LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 245, 10 July 1920, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

- Under the alluring title "Marlborough tlio Golden," Mr. Will Lawson, tho well'known'journalist, lias produced a "svellplanned and! in many ways very interesting booklet, in which are set forth the many natural resources and opportunities for agricultural, commercial, and industrial enterprise .which are offered by the provincial district of Marlborough. Tho book, which i 9 published by tho Progress Committeo of tho Marlborough Chnmber of Commerco, gives au exhaustive description of the district.) "• Mr. Lawson's excellent littlo work is well worthy of perusal by those who are m flearoh of fields for settlement and by business men desirous of extondftis: their [trade connections. The booklet, which contains li 'large number of illustrations, Is speoially : worthy of attention by Wollingtonians and others in . seawh _ of health and,recreation.across the Strait. 'l'he May d6sUe of tho "Bookman" (Hodder ancf Stongliton) contains a wellwritten appreciation,' by Mr. Ellis Roberts, of the novels of "Mr. J. D. Boreaford, the author of the "Jacob Stahl" trilogy,: and that'powerful study,, of dipsrmniiia, "The House in Demetrius Road," and ninny offier stories wjhich display a literary talent far abort' tho ordinary. There are als& articles on Mr. Maurice Hewlett and the new President of'the French Republic, M. Paul Desch'anel, who is almost as famous as' an author as d statesman. Tho reviews of now books should bo very useful to New Zealand book-buyers, and there are many excellent portraits and othor illustration's. Altogether an exceptionally good number.. "Dr. Peregrine was one of those muscular Christians in whom the muscles are so strongly developed that they almost obseute the Christianity."—From: "Prelude;'';' by Beverly Niohols; In her amusing book,, "Sporting Reminiscences," the popular Irish novelist, Dorothea Conyers, quotes as . follows from a postcard written by a chimneysweep to his employer: "Madam, I na"'t cum Monday,- but' I will cum Wensday to 'do the-ch'imbly if it iwill ; fioot yoii.—Yrs.. faithfully, etc."