THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23673, 3 December 1938, 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 Thornton Butterworth: “ The Wind on the Water,” by Myra Morris; “The Sky Wolves,” by Garnett Radcliffe. Mills and Boon: “To Wear Your Ring,” by Susan Inghs; “ Summer Rain,” by Jean S. Macleod, 4s. World’s Work: “ Night on the Devil’s Pathway,” by Charlotte Murray Russell. Barker: “ Six of One,” by Peter Traill. Jenkins: “The Twain Shall Meet." by Stella Richards. Murray: “ Ordeal at Lucknow," by Michael Joyce. (Each 7s 6d unless otherwise stated.) General Literature Murray: "Whippingham to Westminster,” by Lord Ernie, illus., £1 7s, “The Government of the Island of Ceylon,” by the Padikera Mudaliyar of Ceylon, 5s 6d; “My Brother Was Mozart,” by Benson Wheeler and Claire Lee Purdy, illus., 8s 6d. ' Seeley Service; “ The Lonsdale Keeper’s Book,” edited by Eric Parker, illus., £1 2s 6d; “Troubador Sails On,” by B. J. Klitgaard, illus., 16s; “ Beagling,” by C. B. Shepherd, illus., 5s 6d. Thornton Butterworth: “ MarieAntoinette and Axel de Fersen,” by M. Coryn, illus., 16s; “The Czechs and Their Minorities,” by “ 7s 6d; “ Czechoslovakia Within,” by Bertram de Colonna, 7s 6d; “The English Revolution,” by G M. Trevelyan 7s 6d. Putnam: “Guns or Butter,” by R. El Bruce Lockhart, illus., 12s 6d. Christophers: “ The Man Who Made the Peace,” by Stuart Hodgson, illus.. 4s. Methuen: “Through Lands ot the Bible,” by H. V. Morton, illus., 11s 6d. Hogarth Press: “ Julian Bell: Essays, Poems, and Letters,” illus., 19s 6d.

Joseph: “Fighting Was My Business,” by Jimmy Wilde, illus., £1 2s 6d; “ Cats and My Camera,” by Evelyn Glover, illus., 9s 6d. Jenkins: “ Ride to Russia,”’ by Bernard Newman, illus., 15s. Arnold: “A Childhood’s Animals," by H. V. Beamish, illus., 11s 6d. Heinemann; “ The Men and Birds of Paradise,” by A. J. Marshall, illus., £1 2s 6d. G.B.S. as Annotator The late Robei. Loraine, the actor, is the subject of a biography from Collins. One of the interesting features of the book is the inclusion of many letters from Bernard Shaw. The book was shown to Mr Shaw in manuscript, and in a number of places he made marginal notes, mostly his own account of experiences which he and Robert shared, and these have been included. The fact sets value on the book as Shaviana alone. Wimsey and His Creator Noting the reappearance of some of the early novels of Dorothy Sayers, an American writer, deploring Lord Peter Wimsey’s lapse into matrimony, describes them, in the light of her later work, as a melancholy surprise, “for they make clear how steady has been' her progress down the primrose path to Wimsey’s primrose pyjamas. .

Her devotion to him survived the wooing and the honeymoon, and did not flag when the first baby appeared in Harper’s Bazaar recently. But even a woman must feel that it is now time that Peter got back to work on a full-' time basis; the question which convulses all Wimseyists is: Can Miss Sayers make a bloodhound again out of the Benedick? Can she get him out of those primrose silk pyjamas that mauve dressing gown? Can she give him back some of the dignity of his original dead pan, now lost in the Peter Pan? In short, can she abandon what she herself admits to be ‘ saccharine' in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon,’ and return to the vigour, the action and the objectivity of her earlier manner? ”