IN THE LIBRARY

Northern Advocate, 12 June 1926, Page 9

IN THE LIBRARY

WHANGAREI LIBRARY. J BOOKS ADDED TO THE ADULT LIBRARY FOR MAY; 1 FICTION. . ' Rolf Bennett, “The Quest of the ■ ‘Laughing Girl’;” Stephen McKenna, “The Oldest God;” H. B. Drake, “The Schooner California;” Ridgwell Cullura, “The Candy Man;” H. G. Wells, “The Passionate Friends;” G. E. Mitton, “Bitter Harvest;” L. Allen Harker, “Hilda Ware;” Vera Wheatley, “Devices and Desires;” Susan Glaspell, “Fidelity;” Seymour Hicks, “Hullo Australians!;” Margaret Kennedy, “Ladies of Lyndon;’ - Storm Jameson, “The Happy High,ways;” Selwyn Jepson, “SnaggleI tooth;” H. A. and Archibald Marshall Vachell, “Mr Allen;” Maurice Lincoln, “I, Said the Sparrow;” Nina C. Boyle, “The Stranger Within the Gates;” Jesse Berridge, “Stronghold;” E. M. O. R. Dickey, “The Isle of Pheasants;” Peggy Webling, “The Amber Merchant; ” “Sapper,” “The | Dinner Club;” Mary Roberts Rinehart, ‘ ‘ The Mystery Lamp; ’ ’ Mrs Baillie Reynolds, “The Spell of Sarnia;” E. P. Oppenheim, “Gabriel Samara;” Wm. McLeod Raine, “Bonanza;” William Le Queux, “Hidden Hands;” Translated by C. K. Scott Monerieff Stendhal, “The Charterhouse of Parma,” Vols. 1 and 2. Replacements. Wm. McLeod Raine, “The Desert’s Price;” Beatrice Grimshaw, “Conn of the Coral Seas;” “Sapper,” “The Third Round. ’ ’ HISTORY. Anonymous, “The Pomp of Pouer;” Alexandre Dumas, ‘‘The Last King, or the New France,” Vols. 1 and 2; Gabrielle Resting, “When Kings Rode to Delhi.” TRAVEL. P. W. Up de Graff, “Head-Hunters lof the Amazon;” Ferdinand Ossendowski, “Beasts, Men and Gods;” Richard Wedderspoon, “N.Z. Illustrated Tourist Guide;” R. R. R. Woodcock, “North Island Road Service and Tourist Guide;” Government Tourist Department, “Itinerary of Travel in New Zealand;” Jan and Cora J. Gordon, “Two Vagabonds in Languedoc;” Grace Thompson Seton, “Yes, Lady Sahib.” SOCIOLOGY. James Cowan, “Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori;” Minister of Internal Affairs, “N.Z. Parliamentary Record.” FINE ARTS. Richard Jeffries, “The Gamekeeper at Home.” JUVENILE' LITERATURE. J. C. Smith, “A Book of Verse for Boys and Girls:” Frank Jones (ar-| j ranged by), “The Golden Books of English Verse,” Vols. 1,2 and 3. BOOKS ADDED TO THE JUVENILE LIBRARY FOR MAY:

fiction. Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N., “Out in the Silver West,” “Allan Adair,” and “The Island of Gold;” Bartlett Adamson, “Mystery Gold;” May Wynne, “The Girls of Clanways Farm;” Marion Ames Taggart, “The Little Grey House;” Edward S. Ellis, “Footprints in the Forest;” Ernest H. Robinson, “The Cruise of the Saucy Jane;” Tom Bevan, “Rivals of the Fourth;” Doris A. Pocock, “For the Good of the School;” John Mowbray, ‘ ‘ Barkworth’s Last Year; ” Ethel Talbot, “ An Unexpected Schoolgirl;” B. Nesbit, “The Wouldbegoods,” “New Treasure Seekers,” “Five of Us —and Madeline;” Clara Stroebe (edited by), “The Norwegian Fairy Book;” Alice Hall, “The Cat, the Dog and the Dormouse;” Lt.-Col. Brereton, 11 Colin the Scout;’ ’ Percy F. Westerman, “The Buccaneers of Boya;” Katherine Oldmeadow, “Mad Cap Judy” and “Ragged Robin;” Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, “The Abbey Girls ’ 1 and “Expelled from School; Jean Curlewis, “The Dawn Men;” E. L. Haverfield, “The Girl from the Bush;” Winifred Pares, “The Secret of the Dusty House;” St. John Pearce, “Off His Own Bat;” Lillian M. Pyke, “Sheila, the Prefect;” Herbert Havens (edited by), “Bunty’s Bonny Book;” E. T. Campagnae (compiled by), “Bunty’s Treasure Book;” John Buskin, “The King of the Golden River;” Lewis Carrol, “Alice in Wonderland;” H. Louise Bedford, “The Deerhurst Girls;” Herbert Hayens, “Under the Lone Star;” A. Harcourt Burrage, ‘ 1 The Idol of Saint Monereeth;” John Sword, junr., | “Fighting the Air Spies;” Bessie Marchant, “By Honour Bound;” E. L. Haverfield, “The Discovery of Kate;” Ethel Talbot, “Patricia, Perfect;” Harold Avery, “A ToastFag;” S. H. Hamer, “The Adventures of Spider and Coy;” Ethel Talbot, “Two on an Island;” Harry and S. H. Hamer Rountree, “Peter PinkEye;” Mrs W. A. Holman, “The Adventures of Woodeny;” Oscar Hume, “Peg at the Rookery;” A'. D. Bright, “The Fortunate" Princeling;” Marie Edgeworth (edited by Louey Chisholm), “Simple Susan;” Friedrich de la Motte (edited by 0. B. Smith), “Undine;” Nathaniel Hawthorne (edited by C. E. Smith), “Tanglewood Tales;” H. E. Marshall (edited by), “Stories of Beowulf.” “Sinbad the Sailor,” “Tiny Tots,” “Gift Time,” “CosyTime,” “Dream Town,” “Fun Town,” “Party Town,” “Winter Days,” “My Dolly j Book,” “My Lady Fair,” “My Best iBook,” “Fairy Tales,” “My Story 1 Book.”

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“BEST BOOKS” LIST.

The United States Federal Bureau of Education at Washington is the latest body to draw up a “Best Books” list, and it has chosen forty volumes that “all children should read before they are sixteen years of age.” The two score volumes thus recomended are:— “Little Women.” “Little Men.” “Robinson Crusoe.” “Tanglewood Tales.” “Uncle Remus.” “Anderson’s Fairy Tales.” “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” “The Jungle Books.” “Alice in Wonderland.” “Treasure Island.” “Just So Stories.” “Heidi” (by Johana Spyri). ‘ ‘ Arabian Nights. ’ ’ “Adventures of Odysseus” by Padraic Colum). “The Oregon Trail” (by Francis Parkman). “Hans Brinker” (by Mary Mapcs Dodge). “Tom Sawyer.” “Huckleberry Finn.” “The Prince and the Pauper.’ * ‘ ‘ Swiss Family Robinson. ’ ’ “Merry Adventures of Robin Hood” (by Howard Pyle). “Captain Courageous.” “Boy’s King Arthur.” “Ivanhoe. ”

“Aesop’s Fables.” “Water Babies.” “Child’s Garden of Verse.” “Master Skylark” ( by John Bennett). “Little Lame Prince” (by Mrs

Craik). ‘ ‘ Gulliver’s Travels. ” “Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln” (by Helen Nicolay). “The Story of a Bad Boy” (by Thomas Bailey Aldrich). “The Story of Doctor Doolittle” (by Hugh Lofting.) “Wonderful Adventures of Nils”

(by Selma Lagerlof). “Joan of Are” (by L. M. Boutet de Mouvel). “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (by Kate Douglas Wiggin). “The Man Without a century” (by Edward Everett Hale). “Men of Iron” (by Howard Pyle). “Understood Bfetsy” (by Dorothy Canfield). “A Dog of Flanders” (by Ouida),

BIBLE SOU) POE £21,200. In New York recently the Melk copy of the Gutenberg Bible, so-called from its having been preserved at Melk, Austria, for 300 years, was sold to Dr A. S. W. Rosenbaeh, the Philadelphia book dealer, for £21,200. This is the highest price ever paid for a book. Mr Gabriel 1 Wells, a New York dealer, retired from the sale when the bidding had reached £16,600. Mr W. E. Benjamin tried to obtain the Bible for the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York. He was the purchaser in London in 1923 of the Mazarin Bible, which he bought for £B7OO, and sold subsequently for £12,000, the nearest approach to the 1 price paid by Dr Eosenbach for a rare Bible. The Melk Bible was sent fo New York by Mr Edward Goldston, of Bloomsbury, London, who is said to have paid more than £IO,OOO for it. LITERARY NOTES. “Peter Pan does not belong to the world of Pan, but to the world of Peter.’’—Mr G. K. Chesterton in “The Everlasting Man.”

The real name of the well-known author and dramatist, Clemence Dane, is Winifred Ashton. She took her pen name from the famous old London •hureh.

O. 'Henry in his later years used to compare himself with Conrad’s “Lord Jim,” because “we both made one false mistake at the supreme crisis of our lives, a mistake from which we could not recover.”

“I never attempt to read a book before reviewing it,” remarked Sydney Smith to a friend. “It so often tends to prejudice one.”

A link with Victorian letters has been broken by the recent death of Mr Henry Merivale Trollope, the elder and last surviving son of Anthony Trollope. He was eighty years •f age.

“We had a fricassee of rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three carps in a dish, a great dish of a side of lamb, a. dish of roasted’ pigeons, a dish of four lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey pie (a most rare pie), a dish of anchovies, good wine of several sorts, and all things mighty noble and to my great content.' 11 This is Pepy’s record of a dinnergiven by him at his house' bh April 4, 1663, and “most neatly dressed by our owne only mayde. ” There were seven or eight ghosts.