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E Economy Sizes, Giants and Super Giants of the toothpaste md soap-flakes world are now I translated into the paper -3t book market. In recent :hs, Fontana (which has “Pink”, e” and “Yellow” spines at yi n g prices) has added a larch”, at 7/6. And Pans ch used to come in the “Great”

“Giant” variety, as well as in in” at a modest 3/-) are being uced in the Pan “Major”, also '6. one way and another, paper-

Jts are getting bigger and

ly better—all the time. Here some of the newest: LAY AS I PLEASE, by Humphrey ton. In case you don’t know it—and of you will not—Humphrey is n’s Number I Hot-Trumpeter. More, distinctly U. even if his fans are ctly Non-U, having deserted a long f Etonian and Guards ancestors, not y representatives of the Established h, in order to enter his chosen pro a. Even if you are not interested in lans, hot or otherwise, you may care id “Humph’s own sizzling life-story” academic exercise. Humph writes well. (Great Pan).

5 Quickness Of The Hand, By

Mayo. A lot of newspapermen make nest extra penny these days writing rs, and Mayo (a pseudonym) is one em. This one is a pot-pourri of >r ping-pong balls, bloodstained , mysterious corpses, and the efforts -convict Raynor who didn’t do it sp one hop ahead of the police who

think that he did (Great Pan).

The Struggle For Europe, By

Chester Wilmot. Australians might, with some justification, take a poor view of Wilmot’s billing on the back of this book as a famous “BBC War Correspondent”.

Wilmot was, long before that, a famous war correspondent in the Middle East for the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

He is remembered for his on-the-spot broadcasts as the AIF was driven out of Greece; was with the Diggers in Tobruk; later still in New Guinea. He wrote con siderably about the Tobruk seige, privately, and as an official Australian war-historian. (Wilmot was born in Brighton, Victoria, in 1911 and was killed in the Comet crash in 1954.) “The Struggle for Europe” covers the period after the war was carried into Northern Europe, 1944-45, when he had become a war correspondent for the BBC with which institution he remained.

Wilmot’s book is in no sense a personal story, but straight history in which he sets out the military, political and diplo matic moves of the last years of the war and the “Hot” peace that resulted there from.

As such, it lacks the reader-appeal of such personal stories as that of Field Marshal Montgomery, who was himself impressed by Wilmot’s book and, as you may remember, quoted considerably from it in his “Memoirs”. (Fontana Monarch).

DO IT YOURSELF, by J. and R.

Christopher. Australasians are confirmed do-it-yourselfers; the Briton on his home heath normally not so much so, although even there in post-war years, the cult of giving-it-a-go has grown considerably, to the discomforture of professionals.

Now the amateurs are aided and abetted by this small book which says it’s fun to save money by doing it yourself, and then proceeds to tell you how. This volume confines itself to jobs around the house—

or decoration including painting. hanging, putting up curtains, put lown linoleum; and interior and ex simple repairs. (Great Pan— lal).

I ROSY PASTOR, by Nigel Fitz- I. There were four beautiful women around the misty bay in western d, and one of them was a murderer so it seemed. Incidental to Denis ke (actor) finding out which is in , there is some entertaining writing some pretty Irish wit. (Fontana, spine).

CHOLOGY OF SEX, by Havelock Although this standard work on the t is now 26 years old—and even t was published four years after the •’s death—readers encountering it ie first time now that it has been led in this cheap edition, will likely •prised to find that the things that ill regarded as forward-looking are ! modern as they might believe, ry Havelock Ellis was born exactly ars ago. At the time of his death s a white headed, long bearded old man, not unlike a portrait of an Pacific missionary and not as one imagine to be, a man who had de a lifetime to the study of the sex of humans. nite of today’s greater freedoms and lit of public discussion, complete tanding of sex is with most still cial. For want of real knowledge, -aged as well as young people fre -7 labour under a delusion that there nothing odd about themselves. A of Ellis should remove most doubts subject. (Pan Giant). :der on the orient express, atha Christie. One of the best of irot series although written back in Ihe whole action takes place during ree days’ journey from Aleppo across (Fontana, yellow spine).

GOLD RUSTLERS, by Luke Short, title indicates it is a Western, for who like them. And plenty do. na, yellow spine). copies from Wm. Collins (Overseas), Australian prices: Great Pan. 3/6; iants, 5/-; Fontana (yellow spine), onarch, 7/6.