Rep Virqur (Human Relationships, in the New Russ).—By Bilo Winter.
Victor Gollanez, Londo Miss Winter's" despatches are] partly the material for this. book. She has done s service in reminding the world that Russia has some measure extricated herself from the purely revolutionary Bone which never. knew anything riod. The generation growing up
but the Soviet regime. The dose perate remedies, shifts, reckless esses of the iconoclasts are things of the past. The relentless fanatic ism which banished all symbols of the" Tsarist regime—whether bad
50 tragically with fantastic liberty good and which experimented ithe reader with the portentous Proofs of, progress or "advanced Thought." 'Those who expect to harrowing tales,' a. morality all Askew will be disappointed... Phose weird notions of free-love, amoral views on. sex have been replaced, Judging from Miss Winter's. statements, by a healthier and more fragrant outlook. The muddled \inovality or lack of morality of the earlier days was partly due to the desire to mark rejection of the priesteridden regime and partly the outcome of excessive emotion and extreme tribulation. Monogamy' is the alm if not the achievement of the Russian under the USSR.
is dificult of course to dogma: Use'on the general run of Miss Winter's arguments. "For instance Fre Bucate-—Raymond Otis, Victor Gollancz, London.
With 2 series of conflagrations as 'a persistent background for his Story. Reymond Otis in Brigade" tells of the lapse from virtue of a woman, happily married and really devoted to her husband and appreciative of his quali Jost why a moment of weakness Should have overtaken her is difficult to see. Lorenzo de Baca, the tertium quid, is a New Mexican of a Spanish descent and what can only for want of a better term be de~ seribed as hybrid mentality.
Jockron Gregory. Heer Rioughton, 176.
In this second essay in the school of detective fiction, the fouther's powers of invention easy, readable style show pert even better advantage than the Western Tomances by which he has previously established his name. He has found in Mr, Paul Savoy, the amateur. criminologist with it for psychological deduction, fairly convincing central figure, around whom he has grouped in the tance a series of sharply fionaire, a widow with a mysterious past, a. shrewd. attorney, and an resiatibly bright newspaper woman—all of whom sooner or later sir suspicion of a peculiarly cold blooded murder, that of an unknown man whose naked body is Inside. San Francisco. perfectly "innocent "fare." For No fewer than 667 version of the Scriptures have now. been issued by the Society, One of the most interesting published last year Was that of St, Matthew's. Gompel for 160,000, "gypsies in. Central Bulgaria, This was made by. Int, Alanasakieff, an uetive adherent of the Bulgarian' Orthodox Church, who has grown up and lived among ginsics all hi Ife and speaks thelt language as one of themselves, Last year the circulation of the Scriptures. amounted to. 10,617,470 volumes, an inerense t 65,186 over Uke previous year. An analysis of these figures shows that while there Wasa decrease of nearly 25,000 im the "distribution of portions. of Scripture, there wa an increase of more than 1,000 Bibles and almost Hig "Refainenttoa of akg yd] The purchase, of a Chinese. Bible, ant and. encouraging advance,
for example, ts usually an indica: shackled by an equally. fantastic she' seems to suggest that organis-Reanghai readers, incidentally, the Gon "of a serious interest. morbidity—that is yielding place to prostitution has sen. abolished, soberer, less excitable and more though some. individual prostitashipper before his shrine;_ then it plot holds some special interest, for Christianity. on the. part of. the was sheer torment: if he had fived eis from this port that the vit buyer, for itis a book of 1600, Yealistie attitude. It is a pity that tes may still exist" Yet, two Three' centuries earlier, he would have {is supposed to have arrived in the paxex, and, though sold much below Miss' Winter herself seems to be ages before she makes that' state-known what todo. He. would have West Coast. city only a few hours out, "represents the. full' day" entirely caught up. inthe entho-Tent, she compares the moralities thriven "himself? by mortifation before. meeting death at the hands Waxes Of a working mun, siasm of the people around. her, the flesh in the crypt of the The result is that she is carried fon that, point reveal that 29.6 per estan trade and her station feathedral" at "Seville. "But this. was of a ruthless and ingenious Killer. away into extravagances which de-feet. of the unskilled workers, 37 'Swentieth century and he 'The one weak point in the unveiling lof the crime, the perpetrator of rmfssionary output the Bible Society adiion' to te worldwide tract from the credibility of her arguments, On. the" other hand Ber cent. of "trades unknown." 40 Swhich will take "a good deal slated $57,000 copies of the cent. of metal workers resorted' to per ent. of printers and 46.9 per the reader is grateful to anyone.
Mossel and her hus-nessing, is that there is rather too Scriptures in English tu the British who can write on Russia_and.in-prostitutes in' 1926. Does she band, Jim, whom Lorenzo reget rded|much Tengthy lecturing by Savoy the conventionally stolid Detec-Tele ring the. sens ending: Int as a friend, and who thought of thoughts and doings of the, people.
Fuse a litle "liveliness into' the twant her reader to. believe that March, These comprised. 415,000 these opalling figures have been Lorenzo in the same light, they were ive Gateaway, and too little action, with the exception of the Chinatown Bibles, 10500 "Testaments, and 000 portions, In July, 1981, 1 There ig, nothing of the "Cherry virtually reduced "to."
Blossom' gloom about Miss Winter's the army says, in seven years visit and the sinister party at which Society "commenced to publish. 4 all those concerned, including. the Shilling Bible, printed in an exe experiences, in detail the reader learns of the method of training the. Russian anonymous "Mr. X" are faced with observation to be "accepted For all that it is clear.that her Besides meeting these the prin-'a barrage of questioning, Despite Shire paper and bound! in "attyaee ceptionaiy" readable "te. on me child' on the Soviet plan. Father cipal characters of the book, one is these lapses from real distinction, tive bindings," an_ enterprise made fand mother are Kept in proper sub-with. consid reserve, introduced to a Princess, as she was entertaining, and the further ad-however, the "novel "is, extremely possible bythe generosity of the fide to the aim which the Rus jection by filial admonition on. acuniversally called, 8 wotnan of rare Bane, have ae before, themaaves count bad. habits. This Canadian Bible Seclety—and at the character and insight, who gives a ventures of Paul Savoy and his fend of, Maren. 817,000 copies had they axe, possibly, by no means ne: advice, a number ids should be worth following. Been "published, eligible," Hopes are_not the same and a sprink-achievement. Thus on the sub-with the 'Sbriet" educational pol Ting of the poorer inhabitants of the Ject of town-pianning she writes: Who. believed. children should "kr Notwithstanding commercial de-New Mexican town, of more or less, sbout childish things' the Government mixed Spanish and indian blood,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.