THE LATEST BOOKS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23885, 12 August 1939, 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:—

General Literature Dent: “ Ten Years Under the Earth/] by -Herbert Casteret. illus.. 19s 6d. “Europe Overseas, by S, J. B. wny brow and H. E. Edwards, with i m P . 7s 6d: “Jesus the Heretic, by Conrad N< Paul; S ‘"The Lost Legion/’ by Gustave Becvar. illus.. 16s: “Great Mediterranean Mysteries. by Michael Glenne Ulus.. £1 2s6d; “The Wanton Queen.” by E. E. P. Tisdall illus. 16s. Seeley. Service: ‘‘ Motor Racmg. ed by Earl Howe, illus.. £1 2s 6d. Gar den Bird Sanctuaries, by Melville Nicholas, illus.. 7s 6d. Faber and Faber: China at War. by Freda Utley, illus. 19s 6d Hamilton; “ Inside Asia, by John G mther with map. 14s bd. Harrap: “From Hunter to Husbandman” by J. W. Page, illus. Us 6d. Murray; “ Edmund Burke, bv Sir Philip Magnus. Bart., illus.. £1 2s od. Jarrolds: "My New Zealand.” bv A. J. Harrop illus.. 11si 6d Chalto and Wmdus: Greek Memories.” by Comipton Mackenzie. Hutchinson: “The Struggle for Peace” by Neville Chamberlain. 12s 6d. Fiction Ward. Lock; “Night'ls Mv Enemy.” by Elizabeth Margetson: “An Apple a Day.” by W. H. Lane-Crauford: “Fingers for Ransom,” by Norman Berrow; “Gun Music.” by Claude Rister. 4s: “ Riders ■to Bald Butte.” by Barry Lvnd. 4s: “The Ironmasters Daughter.” by Paul Trent. • Dent: “ The Convent.” bv Alyse Simpson. . ,„ . T Jarrolds: “The Man in Steel.” bv J. Storer Clouston. • •■. Hurst and Blackett; “Whatagirl.” by Oliver Sandys. . Chatto and Windus: “ The Bride.” by Margaret Irwin. 9s. . Each 7s 6d. unless otherwise stated.

Biography Award The James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize which is given annually on the award of the professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh for the best biography or work of that nature published during the previous year, has been awarded for the year 1938 for the biography “Coleridge,” by Sir Edmund Chambers, issued by the Oxford University Press.