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BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS. I SELECTING BOOK GIFTS. \ I , JT'S GOOD TO LAUGH. And books of humour are always welcome. There's P. G. Wodehouse's last (it caused a mirthquake), "Heavy Weather" (good), 7/-; "Pick-Me-Ups"— 13 rhyming recipes for Kocktails (a scream), 4/-. There's two books of funny pictures—"Mr Punch Among the Doctors," 7/6, and "Mr Punch's Motor Book," 5/-. Oh, and don't 'forget Ben Travers' novel, "Hyde Side Up," 7/-. He wrote all those funny Ralph Lynn talkies the Plaza showed. SOMETHING FOR MOTHER. Her sight is not as good as it was—poor dear—so get her that larger type Hymn Book (Prayer Book, or Bible) that she has been longing for—they are here at all prices. Then there's two lovely new love tales—Margaret Pedler's "Pitiless Choice," 7/-, and the new one by the author of "A Lantern in Her Hand" —"Miss Bishop," 7/-. That popular tale of English country life, "The Manor House," by Netta Syrett, is now out at 2/9. MORE NEWS OF THE NEWEST BOOK.

THE NEW CHRISTMAS NOVELS. There's a lovely one by Cecil Roberts, author of "Scissors," called "Pilgrim Cottage," 7/-, and —just out —a really colourful tale of Iceland and the Barbary Corsairs, "The Dove," 7/-, well [ worth recommending. Then there's j Nelle Scanlan's New Zealand stories,j "Pencarrow," now 4/-, and the sequel— ! which is better, "Tides of Youth," 7/-; i Galsworthy's "Over the River," 7/- < unfortunately the last we'll get), and a fulldress military story of early Victorian days,. "Trumpeter, Sound!" 7/—it's having a great run at Home. SOME INEXPENSIVE ONES. The delightful volumes of light articles i of countryside interest by "Alpha of 1 the Plough" (4 of them), each 2/4; : Bernard Shaw's new little book, "Poli-! tical Madhouse," 2/4; a new edition j of Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poems, 1/-; j Van Dyke's "Story of the Other Wise i Man" (Biblical), 3/-; E. H. Young's "William" (her most popular tale), 2/9; A. P. Herbert's laughable verse, "She Shanties," 5/-; "Plain Jane," 5/-; j and Richard King's volumes of thought- , ful Essays, "One Quiet Evening,' 3/-, j "The Return Journey," 3/-, and a i special bargain—David Grayson's "Ad- i ventures in Solitude," 2/6. WHITCOMBE and TOMBS, LIMITED. Cashel street. and through Hereford Court. WCI79 j

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