DOWN GRUB STREET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

DOWN GRUB STREET

ASIA’S TEEMING MILLIONS; AND ITS PROBLEMS FOR THE WEST (By Etienne Dennery, is being published by Jonathan Cape,). This account of the expansion of Eastern peoples is based on the author’s actual experiences in Japan, China and India. On his travels through Asia. Mr Dennery welcomed every occasion to live among the populace and question peasants and coolies as well as prominent statesmen, professors and leaders in the intellectual world. He was an eye-witness of ihc struggle uf small farmers, in the Japanese plains or in the Chinese valleys, cramped upon their tiny rice fields, of students in all countries vainly seeking the employment which should have crowned the successes of a University career, of workmen seeking a livelihood from town to country. The author shows the dangers and reactions that over crowding engenders; India restive at the ban from the British Dominions. Japan lighting for the conquest of the Pacific markets, China pouring her restless millions into Manchuria, Jndo-China and Malaya. Mr Deanery’s impartial study of the urgent problem of overpopulation will be read with lively interest by students of economics and social welfare, while the general reader will find pleasure and instruction in this picturesque record of the teeming, restless life of the East. This book has been translated from the French bv John Peile, M.A. Lidin is one of the most widely read of living Russian authors. He has been translated into practically all the European languages. Jn his love of travel he is a true cosmopolitan, and his wide culture enables him to express his peculiar understanding of the. psyche logy of contemporary Russia in terms intelligible to the European reader. Hv is a man of sensitive and rather reserved temjieranient, a good linguist, and an ardent collector of books and pictures.