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10 THE ADVOCATEBOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTSBOOKS are always a pleasing and appropriate gift for Christmas. The following were reviewed in The Advocate during the past year and may help readers in making a choice. AustralionaMacquarie's World. Marjorie Barnard. Melbourne University Press.Lyrebirds Calling from Australia. R. T. Littlejohns. Robertson Mullens.Red Grew the Harvest. Pellegrini.Bad Medicine. Victor Hall Robertson Mullens.Industrial Regulation in Australia. O. de R. Foenander. Melbourne University Press.The Bunyip. Charles Barrett, Robertson Mullens.A Nation Grew Wings. Burton Graham Frank Smyth. Robertson Mullens,Hail Tomorrow. Vance Palmer. Angus Sc Robertson.Burma Surgeon Returns. Gordon Seagrave. Dymocks.One Hundred Years. (Church in W.A.) J. T. McMahon. Peterson's Press.Ports of Sunset. Ernestine Hill. Robertson Mullens.Darwin Drama. Owen Griffiths. Bloxham Chambers.Dhidgerry Dhoo. Owen Griffiths. P. S. Press.Melbourne Gardens. Crosbie Morrison. Melbourne University Press.Inside Parliament. Warren Denning. Australian Publishing Co.Theatre in Australia. Allan Aldous. F. W. Cheshire.Short History of Church of England in Victoria, 1847-1947. H. W. Nunn. Robertson Mullens.Australia's New Order. Catholic Worker.The Australian People. Brian Fitzpatrick. Melbourne University Press.Moving Frontiers. Fred Alexander. Melbourne University Press.NovelsHeritage Perilous. JefferyFarnol. Samson. Low. Marston.The Passage Vance Palmer. Robertson Mullens.Fair City. William Hand. Clonmore Sc Reynolds.Portrait of Celandine. Isobel Clarke. Hutchinson.With Every Year. Catherine Gaskin. Collins.Washdirt. James Devaney.Georgian House.Cyclone. Vance Palmer. Angus Robertson.GeneralLife and Legends of Many Lands. Whitcombe Tombs.Benedictines of Today. Dom Romanus Rios, O.S.B. Stanbrook Abbey Press.A Little Harvest. J. T. McMahon. Paterson’s Press.Men Against the Earth. John Ewers. Georgian House.W. t. LINEHAN, Pty. Ltd.Bookseller and Stationer,244 ILIZA*CTH STREET, MELBOURNEBook ReviewsFrom Hunting Field to Cloister. M. Xavier Gwynn. S.H.CJ. Clonmore Reynolds.Scarlet and Gold. Philip Desmond Green. Clonmore Reynolds.Background to Music. Jeffreys Scherek. Melbourne University Press.Schubert and Schumann Songs and Translations. Sir Robert Garran. Melbourne University Press.With Ivory Year. By Cotherina fVitkm nuthnr nf ThU Frlen.Life's Light and Shade. Mary E. Foley. Collins' Book Depot.Fiddle-De-Dee and Gumtips. Charles Hilson. Carroll's.Anatomy of Peace. Emery Reves. Penguin.The House That Words Built. Roberta Graham McKie, Lantern Publishing Co.The Water That Flew. Roberta Graham McKie. Lantern Publishing Co.Memories of Enjoyment. Stephen Gwynn. Kerryman.Priest Among the Soldiers. Martin Dempsey. Burns Oates.Is the Catholic Church Anti-Social? Coulton Lunn. Burns Oates.The Castaways. Conor O'Brien. Richview Press.My Life Is Mine. Mary Beattie. Gill Sons.Rediscovery of Morals. Henry Link. Dutton Co.Woman Unknown. George Grange. Angus Robertson.As in a Mirror. Fr. James, O.F.M.Cap. Mercier Press.Owners or Slaves? Catholic Worker.Bond or Free. Murray Mclner-ney. Catholic Social Guild.PoetryThe Moving Image. Judith Wright. Meanjin Press.Under Aldebaran. James McAuley. Melbourne University Press.Modern Australian Poetry. Selected by H. M. Green. Melbourne University Press.Literary CriticismCreative Writing in New Zealand. J. C. Reid. Whitcombe Sc Tombs.Shakespearean Afterglow. C. S. Montgomery. Robertson Mullens.Theological, Devotional, Etc.This Tremendous Lover. M. Eugene Boylan. Mercier Press.The New Testament. Ronald Knox. Pellegrini. Sheed Ward.All Mv Days for God. J. B. Coyle. Gill Son.Other Christs. Fr. Aloysius, O.F.M. Gill Sc Son.The Marriage Service and Nuptial Mass. Annals Office.Platform Replies. J. P. Arend-zen. Mercier Press.Veil Upon the Heart. G. Byrne, S.J.The Comforting of Christ.Caryll Houselander. Sheed Ward.The Voice of a Priest. Edward Leen, C.S.Sp. Sheed Ward.Live the Mass. J. T. McMahon. Pellegrini.Our Lady of Fatima. William Thomas Walsh. McMillan.BiographyEdmund Rice. J. D. Fitzpatrick. Gill Sc Son.Memoirs of Tilly Ashton. Tilly Ashton. Hawthorn Press.Legionaries of Christ. Arthur K Ryan. Clonmore Sc Reynolds, Pope Pius XII. Charles Doyle. Invincible Press.The Abbe Edgeworth. M. V. Woodgate. Browne Sc Nolan.The Road of Excess. (Isaac Butt.) Terence de Vere White. Browne Nolan.The Case of Peter Abelard. Ailbe Luddy, O.Cist. Gill Sc Son.Autobituary. R. H. Croll. Bread and Cheese Club.THE LEPER KINGThere are two main traps for careless players in the writing of novels of the Middle Ages. On the one hand, you can make an adolescent story of simple-hearted, chuckle-hcaded lay-figures—heroes, villains, fair ladies and priests— playing a series of period” scenes, and uttering a strange jargon to create the mediaeval atmosphere. On the other, you can write an ‘'adult” story in the modern manner, in which a few typically 20th century people find themselves strikingly cast in a world of superstitious barbarism and primitive passion, which both they and the author are engaged in “de-bunking,” in a more or less sympathetic manner.The author of The Leper King” has succeeded in avoiding both these errors. In his story of Jerusalem in the last days of the Crusading Kingdom, the characters are convincing both as adult human beings and as inhabitants of the 12th century world. Their faith and their problems are treated seriously: the description of the central figure, the heroic leper, King Baldwin IV, is very moving indeed, as we see him pass from black despair and bitterness at the horror of his fate to a splendid acceptance of his cross and heroic fulfilment of his task as king.The other figures in the story stand out clearly from their strange Latin - Oriental background—the sensual Princess Sybilla, pursuing her appetites regardless of human pity or reason; the upright, honest Ibelin and the weak but well-meaning Guy de Lusignan; the narrow, brainless and brutal Chatillon; the sage and cynical Saladin, ever troubled by the paradox of the Franks and their Faith. The web is well woven so as to illustrate both the splendour of the crusading idea and the folly and baseness which brought it to disaster . . . not by the will of God, but by the treason of men. Zofia Kossak is to be congratulated upon an excellent tragic drama, set in a period which provides an abundance of material for novelists which is lamentably neglected.—D.G.M.J.The Leper King. By Zofie Kouok. I Hutchinson and Co.)AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED NATIONSThis is a very valuable and timely handbook on the origins, aims and work of the United Nations Organisation. The author, Patrick Hamilton, is a former Victorian Rhodes scholar, who has recently returned to Melbourne after teaching in Queensland.The book is a miniature cyclopaedia of information on U.N., concisely, methodically and attractively presented, with excellent diagrams and photographs. Of special importance is a section on Australian participation in world affairs. An excellent handbook for secondary schools.—J.G.M.Australia and H»* United Nation*. ByPatrick Hamilton, M.A., B.Litt.,Dip.Ed. Obtainabla at book storesor direct from the Oxford Press Pty.it, Mel-Ltd.. 39 Little Collms-street, bourne. Price 2/9.
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