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ENDS AND MEANS

By Aldous Huxley (Challo and Windus, 83. 6A) -

#LDOUS HUXLEY is known to the world as tho man who once wrote a book 'describing the sort of brave now world that wo must at all costs avold,

Now he has written a book in which he describes the sort of world that all sensible people are honing one day to bulld

But the trouble about him is that ho does not really understand the sort of obstacles that lie in the way of build- ing it. He wants to build his world without once lifting a hand in anger against anyone. "Non-violence" is fils favourite phrase.

Dare We?

Ay

Now make no bones about it: thero is a'vast deal of truth in Mr. Huxley's caso. He is,abio, to-point out (what somo. pr. us are still a little liable to forget that war, when it breaks out nowadays, is a frightful and disgusting thing.

Dare we let it break out? Isn't it better to make any ancrince in order to maintain peaco? Oughtn't wo, naka Mr. Huxley, to train ourselves to bear the, asthall, oftrallets without re- sistance so that the war-makers will soal:bccóma jashamed of themselves and stop, their..tricks?

Non-violence car, of course, be used by an attacked people if there is a weak spot in the aggressor's armour. For instance, when Gandhi used non- violent methods,ho know that the weak spot in the armour of British Imperialism was the decency of Britch public opinion at home.

So far, so good. But Mr. Huxley's paclism can never be a universal remedy because there are some aggres- sora who have no weak spot of decency. The men who did not inch from bombing Guernica will not stay ther hand when they are ordered to bomb Mr. Huxley.

"Here's the Danger

In fact, they will rejoiço over him. He is precisely the sort bf advemary they want. This book Ends and

Dharmingly Means,

and urbanely written though it 15, outlines a foreign policy and also a home policy which, it deems to me, would play straight into the hands of the gangster politicians. II were the Mikado of: Japan, I should post a copy of it to every Chhindre. If I were Mussolini or fitler, I should post it to every-English- man, Frenchman and Russian.

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A delightful picture from "Victorian Street Ballads," a superb collection of nineteenth century doggerol, published by Country Life at 75. 04.

CRIME-JIGSAW

`OU have to hand it to Agatha Chriatle every time. In Death on the Nite (Collins, 78. Gd.), she again pops her pea gaily under the thimble, dazzles and dazes with the brilliance of her sleight of hand and impertinently produces the pen from the very pince where It positively could not be.

That it is ten to one against a murder being successfully done in shch a

le in these circum-. Way stances a small matter.

Proceed with Caution, the title of John Rhode's now Dr. Priestley story (also a Colilns seven-and-sixpenny), accurately sums up a very different There is no great dimculty method,

in spotting a most ingenious criminal, but you'll read happily on for the colld Kallifaction of zeeing how the jig-saw falls into place.

In The High Sheriff (Constable, 7s. Od), Henry Wade provides a study of a man with a recret shame, quicken- ing into a story of detection with a Dot 00 satisfactory solution. Real trouble is the two halves do not hang together. " Even so, it in a book above the average.

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PAUL VERLAINE By Bechhofer Roberts (Jarrolds, 185.)

spendthrift, RUNKARD. vagabond and wife-beater--- the French poet, Paul Ver- ∙laino (1844-1890), was an almost perfect example of the Wicked Interest allowed an Current - Accounta

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Above all, has unearthed · some characteristic anecdotes. I cspecially like the tale of the Journal which paid the poet Ave franca for ́s sonnet.

Verlaine went back the next day and said he had been given a- bat' coln. The cashier apologlard and handed him another five-franc plece. As be was going away the cashier asked him for the bad one. “Oh,” said Verlaine, "I assure you that I had the very greatest dimeulty in passing IL"

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JELCOME to another laughter-raiser from the United States. Mr. Kaplan *-05 H*Y*M+A$N K*A*P*L*A*N, an he signa fimself in various coloured inita-is gloriously comic character who would have delighted old Mark Twain,

A pupil in a class of adult immi- grants learning to master the Ameri can language in a New York night- school, he reaches sublime height of logical absurdity, endearing himself to us by the persistent vigour of his attack and his pitying scorn, for his fellow-scholars

None of that warn-out stuff about "plough," "cough" and "rough" for Hyman. His struggles are something new in history. One of them concerna his fallure to distinguish between "e" and "a." Asked the meanink (I mean "meaning") of the word "yast," he answers radiantly, "It's commink from diraction. Vo have four dtractions: de naut, do sot, de heast and do vast.”

Sadly corrected, he volunteers, * Hau Kay. Ven I'm buyink a suit of clothes. I'm gattink do cawt, de penis an' de vasti "Oood for Hyman!

Soch (sorry, I should say "such ") a man has every right, when he is eri- ticised for signing a letter, "Your animated brother," to decide," by dip tinking" that the correct and only description of himself should be that beautiful void ("word" to you). "megnificent."

CANDLE IN THE SUN By Edith Roberts (Harrop, Es. Gd.) OONER or later, a reviewer of novels ands he is prepared. for the worst-that La, ho anticl- pates it. At least, I often do.

I see in advance the sad kash which is going to be made of a promising theme, the frightful bog of sentimental Blush which threatens to engulf the So, when I and my unwary author.

fears are groundless, when I read, a story by a new writer that not only starts brightly but enda sanely after a steady run, I appreciate it all the

more.

I had my forebodings about Candle in the Sun A young American girl romantically married to the spoilt son of a West Indian family: the blat of - exotic: splen- Negro blood: scenek dour: the collapse of illusion and the arrival of the upstanding white man ahe might have married. You can understand why I trembled.

But I was agreeably disappointed. The story doesn't go soggy at any point. It remains a vigorous, realistic. picture of Latin-American life, and young Avery, from Now England, sud- donly flung into much.different and dis- turbing surroundings, le quite a person, as our grandparents, used to any

Ble resolutely faces the fact that her husband is a wash-out. Her child has alien blood in him: No one can spare the time or the energy to fight tha poverty and disease around them, as she would like them to be fought. In short, she has in front of her a hard," lonely existence,

But aho is not defeated. Sho 'rays farewell to her chance of escape.and goes back to take her part in the life of her husband's family. You'll like Candle in the Sun. An adult, witty, often amusing tale despite those tragis undertones.

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