LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 311, 25 September 1920, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

To Correspondents.—R'.H.D. (Blenheim), E.H. (Kelburn): Tlmnke for lotre ikn Seeger'fl. poem. J.S.B. ( Wellington): (1) A-good-translation of tlie Koran is procurable in "Everyman's Library"; see, also, Hargoliouth's "Muhnmmed arid the Rise of Islam" V- Heroes of: the Nations" series). The EncyclopaetMa Britannica to givo .Tou " the information you eeek. . (2) The best work on. tlio Code Napoleon is D. M. Aird's "Civil Laws of ■ Prance," ft., translation of the Code Napoleon, with analogies 'the rules of tho code-, .and', tho leading principles of ,lioman law.' If you call at the Parliament Library, you could no doubt see a.copy,of Aird's -work. ; (3) Consult a legal friend.. Am not competent to ndviso -re legal text-books. Stray Leaves, J Comptori Mackenzie's next novel is to bo forthcoming towards tho close of tho ; war. ylt will be a _ sort of companion niece to "Poor Delations." Meanwhile, "The : Vanity Girl" is having a big sale both in England and' in tho United States.''.'.'v ' ./'SfrSi Virginia Woolf, whose latest novel is having such eulogistic reviews in: the higher'class /English reviews, is. it-'.ap-pears, tho daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen', •" who married Thackeray's youiiger,daughter, and edited"that moiiumental work of reference, the National Dictionary of English Biography. Also, she is a god-daughter of the late James Hussell IjOlvell. : ■