REVIEWS FOR READERS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3795, 12 August 1932, Page 7

REVIEWS FOR READERS

The Latest Books EXIT ARNOLD BENNETT Arnold Dennett, most prolific of modern novelists, will write no more. Ho had completed a novelette, “Venus Rising from the Sea” and was mare titan halfway through a novel, “Dreams of Destiny,” when ho was out off in the very prime of his life. Ho did not instruct his executor to finish the novel and ho did not leave ample ivjtas indicating the working out of the plot. Rut his ■executor handed the MS. to Cassell Co. and that publishing firm hag iskiued the final fictional works of Ariiiald Dennett m one book under both titles, “Dream of Destiny” and “Venus Rising from, the Sea.” Some folks like to think out a. story, problem for themselvesHere, as- in the ease of Dicki.us s •‘Edwin, Drood,” is a great chance What did Roland Smith and Phoebe Friar do about their Dream of Debtiny? “THE. HOLY TERROR” Under this title clever and diverting Leslie Cna.rtcris has hau puulisued by Hoddor and Stoughton three more of the absorbingly interesting adventures of tho Same, otherwise Simon Templar, si. sort of modern Robin Hood. It says much for the fictional power of Mr Charter is that he hag published eight full books on end in which the Saint is the chief figure. Those eight books carry 20 thrilling adventures of tho Simotti Templar—and ho has enough material for eight more books! Tlie 3.in-1 of “The Holy Terror” are about “The Inland Revenue,” “The Million Pound Day” and “The Melancholy Journey of Mr Teal” (tlie latter being the Saint’s protagonist from Scotland Yard). In an •entertaining preface, “Between Ourselves*” Mr Chartoris has a goodnatured fling at the historical romance. This critic would like to see t he Saint spirit carried into a sword and buckler novel. Give it a go, Mr Charteris 1 “THE BLACK SWAN” This is the title of Rafael Sabatini’s new navel, published by Hutchinson and C,. (AY m. Cart law and Son). In his iate Sp book the gifted Anglo-Italian as gone back to tlie sea and given bis many admirers another full-blooded i>ir;atical yarn, with the awful Torn Leach as the villain of villains and Charles de Demis, lieutenant to Sir Hknry Morgan as hero, with Mist Prigcilla Harradino a& heroine. As in his latest half dozen novels, tlie author is slow and leisurely in getting into action, bu p tlio L'C'coaid section of toe narrative is swift in action and packed with thrills.

“HAVANA ROUND” Hoddor and Stoughton have issued “Havana Round,” Cecil Roberts’s mystery romance success of 1930 i" their 3s Gd (net) edition and it should win another group of admiring readers for the creator of “Sagusto” and ‘‘David and Diana. “Havana Round” holds its interest throughout its 300 pages. “MISDEAL” This, is not a book on'bridge or euchre, but “Misd*al J is a uo\el by Anna Gerstein, aL'other literary discovery by tlio House ol Cassell. Tfiis is a startling book powerful and realistic, presenting a situation and a problem that intrigues from the outset. The fascination cl the heroine’s character makes an appeal to which every woman will respond Nancy Doran loved two men, a husband badly wounded in the Avar, yet wounded more in liis outlook o-n life, than with any bodily injuries and a lover who gave her sympathy and the romance of passion that found no place in her husband s relations with her. See wliat she makes of it.

THE LATEST MAGAZINES Tlie New Zealand Magazrino ffor June-July ri an interesting issue, with special articles on “Should New Zeya .land Foster Secondary Industries?” “New Zealand to Nippon” (notes on a tour), tlie Youth Hostels Movements, Rook Plates, Coinage and Forestry. Chambers’s Journal for July carries articles oil Commercial Aviation in U.S.A.. R.L.S. in the Hawaiian .Islands, Hamburg, Mummy Alining, the Caribbces, and Scott and Richardson. Also entertaining, fiction. The Ideal Home iW July is a Suimncr Housekeeping issue. Tin's London Magazine is one cf those that its patronage of interesting advertisements. Tlie special articles are all bv experts and the whole of its praetii -i\ and inf armative issue is profusely illustrated. Tlie Co.nilois.senr for July, as liberally pictured as usual and with gift rilfitc-s, ca-rriej special articles oil

Yirgina Walnut Furniture, Chinese Wallpaper* SuriVy Enamels, and Silver Mount® o n South African Furniture, with notes on sales, books criticism and all topi tv of interest to collectors. From Aitke'i's Do ok su op coiuo copies of the latest magazines. The Roy’s Own Paper carries tales that are -of absorbing interest .and articKt, oh Swimming Games and Cricket Facts and Fallacies. Tho Girl's Ovv'i Paper has four stories of school life av.d adventure as well as two serials, with articles o.u Swimming Stunts aud Music in the Heme. Nash’s is as attractive in special articles by leading writ cm as it is in short a’.d serial fiction by topiatch storytellers. Eileen Bonnett is especially inforesting i*i her illustrated article on Tc.iir.is at Wimbledon.