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MISS Z JOINS THE GIRLS WHO WRITE ABOUT DADDY

SIX PEOPLE AND LOVE. By Stella Zilliacus, Putnam, 131. 6d. 233 pages.

TELLA ZILLIACUS is

the latest of tho writing daughters,

What a to-do there was when he heard of the plan to

ensnare Mr Nehru

of

NEGATIVELY, to have no part whatever in this thing called Progress. The national Anthem of the Mrsal WGS written a few years ago. It is called Civilisation It tains the lines: "Bingle, bangle, bungle. I don't want to leave the jungle,"

Them's the sentiments of the Masal, except that they are not

Nobody knows why literary talent should run from loving daughter's portrait of in the jungle. They ore In father to daughter. But the him, a kindly, ilkable, faintly Kenya, where they arrived after

ridiculous figure.

from evidence is impressive."

full of ideals walking (for 700 years) Stella's father, Konni Zil- about peace, progress, the seit- the Nile Delto. At the end of

expression

children, the their journey. they ran smackc lincus, old Left Wing war- League of Nations, etc. His into the British Empire. It horse and

Socialist MP, children are brought up to know might have been worse,

figures In inter- inde- all the main writes worried,

The French would have con- national affairs and to have no scripted them. The Port guese fatigable books

with titles roots in any land, people or (of would have married them. But.. like "Why We Are Losing course) religion.

what the British did was bad When his wife conspires

te enough. "The Road to the Peace,"

With the best motives off a plain little niece. in the world, they destroyed the War," The inquest on Maria, Konni's instincts #S a Masal's Way of Life.

"Between

the man

Д and

rationalis! KTO roused. An attempt is made to ensnare Into matrimony an Indian visitor named Nehru.

Zilliacus explodes, "He's one of the genres of our age. You can't seriously think that he would have the slightest interest in Marla,"

Peace," Wars," etc.

Stella writes about Daddy. Daddy ly

favourite Ц

theme among the writing daughters.

Konni Zilliacus turns up 4 curly

as line Reven at his daughter's novel, emerging from behind Hansard ("his favourite breakfast rending, except on the days when the New Statesman had arrived"). He

in his

"He is a man and slic woman,' his wife insista. she is willing enough

Krishna

that consisted to hunting.

POSITIVELY,

devotion massacre, cattle-lifting of the carrying-off

women.

und the enemy's

Thus they combined

virtues of the ancient

the

Romans

(Rape of the Sabines) with

Is a those of the not-so-ancient Scot

But (Rob Roy).

The Kikuyu, to settle

former victims until of these national sports, say the Menon,

In Masal have just "He lives

come down After

from the trees. The Masai wish

1 Others

Veronlen for Include: Henriques, author of "neme is the Zilliacus says, Heart" and daughter of best-seller Bloomsbury, you know." Robert Henriques; Brigid Brophy, that the quest for a husband for the Kikuyu would come out who wrote "lackenfeltër's Apo," in

Marla swings off in a new direc- the daughter of hard working author John Brophy the father of tion, towards a Russian count Clare Almon ('Oh, the Family"! I who runs Count Michael' de la Bedoyere, whe wrote books on religion and liliary: and Ann Faber ("The Image") is tho daughter of Sir Geoffrey Faher, the author of "The Oxford Apostles."

by Walter

Parle

a fashion house

in

from behind the British.

The Masai have the beauty of

Their greyhounds.

girls have the physique--and the clothes

In this collection of six slight sense of the goddess Aphrodite. Their religion has a like sim- sketches tenuously strung to- gether, the first is the best. The plicity. It is the worship of the principle. To one pf story of how husband was creative

their festivals Koenig devotica fourid for poor Maria comically Swelve reverent, and observant, Illustrates a conflict of Ideas between radical Zilliacus and his conventional wife. When father fades out of the book, most of the fum fades with him.

Stella Zifacts has а nice talent for gentle satire--and, in her first book, does not give it enough to do.

THE MASAI STORY.

By Oskar Koonig Michael Joseph. 181. 190 pages.

Way of Life of the Masal is in danger. It seems

4hat nothing can be done to preserve the outlook and cul- ture of this African people.

And what is that way of life?

BY HARRY WEINERT

IF YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FOR A ROUND OF GOLF

TRY THE NEXT BEST THING.

THE BOYS ARE BACK ON THE SCENE FEELING

MORE LIKE A FISH EVERY MINUTE.

OH, YES!

PAEONIA.

| ALBIFLORA ---

VERY

COMMON .......

NOW MY PAEONIA

·BLAH...

pages.

He emerged from the experience, shaken and a little ashamed. It is a strain to play Peeping Tom to an entire nailon, Among the Masai it is a lucky child no, it is a crystal-gazer who knows her own father. Now that the wild beasts of Atrica

are dying out and the Kikuyu are protected by the British Empire, the future of the dellant Masal, this immovable, race is in grave jeopardy.

"In our frenzy to create a new and better world, we nave for- gotten," anys Oskar Koenig, white hunter and author of this graphic and sympathetic Brudy of the Masal, "the true aristo- cracy of Africa, which is now frustrated and embittered."

But, If the Mnsal will not conform to civilised ways, it is hard to see what can be done to save them.

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THE JUDGE AND THE HATTER.. By Simenon, Hamish Hamilton. 13s. 6d. 308 pages.

QIMENON la the alinglest writer I know.. He really holes to part with words. If six words can be made to do the i work of seven, Simenon will

probably settle for five.

The first story in "The Judge and the Hatter" shows the master of his tersest. It tells of a French judge and a murder trin

the

As Xavier Lhomond, Judge, hears the evidence in the murder trial of a young

thug whose prostitute wife has been found decapitated on the rail- way line, he thinks of his own ilfe.

His wite, after one brief love affair, has lain a bed-ridden and querulous hypochondriac, Every night he counts out the drops of her medicines, which contains strychnine.

The night before, having dropped the bottle, he had gone to fetch an extra bottle from the chemist's. The chemist's night beil was out of order. The judge went into a disreputable bar to telephone. He was ocen by a colleague coming out. He took a glass of spirits before coming do count. Another colleague

melt drink on his breath,

If his wife were to die, how easily suspicion might build up against him: his long martyrdom as a husband: the recent signa of demoralisation; the polson found in the body.

A prey to these thoughts, the Judge almost unconsciously manages the trial so that all the doubts favouring the accused are given full weight,

UNCGE=

an enig-

CTKL But to the very dainty remains. The acquitted man gives the judge matic mocking smile. And the Judge's hypochondriac wife dies. Into 154 avaricious pages, Simetion hos.condensed, a life. time of inelght and scepticism which he presents in af, the shades of grey,

NEW

BUILDING

GOING

UP?

ES THE SPRING SALAD-TOSSERS ARE AT IT AGAIN -----

AND ITS EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF,

WITH NO HOLDS BARRED.

|THE SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS EMERGE AND

RESUME THEIR INTEREST IN CIVIC AFFAIRS,

THE BIRDS WHO WOULDN'T DEIGN TO CALL A' PEONY MERBLY A PEONY ARE STILL AROUND.

EAGLE ARGENT: An Italian journey, By Donald Hall. Methuen, 18s. 235 pages.

S Hall is endowed" "with", an A instinct for natural beauty. and, a lively historical curiosity, he has written a travel book of

charm immense

and the pleasantest kind of

modem humour. It is the deceptiv humour of a chest-eyed, obes with a bend to motifs hill base

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