RECENT BIOGRAPHIES

Evening Star, Issue 22379, 1 July 1936, Page 1

RECENT BIOGRAPHIES

PUBLIC LIBRARY EXHIBITION This week’s display in thp lending department of the Public Library is a selection of recent biographies. The following works are biographies of authors and poets, and are outstanding :—‘ Life /and Letters of John Galsworthy,’ by H. V. Marrot; ‘ Aldous Huxley,’ by Alexander Henderson; John Middleton Murray’s biography of D. H. Lawrence, ‘ Son of Woman’; ‘Alice Janies—Her Brothers—Her Journal,’ ‘Shame theDevil,’ by Liam O’Flaherty; ‘Not I, But the Wind.’ a biography of D. H. Lawrence, by Freda Lawrence; H. G. Wells’s ‘ Experiment in Autobiography ’; Stephen Leacock’s ‘ Life of Dickens ’; Ernst Toller’s ‘ I Was a German ’; Bruno Frank’s ‘ A Man Called Cervantes ’; Andre Gides’s ‘Dostoievsky’; Jacob Wasserman’s ‘My Life as German and Jew ’; ‘ Milton,’ by Hilaire Belloc; and ‘Ariel—a' Shelley Romance,’ by Andre Maurois. Noteworthy works on artists are:— Nijinsky,’ by his wife; ‘Frederick Delius,’ by Claire Delius; Denis Stone’s biography of Van Gough, ‘ Lust for Life’; ‘Chopin: His Life,’ by William Murdoch; ‘Gerald—a Portrait,’ by Daphne du Maurier; Newman’s ‘ The Man Liszt’; and Dent’s ‘Handel..’ The biographies of students and thinkers are of notable men. H. N. Brailsford’s ‘ Voltaire ’ is said to be an excellent volume. Stephan Zweig’s ‘ Mental Healers ’ gives an excellent account, of people like Freud. Albert Einstein’s autobigraphy, ‘ The World as I See It,’ must indeed be interesting. Then there is Siemund Freud’s ‘ Autobiography,’ E. M. Forster’s biography of G. Lowes Dickenson, and ‘ Erasmus \ by Stephan Zweig. The lives of statesmen and soldiers make very interesting reading. Recent biographies include ‘ Cromwell ’ by Buchan, ‘ Stalin ’ by Henri Barbusse, ‘ General Smuts ’ by Sarah Gertrude Millin, a'biography of Mussolini, ‘ Sadwust Cresar,’ by Georg Seldes. Besides being a great pianist, Paderewski is also a great statesman. Rom Landau draws our attention to this in his book, ‘ Paderewski.’ ‘ Marat,’ by Piers Compton, is of especial interest in view of recent happenings in France. ‘ William Hobson,’ by Scholefield, Churchill’s ‘ Life of Marlborough,’ ‘De Valera,’ by Denis Gwynn, complete the boographies of soldiers and statesmen. Of biographies by New Zealanders or about New Zealanders, the following should be mentioned ;—‘ Katherine Mansfield, by Ruth Mantz and J. Middleton Murray; ‘The Journal of George Hepburn,’ by W. Downie Stewart ; ‘ Victoria the Widow and Her Son ’ and ‘ Alfred Mond—B’irst Lord Melchett,’ both by Hector Bolitho, and ‘ Fifty Years a Surgeon,’ by Robert T. Morris. The following miscellaneous bibgraphics should also he mentioned: — ‘ Living My Life,’ by Emma Goldman, the autobiography of an American anarchist; Beverley Nichols’s ‘Oxford, London, and Hollywood,’ a collection of sketches of prominent contemporaries; Vincent Suecan’s ‘ In Search of History ’: 1 Worked for the Soviet,’ by Alexandra Tolstoy; R. Lewisohn’s ‘ Career of Sir Bazil Zaharoff ’; I My Thirty Years of Speed,’- by Malcolm Campbell; /Marie Dressler’s ‘ Autobiography of an Ugly Duckling,’ and Jack Hobbs’s ‘ My Life Story.’ Works of biographical method are ‘ English Biography,’ by Harold Nicholson. and ‘ Aspects of Biography,’ by Andre Maurois. There is a similar display in the reference room.