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DESOLATION, YPRES, 1917, FROM "THE WAR OF THE GUNS,” by Aubrey Wade (Batsford, 7a, Gd.).

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Stark Journey

THE SOUTHERN

GATES. OT ARABIA, by Freya Stark (Joha Murray, 188.).

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NCHAPERONED in a land of fanatical tribesmen, Freya Stark, five fret Ewo inches tall and 201 Faveterate traveller,

awake

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Bultan's unguarded

analyzing happiness,

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As I closed my eyes in das verumEY and ellence I thought of the Arabian evasia stretchingg uta vither hand; there Bund miles fo Ades; boy Bunny laundai to Muscat in the other direys thon? The Indian Orest in front of me; the luland deserta behind; withi These Goale katciems I was, the only European at that moment.

"A dim ferling cams curling no through my sleepy arises; I wondered for a moment what it might be before I Trengħilsed it; it wan hngipiness, pitre and immaterial; Independent of affer- Hans and emotions, the methermal és

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score of happiness, a delight to rare no impersonal thin! It eins scarcely terrestrial when it comes,"

Teenuse this is a beautiful trol bevaritally profured, tamaurinoly written and full of beautful conti metta, how bad that it should also be a story of Talltre

Apes Stark went Is Arabla to freed

Frankie Jon Kiru when yelays of bedust and styl finve for centuries been carveligt gald nil jewels, vrty and cotton, clanution total prepper, daten and wine, ustrich teathers and myrrh, oil and frukt. reau from the, antity emstal strip

Air Gulf, Brough the dudalen al the hull, over the plateau stejųe to tim urin volleys and the easteru tunds of Yemen.

Arsllat empires roze and fell whe the Riebes of Asin pasted along :i great higlowDY.

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Yet low nindels have trouble? Bus attery of master life UN BE thout the parrow cuffdborderasi val.. leys of Hudhramaut, the partow strip nd mystery that is augthern Arabin, to is popitini, Shabwa, high in a lofty

I was to visit this city that the Butler was listed at Makada, among a flndly and huspluable crowd of "wild men

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That her ambition reinated merely thaliente.

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"Shabwa, senreely three days away and with no barrier to prevent ap proach was yet, through the unkind- ness of fate, to be unattainabla as the noon: I havo trodden only in dreams the emptiness of its imperial road."

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THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\\\ THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936.

OF THE DAY: Edited by Roger Pippett Don't Stroke Him-

He BITES!

MR. LOVEDAY'S LITTLE OUT- ING AND OTHER SAU STORIES. by Evelyn Waugh (Chapman and Hall, 78. Od.i.

VELYN WAUGH must have dealt out more Bunishment to the Fashionable World than any of his fellow-authors.

"What an open smile! Such a nice young man!" Time after time 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 ta under-estimate, Hardened Nter- ary critics have taken the count before now, I, myself, reading

the first of these eleven short stories, thought, “This is going to be a light-weight volume for Mr. Waugh."

But I was wrong

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For the ute til he delights to hit-- the y-eyed world of the country- ient hunters and shunters, the g Loud-hour world of those tropient places where white men hear each other's Gardeny the Arablon Nights world of

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super-film inugnaten - all there, Frill-w-dozen others, just can't

help theking their ches out at the Nier Yong Man. And down they go.

Rot murli tun for them. But for those of us who have never drooped over cocktails in Wanghian night. club or met a Waughstan Durbes for gone on a Mediterranean cruize" with a Waughtati darling-for U the Niva Young Mon provides pleasantest sensations in contempori- ury hellon,

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Mr. Loveday's Little Outing with not. prove. I fancy. one of its author's major works. But how thin the satire of its industrium imitators seems br Både it. how clumsy compared to his deflies, how thick against his cleari

EVELYN WAUGH "Such a Nice Young Man."

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

MELUSINE, by Charlotte Haldane (Arthur Barker, 15. 08.1.

"Iadored fairy tales in my child- hood." Mrs. Haldane writes in a postscript to this delightful book, "But, being a horrid little prig. with a strong rationalist streak, I was for ever usking. 'Why?'

Why fairies and their kinga and queens, their elaborate customs and rituals, processions and dances, pleas Ures had nevere pruailles? Why witches? Why impossible taska, which could only be sallafactorily fulfilled with the help of magle? Why, why, why?"

And her question, remabied atswered until she grew up and met int nuthority on the witch cults of Europe, Dr. Margaret Murray-and

ut her burbanet' bɔirllied her (so she Mrs Into reading the glory of Melu stue, one of the great migten) talen of medieval days.

okt runtered the new theory fall into shaps-perfectly in Mrs. Hal- dan's mind, and here is, the restit for you to read.

Put simply, the theory in that once upon a time people of a very ancient elvination took refuge from their conquerors in the woods and the mountains or roamed the plains a gipsies. Their gods berame devils, but they still clung to their culture, practised their religion and were able, by devious means and Intelligent leadership. to keep sune hold on the good things of the earth that had been seized from them.

So you may learn how and why Melusine became a sergent every Saturday night, how her wily Welli met stole land in France and else where, what a witches' sabbath was actually like and why the Church inted witches with an undying hate

A fuscinating and convincing tale, for Mrs. Haldave's free version of the old legend aid the modern theory t remarkably entertaining and plausible.

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THE DUKE IS SERVED, by Philip Bludsay (Ivor Nicholson Watson, 7. Gd.).

In the dedication to his new story, the author, who has wide reputation as an historical novelist, discloses the fact that there is a private sacfety devoted to the rehabilitation of tragic king, Richard III" I even distresses the members to have to admit that one of "Crouchback's "

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Well, really, who cares at this time of day?

Not that this tale is much con- cerned with him, except as the young and love-lorn Duke of Glou- cester, brother of Edward IV. It deals mainly with that Justy monarch's feudal train, the cham- bermaids and the cooks and men at arms-and we are shown a bustling back-ground of the trowded, swenty existence of those ilmes.

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Air. Lindsay clearly knows a great dent about a period of which I know very 14itle. An the Maine, paychology seenia to me na stifted and stumbling as his view of history- matter, 'this tale at least, of the personal honour of kings and their serving-men-in romantic and irritat- 4፷ከ4 .

Let us have those innids and scul lions and soldiers, by all menus, Mr:

·Lindsay, but let them not be twentieth century men and women tu fancy. dress, staged primarily la show us that Richard 111 was the sort of fellow who - would have alipped virtuously into a niche in Tennyson's täylis of the King,

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SPIDER'S Valentine Willams, THE CORPSÉ IN THE CRIMSON SLIPPERS, by R. A. J. Walling (both Hodder and Stoughton buth s. d.).

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