PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26769, 12 May 1948, Page 2

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Austrian Requiem. By Kurt von Schuschnigg. Gollancz. 13s. The former Chancellor tells the story of the downfall of his country and of his own subsequent imprisonment by the Nazis.

Co-operative Research in Industry, By Douglas W. Hill, D.Sc. Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications (Whitcombe and Tombs). 15s 9d. A survey of the development of co-operative research since the First World War and of some of the problems which are now being studied Letters to a Lady. A play in three acts. By James Parish. Allen and Unwin. 6s. A pleasant drama with a setting in war-time London. At the Sign of the Dolphin. An Elizabeth Goudge Anthology. Hodder and Stoughton. 12s 6d. Short stories, poems and selection from the publications of the author of “ Green Dolphin Country.” Europe’s Fate. By Gordon Sewell. Gollancz. 7s 6d. A journalist’s theory of a federal Europe and the recovery of Christian inspiration as two essentials of the future of Western civilisation.

Roaming Around Australia. By Frank Clune. The Hawthorn Press. 13s 6d. Illustrated. From Canberra to Cape Arnhem and from Coolgardie to Cloncurry, Frank Clune knows his country well and writes entertainingly about it. Memoirs of a Premier’s Wife. By Ada A. Holman. Angus and Robertson. 13s 6d. As wife of the Premier of New South Wales from 1913 to 1920, Mrs Holman met many interesting people and she writes about them with charm.

Grimshaw of Haworth. By George G. Cragg. M.A. The Canterbury Press. A record of Haworth Parish during the yefers of the evangelical revival. Birds and I. By Leslie Brown. Illustrated. Michael Joseph. 16s. A keen ornithologist writes of his adventures in India, Nigeria, Trinidad and Great Britain. The A.B.C. of the Greenhouse. By W. E. Shewell-Cooper. Hodder and Stoughton. 5s 6d. The greenhouse can become one of the major delights of the gardener and this book, though an English publication, is a useful guide. Royal Wedding. By Betty Spencer Shew. Macdonald. 8s 6d. The life stories of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh together with a description of the roval romance and the wedding. Fuly illustrated. (Any of the above publications may be the subject of an extended review at a later date).

The humour which the great Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi, occasionally permitted himself was recalled by Dr M. Satyanand in an address to the Auckland Rotary Club. He said that when Bernard Shaw met Gandhi the famous writer was wearing plus fours, and Gandhi was in his usual loin cloth. “ Seeing that you have come in plus fours, Mr Shaw,” Gandhi greeted him, " I have worn my minus fours.”