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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938

BOOKS of LIFE

reviewed by Roger Pippett

SAILOR

Broken Water

By James Hanley

(Chatto and Windus, 10s. 6d.)

OME seven years ago an ex-scaman called to thank me for what I had said about him first novel. "My name's Hanley." A finely cut face under a tousled head of hair. The collar I re- of a dark blue jersey grazing his chin. member thinking that, if there were ever a Born Writer, he looked one.

Since then James Hanley has written many

stories about the scu

And sailors and men

who work with their hands and heads. An uneven author, but everything I have

read of his is charac- teristic sensitive, struggling, unques- tlonably personal stuff.

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In Broken Water, an autobiographical cursion into the days of his youth, he is at his best, never insist- ing on detail, never underlining a point, intent only on evoking the people, scenes and emotions of his past.

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Always the realist, he remembers the delight he felt when he was alung up to paint a ship's funnel as well as the

sadness savage that swept him at the sight of

child

staggering along, be- tween the shafts of a loaded barrow.

When he was a lad, he was determined to run away to sea, but he let a gull decide for

him. This particular

bird perched itself on

a plece of rock, flapped

Its wings, pecked about, then sud- denly was still. Suddenly I shut my eyes and said to myself. If the bird lles cast I'll go to sca

kept opening and shutting my eyes, hardly daring to breathe in case I should be the innocent cause of its departure. No, it must be

natural

take-off. I mustn't frighten it.

"The bird

apped its wings again, soared into the air and flew off to the cast.

I remember I clapped my hands-and-shouted. once, I'm going! I'm going to sea!'

Then I remembered the party a few yards away from me and was quiet again, but something had happened inside me."

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That is the satisfaction of being James Hanley. Something happens inside him and he is urged, with- out haste and without pretentious- ness, to sit down and tell the world about it.

The way his father laughed and left questions unanswered, the agony of sea-slekness, the peace of sleep after a long day's toll, the shock of seeing a torpedo streaking towards his ship-all that und much more is quietly communi- cated in the pages of this indivi- dual and memorable book.

NOVEL

SURGEON

Life and Death

By Andres Majocchi

(Allen and Untoin, 10s. 6d.)

NOTHER life-story, this time the auto- blography of a famous Italian surgeon, a man who is obviously easily excited, a specialist who-after the fashion of specialists- often enjoys the luxury of an Exalted Mood.

He falls, too, into sadly stilted phrases now and then. "It is not all roses in surgery, verlly the thorns are sharp and pointed: they soon

(TIRE REST BOOKS OF

THE REST ALSTHORI

In London now you just drop

in your sixpence and out comes the book of your choice.

Imperialist

GEORGIAN ADVENTURE

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By Douglas Jerrold

(Collins, 155.)

H. that mine enemy would write a book

Well, Mr. Jerrold, a supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley and

General Franco, is one of my political But I am glad that he enemies. has written Georplan Adventure.

Politically, the author's mind is by heavy blinkers. But he has done many things many places-from bolding a trench at Gallipolt to running a publisher's office in London.

And be

sets down his adventures, his opinions and his prejudicen with such direct ness and gusto that, while giving us a striking self-portrait. he also writes a history of his generation.

It is, of course, history sern from his point of view-a point of view that 1 distrusted from the alart and finally came to hate. But it is often brilliantly sustained, and I strongly urge you to study it as the apologin of a significant school of Imperialism.

Nearly all of us tend to under estimate the intelligence of our political opponents. Mr. Jerrold cer tainly misunderstands and, there fore, underestimates the Labour Movement. Read this book and you will not make the mistake of mis-

OF THE WEEK Turning Wheels understanding film.

Pin

By Stuart Cłucie

'Collins, 8. Gd.

ACE, movement, love, Dght- ing, character, sweating oxen and grinding wheels-that's my recipe for a Covered Wagon story. And this robust novel has them all.

It is another strong sidelight on the great Boer trek of a hundred years ago, when the Dutch settlers in Cape Colony, furlous at the free- ing of their alaves by the English up their Government, packed

possessions and trailed north to found the Orange Free State and the Transvaal,

They were farmers, and they carried with them not only the seeds they were going to plant in that new soil, but guns slung from their shouldera. For they had to live on the game they could shoot. and they also had to protect them- selves against wild beasts and Kamra (whom they were disposses- alng) and Zulus, who lived by war. Mr. Cloete (pronounced Clooty) takes 1 in one of those convoys, with Sta 'bullets, Bibles, bedding and bables, struggling on towards Canaan, anly to be wiped out by Zulu, and clisense. A critical page of colonising history has come splendidly alive in Turning -Wheele

I pages are salty with comments on the near-great of our time. And they are peppered with good stories.

deflect the most ardent enthusiasm." And, again: "The motor- car is a wonderful in- vention

n great boon to doctors who have to respond with alacrity to emergency calls."

Despite which, this is one of the most can- did and distressing records that I have rend.

Through all the idealism and the agi- tation comes the sound of men and women and children in pain. For Signor Malocchi learned his lessons in the poorest quarters of Milan, performing ex- tremely delicate operations in crowded tenements, standing once inside a wardrobe because there was no- where else to stand.

Another time, turre ning back the clothes to examine a patient, he was surprised to see two sparrows fly out. followed by a chaffinch and a blackbird. "The woman's husband sold tame birds, and the farrel had become an aviary. And so I operated, watched by the bright eyes of the birds...

That is one of scores of stories in this compelling and convincing volume.

friend af ming. reading it, said: I can't sze why people want to put all this sort of thing into a book." But I noticed that he stuck

it to the end. And that, ( fancy.

will be your reaction, too.

-ETCETERA-

Crow

Carl MASTER KUNG, by

In (FIAmish liamliton, 128. 04.). which the man who wrote Four Hun dred Million Customers turns his Attention to Confucius-or, mther. to the blameless scholar whom inter Kenerations turned into Greni

Sage PLAYS FOR EARTH AND AIR. by Lord Dunsany tHeinemann, ds.). Ten short drainu, ranging from allegory to satire, from Beethoven addressing the Immortals to ra Frenchman who cares toothache-nt a price, Lord Dunsany has the touch.

SPORTING ADVENTURE, by

J.

Wentworth Day Harrap, 12%. Gd.). Dul you know that golden plover can y in speed of eighty miles an That salmon will swim hour? twenty-five miles in a duy? Huntin' and fishin' from a new angle. WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN

PALESTINE?

Waters by M. P. (Frederick Muller, 18.), The case for the Jewish National Home stated succinctly by a young Socialist. THE LONDON WELSH ANNUML (Cd). A booklet no Welshman should miss.

PROBLEM ANSWERS

Wook-End

Problems PHOBLEM I.

AN EXAMINATIÓN PUZZLE

Edward's marks weret

Latla

French

History

PROBLEM 11,

A WORD SQUARE

TORT

OMAI

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Minuto Mystery Solution

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f a palone an uads any of it to associ unpa bavy pinom of f 202 au papnoja os dady pinom yuq as a wolf was die

To-night at Elovon-thirty. SOLUTION

Third from the left" was the third cigarette from the left. Note that Vertaker lit Lady Highborne's cigarelle; he did not light the Counter's, In Ita Playfair knew already-was concealed the Information which Verraker had lilletly obtained.

Both Verriker and the Countess were convicted of attempted espionage. The former received 12 months' imprisonment; the Ist- ter was deported.

ARE YOU SURE? 1.A mammal, 2.-6000,

3.4.

4.----A giraffe. 5-A whole brond. 6.Was murdered.

7. Surgery.

A.--Black and red.

9.-Deposit on the floor of a

cave,

10.-Belglum

11-Queenstown. It

Way

named Victorin in 1843, 12.--1000.

13.-Supernatural,

14. A piece of furniture. 15-Australla.

10.A bruse under the skin. 17-A

young hare., 10-A deluge.

10.-A plant.

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20-Every leap year. 21.-lie's passed science exam!-

nations. 22-A churchman. 23-2 24-Copenhagen. 25.--Not yet.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

GRAMOPHONE

Another

Minute

New Records

IF you want to persuade a gay-hearted friend that all so-called classical music (the term is ridiculously vague) la not solemn and dull, then send him a four- shilling New Year card, the Uttle IIM.V, record of three German Dances for orchestra by Mozart.

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Conversely, if you want to academic suggest to acquaintance that there may be a piece or two worth hear- ing among today's Dance Bond music, let him have "She's My Lovely," which I still think is one of the best for a long there has been time.

YOUR first friend, be hel

volatile, will 80 never hardly have time to be bored by the Mozart Dances, each only a couple of minutes long and beautifully played by the Vienna Philharmonic under Bruno Walter. Besides, the last of the set is the famous "Sleighride," and the most highbrow Swing fan will surely have to listen once to that miraculous trifle.

The choice of a record for your second friend will be more intricate. If he is in- tellectual as well as intelli- gent, he'll be hard to please. To give him the new Swing Album will be as eruel and as futile as giving the other person the new record of Beethoven's Pastoral Sym- phony conducted by Tos- canini.

THEN, again, Mr. George

Elrick, who alone of his kind these days sings Eng- lish as though it were a de- cent language, has, to my sorrow, not produced a re- cord of his own performance of that fetching new lilt, in "Mary and Elizabeth," time for the New Year. Steh being the circumstances, and if you don't think "She's My Lovely quite the thing, look through the previous month's lists and seek out the entic- ing "I'm_in_a_Dancing Mood." It has been well played on an H.M.V. record by Jack Hyl- ton's band, and as a musical composition it is up to stun- dard (which, of course, is not saying a great deal, the standard being, what it is).

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THOSE who know say that,

of the two most popular Violin Concertos, Max Bruch's in G minor is one. Columbin have just issued it with Alfredo Campoli playing the solo part in an extremely able manner, while Walter Gochr secures an equabic orchestral accompaniment.

S. G.

Bridge Problem

No. 45

North A543

♥K 9

A 7 8 7 +62

West QJ10 @

Q 10 9 3

South

A K 7 6 2

KA

AK.JS

60

East

J84

Q 10 9

Solutions to "Bridge Problem" Hongkong "Telegraph", Wyndham Street, by Wednesday.

Clubs

are trumps. South leads anit makes ten tricks,

PROBLEM NO. 44

South tends Heart Queen and North plays discards the Club. South now

Weat should cover) ant Club Eight North rulls with Diamond Queen, North Ionits the mall Diamond and South win the trick. South plays two rounds of Clubs, discarding Spades from North's hand. East is squeezed on the third Club. If he discards 5 Hearl, South's Heart is good, and if he discardan pado, North wins the last two tricks with the two Spalen. It At caver, North trick 2, West does not discards a pads, an on the second Club lead North ruffa with the high. diamond and returns a low diamond,

Corrost solutions from "Emjay

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TABORA.

Mystery How good

detective are you?

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"BUT why did you wait so long before calling

the operator?" Inquired Fordney. "Well, professor P' said Edith Gill rather indignantly, "I was taking a hot shower and I was alone in the apartment

after all "Alone?" He glanced at the luncheon table. "As I said, I was alone. I'd been under the shower about five minutes when I heard some one In my dressing-room. I peeped round the curtain and in the bathroom mirror saw a man snatch my rings and necklace from the 'dressing-table. waited a few minutes to give him time to get out

FILL UP. ON

FROSTY WEATHER

WHEN frost is about it is necessary to take special precautions in the home. Burst water pipes are one of the most troublesome results of a hard frost, and R is well worth while taking precautions to lessen the likelihood of pipes becoming frozen.

It is good plan to pack the outside pipes with straw, newspaper, or old pieces of felt, and then bandage them with strips of sacking, calico, or hessian.

Water tanks should be treated in the same way, if they are incased in layers of newspaper and an old rug or carpet tied round them, and boards laid over the top, they will not be at all likely to freeze however severe the front ynay bo.

Pipes that persistently burst are probably worn out. It is an economy to have long, thin, patched pipes re- placed, as they have a knack of surrendering to the first sharp frost. A small light left burning all night helps to keep the scullery and bathroom taps from the effect of frost.

When a really cold snap arrives, try to avoid draw- Ing off all the hot water at night. Every now and then turn on the tops for a few seconds, for moving water does not freeze. The taps must not be left running Incessantly, as it is an offence to allow this.

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Kitchen and bathroom windows should be shut at night in frosty weather, so that a cold wind will not blow on the pipes. The doors of warmed rooms should be left open to allow the heated air to circulate through the house. If, in spite of all precautions, pipes do freeze, you must put out the stove which heats the hot water

or an explosion may occur.

I was so frightened! Then I dried myself and called the switchboard.".

"Rather difficult to hear any one in your dressing-room with the shower running, isn't it?"

"Well

supply, but he knocked over that yes..

small table there."

"Can you describe the thief?"

"I certainly can. He was a small, wiry, evil. looking fellow, about thirty I should say. He wore a blue suit and a light felt hat, and.. he had a gun in his left hand."

"Just about how long was it from the time you saw him until you called downstairs?" in- quired the professor.

"Not more than five minutes," was the reply. "Then what?"

"The house detective came up and after look- ing about suggested I call you. I do want those jewels back, professor. They're very valuable. Won't you help me? Please!" There pleading look in her eyes.

WAS 巍

Fordney stepped into the small bathroom and turned the shower faucet. From behind a cloud of steam he said, "Alone, were you, Miss Gill? No matter-suppose you tell me where your jewels

ure!

I hope for your sake this faked robbery is nothing more than a publicity stunt!" WHY DID FORDNEY DISBELIEVE EDITH GILL'S STORY? Solution is upside down at the foot of Column

Two.

A fall in frosty weather may cause a great deal of trouble, especially if a fracture occurs. To prevent such the kitchen peeldents happening, spread ashes from boller-range on all slippery garden paths. De not let children make sides on much-used paths.

Clean the steps with water containing a handful of common salt; this will prevent the accumulation of ice. Another idea is to add a cupful of methylated spirit to the water used for washing the steps.

frosty

Remember that crockery is more brittle in weather, and likely to break if hot water is poured over It. Pour in cold water frst. Dishes break in the oven more readily in cold weather. To guard against this, stand the dishes in warm water before putting in the Ingredients.

Glassware is also very susceptible to changes of tem- perature. When putting hot fruit in a glass dish or a hot drink in a tumbler, place a metal spoon in the glass. This prevents many a break.

Defore washing-up warm your hands by Immersing in warm water for a few moments. Cold hands make one clumsy, and it is a psychological fact that more breakages are caused in the home by handling crockery with half-frozen hands than for any other reason.

Finally, it is so annoying to find the butter like a bowl with boll- lump of lend. To soften it, rinse out ing water and invert this over the butter-dish. This has the effect of a hot-air chamber, and the butter becomes pllable without being oily.

L. II.

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