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Ar

14.00

8.15

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I.

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Ly

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STATION

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Mon, Wed,

Sun. Tue.

Fri

Thu. Sat.

Fri.

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(Lorning)

11.43

8.00

Ly HANKOW

Ar

9.40

LV SHASI

LV

(Locning) 17.10 15.45

(DC-2)

11.15

10.40

LY 1CHANG

Lv

14.45

13.00

LV WANHSIEN Lv

13.25

15.00

14.40

Ar CHUNKING Lv

10.30

Mon. Wed. | Sun. Tue.

Fri.

Thư, Bình

(Stinson)

15.10

17.10

(Stinson)

15.10 17.10

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16,

BOOKS-Edited by Roger Pippett

One of the many delightfut woodcuts by Clare Leighton, from her book, "Country Matters,”, published by Gollancz (101. d.)

NOVELS

LIFE BESIDE A

VOLCANO

PLAMES COMING OUT OF THE TOP

Y

By Norman Collins (Gollancz, 75. 6.)

OU like the titic? ΟΙ It tennes course you do. you. You wonder whether the flames are roaring out

of u chimney or a blast-furnace-- You are already or a volcano. excited. But nothing like as ex- cited ду you will be half-way through this book.

For, by that time, stocky little Harold Dunnett is listening to the Aendish drumming of the criest volcano that, I fancy, even South America has ever seen. At one moment it was "merely a large smoky crag against a dense black cloud... AL the next, it hnd blown itself up. With a rush, the top went sailing away into the sky."

And stocky little Harold? Well, ot first, he ran frantically with the inob before that hall of hot ashes. But he Loon slowed down when he found he was alone. "I have been through an earthquake and I'm still all right," ho kept saying, "I've seen a mountain go up in flames and nothing's hap pened to me."

That was Harold all over-from the moment his arm sent him out to Amuriennte, to investigate affairs In their branch there. Sinister-but not 100 sinister-senors might stop hits cables home. Ominous hints-threats of arrest even-night float towards But the suffocating air. Atin ou Hurld just luck those Imitation horn- rimmed glasses on his obstinate nose and struggled on.

I

Struggled on where and to what? think su much of the author's cunning at this point that I shall leave you to learn that for yourself. Harold's des- tiny-is-not-sei-by-any-conventional stars. There goes at least one Whilte Man who doesn't shoulder the usual comfortable, temporary Burden. And, for the time being, let that ruffer.

I remains to applaud Mr. Collins Exception- for an exceptional story. ally Intelligent and exceptionally ex- citing As a Portrak of air English- man Agalast n Tropical Background, Flames Coming Out of the Top is the Novel of the Week and something more. It is actually n tale to remem

ber,

THE BLACK VIRGIN

By Mary Borden

(Ilcinemann, 79. Eu

19S BORDEN is extremely worried in this story.

Worried about the troubles

of the rich. Why, her hero is one of those Under-Secretaries who find it very hard to make both ends meeti

the

Generous to his constituents and sympathette in debate to the plight of the Distressed Areas, he really 15 terrified

he when

considers financial ruin that awalls him.

Forty people in the house at Christ mas, seventy-five guests to tea n

have nifty-three children to

(wo presents each-besides that loaded tree. And hampers from Fortnum and Mason and a couple of sons to be educated. And s wife's fortune gambled away by her brother-and site herself about to leave him and cause scandal that will cost him his

For Your Library List

NOVELS.

** THE SQUARE PEG, by John Masefield (Heinemann. în, rida, ** TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, by Ernest Hemingway (Cape. T6, 633.).

bv

** TURNING WHEELS.

Stuart Cloele (Collins, s. 6d.).

DETECTION

*** DEATH ON THE BOROUGH

COUNCIL, by Josephine Bell' (Longmans, Green, 75, 5d.).

** THE FACE ON THE CUT- TING ROOM FLOOR. by Cameron McCabe (Gollancz, 78. Gl.).

ADVENTURE

*** RED STAB OVER CHINA, (Gollancz, by Edgar Enow

13.).

LIFE-STORY

** SINABADA. by Elinor Mor- daunt (Michnel Josephi. 108, 68).

carcer.

*** First-rate, ** Very entertaining.

What a Christains and what A household, with all those wives and husband at odds and in debt!

But it all comes right in the end. for our Under-Secretary doesn't yield to Lemptation and let lils wicked brother. in-law make enough cash to save them aby spreutating on inside informa- So his wife tion about an oil-field. realises that he is a good fellow after all-and they really will economise.

A wonderful yarn, though rather long-winded unleis you, too, lle awake at night dreading that Bir Somebody Something's ancestral home will be sold over his not-too-devoted head because he doesn't know where to urn-for-a-mere-hundred thousand

pounds

Miss Borden strives hard to make this appalling dilemma reni. Yet it s seems to me that what in wrung with these people is not that they haven't enough money, but that they have too much.

R. P

ECONOMICS

I

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CAPITALISAL

By Maurice Dobb (Routledge, 105. Gd.J

N this very interesting series of essays Mr. Dobb discusses most of the more pressing among the theoretical problems of economics. Unlike some more re- cent converts to Marxism, he is well-informed. cultured and un- Hysterical.

He is at his best in discussing the history rather than the truth or falsehood of ideas: he traces with great skill and learning the development of certain strands of economic thought from the time of Ricardo to that of Marx and be- yond.

All the time, however, he gives the Impression of not really accepting Marxism as on intellectunt system at MIL His talent seems to me to le in omnging Ideas rather than in

D. J. throwing light on reality.

IN BRIEF

nro

not

complain that NOBODY can

books worthwhile brought, sooner or Inter, within his reach, for this is the age of the Cheap Edition.

Pleasantly bound and clearly printed, the latest series of reprints is launched this week by Hodder and Bloughton In their Two Shilling Black Jackeis.

The firm batch includes the late Lord Grey's The Charin of Birds, James Kil. ton's Good Bye, Mr. Chips, Reginaid Campbell's Teak Wallah and F. 3. Amythes The Spirit of the lis A most attractive selection. KNICKERBOCKER'S OLONY, by Ernest Restoll. Pictures by-Evelyn Law Edward Arnold, 3s. (d.), The astonish- Ing adventures of Knickerbocker Toad and Freddie Tortoise, two of the world's greatest inventors, The illus irations are a joy-capecially that one of poor old Knickerbocker falling in

his parachute. Bo is the lext. A de lightful book for the youngstera, Mr. Disney will be jealous.”

GRAN CHACO ADVENTURE, by T, Wewege-Smith (Hutchinson, 12 d.).

A realistic bird's-eye view of war by a philosopher who fought as a bomber in tho

recent Bolivian - Paraguayan shambles. The author calls himself an "air mercenary “ and means it. A most exciting and cautionary-tai,

by

STORIES FOR SPEECHEA, Sydney Wicks (Frederick Muller, 35. ed.). A serious and successful-- attempt to relate the telling of anec doles to the art of public speaking, by the Chairman of the Manchester Pub- flcity Association.

LOW. COMPANY, by Mark Benney (Peter Daries, 3s. Od.). The first cheap edition of the autobiography of one of the world's most unuxuní burglars. A sensitive little masterpieco.

BIOGRAPHY

HALDANE

By Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice

(Faber and Faber, 181.).

Twan Richard Burdon Haldane who made the British Army-

ready for war in 1914, For which his reward was to be driven from office by Bonar Law in 1015 and denounced by frenetle "patriota ". as something near a traitor.

Ho had a strange capacity for being hated by politicinus. I think they ro sented his mental superiority over most of them. "He's not a Whip: nothing so respectable: he's a damned Hegelian Rndienl," I remember, one anan high in the Liberal councils sny- lug of him before the War. And as other, "He's the face of ́n plg and the mind of a pig and the voice of a pig." Hegelian he certainty was and I have no love for Hegel. Philosophy and education were the reni passiona of his life. He was never an ardent Party politician. But they used his "He does all the brain-work: brains. of the Liberal Party," Asquith wrote to a friend in the shelles, "and, though never in the Cabinet, thinks for those who are."

"C.-B." made him Secretary for War In 1905, because nobody else would touch with a barge-pole."

Haldane went to the Job which had and Arnold-Forster Brodrick muffed. He accepted with, for him, a strange lack of criticism, the Foreign Once doctrine that Germany was "the

be enemy "--nccepted t. probably. cause Grey was his closest friend. And he set to work to get the army rendy-without the country knowing 4-to fight in Belgiuma

The political etiles, the political wisdom are questionable. But the job was magnificently done. Halg, when the war was over, paid tribute to hla successful corts in organising the military.forces for a war on the Con- tinent, notwithstanding much oppost. tion from the Army Council and the half-hearted support of his Parlia mentary friends."

Bonar Law, Asquith concurring, drove him for a while from public life for that.

1937.

The rat volume of Sir Frederick Maurice's sympathetle blography enda at that point. The second will tell how, years later, a Labour Government gave new opportunity to the man who had taught in the Working Men's Cal- lege, who had advocated a Ministry of Labour in the nineties and who had been refused "silk" because he had given evidence for the Trafalgar. square rioters of 1887. W. K. E.

TRAVEL

BEEN IN PASSING By Sir Austen Chamberlain (Cassell, 155.)

HERE are three passages in this book which seem to me to explain much of its charm. One of them is: "This last volume of my husband's writings is the outcome of his happiest moods." That is in the foreword which is signed. "Ivy Chamberlain."

The second is: "We have now-de- cided to start on Wednesday night. viu Harwich and the Hook, for The. Ingue." That is the simple and all. sufficient first sentence of the book itself, in which is described (always with the same simplicity) the travels which B Austen enjoyed in hia “hap plest moods."

Third is Lady Chamberlain's ending to her foreword. Her husband had intended to write a full and leading chapter to the book and recall in few pages all the joy which his holl. day wanderings towards the end of his He meant to him.

But he died before that chapter could be written, and so "Ivy Cham- berlain" says: "It remains for me to say what was the purpose at his heart in publishing this volume."

That purpose is that other should share the delig which the famous old statesman found in a fast and lovely holiday with his wife, Readers of the book will find the purpose ful- Alfed. There is a simple, almods boy- tah zest in it all, mellowed by the wisdom and experience of the years.

A delightful book and beautifully illustrated

I. R. B. P.

THE ROAD TO POWER By John Brown (Selwyn and Blount, 15%) Tmust be nice to be John Brown: especially if one colleets foreign stamps. For Mr. Brown gets about quite a lot. During the past three or four years he has been to Russia, Germany, Italy, Rúmania, Austria. Hungary,

Jugoslavia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, moro Palestino-oh, and heaps

places.

Unfortunately Mr. Brown does not content himself with visting. these countrica: he has to write about them. One would not mind that if he had something really new and exciting to any. But, alas, he linan't. Even when ha informs us that "I was received in special audience by the Pope" (the word "Y" occurs a hundred times in the Grst forty pages of this book), he does not tell us what the Pope said.

Beveral chapters of The Road to Power are devoted to British politics. They contain phrases like this: "Tho formation of a Flight Coallilen Gay- and ernment under MacDonald Thomas in 1931 showed the workers that I had been right in denouncing their leaders." "Höre-Bellaba-ɑ sud- cessful Jawish Journalist.” 'Our Air Porce must be always three umer greater than that of Italy."

Mr. Brown says he is a Bocialist, "patriotic and Imperialistic." Pity he didn't stick to stamp collecting. ***

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ACROSS

1 A compliment by an author

(10).

Who receives this may be mid to be awarded the palm (4). 10 The fires have burnt out in this

Eastern's beart (5).

11 Not

wise-headed ally (0).

12 Citizens of this description are

not so rare (8),

13 Hardly svelte (5).

15 This miserly fellow would be- come more dimeult if he lost nothing (7).

17 One should serve only what is

this at the end of it (7).

19 Ale rope; this medical

came from it (7).

21 Rustle (7).

advice

22 Few people could see it mutilat-

ed dry-cyed (5).

24 This wordy fiem turns back the

fool in glory (8).

be made

27 A Brmly fixed idea (9). 20 Whereon shoes may

(5).

20 Gentle (4).

30 Material epithet that suggests a

need for nap (10).

DOWN

1 The swindler's victim keeps his

heart up (4).

"I cast dole" (ang.) (D).

3 The gold-seeker's plot? (5).

4 His underlings

Occupations (7).

have stable

5 Interchange letters three and six, and see changes to beads (7).

7 Permission (5).

CROSSWORDS

320

8 This is merely a question of or-

dor (10). Some light may help you to solve this puzzle (B).

|-14-They use this before-they-19

across (10).

Cause of many

10 A possible

notable saying being unrecorded (8).

18 A fashionable part of London

(9).

20 Mixed shingle is not foreign (7). 21 A future gulde (7).

23 The result (5).

25 Whereon one usually pays for permission to do the opposite to what it says (5).

20 A drawing concern in

kitchen, maybe (4).

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