Birthday Present

A Swedish Birthday Present

, , IFTY years ago, due to the pion eenng efforts of the Swedish Con sul m Chief, Mr. S. T. Von Goes, there was founded in Sydney the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Australia. Its purpose was to further trade relations between the two countries In May this year, in celebration of the Golden Anniversary of the Cham ber—now known as the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas—a “special edition” of the Chamber’s journal (The Trade Review) has been i ssued -

The “special edition” is, in fact, a magnificently produced book that goes far enough beyond a birthday gesture to be regarded as a com petent handbook for anyone interested in trade or travel in any of the countries covered by the Chamber’s activities. c , , . 4 . . , Sweden is interest in Australasia has traditionally always extended to the South Pacific Islands and members of the Chamber’s Council show how this 18 maintained, Mr. Norman C. Nelson, present president of the Chamber (son of a founding member, Mr. Ivan Nel son), is chairman of directors of Nel son and Robertson Pty., Ltd.. Island traders; Mr. K. S. Kopsen, also a

i of a founding member, is manag director of W. Kopsen and Co.

Ltd,,. also a household word in Pacific. There are, as well, on Council, the representatives of the iping companies that trade in the ific—Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency, and Co., Ltd., and the Australia >t Pacific Line.

Zornish Romance,

Plus

'hen Victoria was Queen of land, there were only two courses i to a gentlewoman who found ?If in penurious circumstances. was to marry, and the other to find herself a post as a gover- Mistress of Mellyn (by Victoria lolt) Martha Leigh takes the id course partly because, as she t, she never had the opportunity ying the former, hen the train carried her into wall to become the governess oblem-child Alvean, she already dered herself on the shelf; dy, at 24, “past her first youth, oks she was no beauty; her eyes too bold (so her Aunt Adelaide ; her nose too short; and her h too big. Nothing seemed to irtha, however, fitted very well the strange family in the grim hng house on the Cornish cliffs, ne she tamed her arrogant em r and his resentful young iter; and solved the strange ry of the TreMellyns—but not i coming close to death herself. are no messages, no terrible problems to be solved in this It is an engaging romance, plus ry, with an unexpected ending.

ITR ?n ? OF MELLYN - Published by 20/-.)

Amongst This

fh's Collection

Custard Boys By John

ae. John Curlew was 14 when as evacuated to a Norfolk during the war, and out of boredom and disorientation a gang of schoolboys. None of antics are particularly elevat it the climax came when they out a mock execution on friend Mark. The execution inately turns out to be quite id not only Mark suffers for it. ished by Rupert Hart-Davls. 18/9.)

Iel To The Rising Sun

'NNY BY NATURE are both

by Erskine Caldwell whose literary output now borders on the fantastic.

The first is a collection of short stories, and in this form this author is probably to be preferred. As he points out in his introduction, there are rarely moments in life that re quire 100,000 words in which to de scribe them, and for these unrare moments the short story does just as well. The second is a full length novel, with Deep South background and Jenny Royster retired from the oldest profession becoming respect able, more or less. She keeps open house—and sometimes open-arms— for the town’s lame ducks, with the usual Caldwell consequences. (Polished by Wm. Heinemann Ltd 20/- amd 18/9 respectively.)

One Autumn Face By Bar

bara Goolden. Barbara is as indus trious a literary mill as Erskine— this makes her 32nd novel. Most of them are about “love” and the com plications attendant thereupon. Bar bara also has strong ideas about divorce, which can be slightly te dious, as in the current number. 18/J^ blished by Wm. Heinemann Ltd.

MISTER MOSES by Max Catto.

This exuberant author of exotic and frequently impossible situations has returned to Africa for this story. The Congo, to wit—but not Belgian, French. It is decided to build a huge dam which will bring untold bene fits to the indigenes, but unfor tunately the indigenes who are to be dispossessed by the rising waters don t see it that way and refuse to be evacuated. The novel gets its name from Joe Moses, patent-medicine salesman who has additional gifts, and who uses them to persuade the tribe that he is the prophet who will lead them to their promised land. 18/9 >^ bliShed by Wm ‘ Heinemann Ltd.

What’s New in Paper Editions

A Lamp For Nightfall By

Erskine Caldwell. This author, ’who specialises in stories of the Ameri can South, proves with this novel that even in Maine, New Eng land Americans can come in the benighted varieties. According to Caldwell, North or South of the Mason Dixon line, sex is just about the same. (Great Pan). n CTO ?’ by Niven Busch.

Pure Hollywood American about an ageing former idol of millions of movie goers who ended up with the only job he could get—stunt man stand-in. A novel that’s said

“strip the tinsel” from the enter nment industry. (Great Pan).

*Ape Of The Fair Country,

Alexander Cordell. The earthy 3 best-selling novel of how the lustrial revolution changed the lutiful face of Wales. Coal mines 1 iron founderies spread over the sides and along the valleys, and ught misery as well as change this is no story of sordid de ssion—or not altogether. Narrated the first person by one of the izing Mortymers the family und which a lot of the story re :.es—it has a lusty wit and ioy ife. (Pan Giant).

He Best Of Everything

Rona Jaffe. Maybe it couldn’t e been written about every city this is New York, and concerns life and loves (and wants) of career girls. “Steamy and out :en” and a “sizzling analysis of female heart”, was how book ewers saw it when it was first lished in 1959. this novel of the ht pretty girls who come stream out of the subways at each 8.45 wearing their crisp, budget ses— and dreaming of graduat to mink. (Pan Giant).

\Ughters Of Cain, By

3e Huggett and Paul Berry, e 1923, 60 women have been icted of murder and condemned eath in the United Kingdom only nine have died on the >ws. Four were poisoners, two iglers, two bashers and one a these nine ■ • _What sor t of women were ? This is the theme of this lal crime book. (Pan Giant).

AD a m AN’S ba Y, by Catherine r -. A French thriller, trans mto English but losing none l S suspense. Left alone in an ied house on its bleak, Brit chff-top, was Ada’s fear a ict of her own imagination? Or someone really trying to drive ound the bend? (Fontana).

E Power-House. Two Of

Buchan’s thrillers go to make iis book. Both are of World I vintage—but, as the pub 1, say, they are “alive” with Buchan genius for electric

ul story-telling.” (Great Pan).

Ban U Book Of Letter

by K. Graham Thom- Viost people hate writing letters m these days of telephone ers > m °st people don’t. This von t get you over your reluct- £ ases where you have a still have no ideas on the ■t, it will actually tell you to say. There are, for instance samples of how to ask for a a chapter that brushes up rammar; another on the cor >rm of address for VlP’s from is of the Blood Royal, through :er Duchesses to Bishops.

It also warns you that if you re ceive a letter signed, “Michael Ebor”, it isn’t from a fellow with a funny surname, but from the Archbishop of York—and gives a list of the other Anglican church dignatories from “John Bath” to “Mervyn Worcester”. As the book points out, however, it would be quite improper to address one of the gentlemen in such familiar fashion —and that the correct address for Bishops is to be found on page 75. (Great Pan).

The One-Eyed Monster, By

Allan Prior. Surely the novel we’ve been waiting for . . . the one “that turns a scorching light on TV”. How ever, this is of the feverish world behind the cameras and of the man who could be turned into a star

overnight, only to be disillusioned It says nothing about the fellow who sits at the receiving end each night, and can end up in the same sorry state. (Pan Giant).

Strangers In My Body By

Evelyn Lancaster and James Poling This is the companion piece to “The Three Faces Of Eve” in whech two doctors described the fragmented personality of Evelyn Lancaster In this book the victim of this prank of Fate tells the story herself, and how, after Eve White, Eve Black and Jane had “died”, the fourth and final Eve appeared. (Great ir3.11) . (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Overseas) Ltd., Sydney. Great Pans and Fontanas 3/9; Pan Giants, o/-).