BOOK TO READ

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 125, 2 May 1925, Page 10

BOOK TO READ

‘ ‘ THE ROMANCE OF EMPIRE. ’ • (Sir Phillip Gibbs.) “The Romance of Empire” has been a great adventure —an adventure in which the manhood of tho race has proved its mettle, time and time again, through many centuries and in many lands. Tho story of the Empire is a series of heroic biographies of men who fought hard and dared many danger i and suffered every kind of hardship. In this book Sir Phillip Gibbs tells the personal and adventurous side of this thriling story. He tells in graphic language of those early pioneers who won for us tho British Empire. This edition has been specially revised and enlarged by Sir Phillip Gibbs himself. J t deals with the histories of Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, and forms a complete narrative of a great adventure. —Pub.: Hutchinsons. Price 12/6. TEN YEARS AFTER. (Sir Phillip Gibbs.) This book has been written as a reminder of the emotion, the idealism and the spiritual union of all classes among the British people in the early days or the war. It is a poignant survey of tho mental and economic state of Europe at the present day, and takes into account the disillusion, bitterness and class conflict due to the failure of peace. The book is not only a reminder but a warning, and gives a call to the spim of our nation in this tiiyc of grave trou ble.—Pub. Hutchinsons. Price 8/6. “WHY I AM A CHRISTIAN.” (Dr. Frank Crane.) Dr. Crane was for thirty years a preacher. He gave up his pulpit to broadcast his sermons through tho daily newspapers. To-day his pews stretch out into the far corners of the earth, and they are always filled. Twenty million people in eighteen countries read his daily sermon. No man, living or dead., ever spoke to so large audience. The book is not an argument; it is an intimate personal confession. It is not an attempt to convert anybody; it is a thrilling record of an attempt to use Christianity.—Pub: Cornstalk and Co. Proico 4/6. BLIND RAFTERY.” (By Donn Byrne, author of ‘ ‘ The Wind Bloweth.”) “I confess to thinking that many of the episodes have a queer and heartwringing loveliness that is well nigh intolerable. 1 confess to finding that the brief chapter that bridges seventeen years and winds up tho story to ‘ the true rhythm of life’ a small materpiec* of wisdom and art.” —Pub. Sampson Low. Price 6/-. “FLAYING THE GAME.” (T. E. Ruth.) Whether he writes on “Loving God Merrily” or on “Converting lhe Devil,” “Falling in Love” or “Mateship and Marriage,” when he is charging Communists with lack of faith in the community, chaffing churchmen un their love of labels, or insisting that we are “British by the Will of God.” Mr Ruth’s pen is always tipped with good cheer. Even when he hits hardest—and there is plenty of hard hitting in this book —there is abundance of good humour. He belongs to “The Church of Jolly Good Fellows.” He writes to inspire people with courage and with gaiety to face the problems of living and to play the game. And he does it in clear, limpid English with pow er of epigrammatic phrase and rare understanding of the Australian mind. —Pub. Cornstalk Co. Price 4/6.