The reader will wonder what Colonel Braghine has to say of the theory that Europe, Africa and the Americas at one remote time were one continent but drifted apart by a The same (profile) years old. slow geological process, the theory first advanced by the Austrian geologist Dr. Alfred Wegener, based on the undoubted fact that these continent could easily be fitted into each other in the manner of a jigsaw puzzle. Wegener's theory allows for a northward movement of Greenland from a more southern position, which might account for the tradition of Atlantis, Colonel Braghine, while not rejecting the "floating continent" theory, cannot accept the Greenland explanation, holding fast to his theory of a genuine cataclysm.
These then, and many other con-lectures may be found in Colonel Braghine's interesting book. For there is no claim on his baft that these things are more than conjecture, though they are to his mind reasonable conjecture. After reading his book one can at least agree with him that "Plato's account, after 2,000 years of criticism, still remains a "for Epicures Cuow! Secrets of Chinese Cooking with Selected Recipes. By Dolly Liu.
Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai. $850.
This friendly book is by Mrs. Burma Liu, a well known figure in Shanghai's social world and a daughter of the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow of Hongkong. There is an in-production by Lady Clark Kerr and a frontispiece which shows the author's pleásant face surrounded by a bevy of well-known Shanghailanders of the feminine gender either just about i" begin or having just finished a Chinese "chow." Added to which, the book is illustrated by the jolly pen and brush of Henry Liu and by many photographs (some of them in colour)
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.