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FTER the storm comes

After

the calm. Tough Guys and the Big Shots and the Gun Toters who range the moro fevered felds of Action comes a mild, slight, grey-haired London cnsliter. You will meet him in fi. C. Sherriff's new novel, Greengates (Gollancz, 78. 04.). And you will meet him on the author's own ground-in that suburban world which Mr. Sherriff re- rarded so talthfully in The Fortnight in September, that fenced-in work of quiet piensures. middling hopes and moderate routine,

Its name is Mr. Baldwin 7 was annoyed at that, at first, for n heavy Front Bench face with zealed lips kept getting in the way in the earliest chaptera), He retires after forty years. in a London Insurance office. Its col- leagues give

clock, and he rides home to the enjoyment of his leisure.

Then things go wrong. Its garden. Ju dream is defeated by the poor, ex- hatiated plot with which he struggles. His fiterary dream fades, too. Worst of 1. St. and Mrs. Baldwin begin to Cet on each other's nerves,

And, then, one October Kfternoon. they go together oni mimost fur- raten walk to Welten Valley. A new tulum calote Ja growing round the dd Pints. They trulge through the chupy, past the brick-stacks and the cod-piles and the piping, and aud dentystrices then-this place wil

their future home.

Of the excited planning that fellows the despair, the ngitation, the gTEN days of waiting and the Anal flowering of success Mr Sherrit himself must tell you in this brilliantly composed plendidly persuasive story of n happy chien that changed two ageing Saburban Blves.

A simple, straightforward, extremely satisfying tale which will be one of the surgesses of the season.

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OYCE CARY, the author of The African Witch: (Gollancz, 8, 60.), pre- faces his novel with one of these forewords that arc protective growing Increasingly common

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nowadays. The book, he says, has been with "as a work of Ima- gination and not as a picture of contemporary conditions in West Afrien."

Rimi is a mall native state on the Niger, nominally ruled over by an aged Emir and controlled, also nominally. by n British Resident. And, among the many claimants to the succession is Aladai, an Intelligent Negro, who was edu- ented at Oxford and has European ideas and ideala,

To long to destroy the power of Ju-ju. that inster, all-pervading superstition before which Africana Ahuke and quail. But his sister, Eliza- beth, happens to be its leading local priestess, and one of his most power- ful followers is a religious fanatic.

Moreover, the white Lolk are swayed by their own powerful and dangerous social tabons. Aladat may pass at Ox- ford. But for a Negro In Rimi to wear English clothes, to quote Shelley aptly. to speak to Englishwomen rs ho

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were their equal, actually to enter the sacred precincts of their club- All this in Intolerable.

The foundations of empire rock, I gather, at the mere thought of 1t....

Defore long Aladai is at war with A Motummedan rival: his foodthirsty "Christian" followers are soon out of hand and his alter organises the Negro women in a great alrike to add to the confusion.

Ela is killed. The man who brought the troops in to restaro order la repri manded. Elizabeth in praised by the amiable Resident for her co-operation in calming the uproar which she had so largely stirred tip. And another colonial incident" is closed.

Aladal's sister and iser ju-ju domin- ato la exciting, detached and yet terrifying story. Emirs. and Residents may come and go, but fear and black magic nucl unrearoning hatred remain, A hideously indifferent trio.

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find in Sentimentalists may these pages a charming recon- struction of those golden years when women unquestionably had waists arid wore long hair and dresses and when

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Mrs. Rudd Home (Collins, 78. 04.). Sybil Bolitho and Cen Fearnley have seen the comic side of that frightening thought, "to sce ourselves as others see us." They show us a group of highly sophisticated, world-weary people through the eyes of a sensible. simple-minded, elderly woman.

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The scene is set in Italy, where these folk are working on, rather struggling with, a mighty pageant-spectacle of The Fil- grim's Progress," to celebrate the Jubilee of a famous producer, But. to Mra. Rudd, the maestro is merely Button. her son-in-law. and her heart is still in Bourne- mouth with her other daughter.

She cannot be impressed, intimi. dated or even amused by what is going on around her, The erratic relation ships of the actors in the human drama of that strange household pass her by na completely as the complex manmuvres for staging the great show. But a constant stream of matter-of- fact comment pours from her fountain- pen to be as quietly absorbed in Bournemouth as though Bournemouth were so much blotting-paper.

An original and extremely amusing tale.

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UST thirty years ago a tall. good-looking youngster played in bla first county cricket match. He missed two compara- tively easy tatches, was bowled for and his one wicket cost 103 runs. That lad was none other than Frank Woolley, who has now fol- lowed the example of many of his professional colleagues by writing. a book,

In The King of Games (Stanley Paul G.) the greatest Jeft-handed" bats man of modern times and one of the finest all-rounders - the cricket world has ever seen has put his story on recon. And how well he has done itI It reminds me of one of his cinstia innings when, with graceful but, per- fect timing and almost insolent temerity, erneka ball after ball to all parts of the field no matter whom the bowler may be.

But there are no fireworks in its pages. It does not contain the nerce attack of his play at the wleket. For pleasant the author's career has been one. I do not regret a slugle hour of it. And I will try to repay some of my debt to cricket by not know- ingly writing one querulous line."

At the same time, he lins not stirked topies of absorbing Interest. On body- Hue, for instance, Woolley hits a boundary.

"In my estimation a great deal too much fusa ls made when a batsman is hit... It is my considered opinion that, in almost every case, the fact that the batsman has been hit has been doo to his own mistiming or to clumsiness with his bat."

Barracking

Io niro attacks, in the quiet, digni- fled manner of his own personality, the worst type of Australian barracking and issues a word of warning.

The author has refused to be stereo- typed In a most interesting manner ho Jumps from facts and figures about ha own carcer to generous praise of others and quiet words of advice in the young player, all the more valuable bc- cause "Sterky," as he is affectionately known among his brother-cricketers, is slow to give advice' and thinks deeply before doing so.

And then, of course, he tells a few of the many humorous heldents that have occurred during his long trings.

I will quote two-the first because I wan told it by the late J. W. H. T. Douglas agathist himself.

It happened at a Test match at Sydney during the tour Australia when Douglas was captain in place of the indisposed Plum Warner. Woolley war member of the tent

Patsy's Tail

"J. W. H. T," was bowling away with his usual tenacity with the main scoreboard behind his back The ong in front of him was not working. Runs came at a merry pace, and Douglas continued to bowl without getting wickets. Eventually a wag on the Hyelled out, "Now then. Johnny, why don't you have a go at the other end? Then you'll be able to look at your own analysis."

The other tale concerns Patsy Hen- dren who, in an up-country game, was monkeying about in his inimitable style on the boundary and had put the crowd in good humour. During a full a shrill voice piped. "Ah Pat, you'd be perfect you'd only got a tail.”

A most interesting and entertaining book, worthy of one of the mosL charming cricket personalities it has been my privilege to meet.

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