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BOOKS and READERS Sally the idol of Paria And Mr.
ST. JOHN'S REVIEW: FEBRUARY NUMBER.
The editor of a parochial maga- zine may be likened to a tight-1ope walker. Seizing in one hand a bundle of domestic news be starts to tread the narrow wire of public opinion, using as a balance in his other hand two or three "chimks of world topics.
The February number of the' St. John's Review ngain successfully, continues to make enough reference to local affairs while still having room for matters of general inter- est. Amongst the latter is an in- formativo and readable article on English Architecture; of the Pre sent Day. More space than usualisi ocupied with Cathedral doings, but this is all to the good; for it will enable a larger public to road the
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH REVIEW.
CLEMENCEAU'S CHICKEN..
Paris Calling." By Harry
Greenwall. Hurst and Blackett.
16#.
Maogrish Anishes this account of their escapades with a gally happy unding.
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SEVEN YEARS WAITING.
Quests of Summer." By Paul Fulcher, Selwyn and Blount Ta. Od.
Most of the characters in this and is born under the shadow of suzusnor, for they live in an atmos Mr. Greenwall gossips attractive phere of montal winter. The hero about a Paris that he has known possesses inflexible grandparents and with interesting stories and com-gitimacy. He renounces love, goes for 3 years. His book is packed is born under the shadow of ille- ments on almost every conceivable to France to fight, and moats lis mattor from stails to stateamou. true mata. But ao denso in this
Naturally Mr. Greenwall enjoys young American that it takes him: illusions of the seven years to find out where his correcting the ordinary foreigner about Pa As true happiness lies. We only hape regards snails, for example, he con-that he finds as much happiness, an tends that there are probably more did Jacob at the end of an equally snails eaten in Soho in a week than trying period.
Care eaten in Paris in a month-
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AMERICAN JOURNALISM..
Hot News By Emile Gauvreau.
John Long & Co. 78, ed.
If this book is mere fiction it is a
LADY HOUSTON'S PATRIOTISM.
TO PAY INCOME TAX ALTHOUGH DOMICIL
ED IN JERSEY. Lady Houston, although domioi
Anancial position of the country is such that she should contribute. So the Exoloquar in respect of hor in-
It may be recalled that Lady Houston on her husband's death paid in 1928 £1,500,000 in death dubios as an not of grace without admitting any liability on het
ed in Jarway, has, for patriatic reapart," Last year the guaranteed sons, decided to pay Income tax £100,000 to defray the cost of Gross this year in consideration of the Britain's defence of the Bchnoider nation's nood. The matter is now in the hands of her lawyers, who
Trophy. Jara working out the details of the
sum to be paid,
Burely a statement that is open to question. An even more heretical statement, though one that the pre sent roviower agrees with, is the statement that French coffee is by Dunn's address: at the Anunat means the perfect thing enthu remarkably well-told story. If, on the other hand, it is a record of Church Meeting, and to learn the.siasta have idealised. financial position of the Cathedral. that sometimes black coffee is better fact, cast in the shape of a novel, it is the most damoning indictment Many who may have thought that in France than in England, but he St John's was a rich Government contonde that England is the host that has yet seen the light of day. I
of American "Tabloid" journalism
maintained foundation will be sur- prised to learn that the Finance Committee have this year budgetted for 838,250 from the goodwill scheme and offertories-in other words voluntary gifte
The Editor is fortunate "in "hie child writers, for recently in the childrens' part of the Review. was printed a delightful poom by a.12- year-old girl, and now there is a short story by a boy of 13, which for the unexpectedness of its de. nouement, deserves great praise.
He admitá
country in the world for safe du fait
... Sarah Bernhardt's Sacriños,
His book, however, is concerned not only with the everyday life of Paris but with its great personali tios." Ho toils us of Sarah Bern- hardt and of the son who bled her of every penny she earned so that, even after she had one of her legs amputated; she was compelled to return to the stage to support him. He tells us, again," of Clemenceau that, at the time when he was writ
In conculsion attention is drawning his autobiography, he was NO to the excellence of the illustrations hard up that he had to sell three and the general pleasantness of the sporting rifles in order to get a Review
little money. On learning that he was to be paid £15,000 for the world rights of his book, he asked Mr. Greenwall: "How much does that make in franca?" and on hearing the imposing amount, exclaimed joyfully: Now I shall be able to cat chicken."
MAN WHO. CONQUERED RABIES.
The Genius of Louis Pasteur.
By Piers Compton.. Ouseley. 123. ed.
Altogether a highly agreeable variety antertainment about Paris.
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WHICH VERSION?
Louis Pasteur was born at Dole, France, in 18, in humble circum atanoes. From his father, who had fought as a private soldier in Napo son's armies, he inherited a pains- taking integrity and a mental Jog"The English Bible as Literature." godness that admirably equipped him for the baffling pursuits of spienen. After an education achiev- ed by match parental sacrifics, Prsteur hold various academic posts, and in 1857 boende Director of Scientific Studies at the Ecole Normale Paris, with which 40, 70- mained actively connected until his death in" 1605,
By Charlen Allen Dinsmore. Alon and Unwin. 78, 'd. Since the American author's ob jest is to show that the Bible is great literature, and in particular "to show the unique and sovaraign greatness of our "Standard, English Version," it is unfortunate that for Surgery Before Lister.
BO many of his illustrations he Pastour's discovery that fermente should have selected debased ver- tions and putrefactions of wounds Bions of familiar passages “Bo not were caused by germe directly in-anxious for the morrow: for the spired Lister to introduce antisepticmorrow will be anxious for itself," mathod into surgery and, as 17. Compton says, "opened a deer of is both ugly and weak by campuri- deliverance to humanity from one son with the majestic imperative of of its greatest terrors." His fur- the. Authorised Yersion-"Take ther discovery that diseaseS WOTE
caused by gorms led to the birth of therefore no thought for the mor- A new science, bacteriology, and row, for the morrow shall take changed disease from an inscrutable mystery into a laboratory problem,
thought for the things of itself";
The book relates the struggle for Foirculation between two "Tabloid""" nowspaper in Mammoth City. The
while The foxes have boles and. Experiment With a Dog.
the birds of the heavens have nests" In his treatment of the disease is just one of those modern variants known in the dog as-rabies, and in mao as hydrophobia, Pasteur earn-
that destroy the cadence without ad the gratitude of the whole making clearer the sense. The world, Previously, human victims birds of the air" will stand against of this horrible malady were shot.. poisoned, or strangled, and as late as 1819 one unfortunato was smo- thered between mattresses,
In studying the problem of rabies Pasteur found it necessary to obtain
all innovators.
In spite of such jurious lapses as those, the, book contains much soøand judgment and a lively appreciation
a sample of saliva from a large of the literary baanty of the Bible, rabid bull-dog, foaming at the Comparisons with Homer, Danto mouth in a state of fury, The dog," writes Mr., Compton, was
and Shakespeare serve to emphasiso
Comet" has to fight for its life against the "Lantern," in spite of the fact that the two editors are close friends. English roaders, will find it interesting and at times posi tively absorbing, but they should be. warhod that "Tabloid "journalism as it is depicted in this book, has' no counterpart in this country or in any part of the British Empire.
scured by ropes and extended upon the supreme quality of the Bible; a table, and Pasteur, taking a glass but the American spelling of the tube, bent down to within reach of selected passages may confuse lng- the raging mouth and sucked into the tube some drops of the saliva.
The battlefields of science, he adds, have their supreme menta."
IDO-
Pasteur solved the rabies problem. In ten years 18,648 patients were treated, and only so died-a murta
Nothing is "pare lish readers. strange than Shakespeare in A-pori-
can dress.
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Mr. Compton has written an ex- Giacomo was serving in En hotel collent popular biography of one in Italy: Sally was singing in who is still honoured, in his own Paris, Giacomo was wanted by country as the greatest of French- the police; Bally by her prospective men, whose life was filled with husband. Giacomo become chauf damatic incident, and whose revolu four, and the paid fled together. tionary methods for the treatment Police, and dancé set out in bot of disease were opposed by very pursuit. but the most sympa- aublimely petty prejudice that the i thotic reader may follow their ad- human spirit is capable of,
ventures unperturbed. For Giaco-
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