BOOKS IN DEMAND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 16 March 1935, Page 5

BOOKS IN DEMAND

Children’s Surprising Tastes HASTINGS LIBRARY REPORT The following is a list of books that have been in popular demand during the past month, reports the Hastings Librarian, Mrs O. Skipper. In fiction, “Somebody Must” and all others of Alice Grant Rosman’s books; all the books of Georgette Heyer, authoress of “These Old Shades”; “Thatched Roof,” by Beverley Nicholls; all Kathleen’ Norrie’s works and Phillips Oppenheim's; “White Bird Flying” and other books by Bees Aidrich. Men have shown a particular liking, in fiction, for the works of Dale Collins, Ben Bolt, Leslie Charteris, George Goodchild, and “Sapper,” and for “Quiet Flows the Don.” In New Zealand writings there has been a keen demand for “Pencarrow” aud “Winds of Heaven” by Nellie Scanlon, and far O. E. Burton's interesting and very well written book on the N.Z.E.F., “The Silent Division.” Travel and biographical books have been very popular. In travel there is an especially enthusiastic demand for “The Fly mg Carpet” and for all others of Richard Halliburton’s books. Others in much favour are “In the Steps of the Master,” by H. V. Morton, “European Journey,’’ by Philip Gibbs; “A Million Miles in the Air,” by Captain Olley; and “London Roundabout,” by Jan and Cora Gordon. Popular biographical and other works were H. G. Wells’s autobiography and “In Quest of the Ashes.” The increasingly intelligent taste of boys and girls belonging to the juvenile section vf the library is commented on by Mrs Skipper, who says that the books most in demand among them aie very different from the type in favour only a few years ago. “In these days, ’ says Mrs Skipper, “they will not look at ‘Wild West’ stories. Those books, in fact, are read only by grown-up men. I have no doubt that the future generations of young men and women, if their leading is any guide, are going to be much more intelligent and vellintormed than their ciders ’