THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 4

THE LATEST BOOKS

The following new publications have been received by recent mails, and_ will, in most cases, be the subject of notice in these columns:— Fiction Mills and Boon: “Easy Heart," by Lewis Cox; “Brief Ecstacy,” by Denise: Robins (each 4s net); “ Secret Honey-'' moon,” by Helena Grose; “The Secret Warrior,” by Maureen Heeley; “Married Man’s Girl,” by Susan Inglis; “The Fiddler Played it Wrong,” by Christine Ertling; “No Feast of Love,” by Deirdro O’Brien; “Delayed Action,” by Edward Fell. Wright and Brown: “The Shadow,” by Donald Stuart; “Uninvited Guests,” by J. Jefferson Far jeon; “ Terror Island,” by M, E. Longman; “Pay to Bearer,” by M. Sheridan Jones (each ,4s net); “Scarthroat,” by Roland Daniel; “The Mystery Tipster,” by Frank Johnston; “The Black Rider of the Range,” by Charles H. Snow. Ward, Lock: “That Certain Thing,” by Valentine; “ The Travelling Skull,” by Harry Stephen Keeler. Macquarie Head: “Vulnerable,” by Dale Collins (5s net); “ Green Grey Homestead,” by Steele Rudd. Barker; "Blind Mouths,” by Thomas F. Tweed; “Tea Tray in the Sky,” by Graham Shepard (each 10s net), (Each 7s net, unless otherwise stated.) General Literature Oxford University Press (Humphrey Milford): “ Consultation and Co-opera-tion in the British Commonwealth,” compiled'by Gerald E. H. Palmer ,(18s (id net). Jenkins: “Japan’s Place in the,World, ’ by Julian Grande, illustrated (11s net)., Hogarth Press; “The Secret of Hitler’s Victory,” by Peter and Irma Petroff (5s net). Angus and Robertson: “The Manchurian Arena,” by F. M. Cutlack (2s 6d net). “ Worst-sellers ” Coincidently with the publication of a list of the “ best sellers ” in “ Everyman’s Library, Messrs Dent supply a list of what are described as the “ worstsellers” in the aeries. These include Scott’s “Castle Dangerous” and “St. Ronan’s Well,” and his “Lives of the Novelists”; Marryat’s “Percival Keene”; Kingsley’s Poems; Thackeray’s “Roundabout Papers ”; Balzac’s “ The Country Parson ”; Hawthorne’s “ The Blithedale Romance”: Ruskin’s “Pre-Raphaelitism ” nnd “The Two Boyhoods”: Stopford Brook’s “Theology in the English Poets”: Hugh Miller’s “ The Old Red Sandstone ”; Tytler’s “Essays on the Principles of Translation”; Richard Ford’s “Gatherings from Spain ”; Robert Pa Hock’s “ Peter Wilkins, or The Flying Indians ”; George Herbert’s “The Temple”; Holmes’s “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ” and “ The Poet at the Breakfast Table”; C. R. Leslie’s “Life of John Constable”; Trotter’s “Life ef Warren Hastings”; “The Old Tel low Book” (on which Browning founded “ The Ring and the Book ”); Gilfillan’s “Literary Portraits.”