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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936.

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DESOLATION, YPRES, 1917. FROM "THE WAR of the guns,

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THE

A Stark Journey

SOUTHERN GATES OF ARABIA, by Freya Stark (John Murray, Ils).

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NCHAPERONED in a land triboumen!, fanatical

of Freya Stark, five fret two Tuches tall and An Str

Kwake In Up

traveller.

Bultan's unguarded guest-lvente analysing happiness.

· As I closed my eyes in this security the Arabinti and silence I thought rouais atretching on eller band three kundred miles to Aden; bow many hundret) to Musent in the other divers Hon? The Indian Ocean in front of me, the inland deserts behind; with the title barriera I was n onls European at that moment,

"A din feeling came curing apa through my sleepy senses; I wondered for moment what it might be before 1 restrained it; it was happiness, pure and immateriał: independent of alter- Itong and emotions, the ætherial es

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sence of happiness, a debgħal so rare med impersonal that It scarcely terrestrial when it comes."

Because Ulls is a beautiful book, beautifully beautifully prostured, written and full of beautiful senti- mes, how sad that I should disd br

story of futute,

Miss Aturk went to Azuble De Crook frankincenre good, over the Kroat which relays of bedouine and camels have for centuries “bret carrying gokil and jewels, ivory and rottuti, emitat and pepper, dates and wine, ostalel testlers and myrrh, oil and frankin crate from the rancy coastal strip on The Piston Gulf, through the defili » et the Hulks, over the platrati prepipe to the Bilatu volevo wind the eastern kurds

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Arabian empires rose and tell while The riches of Anka paused ałów. ELIS grent ranglawzy,

Yet few Inädels have trodden thi Artery of eastern We as I Whacks Brough the narrow el-bordered vals. leys of Hudhramaut, the narrow ship of mystery that in soulliern Arabia, th its capital, Shumbwa, high an a folty Jumatatul $12,"

I was to visit this eny that the anther was landed at Makalla, among

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But her, ouibition restansed merely neth Bleuge

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While attending stricken children in the valleys of Hadhratretat, she caught measles, The fever Jeft her weakened that, after struggling for weeks towards her goal, she had to be "rescued" by BL.A.F. planes when she had in, relapse nearly within sight of the muile elty,

"Shabwa, scarcely throw days away and with no barrier to prevent ap proach was yet, through the unkind- ness of fate, to be unattainable as the moon: I have trodden only in dream4" the emptiness of its imperial road."

But it is doubtful whether this could have been a better book even sho has attained her ambition: her re- cords of "skyscraper" elties that have 5100d for centuries with their feet in the rising arid ebbing-tide of trade on The great incense road will be added.

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·ING AND OTHER SAD STORIES, by Evelyn Waugh (Chapman und, Hall, J. Gd.).

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VELYN WAUGH have dealt out niore punishment to the Fashionable World than any of his fellow-authors.

"What an open smile! Such a nice young mani" Time after me his victims have hardly finished their casual appraisal when they have gone down to the neatest, quickest blow on the point of the chin.

Obviously a Nice Young Man whom it is highly dangerous to under-estimate. Hardened iter- ary critics have taken the "count before now. I, myself, reading the frst of these cleven short stories, thought, "This is going to be a light-weight volume for Mr. Waugh."

But I was wrong.

For the life funt, he delights to hit- the ghway-cyra work of the country- Bonder hunters, and shostern, the g- and-lime world of thons tropient pinces where white men bear each other's wurden, the Arabhan Nights work of the super-thin magnates -al l'anses,

Jarl 1 Bali-a-dozen others.

can't help rikeling their chins out at the Niers Young Man And down they nỏ.

Not much fun for the But for those of us who have never drooped over eucktails in Wasghlarz shell- clab or met a Waughlan Duchess or gene on a Mediterranean cruise witla n Vaughan darling-for t19 the Nice Young Man provides une 05 the pleasantest nensations in contempor ary fletion.

Mr. Loezday's Little Outing wit not prove, I fancy, one of its author'a major worka. But how thin the satire of hits Industrious imitators seema-be- shie 16 how clumsy compared to bls. deftners, how tick ngainst his clear!

EVELYN WAUGH Such-a-Nice-Young Matam

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Bo you may follow him, pleking your way across those unconscious bodles for over two hundred pages, with confidence and an occasional, "How dead all these people look when he has done with them!" For, remember, he carries knuckle- dusters inside those velvet gloves. Such an incalculably Nice Young Man!

MELIISINE, by Charlotte Haldane (Arthur Barker, In. Gd.).

"Indored fairy tales in my child- hood," Mrs. Haldane writes in a postscript to this delightful book. But, being a horrid little prig. with natrong rationalist streak, I was for aver asking, Why?

"Why farries and their kings nud queens, their elaborate customs and ritual, processions and, dances, plens- Bars and Bever penalties? Why witchen? Why Impossible tanks, whiteh could only be satisfactorily fulfilled with the help of magic? Why, why, why?"

tan.

And her

question remained answered until she grew up and mel that authority on the witch cults of Europe. Dr. Margaret Murray-and

til her busbari Quilled her in she suya into reading the story of Melu nine, one of the great magicoi tales of medieval days.

Hold gemmance and the new theory. fell, into shape perfectly in Mrs. Hai- doties mitul, and here is the result' for you to rend

Put simply, the theory is that once, upon a time people of a very ancient civilisation took refuge from

their conquerors in the woods and the mountains or reamed the plains as Kipsies: Their gorda becane devil,. but they still clung to their culture. practised their religion nad were able, by devious mran [1] Intelligent leadership. keep some hold on the good things of the earth that had been seized from thơm,

So you may learn how and why Melusine became a serpent every Saturday night, how hur wily Welsh- men stole land in France and elar- where, what-o Witches' sabbath was actually like and why · the Church hated witches with an undying bute. A fuscating and convincing Lade, for Mra, Haldane's free version of the old legend and the modem theory is remarkably enterinising and Bricist pirusible.

THE DUKE IS SERVED, by Philip Lindsay (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, T. Gel.),

In the dedication to his new story, the author, who has a wide reputation as an' historical novelist, discloses the fact that, there is a private society devoted to the rehabilitation of

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