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GO EAST,

Young Man!

I TOOK OFF MY TIE:

T

By Hugh Massingham

(Heinemann, 71, Gd.)

HE author

of

magnificent (and,

thals re- member, I am very spar- ing in my use of that particular adjective) book only ventured a mile or so cast of But he has Aldgate Pump.

most written one

the of remarkable travel stories of his generation.

It is a record of what happened to him during a prolonged visit to one of London's poorest quarters. It is not an answer to Tolstoy's thunderous question, What, then, ought we to do? It is pl statement of fact set down with all the objectivity of which I am. capable, with no political bins and no desire to make a case.”

Curiosity was Mr. Marsingham's compelling guide. He had explored South Wales and "met more, saintly people there in a work" than in all the rest of his life. Aut he made up hits int to contime that education.

From the moment by took off his collar and tie and realised that the Cily polterman was regarding him with suspicion and hostility to the moment he groped his way down Mrs. Morgan's star for 1e Jast time, Mr. Masdug- ham was learing the lesson of hi Hle-and yours and mine.

exk

With un recubithness and a great deal of understanding, patience and courage, he set out to see how the poor He became i precarious, perais. Teat pilgrim in a work where life zeethed zound his feet until he made what the East End considera a false atr ned the people traze into u zalid wall against him.

Tie gekant it is the book's great- virtuthit he could never rank lenme one of the poor. But he brought back a slentirant series of portraits in The sketch-book of his memory,

Tiere in Mr. Bewus, the pawnbroker, A devenit Christian and an enthusiastle Samlet + The way yon walk and the way you talk," he told the author,

They' waturally assume you're

And Mr. 6ymons and #tentive a Shepherd und Johnston and the angelle Moranni, And, above and beyond all. Mrs. Morgan's Annte.

te and the folk who live here they are, el down without fuss and without a free of condescension. I did not find a single attempt at sen- sationalkın in I Took Of My Tle. And, because of that, the book will be a son- salon, for no опо has travelled that road so far and no faithfully in a Jon. Jang time.

UNDER MOSCOW SKIES By Maurice Indus

(Gollancz, 103. 66.). .

MORE than any other observer, Mr. Hindus has shown us, in Humanity Uprooted, Red Bread and other works, what is going for- word

frontiers of across the Soviet Russla Here his great Talent for straight reporting shines for the Arst time in a fictional frame.

The story is set in the critical phase of the First Five Year Plan with its accompanying destruction of private tratie and Die collectivisation of Lite land.

Wandering through the crowded

streets and the tunstling factories is a not too convincing love-alnir belween an American Journalist and the wife of leather-jarket Bolshevik. Bul that need not concern you long.

What will concern-and stiriinte- you is the immense, stumply scen, con- scientiously, composed background of mecdotes, dialogue and impressions--

background which, after a slow opening, takes in more and more of the scene and convluces you that you ure witnessing Bomething That Has Never Been Done Before,...

'Moscow's are moody skica, chang- ing swiftly and ceaselessly in shape, colour amit-eventent, Always there are clouds ndrift." And. whether in sunlight or in shadow, this long, some- times verbose story moves authen- tically under the Soviet sky.

AROUND THE WORLD IN ELEVEN YEARS

By Pallente. Richard and Jalní Abbe (John Miles, 88. G.

WEare not told where and when any one of this boisterously ..slirewd trio of chlid-authors lays down or picks up the pen, but I fancy that 11-year-old Patience insisted on doing most of the work.

The daughter and tons of an Amert- can camera-man and hila nctress wife, they have journeyed rotinal the world with their nomadic parents, visiting- and often going to school in-France, Austria, Germany, Russia and Eng land

inst * Inj[ ** they before summer on a Colorado ranch.

T7ls is the cestate record of whint they saw, loved, hated, taxted, smelt and Iaughed nt.

On the boat going over to New York, **Mamma bought two elantra on deck. She used one and at there all day resting. She said if we reported every once and awhile to her so she'd know we hadn't. fallen overboard we rould KO where we liked."

They are so lively that It's a wonder, they didn't fall over the side in thrie anxiety to know more about those fishes. Dut, on the whole. I'm glad

their slick, they survived to tell amsing, precocious story,

R.P.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936.

Reproduced from

THE STREET MARKETS OF LONDON By Mary Benedetta (John Milos, 75.60.) THANKS to Mary Benedetta

For her gay and charming -guide/

Bargain hunters can't do better Than walk or run or take a ride To the market streets of London. There's variety in abundan Ce: Elchings, cela and embroca-

tlona,

Nute and beauty preparationA, Sausages and Christmas trees, Cricket bats and groceries,

Pickies, pistols, pewter, pens,

#ufcher Tco-trays, mushrooms,

hens, Saucepans, satin, cat's meat, ropes, Nightingales and telescopes, The useful author tells us all About the contents of rach stult," Describes the people the cou see, "And adds some sociology.

A Hungarian photo sce With pictures fills the extra snage.

k. F.

Have You Ever

THE UNTOLD STORY OF EXPLORATION

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By Lowell Thomas (Harrap, 28. (d.)

O, scarcely untold: The title of this book is a little mis- Icading. What the author has done is to become an explorer of lesser known exploration. has dipped into tomes that few

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Life

MAJOR OPERATION, by James

Barke Collins, B. d.), A passionately sincere novel of Glasgow life. Alive with poll tical significance. On the grand scale.

Thrills

SIR PERCY LEADS THE BAND, by Baroness Orczy (Hodder and In which Bloughton. 78. d.). the Scarlet Pimpernet ridea -again-and honour

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Love

is Batis-

THE DOCTOR, by Mary Roberts Or Rinehart (Cassell, 7. ed.), How Love Came to à Proud, Ambillous, Young Surgeon. And

the yot ho married

wrong

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Biography

SCOTT AND SCOTLAND, by Edwin Muir (Routledge, 5.). What Scotland Did för Scott And Scott for Scotland

Lo, the Poor

H

FIG TREE JOIN

By Edwin Corle

(Werner Laurie, 71, 68.)

ERE is a novel which will in- terest anyone who has over

been bewitched by the glamour of the Noble Eavage or wondered about the life of Lo, the poor Indian. For it tells the story of a White River Apache, who

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wandered from his tribe, Bottled in the Colorado desert and came to grief in the desert of modern American' civilisation,

. He did not mind being poor, and his" untutored mind" held a great store of knowledge of how to live at peace with the gods and in honour among men, even in an alkaline solitude. He despised the white folk, who despised him. But that did not matter either, since he had a sure confidence that he know best, as people who go in for despising always do.

The tragedy of his life was not hia Ignorance of machinery nor his poverty in worldly goods. It was that his wife was murdered by dscaping gunmen.. and he felt bound to stay on the spot until the gods sont an opportunity for re-. venge on the murderors,

So he was cut off from his tribe and unable to bring up his son in the old ways. But his son did not fool the lack. He liked white men and Ford cars, and ho married a Mexican girl and finally fought his father to the death.

An unusual story, written without a trace of sentimentality, either of the Fenimore Cooper or the D. H. Law- renca variety. In its simple, vivid fashion, conveys complete ·conyle- Hop

With provocative asides on Sent- tish iterature.

THE LIFE AND EAGER DEATH

OF EMILY BRONTE. by Vir ginia Moure (Rich and Cowan, 281.). A sympathetic biography of the greatest of the Three Sisters of Haworth.

History

FAIR COMPANY, by Doris Lelle

(Jol Lane, Ba. Od.), A long, rich, fetional survey of English domestic history in its widest sense during the last 130 years. Mystery

THE

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George POISONER. by Freedy ̃ ̃Cutchinson: "4~005.- Thrills in the reign of Louts the The lumble and Fourteenth. honest policeman is rightly remembered.

Romance

VAGABOND MINSTREL by Thontas Burke (Longmans. Oreen, 7a, Od.). The real-life romance of an unlucky nad Jong-forgotten Irish poet. Syn- pathetic and convincing.

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It was he yun may remember, who put Lawrence of Arnblu into the luie. ilght. And, Inckfeutally, ircturing ami writing about Lawrence pu Thomas into the limelight, too!

Il range is wide-from the adven tures in Central Asia of a Chinese ex- plorer who lived in the second century. B.C., to those of Bertram Tuomah in the Rub Al Khalt desert of Arabia few years ago.

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He helps us to realise that there are many to whom this world is in debt for its knowledge of temote regions of whom we know little or nothing. For instance, those Indians in the Survey of India who gave the Western world is first knowledge of Tibel. Some of them were away for Your years and more at a stretch, travelling thousaruls of miles on foot--always measuring, measuring.

And have you ever heard of Will Adams-not the B Adams who is alleged to have won the Battle of Waterloo, but the Cockney ship's car- penter who became a power at the the Court in Japanese Emperor's sixteenth century?

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It is the secrecy of it, my ladai one knows a thing about it except the bride's family and the bridegroom's family, and the parson (or the regis tar). Bo unusual. -

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I KNOW, however, that you are not all romantic, and the following anecdote of the Man With the Iron Teeth is inserted especially for those without hearts.

A noloe Bike a mixture of fireworks and a dog show brought a neighbour to the back garden fence, and set him raminating.

Ab," he sighed, "It's a pity that your pup and the cat don't get on better."

Yes" said the Man With the Iron'

They Teeth, biting off his words, lead a regular man-and-wife ilfe."

CA Bit About Blondes ON the front page of one of the newspapers I always read there appeared, last week, this heading- "Nine Blondes Hurt in Coach Crash." Now who will say we lack a sense of proportion, badgered though we are by horrific rumours? One blonde would have passed unnoticed in a crash (1 hasten to say that this crash had no serious effects): three blondes might have been mentioned on an Inalde page: but nine. very properly, take their place among the most important

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And what a kindly attitude this

heading reflecta! A hundred years on. It may well be reproduced in a history of our customs and mariners.

"Father," a little boy will say, "what were blondes?"

"They were young women who pre- ferred gentlemen, but very rarely got them. That is why people were 50 corry for them."

Sympathetic Storks

LAST Saturday I began this column with a reference to Ramsgate's civic marriage bureau, and its success. ful work.

I wonder if you saw a report, else. where, that "alx storks moved this morning to a field at Ramsgate, close to the main Ramsgate-London road."

In all diffidence, I suggest that here is, at least, a very pretty coincidence.

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AMOTORIST at Willesden Police Court, admitted that he had only one brake on his car

Perhaps he 'expected the magistrate to give him one.

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