THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22718, 2 November 1935, Page 4

THE LATEST BOOKS

The following publications have been received by recent mails, and will, as far as is practicable, be the subject of notices in these columns: — Fiction Collins: "Rachel Ro9ing," by Howard Spring; "Rebel in the Sun," by Norman Giles; "Mystery at Olympia," by John Rhode; "Men Must Love," by Hector Hawton. Ward, Lock: "The Piper of Arristoun," by Mrs Barre Goldie; "Pat Preferred," by W. H. Lane Crauford; "Quayle of the Yard," by Paul Trent; "The Range Hoc," by Forrest R. Browne, Gollancz: "Motlke the Thief," by Sholem Ascli. Methuen: "Mountain Waters," by E. M. Ward; "The Riverside Mystery,' by John G. Brandon. Heinemann: "The Farm at Santa Fe," by Laurence Kirk; " The Box of Delights," by John Masefield: "Regency Buck," by Georgette Heyer; "The Wooden Pillow,' by Carl Fallas. Cassell: "Dead Men Leave no Fingerprints," by Whitman Chambers; "Wild Memory," by Anne Duffield. Ivor Nicholson: "Life and Love, by Denise Robins. World's Work: " Dead Man Inside," by Vincent Starrett. Eyre and Spottiswoode: "The Safe Bridge," by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Ghatto and Windus: " Stoker Bush," by James Hanley. Dent: "Blow for Balloons," by W. J. Turner; "The Happy Mariners," by Gerald Bullett. Cape: "The Best Short Stories, 1935," edited by E. J. O'Brien, lis; "I Let Him Go/' by John Brophy. (Each 7s, unless otherwise stated.) General Literature Hodder and Stoughton: "Borzoi," by Igor Schwezoff, illus., lis; "Teak-Wallah," by Reginald Campbell, illus., 17s. Hogarth Press: "Land and Freedom," by Frederick Verinder, 3s 9d; "Politics and Morals," by G. P. Gooch, D.Litt.. 2s 4d; " What to Do With the 8.8. C.," by Raymond Postgate, 2s 4d. Melbourne University Press: "Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law," vol. 1. Chapman and Hall: "The Scientific Method of Thinking,", by Edward Conze Ph.D., 7b 6d. „ , Blackwood: "Knights Errant of Papua," by Lewis Lett, 18s Gd. , ,* Chatto and Windus: "Gluck," by Martin Cooper, 18s 6d. Williams and Norgate: "The Old Testament Omnibus Book," ed. by A. 0. Hannaf)en£' "A Tour of the Temple Press," by James Thornton, illus., 2s 4'd. n Harrap: "Tales of the Fore and Aft, by Stanley Rogers, illus., lis. Coulla, Somerville. Wilkie: "Natures Melody: Poem ß on Nature," by Norman Cameron, illus.. Is 6d.

Mr Buick's New Work Earl- this month Messrs Thomas Avery end Sons, of New Plymouth, will publish a new book by T. Lindsay Buick, C.M.G., FR.Hist.S. On this occasion Mr Buick has departed from the subject of New Zealand history, with which his, name has been so long and closely associated, but in a branch of musical history he has found an equally congenial theme. Hie story of Mendelssohn's oratorio Jilijali will be the subject of the volume, a subject that naturally divides itself into three sections—" The Composer, Hie Prophet," and "The Oratorio." Each ot these chapters, it is stated, will be a bright musical sketch, not a dull dissertation on musical technicalities. The book has a preface by Mr Robert Parker, 0.M.G., the well-known New Zealand musician. Dickens in 1867

A correspondent of the Saturday Review gives his memories of the great Victorian: Going to London, a boy of 15, I first saw Dickens at the farewell dinner given to him on his second visit to America. That was in 1867, at the Freemasons' Hall in Eudece street. Bulwer Lytton presided. I was about 18 then, and it remains in my life —never to be forgotten, Ou coming home from my work in the city I often met Dickens in the Strand, going to his office in Wellington street. At that time he dressed . . in a velvet coat and vest, bright tie, gold chain, with charms and rings, and I remember them all, though it is more than 05 years ago. Nelson's Hardy

Sir John Murray is publishing an interesting book called "Nelson's Hardy and His Wife," by John Gore. While Hardy has always had the fame due to the man in whose arms Nelson died, peculiarly little has been written about him and even less about that striking lady, his wife. Mr Gore, from papers ineluding Lady Hardy's own diary, long hidden in family archives, has made a most interesting historical study of the somewhat rigid and unsociable but conscientious and able sailor and his extremely social and somewhat restive lady.