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LIVERPOOL DAILY POST WEDNESDAY JULY 8 1936 on the dot thanks to Public Servant No Books Of The Week Fiction American Style Jefferson Tales Of Adventures Of A Moral Nicholas Life Of Smuts London Letter For Women The Royal Holidays FROM OUR WOMEN CORRESPONDENTS LONDON Tuesday Night UEEN MARY who has not visited Sandringham since the death of King George wil spend August there and is not going to Scotland this year In September she will move to Marlborough Bouse which is now almost ready for her reception It hac to be redecorated in great part and the rooms to be used by her Majesty more especially are very much as they were when she went there first for her taste is not of the variable kind The King is expected to spend a fortnight at Balmoral after his return from France A House With A Garden One of the most charming of this debutantes is having a dance given for her on Wednesday night by her grandmother Dame Margaret Lloyd George at her roomy house in Addison-road Kensington There are big gardens attached to the houses in Addison-road Smuts And The League Genual Smuts The Second Volnme By Sarah Gertrude Millin London: Faber and Faber 18a net With this volume Mrs Millin completes her fascinating biography of General Smuts Her hero now comes upon the international Btage as a member of the Imperial War Cabinet His new activities were important and manifold As "Mr he met Mensdorff in Geneva to examine the possibility of a separate peace with Austria Then we find him protesting against Mr Lloyd theory of the knock-out-blow and asking for a victory that would not jeopardise "the civilisation we are out to But his position in the War Cabinet never was regularised it never grew clear whether he was or was not exactly a Minister Only one thing was patent: his connection with the War Cabinet Smuts had a large part in the creation of the League of Nations Indeed with Woodrow Wilson he became the leading exponent of the League project Nevertheless he has strangely enough never had an opportunity to attend the League Assembly never seen how the League transacts its business But writes his biographer A Great Liberal The Living Jefferson By James Truslow Adams London Scribners 12s 6d net Mr exposition of Thomas reasoned faith in the power of the people to govern themselves is timely The old battle between the ideas of Hamilton and the ideas of Jefferson goes on and for the moment as Mr Adams says the tendency is towards Hamiltonianism is developing an almost complete forgetfulness of those freedoms and tolerations slowly won through many generations and which have given to life directly and indirectly its most civilised It was for those freedoms and tolerations that Jefferson stood Mr Adams recognises that conception of an American rural and mnumded the merchant service brig Josephine a vessel which seemed to have been run in man-of-war fashion agrarian society can no longer be I realised and that it could not have been realised even in his own day But he also rightly recognises that th Jact 'a'd "hch (that was why Mr Lloyd George an Probably no day has passed on I ardent gardener acquired Dwyfor) which the thought of the League has and so much has been done to it that h-i I- I have done in my lifetime is as whlch to wander if the night is favournothing and as aust and ashes able to such recreation Miss Margaret compared with the small effort I have Carey-Evans a pleasantly unspoiled been able to contribute towards the building up of this new organisation bas up to now been more interested for the future government of the in examinations tiaan dances But she intends to relax to-morrow stood lashed up and down in the lower does not in the least vitiate the funda- mental value of theory of ggmg ready to send aloft as replace- 1 ments if required The uncle was also the heart of that government theory was that it would prove safer to rest the ultimate source of power in the people as a whole than in any single owner of the Josephine and in her he voyaged all over the world for as the Admiral writes he used cargoes as Smuts retains his intense admiration For Royal Duchess Niece for Wilson as a man He accuses Mr Another dance-giver is Lady Moira excuse to go to place nd see thing Keyne 0 "making an Aunt tyttdton whoae party in Connaught-It those voyages ended in a loss which Sally of the noblest figure-perhaps the to-night ia for her niece the Hon however they seldom did he had only only noble 8gurei the hiLry of the fc HZZ himself to answer to In this way he war He encouraged Mr- Keynes to I dauehter of Lord Glamis and Ladv had countless adventures and met all writ hi8 memorable book on Th Glamis and granddaughter of sorts and conditions of men and women Economic Consequences of the the Earl and Countess of Strathmore In his own words: From divas to and knew the views entertained by Mr The Duke and i)uchess of York are derelicts and emperors to inebriates Keynes concerning the Versailles states- prevented by the Royal mourning from maybe I have learned a bit from all of men He did not expect Mr Keynes hein2 nt at his dance The them but most I have learned from the however to Wilson into a figure da sea captains who have told me things oHun niece Ladj Dorothy Glamis and no shore-going loafer could ever hope to On one occasion Smuts defined thentJ' Moira Lyttelton are sisters of the one occasion buiut8 aennea tne Duke of Leeds who like his mother a know the way of a ship on the League as successor of daughter of the Be0nd Earl 0f Durham frnm o11 derelict Wilson was charmed make8 his home in Italy for reasons of As one might expect from all this jnto acceptance of what was more than health and nrpferenre In 1933 he tales relating to the principles and phrase From the phrase he was -j aw- Lf nf nominate in he was I married at Nice a Serbian girl Mile practice of seamanship predominate in PUBLIC SERVANT No 1 never lets you gives you more time off! The Mystic Bootlegger REVIEW BY JOHN BROPHY Call Me Ishmael By Loyd Collins Putnam Paper Kingdom By Leslie Bishop Heinemann I perceive i tendency among reviewers of "current to trace all American Tough Guy novels and they must now occupy a prominent place in the list of annual exports from the United States back to that explosive little book The Postman Always Rings And that is strange when one remembers the critical deference still paid to the name of Ernest Hemingway For even an amateur bullfighter deserves his due and if there had been no Mr Hemingway there would surely have been no What a shortlived memory what a fickle loyalty these highbrows have Mr Loyd Collins impersonating for professional purposes the seaman Burke (generally known as Irish) and telling the story of a five voyage in a tramp steamer to the Caribbean Calcutta and back to Hoboken in suitably violent idiom keeps well within the new but firmly established tradition and gives us a rattling good yarn in which not everyone will perceive the fundamental artificiality The monosyllabic dialogue as reiterative and often as inexpressive as the conversation of schoolboys three forms below the proper standard for their age owes everything to Mr Hemingway So does casual sensual love affair with the blonde Rita and his relations with her Polack husband Karil anc the bogus mingling of penny novelette sentiment with deliberately shameless confessions of drunkenness and riot The bootlegging in three instalments first by Burke and Karil then by the twelve-fingerd captain finally by salvage at sea belongs perhaps to the common stock of material at the disposal of all American novelists Only in the murder one of which Burke is unjustly accused another from which he refrains at the last moment and third which ends the story and has no convincing motive at all does Cal Me Ishmael seem to be directly derivec from the The title of the book however is taken from "Moby and on the strength of this anc a few sham-metaphysical utterances made by the Captain on the bridge the dust-jacket quoting at length from an American review seeks to introduce Mr Collins to us as important new who finds a nobility in struggle with these circumstances It is impossible of course to say what nobility Mr Collins finds in his theme but I could find none in his treatment of it Once more I have to regret that publishers should be so ready to introduce rabbits and foxes to us as big game the reaction is apt to blind the reader to the genuine minor merits of such an up-to-date thick-ear yarn as this A very different mood one o' laughing and proportionate depreciation of literary pretension is induced by Paper The story of Solly amateurish attempts to start a very highbrow magazine The New Conquest in the small town of Macgregor is hardly witty but amusing enough and swings pleasantly between farce and fantasy and satire Very properly Mr Bishop makes as much fun of American business men as of American aspirants to literary fame Write for this- drawn to the principle and from the the book There is the story of how the principle to the plaq and from the master of the Josephine saved her by pan to its author And as Mrs! club hauling in Algoa Bay during the I Millin recounts: Irma Malkhazouny The Geraldines The Marquis of Kildare has pleased The final outcome was not only the tbe People of his part of Ireland by FREE Cookery A hundred and twenty family recipes standard reference book for all your favourite dishes with the easiest and best way of doing them free Post to the British Commercial Gcu Association (Dept 44) 28 Grosvenor Gardens London SWx (id stamp) or ash your local gas showrooms far a copy great gale of September 1902 when so many ships were wrecked The author tells in vivid seamanlike language how Sir James Paget commanding the British frigate Endymion saved in the most chivalrous manner a French ship of the line of eighty guns and 700 men though we were at war with France and choosing a bride of his own nationality schemes and even words in the League I His mother was an Englishwoman and Covenant itself but also that in a the three Duchesses before her were ossissft'ssa istsss ancient race and have been sung by the Welsh-Irish poet Thomas Davis as The Geraldines the Geraldines 'tis alone for a decision Mrs Millin sets it beyond doubt that Name MR CECIL LEWIS whose book Saggittarius Rising' has just been published by Peter Davies AJdrm- owing to the weather conditions he historic speech a message of peace could not capture her There are ad Ireland which the late King excellent stories of the South Sea Islands George delivered at the opening of the class or This restatement of including one about an encounter with Ulster Parliament in 1929 was in position does two things In the notorious Bully Hayes The author stance the one Smuts had prepared at the first place Mr Adams has done writes racily and expresses his the Personal request of his Majesty Jefferson's memory a service by I sense of humour Not all the tales deal after consultation at Windsor with him a service showing that he was a practical idealist! seamanship indeed at least three an Lord Stamf ordhain and not a doctrinaire In particular them might have been written by he proves that he was no secessionist Balzac himself Admiral Cumberlege illustrates his book with numerous drawings His democracy had decided limitations but he was a sound Liberal in all The vivid chapters later phases of Smuts's help to illuminate the African polities since dealing with the eventful career trend of South the war and the economic crisis Incidentally we are not surprised to learn that the native question had always harassed conscience and still harasses it and angers him According to MrsMillin from the same motive which as he maintains justified Jellicoe in not risking his fleet and the war and the British Empire at Jutland he holds that South Africa cannot risk its white population by granting freedom as he understands it to the natives Royal Visit To War Museum The Duke and Duchess of York were so interested in the exhibits at the Imperial War Museum at its new anc permanent home at Lambeth London yesterday that they told the curator (Mr Bradley) that they woulc like to return for another and longer visit and take the two little princesses with them The Duke is president 0 the board of the museum and the object of his visit was to reopen the museum at the old Bethlem Hospital Lambeth where it has been moved from its temporary home at South Kensington The Duchess said she was very pleased that the museum emphasised the horrors of war instead of glorifying it It is a very good she said people should know and realise how horrible war essentials In the second place the book is a tract for our own times when the theory of the omnipotent State is in the ascendant and when so many people believe that the people cannot be trusted to govern themselves The pernicious writes Mr Adams that a nation can be strong happy rich powerful great and free even though its government takes away al these attributes from its citizens would have seemed insane folly to Jefferson Jefferson has a message for our own day and Mr Adams has helped us to realise it Miss Ormsby-Gore Married Miss Mary Ormsby-Gore eldest daughter of Mr Ormsby-Gore the Colonial Secretary and Lady Beatrice Ormsby-Gore was married yesterday at the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great Smithfield London to Mr Robin Campbell only son of Sir Ronald Campbell British Minister in Belgrade and Mrs Campbell The bride who is a granddaughter of the Marquess ol Salisbury and also of Lord Harlech was given away by her father She wore a wedding gown of white marquisette and tulle over a foundation of white satin with a train from the waist of the filmy marquisette Her veil was of tulle held by a wreath of fresh white stephanotis Lilies of the valley and stephanotis formed the bouquet she carried There were no bridesmaids but the bridegroom was accompanied by Mr Anthony Rumbold son of Sir Horace Rumbold as best man The service wa conducted by the rector Canon Savage and the Rev A Simms of St Bryanston-square A reception was held at 21 Arlington-street the home of the Marquess of Salisbury There were nearly five hundred presents including several from members of the Cabinet full a thousand years Since 'mid the Tuscan vineyards bright flashed their battle spears When Capet seized the crown of France their iron shields were known And their sabre-dint struck terror on the banks of the Garonne Across the Downs at Hastings they spurred hard by side And the grey sands of Palestine with Moslem blood they dyed The bride of Lord Kildare Miss Joan Kavanagh also has ancient pedigree She is eldest daughter of Major and Mrs McMorrough Kavinagh of Borris House County Carlow It was McMorrough who brought The Norman to Ireland Youngest Ol Four Sisters To Marry There is no girl imore popular with those who have the privilege of knowing her than Lady Prudence Jellicoe anc news of her engagement has brought her and Mr Francis Loudon many good wishes She is youngest daughter the four left by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe her sisters being Lady Gwendoline Latham Lady Myrtle Balfour and Lady Norah Wingfield All of them are keen on outdoor life anc swim play tennis golf and skate better than the average Mr Loudon is only son of Mr and Mrs James Hope Loudon of Olantigh Wye Kent Will Long Tresses Return According to one of the oldest comb makers in London long hair is coming back Perhaps the wish is father to the thought for the modern woman having experienced the comfort and convenience of short hair is if she is at all a busy person unwilling to return to that slavery The trouble is that short hair is expensive It has to be cut and waved and tended unless one is of the rigic type that likes to have hair as severe as that of the male On the other hand numbers of women do not take half the trouble with short hair they did with long A young woman told me lately that she had never brushed her hair in her life Where There Are Vacancies It seems strange that there should be difficulty in finding recruits for the Does history repeat itself? Doctors Metropolitan women police The work MR ALVIN JOHNSON whose first novel Spring is being published by Constables in a fe tv days Unheroic Poets Moral Fables REVIEW BY PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON The Fourth Pic By Naomi Mitchison London: Constable 7s 6d This collection of moral fables poems and plays should be an excellent gift for the sophisticated child of fifteen who having been reared to materialism cannot take its Andersen orts Andrew Lang neat This is a somewhat whimsy little book of patchwork quality Some of it is good some tedious but it is all highly individual and quite well done There is a peculiarly terrifying Hansel and Gretel story of two children of the proletariat lured by a witch into the i house of Capital (a story which when analysed might seem to have several morals to taste) an excellent tale with a classical parallel showing that a Greek slave transported into the free land of I England to-day might find his previous slavery preferable to his life as a worker in a factory and there is a pleasing little play for industrious amateurs which it should take them all their leisure time to produce There is just one good poem The Fancy the style of which reminds me for some inexplicable reason of The rest of the verse does not touch the standard of this one By the way the sophisticated child would have to be an intelligent one too At any rate he should be able to make his Marx King Memorial Fund The National King George Memorial Fund now totals over £145000 Gifts received at the London Mansion House yesterday included 1000 guineas from the National Union of Teachers who stipulated that £1000 should be allocated to the playing fields scheme and £50 to the Westminster site The first instalment of the collection being made by the Baltic Shipping Exchange has been paid to the Lord Mayor of London and totals £1121 5s A Great Japanese am thinking of my Emperor and These are said to be the last words of Admiral Togo who died in May 1934 He had served his Emperor well and was entitled to his roses Mr Edwin Falk in his admirably written book "Togo and the Rise of Japanese (Longmans 16s) gives a sympathetic portrait of the great admiral and tracing his remarkable career contributes a valuable chapter to the library of a great nation Togo was born in 1847 at a time when the Japanese fleet was practically negligible To-day Japan is one of the greatest sea-Powers If any one man can be given the credit for this amazing development Togo is he Years before he died Togo retired to his garden but lie remained a potent influence in the life of Japan Withal he was a signally modest and loyal subject of his Emperor and from Mr study of him one gains insight into the spirit of self-effacing devotion that has made possible the development of Japan in our time Keep The Aspidistra Flyinc By George Orwell London: Gollancz 7s 6d net Way By Wynyard Browne London Cobden Sanderson 7s 6d net The modem novelist is if possible just a little bit more cynical about poets than about clergymen or philanthropists or any other stock heroes of Victorian fiction Poets figure very un-heroically in both these typically modern books Mr poet is young unworldly and poor He takes a grim delight in refusing remunerative work and living grubbily in a garret Mr Wynyard versifier is derelict and middle-aged and has learnt the art of living comfortably on other people He ought to be a thoroughly unpleasant character but as a matter of fact he is a shade more likeable than the angry young man so skilfully portrayed by Mr Orwell The Aspidistra symbol of middle-class is made to typify the life against which young Gordon Comstock revolts and towards which he is finally reconciled Gordon is a clever but disagreeable young man pedigree pup of a poet Mr Adrian Willis must seem by comparison a full-grown dirty dog But the man who sponges upon the The Last Czar How History Is Made Liverpool £210903 Estate Mr Claude Geoffrey Churton of Gaytonhurst Heswall a director of Ltd wine brokers Liverpool for many years a member of the Gayton Parish Council left £210903 with net personalty £209562 (duty paid £54648) He left £1000 to the Royal Liverpool Hospital for a cot £100 to the Wine and Spirit Trades Benevolent Society and £100 to each servant who lias been with him for five years Other wills proved include: Mr DAVID ROBERT MARSHALL Hieh Gros Dene Woldinghsm Surrey late manager of Colombo branch of the National Bank of India (net personaRy £101502) £107108 Mr ALEXANDER DEANS of Carmyle Church drive Rhos on-Sea a member of the Colwyn Bay Borough Council (net personalty £11492) 12799 Mr ROBERT SUTCLIFFE HARTLEY aged 60 of Hest Bank-road Bare Morecambe senior partner in the Sutcliffe Slipper Company Lancaster (net personalty £9828) 12580 The Rev JOHN EDWARDS of Grosvenor-road Wrexham formerly president of the Presbyterian Church of Wales (personal estate £3094 settled land £6155 total) 9249 Mr JAMES HART of Denton's Green-lane St Helens (net personalty £1999) 2653 Mr GEORGE RANSOM EARDLEY of Southport (net personalty Roe-lane National Playing Fields The grants committee of the National Playing Fields Association yesterday allocated £1260 on grants to twelve schemes covering approximately seventy acres The total area of the playing fields which the association the the Carnegie Trustees and the Jubilee Trustees nave now jointly assisted in providing amounts to over twelve square miles It was announced by Sir Thomas Inskip chairman that the association had received from an anonymous donor who had in the past made liberal contributions a cheque for £5000 to be devoted to helping to provide playing fields for children in distressed areas Nicholas Prisoner of the Purple By Mohammed Essad-Bey Translated I and professors delegates to the Anglo-1 hard of course but there is that 1 0 1 10 aVnid appeal to many is less unbecoming debated this question at London Univer-1 than it was in the early days Pay starts at 53s 3d a week with free 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