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The Spur Of The Moment.—An
other series of delightful essays by Aus tralia’s most gifted, humorous and charming writer. Professor Walter Mur doch. (Angus and Robertson Ltd., Syd ney, 6/-). There are few masters of English prose in the world who possess this man’s gift of challenging one’s com monsense, and making one think. He starts to write about a can-opener, for example: in a few moments, he is asking you to recognise the epoch-shaking fact that mankind has become the slave of its gadgets—that we are being destroy ed by the machines and the systems we invented to make life worth while. Or he writes an imaginative paragraph about “the beasts in the basement”—and, in two or three pages, we are shown how the causes of present international hor rors may be found in the curious re pressions of the human mind. Every interested observer of human affairs, who wants the viewpoint of a true philoso pher on every-day things which repel or disgust us, will read this book with pleasure,
Shall White Australia Fail?
by Walter S. Bromhead. (Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney, 6/-). Mr.
Bromhead has had pioneer experience in Australia and New Zealand; has tra velled widely and thought deeply; and in this book he elaborates a plan for Introducing population to Australia, and