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BIOGRAPHY OF A. SAINT.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932.

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under close cross-examination by bris father; ha brisks down and cannot remember a single word of all; the thousands of words, he has learned. There is a sxquisite simplicity about the writing, and, towards the and, in the descriptions of Budden blindness and the death of ́n brother from cholera, there are touches of almost heartrending pathos. The odd thing is that the personal note piai (London: Hodder and it is sincero, And despite its

is maintained unfailingly through Stoughton, 12/8.)

many shortcomings, I feel that the There are times" when one is al-fmany

out-in spite of the fact that the admirers of Aurelias There can Augustinus will benefit by the road-lock is written in the third par be no God, ela He would surelying of Giovani Papini't "Saint son and that the author always re- enve His Saints from the hands of Augustiue."

Saint Augustine by Giovanni Pa Yet the book has one great meri

most" cempted to any

came

their biographers." Such a thought ||

to me, I regret to say, on reading "Saint Augustine" by Giovanni Papini.

On first picking up the book I said, “Ah yes! Angula not Angles" and then, rating myself for a fool, my mind shot to De Civicate Dei" but, either way, there was a pleasant thrill of anticipation, which was heightened by the attrac tive form of the hook. But, on page 13 of the introductory My con nection with Saint Augustine,"

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A BLIND CHILD'S STORY,

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A POET ON A BUS.

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"An Egyptian Childhood."

By Tha Euxin. Routledge. GR. There are two very,good reason Why English people should rend

It is a pleasure, in an ago p! this account of aus Egyptian boy's lipshod writing, to childhood-because it is a little max., low post who erpiece of autobiography, and he. Augustan soverity of form with the cause it will cheer up anyone withricher sensibility of the moderns. a grievance against English educn tional methods

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Miss Struther in here revealed as in poet deânitely individual in both. mutter "and manner," with an in

inot for the value of words and

The author, Dr. Taha Hussein, 18 shiver of apprehension ran through a remarkable man.. In spite of me as I rend the words "My chief bliadness which attacked him as concern has been to write the story boy, he became a sokolar, studied of a soul.. ". And my appre, and took his degrees at the Sor. hension was justified. Nothing was

honne; and is now a leader of the to be found but a tedious story, full" Modern School and Professor of of improbable "Latin names, which Arabic Literatere at Cairo Uni turnod an attractive auint inter

vornity.

dall negre, with all the faults and qualities of his race.

The book describes the first 13 years of his life in the house of

his father, a sheik, in the pro- vince of Minis, some 30 years ago. We assist at family prayers, feel his shyness before his grown-up brothers and sisters who alwaya:

The author states on page 13 I have written as an artist and a Christian," so the translator must be, billmed for the Gorid, indigestible prose of this edition, Arto "Chris tian," the author completely lasts make fun of him, experience his the quiet certainty of the convinced pride when as a boy of nine he

their music.

Four linos suffice to delineate character in verse ao conoise na:

Your eyes are two gray Puritans, Your' mouth's" laughing

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ROMANCE AND HORROR.

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The House of Lion" By Austin Moors. Hudder and Stoughton, 7. 6d. Mr. Moore

tho uadoratands mechanism of the detective story. He does not allow one to aso the solution of his mystery at the end of an early chapter, and one reader, at least, turned detective and full- ed In The House of Lies" a wonlthy banker, who appears to be aborious murderer, is the pivot around which the 'story turns. As the banker has a charming ward and an eligible young; nephew, romance and horror are curingly entwined. A thoroughly ingenious story.

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