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LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

"The Bookman." The Marah issue of "The Bookman" (Hodder and Stoughton) contains an interesting article on Sir Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hopo Hawkins) and his work. Tho 'author is that clever writer, Georgo Sampson, who eays exactly the right thing when ho remarks that Anthony Hopo will always be "to the big public " the author of "The Prisoner ot Zonda." I must confess that I have nevor cared for his later novels, in some of which he appears to Ixi following on Trollope's lines. There is a good article by "Martiiius Scribblerus" on "The Return of the Essay',"" and a short but interesting Teview by Katherino Tynan on tho "Wellington Verses" of Boyce Bowden. An extract or two;— Thero iB tho free air of the Dominion in them. Mr. Bowdon's voted runs as oasily and naturally as a clear little atreain downhill. Ono likos it yory much. . • . Theso are good patriotio songs, ardent with a hoy's lovo fur liifl country and liis town,_ tho beloved places which twine thomselvca about one's heart liko living lovea. ■ As usual "Tho Bookman" is liberally and intelligently illustrated. It is tho bookman's "Bible," and 1 don't know what we should do without it.

Stray Loaves. Clover Gilbert luankau, of "Ono of Us." fame, is dovoting himself to versa nowadays, which is just as well, for his novel, "The Woman on tho Horizon," was a singularly artificial and unwholesome production. He has now iollowcd his first book of war verse, "T'lio Guns, by a second collection ot poems inspired by tho war. The titlo. is "Tho Judgment of Valhalla." Mr. Augustino Birroll niado a ghastly mess of Irish allatrs wlieu ho was Irislt Secretary in tho Asquith Ministry, but bookmen will ever bu grateful to htm lor those inimitablo essays contained iu "Obiter Dicta," "lies J udicatao," "Men, Women, and Books," and "At tho Sign of tho Bodleian." Mr. Birroll contemplates, so 1 read in a London paper, an early retirement from the political world, which prompts the hope that he may onco again go "a-Birrelling," as Andrew Lang—was it not?—once put it. ' It is anticipated that the shilling edition of "Twenty Poems by lludyard Kipling" which. Methueu'B are publishing will reach a sale of at least a quarter of a million copies. Tho plays of J. M. Barrie, including "Peter Pan, "Tho Admirablo Crichton," and others, aro to bo published in separate volumes by Hoddor's. _ ''Twenty I'oetus from luphng is the titlo of a little book just publishod by Methuon's at H. (English price). The author himself has niado tho selection, and in addition to 6uch favourites as "Gunga Din" and "If," Ihe collection includes two poems not previously published in book form. Those who enjoyed Mr. Stephen M'Kenna'6 fine novel "Sonia," will bo interested to know "that a now edition of his much earlier and less-known story, "Tho Sixth Senße," is now available. It is far from being so tood a story as "Sonia," but it has a distinct originality, both of motif and treatment, and is well north reading. Amelia Barr, the well-known American author, was 87 years old on March 29. Her forty odd novels contain not a singlo word calculated to bring the blush to the cheek. ' They reek with saccharino sentiment, and t.ro bfloved or frequenters ot American pr.blic libranos. A Transatlantic fominino Charles Garvice! . Mencken, the clover American essayist, 6hould bo above tho cheap device of giving his latest book the t.tle "Damn! —albeit there is a quite proper subtitle, "A Book of Calumny." At hia best, Mencken is almost as good as Chesterton, but his worii is very uneven. Art centres, such as Venice, seam to be specially picked out by the Hunsfor destruction. As for universities the Germans, who prate so loudly about their regard for ''kultur," have no scruples about bombing them. Padua is ono of the latest 6ufl'erers. It is an open, defenceless toitn, which the earlior Huns once nearly destroyed. It is rich in artistic and scholastic associations, ennobled by the work of Giotto and Donatello, Titian, and other masters. Its university was at one time the niost famaus in Europe, and there, while Galileo was lecturing on motion und mechanical law 6, and Fabricius was ieveaiing the oxistcnce of valves in the veins, a quiot English student stayed for four year 3. Ho come homo to eclipse his masters and demonstrato the circulation of tho blood. The world owes much to William Harvey's Padna days.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 11

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746

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 11

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