NEW BOOKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 50, 2 March 1943, Page 3

NEW BOOKS

WANGANUI PUBLIC LIBRARY. The following new books have been received at the Wanganui Public Library for the week ending February 27: Fiction.—" The Case of the Leaning Man” (Christopher Bush), “Diamond H” (Stephen Payne), “Nothing is Safe” (E. M. Delafield), “The Hostile Shore” (Catherine Gavin), “Dover Harbour” (Thomas Armstrong), “Sing a Song of Sydney" (Rosemary Rees), "To-morrow We Live” (Sonia Deane), “Blitz Hero” (John Owen), "Mediterranean Nights” (Dennis Wheatley), "Norwegian Spring 1940” (Stuart Engstrand), “Captain Moonlight” (Ethel Mannin), “The Mill” (Jocelyn Playfair). Non-Fiction.—“Vested Interests or Common Pool" (Nicholas Davenport), “I Saw Two Englands" (H. V. Morton), “What Kind of a People” (Rupert Downing), “Chetro's Book of Numbers” (“Chelro”), “The Nights of London” (H. V. Morton), "This Shining Woman” (George Preedy), "Rubaiyat of Amar Khayyam” (Edward Fitzgerald), "New Zealand English” (Arnold Wall). Personal Engineering Series: “Let’s Take an Inventory” (Thomas Tapper), “Mind Training for Efficiency” (Thomas Tapper), "Body Training for Service" (Harry J. Johnson), "Everyone an Executive” (Thomas Tapper), “Mastering Your Job” (Thomas Tapper), “Business Technic" (David S. Beasley), “Financial Independence” (Lansing F. Smith), “Our Social Assets” (Frank H. Cheley), “Investing Leisure Time” (Frank H. Cheley), “The Business ot Living” (Thomas Tapoer and F. H. Cheley). “Mediterranean Nights," by Dennis Wheatley, is a collection of short stories in this author's usual enthralling manner.

“The Mill,” by Jocelyn Playfair, Is the storv of a crime told by a man awaiting trial on a charge of murder and of how the detectives and the dead man's son pick out the trail that led to him and proved his guilt. Tension is the keynote: well-control-led and very telling tension which pervades the book from beginning to end.

“Blitz Hero.” by John Owen, does not treat a blitz romantically but is "jirobablv the first attempt to get at the real feelings of men and women in the new conditions of peril to which thev are excised.