THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 4

THE LATEST BOOKS

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

Fiction Collins: “ The Big Firm,” by Amabel Williams Ellis: “ Old Motley.” by Audrey Lucas. Jenkins: “Guiltv But Not Insane,” by J. C. Lenehan; “Painted Angel,’ by George R. Preedy; “ The Murder of Augustin Dench,” by Edgar Jepson. Hurst and Blackett: “ When the Aloe Bloomed,” by Dorothy Buck Long: “Two and Two Make Five, by T. E. B. Clarke. ‘Barker: “In These Quiet Streets, by Robert Westerby. Hutchinson: “ Jury of Four, by Gabrielle Wallings. „ . „ ™ Blackie: “Jungle Prince, by C. r. Stoneham. . „ , T , „ Cape: “Champion,” by Jack Hilton (Each 7s 6d) General Literature

Blackie: “African Man Hunts,” by Lieutenant-colonel H. F. Trew, illus.. 17s ... Harrap: “The Arts of Mankind" by Vendrik van Loon, illus., £1 2s od. Joseph: • “Across the Frontiers, by Philip Gibbs, 17s. ■ _. , Dent: “Modern England.” by Cicely Hamilton, illus, Us 6d; Plain English,” by William Freeman, 5s 6d. Witherby: “Famine in England, by Viscount Lymington, 11s 6d.

The Parnell Case Hale promises a new investigation of a famous episode in “ Parnell, Joseph Ch amber lain and Mr Earvin. by Henry Harrison, 0.8. E., M.C. Captain Harrison seeks to prove in this book that the divorce proceedings must have been launched with an ulterior motive, as they could not possibly have succeeded if defended: and is said to marshal a good deal dence pointing towards Joseph Chamberlain as being in the( confidence behind the scenes, of his friend and henchman, Captain O’Shea In his biography of Joseph Chamberlain, Mr Garvin has depicted him as, in this matter, a Bayard sans peur et sans reproche—and Captain O Shea as only just less so. Captain Harrison now retorts that Mr Garvin has not only ignored all the evidence, but has withheld exclusive matter which, as part of the Chamberlain papers, was in his possession.

“Dead Man’s Chest” In the Saturday Review of Literalure there has been some discussion on the identification of the ‘Dead Man’s Chest ” of “ Treasure Island renown Mr Vincent Starrett, harking back to Surgeon Waller’s “ Voyage in the West Indies (1820) olfered Caja dc Muertos Island (off Ponce, Puerto Rico) as a probability. But a subscriber, who lives on Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands, suggests another, which is near Tortola. He writes: “The authentic Dead Man’s Chest lies some three miles from here At any rate, Dead Man’s Chest is—except on very calm days—practically impossible to land on. We took our small sailing vessel over there once and almost lost her trying to get ashore. The name, which has been for some stupid reason changed by the Hydrographic Office (but not the British Admiralty) to Dead Chest, first mentioned, I think, bv Pore Labat in his ‘Nouveau Voyage aux lies de L’Amerique,’ and again by Jeafferson, ‘ Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century.’ Why it is named that I do not know, for it looks more like a dead woman's chest. But perhaps it reminded the old boys of the type of Spanish coffin with a sort of cowling over the forepart for gazing at the late deceased. At any rale Tortola was first colonised by Englisn buccaneers in the 1600’s, and they were, to say the least, original and practical with their place names.”

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