BOOKS IN DEMAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21668, 11 June 1932, Page 4

BOOKS IN DEMAND

The librarian of Athenaeum reports the following books were in demand during the past month: — Novels “Arizona Ames/’ by Zane Grey; “Brave New World,” by Aldous i Huxley; “ Broken House,” by Ambrose South; “ Expatriates,” by M. A. Dormie; “Finch’s Fortune,” by M. de la. Roehe; “Good Earth,” by Pearl S. Buck; “'Happy Murderers,” by Victor Bridges; “Have His Carcass,” by Dorothy Sayefs; “Inheritance,” by Phyllis Bentley; “ Magnolia Street,” by Louis Golding; “ The Maze,” by Philip Macdonald; “Mushroom Field,” b? Mabel Tyrrell; ' “ Mystery of ! the David M.,” by D. W. Macarthur; “Pride of the Morning,” by Owen Archer; “Props,” by Naomi Jacob; /Secret Sentence,” by Vicki Baum; "Spring - Morning,” by Simon Dare; "That Was Yesterday,” by Storm Jameson- - General Literature “Black Frontiers,” by Sam Kejnp; “ Easter Island,” by Robert J. Casey; “Emperor of the West (Charles V), by D. B. Wyndham ' Lewis; “ Hell Hounds of France,” by Ex-Legion-naire 1384; “A Hoosier Holiday, by Theodore Dreiser; “Life and Money/' by Einiar O’Duffy; “ Melba, by Percy Colson; "Only Yesterday,” by Frederick L. Allen; “Sir Walter Scott, by Ashton Wolfe; “Unseen Crimes,” by, by Ashton Wolfe; "Unseen Assasins,' by Norman Angell: "Wanderings in Wild Africa,” by C. T. Stoneham. Hebrew Manuscripts The Oxford University Press expects to publish shortly a descriptive catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan manuscripts 1 in the Sassoon Library, Loudon, compiled 1 by David Solomon Sassoon. The work is i illustrated with 73 facsimiles which inj elude a coloured plate of a page from j the famous Farhi Bible and reproductions | of ninth and tenth century manuscripts, j The author’s collection is probably unI rivalled by that of any single owner; I it has been built up by travels in Meso- ! potamia, North Africa, Palestine, Syria, and India, by correspondence, and by constant search throughout many years. The work contains much material throwing light on Jewish history from early times, and is provided with exceptionally full indexes, that of the first lines of poems alone having nearly 11;000 headings. Pet Names Vicki Baum, the German novelist, has settled in the United States with her two sons, and intends to become an American citizen. Her decision, she relates in a New York newspaper, has been severely criticised: “ I found on my desk letters in which getftle young Germans called mo pet names. Of these ‘old sow was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. ’_. That experience strengthened me in my resolution to raise my boys in a country in which it is not taken for granted that a woman should clean a man’s boots.” A Collector's Book At a recent meeting of the New Zealand Ex Libris Society mention was made that a former New Zealander, Mr P. Neville Barnett, bad published a noteworthy addition to bookplate literature in his “ Pictorial Bookplates.” The work runs to 144 pages and contains a unique collection of the works of famous Australian and Old World artists with explanatory chapters thereon. The first edition of this book is limited to 300 copies and contains 87 illustrations, whilst the edition de luxe has 15 original etchings by leading _ ’artists, seven having remarques. It is stated that the book has already attracted the notice of leading bibliophiles throughout the world.