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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1959.

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Like most people, I like a drink but I never expected to be sobered up so sharply...

HAVE enjoyed drinking beer, wines, and spirits since I was 18. But my consumption has strangely dwindled after reading THE ENDLESS ROAD (Secker and Warburg, 18s.) by Roger Treat, a Connecticut newspaperman,

Since I always ignore the wrapper blurbs I was astonished, early in the text, by the words "one of my A.A. buddies." Automobile Association? Ack-Ack? No of course, Alcoholics Anony-

mous.

I

heard of had

that In Edinburgh, un organisation that redceried chronic alcoholics iben used them to save other tufferers.

In this novel one such Fo- formed man, with good job

ان

were

defences sandbagged When, with her second mar- hind the riage she turns to good works 65 defenders died.

made-in in Peckham and a Left-swinging Sandbags place, her book sags. But thank China reality continually, bowls heaven, for a charming self-story at Aetlen-with peanuts, slika, written without nostalgin.

Auger And The Times corres- pondent quickly killed six Boxers. Tally confirmed.

Chicago paper, makes SUICIDE

desnerate efforts to suber up 21

former colleague. The alcoholic

steals and cheats while he sucks WITH MOTIVE lown vodka, whisky, gin diluted.

un-

He lives foully, lecherously in the Chicartu gutters. Cought by Irlends and given an awful drug called poradzhyde, be excapes, is caught again, and is taken to A.A. Its cure is in doubt at the end.

GLORY THROWN IN

BY ERIC LAMBERT MULLER. 168.

Although there were 3,000 Inside the perimeter, people innatly non-combatants, food did not lack. Warehouses in the defended area supplied 200 tons of wheat and ample tobacco.

The diplomatists 150 ponies were systematically slaughtered, well cooked by Chinese Chris- lans, and consumed with draughts of champagne.

N Australian battalion is to

Personal maids attended to naken suleidal feint a1-

Alamein front. their ladies' Victorian Anery tack on the

General while the tocsin boomed and new Ponúny "This

saddle, the cannonade pounded, Montgomery" is In the

applied. and many ruses

dummy fake 1:00p movements,

Tense, rutilessly sordid, the Look Elves ilgures that, if they be true, are dangerous. Can 1ere be 7,000,000 alcohalles in the United States? And do 200,- 000 Americans fall to reach tanks. their jobs every working day

veruse of alcohollam?

here?

Brc

Two Australians "Corpus" Christy and Sergeunt "Doc"

<X-

Mr Fleming-traveller, plorer, soldier, Oxfordshire landowner, and husband of that enchanting actress Cella John- son-has a terrifle story to tell.

flowering delightful, clean

Then what are the figures Homes, are sent on leave to e tells It with method, bell-

"leak" in certain parts of Cairo lance, and a mature Infested with German

the Bed vi Italian agents the date of

the humour that was apparent in attack."

his Orst book, "Brazilian Ad- venture."

Because of its sincerity and its impact this is an important book.

STRAIGHT FROM THE '208

CHILD OF THE TWENTIES

BY FRANCES DONALDSON HART DAVIS, 218,

CERTAIN type of English-

often

woman,

In a protracted binge of Aus- tralian dimensions, Carpus' aud Doc do their job well, then re- turn to the 55th to get killed.

THE GREAT

A most effective book, with DAM...

fascination in the pungent cameraderly of an Australios Hud Mr Lambert battle unit. cut the Cairo chapters by halk

he would have double:t effect.

called BEHIND

weedy," which need nut mein

his

SUN AND SHADOW AT

ASWAN.

BY HERBERT ADO180N CHAPMAN AND HALL. 189.

UHS is the remarkable yet

Jantalisling Glory of the

Inelegant, is brave without SILK SANDBAGS st great Nile dam at Aswan,

seeming so, kind without being demonstrative, clever without much conversation,

Although ne zafts readily in love, and before the marrlea will relentlessly pursue any free mula who takes her fancy; she often makes n versatile and faithful wife.

Her behaviour is goared to a prohibition hammered into her at home and at school; "Thou shalt not show off."

THE SIEGE AT PEKING BY PETER FLEMING HART-DAVIė, 258.

conceived, Ananced, built by Britain 00 years ago, and twier since successfully heightened to quadruple its containment.

Remarkable for the quality and loyalty cf the engineers and Tantalising, had dam builders. CIXTY years ago China

had her fiil of traders, mis tragic, that our skills and our Elonaries,

decency cannal now be pul to foreign

devils. Xenophobia found expression in the bereft of the Egyptian the murderous uprising of the fellahin.

Boxers, who were believed even Mr Addison. also clearly ex- by that wlly old concubine the plains the shore. size, and Downger Empress to be Im- functions of the proposed Aswan Mrs pervious to wounds.

High Dam, some tour miles

Such women seldom write mentoirs. Fortunately Dunaldron felt that as she had Imperial troops helped the upstream, the dom that caused, nucceeded with u blography of Boxers in their attack on the or was the pretext for, the Suez father, Freddy Lonsdale, legation quarter of Peking, then Canal zeizure, and the Suez the playwright, she might ven- atmost wholly took over opera- ture to "do" herself,

her

tions.

conforming to the Not-Showing gay led or Off rule. Her life was full and Edy. I hope-sho Ilves

affair.

As besitz one who gave mucli is the Nite, Mr She show's delightful gulle in' Commanded, one can hardly his life

writes with Wat Inspired, by the Addison exotically-moustached British affection for the Egypilan people Majster, Sir Claude MacDonald, and he writes with character. Gloucestershire still is." the 11 diplomatic missions with dignity and incisiveness.

stcod siege of 55 days. Bi-

Fredy Lonsdale, "a egend- thrift of heroic proportions," fascinated. maddened, patronisad London. He was rich and loved, yet had been born in a 1wo- room cottage, the son of Jersey tobacconist.

-(London Expreza Service).

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A QUICK LOOK ROUND

In his flerely egocentric way FIFTY YEARS OF MODERN happy American marriage be he ndored Frances-ns did a

ART, Thames and Hudson. 30s, tween a profesionally successful good few other people and de-Reproductions of the works husband and a socially successful manded her company. It made exhibited at the Brussels Fair, wife has the lid taken off it by her quick witted by contact mate

produced and the arrival from Germany of than by heredity. Don't keep magnificently

lavishly flustrated; with a long, Erica, the husband's attrocilve Anishing your sentences," he

crudité and informative Intro- 22-year-old cousin. Some acute warned her. "I'm not a bloody

duction by Emil Langul.

observation of the American fool."

way of fe la

rother ravelottish story.

Nor is Mrs Donaldson. She writes beautifully of the darice-

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THE NINE QUARDIANS. mad nineteen-twenties. Or the By Romario Castellonom. Fatter; packed-out Embassy Club with 16This is a Mexican: EovelTHE GHOST SQUAD. Ex- is well-paid bully-manager, which describes the conflet Bart John Gosling. Allen, 18%, Luigi, and Ambrose the hand- between Indian peasantsand. This "account of the Yard's Jender lguldly quitting thoreactionary landlords after the remarkable "phantom" police- rlehest and noblest "sardines" Agrarian reforms of the thirties, men who cleaned up. London's underworld makes an excellent In Europe. 'Of Yoxhunting, or

careless story, despite

-(London Express Service);

the partly onished eleganed⋅ of

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CAN A DEAD MAN CONTROL

OTHERS?

by ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL

THE SIXTH SENSE. By Rosalind Hoywood, Chatta and.

Windus. 21s.

THE SIXTH SENSE is subtitled "An Inquiry into Extra-Sensory Perception," popularly known as ESP, but in Mrs Heywood's view better described as psi, the Greek letter which can symbolise the as yet unrivalled tangle of psychic phenomena.

A gunman can never give up...

-by RICHARD LISTER-

A LIGHT IN THE SKY. By John Comfoy, Heinemann.

15x.

AFTER a long interval, the Irish "troubles" of the 'twenties are now looming up again as a sub- ject for films, plays and novels. And it is not sur prising.

They have all the fashionable new.army, while half of his contemporary Ingredients-squa friends and associates spurn the for of atmosphere, political Treaty and go into secret op- passion and the violence of position. gunfights and torture.

All Danny wants is to stop fighting and find that place in life which has been denied him. But the Oghting isn't over. It Kares mors bitterly than ever. between the Irish themselves.

Mr John Comicy sets his firs:

Just after the Treaty. It is the Bludy of a gunman,,

ESP has proved rather a bore mediumship and communication novel in Dublin just before and from a popular point of view, with the dead, with its Interminable accounts of X in one room guessing what eard Y. in' another turned up.

Then Myers died and appar- ently initiated п Fries of expérimenta from the other Some people can do this with side. He used tho automatie a degree of accuracy far be- writing of sovon different yond mere chance.

people, some unknown to the others, to convey messages. This embarrasses those scien- Eack was meaningless in Itselt ties who still belleve our senses but significant when read with ure limited to sight, sound, the others. 1ouch, taste and smell, ESP turns their world topsy-turvy,

Spotlighted

On the run

He marries the sister of on important colleague only to find in that she is secretly working for has the new Rebels. His old heroca are being rounded up and executed,

His feud

Danny Pearson has been the IRA since 1918, and now had enough of it.

The whole of his young man hood has been devoted to hunt ing and being hunted, to killing ond just not bolng killed.

He is inevitably involved. He is on the run again when Thare communications con- the novel opens-and tinued over 30 years and con-

getting Once a gunman, always a gun- careless.

man. And, no longer capable of vinced

many, Including the

He takes up with a Dublin giving, his loyally to either scout Lord Balfour, that the

prostitute, Jenny, and is pre- cause, he dies, gua In hand, ived his physical death, personality of Myers had sur-

pared to defy his leaders and risk fighting a private feud of his court-martial and certain death own. over on her behall when she is The author is good at the drawing suspected of being an informer. psychology of the gunman, but

He is saved from the est la not entirely successful

Mrs Heywood, instead of try ing to outline the whole

Kirs Heywood Icans territory of psi, chooses with udmirable

avoid sense of spoilight backwards to interesting developments since' conclusions.

the foundation of the Society Some religious people may quences of his folly by the sign- catching the atmosphere of the for Psychical Research in 1882. find that the "paranormal" events Ing of the Treaty giving the period.

He she discusses are less remark- Republic a limited independence.

is strong in his action A group of highly educated able ihan the commonplace ex-

Life after that is an uneasy evocation of place. But, all the Bequences, rather woak in his men, including the classical periences of myatle communion compromise. Danny is one of scholar, Frederick Myers, in- and the life of prayer.

those who accept the now me, this is a promising first vestigated cases of telepathy.

government and is rewarded novel. precognition, apparitions,

with the rank of Major in the

JACKY'S

DIARY

JACKY MENDELSOHN

AGE 3/2

-(London Expreis Service).

m Still Here in Summer Camp ON My Vacation from Mommy & Daddy it's called Camp WANNAGO & Here's What it Looks Like

Lake For Swimming

BASE-BALL Field

Sleep in a Bunk with 5 other guys, Their

·NAMES Are Gary, Jerry, Bobby, Sammy, & Fat Herbie

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But no Diving cause there's

ROCKS

-(London Express Service),

WOODS

More

10000)

DINING Room

Brass

ROWBOATS:

ROCKS

GRASS

R FLAS

POLE

Movie Picture THEATER

BUNKS

ALSO We got a Counciler WHOSE NAME is ankle Fred. Only He Don'T COUNT CAUSE he's a GROAN-UP

After we do our Mourning Exersize, we got to CLEAN UP The BUNK for inSPECTSHUN...

•Which means like Sweeping The Dirt under Your bed, Hiding-Ale LOLLY POPS Under Your Pillow, fin General Being Very Neate

Boy is There LOTS of Noise in THERE! ALL the kids are Yelling, & SCREAMING, & crying, & spilling ThinGS So Much you can't Hardly hear YOURSELF CAT.

and

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DEILA IZBĒTS POJAVED

MINE

P.S8 think he must be

•Very Poor, Cause He's Still Wearing short Pants from When He was A Little kid.

After we get Dressed & Everything, we gFOT To walk To The Dining Room & GET BREAK- fast OTS JUST LIKE IN THE ARMY, as You got To Walk information

Then You Sot to Go back to the BUNK & Write Your Parents A Letter What a good TIME YOUR

•Only its Hard To Write on paper)

Having..

When its all wet from

CRYING

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