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Frank W, Sore^urrof 'The (toMm MThe author of “TUe Lfi.egag** of Uf® Ik the brttoilvil, moat kindly moralist )niAfinable. and H i* not surprising thnt bid Kiiccefliiive boohs have bweo In very gr»*at favor with onrnf'ftt-mlndod (hot not necessarily i?er*oi)h-minded i pwsona. ' Mountain* of that Mist w*u» just tut inspiring and inspirit.inn as his first book of essay*, and his new volume. The Golden Milestone. is liable to be juvt as popular as its predecessani. for it is practically a continuation of those agreeable books. Tints** book* are written by a Tasmanian clergyman, the Hev. Frank W. Horeham. and they are Sti rciilty aermon*, but one would never think so to read them, They are little chat* abcmt ‘thing* -n general by an agreeable man to agreeable people, not the sort of religious people who know more about hell than heaven but the sort of people to whom the world is a very g nd place.-If a little gloomy sometimes by reason oC passing clouds and thundery condition*. They diBcuwa every-day topics and not questions of dogma, and discus* them discursively like a man and a brother, nnd not as a parson or a demagogue. Mil very flrr't essnv Is a panegyric on Sleep, and another deals with Good-looking people (and there |8 a portrait of himself on the wrapper I, and another with Spring Cleaning, and than we have some quite local essay#, such a# Wedge Bay and the Modesty Of' the Bush. There nrlt;* many more kinds, including Tiff*. The Glory on the Door step, Violet* and Viper*, and all are very good• • , •' •It is stated that Sir Arthur Con an Doyle and Hilaire Belloc are each writing a history of the war. both of which may be expected to take permanent rank as standard military hi*, tories- The former. ft wit* be remembered, wrote what has been recognised as the most important history of the Boor war. and thereby won his knlrbthood, and Mr Bolloc'g week*
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Melbourne Table Talk
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Thu, Mar 11, 1915
Page 11
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Benjamin A.
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