PUBLIC LIBRARIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1941, Page 19

PUBLIC LIBRARIES

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

The City Librarian has- chosen "Their Own Country," by Alice Tisdale Hobart, as the book of the week, and has furnished the following review:

In "Their Own Country" the talented author of "Oil for the Lamps of China," presents her characters back in America instead of in China. Her theme is an indictment of the juggernaut of big business. Stephen Chase has a chance of running a plant for the production of alcohol as a fuel. Attempts at sabotaging, the enterprise, having failed, more direct methods are adopted, and Stephen soon finds out that something more than ability seems to be necessary to survive in the States: he is hard put to it to maintain his integrity. The,dazzling prospect of New York, to which he Hester had looked forward, so confidently, turns out on close-inspection'.to.be-a mirage. This is an excellent example of a novel written with a sincere social purpose: the characters, though by no means wooden, are only secondary: the big thing, is the theme. .

Other titles selected from recent accession lists are as follows:—

General.—"The Sky's the Limit," by J. M. Spaight; "Vanguard," by H. N. T., Burton; "Sea Power," by G124. Fiction: "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe," by A. Christie; "Men Against the Sky," by W. Galbraith; "Women Never Learn," by M. K. Bruce.