ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY

AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN^ LETTERS. WANDERINGS IN THE TROPICS. The chief librarian of the New Plymouth Public Library reports the following books in popular demand:— General Literature. "The Thcatre of Life, Volume 2," Lord i Howard of Penrith. "Journey to Jerusalem," St John Ervine. "Burgomaster Max," Oscar Mlilard and Auguste Vierset. "Forbidden Road— Kahui to Samarkand," Rosita Forbes. "A Rustic Moralist," W. R. Inge (Dean). "Myself a Player," Lena Ashwell. Fiction. "Threc Comradcs," Erich Marla Remarquc. "Invasion 14," Maxence Van Der Meersch. "Son of Han," Richard Le piere. "Grand, Portage," Loulse Redfield Peattle. "Man of December," Alfred Neumann. "Very Heaven," Richard Aldington, The following books have been added to'the library recently:— "Politics from Inslde," l»y Sir Austen Chamberlain. (Cassell and Co., London). The late Sir Austen Chamberlain has recorded the chief incidents in the campaign against "Free Trade" in Great Britain during the eight years preceding the war. As an ex-Minister and the son of the first leader of , the campaign, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Sir Austen was in touch with all public affairs. His book is a collection of letters written to his stepmother with notes added to give them coherence and continuity. For students of Empire political history; and of history in our own times, these letters will be a fimd bf informatiop, and of enlightenment. To many also who are not students they will, be of ahsorbing interest. ; "These Foolish Things," by Michael Sadleir. (Constable, London). A publisher's foreward descrihcs this book as a "sentimental education." It is the record of a young man's callow experiences with girls and women, of his falling in love with a woman already marrled, and of their idyll together. "Walkabout," by Lord Moyne. (Heinemann, London). To "go walkabout" is the expression iteed by the native employees of British settlers in tropical lands. when they desire a holiday. Lord Moyne has used it as the title of the record of his yachting cruises and other explorations in lands between the Paciflc and Indian Oceans. The tour embraced New Guinea, North Australia, Borneo, Burma and French Indo-China. The author has written an interesting description of the peoples and places visited, the interest of which is enhanced by numerous unusual photographs. "Yoimg Mr. Disraeli," . by Elswyth Thanc. (Constable, London). This is a lively ahd informative. study of the youth of the man who was termed the most enigmatic , of all Queen Victoria's statesmen. The author has rer created the atmosphere, political and social, in which Disraeli grew up, and in which he forged ahead almost In spite of his cleverness and personality. The story of his m^rriage to a woman of means is made quite a charming idyll, but before her devotion and money came to his rescue from disappointment and worry Disraeli had been fortunate in the loyalty and affection of his elder sister. Sarah Disraeli's character is one of the most attractive in this clever and intriguing history.