HAWERA PUBLIC LIBRARY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 8

HAWERA PUBLIC LIBRARY

NEW: BOOKS. New books at the public library in- 1 elude the following: “Sea Wall,” by L. A. G. Strong. The story of the growing up of Nicky D’Olier, who lives the sea wall at his Irish home. He is a good angler, swimmer and boxer, though he will not put on the gloves again alter having beaten his hero at school. There are a number of mysteries which are eventually cleared up, and thy story ends with Nicky's flight in aeroplane, when, up in the air, lie seems to perceive some order in his life. “The Hanging Sword,” by Andrew Soutar, has a couple of murders and many thrills. A woman gives a man aconite*, and then, by showing him a photograph of another person dying opoison, induces him to throw himself out of tiie window to escape a similar agony. This ingenious attempt to make a murder look like suicide is frustrated by a detective, who has seen from a distance the showing 01 the photograph, and who eventually nuts two and two together. “Two Black Sheep,” by Warwick Deeping. Henry Vane returns from the war to find liis wife unfaithful. .He shoots the offending lover and gives himself up to the police. He receives a life sentence, and after fifteen years emerges from prison a changed man in a changed world. Though financially secure he is completely at a loss Then he meets again Elsie Summerhays, an old-fashioned girl of 28, who is governess to Sally Rym, an incorrigible child, whose mother sets her a dissolute example. He is fearful of his past; she of her future, for relations with Mrs Rym are becoming intolerable. Unable to obtain her wages Elsie makes a desperate attempt to icturn to her dying mother, fails, and is sentenced to a year in. prison for theft. She contracts pneumonia, but recovers, and all ends well “Vanessa,” by Hugli Walpole. This is the fourth and concluding volume I of the Herries Chronicle. It covers I the years 1875-1932, the period including the early nineties, the Boer War, the Edwardian splendours, the Great War and the general strike. Mr Walpole begins with crinolines and ends with the portrait of Sally, modern of moderns, Judith Paris’s great-grand-daughter. It is the love' story of Vanessa and Benjamin Herries, uniting the two warring strains of the Herries character.

“The Falun,” by Louis Bromfield. The chronicle of the growth of an old Missouri farm, and its inhabitants. “Allah’s Gift,” by Kathlyn Rhodes. At the invitation of her old school friend, Grania Dillon travels from England to Egypt to be companion and guest. From the moment she arrives at her destination her adventures begin, and it is only after many strange happenings that the romance between Grania and her friend’s brother, lan Keble, comes to a happy ending. “Jungle Night,” by Reginald Campbell. “The life of an elephant-trader in a Siamese jungle is bound to have its -ups and downs,” says the author. And he proceeds to describe some of them. He gives some fascinating studies of elephants, as well as thrilling accounts of some of his adven tures.

“Commando,” bv Denevs Reitz, is described as a “Boer journal of the Boer War.” It is a simple straightforward story of the experiences of a Boer soldier.' Colonel .Reitz entered the war a stripling of seventeen, fought right through to the end. and then wrote these memories. Some of the exciting incidents, hairbreadth escapes and daredevilrv may seem incredible, but the facts are often understated rather than exaggerated. For all its simplicity it is a book of absorbing interest. “They Brought their Women,” by Edna Ferber. In this new collection of short stories, we see E'dna Ferber’s acute criticism and amused intelligence at their best. Her keen observation and interest in New York types gives her ample material for these stories which range from a day in the life of a taxi-driver to a languid week in the life of a boreo woman with nothing to do but dress or bully her husband. “Glamour” is the story of the hardworking life of a “glamorous” stage star; “To Keep it Holy,” a poignant story of a lonely girl in New York; “They Brought Their Women,” the story of a nagging woman, a too efficient wife, who nearly ruins her husband and liis friends.