1939-06-24 — Page 11

SATURDAY,

JUNE 24, 1939.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Namo

Address

This is all my oum work

Dear Kiddies,

A large

Mumber of entries, was received again this week for the colour- ing competition. Some of the palutings were excellent although several of you forgot that anemones are usually dark red and purple in cohur.

The prize-winners this week ure:- Maty Dracr Asche (aged 13), Stephen's College, Stanley,

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Marcus Drewery tazed 9), Hock 5A. Stanley.

Doreen Houghton (aged 83, 16, Virtory Avenue, Homoutin,

Coupens have been mont 10 Mary, Marcus and Doreen which I want thern to bring to the "Hongkong Telegrapli" office in Wyndham Street. The coupurs will then be exchanged for money prizes, Specially commended for excellent work are the following:

Bentorn: Yeung Kit-wn, Paul Vestuaña, John Anderson, Mansoor All Lee Roa fan Lulz Souza, Oleg Juleba, Wendy Harlon, Bhu-chung, Mary Lee, Guorge Hasan, Elzabeth Millar, Rubert Remedios, G. Jhamut, Mary Want, Donald McLeay, Intermediatest Mary Branson, Patricia Ozerlo. Lore Korner. Donald Marshall, Chan Kan-wa, S. S. Dux, Joan A. Daniel, Robert Chan, Julle Fok, Franels Ruzario, Albert Coppin, G. Kundan, Nunda Silva, Helen Pereira, Fred Lee. George Lo Lucy Millar, Rould Wand.

Wood,

Juniors: David Asche, Susats Gerald Marslaai, Jol White. Hwang

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Chun-mung, P. Wong, Mary Elliot, Pauline Neubronner, Aon Daniel, Bernar- dine Retaedias,

Gonzalez, Virginia Irmgart Saltau, Ricardo Silva, Deals Remedios, Frank Daniel Connie Lau Tony Roza,

Lulz Senza: Welcome as a new mein- ber to our Boys and Girls' Cormer.

This week, kiddies, we are having a simple pleture making competition. Ali you have to do is to take your per, pencit or brush and shade, or otherwise will the sections of the attine

are marked with a cress, When You have done so, the portions left white will make a pretty picture.

The line-in may be in ink, peneli, paint or crayon and whenitet be done inteely and evenly as you coat, as the benter it is the Tretter will the picture itself be,

Fill in the

413343 AKT coupon and send your entries to Uncle Eddie. c/o "Hongkong Telegraph. Wynd- ham Street. The competition elosen at 2 pm. on Wednesday.

DAIDE,

address

Prizes will be given in order of merit Jue correct Bod best Anished entries. Age will be taken into consideration.

Young man's fancy

MAJOR ROAD AHEAD-A YOUNG

MAN'S ULTIMATUM

(Methuen, 54.)

OPICAL and timely. This book consists of nine young men's Answers to the ques- Llons: Would I nght? Why would I fight? When would I fight?

These are the sort who will be doing Britain's fighting if war should come. So they deserve our attention for what they have to say.

Classified as Liberal, Catholic, clergyman, Jew, Fascist, Conserva- Live (two kluds), Socialist and Communist, they agree against Hller. Each of them is ready to fight to preserve what he values in England, though naturally they cannot

Agree on preservation valuca.

The Farelst does not think the Jew is worth preserving, and I suspect the contrary is just as true. The Liberal thinka very little worth preserving except Liberalism- and that is dead alrently, glowing with the phos- pharescence of decay.

I hope the young gentlemen who wrote this book so nicely will forgive mw, I say that they are a bit lali-15- dah. They tend to show off. But they All have their way to make in the world, and we must all start somehow, So they should be forgiven,

Nevertheless. I find it annoying when the world is discussed as though there are alternative worlds to which we can emigrate. Some of these would-be front-line fighters talk like zuburban housewives wondering whether It might not be better to more from Eal- lng to Surbiton,

They forget there are No more worlds, and probably no more civilian - ton: If we smash up our present apology for one

In spite of these grumbles I recom- mend this book most hartly. Rend

it for its courage and its outspoken- ness. These young men say what they mean even though some of it seems very callow".

By reading then you will be better able to make un vaur own mind about the tree tremendous questions they si honestly answer,

NEW TYRANNIES FOR OLD #Gorge Allen and Untein, Lid., 5s.) TERE is another symposium. But this time six seasoned old war-horses deliver their lec- tures before the Fabian Society,

Uncle Eddie H

FRIGIDAIRE

Leads The World

See The 1939 Cold Wall Models

LANDLIANS

RED DEER FAWNS.-One of the charming pictures illustrating Animals as Friends," by Margaret Shaw and James Fisher, published by Dent (63.) Next Thursday.

and then their remarks are gar- nered into tliis book,

Generally speaking, we know what Lord Snell, Wicktom Sleed, General Temperley, Genevieve Tabouls, R. II. S. Crossman and Herbert Morrison are likely to say about the present changing chaos of Europe.

Therefore Mujor Rond Ahead soems lo me a more vital, and stimulating book for toxiny, though it cannot be nearly so good or solid a book.

It

shakes up your mind, whereas New Tyrannies for Old ably restates well- known positions.

The lectures, of course, are unequal In merit. Lord Snell speaks wil great dignity and estraint on Rizal Ideologica Theory and Practice. itc belleves, very soberly, thin democracy will survive: "Ecclesiastes Bald many centuries ago, that the clouds return after the ral" but I say to you in the dark days in which we are ilving, that the clouds will pass, and the sun will renew the life of the world. This is admirable.

Next. Wickham Steed discusses A New Technique of Conquest, and tells his story of Fascist horror and aggres Blon

He repeats former recitals on the same theme admirably.

Then General Temperley explains Danger Spots in Europe, und, leads up to Genevieve Tabouls, who laments on The Confusion of Western Democracy. Why anyone listens any longer to this lady I cannot "conceive. She inkes 80 many prophecles, and foretella so much dlsnater that sometimes one of her tales comes true. It could not happen otherwise. She has forecast everything in turn. So she cannot always bu wrong.

The inst two icelures, The New Dark Ages, by R. II. S. Crossman, and When and How a Renaissance. by Herbert Morrison, are by far the best pieces in the book. They are worth bs. for their ginity and their broadly, human foun- dations.

Crossman colla 'for renewed · faith and work for democracy. He speaks as though he really believes it, not na though he was saying his piece. He catches some of the fervour of the men who discovered Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity in the First French Revo- lation.

Herbert Morrison speaks wisely and subtly, as a Ulysses of the Labour Movement, sering into the minds of Chamberlain and Hitler. He usca an astringent sense of mockery to salt his adult common-sense. He dents with - the realities and mechanism of palities. His lecture should be read out to meetings of all local Labour . Parties,

Are You Sure?

(Questions on Page 2.)

1 Inferiorily 12 Orkney

Island

complex

2 British

Empire

(1934)

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the sun

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ship 7-Pricat

6 Hansard O'Russia

10 Take it on.

the chin

11 Larynx

13 A corpenter 14 Arrow-

Anthers

15 The wings 16 Brigiding 17 Delerious

(delirious)

maps

18 Makes 19 The Gospel

according to

St. John

20 A fictional

detective

21 D

22 Hearts 23 Headache 24 Glisters

23 Eliza

Puzzle Corner Answers

Cryptogram: "A play is like a picture: The actors ore the colours, and they must blend with one another if a perfect work is to be produced."

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Can You Do It?: There's catch here. Try arranging letters to spell Just One Word!"

Letter. Changing:_Time, tame,j Įtams, dama, days.

9.

What Are The Numbers?: 6 and

Fun With Synonyms: Notable- important; dignified-imposing: imaginative-fanciful; precise- accurate; fixed-immobile; legible; -readable; exposed-open; liberal --free; active lively; governable

tractable,

It raises up steadfast ideals and then Indicates the road towards their realisation as plainly as the ordnance survey maps.

PAGES FROM A LAWYER'S NOTE- BOOKS, by E. B. F. HAYNES

(Waits and Co., 11.)

THIS volume is a selection from

three volumes of similar malerini by Mr. Haynes. Asleep and indifferent I did not notice them when try appeared. Let me therefore now make amends and counsel all who value wisdom, coustic fun and amusing worldliness to buy this book.

Mr. Haynes is candid-even against and himself-clear-headed, precise thoroughly naughty. I daresay he would pail na a companien, though he must be a comfort to his clients a satteltor.

In small doses, he is superb as all author.

Y

T. D.

NOVELS

'OU could stay up till four in the morning (what late hours reviewers keep) and not fin- Ish Three Harbours, the latest mammoth novel from America (Jarrolds, 88, 82).

It's a panteclinicon. 823 pages long, overflowing with, to quote the pub Isher, "planters, patriots, traders, sen captains soldiers, statesmen, ship- bulldera, toughs, and trollops amid an atmosphere redolent of tobacco Nelda. of burnt gunpowder, of spices, and the tropical perfume of Bermuda nights." Mr. F. Van Wyck Mason has written a Arst-class adventure story of the Americod Revolution full of life-size 'characters and exciting happenings.

The three harboura are Boston, Nor- folk, and Bermuda and the story is bullt on the problems of America's sea-folk at the time of the Revolution.

It really is nil very colourful, grip ping, and convincing. It has breadth as well as lengui.

Helen Douglas Irvine's Fray Maria (Longmans, 09.) is another piece of historical reconstruction. but it sub- stitutes shortness for length-it has only. 200 pages and depth for breadth.

It is an exquisitely beautiful story of South America in the eighteenth cen- tury, set in Salamanca, Chile and Peru.

The story is of an unhappy Fran- ciscan, expelled from his monastery. who becomes a kind of Françola Villon making immortal songs in taverns, a disreputable, lonely, drunken solitary known as The Rat.

It is also the story of Micaela, the bewitchingly ugly actress-dancer mistress of the 70-year-old Viceroy of Pem. They called her "The Black Bitch."

The book has been made out of old documents and has a strange and lovely remote vividness.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. Alexandra Building

Pity The Oyster? No!!

SYDNEY, Australia.

No less an authority-than-T.-Ire- land, Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society, and Conchologist of the Australian Museum, says there is no need to pity the Toynter... Ireland |·lasuod a statement-declaring-that-a hlive oyster could be cut into fifty

parts and it would feel no painį.

Without a doubt this book will test. S. F.

Flora

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Good

But

The original of this picturo is

a transparency in natural colour, made with an inexpensive miniature camera,

black-and-white, it glows with life in colour.

INDOUBTEDLY most Snap- suitable light conditions.

shot Guild members have the miniature's small size, fast longed to Own a miniature lens, and quick action make it camera. There's fascination in casier to get "off-guard or these beautiful little instru- "candid" shots. And its con- ments, with their fast lenses,venience is an aid in all kinds of quick shutters, easy focussing, snapshooting. The miniature is convenient size and instant so easy to handle and operate readiness for action. They are that you want to take more The more pictures cameras one can keep at hand pictures, all the time, ready for a picture you shoot, the more practice you chance the moment it appears.

get-and your pictures just na- But, in comparison to inexpen-turally begin to improve. sive box and folding cameras, One great virtue of a minia- prices of the de luxe miniatures | ture camera with a good colour- have been a bit too steep for corrected lens is that you can many of us. True value for use natural colour film as easily every penny--but too many as black-and-white, The ori- pennies. So, I think, most ofginal of the picture above, a full us will welcome the arrival of colour transparency, shows the the true miniatures in the mo- little girl's cheeks, rosy-pink, derate price range which have hair sparkling gold against a bright blue sky. Quite a differ- recently been announced.

The other day, I saw a beauti-ence from black-and-white, and fully made miniature, with aa new thrill for the picture- sharp-cutting £5.6 lens, for only taker. You can get this natural

film G.$16.50-a camera capable of colour

for miniature taking black-and-white pictures cameras in 85mm. and No. 828 under adverse light conditions sizes. Try some shots with as well as colour film to obtain colour film. You will like the gorgeous transparencies for pro- results. jection. It was sturdy, well-built,

John van Guilder. and capable of doing excellent work. These are about bottom prices for miniatures capable of taking good colour pictures.

Many invariably refer to a miniature as a "candid" camera, and apparently believe that it automatically gets unusual, un- posed snapshots. That isn't true any camera can catch un- posed, "off-guard" snaps, under

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