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Livingstone the Liberator
A. G. MacDono!! Readers' List
Livingstond the Liberator, by Livingstone's own description who travels backwards and for- "that my investigation was con- James I. MacNair, London: of his folk-"my own order, the wards over the Continent and cluded before the Russo-Gorman Collins. (Pocket Classics.) 25. godly poor was an apt one. who speaks many languages. Pact was signed." The moment His father was of Celtic stock and who is ready for anything, the Pact was signed Sir Paul's 6d.
from the island of Ulvan near really comes to life in Sir Paul. THE year 1940 is the centen- Lanark folk with a
Oban. His mother came of mid- The most fantastic common- nce of trumps instantly became THE
sound places to him, and it is paying an embarrassment. He was now ury of the departure to Covenanting strain. ·
him the best possible compli- known as the uncompromising Africa of David Livingstone, the
mont to say that everything he opponent of Hitler's new friend Mr. MacNair's book is illus writes sounds like the wildest and he only got out of Germany Scots missionary-traveller. Mr. MacNair's book needs no fur- trated with 16 full-page illustra extravaganza and that one be in the nick of time; exactly ther justification. It stands on tions from material in
the loves every word of it. its own merits and it grips the Memorinl, of special interest
"An Epic of the Gestapo" is twenty-four hours before War being the five specially drawn about the fate of a certain was declared, reader to the last page. ".
maps of Livingstone's journey- wealthy Czech industrialist who Though there have been good ings.
left Brumm at Enster time in biographies of Livingstone, the writer of this latest one, as Among tho new facts brought 1939, trying to escape from Ger- chairman of the Livingstone Na- to light, Mr. MacNair tells for man-occupied Czecho-Slovakia tional, Memorial at Blantyre, the first time the true story of and get to England. On the MEMORY-HOLD-THE-DOOR Lanarkshire, Livingstone's Livingstone's eldest son, Robert, way he disappeared, and his birthplace, has been in a special who was killed in the American friends in London commissioned position to do research work Civil War fighting for the North, Sir Paul Dukes to try to find out into the life of one of the great- Robert was a headstrong lad, what had happened to him, and est men Scotland has given the and in those sterner times he this is the record of the search.
Sir Paul's chase started when world. Mr. MacNair is steeped was regarded with a disapproval in Livingstone lore, and has which would be unthinkable to- he read a tiny paragraph in a been the instrument of necumu- day.
newspaper that was six weeks lating much new material.
But the chief interest of the old and was published in a small book lies in the story of Living- provincial town in the Sudeten- David Livingstone was born stone's journeys. It has been land. This small paragraph of humble parenta. A detailed said that his greatest work was was a report that a man had A BURIED LIFE account of his boyhood, based not the explora- mainly on traditions still cur- tion of Afric rent around his birthplace, is but extraordinarily interesting to covery of the student of social conditions African, whom
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thin home in which the parents never which loses nothing by being re- thread, but Sir Paul held on to let poverty stand in the way of told at a time when so many it and followed it to the very ideals. It is no kallyard ro- tales of bravery are current. end when he succeeded in fore- mance, nor yet a picture of a Livingstone's greatest legacy Ing the Gestapo to exhume the LOSS OF EDEN plaster saint,
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