BOOK REVIEWS.
LITERARY CIRCLE MEETS. Mrs. Archibald Buchanan, convener of the Lyceum Literary Circle, presided at the first meeting of the year, for which the subject was the circle's usual afterholiday book review evening. Mrs. Alice Weston wrote charmingly of Galsworthy's "Appletree." Mrs. Buchanan selected Freya Stark's "Southern Gates of Arabia," in which the author gives a woman's picturisation of this little known part of the world, where the writer found "God Save the King" being sung enthusiastically upon special occasions. Miss Parker took a biography of the first years of the life of William Prince of Orange, dealing with his extraordinary accomplishments in his own land before coming to England. Mrs. de Trafford mentioned the new biography of "Zaharoff." Miss Hamilton reviewed "Seven." by Rom Landau, the Polish writer; Mrs. Brittain Bull spoke of Don Byrne, and Miss N. Martin reviewed some bird poems by Eileen Duggan. The Kipling Memorial card, displaying a fine etching of the Poet's Corner in Westminster, was received, also copies of the Kipling Journal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 12
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