The Independent . When, with a memory of the charmof Black Sheep, the reviewer openedJean Kenyon Mackenzies African Trailto find questions at the close of a chap-ter, marking it a book for MissionStudy Classes, he confesses to feelingcheated. But a phrase here and therecaught the eye and then, skipping thequestions, he read the whole book. Forhere is far more than simply an ac-count of religious work among theBulus. It is a poetic, impassioned set-ting forth of the great romantic en-deavor of the messengers of the tribeof God; a description in few words ofthe effect on the white man of lifeamo
The Independent . When, with a memory of the charmof Black Sheep, the reviewer openedJean Kenyon Mackenzies African Trailto find questions at the close of a chap-ter, marking it a book for MissionStudy Classes, he confesses to feelingcheated. But a phrase here and therecaught the eye and then, skipping thequestions, he read the whole book. Forhere is far more than simply an ac-count of religious work among theBulus. It is a poetic, impassioned set-ting forth of the great romantic en-deavor of the messengers of the tribeof God; a description in few words ofthe effect on the white man of lifeamong strange peoples; a remarkableanalysis of the first results of the tech-nique of Christian living, the tentyings, on the heathen mind. The bookis full of original and enlightening ex-pressions, of keen psychology, of humansympathy. It stands beside Keablesbeautiful City of the Dawn, thobroader in scope and deeper in may be a good textbook. It certainlyis literature. Great Companions, Edith Wyatts es-. // ess Illustrating IDA M. TARBELL says, were snatched from the unmer-ited oblivion of the review column, andthey hold many wise and witty is an excellent short paper onHenry James, among others, and one ofmost welcome appreciation of WilliamDean Howells, its essence given in itstitle, A National Contribution. Un-der the heading, Nonsense AboutWomen, are refreshing comments onthat singularly unhealthy mentality,Fiona MacLeod, and, at the other pole;a thought-provoking study drawn fromsome two thousand answers sent in re-ply to the Agricultural Departmentsletter to the farm women of the UnitedStates asking them to state their chiefneeds. Here we are back at the actual-ities of life with a vengeance and weclose the book feeling that the review-ers job, after all, is pretty varied andnot the least interesting on the list. Russia in 1916, by Stephen Graham. The Mac-millan Company. $ The Locked Chest andThe Sweeps of Ninety-eight, by John Mase-field. The M
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