REVIEWS
PARABLES.
By WILSON BELL.
Milner & Co.
n.?
15101210!-ץצופו
IN 11310756/?!ימיFarah/:5, Mr. Bell, with consummate skill, carries the reader
back to the Carboniferous Period.
He does not trouble himself about scientific
facts, but he gives most adequate descriptions, often beautiful, of that happy
happy age.
It is a quaint conceit of his to write the parable in prehistoric times, and the
moral in the twentieth century.
I regret that the book is illustrated.
The artist's conceptions are far below
those of the author, which has a tendency to deter rather than help the reader.
There is a slight journalistic touch in the style, but there is much too much
in this book to allow it to trouble you.
Read it, and know Thyself.
Ε. LE Roux.
LVRA NIGERUE:
A BOOK OF VERSES ΙιιυετκΑτΙνε OF LIFE IN NIGERIA,
By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms)
FISHER UNWIN.
μ. 6d. net.
NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose
heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who
loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his
splendid outlook upon life.
In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be
circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in
West Africa.
A complaint could be made that this book is too reminiscent of Kipling;
perhaps it is
; but then again, perhaps the author has never read Kipling.
The following, from “ The Leper,” is characteristic—
" Here through the live-long day I wait,
Allah! Allah!
In the shadows flung by the city gate,
Allah! Allah!
My fingers have gone and my toes as well,
And the leprous spots on my body swell,
But Allah Eternal does all things well.
Allah l Allah! Akbar !"
BUNCO.
THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS
OF Jm CROW,
J. & J. BENNETT.
1:.
THE best of this book is that it reads well.
Ithought a priori (a) it read very
well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it only read well weekly because of
its pornographic or Prudential surroundings.
But, lol it is most excellent,
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