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Memorial

To

December 28, 1940.

A Brave

It is a bold author'who in these

Un- days dare label his book "an enter

tainment" chiefly because it sotsa pattern which must be conformed to

Mr Hichens' new novel tells how a

German GODS OF

CHINA

"Remove the Bodies." By then she pops back to prison to Elizabeth Ferrars. (Hodder and complete her sentence while her Stoughton, 88. 3d. net.)

husband is sent abroad, and goes on "The Opera House Murdera." popping in and out, By Dan Billany. (Faber. 78. 6d. net.)

"A Mother Fights Hitler.” "The Million." By Robert By Irmgard Litten. Translated Hichens. (Cassell. 78. 6d.) from the German text by Bernard Miall. (Allen and

"The House on the Hard" opens win. 78. Gd. rel.)

nicely with Dr. Eustaco Hailey being Here is a book which it is nice little woman living in a nice

"She Walked in Fear." By called in to try to save a young man your bitter duty to rerd. For little villa in a nice little Gloucester Roy Vickers. (Herbert Jenkins, accused of murdering rival in a bool

shire village, where she enjoys, the 7a, lid. net.)

off the Now Forest, but after a little only lately. Britain quilted

amenities of acquaintance with every- "The House on the Hard." By spher investigation pseudo-paycho dreaming; and who knows if the body who is anybody, buys for £20 temptation to sleep again may lottery ticket which turns out to Anthony Wynne. (Hutchinson, pathology and fantasy gets the upper

hand be worth a million French francs. It

and Mr. Wynne and hir not yet prove the most danger- certainly has its entertaining in 8. 6d. net.)

characters start wfilzzing about like bus, because the most Insidious, pin-pricks which any social struggle tortuous and rather artificial plots; Spain and sinister hermaphrodites cidents, but it also bristles with those Miss Ferors has a leaning towards witches on a Sabbath, Jowels from enemy?

must entall.

perhaps she wasn't allowed to play Mrs Stevens, who has personality with madmen's fly traps when sho

... unfortunately Mr. Wynne is not That unctuous sleep of inny. and that natural spice of golety which was a little girl; but her characterisa. Jacobean dramatist. cence still holds America; in makes men and women good mixers, tion and writing are good enough to betakes herself to Egypt, where her spite of lynchers and gangsters, son in the Air Force is stationed, and get away with them. she still believes that horror be- longs to the other side of the Atlantic and luckily bravo Eng land is strong enough to keep it there!

J.

By

by reason of these qualities plus the In "Remove the Dodles" bmlable

"My Name Is Million." "million" becomes the hub of Cairo but alightly foolish girl, in unknown and her parties are thronged by all journalist-detective society. She settles at Mena House, troubles,

turns 10 Miss Ferrar's 'an_English_Woman in Poland.

surdonie" Toby the best people.

Dyke and, his cunning ex-crbol (Faber and Faber. 88. 6d net)

vervant George, is

It is a year since we were reading then found polang-

the despatches from Poland, isliini

"All the Re- sidency crowd,

We see that error, but what about our own? We thought the same till all

the

foreign

BOOKS

La year ago, only substituting the ministers, all the Channel for the Ocean; and even now, Pashas, the Pelme when a Congress-man calls Hitler à Minister, the Gov- mad butcher, our moderate souls ernment, the Governor of Cairo, the

DAI CHEUNG WONG-

TAU

ed in split house-

His Indian name is hold with which of the bombing of Warsaw, th

destruction, of the Fallsh Air Force Ksite Garbha. and the appalling speed of the German mechanised attack

she has involved relationship.

fron

has happened since then, and much

More murder and child disappear North and West and South. It He is the protector of shiver slightly; for is not Hitler a kind Inspector-General, the Air Vlee unce; rather too many characters, in- of king in his way? Yet we know Marshal," to say nothing of royal cluding a quite impressive, eccentric seems like ten years ago, so much those who have been how he treated Schuschnigg and princes, a princess or two, and Mrs biologist, add to the tangle, which is of it has already been, if not for condemned to Hell, and would have treated Benes; we know, Armadale, who knows all the best eventually soived wider gotten, at least obscured by the size but we don't strictly believe; so here people in all the capitals of Europe Toby has been led wildly astray in these sober, unanswerable pages, but who does not know Mrs Stevens. usual. let us read in shame and duty how Perhaps, after all, the right sub- one of Germany's most brilliant title of this lively book is "an enter- scholars and bravest, humanest men ininment-or does it was hounded to death in the concen- what is afler all a pretty sulire? trition camps for no offence but, that

at having once brought the butcher

and bully into the witness-box and of

having cross-examined him there.

*

our

spirits.

Walter C. Clark.

subsequent events. But we must is supposed to look after never forget what happened to those unfortunates who When Miss Ferrars has mastered Poland, nor forget that Poland is under-value the art concentrating interest she ally, and that while the mechanised go to the lower regions

should graduate for highest honours, columns were racing over the sun-

baited plains of Poland, Britain and and rescue them from "The Opera House Murders" is a Frones could do nothing to help their the attacks of the evil first book of considerable promise— ally. "Cheerfulness Breaks In." By mixture of thriller and detective.

"My Name is MIBon" Is an opt Thirkell. (Hamish Excellent gruesome opening, with They tell us the story of Hans Angela

brutal murder witnessed by child in reminder of those grim days. It is Litten, son of all East Prussian Hamillon, 78. 6d.)

chestnut tree, followed by some fine written by an English woman, who University Professor, of his herole mother's tireless intercessions for him, Admirers of Mra Thirkell must find moments while ex-private detective wishes, for various reasons, to bel and of all she saw on her visits to it almost impossible to Imagine any tutoring opera singer's son is trapped anonymous at present. She Is Use

in drain pipe.

wife of a Polish offleer, and sho has Polish army was beginning to learn the camps or heard from fellow subject that she could not turn to

lived in Poland for some years and how to deal with the mechanised sulTeters.

prettiness. In "Cheerfulness Breaks Action continues furious, centring speaks the language.

columns, but on the night of the 17th in," she wisely refuses to immore that It is a humiliating story; page after there is

when Vie war on, but instead treats round attempts to recover stolen

bonds, but nurration Is at times She was in Warsaw when the hope came to an end page can only be swallowed with set those early months of suspense and rather terky. This need not worry attack began, and she had ghastly Russians marched in. iceth, in a kind of agony of mingling baffling calm with her own feather you, and is compensated for by experiences in the retreat under the The authoress of this book turned horror and remorse. Far men did weight humour, making of black-outs agreeably eccentric hyper-self rain of German bombs. Everywhere northwards and reached Wilno und these things and we too are men. and billets, evacuees and refugees a conscious personality of narrater. they went the German bombers was able to get permission to come This is what hoppens when mercy delightful charivari,

followed, and day after dies and terror ousts the law. It

the to England with her husband. She has done it so well that only Mr. Vickers concentrates on the Poles kept their courage up and may happen anywhere. It is the easy now and then did I remember the adventures of high-spirited but nice waited for the rain

From Kowno they went to Estonia way to shifi civilisation's load. other less sprightly side to these young girls like early lime-juice came, and waited for help from the and thence towards Stockholm. Justice and liberty cannot survive things.

advertisements.

Bot а certala Allies which never came. Instead, but they were captured by Junless we shoulder their weight from

Again we meet the Birketts--for curious pleasure from "She Walked all that came were German bombs German cruiser and taken to Ger- day to day and strive for worthiness. my tosle we lose the lovely nitwit in Fear," in which Cynthin Brenti- and machine-guns, and the sudden many. Some days Inter she was set The wonder and beauty of Hans Rose far too early from the story- ford, just before her most suitable attack from Russin in the East. free and allowed to go to England, but Litten's radiant life is that his spirit and we make welcome new acquaint- marriage, is sentenced for aiding and

she did not see her husband again, was undaunted in utter darkness, like ances in the Bissells and in the Mixo- abetting a night-club crook. Her old Up to September 17 there was still and her story comes to an end of the caged and blinded bird that dies Lydlan refugee, Madame Brownescu. purse, now a prison wardress, helps hope, The Germans had over-run December 8, the day on which she singing.

This is ideal tonic reading.

her to escape in time for the wedding, themselves in many districts and the left the capital of Lithuania.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

day

which never

Ring

In the New!

*YOU DIDNT HAVE TO OFFER TO TAKE THEM HOMEAN THEN TH FAT- HEADS COULDNT EVEN FINDY SHER OWN HOUSE.

I DID NO SUCH

THING. YOU SUGGESTED IT YOURSELF.

SPEND FIVE HOURS" WELKIN-RINGING (WITHOUT A - BRANKO TWO HOURS DRIVING AROUND A COLD DARK SUBURB TRYING TO DELIVER TOUR WELL FRIED FRIENDS OF FRIENDS OF YOURS WHO INSIST OU YOU STAYING FOR ABREAKFAST OF SINGED EGGS AND GURRED BACONS AND SEE HOW YOU LIKE NEW YEARS DAY.

WITH SOME PEOPLE TUE NEW YEAR, ALWAYS" MANAGES TO GET OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT, LAST YEAR, WITH EGG-NOG PREPARED FOR FORTY FRIENDS ONLY FIVE SHOWED UP.................. THIS YEAR WITH NOTHING. PLANNED, BUTA NICE, QUIET DAY, THEY ALL ARRIVE .....THIRSTY,

WILATLL WE DO? -THERE ISNT Å DROP

IN THE HOUSE./

BY KEMP STARRETT

"O THAT WAS TOR AUNT LUCY AND THE OTHER VAS POR UNCLE PETET GIFT.

~ AND YOU SAID TO GET COMETHING FOR THE JANITORA

*ALL THE REST

HES FOR YOUR

FAMILY

YOU CAN ALWAYS RECOGNIZÉ THE NEW YEAR, BY THE BILLS YOU GET FOR THINGS YOU NEVER SAW OR EVEN HEARD OF.

Samara.

AUELADWUO DREADED THE DIN CE CELEBRATION AND REFUTED TO HAVE LA RATTLE OR BELLY ANYWHERE

NEAR THE PLACE AN

THE GENT WHO WAS GREETED WITH CHLADOVNEM YEAR 2617-TIMES AND NITO REPLIED THE LURED YOUT

2616 TIMES.

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BAND. JCOVER CHARGES

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