Recent Reprints
To celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of the Crime Club (Collins's celebrated institution for the publication of detective stories), Penguins are reissuing ten of the most successful Crime Club titles. These include such classics in the detective field as Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia, Nicholas Blake's A Question of Proof, and Philip MacDonald's X v. Rex. Each one of the .ten costs 2s. 6d.
Other reprints which lie nearer the border of the class of 'holiday reading' include George Bourne's Change in the Village (Duckworth, 10s. 6d.), being the well-known account of English village life which was first published in 1912; Highways and By- ways in Somerset, by Edward Hutton (Chapman and Hall, 18s.), which was also first published in 1912 and now appears in a revised and up-to-date edition; and, for children, J. Meade Falkner's Moon fleet (Edward Arnold, 10s. 6d.), with very acceptable illustra- tions by Geoffrey S. Fletcher.
Epstein : An Autobiography (Hulton, 30s.) is a revised version of Sir Jacob's book, Let there be Sculpture, which was first published in 1940.
Novels which now appear in new editions include Zola's Therese Raquin, in a new translation by Philip G. Downs, and as a companion volume from Heinemann to their edition of Nana. Therese Raquin — an agreeable production — costs 15s. Mac- donald's have produced a new edition of Sholem Asch's Three Cities (18s.). Faulkner's County (Chatto and Windus, 15s.) is a collection of tales from William Faulkner's creation, Yokna- patawpha County, including the whole of As I Lay Dying.
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Other recent reprints include Sacheverell Sitwell's Liszt, first published by Faber in 1934 and now reissued by Cassell at 30s.; The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Geoffrey L. Bickersteth (Aberdeen University Press, 25s.), and now including Professor Bickersteth's translation of the Inferno and Pirrgutorio, as well as the Paradiso; Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams in a new translation by James Strachey (Allen and Unwin, 21s.); The Grass Roots of Art, by Herbert Read (Faber, 18s.); Christ, and the Christian Church, by E. L. Mascall (Long- mans, 21s.); and Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom, edited by Robert Mich (O.U.P., 48s.).
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