THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 309, 15 December 1936, Page 7

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Books On The Shelves.

Zambesi Days, by Wilfrid Robertson (Blackie). —A big game story of the African wilds. Whiteoak Harvest, by Mazo de la Roche (MacMillan). —This is a story complete in itself, but it forms a strong- development of the design imposed by the earlier chronicles of the Whiteoaks. Inheritors, by Brian Penton (Angus and Robertson). —A long novel, dealing with the second generation of Australian pioneers. Touch-Me-Not, by Anne Hepple (Hutchinson). —The death of her father leaves Lindsay Lee almost penniless, and she is left to force the bitter struggle of life with the additional responsibility of bringing up her three-year-old brother. Paradise, by .Anne Duffield (Cassell). —A story of love, in the background of an island off the north coast of Africa. When the Devil is Well, by W. 11. L. Cranford (Ward, Lock and Co.). — For Bob Royston the good ship “Romance” is tossed ruthlessly on a sea of bubbling and sparkling humour. r«t Mountain Men, by Jackson Gregory (Hodder and Stoughton).—A story of mountains and the- men who live in their shadow, and of dainty Betty Bell, brave as a lion when need arises. The Street of the Leopard, by Nigel Morland (Cassell). —How were the police to find the street in which was the headquarters of the Negro murder gang. Also added: Judy of Bunter’s Buildings, by E. P. Oppenheim (Hodder and Stoughton); James Ramsay Macdonald, by - H. H. Tiltman (Jarrolds); Farewell Romance, by Gilbert Frankau (Hutchinson).