London, 7/6) is based ona play of Big' Ben" by Ken Attewill (Loy
the same name by Evadne Price and Ruby Miller. It Is a novel which gives a survey of seventy years of London life from the year in which Big Ben was first put up in his tower and concerns the fortunes of the family of a shipping magnate, Sir Benjamin Hemilton, head of an Allantle shipping concern which obtains and strives to retain the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. We meet Caroline his daughter, red-haired, brilliant, who dominates the story, Martlages are arranged, money obtained, all for the Line, and through her strong personality. "It is a caval cade of ships (from the early peddle oat to the Queen Mary) moving to the tones of Big Ben. Through it all fs traced the growth of Big Ben's Intimacy with our history. The book, produces a pleasant form of home-
In "The House of Fendon" (Hut. chanson, London, 7/6) a story of early colonial Ife, Roy Bridges shows something of the restless. spirit that motivated the carly colonists, something. too, of the seeming big tragedies that can be caused in on emotional family by this same restless spirit persisting among the sons and grandsons of colonists; we see som thing of the vast opportunities that these early pioneers were quick to seize and are brought face to face with the dangers they had to endure, Persistent in their loves, persistent ta the verge of obstinacy in their bhates, were these members of the House of Fendon and the reaction of human nature to human: nature adds to the attraction of a story that abounds in incident and in human
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