REVIEWS

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 317, 22 August 1924, Page 6

REVIEWS

A PARCEL FROM JOHN LONG’S LIBRARY Some excellent novels have been added to the Colonial Edition of John Long Ltd., London, in the 7s (id (net) series. S. B. H. Hurst, one of America’s best sellers of stories of adventure, contributes “C'oomor Ali,” a t-alo of adventurers three on the way up from Calcutta to Mecca, a yarn of yarns for lovers of the sea, and “Barney,” a much longer book, winch carries the reader excitingly from England to Alaska and Canada—with even more thrills to its episodes than in. “Coernei; ,Ali.”, “Alany 'Engagements” conil)risk's a collection of short stories by J. S. Fletcher, one of the most popular of mystery, story writers of the day on both sides of the Atlantic and a.lso over here in Pacific lands. “The Big Malopo,” by H. M. Egbert, is a. talc of adventures about a diamond mine over in. South Africa. The hero meets up with crooked deals, hut lie came out with a bride. “Hie Bariiigtons and Jessamy” indicates in the smartness of its writing that the firm has discovered talent in Airs Geoffrey Sul man, a new writer. It is a. tale of a. triangle from a new angle, and is epigrammatically written. Amy J. Baker has put igdeal of good work into “The Crepe de Chine 'Wife,” her 11th novel. Her creator does not claim that Puff Withers is a type, but this critic is inclined to think Puff is all that the up-to-the-minute woman. Leslie Beresford has' developed action in liis new nova I, “.Mr Appleton Awakes,” The hero thought life had been drained of all adventure—lint suddenly he is thrown into a whirl of conspiracy, greed, crime, love and hatred. Some story. George Goodchild also presents a rapid-action tale of adventure in “The Alaskan,” the hero of which is of the sturdy breed of the frozen north, from which region the problems of love and life and misunderstandings are not exempt. I. A. E. WYLIE’S NEW NOVEL From tile House of Cassell comes a copy of Miss I. A. R. Wylie's latest novel. “Ancient Fires.” The author of “The Dark House” and “The Paupers of Partinan Square” lias achieved another success in this absorbing story of the love of two men, an aristocrat and a- “common person,” for an English girl. There is not- only intensity in the telling of the tale, hut it is sufficiently episodic to keoj the reader on the tenterhooks of anticipation, all the way through until the solution of the heroine's problems. E. J. BRADY’S BOOK ON QUEENSLAND

Queensland, upon which portion of Australia- Nature has been more lavish and beautiful than elsewhere, lias received a splendid boost from the pen and brain of gifted E. J. -Brady in ‘The Land of the Sun,” a copy of which comes from Robertson and .Mullens,- of Melbourne. This is a copy of tlie Australian, edition, the London edition being from the bouse of Edward Arnold and Co. Mr Brady is best known as one of Australia’s sweetest singers, and it is as a poet he lias conceived this fine book of description of the veal tiling instead of flights of fancy. Queensland is fortunate in getting such an enthusiastic and gifted writer to describe the beauteous and bountiful' State. There are a dozen illustrations from, photo graphs and a map to still further impress the reader with the potentialities of Queensland, which hitherto has chiefly interested New Zealanders because of its Tlmodorean polities.

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