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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Straight talk

You're taking a big step, Miss Brown

TUESDAY,

to

Mr. Smith's

fiancee

a

Third of series by ANTHONY WEYMOUTH,

of Harley.

street..on MARRIAGE

AGREE, Miss Brown, it law big step you're

taking. And perhaps you're right when you say that marriage is an even bigger step for the woman than it is for the

man.

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BOOKS-Edited by ROGER PIPPETT

A Holy Terror

-and an Old Darling

(SSUED under the auspices of the

Anglo-Swedish Literary Founda- tion," I read on the cover of Thy Rod and Thy Staff, by Hjalmar Bergman (Capo, 7s. 6d.), and my critical

beat. heart mused

Another high-class tombstone in the vast Another gloomy cemetery of literary hopes.. monstrosity to be read out of a sense of duty and by only the Best People.

Which just shows how wrong Arat impres alons can sometimes be. For, in spite of that forbidding title and a good deal of conversation with God, this is one of the most lively and upstanding novels of the year.

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You get the clue in the phrase. "conversation with God." Old Agnes Borek may have taneled she was praying, but, as a matter of fact, she was just telling God a number of things she thought He ought to know, asking Him such questiona as, "Now, what was the use of that. good Lord?" or suggesting that. For once. He might do as she asked....

A masterful old woman, she was certainly nurprised when the Lord spoke at lust and She -told-her-that ilo was not her creatut boy.

had got what she wanted, and whose fault was

it if she had made a mess of things?

Born a peasant girl, she had married into

a merchant family and smashed it up because she considered ber husband and children were more important thun that tribe of uncles and cousins who wanted help.

She drove her adored son and still more adored grandson away, ahd no one was more staggered when the grandson returned, not as a beggar but as a rich man. Why, he ought to have come crawling to her for forgiveness!

But the Lord didn't seem to think so, nor did He intervene when her children ventured to criticise and even to catechise her. Could it really be that she badn't always been perfectly righteous and perfectly justified?

Granny Borek remembers her long te for the greater part of the book. It was only to- wards the end that I got a new light on certain incidents. But, whether she is telling the story or her chlidren are saying that it wasn't at all like that, the tale goes with enor- mous zest and yet with remarkable delicacy of perception,

Gmny herself is such a terrific character that I was glad she is confined behind those bars of print. A Holy Terror-and an Old Darling.... You must get to know her and the more amiable members of tier clan.

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NO INNOCENT ABROAD By C. F. Nodocznachi (itetnemann, 7a. Sď.)

FROM bool-blacking to arma- ment making, from the stunts

of Alexandria to the company

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wherever he went and whatever he did, Ulyssca had only one iden-tà turn a dis- honest penny. In a respectable way and go while this going was good.

Once a Greek urchin, he made and loat fortune after fortuna and died at a great ago, loaded with hontum, Ho is at once the hero-villain of this fas cinating first novel and a compound of soveral Merchant Adventurors (to give them a polite·namo) of our time. Not a well-constructed tale, because Art in the story of long, varied and

wickelt life, And Life is seldom BA shapely na Fletion and the Moralities demand: But I found it'as signifleaut and as exciting as any front page newa

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BARRIE'S

Loneliness

CLUE

is given Greenwood Hat

Aves

in The (Peter

Yes, of course, I'm sure that Mr. Smith is all you say he is. I wasn't suggesting for one moment that you lindn't chosen well. We'll take that as read, Miss Brown, and get down to brass tacks at once.

LET'S approach marriage from the woman's standpoint like this. What ought you to expect from your husband?

Of course! Your husband should remain your lover, and be as deeply absorbed in you as the day on which he proposed to you.

But you mustn't be too exacting, Miss Brown-when you've changed your name to Smith. You'll have to remember that our party-manners tend to wear o bit thin once the

party's over. In other words, you mustn't expect your husband to be always on his best behaviour,

Life isn't n party. If it were, he'd never be able to relax--and that wouldn't be natural, would 117

to Bir AND you must be careful not to A look on it as a sign of his falling affection or as a proof that he no longer respects you.

85. Gd.) James Barrie's loneliness at the height of his eminence. It 'shows

'a side of him which I discovered for myself when I came to know him a few years ago,

Late one night, in his ifbrary, he left the telephone ringing frantically in the coal-box, where he hid it (because he "hated the sight of that new-fangled con- traption"), while he connded to me why he went on writing things which he never meant to publish. "I write to keep myself company,” he said. And The Greenwood Hat was a part of that self-communion,

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to guide him in his attitude to you --without him knowing that you're doing it.

Tw printed in a imited edition of-on Mr. Smith's part. It's up to you tity copies for private circulation amongst his friends. Now, with an introduction by Fari Baldwin, It has been published at large by his godson, Peter Davies.

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Keeping himself company" sums up. His companion was the young Jamie who came to London, poor and friendless, often hungry on his four penny buns in a bag, but deter mined to succeed. And he found him a more lively compaulou than "Bir James Barrie, Bart, O.M.“

You can see him, through this book, revelling in his later years in the early writings of "James Anon," the name under which he wrote in the old "SL James's Onzette."

There is a pathos in the relish which he took in those struggles-how he bought a top-hat to impress Frederick Greenwood, the editor who was to give him his chance to break into London Journalism, how he regretted the fact that his own insignificant appearance prevented him from being a "ladies' man," how he wrote articles na tho father of a family which he was never to posacas.

Not that the book itself is a morbid On the contrary; it is the affair. pleasant excursion of an old minn recovering his youth, beautifully and revealingly written, with bright naldes on such things as the "Allahakbar. rlen." that cricket team of famous writers and others. which he cap tained.

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*Allahakbar" was "African" for "Heaven help us," which summed up the prowess of the team. The "rien" was added as a compliment to the . captain.

Barrie contrived to put so much of that early self into his booka, playa and speeches in a variety of thin disgulies that those who, read this volume may feel they havo heard a lot of before. For all that, it le morn than worth while as the poll- kumous autobiography at one who ex. etinnged the loneliness of obscurity for that of eminence,

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

NCE you're married, Miss Brown,

I'll bet you And a man about the house has its advantages. It he does his job he'll look after you- both at home and when you're out together.

And it's rather nice to know that you've got a husband who'll stand between you and the troubles which lone, lorn women have to face by themselves.

Does the iden of first being address- ed as Mrs. Smith appeal to you? Do you get a kick out of the thought that you'll be able to say, "My husband doesn't like me to do so-and-so?”.

woman You see, it's natural for

to like being dependent on the right man: You're funny creatures, Miss Brown. I'm not really sure that any bne-even a psychologist-can pro- perly understand you. Some of you. seem to prefer being with a man who's a brute to you, rather than bringing him to. book by leaving him.

But there's one consolation. You're beiter off than you've ever been before. Had you lived in the Middle Ages, my dear, your lord and master vould have locked you up (as he I would have done, his other valuables)

before going off on a crusadel

To-day you're not taking quite such a risk as that. You're no longer the chattel of any man. You're the partner (or soon will be) of a parti cular man.

And this man-If I'm any judge --will give you all the protection you need.

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