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many

not. nove Rsts who, in the Americon editor's phrase, could wrile "a whnic of a about. AN pump-handle." But C. S. Forester is surely ang them. He gave us one of the finest thrillers of our Lite in Papment Deferred, and he followed it up with a dozen olher rattling good lakes.

Now, coram his most nurbitious Pozo yet, The Geurtal (Michel Joseph, 2. Gd., wich reord: the Rhar, Dreline and Fall of a Brass fiat during the World War. AL the top of his form, the author tast, exelling. 415 4

book. ita

Fractalah

extremely Rensations are always authentin and its roay never degeneraten into enricature,

tennaz General ar Herbert Carena, K.C.MQ, CH, D,5.0., who will prodest le dhe i bed, may be eren riding in the tarberlutir en the Barnemauth Irunt, noth Lady Fruity, tall, raw-bmed, zaurind-kisted, ziriding behind. He lins

hure rourii-carved face: le is the pin-law of a Dukes now and then A 1937 Ever Lip in the queerent. old-immunisti zam!

And what ng kany 1 behind him. from that allesterin; ben

irian dag when he led

tres south

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ruf movement le tematted

a paving the pe titreda na to the real sh of his trompes, this une terror was the fear of being "aturel; " by the

at 41,11,65.

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Wuch hitting at a round-table wae at Heweliatters

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*fractor wage 3 Wan like the debate of a crop of singen tes to how to ex- track a wyrw from phere of wood. Accustomed only to onths, they burl Bade on effort to pull at the ser By forre and. now that bad fulled, they were devi for more efcient Padecuinets of applying more force 2!481.

"They could hardly be blamed for not guessinic that. If they rotated the crew, it wonid e ɔme out after the exer- Lin of for less oflart. That was a motion 20 cfferent trum anything they libd ever encountered Ulst they watch Jangh at the muh who suggested it."

ma_rh__pas upes Mr. Ferriter's Trong in overwhelming. All the more gov isee it comes too late to save the mil- boom who died under sach leadership.

#housand battlefields. But it is

is quiet, relentless exposure - which, - me, sets The General apart, diving

ik nu urgent and terrible quality of

warning.

G

EORGETTE Heyer is an engagingly drceptive author. When I started to read her new mystery story, Behold. Here's Poison (fodder and Stoughton. Ts. Gd.), I thought, I've met most of there people before." But I was wrong,

For. in the twinkling of a detective's eye. the author acts her characters alive and kicking, Scotland Yarnt may retire bailed, but you with 'read on to the end. A skilful, entertaining, Te warding tale,

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N The Grand Old Man (Methuen, 10s. fd.). George Edinger and E. J. C. Neop have not been content to paint full-length portrait of the Liberal leader, With vivid, impressionistic strokes

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I have earned far more from them than I did in the class-room and ad- stotie win not exactly Thetr there. inglected analysis of la early days Oxfurd and his career

"A Ragamuffin Husband and o Rantipoling Wifc." An 1893 photograph of Mr. and Mrs Cladstone. From "The Grand Old Men," reviewed here.

na Tory M.P. Is ncube. And they have worked their way hopefully through that stening jungle ol Imperiolicm which nimost swallowed the 0.0.M

Socialism will not bo in my day. but it in alarming." Gladstone once remarked. A characteristic confemion that the authors might have explared With

to advantage

a port-War Budlence, Despite which, they have written a stimulating book.

T

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"HAT odd mixturo

irritability and self- complacence which has symboilsed Mr.

Mac- Ramsay Donald's political pilgrimage in recent years is not absent from la second volume of travel essays, At Home and Abroad (Cape, 7s. Ed.).

When the mood is on him he caTI even write that "no one is better equipped for dolug homage to the past

than one who as a craftsmanı creator is moulding human affairs sa tint as the generations end he may be able to survey his work and feel that it is good and is orolving according to n desirable plan."

That in the Lord President of the Contell at his wurst. He la more taler- able when he in visiting Niagara, sall- ing towards the Arctic from Vancouver. standing in the sunlight at Annapolis or sifting the dust of dend empires int North Africa.

But then the mood descends on ilm again. "When debates are dull and body and mind are weary on the Green Benches at Westminster, I can clone return to thy eyes and cats and

the Open Road. the Green Road, the Golden Road, the Road that winds up- wards from the ina door over the hills to the stars."

Shall we leave him at th!?

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Percy Proton and Elsie Electron

NY day now we can expect "Einstein for the Teeny Weenies," and then our children will be having relativity nightmares.

The popularising of science is carried one ntage nearer the nursery by You and the Universe: or Modern Physics for Everybody, by Paul Karlson Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.), and I am sure there must be Professor Hans Andersen lurking somewhere who will write:

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"Once upon a me, Percy, the Proton, and Elsie, the Electron, live happily with their brollers and sistera in the tin village of Nucleus in the country of thin. But a great ogrc. Lord Rutherford, jealous of the

unity of this happy family. With n thunderbolt he separated Perry, and Elale from the rest, and changed them. into an Alpha Particle and Lithium into Aluminium."

Why not? None of us need be ashamed of admitting that we are mere children in the study of physica and the universe.

And there will be many university professors who will be grateful to Dr. Karlson for giving them such graphic and gt-hearted word-pictures to explain the mysteries of space and time. Relativity, the Quantum Theory. the nature of electricity and light, the Atructure of matter nid the medern theories of the atom. The physicist

who can explain the elementa by an argument over whist at The Georg

and Dragon," and the structure of the

JULY 30, 1936.

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most people the idea of inter- planetary travel in a rocket ship is a fascinating conception of improb- able fiction.

Yet there are a number of experi mcosters In the world to-day who believe to strongly that the rocket ship will one day traverse space that Pey are devoting their lives to mak Ing such travel possible,

Alrendy there are no less than ten arieties, in America, in Gront Britain which concern the Continent, on

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In "Rockets Through Space" (Allen and Unwin, 7. 08.), Cleator, Interplanetary Society, has traced the growth of rocket experiments up to the position to-day, and has outlined

for the future. the possibilities for

The point de cimphasises is that rockets are only adaptable to journeys To through interplanetary space. attempt to harness them to read ears, or even to airplanes designed for low- level flying, is, he considers, experi- menting in the wrong direction.

Oct. 30 Nov, 1 Nov. President of the British/Canada Nov, 18 Nov. 15

E/Russia Nov. 25 Nov. 27 Nov. 20 Dec.

"As yet, the highest allitude attain- burned powder ed by a rocket (and fuel is about three milen," he writes. "That this record, admittedly in-

atom by printing Lord Rutherford with two parcels of protons and elec.significant, will soon be broken there trons, deserves well of his fellows, He

is helped out by akitikai sketches by

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Ꮮ . BRAGG, F.R.S.. the Nobel Prize winner, how- ever, shows in Electriekty (Bril, Us, Gd.) that without Dr. Karlson's elaborate artifices, science can be made simple

nel luctul,

He has inherited the genius of tils father, Sir William Bragg, President of the Royal Baclety, for making the most complicated theorica seem as cuny, as ABC.

His book is based on his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution, where schoolboys fought with grey-bearded. high-domed professors for seats. And I was content to alt on the knees of twelve-year-old in order to get a close. up of the demonstrations which made electrielty a delightful music-holi Lura And the ponderous complexities of the grid, wireless, telephiang and so on seet Uke a Kindergarten game.

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i think, maintain, "Few will care to that any of these anticipated results can be labelled fantastic or even im

The indications provided probable. by rocket research to date are loo conclusive. Already mail rockets shoot from point to polut with their of letters, and airplanes have taken to the air with rockets for their So, gradually, the mative power. stage is being prepared for the next act-an net that will be set on the fringe of space itself,

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"The transatlantic passenger-carry- ing rocket-slip already fully planned The vessel will take. off from a metal runway shooting skywards at an angle of some 60 deg. When over mid-Atlantic it will have ascended to a height of 600 miles, and its speed will be in the neighbourhood of 10,000 miles an hour. Thereafter, like some huge projectile, It will Curve earthwards. At this point retract nulé wings will be extended from its hull. By this means the fall of the now lightened vessel (its heavy load of fuel having been consumed) will otracted the nature of L

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