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...Lyon Sharman-John Day ($3.50). Full-dress biography of China's Washington...
...came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller of the U. S. revealed that in 1933 Bulgaria imported enough acetic acid anhydride to manufacture 13,000 Ib. of heroin, four times the legitimate needs of the entire world. Col. Charles Henry Sharman of Canada charged that Bulgarian production of raw opium rose from 8,880 Ib. in 1931 to 99,000 Ib. in 1932, to 143,000 Ib. in 1933. Dr. Augusto de Vasconcellos of Portugal summed up: "The figure cited by Mr. Fuller is sufficient to kill millions of people...
...southern country is a city called Maiden's Delight," so runs The Panchatantra's own introduction. The king there had sired three blockheads. Came a Brahman, by name Vishnu-sharman, who offered to submit himself to a certain indignity at the king's hands if within six months he had not enlightened these blockheads and bred in them the higher intelligence. This was agreed and the Brahman it was who told these stories, the blockheads to whom he told them...
...well be that men today are wise enough. Reverence for antiquity has its limits. But there is consummate shrewdness in some of the things Vishnu-sharman related, putting his epigrams now into tales within tales, now into rimed quotations from religious writ. The translator suggests: "It is as if the animals in some English beast-fable were to justify their actions by quotations from Shakespeare or the Bible...
Additional information has recently been received concerning the Silver Bay Conference of eastern college men from June 25 to July 4, inclusive. The program for the conference has been tentatively arranged. It will consist, first, of a series of religious discussion groups led by Dr. H. B. Sharman of Toronto, Professor K. S. Latourette, Dr. A. K. Foster and others. Religious questions and problems of personal faith will be discussed in these groups. There will also be a course on the "Work of the Church Overseas" in the form of discussions and forums led by men fresh from overseas...