OUTSTANDING BOOKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUTSTANDING BOOKS.

The Fcmina Vie Heurcuse and Northnliffo Prizes Committee met recently in London to vote for the threo English works of imagination to be recommended to the French committee. From these threo the French committee will ehooee the book which will receive the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize (1033-1(4). The three bookfi chospii were: "To the North," by Elizabeth Bowen; "Invitation to the Waltz," by Rosamond Lehmaiin; "Cold Comfort Farm," by Stella Gibbons. The second two of these have been reviewed in these columns. "Cold Comfort Farm" is an astonishingly clever "take off" of the earthy school of English fiction.

BOOKS RECEIVED. Chuckle With Charlie Vaude. edited by lilmseir. (U>t)iiuii Publishing- Co., Melbourne.) Candidate Fop Lilies, by* Roger East. (Collins.) Inland Waters of Africa, by S. and E. B. Worthlngton; College at Eton, by Ei'lc Parker. (Mncrntllan.) Java Ho! by Jolian I'nbrlrlus; The Riddle of Garth, by Augustus Muir. (Methuon.) Ex Librie, by John Galsworthy, (llcinciTiann.) % Gleanings, by "Kea." (Whitcombc and Tombs.) The" Near-by Thing, by W. Teellng-; Mr. Cronk's Cases, by W. A. Turlington; The Unknown Enemy, by (net Lane; Eva and Adam, by John Girder; Rod Hair, by tferton Kyle; The Culbertson Plastic Bridge Diary, compiled by P. von Kii.seerow, 193-i; Tough Stuff, by W. Townend: Death Comes to Fanshawe, by-Jafnes Corbett; Tong, by "Bok"; New Laws of Contract Bridge, by H. P. Foster. (Herbert Jenkins.)