SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MAIL REVIEWS.
"THE SOUTH AMERICAN
HANDBOOK,"
The 1931 edition of the "South American landbook" (Trade and Travel Publications. Ltd.. 2/6 by post 3-) now in its eight year of issue, appears on the eve of two events of outstanding inter- est in British-South American re- lations. Next week the Prince of a visit to South Wales will pay America, and during his stay in the Argentine will visit the Bri tish Empire Trade Exhibition at Buenos Aires. These two events are outward signs of the great re- vival of British interest in South deter- Amerien and of Britain's mination to capture a fair share of the market when the industrial depression Bits.
The Handbook is designed to tall the business man all he wants to know about the countries of Latin-America, their products, trade. traasport, carrefty, bank- ing Government. Consular repre- sentation. the present state of each particular industry and all the old useful data which has to be hunted for painfully in ob-
reports. This year
the whole book has been drastically revised. The figures have been brought up to date. Large por tions have been re-written. An feature, the Air important new
This section, has been added. gives all the operating companies and details of in Latin-America
seure
the routes flown. The very latest trade and political changes since going to press have been inserted in "Additions and Corrections."
Now that South America is be ing popularized as a "playground" more space has been devoted to the tourist interest of the hand- book. The "human" side, as op- posed to the strict business side of the book, has been enlarged. The hotel lists in each town have been checked and many interest- ing facts and descriptions of thur- ist resorts added.
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EDISON THE WIZARD.
["My Friend Mr. Edison,'
by
Henry Ford; Ernest Benn. 6/-)
Ιπ this small volume of less than a hundred pages Mr. Henry
Ford, the well-known motor-car manufacturer, out-Carlyles Carlyle, in his hero worship. The whole book is typically modera American in its admiration of efficiency and Iabour-saving inventions. We all knew that Mr. Edison, the doyen
Mr. Edison.
of American experimentera, inven- tor of the phenograph, incan- descent bulb, etc., was a most re. markable man: but to Mr. Ford ho is more than remarkable-he is a super-man, a living mass of all the
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Ruch positive virtues energy, honesty, modesty, ima- It is thirty-four gination, ele. years since Mr. Ford was first
Mr. Henry Ford.
employed, by Mr. Edison. and for three deendes their friendship and Mr. Ford's admiration have grown from strength to strength.
GOOD SCHOOL PRIZE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Everyday Marvels of Science," by W. II. L. Searle, M.Sc.; Benn, 10/5.) It is a pity that this book should reach Hong Kong after all our schools have bought their prizes for 1930. However, we now advise, and advise strongly, the Deads of Queen's, King's, St. Stephen's, St. Paul's, and St.
well $9 Joseph's, as
those in charge at 'Central British, Dioce- san Boys', and Wah Yan Schools to put it down at once on their 1931 prize lists.
What a glorious book for a young man keen on Science Mr. understand- Searle describes in
rble language many of those re- cent inventions and discoveries which are so changing the whole We live aspect of modern life. in an age of Science, yet how much Physics does the man in the treet know? As Professor Joly says: "The fabled wonders of Jason's Argo fade to commonplace compared with the accomplished wonders of our day. The miracul- ous gifts of Lynceus were not so marvelous as those powers of vision and audition which Science confers." Yet how many of 3 take all these na a matter of course!
NEW STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE.
Tax Acta. It collates and elucidates in compendious form all that is essential in that formidable body of record, allusion, compara- tive criticism, hypothesis, and re- search which has gathered round
Sir Edmund Chambers's the Shakespearean text and tradi
Magnum Opus.
FACTS AND PROBLEMS,
Finis to he laid Has Sir
tion. However, one may approach the Shakespeare problem-whether as a rigid traditionalist, a heretic, or a mere agnostic-it is impossible not to find a deep satisfaction in this magnum opus, so thorough in
its scholarship, so judicial in its temper, so ample in its documenta-
tion. Time
new
[William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. By E. K.
may have
dis- Chambers, 2 vols. Illustrated. 42s. net. Oxford: the Claren-coveries in store; but for all that the last three centuries has brought don Press.]
to light, it is henceforth anneces- When Gibbon wrotę
sary to go back beyond Chambers. "The Decline and Fall
The multitudinous sea of Shakes- down his pen with a sigh..
peare lore has now been throughly and exactly charted. It is impos. sible to turn the pages of these two volumes without admiration for the diligence and devotion which have been able to compress so much into such comparatively little compasy.
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by
A. I. CROOK, ODE., M. A. W. KAY. M.A.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A., BSC
PRICE $2.00.
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Edmund Chambers done so also, in completing the great task which he undertook more than 30 years ago —an historical study of the Eliza- The many inventions and dis- bethan stage as the background to coveries of recent years and their a biographical and critical study of Shakespeare and his works? If in industrial utilisation' and, we may say, domestication (wireless, etc.) prospect the labour had appeared as immense as it is revealed in re- have bred a new scientific con- sciousness; but the uninitiated trospect, the entrance upon it might founder among simple scientific have daunted even a Civil Servant, laws and details like a non-swim-anxious for what doctors used to iner out of his depth. Mr. Searle call "an alterative" from the routine writes for such, but more parti- of the Education Office. It is for- nature that it eularly for the keen young scient-tunate for human ist.
cannot see the distant prospect, or He treats clearly many re- too
some of the world's most valuable cent inventions and is not
work would remain undone, and it mathematical.
is certainly difficult to value too highly the contribution which Str Edmund Chambers had Shakespeare literature.
There are in all ten chapters This booklet makes no claim to and each will have its own ad- mirers. Here are the headings: be a complete biography. It ia a simply written, loosely connected Introductory, Talking Pictures, brochure with no literary preten- Television, The Stroboscope, The sions, giving a few of the mile-Gyroscope. Range Finding. Sub- stones in Edison's
his marine Signalling. Measurement career,
made to
Charting the Sea. The "study of facts and pro- early struggles, his methods in the of Small Distances, Colour Photo-blems," which he has now given to workshop. his idiosyncrasies, etc.graphy and Problems in Wireless. I the world in two volumes, is com- Near the end there is perhaps too What youth with n scientific parable in scope and exactitude to much of Mr. Ford and not enough bent will not smack his lips as he a codification of such a vast and of Mr. Edison.
reads over such a list?
complex subject, say, as the Income
Sir Edmund Chambers defines his purpose modestly enough:
"I collect the scanty blographi- cal data from records and fřadi- tion, and endeavour to submit them to the test of a reasonable analysis. And, thirdly, I attempt to evaluate the results of biblio- graphical and historical study in relation to the canon of the plays, and to form a considered opinion upon the nature of the texts in which Shakespeare's work is preserved to us.”.
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