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A Great German Who Loved Little · Things JOHANN Weltrang von Goethe is one of the great men

world literature, Poetry flowed Itke music from his heart. He loved lițite things and wrote about a shy violet which hoped a shepherdess would pluck it. And you have probably wong his the Kon about the red rose-bud on heath and the boy who broke 1.

DEUTSCHE POST

Goethe WAR also *A dramatist, novellat, and scientist. Napoleon met him and said afterwards: "There is a MAIL,"

Now the Germans eommemorate Els birth 200 years dro with a set of Ave stamps. This one shows him as he was at the height of his fame.

Face value: 15 přenales (about 18. 1d): Perforation: 13-by 134-

-(London, Express Service)

FROM HERE AND THERE:

This Modern Daniel

Milked

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 12, 1949.

A 26-year-old girl who writes with wicked insight into

The Far Cry. By Emma

Smith. MacGibbon and Kec. 91, 6d. 279 pages:

H

TERE is a clever young womani Here lo Д girl who can writo! Emma Smith.

MIN SMES.

human nature

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

1

REVIEWS THE NEW BOOKS

CÍM:LLECTERENTZIAI) (ITA) 1316||LİTESIZERENCSELLE

You remember Maldens' Trip which told, with such galety and verve, the adventures of miserable. Ruth. We are left stark simpiletty must be the three girls on Britain's canals supposing that Teresa and Ed- design. The search and nothing during the war? That was our win will one day fall in love but the watch one tenuous clica after another; ono indifferent or brutal officiat after another; one An abrupt finish. Almost heart-sickening disappointment petulant. The dolls are banged after another, back into their box.

Now comes her first novel. The verdict? A complete

KUCCESS.

It has fun and pathos, wicked Insight - into human nature, Above all, charm,

The special charm of youth which is made up of so many ingredients panic, alarming candour, fantasy; a short supply of cummon sense but a discon certing equipment of logle; a enparity for idle wonder verg- inst 11 sheer vacancy. They are all here.

The weariness, despair, hope But. In the meantime how they have lived Mr Digby, in of the father. The corrosion of the light of an affectionate mind, nerves, body as the un- malice,

A blustering alarmist bearable weeks pass by. That is teetering on the border between the patterna single, wavering, force and tragedy,

But it is dogged line, Tercien herself who Alls most of the stage.

Authorisa EMMA SMITH

sion ont at Somerville College, Or- ford. Since then ska has developed a wide range of intaresta, erpecial. lu in traveler publisher-hua-

food, clothes and de corations,

band, Mr John Howard, she lives in the Hampatead house that was once owned by Mre Siddons, as tron children aged six and sight.

Confession of a Rebel. By Jack Clomo Chatto and Windus. 10. 6d. 246 pages.

QUEEN 6sh, a misfit, a man with a kink, Jack Clemo, Cornish poet and novelist, is, coming up the hard way.

He has been blind and is

his total years, dent, Over

a feny carnings amounted to shillings. His mother's pension Wilding kept them both allve. Graft, published last year, gave on the him his first foothold But Marghanita Laski was ladder. But s thio auto- ders off it. To tell

us that blography

shows--it was the Teresa and her unkindness to Hilary, the father, is a Left outcome of years of work and

Wing Intellectuni As if the ugly girl on the linert Tere-

we discouragement. That Hilary may with care.

con- and her friendship

Joyce "Sho Sam, the

Indian descend to marry scandaloun It tells the story of Teress. A servant: Teresa watching-with reads the New Statesman every

week and schoolgirl and her father, Mr what

takes nu informed brilliant, remembering

interest in politics, helf WA and of Teresa'a

Also she's was too shaken to do anything | Digby:

eyes--the worship in the temple nod.

Ruth, and her husband, of Kall; much

ban

The

in love with me." It will serve terribly Teresa wedding will be a quiet affair Edwin

happy, frightened; Teresa the Hilary right. the explains Daniel,

Teresa's

hud Art: Teresa growing up. so her. Whe ught of an elaborate cere.

divererd Mr Digby ten years

19

with Youth ster hits

| before, is about to return from

of the sentiment of America Mr Digby, fearing bulton

And

descriptive whal that his ex-wife will stent the foils.

19 disclosed

The Juhn Trean hum, sautches Teresa power When CAPE TOWN:

In ber panorama of India, lovely, ab- from school and hurries with Ferguson

charged

aeross the world murd, squalld, magicalf

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tled the loose ends of the keots to the bumper of his car

arlengar It, thus and drove

the tones-just as her mute.

A

huse,

black-mantr

dashed up to the rescian. The wa Outraged

bensta nid innu led endeavoured to chase the car. but Darzi drave tor heading for hune and beauty

Queda marry he asked as he handed milk. Father father the

"Well,

now

her

can

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is in the

Never satisfied

ANGELES: It is not

for

LON enough

the American housewife that she can buy her minced teak frozen and package all ready for the grill. A grover proudly produced a minced refinement Frozen

islots cleak with a frozen bulter on 1 p.

nister

b the Assum ten-garden where Ruth ros Edwin live.

The trouble is that Ruth and Edwhe are Et as all likefy to be the

refuge Mr haven Digby is looking for. Nice, sen- utive peuple that they are, Ruth Elwin are very unhappy in their lea-garden.

and

Mr Digby too fussy, panje- ky, muddle-header to notice. He might have got round to the truth But Miss Smith kills him

off-und Ruth, too, benutiful,

Here

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Meanwhile Hilary hns the dreary affate with Nelly, a pro- stiute. When the tension should be acutest, it is outrageous to let such a triviality slacken it,

the end, linry Ands a boy and, by an Ingenious de vice, Is able to prove him his

2011.

Bed Is Essential For Jaundice

By The Doctor

to

men

Now it i

Long incubation

/HEN a patient complains of started In the intestine and

feeling out of sorts" for a travelled upwards. few days, the doctor thinks of known that a virus gains entry Jaundice. At least he ought to do into the blood stream-some-

transfusion. Clemo in a convinced, fana-o. (In practice, I am afraid few times when an injection of blood

the

doctors succeed in diagnosing is given or after tical Calvinist, disliking

Jaundice before the appearance

During the war A number of genial Methodism in which he

of his of the yellow colouration,) Portraits was reared.

bo due Jaundice may

inoculated against yellow heroes are on his cottage walls:

But the result fever broke down with Jaundice Browning. T. F. Powys-and various causes.

00 days later: for the means that the liver calls are not 30 to Spurgeon, the famous preacher,

dealing properly with the bile, so incubation period is one of the Since then a He had some sympathy with that too much is present in the longest known.

number

of casca have boon the dictators. He, the prole blood.

Jaundice in which tarian, voted

The commonest cause is infec- reported for Churchill in

tion of the special cells of the followed the injection of a small coloured per- 1945 vivid,

of adult's "blood to That possessed soulky qualities of leadership because this was due

its difference it was aware of from the presale massCI.” EMMA SMITH! 20. Her

Nothing but sensationalism is bank, Maiden Trip, has recently

But the book, with its im- big enough to save the world, bron wanted the John Llewellyn

is a advantage, Rhys Memorial Prize for 1040 Ear-

mense illal

failure. ter in 1948 Emma Smith hath we comparative

It is a Rockefeller Atlantic award for

#lever; Agreeable to" rend. 250, and with the special permia. mon of the Treasury the worst should be painful to read. Fred use this money Buing for should take the reader by the * month in France While there she wrote The Fur Cry During the throat, war when only 1 she worked pair of canal boats between London броска and Mirmingham, After the

she went to India na serli turiter for a documentary flim unit

trar

to

*

fira!

Little Boy Lost. By Margh. anita Laski. The Cresset press. 9. 6d. 216 pages.

WHAT

ព

ply! Murghanita

Laski has muffed it. Gifted, witty Marghanita Laski wha hit upon so poignant a theme.

The theme? A little boy lost in the right of war. A little boy whose mother is killed by who disappears the Gestapo.

trace, who leaving hardly

identity be hopelessly obliterated. And whose father searches,

may be dead,

4 whose

may

searches.

af

MARCHANITA LASKI

Is only There handle such

ODE

a story.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"HA REMEMBER THE FOLKS

WHO SOLD US THAT

LEMON OF A CAR?

*CLOSING UP/ BUSTED

SMORE

wuy to

Utter,

LASKI, "MARGHANITA daughter of Mr Noville Laski, KC, wde educated in Manchester, Lon

Kiya man.

the iver. It used to be believed that the onset of measles in

opfidonated

h Clemo,

JACK CLEMO, the man of n kii:1- worker who died during the frat World War, was born in 1930 in the temple Cornish clay-mining village Goonainarris, where he has lived ever since

-Landon Express Servics)

LIBRARY LIS TA

CHARACTER

AND SITUA TION, $ix stories by Christophat Sykes Collins 8 6d. 252 pagel Sykes is more successful the chaser he keeps to facts. The most amusing of his new stories tells how the cholics of a cathedral in Cyrenalco was offered as a cup in an army horse-race--and won by an kish priest,

• DEAD LION. By John and Enary Bonolt, Michael Joseph. B 60, 216 pages..

Abare-average detectiva story. Cyprion Druse "could scorch a repu- ration with a few sentences... ho never produced any creative work, but only destroyed. Like a blight, fattened his like a rompira, he

the blood of his reputation an

victims," in other words, a reviewer. Cyprian is very naturally, murdered. six likely Question is, which of women did the job?

• A SUMMER IN ITALY. Sean O'Foolain. Eyre and Spottis

woods. !2x 6d. 234 pages.

8,

A gentle, pleowntly described and highly prejudiced omble through modern Italy. The photographs might have been better.

• A CLEAR DAWN. By Winifred Pock Faber and Faber. 9 6d. 253 pages.

I cannot think why Lady Pack troubles to pretend that her McWatts live anywhere but in Edinburgh. The navci in steeped in the atmosphere of the city she perrorsets colle "Castleburgh."

to a germ which

DAB and FLOUNDER -by WALTER

children.

A survey just published in the British Medical Journal puts the figure of jaundice after trans- fusion at 11.9 percent when blood plasma from a large-pool blood-bank is used. On the other hand it drops to 0.8 per- cent, when injections of blood itself are used. The total death rute is given as two per 1,000

cases.

Death from jaundice is rare provided that treatment is given

at once.

Koop off fats

Bed is essential. If there is nnucca then nothing but water or fruit juice by mouth is permit→ ted. Carbohydrate intake should be high; fats very low.

The patient must be kept at rest until all tests for the func iloning of the liver are normal A number of tests are again. now available to show whether there is gross damage to liver cells. The liver can have a largo percentage of cells made useless without permanent ill-health re- sulting.

But there are limits; and it it necessary for the doctor to be satisfied that the Umits have not been passed before allowing the patient to get up.

(London Express Serulco)

THAT'S THE FIRST STATIC I'VE ENJOYED IN AGES!"

"Sympathy"

BY KEMP STAREETA

BLOOP

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CRACKLE

CRACKLE

THE GRILYOK NEWS OF A

BUSINESS RECESSION...

AND DOES IT GRIEVE US WHEN THE LANDLORD, WHO REFUSED TO FIX THAT BUSTED STEP, GETS A TASTE OF AT?

WE'RE COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED WITH SYMPATHY WHEN THE ROADHOG WIO ALMOST DITCHED US, GETC A -CHANCE TO "CONTRIBUTE

TO THE STATE MOTOR 133

FUND, Ledger Syndicate

WHEN THE STATIC SPOILS THE COMMERCIALS FOR A CHANGE.

"1000" "OH, YOU POOR

CHILDHIA HAS

WILA HEC GOBBLED UP HALF

OF YOUR ONLY BOX OF CANDY.

"OH, DEAR/MOTHER, WOHIT

BE ABLE TO SPEND

THE WINTER VITA,

US THIS YEAR

"TOO BADA NO. UMBRELLAS?

REGRETFUL

MIK.

POZETC IN THE RAIN GET ACC SWIPATHY AS MOUD GAE FROM, ČEADE

#

TO FALL APART.

IT'S STARTING

GUESS I'LL

REALLY HAVE

TO GID

RID OF IT.

"THE SAD SAD NEWAS