DAB and FLOUNDER
**87 WALTER:
NGKON
Daniel George
THEY are getting me down, these promaturely aged
writers who mesmerise themselves into a stato of petulant pessimism by Juggling with: alliterative, but largely meaningless, phrases. Samples: The Contem porary Crisls, the Modern Malaise, the Present Predica- ment, the Dilemma of Today:-
Soon I shall be consigning see them through their tribula- them to the wilderness sen- tions. tonoed-in the words of Sydney Smith, once Canon of St. Paul's
If I reluct a little, hero and
-to be preached to death by there, at à some of soxunt wild curates,
passion or extreme brutality, il
Not even French literature is because I am reminded of can nowadaya bo lightheartedly approached.
"
the tidiness and shock-value of fiction rather than the un dramatic haphazardness of dis located life. That
"I face it with feelings ready to be harrowed, and a mind nor- vously open
reservation to conviction of ethical error. Surely, due alde, I am willing to lowance mady for delays in war-inspired novel has, declare that no other translation, It is time we had for me, so |something "gayer from Paris.
Nevertheless, I advise no one to miss "WORLD WITHOUT ASIA," by Jean Malaquais (Gollancz, 126, (d.).
Surely
ON
BOOKS
don, a few from New York, its controlling character
Enlightening, though, heartening it never dawdles
(except for regulation
paksages) in
Jove
its exposure of
and
OTHELLO
in the
SUBURBS
THE BODY. By William Sansom.
human frality, idealism, Hogarth Press. 9s. 6d. 232 pages.
THE thing that happened to Henry
at
complicated loyalty mercy of trenchery, bad will and corruption
Witchcraft
LL readers who believe in A witches, clap your canada)
it is time
Blahop began when he saw the stranger from next door, blow a kiss in the direction of a window where, at that. scantily clad. moment, Madge Bishop was visible,
No response? Nover mind. The effect of this incident on Henry was sudden, complete, devastating. The I, disbelieving, you are still interested, you pattern of his life was broken. His powers might like "GERAT of reason were undermined. He was MISCHIEF," by the handed over as the helpless American novellet Jocephine
prey and captive of an obses- Pinckney (Chapman and Hall, .sion, a presion, a consuming
by.
GEORGE cd.), in which Timothy fury, jealousy,
MALCOLM THOMSON" Partridge, chemist of
epitomised the confused had something
officiority we
conditions of physical and
mental torture endured on edges of
the main conflict. gayer out of Paris
Robust Lovel
The story progresses by the trapfrog method-one Incident over another-and the charac. HERE'S ú translation from ters are slow in sorting them the German-Emil Ludwir's selves out, But once you have "OTHELLO" (Hutchinson 12. ttistingulated between the 0d.to prove that the man Marcs and the Pierres, the from Stratford got it all wrong. Marions and the Mariannes. Desdemona
ill-starr'd and realised that they are not Americans, you will be eager to
FROM HERE AND THERE:
Jumbo Blocked A Jungle Road
Colombo: An elephant astrido ned, will have a shove-half-
and darts board
on
wench!") sous, it seems unfaith-
ful to the Noble Moor.
This is not the only variation which Ludwig has contrived for his robust novel of love,
Charlestone, dabbles The Body is, in essence, the With Black Magic, and story of Othello conceived na known order of geta entangled in the. spolis how comedy and set in a London from the hobby, age,
As a major achievement it Sa not, In any things, a minor masterpiece.
...
Turned 'TwoD'
FRENCH trifle (113 pages) called "THE, RETURN OF ERICA" by Louise de Vilmorin (Hamish Hamilton, de.), may bo mournfully enjoyed by the Im- presionable.
weaves. Sinkinda thé hag files away with him,
Disconcerting
NOW, from New Zealand, comes Bait Davin's "ROADS FROM HOME” (Michael Joseph,
suburb.
pleniet de hary) kat
10 vee in Hang-
1.) Horry, begins.
to
enjoy the Frola", of the de
colved and in- Jured. When ho. orgastson a plo nie up the river," fa not simply to observe, Madge and -Charley too!
gether, but also
give thom
to
the chance to be *together' in' the dangerously erolle setting of the Thames la bummer. Ai thot picnic he ob tains at last irrefutable proof Charley kisses Madey. :|
his frex. Ho is a man left over
What Henry does not reallie William Sansom has taken one would
And ho knows that Madge and, what is conveyed subtly to
prober of the classic themes and placed
him to dross the reader-is that his own con- it among ordinary people, people differently, and take an interest duct is causing talk. Snooping we all know and how much "modern" things—the cinema, clumally about In quest
of belter we know them by the
#port.
avidence, he attracts duspleloa. with theml time the novelist has finished it rains she says, "Nice weather, double life. Probably he is a She is the bright sort. When He is leading some kind of And there he allows it to work in his
for ducks" while Henry remarks, burglar. itself out while he watches with is what the farmers need."
public-spirited
THIR a passionate curiosity and a
Why
It tells how, in a model vini 9. Gd.), lo Inform us of Anti-humour which needs softening aided Malists until the fatal its climax, Henry, disgracefully Jealousy, murder, suleide, Vene-g of French craftsmen, podean dontestle discord, rural from alertness,
moro
Sansom has been looming for faith, some time on the horizon of fic and Lion. With this original, grip
ping, painful and funny novel whole he bursts triumphantly into the
blaze of power.
tlan politics and Renaissance Erica, daughter of the leading squalor, Irish Catholic racinesd Ал Shakespeare's clock-maker, kept on Idyllic Ludovice remarked, "O bloody assignation then
Intemperanco than general period!"
one-in A charcoal bumer's marital infidelity, tho hut. And how, after drowning business being wound up with herself in a lake, the visited
Small Talk
her disapproving father in a car-versus-train smash. multiple apparitions as B damsel. baby, a growing girl, a nubile
and turned "twee" out of spite. To mo it reads like a folk tale tampered with by Barrie
a jungle road in Central Cey penny lon held up traffe in
both which the Toronto Press Club directions from dusk to dawn will decide its championship. recently. A party of cyclists returning from the
Rangoon:. People riding in sacred city of Anurahapura nearly collided bullock corts in Communist with
the animal, which then held areas in Burma
cannot wrenched off the mudguards of us umbrellas protection the first car that tried to dash against sun or rain. Reason does not distresa me as it does drawing, I was cornered by a past it. The trame Block ended the Communists say the bul-
дя
at dawn when the elephant locks have no covering, so why ambled off into the jungle.
should the passengers? People who want to use umbrellas must walk, not ride,
The flying barmaid TORONTO: Maxine
Blue for a boy Hall, nged 23, of Keighley, York- New York: A new method of shire, has flown to Toronto to determining the sex of unborn bo honorary barmaid for the babies has been discovered by Sheffield brewers who have in five doctors in
San
Diego, stalled an English pub, "The Calfomla. The system uses the
Rose and Crown," at
"smear and stain test," normal- Canadian International Trade ly used to detect carcer. When Fair. She was chosen because, used on
.
In Bavaria
DAY or two ogo,
feeling
Aiko a man in a Thurber
must give up brooding over PROODING is bad for one, I
fletion yield for me the spirit the fact that seldom will new ual zustenanco
and revelation of new truth it regularly pro- duces for some earnest readers. At least I can rejoice that it lady who, calling herself Personally "we," testifies in a
American woman a weekly that strange literalne, sick into
"The two we were, in all writer, who said:
Q basin biggest things in my life are three times, and experienced a sex and books" long day of physical migraine and vertigo" during the reading of Sartre's first novel, "I Nausee."
I
was
I know that I ought to have replied, "Good reading! and good evening!" But struck into dunb shyness. shall be anxious on her When I recovered I found sho account when she has to cope was assuring me: "The English with "SHE CAME TO STAY," write exquisitely-about by Simone de Beauvoir Sartre's nothing."
Which stung me into pupil-Indeed, the apple of his retorting: "And the Americans
thing."
ough brought up in Keighley slides rectant mothers, the eye (Secker and Warburg, 12. write execrably-about every-
malo and femalo Gd.). with a Yorkshire necent, she sex hormones, By a coln- WDS
Detroit bom in
and will cldence, they show blue-stain- have a chance to see her rela ed cells if the baby be a boy it was "a major achievement of If I had not been warned that tives across the border. The and pink stains if a girl is to modern French ftetlon, I should pub, in contrast with the "bever be expected. The test has been have read it as a mixture of oge parlour"
here, where only successful in nearly 90 per creme, caramel and crime pas beer is served and games and cent of cases in the last sisionel wrapped in page after
page of the tiniest small talk.'
even advertisements are ban- months.
other. But "STRAW TO MAKE One assertion is as true as the BRICK, by Alan Marcus (Bodley Head, 12s. 6d.), is not at all a bad American novel. Occupied Bavaria is the scene of it, and Corporal Mark Gor-
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
HOW ABOUT USING THE BREAD KUIFE ITY NICE AND WAVY!"
~~(London Expreis Sarulce)
New Australian Stamp Honours Famous Poet
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At once absurd and unhappy, But never had Henty dia- the story marches forward to day when he saw Charley Diver drunk in the local public-house, that peculiar expression. look up at her window with denounces Charley Diver as hir immediately he
Yet wife's seducer. Everybody Is assumes his deeply embarrassed. For At wife's complicity in on her privacy.
the outrage that very moment Charley is in hospital, dangerously injured in And from
then onwards a car smash-in the same smash everything tends to confirm his Norma has been killed. suspicion."
Henry's
Henry Bishop, its pathetic comic hero-victim, is a solemn little man of 45, with a streak Most disconcerting for every of eccentricity. He has Inherited
nightmare world, body, présent reader not ex-la court hairdressing business
which had become so curiously cepted.
from his father. He wears old. It is as if the part of Othello It has never been more than s dear to him, dissolves into dust fashioned tweed knickerbockers were being played by Mr Pooter nightmare, its sole element of and walks in a jumpy way on of The Diary of a Nobody,
fact, one playful kiss. But how Charley comes to borrow a real while it lasted. And, now screwdriver. "I says to myself it is ended, how empty pool I says, Charley Diver, there's Henry's life! only one thing for it. Try your neighbour." He talks in that The Body powerfully conveys waggish way.
the energy with which a manl When Madge produces the fest delusion is built up and sus screwdriver, ho says, "Dear tained. Its characters are fresh, lady, a thousand thanks." Just exactly observed and convincing. funt Just Charley's flamboyant manner? To Henry it has sinister And how will Sansom, with overtones of gallantry.
hile shapely, responsive writing. The whole of Henry's life is catches the favour of a picnic. now. transformed into an elab- the atmosphere of a suburban orate, preposterous conspiracy to pub where the crowd" meet, provo that Madge and Charley the mood of the river at evening are betraying him.
something bred of the low- He haunts the focal public. lying ground, of the ago of the house so that he may casually river of the madness of moistura meet Charley's friends and and of that pervading peace receive from them confirmation which sometimes! Inils too
n rake, his reputation as a
strongly to be called content." Ho sples on Madge. In her
And with what a subtle blend. diary she has noted party with Charley, adding the of affection and ruthlessness, he -strange comment, Nuff said.
creates Henry, self-deluding,
On June 17 the Australian postat department will is. que a 214 stamp in honour of the 82nd anniversary of the birth of Henry Lawson, the famous. Australian writer and poet... It will be the third stamp in a series por traying famous Australians,
no
The design, based on an original etching by Sir Lionel Lindsay, shows Henry Lawson in profile. It strikes a new note among Australlan stamps because it has frame lines. Beneath the portrait is a facsimile of Law- son's signature, and the daten of his birth and death (1867- 1922) are at the lower right corner of the design,
· slázp printed in docy red.
The
of
Henry Archibald Lawson was born at Grenfell, New South Wales, on June 17, 1867. His father. Peter Larsen, was a Norwegian who left his ship, refited in. Australli and changed his name,
Your Lawson tried many occupations but was hap- plest in the bush, where he gained material for the writ- ings which raised him to the position ho holds in the realm of Australian Uterature.
DO YOU HAVE A KNIFE? MY PENCIL. NEEDS SHARPENING!!
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a dinner
What does it mean? He takes self-examining, self-betraying, up with Norma, gives her a free latest, not unworthy, addition to perm in his West End shop. the gallery of English clowns, Why?
Because there is "some and sitting for his portrait to n thing between Norma and poet.
-(London Express Service)
Charley.
'Sharpening Pencils”
BY KEMP, STARRETT.
HEAR YOU'RE ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED? WHO'S THE
PLUCKY MANG
NO ICE TRYING TO SHARPEN PENCILS!
WITH THE CARVING KNIFE
WONT BE SHARP, EMIER.
CRUNCH
CRUNCH
Ledger Syadiemes
*KURRY! THIS IS LONG DISTANCE, YKOW
EMERGENCY CHARPENING. NEXT THE TEETH WILL HEED IT.)
IN CASE OF ACCIDENT, BE CALM, GET ALL HAMES, ADDRESSES LICENSE NUMBERS AND. SIGN UP WITNESSES.:: IF YOU CAN FIND & PENCIL AND COMEONE TO SHARPEN IT.
ELECTRIC DATORRE AUCH UNEARENDA ÞEYTA SHADDENING
ONE WAY
THE
COME TIWIGS NEVER NEED SHARPENINGTONGUES FOR
INSTANCES
SHARPENING PENCILS
FOR TEACHER IS RARELY HE PONICAMENT SIE TUNKS IT IS... ESPECIALLY IF THE LAD COMES FROM LONG LIE OFE
WATYLEDO
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