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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 8

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

"The- Winning of Barbara Worth," a new. novel by Harold Bell Wright, reaches us from Ah- Q. W. Muir. It is a book that has been eagerly looked for by readers m this part of the world on account of the instantaneous success that it achieved m, America afld England. So great, and continuous was the demand for the novel that the printers had to keep at work upon it without pause until half a million copies had been produced. This is the largest single edition, first or last, on record m the history of novel-making. "The Winning of Barbara Worth" is an American romance of a familiar type, exceptionally well . told. Barbara is a Western desert foundling, who grows up with the pride of the sun ' m her body and devotion to the desert m her blood. Her magnificent womanhood is as a regenerating influence upon the desert and its denizens— who are set forth, type by type, carefully and effectively. Inspired by Barbara, the denizens labor to reclaim the desert for the service of man^ and a company that professes to reclaim it for the profit of capital is defeated after a wellarranged conflict that provides' exciting incidents for the staple of the book. The eastern engineer who conquers the' desert necessarily 1 conquers Barbara, whose parentage is proved by a tin box of documents m the last chapter. The story is clean and wholesome, and tells of big things, strong people, and high, ideals. The author, has delineated the passions, the- longings, the motives, the loves and hatreds of men and women with added skill, i^and^.h©) has also with fine power analysed human emotions and penetrated n;ore : keenly the depths of the human soul. The plot, /through which there ruhV an intense love interest, is strong m conception, full of big incidents^ and' tapid action, and is altogether one. that grips the reader.