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Warren. is comparatively easy for an anthropologist to collect a mass of curious customs together and with veneer of fiction to write stories about some primitive people, which will be instructive and amusing to civilized readers. The savage and the dog alike would moreover be amazed if the material were presented to them in, their own Tanguage.
But Mr. Driberg has not done this; he has produced a book which instinct tells one is as free from the errors of the personal equation as could possibly be. One's first reaction is that these studies of an East African native tribe could be lated literally into the ab-iginal Language and be accepted fas authentic saga literature capable of suring the emotions; that the Didinga might feel as they heard it recited almost as much as. the Greeks felt when Homer was recit=
40 to them, This effect has been achieved by really remarkable technique of 'MINA To Cuttsea."—By Capt. Dan-can MeCallum, *.c, London: Ernest Bena Led.
Of odd journeying there is'no end and the devising of unique travels is daily becoming more difficult. Capt-tain and Mrs, McCallum, accompanied by two mechanical experts and two 1925-model motorcars whose faithful performance earned them the privilege of being regarded as party personnel, accomplished trip from Peking to Chelsea which necessarily included a considerable amount of traversing of familiar routes and much sea voyaging but still had its fair share of trail-blazing and ample novelty, The reader will share the writer's disappointment that civil war and the caution of the Home Government prevented the carrying through of the original scheme, on its original schedule—an inland youre leading by devious courses from Peking to Kashgar, thence westward out of Chinese Turkistan and over the Pamirs to Samzrqand and "Bokhara, on to Persia and ross to Damascus and Beirut and via the Balkans, Northern Italy Austria and France to London, But this was in 1927, and after elaborate The title of this book makes one think that it is to be a discussion of what would happen if Jesus Christ were to come again now. It is not quite that but as the author's note tells us "purports to be the descrip tion of a dream" and to be "founded upon the experience which the' author had while reading the Gospel of St. Mark on the Mount of Olives at the time of the Jerusa-
Jem meeting of the International Missionary Council.".... It is a Meditation 3) on the Gospel of St. Mark, taking the form of An Imaginative Reconstruction in Terms of To-day of the Words and Scenes Described In That Gospel.
The following excerpts will give an idea of the method of the book.
"The way of an ascetic is a way of jeseape and it is a way the Great Teacher would not take. I confess that at the outset I thought Zecherson's was the harder path and ours the easier. I soon came to change my mind." It should be explained that the narrator is said to be Simon Rockwell" just as St. Mark is held to embody the reminiscences of Peter. "In private he expounded to us the meaning of the figures that he used in a way that he did not do tothe general public. Always A ie by Pearl Binder used iitustrat "people of the Small
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