Word: milliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ARTIST IN THE FAMILY-Sarah Gertrude Millin-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Every family likes to think that one of it's children will, some day, become a violinist, a poet or a painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream...
...Author Millin, who knows her South Africa, has flayed artistic egotism with gentle skill...
...this book Mrs. Millin untangles the dark pattern of its sound. Going as far back as the legendary days when Phoenician sailors stared at the bleak Cape coasts, and going into the forests where the natives have the roots of their semi-civilization, she has brought to her study of the contemporary situation a wide and valuable background...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...
...conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black man is not so different from, as he is inferior to, the white man." For him, she tacitly observes, there is no hope...