SHORTER NOTICES

Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 18

SHORTER NOTICES

A DELICATE CASE OF MURDER. By Sinclair Gluck. Mills and Boon, London. Price 7s 6d. This book was a Daily Mirror “Thril-ler-of-the-Month,” and it thoroughly deserved that distinction. It moves at an astonishing pace through a maze of murders, hold-ups and riotous nightclubs; the characters are good, their conversation stimulating. The setting is in New York and both the story and the manner in which it is told are distinctly American. A first-rate book of its kind. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE. By Dale Carnegie. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Price Is 6d. Mr Dale Carnegie is president of the Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking and Human Relations, New York. His latest book, of which this is an Australian edition, has been a “best seller” in the United States for months past. Its title indicates its purpose. The section headings are: “Fundamental techniques in handling people”; “Six ways to make people like you”; “Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking”; “Nine way to change people without giving offence or arousing resentment”; “Letters that produced marvellous results”; and “Seven rules for making your home life happier.”

Phyllis Bentley thinks it uncomfortably significant of the temper of the times that stories of the future, which used to be cheerful, not to say utopian, have of late been increasingly sombre in tone. H. G. Wells, she adds, started it, as he started so many things.