BOOKS IN DEMAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22398, 20 October 1934, Page 4

BOOKS IN DEMAND

The librarian of the Dunedin Athenaeum advises ua that the following works have been in greatest demand in the past month: — Fiction , “And Quiet Flows the Don,” by M. Sholokhov; “ The Ante-Room,” by Kate O’Brien; “Anthony Adverse,” by Hervey Allen; “The Box of Spikenard,”.by Ethel Boileau; “Children of the Poor,” by Anonymous; “The Commander Shall.” by Humphrey Jordan; “Constable. Guard Thyself,” by Henry Wade; “Flaming Felicia,” by Ann Duffield; “The Loaded Stick,” by Naomi Jacob; “ The Long Day Closes,” by Beatrice Tunstall; “Mr Finchley Discovers His England,” by Victor Canning; “ Mystery on Southampton Water,” by Freeman W. Crofts; “This Little World,” by Francis Brett Young; “Tides of Youth.” by Nelle Scanlan; “Trail Dust,” by Clarence Mulford; “Via Panama,” by Margaret Jepson; “Winds of Heaven,” by Nelle Scanlan. General Literature “A Frenchman’s London,” by Paul Morand; “The Arches'of the Years,” by Halliday Sutherland: “Behind the Throne,” by Paul H. Emden;, “Big Cricket.” by Patsy Hendren; “Cry Havoc,” by Beverley, Nichols; “ Down, the Garden Path,” by Beverley Nichols; “English Journey,” by J. B. Priestley; “I Was a Spy,” by Marthe M'Kenna: “Kenya To-day,” by Nora Strange: “Memoirs of a Canip Follower.” by Philip Gosse: “My Selves,” by Netley Lucas and Evelyn Graham: “Nijinsky,” by Romola Nijinsky; “One’s Company,” by Peter Fleming; “Queen Elizabeth,” by E. J. Neale: “ Ranjitsinhji,” by Roland Wild; “The Valleys of the Assassins,” by Freya Stark. Great Expectations The unquiet art of book publicity reaches a new high level in a folder just issued by the London publishers of a popular thriller writer. On the outside page the eye is assaulted by the following legend in big type:—“ Dumas, Edgar Wallace, Oppenbeim, Baroness • Orczy, H. G. Wells, William le Queux, Conan Doyle, and Jules Verne. What a Galaxy of Stars!!! and yet . . . ’’and on turning overleaf—“ Eminent Reviewers Have compared the work of Dennis Wheatley to all of these famous Authors in his first year as Novelist and Historian.” The folder proceeds to quote favourable excerpts from reviews, its purpose being to announce a new novel from Mr Wheatley’s versatile ppn.