“THE HEDGE-SPARROW”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 306, 27 December 1937, Page 6

“THE HEDGE-SPARROW”

WANGANUI AUTHOR’S NOVEL | COLLEGIATE OLD BOY NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY “To Have and Have Not,” by Ernest Hemingway, the author of ”A Farewell to Arms,” is one of the new books added to the shelves of the Wanganui Public Library. It is a splendid adventure story of the Keys of Florida, the romantic region of island and sea through which the Gulf Stream flows. Another book of special interest to Wanganui readers is “The HedgeSparrow,” by C. R. Allen, an old boy of the Wanganui Collegiate School. It is a picture of Dunedin social life in the days of Richard John Seddon and recreates an the political atmos-| phere of that period. The new books are:— Fiction.—“ The House of Dearth,” j V. MacClure; “The Hedge-Sparrow.” ! C. R. Allen; “To Have and Have Not,” ] Ernest Hemingway; “Death on the j Borough Council,” Josephine Bell; | “The Black Virgin,” Mary Borden; ■ "Love’s Pilgrimage,” H, St. J. Cooper; | “The Gate of Happy Sparrows,” I Daniele Vare; “A Tale From Bali," I Vicki Baum; “The Seven Who Fled,”i Frederick Prokosch; “Imperial City,” Aimer Rice; “Tumble-Fold,” Jos. Whitaker; “Interlude for Sally,” B. I K. Seymour; “Maids and Mistresses,” B. K. Seymour; “Enchanter's Nightshade,” Anne Bridge. Non-Fiction.—“Jerry ou Safari,”! Carl von Hoffmann; “Forty Thousand Against the Arctic,” H. P. Smolka;: "Beloved Friend,” C. D. Bowen and J Barbara Von Meek; “Unsettled in Places,” Odee Harris; “Taking Tan-| ganyika,” Chris. J. Thornhill; “The Alberta Experiment,” C. H. Douglas;! “Heroes of the Alcazar,” R. Timmermans; “The March of a Nation,” H. G. Cardozo; “Captain Albert Ball,” R. H. Kiernan; “Recollections of An /iirman,” Lieut.-Col. L. A. Strange; "French War Birds,” Vigilant: “The Grand Rebel,” Dennis Kincaid; "Christ and Present World Issues,” E. Stanley Jones; "Portrait of a Village,” Francis B. Young.