“THE MEN I HAVE KILLED”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 252, 23 October 1937, Page 8

“THE MEN I HAVE KILLED”

; CONDEMNATION OF WAR 1 NEW LIBRARY BOOKS A sensational book which has been the subject o£ considerable controv- ' ersy in England, General Croxier’sr “The Men 1 Killed,” has been added io the shelves of the Wanganui Public Library. General Croxier hated war and his book is an exposure of the humbug which makes for the “glory” of war. "The Armour of Light” by Cosmo Hamilton is a novel with a background of contemporary history. The chief character is a political correspondent who visits Spain to observe the civil war, the United States of America to watch the presidential election campaign and returns to England for the constitutional crisis I of 1936. , The new books are as follow: V I Non-Fiction.—“The Life and i of the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis H. D. Bell 11851-1936," Hon. W. Downie Stewart; I “Once a Grand Duke,” Grand Duka J Alexander of Russia; “A Princess in I Exile,’’ Grand Duchess Marie of Rus« sia; “Things I Remember,” Grand Duchess Marie of Russia; “WateM | Into Gold,” Ernestine Hill; “8 New, • Onc-Act Plays of 1937,” Wm. Armstrong. Ed.; “The Men I Killed,” Brigadier-General F. P. Croxier; “The Road to Madrid,” Cecil Gerahty. Fiction.—“ Clouds of Witnesses,” I “Hangman’s Holiday,” “Lord Peter Views the Body,” “Unnatural Death,’* “The Unpleastness at the Bellona: Club," “Strong Poison,” and “Whose Body?” all by D. L. Sayers; “Moss Is the Stuff,” Adrian Alington; “Alas, Poor Lady,” Rachel Ferguson; “Dead Man Leading,” V. S. Pritchett; "Under Capricorn," Helen Simpson; “The Grown-Ups,” Catherine Whitcom be; “The Nutmeg Tree,” Margery; Sharp; “Round Robin,” Graham W. Bain; “Storm Girl,’’ J. C. Lincoln; “Instruments of Darkness,” S. Horler; “Jacinth," D. Mackail; “Call Me* Lean,” Geo. Goodchild; “Pathan Trea* sure,” Victor Bayley; “The BraiW* Tub," Guy Fletcher; “Mary Wall Love," Guy Fletcher; “Gun Cotton Ace High," Rupert Grayson; “Island of Spies,” J. M. Walsh; “The Armour of Light," Cosmo Hamilton; “No Turning Back,” W. F. Morris.