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*HETHER, whon tho` time comes, you pack your holiday toading carefully at the bot-

tom of the bag or leave it to the last and have to struggle with that lock again, you will already bo zaying to yourself, "What shall I take with mo?" For, among other joys, holiday-time 18, reading-time for almost every-

one.

Well, let me make some sug- gestions for you from the fiction, the travel books and the remini- scences that have attracted me during the last three months. grading them, as far as possible, according to Particular Readers.

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For those who like a note of ro mance in their novelista. Wilking leads. the 1st with that" gal- loping stage-coach of a yarn. And 80- Victoria, the summer's most sensa tional historical tale. Erich Maria Remarque offers Three Contrastra. ample, idylle and most moving. And. in Tod Wiley. Robert Darnell hus weltten a fresh, lively and convincing

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1937.

HOLIDAY BOOKS by the Half-Dozen

story about London lotry-driver, HG. Wollstuses romanca and satire in the stimulating pages of hin "long-short Blar Begollen, «How readable ho rematas, after more than forty furious years of authorship! Fanbio Hurst's Great Laughter is the immenso, sprawling, Jush chronicle of 011 immense, sprawling American family, "There is an inevitable, fairy- tale touch about Lowis Gibbs* quiet, sensitive Lols In Love,

For those toho want realiam in their novelista, Despite that professor's daughter, All Hands! is a splendid sea story in 1. M. Tomlinson's happiest mood. Six Days Grace, which slages an election for the Governorship of one of the United States, is W. R. Bumett's c3% yel. And Rudolf Brunngraber's Radium 1 # Inaci. nating. ploucering. tale about tho most precious suistance in the world,

Murray Constantine'a Swaalika Night Wits a dark curtain from the seventh century of the Iitlerlan Era... In

Is a Ship Buenføg? Richard Sale tells you, tensely, what happens when fire

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sweeps a boat at sea. Lion Frucht- wanger's The False Nero is a long, magnidcently slaged novel about a dis- mal little dictator in Roman times

For those insatiable sleuths who pre- ter tales of mystery and detection; I thought peth Huxley's Murder ath Government fouse one of the season's" | most light-hearted and ingenious storien. If you are A Dorothy L Bayers' fan, you may forgive her for the "love stuff" in Thman's Honey- moon. And make a note of Margery Allingham's accomplished Dancers in Mourning,

Josephine Bell has arrived with that lively, original tale of the wards, Alur- der in Hospital. Agatha Christie is a competent, balling and convincing my ever in Dumb Witness, And, if you de- mand an authentis' nightmare setting' to your detective fiction, Jonathan' Latimer's The Lady in the Morgue will be the Real Right Cloods for yqu.... For those tolto like the true lle favour of reminiscences. Unffalshed Journey, by the Welsh miner-author, Jack Jones, is a richly entertaining

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and algnificant autobiography. Julen festures, with the aid of his daughter, Mari Bandoz, the surfient and toughest of Nebraskan pioneers. And Oliver St. John Gogarty dolights to set the cat among the Dublin pigeons in As X Was Going Down Back- viile Street,

T. E Lawrence, by His Friends, in which eighty men and wonen unite to praiso Lawrence ‘of Arabia, is one of the most remarkable blographical mosaics of our generation, Stéveilson's stepdaughter, Isobel Field, writes re- vealingly of ILS. and his circle in This Life I've Loved. Anthony Wey- mouth'a Who'd Be a. Doclort in crowded with good-natured-and good -stories of the consulting-room,

For the reader of travel books, Among the coolest and most cour ageous volignes this sarimer is F. S

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.Fri., 31st Dec. ..Men., 24th Jan. (1938) via japan, Honolulu. Panama.

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mythe's record of Himalayan moun- taineering, Camp Bix, IL. P. Smolka's Forly Thousand Against the Arello is n stirring revelation of the crusading spirit in Itussia's Polar Empire. And, In Sons of the Eagle, Ronald Matthews paints a brilliant portrait of Albania,

Lastly, here are two siz-book generat selections for the experimental readers holiday

The first. Winifred Holtby's past. humous Letters to a Friend, full of her

vivacity. -ahrewd, suMIY

John P. Marquand's art- čul "menidir," The Late Elcorgo. Apley. And four varied novels—E, M. Dela- field's Nothing Is Safe, Leo Walmsley's Sally Lan, F. L. Dorset's The Marching Cloud and Banton J. Bender's Mr. Witt Among the Rebels.

The second Olaf Stopledon's in- apiring Tour of the Universe, Star Maker, a superb super-faninay. Eric Ambler's Uncommon Danger, a fast- noying, out-of-the-ordinary thriller. And four novels-Esther Forbes' Para-

liar. E. C. Large's Sugar in the Air, Graham Ilenth's Brief Flower of Youth: and Daniel Fuchs' Neptune Beach.

ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY

by Edmund D'Auvergno (Harrap, 10s, Gd.)

HE trade of ambassador is not what it was. Telegraph and telephone have cramped His Excellency's style.

But in the "good old days" when there was nelther wire nor wire- less and His Majesty's dispatches went by sailing ship, Ambassadors and Ministers Plenipotentiary

were "on their own."

Bo these envoys extraordinary, with Ittle guidance from home but a gen- eral-and sometimes out-of-date-iden of "H.M.O.'s" policy, plotted and in- trigued, bribed and bullled, cazened and cajoled.

Mr. D'Auvergne has told vividly and excllingly the story of fire of them: John Harris (Lord Malmesbury), Hugh Elliot. William Bentinck (afterwards Viceroy, Stratford Canning and Sir Henry Bulmer,

It is good reading: it is a quite valuable "side-light on the history of their times: and a salutary comment on affairs: for how foolish in retro- spect seem many of the burning issues which so excited them.

Did you know that there was once talk of an Anglo-American war about the Independence of the King of the

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Among

other joys, holiday-time is reading time for almost everyone.

KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLES

By A B Brewster (Robert Halc, 183.)

CANNIBAL, we are assured. in this book, can be really quite a pleasant person, ex- copt for his table manners. And Ebenezer Thakombau seema to have made a very amiable Fijian king.

True, he had kingship more or less thrust upon him. He threw away the crown they made for his coronation (it was of zinc, studded with glass), and he found bèlag a king a bit of a nuisanco because other countries held him responsible for all sorts of things ho could not be blamed for,

But he did hia beak Ho formed a government with an upper and a lower house and a "Mister Speaker" And very nice mace, And the government appointed judges with wigs and robes and passed all sorts of laws that puabed cannibalism · farther into the background and presumably put Fiji on the Path of Progress.

All that was in what we must assume were "the good old days,” before the formal annexation by Britain, when gin in Fij was ten chillings or so, a, case, land was to be had by nettlers from Sydney and Melbourne for the nsking and it was possible to live easily and comfortably, even though Jurking round the camer was always the chance of being served up as a dainty dish.

King Thakombau, of course. no longer reigns in Fiji, but they thought such a lot of him when he died in 1883 that they kept his body for four munibs before the funeral honours.

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Then a great meteor exploded, and the natives sold it was his spirit expressing indignation at being so long unburied. Ebenezer," says Mr. Brewster, was thorough in all things. ›” As a canni- bal ho was terrible' and bloodthirsty. When he embraced Christianity he did so with his whole heart, and finally, as a subject of the Queen, he gave her bia full obedience”

Only once he seems to have kicked over the kingly traces, when, in his feeble old age, ne insisted on wed- ding a young and buxom maid. He had native cualom on his side, but he didn't live long after that,

The author of this book is now eighty-three. He went to Fiji an s boy and spent forty seara in Govern- ment service there. Memory Corner is not always boring. When this octo- genarian takes you there it becomes, entertaining as well as informative and sometimes very lively.

There is, for instance, that story of the missionary who, giving evidence in a law court one terribly hot day, seized what looked like a water-bottle on the barristera' tablo, filled a tum- bler, took a deep draught and dashed the glass down in disgust and anger,

It was good. Hollända gin, that ‚Ifqueur which, it is said, tised to starch in large, innocent looking carates on the same table as the maco ́in Pili'a House of Commons.

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