INSIDE DARTMOOR
THE TRUTH ABOUT DARTMOOR, by George Dendrickson and Frederick Thomas; Victor Gollancz, English price 12/6. ENDRICKSON and Thomas have recently been released after spending four years and two and a half years respectively inside. I have no reason to doubt that they tell the truth and nothing but the truth; whether they tell the whole truth is, possibly, another matter, and in part a question of emphasis. Even so,
there is enough damning evidence here to stir the British public and Parliament to do something about it. The authors give well reasoned suggestions as to what can and should be done to reform Dartmoor, and as to what must be done before Dartmoor can give its prisoners the slightest chance of reforming themselves. I ‘hope one is entitled to the comfortable feeling that some things that happen at Dartmoor can’t happen here, Concerning homosexuals, these men have some cogent arguments for not penalising under the Crimes Act, but segregating for treatment consenting adults in such activities. As the law stands: "For every homosexual who enters prison two come out." There is some internal. evidence that the authors of the book are not the writers, but that is by the way,
L.J.
W.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ENGAL TIGER, by Hall Hunter; Robert Hale, English price 10/6. A story of action ahd romance in India 100 years ago. [DARNBROOK, by George Moor; Hodder and Stoughton, English price 10/6. A first novel with a setting on a Yorkshire farm. | ESTERN ENTERPRISE IN FAR EASTERN DEVELOPMENT, by G. C. Allen and Audrey G. Donnithorne; Allen and Unwin, English price 20/-. A description of Western trade in China and Japan, mainly for students. THE ART OF COARSE CRICKET, by Spike Hughes; Museum Press, English price 7/6. Another of those light-hearted books about cricket-but this time cricket without ashes and statistics. Line drawings by Antony Wysard are delightful. aa
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 14
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