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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, AUGUST

20, 1936.

BOOKS OF THE WEEK Edited by Roger Pippett

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N author is often be- trayed by the titles of his books. For instance.

no criticism of Aldous Huxley's long new novel could be more devastating than the three words with which he has Gaza named it, Eyeless. in (Chatto and Windus, 108. Od.)..

For Milton's pitiful picture of Sumson, "eyeless in Gaza at the antil with alaves," prepares us all Loo distressingly for what follows

another blistering session on the Huxleylau treadmill, while the overseer, like some intellectual Blion Legree, whispers at us and, lashes us on through the gloom.... According to tie blurb, this is the alory of "a number of attempts to Achievo liberty." Aud, as I expected, they are almost all doomed to fru tration. That bitter mah. Mark, goen et to Mexico on n wild revolutionary goose-clase, loses a leg and becomen bitterer than ever. Helen, the most sympathetic chometer in the book, nt:

at discovers her true love in a young German refugee, only to lose him after a brutal Nazl crap.

And Anthinny DAVIN the Hux- keyin hero? Amiable and aimless, he staggers along, accidentally causing Irtenda mtelde, taking his live where lar Ands I (or where it is forced upon km), hesitating on the edge of action. soliloquising from time to time (now penetrating and now platitudinous), to make a tomentary escape from the irrnum in the end.

With a belatedly benevolent acature. the nullior leaves him working for philosophiixing live pacifam." mystically on "unity with all being," am prace in the depths.. .Deaco

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ru a dark vold beyond all personal peace beyond peate. .. .open- kind of boundless ing out into sprice.

An escape at last! But a too vaguely

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defined one, for Mr. Huxley, who. -can still etch a character in acid, is, in these pages at any rate, ex- tremely diffident about causes and crusades. And, apart from his old absession with personal liberty, I feel that he has not thought out the implications of Anthony's final attitude.

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URNING at last from

Spanish peasants

who have occupied her recent stories, Marguerite Bleen has found a fruitful fleld for her talent in Return of

Heroine A (Gollancz, 78. Od.).

The role in question is Pheobe Jordan: her return is from prison; and her heroism Ilen in her having given poison to her beloved mother, who wan dying painfully of cancer. The family. naturally, are revolted by her action. She has disgraced and impoverished them. She was a spoilt child, anyway, and her arrival in the home is a calamity.

Fortunately for them, she gets a job As companion to a rich and aristocratic elderly woman. Her matu luggage when she departs in a bundle of sen

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⚫ALIPORE actions.

For alim Jan" had played a big CHITRAL part in the drafting of the documeat RANPURA which Smuts condemned, from working to make it less harsh to Germany, he had been all for stiffness and severity.

I was attracted by several of the minor characters in this tale-particu larly Phrobe's young sitier, Penny, the ugly duckling who is going to be a Awan, and Stepher, the tailor'n cutter whom Pheobe will neither marry nor let go.

Retern of a Heroine, in short, is the most interesting and mature novel which Miss Bteen has given the

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OU remember The Casd Sergeant Grischa

You

which everyone WIE reading eight years ago? It was one of the unforgettable war novels, as moving, in its fashion, as All Quiet on the Western Front. Well, its author, Arnold Zweig, has writen another book, which fills the gap between Young Woman of 191 and The Case of Sergeant Griecha. And. with grim trony, he has called it Education Before

(Becker Verdun and Warburg, 2s. 6d.).

Blower in pace and more diffuse, it tells the hideous story of those few months in 1916 when Verdun was the worst hell of all of the helis of the Great War.

Hundreds of thousands of French- men and Oermans were lost there.in the bail of millions of shells. Whole battalions Were wiped out and bricked ut where they tay....

Herr Zweig introduces us, of course, to other characters, some of whom we There is met in the enriler books. Bertin, a marked man because he gave some French prisoners a drink of water. There is Krossing, killed in an advanced trench to which he had been moved because he attempted to expose A rations racket. There is his brother. And there is Ningl.

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Black Horizon. CAPTAIN PHILIP MUM-

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War

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Bome will feel that there will have to bo a stage of co-operation between national forces before an international force will be accepted by governments or peoples. But all will share the author's indignation and contempt that the great discovery of aviation has led manı not to wider and brighter horizons, but to an horizon black with impending

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TALMA the epoll.

On Reparations, Smuts responsl- bility for the ten years' trouble which their swelling to impossible dimensions brought to Europe is direct.

A Mad World

The armistice terms laid down that "compensation will be made by Cer many for all damage to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by lond, by sea and from the air."

Belemnly a committee presided over by

that W. M. Hughes argued "damage to the civilian population

whole cost of the war."- really meant since the civilian population would have to fool the bill.

The French suggested £40,000,000,000 It sounds sheer A reasonable sum. madness in retrospect: but the world was very mad in those days. Anyway, the Americans flatly refused to agroe to so fantastic an interpretation

"Slim Jan"

Here was a perfect job for "elim Jan." And it was his memorandum,

a masterpiece of ingenious sophistry, which persuaded Wilson that all money that had been paid in separation allowances, or that would be paid in war pensions, could fairly be regarded asdamage to the civilian population by land, by sea and from the air!"

What did the Bmuta who wrote those eloquent, protests think of the Smuts who wrote that adroit muncr- nudum? Or did the one not think of the other? Does the one never think of the other?

Does Smuts, the great humanitarian, the preacher of peace and of sanity. never think of Smuts who authorised the "massacre of Bullhoek" in 1921. of Smuts who ordered the bombing of the Bondelswarts in 19227

Or of the Banuts who in that same year deliberately let the "Johannes- burg tevolution" develop for two days so that things should get out of hand and provido pretext for a bloody re- pression 1682 kiled and wounded) which would "prove an object lesson to the people of this country for ever"

1 wish I could say that Mrs. Millin's worthy of its second volume was theme, or even of the first volume. But her love for what she probably re- gards as Ane writing and Impression- is has got the better of her.

Bull, in spite of the author, the book is intensely interesting because its sub-

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