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THE CHINA MATE.' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956,

Blue Spot

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A British Crossword Puzzle

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4 Servants (5)

1 Deep (8)

Run away (5)

0 Victor's reward (0)

11 Property (7)

13 Survund (7)

5 Colour (0)

18 Talked wildly (3)

19 Made wealthy (8)

20 Artist's land (5)

21 Store-room for food (8)

He Read Through An Encyclopaedia Twice

TEN NOVELS by":

Forester. Penguin. 26. each..

THE fuckicat day in the

him Forester found

in Portsmouth, looking at the shelves of a second-hand

THE life of Cecil Scott

$18LE" bookshop. He was a middle-

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1 Drive back (5)

2 Deduce (5)

3 Multiplies by two (7)

4 Demure (0)

5 Deathless (8)

Act (8)

10 Lays bure (8)

12 More than one (7)

13 Make angry (8)

14 Trial (6)

18 Happen (5)

17 Royal line (5)

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aged author, tolerably suc- cessful, in need of new and rich vein of ore, a theme, a setting, but what was the battered volume he had plcked up?

Randymany

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acres: 1 Ants, 4 Tempest, 8 Över, 9 Stud, 10 Parades, lil Dais, 12 Pows, 14. Defendis, 17 Inane, 19 Laden, 21 Einetabl. 20 Sect. H Lees, 28 Minaret, 20 Earn, 30 Gear, 31 Staminser. 12 Tidy Down: 2 Holton, 3 Bodden, 1 Tepat, & Brised, 9 Place, 7 Speed, 12 PRÉ. 13 Suge. 18 Nude, 10 Sent, 18 Allege, 20 Assert, 21 Behoed. 23 More 24 Hemlin 23 Deter

The writer who created Captain Homblower, RN-Cecil Scott Forester -is one of the fastest readers alive.

And his fame and fortune started when he browsed through a second- hand bookstall In Portsmouth.

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

The author of the most popular notion novels of the day I a

how complicated technical An old Admiralty Sailing operations are carried out

where to do faced cripple." tion that nobody was ever warship is attacked by fire- likely to need any longer. ships, how to get a heavy For who, on all the seven gun up a precipice, and so seas, would want to know on. He is the Homer of the

to how

antil British practical man. man-o'-war of the time of Nelson?

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The answer

The answer was the man who, very soon, became the author of the eight volumes of the life of Horatio Horn- blower, RN, the most re- vered naval hero in modern fiction.

The noises and the amelly (rum, powder and seasickness) of a Nelsonian ship of the line are faithfully and matter-of- fectly recalled as background to the majestle figure of Hornblower.

Great seaman

That great seaman has served his creator well. He has given him first a big public in Horn- blower's own country and now. coinciding with America's rise to Forester needed the Sall- sea-power, да big a public

Forester once Д ing Manual, because it is there.

wich schoolbuy: then a Guy's part of his unwritten bar-

medical student gain with his readers that he will show them, in great detail, how things work,

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THANKS FOR THE

VALENTINE,

DEAR /

"THEY'RE MAKING OUR VALENTINES — ER- IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS/

IF HUBBY IS THE

FORGETFUL TYPE

IT'S BEST TO BUY YOUR

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AND CHARGE IT.

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NO PRESENT/

NO NOTHIN'?

Dhul-

after that, a writer of

"Allers" ai guinen a gols, at 55, affluent and famous. He is engaged

on

a book of equni Interest on both sides of the ocean—a history of the Anglo-American navul war of 1812.

He livos 200 mities from Hollywood; makes, it is sald, £35,000 D year Thirteen weeks of the 52 are devoted nim scripts: "You apoll another fellow's work. Someone then ne-writes your work. For that you get enough to live on for a year. There are worse ways of making money quickly,"

Every

Club tie

Butuner Forester, wearing his Savage Club tie, visits Britain. He is no longer able

walk for any distance, In 1943, in the Behring Sea on USS Tennesser, he contract- ed arteriosclerosis of the legs.

It's The Thought That Counts

"WHAT ARE YOU SQUAWKING ABOUT?

MY

BIG-MOMENT IS TAKING ME

TO THE

FIGHTS!"

BY HARRY WEINERT

"MY VALENTINE, BE NOT FORSOOKIN'.————

PLEASE TELL ME DEAR,

—WHATS COOKIN'?"

IT'S THE THOUGHT

"THAT COUNTS- (HE THOUGHT)

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ADORABLE,

ENCHANTING,

BEWITCHING,

AND

LOVELY!

SWAIN 2007. HE WAS "TOLD NEVER TO PUT

YTHING IN WRITING.

THE ARDENT VOORR-

CAN

IF YOU FORGOT TO SEND A VALENTINE-WRITE YOUR OWN-YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE THE DAY.".

SOME ARE HAPPY

WITH SOME SIMPLE SENTIMENT"---- (THESE GIRLS SWARE RARE)

HAPPY

He writes 1,000 words a day in one hour flat or exhaustingẾ labour. Few of those words are wasted. He is still one of the fastest readers allyo; bellevou to be the only man who has read through the Encyclopacdlu Britannica twice.

What he reads he puts to When he wrote "The good st Ship" (story of a light eraser action in the Modserranean), the Navy searched its pages for

not It could

fault Forester, who had documented his novel carefully.

стота.

"The Ship" has just been imanskied into Hebrew s textbook for the now Lerncli Navy.

Reading through theso ton anveis, a certain

sameness

manifest. There is a Forester Each nevel is built formula. around a single man, a solitary individual, facing a desperate emergency bringing to it native cunning and the powerful stamp uf 3 fighting machine the Navy (Hornblower and Brown the Resolution), on

-Bruwb

Rifle Brigade (Rideman

Matthew Dodd of Death to the French), the cavalry

(Sir

Herbert Curzon, KCMG in The General).

Of this sinowy, raw-boned portrait gallery, emblower is It is the most fully draw. sart of Forestor's talent to nee slightly that Hornblower is

well ag heroic.

Hdiculous

He is pompous, touchy, socially

sure of himself, slow

with

int-

tres of ambition burn Hornblower learns credulity that he is the kind of man who appeals to women.. Her loses little time in putting this proposition to the test.

He has made

& lamentable marriage, out of sentimentality to that harpy waiting to ge men who venture ashore, Poor

weepy, bloway Maria-Horn- blower is genuinely remorseful when he is unfaithful to her with glamorous Barbara, Lord Wellesley's sister.

If Hornblower is a figure of comedy

as well as of heroic adventure, Bush, his foil, butt and right-hand man, la puru comedy. A touch of primness, almost old-maldishness, suggests that, if Bush were not a tough fighting seaman, he might be passing the plate in a chapel.

The banner

Ten novels demonstrate that, in un age that was reacting violently against militarism and discipline, Forester held aloft the banner of the

the disciplined

man of action, in whom training has turned into instinct

Streaming against the wind, the banner has drawn countless adherents to 11. The modfin age abjuring discipline for itself, is prepared to admire it in the heroes of fiction.

LIBRARY LIST

The Vblanta. By Ernast Frost. Andre. Deutsch 12a. ed 254 pages. Henry Taggart, painter In the sixties, marries Shella, 29-year-old niece of an old friend, The marriage starte

chain reaction of events. comic and not-so-comic, in a novel which switches. -all - through from being good pod v not-so-good,

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● The World that Fred Mada, By Bernard Darwin, Chatlo and Windon.' 21s; 356, pages,—--- The world that Fred made Bund Darwin celebrates is

sired by the win

en a thousand golf courses. An and gracious life hy healthy..

delight here. fully recalled by one who has forgiven the most diabolical bunker and forgotten the most perverse of missed puits,

The Ultimate Viking. By Erie Länkister, Macuaillan, -£15. 296 pare-If anyone could make à. Viking interesting, and, .-. printworthy, it is Ednklater with his wall-natured and urbane ·prose, style, Int account of a fellow Orkneyman, Sweyn Asleifsson, who came to a violent end in Dublin (1171); be powerfally renews: the impell. of a distant reckless age."

PARADE

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