New Books

Record of Archbold Expedition

rE name of Mr. Richard Archbold is likely to be written large upon the history of exploration in New Guinea.

He is a wealthy American who, instead of wasting his riches upon vanities, fin ances and personally leads expeditions which carry out scientific investigations in unknown lands.

In 1933-34, on behalf of the New York Museum of Natural History, Archbold led an expedition into Papua, and col lected specimens at high altitudes in land, reaching the top of Mt. Albert Edward. In 1936-37, he brought another expedition to Papua, and examined the forested and mountainous region (un mapped), between the headwaters of the Fly and the Sepik Rivers; and in 1938-39, with the aid of the great Cos mopolitan flying-boat “Guba”, a third Archbold expedition examined the un known country to the west of the Fly- Sepik region, in Dutch New Guinea, using Hollandia as a base.

This summary of Archbold achieve ments arises out of the receipt from the publishers (Robert M. Mcßride and Co., 116 East Sixteenth Street, New York)

of a handsome book, “NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION’, by Richard Archbold and A. L. Rand. It tells the complete story of Arch bold’s second expedition (1936-37). It is lavishly illustrated, with scores of large photographs of men and places whom Europeans never previously had seen; it is provided with many maps of regions hitherto unmapped; and, apart from its scientific value, the text sup plies a fascinating record of adventure and new discoveries in a little-known tropical country.

In the pages of the book, and in the photographs, we meet some old friends —L. A. Willis, M. J. Healy, R. A. Wood ward, Mrs. Cowling, Ivan Champion, H.

P. Beach, W. Korn, Joe Burke, Ward Williams, etc. Everyone in Western Papua appears to have helped the mil lionaire-scientist and herein he ex presses his thanks.

The book is sold at 31 dollars. * * * KITTY FOYLE, by Christopher Mor ley. Our copy from Angus and Robert son. Sydney. 7/6. This is an Australian reprint of a successful American novel.

Wrapped within the pages of one of the most fascinating stories we have read in years, there is an acute and illuminating analysis of American social conditions, as they are to-day. While we follow the career of Kitty Foyle, from a humble Philadelphia home to a highly-paid executive job in New York, and are introduced to a modern girl’s most intimate personal problems, we actually are being shown how the “White Collar Girl” lives, and fits herself into the complicated economic scheme.

“White Collar Girls” are the young women of the business world, of whom there are now countless millions, who contrive to live lives of independence and daintiness on very small incomes, who often are jammed between insuffi ciency of money and the ceaseless cam paign of questing masculinity, and who never whimper, Kitty learns how to take it; and her observations, racy, humorous and pungent, will certainly make this a best-seller. But how did any man ever learn so much of femi nine psychology to be able to write a book like this?

Space is precious, but there is room for one quotation, to show the quality of “Kitty Foyle”:— “He’s a Catholic, and has some of their scruples about birth control— though, honestly, I can’t see what that has to do with religion. Anyhow, he was telling me about the Cardinal in Chicago who, instead of bawling in the pulpit about contraceptions and abor tions, went ahead and got an inexpen sive maternity hospital started.

“Of course, you’ve got to be legally wedlocked before you can use their de livery room, but the point is, they sell you the whole doings for 50 dollars, and people who couldn’t afford it other wise, can throw a baby there, and like it.

“That’s what I call citizenship. Natur ally, I think a good deal sometimes about making up for the baby I didn’t have. I told Fedor: Td pretty nearly turn Pane myself, to have a good fifty dollar baby. The trouble with wed lock is, there’s not enough wed and too much lock,’ ”

Monsieur Abel Rougy, consulting engin eer to the Societe Le Nickel and an exe cutive of the large New Caledonian firm, Etablissements Ballande, died in Noumea on February 16. He was a retired Com mander of Artillery and a Knight of th- Legion of Honour.