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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1936.

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THE EARTH TREMBLES By Jules Romains (Lovat Dickson, 104, 6d,)

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Fall the novelists who are busily sack- ing cities and civil- isations for their plots, M. Romains is at once the most sensitive and the most unflag- ging. For this volume contains Books Nine and Ten of what will be the world's longest novel, Men of Good Will.

Already the work runs tor, rather, marches) to nearly three thousand pages. And the end, I gather, is not yet in sight.

Solling out to give us a panorama of Paris during the past 25 years, the * author has reached 1911, when Agadir was a highly critical place-name, when ministrica were tumbling, workers massing for strike action and arralca and armaments piling up in prepara- tion for the inevitable and hides "day."

There are scores of characters, Hving. moving and having their being in o dozen worlds, from heelie nie of the tribune of the Chamber of Deputies (where we meet and overheat Briand, Delcassé, Tardieu, Jaurèa and nihern? to the crowded alleys of the expital and the boudoirs of frilled and fashiɑriable women.

And, from it all, miraculously, risen a algnificant picture of a people fulfiling their destiny. "Certain things," na M. Romains warned us in hila Arai volume three years ago, “do not lead any. where. There are men and women, en- deavours and hopes which are 'never heard of again."

But they are definitely worth watch- ing on their way,

Well, here is the intest instalment of this record achievement. And, to cele brate the occasion, the publishers are uffering the complete set of the eight earlier books, which originally cost seven-and-sixpence aplece, for twenty- eight shillings plus pastage. A chance to add to your library a novel that, in my view at any rate, is sure of n place on the shelves of treacherous

Lime.

не are 1s1 д strange and called. Mideuria, with the most complicated politics, and the hero has the uncon- vincing name of Firka, and things happen that don't normally disturb the stream of existence in, say, Balham or Binaingham, you will and yourself be- leving in everybody and everything.

FAR

FOREST.

By Franels Brett Young. (leinemann, 83. Gd.),

JENNY HADLEY was born and

reared or dragged up. as they say in those parts—at Mawne Heath, on the Staffordshire side of the River Stour, which at this point dividea it from Worcester- shire: a heath only by courtesy, and a blasted heath at that if over there was one."

Bo opens this twenty-nfth novel by Franck Drett Young. You beave a sigh of contentmoul, settle back In your chair and prepare to enjoy what is coming. Nothing terribly exciting or excrucinogly new. Clood, sostnd, hors navel-fare, A pleasant ride Through the familiar countryside that is, for the time being. Brellyoungland.

And at the end you heave a last, gratetoi sigh. Five hundred and Atty- three pagea. · There might have been nore, there might even have been ics But they had to end sometime. And no one would deny that the standard of quality is maintained.

There have been births and deaths and marriages and mishaps and mis- understandings and reunions. There has been plenty of excellently worked- in local enlour. From farming to chain- inking, from hap-growing to school- tenching, the author's range is wide and his touch sure,

Everyour of his falthful readers will attest that he has done the right thing by them once again.

R. P.

"The Sirect Markets of London," by Mary Benedetta (rson to ba pub- lished by John Miles), contains many fine photographs by L. Moholy- Napy. The above illustration is of the street market in Hämmersmith.

DREAMS and Realities

A PRAYER FOR MY SON. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan, 78. 6d.)

MR. WALPOLE, spinning stories

out of the pearly clouds that float over the Lakeland hills and turns, has seen an ugly, black. menacing cloud forting over humanity.

He gives the cloud a name-it la tre despotism of the megalomaniacs in Italy and Germany whose ruthlessness may, he feels, lend to gigantie destruc- tion in the world. A serious theme for a novelist of his reputation, but he has handled it skilfully.

He tries to show-and he' succeeds, I think that such despotism is bound to come crashing down in a weller of human suffering and misery,

Taking an egotistical colonel

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in a large house by Lake Derwent water as his example of what megate.

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mania running riot unchecked can lend to, he lets this old man play fast and loose with the lives of the mem- bera of his household, especially `n twelve-year-old grandson.

This shy, nervous boy is to be brought up on the Nazi model so that he may one day rise up and lay the iron heel on his fellow men and cry:

Do na I NAY!'

Dreaming dreams, of greatness that he himself cannot attain, the frus- irated colonel wields his power over the Ind.

The story tells how the boy's mother attempts to resene her son. Exciting. with a tinge of terror in 1. It reveals Mr. Walpole's horror of dictators and

M. F. their regimes.

RECOIL.

ny J... Hardy, fCollins, 71. Gd.)

HERE is a thriller whose bag of

tricks holds the usual para- phernalia of the Secret Service shocker. And yet

The Beautiful Woman, the Nobl Pollee Agent, the night-clubs, the mysterious hide-cuts the aristocrat, villains known only by numbers, tie stalwart dictator, murder at midnight and at midday, microphones in pektor cells. attempted assassination hypnotism plus prussie held and happy ending for the 1.W. and de N.P.A....

by

They are all there, Ingeniously mixed and shaken out at exactly the right surprising and horrifying moment. But real is none of your ordinary shoot-and-run yarns: it in a story with distinction. For, although

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Late Leave From Barracks Without Passes

PETTY RESTRICTIONS TO BE REMOVED

Soldiers in the British Army are to have more freedon when they are not on duly,

This decision of the Army authori- ties, as part of their recruiting com- paign, is announced.

The new orders being circulated to commands provide that:---

N.C.O.'s not below the rank of sergeant may quit barracks without u pass at the end of each day's duty, and may remain out until again re- quired; and

Soldiers when not detalled. for any particular duty may quit barracks without a pass at the end of each day's duty and remain out until 1

a.m.

The desirability of an increase in the privileges accorded to well-con- ducted soldiers has been under con- sideration by the Army. Council following the success of the scheme to.grant "walking out" facilities in civilian dress to men of established character.

In the opinion of the Counell, says the War Office, the high standard of general behaviour of the troops in recent years is considered to be such their as to merit recognition. In view an increase of privileges to the soldier is seldom, If ever, abused in a well-behaved and well-adininister- ed unit.

"It has sometimes in the past been the case that pelty restrictions havo existed for the continuance of which there should be no justification to- day with the average well-conducted soldier" It is stated.

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