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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY,

JULY

1938.

Books of the

Week-Edited

by Roger

PICK OF THE HOLIDAY FICTION

A

Serenade, by James M. Cain (Cape, 78. 6d.). A singer runs away with a Mexican girl. Bensational, powerful, passionate and tough.

Pray for the Wanderer, by Kate O'Brien ffeinemann, 78. ed.). A Lale of love, star-crossed and other- wise, in Ireland. The scenes and the people live.

Oh, Fay Can You See! by Lewis Browne (Cape, B. ed.). In which a Moviet student discovers the United

ates. Briant datire,

1

Scoop. by Evelyn Waugh (Chap man and fall, 78. Gd.). The Press under heavy, fire in two continents. Organised massacre and fine fun,

Joseph In Egypt, by Thomas Mann (Seeker and Warburg. Two vols, 159.). More chapters in Herr Mann's re- celling of the Bible story.

The Moon is Feminine, by. Clem- ence Dane (Heinemann, 7s. 6d. Romance and fantasy-umong the mermen In Brighton a hundred

years ago.

Nightingale

Stella Wood, by Gibbons Longmans, Green, 8s. 6d.),

A shrewd and delightful tale about two unhappy familles.

1640, by Jack Lindsay (Methuen, 10s.), England under Old Noll with the Levellers fighting a losing battle. Fine historical Action,

Minimum Man, by Andrew Mary vell follancz, 8. ed.). Our latest serial between two covere Follow those little folk to victory!

I Should Have Stayed Home, by Horace McCay (Arthur Barker, 7. ed.). One more law-down on life in the Golden Film Oity- Hollywood,

The

The Secret Kingdom, by Walter Greenwood (Cape, 88. d.). proud and convincing pilgrimage of one of Lancashire's daughters.

The Unvanquished, by William Faulkner Chatto and Windus, Te. Ed.). A story of the American Olvil War. Lit by Ughtning from the skica.

The Crowning of a Klug, by Arnold Zweig (Secker and Warburg, 93. Gd.). Another distinguished war tale by the creator of Sergeant Grischn.

She seems to know all the answers.

By Paul F

HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

CAMEL

(SHIP OF THE DESERT) THE PHRASE "SHIP OF THE DESERT," AS APPLIED TO A CAMEL, ORIGI NATED IN GEORGE SANDY'S PARAPHRASE OF THE BOOK OF JOB (1610). IT OCCURS IN THE COUPLET: --

'THREE THOUSAND CAMELS HIS

RANK PASTURES FED, ARABIA'S WANDERING SHIPS, FOR

TRAFFIC BRED.

ALLEY OOP

BY GUM, FOOZY, THIS HAVIN' RUNNIK' WATER. RIGHT IN OUR: CAVE IS GREAT!

YEAH, WE'RE WELL FIXED

UP IN EVERY WAY 'CEPT WE MAY GIT LONESOME HERE

SOME DAY!

THAT'S NO CRITTER,, NOR JUNGLE PUP- WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S COMIN' UP!

IT'LL MIGHTY SOON BE GOIN' BACK DOWN/ AGAIN---WITH A

HEADACHE!

CREAK

CREAK

BUMP

SCRAPE

CREAK!

JAVELIN

THE SPANISH WORD FOR A, WILD BOAR WAS JABALE," AND JABALINA" WAS THE SPEAR USED IN HUNTING THE ANIMAL. FROM THE LATTER WORD WE GOT DAVELIN FOR A MEDIUM - SIZED SPEAR.

Pippell

Dynamite

By Vincent Hamlin

HEY, OUR LADDER- JIMINY CROW! SUMPIN'S

GRABBED IF DOWN

BELOW!

M. REC

CREEEEE

KING GUZ!

ALLEY OOP!

FAT. OFF.

SERVICE, INC

-in curlers

NATOLE FRANCE once said that his business as a writer was to wrap up dyna- in curl-papers. Virginia Woolf, I can assure you, feels that way sometimes, too.

mito

She is most widely known as n novelist. But I am not thinking of her

Belion here. I am thinking of two

small books in which, trending like an avenging angel, she has put the woman's point of view.

Nine years ago, in the first of them, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Woolf surveyed the subservient past of her ker and argued that women had the best of their lives before them-pro- -vided they were given fixed incomes

and rooma of their own),

Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

To-day, in Threo Guineas (The Ho- garth Presa, 78. Od.), she develops her attack along the whole soolat front. Enough of these blasts of the trum- pet against the monstrous regiment of women!" I can fancy her saying ns nhe set out to sound this counter. charge of her own.

was

She received three separate requests for a guines subscription. One came from the treasurer of a society for the preservation of peace and civil and intellectual 'liberty. Another from the bursar of a women's college. The third was an appeal from an organisation for obtaining employ- thent for professional women,

I

Mrs. Woolf's answers cover more than two hundred and Afty pagea bope she will condense them to fity: she 13, whether she realises it or not. a born pamphleteer. Meanwhile, there is more than enough here for the de- vastation of masculine complacency.

"The work of an archbishop in worth £16.000 a year to the State. The work of n judge is worth £6,000 a year. The work of a permanent secretary 15 worth £3,000 a year...

"The work of an army explain, of a naval captain, of a sergeant of dragoons, of a policeman, of a postman -all these works are worth paying out of the taxes

"Bul wives and mothers and daugh- ters who work all day and every day. without whose work the State would collapse and fall to pleces, without whose work your sons would evuse to ext, are paid nothing whatever. Can it be possible? "*

And, if you answer, "usband and wife are not only one flesh, they are also one purse," Mrs. Woolf is far from satisfied. If you say. "Ah. but think

What a

SASITARIOMALI

GUIDE!

ORTUNATE wiil student who, setting

be the out to explore the economic history

of this country, takes The Economy of Britain: A History, by H. M. Croome and R. J. Hammond Christophers, 84. Od.) as his guide. He could get no better.

Developments of a thousand years are nerd in little over three hundred pages, a task which must have raised in an acute. form the familiar problem of what to put in and what to trave o, yet the authors energe from the dilemma with high credit,

Their book is rich in Information, but the setting out of what men have done has never been permitted to run to so much detail as to leave no TUOM for telling why they did it and what were the consequences.

So you are left with a mental groundwork in the subject which the heaping up of ten times as many facts. at the sacrifice of interpretation. would not have given you.

дај

In a volume covering such a wide feld, you should not carp unduly at a errors. But it 13 Gomewhat startling to And Ketr Hardlo turning up na lender of the London dock strike of 1889,

It is also incorrect to describe hours as being "legally Axed" in Trade Board industries, What the Trade Boards do is to prescribe a point beyond which an overtime rate must be paid, a quite different thing from "fixing" hours,

And when the authors write of the Transport and General Workers' Union as the unskilled labourers' union par excellence," they only show their lack of nemftance with that many-sided organisation.

A. W. H.

The P. & O. Banking

of the influence that women exercise," she can hardly contain ber.contempt. I warned you that she was a dangerous woman.

Dangerous because she has thought steadily and wisely, declining to be labelled feminist" but seeing clearly how much more, in rights and recog nition, her sex has to win in life-not

to mention letterow all the answers.

Sho scerns to know

She overhears you, perhaps, larging on the amount of freedom many women enjoy to-day. Certainly. but she goes on to suggest quietly that It might be illuminating to chalk on n large-scale map of Britain the pro- perty owned by men (red chalk) and by women (blue).

What a woman! The dynamite is in the curl-paper every time.

R. P.

CONCERT

PITCH

N these days when conductors zival film stars for tempera- ment it is interesting to have a player's view of the great men behind whose backs we sit in the concert-hall.

In The Orchestra Speaks (Long- mans, Green, 7s. Od.), Bernard Shore, the principal viola of the B.B.C. Sym- phony Orchestra, tells us amusing, in- teresting and instructive things about auch men as Koussevitzky. Mengel- berg. Beccham. Boult, Toscanini and Henry Wood.

Musicians are inordlantely conscien Lious, but they don't always think highly of their audiences, Mr. Shore has a story about Kreister passing A fish shop where, on the front slab, ny a fine cutch of co-fish arranged in a row with their mouths wide open and their glassy eyes staring.

Kreisler suddenly stopped, looked at them and, clutching his friend arm, exclaimed: violently by the

Heavens, they remind me--I should have been playing at n concerti"

And there is an addition to the Thousand and one storics About Beecham, Arriving at tho opera house Just before the curtain was due to go up, he leant over to the first violin and ald: We are performlug Figaro te-night, are we not?"

"Oh, no, Sir Thomas," said the lender. It is Seraglio'!"

My dear fellow," sud Deccham, "you amaze me!" And, closing his Acore of "Figaro," he proceeded to con- duct the operu from memory.

Toscanini is here, the unquestioned muestro. inspired and inspiring, But even his amazing memory can fall him sometimes, it seems. In 1937 he actusily forgot that a certain minim played by the violas near the beginning of the "Blegfried Idyl" was dotted!

And the book ends with Henry Wood, who, i Toscanini commands most wonder,

commands certainly

most admiration and respect. super- human sheepdog rolessly prowling the pastures of English music

S. F.

says Mr. Peppercorn:

A

YOUNG Goorze Dayta Dame along with an easy one for a change.

A countrym went up to town che afternoon. He left home with 1 in his pocket and camo back with £3.

During the afternoon he bought a hat at a hatshop; come flowers in the market place, and had a tooth stopped.

The man's pay day in Friday and the banks are open on Tues- day. Thursday and Saturday.

The dentist comes every day ex- cent Saturday.

Thursday is early closing day and there's no market on Friday. George asked us what day the man went to town.

We all spotted it must have been the Tuesday, oven old Badger. Although he was a bit worried about Thursday being carly clos ing, as with us it's Wednesday.

THE BANK OF EAST ABIA, LIMITED,

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

PEANUTS

BEANS,

NOT NUTS.

The GIANT

SMOKY JUNGLE:

OF SOUTH AMERICA' EATS SNAKES, BIRDS UJIZARDS AND BAT

4*28* COPA 1930RY MEA BERVICE, INC.

By William Ferguson

The

TOP AND BOTTOM

OF A

FLAT-FISH

ARE MS SIDES.

A FLATFISH is like any other fish in his younger days, but later on he gradually turns on his side, and then his sides become the top and bottom, and what once served as his upper and lower portions become his sides,

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ISIANA

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Iceland Portrays Its Geysers on Postage

RUGGED, pitted Iceland is one of the most volcanic regions on the entire earth. Volcanic ac- tivity has been going on almost continuously from the formation of the land in the time-dimmed Tertiary period to the present. There are 107 known volcanoes in Leeland together with thousands of ernters.

But the most spectacular evi- dence of this vulcanism today are Iceland's hot springs and geysers. Hot springs are found in every part of Iceland, both singly and and in groups. Sulphur springs bolling mud lakes dot the country, and in places there are carbonic acid springs.

Great Geyser is the giant of all. After being inactive them since 1916, suddenly in 1935 it re- newed its magnificent displays. shooting hundreds of tons of water 150 feet into the air. Today resi dents of Reykjavik contemplate harnessing the Great Geyser, and other hot springs to heat the capi- tal city. Already many buildings are thus heated, hot water swim- ming pools provided.

One of Iceland's great geysers is shown above on one of our current stamps portraying them.

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