IN DEFENCE OF A JUDGE
MR. JUSTICE RICHMOND AND THE TARANAKI WAR. By W. Downie Stewart. A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington. "THE purpose of this little book is to "vindicate a great judge." Whether it succeeds or not I am not well enough informed to say; but it succeeds with me. Mr. Stewart writes with some indignation. But he writes frankly and fairly, and, within the limits of his space, fully. As far as I can judge he keeps back nothing that it would be reasonable to ask him to bring forward and answer, in a book of 28 pages. But the fact remains that only some of the arguments are’ presented on both sides, I think he answers his opponents, but I hesitate to say that he annihilates them on the evidence of this brief encounter, I admit, too, that I found myself on his side as soon as he used the argument of Robertson of Brighton that instead of judging a man by what we know of his deeds we should judge his deeds by what
we snow oT the man.
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FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS MODERN DECORATION AND FURNISHING. By D. E. Barry Martin. A. H. and A. W. Reed, Wellington. HEN the paper situation was. even worse than it is to-day Mr. Martin issued a sketchy and untidy but suggestive and sensible guide to the planning
and building of a home. Now he offerg "a compléte guide to planning and buying for all interiors." It is a useful production for the people for whom it is intended-those among us who have just enough judgment in such matters to know that we need assistance, but not enough boldness to hire it. Most of Mr. Martin’s advice is common. ground to all architects, but not all say it as simply as he does, or as brightly; and when he wanders away from the beaten path he says so-as in his section on the mental and physical effects of colour. The book is well printed, the illustrations are clear, there is a useful index, and Mr. Martin has the courage to place the things he calls bad side by side with the things he approves and praises. But it is a pity that he found it necessary to include eight pages of advertisements.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 12
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