LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 26, 25 October 1919, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Stray Leave*, Eeviews of several novels are held over until next week. The August "Bookman" (Hodder and Stoughton) ■ contains an interesting article by W. M. Parker on tho work 01 that distinguished litterateur, Profcasor Sir Walter lialeigh, who has written so ably on Shakespearean questions, and who, nt Oxford, as he was previously in Liverpool and Glasgow, is so greatly esteemed by his students. F. C. Owlett contributes an excellent centenary tribute to Herman Melville of "Typee" and "O011100" fame, and Davidson Scott gives some interesting details as to Scott's connection with the famous booksellers of his day. As usual, thero aro many excellent illustrations. Jeffrey Farnoll's new romnnce, "The Gesto of IJnke Jocelyn," is written partly in prose and partly in verse. ' Amongst new books to be published by Herbert Jenkins (a new series of Bindlo stories from Mr. Jenkins's pen, is, by the way, appearing in "Hutchinson's Story Magazine") aro a romance of tho secret service, "John Dene, of Toronto"; "Maureen," a realistic romance of modern Irish life, by Patrick M'Gill, aud a new novel, "The Eain Girl," by the author of that clever story, "Patricia Brent, Spinster."

It is some t'me since wo hai a new story from Ellen Glasgow, one of the foremost figures in the ranks of American novelists. Hurrays, I notice, now announce a new long storv from her pen. entitled "The Builders."

By the way, nnropos to Charles Kingsley, I notice that- Mr. Ellis Roberts, writing on the Ivingslcy Centenary in "The Bookman." tells us that Ringsley's novels still sell steadily. "Westward. Hoi" was firjt reprinted i>: the "Even-man's Library" series in 19()(i. Since then five reprintinw of this edition nlono' have been called for. Next: in popularity appears to be "Eerownrd tho Wake." ftn-d then "Ifvpatia." Mr. Roberts puvs that ICingsley's novels, poems, r.iul children's stories aro still much read. His theological books and 'historical essays naturally had a 1 more transient anneal.

Tlioso who find their fictional delights in tho novels of the late .\fr. Nat Gould will be interested to hear. 011 the authority of the deceased author's publisher, Mr. John Long, that the latter possesses tho manuscrintfi of no fower than forh--sevPn unpublished stories by the late Mr. Gould, all to bo published in due course.

"Simon Pure," who writes a London Book Letter to "New York Bookman." is responsible for tho statement that .Hugh Walnolo was at one time an assistant master at Ep=om College, which figures, be savs, as the scene of "Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill." Francis Brett Young, the South African novelist, and author of that excellent war book, "Jlnrching on Tanga," was also, it is said, a pupil nt Epsom College, which appears in tln> first chapter of "The Young Physician."