Fine Photographs Of Polar Regions

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 40, 12 April 1935, Page 22

Fine Photographs Of Polar Regions

S fine a comprehensive set of photo‘.gydphs of the Arctic and Antarctic regions as I could think possible has been produced by Chatto and Windus. entitled "The Polar Regions.’ There ‘are both life and art aplenty in this volume. Of the hundred pages of perfectly reproduced half-tone blocks most of them contain only one pliotograph, enabling the brilliant detail of scenery on such a gigantic scale to. be conveyed easily to the reader. There is not a poorly taken photograph in the whole collection, and whatever stibject is being tréated, whether it be dogs, Uskimos or out-Hnhd-out landscapes or seascapes, the chill brilliance of the north and gouth of the globe has beet printed on these realistic pages. An introduction by J. M. Scott covering only three pages and a half is the finest piece of condensed description of these places far below and far above our tempetate existence I have tread. | In about three thousand werds the editor hag provided a simple but vivid \ panorama of pola? parts which is just the thing for a book of this sort. Of course, When one picks the volume up it is Géttain that each of the fascinating pictures will be éxamined in_ turn, But for later reference Mr. Scott has dividell the antliology into nine headings, so that one may turn in a moment to the section dealing with the Outward Voyage, Arctic Scenery, Arcti¢ or Atitarctic Animals, Spring and Sumitier, Polar Transport, Industries ot Incidents. Althotigh I havé always been rather interested in polar pictures, there are some photographs in "The Polar Regions" which present beauty and thrills quite new to me, and thére are several unique records of some of the "hig moments" of polar exploration. This volume is a tecofd and a thing of beauty, of value to many and interest to all. ; ‘The Polar Regions." ihe second ot the "Life and Art in Photograph" series, Chatto and Windus, London. Our copy from the publishes. Wwe cannot take "Trooper to the Southern Cross" seriously, and feel that a reputable publishing house has been rather let down by its reader. It is either a pot boiler ftom an ignorant pen imitating Australese in a very crude ind unsuccessful manner, of a practical joke in bad taste. No medical mannot even an Australian impregnated with his native jargon-could write the incredibly cheap trash of which this is comiposed, Ag it stands, the volume is a substantial instilt to 6ur Australian cousins. Some of them may be fairly rough, we know, but we decline to believe the picture in this volume. As the négro said when he first saw a giraffe, "There nif’t no such aniniile.’ The author is Leslie Parker,