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MEANS OF ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE.

Jeffery E Jeffery (Author of "Escape," "The Burden," "An Misa Chown, after touring New Octave," "The Longest Shadow," Zealand and Fiji, only needed a etc.) writes:- casual suggestion that she should put the idea into practice. She did shire Wonder" was a child endowed do the Cape to Cairo overland, to Mr. J. D. Beresford's "Hampden- not quite carry it through because

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Wood," John Buchan (Hodder and Stoughton). "The sin of witchcraft is rampant here, and I will not rest till I haye rooted it out. I saw the bodies of men and women in Woodilee who have sold their souls to damna.she took beat from Beirn to Mom. with a brain of such superhuman tion." This quotation sums up the base. But from the Cape to Dur power that it was capable of absorb- ban, thence to the Victoria Fallsing all the accumulated knowledge work which the Rev. David Sempilt and to Beira, and from Mombena set himself to do in his ministry the Nile to Cairo she faced all the arriving at a comprehension of the through Kenya and Uganda and up-

of mankind, filling in the gapa and at Woodilee, in the year 1044. adventures, sometimes the perils, of universe. Fierce and violent Puritanism had the journey alone. She writes very seized the Lowlands and harsh doe- pleasingly and naturally of her ex- reade through the whole of the trine of hell-fire was the order of frequently to a panicky sensation to three weeks and then looks up with

periences, and confesses sufficiently "Encyclopaedia Britannica" the day. But the Old Ones still afford an idea of her pluck and held their revels in out of the way enterprise. She conveya some ex- places. The general view was that settlers and of the natives in out cellent lightning Impressions of it was unwise to meddle with the of-the-way places, and her book will devotees of Black Magic, but to be read by all who take an interest leave them, till, exhausted apiri-holiday-makers anxious to get away in the opening up of Africa to the tually by their excesses, they re- from the beaten track. turned to the fold of the faithful.

David Sempill established himself firmly in his parish but never ac quired a real hold of his elders, one of whom, Ephraim Caird, was the high priest of the blacksliders, He was well cared for by old Isobel, and his adventures, atarted when he guided three lost way- farers to Calidon, one of whom was Montrose the Royalist and rebel. In the fateful wood he met and learned to love Katrine, there they hid the wounded follower af Mon- trose a bold thing to do in these troublod times. And there, in Melanundrigt, he witnessed the pagan orgies of his own parishion ers. Aided by Shillinglaw, he rushed among them and succeeded in so marking them that later he was able to identify the ringlead- ers with the mainstays of his flock. David laid charges before the Presbytery but found that he him- self had to face charges of conduct unbecoming to a minister and of harbouring one of Montrose's troopers. Forbidden to follow his calling David returns to Woodilee. A pestilence breaks out, and he is held to blame by his maddened parishioners. Katrine laboura nobly with him, and is stricken and dies. David has now lost his faith, his love and his living, and we last ace him sailing for new lands, although the tradition lingered long in Woodilee that he had been taken by the Devil or by the Fairies

In Witch Wood

Age Khub Dekhta, India To-mor- row.-Oxford University Press. 38. 6d.

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In the story this child

a pitying smile and says: "Is this all?"

and, in a sense, It la terrifying, too, The idea is fantastic, perhaps, But the episode serves as a remin- our chief means of access to know- der that the printed word is still ledge. It may not always be so, however, Already by planting a pole fo the garden and spending a few pounds on an electrical device, we can hear, "Red" from Moscow or Wagner from Munich or the 1919 (Sec. 84A), stipulates that ating to our taste. Already, from a The Government of India Act, Football Results from 2 LO, accord- the expiration of ten years after the comfortable seat in a cinema, we passing of the Act a Commission can watch the life processes of the working of the system of tish troops at Shanghai, as the shall be appointed to enquire into newts, or the reception of the Bri- Government and into the whole fancy takes us. Already television question of responsible Government hovers on the brink of becoming for India. The time is now ap- what is horrifically called a "com. this Commission, and it is with its remains that at present the human proaching for the appointment of merciai proposition." But the fact composition and its problems of being who wishes to extend his administration, as well as the com-ever must, sooner or later, have re- local and provincial and central knowledge of any subject whatso- munal question and the Indian course to books. States, that the author deals in a age of the printed word.

This is still the modest and thoughtful way. He That being so, it may seem writes, indeed, "in a perfect faith strange at first that it should have that the so-called 'Lost Dominion' been considered necessary to found can be regained on the more cer- an organisation to encourage the tain and lasting foundation of a British public to read more and with common understanding and a com-more discrimination. But it must mon purpose."

be remembered that although every- Bennett, M. M., Christian of Lam-only a very small percentage of the one nowadays is taught "to read," mermoor. Alston Rivers. 75. population learns the uses-to say nothing of the real pleasures-of Mrs. Bennett's life of her father,

reading. Yet these even in this Robert Christison, is a remarkable enlightened era of broadcasting and story of pioneer grit in Westernmovies" and picture papers, re-

main worthy of attention. Queensland, told with first-rate literary skill. It is of Interest to made the modern man suspicious- The wiles of the advertiser have note that Mr. Christison was for minded. Confronted with a hoard- long a Fellow of the Institute and ing which imperiously orders him to that his blographer fa also a mem-Eat More Fruit and Be Fits he is ber. If one did not know that his apt to think: "The fellows that pald adventures and his trials, his suc- for that don' care a bean whether ceas in winning through to pros- I'm fit or not. They want to sell perity, and his influence over the their apples!" In which surmise he natives with Barney to play thefs conceivably right! part of a Friday to Christison in therefore, that a national organisa- his loneliness at Lammermoor, were tion whose slogan, if it had one, It follows, all true, one might easily imagine might be: "Eat More Fruit-of the half the volume were the outcome Tree of Knowledge," may expect to

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, all altho.)

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HORIZONTAL

·THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

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1-What le Interprete 48-Paltry

tion of the Bible called?

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mythology who was the god of rain? 6-What is an inn

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theology treats of death, resurrection,

118-Where was

Mohammad-born? 17-One of the metals 18-Rim 20-Next, (Dlal.) 25-Cents

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on the Dead Bea was destroyed by 29-A wing (Biol.)

fire for its evil?

30-Marah bird (pl.) 31-A drinking-sup 84-To out into 86-To perform 87-Nothing

38-What in the capital

of 8. Australia?

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88-Territory (abbr.)

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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word- puzzle.)

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of combined imagination and know be looked at askance, at any rate of books, in print at the present ledge of conditions in the heart of Here is a capital story, brilliant book is not only the story of

Queensland sixty years ago.

publie will be to say: "This is just time, on a great variety of subjects, ly told, and striking quite a new great life; it affords a vivid insight & stunt on the part of publishers These lists, prepared by acknow- note, although Mr. Buchan gave into the question of the aborigines, unlikely that anyone would credit appreciated in many different quar or booksellers or both." (It is edged experts, have been highly indications of this vein in "The and it is an illuminating sidelight mere authors with the business tera.

on the development of a State of the acumen required for such a Moon Endureth." His Ingenuity Australian, Commonwealth. and local colour are astounding,

⚫operative effort!) It is a tendency, to indicate the practical side of the and he never loses his grip of his Rout, Ettie A., (Mrs. Hornibrook).however, which can be, and in fact work which this organisation has render, carrying one to the utmost

Native Diet. Heinemann. 68.

ie being, countered.

The aim behind that For the or undertaken. peak of interest. His psycho.

ganisation is not proceeding on the work-to impress upon the con Sir William Arbuthnot Lane aggressive lines of the up-to-date sciousness of the nation the fact

·logical insight into the mind of the writes a preface to this book and advertiser who insists, with mad- that books are not a mere luxury or fanatics is marvellously penetrat draws attention to the practical dening iteration, that such and mere diversion, but an Inspira- ing. This is a book we can recom- form of many native recipes as well such an article is "the best." tion, an essential education, and an mend without reserve, and for as to the benefit to be derived from Assistance, rather than insistence, equipment for life that admits of which we can find no words of ap- the study of the natural diet of is its policy.

no-substitute is surely a worthy preciation to high.

the Maoris and other natives. The It is an organisation which de-one, linking up naturally with Mr. book has been written at the re- serves the support not only of those Keynes's desire to "mobilize a quest of the New Health Society, directly connected with the produc-mighty army, outnumbering Froth and is of value to the general public tion of books but of anyone who blowers and Gugnunca and Mus- as well as others.

has ever derived profit, knowledge, tard Clubmen, an army of Book- translation, "Goncharars: A Com- joy, or amusement from books and worms, pledged to spend £10 a year mon Story," in 1894. This was fol who is altruistic enough to wish on books and, in the higher ranks towed by Tolstoy's "The Kingdom that others may learn to do the of the Brotherhood, to buy a book of God is Within You," "Anna

For that, precisely,, is the main object of the organisation-to

Karenina," and "War and Peace," The Imperial Conference of last stimulate public interest in books

and the novels of Turgency. Her year passed with comparatively and to supply would-be readers

eyesight troubled her during 1908,. little Interest in Great Britain, not- with information about books, and Colonel Silburn, is an acknow-withstanding the importance of reading.

and since then her work has been ledged authority on South African some of its resolutions, and the lec- for which anyone is eligible, conte Associate membership,

mostly done through a reader read affairs, especially on native and tures published in this volume are

ing aloud the Russian which she coloured questions, and his views on the outcome of the economic side of

no more than 5s, a year.

translates. She has translated all the present position-both political the. Conference.

The activities of the organisation

RUSSIAN.

the novels and tales of Turgency. and native and coloured questions, vered at the Regent Street Polytech-numerous to be considered in detail Constance. Garnett, whose trans- Tchekov, the plays and tales, of

They were dellare already widespread and are too

and of Dostoevaky, most of those of and his views on the present posi- nic, the director of which edits the here. It has arranged lectures all lations from the Russian are among Gogol, and the memoirs of Herzen. tion-both political and racial-book, and their authority and value over the country; it is co-operating the best in the English language, Mrs. Garnett has twice stayed In deserve the most careful conaldera-may be realized from the names of with tion. The relations of the Union some of the lecturers-Lord Morris Schools, and Literary, Societies; it the late Dr. Richard Garnett, of the of her time translating the disturb

Education Authorities, married Edward Garnett, son of Russia. For one who spends most: to the other parts of the Empire, on Newfoundland, Sir William Hoy has enlisted the services of many British Museum, and David Gar- ing works of reative Russian: Including Great Britain, come under on South Africa, Mr. Grondons on well-known authors to further Ite review, and the author's analysis of Australia, and Mr. H. A. F. Lindsay aims; it is Instituting local Book nett, author of Lady Into Fox, geniuses, Mrs. Garnett a hobby, gar- the situation, with his personal ex- perience of the complicated racial in a brief compass "United Em-seasons. It has already prepared Must, is her son. She learnt Rus She is too, a pacifist and a men- on India. They cover a wide field Days and Book Weeks at suitable The Sailor's Return, and "Go She dening, seems surprisingly mild. and economic problems and his pire.".

and, distributed upwards of 70 lista sian in 1891, and published her first ber of the LP.

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