CURRENT BOOKS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24152, 11 January 1944, Page 4

CURRENT BOOKS

TUBERCULOSIS Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones, whose writings are collected in Papers of a Pioneer (Hutchinson. 107 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.), made himself remarkable in the medical profession chiefly for his views on tuberculosis and for the success of his experiment in vindicating them at Papworth, an industrial colony, where “proper occupations,” as Lord Horder says in a preface, “can be provided under proper conditions.” VarrierJones opposed sanatorium treatment; Papworth was his alternative, and, in Lord Herder's view, his full vindication. READER’S GUIDE “To help the student by telling him some of the methods which successful students have found it desirable to adopt": this is the aim of Reading and Remembering (Melbourne University Press. 30 pp. 6d). The author, Mr J. A. Passmore, has done far better, in far less space, than his predecessor, the author of “How to Read a Book.” RHYMES "Crowbar” (J. Finlay Campbell) is well known to readers of the Wellington “Evening Post,” to whose “Postscripts” column most of the verses in The Postscripts of Crowbar (Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 112 pp.) were contributed. They are easy to read, often amusingly pithy and pointed, perhaps most often when he writes in Lowland Scots.