NEW ZEALAND BOOKS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND BOOKS

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS SHORT STORIES AND VERSE Several recent publications from the Progressive Publishing Society include No. 3 of the New Zealand New Writing, the booklet of short stories and verse which has probably done, more than any tiling else in recent years to focus attentiofnj on New Zealand literature. Considerable advances have been made with this publication, which is considered to be firmly established, and the qualify in the latest sue is wcli up to tbc standard of that set in the previous numbers. "Close. Up Of Guadalcanal" is an interesting booklet describing vividly the impressions of a New Zealand cameraman E. S. Andrews of the lighting in the. Solomons. Difficulties faced in the jungle. Avarfare against the Japanese are forcibly brought home to anyone reading this narrative which is a tribute to the activities of the United States forces in the Solomons. Books for children arc always, welcome and the society has published two attractively got up to make an appeal to the younger child. These arc "Baggie and His Famous Cat, Tarn," by Alexandra Mason, illustrated by 'Nancy Bolton ( and "The Little White Gate," by Aileen Findlay and Rami Djer. The best-seller "A Man and His Wife " short stories bv Frank Sargeson described as one of the most invigorating works of fiction that has come out of New Zealand, has been produced in a second cheap edition, the printing being by the Caxton Press. This is the fourth edition of this book. "Religious Instruction in Schools" is the subject of the latest pamphlet to be issued by the New Zealand Educational Institute. It essays to set forth in a reasonable and temperate but definite manner the institute's grounds, for its opposition to a radical departure from the New Zealand education system historical policy of secular instruction.