ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 543, 18 November 1949, Page 19

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FANCY FREE, edited by W. G. Bebbington; Allen & Unwin. English price, 6/-. N element of fantasy is the unifying quality in this collection of nine short stories ranging from Ambrose Bierce’s "A Horseman in the Sky" to E. M. Forster’s "The Celestial Omnibus." H. G. Wells is represented by "The Truth about Pyecraft," and Eric Linklater by "The Dancers." The other authors are John Pudney, Richard Middleton, Lord Dunsany, W. W. Jacobs and A. J. Alan. Although it is designed primarily as a*secondary school reader, the book should have a strong appeal to adults with a taste for the best

in short story writing.

P.J.

W.

"HE Royal Air Force in the World War (Vol. 3), by Captain Norman Macmillan; Harrap, London. English price, 15/-. In the third and penultimate volume of his history, Captain Macmillan deals with operations in North and East Africa, the Mediterranean, Italy and the Balkans. TRE Education of the Young Worker, Oxford University Press, London. English price, 2/6. A report of a conference held at Oxford last year under the auspices of the University Department of Educations OW tke Other Man Lives, Odhams Press, London, through Whitcombe & Tombs. Price, 10/6. An illustrated account of "the daily lives of 28 British men and women engaged in diverse occupations." ° TRE Home Workshop, Odhams Press, London, through Whitcombe & Tombs. Price 8/6. Nearly 900 drawings, photographs and diagrams should help to make this massive volume useful to those who like to potter about in a toolshed.