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LAND AND LABOUR
IN CHINA
CHINESE COOKING
hiyange Newes from China: A
First Chinese. Cookery Book." By Townley Soario. The London Observer gives the following review of this book: Mr. Searlo's appeal is to the Eng-
·lish diner; and it is an occidenta- lised Chinese, menu that be sets bofore us. The reader of these pages will not be able to put tu the personal text Mr. Balloe's con-
LAND AND LABOUR IN CHINA. technical devices and new political R. H. Tawney. (Allen forms, but now conceptions of law, "Unwin. 78. ed. not.)
administration and political obliesston: gation, and new standards of con As one of the mission of four duct in-governments," administra professors (English, French, Ger- tors and the society which produe man and Polish) appointed by the red them. The former could be, and League of Nations last year to re-were, borrowed. The latter had to port on the subject of educational be grown..
constructive criticism which has
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able in this country, with prices. The style is sprightly, and the book is seasoned with Oriental philosophy and humour. It is fair to warn the reader that the item "Mission- ary Soup" which he finds in the index is not to be understood ton literally.
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Dr. Burgin, (Parliamentary Sporetary, Board of Trade), re- plying to Mr. Hacking (C., Chor- ley), in the House of Commons, maid that between November, 1931, and May, 1932, 193 new undertak ings were
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AN EXCELLENT DETECTIVE
STORY
ANN TURNS DETECTIVE By Rolandi
Birds in their little nests agres. With Chinamen, but not with me:
At the Anth of April these firs and the order of comestibles which employed 3,889 persons, but recent may be described as "marine de reperts showed that many of them licacies is severely expurgated, ad increased very considerably. Yet who can fail to be tempted by the number they employed_at_the reform. in China, Mr. Tawney has Discussing the problems which "Duck broiled in seven porfumes," end of November being 5,990. Dur to his credit a work of valuable arise out of excessive" population, y "Cucumber slices of the Moon," ing the period May to October 1 not yet received the attention it Mr. Tawuey observes that "the "Aubergines salted for the ninety-five more such undertakings deserves. Among the most notable desirability, on economic grounds, gods," or by Angels of the eighteen were established, and at the end of features of the mission's report, of substituting the deliberate re disciples of Buddha"?? If this October were employing 3,485 per recently published, is its plen. for striction of births for the removal sounds like the higher cannibalism, as, inluding 1 foreigners, tem- you can fall back on some of the porardy employed under Ministry the elimination of American and of part of the surplus by death is
cboxing rice of Labour permits, as erecting and thousand ways of European influence on public edu not open to question"; moreover None of these bears the title of inspecting machinery and teaching cation, in China and for recogni- that industrialization is not likely rice pudding"; but the gourmet British workpeoole.
to effects any improvement in the
The total number of persons tion of the principle that "no form
may choose between "Rice cooked of civilization which has develop. standard of living in a densely in sight precious shadows," "Ries actually employed in those under- ed in another land, and in diffe. populated country, with a long ront conditions, can become the habit of poverty, no generat dif with fried frogs," and "Drunken takings commenced since November, aparrows caught in a rice trap." 1931, was 0,301 at the end of Octa- cultural tradition of the new China fusion of education, little acces
The Chinese even finds a humour ber It was estimated that the. that is now entering upon an ern sible spare land, and administra-
in rice; "A dinner without rice," number of 9,381 would rise to tive services still in their infancy."
when the factories were of reform."
As regards the evils which crush only one eye." There is a Chinese fully occupied.
ho says, "is like a pretty girl with 14.000- Mr. Tawney's present work, deal. the Chinese pensaat,' some,
Brillat-Savarin, Yuan Mi, who tells ing primarily with agricultural thinks, are capable of being reme-
us that "Cookery is like matrimony and ecunomic conditions, contains died, "given a reasonable measure much useful material, collated of intelligence and public spirit into things served together must only: that the author having set from many sources, whereby the the quarters responsible for carry. match." And, indeed, cooking be his riddles should give the answers comes a matter of real importance at the end, and so leave his book reader may form an accurate idea ing policy into effect"; but the
in a country where the chef's shipshape." "This he fails to do satis- of the rural framework of the Chi gravest weakness of the present re doorstep is haunted by the ghosts factorily, and apparently his read.
peasant-farmer's life and gime lies less in its principles than compare its problems with those of in its failure to apply them. His of people who have died from in ora mast wait until next Christ duced indigestions. Mr. Searte mas to learn the identity of "The other countries. As a study in final conclusion is that the simplest comparative economics it is parti and best way of improving the gives information about Chinese re- Laugh."" cularly valuable, for the reason processes of government in China staurants in London (there are as many as nineteen of them) and that, when dealing with the funds will be found in education of the about Chinese articles of diet avail: mental causes of things, the au right sort and in the services of thor's attitude is consistently that Western officials experienced in of a scientific sociologist. Occa different branches of administra- sionally he manifests tendenes tion," To be supplied under the to gauge Eastern politica by West auspices of the League of Nations.
Daniol. 72 by 31, 258 pp. ern standards; but his work as a
Wright and Brown. 78. ed. n. whole reflects the conclusion to
There is real excitement in Mr. which he subscribed as a member
Daniel's story of a wealthy business of the Educational Mission-name
man who, falling in love with his ly, that the materials for a new
good-looking secretary, sets in mo civilization in China must be ex
tion forces he cannot control. Ann tracted from the nation's own
In Ghosts of the Scarlet Fleet McCarthy, leaming from a news forces, from its own history and
paper report that her employer, indigenous literature. It reflects
(Jarrolds, 7. 6d. net), which is in Anthony Corrimer, is accused of also the conviction that the evolu
Admiral E.R.G.R. Evans goes back turu detective herself in order that tended for younger readers, Rear murdering his wife, determines to tion of this new civilization, the extension of the nation's profound'
to the days of the buccaneers and she may clear the name of the man the Caribbean, and a rattling good she loves. One see her starting cultural unity into the sphere of This internal stability is evident yarn he makes of it. It, too, is with the private life of Ada Lor political organization, must nely the first and most urgent re- told in the first person, the marrimer, the murdered woman, pick- cessarily be a slow and gradualquisite for the orderly evolution process the task of generations.
rator being young Alistair Rose, ing up clues which the police have of a new type of civilization which chorister and personal acolyte to ignored, and finally arriving alone will enable China to become an the Cardinal at Panama. After at a notorious night club named To lift the load of the past [he efficiently organized Stete and re- The Barracada," Shark of the the Red Rat. Here she meets with zays] China-faced with the new main true to herself. For, as Mr. Seas, has made an unsuccessful an inquisitiva waiter, and in order forces which broke on her from Tawny observes, it is mut prób attempt upon the town Ross finds to gain time plays off an alleged the West-required not merely new able that the instability which has himself on board the flagship of friendship with the dead Ads in afflicted the country for the past the pirate fleet and his adventures the hope that the waiter's suspi· twenty-five years will be allowed bogin. Thrilling adventures they siose may be set at rest and that to continue indefinitely. In his are: and the author's zest never he will throw opinion, either she will find an fails him in the telling of them, Ada's visit to the club on the right some light upon equilibrium for herself, and evolve nor does his power of invention of her death. There are Signor. a government strong enough to flag. "The Shroud" and & mystori Alberti, handsome and humourless, maintain it, or she will be com- ous character known Па pelled, under one guise or another, Laugh" came upon the scene; there to the club to secure a supply of "The who at first believes Ana has come to acquiesce in one imposed by is Doon, who is never without a cocnine; the chief of the dope ring; foreign action." Whether
this knife between his teeth, gallant Sera famous City financier; and sey stability can be achieved by mens grid of the Sword, a cave full of eral others, including Inspector of advisory services rendered by forgotten treasure, a crocodile-in-Walk of Scotland Yard. Candour foreign experts is the chief pre-fested pit into which prisoners (in is one of Ann's virtues, loyalty an lem which confronts the world 'including Ross) are Aung, and a Car- other, and in a world of disillusion China to-day.
dinal who himself commands the and sordid crime she preserves them scarlet fleet that after many unimpaired. You may at moments hearty fight at last rids the seas be tempted to call her a prig, but of "The Barracuda" and his con- the story of how she clears the federate Farragut: what. more character of Lorrimer and wins could youth desire? One thing happiness in the end is under-
(Continued on next Column) · standingly told.
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This is a wonderful contrast to the attempts of the camera to show us what the Russian look like just The camera may have a cer- tain verisimilitude, but this is truth itself, a comedy of men and women seen against the background of their environment of things and ideas. Low's brilliance seems to be at its height in this: in show. ing us how we in our happiest, mast" god-like moods should see men and thing a ridiculous and charmning asseinbly. The Rusaían. traveller will rediscover in this sketchbook a score of the clusive rivialities that are important to his idea of Russia. There is the "factory girl dreaming of peasant days, absent-mindedly trying to ilka steam-bammer"; there is "birth of class-consciousness in birds after ten yars of megaphone propaganda in Russian parks" there is the miserable person, (in) the open market) trying to sell & boot (singular). There is also a brilliant delineation of the dismay which possesses the traveller when he finds that it is cabbage soup again. We only miss the multitu- des of spittoons.
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