Pick of the paperbacks

The Godfather Papers, By Mario

Puzo, who evidently believes that, if you've got a good thing stick to it.

Which is what he does with this ac count of how his best-seller The God father, the shock novel about the Mafia in the United States, came to be written and filmed. It's also a warn ing against being too successful. (Pan, $1.40.) COME INTO MY WORLD, by Buster Lloyd-Jones, is an ex-society vet's reminiscences of the animals and people he met during his career, a career which polio ended for him. As a sequel to his first book The Animals Came in One by One, it is another treat for animal lovers, though there's nothing sugary in it. It's hard to say who made his job so humour-filled, animals or humans—or ghosts! (Fon tana, $1.00.)

The Wrong People, By Robin

Maugham, is something entirely dif ferent from one of his previous books about the Joyita mystery, which he wrote after buying, then selling the successor to the Marie Celeste, Joyita, which ended its days on Levuka's beach. The Wrong People, to some, will be the wrong people. It's a discretionary story of a repressed homosexual schoolmaster's passion for an Arab boy. Ugh! (Pan, $1.40.)

Onward Virgin Soldiers, By

Leslie Thomas, is a lusty sequel to his first best-seller The Virgin Soldiers, which was all about love and war during the Emergency in Malaya. This one's about love (lust) and army life in Hong Kong. Unlike the adventure in Malaya, there are no narrow escapes from bandits, only from cuckolded husbands. (Pan, $1.50.)

A Chance To Sit Down, By

Meredith Daneman, is described as a "heady insight into a woman's deepest feelings". As the author's a woman, she should know what she's writing about—the career of a ballet dancer, on the stage, in the dressing-room and in bed, several beds. It all adds up to a problem which some women have faced since the day after the dawning of time—whether to enjoy one's career, or one's men, or motherhood. (Pan, $1.00.)

Anthropology In Papua New

GUINEA, edited by lan Hogbin, is sub titled Readings from the Encyclopaedia of Papua New Guinea, and in fact is a collection of anthropological papers from that massive tome, but updated.

As Professor Hogbin points out, some of the pieces were first prepared by their authors as long ago as 1967, and much has happened since. Melbourne University Press, which published the

encyclopaedia, also publishes this

large format paperback, which includes pieces on PNG social structure, child rearing, sorcery and witchcraft, tradi tional political organisation, land ten ure, religion, magic, and many others.

There is also a glossary of anthro pological terms and an invaluable list of Papua New Guinea groups and where they live. Who would guess that there are Yam people (they come from Astrolabe Bay, Madang)! (Mel bourne University Press $5.70.) THE MICKS, by Peter Verney, should appeal to all Irishmen, and others, in the South Pacific. It is the story of the Irish Guards in the two World Wars and in cleaning-up oper ations in some of the post-war trouble spots. (Pan $1.65.)