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SCHOOL BUILT LIGHT PLANT
AFRICA AMERICA: AND
JUGOSLAVIA
· EMPIRE BUILDING
STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM.
true!
Throughout there is a delightful note of, modesty, and the story grips the attention from the first page. You are conselong through out the book of reading the trie story of a real mother of Empire. It would be well for all to read it, for too little is understood of what white women have to face and overcoms when building homes in the African bush.
tives, who not only lose their salaries but also the "little pre
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or illegal pickings which ed building a light aeroplans constitute the greater portion of which they have themselves design- | their actual income.
ed. Destruction tests of the
The "destruction" tesla have proved that the structure is strong- er than the asvare Air Ministry regulations require. Soverest of all was the loading of the inverted
It would be folly to adopt Bri. My Farm in Lion Country. By tish methods of administration in wings were completed recently, the
Joyes. Boyd, Hunst and a country lately released from so fuselage is finished and the ma Blackett. 12s. 6d. net,
many ancient servitudes." Maschine is expected to take the air Mrs. Boyd has painted a
Ellison" quotes Komal Posha's ob picture of the daily life and servations on a comewhat similar for its trial flights some time next struggles of the Empire builders in Problem: "Your leniency and month." the lonely outposts of Eastern strange forins of government and
The school pupils had previous Africa. Her story is vividly told your half measures would maly
constructed ly
three standard and with no attempt at axaggera bring disaster, here. Let us once
"Moth" "planes, which, incident- tion. 'It 18 蟲 charming and, auspected of weakness or fear, thrilling record of a brave wo- then goodbye to any attempt at ally, they fly themselves, but this man's life as the helpmate of a governing. You want us to achieve new enterprise is the first of the pioneer settlar in the undeveloped in ten years what has taken you kind attempted at a school, involv regions around Arusha in Tan-eight hundred years Ten years ing every stage of design and con ago we were in the Middle Ages. struction of an entirely new typu ganyika Territory,
It is easy to gut what those engag, of aeroplane. Further, the power- ed in rebuilding ancient Oriental plant will be an experimental en or half-Oriental countries on mod gine which has not yet been put are think of the Indian While into production the "Gipsy Minor" unit of approximately 85 h.p. In Paper.
Each of the six portions of this appearance the new craft will be Blav Kingdom has its peculiar ap-not unlike a standard "Moth," but smaller and more distinctively peal for the cultured traveller. "sporting." There will be open Slovenia with it Julian Alps is for cockpits arranged in the usual tan- mountaineering; Croatia for the dem fasion for two occupants. lover of beautiful scenery; South The story of her life on that Serbia for the art of Byzantium, lonely farm on the edge of the above all for its unique monas grim forest depths-ia an inspiring taries; Bosnia and Herzegovina for one. It is difficult to know which the Near East as it can no longer to admire most, her dauntless courbe seen in Constantinople to-day age or her cheerful acceptance of and Montenegro is still what wings with shotbags to determine nerve-racking-conditions. Essenbi Tennyson called it, "the rough the safety factor of the structure ally it is written from the woman's rock-theme of Freedom," which in the "stalled" condition, or, in point of view, and not the man's; held out against the might other words, in circumstances re and it has been done admirably. of Islam for five heroic centuries.sembling those which affect an aero- There is not a false note to be As for Dalmatia, with ite sue plane which has lost flying speed. discovered throughout the spirited cession of darkly wooded isles in The officially required load factor Darrative, which has been told with an szure sen, it is plainly destin of 7.5 was reached satisfactorily. sincerity and charming simplicity.ed to become one of the world's Finally the students piled on the Humour has come to her aid in playgrounds-not to lose its soul shot bags till the wing broke un- the grim determination to conquer in the process, let us hope.or nines times the load which may all difficulties and croate a real Mies Ellison's delightful travel home in the jungle-belts.
book, which contains many clever reasonably be expected to fall on Life on that lonely farm was fill-pen-portraits of famous Yugoslav the structure in actual flight... ed with startling adventures and personalities, should be read by innumerable obstacles had to be students of European politica ne overcome, but Mra, Boyd tackled well as by all holiday-makers who every problem and adventure with wish to get off the beaten track. unflinching courage. A pioneer's life is a hard one," she writes, "You know that is a fact so you read her brave story: She confesses to have revelled in both her struggles to make a home in the wilds and in her continual adventures with savage animals. In the years of her novitiate she had to fight a very uphill battle, and admits that many a time in those. early days I retired into the forest and wept at my failure to achieve the standard of living. I had set my self. That she did achieve her self-imposed standard must stand to her everlasting credit.
"
Many Adventures,
In those days of pioneering she took her full shaere of the burdens, risks, and adventutes which filled the daily life of that isolated farm. She has made herself an intrepid hunter of big game and proved herself a real sportswoman. Lique, elephants, rhino, leopards, snakes, and other wild, denizens of the African wilds pass rapidly through the pages. They were mixed in evitably with her domestic garden- ing and daily routine.
AMERICA TO-DAY
MR. FREDERICK KUMMER'S
BRILLIANT NOVEL
The Golden Piper. By Frederick
Arnold Kummer: Hutchinson.
A very least and easy-per- ueal of this second novel of Fre derick Kummer is sufficient to give the reader almost as good an in- sight into the characteristice of the latter-day American a journey from Maine to California:
This Ameriçar, author has a very quiet, but very, aubtle gift of char- acter drawing mingled with a hum- our that provides the satisfying chuckle.
His present story develops a situation that is certainly un- common. A hardboiled: American millionaire, David Rockwall, hay- ing secured enormous wealth by means both devious and dexterous, lies at the point of death, and conceives the idea of inviting all his relatives, near and distant, te visit him and state their case for consideration before finally set- tling his will
past, who brings bis gin-soaked son from college a particularly nauseating type of cleric with an offensive
Life on her farm was never drab or dull. Almost daily there were
The relatives prove a curiously thrilling adventurea with wild ani mals, and she considera it her good mixed collection: Most are strang fortune to have encountered them.ers to the dying but clear-brained With leopards sitting on the ver- millionaire. They include a Unit- anda at night, and with one actual ed States Senator with a dubions ly playing with the Persian cat; elephants and rhino drinking at the pool in the garden or playing
wife; a gentlemanly havoc with the seed beds; lions shot on the lawn; and a troop of saven cousin who plays queer trick with teen lions paying them periodical cards; a young doctor of extreme visits of from ten to twelve days' Socialistic views, and, to the die duration, and nightly raiding the may of all, the illegitimate daught cattle-bomas, life could not bear of the U.S. Senator, now a dan- other than filled with excitements cer in revue and a fashionable
Mrs. Boyd has painted a colour-demi-mondaine of New York, ful canvas, and a true one. She This ill-assorted group spend cination of Africa; has ably dealt tial mansion of the dying man, with each unexpected situation and she interviews, them in turn, that has arisen has made you feel weighing up the aspirations, and, her fears; monde you realise her in most cases their greed.
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