Bohemia : the all-Australian literary magazine

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Nf 059.45 BOH
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Melbourne : Bohemia, 1939-1967
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Tenth Issue (January 1940)
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Bohemia  

W.A. Literary Movement  

Registered at the G.P.0., Melbourne, for  

transmission through the Post as Periodical.  

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Letters  

THE ALL-AUSTRALIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE  

TENTH ISSUE.  

MELBOURNE.  

JANUARY, 1940.  

Bohemia  

IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY.  

Subscription 3/- per annum,  

plus 1/- postage.  

NEWSAGENTS and CLUBS please note:  

DISTRIBUTING AGENTS: Messrs. George  

Batchelor Pty. Ltd., McKillop St., Mel-  

bourne, to whom all applications for par-  

cels must be addressed.  

LITERARY CONTRIBUTORS: Please ad-  

dress your contributions to The Editor,  

“Bohemia,” J. Roy Stevens, 1-7 Knox  

Place, Melbourne. Literary and Art Fel-  

lowships’ reports must be in at least  

days before date of publication, which  

will be on the first of each month.  

Other communications should be ad-  

dressed to—  

THE MANAGER, Osborne House, 399  

Little Collins Street, Melbourne.  

The Bread and Cheese Club does not  

identify itself with the views of any writer  

expressed in these pages. As Literary Club,  

it has no political opinions nor ecclesiastical  

leanings.  

IN THIS ISSUE  

MR. GROUCH AGAIN  

WYE O’MUN JIE Marie E. J. Pitt;  

W. Allden Morrison Verse ..  

GAVIN S. CASEY—W. A. Literary  

Movement  

EDITORIAL: Alan D. Mickle, Martin  

Haley—Verse  

EDNA TREDENNICK KATHERINE  

MANSFIELD  

J. A. V. STEVENS —Humor; WILLIAM  

HART SMlTH—Verse  

T,ETTERS FROM OUR BETTERS ..  

TILLY ASTON —The Bubble Reputation 10  

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS 11  

L. L. POLITZER —Bookplates; K. DAL-  

ZlEL—Verse 12  

FRED J. BLOOMFIELD —Verse; R. H.  

CROLL —Book Review 13  

J. ALEX ALLAN—Verse 14  

REPORTS OF SOCIETIES 15  

Jungle Ordeal In Nigeria  

BOOK REVIEW  

By N. G. RANKIN  

Frederick j. thwaites is evi-  

dently literary and business like.  

He has thirteenth novel to his credit.  

“Fever,” his latest, although printed  

in England has been published by F.  

J. Thwaites Pty. Ltd., in Sydney.  

This is striking illustration for  

those who wish to affirm that authors  

are not always dreamers, nor the re-  

verse of the practical. Barrabas has  

been accused of having been pub-  

lisher, Mr. Thwaites has dispensed  

with his Barrabas, and has his own  

proprietary company.  

“Fever” may not be described in-  

accurately as “Tale of Two Pals,”  

who followed in the footsteps of two  

other pals, who preceded them on  

similar mission from England to Ni-  

geria, and who met with sad fate.  

“Fever” is not narrative of  

commonplace run through life. To  

quote from the “jacket” on the book,  

“the story is of two young scientists  

who barter their very bodies and souls  

with the jungle as they seek cure  

for the dreaded malaria.” desire  

to combat virulent disease was the  

principal motive of the two leading  

characters, as disclosed in the early  

pages of Mr. Thwaite’s absorbing  

story, in which are involved problems  

in science and ethnography with its  

not entirely unusual concomitant mis-  

cegination.  

The author has not overloaded “Fev-  

er” with too many characters. Much  

of the book is centred on Paul Saun-  

ders and Grant Barlow. There is  

also sufficient mixture of love to  

prevent the story from being exclus-  

ively confined to the fortunes and mis-  

fortunes of males.  

As with his male, Mr. Thwaites por-  

trays his female characters convincing-  

ly. Although “Fever” may be classi-  

fied among the “thrillers”, the author  

never descends to the outrageously  

melo-dramatic.  

Saunders and Barlow had been  

schoolmates, but they were “con-  

trast in every way.” Saunders in-  

duced his close friend to “follow in  

the footsteps of great scientists” by  

going to Nigeria to discover means  

for curing malaria, notwithstanding  

the two young enthusiasts had failed  

in previous mission.  

Saunders emphasised to Barlow, who,  

in spite’ of his feigned flippancy was  

fundamentally faithful to his old  

schoolmate, that: “In science you de-  

mand nothing you gamble your  

life for mankind’s sake.”  

The two approached Professor Green-  

berg, who had earned for himself “the  

brilliant place he occupied in the world  

of science,” and entrusted their train-  

ing to him. Greenberg informed them  

that he had news that two friends of  

Saunders and Barlow, Cavendish and  

Collins, who had been animated with  

the fervour of scientifically serving  

mankind had been slain in the Niger-  

ian jungle.  

Greenberg declared that they were  

“scientists to their finger-tips they  

had youth, brilliance, courage and  

now they were dead, buried out some-  

where in Africa. So great men die.”  

Saunders and Barlow volunteered to  

go to Nigeria. Greenberg impressive-  

ly said to them: “I want you both  

to realise that notwithstanding the  

dangers you are about to face, could  

by mere lift of my hand have hun-  

dreds of young men begging to me to  

(Continued on Page 14).  

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