GROWING BIGGER AND BETTER

Radio Record, 10 June 1938, Page 30

GROWING BIGGER AND BETTER

!'WERY few years have gone since i the establishment of cheap libraries for the reprinting of notable literature. But the numbers of these small, bright-coloured books now pouring on the market show how well they are being received by a public quick to appreciate value when they see it, i For though the pocket editions are iso cheap, they are never done careilessly. Type is always clear and good, rand the paper far from shoddy. Moreiover, the neat size of the books makes |them as handy as attractive. Sales of magazines must have slumped a good deal since the arrival of these little goldmines on the bookstalls, Recent additions prove, moreover. that readers are kept waiting a shorter and shorter time for their pocket copies, Some of the books have barely left the front windows of !the booksellers-in -fact, you can buy {them almost before your turn comes jon the circulating library ‘list! ; Penguin Books Ltd., most successful ‘of the cheap library. publishers, has

forwarded the "Record" a large consignment of their recent publications, all of which should be eagerly received, Particularly interesting are the titles: in .the political special group: "Mussolini’s Roman Empire," hy G. T. Garratt, "Blackmail or War," by Genevieve Tabouis (both reviewed in the "Record’) "Germany Puts the Clock Back," by Edgar Mowrer, Mystery and crime section now has added: "The Documents in the Case," by Dorothy L..Sayers and Robert Kustace; "The Murders ‘io Praed Street," by John Rhode; "Death at Swaythling Court," by "J. J. Con oington. Fiction includes some exceptionally popular works. These are: "Decliue and Fall,’ by Ivelyn Waugh; "Vile Bodies," by Evelyn Waugh; "Self," by Beverley Nichols; "Ten Minute Alibi," by Anthony Armstrong; ‘‘Tarka the Otter," by Henry Williamson; "Seven Red Sundays," by Ramon J. Sender; "Cold Comfort Farm," by Stella Gibbons; "Carl and Anna," by Leonard Frank; "Mr, Perrin and Mr, Traill," by Hugh Walpole, "Penguin Parade 2" ig a collection of short stories. Travel and adventure section — includes: "Flying Dntehman," by Anthony Fokker; ‘Watkins’ Last BExpedition," by F. Spencer Chapman; "The Worst Journey in the World’-Vols. 1 and 2, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. In the new Penguin Shakespeare. edited by G. B.. Harrison, who gives annotations sufficient to clarify the text without crushing it, there comes: "Anthony and Cleopatra," "Henry the Fourth" in two parts, "Mueh Ado About Nothing," "Othello," and "Thea Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint." (THE blue Pelican series is also putlished by Penguin Books, Ltd., and comprises works of a more techniciul and philosophie type. Latest additions are: "After the Deluge," by Leonard Woolf; "Liberty in the Modern State," by Harold J..Laski; "The Growth of Civilisation," by W. J. Perry; "Medieval People," by Eileen Power; "A History of the English People’-Vol. .2, by lie Harvey; "The Great Victorians’Vol. 1, by varions authors; "Vision and Design," by Roger Fry; "A Book of English Poetry-Chaucer to Rosetti," edited by G. B. Harrison. "OR admirers of Norman Lindsay's work, T. Werner Lanrie has now published a shilling edition of "The Cautious Amorist," unusual among ifs kind because it contains the line illustrations as well as the text of the great Australian painter and novelist.