THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
Books-Edited by Roger Pippett
Novels
MERICAN novòllats have an
endless appetite for the le around them. Like laan cats at a big bowl of cream, they lap up their world with gusto, Watch William Faulkner at work, if you don't bellevo me,
Argument rages round his writing. Certainly he has never worried about those people who snart :" Incompre- hensiblol” at him arid feave it at that.' But, if you like being moved to horror and pity after the manner of the Elizabethans, he is your man.
In The Unvanquished (onsito and * Windus, Ta Od.), ho is still obsomed by war-his country's Civil War and the war between white men and Negroes. And he is still as vivid as ever." And 'easier to understand.
Through the simplicity of a child who is surprised to find a Yankee looking very like man, he shows you
the extremely complicated relationship between the Negroes who were malaved in the Bouth and their manters who fought for alavery as a holy cause.
Stand with him on the lang, dusty road and watch that black stream hurrying north, the sick and aged falling by the way. but none heeding the call to stop or to tum back- alnco somewhere ahend a cleansing river (they called It Jordan) Wan walling to be crossed.
*
Oranny stands there, too, A terri fle old indy, keeping a roof-even a Negro cabin roof-over the heads of her family while the men are away fighting some of the bloodlest battles in history.
And there a gloriously grin humour in the way she does. It-t?}~ tending her protection to disposessed neighbotits and homeless alaves, atent- ing mulea from the Yankees and sell- ing them back to them, forcing Ringo. iter fenricas assistant in forgery and theft, to wash his mouth out with soap whenever he dares to swear...
No, you can't ignore Mr. Paulkner. In an age of competent, steady-going novelista, he stands for catastrophe. binck ruin and the breaking up of lawa, Moal of his contemporaries are con- Lent to use their flash-lights on tho scene. He calls down Nightrung froma the nkles.
MARIS BENNEY, who gave us that significant autobiography. Low Company, sends an ex-con- vict into the underworld of Soho In his novel, The Scapegoat Dances
(Peter Davies, 76, 0d.).
"Into," you notice. Nos "through," For Bolinan is not going to escape, it seerna, from those grey pavements,
• He who his own unrealeable wall, The more he longed for freedem, the more he would reject it-build jua wall higher.
There is a great novel to be written about the helplessness---and, therefore, the hopelessness-of a man condemned by society and circumstance to an ex- istence of quiet, klinost comfortable futility in michi surroundings. And Mr. Benney may write Ilone day,
Meanwhilic, this is a disappointing book, I caught many glimpses of horrifying reality, but they weren't fol- lowed up. There is much sensitive writing here. Yet, for me, the story's truth is dissinated long before the end,
R. P.
Stamp News
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THE 2-cent John Adams stamp of the new U. S. regülar series will be placed on árst-day sald nt Wishington, D. C., postoffice June 3 and throughout the country as soon thereafter as possible.
The stamp, the design of which is shown above, will be, red, and Identient In alze to the previous issues of the new series, It will be on sale at the Washington Phil- atelle Agency June
!
First U. S. commemorative of the year will be the 3-cent Dela- ware stump marking the 300th 'anniversary of the landing of the Swedes in America in 1638. It will be placed on first-day sale at Wilmington, Delaware,
June
27.
The stamp will feature as its central design reproduction of a painting by Stanley Arthurs de- of the first picting the arrival Swedish and Finnish settlers. The design will be enclosed with orna mentat, side borders, the stamp will be square,' 0.92 inches, and will be one of the few squaro com- memoratives over lasued, The color has not been designated. The customary cover arrangements have been made, pieda
On June 21 the 3-cant Consil tution stamp will go on firal-day sale at the Philadelphia postomce. It will be purple, imenire 0.84 by 1.44 inches arranged horizontally The central feilen will feature - me
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The jacket ilustra- tion to "Gulliver's Travela."
BIRD
MAN
MEET the Bird Man of
the book world, the young enthusiast who Jos revolutionised popular pub- fishing-Alten Lane.
Three years ago, when he started his sixpenny editions he was warned, “It can't be done." Since then over ten millions of his Penguins and Pelicans have been sold across the counters, ·
still defying taboos and conventions, he has turned to tlie classics-to such old friends as Robinson Crusoe, Gilliver's Travels, Pride and Prejudice, Thoreau's Walden and Poe's Taler of Mystery and Imagination.
You will find them in tha bookshops to-morrow. In striking red, white and black jackets. Readable type. Illustrated with wood engravings by a brilliant team of British artista,
Blond-bearded, blur-eyed Robert Gibbings is the art editor of tha series. He has a passion for troplent islands, so he has done the pictures for Herman Melville's fine story, Typee.
Among the other illustrators of the first ten volumen of the Penguin Illustrated Clasales aro Gwendoline Raverat, Ethelbert White, Helen Binyon, Iain Macnab, J. R. Diggs and Theodore Naish. All the attractions of "mited edition" for sixpence, an the Bird Man sayu, -
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Fighting Blue
ITH the Major Attlee Com- pany of Bpain's People'a Army there is now fighting 28-year-old Lewis Clive, once à rowing Blue and a Guards' oficer.
Now comes, with preface by Mr. Attlee, a book he wrote before he left for Spain The People's Army (Gollancz, 78. 64.).
I puta
forward plus ty which Labour Government could give Bri- lain a people's army Instead of t present "class" army, And this meana, At the very least:
A rise in basle pay frum 14s. bu Zls, a week.
Drawing far more ofcera from the tanks
Removing the ban on marriage be fore 20.
Iteducing maximum foreign service to three years.
Providing means of collective com- phunt.
Reinking w rules controlling spare
Lime.
Make these changes and you will have begun to innke the Army into n carcer in which, as Mr. Altlec myn, "ocif-respecting and intelligent men will be able to find satisfaction."
Happy Island
W. 8.
CECIL LEWIS, in Sagittarius
Rising, made flying at speed through the upper air seem the only thing that life is worth living for.
Now, in The Trumpet is 31ine (Peter Davlen, B. d.), he has transferred bin flair for savouring to the full the ex- perience of the moment to the South Sen island of Tahill,
"The jewelled finli, the mountains. The sumisela. the suits, the dancing, the guitars, the garlands and desire... Je catalogues in cestnsy.
Ha book has the clarity, the humour and the topsy-turvy loveliness of a drean sel down on waking.
He lived for a while vividly, eagerly and so happily on this island, which he calls "Eden ravished.”
For the complex life that we call civilisation has left rears of disease, crippling habits of mind and body. even in Eden, and one day the braut)- ful dream may be beyond the recall of the most ardent sleep-walker.
Meanwhile, we are left with Mr. Lewis' problem to solve. **I know it," he says of Tahiti, “to, be healthier, saner and wiser than the world to which I have been born: less capable of evil, less self-conscious, less greedy. sour and barbarous, and yet
He had to come back as. I nuppose, all of us would. Somehow we can't help loving thin civilisation of ourn that we hate so much.
S. F.
WAKE UP YOUR "LIVER BILE
Without Cafomal- And You'll Jump Out of Bed Fail of Vim and Vigour, The liver should pour out two pints of Hauld bile into your bowala dally. If thin bile is not flowing freely, your (God doesen't aligent, It just does in the bowals, Gas bloats up Your stomach. You get menstipated. Your whole aystem la patroned and you feel sour. munk and the world looks pank.
Lantives are only makeakiṭṭa. A mera bowel movement doesn't get at the amuse. I
IL takes those Iamony Carter's Li1up Livor Ps to get these two pints of bile flowing fresty and makes fool "upand up Harm- less, gentle, yet smaalag in making blie Bow freely for the name Carter's Liti
Into the red packaga. Undano kaya
tling ebe.
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revolt against the oppressor and carry with it the rest of the German Prople, rousing them from the nightmare of the last five years."
Willi Frischauer, closing" with eyes fuil
tears his Twilight in Vienna (Collins, 12s. Bd.), seen through the night ahead the possibility of a new down for Austria.
His book, which was started well before the German invasion, is con. cerned much more with men and women than with politics. The suffer- ings to which the people of Central Europe were reduced aro set out here In a series thrilling, sometimes de- pressing, but intensely human studies.
Here the Austrian probiern from An entirely new angle-bow ordinary, forgotten people live under pres Aure of international eventa. Enough drama for a brary of novels.
Debt. poveris borrowing. crime. lowering and loss of morals, broken marriage ties, shattered homer examples of these in Herr Frischauer'n own experiente na a Vienna news- paper reporter crowd these pages.
On auch toplen he is at his best. In his more brief discussions of politica he la challengeable. For the author is a "Schuscliigg men" who still fecis that the milder dictatorship of Austria'a Inst free Chancellor would in the end have reconciled Left and Right and led back slowly to democrney.
W. M. T.
ALLEY OOP
LISSEN, YOU RAT, DON'T GIVE US
Very Trying
D
O you remember the festive though impractical cry, "Hang the Kalser!" which went up just after the end of the war?
Well, twenty years after that movement collapsed, George Sylvester Viereck, German- American, has brought out a large, expensive and ingenious book to prove that the poor aid gentleman nover deserved to be hanged at all.
Indeed. Mr. Viereck's main trend 391 argument is that, considering his atro- clous upbringing entourage of sYCO- phants and general bad luck, the pre- sent resident of Doorn is not such a bad old scout after all.
Mr, Viereck does all this by means of a most elaborate mechanism of sceming Inipartiality. His book is called The Kalter on Trial (Duck- worth, 218), and its scheme is this:
A trial of William is conducted before five judges and a jury. Prose- cutor and counsel for the defence calf witnesses, ative and dead-in- cluding the ex-All Highest-nnd, after "describing their evidence, a Hitle, Mr. Viereck rewrites the His- tory of their relations with the Katser.
In this process he is noticeably partial and unfair.
All the horrors are dragged out and shown to us in the most glaring limelight. The chapter about Holztela inventor of the Schnitzel which bears is name, by the way) in called "The Man with the Hyena Eyes,"
Eulenburg becomes "The Jekyll and Hyde of the Imperial-Court," and you Bülow "the Chancellor with the Serpent's Tongue."
The commenta on these personages are just as highly seasoned as you would expect from such silly chapter headings.
Wretched William is betrayed again and Again by his immediate advisers and closest friends, misled and duped by wicked foreigners, although he is the friend of peace-the most trusting of all men. If you were vulgar enough and I am-you would consider his portrait by Mr. Viereck that of a Bucker among Emperors.
Actually, of course, William was very gifted, very headstrong and very badly served. Yet he was a paragon of mildness, virtue and sweet reasori com- pared with the present rulers of Germany
Democratic opinion cheered his foll. Events have shown that there are wome things than Avainglorious grandson of Queen Victoria as tho ruler of Germany. There are Hiller end his boys, for example.
One last word: George Bernard Shaw ought to give up writing pre- fuces for ila pals' books. He has dono one for Mr. Viereck, which makes him scem a very silly old man, We know he isn't anything of the kind, Still, he lets friendship carry him too far. T.D.
This Curious World
By William Ferguson
STILL WATER DOES NOT RUN DEEP!
IT DOES NOT RUN AT ALL..
IF YOU WALKED THE COASTLINE OF MAINE, IT WOULD MEASURE ABOUT
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BY AIR/
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