"THE WISE OLD ELEPHANT”
Here are forty stories—short talks to boys and girls, the author calls them. Their moral is struck in the story of the leaders of wild elephant herds, which move across country in single file, each trending in the steps of the leader, who pilots them over all the had dangerous places, keeping to safe ground, trying doubtful places of oozo and slime and soft treacherous earth, with his sensitive trunk. The forty itories nre steps towards good living and upright doing, all told in a manner to rapture the childish imagination. (Hodder and Stoughton, London.) “Tho Triumphant Ridor,” by Mrs ITarrod, a sister of Torbes-Rqbcrtson. is hailed by C. K. Shorter as a “most brilliant’’ book and ns the most original tiling in modern fiction since “Tho Constant Nymph. 1 '
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12423, 17 April 1926, Page 12
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