1949-11-19 — Page 11

This Stamp Honours Six Old Soldiers

no the whistle of fifen and brat of drums which played

ground at Indianapolls, Amerien, recently, and were cheered by a crowd 100,000 strong,

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Just six men are left of millions who fought to free the slaves and krep the United States united. Each of these old soldiers is more than 100 years old. But they maluted proudly as the files

screamed

Marching through Georgia,"

and lived their battles again.

TATES B63 JAGLE

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It was the last march of the Grand Army of

could Republic. The six survivors decided that they longer be certain of attending (hele annual parade.

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But they will never be forgolten. For America has issued. this stamp in their memory. It shows them as they were when they fixed bayonets and charged. And as they are today.

Face-value: 3 cents (2)gd.). Perforation: 11 by 10%. -(London Expren Service)

M. Riant Mourns The Old-Time Philatelist

By Sally Swing

of

Paris.

-eld EVENTY - your

Monsieur Georgen Riani, the oldest trader in the Paris stamp market, deplores the filade modern stamp collectors.

"People buy stamps Teslay as they would place a bet on a racehorse," he said, "When they don't make ITOLON they are disappointed."

Avenue

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949.

Not a pretty book, but a

powerful one for adults

THE SHELTERING SKY.

By Paul Bowles. John Reviewed by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

Lehmann, 10s. 6d. 304 pages.

P

OWER to project a scene on the reader's mind; power to make characters come alive-and how alive - power to fashion an absorbing story out of intractable materials; and power to suggest that, under the surface drama, there-turk more mysterious and algnificant events.

These are the qualities of The Shellering Sky, this remarkable, disturbing novel,

I{ 18 be-

свиле

the

Saharan setting, with death at its most sum- disense mary,

most

at

spectacular and ICO at

most elemental, even the deadly scorpions and the corrupt speelmens of humanity who

to cling desert fringo because these dro I lated

the in

Ima- gination in central psycho- logical

It is a first novel; the entry of n new and trenchant talent on This is the arena of Action.

writer's "edge" on it, writing with an derived from the author'a com- over words, tus uncem- fortable insight into the clusive,

ar

humna |mainsprings

action

and huma failure.

the

لام

theme.

If you like, a #piritual theme.

nub-

diary charne- photo-

11 tells of the adventures, Audly tragic of three young american travellers Africs, 0172 Subari Port, has wife Kit, ant their friend Tunner.

iers. In North

11 edge of the

Port Ja 21 restless, rustless being seized with the madness of maps and travel.

Traphed brutal

focus. Beved his moto under - current of narrative

PENETRATING AUTHOR

PAUL BOWLES

prezent site, near the Pea Champs Elyreen after the Franco-Prussian war, And as heen expanding ever since,

There are more than 2,000 simp traders Art

who Then Kit slips from hysterin into registered

The French lieutenant France, but buations is at a low

used to think that Arabes wets mudness. Lanving her tend tab, M Hant said sadly

Perhaps mysterious beings with a mes- husband and her living lover, However,

elenite the slump. 119 inn sense of absolute page for Western humanity.

the wanders off into the waste Marleny" swarms the "Cre

and attaches herself to an Arab with traders and amateurs every facture

camvant Thursday, Sunday and holiday

market when the

In open for Jumannss

BOUT half of the profes A somats bold down other jule. such as bookies on walehnen, bot M Rinni spends his free

M. Riant looked over the 122 stalls of the stamp market. celebrating the centenary of the first French postage stamp. Each of

the booths

the under golden chestnut trees of the "Carre Marigny" displayest rally-coloured stamps from all over the world.

"IN the old days, young gentlemen in top hats came to the stamp market with an eye to the intrinsic value of a stamp, not its possible value in a year's time," he sighed.

was abundant, and an original ean be purchased for little 300 transes Tabout 77-),

Always on the muve, zenrching for - what? esemping fron) - -whal”

And Mrs Lyle who, at first Planer Beetan to be nothing, but

o specimen of the worst kind of

is therefore, melo-

LIBRARY LISTA

I walked at Dawn. By Gerald Wohater Wingate, G. 6d. 155 pagan Webster in a man of grit and a writer of ability. Here he tella, with no appeal for sympalay and he search for eary effects, a story which, begins with a boy struck down by infantia paralys A fine, herole and only too topteal thema

A Religious Bebel, BY LAKEN Nisbet IDE. Gd. Pearsall the letters, edited by

232 pages.

her son, of the American Quaker whore book, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, was once a best- often

· letters aro

Westward IT S Around the Werla in eitches. Dy B. I (with drawician by Perelman, itirschfeld Reinhart and Kan. 10 60 159 pagek When the musical.comedy Sweet Bye and 870 dead in Philadelphia. and Hirschfeld (1250 Perelman fibrettila) sat of round the world. A hundred musical-comedies will perlab before the duo take that ilberty again. This book telle why.

★

Baker of the Nlia By Dorothy Middleton Falcon, 124 64 #80 par Barusi Baker was one of the British pioneers who ist day- Daht into the Dark Continent. H deserves to live with Speks and Livingstone, ilove is his story.

Lendon Express Berplog.

he roamed between America, Africa Ad Europe, After he married nurellat Jane Aver he started again to write stories. Now lives in an Arab Motor in Tangier.

A

TALE OF POOR LOVERS. By Vasco Pra- tolini. Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d. 366 pages.

If you walk down the Via del Corno in Florence, you will

KIT is you, the British tourist the ruder vi date as well as simater. But be well advised to keep a

WORDHITE

the verge hysteria She lover Part follows

Andi

in its context, it appears natural, almost Inevitable So Ere pressive in tanginative power has been the

count of the fight into the desert

Furt

13

Intenbited by

grip on your purse,

Walkins near the mkidle of the street as you can.

The street and the criminals, street-walkers and that these their purnsites, 1 in presided pages are not easily shaken over by a half-mad and wholly from the mind.

vicious ex-hariot known as the Signora.

of

malign Her

power 18 the prime mover this complex and admirably translated story of the Italian underworld in the days when Fascism was coming into power.

me, the more they admire you Mex ham ediently boundlessly Mrs Lyle turns out to be somes think a good deal nasties than atanapy with him

Danl And Erie her degenerate Carney

astonishingly days pastime up art clanfying handsome in ir late Parammant about Eric is that he is a hotel deathbed of

the rest thing ton--almost

bur 750,000 lamps

way, an Kit mays contemplumun -1 pendim

thief. al French hudy what is hus role? He in Port's French Colomini stampa," be friend, he becomes Kil's lover

The Sheltering Sky is not u

it is a novel for mud, and proudly displayed One feels that Fort has brought pretty book..

The Shelleru Sky is a novel But Mr Lyle and Erte lum along for that very purpose adults

Touched with germa page de vuled to the first issue

Its author and the others are not what they The first French Be of 1840 to be betrayed by him

pients words, his images, his For this is a strange, perverse are because Paul Bowlez likes

of the people

people. us with something tangle of

whose un- depleting unpleasant

of the banderilla pulses are in conflict with their They are vital to the atmosphere sarage skill The une frane verbullion | desires. The

emotional disgust which planting his darts, teiumph of Bowles of showing the head of the Goddess: that he makes their tormented haunts Port and Kit-and from

The remalt is a book of chal- Anglo-Saxon writers are wont lenging power and penetration, a to look on italy with a doter- Ceres, unstamped, is worth 400,-

alory of almost unbenmblc tea- mined sentimentally. Pratolini's there as NOTEN. a bitter muglern drama Italy is as far from played out against the blazing steel filings are from spaghetti,

*VASCO desolation of the Sahara.

whe PRATOLINI,

of Maly's foremost novelists, was born in Florance of porking-class parent PAVI, BOWLES was born in New in 1913, le left school at the a01

het spent a good deal of his ume on forms, with the result that ser's assistant, comport traveller. of Worked as lift attendant, print- he is now hopptert in the rountry. vertor and commercial As a child he scrote thrillery, inter

For him "Florence constitutes the While at the world turned to poetry.

University of Virginia left suddenip

existence

and tangled motives

which the desert offers escape. 贷

000 francs M Rant raid. not simply convincing to us, bui

infortunately. don't have also profoundly exciting. any right now.

In the Very depths of the OR at last Port and his wife M Rin blamed the high lure of Port and his wife Kil

run away from the handsome, egad of living and Goverjunent fan obscure struggle for survival seductive Tunner und the controls for the present alump.

is going on.

We feel the reality beastly Lyles. They take a wilt The first stamp

of rather than comprehend II. plunge by bus into the Sahara, And it is somehow related to grew out of a meeting of THEN, too, he said. "During the

to a Moster holy city where the Occupation and just after their futile pilgrimage to North streets are tunnels through Tho stamp-collecting schoolboys

the Liberation, wealthy people Africa

desperate houses

market

and

its

York

In the Tuileries Gardens ind stamps as an investimentslimax- the fight of Port and

to po to Paris without telling hu 1862. There were no stalls like duumonds. Today they have | Kit into the wilderness, the They arrive at El Ga'a, lo And

parents There he had absolutely in those or professionals

a choire of motor cars and fur

visitor death of Port and the madness of that another

has got nu idon of what to do, made tin ac

h and spent quaintances The hotel refuses his wife.

there first. days, and

Walking truders walked cats

alone {ཀ the streets. "Nevertheless I've kept my

to open Its door

them.

Gradually enlarged this wandering up and

and tapped self and my wife, Allee, for 30

Pestilence stalks through the to encranzNLES nort of each other on the shoulder years," he added, "and I expert

Ette holy city. when they wanted to barler, ll go strong for another 20 at

The market moved up to its least."-- United Press,

down

I the scenery and even the minor charnelers are Invested for an with a curloud vibrancy I is not merely that Bowle 15 a Įbrilliant descriptive artist.

And already Port is ill; soun he will die, terribly, of typhold.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"YES MAM, STEAKÍ DOWN TO 37 CENTE A POUND - HAM

DOWN TOO

Western

The next year he went to North

Africa, which immediately delighted

some of the cluttering facts. I Judge that this new story of Snow's contains a substantial admixture of his own life, It reads that way.

The father of his hero, Lewis Eiloft, is a little of a clown ́and nil of

a bankrupt, a minor Micawber; his mother is O woman of character and ambi- tion. Lewis bullds his career, aiming at the Bar and marriage with Shelta.

He achleves both, frightening away the silly young man with “Whom Shein-might-have-beert happy. The outcome is bitter. Shella proves to be frigid and unbalanced. When WE inke leave of Lewis, he is firmly locked in his dorerstic, hell,

This novel wins respect by the complete honesty of its presenta- tion. The scent and castastrophe of a young man's life grip be- cause of the steady impress of truth,

•C. + SNOW started writing a series of novels in 1974, of which thin prosent hook is the latest, 10 Arat novel, Stronpers and Brothers, rus published in 1940 Born in 1905 he fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and li atro well known na rieniles,

DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER-

TELESCOPE EYES SPOT THE

Mudskippers

BAIT

Jump

Into A Zoo Show

LONDON.

STAR turn at the London Zoo aquarium is at feeding- time for mudskippers. Seven of these qucer-looking Bin-long fish arrived recently from West Africa, having been caught by natives on mud-flats, writes Craven Hill

Mr H. F. Vinall, the curator, So active are they that ied-cream

decided to make their meal time an "event."

TIME OF HOPE. By C. P.

Snow. Faber and Faber, 12s. 6d. 416 pages. COME of the Anest novels have been nulabingraphical. The writer is better able to expose

fun for a many years di he could, the truth because he can discard

The mudskippers are fed on a mixed diet of earthworms, meal- worms, and sandhoppers col- lected near Brighton.

A kreper places the food on a the shallow ledge high shove

usually lie basking, their tele- water in which the mudskippers

scopie eyes protruding Last lobove the surface.

As soon as he has gone ther Leap on the

br climb ledge, there using their fins.

Mudskippers live from two to there years in an aquarluan.

"That's Music

BY KEMA STARRETH

IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL CO

BADLY WHY DO YOU

LISTEN TO IT P*

BECAUSE, IT'S MY FAVORITE......

CHIFF. PROGRAM... SICH

AWFUL THINGS HAPPEN

TO EVERY-

BODY

(London Express Service)

THE KIND OF MUSIC WE'D'

LOVE TO HEAR

AND SOON.

"THAT'S

MUSIC

BE BOP

"BO BOO

WE SUSPECT THAT OTHER PEOPLE'S TROUBLE IS MUSIC TO SOME EARS.

COME "MUSIC" CAN BE HEARD AT QUITE A DISTANCE ....... AND. DRAWC THE CROWD LIKE HONEY DRAWC AUTC.

THOSE STRANGE. FOLKS WHO THINK THAT THE DIN OF ACTIVE NAMMERS IC MUSIC TO EVERYONE.

KHÁM

TROUBLE

THERE.

CLANY

THAT FIRST FAINT SIZZA LING COUND OP BAGON FRVING

CLANG? ANOTHER, TEN BUCKS IN THE CASH BOX.

| IT'S SWEET AUCIĆ TO THE DOC WHEN HE

TUNES IN ON YOUR HUNTARDE AUD FINDS HE'S STRICK GOLD, OR A NEW CARS.

THE GARAGE MECHANIC KNOWC HUTIC.

·WHEN HE HEARS IT...AND THAT'S WHEN

A CAR CRAVES IN-COBERT — AND EXPIRES AT AS FEET.