BOOK OF THE DAY
SINGAPORE This was Singapore. By K. c. H. McKle. Angus and Robertson. 210 J»p. (8/6.) ‘"The Tuan builds round himself a high fence of three-ply and acts as though it wore made of steel.” Mr McKie’s book is not a Malayan postmortem, though his last chapter is a sort of prophetic contribution to one. Many readers will be well content with something less analytic and more pictorial; and Mr McKie’s memory colours very vivid pages indeed—of Singapore’s temples and their frenzied and self-torturing worshippers, of the teeming life of mart, cabaret, and vice den, of a night of riot, of firewalkers and dancers and the Chinese theatre, and so on. There are some grim •tones, some uncanny ones, some that comically Illuminate the ways of the West and the wiles of the East.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23751, 24 September 1942, Page 4
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