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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1930.

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

MAIL REVIEWS.

Thrilling Story of Africa.

"Flame of the Forest," by Mar- garst-Peterson; Ernest Penn,

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with a Sadle off a

tourist

dance surfp daulism, says the Rangoon Times.

The bobk is full of such

This comment may leave the

THE

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impression that the auther, whit Disconcerting Views of

ever elsa, he la, la humbug, We oan only say that we feel certain This will be dispelled on reading the book itself. He was, at the time of his writing and the col lection of his experiences, at any rate. very high| Impressionable; This thrilling story of Afries but manifestly sincere. His story is written with

of his soldiering and sporting ex- periences is excellent and depe in usual vigorous 'realism.

"Símonetta," a young and love- just the same manner as it might Iv piri, goes out to Africa to bot be by any perfectly downright and married. She is carried away on "normal" soldier with a literary the voyage by a tempestuous love affair with a fellow-passenger,

the author's

The plot hinges on her ki ti- huss to a young African return- ing to his native land in all the pride and glory of a brilliant Uni- versity career. He suffers bitter.

humiliation at the hands of the British, when he tries to live up to his ideale of culture. His re- action to this treatmentt comes when he meets his grandfather Medd Maliki” the Witch Doctor.

This sinister ligure dominates the story. How "Simoneita" falls inta his clutches: and the terrible penalties paid by those who seek Lo save her.

Blake up Sensa. tional tale! We can guaranteeį That the reader will be unable to lay this book down until the mat pe is turned.

ARMY IN INDIA.

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by

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["Complex South Africa."

An

Economie Footnote to History By William Miller Macmillan. London: Faber and Faber. Pp. 293. 12s. 6d, net:] ["Caliban In Africa." By Leonard Barnes. London: Victor Gol- lanci. Pp. 246. 169. 6d. net.] To those disposed to hold that our Dominions are on the whole yuccessful experiments in self- government the disclosures of these two volumes, written by men with expert knowledge of South Africa, will prove exceedingly dis- concerting. Concerned with the same material, they are in a sense complementary to one another. Professor Macmillan furnishes the fuller analysis of the economie- political situation, with the avail- able statistics of race, population, production, wage standards,, &c.. thus exposing the essential evils from which the major portion of the country is suffering-poverty, overcrowding, degradation of the Ratives and "poor whites," and a "colour ban" no thick as to disable

the ruling whites from adopting the necessary measures to furnish security and prosperity to their country...

more liberal British elements, so

-STAMP TALK.

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DISCOVERY OF A NEW RARITY.

AN AIR MAIL. ERROR.

Fred. J., Melville writes in the London Daily Telegraph:,

Hope aprings eternal" in the stamp collector's breast, but the

chances of valuable "finds" are rare now; Still, the unexpected nay happen at any moment, as a wholesale dealer on the Continent recently discovered.

He found a Hungarian stamp with the centre inverted, but he had already broken up and dis- tributed a full sheet of 100 before noticing the error. He was only able to recover seventeen of them from packets still unsold. Of the rest some may remain unnoticed, and others will provide the thrill of a "find" for some observant col lectors,

A more remarkable and very lucky find was made some little time back in London by Mr. R. Roberts, who imports new issues of stamps in quantity. Among his supply of Papuan air mail stamp was a sheet of forty stamps, ten-of-| which had missed the overprint.

Against all serious measures for equal opportunities is raised the menace of black supremacy. It is difficult to know how much con- viction underlies this Africander attitude. It assumes that equal

To understand how this could happen it should be said that the bump. We are not enamoured of

stamps are in sheets composed of eight horizontal rows of five, but the war chapter. He follows the modern war-writers into their own

the overprinting was done in game of horror-creating; and it

groups of ten, two rows of five, trainót honestly be said that he

On this sheet the overprint fell bets them at it. However.-"all

Mr. Barnes's book is a forcible correctly on the first, second, and who have soldiered in India will

indictment of Africander charac-fourth groups,, but entirely missed glory in his character, and custom ter and policy in their dealing "Bengal Lancer", by Major F. studies with his sillidur cavalry.

with natives. He shows how the Yeats-Brown; Gollonez, 9–1 ¦↑ A far as the, religious and situation has been worsening dur- In rerait books, at any rate, | esoteric part, all that need being the last twenty years, the when writer bus attempted to wald is that the mutter is deal! Dutch uncompromising temper of introduce the West more efsely with simply and straightforward. | supremacy having absorbed the to the Eust, and vice versa, fe ty. It will CRUSC

read- the has had to sacrifice the regard of¡ er to wonder how far the study that the conscious, racial antagon-political rights would give actual The or the other Major. Yeats of such matters is possible to ism of colours has become the supremacy to the blacks, who are Brown seems to have managed to people leading exceedingly non-dominant issue. In politica and more than three to one white in usoid this; but it is necessary to spiritual lives. We would add a economics. The problem "how add hastily that he has not done point. The pre-disposition of sel- | communities differing widely from sby hedging or "dodging the diers in India to study such mat- one another in traditions, habits, column." When he deals with the tera is by no means exceptional. and range of development can mysteries and paychologs of India Perhaps it is because on some learn to live together in a single he loes so not only with Insight duties they have much time on commonwealth," as expressed in but with sympathy. Yet the band. The Yeats-Brown mental- the Hilton Young Report on East erities of his own type and enste ity is not so rare as people at Africa, assumes an even graver who would dismiss him as a lome wil think. The Regular shape in South Africa, partly from crank will scarcely be able to do. officer in India is often very un- the barren and unreliable charac- so conscientiously. Here is a Prussian and is not 'Incapable of) ter of most of its land, partly from man who sought the understand becoming a "Profound Oriental- the unreasoning temper of the ing of Yoga practice and philost"-if we may borrow the term ruling white elements. The Union soply sought the understanding applied by Kipling ironically to Government's recent legislation of the highest forms of Brahmin- the British private soldier. By has been almost uniformly ism-yet he was a good soldier, the way, “Bengal Lancer" will 're- reactionary in its treatment of re- 1erelled in his pig-sticking and call "Kim" in certain respects. Berves, squatter rights, wages, and confesses that he was sometimes Because India is in the limelight access to employment, while the so weak in the cause of his adop tion that he turned aside from the holy of holics at Benares to

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the Union, and that economic equality would displace white labour and lower white standards of life. But the measures for secur- ing and increasing white supremacy in both fields, in a country where increasing numbers of Kaffirs are in contact with the white civilisation of the towns and mines, are evidently unreliable. Both authors, however, make It plain that the Africander temper of intolerance and unfairness la immutable, and the future they foreshadow is a tragic one. Both books should be read, the first for its array of fucts and figures, the second for the vivid presentation of the clash of colour and for the

the book will be widely read; | obligation to raise the natives by but it deserves real attention on its | education and economic stimuli is fine literary quality it displays.- intrinsle merits alone.

the most part ignored. J. A. H. in Manchester Guardián.

ROUND THE CAMP FIRE

ICELAND HOLDS JAMBOREE.

A remarkable tribute to the or ganisation of last year's World Scout Jamboree at Birkenhead has been paid by the organisera of Iceland's biennial celebrations.

Mr. Norman Collins, in the News-Chronicle, describing this vast birthday party of 10,000 tents pitched between Great Reykjavik and Leith tells how he expressed hi admiration to, his guide of the way in which things had been done The Iceland guide said very charmingly,. "Without a model it could never have been done; Iceland sent an inspector to the English Scout Jamboree to study. Everything here is just as there

cooking, everything."

LOVE ABIDETH.

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We were strangers and ye took us in. We shall never feel strange In this hospital, because love abideth, and love makes friends for all the year to be. Many of

us will drift back as visitors to

renew the friendships we have

B.-P. AND BEAUTY CULTURE.

for

ST. ANDREW'S GROUP.

Our absence from these pages last month leaves us with a lot to

··report.-**

NEW WATER SAFEGUARDS.

the third (viz., the fifth and sixth horizontal rows). The omission being from the middle of the sheet, it missed the close scrutiny of the checkers in the Australian stamp worka.

Although the find was made a few months ago, it is now disclosed for the first time. In the meantime inquiries have been made as to the existence of any other misprinted sheets. Having satisfied himself; that his sheet is unique, Mr. Roberts had detached a strip of three showing the errors se tenant

with two normal varieties, and has presented this to the stamp collec tion now being formed for the

of benefit.

Charing Cross Hospital. This collection has bean formed of gifts from collectors In all parts of the world, and will be dispersed at a great public auction during the coming season.

The stamp should prove to be one of the rarest of all air-mail stamps.

Centenary of Ecuador.

In a decree published last year! the Ecuador Government quthorls- ed the preparation of stamps to commemorate the centenary this year of the Republic.. While leny- ing the artists in competition full the Government suggested that the Ilberty in the choice of subject,

subjects should bear on the cul- ture and progress of the Republic, during the hundred years, the natural beauties, and the economic possibilities of the country.

The stamps have now been print- ed by Messrs. Waterlow and Sons in London, and bear appropriate scenes, with Spanish inscriptions to the effect that "Ecuador· pro- duces cercals," "coffee and cacao," 'tobacco," and fruit," "Ecuador is a country for tourism." The three of highest values bear portraits Ecuadorean heroes of the struggle for independence. The one-sucre portrays Jose J. Olmedo, the poet and first Vice-President of the Republic. The two-sucres depicts General Antonio Jose Sucre, and: the five-sucres the liberator Bolívar.

Scenic Stamps For Philippines,

A noted Filipino painter, Fabian de in Rosa, is designing the new stamps for the Philippine Islanda. These will show a series of beauty spots to attract tourists to Manila. Among the scenes Indicated by the acting Director of Posts are the Mayon Volcano, Pagsanjan Falls, More Vinta, Dagulo zig-zag road, sunset at Manila Bay, and Taal Lake and Volcano. The values will be 2, 4, 16, 18, 24, and 36 centavos and 1 peso.

No peso stamps have been in circulation in the islands since the post office committee of investiga tion discovered that a large stock was missing last year.

ONE WHO KNOWS,

Writing in The Times of July 19, Dr. W. S. Paget-Tomlinson, M.D., quated an extract from the report on "The Health of the

"No Scout is first-class who can-1 hot swim," saya Lord Baden- Powell, the Chief Scout. But in spite of the fact that Scout camps Recruits have been rolling along have been remarkably free from School one by one, while some of the bathing fatalities, Scout headquar- older members have been dropping ters announce a tightening-up of off for various reasons. Notwith-the already stringent boating and standing these changes work has

Most recruite

have now successfully passed the Tenderfoot Tests, while the older ones are carrying on with the Second and First Class Tests.

The Chief Scout, Lord Baden-. continued apace. Powell, recently made a suggestion for, the carrying out of a com- munity Good Turn by the Scouts. He said: "At this season Rorists, having grown numbers of plants for seed, throw away burn the roots, crowns, or bulba. They would willingly give them to any Scout Troop that would care to cart them away. The Troop could then plant these about the countryside, and thus give it an added beauty. A good object for hikes."

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

"No matter what a man's. past may have been, his future is spotless."

NO DESERTERS!

bathing rules..

No one is more vitally concern- ed in this matter than the Chief Scout himself. The Scoutmaster who may contribute to an accident by assuming that the rules do not apply to him will receive nothing

but severest censure.

or Bathing has always been our Only Scouts who can swim 50 special feature during the summer yards in uniform are now allowed months and classes are being held to boat in water of more than A Scout can each week for those who cannot paddling depth. swim and

is gratifying to note bathe out of his depth only when under adult supervision and where a life-line and two good swimmers, in a boat or on shore, are ready for any emergency,

The 24th West London Padding

that most of the non-swimmers are taking advantage of these classes. Instruction in carpentry has just commenced under the guidance of! Mr. Marahall and soon we shall be able to produce our own furniture! At the request of the V.D.M.A., the scouts are working on baskets, ́ate, in the hope of running a stall at the forthcoming bazaar to be held early in October. Would any body with a few empty cotton reels to spare kindly let the boys have them as we believe we can inake uso of them for the bazaar.

One event which deserves men- tion' in these notes is the entertain ment of the Scouts from the 4th

Besides a Bathing Parade, one troop holds a "Salts Parade" twice weekly. The ritual consists in the administration to all and sundry of a dose of health salts.

Child" (1929) by Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education. in which he says:—

that unleas

"There are still worthy people live in an unreal world, and are who, being ignorant of physiology, even yet unaware and until you cultivate and de- velop the body and brain of the child, all attempts at intellectual instruction will prove futile.

"They are witnesses of the triumphant contribution of the Boy Scout Movement, and render it lip service of praise, but they de- cline to learn from it. Yet its lesson is, profoundly trus and full of meaning to all educationists in this generation.

"It is a lesson of physical dis- cipline, of educational adventure. of youthful training and glad obedience; it is one of the wise Interpretations of that service Scouts' mothers, fearful of camp which is perfect freedom; it cookery, may be comforted by educates by equipping, the body hearing that at Chesham Bois first and drawing out its faculties, Scout beat all the mothers and siatera in a cake competition.

regained his old self again and has taken his place in the Troop, I Congratulations to Eric Mac Nider and John Miller on being

and senses; It both harnesses and develops the boy and leads him of his own · Interest and desire into the path of manual work and the arts and crafta; it traids men not for the classroom or the peda gogue, but for life

made with those who have toiled to ton) Boy Scout Group, attached to Hong Kong (Murray) Group and promoted to Patrol Leaders, and to Thus it has become a vast

place us on the high road to health.

to the sick

year, have issued an interesting

"May the Birkenhead General Hospital long romain to minister This note of thanks signed by twelve Boy Scouts, patients In the Birkenhead General Hospital, after last year's World Jamboree, is re- The story covers many ups and produced in the Hospital's Annual downe in the Troop's life. On Report just published. The signa-several occasions the Scouts have torles, quite a ¡litle League of had no headquarters in which to Nations, Include Scouts from meet,

Fred Winyard, Gersid Abraham, health education movement, doing Tony Sanh and Robert Marks on for the boy what the education being made Seconds. These lads authority all too often fails to on- have been with the Troop for quite its perhaps, the greatest demon- a long while and have proved stration in practical education that themselves to be keen and hard the world has seen working scouts and fully their promotion. Congrat hlad to Seconds. G. Abraham, R. event was the Marks, L. A Sank, F. Winyard and it to Scouts Lea and G. Marks on give winning, the Basketworker badge.

the Church of St. Mary of the the newly formed Kowloon Dock Angels, Bayswater, who celebrate Troop, The spirit of comradeshiy, their twenty-first birthday this which is the spirit of true: Scout souvenir book covering the history ing, was very noticeable through of the first twenty years..

out the evening. Scout games and songs predominated, while tes on the floor of the Hall played no small part in the success of the gathering.

Another very launch, plenic was

1 America, Scotland, Poland, Swit-During zone period of eighteen

zerland, France, London, Derby months, when the Troop were with inand Birmingham. Fout their headquarters

During the Jamboree camp of Scouting programme 50,000 Scouts the Birkenheaded throughout and

General Hospital treated 89 Scouts of different nationalities,?» 824 of whom were admitted to the wards. “Amongst / the patiënta Arécaired. from Arrow Eke was the Editors

It will be of interest to many to learn that Mr. Dormer is on his vices Way to Hong Kong. It will be res The called that Mr. Dormer took over move ths Scoumastership of the troop num last August, but was taken ill with Cuba In typhoid soon after and Was sent home on sick leave. has now

have Fred Wir

again. He has

fully recovered and it is hoped He will return to carry on the good.

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