Sir George MacMunn sketch development of slavery in the United s up to the end of the Civil and dealing with that event up the general results as fol-
They travelled light, these young soldiers of fortune, and what they lacked in sartorial equipment and traveller's cheques, was more than balanced by courage, if-confidence ard enthusiasm. Withcthese qualities as their stock-in-trade, awa' sailed into the unknown in work and high adventure, the one a complement to the other, That they found both is amply proven by this fascinatingly interesting book.
Assigned to Adventure " fulfils its promise; it is the true story of a newspaper woman of enterprise and aboli and- N Irene Kuhn's contribution to the steadily increasing list of journalistic autobiographies, form of contemporary comment and narrative combined, which have in recent years made their bow to the reading public and have been received by it with much favour Men, Women and Events Unlike Vincent Sheean's " Personal History." Wal Durantys "I Write ar I Please," and other books in this cate go Mrs, Kuhn's book has little historial or political background. I is instead an, absorbingly interesting narrative, dealing with men, women and events in the zone of the author's round-the-world travels. and presented to the reader from the subjective point of view of the news reporter Few women journalists have travelled as extensively as the author. and fewer still have matched her adventures and reportorial experience which cover a wide range from the "Chicago Tribune" in Paris in the early post-war day to the "China Press" in Shanghai when Herbert Webb occupied the editorial chair, the "Star-Bulletin" of Honolulu, the "Daily News" and "World Telegram" of New York.
Mrs, Kuhn writes well.
She has a trenchant masculine style and is a well-trained newspaper "man" with an unfailing news sense. Her first consideration "copy." She gets it, and so we have this excellent book. Between its covers Shanghai readers will find many old friends—m.p, Books Received Australia's ' National Interests and
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