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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY

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WHIRLWIND

BRILLIANT, BUT DARING FIRST NOVEL.:

I loathe with all my soul this cheap furniture, cheap food, cheap clothes. There's misery in cheapness.

This is the cry of Jessica, the cenizal character of Whirlwind, remarkable first novel by HCM. Hardingo (Pute Ram, 73. 8d.). The novel is not a book for The young

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Jension beautiful..but calculating and pleasure. loving wife of Dermond Autrobas, then a struggling author, Sho runs away to a rich and dissolute man after prepar- ing an excellent dinner for her husband, sanding him the usual note while he ents it

the rectory-born, young,

Love, of a commercial variety, wild extravagance, and a life of the most hretie luxury follow, but Jessica keeps her fest and her head. She eventually settles down to a comfortable life in Italy; and then, when she makes a trip to England.

Nemesis. comer

In the meantime, what of Desmonda When his wife deserted him, out of pique: he turned away from the difficult path of authorship, entered the family business, made .a fortune, and inherited a

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when

baroneerits of the story comes

The twenty-three years later, Sir Desmond "Antrobus takes a young man he has met in Italy to be his private secretary. The attractin was natural, for the rough turns out to be his own son, Sir Desmond knowing that he has a child at all. The secretary brings his adoring reother to England to see him, and a heart-break lug drama begins, to end in tears, conflict, and a drowned woman.

and

The Catholic attitude to divorce an the clash of class are other theme skil fully worked into this extraordinars story.

The scene in which Jessica submits her- self to a depraved laver is a revolting per picture It emphasises the ntler abandon ment of the faithless wife; but is the en phasis accessary •1 Librari have banned books for less.

Mr. Hardinge adopts a curious discur siva style, and unfolds the vicissitudes of

and Desmond as if he were a rather supercilious lecturer explaining the

magic-lantern showing the viswa There are dozers of sparkling aphorisma tinged with cynicism. For instance: A certain man may yet fall among thieves, only nowadays the Good Samaritans rash by in motor cars, so can hardly be exper ted to notice the poor man in the ditch.""

THE FOURTH TERROR

Our

In a letter. published recently in eulumns a correspondent, quoted a Japan ese proverb cramenting, as the four greatest terrors which Japan, fated to endure, earthquakes, thunder. fd, and to strict fatherly discipline The fourth terror ends the list with the fullest, fores of parados. The company, it keeps ix eloquent of the calamig attendant urdu

leparture from the menu in

ree which ought to be evenit.

compounded of paternal prerogative and filial piete The present, generation : 6f English Bor, at any rate cannot com plain that they are in danger from this terror. Severely old-fashioned seniors are likely rather to any that it is sadly to seck, that fatherly discipline has suffered a serious decay; and that the rising youth are a pack of unlicked cubs for lack of its That there has been a profound change in the last fifty years cannot be denied. The mid-Victorian conception of the status of fathers is as dend us sampler-" texts, anti-macassars, and peg-zon trouters. The boy of those days looked

·upon his sire as a remote and unacemol able man of wrath, to be feared, perhans" even to be obeyed, but to be lodged it possible. His attitude towards him was

OCTOBER 20TH, 1923.

WEEPING ECZEMA SOCIETY OF ST. VINGNET DE PAUL

ON LITTLE GIRL

In Pimples On Chin and Fars. Cuticuma Heals.

My little girl two years old and fered a great deal from weeping eczemná on her chin and ears. ⠀ In broke out in small pimples that filed with A watery substanes and Rebed and burned, causing many sleepless nights. She looked a sight.

"I tried all kinds of remedies but without resuira. I began tizing Sat- Gura Soap and Ointment «öd after using three tablets of Cuticura Soap. and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment. shi was healed." (Signed) S M thewman, 24, Baker's Yard, Thorpe Hasley, Nr. Rotherham, Yorks. Eng. Use Cuticura for all akin troubles. Soap la. Ointment 1.30, and 2x. 6d. Solt themeghoot the mom, for sumate man freed

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not unlike that of the frontier savate to Flashes-

wards the periodical punitive expedition coming to interfere unintelligibly

with exuberances which wen to him fatural and barmies Today the bar wees in his father a comrade of riper veitrs, who was once actually སྩ bow himself and bas net forgotten it, who is interested in a boy's pursuits and can play a boy's games, but who withal enn, from a fund of experi

contribute a word of wisdom here deal

and of warging they

there which saves a

of trouble,

But if the son to longer lives under the shadow of the fourth terror, what of the father? It seems, indeed, that there la been a transference of fear. Many

mature

ture He is ? grown man feels that

a painful story of too strict dis- cipline. As a boy he looked forward to mashool as to a time of privilege and "freedom. He finds instead that it brings restrictions and responsibilities. In the social sphere, business, in all the of life, he is more hemmed in by regulation, compulsion, and restraint thân” ter is the spacious days of st The straight smooth rue of his dreams turns out to

to be an obstacle race of hindranchere only one salvation for

disappointments, and ve

him. Under pain of degenerating into a sallen

en rebel, kicking vigorously hat vainly against the pricks, he must draw nutri ment from thistles and find in the bristling contrariety of circumstances, a food or which his soul can thrive. He must learn Again, in different material the boyish

that

tions.

Tesson.

gud stripes-

We may go with foo

healing. The man, who has that on by heart is wiser thro

of the Past

That is Just What Good Pictures are; They bring the Past back to Life

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to rise are balled to fight better? To him difficulties, disappointments, and Event dangers are the very moulds," inta which the soft stuff of human nature muat be run if it is over to harden into high character and deengrowlve. At the height of his moral stature he will be heartily ready to

welcome each rebuff

“That turng earth's smoothness rough. Each sting that bids or sit nur wand What go. Timex,

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