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6d. WILLIAM HEINEMANN 2 new novels Anthony West ON A DARK NIGHT "1 want to go over the whole thing again for it to full not only of lovely writing, but or stuff that provokes thought. You don't get the whole of it at a single reading." HOWARD SPRINC "Country Life" Recommended by the Book Society. net Robert Kee THE IMPOSSIBLE SHORE The impossible Shore' shows Robert Wee to be fully eciuiporil and, what is even rarer, to have a precise knowledge of his own Intentions. L.

A. C. STRONG 252 pages Recommended by the Book Society. Eyre Spottiswoode published FOR VALOUR KENNETH HARE-SCOTT Contains life stories of fourteen men of Great Britain and the British Commonwealth who won the Victoria Cross in the '939-45 War. It is illustrated with action photographs and artists' impressions.

Ten Shillings and Sixpence A GLIMPSE OF MADEIRA CECIL H. MILES A fascinating account of an enchanting island with 62 full page illustrations, colour frontispiece and printed Fifteen Shillings Peter MARGARET MADDOCKS Remembered Spring In Jean Fordwick many a wife may catch a glimpse of the magic of her own remembered spring. By the author of The Quiet House" (10th Ready To-morrow HURST LACK ETT WESTERN sum; le SOWN WALES NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER li, 1049 THE NEW NOVELS FAMILIES AND FANTASIES By DR. KATHLEEN FREEMAN Twilight on the Floods," by Marguerite Steen. Collins; 12s.

6d. "The Old Bank House," by Angela Thirkell. Hamilton; 12s. 6d. "On a Dark by Anthony West.

Eyre and Spottiswoode 10s. 6d. "Son of the Morning," by Gilbert Frankatt. MacDonald; 12s. 6d.

"The Shadow and the Peak." by Richard Mason. Hodder and Stoughton; Ws. tid. "rIOWILIGHT ON THE FLOODS" will delight those who like a long interesting richly-wrought story of family fortunes The Floods of Bristol derive their wealth from tl.e West African trade. they have used it to establish themselves in the business world and in society.

In the last decade of the 19th century young Johnny Flood who has a tenderer conscience than his relatives is shocked to discover the source of their prosperity and the continued exploitation of black man by white: he devotes his energies to the correction of this wrong. The story moves from Bristol to the Gold Coast, from the country to London. telling of love-affairs, business disputes, native customs and finally war; all are brilliantly and excitingly described. mous experiences, which consist mainly in a recapitulation of his affairs with women. Finally he realises the nature of his failure.

which lies in his egoism and nihilistic creed: "Give us this day our instant of bliss and an eternity of oblivion. The book is a restatement of an old theme in modern terms. Its tone and purpose are intensely serious: but its obsession with sex vitiates it as contribution to the problem of human destiny. "SON OF THE MORNING" also is a fantasy. though even at its most fantastic it often comes uncomfortably near reality.

Of the five Mondragon brothers four are idealists Ferdinand, the eldest. sacrifices his inheritance to become a Jesuit priest: John. who loves soldiering, gives it up for love 01 his wife; Lewis devotes himself to the care of the insane; Warren is drawn towards India. But the youngest. Nicholas, is different.

Who and what is he? As the story Gilbert Frankau is a masterly identity and purposes of Nicholas become clear. For the first two-thirds of this novel one is held fascinated; what a pity that the last third degenerates into a political diatribe! Still, this is a book very hard to put down. Admirers of Angela Thirkell's chronicles of neo-Barsetshire will enjoy the latest example. "THE OLD BANK HOUSE." Miss Sowerby, unable to maintain the 18th century house which has always belonged to her family, sells it to Sam Adams, a self-made man who proves to have proper respect for the beautiful. This is the central theme: subsidiary plots concern the Grantly family and their numerous connections.

Gentle humour. snobbery, and regret for the passing of the old regime are punctuated by a few sharp lunges at the new, especially State Interference and "the grinding depression of the peace." It is all very pleasant and but one is occasionally reminded of John Betjeman's Lady in Westminster Abbey who prayed: "So, Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down." The setting of "THE SHADOW AND THE PEAK' is odd and interesting: the characters and events less so. Douglas. an ineffectual young man hankering after his ex-wife, becomes a teacher in a Jamaican coeducational school run on "advanced" lines by an equally ineffectual headmaster and his oversexed wife. The other n.c•mbe~s of the staff seem no less unsuitable, so that it is not surprising that they fail to reform Silvia.

an extremely difficult child of twelve. Tragedy follows. We leave Douglas in the company of a young woman who has assured without rotten." This is no High Wind in Jamaica: and although plenty of rum flows, the result is small beer. "ON A DARK NIGHT" is an eschatological fantasy. John Wallis.

a British lawyer, shoots himself because of the part he has taken in the hanging of a German condemned as a war-criminal. His victim is the first to greet him on the other side, and accompanies him throughout his posthu- OCTOBER MORNING THIN mist on the hills, A full apple tree, A clammy wind, And the irony Of a man whose blood Would flow apart From the parent earth's Slow-beating heart. His thoughts too swift Blood's hurrying beat Outstrips the pace 01 hands and feet. DAVID BATEMAN Released by the Russians Better The evil we know than the evil we know not of. It is ironical to think that there were many Allied prisoners of war who must have longed for the comparative security of confinement during the weeks that followed their release by Russian troops.

Robert Kee tells the story of one such English prisoner (surely from personal experience in THE IMPOSSIBLE SHORE" (Eyre and Spottiswoode 9s. He tells it well, too, conveying mood and scene to the reader in unemotional language and with deceptive ease. Yesterday these men were under German military control: but now, with startling suddenness, the roles are reversed and the find themselves monarchs of all they survey. All. that is.

save the Russian soldiers swarming through the neighbourhood, their actions as barbaric and ruthless as their appearance. There is not much to the "human triangle story with which Mr. Kee has eked out his book, but the whole is an impressive and valuable addition to our post-war literature. Holiday at the Seaside Bright Interlude," by H. L.

Gee. Epworth Preu; This imaginary tale of a holiday at the seaside meanders in a pleasing way. Time and again it comes almost to a dead end and then starts off on a new track. The brief sketches of such people as Mrs. Salem and Miss Lavinia are drawn with a kindly hand.

Everything terns out happily in this best of all worlds. Through the Eyes of Their Wives," by W. J. May. Epworrh Press; ss.

The story of these many wives of a past age is imaginary. These wives are all tender, endearing. loving, trustful and sometimes clinging. Why all this makebelieve'. Some of the tales are.

I admit, sensitively drawn, but the impression left is that Mr. May. in order to infuse a romantic element. comes at times dangerously near the pseudo-romance of the Occasionally he strikes a true note. Our women's meetings need something far more close to the sober facts of everyday life.

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He was a true Franciscan in spirit. His labours apostolic. crowded with adventure: all his rich and varied gifts fused by, and subdued to one ministry of the Lord Jesus. E.M. Traveller's Tales By GORONWY J.

JONES "Summer in Italy," by Sean O'Faolain. Eyre and Spottiswoode; 12s. tid. THESE personal impressions of .1. a journey through Lombardy and Tuscany down to Rome make delightful reading.

Although Mr. O'Faolain explains on more than one occasion that he is the casual traveller with more to remember of fleeting, inconsequential experiences too personal to record, there is no doubt that what he has given us is a shrewd and penetrating observation of the Italian scene. Whether reflecting on Mazzini. comparing Dante and Joyce. or discussing such widely divergent topics as Art and the Populace" and "Florentine Humour," the author always has something attractive to say.

His comments on Italian towns and cities are full of originality: Turin is dusty with past tense, and this has great charm If you want to see pullulating like an antheap go to Genoa." and Rome is too rich. Everything is a grain of history, an" every grain a mustard-tree. and every name a lifetime's study." Above all. the traveller has succeeded in conveying to the reader the passionate intensity of the Italian people and their teal joy of living The Meuse," by Bernard Newman. Herbert Jenkins; 15s.

To accompany Bernard Newman along the course of the Meuse is also an interesting experience. Beginning at the liver's source in Lorraine, we are taken through the Argonne area. along the picturesque valleys of the Ardennes, and then over the Dutch plain to meet the Rhine near Rotterdam. As the author points out. the book might have been called "The Bloody River," for the Meuse has been the scene of destruction and massacre, but he preferred the French description.

for all its reproachful suggestion." Those readers who readily thrill to history will find this travel book both engrossing and attractive. Lorraine, of course. is the Joan of Arc country. Newman tries to assess very briefly her significance in history. She stands out as a pioneer of nationalism, but perhaps the author is right when he asserts that but for the Maid to-day the greater part of Europe might have been one kingdom speaking an Anglicised French tongue." Newman's account of his travels is coloured throughout by his deep interest in people.

Whether they be simple, peasant folk, soldiers or schoolmasters, archwologists cr civic heads, the writer finds little difficulty in enlisting their aid or helping them to open their hearts. He certainly knows the art of conversation. There is also much pathos in his writing: especially when he recalls the legacies of war. BOOKS RECEIVED NOVELS 'The Barefoot Mailman," by Theodore Pratt. Cassell; Bs.

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6d. MR. ADAMS has written a very readable book largely so, it must be confessed. because it is so full of quotations. He has diligently consulted all available memoir s.

biographies, and periodicals in search of material. He attempts to present a picture of the first quinquennium of the present century the political history of Great Britain from the death of Queen Victoria to the Liberal victory at the polls in 1906. Reviewed by Sir Frederick Rees Britain's relative decline as a Great Power. She could no longer safely pursue a policy of splendid isolation Where were allies to be found" What were the dangers confronting her Her interests in India and the Far East would indicate Russia as a potential menace. Commercial considerations would point to Germany and the United States as formidable rivals.

The Fashoda incident suggested that Colonial ambitions might renew the old contest with France. To contemporaries the position seemed fluid. Looking back across the intervening years we find it hard to appreciate that tact. After all. we know the sequel.

The first ally we secured was Japan tan alliance obviously sought as a counter to Russian ambitions in China). In February. 1904. Japan attacked Russia without declaring war and was commended by "The Times for putting her navy in motion with promptness and courage that extorted the admiration of the world." She repeated that performance later at Pearl Harbour Complicated Russia was an ally of France, which further complicated the situation. There was a body of opinion which advocated an understanding with Germany.

For a time Joseph Chamberlain pursued this policy and made several attempts to bring it to fruition Mr Adams caustically remarks that Chamberlain's attempts at master-strokes of foreign policy were doomed to failure because they were rooted rather in his own temperament than in the facts of the situation." We may feel disposed to murmur, like father, like son." Alliance with Germany, Mr Adams insists. would have meant estrangem nt from the United States. This. he argues. would have been a capital blunder because American competition.

though keen, was not spread over such a wide extent of the world No. 103 Sketcher by Geoffrey Eenttr. by Beryl M. Jotter. or such a variety of commodities as that of Gel many.

Apart from that, we were dependent on America for food supplies, oil. tobacco. In the end, by stages which Mr. Adams would call intuitive. or perhaps subconscious.

Great Britain threw in her lot with France (and Russia) and settled her outstanding difficulties with the United States over the questions of the Panama Isthmus and the Alaska boundary. While Mr. Adams. in a short chapter on Historical Causation. puts forward his view that the most honest man may be unconscious of his motives.

he is quite clear in his own mind that the international financiers knew what they were about perfectly well. Financial power exercised a potent influence on politics through the social contacts between the Cassels, Rothschilds. Revelstokes, and the leading politicians. The Boer War. ought ostensibly because Kruger relused to grant full political rights to the Uitlanders, revealed the power of finance.

When the war was over, and the way seemed open for the settlement of white immigrant labour on the Rand. an attempt was made to exclude it because it might bring labour troubles and exercise its voting power against the mineowners. Mr. Adams snows that 7 argument that cheap labour was rweessary in order tc make Kaffir shares remunerative. led to employment of Chinese inthmhired labour.

Still more interesting is his contention that "imperialism" made a general appeal because the s'antlaid of life at home depended on the yield of investments abroad Anything that that standard would promote socialist It will be gathered that a survey of the first rive years of the century in the light of all that has happene.l since is provocative of thought and indeed of controversy. Confusing Those of an older generation will find what he says interesting because it will events which may be getting somewhat dim in theil memory. Younger readers probably feel that the world described, though recent in time, is extraordinarily remote the cinema a curiosity: the wireless unknown the motor-car a monopoly of the rich. and social services. as we now know them, practically nonexistent.

One of the weaknesses of the book is that the arrangement is episodic rather than chronological. So it is apt to be confusing the reader is constantly carried back to events that had occurred before those which are at the moment under discussion. Sometimes there is actual repitition, all of which goes to show that the planning of the book has been defective. Mr. Adams devotes much attention to foreign policy, a field in which he is at considerable disadvantage, because official documentary material.

both British and foreign. is often not available. and, in fact, where it is available it has not always been consulted. His main thesis is that the Boer War. in its inception and conduct, greatly lowered British prestige in the eyes of the world.

and revealed Great ADVENTURES OF TWM SHON. CATTI The least, was dons: they sat at His triple ha he maw so well, When Twm was called to rise and As midnight o'er the Grange did sass; He soon held all beneath his spell. sing, steal. A harpivt came, the guests to please. His deep voice made the rafters ring.

Twm started up a gay Welsh reel. .1 no, iarr Readers' Views A WELSH PARLIAMENT with any affection for Wales will rejoice to hear that yet another political party. the Conservatives, has devoted some of its time at its annual conference to the subject of a Parliament for Wales. The unexpected pronouncement from the an Englishman ironically the Welsh Conservatives unawares, and must have made them blush to hear an Englishman steal their thunder. Even so.

it is good to see that all the English political parties-- with one beginning to realise that Wales is in need of a parliament. As the Hon. John Grigg. the Tory proposer. stated "This would in no way weaken the United Kingdom." Therefore it is appropriate to ask if the politicians of Wales amateur and professional.

are now ready to meet to discuss the proposed parliament. If so. is it not possible to arrange a conference at probable seat of a Welsh would be representative of all political parties in Wales. with a view to determining its constitution. J.

F. Williams-Wynne says we must get there by stages. Surely it is not such a great step after all, especially when we consider the number of nations which have won their freedom in recent years This is an opportunity for all those interested in the future of Wales, irrespective of party, lan- Iguage or nationality to provide for the many needs of one of the oldest nations of Europe, and the highest taxed small nation In the whole world. It is beyond understanding that the Socialist party, which is so indebted to South Wales. should alone refube to move along these lines.

11 it hoping too much that the Welsh Socialists. led perhaps by Mr. Huw T. Edwards, could join with us in a union of this nature. so that all the political parties might claim to have contributed to the creation of a Welsh Parliament? Aberdare quickly overflows its book opiti to periods.

It seems obvious th kt name of the river from TA! not Taft and Cardiff are delved E. JONES Rector of Teachers' Sal ar i es recent ppositi om Swansea Education Committee increases in teachers' salaries sorry reading. If I unde economic law of limly demand" these responsible istrators have reduced the ohs the teaching profession to the errand boy in I that Is Mr. Shall unaware shortage of science tQ aciso grammar schools yearly more acute? Does he ay teathers grow mere atkl reluctant to advise Intelligent children to enter the tecause of the salary ridiculously out of proportt ott to native ability. acquired ougdZ' tions and bodily strain? Where.

then. is the money found? By the um to roi stoping all squandermania ip hi building and eqpping of schools. Leave thuui prsblem r' to more affluent future. Nu capable men and WOrben attracted to the no proftio reasonable salaries we portion to these of fessions. Is it a forgott en ox education that a good es a teach in a barn, a Led teach nowhere? oR ego I Graig.

Pontypridd. utis Moves For Church ea o4 was gratilye to re Dr. Fisher and Dr Jona se, id i Lidgett were in harmonious thouge and intention on the poetise reunion of the Churches I have thought for some pat God was driving us togethe economics. The costs of mairitsisw4 our churches and dery are i tinually rising, and the worth st revenue (landed gentry ad gregationsi are Whisker diminishing Why wait tong len September to report Progrose Ost affairs are in a precarious gm; the day is far spent: so aster. crastinate? JANE Abertillery.

Locked Church Doom quite agree with the vin, expressed by "Humble Christi Llanybyther. It may intern readers to know that during et Middle Ages churches were km open not only for the eonveltiera of persons for Quiet ht also as a safe refuge for felon, a no person could be arrested tiQidri church. I believe that this apples even to this day. E. LLOYD HUGHM.

Carmarthen Sunshine Home' Plemel for Blind Babies The National Institute for tk Blind are making Plans to WWI sunshine home for blind take in Wales and there a every pow bility that it will be established Tenby. This was announced to a puked house at Tcnby's Little Theatre Mr. Bryn Weig entertainer, after a performance Gay Time." his variety glow which won the MI Wales 190 Championship. staged in aid dd institute. Welsh Spelling was reported in a recent issue of your journal that a member of the Cardiff School Management Committee described the suggestion of the Ministry of Education to amend the spelling ni Llandaff as "outrageous." I deem far more outraii.ttuus to persist consciously in the erroneous spelling when it might 132 rectifitd by the me.e clipping of the fina! and redundant would naturally expect that those specially concerned with education would take delight in the accuracy of the spelling of placenames.

Why is it that the customary spelling of Llandaff or Cardiff has assumt a its present form venture to suggest that it Is eue to the fact that the name Cwm-Taf- Fawr became Anglicised, in which process the of the word lawr was to the second component of this placename, and with the dropping of the final part it was pronounced Cwmtaff instead of CwmtLf. is not therefore reasonable to assume that the original forms of Cardiff and Llandaff were Llan-ardal and Caer-ar-daf, meaning the Church on the Tat and the Fort on the Tit Some old Welsh diction- aries give the root meaning of the word Tat as "spreading." and this is quite descriptive of the River Tfif in its upper reaches where, on account of its shallowness. 11 Pp 1 114 0 044.0. 40.0.,„;;*..... fidenor in the quality pmdilets advert 17,429 'verge weekly art a The Listener and the wherewithal to I llit fat Jammer, Jeer 1141 their wishes.

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