10
BOOK NOW FOR YOUR TRIP HOME
IN
1937
EMPRESS OF CANADA'
SAILS FOR VANCOUVER via SHANGHAI, JAPAN & HONOLULU
AT NOON
FRIDAY, JULY 24th.
Aug. 12 Aug. 24 8 3 Sept.
Sept. 21
Steamer
Leave Shang- Naga- Hang
bal Kang
Yoko-
raki Kobe
Arrive Loave Leave
hama Honolula!
Leave LOSTO
Van- couver Victoria Arrive
E/Canada July 24 July E/Russia Aug. E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug, Sept. S/Asia E/Canada Sept. 18 Sept. a Oct, E/Russia (Oct.
E/Japan Oct. 10 Oct. 18
1 Nov. E/Asia Oct. 30 Nov. E/Canada Nov, 13 Nov. 15 E/Russin Nov. 25 Nov, 27 Nov.
7'Aug.
26
Aug.
July 11 Aug.
23 4 Sept. Sept.
20
29 July Aug. 18 Aug. 16) Aug. 28 Aug. 28 Sept.
4'Oct.
6 Oct
10
23 Oct.
51 Nov.
7
29 Dec.
1 Doc. 3
2 Oct.
Oct.
29] Nov. 3 Nov. 16 27 Dec
Dec. 12
7
10
2
TO MANILA
EMPRESS OF CANADA
.5 a.m. july 18th
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
. July 30th.
8 Sept. 10 Sept. 12|
Sept. 23 Sept. 25 Oct.
Oct.
3 Nov.
8 Oct
21 Oct.
Nov. 18 Nov. 20 Nov.
Full information from your own Agent or
Canadian Pacific
WORLD'S GREATEST
Union Building.
THE
TRAVEL
Tel. 20752.
Y.K.
General Passenger Agents in the Orient for the
CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.
San Francisco via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
Taiyo Mara ....
Chichibu Maru
Tatsula Maru
Seattle & Vancouver.
Tues., 21st July
Thurs., 30th July Thurs-13th Aug,
Hiye Maru (Starts from Kobe) Sat., 1st Aug.
Heian Maru (Starts from
Kobe) Sat., 15th Aug.
Now York via Panama.
+Noto Mural
+Nako Maru
Fri., 31st July ..Tues., 11th Aug.
South America (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu.
Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama.
Rakuyo Maru
Fri., 7th Sept,
London, Marsalllos, Antwerp & Rotterdam.
Hakone Maru (Calls Lisbon) Sat., 18th July
Sat., 1st Aug. Suwa Maru
.Sat., 15th Aug. Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,
Fushimi Maru
Liverpool via Port Said,
and Marseilles.
+Delagoa Maru
Fri., 14th Aug,
Sydney & Melbourne via Manila & Ports.
Kamo Maru
Kitano Maru
..Sat, 25th July ..Sat., 22nd Aug.
Bombay via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
+Mayobashi Mara
Genoa Maru
Tuca., 28th July Thurs., 30th July
Calcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
1Tokushima Maru
Tsushima Maru
Penang Muru ...
Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama.
Kitano Maru (N'eaki direct) Torukuni Maru
Cargo Only..
Wed., 29th July Fri., 7th Aúg. Sun., 16th, Aug.
Fri., 17th July
Tues., 28th July
*Burns Philip Lines. Joint Passenger Agents,
Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd.
Tel. 30291.
Ca Lra
SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC
SERVICE OF FAST MOTOR VESSELS
(with limited, but exceptionally good, passenger accommodation). Homewards to:
Port Sudan, Port Sald, Marocilles, Algiers, Oran, Antwerp, Rotterdam (Amsterdam), Hamburg, Oslo, Gothenburg and other Scandinavian Porta.
Manila and Straits Settlements
M.S. "PEIPING”""
"M.S. "NAGARA"
MS. "DELHI"
viz
Outwards for:
- Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobo and Osaka.
MS. "NAGARA”
1
„2nd Aug.:
.2nd Sept. .2nd Oct.
22nd July
21st Aug.
MS. "DELHI":
Pasaonger. Rates:
Hong Kong to Mediterranean
SAR £54
"G. E. HUYGEN
Canton.
Hong Kong to Antwerp
Agents (
GILMAN & CO., LTD.,
Нодекови:
S
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
JULY 17,
1936.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK
Edited by Roger Pippett
Dictator of the
Danes
CONER or later, I hope, a grateful comi-
pany of novelists will set up a monument Lo Clio, the muse of history, who for many years has been the most generous patron of the art of Action. You want the best plots? She has them.
Witness the extraordinary case of Struensee, the Inte eighteenth century dictator who has inspired Robert Neumann's long new story, The Queen's Doctor (Gollancz, 83. Bd.). Here was n man who, from the novelist's point of view, makes your Hitlers and Mussolinis look as dull as deal boards.
He first swaggers towards us out of the mists of time, a young man practising medicine and magte in Altona, Just the fellow to diagnose the sickness of the King of Denmark. Just the fellow to fall in love with the Queen-Consort, un English Princess in miser- able exile. Just the fellow to take one look at that crazy Scandinavian State and make up his mind to master it
A few feverish months and he was dictator of the The Danes. Ministers were sacked right and left. nables and the clergy were shorn of their privileges, Land was patcelled out to the poor and brend to the hungry, And, suce Strutensee, was a serious disciple of Rousseau, all men were declared equni. Always a stranger, in a strange keni. established 1 energetic upstart foundling hospitals. abolished the reath penalty for theft, dit away with the torture-chamber and attacked "Inekeyism." which was the contem porary name for the widespread aystem of appointing die meu's servants to Incrative posts. As the height of his regime he isnted over a thousand rabl tet orders in less than ten months- me than irre a day.
The
Then the reaction set in. burphers lost a lot of money in one of its annetal experiments, and the Cueen-Mother's party, Frizing, their chance, forced the rand King to algn n paper lyng them full powers and war- routs of arrest. Struense was tried and executed. And his royal lover went into another exile.
A political Camnova, an astute and. unscrupulous advanturer, a statesmAR martyred because he was born betorr his time-whichever way you look hin Struensee ta a superbly sensa tional prry for the historical novelis, Oddly enough, this time Herr Neu- mand fails to rire to the occasion.
The background glimpses of the book are convincing. But the pace is far too slow and the characterisation is too often mechanical so that you feel things are happening according to plan and not according to history.
And
At
Clive Brook played Struensee in the film "The Dictator." This is how the "energetic finished his reign. upstart
Struensee himself rematusa nai nem- trit His grolus is mined.
It'
Yet, to anyone with in Mayat kem, The Queen's Doctor may be u warding take
R
ECALLING that John Erskine once wrote The Private Life of Helen of Trey, you may expect is latest novel, Solomon, My Son Michael Joseph, 75. Od.), to be largely con- cerned with that monarch's be- wildering matrimonial affairs.
But you are. warnedt at vice. The theme is the building of the temple.... As the author justly remarks,When Salomon built the temple he also had to pay for I. Or his people had to. "I invite you, therefore, to meet in
Tough Guy's Progress
TUDS LONIGAN was tough. While his mother prayed that
the priesthood, fourteen-year-old William battered bigger lads on the shiner, spat tobacco across the sidewalk, played around with the gang on 35th Street and State..
From chewing to cheap 'gin slugs was easy. From 35th Street and State, on Chicago's South Alde, to Charlie Weary Cellerbottom's pool' room, Reilley's parties, a parade of dames- that was living. And Studs could take it. He was tough.
★
+
That is the boy we meet in the early pages of James T. Farrell's stupendous Stads Lonigan (Constable, 8. d.): u healthy husky, useful with his fists. mixing hard drinking with vague idean of athleticism-instinctively loyal to do decent his family, wanting to things, but irresistibly distracted by "the gang" and all that that means.
And so youthful precocity develops into habitual indiscipline, the vast changes of the War and post-War years breed new opportunities for flout- ing conventions and forgetting ambi tions,
The boy who was tough grown up to wenk-willed youth, and Irresponsible manhood. The decent, hard-working. folk on South Side yield to the invasion of the underworld. The coming of the depression brings new fissures into the already cracking social fabric.
Everything goes wrong and Stud goes wrong with everything else. For the story of this Willam Lonigan, boy. youth and man, of his family nud
U.S. Ironsides READERS who tire of the celluloid United States 'portrayed 60 faithfully upon the screen will find. Ellen Olasgow's Veln of iron (Cape. 04. Ed.) a refreshingly honest record of home life in America.
Here the last three decades are seen through the eyes of a struggling small. town Virginian family.
It is a grand, maddening, saddening, Of quietly happy eyeopening story. yento before 1914, the grey war years. the high excitements of bodm years and the building of a fake prosperity the bitter years of bread lines and bank
friends, normal people with human frailties and hooligans vying with each other in sordid dissipation-all this is the story of contemporary America.
The gradual, piltless transformation of an eager adventurous boy, thrut ni life, cheated and finally engulfed by it. is depicted with ninsterly ense. Study Lonigan is a living thing because Studs Lonigans are to be found on the South Side of any United States clly. And their disastrous attempts at living are the outward and visible sign of the' decay of kidle-class America
So this book becomes more than o brilliant plece of fiction, a startlingly impressive, terrifying record of one fo: it is the current history of a great silee of a great people. It loses nothing by comparison with An American Tragedy and Main Street, and it has qualities of lucid description, charac ter drawing and sustained power all its
own.
James Farrell has written an unfor gettable book. Studs Lonigan is tough, but it earns all the superlatives.
6. E..R. W.
the old story some friendo of ours-- tax, surtax and income tax, barter, ex- change and the adjustment of inter- ational debis, over-production, uneni. ployment and made work, the revolu Talary aberrations of the labourins. clrs and the counter-hope of the em. ployers to weed out the foreigner. rep the race pare and so prevent the generation of ideas,"
And If you think that sounds full. with Jeroboam an a workers' leader. Bathsheba is a managing mother and The Queen of Sheba as a beautiful, foolish and dangerous woman, you don't know your Mr. Erskine.
N England we spread our suburbs over miles of countryside: in Those Jnited States they pile the small houses on top.of one another, us Booth Tarkington shows you in his story of life in an 'apartment- houst, The Lorenzo Bunch (Heine- muna. Gd.).
The American community which he describes la a collection of atolls in a sea of boredom-and the con- neeting link.is, nine times out of Ten, nothing more substantial than a drifting raft of gossip.
Mr. Tarkington has made a brilliant ad terrifying survey of those islands. Terrifying because you are dually forced to realise that you are watch. ing people who are enjoying all the material and educational advantages if modern clytation, yet this is the beat they can do with their spare time...
They are kind-hearted enough: when tragedy stumbles in on the heels of their gossip, they rush to the rescue in admirable style. They are loyal to their traditions. They keep the home flag flying. They are well-meaning and hospitable. But they have no social ounselence, no concern for the world beyond their door.
tik lo
The author introduces solitary couple who come to feel that. perhaps, there is a wider existence an the one they lead with the rest
truch." of the
But their efforts to broaden their interests really preclpl- tate the crials of this fascinating book. R. P.
REVIVAL of MARXISM
Tis a curious thing that, while on the Continent Marxism is elther self-discredited, aban- coned or suppressed, in this coun try it is enjoying a small revival, at any rate among intellectuals,
Professor H. J. Laal is easily thr mest important of recent converts, and hir new book, The Rise. of European Liberalist (Allen and Unwin, 75. Gii). written with all his brillant and easy nastery, shows how much social demo- cracy has lost in losing him.
His neeeptance of Marxiam now acens unqualified. beralam, ho anys, is the philosophical counterpart of Religious "bourgeois Capitalism." Loleration came about because intoler- ence was seen to be bad for busines. I... G. Greaves. In Reactionary England The Acorn Press, Ba), also scema to have gone Marxist, at any rate to the polat. of being nervous shot the possibility of Fasciam in Britain
This is an interesling little book in
Wisdom Without Tears
crashics and the Fincastles facingWELCOME to the cheap edition of
good times and ill with a fine courage. They have more than courage. Blood tles and the spirit of family bind them. in adversity. And from the gaunt old gure of Grandmother. Fincastle to Ranny, the youngest of them, every ope is in the round, a living thing...
A moving book, touched with beauty. and written with restraint,
Naomi Mitchison's popular. Out.* iine for Boys and Girls (Gollancz 63.).
This book, which ranges througli every field of modern knowledge-bia tory, politics, blolology, science and the arts caused a sensation when it first. oppeared some years ago. A thousand pages of wisdahl without tears-
wilch the author sets forth such porlant social facts as he can and to illustrate the prejudice of the police. the influence of wealth and birth in Parliament and the Foreign Office, and the political power of big business.
It will seem to some readers that Mr. Greaves has not preserved a full sense proportion in presenting his facts, with the result that he has come to much gloomier conclusions than the
R. F. evidence justifies.
Rapid Reviews
A
HUDSON ANTHOLOGY, arranged by Edward Gamett (Dent, 41. 6d.). A delightful collection of passages from the work of W. H. Hushion, whose natsiz writing appeal to the mind, the heart and the renier THE ISLAND MURDER, by Trail Steveison (Herbert Jenkins, 2160). Romance and mystery on Covey Island An old man disappeared a body is washed Bahore. But the police and Mary-gel their man.
I AM AHERETIC, by "Vanoc II" (Peter Davies, 6). Full-dress attacks on modern civilisation by a rebellious critic who writes to kill. His bitterness masks a' wide and understanding sympathy..
AT "THE FOUNTAIN" AND OTHER PLAYS, 57 Erant Selley (Williams and Norgate, 31. 6d. Three one-act dramas by. playwright-actor al Welwyn. Staged in an -ion, a vicarage and a Cotswold ho
PRESIDENT LINER TRAVEL SERVICE
makes Traveling Effortless
Prezident Liners' frequent sailings and their unless stopover privlingse allow you to travel fort senatly so you shoose. And Dollar Bheemahlp Liam and American Mali Léne worldwide ollows and meants are matutafced to serve you ashore in whatever place you chance to be. Make your next trip more enjoyable, travelling "the Present Line why."
TO SAN FRANCISCO -
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Ilonolulu, San Francisco, Panama Canal, Havana, New York.
Pros. Lincoln
Pres. Hoovor
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokolasan
and Victoria..
0 am, July 29th Pres. Jackson 01.01.
Aug. 8th Pres. McKinley Pres. Cleveland Midnight Aug. 26th Pres. Grant
Neon Sept. 6th Pres. Jefferson Midnight Sept. 22nd Pres. Jackson
Pres. Coolidge
Pros. Taft
EUROPE, NEW YORK
Via Manila. Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles.
Pres. Harriso Pren. Hayes Pres. Wilson. Pres. Monroe Pres. Van Buren
9pm. Juis 18th Midnight July 31st
Aug. 14th Aug. 28th
Sept. 12th
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT
SERVICE
Next Sailings.
Da.m. July 19th Pras. Harrison
1st Pres. Lincoln Aug. 8 A.M.
Aug. 16th Pres. McKinley
11
Aug. 29th Pros. Hoover
Sept. 12th Pres. Hayes
h
July 10th
i
6 p.m.
July 21st
MOST FREQUENT SERVICE ON THE PACIFIO
6 pm.
July 25th p.m. July 30th 8am-
Aug.
STEAMSHIP LINES
DOLLAR AMERICAN
PRODER BUILDING-HONGKONO. CANTON BRANCH No. 4. Bhaker Street.
THE
LINE
FUNNEL
BLUE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES
LONDON SERV.CE
ANTENOR
AJAX
ile 29 July for Marsailles, London, ---
Botterilam & Glangew
ail 12 Aug. for Mar'les, Casablancs, l'dog, Rotterdam. Hamburg & Glasgow
LIVERPOOL SERVICE
DEMOPOCUS ails 201 July for Havre, Liverpopl, Beamborough & Glagow
NEW YORK SERVICE
RHEXENOR nail 15 Sept
far Baston, N.Y., Philadelphia & Baltimore via Manila, Batavia Straits & Cape of Good Hope
PACIFIC SERVICE (vin Kobo, Nagoya & Yokohams) TYNDAREUS sail. 13 Ang. far Victoria, Vancouver & Seattle INWARD SERVICE
HECTOR
Dus 17 July From U. K. vin Straita Due 25 July From Europe vin Straits DOLIUS
Duo 27 Joly From U. K. via Strate DIOMED MENESTHEUS Due 2 Aug. From U. K via Strait.
Specially reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with
limited passenger necommodation
For freight, passage rates and information apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agents. 1. Conmagght Road, C..
Tel. 30333.
M
MESSAGERIES
M
MARITIMES
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS..
To SHANGHAI-KOBE.
Sailings from Hongkong.
via Saigon! MARSEILLES Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti (Adon), Suez, Port-Said.
1:28th July ,11th Aug. .8th Sept. ..22nd Sept. 6th Oct,
Mar. Joffre Aramis Chenonceaux Jean Laborde D'Artagnan
1st
Aramis Chenonceaux Jean Laborde D'Artagnan Sphinx
.24th July
22nd Aug,
.4th Sept.
19th Sept.
. 3rd Oct.
We can issue through tickets to Egypt, Syrian ports East Africa, Madagascar by transhipment or our mail steamers, #t Port-Sald or Djibouti
For full Particulars, apply to: Tol. 26651.
Cie des MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,"
Page 10Page 11
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.