STORIES FOR CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 23

STORIES FOR CHILDREN

“The City of Death,” by Olive Barton; “The Dadlingford Mystery,” by lerne L. Plunket; “T'he Disappearance of Daphne,” by Winifred Norling: “Michael Gerhaty, Detective,” by Margaret Strickland (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode). “The City of Death,” by Olive Barton; From Eyre and Spottiswoode come four lively stories for children. “The City of Death” is an exciting story for schoolboys, telling the adventures of two boys among a lost tribe of the Aztecs, in Brazil. Girls with a taste for mystery will enjoy “The Disappearance of Daphne,” and “The Dadlingford Mystery.” They are both schoolgirl stories savouring of adventure iiml mystery, with tlie action taking place for Hie most: part in small English country places. “Michael Gerhaty, Detective,” is, as its title suggests, a detective story, with an appeal to boys because it mostly concerns the adventures of boys, and contains a full share of all tlie suspicions, the sleuthing, spying and mystery that go to make up a book of this type.

BEDROOM ETIQUETTE “Bed Manners,” by Hopton and Balliol, illustrated by Evelyn Cockayne (London : Duckworth). The time spent in bed is probably the only phase of civilised existence which has not previously been covered with a book of etiquette. This need has now been remedied, and there are very few married couples who could not benefit from the advice contained in “Bed Manners.” It is a distinctly bright hook for bright people, and the remarks are just sufficiently true to life to be applicable in part to most husbands or wives, so that the book can be enjoyed by either.