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CASH

INCOME AND OUTCOME By Nigel Balchin

(Hamish Hamilton, 68-)

FALF a pound of twopсnny

H

rice,

"Half a pound of treacle,

That's the way the money goes, Pop goes the weasell

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

the money.docs go!

An excellent idea of this disconcert- ing rapidity of movement is provided in this most entertaining and informa tive study of personal linnuter.

Mr. Dalchin, deals in the real thing -the stuff that payn the rent and the grocers" blila-leaving bl-metallism to the Bank of International Settlements and the Gold Standard to Montagi Norman.

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For here in detail a render may learn how much it coats to krep a roof above his head, to be tolerably dressed (ns

latinet from merely clothed), to run a baby car or fil à baby cot, to keep house on an allowance which is generally "iwenty per cent. less than what, with the expenditure of the greatest skill and economy, is neces- anry...

Mr. Balchin writes, too, of a host of other things whileli intimately concern our family budgeting: luxuries and necewies and the money we spend on them, why some folk ará broke at the end of the week and that most asten- ishing expenditure of all, the money that "Just gons," which in the casunk cause of half the world's unbalanced budgria.

An ideni latroduction to Die 4 a d of living.

M

B. ER W,

ARABY

ARAR INTERLUDE

By Clare Sheridan

fluor Nicholson and Watron, 158.)

RS. SHERIDAN'S sequel to Nuda Veritas in a book of surprises.

Iler

foreword suggests that the Sahara anals to which she made her home for eight years is much the same any other village, "plus a mur- derer or two."

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

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 thant some would consider best left unsaid. But then, she is the kind of author who loves to shock the complacent and con- ventional Half-Irish, hall-American. a cousin of Winston Churchill, her realless spirit has led her wandering round the world for twenty years skice her husband was killed in the War.

Yet whether you are shocked or merely exhilarated, there can be no dispute about Lila-Arab interinde i brillant Here is a woman with a re- ceptive mind and 'a lively wit who can write tersely and vividly.

We listen to her passing on the scan- dal of the village. We glimpse her peep. ing behind the purdah. We read of astonishing amalgutations and equally astunishing Arab customs.

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And then, when she thinks she has artelted us with the primitive, though that could never be, she takes us to Tourist-ridden Blakra, lo meet some

I the #celebrities “ who apend their ven trying to chase the sun yond the ginte.

Finally, and quite unexpectedly, the surprising Mrn, Sheridan introduces chapter on Gandhi and anther on a Paris revoliqion in which she was caught up..

A queer medley of philosophy and gossip, this book. Sometimes polgant and sad and elusive, as though the searching for something author wer

and knows not what. Somettries gay and lightheartedly irresponsible. Buy, borrow or steal it. But be prepared for shock or twof

I

CLIMB

IL G. P.

ATTACK ON EVEREST By Neil Macintyre (Methuen, 51.)

EZLIEVE in the Loch Ness Monster. I believe in the rem- nant of lost Crusaders whom Megley Farzon found in the Cau- catur. I believe in the pocket of pure Chaldeans whom, as Mr. Kacintyre relates in this book, explorers found 17,000 feet up in the Himalayas,

And I Believe in the "Abominable Bregman,” ces prevkasly by two tragetiera, where naked sixtatep the 1221 Everent experillion found at 20,000 feet. 1 believe in the "balloon birds seen by F. 8. Emythe as ho came near the sun;nit,

I believe in the wonders of the *Great White Fastnew,” and 1 happy to have them served up to mo hero, And, it I feel that the writer kas on occasion mistaken confusion for riotin htt speculation for mandyal, I dị not complain. Was not aktu hond Inrunly compiled from nows- The ventures of the five climbing expazillmans are burn finaluding that! of 1940, the Wallan! flight and the miturka fon samsk suit Kanelionjungu for word puz

14 @ Bojling chain of tales. Mieder viter climmer in slow The fun, but the null | mergkam, taking lay wail *

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POLITICIANA

POLITICS FROM INSIDE By Sir Austen Chamberlain

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ORD. what a funny world 13 when you come to How blok about it!" many quite ordinary people have said that? But Sir Austin Cham- berlain sak it, and he said it at what was probably the most criti- cal and decisive moment in the whole of his political career.

I trips out in this book, which he sub-title An Epistolary Chronicle:

1906-1914.

Ind

Balfenit

made his famous restimation from the leadership of thes Conservative Party in November, 1911. Walter Long and Sir Austeni wore joint favourites for the auccession, There was a great quarrel inside the Party, Jutrigue, canvarsing at dinner par- Hex eunings and goings between off- cial "tera" and unofficial ones,

Carson was mentioned for the tender- ship. So was the surprise starter, the dark borge- Banar LakV.

When the crisis was at its height Sir Austen happened to drive to the House with Chaplin, And, of course --- no luck goes they run straight into Lang, who, after the greeting, sald to Sir Austen, "On! You don't think it necessary to explain why yms are in a Faxi with a man, do you? You luven't come to that, have you?".

How Carson withdrew, how Long and Sir Aresten withdrew and how Benar Law stepped into the leadership is old political history, su quickly have things moved during the last twenty-five years.

But what, perhaps, not many prople know is Amt, after the withdrawal of Long and Bir Austen (Curson never really courted in this affair), Sir Austen, according to the account bé gives, had almost to force Bonar Law" to take the leadership.

In one of his letters (the book is all lettere-and extraordinarily interest- Ing ones) he says he thinks he would bave won if he had hold on. But- "You know that Lome wouldn't have given me a dog's chante. While I stood up to fight the enemy, he would have thbed me in the back.

At long last the thing was.over. Bonor Law timidly but happily found

MONDAY,

TRUTH

LEFT TURN!

By John Paton

(Marlin Secker and Warburg, 123. Ed.)

NCE upon a time-this is not a fairy tale-there was n young Aberdeen barber who. chucked his job rather than take tipsl

This young man was John Paton. who, beginning as a "copy boy" in a newspaper oflce, became a beauty parlour specialist, Enid tect for the million in market-place and eventually took the open rond zeventeen years ago travelling organiser and a speaker for the Independent Labour Party.

In Profvisau Pilotiune, published

himself being forced Into the position fast year, Mr. Paton told the story of be wanted.

Sir Austen writes to his famous father: "I suspect that if you could prep into all our houses today you would find Walter Long rot a lite ro lieved int he is not to be put to the test, me happier than you would have seen me at any time in the fast ten days and Bonar Law for the moment as nahappy a being an extata in oll London

Then he writes an amazingly loyal

letter to Bonar Law. All through this you can only just discern the hurt which came him,

To have breu so near. To have just missed. I have the impression that the hurt is still there,

hin early Ir: now in Left Turni he has written a thoroughly readable ne count of the brilliant rise to power asf the old 1.1.2, and of its tragic decline and fall.

The story begins in Lassirinouth in Ramsay MacDonald's house inciup the empty wasics of the North Sea, it walls still bearing the trisulting in-

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ription crawled by the neighbours with

The Steamship tar bench in the dark days of the War.

It goes on to the historie York Con- ference of the 1.L.P. in 1824, when Mr. MacDonald appears in triumph as the first Labour Premier, airmounded by a Parliamentary Labour Party predomini. antly I.L.P.

There are two other things about this book. One ta the moving impres- ston the author gives of the happiness

And then, in sharp decline. Is the of his family life and the dryntion that

story of the falling away, the break existed between him and his falber

with the Labour Party, the last sad which will be the

of many scene, three M. instead of enzy parents and, perhaps, of many soUR. Hundred and forty, there I.L.P. Coun

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ing m personally-tuking over the helm. Jetting the ahip drift hap hazardly on to the rocks.

The ulher is the way in which almost Indiscreet fittle genis of stories are Maxton-fascinating in sperch, chaMIN- dropped in here rid thera among nearly seven hundred pages to reward you if you dig them pul

There'ls que about Lady Oxford and Asquith, chuttering at a concert and asking her distingueled neighbour for a sweetinent. He passed her a soda Telitat.

There is a tale of Lloyd Ocorge who, according to the late Lord Halsbury, **had produced a most favourable Im pression during his stay at Court and been most conciliatory and attentive." "Yes," was John Burns's comment. "and he's had housemaid's knee ever, since,"

And of the prim oki Lord Lanstowne who wrote to Str Austen. "Your tur!l- cultural speech delighted me. Horti- culture has its dangers. Lady L. put her fool in one of my drains a few days ego and sprained her ankle so severely tint she is still on her sofa and likely to remain there."

It is a pity the book ensis so much. It is worth t But if there were a cheap edition many mare 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 fi does, ..

Lord, what a funny world it is when you come to think about it:

H. R. 5. P.

POPULATION

THE STRUGGLE FOR FOPULATION

By DV. Glass (Ozjurd University Press, 78. Gd.)

A

S nationalism increases so docH the demand for "national mark" babies. In the name of "Patriotismı 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 ther shout for colonies to provide expan sion for their overcrowded populations, are using every device to persuade people to have bigger families., And. sure as cgga are cags, wo shall have a similar shout in this country.

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The "national mark" for "racE pure" babies in Germany is the Kwas tka and in Iuly the fasces. Here. If Mr. Duff Cooper and his like have their way, it will be "WA D."

It is because the grave social prob- lum of birth-decline can, and is, being exploited in that way that Mr. 'Glass's book is to important, He has made a aclentile and dispassionate analysis of the position here and on the Continent, with excellent chapters on the populn- tion polletes 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 wolnen between the ages of fifteen and forty- five has declined from 303.7 live births to every 1,000 married women to 122,7.

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

The expectation of life has been in- creaneti. The base of births has

shrunk, and, if the process goes on, we shall have a small working popula- Llom nupporting an ever-increasing population of old age pensioners.

Mr. Class glyen Dr. Enid Charles' calculations of the future trend of population in this country. Ticao пre based on three sumptions; that the mortality raten with continue the name

In 1933-that fertility will continue to fall up to 1985 and mortality up to 1985-and that, while mortality con- Linues to fall, fertility rises to the loyal of 1931.

Tie encond, and worst, of these three 'watimaton would reduce our present population of over 40,000,000 to less Lán bono.poo within. à hundred укига

frije sanja slania ara apparent in prao- Heufly Nil the white runes-even in Batipule countries, whern, presumably..

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

the Mr. Glass shows that, while measures taken by Hitler to artificially stimulate an increase in marriages and births by family allowances and con- cussions did have a temporary effect nud would have been sumcient to repince the present German popula- tion, the effect is passing off.

From the record of the major German elites it is evident that births began to drop in September. 1935. Bo rapid a regression does not augur well for the future of the German "popula- tion.

So, too, in Italy. Munsolini was alm ing at a population of 40,000,000 by 1950, but the present trend, in spite of bachelor taxes and so on, wilt pro vide only 40.000.000. 'And it is apparent that the figures given oficially by the Italians 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 suffering from economic and social hardship."

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

R. C.

MARX ?

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIALISM

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By John Strachey (Gollancz, 103, 68.j

OR British readers Mr. Stra- chey's title is misleading. Ilis book has almost nothing to do with British Socialism and the British Labour Party. And it ought to be called The Theory and Prae- tice of Marxism.

fact,

This leads to some confusion, for he will often write "Bociullats bellove so- and-no,"

British when, in Socialinta belleve the precise reverse. When he mentions the British Labour Movement, it is invariably to com- plain that 11 is notl-Marxist)

It is a pity he does not make this clear in his Introduction. But for those who appreciate this point and want a description of the economic and poiltleal religion the MarxiaLS and the Communist Party, the book should prove as useful na any.

Mr. Strachey in the lending on- munist intellectual in this country. and be writes excellently, with know- lodge, simplicity and charm., Y.

The

The other, Mr. MacDonald Lossiemouth lad o parts "--gradu ally finding "his true place among bis peern" At last captain of the ship with a picked crew of real veterans

the old crew anfely marconed)" ¦

Mr. Paton wrlies without bitterness or loss of faith. At the end he is still

incumble n

optimist."

Old Socialists never die

Is his motto.

5. E. 11.

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

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FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW DOLORES COSTELLO BARRYMORE

Young Cedric Errol, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," learns that he is to inherit the estates and title of the Earl of Dorincourt. He goes with his mother to England to live with the gruff old Earl. The mother,

American the woman, is not permitted on grounds. She agrees to the sep- aration for the sake of her son, who meanwhite beping to win the heart of the tough, old aris-

tocrat.

CHAPTER THREE

A Motion Picture Bored on the World- Famour Frances floderan Burnett Story

He

Lord The next morning Lillie Flauntleroy receives further intro ductions to the grand surroundings in which fate has placed him. proceeds promptly to make a solid friend of Dawson, who has been de- tailed to "take care of him."

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

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

"He thought you mustn't mind- that they were gory tyrants and he said he wouldn't have them banging round

his store. But if he'd known you I'm 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 wili 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 sce Dearest?" he

cries.

und

"Dearest will excuse me," says the Eari dryly. He gazes backward us

e

driven away carriage is glimpses the eager greeting between mother and son. His face is bitter. On the following Sunday at Erle- boro Church the congregation is

of hugely excited. Gossip the Little Lord Fauntleroy has filled the

now

"Miss Dawson or Mrs. Dawson?" counts Dearest approaches! he inquires of Mrs. Mellon, the the housekeeper at the castle.

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1 In more ways than one this in-

scct may carry poison.

0 A cash transaction in the kit-

chen-garden.

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

all the tenants and their wives and families greet her. She good impression "Just Dawson, my lord," says Mrs. has already made Mellon. "She is here to do anything and Higgins has spread for and wide you ask of her."

the story of the letter that Ceddie The haughty Earl is impatiently wrote to him. The general opinion awaiting the appearance of his is that the new Lord Fauntleroy grandson in the library. Mr. Mor- "Captain Cedric comes to learn #11 A girl may take them for break- duuni, the clergyman, calla and There is exeltement when the Earl hands his hat to Thomas, the foot-himself is seen coming to church man. In the library he finds Ceddle with his grandson. They enter the and the Earl, down on their hands Dorincourt pew and Coddle glances and knees, shooting marbles. The across the church at his mother, sight almost staggers Mordaunt, He sees a tablet on the wall show

Any good at marbles, Mordaunting two figures in antique dress, hand the Earl aim his amazed coller. He uplifted before missals. An inscrip- astonishes Mordaunt further by tion on the tablet says: giving him a gracious hand shake. Then he introduces Ceddle is "the new Lord Fauntleroy,"

"Fauntleroy, this is the rector of the parlah."

Mordaunt has come to plead the cause of one of the Earl's tènants,

Higgins, who is behind in his rent, Higgins wife is III. Ceddle listens to the conversation. interestedly,

"What would you do in this case?', the Earl asks Ceddie:

Dorincourt

"I should let him stay and give him the things for his children that they neurt directs Ceddie to write n letter to Newich, the Earl's agent, saying Higgins is not to be interfered with for the present. Mordaunt is astonished. Ceddio writes:

"Dear me. newick if you pleas mr. higgins is not to be Inturfeared with for the present and oblige,

Yours rispecferly

"Fauntleroy."

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fast: they certainly take her. 12 Far beyond a leading article,

for.

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

14 Walk like a middle aged devil. 17 Panels are, for instance, but

certainly not in the open. Adverb.

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20 This must be up before the "Here lyeth ye bodye of Gregorye

steamer starts. Arthure, Fyrst Earle of Dorincourt. 21 River famous for its crossing.

of Alicone Hildegarde hys 23 This shoe is mostly made of. wyfe.

wood. Who are they?" Ceddle asks his 24 Limes in the mud. grandfather excitedly.

26 Overworked cross-word vehicle. "Some of your ancestors who lived 20 Man whose wicket falls tenth is," a few hundred years ago," the Earl 30 Say without stress. answers,

31 A coin in Merry England, that is After the service Higgins op not used in proaches Lord Fauntleroy and begs 32 the small change of this coun- permission to thank him,

"I only wrote the letter," Ceddia tells him. "It was my grandfather always is to everybody." who did it. You know how kind he

And the Earl, wearing a very grim smile indeed: aucis:

you the

"You see, Higgins, people have been mistaken in me. When want reliable information on subject of my character, apply to him. Get into the carriage, Fauntleroy."

try:

DOWN

2 Describes the Scottish Border-

land.

3 The country seat of my ancos- tors-If you will forgive, the personal note.

4 Men in the Peak district?' This

may be very aggravating.

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Cardinal point.

6 Recipes in an exact form. 7 Posted pin in mat (anag.). 8 Turned sults for any act would not be likely to give satisfaction. 10 I.

15 Put on the hose, for these

Dowers, and

16 make her start in the vegetable

garden.

18 Silly.

20 Shi alternatively, half a score.

22 May take a load for a motor-

cyclist-or n bird.

25 The parental beer? 27 Satan's autumn? 28 No distance by rall.

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on about Dearest, and Ceddle e-boy

On the way to the castle the car. sures him that he misses her great ringe passes Dearest. Ceddie waves ly even though he sees her almost Ceddie tells his grandfather: "I while his grandfather ignores her. every day. think you must be the best person The Earl engages him in conversa= "If I didn't live with you," the

says carnestly, "I should think about you all the more.”

"Pon

my word, I believe you would!" the Earl oxclaims.

(To be continued to-morrow,)