BOOK NOTICES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 45, 12 November 1924, Page 26

BOOK NOTICES

Platypus Series. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Post •free, 2/8 each; (iem of the Flat, by Constance Slackness; The Bar Sinister, by Richard Harding Davis; The Perfect Tribute, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. The latest additions to the excellent Platypus Series are well up to the high standard of their predecessors. Gem of the Flat is a delightful story of the life of a little girl iii a back-block township, and is full of fun. The Perfect Tribute, which is a really artistic publication, deals with an incident in the life of the great Lincoln. .the. Bar Sinister with its neat marginal vignettes, is one of the best of good dog stories. Anmmorc, by Rev. J. Guinan. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, London. Six shillings net. Father Guinan has already won his spurs as a writer of Irish novels. His books, especially. Denial Kenny and Ike Moores of Glynn, are well-known and widely read, at home and abroad. Annamore, or The Tenant at Will , is in many respects the best work he has done. It is a delightful story, full of the humor and pathos of Irish country life.' It. is set in the stormy days of the land Doubles, and the children of the Gael might to welcome it everywhere. Father Guinan knows his people and the pictures he gives us of them are the real thing. It is a kindly, charming, sympathetic,- novel. vAA —_ • ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Midnight Mass.—The fast does not begin till midnight. G. O’G— The remarks m.yle by you in a recent letter to • one of the staff may suggest why we ignore your later communications. ' ■ ■ ' " A'--AC.'-'M;;;%