Missionary Council, 8s, 6d, nett, This is a study based on the prow lcoedings of the International Confers lence at Lo Zoute, Belgium, September 1926. The Conference was attend= fed by some 260 loading administra" tors, educationalists and sionaries of many nationalities Many African and American Negroes took part. The writer of this book has been for many yearg missionary in Northern Rhodesia, and is the author of several first~ class books on Africa, He has nob attempted to give a record of the speeches and resolutions, but has carefully considered these ant the general spirit of the Conference, and has attempted to interpret' the of the whole, The re ordered presentation of sues of the present time in Africa, It is noe vonsy to realize that Afvica occupies a space nearly three times the size of Europe, and neatly, four times that of the United States Tt is not so thickly populate? as Europe or Asi yet ite inhabitants fare estimated at 150 million. Some 260 languages have been reduced to written form; but many of them have very scanty literature, and it ig said that "hero is many' a tru whose whole literature could be cay vied "in a lady's pocket hanidk" chief." The Bible, in whole or in part, has been translated into 243 of the languages spoken in Africa, The retrospect of Christian effort includes such curiosities as the me structions given by the first governor fof the Dutch settlers at the Cape, that "to stimulate the slaves attention while at school, and to induce them to learn the Christian prayers, they should be promised a lass of brandy and two inches of tobacco"! From the beginning off the Christian era there have always jans in some parts of Africas yet in modern times it has been fitly spoken of as the "Clarke continent." Pioneers of the Chris jan faith have for generations shown zeal and devotion in their efforts; but it is chiefly since the time of Livingstone that Protestant missionary work may be said to have Yeally. begun, In the 60 years since that great missionary and exe plover died, there have been wonderful development in Africa, and the book under review summarizes these, and shows the present oppor= tunities, and some of the pressing problems, To those who stilt think of Africn in the terms of a genera~ jon ago, this book will be a revela~ ion.
Tt! is a valuable book for re+ re subject.
One of the Intest recruits to the yanks of writers of the younger generation is Miss Nancy Roper Miss Roper, who started writing stories when she was eight years fof age, is just seventeen, and she has written a book called "Dionys," which is to be published shortly by Alston Rivers. The theme la based upon the Scandinavian sagas, It is good news to hear that Miss Sackville-West, the wife of Mr, Harold Nicolson, the Byron and Tennyson authority, who is attache led to the British Legation at Teheran, has almost completed a new novel, Before it is finished ste will sail for Persia, making once again that wonderful voyage so vividly [described by her in her. Jast book, "Passenger to Teheran."
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