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Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...
...RETURN OF KAI LUNG-Ernest Bramah-Sheridan House...
...possible to escape from an enemy carrying a two-edged sword but not from the interference of a well-meaning woman." Such Wodehousian sentiments garbed in Confucian terms are the unmistakable trade-mark of Ernest Bramah (E. B. Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately...
...reading English detective stories. Hwa-che's first few casts did credit to her training but instead of solving the mystery got herself and several other people into terrible trouble. How everything was enabled to come so deliciously right in the end is the professional secret of Author Bramah...
...Though Bramah characters are, almost invariably, excruciatingly polite no matter what their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...