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Southland Times, Issue 22758, 7 December 1935, Page 13

* Baroness Madarassy, author of “Vul.nerable,” is the daughter of a Budapest banker. She was married at the age of seventeen. Recently she arrived in London on her first visit. Her novel caused something of a stir when it was first published in Hungary.

John Gibbons, whose new book is called “Roll On Next War,” is well known for his unconventional travel articles. Mr Gibbons says that he has written this book—an attempt to show war as it really is—for his son and for all the post-War generation. Mr Gibbons has made many strange contracts during his travels. He once picked up an umbrella for an old man, who turned out to be Colonel Prideaux, formerly the Political Officer of the Abyssinian Mission which was shut up in Magdala in the ’sixties. When the old man died he left in his will a request that Mr Gibbons should be one of his pallbearers. The rest were retired generals and other distinguished men.