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How bad were

THROUGH THE VALLEY. By Robert Henriques. Collins, 12s. 6d, 630 pages.

·ENRIQUES'S novel

H

opens with the de-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950.

the good old days?

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

reviews the NEW BOOKS

which Charles was deeply im- pressed by the religious fervour of the Moslems. It drove him back to Christianity.

He became monk, went to live alone in the Sahara, wore dress, became halt an The native Arab.

he lived in a Algerin, sole new religious himself. by founded order During The Brat war he wag Jie killed in a tribal revolt. for had made not a single convert,

Kor Mr Henriques in full of DESERT CALLING:

For 15 years story of Charles de Fou- wringings of scription of a foxhunt social broodings,

cauld. By Anne Freman- wretched hut in in the Cotswold country at hands, and tellings of bells. The

tle. Hollis and Carter. 15s, member of o Christmas in the year of the Old England is passing. By the novel it in pretty end of the

313 pages. General Strike.

well past. The Old England of (with J2 benters hunia, shoots enjoying themselves

It is just about as exciting

· a hunt as a man ever tuok part in while sitting com- fortably in his awn arm chair. So long as it lasts, the reader is willing to sus- pend his doubts about the characters and the philoso-

pansing? le that the purpose of your the novel? The trouble

phialngs which come nosing indiferent novels. You do not him from the betting.

their way into the story.

But even the

mest thrling of foxhunts cannot at for 639 DOCES. The time comes when we are left with the people und the ideas.

The people compre!

Icarly M.F.JI,

Sentimental landowner

the road to rula;

on

Hard-faced business man on the road to landowning;

Some naughty wives; and A Bad Man, whose con- questa among the women are hardly Justified by any charm he displays.

These characters are so busy being true to type that they

forget to nearly

come alive. spruce, pink There they are, and pre-war, the last generation of a stuffed-shirt class, nicely done up in tissue paper.

*

Yet his

every F.one had been looking

In the eightles likely faints as much as the fox does on lif

out), Big Houses in the of last century one would not day county and villas at Cannes.

omcer.

example triumphed French cavalry young Does Hentiques deplore its have pleked that fat, dissoluto

de where his preaching failed. His Vicomte Charles about Foucauld.

with memory is the strongest but-E His conduct

of French civilisation in! others of her klad treas him is that he, la not quite sure. Mimi and

itself, have excluded Africa. Now he is revered in He has the cross-bench mind. would, in

second only to SL France bad politles and It makes for

one of Joan. Charles became Yet

the officer

with write good novels by behaving

outstanding

Laperrine, as st you were the Liberal the

modern French Catholicism and whom be worked most closely, notebook con- Party.

modern French Imperialism-li kept a mauve

decide which role taining 103 names of those con- was more important. There nected with Foucauld's murder: a doubt how far he remained, "When I have managed to kill One I scratch him out." one, The old order had its nasty to the Inst, on agent of French

was executed as Touaress, of the killers horrid intelligence. farming, sice had

ita the village, who killed him, had no doubt late as 1044. Many more are illegitimacy

still alive. starving tramps on the ronds. at all. But the new order? It is worse,

black with

is hard to

The

Agures

The transformation from markets, rake to saint look place in bureaucrats, snoopers from the consequence of an arduous ex

in Marocco during Ministry peering into the barns, ploration and ends from the City buying up

yout

504

This account, gushing, some- times cheap, cannot conceal the remarkable stature of the man and the story.

Orchestra Players

LONDON.

Where your

money goes |

BIG myntery may be clear-

Ded

by Bosworth up MONCK. 17e has written "How The Clell Service Works." It will come from Phoenix House.

The aim of the book is to bridge the gulf between the taxpayer and the Service.

Mr Monck is an engineer. That's quite a gulf you've pleked, fir Monck

Next mystery.

BET- Who is Don TERIDGE, author of "Spies Left7

None other than the king of all clonk-and-dogger men the inimitable Bernard NEWMAN,

Sir, you may now uncloak. would BILLANY Dan probably have developed in- to one of the finest of our young novelists, His story,

The Trap,"

being 15 published without revision by Faber. It was written an Italian prisoner-of- Billany was war camp. martally wounded in an en- counter with an informer.

Exciting subject for an

author. exciting

In

Graham

BOOKS D PEOPLE by ION HOPE

GREENE is working on a blography of R. L. Steven- so th

Julian AMERY has com pleted volume 4 of Life of Joseph Chamberlain, started for Macmillon by J. L. Gar- vin.

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BOOK BUSINESS in big business now. Last year's furnover-more than million-was a record. bent the 1948 figure by £2 million. Renald Barker, or the

Association, Publishers tells me that in the last quarter of

of 1049 Britain's book exports were running at an annual rate of £10 million.

In Well up

the of queua customers the U.S.A.

After American best-seller Rose Franken produced the latest in the line of novels about her creation, Claudia, her the said, referring to characters: "If I write an other book I shall have to kill them all off." She may, cancel this muss slaughter. Too many Claudia fans have protested.

Disagree:

Chiefs

Quit May

by MARIUS POPE

First, admit you're jealous

by Canon HUGH WARNER

MY HUSBAND works 17) an vince where he 15 brought into contact every day with a number of attracitus typists. To my shame, I find I am feeling just that sealousy for which I used to condemn others, I can't got rid of it.

OST people in your posi- Mion will not numit their

own feelings. They drive it all underneath their con- sclous mind in an orgy of self-deception, and every- body suffers.

Jealousy is a tricky buai-

ness.

("*ie ta a soul'a game," nan husband said, when no returned to me after ten desertion for months another woman, He was plad to be back home, for we have boon happily married for 20 pears. During those months, however, the woman's husband had gone for a divorce. She has falled to get her husband to forgive her, so she pleaded with my husband not to leave her high and dry. He has noto gona back to her, but they are He is utterly miserable. tangled in such a knot that r don't know that to advise him to do."

STICKING out a mile is one

of

It is often muddled

fact. You belong to with the sin of envy, as your husband, and he be when a woman runs down longs to you until one large families because some you dies. "In sickness or in one she dislikes has more health" is not to be limited children than she herself. to something physical. Sick- That's envy.

ness can be spiritual.

who

It is better to reserve the word those occasions Jealousy for when we feel we are threatened with the loss of someone

really our own. There is a good and a bag kind of posses- siveness in love and marriage.

"

own

BEHIND-THE-SCENES harmonia Concert Society a intera, hit to my the wrong to fac

the land. So where are Contrast all this swithering with the passion that comes in- to Henriques's writing when he of Danny pleads the cinim

David, Levine and his Jews, lo be Englishmen and nothing but Englishmen.

The maln effect of

these . social gropings in to subtract shape, speed and energy from the novel, Hounds have found

trouble in one of Lon- for this threatened blow to rut in a dozen new works this

year and not suffered at all." and are off,

But ton many foxes

may London's musicnl life.

I that after LIKED—the exclung it is deplorable full ery, after the lot of them don's top orchestras

precision of the BBC With fewer scents, themes, Inbring a change in control.

they had done so much last string bur trigues and people we should.

the way planist Cause: a rift between Mrs year through the generosity Phyllis Sellick "clowned" enjoyed a better have

opening night And a shorter one.

Joan Ingpen, manager of of the Maharajah of Mysore the the Philharmonia Orchestra to enhance the reputation of singing of the Alaxandra Choir.

the present since its foundation, and Mr the orchestra,

should have to Walter Legge, of the Phil- situation harmonia Concert Society. arise.

It in as if the cast of one of Mr Lonsdale's comedies, rein-

by one character forced rowed from Me Arien, had been the West brought olong from End, costumes and all, to enact

Jun.

a drama of social glance in THE ODDS AGAINST US. Leamington Spa.

LIBRARY LIST

INSIDE THE PUD.. By Maurk Cortar and H. McG, Dunnett, Archi- tectural Press; 18: 130 pages The Dutille house in art. Hibody, having read this book, will be conscious only of what is alde ha glas is be in a Cin Palace, #coy Is Hie decora Mon cairied out le bhear' Tudor or brewer's Caorgian? On such question this informative book will put Me mind at rest.

AN ARAB PHILOSOPHY OF HIS. By Ibn Khaidun of Tunh TORY (Wisdom of the East). John Murray: 61: 190 pages. The hundredth volume of a series that has brought him,

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Confucianiem. Tantummode Zen, Tang and Yoga household words amon

sceptical West,

Ibn Khaldun wat time Arab Amoki Toynbee of the 14th century.

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THE Arst

German

Orchestra

now

t.

отп

A the

I DISLIKED-Basil Cameron's rnhappy knack of picking the most awkward templ for Bach works.

this year

young

The sin he committed was a symptom of spiritunt illness, for

which he was responsible be- cause it was self-induced. His primary loyalty remains to the

To call it a "Tool's game" is- true, but not enough to relieve-

carrica one-time lover. If he him of responsibility towards his

on his "affair" he is not really helping her at all. The break must come.

even

Let

The bad kind arises when the one to whom he made this vow tho feeling of possessing one's part-to you. And you have ner is felt in the same way as responsibilty of helping him

or bac. to health. a parrot one possesses washing machine. You

think of your I do not blame the Phil- With the box-office appeal of children's concerts is in no way them. If you

Promenade programmes. Indeed, right to say it is wrong to feel the Prom planners could study jealous. You are merely afraid the children's schedule with pro- of losing a piece of property.

When. however, two people FEATURE of Britain's fall in love, they don't merely post-war musical fe is feel they want to be together,

before Detter soon, to cach to belong want the profusion of summer they

other. At the heart of their worse complications ensue. schools.

kindness Ernest Read,

veteran married love la o conviction of him beware of false

something they don't by prolonging the agony, and Identity, of Conductor

postponing the inevitable weople's orchestras, has put there, but find there. his orchestral training course | If you cannot trust your hus- separation from her.

from August 4-12 band's loyalty, his association Response has been great from with charming women is fear- well as ht, tho must not resent WHAT SORT of musle Instrumentalists, soloists, con ed.

A third person cannot, strict the suffering that is coming her who just Sir ductors and people

What your husband must way. do children Ilke?

do is to see that she has to- This year he speaking, ever break Robert Mayer asked the want to watch.

you are one by suffer a little as possible at children's

plans to graduate the players marriage, for audiences at his

the point where he can help, concerts last season and into three orchestras. Sir Adrian the inner nature of love.

She might, however, set up so namely, Cnancially. found that most popular Buult will visit the school for

strong a competing clairn for were Saint-Saens's Car- nne day as guest conductor. PROMS,

She must get a Job- and be- AT THE

Summer school in amateur exclusive love, that your hus-

аз possible- Composer Elisabeth Lut- nival of Animals, Mendelssohn's yens, whose viola concerto Fingal's Cave and Rossint's opera neur Cambridge under the band would be emotionally torn come as quickly

on overture, The Thieving Magpie. directorship of Summer Austin, to shreds, and unable to be the financially independent of him. performed be

can for her. He must not add I should say that a referen- formerly of the Sadler's Wells whole person your affection has Until then, he must do what he- September 2 is the only

audiences Opera, charges £7 7. for a right to. completely new work this dum among Prom

would

Such Jealousy, you see, has to her emotional difficullice by Students may same week's course, aive nearly the stood among the year.

somelling quite seeing any more of her, Although

types of its roots in Sir Robert study four different

reflects those de- Promchaders listening to Harriet result.

Only In this way can there bo Cohen, Is Miss Lutyens pleated chooses his pieces especially for opera, selo or chorus singing, natural, and in the country at being the only composer in children, and to has to rule out opera conducting and theatrical mands which love, by its inner anything like a final solution to

Now which is your brand of this ugly and tangled story.

-{Lamann Express Bervige). its formation five the new work class? Not at a long works and tedious pass costumes, lighting and make-up, loric, delights to meet.

"It's disgraceful," she told me. ages, the general level of the World Copyright Reserved--Londen Jealousy?

for this year's "What are the BBC afraid of? programme years ago.

By Hans Werner Richter, MacGibbon and Kee, 9s. 6d. 301 pages.

It may mean the present My forecast: Mr Legge war novel by a

management resigning.

will buy the orchestra, and soldier to reach

In that case the company volatile, irrepressible Mra Quality English

average,

Limited.

Ingpen will turn up with an though mercifully free from the Philharmonia

solemnities

Gennan which of

controls the dire

or other orchestral organisa- novels of the first war. These chestra, may be bought by tion.

cynical, foul- 1 mouthed at who cannot escape Mr Legge. Talk in musical from the 11ghting quickly circles is that a number of enough.

soldiers are-

ambition

Their sole

Is to renet a prison camp in America. that they Their chief Year is

the Philharmonia's players would then resign.

I hope a solution will be may be sent to Africa to build found to prevent the disin- a railway for the French.

tegration of what has be- America turns out to be a

The prison come one of the leading or- disappointment, camps are ruled by Nazis, with chestras -No

a Gestapo. At the front if had

since been diferent. There the Nazis kept their mouths shut.

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

·AND WHAT A BATTLE

THAT FISH PUT UP!

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IF IT WAS AN

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AND SOME PEACHES.“

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GIVE THESE

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YOU

PORTRAIT

OF A

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BACK AT

THE OFFICE AFTER A TWO WEEKS

FISHING

TRIP

AND A YEAR.

TO WAIT

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KNOW I

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AND SIE NEVER EXPECTS

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