PUBLICATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 2 May 1925, Page 7

PUBLICATIONS.

THE SHIP BEAUTIFUL. We have received for review in our columns from Messrs Frederick Wariie and Co., Ltd., London, a copy of “The Ship Beautiful: A Two-fold Tale,” by C. R. Allen. Tho publication is excellently produced and contains a number of well executed illustrations, while the whole is a transcription from the Braille script of Richard Burnard. In a brief foreword Justin Huntly McCarthy, himself a noted author and novelist, says: “ ‘The Ship Beautiful’ is a book to be read by every child from seven to seventy, or from eight to eighty, or for that matter, from nine to ninety. It is called a twofold tale, and this duality of purpose is the dominating charm of the work. It is the record of a jolly, lovable little boy with a fitting devotion to cricket, and of his uncle who dwells with a brave heart and a fine mind in the shadow of sadness. Tho pair are the best of friends, and between them they build up the wonder story which makes the tale within the tale. It is a vivid creation, imaginative, fantastic, humorous, delicately rendered in poetic thought. It should delight all who love the chronicles of fairyland and the music of Oberon’s Horn.”