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“It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct service.”
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Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M., eds. [Our Moslem sisters: a cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it.] **$1.25. Revell.
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“In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times, is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame, and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.