GOOD READING.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 20 (Supplement)

GOOD READING.

An Australian Trio. The Australian house of Angus and Robertson, Ltd., has recently published three books that will make a wide appeal. “Shanghai" Is by Edmund Barolay, the author of “Kyber," and it is a tale of the glamorous East. Action, danger and mystery are well blended, and the author can spin a fine tale. Shanghai is a city of romanoe and terror, and Barolay knows how to use that background. The difficulty, once one' begins reading, is to stop, for the rapid sweep of the story carries the reader along. "Everlasting Hurricane” Is a little nearer home, being the story of the experiences and the fate of two escapees from New Caledonia. It contains sufficient to please the greatest lover of thrills, and the author, R. Walter Coulter, oan write strong, gripping stuff. The third member of the trio is “Legend of Sanderson,” by Vance Palmer. If anyone is fully qualified to write an Australian story It is Palmer, and in this book he draws characters that are real. The aotion takes place in the caneflelds country of the north, in the coastal town, and among the Islets of the Barrier Reef. There is something stark, yet really attractive, about some of the characters in this •book. They lived hard .lives, but in a crisis were always there. This will rank as one of Palmer’s finest works.