HAWERA LIBRARY

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 10

HAWERA LIBRARY

BOOKS IN DEMAND IN 1934. REVIEW OF YEAR'S LITERATURE. There was a definite increase in the number of books issued by the Hawei a public library during the past year, 79,764 volumes being read in comparison with 76,287 last . ear, an increase of 3477. An average of" 264 books were issued per day compared with 252 per day in 1933. The number of new books added was 982, of which 580 were fiction. While the issues of fiction increased, the demand for books of travel, biography, reminiscences and other general literature is still high. This year 15,885 books of this nature were read. The children’s section, though small, has been well patronised, 7218 books being issued during the year. One hundred and twenty-eight new books were added. The following books, reports the librarian, have been in demand:— Fiction: Winds of Heaven (by Nelle Scanlan), Over the River (by John Galsworthy), Anthony Adverse (by Hervey Allen), And Quiet Flows the Don (by M. Sholokhov), Island Magic (by Elizabeth Goudge), London Bridge is Falling (by Philip Lindsay), The Free Fishers (by John Buchan), Mr. Crusoe’s Young Woman (by Sheila Macdonald), Oil for the Lamps of China (by Alice T. Hobart), Full Flavour (by Doris Leslie). General: My Northcliffe Diary (by Tom Clarke), Testament of Youth (by Vera Britain), Arches of the Years (by Halliday Sutherland), Memoirs of a FoxHunting Man (by Siegfried Sassoon), Anna Pavlova (by V. Dandre), I Was a Spy! (by Marthe McKenna), Retreat From Glory (by R. Bruce Lockhart), A Modern Sinbad, English Journey (by J. B. Priestley, Solo Flight (by Jean Batten), Air Adventure (by W. B. Seabrook), Famous Plays of 1934, containing Touch Wood (by C. L. Anthony), Men in White (by S. Kingsley), The Maitlands (by Ronald Mackenzie), Queen of Scots (by Gordon Daviot), Old Folks at Home" (by H. M. Harwood), Family Affairs (by Gertrude Jennings), Play Parade (by Noel Coward), One-act Plays of To-day (collected by J. W. Marriott), Cry Havoc! (by Beverly' Nichols), A Village in a Valley (by Beverly Nichols), The Monopoly of Credit (by C. H. Douglas).