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SOME WOMAN LOVES. HIM?” Only one woman knew why "someone had blundered”... as "into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred"! And her secret was silenced for all eternity by the lips of the man she loved!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 25,

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THE UNEXPECTED' YEARS By Laurence 11ousman Jonathan Cape, 108. #d.)

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NE of the happiest holidays Toverspent was a summer at Street, in Bomerset, where, Laurence Housman generously allowed me to net in festival per- formances of his Prunella and one or two of his Little Plays of St. Francis.

But more than the scene-shift- ing, the assistant-stage-managing, the excessively difficult manipula- tion of a window that had to ap- pear to open by itself in the second act of Prunella and the arduously practised adoption of a Somerset accent-I enjoyed the week-ends.

"Uncle Laurence," as we called him, would wander with us* through the lovely countryside, reminiscing with a deliciously satirical humour, reciting his own poetry, laughing appreciatively at his own jokes-the living portrait of an 1890 Literary Man in a sturdy frame of modern Idealism.

Ha dutobiography is as good as those walks were. It la solf-ap- preciative but

modest, always satirical but never bitter, sweet- ened with sentiment but never sentimental, lengthy but never long-winded.

Famous names crop up --- Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Shaw, Rut- land Boughton (with whose "terri- fying energy" he was associated at the 'Glastonbury Festivals), Dr. Spooner, Yents, Mrs. Pankhurst, Dick Bheppard (who has that kind of heavenly madness which cannot be certified for legal -restraint ")

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score of others.

But the notabilities are only men- tioned in so far na they add the development of Mr. Housninn's story, which is of a pilgrimage during which he has tunged at many a monster by the way in his enthusiasm for woman's suffrage, pacifism and penal reform --and his objection to religious hypocrisy and short-alghted censor- slip.

1937.

BOOKS

OF THE WEEK

Edited by Roger Pippett

PAGEANT-PAINTERS

GREEN LAURELS: THE LIVES, AND ACHIEVE-

MENTS OF THE GREAT NATURALISTS.

By Donald Culross Peattle (llarrap. 121. 6đ.)

MO-DAY we know n-good deal

about the other creatures,. mammals, birds, reptiles, In- scots and so forth, which live in the world with us.

We have named and described nearly 2,000,000.aprcies of animals, from animalculae to elephants, In- cluding 12,000 of birds, 600,000 of in- sects, 20,000 of Nshes and 4,000 of living reptiles, and we have studied the way in which many of them live. There are certainly many thousands of species still undiscovered, but it is unlikely that any explorer will return to civilisation wills G new large mammal or bird. What remains to be found is either deep in 'the occan or clse small org Inconspicuous, very often microsceple.

Yet only a hundred years ngo, when. Charles Darwin was being wretchedly seasick on his historic voyage round the world in H.M.S. Dengie, those un- -thinkable multitudes of the insects

were hardly dreamed of.

Only two hundred years ago, when Carl Linnaeus was renlising that y ing things could all be identified, named and actually classifed into orderly, recognisable groups, hardly anything was know! nhout any creature-apart from man's traditional domestic animals.

People were still like children in n well-furnished room-they took the visible detalls for granted and asked themselves no gitestions. Everything had been created at once, perfect for all time.

In no more than two hundred years, then thanks to fifty or sixty great men and thousands of industrious medio- critles, the whole colostal pageant- picture of our living world has been painted.

Them are, of course, some unique glimpses of the author's brother, A. E., Ïlousman, but what I shall remember most vividly of the book, bealdes its humour, its use of words and the quality of keen-edged milliant paelfim which has adunted all, its writer's recorded doings, are the early "descriptions; done with tender tumour--cause it is toe vast and-marvellous to

and in astonishing detail, of an idyllie. Victorian childhood.

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of how it was painted Mr. Peditie sels out to tell the story, He falls be

tell in one book or a hundred. Also because he is too subjective about it.

wasting precious space to explain his own emotions towards birds, dowcis and naturalists,

And also because he has several favourites in the cavalcade of men who have won green inureis and puffs them up out of all proportion. Also becauso he is an America and too entranced by whip-poor-wills and bobolinks and tulip-trees to give Old World' nnture fair hearing.

But this is a lovely book, all the same,

It will send people of intelii. gence hurrying to read at first-hand the fantastic autobiographies of the great naturallats, the men who saw, heard and recorded for our benefit and delight the marvels which are born, mate and die all around us in air, water and on land, from pole to - pole, from China to Feru IL. P.

FULL MARX

THE LETTERS OF LENIN Translated and Edited by Ellaabeth II and Doris Muzie

(Chapman and Hall, 155.)

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standing political genius of the post-War years. Hero' are over three hundred of his letters-most of them written in exile and all of them expressive of his amazing alngle-mindedriess, his unresting devotion to an ideal.

Though they are mainly of interest to the student, they reveal the man in his affection for his family and his wife, Krupskaya, in the range of his interests, his fury with backsliders and, above all, the cellc routine of fiis days.

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