Books for Study and Leisure Hours

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume III, Issue 3, 1 July 1910, Page 108

Books for Study and Leisure Hours

" Reel Horse Hill," by Sidney McCulL— This book, by the author of " Ruth Dexter," is certainly very interesting, although when one lays it down there is a feeling of disappointment, in that the great question, which, apart from the love story, forms the chief interest of the book, is too lightly and cursorily dealt with. Tbe terrible blot on America's civilization — tlie employment of child labour — labour in which the lives of tender children are withered by constant toil and the atmosphere of the factories needs the pen of a great author like the writer of " Uncle Tom's Cabin," to express its iniquity. ******

" A Modern Chronicle," by Winston Churchill. — This book, by the author of " The Crisis," is a very clever study of the conditions of life in Anr-rica, and is especially a severe indictment of the laws of the States regarding divorce. It exposes the aimless life of the modern society woman, and by taking for heroine a woman of a really high character, and inherently good anel pure disposition, shows how such a woman may, by force of circumstances, aud lack of power to rise above her surroundings, be led on step by

step to do what she afterwards bitterly regrets We cannot blame Honora for drifting apart from her husband, as she was almost forced to do so by his absorption in mon making, to the exclusion of any other interest. We feel intensely sorry for her, in that, as her charming old Aunt Mary feared, she " builded upon sand." *** * % *

' Canadian Born/' by Mrc. Humphrey Ward.— A brightly written record of travel in Canada, with the central interest, of the story of a self-made Canadian engineer, and a well-born Englishwoman. The book is charmingly illustrated with views of the grand scenery of the country, and holds one's attention from the first page to the last. *F T T * T T

1 Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent," by C. Herman, sen., G.C.A. — A small pamphlet which is given to the nurses on the private staff of the London Hospital. It is a useful little booklet, with many good recipes. It is small, and easy to carry in private nursing, and we recommend it to our readers. It can be got from The Food and Cookery Publishing Agency, 329 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W.