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PONJOLA-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam ($2.00). Lady Flavia Desmond was Tired of It All. She was just about to make a hole in the Seine when she ran into Lundi Druro, a tall, bronzed personage, back from Africa on leave, whose tales of the native flora and fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast...
...Ponjola", Cynthia Stockley has given us a very real and vivid picture of South Africa--its life, and its people. Her intimate knowledge of the locality and her undeniable powers of description have united to make the veldt of Rhodesia live before our eyes. We can see the drab, ramsrackle villages; the deserted mines; the winding, dusty roads. We begin to understand the peculiar fascination which lies in the broad, barren stretches of desert country--a fascination which grips all who make their dwelling there...
...Miss Stockley's picture of the people in Rhodesia is equally as fine as her description of the land in which they live. They are a group of outcast English men and women; a hard drinking, excitement seeking lot; each of whom is hoping that some day he may dig a golden fortune from the soil. They represent a wide variety of types, and yet on them all the veldt has its spell, and instead of being normal energetic human beings, they are lethargic lovable neerdowell...
...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...