Word: rhodesian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhodesian Palimpsest...
...GARDEN OF PERIL?Cynthia Stockley?Putnam ($2.00). Peril is in this case the heroine. She is a heroine, too, of the old school, a back-to-nature heroine, against a background of curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly...
South Africa. A skull believed older than that of the Rhodesian man of the Broken Hill mine has been found at Belingwe, near Bulawayo. Sir Arthur Keith, who estimated the age of the other skull as older than the Neanderthal man (50,000 years), will examine it. If further remains are found in South Africa, it may prove to be one of the earliest homes of the race, rivalling Java...
...nothing new: In fact it is rather trite. Moreover the improbability of a young and beautiful girl, living as a man, and with men over an extended period of time and still keeping her disguise, rather spoils what might otherwise have been a very powerful novel. The description of Rhodesian life and people is so well done however, and Miss Stockley writes so vigorously and so well that "Ponjola" is well worth the reading no matter what may be the fraillties of plot...