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"COCO EDUCATES SASHA"

One of the plates from Circus Parado," by John S. Clarke, profusely illustrated (Batsford, 7s. 6d.)

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LITTLE

SALAVIN

By Georges Duliamel

[Dent, 8. Gd.)

ERE, in one well-printed volume, ale four novels by a French author honoured in

his own country and widely known on this side of the Channel since The Pasquier Chronicles were translated.

They all concern a little man nained. Louis Enlavin, who is one of the strangest and yet most understandable characters in the wide world's fiction.

We meet him first in hla office, where an uncontrollable impulse to pinch his employer'a car gets him the sack. We follow him to his home and hear him tell his mother that he is out of work, We live with him in that tiny Paris flat while he is unemployed-unll) he leaves it because he can no longer bear to be a burden to his mother and their young neighbour, Marguerite.

Later WC see him married to Marguerle. We share his adventures in a secret political club and his even more mysterious adventures in Tunis

E

Allegory

THE CROQUET PLAYER By H. G. Woll (Chatto and Windus, 3s. 68.)

XPLOITING that fear of war- which is obsessing so many minds to-day. Mr. Wells has written an allegory of the widest significance and appeal.

We follow the story through the eyes of a dident. reasonably minded." ordinary young man, who, almost in spite of himself, is frightened into Thinking Aboul Things before the tale is told.

A doctor down in the Fenlands is haunted by a terror that la destroying the quiet of those marshes, antiing husband against wife, committing horror after horror. A prehistoric skull in a local museum comes to sym- bolise the savagery of the world to him.

"The little curator watched me an I Aurveyed his prizo specimen and marked the snarling grin of its upper jaw, and the shadowy vitality that #201 lurked in the caverns whence its eyes had once glared ...".

In comparison with his overlord- ship our later human rule was a thing

of yesterday," the doctor mused.

I leave the tremendous sequel and its warning for Mr. Wells to tell On.co he begins you'll have to listen to him.

RAPID Reviews

THE KONSENSIBUS, compiled by D. K Wyndham Lewis (Béethuen, * α). Merebunan, from many

pinda. Starring Dickens,

Mark Twain, Hibitre Belloc, Lewis Carroll, Oliver Goldsmith, Don Marquis, James Thurber, E. C. Bentley, Anonymous and olbers. RUSSIA, FAREWELL, by Marina Vurlova (Michael Joseph. Ts. 8d.). Mira Cosanck Girl stories by the Milling of Sa pravious sprightly- sutobiography, Amusing, with plenty fa fa-filteri selventure, Kut there was to many wp/datalan Royal THE CHARM "THERE DY Abb

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-unt. sick and dying. he returns at last.

To outward appearance he is on ordinary little man, living a quiet life, content to follow a nameria routine What makes hun so restless and dis satisfied that he twice leaves home and lives for years a strange land under

an assumed name?

It is not love of adventure for its own sake, for he is a limid soul. It s that he contumally destres te be better than he is....

*

He may lie on a soin all day long and play the flute. while his mother slaves to keep him, but he is not just simply selfish and lazy. He has in him the inakings of a saint, but he has an little chance of becoming une as he has of getting Jab.

His abilities and his latentions never match. His opportunities never coin- cide with his aspiration. He wants passionately to be a better man-and he spends his life running away from himself.

Although this is essentially a tragie theme. Salavin is far from belug gloomy. Many of the stumbling blocks in Louls' path to perfection are comic, and he often assumes the cane-twirling gaiety of Charite Chaplin. Is vision of the world as it might be is a glorious one.

Unquestionably a great book....

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VERSE

THE OXFORD BOOK OF MODEEN VERSE: 1892-1935 Chosen by W. B. Yeats fOxford University Press, 85, Ed.)

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KATEVER they may have thought of Mr. Yeats' method of reeling verse, those who listened to his TC- cent broadcast must have been stimulated by his original out- look and even more delighted

by his generous attitude to the younger generation.

In this volume he has "tried to in clude all good poets who lingo lived or died from three years before the death to the present

Tennyson moment... And, though nobody ever entirely applauds an antholo gist's choice (I myself prefer at least one other selection to this une), he has done his work in characteristle fashion, provoking thought and excit ing opposition.

Wilfrid Owen, that “purest" of the War poels, s the host startling omission. And, clsewhere. Mr. Yeats blas in favour of thetorle is too ev dent. But over four hundred pagès of personally sifted poetry from Hardy to George Barker is as good as a feast.

And the Yeatsinn challenge echoes repeatedly through that long intro- duction.

"A Shropshire Lad in worthy of its fame, but a mile further and all had been marsh."

* Ellot confronts a world growing al ways more terrible with a religion like that of some great statesmann, a pity not. less poignant because it tempers the prayer book with, the results of mathematical philosophy."

-Perhaps in this new. profound poetry, the symbol itself is contradic tory, horror of life, horror of death."

女

*

That is the authentle, cautionary note. The note, perhaps, of a prophet marching through the desert, but a prophet with a mind of his own und

he will to speak 1

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1937.

BOOKS

OF THE

WEEK

Edited by Roger Pippett

O

UNDERWORLD

LOW COMPANY

By Mark Benner (Peter Davies, 93.)

NE must study the under world," said my father, a devout if somewhat un-. Imaginative clergyman, and, wrap- ping a mumer round his throat and pulling a cap' well down over his eyes, he strode off to the Folles Bergères to gather material for his next Bunday's sermon.

To many the polite improprieties of such establishments still represent the finnl degradation o! Bensational wickedness, Buch innocents should read Mr. Benney's book.

❖

He presenta real

a

underworld peopled by magnificently rabunt vil- Inina-creatures who have overflowed Defoe from the most violent pages and Dicken and Gorki, experts in nuances of vice and criminally un- dreamt of in suburban philosophies. renlints so thorough going in their practices that they would class French music-hall performance with charades at a vicarage At Home.

Mr. Benney himself was the son of "alick young Jewish bookmaker." But his mother, an impulsive, tem- pestuous, amoral creature, provided lim with a varied succession of foster- fathers. Her child was born into a society which divided human beings Into two kinds-those who were mugs and those who were "wide." It was the function of the Intler to prey on the former and the privilege of the former to submit..

Mark grew up a dutiful member of society. That is to say, he took to crime is a duck to water, became a

burglar and in due course gradu. ated by way of an industrial school and Borstal to Chelmsford Prison.

But, because his career took a cours2 all too familiar in this distorted elvi- Risation of ours, let it not be imagined that his story is the equally familiar literary exploitation by the criminal of his sensational experiences.

This book is a superb plece of writ ing, in which the author has suceroded in giving us history a more than merely personal significance. More. over, within these three hundred and fifty pages, there are half-a-dozen characters that I shall remember as long as I remember Mr. Jingle. Einier Gantry, Polonius, Raskolnikov, Trimal chlo aud Leopold Bloom,

and out of prison Mr. Benney has read an astonishing number of books, learnt several languages and prelited himself with a culture and a specula- tive philosophy that many would envy. No one, having read Low Company. would blame him for having been a hurglar, but une would be seriously critical of any future misdemeanour that might prevent him from writing Another book as soon as possible.

STUART FLETCHER.

OR

✡

THE DANGEROUS SEA By George Slocombe (Hutchinson, 103. Gđ)

Handbook on the Mediter- rancan is the supplementary title this book should have borne.

There are few new ideas in it. But, in view of the ever-increasing 1m- portance of this sea in present-day politics, the wealth of valuable and interesting information contains

should be la recommendation.

An index would have been helpful.

B. M.

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Questions for Wives

1. What is wrong with the follow- ing menu: Curried mutton with rice, packet peas, potatoes; boiled roli?

jam

2. How can you ensure that you will not lose household keys?

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3. White soups appeal to the eye well as to the appetite. How many сло you make? Give one scusonable recipe.

4. Speaking of soup, what forms the basis of white stock and what is it that makes any stock turn sour?

Answers

1. Everything. Twice-cooked meat, no fresh green vegetabic or fruít; toć many carbohydrates.

Canadian Pacific

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The Dominion Boo-Dominion Train 2

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Empress of Britain Empress of Australia Duchess of Atholl Duchess of Bedford Duchess of Richmond Duchess of York Montcalm

Montrose Montclare

2. Tie to each a label with the des-m tination written on it and keep all'on special pegs or in a key box. Treat trunk and suitcase keys likewise unless Holl

you prefer to tie them firmly inside trunk or case.

3. List can include potato, chicken, celery asparagus,

us, encumber and artichoke. Here is one made from Jerusalem artichokes. Clean, peel, then cut in thin slices two pounds of artichokes. Add two sliced onions and

two sliced turnips. Put all in bolling

water and cook until tender, Now press the cooked vegetables through a sieve, add the water in which they were cooked, one pint of inilk and if possible) a gill of whip-| ped cream. Otherwise add an ounce or two of butter. Season with a teaspoonful of super, add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer slowly to the boil and serve with sprinklings of chopped parsley and diced toast.

Dood

White stock is generally made from poultry or veal bones, and from calves' feet. If you leave bread, toast or vegetables in pour stock i will turn sour,

BUSINESSMAN'S TOUR.

MR. SYDNEY C. DRIVER PASSES THROUGH COLONY

Mr. Sydney C. Driver, a Director of Messrs. Edward Young & Co., wine and spirit merchants, of London, established 1791, has been visiting the Colony, representing

Messrs. Renault & Co. of Cognac, France, a Arm pre-eminent as distillers of Ane brandy, and the first Cognac house to ship that brandy in bottles to the United Kingdom.

Mr. Driver sailed from England on a pleasure trip to the Far East, bui has been able to combine business with pleasure, He visited Shanghal as well as Hongkong, and, having mer- met many important Chinese chants and others, was greatly

Im- pressed. He left on Saturday for

· London, hoping, as n writer of some renown in the trade, to publish an account of his very pleasant expert- ences.

Mr. Driver was entertained at the Kam Ling Restaurant on Friday to a Chinese dinner party by Messrs. A. S. Watsons and Co., when he met prominent Chinese merchants. Mr. J. D. Humphreys, presided, and the function was a great success,

REPORT BY Z.B.W.

TRANSMISSIONS DURING THE PAST MONTH

The report on Z.B.W. for January state that actual hours of transmis- sion totalled 277, of which, 186 were devoted to European programmes and Di 10 Chinese programmes, 03 follows:

Morning transmission Including commercial news and church relays, European $1, Chinese 24.

Evening transmission, Енгорсад 125, Chinese 88%.

Monthly percentages are European 07.15, and Chinese 32.05.

THE

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sails for VANCOUVER

via SHANGHAI, JAPAN & HONOLULU at NOON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23rd

Information from Telephone 20752

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sails for MANILA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th

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SIZE

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6th April. 6th May

6th June.

Agents:

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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ACROSS

3 It would certainly seem that there are plenty of these veins. Adriatic country.

Puts in situations.

10 Legitimale ejaculation, it not quite accurate as to spelling, on dinding that it's twins.

11 An awful muddle of a game

(one spelling).

:

During the month the following Items were broadcast:-Dance pro-12 He's changed, grammes 32, European studio concerts 13 Our great-grandmothers used to 33, Chinese studio concerts 18, Euro- ride in one with another оп peen local relays 22, Running com 14 Hot air is, largely, this kind of mentaries 4, European Daventry re

lays (Including news) 05. Chineze

their heads.

Kas.

relays 0, European lectures 7, Chinese 17 By the way, Lectures 9, European children's con- 10 Tals hound is apparently more certs 4, and Chinese children's corts 7.

con-

than Henry 10. 23 Such a one Scots call per-

nickety.

New licences issued during Janu-27 What a doctor must needs bo- ary totalled 4,044.

and therefore, is-in African waters.

programmes

constitution.

In addition to the broadcast by Z.B.W., forty-four Euro 29 Three consecutive vowels in pean and Chinese progammes were 30 Horrible Yankee orthography broadcast by Z.E.K. on a frequency

for ghosts.

of 840 keliocycles:-European 23% 31 Girl's name that would do for hrs., Chinese 50 hrs..

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE

Acupuncture, Marocale and Bone Betting! Holder, of Japanes and Hongkong doverbs ment License. Unesa Aprained Ankler and

•Wrist acortmended for many youre by tool Iospitals and Dostor.

4. Wyndham Street, (lat Boor). Tel. 20051.

twins.

32 Hardened" (rev.), 33 Here you see a sailor obtain

something for a pot-shot. 34 They

aro let in by the dress- maker.

DOWN

1 The best-known Hun. 2 Numbers or pontificals,

3 Dispensed with extravagance.

4 A Nonconformist practice.

B Lops it and so made useless,

0 Arab interested in cotton goods.

Tell at length.

13 Where yachtsmen get their

milk,

15 What the Silent Service keeps

for emergencies.

10 Much the same as Norwegian. 18 Trouble from a dagger without

n handle.

20 Heraldic circles.

21 One is pleased to seo hikers in the garden.

those

22 Duller than dull sermon, yet

brighter

parts.

24 Ceremonial headpiece.

25 Spiny plant.

20 Early beef-tea.

28 Common or garden objects in

novels.

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