HAMMONDS MEMOIRS

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 February 1947, Page 7

HAMMONDS MEMOIRS

“CRICKET MY DESTINY” LATEST LIBRARY BOOKS Of topical interest to New Zealand because Walter R. Hammond hopes to have his touring M.C.C. team playing in New Zealand within a few weeks is Hammond's autobiography, "Cricket My Destiny," a copy of which has been secured among -the latest non-fiction accessions to tha Wanganui Public Library. Hammond has written his reminiscences in plenty of detail, and has traced out the notable experiences which have proved to everybody's entire agreement that cricket, was his destiny. His book is a direct narrative of cricket at Home and abroad, wfih passages of "travel talk” which are common to such memoirs. Sir Pelham Warner, a legendary figure in the game, has provided a forward to the book. The full list of new books is:— “Where Love and Friendship D’.^blt" (Mrs. Belloc Lowndes), “Without Fame” (Otto Eisenschiml), “Cricket My Destiny” (Walter R. Hammond), "I Was Roosevelt’s Shadow” (Michael F. Reilly and Wm. J. Slocum), "Oscar Wilde”: selected works with 12 unpublished letters (Edit. Richard Aldington), “Old English Furniture for the Small Collector” (J. P. Blake and A. E. Reveirs-Hopkins), “Estimating Housing Needs (Alexander Block), “Vouza and the Solomon Islands (Hector MacQuarrie), "The Orchestra in England” (Reginald Nettel), "Russia's Neighbour —The New Poland’’ (Bernard Newman), "Civilisation and Ethics" ’(Albert Schweitzer), “America at the Movies” (Margaret Farraud Thorp), “Keepers of the Desert” (Capt. Victor Cranton), "A Rebel in the Legion" (James O'Donovan), "Gardening with Herbs:’’ for flavour and fragrance (Helen Morgenthau Fox), “Wandering With Nomad" (Norman Ellison), "When Men and Mountains Meet” (A. W. Tilman), “Imogene"—an odyssey (Hugh Frewen), "With No Regrets” (Krishna Nehru), “Chungking Listening Post” (Mark Tennien).