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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1932.

or bad, and they are not l

BOOKS and READERS good as "Trent's Last Case, which

THE VOGUE OF THE DETECTIVE NOVEL---

AMAZON LEADS ARMY

MODERN JOAN SUPPRESSING REBELS IN BRAZIL,

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once kept a particular render up all night and which still goes mar ching on, "Qet it, if you have not rend it, and if it to something. "hut from the press" that you Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 27-An want, here is a list of titles.

Amazon has donned male attire and *Tales From Two Pockets," by is leading the Government forces Are you interested in sensational hod of induction and deduction Karl Capek (Faber),

against the rebels in Sao Paola. stories, in particular those of the which made Sherlock Holmes fa-

"Chinese Red," by Gilbert Cal Sho is known as Santa Dign and as detective order which wo associate mous.. Probably his fame brought lins (Bles).

a mental healer. She brows exotic with writers like Edgar Wallace | so many imitators that the seed | "Left Hand Loft," by Morrell infusions of herbs and is the head Do you read them? Perhaps Per- for a whole modern school of " 'tec | Massay (Hutchinson).

of a religious cult, Her adherents haps not! An enormous number fiction" was sown, Conan Doyle Plot Against-a-Widow," by R. are ready to follow her to death if of people read them, else they was concerned not only with what C. Ashby (Hoddar). would not be so prevalent in vogue he told, but reacting on himself, in ¦

"Death In The Thicket,"

and so many in number. Every a literary sense, as to how he told Vernon Loder (Collins). publisher, almost, has his list, it. The average novelist of scen- The Public School Murder," short or long, of "thrillers," and tion writing at this hour is con-ly R. Q. Woodthorpe (Nicholson). in nearly every bookshop' you will cerned rather with his tale than¦ And a corner stocked with them,, the telling of it. They have, as popular reading, certainly become spacious in recent years, and one asks why this should be, without, perhaps, being able to give any very convincing an

swór.

OUT TO BE THRILLED

We may take it, using a scrap of deduction, that the average reader of the "thriller" is out to be thrilled, not to. study literary style. This, in turn, suggests that, }

There has always, of course, been the novel of orime and its solution, and the first English master of it was Conan Doyle. His Sherlock multitudinously, the reader of the Holes stories were a fine art, which many other writers bave imitated without capturing Edu-

·cated people could read Sherlock

A

"thriller is the man who formus the crowd of life, the man in the street, the train, the tramear, and the cinema.

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When The Gangs Came to Lon don," by Edgar Wallace (Long)

Murder In The Zoo," by Ba bette Hughes (Benn).

it

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need be. She was prominent in connection with the recent capture of Igacea.

served. It went that if a book. seller bought twelve copies), of, say, a novel, from 'at publisher: the latter threw in an extratone, mak-

"The Tragedy Of X." by Bar ing them thirteen. Perhap" "thir: naby Ross (Chasell).'

teen as twelve" "thriller?" will be| The Division Bell Mystery," enough fodder of the sort for any- by Ellen Wilkinson,

one to sample; and anyhow thore The Cast To Death," by Nigel are other new writings more seri Orde-Powlett (Benn).

ous, more worthy, though it may The Harness Of Death," by not be more popular with the big Stanley Sykes (Lane).

vague world called "the masses,”

"Man Made Angry," by Hugh Brooke (Longman),

· POPULAR WITH "THE MASSES"

There you have "thirteen

as

Holmes and find à mental-stimu- You see the crime library of to- lus in him. He was original and day is a large subject, with rami- creative, and we know that it was ficntions which can only be follow

Scotsman-Dr. Bell, of Edin-1 ed in thought and imagination, burgh-whose way of lecturing not so evidence even circumstan-welve," an old phrase and order gave Conan Doyle, when he was a tial evidence, so essential an cle- medical 'student, a clue to the met- ment in every "tee story" good

'A GLIDER

THE

A splendid glider can be inade from half a sheet of notepaper in this way. Cut the shape like you can see in the sketch, making the wings about six inches across. The front part of the glider must now be weighted, and 'you might use a spot of sealing wax or a tiny square DE tin.

t

If you use tin, eut a square with strong scissors, measuring about i

half an inch,

and then fold

this over corner-

wise, and press

on to the front-

of the glider.

Now

you must test the glider to see that you have it weighted pro- perly. Hold it above your head with the weighted part, facing away from you and pointing slightly downwards. If the weight is pro perly adjusted, the glider will fall a foot or so, and then, glids away just like an airplane for some dis- touce..

If the weight is too heavy, the glider will fall to the ground, while if it is too light, "the" whole thing will flutter about like a bird with

a broken wing. When you have your glider properly weighted you can try it on some long distance flight..

When you are starting in the way described do. not throw or jerk it violently forwards. Give it a long, slow push, and then it will travel· for a considerable distance:

Even into the win a woll-balanc ed paper glider will make headway and be some time before it goes down to the earth.

THE AIR WHEEL

A new tyre made for motor-care

nt Wolverhampton is nearly as

thick as a football is round.

“It is, indoed, nine inchoŋgin orom

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associated with the British book trade, but not now generally ob (Caalinuca on naxt column.)

CHILDREN'S

CORNER

BY

UNCLE JACK

JACK JINGLE“

LITTLE Jack Jingle

Sat on the shingle Making a huge mud pie, He put in his pail And pulled out a snail, And said, "Oh what a sea

weed am -"

RIDDLE-ME-REE

QUESTION

Why is a civele like a belli

When in a candle

angry?

3. Why is n telescope.

like time?

4. Why is letter V like

a fierce bull-f

ANSWERB

1. Because it makes a

.ring.

2. When it is put out.

3. Because it brings

distant things near.

4. Because it is sure to

came after U (you).

THE REASON WHY

a cat's hind feet seem to walk in the footprints of ita fore- fect is because in the olden days when the wildcat stalked in the forests it could walk more noiselessly in thin way, and the habit still re- mains

DO YOU KNOW?

WISTFUL

:་-

I want but three things said of me at Heaven's door, Three meek and lowly things. and not a tribute taure.

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I wish that some bright angel

standing near may say: She looked around for love-

liness along the way." want some little earnest angel-bay to tell;

Master, she noticed little

things and loved them well

And then I wish the greyest

grey old angel there May speak and lay her wṛink-.

led hand upon my hair: "Not once did any word or. deed of hers, I know, Strike laughter from an- other's Ups." Then ah, then oh,

I think through all the shining

ranks an eager stir

Will be each angel making

room for me by her.

HIDDEN BIRDS

Here are the names of six birds,

but our printers have mixed them up. Can you find them?

1. Newr

2. Walswol

3. Brion.

4. · Rwco

5.

Tksor

6. Tropra,

SMILE A WHILE

Clockwork.

"There is nothing wrong with you, young man," said the doctor, Your-pulse is like clockwork."

Well, what do you expect 1 You've got hold of my wrist-watch.”

A Big Dozen.

Mother: Mr. Sand, the grocer, has some queer ideas

section and is only pumped up to a The Polar Bear is almost then

pressure of ten or fifteen.pounds.

It has been designed for use with only animal that can endure any. small ears, and is known, as the air { kind of climate, from almost frizzh wheel. So. comfortable does it! make driving that a car can being heat to the bittorent of win-

driven over ploughed fields with 1874, and that is equally at home

cut the passengers feeling the on land or in the sent might

lightest disconfort. It is said to be impossible to skid a car fitted very well be termed, an

ith air wheels. -

-rounder.

Father: How BO }

Mother: Why egge are so large. this week that he thinks ten makes

dozen.

Back of the Front}

Harum,I don't like So-and

"Scarum"Why" "not"

the back in front of your face and Harum: "Why, he pata you on

smacks you in the oye behind your back

"

What do you say, as any casy change, to Mr. Edgar Wallace's Hollywood Diary," if only for one pathetic thing he has in it? "Do you know," he writes to his wife, "Ihave an idea that I may make my bit out of stories that aren't criminal at all." He meant

film stories at Hollywood, but he was also thinking of other stories

**THE VISION OF ASIA'

"The Vision of Asia," (John Murray is by Mr. L. Cranmer- Byng, who is an Hon. Member of the China Society as well as Editor of the Wisdom of the East Ser

ies."

This book is the outcome of a

long study of Original ideals, In it the author contrasts the ideals of the West, which are largely those of Athens in the golden age of Pericles, with those of China during the Tang and Song dynas ties, a period lasting from 618 to 1970 A.D.

The Greek view of life, where beauty and joy begin to pass with the flowering of Spring, and "the final lot of man is "old age, hate- fui, impotent, unsociable, friend. less," is compared with the Chin- ese Autumn of beauty and wiadom blended into one, guarding the seed of immortality in the fruit of a life which has mellowed to the

core.

From

WHERE DANCING IS FORBIDDEN

BISHOP BARS "HOT" TUNES

FROM ORCHESTRAS,

Paris-Modern dances are con- sidered immoral to the Bishop of Quimper who has forbidden the in habitants of this discease to dance He docs permit, however, the polka, mazurka, and country dances which already have received the sanction of the Church__

Orchestras are also enjoined by

the Bishop not to play "bot" Both the Anti-Civil War League tumes, and restaurant owners Dave and the Bzechuen Residents' Guild been advised not to let out halls for have despatched telegrace to Gent. dancing.

Dancing professors in the discose Liu Wen Hui and Lia Heiang, brought a suit against the Bishop urging them not to resort to war,, for the restraining measures. The Referring to Con, Li Wen Hui, Bishop's counsel suggested that the the telegrams state that it is teachers might compromise agreeing to teach only the polks Strongly advisable for him to move

by and marurka-and perhaps the his troops to Thibet in order to waltz. But the dancing masters prevent that province from being have held out for the tango and invaded by foreigners, while Glen, fox-trot.

Liu Heiang is asked to despatch The Justice of the Peace required his men to Manchuria to reinfores time for reflection, and so judgment | the volunteers now fighting the

Japanese and Manchukuo troops. will be given later.

ROYAL OBSERVATORY'S DAILY WE ATHER REPORT.

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October 114. 10. 22-The saticyclone over N. China has again-increased in intensity; the depression bas moved into the Pacific to the east of Hokkaido.

Freak monsoon will continue along the Chian coast and over the northern China Sea.

dong Kong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 0.00 inch. Total singo January 1, 87.28. inchos, against an average of 78.54 inches,

FORECAST FOR THE 24 BOURS ENDING AT NOON ON OCTOBER 12.

DISTRICT.

A-Shanghai to Tarnabout B.-Turnabout to Hong Kong.. C.-Hong Kong to Gap Rock.... D.-Hong Kong to Hainan Straits E-North China Ees

the Second Report of the Select Committee

on Estimates, appointed by the Brush Government,

Typewriters

June, 1932.

In 1926 the Estimates Committee went into the question of the supply of British Typewriters for the Public Service. Your Committee have pursued this inquiry and are gratified to learn that only British Typewriters are now purchased for general use; that the supply has been fully equal to the demand, and that both in price and quality they are fully equal to the imported article.

THE

IMPERIAL MODEL

TYPEWRITER

was adopted by HM. Government after exhaustive

tests.

Over 2400 Imperial Typewriters have now been supplied. This is convincing justification of our claim that a British Typewriter can handle any class of work as well as, or better than any foreign made typewriter.

REISS, MASSEY & CO., LTD.

Queen's Road Central,

HONG KONG

FORECAST

N.E. winds, fresh fair.

Q. W. JEFFRIES, Director.

The

Imperial Conference at Ottawa

The All-British

Imperial Typewriter officially adopted for use

the Ottawa Conference.

was

Here is further evidence that the Imperial Model so has gained interna- tional recognition.

Imperial