THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 451, 3 January 1934, Page 3

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Books on the Shelves | i THUMBNAIL REVIEWS ; Why Shoot n Butler? by Georgette j Heycr (Longmans)—A girl is found j with a dead butler in a motor _car. | Events then move swiftly. There are \ two further murdei'H and the girl j disappears. *• * * i Ktibbcr. by Madelon H. Lulofs (Ca*- j { . f story in set in the Dutch j East DMies and centres round one of , the great Diitcb rubber plantations. ; A young married CoUple are swallowed up in the turmoil of jungle life. * * * ' October Snow, by Florence Lawford (Stanley Paul).—Rona has a strange | childhood and meets trouble in her j girlhood; but her husband's understanding brings recompense in the j end. By the name writer: Merry j Heart, Bird of the Dawn. j Hyde Side Up, by Ben Travsrs f (John Lane).—-Founded on the auth- ] or's play Plunder. By the same writ- ■ er: The Dipper*. Mischief. * # tt Spawn of th.i North, by Barrett j Wllloughby (Hutchinson).— A story j of present day Alaska and the sal. j mon canning industry. By same | author: Where the Sun Swings j North, Rocking Moon. j Sunk Without Trace, by Sydney M. j Parkman (Hodder and Stoughton).— j A story of adventure by land and sea. By the same writer: East of .Singapore. The Accidental Adventure. * # * ! The Glory of the Conquered, by j Susan Glaspell (Jarrolds).-A story i of an ideal love, marred first by the blindness and then by the death of the man, stressing the glories whicli J can be achieved in spite of defeat. * * * Just Off Piccadilly, by Barbara Cartland (Hutchinson) —After many adventures each time sinking lower and lower 'in the scale of human lite, the heroine finds happiness from an , unexpected source. j

# * * The Runaway Family, by Anno Heppie (Hutchinson). -The Gay Gordons, under the leadership of Jan run away from the tyrannical guardianship of their uncle, to seek the house In the Highlands which belongs to them, and they meet with many adventures. .'•'. -ft Arrest, by Walter Proudfoot (Hut chinson). -inspector Vallance of Scotland Yard, pursues an abscond ing financier up a thousand nnlesoL one of South America's great rivers and through the dimly lit ways of big cities.