1939-02-18 — Page 11

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939.

Girls' and Boys' Corner

BOOK REVIEWS

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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD,

Dear Kidds,

HIDDEN OBJECTS:-

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Dozens of enities this werk, ktellen, owd many of them were correet, Sonje of your infibek 250 2 Ba which "Aprients." As so many were right, H took me quite a long time to dreide on the wisning entries, but after carctul eankúteration. 1 am nwarding the prizes this werk 10:

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Jack Dobson taxed 71%), 36, Hankow

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Couperts are being sent to 0. Julebin, els and Tark which I wond Diem to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices

Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanted for money prizes.

Specially Pammended for excellent en- tries are the following:

Bentors: Wong Yan-1sing, Dilly Rain- ney, John Fabel, Ne Wlag-ban. GVIN Velasco Fredy Alex Jon Walle, Maria Gonelin, Serge Vilavin, Sylva Silva, Erebio d'Aquino, Boo Belonies. Ingmar Eriksen, Rene Ororin, Alberto

Stotricien Demand Gaggino. Joyer Wood, Winifred Lann. Doris Whelpton, Ho Man- caba, Mary An, Barbara Laurel, Faul Versonna, Charles E. Clark, Jean Kemp ton, Aleardo 11. Matt Albert Woutlive.

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I want to welcome Serge Vdoyin us o new member of the lays and Girls' Curner.

This week, kiddies, I want you to study the picture above and pick it the hidden objects. When you have foumi as many as you can, write them in the space be How the picture. Fill in the name, age and addrena coupon asul send to tindle Eddie eo "Hongkong Telegraph," Wynd ham Street, before 2 p.m. n Wednesday.

Best of luck, kites.

Uncle Eddie

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Nation's Father was fourteenth son

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5 A boy Benjamin Franklin startled the family by suggesting

that much valuable time could be saved if, instead of saying grace before every ment, his father would ask n general Sunday blessing which would aufflee for the rest of the weck.

I have always thought that pro- posal symbolical of his unusun! commun scrise, and Evaris S. Scudder's blography. Benjamin Franklin (Collins, 158.), confirms ny conviction thus Franklin was one of the greatest men of that age of great men, the eighteenth cen- tury.

The fourteenth and favourite child of a Boston candle-maker, he came at last to bestride the New World like n *colossus-n benevolent colossus in sober brown velvet with white stock. ings and buckled shoes, one of the undisputed fathers of hit country,

Other men may have been grenter, few have been more human." Who would desire a happler epitaph?

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At twenty-two, with years of experi ence behind him as a printer and n writer in the American Colonies and England. he drew up a list of virtuca und made it n practive to perfect him- self in one particular viriue each week, noting the results in a little book."

The HAL Included Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality. Cleanliness, Tranquility and Chastity. Eight characteristic virtues of the Age of Reason. ite falled occasionally tri Numbers Two. Seven und Eight. But all the others, especially Number Four, remained with film to the end.

Mr. Scudder is far too sprightly here and there, but he has written a sound,

A contemporary caricature of Lord North, "the man who, with King George the Third, lost Britain her

American Colonies."

pleasant and extremely exciting book- The sort of blography which always attracts me. for he has an eye for those Incidents which lumine rather than decorate, so that Franklin is evoked In his full humanity,

He seems to have done nimost nil that a man could do-tram swimming the Thames from Chelsea to Black- Iriors, performing feats of activity on the way." to bringing down light- ning from the sky, from printing paper money for New Jersey to financing the revolutionary Atnerican Colonies from Europe, a job that must turn the Schachts and Normans green with envy to-day!

Once, when he was leading a force of militia in a frontier struggle, the chap- inin reported that the men were sinck In attending morning prayers. Frank-

LIBRARY

The Kilculous Hat, by John Brophy (Collins, 7s. 6d.). The tingl-comedy of a middle-aged man's romance with n girl. With attractive askies.

The Devil We Know. by Pamela Frankau (feinemann, $5.), in which a proud and angry Jew sets out to avenge himself in a world of fear.

Rabble lu Arms, by Kenneth Roberts

LIST

¡Collins, 93. tď.). A long. vivid novel staging the American War of Inde. pendence. Remember Northwest 03- sape?

Three Over the Frontier, by Hans Habe Harrap, s. 6d.). Being the adventures of a trio of refugees who escape neross the German-Czech border

Are You Sure?

ANSWERS

QUESTIONS ON PAGE TWO

1. No.

2. Pluto.

3. New York.

} 4. (a) The forty-eight States of the Union; (b) the thirteen colonies that joined in the Declaration of In- dependence.

5. David's shield-the Jewish em- blem.

0. (a) Quintin Hogg (Notional Conservative); (b) George Schuster (Liberal National); (c) Mrs. Adam- son (Labour); (d) Vernon Bartlett (Independent Progressive).

7. All except penguins.

8. Frogs, hail, and darkness.

0. (a) House of Lords; (b) Privy Council.

10. Turkey.

11. London and Paris.

12. (a), Germany; (b) Elre; (c) Belgium; (d) Wales; (e) Russia; (1) Canada.

13. No. Mongol".

14. (a) Foundation of Japanese Empire; (b) creation of Chinese Re- publle; (c) Mahomet's flight to the wilderness; (d) creation of the world.

15. Jeroboam.

10. (a) Iraq: (b) Syria; (c) South- West Africa; (d) Jugo-Slavin; (e) Latvia; (f) Southern Rhodesia,

17. Landon.

18. Board of Education.

19. (a) Charles II.; (b)-Edward II; (c) Elizabeth; (d). James 1,

20.

(a) Britain, Holland and France: (b) Britain, Holland, and Australia,

21. Symbol for "and"--&.

22. Medusa.

23. James VI.

24. Jack Ketch, a hangman.

25. (a) Graham; (b) Campbell; (c) Howard; (d) Cavendish; (c) Wind- sor (1) Percy.

26. Abraham Lincoin.

PUZZLE CORNER ANSWERS

Cryptogram: The canine qua- druped was under suspicion of having obliterated by the process of mastication that article of aus- tenance which our butcher de- posited at our posterior portal.

A Charade: Plea, sure, pleasure. Leiter Changing: Track, trace,| trade, grade, grade, goads, roads, rooks, rocks, racks, races,

What was the Cost: $13.04.

Fan With Synonyms: Favours- ble — advantageous; pliant-sup- plo; fluent-voluble; generous--- |

liberal; showy-flashy; genteel -polite; thankful-grateful; hardy -jobusi; nanow--restricted; mu-| Elcal--tuneful.

tia thought moment and then ordered him to servo the day's runt mation immediately after the service.

Nover." hc Bald Inter. wero prayers more generally and more pune- tually attended."

As the American Ambassador to Prance, he heard that a ship had pul in with a hundred Britisli prisoners of war on board. He wrote to the British Ambassador nuggesting that they might be exchanged for a similar num- ber of American seamen then held in Jail al Portamouth.

An unsigned. undated paper was brought back. The King's Ambasan. dor, it read, 'receives no applications from rebels unless they come to m plore His Majesty's mercy,"

Franklin replied: "In answer to a letter which concerns some of the most material Interests of humanity and of the two nations, Great Britain and the United States of America, now at war, we received the enclosed 11- decent paper, as coming from your lordship, which we return for your lordship'a more mature considera. tion."

Yes, he seems to have done almost all that a man could do. But one thing defeated ilm-the undying Tory stupidity of George the Third and that complacent Minister, Lord North. Franklin spent years patiently trying to convince the Britial) that their rein tlons with the American Colonies could be penecfully settled.

Ito failed-und the Declaration of Independence and Saratoga were the devastating sequel.

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We last cze him, full of years and honour. sitting in his Philadelphia home. His voice was low, but is countenance was open,

frank pleasing," wrote n friend. "The ten- table was spread under the trees and Mrs. Bache. who is hits only daughter, served it to the company. She had three of her children around her. They seemed to be excessively fond of their grandpapa.

His manners are perfectly easy and everything about him seems to diffuse an unrestrained freedom and happi 11053, He has an incessant vein of humour, accompanied with an uncom man vivacity which seemed as natural nud involuntary as his breathing."

Portrait of a Very Great Man. Like, these grandchildren, I find easy to be excessively fond of Doctor Ben

Growling Bird

Crestline., O.

The growling bird of Crestline has A. H. Wilson, its owner, mystined, and orthodox birds terrified by the baritone sounds it emits instead of chirps. It is 14 inches high and re- sembles a bittern, but experts have failed to identify it.

SNAPSHOT GUILD

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PICTURES OF PEOPLE

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Soft, diffused lighting helps obtain batter ikenosses in Informal por- tralia-portrait attachment permits close-ups.

IN TAKING informal portraits of the camera should be loaded with

a friend, or mombor of the fan-one of tho now extra-fast ŝima, Ily, it is most important to obtain The position of the subject in also A good likenços,

important, It a plensing keness is Unitally, a better likeness is ok to be obtained. Thus, a person with tained the light in soft and dit prominent ears should be taken in fused. For informal portraits In-na-pronto, rather than facing tho doors, such lighting is easy to ob camera squaroly. With other sub- tain. Simply use two or threo nina-jects, a slight tilt of the head, up or tour photo bulls of the "food" typo, down, may be desirable. Try nov. placing them so that light is cast eral shots of a person, allowing him on the subject from both alder.

to vary is poss each time. Comparo

Thano bulbs are inside-frosted, the pictures, and the Importance of and this accounts for the softness this will be evident. of their gl. They ft ordinary light No expensivo equipment is need- Bockuts, and can be used convened for informal portraits, but a por eatly in bridge lamps. By moring trait attachment is helpful if you the lamps to different positious, one una a fixed-focus camera, or one that can bring out the shape of the sub-focuses no cloner than five or six Jeel's features an that tho pleturs feet. A "diffusion" type of portrait shows him at ble best.

attachment can be used for charm.

Amateur photo bulba yield a lighting soft-outline close-ups, particu so brillant that snapshots can be farly of children and women. Por taken indocro at night with an Intralt arapsbols of the family should expenalvo box camera. Two to three ho taken often, for wo all change, bulbs should be used, in cardboard and new pictures keep us up to date, "lampahade-typo" reflectors, and

John van Gullder

Execution Put Off

-To Make Man Suffer More

NEW YORK.

GOVERNOR LEE O'DANIEL, of Texas, recently postponed for thirty days the execution of Winzell Williams, a negro who shot his white "boss."

His reason (in his own words): "To make Williams suffer more before he dies in the electric chair. I don't think any punishment could be too severe in this case.”

Literary strip-tease

W

HEN an Author able though omniscient ponila. undresses in public,

But the preacher of the Inft'est the spectators (if

`sermon is only human, or sub- any) usually turn

human, without his surplice--and now is the moment to step down their heads away. For most

from the pulpit and dlarobe in the literary strip-teases are

dis-

Yestry. tressing sights, especially when the performer expects a large audience to come and gape at him...

But Cyril Connolly, who stands high among the intelligent critics of his generation, proves the ox- ception in Enemies of Promise (Routledge, 10s. Od.), The last hundred and fifty pages of his book form one of the most detached, unsentimental and finally signi- Пcant self-exposures I have read.

Don't be alarmed at his descrip- tion of this work as "an export- ment in a form which might be called critico-nutobiography." You can even risk his anger and skip the first two sections, in which he wittily discusses the acidly and novelists of his time, their tempta- tions and their enemies, the cupational diseases" of authorship.

But

if you dodge that inst see- tion, "A Georgian Boyhood," you will miss the memorable memories of a man who is still struggling to put away childish things,

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"Every critic,” says Mr, Connolly. "writes as if he were infallible and protends that he is the embodi iment of impartial sanity, a reason-

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IN BRIEF

Free Land, by Rose Wilder Lanc (Longmans, Greën, 7s, éd.). A stirring story of the trials and tribulations of the early settlers in the American Far West.

Man's Love, by Laura Whester (Ward, Lock, 7e. 6d.). The tale of a very human trio-Barbara, Jeffery and Ben. The author's sixth novel--and her best yet.

Champions All, by E. R. Hall, with notes by T. D. Richardson (Frederick Muller, 18.). Bixty-four striking camera studies of skating, nees, in Action:

"This autobiography is Intended to be such a disrobing, and is meant to be an analysis of the kind of grounding in life and art which the critic received, of the ideas which formed him in youth, the education, the ideals, the disap- pointments, from which are drawn his experience, the fashions he may exhibit and the flaws he may conceal."

Snobbishness was one of Mr. Connolly's strongest and subticat enemies from the start. Visiting his rich relations in Ireland, he longed to be an aristocrat. "Why had my father not get a title? It Wag heartless-angulshing-why be born, why liye at all if I could not have one? Nobody understood me, Nobody cared.

While he was in that state ho found himself at a private school, desperately playing the buffoon ta fend off the bullies, artfully play-

Ing the sycophant and currying favour with the masters. His bril- Hance and his cunning won him a scholarship to Eton, where the bullying was oven worse.

"Nobody would have believed that he could make me stand on a mantelpiece and dance while he brandished a red-hot poker be- tween my feet and said, 'What is your name?' 'Connolly. ́ ́ No, what is your name? Go on. Bay it.' Ugly.' 'All right, Ugly, you can come down.

The only thing to do, it seemed to young Connolly, was to be seen with the Right People, the Top Dogs. 80 he summoped-all- his snobbishness and his artfulness and achieved the impossible by tricking Eton's most exclusive act Into accepting him.

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* * Yes, he certainly got what he wanted. But ho was revolted-and almost ruined-in the event.

And therein, to me, lies the signifi- cance of his story. In order to survive, ho was forced to exploit that innate snobbishness, to develop a habit of compromise, to play for safety, to beat the high and mighty at their own¬ appalling 'game.

He has survived-at a cost. He can look himself in the face, unflinchingly and with an almost morbid delight. But too often he looks on the world of art and letters, whitch ho criticises so acutely, as a world to be amused and world conciliated and appeased, which may still harm him if he falla to behave himself properly. . . .

And doesn't Mr. Connolly know it, too! That's what makes Enemies of Promise so fascinating-and-euch i warning.

Crime and Witchcraft

SOMETHING refreshingly differ- ent-crime and the police from the point of view of the underworld - is the theme of Gavin Douglas' The Search for the Blue Sedan (Coliina, 78; 6d.).

Limehouse Reach, “holsting a poke * - out of a car, finds the case he has stolen contains blood-smeared jewels and is charged with murder. His street girl friend secures the help of the crooks of Boho to save him from the gallows by tracking the murderer.

It is a story thai must stand or fall by the apparent authenticity of the world i aketches. Ex-card keeper Douglas does it well enough to justify his claim that "I'm still one of the crowd to Boho people."

Freeman Witia Črofes niso tises tha, viewpoint of a criminal in Aslidate to` Venom

and Hlaughlan, 78. 04.), reserving the oxAct means of a most ingenious murder and the method

(Hodder

of detection for the mystification of the reader.

A bogus heiz, a killing in an over- looked and apparently empty garden and a touch of witchcraft provide. in The Crooked Hinge (Hamish Hamilton, · Ta. (d), the sort of swift, careful, crazily logical plot that John Dicksoni Carr does so well

Substitute for › witchcraft `a" secret. doctrine of occulilan, and there is" something not discimilar in Olde B Olason's The Mian from Tibet- (Heino mand. 7. 04.) the story of`s than who cites untouched by human hand before a background of Ġentral nalan mystery' and lore.

Alan Kennington employs Shɛ Died Young (Jarrolda. 78. 83.) to pire you murder from the murderer's print of view. Ite sees stí innocent man put on trial, saved from the gallawa Kud himself turn to murder. In 'revenge

·It'doon't seem to pay.