Cheap Issues and Reprints

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 22

Cheap Issues and Reprints

That very fine book, A History of Cricket, by H. S. Altham and E. W. Swanton, first published in 1926, is now issued in a revised and cheaper edition, at 8/6 net, by Allen and Unwin and is brought up to 1937. From the first chapter—which reaches back far enough to be headed “Archaeological”—to the last, this admirable work is full of facts, names, and figures, as such a history should be, without the slightest congestion or shapelessness. As a critical review of the changes and development of the game, of the great players and their qualities and influence, and of outstanding events in the county series, Test matches, and other international contests, this book is unapproached in cricket literature. Finally, the writing is excellent, never flowery, never arid or stale, but throughout clean, crisp, and precise. The book is well illustrated and has—indispensable virtue!—a good index. * Angus and Robertson issue at the low price of 4/6 a new mystery novel, The Mysterious Valley, by G. W. Wicking, who makes good use of an Australian setting. Readers of his earlier stories, notably “The Glory Box Mystery,” will need no assurance that he tells a lively story. « Now included in John Murray’s series of fiction reprints at 2/- net are Kathleen Norris’s Shining Windows and P. C. Wren’s Spanish Maine. « The latest issue in the New People’s Library, published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. at 1/6 net, is H. N. Brailsford’s essay, Why Capitalism Means War. • A new volume in Everyman’s Library (J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 2/- net.) is a collection of Twenty !One-Act Plays, selected by John Hampden. , Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, , Stanley Houghton, Harold Brighbuse, St., John Ervine, Lord Dungany, Laurence Housman, James

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