IN THE LIBRARY

Northern Advocate, 22 January 1927, Page 9

IN THE LIBRARY

WHANG-AEEI PUBLIC LIBRAEY. ADDITIONS FOil DECEMBER. The following books were added to the Adult Library for the month of December, 192 G FICTION. B. M. Bower, “Black Thunder”; Beatrice Harradcn, “Rachel’; Sir Philip Gibbs, “Young Anarchy”; Crosbic Garstin, “West Wind”; Captain Wren, P.C., “Father Gregory”; Paul Trent, “The Man Who Stood Alone”; Robert Noel Rivers, “The Call of the Jungle”; Louise Jordan Miln, “It Happened in Peking”; Arnold Bennett, “Lord Eaingo”; Denis Mackail, “The Fortunes of Hugo”; Patrick Hamilton, “Craven House”; Sheila Kaye-Smith, “Joanna Godden, Married”; Hugh Walpole, “Harmer John”; George A. Birmingham, “The i Smugglers’ Cave”; Jane Mander, j“The Besieging City”; William J. S Locke, “Stars Far and Near”; Cecil I Roberts, “Little Mrs Mannington”; Edgar Wallace, “The Northing (Tramp”; E. Temple Thurston, “The j Goose-Feather Bed”; Seamark, “The j Silent Six”; Olive Schreiner, “From Man to Man”; Dorothy Canfield, “Her Son’s Wife”; H. G. Wells, j“The World of William Clissold. bks. j 5 and C”; A. Hamilton Gibbs, “La- | bels”; Edmund Yale, “Port Smuggler”; Ralph Straus, “Our Wiser Sons”; Isabel Paterson, “The Fourth Queen”; J. J. Bell, “Mr and Mrs Craw”; L. M. Montgomery, “Hil-

meny of the Orchard”; Peter Deana, “Harvest”; John Travers, “Jean, a Halo and Some Circles”; Stewart | White, “Secret Harlbour”; Edgar I Wallace, “The Yellow Snake”; James j Ireland, “Master Secretary”; Jack ! Bethea, “The Deep Seam”; G. W. I Ogden, “The Well Shooters”; Bertrand W. Sinclair, “Wild West”; Dan Poling, “The Furnace”; Du Bose j Heyward, “Porgy”; A. M. Chisholm, “Yellow Horse”; E. C. Ashby, “The Moorland Man”; . George Challis, “Monsieur”; Clarence E. Mulford, "The Bar 20 Rides Again”; A. M. Chisholm, “The Red Heads”; James j Pollard, “The Bushland Man”; Charles Alden Seltzer, “The Gentle-1 man from Virginia”; Annie S. Swan, “MacLeod’s Wife”; Charles dannell, “The Passionless Quest”; Christine j Orr, “The House of Joy”; James A. Morley, “Out of these Things.” i REPLACEMENTS. j Edgar Wallace, “The Sinister j Man”; S. R. Crockett, "Little Anna i Mark”. I

LITERATURE. I , lan Hamilton, “Now and Then”; ; George A. Birmingham, “Spillkins”; J. C. Squire (Compiled by), “The ! Comic Muse”: Sir W. S. Gilbert, “The Story of the Mikado”; John D. D. Darlington, “Effective Speaking and Writing”; Sidney F. Wicks. “Public Speaking for Business Men”. RELIGION. Edward Westermarck, “The Goodness of Gods.” ■ SCIENCE. H. G. Wells, “Mr Belloc Objects”; Gilbert White, “The Natural History of Selbourne”. HISTORY. A. J. Harrop, Ph.D., M.A., “England and New Zealand”; F. S. Marvin, “The Living Past”. BIOGRAPHY. John Bailey, “Walt Whitman.” TRAVEL. T. J. Pemberton, ‘ ‘ Gallipoli Today”; James Cowan, “Travel in New Zealand, Vols. 1 and 2”. PHILOLOGY. John Bygott, 8.A., B.Sc., “The King’s English and How to Write It”; Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., “On the Study of Words.” SOCIOLOGY. Bertrand Russell, “On Education”; Associated Newspapers, Ltd, “Daily Mail Year Book, 1927”; Census and Statistics Office, “N.Z. Official Year Book, 1D27”. JUVENILE LIBRARY. j FICTION. Capt. Edrie Vredenburg (Ed. by), 1 ‘ Mother Goose ”; Mrs Herbert Strang, “The Children’s Story Book”; Dorita Fairlie Bruce, “The Senior Prefect”; Brenda Girvin, “ Three Adventurous Schoolgirls”; Evelyn Smith, “Septima at School,” “The Little Betty | Wikinson” and “Biddy and Ouilla”; Major Charles Gilson, “The Pirate Aeroplane” and “The Spy”; E. V. Timms, “The Valley of Adventure”; George S. Surrey, “A Servant of the Company”; W. B. Anderson, “Boy Trappers in the Rockies”; John S. Rowe, “The Boys of Fellingham School”; Captain F. S. Brereton, “With French at the Front,” “With Joffre at Verdun,” “With Allenby in Palestine,” “The Dragon of Peking” and “Under Foch’s Command”; Richard Bird, “Trouble at Wyndham”; Alexander MacDonald, “Through the Heart of Tibet”; Joyce Bruce, “The Twins to the Rescue”; E. E. Cowpcr, “The Mystery of Saffron Manor ’’; Mrs A. C. Osborne Hann, “Rhoda the Rebel”; Constance Gregory, “The Castlcstone House Company”; Lord Hampton, “Scouting Sketches”: Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” Teeny Town,” “Dream Town,” “Fairv Town.” “Elf-Land Frolics,” “Holiday Fun.” “Jack O’Lantern.” “Mv Chummy Book,” “Semite Fox,” “Squirrel Hall.” “Little Dots,” “The Child’s Own Annual,” “The Prize. ’ ’

(By the Bookman.)

“FANCY DEESS, and other Verse,’': ■by Dorothea Maekcllar (Angns and Robertson, Sydney).

The very many people who have enjoyed verses by Dorothea Maekcllar published in the Australian press, such ' as the Sydney Morning Herald, Bulletin, Forum, Melbourne Punch, Spinner, Woman’s Mirror and other periodicals, will learn with pleasure that the poems have been gathered together in a delightful volume entitled “Fancy; Drees.” Dorothea Maekcllar deals with all sorts and conditions of themes,and she touches but to adorn. Sh£ paints beautiful little pictures of lifb in Australia during periods of drought and plenty, and she reproduces the’ j spirit of the seasons in all their life' and beauty. These make a wonderful appeal. So do those dealing with domestic parenthal emotions. Little gemd they are. Here is one, among many. It is called “Lighting-up Time.” Prom the western sky quivers The last crimson stripe. And now in Night’s orchard ’ The fruit’ hanging ripe. ; Oranges and lemons i And grape fruit aglow, What could shine fairer Than city lamps show? “Fancy Dress” mates a very desirable addition to the library shelf or serves as a delightful travelling companion. “AUSSIE.”

I “Aussie” fits itself into the mood of each season of the year, but always in the cheerful sense. So it is that we find the January issue of the Magazine soaked with warm sunshine, the fun of the holiday party at the beaches or in the bush, and in the general care free spirit that characterises the glad month of golden weather. The leading humorous writers and artists of Australia and Now Zealand are well represented in all phases of humour.

EDGAR WALLACE’S BUSY LIFE.

I Everyone writes his or her reminiscences nowadays, but not everyone has an interesting story to tell. Half fho autobiographies published depend mainly on stories of other people with, j whom the author happened to come | m contact, and have little or no true I autobiographical basis. Edgar WaJjlace’s “People,” despite its title, is | plainly about Edgar Wallace, and woni cle.rf'ully interesting he makes his own [ story. But then he has had quite a .romantic life, for he had no mother or father that he knew of, was sav§d the workhouse by poor folk who | adopted him at the age of nine days, jard spent his boyhood and youth in' a bard struggle for. a bare existence. ■ Curiously enough, his varied experi- | ences of jobs in boyhood lead him' into printing works, but there were "o vtarrings of literary ambition in' his brain in those days. He just took any job he could get. He sold papers in the streets, then had experience in ! half a dozen different industries and [ even -.vent to sea in a trawler. Ultimately he enlisted in the West Kents. Transferred to the Medical Staff Corns, bo seems to have known for the first time that life could hold some Comfort for him. The turning point of his career came when he'was sent with a draft to the Cape, for there he came under the influence of literary people and began contributing to the weekly newspapers, chiefly political verse, and his enterprise ultimately compelled his retirement from :■ the army. He was thus free and on hand when the South. African War • commenced and obtained a job as a correspondent. This was the beginning of a full and varied newspaper career, which carried him into many countries and incidentally gave him the experience of West Africa which he turned to such excellent account in many stories. The reader does not need to bp told that Mr Wallace tells his tale in a very livelv fashion. He has met stores of interesting people and even' when he affords one a mere glimpse cf them it is sure to be a revealing one, because he has a seeing eye, and all liia life lias been a close student of humanity. Entertaining as bis fiction can be, it is nowhere more vivid or more absorbing than this true story.

LITERARY NOTES. Sir Henry Lunn, who paid a brief visit to New Zealand, has “Round the World with a Dictophone’ 1 ’ ‘in the Press. * * * * A well-known London publisher expresses his belief that the sale of books has been stimulated by modern house lighting with its portable electric lamps, which make reading anywhere in the house and even in bed a real pleasure. * « » » Wood-modelling is the favourite hobby of Mr S. G. Hulme Beaman, whose “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor” has just been published. He has taken as long as three months to carve a model Spanish galleon. It was from carving that he got the idea cf his special typo of illustration. • * • » Mr Mae Nair Wilson, who has written a Life of that great physician. Sir James Mackenzie, is himself a physician, and used to practice in a town in the West Highlands of iScotland. Mr Mae Nair Wilson has also written a detective story. ‘