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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

JANUARY 21, 1937.

To-day's BOOKS

A INISTORY OF ENGLISH LIFE

By Amabel Williams-Ellis and

F. J. Flatser

(Methuen, 8. Gd.J

A PAGEANT OF HISTORY Compiled by E. E. Kellett

Michael Joseph, 58, Gd.)

W

HEN historians can DAY plainly that a tragedy in English history was due to

the anxiety of a young prince to stand his friends a drink or two to celebrate an occasion, clearly they should have attention.

qur

Mrs. Williams-ills and Mr. Flare are

invest such historians. They history with a humanity that in rare and refreshing.

The too-generous prtace was, of William Etling. ROU ol course, Henry I, who toasted the White Ship so determinedly that soon "allor rowers, the bodyguard et soldiers, most of the passengers, the captain, and even the pliot were all drunk,"

Late at night they set call for England, and "by the light of a ful moon that drunken rabbic ran th thip full it on a rock. She filled and sank at once." And there, with ndmir- able economy of style, in the story of why Henry never sinkled again.

**

The story is typical of this melly written book, which servibly soft- pedals the heroes of history, lu make the ordinary people live.

Here is Elizabeth deŋying knowledge of the sacking of Spanish towns from which she profied not Inconsiderably

and here are the authors adding ins those who are still piratically-minded might note) that "much leas real profit was made than if the English had nisick to more or less honest trade, and kept the peace."

They quote one delicious profoundity of Ceneral Goering's which surely de- serves place in history: "When I am asked about our economic policy I say. *Look at the honest faces of our Storm Troopers. That is our economie policy, and it 18-Germany! ***

Mr. Kellett's book has a different kind of distinction. These scenen from the past deplet outstanding chapters in the building up of Western civilisa tion, ranging from "The Code of Harabl“ tubout 2000 B,C), to the Covenant of the League of Nations.

How long the Covenant will live in In some doubt to-day. But manifestly the Code still operates: "If a man he caused the loss of gentleman's eye. his eye one shall cause to be inst. II 19an has made the tooth of a man that is bis equal to fall nut, one shall make his tooth fall out."

Typleni events in intervening con- turies are described by standard writem, chosen with skill and scholar- ship to make what is at once a store- house of pleasure and learning.

S. E. R. W,

JUR FREEDOM AND ITS RESULTS By Five Women. Edited by Ray Strachey.

The Hogarth Press, 83. Gd.)

THE Ave women who have con-

tributed to this symposium are among the important women of to-day,

They are Quinng untold good fur their sex in every walk of life, for, because of their edutention and their preuling chances to make their weight fell, their vulces are beard when they clalin that A wrong must be righted.

With a wide experience of contem- porary life, they discuss the requita of rotes for women, weighing up the new position and examining how far women have got and where they are going in their journey towards freedom.

They analyse the case in relation to public affairs. Eleanor Rathbone denis brilliantly with this uspect.

Among the other contributors, Erna Iteles-her subject is Changes in the Low"-reminds women of the mca“ aures on the Statute book brought about by feminist agitation. Ray Strachey, writing on "Changes in Ein- ployment," says women are conquer- ing fresh Aelds every year.

Alison Nelláns—“ Changes

in Sex Morally-points out that poverty. the root of muth delinquency. Mary Agnes Hamilton, discussing "Changes in Social Life," defends the modern woman's atlitude, hier make-up and her personal adornment,

Sho reminds us that a change in our soclul life has forced women to compete in a market that values workers for their looks.

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Women who want to know about the world they live in should read, this book. It is definitely an education,

M. I.

WHEN I RESIEMBER. By Lady Muriel Beckwith fivor Nicholson and Watson, 15%)

CAN imagine young Socialist's taking up this book and reading

it with indignation. Older men and women would do much the same thing. It is infuriating-and yet it is so naïve. It is an autobiography by the daugh- ter of the seventh Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and the airthor speaks about "the lower orders" and their present emancipation as something Father dreadful.

The sub-title of the book is “A Re- teation of the Golden Age.

Aller sighing for those Good Old Daya, Lady Muriel, speaking of the dif ference between children to-day and those of her childhood, anys:~

"Compare it (that is, the attitude of to-day's youngsters) also with another precious-and, really, we considered de- lightful-privilege at Goodwood. After luncheon the remains of our rico-pud- ding or any other litis delicacy of a simple nature used to be collected and placed in a covered, china dish in a little basket

The children were allowed, as a treat, to take this to some cottage!" (Tho italics are mine.)

You get that sort of attitude all through this book, which was doubless written for those who can share the writer's sentiments-those who may have lived in the reflected glory of hier Golden Age,

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

Keep

fit this winter

Second daily group of three in series of fifteen

EXERCISES

These thuce exercises are specially designed to make your hips, pelvis, and legs supple. They will force you to use all your muscles and joints; even your toes will have to work,

Breathe in

Breathe out

Stand upright. fect together. hands on hips. Raise each leg to the side in turn as high as pos- sible without bending it, and keep- ing your body straight.

NAME

They will give you a free and easy movement (which incidentally will help you a lot in learning to swim), and will make your thighs full and round. and your legs-en the contrary-slim."

Breathe in

Breathe out

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CHART

DINAH

Stand upright, feet together, hands on hips. Bend your knees and sink down as low as possible, heels together, knees apart, keeping your balance all the time.

SYMBOL: A woman holding a bejewelled mirror.

TIIS name signifies clear judgment, deep sympathy and human

understanding.

Monday --your day of fortune, and the lucky hours are p.m. and 7 pan.

The best day of the month for all purposes is the 25th. Midnight blue and soft silvery grey are your harmonic colours. Üse them freely in your personat adornment, and in your surroundings.

You will be happy If you have these colours about you. They are in rhythm with your name.

For your lucky gems wear crystals and pearls, and have your jewels set in silver. The white lilac and the wild poppy are your floraers and 7 is your lucky number.

Don't Believe It!

ays the Doctor.

GENERALLY accepted ideas

which

are

about health based on supposition and hear- any are corrected by Dr. August A. Thomsen, lecturer in medicine at New York University, in this fuscinating serles of Evening Standard, articles. To-day he explodes the theory

Thal

If a woman who is about to become a mother is frighten- ed, her child will probably bear a birthmark related to the cause of this.

The persistence of this fallaby among the educated is in some to its use 49 0 measure duc theme in some important novels --notably Lucas Mulet's famous "History of Sir Richard Cal-

marly mady.

It is now definitely establish- ed beyond any doubt whatso- ever that there is not the slight- est truth in this ancient and un- fortunate superstition, for we know with certainty that there is no

nervous connection be- tween the mother and the un- born child.

As Erasmus Wilson, eminent English authority on skin, says, so-called mother's marks "The (nacvi) are nothing more than excessive dilation of the capil- lary vessels on a spot of skin a mere varying in size from

to a patch several inches point square.

The notion of these marks having any connection with the Imagination of the mother is. perfectly fabulous."

White feather

E rabbit's white tail I shows it up

as it flies through the grass, and gives the hunter an easy mark.

This seems to be a refutation of the idea that nature always provides protective colouring. But it is not.

Breathe in

Breathe out

one

Stand upright, feet. together, and rest hand on a stick to keep your balance. Then throw into the air as high as possible with- out bending them one leg and the opposite armi (as in picture).

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:

SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL Pruth

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The death of both sons of the Earl of Dorincourt leaves the title open to his grandson, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," who has been brought up in Brooklyn by his American mother. The young- ster goes to live in his grand- father's castle and wins the old man's heart completely, when the startling news comes that there is another claimant to the title.

CHAPTER FIVE

Charing

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW DOLORES COSTELLO BARRYMORE

A Motion Picture Bound on the World- Famous Franews fiodgson Burnell Story

he your boy now?"

"No!!!"

"Then I shall be your boy even if I'm not going to be un earl-Just

I was before?"!

as I

you.

"My boy-yes, as long as I live- and sometimes I feel as if you were the only boy I'd ever had." Dorin- court's emotions are crowding in on from him. They shall take nothing

You I can

hold for that you were made for the place and who still. But knows you may fit

shall whatever comes to you, you s have all that I can give you-al!!"

Broken by what he considers his terrific misfortune, the old Earl calls Court Lodge. He tells on Dearest at Court her that the highest legal opinion he could find has decreed against him. He confesses that he is miserable- miserable" and Mrs. Errol is deeply touched.

I

The amazing tidings that a claim- Imagine a hungry cat smelling its jant has come forward to dispute the

"Perhaps it is because I am miser- way towards a brood of young rab-right of Ceddio to the title of Lord

causes ด sensation. able that I have come to you," he bits. Suddenly, just as it is about to Fauntleroy

on both sides of the tells her. "I used to hate you. I pounce, a white flash challenges its Newspapers eyes. It is the mother rabbi leaping Atlantic are full of the story. Ceddle have been jealous of you. I have

himself, greatly excited but not in been an obstinate old fool and away. The cat rushes after it, and the least let down, sets immediately suppose I have treated you badly. is out-distanced. The broad is safe, about the task of writing full details I have come to you because you're and he cares for you. like the boy Many birds when disturbed turn to his old friends, Hobbs and Dick

for care him On Lady Lorridalle the blow falls And

Treat me and flush their coloured breasts, thus distracting the intruder from

as well as you can-for the boy's theheavily. nest.

"That boy-the first human being sake." He takes command of his emotions and finishes: he hus ever loved!" she tells her slipping

happens he will be pro- "Whatever Because the character of Bevis was vided for."

The American woman who claims such that he was just the sort to to be Lady Fauntleroy comes to make a marriage with a woman like Court Lodge to call on Mrs. Errol, the claimant, most persons were pre-

"I guess you know that the Earl's pared to accept her statement at face value. However, Dorincourt insisted given in," she says. My boy's Lord that the evidence must be alfled to Fauntleroy now--not yours."

"So I understand," R. FRANKLIN DOVE, of Maine the bottom. He could not bear the

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UNICORN

AT LAST.

husband.

University, has produced a real thought that Ceddie should not be rol, Why have you come? Er.

Ilve unicorn. He transplanted the his heir, horn buds of a day-old calf and they

grew as one horn in the centre of its broken. brow.

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ACROSS

5 This subject of Nature Study

is not easy to grasp.

3 This settler stands up

times, of course.

Dame-

0 This may enable the injured

to make progress.

10 A flower from its start. 11 He is associated with rakes in

gambling places.

12 Not a nice person, so take the

reverse line.

14 This in a star is starry.

15 Shrewdness is masculine

the end.

la

.

the 10 Difficult to please, but

stage tries to justify the end. 19 A draught from its head?

Scature on 23 Revolutionary

which much modern furniture is based.

20 Here is famous cathedral, 27 Part of this garment is meant

to cover the head. 28 Circumspect.

"To tako a look at my future Jiome, I understand this is where The Dorincourt tenantry are heart-the Dow'ger Lady Fauntleroys always

dive," Dorincourt calls

on the woman

Outside the youngster to whom the whose son is claimant to the title. Earl referred as an "out" is carving Dr. Dove suggests that his opera-She is staying at the Dorincourt the name "Lord Faunticroy" in the tion must have been performed by Arms In the villege. He sees a bach of the Dorincourt" carriage. primitive people to give rise to all coarsely handsome woman who as-Ceddie rides up on his pony. The the legends about unicorns. It may sumes Incongruously elegant boy Bevis necce malevolently. Bevis have been considered means

manner. Snade, a sly attorney, is tells Ceddle he will have to surrender increasing the bull's strength, which with mother and son. When the everything he has, even the pony. would explain how the unicorn came Earl and Havisham treat the woman "No, you can't have Prince, saya to fight the lion for the crown. and Snade with contempt, she berates Ceddie.

him viciously.

" show you," Bevis shouts and In London, the Lord Chief Justice the fight is on. After some mugh tells Dorincourt that the evidence and tumble. preliminaries, Coddle 20 Twist vulgarly isn't put as a leaves him only one conclusion that lets go. a terrific punch that immocks

savage sign of hostility (two the son of the woman who claims to Bevis down. Bevis howls. Mra. words). have been the wife of Bevis is the Errol and Bevis' mother rush out of 31 Part of a game may lead to rightful possessor of the title of Lord the house and the latter is about obscurity of certain features. Fauntleroy and heir to the carldom. to chastise Ceddie when Mary ap-

It's monstrous" the Earl ex-peare wielding a rolling pin and puts 33 Value highly. "But claims. This woman

woman and this boy her to fight. utterly unfit!!!

Coddle, transformed suddenly from Back at Dorincourt Castle, the Earl a sweet little boy into a thoroughly

to Ceddie's goes to

room. The boy is in roused young tiger, refuses to be bed but not asleep.

sorry for his conduct until his "You've heard bad news, haven't mother's sadness melts him you? hc suys.

"Oh, Dearest, I'm sorry," he cries.

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"The very worst," the Earl alghs. "If

"I'm not Lord Fauntleroy anye I'il let him have.

more, am I?”

No. She's beaten me." "Then the other boy-will-have-to-

my

She folds him in her arms Im- petuously,

(To be continued.)

32 Cutting down.

DOWN

a

1 This sport is apt to have

damping effect. 2 This hat kept many a bad mon

in suspenso. -

one may

3 To do this

striking action.

4 Foodstuff with

in it.

need

clear mixture

5 An Italian helps to make mas

glc.

6 It's

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127

185

the start

of this instru- that may help one ment master the trick. 7 Wherefrom one

many a lesson

to

may

have

12 This may make things less ob

- scure for you..

13 In a fling this lady Is ostenta-

tious in display.

14 The home of the screwdriver

(two words).

17 A mere Uitle.

13 The vital matter

does not

happen to be in the vein here.

20 Hardly propitious,

21 A writer joins to, impute.

22 A Job for the fisherman?

24 This slight injury might be a

sporting handicap,··

25 Entrance of exit, perhaps. 30 Fish.

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