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THE TORGUTS, by W. L. River, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 8/6.
You may never have heard of the migration of the Torguts—yet it was one of the most dramatic and tragic events of modern history. In 1770, driven away by the cruelties of Catherine of Russia, half a million Torguts, with five million animals, left the western bank of the Volga, and started on a 3,000 miles trek eastwards across Asia, This extra ordinary event, with its strange political angles, the remarkable achievements of many individual men and women, and the final, terrible end of the migration, has been very cleverly woven into a long, facinating, historical novel, by Mr. River.
The publishers compare it with Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” arid Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind”.
“Atlas Op First Aid”, By David
Farrell. Published by Angus and Robert son, Sydney, 5/-.
This is a compilation that will be of interest to many people in the Pacific who often want medical advice, but are far removed from qualified medical men.
In this “Atlas of First Aid”, Mr. Farrell shows pictorially what other first-aid manuals describe in letter-press. The drawings are simple and accurate, and are liberally annotated, so that the student is given a clear understanding of the structure of the human body. Part 1 of the book shows, in great detail, the anatomy of the human body, and Part 2 shows the practical application of methods employed in first-aid treatment.
The author was assisted in his compila tion by Dr. P. A. Macguire, C.M.G., D. 5.0., of the Australian Army Medical
Corps. The book has been liberally in dexed and should be of much value to people who have to deal with accidents or sickness in an emergency.
War And The Verltles.—Ameri
ca’s Moral Obligation to Democracy, by Ellsworth Barnard. Our copy from Angus and Robertson, Sydney. 2/-.
An effective, convincing and appar ently unanswerable statement of the reasons why the United States should range itself openly beside Britain and France, so as to protect the liberties and decencies of the world. But it is all waste of time and printer’s ink. The Americans will not fight—not, at any rate, until the Allies (having cleaned up the mess created by America’s deser tion of the League of Nations), begin to arrange a peace conference, without a seat for America. Then we shall have a pandemonium of bawling and belli gerence.