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Dickens might

bave Written It

THE PASQUIER CHRONICLES

By Georges Duhamel

(Dent, 108. Gd.)

Christmas present slogan was " Give Duha-

mel." A glorious book. The sort of story Dickens might have writton if he had been a Frenchman. And there are still, I gather, some copies left for you in the shops....

This is the way to write a family chronicle.

No nonsense about uncles and aunts and cousins to the third and fourth degree: no racing over half the earth and delving deep in the past to drag in picturesque character or a dramatic incident:. no vast genealogical tree to irritate you more each time you refer to it.

*

*

For Georges Duhamel knows his business. He is writing about the Pasquier family-father, mother and five children-first, last and all the while.

Not exclusively, of course, since the Pasqulers have friends and lovers and business associates. But they come in because they really are a part of that compact but expanding mass, not because of any accident of blood relationship.

Delightfully bound and printed, thia volume consists of five full- length novels, three of which have already appeared separately over hore.

In the rat, News from Havre, the family, very hard up, is wait- ing anxiously for a legacy to materialise and making all sorts

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For three years," Mr. Plant says. "I mustered terribly with gastritis and nervous debility, until life became a misery to me. I visited hospital, was attended by doctors and tried all sorts of so-called remedies, but of no avail. I be came worse and worse and felt as though I did not care what happened, although I am only a young man

Then ono day made up my mind to give Maclean Drand Stomach Powder a trial. 'I felt relief from the first dose and alter finishing the bottle I was a now mau. My weight increased rapidly, and I began to eat things I had formerly shunned.

of plans for spending the money when it does arrive.

In the last, The, House in the Desert, the Pasquiers are still making optimistic plans, still mortgaging the future. Some of them have achieved their ambl- tions. Bome are temporarily over- drawn on their idealistic accounts.

Bub-the news from Havre that will put the whole world right is confidently. expected at any moment now.

Most of the story is told by Laurent, whose printing venture is in ruins at the end. I should sum up his development thus: first, he saw through his father and then he saw through himself.

The robustness of M. Duhamel's genius- yes, genius is the con- sidered word — is proved by the fact that this summary is neither gloomy nor cynical.

In fact, I found this a cheerful, lively and at times extraordinarily amusing Great Work, Raymond, the father of the family, is a sort of French Mr. Micawber, always waiting magnificently for Some- thing to Turn Up.

Disreputable but imposing, ridl- culous and exasperating but lov- able, maintaining his grotesque dignity in spite of all mishaps and exposures, he is an unforgettable

ngure.

And round him are grouped the harassed mother and those bril- llant, wayward children, com- pored into a picture of French bourgeois lfe so convincing that I felt, as I read, that I had stepped Into that solid frame myself.

A glorious book. In fact, a masterpiece.

A

R. P.

GEORGES DUHAMEL.

See any resemblance to a famous Dickensian character?

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from

un-

Tanging world problems to

tangling private (and prefer- ably murderous) ves is by now the familiar habit of G. D. H. and Margaret Cole.

In The Missing Aunt (Collins, 78, ed.) they take a compilcated sort of family with an odd taste in will-making, assemble the hoping-to-be legatees and then lose-in a quarry, and dead-on of the prospective bestowers of un- earned Income.

Discoverlag who killed that nunt and where and why makes a pleasant enough interlude in wondering who en the world stage will kill whom next. It has the additional advantage of a happy ending..

SERIAL

TOVARICH

P. E. H.

Serialisation of the Warner Bros. Picture, adopted from the Play by Jacques Deval.

Chapter I

"What difference, tall one, if it fell in or few in!" If the French "Just why, Mikail my pigeon, are people want to celebrate an earth- quako. It is $ bit queer! But | we dancing!”

charming! Dance, darling!" -

"Because, my dearest Tatlano, it's the Fourteenth of July!

"Listen to me. Tatiana! It wasn't an earthquake! It was a revolution! French --Revolution! They

I know perfectly well what day The

it " Her pert ittle nose look an slaughtered the King and the

"A month after the first bottle I recom- alarming, impudent angic. "But aristocrats!"

why do the French dance on the

the question, wise one!"

"Well, they theyer ph

"You mean... the same that

"Yes!"

"We the Grand Duchess Ta-

menced work, and now, eight months later,Fourteenth of July? Don't evade happened to us... in Russia?" I am happily married."

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He changed the subject abruptly, tiana Petrovna and her consort

ruaning with a comically wry face, "Darling. I'm starving! I've been starving for weeks It's a wonder I can stand up, let alone dance!"

Brand is never sold loose-only in bottles "Ouch!" cried Tatiana, grasping in cartons (powder or tablets). If you her tiny foot in pain. Her worn have any difficulty in obtaining it from sole had made her stumble. "My

•

TUC - celebrating a revolution?"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I did."

"We must get out of here!" your local chemist of store, write to last pair, too "she sighed hop their way among the dancers when They were hurriedly elbowing Bunker & Co., P.O. Box 536, Hong Kong.ping on one fect, as he led her to the trombone player overtook them

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"Hey," he called, taking a paper marrying a sainti

from his pocket, "I wish to see

"So sorry. Monsieur Courtois," Taliano flung back, "we are terri- "He was no doubt referring, my bly busy)" dear," Mikail retorted, "o the way They made a wide detour to

"He knew me very well,” Tailona you!" announced, demurely.

you net, not the way you want to avoid him, scurried up a dark alley,

LAUGHING ODYSSEY

By Elleen Bigland. (Hodder and Stoughton, 128, 64.)

OMEWHERE toward the

S

end of this book the author remarks that she didn't onvy the Intourist man ht Shepetovka. But, long before I got to that point, I had decided that I didn't envy the Intourist men anywhere.

The Intourist man at Shepo- tovka had only to cope with two or three Czechs, a couple of French- men, a Spaniard and an American go-getter, all of whom were faced with the problem of waiting 23 hours and 60 minutos for the next train to Warsaw. ("Every train in Russia is 23 hours and so minutes late, Citizeness↑ "')-

Do you like making things?

THE

desire to

1938.

Tmake something-helps, we

are told, to distinguish us from the animals. Men and women both like, occasionally, to make something with their hands, but when it comes to making 'things at home, women have the ad- vantage over men.

All the workshop a woman needs is a comfortable chair. Her tools are a pair of knitting The Intourist men everywhere aroneedles, her materials a ball of faced with the problem of Ellen Dig-wool. Even the most ambitious land. Por this Laughing Odyssép

threatens their future. It is as good sewing project can easily be sa trip to the land of the Sovieta tidied away, between spells of with none of the dangers alleged to work. necompany auch an adventure.

It gets under the skins of the Russians and pokes fun at their exten- ordinary childishness before acknow. ledging their extraordinary schleve And it is written in a style as refreshing as half-time lemons to a Cup Final team,

menta

No ordinary tourist, Russian-speak ing Mra Bigland went over hospitals in Moscow, danced nightly with a General (since liquidated") at Yalta, contrived a fantastic journey through the Caucasus by mule and motor car (which equalled each other in their stubbornness), swam at Batum and promenaded in harkey with the man who shot the Tear."

And, perhaps, because her love for Rusain has nothing to do with poll- tics," the survived to say that this was the happiest summer of her life.

A

man is less fortunate. Whether he wants to make a wireless set or a cigarette-box, a bookshelf or a suite of dining- room furniture, he is bound to make a mess, and he cannot easily put everything away. when he is not working. A man's workshop may vary be tween a corner of the kitchen table that is not wanted for domestic purposes, and a full- sized workshop with a bench, a lathe and all the equipment of A cabinet-maker or metal- worker.

IT

is essential, from a There is, anent the train delay at Shepelovka, a delicious story told to

man's point of view, to the author by a fellow-traveller (or he

secure a part of the house where would have been a fellow-traveller if he will be undisturbed-where there had been a train to travel in: the products of his labour will "I got out ni a station where we not be tidied up, dusted, or stopped for half an hour, and they -naked mo

go back and speak to a otherwise interfered with the Chinese labourer who was aftting con- templating his navel like Buddha.

moment his back is turned.

"He said 'Me Wong Foo-Foo: me fame Sun Tung: me waited for train home twenty years' He was a lonely

fellow:

Came to work on the railway. Lost his papers--and has been there ever since. He's got a Russian wife and five children. He can't understand them and they can't understand him, But what's twenty-three hours and nity minutes besides twenty years?'

Which sums up pretty accurately the spirit of Laughing Odyssey. There are many reasons why this book should be read: not the least of them la that throughout its 307 pages there is not one group of statistics.

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· From a woman's point of view the workshop must not. course, interfere with the rest dong Bank Bldg. of the house. So if there is no place suitable the man should resist his desire to make some- thing, or at least content him- self with odd jobs that can be finished in a single day. But the man who has room enough can derive both pleasure and profit from his workshop.

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HOSE who are interested in wood are numbered and all the

the stormy history of Ireland

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It is humiliating, however, to admit yourself a fool before you start and to some men there is no joy in this playing at cabinet- making. Profit there may be, if} you happen to want a radio cabinet or a table, but you can- not truthfully say, even to your- This is a story and a study of the self, "I made it," of something Penlans. It has both politics and exciteinent-two words which are not you have merely stuck together. [

synonymous. One chapter And you cannot express yourself hending gives a clue to one part of the by somebody else's design. interest of the book: "Plotters, Bunglers and Martyrs."

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and a rickely, stairway on the out- side of a dilapidated buḥding, clam- At this Tatiana flew Into the bered to the roof, and paused to prettiest rage imaginable. She re- catch their breath. fused to pardon him till he had

plank spanned the chasm, be- mended her shoe and humbly beg- tween the roof and the window of Bombay ged her pardon. She then flew in their room in the next building. to his lap. showering him with

kisses and commands. him to ask the

"Courage, darling," said Mikali, She ordered getting down with agility to crawl orchestra leader across. "We're near the safety of why the French dunce on the Four- our own freside." Tatiana followed teenth of July. When Mikoll re- him slowly and with extreme cau spectfully declined she stormed the tlon. "Imagine,"

she grumbled, trombone player herself.

"his making us come on all fours like this "I think, Mademoiselle, it has him a few francs!

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one moment, I ask my neighbourl"

"ha shrugged "Just in his moth-enten old hotel After asking all his colleagues, he ly in mid-air.

"Ssh..." Mikall halted sudden- returned. "We celebrate La Bastille, Mademoiselle?"

"Wh-what it?" loquired Tatiana. "You see, pigeon" amlied Tatiana, our room

"Monsieur Courtois

he's in returning to Mikail, and whirling him

Back up!! Into the dance again, "It

"I can't back up and I won't! was so It took me days

learn to crawi simple to find, out Now

we can forward! Proceed Prince Ouration?! celebrate without doubtel He said, we celebrate La routra commandal"

any annoying The Grand Duchess Tatiana Pet Bastille! Isn't that nice?"

"Yes, Your Highness!" The imperial procession proceed-

"Nice?", cried Mikail, halting for ather reasons, than hunger, "It's

ed. horrible The Bastille fell In!"

(To be continued to-morrow).-

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1 All the same describes the lion's

share in a way (12).

12

13

8 Sultable work for a dreas-

maker (7).

This kind of trap might be scri- Early O.T. character (4), ous for miners (7).

The drain that might make 30 down (5). 14 What is the best destroyer of widows' weeds? An eligible ruun, for he has only to say " thou?" and they—(4),

17 The carriage one gets into when one arrives by a P. and Q. In London? ' (7).

10 Sink (7).

10 Seven letters (not necessarily for the postman to collect) make this military detachment

(7).

was

n

22 The festive occasion

means of marine progress (7). 24 Was this English poet

young-looking? (4).

25 The

ever

appearance of a famous French Zamily (5).

20 No one approves of u try after

this (4),

20 In here is a bit of the harness

(7).

31 Workers and work may be ba-

neath them (7))

32 Many card players know that this young lady does not often come out in the evening (two words 4, 8)..

1.She

1

DOWN

Is known for her fettnis (7).

2 Evil makes this (4),

Mischief if not worse (7).

The-Nymph, with

wonder

saw a whisker first and then

.claw-24 across (3)

5 This would make one halt"(4):g"

8 A sang to Phoebus should start

on this note (3).

7 A later expedient not before due reflection apparently (12). 10 A good defence at the proper

time (5).

11 "Hands off our water supply"

the saw

seems to say (three words 3, 45).

15 A Dynasty of English Rulers

(B).

16

(5).

starting point to humiliate

20 The mark of a piece of harness

(5).

21 This town in France you should

arrange in a tour (7);

22 Describes the expression of your

dog when you are going out for a walk without him (7).

23 It

Is a bad omen when this part of the body is upset (7).

27 She was a famous 15 ́down (4).

28 The only sort -hunting some

people would allow (4).

30 This is part of the machinist's

work (3).

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