Healthier than Townspeople is the tie of a short article with statistics, from which it may be learnt that oth farmers and gardeners have a high suicide rate. "The Reverend" is Service List in the Interim Report on Vocabulary Selection by Faucett, Pal mer, Thorndyke and West, The books the series are to supply reading material suitable "for non-English speaking adolescent readers of "ap proximately 2,000" word vocabulary who wish to tead books of a. more mature subject matter than their' vo= cabulary would seem to imply, The Books are designed to be read for pleasure without.the use of a dietionary. Words not' in the General Ser~ vice List are explained in footnotes and chapter questions are. placed at the end of the book which may. be used to judge of the reader's und standing.
"The Gorilla Hunters" is a well-Known boys' story by Ballantyne which tells how Jack Martin, Peior-.|kin Gay and Ralph. went gorillas in West Africa, The story as ftiven here is half its original length, but it preserves the spirit of the orly Other books in the series range from John Buchan's "The Thirty-nine Stops" and LIG. Wells's "The Invisible "Man" to Jules Verne and Rider Haggard, This is a series with which all teachers of English should acquaint themselves,—r.x4n, New Fiction Although Inspector (Head has gone, for good perhaps, Mr. B, Chan Vivian, his" creator, stil carries on and he now presents us with what itis hoped is the forerunner of a new series, "In "The Impossible Crime (Ward Lock, London, Colonial Edltion. 3/6), this virile and entertaining author gives his many readers another extremely smart detective in the shape of Inspector Hattersley, whose subtle though very. human methods of investigation rival those of even Wead. Faced by robbery and murder with not the slightest clue to assist him in his earlier enquiries, Hatters-Joy Keeps his nose to the ground and itis" able eventually to unravel the tangled skein that enmeshes the mys~ tery. Mr. Vivian's customary talents are displayed to the full In this very fascinating thriller, his characters, good and' bad, drawn with a deft ouch, his masterly retention of the crux of the situation until the appropriate moment and' his witty and clever dialogue, all. clearly. stamping him as one of the outstanding crime novelists of the present time—r.A, quaint ttle sketch of a country Vicar; "Secretive 'Dog-Roses" is. bY Rona' Hurst; RIN. Lockley's "In Search of an Island" series deals this quarter with a trip to the Desertas, Which have seldom been visited except by Portuguese; Here 1s a remedy for whooping cough ald the dally, woman Tinows_ a cure forthe south: "Course, Us old Sie wrong to do. "un, when het were a tile maid. 1 cuts ita piece of her hale and puts "un Between bread and butter, andi makes cand at un, neb ae an tin Eincels iva bitch, Then T gives dog. the read, and. scet Het eat Nd. walks "Nome another It is impossible to enumerate all the useful, informing and curious things that are contained in this magazine from the country, and the Photographs are always a joy.
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