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THE PENANG SKETCHBOOK is just the  New Year present for a friend. It is a very pretty book to look at, the watercolours presenting the sights of Penang in a very appealing fashion.

This handsome book is presented in seven sections: The Founding of a Setlement, The Civic Spirit, The Southern Indian Connection, The Chinese Legacy, The Sumatran Link, The Straits Eclectic Style, The Waterfront. The  Gazetteer is a detailed index of the subjects of the watercolours 
 
 
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The Penang FIle Issue 18
The BOOKSHOP, Chow Thye Road, stocks Penang Sketchbook as well as books previously reviewed in The Penang File such as : Tan Sooi Beng: Bangsawan; Machiko Katayama; The Philosophy of Ikebana; Dato J J Raj Jr: The War Years and After; Lim Kean Siew: The Eye Over the Golden Sands; Lim Kean Siew:  Blood on the Golden Sands;  Malaysia Nature Society, Penang branch: Nature Trails of Penang Island. Lim Kean Siew:  The Beauty of Chinese Tixing Teapots and the Finer Art of Tea Drinking ; Said Zahari: Dark Clouds at Dawn; Eric Lawlor ; Friends of the Botonical Gardens: ;  T N Harper: The End of the Empire and the Making of Malaya. 
(Telephone 228 2252)
There are, of course, defects like the very uncritical acceptance of the East India Company version of history which forms the introduction. "Garden House," though owned by Leong Yin Kean, was not called "Leong Yin Kean Mansion". ALW Villa appears without Alan Loke being mentioned.  "Hardwick"  is wrongly named "Harwicke Hall". It is not mentioned that the The Railway Station used to be the favourite schoolboy quiz: Which is the railway station that sells tickets and does not have a railway? The Boustead block is presented as if it were the original; in fact the unique balcony is missing,  torn down without a murmur of protest. But these warts should not upset too much the bearer of gifts. #
 

Penang Sketchbook
Watercolours by Chin Kon Yit
Text by Chen Voon Fee
Archipelago Press

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