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MVIIWCOINERMjrUerioai lUncho, by JackaooGregory, Hodder Stoughton, London. 7/6 from all booksellers. Our copy was received from W. S. Smart, Sydney.The CoMeron Lands arc broad and fine, said Juanito. There are ten thousand spots for a man to c they are all yoars.’’Young Whitney, weary of the city, gladly stayed. This ranch, steeped in the sun of California, seemed part and parcel of the past, spacious and indestructible. But it was not left to its peace. There came to the old Spanish homestead, robbery and violence. a knife-thrust in the dark, the lure of treasure, the lust for vengeance running riot in hot blood. Till the secret that died with old Tonia was rediscovered, the living could have no rest.Truly the author, in this book, has pieced together wonderful characters midst wonderful scenery, and readers should have this book in their library.tion, the truest detective novel which the author has yet written. Mystery sparkles throughout, which, together with its wit, completes a grand entertainment.Again McLean.” by George Good-child. Hodder Stoughton. London. 4/- from all booksellers. Our copy was received from W. S. Smart, Sydney.Again McLean” is a story woven around the work of one Henry Arthur Brilling,” well-known in certain scientific circles. It is impossible to Tmagine how the author provides his unique puzzles, so ingenious arc his solutions. His chief character. ‘McLean,” always interesting to watch at work. i» here incomparable and together with a host of other interesting characters, this book will keep readers thrilled to the last.*Tbey Found Him Dcmd, by Georgette Hey cr Hodder Stoughton, Ixmdon. 4/- from all booksellers. Our copy was received irom W. S. Smart, Sydney.Miss Georgette Heyer has strong claims to being considered second to none a? a detective story w-riter. They Found Him Dead is recommended to those readers who enjoy a detective ttory, foe the bodk * by far she beat, and fer the want ef another deecrip-WEST AUSTRALIAN VERSE.Varied fare is offered to the verse-reader in The Lost Shanty, by Jack Sorensen (R. S. Sampson Printing and Publishing Co., Perth—price 2/6), and the many newspaper readers who have, over a period of years, become acquainted with the author's work in the columns of West Australian publications. will welcome the appearance of the book. The bush ballads between its covers arc of incidents humorous and tragic, and geographically they travel from the coastal plains near Perth to the distant north and the shearing sheds, and east to the gold-fields. There are aborigine legends, rugged songs of the pearlers and shearers, and effective, brief laments for the towns which, in our State's short history, have grown out of the hush, with gold nourishing their roots, and already have been reclaimed by the scrub.The history of a thousand settlers is strikingly told in the five verses of Shannon Glen. the last of which reads:“As the red dust turns to loam land.With the breaking of the drought.So the new land turned to a homeland.As the old land faded out.And such contributions as Spinifex, Southbound Plane, “Ghosts of Bailey Street. The Shcmlock.” The Bine Doe.” and Yenda Dwells ’I^»ne on the Range, do as much for N'or’-Wcst and Goldfields pioneers and the abo. In fact, subjects are well chosen, and well treated, and there will be few Australian readers of “The Lost Shanty, who will not be moved occasionally to mirth, and occasionally to less frivolous emotion, bv its contents.The book is clearly printed and attractively bound. and should l»e an ideal present tor anyone likely to appreciate good writing about West Australia by a man who thoroughly knows the State.
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Toodyay Herald
Toodyay, Western Australia, AU
Fri, Apr 14, 1939
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