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JFREDERIC CHOPIN, SON OF POLAND, by Opal Wheeler (Faber and Faber, English price 9/6), is the second of a two-volume biography for children, concerning the composer’s later years. The book containg several pieces of Chopin’s music, including simple Mazurkas, Preludes, a Nocturne, Etude, Trio and Concerto. URING many yeats spent in Ceylon Harry Williams gathered a mass of information about the family life, legends and religions of the people, and the history, geology, geography and flora and fauna of the land. The result is Ceylon (Robert Hale; English price, 25/-), a volume of 460 pages, with photographs. HUNT for rare plants took T. Harper Goodspeed, his wife, and a team of botanists from Berkeley University, California, into the nooks and crannies of the Andean uplands (Plant Hunters of the Andes, Robert Hale; English price, 21/-). They travelled by boat, train, aircraft, car, on horseback and on foot, mostly in seatch of the Nicotiana species. Landscapes, people, customs, are dealt with in an informal, lighthearted way, and the very many illustrations are excellent.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 15
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173ACKNOWLEDGMENTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 15
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