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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, MARCH

24; 1988.

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THE PASQUIER CHRONICLES

By Georges Duhamel

M

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present slogan was "Give Duha-

Y Christmas

mel." A glorious book. The sort of story Dickens might have written 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 facing over hall the earth and delving deep in the past to drag in a 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, this volume consista of Ave full- length novels, three of which have already appeared separately over here,

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

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of plans for spending the money when it does arrive,

In the last, The House in the Desert, the Pasqulers are still optimistic plans, still making mortgaging the future. Some of them have achieved their ambi- lons. Some are temporarily over- drawn on their idealistic accounts. But the news from Havro that will put the whole world right is confidently expected at any

moment now.

Most of the atory 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, genlus 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, fa a sort of French Mr. Micawber, always waiting magnificently for Some- thing to Turn Up.

Disreputable but imposing, ridi- culous and exasperating but loy- able, maintaining his grotesque. dignity in spite of all mishaps and exposures, he is an unforgettable figure.

And round him are grouped the harassed mother and those bril- liant, wayward, children, com- posed into a picture of French bourgeois life so convincing that I felt, as I read, that I had stopped into that solid frame myself.

A glorious book. In fact, a masterpiece.

-

R. P.

GEORGES DUHAMEL.

See any resemblance to a famous Dickensian character?

T

THRILLS

0 turn busily from un- tangling world problems to tangling private (and prefer. ably murderous) lives is by now the familiar habit of G. D. H. and Margaret Cole.

In The Missing Aunt (Collins, 7s. 6d.) they take a complicated sort of family with an odd taste in will-making. assemble the hoping-to-be legatees and then lose-li a quarry, and dead-ono of the prospective bestowers of un- earned Income.

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

SERIA L

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P. E. II.

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

Chapter I

we dancing!"

"Just why, Mikail my pigeon,

one, if it "What difference, tall fell in or flow in! if the French are people want to celebrate on earth- quake it is a bit queer! But charming! Dance, darling?"

"Because, my deares! Tatiann, It's

Fourteenth of July!

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

the King slaughtered

and the "But aristocrats!"

"I know perfectly well what day The it is?" Her pert little nose took alarming, impudent ungle. why do the French dnice on the Fourteenth of July? Don't evade the question, wise one!"

"Well, they theyer — ah -"

"You mean.. happened to us

"Yes!"

the same that

in Russia?"

"We the Grand Duchess Ta- He changed the subject abruptly, Eroaning with a comically wry face, tiana Petrovna and her consort -

-feel better to-morrow. Remember "Darling, I'm starving! I've been we celebrating a revolution?" always to look for the signature starving for weeks! It's a wonder "ALEX. C. MACIEAN" on the bottle can stand up, let alone dance!"

Brand is never soll loose-only in bottles in cartons (powder or tablets). If you have any difficulty in obtaining it from your local chemist of store, write Banker & Co., P.O. Box 536, Hong Kong,

"Why didn't you tell me?”

"I did."

were

LAUGHING ODYSSEY

By Elleen Bigland Hodder and Stoughton, 128, 68.)

OMEWHERE toward the end of this book the author

envy the Intourist man at Shepetovka. But, long before I got to that point, I had decided that I didn't. envy the. Intourist men anywhere.

Do you like making things?

desire.

to create-to

HE I make something-helps, we are told, to-distinguish us from the animals. Men and women both like, occasionally, to make

The Intourist man at Shepo- tovka had, only to cope with two or three Czechs, a couple of French-something with their hands, but men, a Spaniard and an American when it comes to making things go-getter, all of whom were faced at home, women have the ad- with the problem of waiting 23 vantage over men. hours and 60 minutes for the next train to Warsaw. ("Every train in Russia is 23 hours and 50 minutes late. Citizenessi ")

All the workshop a woman needs is a comfortable chair. Her tools are a pair of knitting

Ths Intourist men everywhere are needles, her materials a ball of faced with the problem of Eileen Big-wool. Even the most ambitious Jand. For this Laughing · Odyssey

threatens their future. It is as good sewing project can easily be as a trip to the land of the Baylets, tidied away, between spells of with none of the dangers alleged to work. accompany such an adventure.

It gets under the skins of the Rusalons and pokea fun at their extra- ordinary childishness before acknow- ledging their extraordinary achieve menta. And it is written in a style as refreshing as half-time lemons to a

Cup Final team.

No ordinary tourist, Russian-speak ing Mrs. Bigland went over hospitals In Moscow, danced nightly with General (since liquidated") at Yalta, contrived a fantastle Journey through (which equalled each other in their stubbornness), swam at Batum and promenaded in Klurkey with "the man who shot the Tsar,"

the Cauchou by mulò and motor car

✰

And, perhaps, because her love for Russia has nothing to do with poli- tics," she 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 casily 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 " cabinet-maker or metal- worker.

.

IT

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man's point of view, to Shepetovka, a delicious story told to

secure a part of the house where the author by a fellow-traveller for he 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 at a station where we not be tidied up, dusted, or

stopped for half an hour, and they

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"He said Me Wong Foo-Foo: me From a woman's point of view came San Tung: me waited for train the workshop must not, of home twenty years. He was a lonely course, interfere with the rest long Bank Bldg.

"Came to work on the railway. Last of the house. So if there is no his papers and has been there ever place suitable the man should since. He's got a Russian wife and resist his desire to make some- five children. them and they can't understand him. thing, or at least content him- But what's twenty-three hours and 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.

He can't understand

Dfty minutes besides twenty years?

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

A record, I think,

9. E. R. W.

THE PHOENIX

FLAME

By Desmond Ryan (Arthur Barker, 10s. 6d.)

TOWADAYS it is pos

Nsible to buy a parcel of

pieces of wood which, when stuck together, become a table, or a radio cabinet, or what you will

You are given a chart that is easy to follow, the pieces of HOSE who are interested in wood are numbered and all the the stormy history of Ireland joints are cut. The whole job

and that, of course, means is foolproof.

those who are interested in the

history of Ireland-could do many It is humiliating, however, to worse things than read this book. admit yourself a fool before you John Devoy is the outstanding #gure, start and to some men there is but that famous and colourful Irish-

and carton. None other genuine. Maclean "Ouch!" cried Tallana, grasping

her tiny foot in pain. Her worn "We must get out of here!"

American is by no means the only no joy in this playing at cabinet- sole had made her stumble. "My

They

hurriedly elbowing. romantic or conspiratorial man who making. Profit there may be, if last pair, too

fis these pages with exciting happen- you happen to want a radio she sighed hop their way among the dancers when

inga. There are Michael Davitt, Burke cabinet or a table, but you can- ping on one foot, us he led her to chair. He blamed himself for the the trombone player overtook them

Lord Frederick Cavendish..Parnell and "I have found all Recident. "Oh, my darling Tatiana breathlessly.

a host of others.

not truthfully say, even to your- you haven't any shoes," he murteenth of July was the great victory about 1," he panted, "On the Four-

This is a story and a study of the self, "I made it," of something Fentan I've been grumbling of the people against tyranny, and mured, "and about an empty stomach! You're a

excitement-two words which are not you have merely stuck together. chapter And you cannot express yourself saint, Tatiana - a saint!"

heading gives a clue to one part of the by somebody else's design.

tho book: interest of "You're sure of thai?"

Bunglers and Martyrs.”

It may send many people Into angry arguments, but, partly because of that, It will interest them all.

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"Hey," he called, taking a paper from his pocket, "I wish to sco

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

"He was no doubt referring, my bly busy!” dear," Mikail retorted, "to the way

and

QUE "RO" Monsieur Courtois,"

"So sorry, Tallinn flung back, "we are terri-

They made wide detour · lo you act, not the way you want to avoid hilm, scurried up a dark alley, Bell"

a rickety stairway on the out- side of a dilapidated bullding, clam- At this Tatiana Dew into the bered to the root, and paused to prettiest rage imaginable. She re- catch their breath, fused to pardon him till he had

A plank spanned the chasm be mended her shoe and humbly beg tween the roof and the window of ged her pardon. She then flew in their room in the next building. to his lap, showering him with "Courage, darling," said Mikail, klases and commands. She ordered getting down with agility to crawl him to ask the orchestra leader ncross. "We're near the safety of why the French dance on the Four our own fireside." Tatiana followed teenth of July. When Mikail re him slowly and with extreme cau- spectfully declined she stormed the tion. "Imagine," she grumbled. trombone player herself.

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"I think, Mademoiselle, it has him a few francst... As if guests something to do with history, but like us were an everyday occurrence Just what ." he shrugged "Just in his meth-caten old hotel one moment, I uak my neighbour!" "Ssh ." Mikail halted sudden-

"Wh what Tatlana. "You see, pigeon!" smiled Tallana, our room... Backe up!"

"Monaleur Courtois returning to Mikall and whirling hilo can't back up and I won't! into the dance again, "It was so it took me days to learn to crawl simple to find out! Now we can forward! Procted Prince Ouratiert! celebrato without any annoying The Grand Duchess Tatiana Pet- doubts! He said wo celebrate Zu rovna commands!! Bastille! Isn't that nlee?"

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ACROSS

1 All the same describes the lion's

share in a way (12). 0 Suitable work for

maker (7),

dress-

This kind of trap might be seri- ous for miners (7).

12 Early O.T. character (4). 13 The drain, that might make 30

down (8).

14 What is the best destroyer of An eligible widowe weeds?

man, for he has only to say " thou?" and they—(4),

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gets into 17 The carriage ono

when one arrives by a P. and O. in London? (7).

18 Sink (7).

10 Seven letters (not necessarily for the postman to collect) make this military detachment (7). 22. The festive occasion

Was

a

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

young-looking?' (4),

23 The appearance of a famous

French family (5).

20 No

one approves of airy after this (4).

29 In here is a bit of the harness

(7).

31 Workers and work may be be-

neath them (7).

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

DOWN

1 She is known for her tennis

(7).

2 Evil makes this (4),

3 Mischief if not worse (7)ASE. wonder 4The-Nymph with

w, whisker fest and' then. Thl. would make one halt ((4));

Telephone 28021,

CROSSWORDS

A song 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

Jay

10 A starting point to humiliate

(5).

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

១.

of the body is upset (7).

27 She was a famous 18 down (4).

28 The only sort of hunting some

people would allow (4),

30 This is part of the machinist's

work (3).

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