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I THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1954. 7 STAKHANOVAS The Evolution' of an Hitsect Society a Wragge Morley. (George Allen and Unwin. 18. By HAROLD 'NICOLSON VER since the distant days when F.used to read the works Jean-Heari Fabre I have been interested in insect behaviour.

Not being an entomologist either nature or training, I forget most of what I have read. This is a great advantage. It enables me to return again and again to the same subject with surprise: it is as if I invariably forgot the solution of my favourite detective story. 1 thus enjoyed Mr. Morley's THE EVOLUTION OF AN INSECT SOCIETY with the delighted acquiescence with which we welcome fresh information.

am too inexpert to say how far Mr. Morley's investigations into a community of wood ants.in Surrey provide scientists with undiscovered facts: all I can say is that for the ordinary reader his book provides a connected story, careful psychological, observation; and strange kindred images to which we readily adjust jour minds. Professional entomologists are irritated' when people write about insects in anthropomorphic Thus when Mr. Morley attributes to as pugnacity," alarm." or his wood ants such human emotions cowardice," we may feel that he is using man-made terms to describe sensations which may not be analogous. Is it legitimate to say that a wood ant possesses a marked ability to or that he can remember shapes by their smell? think it is.

FOR twenty years has Mr. Morley kept this particular community of ants under observation. He has come to the conclusion that they possess mob minds, readily stimulated by demagogues. It is true that their lack of any language renders it difficult for them to convey or to remember instructions. 'It IS true that, if sundered from their fellows: they mope as sadly as any G.I.

in exile. They are dependent on their writes Mr. Morley, not only for food, shelter and but also for the maintenance of the nervous tension which is necessary for the maintenance their social life." An ant who loses her way, or is in some way isolated from her own nest, becomes 60 home-sick that she will food, enter into. a condition of nervous depression, and within a few days roll on her side, twitch and die." On the other hand ants have not yet invented weapons of destruction larger than their own bodies can grow, or more powerful than would be good for the species. Their aim is not mutual destruction but group survival.

Although they often indulge in raids into hostile territory, ot even in civil wars, they are not naturally bellicose. worker's Life-time of seven to eight years," Mr. Morley informs us, "may well be its entirety: with little more than a skirmish to break the Yet the mortality among them, which may be due to. frustrated love or nervous depression, is excessive. Mr.

Morley calculates that one-third of the population die every year, representing some 500 deaths a day. A large proportion of their labour force is absorbed by the task, of dragging these corpses out of the nest and throwing them on the.communal midden outside. The wood ants, so Mr. Morley assures have been able to evolve and prosper owing to the develop: ment of two main aptitudes. The first is their gift of building with a roof sufficiently waterproof to protect, their queens and broods from the rigours of a damp climate: The second is the evolution of their gizzards in such a manner as enable the foragers to squirt in.

liquid form the which they have digested into the mouths of their weaker sisters. THE connected nest of a colonies, wood ant, constitutes with its a communal society, in the sense that cach works for the benefit of others and on a pattern which is instinctive rather than learnt or remembered. On the other hand, Mr. Morley tells us, there docs exist scope and need for individual invention, even (believe it or not) for thoughtful leadership." This leadership is provided by what he calls the excite-' ment-centre ants who represent both, the nervous force and the group memory of the whole commune. These gifted if neurotic individuals start work at sunrise when their sisters are still dozing; they animate the whole nest by their affection for labour, the pleasure they throw into it, and the taut delight apparent- in their every movement.

It is these excitement-centre ants, with their jumpiness and powers of uplift, who give to every nest the stimulus of the unexpected and a delicate variation in routine. a community of half a. million ants the "excitement-centres," the local Stakhanovas, can immediately be recognised, not by any physical differences, but the fact that they 'are more noticeably' active." Mr. Morley suggests that it may be that the nerve cells of these eccentrics are so intricately developed that they can communicate excitement to their If the Stakhanovas are removed, then the activity of the whole nest declines. 'These women are the leaders: they feel, they remember, they learn, and they believe.

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Miss Elspeth Huxley in A Thing to Love (Chatto and Windus, 12s. 6d.) has Mau Mau for her problem. The white settlers love our Kenya, build roads, hospitals, buy farms and animals. The black people also love our Kenya, some wish the whites to blazes, but the old chieftain likes them because he likes law and order. Soon the Mau Mau begin slicing the living animals, torturing and murdering and enforcing the fearful oath eating ceremony.

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FORSTER I not kept or up even with this year's with the reviews of them, and one prevalent of book namely, the memoirs of eminent persons released by. themselves- find difficult So I recommend out of inadequacy A novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (Faber). Schoolboys air on a coral island. Begins Ballantyne yarn, but ends. grimly otherwise.

Beautifully written, tragic and provocative of thought for grown-ups. Soldiers Bathing, by F. T. Prince (Fortune Press). Often inspired: by Michelangelo.

Title-poem relates to OnC of his cartoons. Monologue by him in old age. Noble, compassionate, and again beautifully written. Art Book. The: Art of India, 'by Stella Kramrisch "(Phaidon Press).

Best book on the: subject. Those who look and those who learn both catered for; Nearly two hundred fine illustrations and; an erudite introduction. HUGH CASSON' I AM have read ashamed fewer to than confess that of I a score (books this year, and most of these by chance rather than by choice. (How different' perhaps- or haps be a list of- -the three books one would have liked to have read in Blographical Dictionary of Entlish Architects, 1660-1840, by Colvin (Murray). I doubt if even Dr.

Pevsner' has read right through this magnificent. but there must be many! like myself 'who have enjoyed: Dipper's- Delight." The Lying Days, by Nadine Gordimer (Gollancz). Certainly the best of the three novels I have read this year, though it is difficult toknow how much of one's enjoy-; of any book is increased by the fact. that one has recently visited. the country (in this" case South Africa) in which the story is set.

A. Few. Late Chrysanthemums, Jobn Betjeman's new: collection of poems (Murray). Critics bave dismissed these as below full strength. but I enjoyed them all and there are at least two in the collection which are surely among the best he has ever, written.

JOHN GIELGUD. THE three most interesting books I have read this year are as follows The First Night of Twelfth Night, by Leslie Hotson (HartDavis). This has the fascination of a detective story combined with a striking reconstruction of Shakespeare's England, A Stranger to-, -Myself, by, Shubin (Benn). A breathtaking murder story found impossible to put down until. I had -finished it.

The Wilder Shores of Love, by Lesley Blanch The best kind of biograpby cum travel book I have read for a long time. MICHAEL TIPPETT FOR have read circumstantial less this reasons I last year and the choice of the more interesting books has often' been accidental and involuntary. A voluntary choice was Richard Elimann's The Identity (of Yeats (Macmillan), because this has a wealth of fascinating material' on Yeats's. poetic method and prints for the first time some lovely if unfinished verses. Any reader who is already moved, as am, by the often vehement music of Yeats's poetry will find that he can render that music better after reading this book.

An involuntary choice was a book with the terrifying title of The Paychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing, 'by Anton Ebrenzweig (Routledge). It 3 asks the question what, when we are. perceiving and enjoying form and order in art, do we in fact perceive and enjoy. Or. to turn in the circle further, what do we think' we and enjoy (or reject).

found in this remarkable book. that. once past' the title "and' the jargon it 'can open windows upon a wide new land. Of -literature as. a work of art choice must- be Christopher: Fry's The Dark is (Oxford): Less and more.

than the performance, added to a performance, the book of the play is the most, the best, the author has, given us. JEAN COCTEAU HAVE read three books this year with much more than my, eyes alone: L'Atantide. les' Giants, by Denis Saurat; La Couleur du Clel, by H. P. Lovecraft, translated by Jacques and Locars for les coupes by Michel.

L'Atlantide speaks of: the origins of man; of the mythology of giants, and the theories of Hoerbiger 'concerning the collisions successive' moons" with the Lovecraft, who is American, invents a terrifying world of spacetime; his somewhat loose style has gained by translation. into French. Aime Michel not only records the more serious testimonies of those who claim to have, observed machines of unknown origin, but adds a study 'of his own on the theory' chance which I find of outstanding interest. If I might add a' fourth book to my list, would mention Robert Amadou's La Parapsychologie. STEPHEN SPENDER THE diately books whose to names imme- the occur me are third volume of Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades (Cambridge University Press), Arthur The Invisible Writing Hamilton and Collins), and' Frances Cornford's Collected Poems (Cresset Steven Runciman's great book should perhaps 'teach.

us to cautious about invoking the Crusades and the crusading spirit. second volume Koestler's biography- greatly superior to the the best of all the ex Communist autobiographies. 'Frances Cornford's poems are quiet' and honest and put a lifetime of poetry- into perspective. Two other books which resume themes of literature in this country are: The': Letters of W. B.

Yeats (Hart-Davis) the very revealing. Literary: Essays of Ezra Pound (Faber). ALAN PRYCE-JONES AMONG the enjoyed novels nothing of 1954 better I than Elizabeth 1- Jenkins's The. Tortolse and the Hare (Gollancz). It was -beautifully exact, and it 'dealt with the kind of problem which novelists generally, overlook: incompatibility it affects.

a settled marriage. My book of temporary poetry would be. Roy Fuller's Counterparts (Verschoyle), 8 dry," Frim, witty, fanciful little book which seems to. me. to catch the, spirit of the times more accurately than' more pretentious volumes.

And finally I should like to a word in praise of The Privileged (WeidenfeldNicolson), -by Giles Romilly and Alexander- one 'of 3 the very best war books I have come across. ARNOLD TOYNBEE THE three 'books which have impressed me most this year are Rendall of Winchester, J. D'E. Firtb' University Press). A biography that is candid and searching without being depreciatory or supercilious, Canon Firth has set a model for other He has left them no.

excuse for pretending that debunking" is the alternative to whitewashing." A History of the Crusades, Vol. III, by Steven Ruhciman (Cambridge University Press). This volume completes fine piece of historical work on the grand scale. Twolof the author's many quali'fications are his inside knowledge of the story from all three points of view (the Muslim, the Byzantine, the Frankish) and the breadth of his 'horizon especially in this last volume, in which intervention of, the Mongols. extends the field of the World's debate eastwards to the Great Wall of China and beyond: Ho: sees that, the Crusades were 8 tragedy.

and that the Eastern Christians were the victims: Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. Sections 1-7, by Joseph Needbam (Cambridge University Press). This is the exciting first instalment of: a. comprehensive work, planned to. run to seven volumes.

The author has set himself- interpret the Chinese mind in Western terms, and he is perhaps- unique among living scholars in the necessary combination of qualifications for this formidable. understanding, The practical importance of Dr. Needham's work 'is as great as its intellectual interest. It is a Western act of recognition on a higher plane than the diplomatic one. ANGUS WILSON OUT novels of I the have large read number of year Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Audie.

March (Weidenfeld 'and alone is considerable. It. has individuality. of language -and construction without being conventionally. it range and depth of social content without being selfconsciously epic." The Novels of, the Eighteen Fortes, by Kathleen Tillotson (Oxford University Press), is an important book of criticism.

Mrs. Tillotson is. quite unusual among modern literary critics: she is serious without falling into turgid metaphysics, and entertaining without falling into vapid belle-lettrism. My. third 1 choice is Essex, by Nikolaus Pevsner (Penguin).

Dr. Pevsner must make everyone disagree with him sometimes, but this is only because he encompasses so many aspects of England's architecture. His guide to Essex, my second favourite of England's counties, has given me more pleasure than any other book this year. A. J.

AYER MY John first Stuart choice Mill, is The by Life Michael of St. John Packe (Secker and Warburg), my enjoyment of which depended partly on my own admiration for Mill and. interest in his work. Mr. Packe is a little weak Mill's philosophy, but he has given an excellent portrait of the man and of the society in which he moved.

Dylan Thomas's Quite Early One Morning (Dent), a collection broadcast talks," is clearly, less important work than Under Milk. Wood," but it gave me more pleasure to read. My third choice is The Invisible Writing (Hamish and Collins), the second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography, which I thought as good as anything that has yet written, with the possible exception of Dark.ness at Among other books which I enjoyed or admired were Philip Magnus's Life of Gladstone (Murray), Philip Toynbee's Friends Apart (MacGibbon and Kee), and the first volume of Joseph Needham's Sclence and Civilisation in China (Cambridge), the prolegomenon to what is evidently going to be a major work of scholarship. story written by my son. A Merry Christmas to you all hands across the sea, God save the Queen, 10, Downingstreet, and all that sort of thing.

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