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1 WnT Homing Herald, Saturday, Jutw 11, I960 THAT MADE A RAID HISTORY ILfiilerrattimir JAMESON'S RAID, by Elizabeth Pakenham. Weldenfeld and Nicolson, London. 44s 9d. 'jnmM? a fVAWA If -M Aimall TTHqcb Westl If this book pretended to be a literary history one could find holes in it big enough to drive a pantechnicon through; unfortunately, tome critics will make (and have already made) this mistake, missing the cardinal point that Mr Priestley's emphasis is not on literature but on Western man. tNSTON CHURCHILL recounts in his "World Crisis" how, as a young officer in 1895 (the year of the Jameson Raid, he lunched with Sir, William Harcourt and asked him what would happen now.

'My dear reglied ihe old Victorian statesman, 'the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever Since that 'moment, as it seems to me, nothing has ever ceased happening date the beginning of these violent times in our country from the Jameson Raid." Lady PakcnhartVs scholarly, carefully documented and enter- knlr rnrAtonk SIR CHL chafing under the restrictions Boer rule. Arms were secretly accumulated and a militia was secretly trained There was to be an uprising in Johannesburg, which would be supported by a mounted force ridiiia in from across the bordei. The force, numbering about 500 men, was assembled on the pretext of guarding a railway operated by Rhodes' Chartered Company of snh Africa. Its leader was Di Starr Jameson, a' close friend of Rhodes, who had ananaoncu whole range of French drama from Corneille and Moliere, of Ibsen, who raised prose drama to a higher power "like an engineer who by simplifying and strengthen medicine for empire-building, Jameson waited impatiently forV-o .1.. l-k Li Cartoon of Dr Jameson by apy in lHVo.

inilllllBlJ' ntlliwii jne signal. DUl IIIC the most thorough examination of conspirators could not screw them-this extraordinary and fateful in ike stickinz point, and cpisuuc he waited in vain. tne wounded vaniy study of hitherto unpub- ine ans. advice, orders and If he has decided whom he mentions and whom he ignores, surely that is fair enough, since as he says: "I am the Western man I know best." A sweeping panoramic survey of Western society from the Middle Ages to World War II needs to be looked at broadly and generously. Australians who re- member Mr "Priestley's Parthian shot about "booze-swilling" and the confused Peace conference issues at Melbourne might be tempted to writer himself: his vast contempt ior mass tastes ana values, nis outer protests against "the global lunacies of our own age." his un relenting opposition to all forms of bigotry, fanaticism, intriguing and inquisitions.

Age has given Mr Priestley a grand, penetrating sense of perspective. He has no great regard for the modern literary age: it is flat and uninspiring, he feels. One of his reasons is that nobody entreaties Jameson decided to go our numeroU5 foes we def bu aone and on December 29, someon. I895 ed his men across the we ug A fc TraSvaal border on a 180-mile Meanwhile, although Di Jame- dash to Johannesburg. stand hi" "trial af BowS? ing the boiler was able to increase the steam pressure," of Strindberg fan IRsen with Ihe Hnnr nff Ihe and of Chekhov (whose "brooding tenderness" is unequalled by any other dramatist) are all outstanding.

His general comments contain many home-truths for instance 'The fashion for importing plays can for some tune prevent a native school of drama from coming into existence at all." A REVIEWER'S criticisms of a book with so vast a range must conversely be However, Mr Priestley's surveys of the pods are skimped and he does not seem haoov with the subject. This is BUgh, a fiasco. Krugers com- Df Johannesburg I i7. -X were on trtal in Pretoria. The, I sentenced death sent-1 Bv the morning of 3 officer inceB lo imprisonment shit up in P'fM Kruger after a nam- oT ful lnlerVal 24 hUrS- Pretoria gaol.

were lo a not to say that some of his indi-scai- vidual assessments lack brilliance. ENGLAND was plunged into 1 ar rnvinH M4 1 D. nnli'nn mai crfn 1115 Thin tomb In nimilar lit the one in which Jesua toaa buried. It in the limenlone of a hillniile and wan a type ued at the A ttone shaped like a miltntone teas rolled in a trench across the door. Here are two of more than 170 photographs In "The Bible Companion: A Complete Pictorial and Reference Guide to the People, Places, Events, Background and Faith of the Bible," edited by William Neil (Skeffington, London 57s 9d).

Sixteen of the photographs are in colour and there are 16 maps. The text was written by 18 Biblical experts. LITERATURE AND WESTERN MAN, by J. B. Priestley.

Heinemann, 51s 66. mcnt. The vast field of his reading, embracinc centuries of European A- abounds in memorable phrases and telling images: "the brieht sunlieht and murder- ous shadows of the Tne winds that scattered the Spanish Armada blew English lit erature which had been smouldering for generations into a blaze of genius," and on. His use of modern idioms height--ns his effect: "Byron had every qualification for the role of leading man in the drama of the Romantic Stendahl's stare, surgical knives and "the costly imbecilities of once sensible and scintillating. I lh 446 imvtrd" Ces wrole "the best novel in the world." As for Defoe: fiction with him becomes entirely just because it is not supposed to be fiction.

QF course, it is with the novel and drama that Mr Priestley is at his best. 'cool rhm British Oovernment was behmd sBke.dhe Kaise, sent to raid' J.hat Europe shared ine merman Kaiser acm iu oninion was shown ku I otnrcc tn vnn "it I I i iniivi. a uit.Miiciuuii iu (xiiikci iu born after 1904 can understand our films at worst are merely bearded Laureate than like some how World War I cut Europe to an exaggeration of the nineteenth- girl, half-drowned in love, lingerie bone: "What possibilities and century theatre." ing in a hot-house." He feels (hat potentialities in politics, arts. His literarv judgments are at T- S. Eliot- rejected creation for -sciences vanished in the shell- holes and barbed wire.

lies and barbed wire. With prophetic vision he allies ran, "my sincere congratulations a ceremonia sword adorned with that without calling on the aid of throttling the Imperial lion, friendly Powers you and your A Cornrnitle of Inuirv people by your energy against the Md jn London. Rhodcs came armed bands which have broken Engand t0 altend it announcini into your country as disturbers of pllbiicy that he would submit him' the peace, have succeeded in re- scf to lhc verdic, of hj, feliow. establishing peace and defending "unctuous rectitude" ine inuepenacnce oi ine loumiji (lhe phrase peased him: la.r against attacks from without. declared facetiously that uncnmdi Queen Victoria promptly wrote rectitude should be one of tin i the Kaiser: "My dear Wilhelm qualifications for a Rhoda illuminating hindsight.

He sees 0 Tor three nan of Quotations' and arid "thors, bone saluting now bow the modern world took 'wnm 'iJS bone." Far better, says Mr Priest-on much of its shape, colour and everything else 15 -writing. had Ejot nome character in Zurich in 1916 when Helne he sees as a master among tne rivers ran four exiles lived in the city: Jung. ne. wrld 5 mo.re introverted nis boyhood; he would have been, the wild young Dadaist Tristan swt and sou.r llke a greater, poet. Zara, James Joyce and Vladimir mese dish.

is out of omissions, surely Walter Ulyanov. otherwise Lenin. bir Bagenotconomist, editor, liter VITITHIN the terms of reference over-rated Sterne is cut down to ary critic, biographer, political Mr Priestley stipulates, his Proper size and i significance, scientist, sociologist and Glad-latest book is a formidable achieve. Gogol's works are like "a hurried st0ne's "spare Chancellor." one of I must now also toucn upon Scholar). a supjecj wnicn causes me mucn eslabished nothing -of coo.

pain and astonishment. It is the seqllence and became width llnrgm iihiph ic inncmrin very unfriendly towards this country, not that you intended it as such I am sure but I to say it has made a most unfortunate impression here. The action of Dr Jameson was of course, very wrong and unwarranted, but known as the Committee of No I Inquiry. W. T.

Stead called its membenl The Worshipful Company -of I Arnold Merely I referred acidly to tne Lying In I State at Westminster." Kruttrl dogs mastenl go free. Dr Jameson had been sentence! I think wouFd have'beeVf'a; 'TLLl. pUn! ed the and let their Modern Bethlehem from the tumth better to have said nothing The Kaiser replied: "Most Be loved Grandmamma, Never was ihe 'C5S against England or your Govern- y. Tl I ihUnaht raM.r. he was Prime Minister of the I Comeback For Kendall? Cape Colony, an office he hcH urn of all na'neveVsus: 9 Ip.1911.Kin, hshed document, and private papers seems to have provided at last reasonabe answers to the two questions which have bedevilled Historians: Was the Brirtsh Govern- war ihatir wai nlanned? The raid Was part ot one 01 Cecil Rhodes' schemes.

In the centre of the South African veldt lay the little Boer Republic of the ru Pr.i. Transvaal, under tough old Presi dent Kruger, THE plot was hatched in Johan- nesburg, where a motley coUec lion ui aiiaiiKcis uittwn vj hi- west MEVRV KENDALL The Barwon cuts a rotten land Or lies unshaken, like a great blind creek, Between hot mouldering banks He described not only the rain forests-, hut the rtpcert Unhallowed thunders harsh and dry, An Uming noontides mute Beneath the breathless brazen sky. Some of the claims Dr Reed makes for Kendall are no doubt exaggerated. Metrically, he is often monotones, and his diction smetimes deplorable, but we can no aff orri ion GUSTAV CROSS. "i i jjry4 pecting that there were real Englishmen or officers among them I was standing up for law, order and obedience to a Sovereign whom I revere and adore." Edward conferred on him a baron-1 etcy.

As for Chamberlain, La'dtl Pakenham's conclusion is that hill "honour, on any fair was vindicated. Not so his judg-I mem. He gives masterly assessments ot cause Mr Priestley maintains that Rabelais (the our era has used its concentration Dickens, Kipling and the great of power and technical skill not lo Russian novelists. He sees Tolstoy's broaden men's freedom but to can-'War and Peace" as "perhaps the eel out liberties already won. "It greatest epic in the prose fiction of is the great age of saying one any and notes that it thing and doing another; of grim completed the astonishing break- realities ironically commenting through of the Russian novel into upon smooth and pious platitudes, world literature, "one of those 'Here's cried Mr Squeers sudden explosions of national (of Dickens' Dotheboys Hall), cenius we can only marvel at but smacking his lips as he handed his never explain." wretched pupils their watered milk.

As for drama, these sections ot the twentieth century congratu-M Priestley's book could well be laiing Us citizens on their freedom, abstracted to make a rewarding opportunity nchlv satisfying wav study on their own. His penetrating hfe. analyses of Shakespeare, of the CLEMENT SEMMLER IvNGLAND was not appeased. "What is there in South Africil Joseph Chamberlain wrote to I wonder," he asked, that make the Prime Minister: "My dear blackguards of all who get in- sausoury, i tninK wnat is called an vuivcu in us pouuesr 'Act of Vigour' is required to GUY HARRIOTT, B. PRIESTLEY LIGHT IN DARK New Authors "amP'- J1" acceptance, and that his poetry does not "ring out" there ms "cbillv- and arid nraise of chilly his century's acknowledged great minds clamours for inclusion.

But it is difficult to criticise an author of stature who does' nof even mention his own name or writings. Certainly this book deserves to be read by the Western men to whom it is directed, especially be- PLACES though he received only tiny fraction of this sum. In his latest book, he demonstrates once again that he is not as wholeheartedly devoted to the insubstantial as the title pretends. ti hue ghos, stories mosty gjven over to the plea that readers should buy book rather than borrow it from libraries. wjth Caedonian attention to detaj, he jnts ou( of jt must be sold earn h- r.

inn in rrvltie This he him 100 in royalties. This. thinks, sheer exploitation. WITH every possible sympathy for authors who undoubtedly otner man tneyne kow. i nere is also the point that discussion of monetary issues hardly the ideal way of putting the reader into the right mood to enjoy tales of departed spirits and other un worldly manifestations.

As for the quality of these astral experiences, gathered from John o' Groats to Land's End. they are mucn ot a pattern. As the-sophis ticated sailor said of the Chinese concubines: "Once you've seen one voti ve seen ihe lot." To quote another type of critic: "If this is the kind of book you like, then vou win like this kind of a book. As the book's illustrations show, Mr MacGregor is an excellent photog-aphe; of the British countryside, but as for the spirit photographs (not his work), no explanation is offered why the shadows on these spectral faces are seldom, if ever, in agreement witn tne nghi cast on the hack ground. Perhaps Mr MacGregoi could inquire into this curious pheno menon.

Ur has the Chelsea Borough Council interfered his researches? -LEICESTER COTTON HENRY KENDALL, a critical appreciation, with brief chronology and bibliography, by Thomas Thornton Reed. Rigby, Adelaide. 9s 6d. p.y..v.....vu jdib minor poei. uonaiisis wei i further and denounced Kendalls u- mj eastern seaboard as un-Ausitralian.

fN ha 1 s'Bns a re1 of, Kendall's poetry, but no major reassessment of his achieve- men( haj been underla(en A5 wjtn SQ any Australian writers, tne critj(. is an easy one: There is as yet no author- jatjve biography of Kendall and deftriitive Edition of. his works. n-'hr1sm XJA! JT' Reed' 7 tnKlf 'i Hf -rch end apprec.ation of the poet has just u- uvtii iubu, Willi uic tu-uuci miuu 'he Adelaide Festival of Arts. Unf ortunately.

this 65-page essay 'l to be anthing that Kendall's poetry merits more 'V 1 Coin a estimates i of KendaH from I860 to he present day and the chrono- logical outune or rvenaau career. TJENRY KENDALL had 11 the distinction of being the first Australian -born poet to find fame both at home and abroad. His verses began to appear in Sydney newspapers just a century ago, ana uy ine nine ui iii utam in 18SC2, at tne age ot w. ine sen- taught shepherd-boy from the South Coast was widely acclaimed as the finest poet Australia nao produced. Such diverse ngures as Longfellow and Oscar Wilde had praised his work, and he was the on Australian to win a place in Palgrave's "Golden Treasury" and the "Oxford Book of Ehg- iisii Kendalls life was a tragic struggle with circumstances.

At II, he was set to work -on his grandfathers farm near Wollon- gong, an illiterate fatherless boy When he was 16, he set out on a two-year voyage aboard his uncle's whaler before coming to Sydney to find employment as an errand- boy in the eltort to support nis mother and three sisters and die publicatfo, verses Si frSnS mem Henfy financial worries nnanLidi worriLs. FAMILY responsibilities and an -exaggerated sense or lai.ure drove mm to ana tne tragedy of his life seems be summed up in these lines trom -urara The tborld is round me with its heat, And toil, and cares that tire: I cannot with my feeble feet Climb after my desire. TjUTcmysows "is Authors" division Is per forming a useful service by accepting works from unpublished authors and paying them a standard advance against royalties. A preliminary note in this book explains in some detail the conditions on which works are accepted. It points out that the aim of the new company is to bridge the evcr-wiaening gulf" between the PHANTOM FOOTSTEPS, by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.

Hale, London. 22s 6d. in a Irivolous mannei. he snowea nimseu a uunu mj critic. Ideally, of course one banishes any knowledge of the personal life of a writer in con- sideration of his work.

But Mr MacGregor defies the critic to be objective. Wherever he goes, ne projects a reiiigdcm cguuain. For example, when in Australia few years ago he trounced us soundly, though 'to his chagrin he THE BANK OF TIME, by George -Frlel. Hutchinson, London. 18s 9d.

told, begins by hating one of hii brothers and loving the other. Then he reverses his sympathies. Finally, he almost succeeds loving them both and in realism) that his former hatreds sprani from immaturity and falsehood ii insight and delicacy. Stories about pcopie living 9 1 slums are not uncommon, in mil A FEW meek ago. In the West london Count) Court, Judge Howard addressed some acrid words to Ala-dair 41 pin MacGregor.

"Mr MacGregor." he said. seems to nave cmcrcu imu im contest with the Chelsea Borough 'seems to have entered into this Council in the same martial spirit as his forebears did at the Battle of Bannockburn. If he had been a little less aggressive there is no doubt that this matter could have been amicably settled ThK rasi- concerned a new street light which had been put up by the council in Cheyne Row (one of London's more exclusive purlieus): it seems that this light shone into, the bedroom, of Mr and Mrs Mac Gregor. when Judge Howard awarded costs to the council, after dis- missina the case as having heen orofit-makina. neerfi nf nis own personality, inereiauo and the frustrations of new writers f'Ps the i three are draw with with "something of importance to say" the "something," presum- Boiy, oemg aimcuit to sell.

Thj. case, Mr Friel does not use hi ritie who' se ec, vn, background of tenements merely work. h.u. m.rf- give the story "colour. It wouK received far less puoucity man ne deserve better, one can observe that would have liked.

Among his less Mr MacGregor's part in the ex- contentious complaints he pointed ploitation is purely voluntary and out that one of his books wasihai his protests mighl come with selling in Melbourne for 24s more conviction from a district in Mr Friers novel, which is the h-ard ,1 imagine ters in other surroundings. company's twelfth publication. xi. mi nmj, i All told, lie Murv im spi in a wnririnn. i u- ji 71 worKmaniiKe acmevemeni.

class district of Glasgow. It covers terms of action, the story is fairli Patchworker L. VS? yea.rs me slender, but the characters an US? "f'Pree Mothers beginning brought vividly to life, there Zi- av j. street-gang some shrewd observation of th urchins and ending when they adolescent mind, and a Dr Reed rightly points out that of whom A. G.

Stephens said: Kendall was not merely the sweet -There has been no writer more han Kangaroo" and "Song of dall: of hovers the Cattle Hunters" he anticipates over his poetry." impressive, but not showy, con The youngest of the boys, mand of language. i through whose eyes the story is F. E. WILLIAMS. it is a promising anil RISHt, by Taya Zinkln.

MdH NEW TOWN, by Noel StrntfeM THE SPANISH FAN, by Pml- Jacques Bonzon; translated froa I French by Anthony C'appuym- Helnenunn, London, 15s M. THE PATH OF THE RAVEN, I 'rpHE trouble with dons J- as a rule, Mr Bentley tells us, "is that they spend too much time imbibing other people's opinions." It does not seem to have occurred to him that this remark is also a criticism of a book of this kind, which is quite openly a pa II. 1 tiche of Quotations. He might have reflected that university. teachers also spend some of time trying to persuade students INDIAN TALE 1SHI" is an umirunl Rich! ri aaaaaaaaaawaalaaaaaBalaM is an unusual ixisiu Clarence, wnn wa hnrn in i40, is presented as a symbol of India's development as an inde- uen London.

15s id. pendent nation. Kendall's poetry continued to be Gordon and the bush-balladists by widely read and praised. for many many years, and he also wrote a years after, his death, but with him number of narrative poems with an age of Australian writing came Australian, Biblical and classical to an end iust as a new age settings, as well as several scabrous dawned. satires.

The founding of the "Bulletin" IT would be wrong, toweVer, to in 1881 encouraged a rising gene- 1 much of Kendall's ver-ration to write about Australia in What Dr Reed does not a way that was neither self-con- sufficiently emphasise is the part scious nor derivative. In the kght Kendall played in pioneering the of the work of later poets. Ken- Australian scene as a theme suit-da1! reputation inevitably ahe for poetry. Where earlier dwindled, until it seemed that by lamented the absence of comparison with the balladists and daffodils, Kendall could celebrate such men as Daley, Ouinn and gorles 0f bush. Brennan.

Kendall was no more A than a faint, antipodean reflection Z. of Wordsworth oV Keats. JTL iSd the 1930s. Kendall's eclipse oS seemed complete. Critics scoffed at S'5," ela( "KSin'h his colonial version of Victorian do" n'.

n'e. Knda" s.hatre romanticism, looked with distaste Kcats inordinate fondness for on the faint nostalgia and fin de moss), but Kendall also wrote of siecle melancholy of his verses and places where Mrs Zinkin writes with a gentle London. 13s 3d. that Uiey cannot write gooa essays o.iu. by merely throwing together pass- fer when taken in short doses) and ages from the books they have partly because of an epigram, consulted.

which is certainly less well known emince than if deserves to be, from one called Thomas Walthoe: realism and her characters are ootn lively and interesting. M.EL TREATFEILD'S tales 1 1 ahnitt the RaII i- ismi, mauc Sm0US on C' Children's Alan "r.c always pleasing. She with humour, understand- T.k uraervanon 01 nu- treated seriously. It postessS man behaviour qualities of suspense and excite- has selected his quotations with loving care and discernment. One may still feel that the wholi project was misguided.

His method Is to take some topic, like love or childhood or food, and give us about 20 extracts (in a 20-page essay) from his favourite autnors. inicrspcrscu who -turn- nwnii nf bin own. which are in- A CHOICE OF ORNA-MENTS, by Nicolas Bent-ley. Deutsch, Londoi. 31s.

This is exactly what Mr Bent-ley gives us. However, he sometimes jogs one's memory quite agreeably with rAmatUinn fumiliar Uie f.n something familiar. His essay on love is, surprisingly, one ot tne more successful, partly because of a genuinely amusing passage from Belinda has such wond'rous charms 'Tis HEAV'N to lie within her arms: And she's so charitably given She wishes all mankind in HEAV'N. rhe most successful essay ot all is the one on art. This is because n.

iviwpiRw. nc mur cniioren, raut, jane, ment essential to a good tale, hit regara at. it asks too much of crediDiiiiy. Mark Vicarage as their own CMJBSS EXIPEMTS corner of London and are dismay- ICELAND which is the setting ed when their clergyman father is of Dr Boucher's exciting anJ sent to a new parish, Crestel New informative "The Path of the Raven." is well known to the Crestel, once a village, has ex- author. He served there in wat- panded rapidly and the Bishop, t'me taught there after the war, recognising the important work to and made many journeys be done in a new centre, chooses and from it.

the Rev. Ales Bell for the job. Iceland of (he eleventh cenlurj From this noint the theme i Ail. is the suhiect of this book. Haiti JJISHI and absorbing book which tells the story of a small hoy's life in India.

It is addressed mainly to older teenagers, but many adults will find it charmino. Details, of Indian life are deftly u- a At wu.wi iiiiu ine una ine country's social and religious con- nicts particularly those arising from partition are treated with sympatny ana unaerstanding. The small boy of the story. A drawing by O. G.

Valentin in "Rishi." fully developed. In their united son of a landowner, becomes in-1 tended to turn this patchwork into Mr Bentley, as a professional a coherent discourse. The ex- book illustrator, has something sig-tracts are too short for the book nificant to say on this subject, to have the virtues of an antho- With food we are back again logy, and Mr Bentley has not the with the obvious: an Arab feast skill which would be needed to from T. E. Lawrence, a Chinese preserve unity of thought.

The meal from some missionary's re-effect is quite aptly described by miniscences, Dickens again and so Mr Bentley himself in his introduc- on, ending with a fifteenth century tion as 'Uiterary hopscotch." recipe for "dighting a peacock." Though unexciting, this is pleas-'THE reader often feels that be ant, browsing, leisurely stuff; but could have produced some of the method fails almost completely these essays himself, given a few with any subject where one expects spare hours in a good library. discussion and argument Mr Bent-How, for example, would you ley's essays on politics and religion do a Bentley on A (of example, make one feel that, canter in. a stage-coach out of in Pi'e of the occasional dis-Dickens, of course, and Mark eoveries, this is a commonplace Twain on the Mississippi steam- bok in more senses than one. ana separate ways, the Bells make volved in a family feud oeweeii a splendid job of welding the his father, Thord Lamb, and I people of Crestel New Town inin Brand of Swinesmcad. The worll a happy and friendly community on the farmlands continues, bptl -muD the difficulties of the whole convl Fan won munity in the midst of this feus' I 1958 Grand Prix Salon de are described with feeling aMl Hmmtcn fraenkel, better, known as Assiac," Is the chess correspondent of the "New Staiesman and Nation" and has had unusual opportunities for meeting most of the world's famous chess personalities.

"The Delights of Chess" is principally a' collection of amusing sketches of famous chess players, illustrated by examples of their Play. For Australian enthusiasts who have no opportunity of meeting overseas chess personalities, these intimate notes will be of special interest. Chapters dealing with end-game studies, blunders and oniiiancics oy amateurs, give a chess student ample material for study. A more serious work, which deals with the mental processes of chess is "The- Chess of the book and 47 illustrative games in the second. The book contains much original thought and should be of help to all students who have passed the elementary stage.

The main interest in Bobby Fischer's book of his own games lies in the personality of the author. When a 16-year-old boy reaches nearly to the top of the chess ladder of fame the astonished world wants to know how he does it. Fischer's. 13 games from the U.S. championship are very interesting, but his annotations do not help their full appreciation.

The' remaining 20 games from the Portoroz Interzonal tournament are without notes. The reader is left with the im- nrcssion inai pcucr use tuuiu nave len md(. of he ma(eria and tna Bobby might have been wiser to leave his biography for, another to write. G. KOSHNUSKY.

THE DELIGHTS OF CHESS, by Assiac Mac-gibbon and Kee, London. 25s. THE CHESS MIND, by Gerald Abrahams. Penguin Books, 7s 6d. BOBBY FISCHER'S GAMES OF CHESS.

Museum Press, London. 18s 9d. Mind," by Gerald Abrahams, a well-known British chess master, The author analyses the mental approach of a player to various positions on the chess board. He expalns tne underlying reasons for bV reats and shows Ihe waV of "a1 move' and formulating correct plan's in situations of widest variety. There are 248 examples in the first part I bntance award.

The author is understanding. Paul-Jacques Bonzon, whose "The The differences between thott Orphans of Simitra" was so sue- who believe in revepge and thoul cessful. I who want the rule of law to pi I In spite of ginning a prize vail is skilfully illustrated througa however, this is a disappointing the personalities of the familiej story because the two jnain char-, involved. acters, 13-year-old Pablo, an or The maps and Ihe illustration) phan who sells lemonade in Sev- are far more distinguished Iha ille, and a beautiful girl the 'small type chosen foi th" boats, men perhaps a couple pages from one of those pcopie who sail round the world alone in dinghies recording every wave, followed, by way of contrast, with something cosy and suburban. Better look up Betjeman and see If he' has poem on London tram-ride, fJUe has.) -iu inns, are unreal.

book The story is a teevje romance KATHLEEN M. COMM1NS. I.