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The Argentine Reminds

The British

Tuis stamp is a souvenir

the Argentine. When

from

S:CORRIOS

to

the country starjed develov, her people naked Britain to build her railways. Wo bullt We owned them. And WO them. carried

passengers thousands of free-woldiere, sailors, postmen, and police.

Last year we sold the railways to the Argentine for beef. Now the makes Government run them and

everyolto pay. And just to remind the British that they are no longer the boss it has issued his which says: "The rail is ours."

stamp

"

Face value: Ten centavos (about 1d.); 1314 by 12.

Perforation

-(London Expren Service)

FROM HERE AND THERE:

Michael Struck Rich On

A Rocky Ridge

DARWIN: For three years "The sales people operating John Michel White had been them risk damage to the tissues shooting kangaroos and wallables which manufacture blood," they for food near his modest farm cald. in Rum Jungle, Northern Ter- ritory.

programmA

מזרח

often took him across the rock

IJ

SEVILLE; A "dying bicycle"

be

Sticklers for truth

NEW YORK: Those biscutis

Insists upon

JEW

THE 'HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1949.

BOOKS

Your mind

was his business

AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Sig- mund Freud (Hogarth Press 8s. 6d.) 80 pages. IGMUND FREUD died in Hampstead in 1939 at the age of 88, a re- fugee, and a pioneer who had changed the thinking habits of the civilised world.

He left unanished at his death a book intended to be his suraming-up of psycho-analysis, the revolutionary theory and technique of inental healing which had been his life's work, and which han Inspired as slavlah an acceptance

on the one hand, and as great Indigna- ilon and hostility on the other, nan new religion,

Froud, more than any other scientific explorer, more. cvia han Darwin, has changed our ideas about ourselves, and has eertainly nat changed them for the better;

which is why the world had found him difficult to forgive.

He has taught us to see below surface of our

thensetous

credit.

by

MARGANET LANE

moves by our own will power, or force of character.

Wordsworth's Immortality.

Intimations of

"Beyond this, dreams bring lo Rpht material which Coul 1100 originate either from che dreamer's adult life of from hi jorgotten childhood.

ого obliged

to regard it as part of the archate heritage schich a child brings with him into the world, before any experience of hla aten, de a revult of the ex- pertence of his anerators, Drema ofer

A source of human prehistory" which is not to be despised."

This not work however, now published in Britain for the first time, la not perhaps the It best choice for a beginner.

Is a summipg-up, a re-statement of belief in sucli major premises as the Oedipus complex, the significance of dreams and in- Innille sexuality, and so on; and naturally takes for granted a certain knowledge of Freudian theory in the reader.

WHAT

IS PSYCHO- Many people would seriously

ANALYSIS? Ernest disagree, and indeed we can rit

men, pro- Jones. (Allen and Un- ! think of successful foundly lusioned about them-

win, 78. 6d.) 121 pages. selves, who have achieved their success in life chiefly through AR better for the Inquiring their enviable lack of personal misgiving. Yet I

nyman who happens not to ing. Yet I cannot belleve

have read any paycho-analyticnt that everyone is not the saner literature before and yet can-

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eminent

is. the newest Spanish invention dut thousands of vipers in the tand this withering discovery? clearly and act rationally and list of books for further reading. I

LIBRARY LIST

known for centuries in Britaninds, where there is nothing for a measure of self-knowledge, not believe the subject is quite ridge where two years ago ha

whatever to be seen to anyone's even though Freud's discoveries the nonsense that Hollywood ginger nuts, are to be re- first found a strange ore, which.

je rnynil*r}

us self pretends is Dr Ernest Jones's) Although he was a prospector, med "gingers' before they can

What is Psycho- ! The T exported to Ameries.

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axiom that all our which is often crazy and always iftic book." he could not frlentify.

He let

analysis? Pure Food Ad- [||] he United States

dearest molives lie conceal- impossible to like. there until recently, when ministration

theed, and when uncovered always To understand something of

Dr

Jones in he read an article in a

do not because they change submitted

turn out to be by idealistic and that part of the mind (seven- Freudian and a very clear and Inving pamphlet.

romantic standards, disgusting. eighths of the whole, like a readable interpreter of the samples to the Northern Terri- contain any nuts,

Viper invasion tory mines branch White HOW

He outlines Freud's is not drifting letberg) called the un- master. What is astonishing

explored theories, glances at the differ- knows he has found uranium

ROME: Vipers have

met conscious, which he that Freud should have and in entitled to the Comnion followed white butterflies and with such passionate resistance, ne patience and philosophic made (or is capable of making)

with his unique blend of selen ence

ences which paycho-analysis has wealth reward of up to £3,000, Colorado beetles tu plague but that he should have mil

approach to politica ។ Northern Italy. The Flying high

Intense inspired so devout a following- umility is to Improve our per- in our

soal equipment for elv Used medicine, education, religion heat and dryness have brought for how many of us can really fiving. It helps us to think and art and gives a most useful}

illusions about so to deal countryside near Varese, north To give up our

more successfully The Inventor, Minnucl Bermudez, of Milan. The makes have even ourselves is mal sicrifice, like with the difficult demands of 30-year-old civil servant, says: invaded farmhouses, Special

renouncing comfortable blankels llie. "My bicycle will fly very much quad's

of men have bren in the winter. like a bird. Two pedals working organised

to fight this new

this in Is there any value through an ordinary gear-

le Bacrifice, will give the machine a

No smoking ban "He

heroisms, fullie? bird-like fight,"

muy costly would not

NEW YORK: Smoking rooms is it not the mechanical details

more pleasant and reveal "because the authorities have the for schoolboys are to be installed comforting, and therefore more matter in hand." Public opinion this term is the high school at sustaining in this difficult life,

rural in Seville is that Manuel is

Goshen, la New York to believe ourselves noble,

Charles unozifish, State. Headmaster

moral, dreamer.

拉约 jar, as Hooker announced that he would possible? Danger: X-rays

permit open smoking by his NEW YORK: X-ray machlues

pupils because a questionnaire in shoe shops can interfere with h: sent to

all parents showed the norm. development of a

that must of them did not mind. child's feet, Two Harvard doc- tors (one of them

Catering for caminos special assistant to the director of HOLLYWOOD: A give-away Atomic Energy Commission's programme for dogs offers the Division of Biology and Medi- winning dogs theso prizes-Ave cine) have announced cases of days in "glamorous New York," children whoso feet have stopped a new car with plenty of tail growing after excessive exposure room. a TV set, a Hollywood.

ditions, svod swimming pool, to the machine's

inchace.

or

FREUD was far from being the only explorer of un- known mental territory In his generation, but he stands head and shoulders above his con

his contem- poraries, and one is tempted to think that this is because be- 'des being a great discoverer, Ee could also write. His rivals are largely unreadable to the layman, while Freud's work is usually clear, simple and (even Ja translation) at times beautl-

Many people-most, I should at the blankets ray-prefer

seem oiten to illusion, and have a wonderfully comfortable fu

time inside them, to the envy of all shivering disillusioned bo- Consider holders. Yet it seems impossible not to believe that it is safer to know what one is up against, than not to do so; safer to understand the machine travel in than

to belleve

this paragraph, which after a concise statement of his famous theory of dream the interpretation, sonds imagination öll on a migratory we fight which seems to follow the it same submerged. coastline as

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

DAB and FLOUNDER

-by WALTER

ĮLOREY CHICKET AROUND

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Adriana Is A Bad Woman

By George Malcolm Thompson THE WOMAN OF ROME, and-ruby compact from Gino's -By Alberto Moravia. mistress, and gives it to Gino

when he complains. Gino, Socker and Warburg, odious little coward, passes the 12. 6d. 390 pages.

DRIANA is a beautiful

AD

compact to Sonzogno, who kill "fence" cheating him over

This Sonzogno, a sinister and repels

girl, an honest girl, a good girl-and a bad unpredictable brute, woman. She is not merely Adriana, yet somehow she feels

man. He becomes the father of her child.

Roman

a woman of Rome; she is a closer to him than to any other woman of the streets.

With Mino, a young student Her life la atrocious, But it and amateur revolutionary, ls described with such candou Adrians falls in lovo, When and almplicity that the reader is Mins betrays his comrades to prepared to believe that it is not the police, and commits suicide, Adriana in never cal- she feels there is nothing to live vicious.

"tough." culating, never

Her

for except Sonzogno's child, story is without sentimentality, whom but she has the wholesome senti whom Mino's rich parents will

support. gir! meat of a working class

goes (occasionally) to con-

11, in fact, a revulston of sentiment that drives Adrian on to the streets. Glao, her "Asnce," has been concealing from her the existence of a wife and

child.

Adriana dlakes her profese sion, but acknowledges that nature has given her a certain aptitude. In other circumstances she would have settled down happily as a wife and mother. As it is.

To celebrate her release from respectability, she steals à gold-

First Festival Modern

Of

Literature

There is perception in this novel that is never over-subtle. The story, sordid as it is, in dia- infected by a splendid matter- or-factness

Pornography? No, Mr Attor ney, it is too near the bone of

fe for anything ko that.

bom Wrote

ALBERTO MORAVIA, items 1907, architect's 10%, frat novel 1923. Foreign Correspon dont lin London, Jarts. Linoka banned under Mussolini, During German occupation of Baly wrni

Now liver in Rome, into hiding,

THE ESSENTIAL NEVILLE CARDUS. Cape, 12.. 6d. 316 pages.

wo hundred and fifty pages TWO

of Carlus on crleket; 60 pages on composers. Riches aro heral

་་ Too much on cricket? And too litilo for music? Maybe, why complain? Carduc is faithful to both in his fashion.

But

And his fashion is to write mag-

on the

confers

map

EW towns in England have The National Character and nificently, with the same pro- shown as much municipal Nigel Balchin on "The Novel and fusion of ideas, about the Fifth enterprise as Cheltenham. In the Film" while Compton Mac-Test as about the Fifth Sym- Gloucestershire.

In kenzie, who is at present en phony. especially

You feel the summer organising festivals of the Arts. Eaged on a war. history of the sun of Canterbury Week; you Indian Army, will discuss "The

hear the violins of Salzburg. Novel." The Festival of Contemporary Contemporary Music,

What distinction this which WOS

planned

distinguished speakers Other during World War II and was include Ivor Brown

our "trade of upon launched in 1045 has quickly writer's raw material"Words," journalism, If the Royal Com taken its place as an important Peler

had

pronounced "Travel mission оп Fleming event in the muzle calendar. Books" and the poet Cecil Day different verdict on us, we could Now Cheltenham has initia- Lewis, giving a "Recital of Con-have said in mitigation of the ted a corollary Festival of Con- temporary Verse with Com- unjust sentence: "WIN Your lordships bear in mind in our temporary Literature which is ments." for the part of Aaron Gadd

favour that, for your few cop- Hall

pcrs a

day, we have given

THE GOR-SIENER. Sinclair Lewis, Sin- 11einemann 12/61, 297 pagus. clair Lows, who has written so murry bitter social satires in the past, clearly one aim is writing this comple nad historical novel about 19th century missionaries to the American Indians namely, to sell it to the movies Even magure on the cover hints share- bely 4 Cary Cooper, who may be Csit already to all know

being held at the Town There ha part for Paulalte Goddard too, and it between October 3 and 7.

corlam to be made in Technicolor a

10 The *st of saritual wccesso Unconquered, to which closely seproximates in dooth and sincerity

LINE ON GINGER. Robin Maugham, Chapman and Hall. 7/6), 136 pezas. A short, slight, D'asantly written story at a young man who went wrong, and why Excellent for a train Journey: duration London to Birmingham

THREE OF HEARTS. James M. Cain, Robert Hale, 10/6), 405 pages. Three long short stories short novely-by loading exponent of the American 1oughs-taconic-school-Vistence with a certain style. If you stiß lika urstallaved violence

London Express Service.

Twenty-four leading publish~ | tavoi crs in Britain have

co-

It is claimed that this is the operated in forming an exhibi- you first festival in England to bo tion of 2,000 books covering devoted entirely to contem- the whole held of contemporary porary books and authors.

literature, and a special display The programme ranges over has been organised of some of the whole of the literary scene. the best examples of contem- The speaker at the inaugural porary na printing and bind- .uncheon will be Sir Ialph ing.

Richardson, the eminent Eng- It is hoped that this festival

born at will become an annual iish actor, who was

event, Cheltenham,

the matching

contemporary Arthur Bryant, the historian music festival in the quality and blographer, will speak on and scope of its programme.

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And in the lot that followed, the name of Cardus would have

god near the top. *NEVILLE CARDUS, former music critic and cricket correspun- ent of Manchester Ussardian; bor 1889 in quburb of Stanches or Larned money as a child by setting chocolates in a Manchester theatri and no pavement artist. Workad seven years in Insurance office. then as pasitant cricket coach a Shrewsbury School and secretary to the headmaster,

(London Express Service).

'Temptations We've Resisted"

BY KEME STARRETT

-OF-COURSE I DID.

DON'T YOU THINK

I HAVE ANY CENSE

THE TEMPTATION TO GIVE THE RIGHT ANSWER.

"STOP AL IF YOU'VE HEARD TIC QUE...

THAT TEMPTATION

TO REALLY

STOP IN..

AT TRU

HECK..

'YOU DON'T

THINK I'M GETTIN' TOO HEAVY, DO YOU"

"TIE TEMPTATION TO TELL-- THE TRUSTU....... BUT OF COURSE

·YOU RISICT AID SAY HOT

IT'S QUITE À TEMPTATION TO KOSE DOWN MA-IN-LAW... AFTER SHE'S CTAYED HER TWO WEEKS... PLUS SIX MONTHS.

Ledger Syndicate

THE TEMPTATION TO BE DONE WITH THE OLD CEMENT- AKER, ONCE

AND FOR ALL.

ONE OF THE TEMPTATIONS VE'VE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO RESIST, UP TO NOW, IS CALLING THE ATTENTION... FORCIBLY.., OF THE CNCOTY WAITER, WHO DOESNT CARE A HOOT WHAT. YOU MAY WANT OR NEED,

WHEN THE BOSS HOLDS

THAT SPIKE...

ot BROTER...

WHAT „TEMUTATION

THE DENTIST'S WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY

WITH THE GUY

WHO FORGOT TO PAY IS BILL

AUD AS ALL FOR COCIALIZED MEDICINE.