LITERARY NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 19 October 1907, Page 10

LITERARY NOTES.

Tenniol's pictures have come to be regarded is being quite as essential to Lewis Carroll's looks as the.text itsolf, and artists generally lave respected the sanctity of these fine roodcuts. It is announced, however j, that a of.r"Alico in Wonderland" (tho ppyright of which Has JjnstVpxp.ired) is to bo ssued''by- Heiriemann'with'',illiistrations by Arthur 'Rackham, whose wonderful illustra;iohs v of Rip Winkle ilaidjthe foundationsif :; his ; pr'eseiit ; great reputation i;ai\ a :mas'ter< if fantastic and. Puckish decoration. The )ppk. is~,bound to cause a stir when it comes mt^njSxivmpnth. : foot in London, headed iy'Lord Hereford and, tho Lord tjaypr;of..Tbndpn : j'for the establishment of a n'omorialjtp,Charles;'Dickens in tho shape.of /..collection:'"of Dickons'. 1 ; books and pictures.-, taken'.'in'hand by the Dickens ?ellp t wshipy, which'^bi|-raised some £20t)- by ihe'Spffprtsi-pf !its;, own'.i members toward',the £500'required'to"'establish tho library 'oh .an idequate basis, a balance in hand; fof ;ho purchase of spine Mtoms which may advantageously bo added- to the collection that s now being purchased. Messrs. J. M. Dent ;and Co. are issuing a lainty "Temple" edition of Moliero. The : olumo to hand contains La Jalousie du Bar>ouillo and Le Mcdecin Volant (Is. 6d. not), \lr. Fredoric Sponce contributes an interesting preface and a useful glossary. The most recent additions made to the at;ractive "York' Library" of Messrs. G. Bell md Sons, London, f are S.T. Coleridgo's "Lectures and Note's on Shakespearo;" "Voltaire's Zadig, and Other Tales; Mr. George Hooper's "Waterloo," a history of tho campaign 0f.1815 and, of the downfall of the First Napoleon;, and "Ah.Egyptian Princess," by the famous 'Egyptologist, George Ebers. these aro reprints from the original "Bohn" 3o'ries..i. } ,:" '.." •' Pew Ridge's now novel "Name of Garland" is enthusiastically praised by Dr. W. Robertson Nicoll who says: —"There are occasional hints of deep pathos, but all those who are acquainted with Mr. Pott Ridge's work know how carefully ho reins in every direct expression of feeling. The book is .full.of subtlo touches, and it is altogether nothing less than a masterpiece;;' - Ijcan.;'hardly imagine anything .better being 'produced of,'this kind." A now series wa's commenced last month by Cassoll and Co. under the name of "Tho I'eople's Library." The series is to consist of a careful -selection'''of'"'the' host mastor r pieces of literature for sale at oightponco each; ,'and already such -sold-,, and well .tried favourites as "Westward .Ho!" ""A'Tale'"6f Two Cities," "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped," "Adam Bode," "The Scarlet Letter.,", "The Essays of Elia," ''East Lynno," "Ivaiihoe," Toiinyson's poems, and "Sesame and Lilies" and "Unto this Last," are issued under, these, cheap, but noteworthy auspices. "Sniollett's; "Travels >. through • Franco and Italy," with an Introduction by T. Seecombo; "Don Quixote,". Jervas's translation, with an Introduction '.bf,.'3.\ Fitiimaurico Kelly, two volumes; Butler's "Analogy," edited by tho late W. E. Gladstone; Fielding's "Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon," with Introduction and Notes ..by Austin Dobson, and two illustrations, aro the latest volumes in The World's Classics.