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Non Fiction:

Serengett Shall Not Die

by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek, a German zoologist who has been described as the Dr. Schweitzer of the Serengeti herds. Serengeti is the Game Reserve in Tanganyika but man and climate both seem bent on destroying one of the last sanctuaries of big game in Africa.

As well as being a collector for German zoos, Grzimek and his son, Michael, became propagandists for the preservation of the Game Park and to help in their work they learned to fly a plane. Most of the excellent pictures in this book are the result

of viewing the animals from a low flying plane and not as most tourists do, from a car. Even people who are not particularly fond of wild animals will probably be interested in this book which has an introduction by Australian writer Alan Moorehead, who is also a Game Park fanatic. (Fontana; 9/-).

The Story Of Language

by Dr. C. L. Barber, senior lecturer in English at the University of Leeds.

Language more than anything else distinguishes man from other animals and the study of it as a science is as fascinating as it is vast in scope. The author in the first half of his book traces the development of organised language and its various “families” over thousands of years. The second half of the book is devoted to the evolution of the English language. (Pan; 9/-).

Fiction: PSYCHE by Phyllis Brett Young is the story of a girl who was kid napped in infancy and is later abandoned. She grew up in surround ings alien to what might have been and thus the writer works the plot out according to her own ideas of the influence of heredity and environ ment. (Pan; 7/6).

LILITH by J. R. Salamanca is not everyone’s cup of tea. About a deranged beauty who inhabits a world of sexual ecstasy into which she entices her young male nurse.

Has now been filmed by Columbia Pictures. (Pan; 7/6).

Some Angry Angel By

Richard Condon—who is alleged by the London Daily Mail to have written it with a flame-thrower on asbestos paper. About the world of modern public relations and organised publicity. (Pan; 5/6).

THE NOVICE by Giovanni Arpino (translated by Peter Green) was a best seller when first published in Italy. The story begins when a fru strated middle-aged accountant and a young nun, who frequently share a tramstop in mid-winter Turin, finally break through the barrier of silence. (Pan; 4/-.).

Powder And Patch And

FRIDAY’S CHILD both by Georgette Heyer and both well-tried and, ap parently, time-defying. The first was

originally published in 1923; both are Regency romances. (Pan; 4/- & 5/6).

Peaceable Land By Keith

Wheeler. The theme is this could happen to you in Negro-White re lations in the United States. A suc cessful painter makes a down payment on a house in an upper middle-class area of New York suburbia and thereby starts a furore. The painter is a Negro and—worse—has a chip on his shoulder. (Pan; 7/6).

America, America By Elia

Kazan who gave the world Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll, East of Eden, etc. (Fontana; 5/6).

Thrillers and Crime:

Death Packs A Suitcase By

Bryan Edgar Wallace. A Them and Us drama. (Hodder; 5/6).

The Beast Must Die And

The Worm Of Death By

Nicholas Blake. The first is in his Early Period (1938); and the second in his more modern style. (Fontana; 5/6 ea.).

TRUST THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris. (Hodder; 4/-). THE

Terrified Typist By Erie

Stanley Gardner. (Pan; 5/6).

Murder In Mesopotamia And

The Hound Of Death By

Agatha Christie. (Fontana; 5/6). All these are up to usual specifications.

Miss Pym Disposes And Brat

FARRAR are both by Josephine Tey who died in 1952 but who, while she wrote thrillers, had also an

engaging style of writing. (Pan; 4/and 5/6).

The Golden Rendezvous,

Night Without End And The

LAST FRONTIER, all by Alistair Mac Lean who deals with the Carib bean, Hungary and the Arctic, in that order, in his usual breath-taking style. (Fontana; 5/6 ea.).

The Borders Of Bar

BARISM by Eric Williams and THE MEGSTONE PLOT by Andrew Garve are both excellent and both were reviewed by PIM when first published—in 1961 and 1956 respec tively. (Pan & Fontana; 4/- and 5/6.) THE SATIN BUG by Alistair Maclean who for some reason un known writes this as lan Stuart. Mac- Lean was better when he wrote as Maclean of HMS Ulysses and not as Stuart of pot-boiling thrillers. (Fon tana; 4/-.) War: ESCAPE—OR DIE by Paul Brick hill is a collection of authentic RAF escape stories. SALERNO by Hugh Pond is the story of the Allied assault on Churchill’s “soft under belly of Europe” which turned out to be not so soft after all. (Pan; 4/and 7/6.) True Crime: MURDER REVISITED in which the author John Royland, compares two causes celebres—the South

Wales Greenwood Case of 1920 : the Welsh border Armstrong Case 1922. (Pan; 5/6).

Encyclopaedia Of Mi

DER by Colin Wilson and Pat man. For more serious students criminology. It’s a sort of who’s \ of 300 murderers, their crimes, hi grounds and characters. (Pan; 11/