NEW BOOKS AND EDITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 13

NEW BOOKS AND EDITIONS.

Victims of. the reprint craze should look out for "The Literary Year Book," for 1908. It ivill contain a complete tabulated'list of popular reprints and new editions in any of the series at present available." .

.Early ii3xt year Macmillan will issue a work by Lord Cromer on Modern Egypt.

Hall Caine "peters out," but ho still invades the market. His 20-years-old "Cobwebs in Criticism" is boing dressed up by him, for re-issue—alas — in shilling i form. Was this the hand that launched a' thousand "booms" ?

"A Rover's Note-Book" ■ is the title of a work pf travel which Mr. Unwin was to have issued' last month. It is written by Mr. W. H. Ogilvie, one of the best known of Australian poets, and consists of travel sketclies in various parts of tho globo, interwoven with snatches of original verse. Thero aro descriptive sketches of life on the Scottish Border, in the United States, Australia, and South Africa.

Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. havo re-published Mr. Andrew Lang's "Ballads and. Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems." Mr. Lang in his preface remarks that amended forms of some of the pieces havo been published at various dates since their first appearance in 1872. The original readings, however, are preferred in the prosent edition, which is' in effect an exact reprint of the 1872 odition.

Messrs. Dent have been noted for their dainty editions of Jane Austen's novels, not tho least dainty of which is the edition which is appearing in tho English Idylls series, and of which the first volume is "Prido and Prejudice," to be followed shortly by "Northanger Abbey."

Thero novor was a time whon tho anthology was so popular or so keonly criticised and few ventures in a field already crowded promise so well as "The Oxford Book of French Verso" (thirteenth to nineteenth centuries), chosen by St. John Lucas, which tho Oxford University Press has issued. This anthology is similar in form to Mr. A. T. Quillet- Couch's "Oxford Book of English Verso."

Messrs. Chapman and Hall, London, pub? lish in the popular edition of the "Fireside Dickons" Forster's "Lifo of Charles Dickens,

The "Atlantic Monthly" is to celebrate its semi-contenuial by a number of exceptional 'Strength. The occasion is November, 1907, and the special reinforcoJ number of the "Atlantic'' is to contain articles by \Y. 1), Howolls, by Charles Eliot Norton, tho fncisd of Carlylo 'and Ruskin, by .1. T. Trowbridge, tho well-known writer for boys, by Bliss Perry and other writers well known to tho regular readers of tho magazino. Another feature will bo an unpublished poem by tho author of "Tho Biglow Papers," James Russell Lowell, who first christened tho magazino just fifty years ago.