REVIEWS FOR READERS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3742, 10 June 1932, Page 7

REVIEWS FOR READERS

The Latest Books “A CHINESE TRIANGLE” Louise Jordan Miln, who lia s added to her reputation with cacti suc•cossvo tale of tile East and there arc 15 of them to date in Hoddei and Stoughton's Colonial Libra, ly—score yet again with ‘GY Chinese Triangle.” Mrs Miln knows the Chinese better than most writers, foi she has lived amongst them and familiar not only with the- n.nciem philosophy of China, hut with the psychology of the modern Chines-©. She opens her new and lengthy novel well with the analysis of th rich insect farmer and his desire; auj his ambitious, but more especi. ally his love for his sweet daughte Ann Zu-za.n. It would not he : Miln story without a tragic note hut mostly it is one of admirable self-sacrifice; and the nnrrativ ends as sweetly as a. beautiful fairv tale come true, with the bride, Zu zan giving the bridegroom, Lo Ti•:nsUi, a guldiki gurgle iqf lovely laughter. A NEW NOVELIST “The Tragedy of X,’* published ii Cassell’s Colonial Library, intro duces a new American writ on. Barnaby Ross, who a net super-sleuth or ci iminaogist. it i* explained in the nairative that h i s a distinguished retired actor wit a world-wide reputation as an intci prefer of Shakespearean roles, M Drury Lane. He is wealthy, live in mediaeval surroundings oil t’ Hudson River and is stone dea But as a. skilled lip-reader ho on follow all ordinary conversation. T him come for advice Inspector Thuinni of the New York police a-r the. District Attorney, Air Bruno There hn s been ,a mysterious murcD in a tramoar, there is another on ferry boat,—and a third crime eon pieties the circle. Then Drury Lan works things out in a manner th*' is breathlessly interesting. T* reviewer looks for another Dru*Lane drama. “QUAINT HONOUR” Another American novelist bro-ug. into Cassell’s Colonial Library Elisabeth Finley Thomas. Her rebook bears tho catchy title, ‘Qunv Honour.” The 'narrative baa Ne York for its .setting, but it cental human emotions and passions thcan he appreciated and experience even over here in New Zealand, d picted in a manner that makes V hook notable and memorable. T l Van Bleeckors, with their traditions their prejudices, their loyalty to +T ' family, cannot, easily he dispelle from tho mind. And Allegra, th high note, simply cannot bo f< vr gotten. Poor Allegro-, mi sun dors too' 1 Allegro., d elect able Allegra, daughte* of the disowned hlacksheep of a " ni istecrn.tie family—all tho move moot is around Allcgra. MESQUITE JENKINS RETURN. Who that delights in the swift s»c lion and thrill of wild West fiotio does not look for yet another o Clarence Mulfnrd’s novels? Here i is. “Mosquito Jenkins. Tumbleweed,” published in Hodder an« Stoughton’s Colonial Library, tumbleweed is like a heavyweight thistledown and it is always going o* with th o wind. The hero of “Alesquite Jenkins,” pal of Hcjialonj Cassidy, Johnny Nelson, et a. genus onines of Bar 20, is tumbling along or wandering over t lie hill t puv ;1 vis it to J-ullHUy Nolsljll vliO tilings hji-ppcn sudi Irn aiul strenuous liy tlio way. There is a had g ;i nr doing dirty work on tlie ranee a."' Mesquite lues to -stop and .-lean it UP The author litust have fought liar' to keep Jenkins heart whole for : sequel—but he allows the tumMcweed to stay put with Sarah. It ione- of iMr Mulford's veribest. WARWICK DEEPING AGAIN From the House of C assell come a copy of the -l-iid novel they ha>\ publislied from toe pen of the in dustrious and veisatilo \\ ari\ ieh Deeping.' Its title is -'Old Wine ant New,” and. ill it the novelist pnt sues the metier of “Sorrell and So u’ It is another tale of the war a.'-. alter. By fulfilling a promise made on tho battlefield the hero meett Julia., who was no woman of dreams rather, one of a, healthy appetite t»i material things. Sho meant to ire them, and used Spenser as her la*, dor —only to kick him aside alter wards. This blow to love is folio.wo by disasters in business, till, as free-lance writer, he is down, bu not quite out. His salvation is h) ■enforced leisure, .during wl!it i i discovers both a tlieuio after ins o\v heart for a book and a woman afte his own heart as companion. U Warwick is leisurely in analysis nr * docs not spare words, giving .ins 4 tinder 400! pages in small print. It- i IT . o_t ike best. Itcee-instile.

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