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frames in which he has groupek ; MR. MAUGHAM'S STORIES.

them the thort story may be the FIRST PERSON SINGULAR. By W. Mr. Maugham shows himself a most diffient form of fiction, but Somerset Mangla London: William Hoindian. Pp. 37mpleta master-ef if. Into The Alien Corp. for instance, lo has compressed matorial which if ex- would not have seemed unduly panded into a full-length novel mengre, yet he has done it without characters, and without any vigue any limitation of the number of the

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"The Human Bioment," which is

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AFRICA SPEARS By Paul L. Hoofer How well the paycho-analytical ways be sure of getting something From Mr Mangham se can at (The Bodley Head. 158.). task has been accomplished on the both interesting and comprint, but Afrin Speaks was one of the terras of that singular science the these six stories must surely has tim ALL YOU HAVE TO 10-13 TO most, entertaining of travel flas present reviewer cannot protond to good as anything he has written. STUDY THE ADVERTISEMENTS Mr. Hoefer's book is, perhaps, even judge; but IN THIS ISSUE OF THE HONG

COMMONSENSO recuils He frankly premises himself as the KONG DAILY PRESS, AND IN | better.

He tells straightforwardly when the study of the nightmare observer by writing in the first per-richly satirical picture of Jews both i EVERY SUBSEQUENT ISSUE and vividly, without the adventi culminates in a chapter entitlal on singular, a device not uncon good and bad, but there is at the UP TO DECEMBER 26-tious aids that were "a blemish on DECIDE WHICH YOU THINK the film, the story of his expediality and as for the diagram work with an air of vorisimilitude: ths which wins our sympathy for

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The camera man in the days of o page 27, there has surely never voyed the impression of real perhaps the weakest of the six be NOT LATER THAN JANUART site Gims, bad formidable difficul- anything like it since Gérard Curiously enough, the one thereause it is the most indirectly nar 1. 1982, AND MUST BE ACCOM ties, buy now that stand truck has de Nerval undertook to prove the seems farthest withdrawn from real rated, ecatrives to maintain vitality PANIED BY A CUTTING OF carried through jungle, up Immaculate Conception. by geome-life, most fantastical in ita atmos and as the same time illustrate the THE ADVERTISEMENT YOU HAVE CHOSEN, AND AN ENTRY crocodile-infested" rivers and across try.

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The Round Dozen,eplourlessness of the FORM (PRINTED ELSEWHERE deserts, the business has become a

which he takes the trouble to warn through whose lips the story comes, IN THIS ISSUE), ·

| nightmare.

But when Dr. Ernest Jones is hotus in his proface is the one which And the author is equally success- Mr. Hoffer's (ruck-fust-in sand, cerned with the distier dream owes the most to his retual exfigures he has introduced in the ful with the vast variety of the it felt through a native jatty, and of babies or with the etymological perience. As often in his hooks. other tales. had to be pulled out by scopes of impertanes of the letters M and there is a strong, vein of satire sweating natives while Mr. Houfler in the word nightmare, he is ex- throughout, but sincs, as we watched with rite for crocodiles, credingly good company. This read warned, most of the stories deal the heat and moisture threatened fine must be enormous, and the rewith some deviation from the nor The Winning Letter. and the to destroy the film, tsets the source with which he brings to of us can ever have mut even on

mal, we feel no cruelty in it. Few advertisement securing most munced the expedition with sleep-gether the most diverse illustrative of the leading characters in real votes, will be published in the ing sickness, and mosquiters with cast is truly remarkable. He is life, yet the author has so convine Hong Kong Daily Press on malaria, and everywhere thero was stance out the contemporary that we are prepared to regard them perhaps at fault in one trivial ined us, not merely of their possibility January 7, 1932

but also of their actual existence. I slang use of the term vampire, for as logitimate, oven necessary, tar- **0. this was not a war, product, but probably originated in a misunder standing of a suppressed poem by

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the were-wolf legend, Dr. Ernest. Jones should certainly not have overlooked much the most powerful

handling it has ever had in Eng- land, or perhaps anywhere; in Arthur O'Shaughnessy'e ..poem,. "Bisclaveret." But his acccunt of the developments of the neubus and anerubus superstition, is general treatment of the vampire, the were-woli, diabolical visitations and witcheraft, on the historical side, is excellent, and he brings out very neatly the part which the hardening of religious dogan in medieval Europe had to do with the eventual definition of what would have otherwise remained vague and

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Outbreaks of Vampirism.. published December 20.

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"The ground was pulsating with that epidemics have been most fres tisement between December the crawling mass of purple in- and 25. Fetters must be received

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December 45. Latters mosting bugs, it was impossible to set by these terrible epidemics was be received by January 1, 1932, more than a few yards ahead. The results published January 7.

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INDIAN RAJAH AND A SECRETARY.

FORGERY CHARGE IN WEST END COURT.

noise produced by thege millions of wings was deafening, resembling the roar from a fleet of aeroplanes."

Many striking pictures are in- eluded in the book, and with Mr. Hocflor's engaging and unaffected preke, make “Africa Speaks" no of the outstanding travel stories of the year.

NIGHTMARES AND VAMPIRES.

almost as alarming as the outbreaks themselves, except to Voltaire, who very characteristically raised the question whether in vampirism it. was the re-arisen body or the lost bloodsucking and so forth, and not sout that sought satisfaction by less characteristically came to the conclusion that the more delicate morsels, so to speak the meringue: and whipped cream and fruits, wore for the soul, and "le rosbif était

pour le corps." But even night- marishness, according to Dr. Ernest" BY T. EARLS WILBY, Cu the Jones, who might here have given.

Nightmare." By Ernest Jones, lay readers more evidence, has beën MD. Hogarth Press. 21...epidemic at certain times or in cer This book is itself something oftain places, and apparently not in a nightmare in that it gives the consequence of a generally adopted render, in about equal meneurs, and injudicious diet.

close scusations of horror and. A reviewer who cannot affect to Arnold Montrenth Matthews (33), Bleasure which its author describes compete with Dr. Ernest Jones on described as a secretary lind giving us characteristic consequences of any strictly scientific subject, and Russell-square hotel ३.५ his ad frequcritation by the incubus and has ventured to criticise his work tires, was, marded ሰነው bail at the succubus. Murlough-street Police Court.

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Kader other aspects, is glad, after 18 is plain that had he chosen to

some fratsome entertainment, tn He was charged with fanging and write simply the history of the end by agreeing out of mere experi- uttering a letter of transfer and nightmare" and its associates, the

ence that food is not the main or assignment of the equivalent of 980 vampire and the were-wolf, he even s common cause of nightmare. eupets (£18) 17s. 78.) with intent to could have given us an exceedingly It has been said of Welsh rare-bits, defrand the Rajah of Sarila, at entertaining and curious book; but not by Dr. Ernest Jones, that they Berkeley-street, en. October 22.. he is editor of the International are in Shakespearean phrase, anch Alr. W. G. Jenkins appeared for Payoho-analytical Library, to which stuff an dreams are made on, but this series belongs, and it is thore- aven without the great body of evi-

Matthews.

It was stated that the Rajah was fore his daty, as doubtless it is his 'denco marshalled in this volume it

à delegate to the Round Table Con-pletuara, to refer all things to the is "plain that the true nightmare ference..

great Freudian truth.

originates in something which is

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We have ono' adverso criticism to make, but that is against the pub book at the head of every page in lisher; to repeat the title of the

to suggest a very low idea of the reader's memory, whereas to head contained in it would have been a the page with the title of the 'story pleasant concussion to those of s who cannot hope to be allowed to finish a book at a sitting, even

though, in this case we should wish

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