THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23203, 29 May 1937, Page 4

THE LATEST BOOKS

The following publications have been received by recent mails, and will, as far as practicable be the, subject of notice in these columns:

Fiction Hurst and Blackett: "Nature's Mocking," by Phyllis Margrave; "Herb o' Grace," by Maude Heath; "All Their Children Were Acrobats," by Harry Hamilton; "Murder In the Senate," by Geoffrey Coffin, 4s 6d; "Fair As the Moon," by Temple Bailey, 4s 6d. Harrap: "Royal Purple," by Berlita Harding; "The Queen's Pawn," by Kathleen Conyngham Greene; "The Earl of .Chicago," by Brock Williams. Hutchinson: " Passport to Death," by Bernard Home; "Wildwode's Garage," by Norman Giles. Mills and Boon: "Call and I'll Come," by Mary Burchall; " Pursuit of Serena," by Annabel Lee. Hale: "Chinese River." by J. van Dyke; " The Case of the Rusted Roan," by John Donovan. Cape: "Great Laughter," by Fannie Hurst; "King John of Jingaloo," by Laurence Housman; "Kiss On the Lips," by Katharine Susannah Pritchard. Thornton Butterworth: " Golden Peacock," by Gertrude Atherton. Werner Laurie: '.'Jim," by Victoria Cross. Chatto and Windus: "Dead Man Leading," by V. S. Pritchett. (Each 7s 6d. unless otherwise stated.) General Literature Ivor Nicholson: "Thames Portrait," by E. Arnot Robertson, illus., £1 2s 6d; "From Goring House to Buckingham Palace," by O. G. Goring, illus., 13s 6d; "Denmark on Ten Pounds," by Sydney A. Clark, illus., Bs. Putnam: "The Riddle of Napoleon," by R. Brice, illus., £1 2s 6d; "Under Five Eagles," by Lola Kinel, illus., 19s 6d.

Dent: "Modern Scotland," by Cicely Hamilton, illus., lis 6d; ".Sebastian," by Rayner Heppehstall, 4s. Thornton Butterworth: "Anne, the Last Stuart Monarch." by Neville Connell, illus., £1 2s 6d: "Italy's Conquest of Abyssinia," by E. W. Poison Newman, illus., 19s 6d.

Murray: "1851 and the Crystal Palace." by Christopher Hobhouse, illus.. lis 6d. Blackie: "Sir Malcolm Campbell's Book of Famous Motorists." illus-., Bs. Gollancz: "Man's Worldly Goods," by Leo Huberman, 17s. Skeffington: "More Odd Corners in English Lakeland," by William T. Palmer, F.R.G.S.. illus., 9s 6d. Hutch'nson: "My Escape from Germany," by Willi Melchert, 13s 6d. Ivor Nicholson: "Deauville Taxi," by Charles Graves, -illus., 13s 6d. Harrap: "A History of th« Merchant Navv," by H. Moyse-Bartlett. illus., lis 6d. Rich and Cowan: "Isaiah," by George A. Birmingham. Bs. Handcraft Press: "Up to Sixteen," by Lindsay M. Constable, 3s.

Lyricist by Chance A collection of lyrics by Margaret Ruddock, to be published under the title "The Lemon Tree," was discovered by W. B. Yeats last year. He recognised immediately the lyrical poignancy of this work. and. in spite of the fact that it was not the writing of an experienced practitioner of versecraft, he included a number of the poems in the " Oxford Anthology of Modern Verse." He has' now written an introductory essay and poem to substantiate his enthusiasm for this collection, and has also included the author's account of her life during the short period while she was seized by the poetic creative mood, an experience quite unexpected and strange to her.