Books to Read

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 9, 8 September 1933, Page 4

Books to Read

Literature in Demand at the Moment pais list, supplied each week by the Wellington Publie Library, indicates books that are in general demand at the moment, and may serve as a guide to those readers who are looking for new and interesting literature. FICTION. Advances of Harriet, by P. Bottome. A study of somewhat selfish adolescent girlhood. Almond, Wild Almond, by D. K. Broster.: A further novel of the Highlands. The action takes place about the time of Culloden, and centres this time around a heroine. Gosta Berling’s Saga, by Selma Lagerloff. The most famous navel of this able Scandinavian authoress. It is set about a century ago in Sweden, and deals with the adventures of Gosta Berling, a pastor, who, disgraced by his excesses of drinking, abandons his- living and takes to the life of a wanderer and beggar, roaming the country and falling in with extraordinary characters. Hyde Side Up, by Ben. Travers. A novel founded on the successful play and talkie, "Plunder." It is a farce with the movement of a detective story--murder, burglaries, Scotland Yard, and complicated family relations. I¢ is without doubt one of the funniest books of the year. GENERAL Death in the Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway. ; This is a lengthy book dealing with the art of bullfighting, and is illystrated profusely with fullsize plates. . It is a history, a commentary, and an analysis of a sport condemned ‘by Dnglish people, but possessing, as Mr, Hemingway shows, much beauty, much artistry, and infinite fascination. And Then Came Larwood, by A. Mailey. A commentary on the bodyline bowling controversy.