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SHIPS

A MILLION OCEAN MILES

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By Sir Edgar T. Britien

(Hutchinson, 88, 5d.j

SHIPS AND WOMEN

By Bill Adams

YDavies and Dickson, 81. Gd.)

IR EDGAR BRITTEN, com- mander of the Queen Mary, Anished his book of rominis- conces shortly before his sudden death at Bouthampton. Bill Adams writes the story of his sea life from the shore to which ho was compul- sorily retired through fll-health.

Yet, though their lives were very different, their stories have a common base of understanding of men, of a love for the ocean which gave them their Hving and of a true scaman- like quallly.

Bir Edgar Brillen was, at one time or another, in command of all the big Ounard-White Blar, ships. The skipper of a modern ferry boat has to be a business man, a atatesman, a diplomat and a seaman-navigator all rolled into one.

Influential passengers need more placating than a boss, and much more nursing, while the problem of con voying thousands of people acraz thousands of miles of ocean, enter- taining them. feeding them no that they w always travel British and always in perfect safety and with na much comfort as the nastiest bit of water on the globe will allow, is one

which might well baffle the suavest.

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Sir Edgar Dritten Lolved this problem well that passengers fought for the privilege of sailing with him, and, in this summary of 104 carcer, he tells stories which show un- Consciously why he won jone of the most popular masters, the Cunard Line ever 212),

The book should have a large sale with all who follow, or whe are inter- ested in, life at sa to-day, and the chenter on submarine losses during the " war is full of vital Interest, especially to the thousands mentioned in

Thare are yarns, too, of cardatuarpers. pleasure cruises, troopaliips auf stórm and gales-all the advenlures which come the way of an ocean wanderer. And the volume closes with n short #escription of the sea funeral which Captain Brillen had always desired.

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THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH. · MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936.

BOOKS of the Week

EDITED BY

Bill Adams has been known for sumie time as a writer of short stories about the ca.

This autoblogmply is his first full- length work. It tells the story of his apprenticeship in salt, of a day which has gone, and tells it in a thrilling series of episodes.

To go through it is like Laking a four-year trip "round the world,

It

is frank and, in places, crude, but it is the real Buff-none of your heroles, Just an unvarnished, very readable account of what it used to be like to be off the Horn in a howling galo, under- manned, with the sails in rugs and living on hard lack and poor.coffee all the time.

There are adventures in strango porta and a grand story of how, for four hours. Bill Adams stuck by the wheel, all hands busy and no one to relieve him, with the binnacle light put out by a heavy sea so that he had to sleer by the feel of the wind on his neck in a howling galo in which three degrees of her course would have cap- -sized fier.

The book is like a breeze in the

R. D. J. mouth.

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The lalo PETER LEE

JAM and HONEY

TRINITY TOWN

By Norman Collins

(Gollancz, 88. Gd.)

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For Mr. Broster was out to lasy pro- perly cheap and sell R dear when the boom came, and Charley Emms was inspired-ordinary reasoning does not, suffice to explain ble motives-to thwart his efforia.

It is on harious story of trickster maeeling idiot, and the result verges on

· pandemonium. In the end. Jam

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Meanwhile you have been introduced to a number of characters who ar, 15- not convincingly lifelike, at least ro cognisable and genial caricatures of their various types-people who get into just the sort of predicament and muddle you would expect.

Trinity Town is in the English tradition. for its general attitude is a sly pride in our gullibility and an acceptance of jokes against sumelves' rather na compliments. But Mr. Collins must have enjoyed writing this easy chronicle of provincialsın. and you will enjoy reading I.

Charley Emma. drunkard, Dar. muddler and humbug, really was a onc....

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OF MONTAL LOVE By William Gerhardi Arthur Barker, 8s. Gd.)

R. GERHARDI is an elusive writer and one whom it is dangerous to underestimate. Witness this long novel about a woman and the men who loved her after their fashions.

In some moods n righteous reader might all too easily throw the book down with an angry." What silly, in- effectual people!

clever- What a clever, scenel Why should I waste tline on such nit-wits?"

A more sympathetic reader, on the other hand would endure the more Jaboured passages for the author's sensitive staging of tragt-comic' situa? tions and his quiet, almost 'experi mental handling of a typical modern theme.

fury or -sympathetic It depends on you.

R. P.

Righteous acceptance?

RURAL

A TRAVELLER AMONG THE FARMS.

By Fréda Derrick (Allen anit Unwin, 65.)

FI were asked to sum up in one word the quality of this littlo book of one hundred and sixty- four рався, I should choose "fragrance."

It is fragrant of a forgotten England and Wales, a real countryside that still ingers In parts that have never en countered a main road, districts where wind-mills and water-mills may be found passing in silent dignity to their end with the tithe barns and the 'ancient cottages that county aulberi. ties would fain destroy but can never.. adequately replace.

A clergyman's daughter, the author travelled the byways on a bleyele with but Ittle in her pocket, and, perhap because the was ill provided with the world's goods, the village folk, who were no botter off, opened their homes and hearts to her

Her story is simple, and its illustra- Lions are her own-mills and barns, farms and market halls, cottages and blacksinha forges, the porch of an inn, a farm worker's kitchen, a bake- house, all simple drawings enough, but touched with fine lines of appreciation and sympathy.

Well done, Miss Derrick!

MEMORIES

3. L. BENSUSAN.

PIPPETT

MINER

PETER LEE

By Juck Lawson, M.1. (Hodder and Stoughton, Ss.)

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Yo one who met Peter Lec.

tho tall, handsome minera lender, whom, because of a certain likeness, his friends called "Old Shakespeare," is likely to forget him. And Mr. Lawson has sben to it that no one who reads this affectionate and most human blography will forget him, too.

He was born seventy-two years ago in Duff icap Row, Fivo Ilouses, Trimdon Grango. Durham. At ten he began work as a pit-pony driver. And before he died in 1935 ho had helped to change the face of the grey North-East.

"Peter: Leo was always late in finding his place,

He was nearly forty years of age when he really came to solid public work, fifty-five when he was elected to the chair of the Dur- ham County Council.

nifty-six

when he became a miners' agent, sixty-six before he was General Secretary of the Durham Miners' Association and nearly seventy on his election to the Presidency of the. Miners' Federation of Great Britain."

"

His earliest memories were of moving from village to village. viewing our English Janes from the top of a wagonload of furniture or sliding behind the wagon on a cold winter's day." Restlessly his father went from colllery to col- llery. In twenty-two years, the

le home was sold twenty-one times crossing from Durham to Lancashire and back over the Penninca...

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As a young man, Peter Leo wan- dered farther still-to the United

States and to the Rand-before he

settled down to serve his own people.

CASES

SILL TRAVERS HUMPHREYS

By Bechhofer Roberta (John Lane, ISB.) THE FAMOUS CASES OF SIR BERNARD SPILSBURY

By Lello' Randall (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 8a. Gd.)

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ERE are two books which will be pored over for hours by those who are interested in criminology-one about a great advocate and a great judge, the other about a figure who has become almost legendary as being concerned with the conviction of many of the murderers who have gone to the gallows in the last twenty years and more.

No one, we are told, has an experi- ence of murder cases that even ap pronchies Bir Bernard's Mr. Randall pula the number of them into the hun- dreds and his post-mortem- examina- tians tuto many thousands

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If you want cases and plenty of them, told dramatically and with a wealth of deinil turn to Bechholer Roberts' volume.

Beddon, Bywaters and Mra Thomp- son, "Mr. A." Brown and Kennedy, Rouse, Leopold Harris, Mra. Ration- bury and Bioner-these are only a few of the multitude of names concerned in famous trials that are plentifully spread out. The cases amount to nearly a hundred, and they are pro“ sented with an admirable mixture of discernment and vividness,

Here, again, is a book which gives many interesting glimpses of the real personality of its subject.

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CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES Those were the days when work- MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. ing men carried dog-cared and heavily pencilled coples of Britain The Steamship, for the British and Merrie England in' thele pockets, reading them

"CHENONCEAUX" No. 3' A/37

everywhere. When "staid Trado Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via Union leaders demanded, that ports etc., arrived Hongkong on

Unions should be kept out of Saturday, 26th December, 1938. polities." "When Peter Lee saw his Consignees are hereby Informed work clear before him on the Rural that their goods with the exception and County Councils.

of Opium, Treasure and Valuables And, at last, in 1919, when are being landed and stored into the Labour swept the county and the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon workers were called on to govern loon, whence delivery may

Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- be ob- for the first time in the history of tained immediately after landing.

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our local administration, there was

All claims must be sent in to me only one man whom they wished

on or before th

9th January, 1937, or to lead them-Peter Lee. Some of they will not be recognized. Mr. --- Lawson's most significant Damaged Packages will be examin..... chapters are devoted to the aequel ed by the Company's Surveyor and its success.

Messrs-Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 31st December, But in all these pages the man is 1036.

a. Revenue Consignees must have shown clearly against the compel- ling background: of his mission Omeer in attendance when any duli- Peter Lee spending his honeymoonable goods are examined by the at the coal-face ("I stand here as Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected President of your great organisa- by us in any case whatever.

tion," he told the miners years later, "because of the love of two women, my mother and my wife "}, living so sparingly that, in accept- ing expenses for official duties, ho felt he was lowering his flag,” laughing at the furlous attacks on him in the papers...

It. OUL Agent. Hongkong, 25th December, 1030,

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

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Falling during the Gresford inquiry, he said, "I just want to The Stearnship, get better in time for the next stage. I know where that explo- sion started, and I want to get into

No. 2 AEO/37 Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk vin etc.. arrived Hongkong on died and his legend lives on. Saturday, 26th December, 1930.

that plt. Not long afterwards he ports

If anything could stir atless social Consignees are hereby informed consolences, it is such a life story as that their goods with the exception this, toki simply and straightforwardly. of Opium, Treasure and Valuables with no faked high lights and ne are being landed and stored into the pretensions.

of the Hongkong Kowloon Godowns Well may Mr. Lawson write, "If his Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd, Kow- torians knew as much about the deeds toon, whence delivery may be ob of the black armies which have tained immediately after landing. tunnelled the nether regions to build

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1 Nippy.

ACROSS

8 Colour nothing that has been

'borrowed: it's "scented.

9 It is necessary to interfere here, and one is reminded of the reward of a brave action.

Why

this civilisation of steel, Napoleon, crossing the Alps with his troops, they will not mized. YouLnot seem quite so romantic.

did 1 eich Umbrian Damaged Packages will be examin-11 For, in the shade of the Peter Leas,

by the intle corporal docs not looked the Company's Surveyor

scenes, rather than do pen and Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas in the

ink sketches? (hidden).. romantic at all

presence of the Consignees at 10:00 12 The French join the English in' am. on Thursday 31st December, oblivion. 1936.

13 Slalk. Consignees must have

a Itevenun 10 Although we suffer it in this omcer in attendance when nay dul-

country no one really enjoys it the able goods are examined by

as Pierre, docs. Company's Surveyors.

Fact SHORTS

JOHN

GALS- OF WORTHY, by

Reynolds M. E (Robert Halo, 5s.). In which tho sister of the creator of the Forayles recalls him in the days of his youth and the years, of his primo. A fe of amazing sanity." With miny Interesting family photographs. ANGLING YARNS, by. E. Marshall

Hardy (Herbert Jenkins, 3, 6d). Of the Blasful Ignorance of Two Fishermen, of a Kesper," a Potato and Some Carp, the Trout That. Clave. Itself Up and many other. strange happenings. Not forgetting the Goldish That Drowned and the

and Pike That Lévad. KENT, by Arthur Mee (Hodder and Bloughton, 10s. 6d.). Being another chapter in h new Domesday Book of ten thousand English villages and towns From Allington, to, Yalding.. the county is painstakingly, but ats tractively covered. – With numerous

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No Fire Insurance will be effected WILD HARBOUR, by Ian Macpher-by us in any case whatever. Many

son (Methuen, 75. sd.). When the first guns boom in the next war Hugh and his wife hide, in, aronvo "In the Highlands... Food is scarce and bandits rove. A gripping story,

R. ONL Agent Hongkong, 28th December, 1036.

frankly raising the question: Can Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori we, and should we, attempt to stand outside the conflict?--

TWO YEARS TO LIVE, by Alberto -Albertini (Cassell, '88. 8d.):" A young Christian Rome in the fourth **century is convinced that his life has :: been saved by: a miracle-but only for two years. This is the story of his revolt and his acceptance of this

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THE BONG IN THE HOUSE, by Ann

Bridge (Chatto and Windus, 78. 633). || 66) Bhort stories in varied settings, from China to Switzerland. „A; sutra but delicato touch and a strong feeling for the uncanny, not to say, macabre, „Vormtilo, : 1072%

17 You'll see a Scotsman before

long: very windy.

A

10 rascal to drink, and, what's

more, sticks it.

21 Hidden in Clue 11.

23 They wouldn't think much of

her in India, I'm afraid. Slave dance?

24

26 Winds up many a composition. 20 Limited, according to American ideas, in woman, for show, - 20-Make user bid to make pay

merits.

30 Just fancy! red fag being made

into something to cat.

DOWN

1 Went round and round.

7. Chemical salts that tanke a

permanent gas.

10 Hidden in Clue 11.....

14 Showing how a considerable number about middle age` re- semble he-men.

15 It isn't very suitable to sleep

in it, is it?

18 A striking description of car-

rlago horres by Oulda.

20 Here you see an English river

in the air.

21 Part member from member

schirm.

20 shouted out before being do- capitated, and even then rowod. 20 There's something in front of

the vessel: look closely. :

27 A discreditable, finish, I fear.

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2 The bird takes a good number,

thue giving you a heap to think. about.

3 Finished Jack in prison?.

4 Not frosty HAR

5 Treason, with a very obvious

6 Striped sateen (anng.).