COURAGEOUS WOMEN
1 WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES, by Ilse Stanley; Victor Gollancz, English price 13/6. NO ROADS GO BY, by Myrtle Rose White; Angus and Robertson, Australian price 16/-. \V ITH perhaps a shade too much. of the histrionic in her manner, Mrs. Ilse Stanley, an actress and the daughter of a synagogue cantor, tells of her experiences in Nazi Germany, and her work, with the help of an ex-policeman at Gestapo Headquarters, on behalf of Jews imprisoned in concentration camps. The atmosphere of Berlin in the middle thirties, and the gradual acceleration of anti-Semitism are forcibly conveyed. A sincere story by a courageous and deeply religious woman, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes reminds us both of-the horrors of life under the Gestapo and of the heroism of many decent German souls. It is not very well written, but the matter triumovhs over ceficiencies in style. No Roads Go By is a welcome reprint of a successful book first issued in 1932. Its lively, warm, accepting account of the life of/a cattle-rancher’s wife on a very lonely station in South Australia is also a story of woman’s courage. enlivened by the simple humour of everyday and sweetened by a gentle philosophy of endurance. Mrs. White’s simple, direct style has a tang of the backblocks about it. vet it is never crude or sentimental. She even manages to convince the reader that people can become attached to desert areas that seem very little this
side of Hell.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 14
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250COURAGEOUS WOMEN New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 14
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