REPRINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 5, 6 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

REPRINTS.

ADDITIONS TO "EVERYMAN." Four additions to the famous "Everyman's" library, published by J. M. Dent and Sons, bring the number of books up to 900—an achievement without parallel in publishing. Tho new volumes are "Plays by Webster and Ford'," who belong to the third generation of Elizabethan draimatists, tho plays chosen being "The White Devil," "The Duchess of Malfi," "The Broken Heart," and ""lis Pity She's a Whore; "The Captain's Daughter and Other Talcs," by Alexander Pushkin; Zola's "Germinal," and a "Biolgrapliieal Dictionary of Foreign Literature," compiled by P. Farquharson Sharp, containing 550 entries.

Longmans, Green and Co. have issued in one volume, at a low price, three stories by Thornton Wilder—tho famous "Bridge of San Luis Bey," and "The Cabala" and "The Woman of Andros."

Are the stories that Andrew Lang used to write for children, over a long period of years, still read? Longmans, Green and Co. have republished a collection of fhese, chosen from the "Fairy Book Series," by a girl of ten. These fifty-two stories are profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Some are true and some about prehistoric and legendary creatures. This should be a popular book with children.