Best Of The Paperbacks

Practical Dept.:

Pan Guide To Public

SPEAKING, by Robert Seton Lawrence, who is an expert on the subject—examiner in speech and drama at the London Academy of Music and Drama. (5/6.) LET’S GO DANCING, by Albert Morgan, provides a quick way to learn 21 dances, including the Twist, Bossanova, Tango, etc. With plenty of diagrams. (Four square; 7/6.) JUDO, by Eric Dominy, who is one of Britain’s top experts in the Japanese art of self-defence. The basis of all judo is to break your opponent’s balance while preserving your own and this allows small persons (in the know) to toss large ones (who aren’t) over their heads.

The author dedicates the book to his wife—which probably hasn’t any significance. (Four Square; 5/6.)

Parties And Politics In

AMERICA, by Clinton Rossiter of Cornell University. It explains some thing that every non-American wants to know and no non-American has yet been able to understand. (Signet; 6/9.) Factual:

The Overlanders, By Garry

Hogg. The story of the men who between 1813 and 1876 crossed the sun-scorched continent of Australia and wrote the names on the map. (Pan; 5/6.) SNAKE MAN, by Alan Wykes, who tells the story of C. J. P. lonides who in his love of catching snakes is the East African version of Eric Worrall of Australia. (Four Square; 5/6.) Fiction:

The Bull From The Sea,

by Mary Renault, is an historial novel based on Theseus, King of Athens, who slew the Cretan Minotaur. (Four Square; 6/9.)

Captain Newman, Md, By

Leo Rosten. A “doctor” book with adult appeal. Compassionate, sad and funny account of a US Armv psychiatrist. (Pan; 7/6.) I KNOW MY LOVE, by Catherine Oaskm, is an historical novel based

on the gold rush to Ballarat, Victoria, in 1854. (Fontana; 5/6.)

All This And Heaven Too,

by Rachel Field, is a pre-war best seller based on an incident in French history, in 1841, that drove an Emperor from his throne. (The novel was the basis of an early post war movie). (Fontana; 7/6.)

The Golden Greek, By

Warren Tuto, a story of our time about a man who started with little but a dynamic personality and won power and wealth on little but bluff. (Four Square; 5/6.)

The Spanish Bride, By

Georgette Heyer, who usually writes on more light-hearted subjects than the Peninsular War. The love angle in this story takes second place to history. (Pan; 7/6.)

The Intrigues Of

Caroline Cherie, By Cecil

Saint Laurent, in which the much travelled Caroline is swept into Napoleon’s Russian war—and into many beds in trying to “further her husband’s career”. (Pan; 5/6.) Thrillers: UNEASY TERMS, by Peter Chaney Slim Callaghan again. (Fontana, 4/-); UNNATURAL DEATH, by Dorothy L. Sayers of her mid-thirties period when Lord Peter Wimsey was at the zenith of his detective powers. (Four Square, 5/6); DEATH TRAP, by John D.

MacDonald, in the chiller-thriller method of the American tough tradition. (Pan, 4/-); N OR M, by Agatha Christie, is an early war time mystery in which her occasional husband and wife team of Beresford have trouble with Nazis. (Fontana; 5/6.)

Air Bridge And The

STRANGE LAND, are both by Hammond Innes, who thereby demonstrates his versatility. The former is an incredible aviation story based on the Berlin airlift; the latter concerns a reformed smuggler turned missionary who selects Morocco as the scene of his endeavours. (Fontana; 5/6 each.)

Three Act Tragedy, A Mi

period Agatha Christie. (Pan; 5/t

A Man Called Jones

Juliana Symons (Fontana; 4/-.) Classics:

The Golden Age An

DREAM DAYS, by Kenne Grahame, who is best known for 1 Wind in the Willows. His books a usually about children in the secoi half of the 19th century but not / children. His writings mirror i that was tranquil in Victorian, upp middle-class England. (Signet.)

The Twelve Dan C I N

Princesses And O T H E

FAIRY TALES, collected by Alfn and Mary Elizabeth David, who si in an introduction: “Fairy tales a not a form of children’s literatm they are, like fables, legends ai ballads, amongst the many forms adult literature that children ha 1 adopted”. (Signet.) THREE TALES, by Gusta 1 Flaubert, are the last of this write] work. He was born in Rouen, 1821, and devoted his adult life his writing which reflected both scoi at French bourgeois society and romantic attachment to historic subject matter. Like others of th generation of French writers, mu( of his work was regarded i immoral. (Signet.) (Pan and Fontana books from W: Collins (Overseas) Ltd., Sydney: othe from Tudor Distributors Pty. Lt Sydney.)