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'Tough Guy'

To Have & Have Not

By Ernest Hemingway (Cape, 78.. Gd.)

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NLIKE most writers of Tough Guy storics, Ernest Hemingway has always been in the thick

of things himself. He looks tough. He la tough. And he writes like an angel who had once been a world middle-weight champion.

I like that tale they tell about his Parisian days-how, watching a bla match at the Salle Wagram, he got Bɔ mad at the fauls the winning boxer was giving his opponent that he the climbed into the ring and knocked _t) man cut.

Remembering those brond, powerful shoulders, you say to yourself: Yes. that's the uk Hemhigway." Reading this novel-It must be eight years aince his last, Farewell to Arms-with its driving dialogue, superbly seen in eidests and sensational style, you say:

That's the old Hemingway, too,"

To Have and Have Not tells the

adventures of Harry Morgan, who ran

a bout between Florida and Cuba and was willing to do anything. from kid- napping Chinnmen to carrying bootleg liquor. from murder to "atealing" is own ship under the nases of the Cus toms officers.

Ite is ducking behind the bar of a Havana café, dodging a gangster's machine gun, when the story opens;

He is lying dead from a gangster's

trouble all the time.

com-bullet when it ends. A Tough Guy In And, meanwhile, we have seen him break man's back, lose his arm 10 your arm, ("What happened

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tuition of a crammer for the Dip- lomatic Service.

When he appeared in the street. paid but nobic, we were admonished There," per- to mark his passage. sons of a largo experience would say. "goes an unusually gifted young man. One day he will be Prime Minister."

Well he won't. Not so far as any- judge. He resigned his Cabinet post because Mr. Baldwin wouldn't give him any real brainwork to do, and, as soon as Parliament meets, he will apply for the Chiltern Hundreds and resign his seat as M.P. Jor Hastings.

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Harry?" "I didn't like the look of it,

so I cut it off) on a rum-running trip and shoot up a crowd of bank- robbers who had forced him to take them out to sea,

Schoolboy stuff, you say? Yes, it you-like. But it is written with such sensitiveness, understanding and con- viction thint, long before Mr. Heming- way had done with him, I felt I not only knew Harry down to the last shot In his wicked locker, but, bad allor as I am. I was willing to roll through the Gulf Stream swell with him-Just to learn a litle mare.

For this is one of those rare tales that takes in more and more ille as you read on. The life of a world of thugs nud wash-outs. A world where the he- man rules hazardously and only the super-he-man can be king-and not for long. A world in which polite society -and polite conversation-is n help- leas. hopeless stranger.

Mr. Hemingway's world. In fact. And while you are with him, you'll take it and like it, too,

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LIFE WITH MOTHER

By Clarence Day

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(Chatte and Windus, 73. d.)

PPARENTLY

people didn't find anything funny in Life with Father, just as some people bate strawberries and cream. Well, I am a reviewer, not, psycho-analyst, and I give the problem up.

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To me, at any rate, these sketches

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́BEHOLD THE JUDGE By John Brophy (Collins, 8s. tidk.) ALWAYS think there thing at once comic and fright- ening about the look of a Judge in his official dress. In this novel Mr. Brophy seeks to pene- trate the disguise and find the man hidden away belind that parude of Impersonality.

He succeeds in showing us the real Henry Gaston beneath the trappings A cultured, of Mr. Justice Guston: kindly, patient, lonely being with ideals not entirely strangled by legally, a feeling for precision and foirness quite apart from the law, an EnglsbianI conscious of the past but with his eyes open to the light of to-day,

Yet the story as a whole fails be rause the author has tried to put in to much and has not fured the parts into a whole. There is. for instance. -a description of the potty.hell that men en make for one another inn bh department store-a description lead. ing up to the murder trial which ends

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Very entertaining.

ink with the judge is arbitrary,

Is son is in love with a girl em played in the sture. Again, thntr romance is well told, and so is the Sucini disturbance which the proposed marriage causes. The judge's wife is a cruel caricature of a snob, so bilingis etched that it is out of register with the rest of the tale.

And the judge, even when he is mi- masked or unwigged-remains odidly aloof from the people whose fate in in- volved with his and influenced by his declatons.

All the same, I found this an intelli. arnt. sincere book. Well worth your while.

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of American home-life, na seen by a feridishly abservant child in the 1900s. have an irresistible midriff appeal. Few of us can boast parents as mag- nificent in their way as Clarence Day Sentur, and his wife, Vinnie. that, perhaps, our misfortune.

way.

But

Father still roars and crasies hi way through Life With Mother, but 'Mother has a knack of getting her own You must laugh over her purs for an engagement-ring, her devotion to that rubber tree and her gentle circumvention of his plans to make her rite horseback or learn German.

Above all there's nothing spiteful about any of these caricattires, The Days were clearly happy folk, devoted tu ench ather-and, thanks to the late Clarence Day's talent, that happiness will surely spread.

Typical sketchos from the de- lightful book about children, "Serious Business," by J. II. Doted (80 dratings by him) and B. E. Spender-published by Country Life at 103. 6d.

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Education, he now presides as Rector over the Newenatio Division of Durham University.

All this is by the way-but not, per- Imps entirely. Because it explains not things about John Knox, à sub- stantial and scholarly blography which Land Eustaca has just written.

Into his book he has projected much of his own political past. He is for ever ntriving for parallels between the turbulent times of sixteenth-century Scotland and twentieth century Europe, He likes to feel that Knox falled by the same errors of judgment through which great careers aro un- made to-day.

The Reason Why

He does not seem disappointed or embittered. But he cannot escape a eearch for the political motives behind every action. He tries to understand the stormy arent Presbyterian so hard that he explains him right away.

John Knox was a creature straight from Sinai. Lord Eustace has med as Nery essence and Hebrew Intensity Perhaps, by the same blind- ness that is why Lord Eustace missed his chance of being Prime Minister one day,

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THRILLERS

CRAWLED in red across the

Quiet Is Requested" notice on the hotel bedroom door were the words "Dead woman." And inside there she was, too. An odd affair, and only one of many through which the mountainous Dr. Fell wheezes and lectures his way to the tolling bell and the.. hangman's cope. Fantastic, but all the clues are there-in To Wake the Dead, by John Dickson Carr (Hamish Hamilton, 78. Od.).

Another old friend, Mrs. Bradicy, of the fearsome grin and the claw- like hand. is landed by Gladys

20-DAY FAST FATAL

Belgrade. George Dabrovitch, a Yugoslav lawyer, decided to find out how long man can live without food and then write an article about it. He found out, but he will not write any article as he collapsed and died on the 20th day of his fast,

Mitchell in Come Away Death (Michael Joseph, 8s. sd.), in an atmosphere where sacrifice is made to the ancient gods and murder 18 done the Homeric way. But there's lots of good fun, though you'll like it all the better if you're fairly well up in Greek mythology.

Woman also comes into her own in The Tiny Diamond, by Charlotte Murray Russell (The World's Work, 78. 04.). This time it is one of those spinsters who disapprove of a drink but love murder. Ohicago's cholcest have no chanco at all against her.

John Oliver Mayo gives you, in Death Says Good Morning (Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. Bd.), an excellent example of the latest sort of thriller, that with a social conscience. No longer do you sock the villain in the name of patriotism-the slogan now is peacç * and democracy. But make no mistake. There is still a corpse or two to every chapter, or, at any rate, a whole. hearted attempt to create them.

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