REVIEWS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 6

REVIEWS

REAL AUSTRALIAN Iu their admirable Platypus pocket size series Angus and Robertson, »f Sydney, have published “On the Wool Track,” by C. E. W. Bean, a journalist who won tame with the Anziics as their official war correspondent. In his 26 chapters, with nine illustrations, Air Bean tells the whole story of the production, the development and the state ol the wool wealth of the great Commonwealth. It is the romance of the golden fleece.

L M. MONTGOMERY BOOK New Zealand and Australian admirers of the fascinating stories of L. M. Montgomery, creator of the detectable Anne of Green Gables series, are indebted to Angus and Robertson,/tile enterprising Sydney publishers for putting on the Christmas market the talented lady's new novel “EmTiy Climbs,” a,s sequel to “Emily of New Moon/.’ This story lias all tile charm of the - Montgomery love stories, and holds the attention of the delighted reader from start to finish of its narrative, which is more generous in length* than is the average modern novel.

FOUR CASSELL NOVELS On. Hie maiket just in time for the holiday season come four of the most absorbing novels even the House of Cassell has put-out. I “Sookev” is I)y Douglas Newton, who delighted readers the world over with “Marie Vee.” Sookev. the housemaid. is quite a different character, but her career is as entertaining 1 and exciting even as that of Marie Vee. “Black Harvest” is by I. A. R. Wylie, who made' her reputation with “The' Paupers, of Portman Square” and has gone-qu making good. “Black Harvest” is not only strongly psychological, but it carries an exciting plot having to do with the intrigue of Germans to create a rising of the blacks against the whites during the period of the Great War. An absorbing tale, told in the Wylie way, K. R. C. Browne created a vogue in humorous novels last year with “Following Ann.” He has worked the same rich vein- again in “A ?jady from like South.” Carmeucila. is the girl, the South of it is Aindtica, and all the merry to-do in the narrative concerns some jewels. There are .auveiitures and thrills as weTT as smiles and laughs. “The Glory of Lois is by Frank .LI. Shaw, one ol the best of storytellers. Rois is Tile beautTfnl d a lighter of a brilliant SpnnisTr dancer and a reckless South Sop pdventurer, and the heroine.. is strangely imv.olvcd in a tale of love, and war and many troubles. Captain Shaw’s latest is an unusually long novel, good all the way through.

TH E' LATEST MA G AZINES Th<_* Popular Mechanics' Magazine for December is a hefty issue, snd is .TTiTT from cover to cover of useful interesting,: and valuable tips for everybody who seeks a short-cut to doing tilings. Three November issues of popular magazines are to hand through Air Janies Campbell: Hutchinson’s Adventure Story Magazine carries stirring stories by Arthur Alills, Doug-

las Newton, H. Bed ford-Jones, and

others. True Love Stories Alagaziuc is quite out of the usual in the style of its tales, which are pages from real life, some tragical. The Corner Magazine contains no fewer than 100,000 words of complete stories — thirteen tales and a complete novel, “Tradition Calling,” by Hazel Hanshew

The Windsor Alagaziuc for December is full of good and varied ho!id;iy reading. Special articles oil Billiards and: the- veterinary College and fiction by Dornford Yates, K. R. G. Browne and others. Sunset Alagaziiie’s Christmas number features .the pleasant life -of California, carries a number of live features,, and its lictiou is line auu entertaining.

The New Alagaziuc for November presents a complete novel of adventure, “The Greatest Stake,” by Edward Wood ward jam! tales ibv Robert Chambers. Frank Shaw, F. A. Al, Webster, Yiugie Roe, and Baroness von Hutton

Aiuslee s Magazine lor December is Lho .magazine that charms, with its 100 pages;.of .absorbing reading—a complete- novel by Elizabeth Robins serial by A fay Sinclair, series bv Rafael Sabatiui, and some short stories.