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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, DECEMBER

TO-DAY'S BOOK

GENGHIS KHYAN.

By Ralph Fox,

(John Lane, 12s. 6d.).

T Sarray, in the land of

Tartarye.

Ther dwelte a kyng that

werreyed Bussyć, Thurgh which, ther dyde, many a

doughty man.

This noble kyng was clepéd Cam-

byuskan.

"

Chaucer's "Cambyuskan better known as Genghis Khan, more accurately as Chingis Khan. Born when Henry II was reigning in 'England. Chingle-whose 'originai name was Temugin-was the son of a nomna adventurer in the country bround Lake Baikal. In youth he was hunted by his father's enemics, a fugi- tive, an outenst.

When he died at the age of sixty- Are he was lord of half Asia. Ho find by fighting, by intrigue, by murder; - niade". mimself the Great Chief-the Chingis Khan of the Mongola. And hir Mongol envalry had swept into China, over Twkestan, south to the Indus, West to the Crimea.

fils successors pushed into Europe. as far as Moravis and Hungary. Hi daccendant, Daber, founded the. Mughal dynasty India, of which' the last princes were shot by "Ilodson, of Hodion's Horse" outside Delhi, during the Mutiny. ·

For a while the Mongol Empire was

·་་,

the biggens, the widest, the world had known far wider than the Roman of the Macedonian. Then, it crumbled. The Mongols withdrew to their prairies. One of the strangest and bloodiest episodes of history faded into grim legend.

Mr. Fox has tried to give a pleture of the man and his deeds: of the man whom a Chinese historian de: serbea 'with ent's eyes, awe-striking. a butcher. Just resolute, an over. thrower of enemies, litrepid, -san- guinary and 'cruc!" of his deeds, which were itke the man, It is a fascinating tale excellently well told, He has pointed out clearly how, for nil their horros the Mongol conquests did for awhile give a conqueror's peace to Middle Asia, opened the trade routes between China and the West and so profoundly affected -world history.

But the problem of how and why this tiny nation of horsemen became for a briet span world conquerors ting 1baffled even Mr. Fox.

He falls back on a religious explain. tion, in terms of Communist mysticism.

Chingia, in claiming the protection of the Blue Sky, of heaven itself, wan really unconsciously expressing the fact that the stongola were acting as the armed instrument of the laws of human history.”

A nameless monk explained MI earlier Asiatic 'conqueror~Attila-a8 "the scourge of God for the chastise- ment of Chrisliana.” The monkiais jargon lu at any reto crisper

W. N. E.

Reviewer Reviewed

BEGIONAL TYPES OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE

Edited by J. P. Maxton (Allen and Unwin, 124, 68.) O-DAY, when the economic, social and political aspects of British agriculture call for 80 much consideration, comment da .often ill-informed because

T

apoakers and writers do not know. that Great Britain is a mosaic of varying solls, rainfall and degrees of fertility.

One-third of England and Wales serves no agricultural purpose worth mention. The same

may be said of three-quarters of Bcotland, Professor Stapleton says we might add 35,000,000 acres of cultivable h1-land to tho 10,000,000 that wa put to reasonable U in Great Bri- tain, but the Gov eruent with the wil and the man

with the vision re-

main to seck.

Now its inter- eating study

of

agricultural .cndca- YOUT in various parts of Great Brl- Inin has been pro pared by fitten ex- perts under the -general editorship of Mr. Maxton of Oxford.

Occasion for the preparation of the 2530ys WIS

vided by the fourth International Con- ference

of Agti. cultural Econo-

ANNALS OF MAYCHESTER By S. L. Bensusan (Routledge, 12%, Gd.)

P

ROBABLY one of the inst things written by that grand

old lover of the open spaces, R. B. Cunninghams Graham, was the preface to this book in wich he said that its author "has done for Essex.what Barnes and Hardy did for Dorsetshire.”

*Just as the Kallyards in Scotland staked out, their claim in Galloway, or Arnold Bennett made the Potteries his own, Mr. Bensusan has established his

8. L. Bensusan

mists, held this year at St. Andrews university, and the writers chosen are or have been, the heads of depart ments in the fourteen advisory pro- vinces into which this country is divided by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Scottish Department of Agri- culture.

tho

The general features of farming are covered by Mr. Bridges, of the Oxford Research Institute, and then others take up the running. Some cover as many as 12 counties: 'others no more than two.

If any man wishes to understand our agricultural problem before setting out to solve it, he may be directed with confidence to this extremely compre hensive and well-written study. Tha need was real, and it provides a read- able guide to knowledge.

8. L. BENBUBAN.

11lerary ownership

of the tenny district where once the bit tern boomed, the bustard mowed, storks chattered in their untidy nesta on cottage roofs and where n race of super-Saxona still survives."

Even if its pagas were not full of the poetic magic that is somehow part of the English country- side, this volume would still be at importance, for it not only preserves a vivid dialect now endangered by the WOITI and faded phrases of tho tongue-weary тап at the microphone. but it is rich in the philosophy of people still domin- ated by the soll.

Mr. Benan bus studied the folk of the vlt. lages with metlo- ulous care, and he writes of them with sympathy and sincerity ----Typl cal of their kind are Mr. Scrapper and his sister.

"Mr. Scrapper is a 'meetinger '---- that is to my he goes to chapel,” Miss Scrapper goes to church, and it is taoltly understood between thent that if one is wrong the other must be right: whoever has guessed car rectly must speak up for the delin- quent

ent on Judgment Day.

“In the same way Mr. Scrapper votes Conservative and Mias Scrapper Labour: they feal that by this means they keep a foot in two camps, and, incidentally, they share in the enter talements of both politicst parties."

And there are a dozen other similar worthles whose philosophy makes this book full of gulely and wisdom.

ALH

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