SHORTER NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21708, 15 February 1936, Page 17

SHORTER NOTICES

Pacifism at the Bar of Holy Scripture and History. By the Rev. Isaac Jolly, M. A. With a foreword by the Hon. W. Downie Stewart. White ombe and Tombs Ltd. 64 pp. (1/- net.) Mr Jolly claims to have proved in his first chapter that pacifism is coritrary to the mind of God. Subsequent chapters prove that it is contrary to the teaching of history; contrary also to the principles of the Protestant Church; last, and possibly ; not least, a menace also to the safety of the British. The heresy seems redundantly damned.

The Body and Its Health. By Winifred Ctillls and Muriel Bond. Ivor Nicholson and Watson Ltd. 216 pp. (3/6 net.) Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. It would be fantastically exacting to expect ja sounder or clearer exposition of vital facts and principles, with their lessons of wise living, than is given in this book by Dr. Cullis and Miss Bond; The first is the Sophia Jex-Blake Professor of Physiology in the University of London ; , MiSs Bond is assistant lecturer in physiology at the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women. They have written with admirable judgment for readers of school age.

Cheerful Giver. The Life of Harold Williams. By his wife, Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams. Peter Davies. (10/6 net) Through White ombe and Tombs Ltd. This biography of s Harold .Williams was the subject of a leading article in “The Press” of February 8. ...

Trail of the Macaw. By Eugene Cunningham. Hodder and Stonghtbn. 310 pp. From W. S. Smart. “Soldiers of Fortune ih Banana Land” is the sub-title of this new and brilliant gunfire-romance of Eugene Cunningham’S. But readers need not be afraid that he has lapsed into Queensland.

A First Russian Reader. By Anna H. Semeonoif. .J. M. Dent; and . Sons Ltd. 119 pp. (3/6 net.) An easy introduction 'to. Russian, by careful gradations in difficulty of vocabulary, and construction. The writer is teacher of Russian in George Watson’s Boys’ College' Edinburgh. In addition to ’ notes and vocabulary there are 27 illustrations by A. Patterson Barclay.

A Century of Girls’ Stories. Edited by Ethel Boileati. Hutchinson. 1018 pp. (4/6 net.) Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. One of the amazingly rich and cheap “Century” series. , About 40 writers are represented, but not all by short stories. Extracts, beautifully complete in themselves, from novelists are included', Stevenson, George Eliot, Thackeray, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Jona-; than Swift are among these. It is interesting to note, by the way, that Miss Boileau can confidently include among “girls’ stories” such fine pieces as young Hawkins’s fight with "Israel Hands and. Scott’s account of the tournament at Ashby-de-la-:Zouche interesting, andheartening! Other contributors? —Eleanor Far jeon, then, Frank Stockton, Rafael Sabatini, Naomi Mitchison, Ethel Talbot, and Kenneth Grahame. Miss Boileau, though, is not afraid of classical names: at least half are “standard.” And about three in four of these writers for girls are* men!

Bitter Glory. By , Leon. Thoniber. Hutchinson. 286 pp. Through Whltcombe and Tombs Ltd. > No. 39 in the First-Novel Library, this is as good as could be expected in the way of a novel about -Chopin and Georges Sand. Musicians will not like it, though, unless they take their music and musicians very sentimentally.