BOOKS RECEIVED

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 18

BOOKS RECEIVED

"Cecil Sharp" (Oxford University Press) is a biography by A. H. Fox btrangways in collaboration with Maud | Karpeles of one who did more than any other to preserve and maintain the! purity of English folk-song' tradition. ' What it means to be a Christian is! set out by the Eev. Leslie D. Weather-' head in. "Diseipleship" (Student Christian Movement Press). One hundred more of 0. Henry^s stories have been published by Hodder and Stoughton in a single volume. In view of the visit to New Zealand of Bernard Shaw, "Bernard Shaw: A Chronicle and an Introduction," by E F. Kattray (Duckworth), should prove to be of more than ordinary interest; "Common-sense Psychology and the Home," by Frederick H." Dodd (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.), will be a valuable book for parents and others concerned with- the welfare of children - Poems by C. H. O. Scaife have- been collected and published in on o volume by Cobden-Sanderson under the title of "Towards Corinth, O Englishman." 1 "More Letters to a Married Woman" will'enhance the reputation made by J. H. C. Sleoman with his previous volumes. It discourses upon current topics of all kinds in a most agreeable manner. "Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece," by W. H. D. Bouse- (John Alurray), recounts tho familiar stories of Greek mythology.