THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 4

THE LATEST BOOKS

The following new publications have been received by recent mails, and will, as far as is practicable, be the subject of notice in these columns:— Fiction Mills and Boon: “To Ride In a Coach,” by Annabel Lee; “Love Withheld,” by Deirdre O’Brien, 4s; “Life’s Little Day, by Marjorie Tait; “The Way to Conquest,” by Nina /Bradshaw. Hogarth Press: “Illyria, Lady,” by Constance Butler- “The Dark Island,” by V. Sackville-West; “Crime at Christmas,” by G. H. B. Kitchin. Collins; “Parker Pyne Investigates,” by Agatha Christie; “ The Paper Chase,” by A. Fielding; “Range Justice,” by Frank C. Robertson. Hodder and Stoughton: “The Guests Arrive,” by Cecil Roberts; “ Green Judgment,” by Margaret Pedler. Hutchinson: “ The Fabulous Valley, by Dennis Wheatley. Rich and Cowan: “Light Up the Glory,” by Clare Meredith; “A Make l and-Mend, by Bartimeus. Methuen: “ Alpine Rosie,” by E. M. Ward; “The Rose of Death,” by Walter S. Masterman. , Endeavour Press: “ Forty Six,” by Stewart Howard, 6s 6d. Murray: “ False Morning,” by Kathleen Norris. , ' l _.. Long: "Snow Man,” by J. Wilson Hogg. Sampson Low: “ Love’s a Puzzle,” by Faith Baldwin. Barker: “Village Tale,” by Phil Stong. Cape: "The Beet Short Stories of 1934; English and American,” ed. by Edward J. o”Brien, Tls. General Literature Murray: “Chopin: His Life,” by William Murdoch, illus., £1 4s; ' “ The Memoirs of a Bookman,” by James Milne, illus., 18s; “Rhodesian Mosaic,” by Rawdon Hoare, 16s; “The Coming of Karuna,” by Ranjee G., Shahani, 8.A., D.Litt., 3s 9d. Gollancz: “The Life of Lord Curzon, by lan Colvin, vol. 11, illus., £1 2s 6d; “The Major Pleasures of Life: an Anthology.” ed. by Martin Armstrong; “The Minor Pleasures of Life: an Anthology.” ed. by Rose Macaulay, ea. Us. Blackwood: "Tales of the Jesters,” by Robert H. Hill, 11s; " Chase and Chance in Indo-China,” by Herbert Warrington Smyth, C.M.G., illus.. 11s. Angus and Robertson: “Great Lovers,” by Elliott Napier, 6s. Cape: “Middleton Murry: a Study in Excellent Normality,” by Rayner Heppenstall, 7s 6d. , Rich and Cowan: London In My Time.” by Thomas Burke, 9s. Seeley Service: “Mountaineering,” ed. bv Sydnev Spencer (The Lonsdale Library, vol.'XVIII), £1 11s. Harrap: "The Book of American Poetry,” ed. by Edwin Markham, 12s i 6d. Author Into Politican Commenting on the striking, but unsuccessful, campaign of Mr Upton Sinclair for gubernatorial honours in California the Saturday Review of Literature (New York) states: —Whatever may be the ultimate significance or practicality of Mr Sinclair’s programme, there. is certainly an immediate significance in his nomination, which emphatically exemplifies the potentialities of an author’s career. The current political scene has recruited many of its protagonists from academic life, and of these many have been authors of books; but, perhaps, none of them provides so striking an example as Mr Sinclair of the transition from literature, so to speak, to life. And in the past the transition has usually gone the other way round. The retired statesman or diplomatist, writing a book of memoirs or opinions, is a familiar figure. Mr Sinclair’s way is more unusual, and infinitely more dramatic. Scottish Place Names Forty years ago James B. Johnston published “Place Names of Scotland,” which was recognised as the standard work on this subject. A second and revised edition was later issued. Since then the science of topography has made large advances in Scotland, as elsewhere, and John Murray will issue shortly a new and enlarged edition of this work. Celtic, Norse, English, ecclesiastical, mediaeval, and modern names are ail dealt with in a comprehensive manner. Mr Bolitho’s New Book Mr Hector Bolitho has returned to England after his visit to Australia and New Zealand to find that his new book, “Victoria, the Widow, and Her Son,” is among the most successful of the summer biographies. More than 200 columns of