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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

3,

1937.

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

"N

NOW I'M SIXTEEN

By Douglas Pope (Dent, Ba. 6.)

TOW I'm sixteen, with no settled job, I have decided to writo my autobio- graphy," Baya the author in the first sentence of this book, And, when you get your breath back, you feel like saying, "Well, what chook!

You might as well save your breath. Mr, (or Master) Pope in disarming and discerning. His snatch of autobio graphy in natonislilrigly fascinating- and. sometimes, astonishingly discón- certing:

For, no sooner han this young man Intrigued you by his complete lack of sophistication, when-bang-he brings you up with a jerk in a passage that might have been written by a grey. beard of sixty-one (lo Douglas Pope "a man of considerable years ").

Young rope seems to be a very human boy: playing with the "gang," getting in and out of serpes, hating exams, quafling at the prospect of singing solo in the church choir, wear- ing out the seat at his trousers. ...

But this boy is different.

Many things excited him tremen- dously, set him making "why?" and "wherefore?"-and providing his own answers. Original answers, too.

Whether he is phliosoplitsing over hop-picking in Kent (and the decline of good Kentish voices caused by the influx of Cockneys and gipsies), de- pressed at the poverty of his parents, thrilled at moving from a cottage to a council house, cheerfully embarrassed at his first ten in "grand ten-shop" -whatever the incident, he cataloguea it and adds a comment that takes you inside the mind of a child.

Young Pope could hardly avoid win- ning scholarship from the National school, but he kept his sense of pro- portion.

"The nova arrived on my birth- day ... I was filled with some sort of joy, for it was certainly a means of lift- ing myself in the world, but I was also Bed with fear, for I loved the old life, even if I meant, probably, having to work damned lard for the rest of my dnya....."

The scholarship was useful. But his parents couldn't in the end afford to keep him at the new seliool. So one night he went home and started to write Now I'm Bizicen.

It deserves all the superlatives.

It

is very nearly in that tiny class of books Lint can truthfully be called Krent. And Dougins Pope lins started something.

S. E. R. W.

Bernard Falk's delightful volume of reminiscences. He, Laughed in Fleet Street, is published to-day in a popular edition, thoroughly revised and brought up to date, ns Number One in the Bookshelf Library (Hutchinson, Ds. 6d.).

The Most Dangerous Game Is Golf

SAYS OSTEOPATH

MR. T. Mitchell-Fox, an osteopath. is a brave man He had dared to shunt "Fare!" to golfers.

He declares that "golf is the most dangerous game in the world, as an exercise is fallacious and is a post- tive source of Income for the osteopath."

He was speaking says the Notes Chronicle, at the conference in Lon-.! don of the Ostéopathie Society of Great Britain. And golf, he said, was bad becauset

1-Any exercise the golfer gets is lost by the nineteenth hole. You get its much exercise going for a walk in the country.

2-The majority of people who play the game do so at week-ends, when they are not prepared for sud- den athletic activity. Tempers are frayed, they hit like fury, and some thing happens.

3-Everyone of any age who wants to play golf should be conditioned for the game.

Here is the first divat (figurative) ta descend on him. It is from J. H. Taylor, contemporary of Breid, Var- don and Herd, "What nonsense, what proven nonsense. Lite assurance

Agures show that the age of a golfer is prolonged by exercise. It la bene- Heinl not only to physical but to mental health."

And a doctor: "Practically every afternoon during the summer you can find doctors playing on every private course In London. What better judges could you have Its value of health? As an exercise it employs every part of the body,"

The Just word, and most unkind cut of all, is froin Mr. Mitchell-Fax.

"I have played golf, but I do not play nowadays. I take part in more munly sports-boxilig. swimming?. fencing, riding and runalog."

-edited by- Roger Pippett

THE SOUTH....... WIND OF LOVE

W

By Compton Markenslo Rich and Cowan, 103, '68.)

ITH an atmost chemical aki Mr. Mackenzie con- Unues to mix romance with reality in this second instalment of his vast novel, The Four Winds of Love.

The progress of his four heroes-a Scot, an Irishman and two Jewish brothers-was held up tos often, In the previous volume, by heavy, Intermin- able descriptions and prolonged purple And the skeleton of tho pakanges, ntory rattled too loudly to let me forget

hand it was there.

But, as the years and the pages. pass, the author Ands his narintivo fect, ranging from 1911 to mid-War, from Paris to New York to Balonika and the Acgcan, where John Öglivio tumbica into adventure after adventuro asd British intelligence officer (did someone whisper, "Spy"?) with s flair for phrases and an eye for hand. Dome women.

The Irishman and the Jew's manage to get a few hundred words in now and then.... And there are scores of other chameters busily talking and writing (Mr. Mackenzie was always A deft composer of correspondence fri hla alorits). Discussion dances pleasantly round art and polities and morals. In short, a dead world is romantically resurrected,

. Altogether a competent and enter- taining performance, in which tio akeleton only rattles faintly now and then. But I wonder whether Mr. Mackenzie knows when to stop. Already his novel runs to nearly Afteen hundred pages-and there is pre- sumably a much again to come. Almost a million words, all told,

Tolstoy could have pulled it off. But I can't help warning Mr. Mackenzie,

Sa

R. P.

JOHN CORNELIUS

BOS

By Hugh Walpole (Macmillan, s. 6d.)

IR HUGH WALPOLE wanted to write this book just to please himself. It took him four years -other work intervened—and it ahows us yet another Walpole,

John Cornellua was an ugly, lovable. romantic, imaginativo boy, the son of an indigent gentleman and a washer- woman, who lived in a Olebeshire fishing village.

Like Ibsen's Peer Gynt, he clothed lita in rosy glow supplied by his own Imaginings, but, unlike Peer, all he wanted was peace and rest, where a man may make his own world to sult his own desires.

John

successful--and Jahn falled. He got to London. He wrote. He was famous. Many people loved him. Yet in his manhood he played like a boy, and fame came to hum when he wrote fairy stories for children.

MOJA

He went to the War... returned... married. . nnd died in 1021.

Who was this John who wrote to his friend: "There are two things I've found that you can't, la these days. talk to others about without making a fool of yourself-love of God and love of Mant

"You could once. Chaucer and Denne and Bunyan and Wesley und Wordsworth and Dickens didn't have any fear of it, and weren't fools eliter. "But, right up to the War, I was sure that God was good and that my companions on this enth were nobly to be loved.

But I'm lont now. I'm confused. There is so much noise around me. I can't hear myself apeak. I don't know the way to the place where, quietly and without any fuss, I can stand and listen and know those two things to be truc."

He was, you coe, a romantic egoist who was 1leked by life. He will ex- asperato tho practical man and woman, even though Bir Hugh has wrliten about him with distinguished charm.

M. F.

HOW SLEEPS THE BEAST

By Doo Tracy

(Constable, 75. Gd.)

ENSATIONAL and yet soundly constructed, this is the story of a lynching, told in that short. sharp, almost "talkie" technique that Mr. Tracy has perfected, And it is staged not in the villain- ous Deep South but near com- paratively civilised Baltimore..

An amiable, shiftless young Negro, swindled by a storekeeper into buying "rot-gut" whisky. murders n white woman in a fit of drunken frenzy. Not a woman her juritanical, sen- faring neighbours thought much of,

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but that doesn't matter-now. The same beast that was unleashed by drink in the Negro roars through the whole community, and the wretched creature, still half-doped and hardly aware of what has hap- pened or is happening, is dragged from toil, tortured and killed.

In a series of lightning-ilt snapshots the various aspects of this Out- break of barbarism are significantly. showt. Which is what makes How Sleeps the Beast more than anottier crute thriller. A terrifying and enu- tionary social document, reminding us of the abyss beneath the paper floors which man still precariously trends,

R. P.

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7 A fish worthy of your rod.

They sound erminently suitable mounts for toy soldiers (hyphen, 3, 0). 10 Remote, for change. Yes,

thank goodness, it is.

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11 What grandmother ways many

a lady is not nowadays. 12 Spice.

14 The east side of Loch Leven. 15 Pedlars or gypsies of tramps, they're all at home in a spinney, Edna (hidden)..

18 Solvers would "do-well to avoid

being cought thus.

20 Makes one run till-that's all. 22 Hidden in Clue 15. 24 Little by lttle.

20 A communication about a letter.

that sounds as though it might be meant for you. Lawyers re- gard it as property.

20 A famous siffleur. 30 Make a fresh start.

one

31 Turning with case from

thing to another, eats liver and absorbs it all.

32 Makes much of the little beasts.

DOWN

1 Sounds as though Benjamin Was sulted at Inst, and why all the better for it.

When lin stars are, is cer- tainly not for partial conceal- ment.

3. Refuse to lose power.

4 Fish nicely In East London.

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5 This Irish senport, like many

another, has its shady side.

6 Bird measures?

A schoolboy whopper.

13 Hidden in Clue 15.

10 The assistant paid everyone at

the junction.

17 Eastern guldes take a graduate amang mythleal monsters in perfect safety.

19 They are often made with beads. 21 Quite a good clue to-day.

23 Golfers should take time for this

green.

25 Struggle in defence of the

family girl

27 Hidden in Clue 15. 20 Lip.

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