The Archive · 1936

ACTIVE ENEMIES

led Wan Wontns—By Professor L.'

bette! Sertolds, Lanton A676 This is a very ambitious effort but only "a. partial" success, The pub: Ushers' "blurb" on the wrapper com-. pares it-with the romances of 3G. of he" inset world" ates" oontnt The Wells, but this is an exaggeration.

subject is the threat to humanity balance shall have: been reached, by collectivism, In" Furnas' very ro-markable book, "The Next Hundred Years," he stresses the competition of the insects with mar pre-'Our sent author' suggests: that the wise int may. even organize a systematic assault upon man, "As far as the reviewer can' judge; Invaluable. to those who wish to go and happiness is the talking film of than. this; "in "other "words, It 1s 2 from brush-writing to. pen-writing, Hollywood.ereation: it is in fact a lishmen, and that is that the Ameri Professor Detre's biology Is pretty. book which may be picked up when-Each of the 214 radicals Is given in book for those who prefer everything can law of libel is vastly different sound, but the same cannot be eaid the two forms as written by the head which 1s natural to all those things from the British. In point of fact ever one has a spare moment and, of his mechanics or psychology. Thus teacher of the C.IM, Men's Training which are artificial, in other words the American law of Mbel. is based wishes to put st to good use, It is a he: supposes a future type of stratas-._ phene vehicle: which can "ascend: to Home at Hwaining, Anhwei. Bestd to the: main things' which make up very much on the British law, the book. that one would: wish to: return to again and again,. because It con-the 1,900 so-called foundation cha "modern" life: the author is a lover only difference apparently being that a great height and will-automatically tains many of the golden inspirations acters are presented in the same of everything which lives, even the the American newspapers manage stand. still while. the' earth' revolves of man. 'The entire treasury' of the under: iti;. Actuully any: body. which manner,.s0 that the student who things which crawl, and the weeds avoid actions with greater success world's literature, from Zoroaster masters the whole book will have a of the waysides; he confesses, in fact, than do delinquents under British law. rises -from the ground. shares. and rich supply from which to draw in to be almost a pantheist, and that is 'The chapters on Mbel" in criticism Shakespeare and from the Psalms to) retains the ea'th's, motion and can Francis Thompson, has been ransacked only be deprived of that, motion' by phrasing letters and messages. It Feally the keynote of his work. are extraordinarily useful and should for its gems: Dante, Lincoln, Shelley should not be necessary to-point out In 365 short essays—some of them be studied by all journalists. And an "applied force, As to matters and Plate touch elbows in one thin mental, while instinct and reason are that one, must be able to write the only too short—the writer. touches 50, too, is that on the position of the volume, the result of painstaking and, probably far closer together than characters in the ordinary drush upon almost every possible subject ress, although the English reader judicious selection—v.nt most people Jike to think, the sudden manner, putting down the strokes in dear to the heart of a naturalist, and must realize that conditions on both the recognized order, before one can fits these in 9s far as possible with sides of the Atlantic are by no means development in. ants of ' wide-range Comparable in spite of the similarity! OUT OF THE DEPTHS. improbatic, "Adaptation io chose reasoning powers is, to say the least. attempt -the shortreuts of the pen- the turn, of the weeks and seasons O¢"the law governing. taels notions, writing, In many cases there lo a commencing and finishing on the; note great saving In strokes, which for of spring—an arrangement which The really "interesting fact is that, 'MP. (NZ) Laurie, London. 1/6; By John Alexander, Yee, conditions, is certainly a fact in ant obvious reasons 1s not for the begin-avoids too much accentuation of the generally speaking, it is possible to Mfe, but to suppose a rapid" growth This book cannot properly be called ner. There is an index to the char-hardships: of winter, since it-is obpunish only one kind of defamation, of deductive mentality is far-fetched. Action—although it has fictional char-However. the book, although rather acters contained, at the end of the vious that Mr, Peatile is the joyful and that is the kind which emerges acters. For it is the true record of technical' and lacking in ight relief,, kind of naturalist who prefers to through the medium of publication Tinger more on the Joys' then the 2 in some form or other.' Yet defama- New the boyhood of a man prominent Zealand affairs 10-009, "The {ig quite' entertaining—n.c. laceed, the: Sedicseghip general nienat and wae, the SOEOWE of his many subjee. n=! don, YZ ward of, mouth very often Anthony Poreello whose early" Ute Mon by word of mouth very often Hunted* "continues the' Sereer -ey

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