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THREE RECENT NOVELS

A-CHANCE FOR A LOCAL CONRAD

[BY A BLENT ENGLISHMAN.]

Kipling, who was recently quoted in a leading article in the Daily Press, wrote, "What should they know of England who only England know 1".

The point of the argument in the lead- ing article (entitled "Stories About Hongkong."), as no doubt the reader remembers, was that recently published novels give a false impression about.our social-Mie,

The editorial inspired "a" spirited offort by lady who has the happy knack of patting lofty sentiments into "rhymes worth reading." It is fair to say that Gladys Jackson" summed up the situa- tion admirably in three lines:

Tales of Virtue calm and icy

Must give way to something spicy" From the dweller in that-welly ofd-

place Hongkong.

It must be admitted that Hongkong is;

in any ways, an unusual place. It con

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is the one place where they see some.. thing of the life lived by the Chinese. Since the Prince of Wales visited Hong- kong and because of recent strikes and the boycott this little outpost of Western civilisation has been very much in the minds of the British and American public. The "story" of the Hongkong Hotel fre was broadcast from the London station within a few hours of the event.

The novelists are always looking out for a new setting for old plots. They Eave recently discovered" Hongkong.

THE RECENT EFFORTS.

During the past eighteen months there' Eave appeared three novels in which mout of the happenings are in Hongkong.

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craftsman, a novelist, play-writer and"" author of short stories. Mr. Somerset- Maughan has visited this centre-of-com- merce. It was unlikely that he would make no use of his visit. When we heard that he was writing a novel about Hong- kong we said "At last we can refer our friends to a book that will interest and educate them." When we read the story we decided not to recommend it. It made many of us.

angry and indignant. Enough said," about that novel. Another recent effort is called "The Hongkong Bank.....81,123 bay, 1,130 mel. dni. Uncharted Sea. It is rendible; like Do London........om

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the curate's egg, it is good in parts.

A feature of this book is the account of the seamen's strike. It is an unfortu

Cate mixture of truth and fiction

It becomes obvious, as the story, lops-that-a-certain--superfluous-love-sick- Daval officer must be removed in some way or other.

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Indo-Chinas (Fred) 2000 Da -{Del}, Shell Transporta ...... Star Ferrée...memori Waterboats....

It was surely unnecessary to invent EL scrap at Taipo between the 1822 strikers and the Royal Navy to accom plish that, a snake or a Fanling tigerühma angars..... would have put him out of action. An Maisbon bugata attempt at life-saving in the harbour Bengnets during a typhoon or even a house on fire Kaisa Mining Ad would have provided an heroic end. Lang kata (combinal)

A house on fire on the Peak would have given us a chance to back up the Peak Residents' Association in their efforts to secure better firefighting arrangements.

It was a pity to spoil a good story about the 1999 strike with an unnecessary his. torical inaccuracy.

Lo. (single) Shanghai Explorations.. shanghai Loans Bau Tranch Mines Ural Carpinos

HK, & K. Wharts. H.K. & W. Dooirs.

The plot is the old one of the eternal triangle. The elderly (stupid) taipan isows the husbandThe clever and unusual New sugicorings. Neval officer

"Stangnai Dix the hero (sic). The lady

HK. & Sadlotelä imusios is quite attractive.

Landa Gara ADI The author is himself a Naval officer: Captain King Hall, known personally to many of us. He writes in an entertain. ing fashion. He is especially interesting in his own particular line-the navy. His hero. Is not unusuk, because he is a natal oncer and is clever (most of them are clever) but for other reasons

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"The DEW.ON' THE LEAF?”.. Finally there is a novel with the above title. The writer has met the authoress who calls herself "Mary Leinster."

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We cannot have everything in this world. Nature was lavish in bestowing gifts which count for much in life upon Mary Leinster. The art of telling a story a is not one of them.ib

There is no animus or cheap desire to | Unutul wound an aspirant to fame when the

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It, too, is unfair to Hongkong. It must create a wrong and an unfortunate im- pression about our local social life.

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many years ago and it was: an experi-15 yo. ence full of disappointments. The effort

Lane Crawfords was shown to nobody. It was worse than Mackintoshs...... any of the three novels mentioned above, cros because it was dreadfully dalk There Umud Asbestos- was no suspicion of anything spicy Wagons (old) It was just a guide book to Hongkong, wm-Powelle. Shanghai and Peking, A recent story

"Laybayers; "Legation Street about Pelting would have been as dull, if the couple who eloped-from-Peking had not visited Paris There may be amongst us some ♪ mute who will one "day It was with genuine sympathy therefore inarticulate genius that "Failed Was written cross the put on paper something wonderful. That fly-leaf of two of the three novels about sort of thing does not appear because we Hongkong that are in one bookshelf in ask for it. Genius is wayward. It seems this Colony.

to be fairly easy to write a rather feeble Conrad could have done wonders, even story and to make certain of ith sale by if he had had villains as well as heroes putting in spicy bits about loose life in his stories about Hongkong Kipling in the Far East. As Gladys Jackson might have made China as real to Angio has suggested, we want something better Saxons as he has made India real than that about, this our home fu the

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