REVIEWS FOR READERS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 7

REVIEWS FOR READERS

THE LATEST BOOKS. “fIOGUES AND VAGABONDS” Compton Mackenzie creator of! tbo Scarlett family and otner literary surprises—-l*o lias published, 18 boobs to date- always gives full measure in the length and doptii of bis novels 'His very latest “Bogues and Vagabonds,” published by Cassell and Co. measures lip to standard in every way. Again lie- is attracted by the psychology ”1' family strains and . influences. in bis newest, novel bo deals with several generations of the Fuller family, tbo narrative opening back i.ii. 182.9 and closing happily just before tbo. war. Idle narrative bus much to do with the theatrical life. EDO All GUEST’S I’OFAIS Probably no living poet is more widely lead than Edgar A, Guest, tlici poet of happiness, whose verse is (syndicated every week a.ud mouth jn popular papers and magazines. At least a dozen books containing select, iofis from 'bis ,waitings have* been published, and .here comes yet another, “The Light of Faith,” published by Koehler and Stoughton. Within tli.es covers are 100 poems of inspiration, courage, hope and (dicer, simple and understandable.. These lines from “The Good World ghe idea, of the lilt and swing of (Jue.st verses: — The Lord must have liked us, I say when 1 see The blooming of the rose «»Hl the green 01. the tree, ■ The flash of the wing of a bird flitting by, . The gold of the grain’ ami the blue or the sky, The clover below, and the tall pines above— Oh, ' there’s something about us tlie go>d l,ord must Jove. MUSTEK Y AND LOVE “Sinister House” is Lhc gripping title of a thrillng mystery story by Charles G. Booth, an American novelist. Jt is an adventure tale ol Southern California, and it all aio.-,e over thy refusal of Col, Connistou Lo sell his historic intaglios to Conrad Gill even for 309,000 ’dolors. Thrill is piled on thrill and then there is the girl and the hern, who more than the situation “The Mind <>l Minx” is vet another (the 2.3 rd) novel to the credit of industrious Berta Buck, who fells at considuiable length tlie varied adventures of n heroine in London and Os night clubs, in Germany and Austria and in Paris. Three levers anti a mystery pursue tlie Minx all the way through tbo entertaining narrative. Both are published by Rudder and Stoughton.

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