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CASH

INCOME AND OUTCOME

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By Nigel Balchin

(Hamish Hamilton, Gr.)

ALF a pound of twopenny

rice,

Half a pound of treacle,

That's the way the money poes, Pop goca the weasel!

And how quickly (unless you are one of those Very Careful People)

the money does goi

An excellent itfen of this disconcert- ing rapidity of movement in provided in this most entertaining and Informa- tive study of personal finance.

Mr. nich deals in the real thing the alum that pays the rent and the grocers' bills-leaving bi-metallism to the Bank of International Settlementta and the Gold Standard to Montami , Norman,

For hero in detail a reader may learn how much it costs to keep a roof above its head, to be tolerably, dressed (na distinct from merely clothed), to run a baby car or fill à baby col, to keep house on an allowance which is generally twenty per cent, less than what, with the expenditure of the greatest skill and economy, is neces- загу...

Mr. Balchin writen, too, of a host of other things which Intimately concern our family budgeling: luxurica and necessities and the money we spend on them, why some folk are broke at the end of the week and that most naton- ishing expenditure of all the money that "Just goes," which in the casual cause of half the worit's unbalanc budgets.

An ident Introduction to the a d of living.

M

A. E. It. W.

ARABY

ARAB INTERLUDE

By Clare Sheridan

(Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 151.)

RS. SHERIDAN'S sequel to Nuda Veritas is a book of surprises. Her foreword suggests that the Sahara oasis In which she made her home for eight years la much the same na uny other village, "plus a mur- derer or two."

And very pleasantly and agreeably we are carried nlang by a narrative of house-building and home-making and decorating, until suddenly, without warning, we are left gasping.

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The author gives you the impression that she has been conventional long. enough. The story goes off at a tan- gent. And she says things that some would consider best left unsaid. But then, she is the kind of author who loves to shock the complacent and coll- ventional, Half-Irish, half-American, a cousin of Winston Churchill, her restless spirit has led her wandering round the world for twenty years siner her husband was killed in the War.

Yel, whether you are shocked or merely exhilarated, there can be no dispute about this-Arab Interlude Is brilliant #ters is a woman with a re- reptiva mud and a lively wit who can write tersely and vividly.

We listen to her parsing on the scan. dal of the village. We glimpse her peep-

We read of ng behind the purdah. “istollshjúp "assignations and equally

astonishing Arab customs.

And then, when she thinks she has agrfeited us with the primitive, though timit could never be, she takes us to tourist-ridden Biskra, to meet some

celebrities" who of the

apend Their lives trying to chase the sun round the globe.

Flmlly, and quite unexpectedly. the urprising Mrs. Sheridan introduces a chapter on Gandhi and another on a Paris revointion, in, which she wan caught up,

A queer medity of philosophy and gossip, this book. Sometimes poignant and sad and elusive, as though the authier were searching for something and knows not what, Bometimes gay and lightheartedly irresponsible. Buy. borrow or steal it. But be prepared for a shock or two!

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CLIMB

IL O. P.

ATTACK ON EVEREST By Neil Macintyre (Methuen, 557)

DELIEVE in the Loch Ness Monster. I believe in the rem- nant of lost Crusaders whom Negley Farson found in the Cau- casus.. I believe in the pocket of pure Chaldeans whom, ля Мг. Macintyre relates in this book, explorers found 17,000 feet up in the Himalayas.

And I believe in the Abominable Snowman," seen previously by two travellers, whose naked footstep the 1011 Everest expedition found at 20,000 feet. I believe in the "balloon" birds" seen by F. 8. Smythic as he came near the aummit,

the

I believe in the wonders of "Oreal White Paatness," and I am happy to have them served up to me hore. And, if I feel that the weller has on occasion mistaken · confusion for richness and. speculation for analyale, I do not complain. Was not this book largely complied from news- paper cuttings?

The adventures of the five climbing expeditions are here (including that of 1930), the Westland flight and the attacks on Kamet and Kanchenjunge fer good measure.

It is a thrilling chain of talen. Chapter after chapter is closed by the ending of endurance, but the apicit is unbroken, taking up again a story which is not yet ended

M. IL

•THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BOOKS of FACT

Edited by Roger Pippett

POLITICIANA

POLITICS FROM INSIDE

By Sle Austen Chamberlain

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(Cassell, 185.)

ORD; what a funny world it is when you come to think about it) " How many quite ordinary people have

said that? But Bir Ansten Cham- berlain said it, and he said it at what was probably the most criti- cal and declatve moment in the .whole of his political career.

It trips out in this book, which he aub-titles An Epistolary Chronicle; 1906-1914.

Balfour find made his famous resignation from the leadership of Uie Conservative Party in November, 1011, Walter Long and Sir Austen were joint favourites for the succession. There wan a great quarrel inside the Party. Intelgue, canvassing at dinner par- tles, comings and goingʊ between off- elai "souniters" and unofficial ones.

Carson win mentioned for the leader. nil. So was the surprise starter, the dark horse-Donne Law.

When the crisis was at its bright Bir Austen happened to drive to the Houre with Chaplin. And, of course— so luck goes-they ran straight Inta Lang, who, after the greeting, said ta Sir Austen, "Oh! You don't think I necessary to explain why you are in n tax with a mati, do you? You haven't come to that, have you?"

How Carson withdrew, how Long and Sir Austen withdrew and how touar Law stepped into the leadership is old political history, so quiekly havé things moved during the last twenty-five years.

But what, perhaps, not many people know is that, after the withdrawal of Long and Bir Austen (Carson never really counted in this affair), Bir Austen, according to the account he gives, had almost to force Benar Law to take the leadership.

In one of his letters the book is ali Ietters and extraordinarily interest- ing ones) he says he thinks he would have won If he had held on. But- You know that Long wouldn't have Kiven me a dog's chance. While I stood up to fight the enemy, he would have stabbed me in the back...

At long last the thing was over. Bower faw timidly but happily found

MONDAY,

TRUTH

LEFT TURN!

By Jolus Paton

(Martin Secker and Warburg, 128, tel.j

NCE upon a time-this is not A fairy tale-there was n young Aberdeen barber who chucked his job rather than take: tips!

nold

This young man was John Paton, who, beloning as a "copy boy" in a newspaper office, became a beauty parlour specialist, teeth for the million In, the market-place and eventually tonk the open road seventeen years ago MA П travelling organiser and speaker for the Independent Labour Party.

In Profciarian Pilgrimage, published himself being forced listo the position last year. Mr. Paton told the story of he wanted.

Sir Austen writes to his famous father: "I suspect that if you could peep into all our houses to-day you would find Waller Long not a little re ieved that he la not, to be put to the test, me happier than you would have

seen me at any time in the last ten daya ni Benar Law for the moment as unhappy being as exibis in atl London

Then he writes an amazingly loyal letter to Bonar Law. All through thin you can only just discern the hurt which came to him.

To have been so near. To have just mused. I have the impresion that the hurt is still there.

There are two other things about this book. One is the moving impres sion the author given of the happiness of his family life and the devotion that existed between him and his father which will be the envy of many parents and, perhaps, of many mors.

The other in the way

which almost Indiscreet Inte gems of stories are dropped' In here and there among nearly seven hundred pages to reward you if you dig them out.

There is one about Lady Oxford nud Asquith, chattering at a concert and making her distinguished neighbour for a sweetmeat. He passed her a soda Inint.

There is a tale of Lloyd George wilo, necording to the Inte Lord Halsbury, "had produced a most favourable im- pression during his stay at Court and been most conciliatory and attentive.” Yea was John Burns's comment. "and he's, had housemnald's knee ever since."

And of the prim old Lord Lansdowne who wrote to Bir Austen, "Your burti- cultural speech delighted me. Horti- culture has to dangers. Lady L. put her foot in one of my drains a few days ago and spratted her unkle so severely that she is still on her sofa and likely to remain there."

It is a pity the book costs so much. It is worth it. But if there were a cheap edition many more people would realise that Ministers and Members of Parliament are not the gods, they are thought to be. So perhaps it is as well that it costs what it does...

Lord, what a firmy world it is when you come to think about it!

H, R. S. P.

POPULATION

THE STRUGGLE FOR POPULATION

By D. V. Gilang 10xford University Press, 73, 6d.j

A

9 nationalism Increases SD does the demand for 'national mark" bables. In the name of "Patriotism Un- limited" women are asked to pro- duce more and more bables to save the race from destruction by pro- viding more soldiers to destroy it. Germany and Italy, even while they shout for colonies to provide expan- sion for their overcrowded populations, are using every device to persunde people to have bigger Tamilies, And. sure as eggs aro eggs, we shall have a sinullar shout in this country.

The national- mark" for, "race pure" babica in Germany is the swAA- tika and in Italy the fasces. Here, if Mr. Duff Cooper and ils like have their way, it will be "W A D."

It is because the grave social prob- lem of birth-decline can, and is, being exploited in this way that Mr. Glass's book is so important. He has made a scientific and dispassionate analysis of the position here and on the Continent, with excellent chapters on the popula tion policies of Germany and Italy under dictatorships.

Days have changed since Malthus foredoomed an ever-increasing popula- tion to starvation. Since 1871, the peak period, the fertility rate of women between the nges of fifteen and forty- five has declined from 302.7 live births to every 1,000 married women to 122.7.

In the pyramid of population, once bullt up on an ever-increasing birth- rate and dwindling, with the heavier death-rates of the past, in the later years of life, the position is being gradually reversed.

The expectation of lite has been in-

'The base of births ins creased. shrunk, and, if the process goes on, wo shall have a small working popula- tion zupporting an ever-increasing population of old age pensioners,

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Mr. Glass gives Dr. Enid Charles calculations of the future trend of population in this country, These are based on three assumptions: that the mortality rates will continue the same na in 1033-that fertility will continue to fall up to 1989 and mortality up to 1900-and that, while mortallly con- tinues to tall, fertility rises to the lovel of 1031.

The second, and worst, of these three estimates would reduce our present." population of over 10,000,000 tales than 8,000,000 within hundred years.

The samo algns are apparent in pran- tically all the white races-avon in Catholic countries, where, presumably,

the factor of birth-control has been reduced to a minimum.

“Mr. Gins8”#how "that, while-the- measures taken by Hitler to artificially stimulate an increase in rantringes and births by family allowances and con- cessions did have a temporary effect and would have been sufficient to replace the present German popula tion.. the effect is passing off.

From the record at the unfor German cities it is evident that biriha began to trop in September, 1935. Bo rapid a regression does not augur well for the future of the German "popula- tion."

So, too, in Italy, Mussolini was alm- Ing as a population et 40.000.000 by 1050, but the present trend, in spite of bachelor. taxes and so on, will pro vide only 40,000,000. And it is apparent that the guren given officially by the Elations are, to say the least, mis- leading

No action is likely to have a per- manent influence on the growth of population." says the author in con- clusion unless it provides conditions in which the working class is able to bring up children without thereby auffering from economic and social bardship."

This book should be carefully studied. If we know the facts, we can

11..0. meet the ballyhoo.

MARX ?

his erty life; now in Left Turn ne has written n thoroughly readable ne- count of the brilliant rise to power of The old .L.P. and of its tragic deelhe and fall.

*

The story berkas in Lossiemouti in Ramsay MacDonald's house facing the empty wastes of the North Ben, its walls still bearing the insulting In- scripilons scrawled by the neighbours tar brush in the dark days of the War.

with

It goes on to the historic York Con. ference of the ILP. in 1834, when Mr. MacDonald appears in triumph as the Brat Labour Premler, aurrounded by a Parliamentary Labour Party predomin. antly I.L.P.

And then, In sharp decline, is the story of the falling away, the break with the Labour Party, the last sad acche three M.Pa instead of one hundred and forty, three LLP. Coun- ellors in the whole of Lancashire in stead of hundreds as in the old dnya.

Two figures stand out. One, James Maxton-fascinating in speech, charm- ing in personality-taking over tho helm. Jetting the ship drift hop- hazardly on to the rocka

The other, Mr. MacDonald. The Lossiemouth "Ind o' parts "—gradu- ally finding "his true place among his peers." At Inst "captain of the ship with a picked crew of real velerons

the old crew safely marooned)"]

Mr. Paton writes without bitterness or loss of faith. At the end he ja atli

incurable

optimist."

Old Socialists never die” is his motto.

E. E, H.

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:

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CHAPTER THREE

in the world...I shall wrlic and tell Mr. Hobbs.'

"What is Mr. Hobbs opinion of Earls?" the old man asks

"He thought-you mustn't mind-- that they were gory tyrants and be sald he wouldn't have them hanging round his store. But if he'd known. you In sure he would have felt quite different.

After Mordaunt departs the Earl tries to divert Ceddie's mind from Dearest by telling him about the pony that is awaiting him. Ceddie will not be put off. He and the Earl are driven to Court Lodge. The Earl does not get out, to Ceddie's surprise. "Not-not to see Deares!?" he tries.

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25

ACROSS 1 In more ways than one this in-

sect may carry poison.

The next morning Little Lord Flauntleroy receives further intro- ductions to the grand surroundings in which fate has placed him. He On the following Sunday at Erie- proceeds promptly to make a solid boro Church the congregation is

end of Dawson, who has been de- hugely excited. Gossip of the

the new talled to "take care of him.

Little Lord Fauntleroy has filled the "Miss Dawson or Mrs. Dawson?" cou

countryside. As Dearest approaches he inquires of Mrs. Mellon, the the church all the tenants and their

at the castle. housekeeper

wives and familles

She greet her. "Just Dawson, my lord," says Mrs, has already made a good impression llon. She is here to do anything and Higgins has spread far and wide you ask of her."

the story of the letter that Ceddie The haughty. Earl is impatiently wrole to him. The general opinion awaiting the

of his is that the appearance grandson in the library. Mr. Mor- "Captain Cedric comes to life 11 A girl may take them for break-

again." daunt, the clergyman, calls and There is excitement when the Earl 12 Far beyond a leading article, hands his bat to Thomas, the foot-himself is seen coming to church

mian.

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF. sight almost staggers Mordaunt,

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SOCIALISM

By John Strachey

(Gollanca, 19s. 6d.j

OR British readers Mr. Stra-

new Lord

A cash transaction in the kit- chen-garden.

9 Neither here nor there, but it might be here at the moment.

fast: they certainly take her,

far

13

The patriarch who thoroughly took in the doctor's directions.

certainly not in the open.

In the library he finds Ceddie with his grandson. They enter the and the Earl, down on their hands Dorincourt pew and Ceddie glances and knees, shooting marbles. The fucross the church at his mother.

14 Walk like a middle aged devli. He sees a tablet on

on the wall show-17 Panels are, for instance, but Any good at marbles, Mordaunt?" ing two figures in antique dress, hand the Earl asks his amazed caller. He uplifted before missals. An inscrip- 19 astonishes Mordaunt further by tion on the tablet says:

Adverb 20 This giving him a graclous hand shake, "Here lyeth ye bodye of Gregorye

must be up before the steamer starts. Then he introduces Coddle as "the Arthure, Fyrst Earie of Dorincourt. 21 River famous for its crossing. new Lord Fauntleroy."

Allsoc of Allsone Hildegarde hys 23 This shoe is mostly made of "Fauntleroy, this is the rector of wyle."

wood, "Who are they?! Ceddie asks his 24 Limes in the mud. Mordaunt has come to plead the grandfather excitedly,

26 Overworked cross-word vallele. cause of one of the Earl's tenants, "Some of your ancestors who lived 20 Man whose wicket falls tenth is. Higgins, who is behind in his rent. a few hundred years ago," the Earl 30 Say without stress. Higgins wife is ill. Ceddle listens answers.

chey's title is misleading. His the parish."

book has almost nothing to do with British Socialism and the British Labour Party. And it ought to be called The Theory and Prac- tice of Marxism.

to the conversation interestedly.

31 A coin in Merry England, that is After

the service Higgins ap-| not used in "What would you do in this case?', proaches Lord Fauntleroy, and begs 32 the small change of this coun- the Earl asks Ceddle,

permission to thank him."

try. f should let him stay and give only wrote the letter," Ceddie British

him the

This leads to some confusion, tor he will often write "Socialists believe so-

when, in and-so,"

fact, Socialists believe the precise reverse.

(When he mentions the British Labour they nings for his children that tells him. "It was my grandfather j

.Movement, is invariably to com-

plain that it is anti-Marxist.)

It is a pity hd does not make this clear in his introduction. But for those who appreciate the point and want, a description of the economie

Dorincourt directs Ceddie to write a letter to Newick, the Earl's agent, saying Higgins is not to be interfered with for the present. Mordaunt is astonished. Ceddic writes:

"Dear mr newick if you pleas me.

who did it. You know how kind he always is 10 everybody.!!

And the Earl,

wearing a

very grim smile indeed: adds:

"You see, Higgins, people have mistaken in me, When you rellable information on the

been

want

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15 Put on the hose for these

flowers, and

16 make her start in the vegetable

garden.

18 Silly.

20 Shi alternatively, half a score.

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polities religion, of the Marxlats higgins is not to be inturfeared with subject of my character, apply to him. tion about Dearest, and Ceddle a-boy says carnestly, "I should think

and the Communist Party, the book should prove as useful as any.

Mr. Btrachey in the leading Com munist tntellectual in this country, and be writes exceltantly, with know- ledge, simplicity and charm.

for the present and oblige,

Yours rispecferly

"Fauntleroy."

Get into the earringe, Fauntleroy"

On the way to the castle the car-stres him that he misses her great-about you all the more." riage passes Donrest. Ceddle waves ly even though he sees her almost. "Pon my word, I bellove you Coddle tells his grandfather: "I while his grandfather ignores her. every day.

would!" the Earl exclaims. think you must be the best person The Earl engages him in conversa- "It I didn't Hive with you," the

(To be continued to-morrow.)}

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