Books to Read

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 10, 15 September 1933, Page 4

Books to Read

Literature in Demand at the Moment Pus list, supplied each week by the W ellington Public Library, indicates books that are in general demand ut the moment, and may serve as a guide to those readers who are looking for new and inter‘esting literature. GENERAL ; Ts Christianity True? by Arnola ~Iuunn and ©.E.M. Joad. -- A controversy in letter form including a wide range of subject. ‘It is at least an achievement for ‘two able and highly cultivated men to debate Christianity for a period of eight months and * never mention the subject of this digeussion. The debate is brilliant if not profound." One Thing I know and For Sinners Only, by A. J. Russell. "The author has worked his way up from cub reporter to be managing editor of a London newspaper with over a million circulation ...he tells tow his own life was ¢hanged and asserts that he has written these books as a witness that through the Fellowship the answer to Tife’s riddle may be found." Views and Reviews, by Havelock A collection of essays covering the period from 1888 to 1932. FICTION Water on the Brain, by Compton Mackenzie. A story of the Secret Service: "The book must be read as farce, and as farce it ig thoroughly — knockabout and amusing." New Lives for Old, an anonymous _ novel. "One of: the most brilliant of our younger scientists." It is a story of the possibilities and advantages (?) of rejuvenation. Helena, by Sylvia Thompson. "An English playwright, bored by his suecess and the shallowness -and insincerity of his home life, _ escapes to an island in-the Medi-. terranean, taking with him his youngest daughter, Helena. When he dies --the eighteen-year-old Helena, who has been trained by her father for unconveutional and "*honest living, returns to her family-an unfinished symphony."