6 OCTOBER 1928, Page 46

Mr. Walter Pollard has fulfilled a pious filial duty in

writing the Life of Sam Pollard of China (Seeley, Service, Os.), who spent twenty-eight adventurous years as a missionary in the little known districts of Nosuland and Miaoland in Western China. The book is useful missionary propaganda, and, in addition, contains information about certain almost unknown aboriginal tribes who dwell round the head-waters of the Yang-tse. We read of hills in Miaoland " full of beautiful smokeless coal, well named by the Chinese ' Black Gold.' "