1939-09-16 — Page 9

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939.

BOOK REVIEWS

Novels

reviewed by Will Shebbeare

THIS TIME A BETTER EARTH. by Ted Allan.

Heinemann, 7s. 6d.

EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER TO-MORROW, by Aunmarie. Selinko, Secker and Warburg. 78. G.

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ERE is fellon which comes closer to truth than most biographiles.

Nothing is left out of this story of a Canadian who went to Bgh for the Spanish Government. Everything is in it--the stench of rotting bodles, babies screaming beneath falien masonry, brave deeds done us part of the day's work, muddle in high places, frayed tempers, cowardler.

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This is not a book that is going to "convert" anyone. does not tell you why the Government was right and Franco

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It just sets down what Spin was ke during the war in the blunt way which Amerlean and Canadian writers have developed a well.

Tel Allan has the sort at sunce of humour which makes way for bins to write about the queer people and by all tennie there were a rest lot of them who made their way to th Spankh wur

There a Captain Bros. for stance, who, having t

." jklm cavalry itteer for live voost Jemet st necessary in the evening to efters up inner Jacket vet duin the battic of Jurama.

I'm here," he wont say, "la po fect England'A imperl

And a member of his Maff would ex- plaren here, not that what matters, and hearting Passen. and he's here becsize les pentecting British Terial Intere and I'm here because I'meljete in dentendre, but we're here, and that: the point. It'

Wanted To Fight

Bob Curtis hero of this bank, went to Spain from Toronto, wanting to Oght. But he was wounder in all ar raid before the fighting eten drup When he wound head he was made an announcer in Madral, brdnasting lo American and Canation it teher..

He saw how the people of all fared defentatiel how they faced vie tory. He raw women satulina: patiently in the food quemos, referring to take shelter even when the bomber can over, for fear they let their places

He even found time to fui in Inver anel become as bear beared as makes no difference.

How it all ended for item, you will have to read the teak to find out. But there is nor thing that fol Curtis v stre of to the last pune mud that do that the war was tot tafile tax the lves st In Spain helpos de mortars

LENNIE, the lng clumsy may

this picture, over to

strain Jury 4213417222-ter puppers, puliffs especially rub bit, He hes to struke vetref, 100

But he is so big and so clumsy Put he suddenly finds the little anmult ge frig mit fals hands He vannut understand that his great. fondling fbery 2017 erwtend them to drath.

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He has no memory either. He cannot remember who where he comes, fram or what he dr or He does just us he is told by George, the little man t has purture, who is capable qurk-of-the-mark,

Land. Both are trans

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Lennie is the main rзON

Mier and Men," John Stein. Work's briet novel.

Written Anction's modern trival-berrible

Hebu have just pro duced a ner entition. I till

everywhere "Whether we live or die, se en't lose," says one of his com

War. front net The Great War threw up hondres! Now there is a Led crop coming in from the Spanish. War Among them Te! Allan's burk will take a high plane

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tale As pumptrop paket one at the broadestiat stip aps which thake it: tening to the audie 2

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California Bad

Men

Tintypes in field, by Jiseply Henny Markson, San Francisco author anl

son. New York Marallin.

ARLY California history is

EAR Clemarket

with success.

One of the latest contributions is "Tintypes in Gold," by Joseph Henry Jack

book reviewer.

to the fun that many suppert Tar slip-ups of being planned in advance

But there was nothing planned about what happened to Tont. She was a mere typist at the Vienna radio- station, and she happened to be in the And when the announcer fainted.

For particular reason the win! over to the mike und ald 1 only wanted to say good-night. I think wo all have some trouble at this hour. At mgåt all our troubles Ite big and heavy upon us. And we think we catel bear £81048. But it's different in the morn ing. They cant get worse-and-atud

everything will be better to-morraw. There was a great row. Within a couple of minules she had been parkee She walked home Jatied

Holiday Tale

And then the telephone calls starten. coming in Who with the girl with t asset, terier volce, who spoke from the heart, like one of the many, with the sincerity of the humble?

To Wa re-engaged 5

Stars ahhomme, to say a simple, humble. hort-stirrinu plece every evening. "They offered her eight hundred chil- Jug a month and she laughed so mtb with hewilderment that they thought she was scoffing at it uni made 000 sebillings, and then a thmand

So Toni geentes rich and famou And even Rome to London and New York to let them hear her voice. I 1

debonair and rettle tale of love and 1 snt and is obviously an is be real Iving in long trass or in a et chair on the d:

Mr. Jackson has unmasked four of California's most notori- ous highway robbers of the gold fields without resorting to fiction to fell bis story. The "Tin- types" of Black Bart. Rattle- snake Dick, Dick Fellows, and Tom Bell puncture many of the i "romantic" legends about these! rasals who plundered the Wellej A fruml Toy on 1. Said to in Farpu Express-coaches and the.

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been and by free Beekend wire enge me bech he could rely Bye, ww. arfod Beltat per crurt recently yo anad og your father

countryside.

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How Much Should House Rent! For? $76.00,

Characters From Shakespeare's Plays: Horatio-Hamlet;

Violi Twelfth Night; Petruch.-Taminog of the Shrew: Rosalind--As You' Laise JC; Derdranda-Othello. Merrutio Homeo and Juliet; Ly- sander -Mid-um

Night's Dream; Cordelia-King

Lear: Palstaff Merry Wives of Wind- fort des en-Merchant of Venice,

"Tintypes" is a short book ¡ 1191 pages) that does several, Jaw- enforcement ollicers in things for the reader. First, it tracking down

their quarry. He replied t the pan de N, gives the atmosphere of the Black Bart, for example, was sir. It by all my own find! for beaut¦ period. Second, it gives some caught by securing his laundry thing of the background of these mark from a handkerchief. The parents esperadoes. Third, it shows book is authentic and well writ

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Off with the Mask!

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URDER and robbery, Smyrna, robbery and at- tempted murder. Tabourla. Greece; raffle in women and blackmail, Sola: Implicated In attempt un Stambulisky, Bulgarian Premier, Haskovo; in assassination plot against Kemal. Adrianople: espionage and theft Belgrade: traffic in women and drugs. Parls.

That, in brief, is the Dimitrios of Eric Ambler's The Mask of Olmáttfas Older and Stoughton, 72. Gd.). Such it career mist have had its meto drama the melodran of the knife thrust and Me plated shot, of the screamt of a woman and the frenzy of as drug addict

But essentially Dimitrios was the business man getting on in the world; misery und death were merely the by-products of his business,

Years had paved when Charles Latimer out curiosity and a whim began following the trail of Dimrios across Europe, Blood and fears had been reduced to the Ant prose of the police dossiers. But as Latimer met one and another of those who had known Dimit:tos he came terrifyingly alive.

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Dimitrios understood mic better than I understood myself." cald the proprietress of the night club so called in Soffa, “He did not love me. I do not think he couk love anyone. I thought that one day I should be able to laugh at los, but that day never, cante. You could not laugh at Dimitrios.

Is face vas smooth and oval and pale and he and very brown, nuxlour eyes that made you think of a doctor's eyes when he is doing something to you that hurts. Te frightened me...." As Latimer's quest inoved to ita strange climax and he too began to feel fear, he reflected to himsell of Dimitrios.

It was welcas to try to explain film in terms of Good nad Evil. Cood Business and Bad Business were the elements of the new theology. Dimi trios was not evil. He was logical and consistent; a foglent and consistent in the European jungle ns the polson gas called Lewisite and the altered bodies of children killed in the bom bardment of an open town."

By rough description thin, book is a thriller with a touch of detection. But you will perceive there is more to it than that. There is nothing of the kind at the moment, nor likely to be, more worth your while reading.

Pickus Tells Senators

CLEVELAND, Q. (U.P.)-Abe Pickus, Cleveland's perennial alten- tton-caller to the war stimulants of foreign dictatorships, belleves and has informed all U S. senators in a letter that more than 90 per cent of the American people "are in favour of quarantining Japan and other war-makers,”

Juniors: Buth Vence. David Arche. S AR BIN. Gerald Marshall Alexander Safe Bond CANTAi

Above you will ett gold in a day jar and twa hschau apples fresh int ine tenard! What an attractive pletire How will be when you have coloured with your patots or crayon.

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Guest wishes, kiddles.

Uncle Eddie

Small, pleasing bits of landscape usually make better pictures than open, distant views. Include a nearby object when possible. ANDSCAPES ara a source of ex-1

Cameran,

In arranging a landscape picture, cellent snapshots which will add avold Hines that divido this pfetare appeal to any album, and they can Into equal parts, either vertically or be made erally with the simplest horizontally, Large areas, such as open sky, should usually be broken. Many beginners try to Include too up by detall-clouds, or a graceful much in their fandscupo pletures. A | tren branch. A calor filler on tho better method is to seek out smail, romera lens helps record clouds. pleasing bits—a ningle tren over- "iŝalutive" afinuld also by sought. For hanging a brook, a quiet country example, If a large mass of trees 16 road winding over a hilltop. The shown in the right-hand foreground, broad, open vlewn which first attract they may be balanced by a smaller nur eyes are not as desirable, for ples, mars on the letter figure or two, or ture purposes, un simple bits which a dlatant house and trees. can easily be "componed" Futo at- tractively arranged pletures.

Seeking landscape pictures la a pleasant pastime, and a phase of A good practice, lo reking land your camera hobby well worth eulti- Brups pleturen, is to "frame" à sen valing. Good pletures of this typu with your habits while you study scan to tande at any evason-and the picture possibilities. The camera den bog a narrower "angia of view"

beller onen

can be enlarged and

than our eyes--it does not take in framed for use as decorations in the as much ferritory--so this trick of home. Heglu your landscape album "framing" helps us jugs better now, what the camera will Include,

The Fairy Badk

At I welck one psonlight nicht The Loties hard a ball

The forest folk 16ad such a fright When they beheld them all.

The fatey queen was dressed in blus "Twe such a lovely Rown

John van Guilder.

A diamond glittered on each shoe Aud rubles in her crown.

The sin noun rose up in the East The fatrin few away

They left their dancing and their feast And went to stery all day.

Annys Coopfield (azed 8).

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