An Examination of Best-Sellers since the War by Philemon
What is a best-seller? Philemon feels that a book must enter the
25.000 class to attain that rank. What makes it a best-seller ? He hazards a guess. The large sales enjoyed by Precious Bane' were fortuitously helped by Earl Bald -win, but ' Sorrel and Son ' sold like hot cakes without.any such help.
Is it advertisement? He will tell you No. Is it timeliness .or topicality ? Leave him to say. Every variety of book may ' get over '-Barrie's Courage Lord Grey's ' Charm of Birds ', an autobiography in ' Arches of the Years', poetry such as Rupert Brooke 's, even economics in J. M. Keynes 's ' Economic Consequences of the Peace '.
What elements in each of these books, so varied, appealed to thousands of readers ?

Rhythmic Violin
(Midland)

William Holt
(Northern)

Leader, Leonard Hirsch
Conductor, Eric Fogg
Henry Hoist (violin)
Kurt Atterberg , an eminent Swedish composer and conductor, was born at Gothenburg in 1887. He began his career as an engineer in the Patent Office, but later gave up this post to become music critic of the Stockholm* Tidningen, and greatly added to his reputation as conductor of the Stockholm Orchestra. Later he became Prtsident of the Swedish Society of Composers. His compositions include several symphonies, symphonic poems, concertos, theatre music, and an opera, Fanal, which listeners may remember was relayed from Sweden in 1937.
Serge Prokofiev is considered one of the leading contemporary composers of Russia, and in his numerous works, such as the opera The Love for Three Oranges, he has shown himself to be a master technician and a composer of great individuality. His Classical Symphony, however,
. riit really representative of his style. It was composed in the spirit of a jeu d'esprit which, as its title would suggest, both in form and in idiom harks back to the time of Haydn and Mozart. The music is clear-cut, full of straightforward melodies and tunes, and provides a most attractive glimpse of the eighteenth century through modem eyes.

No. 18 with Margaret Eaves
John Duncan and The Arthur Dulay Quintet
Presented by Doris Arnold
(Orchestral arrangements by Arthur Dulay )