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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 11, 1968
Page
4
A critical look at Michael Woolfs Prisons in a Changing World surveys the British penal system from Holloway to Borstals. It notes reforms, open prisons, remand centres, and the need for deeper scientific study into criminal motivation while acknowledging limits and ongoing challenges.
Rosamund Lehmann's Fragments of an Inner Life traces the bereavement of her daughter Sally and her altered belief in survival after death while Julio Cortazar's End of the Game collects fifteen stories exploring extra dimensions and uncanny events. The critique notes the two works offer strong individual passages but the bundle reads unevenly.
A reviewer attacks the Perkins biography of Sir Robert Menzies, faulting its grasp of Australian legal practice and political history. It labels the work as scattershot with gossipy fragments, poor sourcing, and overstatements, yet acknowledges improved sections after chapter nine and potential value as a political memoir.
John Walsh profiles Francis Thompson in a 298 page study critiquing his poetry and life. It argues his verse is chiefly technical showpieces filled with archaic words and opium use, detailing his Lancashire birth, thwarted priestly path, London addiction, Meynell mentorship, and decline after 1892 with laudanum reliance.
Talking hf Books lists Menzies the Last of the Queen’s Men by Kevin Perkins a provocative bio of Australia’s famed statesman. Frank Knopfelmacher’s Intellect Politics and Freedom plus five essays critique science religion and Weber. Also in stock are Mao Tse-tung quotations and The Super Men by Alexander and Tullest about Ze padd aea Fond. Revelman Sex and Politics in Australia and The Between by Winifred Hilliard feature desert tribe history.
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