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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1937.

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

edited by Roger Pippett

F they had been really alive to social realtic. our have

universities would long ago

Number One. It is not too late yet.. For. after many years, he remains the supreme populariser in the fascinating field of economie geography.

I have just read his latest book, The Opening Up' of the World (The World To-day Series. Methuen, 38. (d.), and my mind is still tingling with the exciting prospects which he has outlined in theso hundred odd pages with their forty-five Inimitable maps.

As he points out in a foreword, he has attempted to state the main facts of world geography in the only way in which, so far as my experience goes, they can be made vitally interesting-that is, by relating them to the broad facts of human social development, past and present."

With the help of Mercator's projection and o mapping-pen. Mr. Horrabin traces the huge footprints that Giant Trado has made in his feverish, greedy travels round the globe from the Age of Feudalism to the hesitating World Economic Conferences of our own day. You may read-and see-here how new lands were discovered through the urge of merchant groups to make quick fortunes, how the Crusaders · stimu Isted commerce, wity coal WOX

first mined extensively in Northum berland and Durham, why ships will be more important industrially than aeroplanes how Bovie: Russia has solved the problem of that North-East Pasinge which baled the Elizabethan

scamen...

You may learn how, in the heyday of the East India Company, vast stores of wealth were 'shaken from the pagoda tree" and sent to England, where they were used to subsidize the Industrial Revolution. And, froin one of Mr. Hormabin's chapters and a single map, you may deduce the trend of politics in Those United States.

The world has been the scholars' oyster for a score of generations, but books like this are at last opening it up for the common man.

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AUL HORGAN'S Main Lino West (Constable, 75, 0d.) is a vivid and at- tractively-written novel, which displays a striking picture of the nuidity of life across the Atlantic. In the early years of this century, a travelling salesman married Irma, a farmer's daughter, only to abandon her in a small western town. There her child, Danny, was born, and she strug.. gled along, keeping a restaurant of Boris, until she became converted and set out on the wandering career of a visiting evangelist.

Then came the War. The boy was enraptured with the beating drums. and the waving flags. But Irme was

The Star's Routine. Riabouchinska oxer- cising after a long four. From Arnald

Haskell's "The Ballotomane's Scrap Book." (A. & C., Black, 73, ód.)

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Morals

a pacifist. As the war fever mounted It grew harder and harder for her to deliver her message, until, at Inst, her audience turned against her. She was ehnerd out of town, to die of exhaus tion and licart-break in the train...

And then Danny started travels. Where he went and what happened to him we may learn, I hope, in a sequel, for Main Line West ends like a Cliapliu film, with Danny's lonely gure diuinating into the din tance.

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The story of his haphazard childhood is firmly presented, and the portrait of his mother is a memorable one. A mature and distinguished tale.

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LTHOUGH, like so many first novels, it suffers from overcrowding,

Winifred Blazey's Dora Beddoe (Michael Joseph, 78, 0d.) is a story of considerable promise,

It stages an investigation into psychical research, a couple of sudden deaths and the ensuing inqucats, a

nagging mother, the over- devotion of a sister to her brother and the final de rcent of this unhappy Creature into a quiet förm of madness.

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Dorn Beddoe did not

push her mother down- stairs and break her neck, but her mother had made her life such a misery that everyone suspected she hand had a hand in the death. Bhe did push her brother's flanete over the pler-end-and no one suspected her until that mallelous charwoman started her slanderous campaign again.

That brought up the question of tie polson she had bought, and Dora und to stand her trial for murder.' She was nequitted-just as she had been ex- onerated at the inquest on her mother -but by that time her darling brother was rigbily terrified of her. And we leave her in frightening communion with her two gboala.

Not exactly a pleasant theme, but a serious treatment of the psychology of

German Deserter

murder can never be that. Miss Blazey has given its a powerful and fascin- ting book.

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IBBON development is. occurring not only in the suburbs of our towns and cities, but in many places along the const. One day, it seems, we may wake up to find our shores one long, unbroken promenade....

Norah C. James new navel, Sea. "View (Jarrolda, 78. Od.), tells you how the little village of St. Don't was over- taken and absorbed by its prosperous_ neighbour, Northisen.

The author centres her story in the struggle between the proprietor of th up-to-date Ben View Hotel and the twner of the small but comforthlis Cl Arms. And she goes on to give them children who love each other f spite of their parents obstinate 'enmity.

Northsea buys out the Clin Arms- and Sea View loses its sex-view. But the lovers eventually marry and all is well.

An extremely well told tale, which Introduces you to everyday people in circumstances that you can believe in.

R.P.

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to a if you walked in the wrong direction. This strange region, the original model for old poets' descriptions of Hades and the Inferno, is near to Naples, on the far ride of Vesuvius.

It is called Solfalara, because of the great sulphur mines there, but the high ground is known to the Neopolitans as "ittle Vesuvius."

The sulphor quarries are connect- ed by natural underground tunnels with the giant Vesuvius, and when Vesuvius itself is quiet little Vesu- vius" is active, belching clouds of steam from innumerable Essures.

There is sand everywhere, It moves like the surface of slowly bubbling water. It is lying over bolling lava, and in roadside patches of this boiling sand the quarrymen cook their meals, just as one might on a stove,

Scorching The Air

Here and there the surface dips into hollow places where may be seen the boiling lava which is just below the moving sand. Though incredibly hot, scorching all the air, the lava looks like thick black mud in which some over-whelmed mon- ater is slowly writhing.

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Presently the guide will tell you you must now turn back, "Listen!" he will say, and drop a heavy stone,. As it strikes the road-) way a resonant "crack" indicates that only a thin crust holds the pedestrian above a hollow oven.

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