New Book On N.G.

TT was announced in London in October * that Messrs. Hurst, Blackett; have published The Land That Time Forgot. by Michael Leahy and Maurice Crain, tel ling the story of the Leahy Brothers’ ad ventures and discoveries in New Guinea.

This should be one of the best books of the kind published in years. No men, since 1914, have done more real explora tion work in New Guinea than Mick, Jim. and Dan Leahy. They were gold-seeking, always, but also they happen to be men endowed with the gift of intelligent ob servation, and ability to properly des cribe what they see. They, associated with two or three young men of the New Guinea administration, are the real dis coverers of the magnificent tablelands of Central New Guinea, which are destined to be at least as important economically as the fertile inland regions of Java and Ceylon. The adventures of the Leahy Brothers, between 1925 and 1935, would fill half a dozen books.

Mr. F. A. Rensted. Patrol Officer in the Papuan Administration, was in Australia during November on sick leave.