Dream and Dictator
rOSE who enjoy tales of a dream world will be interested in Mr. Terence Greenidge's Philip and the Dictator" (Fortune Press). In this novel Philip Loverock finds that as lie stands on a certain spot near Wardour Street he is translated to St. Michael's Isle, a mid-Atlantic State inhabited by people of English descent. H? makes a series of trance visits to StMiehael's. and his adventures there cover the development 01" a Fascist revolution among En;;'isii-speaking people and its danouenr.nt in the assassination of its leader. The story flits back and forth between "liilip's real and dreaming lives, but the whole liangs together with something consistency. The portrait of the leader. General Carstairg, is a convincing one—it would seem probable that a Fascist leader in England might be a fit. well-preserved, middleaged gentleman with a public sthoil tie. .Altogether Mr. Greenidge lias written inp story, but with not c^uite for instance, . v --
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)
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