This little book is a well thought out and carefully chosen collection of Feading matter which should mako Jan instant appeal to all teachers of foreign students. Only too frequently their feet. are guided along the well-worn paths of the classies, chiefly because the language used 19 free from slang, iloms. and. collotracts chosen are as uninteresting as they are literary thus proving of little help to those whose knowledge of English literature Is limited," Mr. Eckersley has departed from the beaten track with very happy results, All unusual phrases, oF allusions have been carefully annotated.at the foot of each page, An added attraction, probably its major one is that stories, poems, plays, essays and conversations have been gathered together in one convenient sized volume, and thet can be no question as to the excelence of the material chosen, This Is. a book to be recommended with the utmost. confidence.
Years" War was one of the most Jeruel and unprovoked wars ever witnessed, and he ascribes. some of Japan's dimeulties in her present day feereer to memories of this experience Jot 400 years ago. But on her part apan greatly benefited as the war an end to her own internal roubles and in' doing soit didn't 'Com: bring the expected territorial material lxains. The new national attitude was Jdeveloped on peaceful lines so that 'Japan for about 300 years, beginning, in' the 17th century, enjoyed peried of prosperity and tranquil ity, and it was in the beginning of this year that" the Tokugawa Shogunate came into existence A Queen's Revelations The key to old Egyptian, it is) claimed, has been supplied through messages said to emanate from the Lady Nona, who is identified in this book as a Babylonian Princess who married Amenhotep LI. Nona appears not only to have divulged th Secret of ancient Egyptian pronounciation but to have revealed circumstantial evidence of the life and. time of the period, The sentences uttered by the medium Rosemary were phonetically recorded by Dr. F, _H, Wood, a well-known North of England musician, and a sound record of Rosemary's trance-communication was taken at the International Institute of Psychical Research under circum stances confirmed by the research officer of that institute.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.