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| ---- wee ee TRAVELLING VICARIOUSLY FAR HORIZONS. By Elsie K. Morton, Oswald Sealy (N.Z.) Ltd., Auckland. HIS is a pleasant book of traveltalks, beautifully illustrated by the author’s own camera. Most of it has been heard over the air, but those who enjoyed it spoken will be glad to have it written, and many of those who come to it fresh will feel that it solves a Christmas gift problem, Miss Morton is frankly sentimental about the places she has seen, but she is sensible, and she knows exactly when she has said enough. "ENGLISHED" POEMS TWELVE ECHOES FROM FRANCE: French Poems Enfglished by Arthur Barker. The Progressive Publishing Society. HIS is actually the description given on the title page although, immediately opposite, the word "translated" is used in reference to an earlier volume of verse from the same hand. However, the poems themselves do not read as if Mr. Barker’s pursuit of early French literature is an affectation. Though occasional awkwardnesses have resulted from the cate taken to preserve the form and rhythms of the originals, these rondeaus, sonnets, and other fragments from French poets of the 14th to 17th centuries are enjoyable playthings, and the book is an honest bit of work--the old French is on the left page for all to see, the new English on the rightand the Caxton Press has printed it well.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 229, 12 November 1943, Page 11
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