'We Zone Beirg Deseriptions of many the Customs, Banners, Geremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts the Japanese "Besides "Numerous Omer' Subjects. With 388 Mustra-Mons: Written" and Compiled by Frederic de Gaus pees' for Yamaguchi, Managing Direc for, Fullya Motel, Ltd, Miyanoahita, Sepan, ¥250.
Visitors to Mlyanoshite will recall with gratitude the care taken by the agement of the Fujiya Hotel to combine the nourishment of their bodies with instruction at meal times in Japanese customs and folklore, for on the back of the menu cards have been pleasantly written deceriptions of the customs, manners, ceremonies and festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese, with occasional amusing, igrescions on such matters as the National Moustache Club and! Dieyeles. The author and compiler of this Interesting collection of information is Mr. Frederic de Gaus, and it is satisfactory to find that the Hotel Manayement have now decided to publish the whole in the form of @ neat little volume, tastefully Dound and printed. Besides being an obvious gift book to anyone who wishes to go to Japan, it is just the ..*Castaways of Plenty" by W. E. Hawkins, (Allan, London. 1/—) refers the present, or at least one of the present, major troubles of the world to-day, namely, that though there are the ways and'means to produce an ample sufficiency for the needs of the whole human race, yet because of controlled distribution, by a small [Proportion of would-be' profiteers, this not done. "Controlled distribution [causes a slump in the producing mareet, which in turn means more unemployment and so lack of purchasing power. In fact, as the author points out in the epilogue of the book, bolls down to a vicious circle in which the world sinks more and more into a state of depression. The ory in Heelf lo a simple one, It tells of the lives of three men maroon ed on an island. They have a plentiful supply of food, but one of them with an "eye to the future" persuades. the other two to agree to divide the rights of the island between them. One has the sole coconut rights, one the sole fishing rights, and the third the sole hunting rights. The system is at first one of daily barter, but be-{fore long the coconut owner learns a method of curing fish, and soon finds himself in a position of not having to, purchase fish daily, The ingenuity of the coconut owner marks the art of the profit system on the island. "Before long the other {two have sold both their hunting and ahing rights to the third and become absolutely dependent on him for supplying them with labour and their daily bread as wages. An open revolt against the system only gives them tone day and night of freedom, for, having overcome their profiteering tyrant, they celebrate the occasion by drinking too much coconut wine, to wake the following morning to find themselves bound hand and foot and forced to listen to terms. A chance discovery, however, in the shape of turtles and a banana grove, gives the two the upper hand, but, being simple men. they do not wry and profit, they merely force the third to agree that everything for which each of them works on the island will be equally Aivided "among the three of them—and so they live happily ever afterwards The moral of the book is summer up in the swords of the author in the epilogue "A planned distribution of our already plenteous production—eu that Pleuty shall no longer produce Castaways." Whether such a plan can put into operation is a matter of conjecture, but in any case the book interesting for it explains in simple form the way over-production and labour troubles have been brought "The lustrations i the book a by Mr, Paul Bringle—s3.
"Dark Eyes and Danger" (iutchizzon, London. 7/6), Mr. Hugh Clevely tells a straightforward and quite unsophisticated tale of adventure @iving a new turn to an old theme. The Englishman overseas suddenly becomes the heir to property in England. An attempt is made to murder him and 0 clear the way for a wicked relative to sucreed to the property. The task of enabling virtue to triumph Nuns Clint, Doc Loves—Eaited swith Kind of memento which a traveller! in the end is pleasantly accomplished an Introduction by Rowland Johns. will like to keep permanently to) by the author and, of course, he pro-Published in Association with the remind him of happy days in that|vides virtue with a suitable com-National Canine Defence" Leage-Gelightful country. anion to the sound of marriage bells.
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