UND Lurrsomrras Trayn, Berlin, This poche book was very well known before the war, an English translation of a. previous] edition having a wide circulation, Tt has now "been revised and greatly enlarged by Messrs. Suring and Wegener and contains a health of information,—some quite new. For example, there no less than 83 pages on, thie
fare' in all &68 pages' of text, object of motorleas flight There followed by 40. pages of tables: nevertheless the matter is very condense There are four chapters on aneteorology, one aerodynamits, one ba acronanticat photography, two on
and propellers, aerial navigat of fight, a long chapter on the construction of aeroplanes, one jon the manipulation - of acroplanes, one on gliders, one on 'THE FAITH AND THE FIELD, 'A Micsionary's Story of the Great North-West By Rodney Gélbor, "he, Coll' of China's " Grea Nowth "koran aod Beyond By ire How or.
the Belg iret Sosy, London, for the Chinees Toland "The Call" of which Mrs, the but the call to Taylor. writes is not, the call of
in north-west China, "The book is more than anything else an appeal to supporters of missions, so. that. det ae criptions of Kansu and its people together with historical data are incidental ta an account of the evangelical work being done in a number of remote and widely, separated stations by the mom-bers of the China Inland Mission and those of allied organizations, Ta her own itinerary, Ars, Taylor does not go beyond Kansu, She sets out, from Sianfu in Shensi just, before the great Kansu earthquake and rrives in Lanchow fa shortly after the catastrophe, © visiting all mission ions on the big highway.
ow, Pingfan,—Sining, mum and Hochow are. also ited and some account of sion work in Kanchow Ninghsioy "Tsinchoy and. other tunvisited centres ix given, Lo those in sympathy with evangelical work the most interesting portion of the book will undoubtedly be the story of the remarkable Work done by an, independent Chinese missionary, a Dr. Kao, who has settled ' in Kanchow ho supports himuelt while devoting most of his energies +o spiritual ministrations in a Christian. community which ho haw built up by his own efforts in thin new and untouched fold.
While Mrs. Taylor devotes mont space to the personnel and the work of the various missions, [she also writes of the physical charms of a rugged, mountainous country and has something to 8 of the character, manners history of the picturesque denizens of, the country, such as the Tibetans, Moslems, Mongols and the so-alled "aborigines. The material for there sketches was obviously furnished "by mission: foreig in the field ard contains nothing which the scientific. student of the Kansu people would regard ass contribution, though there, are some stitements about, the origin of the aborigines and the Moslems cast of Hochow which one would he Torcod to challenge if Mrs. Taylor's. book Pretonded to be a scientific work, To foreigners in China who axe not. it logo. and sympatherie totich with mission work in. th interior, the simple, primitive faith of the Chinese Christian feonverts "whom Mrs, Taylor describes will be of interest because the sincerity of converts is 'a subject for debate among, foreigners in Chin are not in sympathy with mission work. "Miracles have n place in the daily the. Kans converts. Evil spirit ara cast out by prayer. An old man who too' poor to go to a Christian meeting prays, for help and his wife finds la silver dollar in her sowing basket, A man ourses his brother who is a Christian onl his horse breaks a leg. The read.
may nob believe. in such mind tht the missionaries and their converts do believe in them, The book is well illustrated with a number of photographs of typical Kansu scones and persons. ships, ancther on their contro}, and finally one on ordinary balloons.
The section on aeroplanes is very full, but naturally om-Phasiscs "German develepmonti rather than—that of other nations. As not very much is Known of veen German practice, this is an. advantage rather than othorwis Tie. author somewhat disparages French, British and" American construction, but. this was perhaps to foo' expected, however one may" disagree with him. Airships are very fully described.
This. book, should certainly yo in the hands of any German person interested in.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.