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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1963Vol. XXXIII, No. 11

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He Wonders Of Antiquity

Leonard Cottrell. What the :n Wonders of the ancient world ; makes a favourite quiz ques and in this book the author ribes them in detail—including only one that is still in existence, Pyramids. He then selects seven tional wonders of the past that : appealed to him personally and s the reader on a conducted tour, ascinating little book for anyone ested in ancient monuments to snt cultures. (Pan 5/6).

ORPORATION WIFE by Cather- Gaskin. This writer, who first e into prominence by writing it early Australia, is now living

in America. This bedroom and boardroom description of life in a big corporation could have been written nowhere else. (Fontana 5/6).

Ten Rillington Place By

Ludovic Kennedy. Kennedy is bet ter known to most people as BBC television commentator and travel ling reporter. This book concerns the controversial Evans-Christie case that kept UK newspaper headline writers busy in 1949-50 and again four years later.

In March, 1950, Evans was hanged for the murder of his child and its mother, Beryl Evans, who had been found strangled at 10 Riilington Place, North Kensington. Four years later, however, four more bodies were found in the garden of the premises and John Reginal Chris tie admitted responsibility, Kennedy, who* believes that Evans was inno cent of the crime he was hanged for, undertakes an exhaustive exam ination of the case. (Pan; 7/6).

The Sands Of Kalahari

by William Mulvihill. A best-selling novel based on the behaviour of five men and one woman who are thrown back on their own resources when their plane crashes in the SW African desert. Part - psychology, part-thriller. (Pan; 5/6).

For Other Tastes

In The Cool Of The Day,

an international love story by Susan Ertz. Now being filmed in New York, London and Greece, with Peter Finch and Jane Fonda in leading roles. (Fontana; 5/6),

Love And Mrs. Sargent By

Patrick Dennis, whose Auntie Mame series put him in the best-seller class. (Pan; 5/6).

RIZPAH by Charles E. Israel.

Old Testament literary cinerama in full technicolour. (Pan; 7/6).

Renegade Sheriff By W. C.

Tuttle and BAD MEN FROM BODIE by E. L. Doctorow. West erns. (Fontana and Pan; 4/- each).

BY THE SEA, BY THE SEA by George Sumner Albee. Even British reviewers found it funny. (Pan; 4/-).

The Mind Benders By James

Kennaway. Story of a movie (Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements) about brain washing, in excelsis. (Pan; 5/-). (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Over seas) Ltd.)

Artist In

Wood

Kombil Liomui, a native of Lou [?]land, Manus District, P-NG, is an [?]tist whose wood carvings are be [?]g much sought after by collec [?]s. He is shown with one of his [?]epik-type masks.

Kombil says Sepik-type carving [?]as introduced to the Manus area [?]y local men who served in the [?]epik District as teachers and be [?]me interested in Sepik handicrafts [?]nd designs. Kombil achieves a [?]tin finish on his carvings, using [?]special leaf for smoothing the [?]ood in the traditional Manus [?]anner.