come accustomed to finding craft: Mr amusements, like his polifles, sensuality and laziness. He was
concerned not were destrictive. He used to
only of individual writers, second quality cut down trees. But my hobby but
questions: with broader C. how writers can live
• PAINTING is completʊ as a distraction, I know of nothing the modern world and whether which, without exhausting the they can live at all. He deve body, more entirely absorbs the loped a practical approach
"I should like," he mind. There is no subject on
sald more humble or (1838), to see the custom in- which I feel yet at the same time more introduced of readers who tural
pleased Within a few months he was
with a book sending dead, Charles Lamb being pre- TO BE really happy and the author a small cash token.
fret sent to see the end of a man really safe, one ought to have The
response to "this who was a fool to himself.
at least two or three hobbles, "gesture for the profession of
Icyn
After the Bridgewater mar- ringe,
Hazlitt wrote a to of Napoleon. It was
financially.
That was
J
Basco
the beginning
of
the end of Hazlitt. He took a house, 0, Frith Street, Soho, which bears his commemorative plaque.
is constructive.
•
Count Ten Before You Answer
"YOU_NOW HAVE ONE CENT
DO YOU WISH TO RISK IT ALL?“
with
thn
Bro
John Harris's book crowds into 48 hours on the North Sea the kinkajou in the roomL
fortitude, the nagging physical He has been married twice; unhappiness and the mental
the
Folkestone, weariness which in The Cruel 1950, to Mis .Barbara Olive Sea become the grey, majestic Skelton; has no children. He is theme of a saga, burly; with the air of a gental, re beardless Socrates; once sald: "Imprisoned in every fat man 14 thin one is wildly signalling to be let out?
A
1
In this new novel there is grimness, but without the uti- the on which Connolly has occasionally let mate horrors. out a thin man who believes readers of Montsarrat's master- passionately that "Art is man's plece were invited to look, This noblest attempt: to make on is, instead, a story of a wartime adventure at een; supremely well fold, obviously the fruit of frat. hand knowledge,
BY HARRY WEINERT
"ARE THE MAPLE BEDS YOU ADVERTISED MADE OF WOOD?
It is a story of the Air-Se Rescue Flotillas of the RAF which during the war paved 13,269 precious lives. John Harris writes with assurance as orie who himself served in the pestuje Launches.
His story? One autumri day En 1944 Hudson of Constat Command comes down some where off the Dutch - const; the four men in the aircraft fake to the rubber dinghy, The weather is getting worse; their prospecia sing none too good.
At on airfield in Suffolk 'un- certainty about the overdue Hudson's date sharpens into alarm, forks into a series of per- sonal anxieties. The WAAF rudilo operator who wonders what has happened to her Canadian pilot friend; the RAF officer, who, an hour or so, will be meefing ·· his sister-in-law, wife of one'of / the four men in the dinghy,A
But, at a higher level, anxiety no less Route but quite impor- sonal springs into life. One of the four lost men is bringing bacic critically important infor mation about enemy rocket siles..... In the Low Countries,
HOW DID YOU MAKE OUT?".
HE SHOULD HAVE COUNTED TEN
BEFORE HE ANSWERED THE FIRST QUESTION.
COMA 1151 IT GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
S-10
"WHAT WAS THE DOOR'S NAME
"IS. IT TENDER
"WHY DON'T YOU GO
TO SLEEP?
Rescue Launch 7526,'on patról; is deflected to search the aren where the dinghy niny bẹ..
Along three channels .of: narration, the story keeps up movementTM and pace: the wry. harbour and dounting, tension: at the home base; the
acdent of then-one badly hurt. in the dinghy drifting in dirty
weather towards the enemy-held coust; the gearching launch and ther crew.
But it is, above all, the narra- tive of the much and her jong, seemingly hopeless queat, ending In a wild danh to the rENOLÓ under the enemy's gun. The
How well it is managed! confusion in the thy, busy and ever-populated thp.
www discomfort, added to danger and almost putting danger out of - mind. - The - men, behaving badly under prolonged strain and well during the crowded minutes of crisis; their characters bro drawn clearly, it findi clearly and without maltiment,
the
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