BOOKS WORTH READING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22562, 4 May 1935, Page 4

BOOKS WORTH READING

The following list has been compiled by a selected committee of competent judges, nominated by the Australian Booksellers’ Association. It is issued to serve as a guide to current publications of merit. General Literature “ Man Tracks,” by lon Idriess; “ Time Remembered,” by Lady Horner; “Preface to Peace,” by Sir Norman Angell; “ Challenge to Death,” by 16 contributors; “ Modern Poetry, 1922-34,” selected by M. Wollman; “Keeping Young in Business,” by Snyder and Weiss; “Not I, But the Wind,” by Frieda Lawrence; “A Farm for Two Pounds,” by Harold Baldwin; “The Cardinal’s Niece (Story of Marie Nancini),” by Faith Compton MaeKenzie; “The Serial Universe,” by •I. W. Dunne. Novels of Literary Merit “ The King of the Jews,” by Mary Borden; “The Furys,” by James Hanley; “ In the Last Coach,” by Leonard Frank. Popular Good Novels “ Three Englishmen,” by Gilbert Fraukau; “Six and Seven,” by Lorna Rea; “Latter Howe,” by Doreen Wallace; “Susan and Joanna,” by Elizabeth Cambridge; “Early Morning,” by 11. H. Moltrarn. Lighter Popular Novels ( “The Longshore Girl,” by H. do Verc Stacpoolo; “Earth’s Quality,” by Winifred Birkctt; “Monkey Money,” by Mabel L. Tyrrell; “innocent Bystander,” by Faith Baldwin; “'[’he Hush Marriage,” by Henry St. John Cooper; “Lest We Lose Our Edens,” by Jean Campbell; “ Far Caravan,” by E. V. Timms. History of the War Office “ The War Office,” by Hampden Gordon, is announced for publication shortly. The author has outlined the history of this great Defence Department from the earliest times to the present day. As a private secretary during 1914-15 to Sir Reginald Brade, Secretary to the War Office, he had unusual opportunities to watch events from the inside, and some recent criticism is answered in his chapter on the war years. Encyclopaedia of Music

The Oxford University Press announces as “in active preparation ” an encyclopaedia of music in one volume for the general listening public. The author is Mr Percy A. Scholes, who as first music critic of the 8.8. C. and first musical editor of the Radio Times, has a very wide experience of what the “ordinary listener ” needs to know. The Listener’s Encyclopaedia, which is the product of many years of labour, will be ready, it is hoped, in a few months’ time.