What every Undergraduate should Know.

The Shadow over New Zealand—venereal Disease.

This publication is as difficult to review as it must have been to write. Venereal disease is at the same time unlicensed game for bathroom butts and the occasion of much spinsterly oohing and aching. To be buoyant and not offensive, sober without being pontifical, these are the beacons between which the middle course must be steered. Judged by these standards, "The Shadow" does pretty well most of the time, and is quite the best of its kind that has come our way.

Sociologists, historians, statisticians, lawyers and moralists (the grouping is fortuitous and not necessarily in descending order) will all find crumbs in it, but the real meal for the man-in-the-street (and student, that's you) is undoubtedly Dr. Blanc's section on the medical aspects of venereal disease. Simple written, without technical abracadabra, we lay a sizeable side-bet that it will bring heretofore unrevealed knowledge to fully 90 per cent, of our readers. Let him or her use the rest of the pamphlet for shaving paper, this portion is a Must with three stars, on the reading list of every boy-or-girl-about-town. And even, perhaps more so, stay-at-homes too. Factual Footnotes: Price 1/-, Size: pages 40, Publishers: Progressive Publicity Society. Sources of supply: Modern Books and all other intelligent dealers. Not Railway Bookstalls.

(There will be a lecture on the subject of Venereal disease, early in the series to he sponsored by the Executive, by Dr. Hubert Smith.)