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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 11

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,;Tq;Csrrespomlents,, •: /: "Regular Beader" (Dannevirke).—(l) Three complete ..editions of . Jtobert Louis Stevenson's works ' Have' been published. All are now out of .print. Tlieso.ai'o: The "Edinburgh" (28" vols.), the "Pentland" (20, vols;),' anjil "the "Swanston" (25 vols.), present-day (English), values, isgpectiveiajSrjjnf. to >280,; -.t<f.225;;; a?a " to ri3o;-'-. -The .Stevenson. sppy.nßliiti J are variously owned. Yout w&t ' way to "build' 'up a. set. of Stevensontwoifld bo to buy the pocket 'editions published by Chatto and Windus, Lo,ngm<uis ,ai)d. Cassell. For., lists of prices 'write to any bookselline- firm advertising in thia journal. (2) The-line; :-y 1 Amone the eraves of, the martyrs, the ..wHauM are calling '' • 'occurs In Stevenson's "Songs of' Travel," in a dedicatory poem to S. E. Crockett. ... "H.F.G." (Feildihg) I—Cann.ot (publish ' original poetry. "Send 'it to' tlift' "Bulletin or the "Triad." .. "Bookloy.er"': (Palmerston. N.).—Wakefield's. "Adventures in New . Zealand" (two vols.), first aind only edition, usually brings from 355. to j;ss.. at,local;'.book auction publish a nse•iful reprint,at abcmt 15s Cruise's book, in good cpndition, is.Avovth! about 30s. C. Quenti'n P. (Wellington): "Turgenev" is. strictly connect.":...You mil" find•an .illuminating survey, of Turgenov's ..work-in Maurice" Bariiig's.K.ttlb .boolean -.Eussian• literature in. .the'."Home : 'tJni--versit.y Library."' ' Henry' James,' t6o, has- a fine essay on : T., in. hi 9 .'.'Partial Portraits."'.. ''Smoke,"-, "yirgin Soil," and "A House of Gentlefolk*' are generally accounted-, the best of Turgenev, , Stray* Leaves. ■ '„ v " ; ' Walt Whitman's-home in Camden,,New Jersey, hasi-been-bought by tho muni--cipahty, and is ' -to .-bo ] converted .into a Whitman Museum, -As described by, Edmund Gosse,-in an account of a visit jaid to the author of."Leaves of Grass" • by the English litterateur';' 1 the Whitman'' house is a shabby little two-story, wooden—frame is -tho "American ; expression— building.-"'.'.:..: :v The book that is said to bo the "best, seller" in Europe is' .. not a war book, or a novol, but the. ; 'Viennes» 'Professor.Steinb'ach's' work 'on the prolongation-of\ life, "the rejuvenation of, man by a simple operation on the' .glands'of adolescence- for'&'■ number of years." The Gorman' title' has certainly a formidable sound for English ears, beiti£~ "Vrejungung- durch-- oxperimentallo Noubelebung- der . ajternden .; Pubertals-. ; dnise.".v H Aocdrding-lo the, London "Athenaeum," ~-thie" Canadian '.Export Pajjer ' Company ' has signed., a' Contract with/ one; New York paper alone, tho '' "New York Times," for "a yearly siip'ply of 40,000 tons, of paper for. five years." The "Athenaeum" states that eighty million tons • of paper wquld.. it is estimated.,be enough- ■. to supply the whole book trade of America ."for a year, and that- a'single big London' .■•■paper;..say, the '•'Times'.' or.,"Daily.Tele''gvapli," nabs as niiich wood piilp-in a year-as the- whole book-publishing,\trado of Gr'aftt Britain, and declares "there,is n ; teal' danger that the ■ newspaper : will kill 'tia.book" ?

... . ■ 'Marie Claire," thai; curious and' pathetic human document,, written . some jfoara-;ago ; : now -by' a Parisian .working dressmaker, ;is to .have-.a - sequel. The first book closes.. with the heroine, in 'desperation, setting out to earn her own Jiving ;i.n ' Paris. In 'the sequel, -"The. 'Workroom of-Mario Claire " the'author, describes ; her experiences in Paris, and furnishes a graphic picture of tho- life : pf the ? worker- .in. ! a dressmaking ..eatn'blishment. It will be interesting to seo whether. lho:fequel-will cause-as great ft sensation iis did the first story; a rule, sequels are not very successful. It was bound'to'come! I read in an •Americani.paper that a film version, of Blasco -.Ibanes's-\yar story, "The. Four ■'Horsemen of the Apocalypse," is now. in the making.-;. Twelve -hundred persons' take, part ill; the production, (in important feature'..in which is to be .a realistio picture of :the first Battle of' the Marne. Tp-mey/war pictures;are frankly detestable; 'hut'cha'curi'a' ton gout,. and no .floubt-'the'.Spanish novelist's undeniably powerful; story will,' prove an immense draw, when put ori""thfl movies."