STRATFORD LIBRARY

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 6

STRATFORD LIBRARY

ADDITIONS DURING THE YEAR. VARIED RANGE OF BOOKS. Books added to the Stratford Public Library during the year ended March 31 totalled 440, states the report issued by the librarian, Mr. C. S. Kelly. Of these 364 went into the fiction section and 76 into the general section. Of the fiction, the following books are in keen demand: Scotch Broth; Ann Hepple; Four Generations, Naomi Jacob; Venetian Masque, Rafael Sabatini; Salute to the Gods, Malcolm Campbell; Somebody Must, A. G. Roxman; The Ginggr Griffin, Ann Bridge; The Ridge of White Waters, Norman Giles; Via Panama,. Margaret Jepson; Night Shift, Richard Blake; This Little World, F. B. Young; A Spy of Napoleon, Baroness Orczy; The Guests Arrive, Cecil Roberts; Three Loves, A. J. Cronin; The Old Guard Surrenders, H. A. Vachell; Winds of Fortune, Jeffery Famol; Inheritance, Phyllis Bentley; Winds of Heaven, N. M. Scanlan; Five Silver Daughters, Louis Golding; Martin Lethbridge, Andrew Andrews; And Quiet Flows the Don, M. Sholokhov; Gone Rustic, Cecil Roberts; Boomerang, Helen Simpson; Seven Men Came Back, Warwick 'Deeping; The Singer Passes, Maud Diver; Oil for the Lamps of China, A. T. Hobart; The Box of . Spikenard, Ethel Boilean; A. Warning to Wantors,'Mary Mitchell; Anthony Adverse. Hervey Allen; The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer; Grand Canary, A. J. Cronin; The House of Exile, Nora Wain; The Disappearance of Martha Penny; H. A. Vachell; Sinbad the Soldier, P. C. Wren; Mr. Crusoe's Young Woman, Shiela Macdonald; Now We Set Out, Susan Ertz; Folded Hills, S. E? White; Taken by the Hand, 0. Douglas. Seventy-six books were added to the non-fiction division. These, in the main, Went into the travel and biography sections, which were very substantially built up in the past year. However, the already big war book section has not been neglected, interesting volumes being added periodically. The same remark applies to the general section. The titles of some of the more popular additions are: GoodBye Russia, Evan Cameron; My Horse Warrior, J. E. B. Seely; Retreat from Glory, R. H. B. Lockhart; A Time to Keep,’ Halliday Sutherland; Smoke on the Horizon, C. V. Usbome; Modem Mountaineering, G. D. Abraham; The Romance of Labrador, Sir W. Grenfell; Four in Hand, J. B. Priestley; Merrily I Go to Hell, Mary Cameron; The Man From the Volga, F. J. P. Veale; European Journey, Philip Gibbs; A Million Miles in the Air, G. P. Olley; Jew Suss, Lion Feuchtwanger; Mutiny,. C. Nordhoff and J. N. Hall; Napoleon and His Marshals, A. G. MacDonell; Try Anything Once, Frank Clure; Royal Flush, Margaret Irwin; Rhodes, J. G. McDonald; Happy Dispatches, A.i B. Paterson; In Scotland'Again, H. V. Morton; Memories of a British Sergeant, R. H. B. Lockhart; The Yellow Joss, I. L. Idriess; Drums of Asia, Charles Trevor; The Dark Invader, Von Rintelen; English Journey, J. B. Priestly; 40 0.8., H. C. Hoy; War, Wine and' Women, W. Saint-Mande; Letters From a Flying Officer, R. S. Wortley; The Epic of ,Mt. Everest,' Sir F. Younghusband; The Fighting Cameliers, Frank Reid; Riallaro and Limanora, by Godfrey Sweven (the late Professor McMillan Brown); The Arches of the Years, Halliday Sutherland; Manchuria, Cockpit of Asia, Etherton and Tiltman; In the Steps of the Master, H. V. Morton; Confessions and Impressions, Ethel Mannin.