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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.... MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937.

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SINCLAIR LEWIS*

"DODSWORTH"

with

A Picturisation of which will be released in Hong- kong shortly by United Artists

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Sam Dodsworth, on the insistones "But Frau was in enrnest. "I ena of his wife, har jold the automobile so you aren't enjoying Parta." I'm plant which he built up over a period only thinking of your pleasure. It you thought of mine you wouldn't ank 28 years, and with a heavy heart to to leave here just, as we've got alle out to "enjoy” toleura in Burope, to know nomio really nice people." Dodsworth find some consolation In Dodsworth didn't think they wers The fact that he will visit England-no vice, nad he told her D, felting Mother England. But Fran gets in-slip all the thoughts that had been Volved in an unfortunate shipboard slowly storing in bla mind. He want flirtation with an Englishman. And to know about the matter of to they go to France instead.

[pathetle, “But I wouldn't want to

go home without you, Front"

F

CHAPTER U

Ladamo l'enable's collecting commi sion on all the dresses Fenn bought. That didn't seem to him on ice netion to come from a friend, And he wanted to know more about Iselin and

Franco and its connointions. Dada-yanng Kurt Von Oberndorf. Partley- worth, with all the engerness of the

larly, he suspected his wife's interent

'Aiancient tourist, permitted himself in İnelin,

to grow exclied over a visit to Napo

"They look like a couple of gigolon

Jeon's Tomb He got a tremendous | to ine," he insisted.

thrill not of landing on the spot Fran's eyes blazed. "You can't in where Marla Antoinette lost her head. Inuit my friends that way. You may

40, Fran my darling, you're drifting away from me!" Som eald.

Dodsworth Interrupted her. "You've been apologizing?"

To visited museums and show-places be the most impressive man in Zenith, contentiously, and got tremendous but you're at în Zenith now. You're Batisfaction out of them.

in orisi And I'm sick and tired of Frau, however, grew quickly bored. jogolegialng to my friends for the way She began to ruilionio certatu aristo; you ... cratic nequaintances, and permitted Dodsworth to follow the paths of bis guide book alone. Not that she fg- nured ha entirely. On the contrary, ho made it her special business to educaty Dodswell in the French nzeitles. Dy one polat poly, Dode worth was adamant. Le faslated on having his breaktasi, despite the deli- ento French custom of Beginning the tiny fasting.

I've got the same insules 1 had at home" he argued stoutly.

"Yes, Sam," said Fran sadly, "I'm afraid you have."

"Yow, 1 have,” and Fran furiously. "You're hopeless. You refuse to learn, You haven't the slightest nod tion of what elvillention really is, and how virilized people behave."

Dodsworth was shocked and hurt, but he kept his bend.

"I'm going to get out of this town," ho said, "amt back to something no- ing. And I'm going to take you along.

"I'm not going," said Fran Grmly. Dodsworth was equally firm, "Oh,

fran found herself more and more yes, you are.” taken up with her new-found friend, "I think we need a vacation from Madame de Penoble. Madomo dejench other," said Frau, and then re- Tenable was a lady of dubious age, vented in a rugh of words, what sho Sho and eqully dubious position in society, had been planning all the while, but she introduced Frau to those had rented a villa for the summer chariningly Continental gentlemen, with Modame de Penable in Switzer- Arnold Iselin and Kurt Von Oberndorf Jead, without telling her husbna. He -one a middle-aged aristocrat, urbane had not, entered into her pinus. Nor and worldly-wine: the other a were did she tell isina that Iselin woukl bo youngster, of excellent but impover there. Indied family.

Dodsworth was stunned. "Ok, Frau,

In their ultra-zefined asclety, Dods- |ray darling, you're drifting away from worth found himselt so completely out the. After twenty years!" No, I wou't ef pince that he rather welcomed gv_home,' Fran's obvious efforts to exclude him.

Hot Fran was a tigrenn,

"You'co

He was not prepared, however, forgot to go!" she screamed. "You'vo the bombshell Frau sprang on in simply get to go! I can't stoed being when to enggested that it was time torn this way any longer!""

to leave Paris-ko had seen all the nights..

Why don't you go home?" Frou auggented, with affected canunlacay.

Without you?" Dodsworth was bowildered.

"Yes." She began to rub cold- egean furiously an her face. "Get yourself a new lenso on life. Then come back and jola me,"

Dodsworth's dismay was genuinely

Then seeing him burt, she softened her tolto somewhat.

milier.

"Oh I'm sorry it I hurt you. But if we're going to get along to the faturs I've got to be left alone thin You're got to let me have my Blog now! Because you're simply. rushing at old age, Sam, and I'm not ecady for that yet!"

(TO BE CONTINUED)

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SCIENCE takes The Field

UBLISHERS of books on science. nowadays, are as prolific as they aro optimistic. And I think their optimism

is justified, although a lot of the books which they are labelling "sclence" are not,

The man-in-the-street is anxious to find out what this science, which is beginning to dominate his life and control his death, really is.

An excellent thermometer of the new public taste is the demand for Professor Hogben's Mathematics for the Milton (recently reviewed in these columns), which is more than holding its own among the best sellers.

Everyday Science is not such an ambi- tious 'undertaking, but it, too, is a valuable contribution, dealing with. the Impact of science on сусту day life not so much in ita socini (and. therefore, political) implications as. in Its practical aspects,

Mir. Haslett kas nu enviable gift of simple exposition. He is not afraid of translating the Second Law of Ther- mcdynamica or Dalton's atomic theory into terms of domestic refrigerators.

That is one of the merits of his book. Ho shows how "pure" and "applied “ sclence are not nearly as remote as They seem that what is "academie " today is something which the house wile or the worker will take for granted to-morrow.

His canvas 14 wide and detalled. dealing with the kitchen, the future of coal, labour-saving and mechanisation building problems, the methods which selence has provided not only for the crime-detector but for the criminal. farming, food, waste and speed.

And he underlines the fact that the scientist has made the four-hour day not only possible but Inevitable.

"Nattire 14 being flouted, Mr. Haslett keeps on repeating in various connections. To which Dr. Macpher- son Lawrie retorts Nature Hills Back.

Here is another worth-while book It is true that Dr. Lawrie is a médical psychologist at Queen Mary's Hospital in East London and looks at the ills of the world from the psychological standpoint. But he takes a sans view of an insane world. lifting the me out of medicine and giving us cf. mon sense in a place,

His major argument, even while no confesses the limitations of psycho. t;y

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IT BEEN A hired be fought the IT HAS BEEN À RECORD YEAR for quantity,

over. Apart from that there was little outstanding. In other words, the author-publisher-librarian- roader machine worked smoothly.

Fiction was down and facts-well droned, neatly shod facts-wore up.

Winifred Holtby loft us a memorable last novel, South Riding. Georges Duhamel gave us a great book in Salavin. Several writers went unexpectedly

and entertainingly-satirical.

And two authors, Ralph Bates and Ramon Sender, beat the rebel gun with remarkably prophetic stories of Spain.

But, on the whole, my backward glance at fiction reveals a wide, ranging plain of competence,

Yes, the facts had it. Travel books, biographies, autobiographics; political, sociological and scientific works headed the popularity lists all the while..

The steady sales of such books as John Gunthor's Inside Europe witnessed to the pathological interest in an agitated world. Readers went sleuthing after reality and detective fiction marked time.

Nineteen thirty-six saw a phenomenal output of political studies with much rumbling on the left. Altogether a Good Solid Season. Perhaps 1937 will send us that comic genius.

R. P.

EVERYDAY SCIENCE By A. W. Hanleit (Bell, 78. Gd.) NATURE HITS BACK By Macpherson Lawrie

Methuen, 55.j SCIENCE FIGHTS DEATHI By D. Stark Murray (Watts, 23. (d.)

MEN, MEDICINE, AND FOOD IN THE U.S.S.R

By Le Grox Clark & Noci Brinton Lawrence and Wishart, 5. THE LAST THIRTY YEARS IN PUBLIC HEALTH By Sir Arthur Newsholme (Allen and Unwin, 155.J NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN DISEASE

By W. R. Fearon (Heinemann, 71, Cd.)

na a science, is that our whole attitude to disease must change.

The illness and Invalidism of the hospital or the sickbed, he contends, is less serious than the greatest tragedy of all disease, namely, the dismal and painfully dramatic happenings which owe their origin to the minor menini symptoms of unregistered Ill-health."

In short, the strain of modern elviii- sation and modern relationships.

Unhappy marriages, often springing as he shows, from insignificant trifles. domestic quarrels which start with no more than a mental pinprick which in allowed to go saplic, the anxiety, dis- content, gnawing misery, thwarted effort and thanklessness of the ordi- nary job-of-work-these are his con

ceril.

He maintains boldly that "malignant disease, heart disease and lung disease are pitiful. Insanity, acule anxiety and neurasthenia are worse. But nervousness, dejection and despond- ency. Inssitude and prevailing tired- ress are the most disastrous and most tragle maladies of man."

He turns us all into patients, and. because tic talks such sound comenon. sense, we should, as voluntary patients, read his book.

Selence Fights Death, by another dortor, is a study of modern advances

in medicine and surgery. As an easily read, highly condensed survey of what is being done to combat germ diseases, industrin) discases, cancer and so on it is useful if not highly signifleant,

On the other hand, a volumo which Is not only highly significant but also very useful is Men, Medicine and Food in the V.S.S.N. The authors know their subject, not only as actual ob- servers in Russia, but by the standard of what health services ought to be.

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Mr. Le Gros Clark hins donc ploncer work in this country ns the secretary of the Committee Against Malnutrition -and the book does not exaggerate the auccess nor minimise the shortcomings of the Soviet experiments,

Russia is still a child in these mat- Lers. 'But. In studying the contours and temperament of a child, one always remembers that it is lidmature. The interesting thing about a growing chlid or a growing civilisationis, m fact, its growth."

Yet it is an extremely precocious child with which they are dealing-a child which has tried to crowd into twenty years what British health-ser- vices have taken a hundred yeats to nasimulate.

As a carefully presented survey of Soviet bealth in terms of nutrition, communal kitchens, child and mater nity welfare and so on, this survey should command attention and respect,

And a footnote to it may be found in Sir Arthur Newsholme's new wɔɔk. He was joint author of Red Medicine and, as former Chlef Medical Omeer of the British public health service and a highly-respected authority who has travelled the world studying public health, his observations "are important.

This volume, which is historically and objectively an excellent argument for socialised medicine, ought to be read by every one concerned with the health of the people.

And for those concerned about: nutrition--and I hope they are many- I recommend Dr. Fearon's Nutritionat Factors in Disease. It is essentially a mediesi monograph, but it is eminently readable and valuable for, the lay student as well.

R. C.

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1 This old weapon suggestán great reduction in the number of workers.

* Chick,

This hotel.name sounds as if it is secluded.

12 This bow never shoots arrows.

13 A great lake.

14 Flower or feminine name.

17 Kindred.

18 Relative.

10 A shelled creature.

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A resin product.

24 Precious stone.

25 A sce

sced that may retard human progress.

26 Aid to Oriental beauty,

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To fall into line.

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2 Biblical host,

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This traveller's payment has a sad sound.

6 Trec.

7 Insufficient food this, certainly unsuitable for the Long Parlia ment (two words).

10 Drug useful in medicine.

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20 A tropical forest plant.

21 A

A place of main attraction.

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27 Imputation.

20 A modern drawback.

30 A muslent sound, but It sounds

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