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RY COMPETITION FIOOKS OF THE DAY A Life of Kafka and the Story of Ml5 By HAROLD NT COLSON Franz Kafka By Max Brod (Seeker and Warburg 12s fid) They Came to Spy By Stanley Firmin (Hutchinson Ifis) Science Liberty and Pence By Aldoila Huxley HattoA "mdus 3s fid) FRANZ three books and tty Wall of have all been published in English translations They are difficult to read difficult to understand but impossible to ignore Upon many young writers in England and America they continue to exercise a deep influence I do noj enjoy them myself since I am too impatient to appreciate allegories but I recognise that they possess a literary importance which may have been exaggerated but which assuredly exists Of Kafka himself we knew little We had been told that he was a German Jew born and educated in Prague we learnt that he had Author of Home from Sea (Hull ihous) BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION GODFREY story of very gallant ship The reader who Is not moved thrilled heart-shaken and enthralled by this book will I think be a very strange sort of Tlie Editor of The Navy Heady Thursday 126 (tAKDKNINCi POtLTRV Ac ARDEN COLLECTION 10 Gd Ifi xed i moi I 1 ntxrd 20 Mntbrtlia mixed 20 Hanuiu iu mixed cooui 0 Pah a Tub sne udma le- andCa-ius 00 A (mm ime Seed- Th ti a'l separately packed and labei-d I 20 Half Collection 10 Plant Collection Scab -a (Bluet ther Read -doubl whitei Pyrethrum ipink and rd Trolllua nr-augfi -sell Lupin innxedi 30 Plant aep-aratrl' packed and fa be led 20 Half Collection 1 Csli a lh oid- Carr Paid EXPRBHS BULB (5) (T WUhbech K'amba LAPIOLI fin Dui bulb wi prv'duce hand np ptkea boom thL summer Oder -d hice named mi el 20 of ea 100 corm separate labelled for 40 hvlf cllectl4i 21 or dug Choice mixed vi 10(i EXHIBITION CHRYBAN THEMUMS ear fl-aering varteue out-d punting sturdy ae i-rtted pant in the b- 't var ete 12 fine plants 2 each colour --a old roae bronse white pnk iabefd mieaed and packed 111 M- is npte tu cultural instruct: fr 12 ta- )iect ei -r 20 -A carnaa 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popular family cake to-day Even with present food shortages It can be distinctive In flavour and taste comparatively rich It was this type of cake that thousands of readers had in mind In submitting recipes In The Daily Teleohaph Woman's Department Family Cake competition The fact that some dried fruit Is difficult U) got at the moment was emphasised by competitors In selecting the first prize-winning cake recipe various pes were considered bv the udgt the popular boiled rake which keeps well the fat less cake and the eggless vinegar cake The first prize a patterned gold-rimmed tea iS-irat service goes to $: Mrs Brockle-bank 22 Lans-! don n-place Cheltenham who evolved her recipe for a Favourite Family Cake" after much expert ment with reduced tat content Her see ret is the addi WIND IN THE SAHARA BODLEY An amazinq account of seven years among the Arabs lvmo as one of them n( THE CULT OF THE SUPERMAN ERIC BENTLEY The author surveys the person alities of Carlyle Isietzshe Wagner Shaw Lawrence and others in tins trenchant and witty analysis of tne pre sent vorld epidemic of hero-worship mug '2s ne( STRIA ROBIN FEDDEN A second edition of this -portant book will be ready May 15 th Ulus 21 -net LEGAL NOTICES IN th HiOH COURT JUSTICE No 00205 -f 1947 ChTX-ft lv ri I JKNK MATTER of MIIVLAM TR APING COMPANY i IN THE MATTKK THE COMPANIES ACT 19-J'J PETITION ihr W1NP INo lTP of the f-i itiiWM i input: b' th 1 luj the tin' of M' 194 presented to the jiid Curt Artub Exp and that the tia petit directed to be heard brtote the i urt ttirg at the al of Justice Strand iul the 19th da of May 194 7 and any creditor or oontributory of mpan desirous to or to pte the making of an order on the may appear at the time of nearng npe or i owny I for pur- foae and a p' of the a petition will br uni shed to any creditor jr contributory of the said Cunpa: tequirng the am b' the undersigned hi payment of the regulated charge for the sanv SH OO Brixto NMd Brtxton 8 9 So icitora for thr pett- tioner Note Aw he' ho intend to appear on the hearing of the said petition must serye on or vd bv t' the ve-named to: ti 4 of 4fv5 Hr xt Road Br xtoti 9 8 ton thr Petitioner notice in writing of hu intention so do The notice must state the name and address of the person 4 and addreaa of the- flim sod muat vgned br the prrsm or firm or oe the-r aoluntor rf an' and must serrtd or 1 P'wteo must be sent b' post in sufTV lent time to reach -he Above-named atrr than 1 94 afternoon 4 the lth day of May I the corn is kmkh OENCY POWERS ACT i1945 Mr A Ttlford-Rarnes a of Bam cvve Nalsaorth os Car abrooii 15 Mot and Rvad Cvdv-n Tse ce 1 APPLICATION a be MADE to the ClFKKfiNWEU COUNTY COURT To can T- rare THUKS-PAY 22nd Mav p47 he of 1 wt forenooi it i AW CERTAIN GOODS rd ne Bang rear lrf 1 No -n Esters ad If 1 1- 1 whe an Order ah mad sh ar the me and pace aforesa lr default of to a endanc an Orde: may be made in your a bee nee Dated the jo day Ap 194' BU LORA IO DAVIS A t- ex sr folk Street Srard 2 Sa cltora fr Ba: of Kr VIVIAN VINCENT PASS Deceased late of a- re and 1 flm P- twhOeoar Wo Sepi-at Onnpany at A Crown Yard Sta pe St ewC Hamp-t ead Rvwul lr don who ed wenty-rhih da' of Pebruan Ore th' a hundred and to e'en NOTICE IS HER I OIVEN that Credit-r and nhe- per' having claims against the Extate of the abve Lyeaed should give rPHIS the rake made from the prize-winning recipe A little sugar scattered on top gives a delicious crunchy" crust which should be pale golden broten when cooking is finished Method Of Making And Bakin 12oz flour 2 oRKs M-constitutMl or fresh 3oz fat 1 tacupful evaporated milk undiluted' Jib dried fruit 2oz chopped dates home-made candied oraiiRe peel if available 4o? suRar 2 level tablespooni uls syrup 1 teaspoon- tion of undiluted evaporated milk Thus cake is quickly made iKMKHl I MTEI) WTIONS Literary Competition Selet lion DEMOCRACY ANO CIVILIZATION hy GERAINT VAUGHAN JONES A study of contemporary problems in politics and civilization from the standpoint of a Christian philosophy of history Ready Thursday 21- HUTCHINSON Co Publishers Ltd Largest of Book Publishers Bv A penis and Witnesses Newby (Cape 9s) Sainte-Colline (abriel Cheval-lier (Seeker and Warburg 10s fid) Future Imperfect By Bridget Chetwynd (Hutchinson 9s fid) The Hull CnlreM By Naomi Mitchi- Hon (Cape 15h) MR NEWBY made something of a hit with A Journey to the His new novel Agents and Witnesses describes an island in the Mediterranean The characters are no less ramshackle in their goings-on than in the earlier book but more tinged with the out- YANKEE STRANGER New Novel by ELSWYTH THANE (Author ot The Tudor Wench "etc A long vivid novel of action and romance notice thr rev' wr ting to the undersigned utMwmcn ROBERT HALE LTD NTHONY POWELL died of tuberculosis in 1919 when some 36 years of age Of Kafka man we knew nothing at all Messrs Seeker and Warburg who have done so much to Introduce Continental writers to the British public have been well advised to publish Max Brod's full-length biography the first German version of which appeared In 1937 It has been conscientiously translated Into English by Mr Humphreys Roberts Mx Brod was Kafka' lifelong friend and himself a wn'er of repute Even when they were bovs ar college together Brod -ecognised and perhaps enhanced the genius of his difficult friend From their earlie-it years he preserved in his notebooks ard diaries little details about Kafka's life and convention As a Ins book is ill-constructed repetitive and confuted is en ward appearances of European life in the tortuous style so beloved by the There is a young French architect Germans of Eastern Europe Mr and a lady with dved red hair and Roberts must have sufleied much in two eligible daughters Soureiii his 'ask of untwisting some of Max Pasha an old TurkLSh millionaire Brod's more monotrous sentencs with a teeble but sinister son tovs Bir it will remain the mast a then- with the ida of becoming President tic and the most detailed portrait of Famine and disease are ravaging one Kafka which can be composed And of the provinces of ihecountry At as such it is of the greatest interest last a futale kind of revolution Kafka father was the very worst breaks out type of German-Jewtsh shopkeeper All this background Is convincing He mas narrow self -con Aden- con- W- accept the author's word dmgv lemntuous and ill-tempered He was half -Civilised no one more than a moreover violently Jealous of all Jump ahead of disaster and death those including his son who pos- Th- manner of writing owes some-sessed capacities superior to his own thing I should say to Conrad The Upon young Franz who regarded his characters at least the European father with temfii-d devotion he ones are successfully handled imposed 'a generai load of fear as individuals than is the scene itself weakness and Franz They emerge a trifle dim and seem even explained hi- whole literary to be taken too seriously or not work as 'an attempt to get away seriously enough for then setting It from mv father" To fhis obsession is a little as if Mr Newby half-m-one may ascribe Kafka diffidence tended to put forward some special his immoderate self-criticism hs point of view of hs own and yet over-cooscienUotuiMBS and hs could never bring himself till almond essence grated rind of one oraitR- tor 1 level tablespoonful marmalade 1 teaspoonful bicarbonate soda Mix dry ingredient and add trim and rind Warm fat with evaporated milk and syrup When smooth and not too hot add to drv ingredients Mix orks whipped up with essence Dissolve bicarbonate soda in little water and add Add milk or water to Ret consistency which will easilv drop off spoon Sprinkle a little suRar on top as this improves finished appearance Cook In moderate to low oven ielec 350 Ras 4 or D' for li-lf hours Gentle cooking is the secret of keeping this cake moist eijhl Vml I exlurr cuk without using much fat The Report on this recipe by The Daily sender ot this recipe Mrs Tileoraph Cookery Expert was as Sanders "Wugside" Granbnruah follows ot cake: 2i lb Bletchley Bucks receives £1 IutLru'ni5 Teacupful mixed orange squash and ouanutt of dried font can be varied water 1 teacupful sugar or mixture 9LSU anail alI i0 dlls a suRar and svrup Ik teacuptuls anv good mixture Cooking: it electric available fruit 2o any lat tlard margarine or peanut butter or adjust switch to keep it at 3o0deg mixed' 1 teaspoonful mixed spice or lnion Madeira (lake Kingrr nutmeg or cinnamon pinch For her recipe for a Lemon sal1 8oz 1 r(f flesh r-Madeira Cake Mr Weiss 93 constituted 1 small teaspoonful High-road Chitwick IV 4 ins the second prize a thermostatically controlled electric iron She has used tins method regularlv for 10 years 3oz margarine 3oz sugar 2 eggs 2oz flour 2oz cornflour bicarbonate of soda dissolved little warm milk Bring water sugar fruit fat spice And salt to boil and boil 3 minutes Allow to cool this is vei-v important then add flour sal: egg soda and HODDER STOUGHTON 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Da-ed April 1947 OODDBN HOLME CO 5 Upper Belgrave Stree London 1 Bolici ora for the Personal Representatives uhan paint the general picture All escapes into unreality The value of Max' Brod book is same Agents and Witnesses that it explains the other side of 'I 411 unusual novel A FRENCH SCHOOL Sainte-Colline is about F'r'nch board ng school for boys in 1912 People w-ho thnk nat England us onfy country which has any elec 350' lk hours if in a deep un or 1 hour it a square one arialion Flavour: Substitute blick coffin tor the teacupfu ind orange Juice and mix 2oz powder with the flour If you it add a little more augai saccharine as chocolate cake to be swee- Grated orange be added Cake 1 dessertspoonful seed Instead of dried fruit: the flour Omit orange are in shorter suppiv than 407 fat and omt egg or for a occasion iisn bo'h ARGARET PEDLER Her new novel 9 wei UNLESS TWO BE AGREED SCOTT His exciting and original" adventure 8 6 net THE POLE OF INACCESSIBILITY ICHARD MASON The second edition of his Book Society Choice 9 6 act THE WIND CANNOT READ OOOD STONE he pa to beautify garden Rockery waing stone attractive coour Send fo tc Smi't Oardere' Ltd 40 Bemcnt- ea flet Kafka's personality hs character was not based merely upon self-abnegation and an -scape from life his decisive message' Brod is love of hie and in the sense of a properly fulfilled life loneliness hopelessness and a constructive uige which in his case did not oance' each other out but rose to endlessly complicated visions He actually though: in images And behnd it all was this quiet silent slow-moving unworldly man who 'coord' nir to i ll rJi nn 1 rcuJV There was i conKfci: in him I here wu a conflict in hm ot Montgomery I ALAN MOOREHEAD Illustrated I2i 6 tut) is selling out as quickly as the first very few of the 50000 copies printed arc still in the bookshops That was the story of a great General Here in The Attack STEPHEN BAGNALL which has just appeared is the other side of the the story of the rank-and-file infantryman battling for plots of land too small to be shown on any map In it the author of that delicate first novel The Crater's Edge says is what said this is hat we did this is how I was It is not a novel it is a war hook and one which we believe stands in a class by itself 8 6 net HAMISH HAMILTON LTD ladings its education system will dQ lo roa(i lt Nearly 11 years have passed since Gabriel Chevalier Clochemerie appeared over here and w'as widely read Sainte-Colline is on the wiioie a better book The narrow limns of a school make a suitable rTrsir -ssassiir or rninreuirm of fleets xime Sentiment both appied With a nes Afin sledgehammer -and although like ness aimos ol sam-iness almost all novels about school life it The picture le on ones mind is js inevitably a bit shapeless we are definite and is built g-yen a trenchant account ot what up ot innumerable little patches of being at a ciercal school in France Ugh- and shade and it remain in was jke 35 years ago DOV powder flavouring to taste preferably grated rind of 2 lemons or lemon essence to taste Size of tin SJin bv 3m Cream sugar and margarine add eggs well beaten mix well Fold in sifted flour cornflour and baamg powder mix together with milk ana flavouring Grease sides and bottom of cake tin well sprfnkhug sides with 1 teaspoon ful sugar and 1 teaspoonful flour mixed together and tilting tin on its side to shake round Turn in mixture and spruikle top ol cake with remainder of flour and sugar Put paper outside up so that cake does not brown Bake for about 1 hour at 4 gas or 350 electric Allow cake to oartlv cool before turning out Can be iced if desired Orange Fruit Cake (Boiled) This makes a change lor the housewife who likes the method of first boiling the dried fruit with some of the ingredients This gives a moist Chicken ire INet Trims Hat CHAIS SHOl NOVELTY 4VOVG the novelties in the sprtng and mid season collections is veiling spaced as idely as chicken wire Thr American hat shown 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S' Dept The beha our of masters and boys a- Sainte-Colline was certainly of a kind to cause an anxious parent some uneasiness fact the things that were discovered there woukl th- mnd GERMAN SPIES A book hich ill provide the ordi-narv reader with many interesting and indeed fascina mg stor es is UNE WILSON Her novel of the CotvwoMs THE Dm BITTER JOURNEY Firmin' Thiy Came To vr -he average headrnase Spy" Mr Firmin possessed owing to a-ST PU1C sej0 htoralv 40 his connection Scotland Yard The auihorities of Sainte-Colhne as accredited corresporden of The Daily Telegraph special opportuni- were disturbed it is true but dt turbed in their own inimitable The publishers are HODDER STOUGHTOH ties for studying theTiase histories of French wav Some of the book the spies who dunng the war were amusing reading WOMEN IN 1965 Mrs Bridge Chetwynd novel executed or imprisoned in England He has a ready narrative gift a keen eve lor the dramatic or the pictur esq ue and a talent for rendering his i partly set in he 1965 hort n-nmon Hac Ixi a 'olro AtAr ctaiv hen decide to take over 1IANT KLOWERISO DUTCH OLADIOLt with ow blotch Snow Pnocee ire an Dr Der G1 HERBERT JENKINS: women gov frnment and men sink into their several personage alive and vivid At moments perhaps his arc- 'cu muST Madtto! 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a be pr ied to all shareholder on the l4n June 194" LOWES Joint WILDRIDGE 1 Secreiar ered Office 129 SJoane-atreet Lon- Rew laterei lights cast too shiu-p a shadow and appropriate sphere of staying at at moments his dramatic colouring home and ooking after the house is somewhat lavish I do not sup- an children This is a theme which pose lor instance that 'he patient makes considerable demands on an toilers in the Monitoring Service ever author and faced with wielding conceived of their task in such his- such a large scale Mrs tnonic terms But all this of course hunytngus with her ike increases the excitement and makes Alice and the Rxl is some-his stones the easier to read times at a loss to know which drec- Mr Firmin is a warm admirer of Lon to take There is some lively our counter-espionage service and dialogue in "Future Imperfect attributes to its ingenuity and re- and the f-male sex come out of it source the failure of the German pretty badly sec re i service 'o obtain anv mlorma- The Bull Calves is the second tion 01 substantial value He de- novel that has appeared recentlv lights particularly in the many about Jacobite times in Scotland methods by which 5 were able wth illustrations and characters to outwit the Germans and to 1m- founded on the author's ancestors personate for months together Ger- in this case the Haldanes of Glen-man agents who had already been eagles There are 500 odd pages in put away But he also recognises Mrs Mitch ison's book of which over that the Germans were themselves 100 are notes The story takes place responsible for their own in 1747 and there is much informa-f Allure Their methods were always tion aboiu the contemporary politi-elabora'e often ingenious and some- cal and economic situation ana a bit times dating the equipment which about witchcraft Mention bv one of thev provided for their agents was characters of the song-writer in every respect admirable but what Lady Anne Lindsay tborn in 1750' they could not do was either to vary indicates that the reader should not a system once It had been laid down be too pedantic approaching the or to provide their agents with per- book from the historical angle sona1 initiative or flexibility of mind THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT PUBLISHED SINCE THE GENERAL ELECTION The Industrial Charter POINTS FROM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR cu Editions ow Ready Alexander Wanless THE SCIENCE OF P1MNG FOR S4LHO AM) TROUT Excellent those who are wise will keep It carefullv for reference" Shooting Tones Revised edition 7s Sd A Courtney Williams ANGLING DIVERSIONS Courtney Williams has added a valuable book to the history of angling nday Times 8s 6d net Joyce HOLIDAY TROl FISHING An easilv understandable guide to the involved art of trout-fishing in its various forms" Angling 8s 6d net A ttnent of ConserTatiTt Industrial Policy will published on Mondsy My 12th From all Booksellers: Full Report 1 Popular Version 3d Socialists believe in firing people order Conservatives believe in giving people Con term tire A fmonisf Ctslrnl Office -I 1 Thev were alwavs be mg caught out because they behaved according to plan Perhaps the most mysterious of all Mr Firmin's stones 'apart lrom the strange case of Admiral Museher' is that of Mrs O'Giadv the plump Cleopatra Cleopatra in the Tide of Time By Oliver de Ellis (Williams and Norgate 12s fid) To Mr Ellis's persuasive and pene- VN air mail letter from Ceylon arrived alter 24 davs another via ordinary post from Toronto in 37 da vs and still another from Horten Norway bv air in seven davs A parcel posted in Toronto has not vet arrived '41 da plus' Our outward letters to Canada take on an average a month to arrive What is wrong Darling Southborough Kent For the Human Engine It is good to read that the housewives are getting active on a large scale They realise that food lo the stomach is as fuel to the engine and the surest wav of increasing output is to feed the worker The first step to improve matters is to have busi-nma men charge instead of theorists -Madge Baker Blackpool Jonah Fame I Aftnin Our old country and its people has been likened by a correspondent to the whale and Jonah who it is said came up again But it took a considerable internal upheaval on the part oi the whale prompted bv an outside motive to restore Jonah to the state in which it was ordained he should live Norman A Taylor Cheudle Hulme hat Srtrl of rit Surely Sir Stafford Cripps has evoked an unfortunate crisis slogan in Work or Want- A Challenge to British Grit" Grit is the stuff now thrown into the wheels of industry and under the eiples or lack of them of a Socialist Government Industry" is last becoming more dust than try Bernard Ellis Leyton Hollar for Rears When on a visa to Falmouth I bought some pears each in a ussu paper showing that the Ministry of Food had imported them from the United States Can a more non-essential import on which to waste dollars be imagined? Seaborn Marks Hayn ards Heath Tipping the Porter One good result of nationalisation of the railways will be that presumably tipping of porters as of other public servants will not be allowed All railway servants will be in the same position as Civil Servants who cannot accept gratuities Barnes Walsall 1 Topical Theme Manv tears ago I saw a plav entitled The Right to Strike" I wonder it tt revival might be appropriate at present when strikes are so selfishh stalled without any serious thought as to how the will affect the country in general Purser Southsea Fewer dame Hints Bearing in mind the severe losses incurred bv game birds during the severe weather would it not be possible to extend the close season for thus year and prohibit shooting to enable the birds recover their numbers? 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other spies and Intermediaries he It was it seems not love but religion writes gailv and informatively the that held the East in fee Whatever onlv thing that he omits to mention disappointment may be felt at the is that these men and women who result of this investigation there can came bv parachute or submarine pos- be nothing but approval for its sessed great personal courage manner As an excursion into vn iinrDTv torical and dramatic criticism this is ium it an i) i i ri i i a brilliant essay original scholarly Mr Aldous Huxlev remains one of and provocative our most intelligent writers In his latest essav on "Science Liberty and Peace he advances the thesis ihat science by placing immense power in the hands of the few represents a menace to personal liberty Story of Simsex Sussex Bv Esther Mevnell 15s) personal liberty This is the first of a new series 9 Author of Rustler's etc NORGROVE THURLEY THE DEVILS STEP Here is one of Nor grove Thurley's finest stones redolent of the romance and peril of the Old Wesr Rendv Thuruhiy 86 A Moorland Romance IRIS WEIGH WITHIN THESE WALLS A moving and absorbing story of singular sincerity in which Rhona Pickard eventually finds great happiness Ready Thursday 9 6 STANLEY PAUL Co Ltd 1 VV-C SCS Moreover bv spreading the idea ot which will cover county by county the inevitability of progress science the British Isles and the Channel blinds men and women to what Islands It is not a guide but Aldous Huxlev calls "the timeless an impression of the history and eiemitv of the Inner Light" The topography of Sussex the topo-onlv remedy he can see for this tetri- graph is entirely personal confined PUBLIC NOTICES THE HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE FLYING CLUB UbKhI -Hot I h'bv ai'et tha a Oenera Meeting 4 the above -riand Company 1 be held on Wednesday the 28h day of Mav 1947 2 45 in the afternoon at the i r'U' ub Char e-r-ree- Maylair London 1 for the following purposes 1 To traiMaet tne bine of an Ann la Gen' and in pa Toect a Ownnnttee I To lee Auditors I -ii i To receive and approvre tJy Arcounu for th period ending 31 s' Mar-h 1947 I Inspection (A members at the office of Messrs Frere 4 Co 28 Lincoln's Inn Feds London WC2 any tme during usual business hours on weekdays excety Saturday 2 To aeprove arrar gerrema for th affiliation aa from the 1 Jar uary 1 947 with the London Ar- Cuh and The prov s--n of flying and tis for member at Whs Waltham A-rfVeld near Maidenhead Brki Dated the 2nd day of Mav 1947 Bingham i Chairman Members of the P-eat-n te Owing the of record du to th requested 'hat pat a uraaant members should eomm ir: gvng the Dieen add: esses aih the Secretary Cap-tain 0 Briggs Plantation Hants BURY COURT 8 UPPING Cr Ltd Ctchurrh tae 3 herebv give lce that ii con-ou'-nc of th CHANGE of OWNEPSHIP are hav appl ej to the ristry Trans prrt under Section 47 of the Merchant Shipp rg At 1894 rctpect to our ship of Liverpool Official i 999ob 2 081 tons gross registered tonnage heretofore owned by the Coast Line Ltd for perm: on to CHANGE hr NAME AT 1 to be registered in thr new ram- the of Liverpool as owrrd bv the Bury Court Shipping Ltd Any cb)rMma th poaed change of name mia en i he '-tat Gene ral of Shipping 4 Earner Liar-I' road Cardiff withir 7 oaya from appearance ad' rt sement Da London this 2nd day of Mav 1947 BURY COURT SHIPPING Co Ltd BAMBER Dreor fpHF MISSIONS U) SEAMEN and ST 1 ANDREWS WATERSIDE CHURCH MISSION 1'ir SAILOR8 herebv given that the 9lst ANNUAL MEETING of 'h- -l ns to Rarren and th 82nd ANNUAI MEETING S- Andrew Waterrde Ch -Sion for 8a be held a' Ch i Smith-' Wetmfnter SW 1 on WED-NE8DAY Ma- 14 1947 a 3pm the Pv the Lord Bishop of Ohimford i on 8 1 th Rev Wh le A wi pa -to recglve th Annua Report ard A tit to e'er the Oenera rnm ttee -f both rietie and transact such other business as may be neces-aary SELBY ASH Commander Secretary 4 knghsm Pals- egard- 8W Nr ALGO PROVIDENT flCX'IETY No London is hereby van that an ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of Members of the Na to Provident will the 8ouhport on FRIDAY 13th June 1947 at 9 30 a to dr the following agenda Minutes of last meeting Election of mmttet of Management FmanrTal Statement and Baanoe Sheet Annual Report Appointment of Auditor Alteration of Roe a 8 2 11 2) nd (4) 19 (1) 24 12) and 2to 4i Anv other WARREN Secretary 24 Ahingdon-atraet Westminster 1 N'OTICi herebv glen ihat THOMAS MAX 8CHREIBKR of Tynedae House gt Han's is A th Horn Be-TeUtry NATURA4IRA-TION and rha? anv person who knws any ree whv shoud no be 'id a wr'ten and siened stat- it Under -Secretary of £ia Hme OIL bWl RALPH FHEDEIIM Van dr WATER Author of "Still Waters" "A Home in the Country etc MRS APPLEGATE'S AFFAIR A love story that is did delightful picture of nin 'Lm America written in a and amusing style wi 'vUl and amusing net I fving concent! a ion of power is the to the parts Mrs Mevnell knows so division and dispersal of power His well People and places are dp-argument is tense stimulating and scribed with beguiling affection and comtelling and the essay is written scholarly understanding the photo-as onlv Aldous Huxlev can write graphs are beautiful 9 6 logue SKEFFINGTON SON LTD QUICK DECISIONS The choice of a hank may he a matter of family tradition old associations convenience or pleasant relations hilt ahoe all tin customer must look for service So to-day when service is synonymous with speed the farsighted demand quirk derisions on all matters of finance and this is what the District Bank both recognises and provides DISTRICT BANK LIMITED Ld MH4 Ahton-'i-Ln (D'iK orders) and tfr 4 or 28 Qurn Vct London 4 fi ARDEN KRUIT PEA TRAINING NTITS quaity 5 vds 1 yd 7 mKh blrdproof a 25 yd 2 Ufaup-r'or 25 vds 14s Syds 21 25 vd 4 yds 28s Plutarch in Verse Helen of Troy and Cleopatra By Viscount Mersey (Murray 5s) Not everv poet eve even though in a fine frenzy rolling" would discern fruittul possibilities in the versification of Plutarchian life-stories nor ould everv poet's equipment be sufficient for the task wnieh Lord Mersey has set himself Yet he decidedly scored with his first Alexander of Macedon and now he betters hts achievement by its sequel Helen oi Troy and Cleopatra" Be it understood at once that he wears his Renaissance mantle with a difference He eschews all heroics and high-lights and keeps to the beaten-track of narrative in a vein that is agreeably lively but unemotional It is one that suits very well his conspicuous gift ol easy and graceful versification Mr Hurok has spent a lifetime among opera singers and hallet dancers and his aptlv titled book "Impresario" (MacDonald 15s) he declares that temperament is still his caviare" Only a hero-worshipper could have survived the earlv exper -ences with Chaliapin- who cancelled concert dates on the slightest excuses or have continued to handle the turbulent goddess" Isadora Duncan Mr Hurok is full of enthusiasm and is still acting as impresario to famous artists Assisted by Miss Rutb Goode he has written a lively and interesting book The scene of Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey i Peter Davies 8 6) a physical training college where Miss Pym the author oi a best-seller on psychology discovers that the death of one of the students is not the accident It is supposed If her solution of the consequent dilemma is not totally satisfactory the method of i approach is unusual and the lively descr ptions of the college and its I inmates make an entertaining book Author of 'The Curate's Crime (bth imp i ALEXANDRA DICK iCALAST AIR LOOKS OS -Vastair MacAlastair :1: ace of sleuths -is ngun mj solved in a tense ni er' of thrlLs drama and i-pr11'" Ready Thursday HURST BLACKETT LTD Pobhnhprt nor 112) 25 yds 2 5 yd- 5 yds 54s 'xl 25 yds yai 4 i 25 yds 8 yd 54s PEA A BEAN TRA1N1NO VETS 4 In ixjuare mr atoul cord easy to em: 12 yds 3 It 12 yde bit 12a 12 4tl 1 Rs (ha size- iipplidi Laric-bundlea 4 oddnnfnn various lengths and wldthr tor bush covering TENNIS Boundary Nrts Trnnla Crnlrr Net- and Orlckot Neu a auppliad bv lo ii leading SDrta Parks Oardrn Iramcdtatr dc tvrrv Carrtaxr paid -MAC'S Thr Nrt Works Rvr Suxmx HEAL RttBBER OARDPN HOSE rx-Oovrrn- mrnt Stock 50ft wth nozzr for ot 21 carriage paid aa than halt orlglna mat Endl garden uas a a tig cr A-Lmtrd stock onv SHtatartlon nv't' refunded )rdrr now fiorn VICTOP HARWOOD A PARTNERS Drpt 1 old Street-pac Btomflrld-atreet London 2 INSTEAD OF THERE 1 BEING THOUSANDS of books on the shelves of the library and onlvonc inthe hands of the subscriber 2 each member ol The Choices Library has a row of FIVE OR MORE books in his constant possession yet con-5 suntlyexi hanged under a postal1 request" ervice to br'n8 156 of the newest and finest novels and too of the latest and best- reviewed autobiographies travel books etc to his bookshelf each year every book a Choice ot the same outstand- mg quality as Pierre Andrezel I UK ANGELIC AVENGERS or Dorothv THE EYE if Write for details to The Choices Library Ltd Enrolments Dept sa Avenue Parade Igtndon iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiiimmiiiiim.