THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22546, 13 April 1935, Page 4

THE LATEST BOOKS

The folldwing publications have been received by recent mails and will, as far as is practicable, be the subject of notices in these columns: — Fiction Hodder and Stoughton: "Death in Four Letters," by Francis Beeding; " Monkey's Money," by Mabel L. Tyrrel; "The Young Wife's Progress," by R. J. White; " Over the Water," by Carola Oman. John Murray: "Treehaveu," by Kathleen Norria (2s 9d). Collins: "Mary Peters," by Mary Ellen Chase. ' Hutchinson: "Death's White Wife,' by C. R. 0. Taylor. Harrap: "Cat Across the Path, by Ruth Feiner. Crime Club: "A Question of Proof," by Nicholas Blake. Ward, Lock: "Peril at Midnight," by Elaine Hamilton. Mills and Boon: " The Secret Warrior," by Maureen Heeley. (Each 7s 6d.) General Alexander Macklehose: " How We Made Our Garden," by Alfred T. Harrison, illust. (7s 6d); "Christ the Victorious." by Geoffrey Allen (7s 6d). Harrap: "The Background of Geography," by M. Whiting Spilhaus, illust. (Us). Whitcombe and Tombs: ''Short History of New Zealand," by J. B. Condliffe and W. T. G. Airey, illust. (4s). An American Poet "American Song and Other Poems," by Paul Engle, the publication of which has placed the author in the front rank among the youngest American writers, will be issued in an English edition by Jonathan Cape. A Shaw Benefaction Mr Svanstrom and Baron P.ilnistieriia, in their " Short History of Sweden," point out that "it is a magnificent testimony to the appreciation England has felt for this growing cultural intercourse (between England and Sweden) that one of the British Nobel Prize winners. George Bernard Shaw, in 1025, dedicated his prize to establishing a fund for the promoting and spreading in England of the knowledge of Swedish culture and literature. It is hoped that the present work, published by the Foundation which bears Shaw's name (the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation), will contribute ill its measure towards the task of strengthening and confirming the friendship that has been thus happily established." Literary Taste A London wholesale bookseller has received from the librarian of a circulating library a letter stating in part:—We certainly expect a selection of books that will be popular with our customers. My customers want books that have a certain sex appeal, also thrillers of the detective type and Westerns. Such books as "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man." Sacsoon: "Malice Towards None." Morrow: "Scapegoat." Hall Caine: " Black Arrow." R. L. S.; "Twelve Men." Dreiser, etc.. are absolute tripe. The inhabitants here arc the same as the majority of others.. Their tastes lean a little to the immoral, which is human nature all over, and to bequite plain the hotter the book the better it sells. If. of course, you do not stock such. I fear T must apply elsewhere, where the wants of the public are better catered for.