A GOLDEN MAID

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 27

A GOLDEN MAID

The head of the hero in. "Young Man Without Money," a new novel by Maysie Greig (published by Hodder and Stoughton), was not as empty as his pockets. He badly wanted money to keep his family estate going. One evening at a night club he overheard a charming girl declare that in order to win a fortune left to her by an eccentric uncle she must work for a living for two months as a parlourmaid. So when the young lady set off next day to the registry office, the young man was naturally not far behind, having just discovered that he badly needed a parlourmaid, especially with a fortune in the offing. What happened in the end may be easily guessed.

power Is elsewhere. They must just wait _and see. I am sure that is a fairly general opinion. And of Italy, where the visitor also travelled, this:—

In a train going from Genoa to Rapaflo we sat among a crowd of Italian children aged about 14 or so. For some time they sang aggressive, unmelodious Fascist songs, much as if our children sang "Rule Britannia" all the time. Then we asked if they would sing some of their lovely folk-songs, such as "Santa Lucia." They did not know any. All they knew was their ridiculous patter about the Abyssinian War.

Such is the crime perpetrated by the dictatorship States in the minds of the young. The Greek tyrants were liberal patrons of the arts; the modern tyrant, like the sterile Spartan State, sacrifice* all for arms.