LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 24, 23 October 1920, Page 3

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

To Corresnondents, ' "Constant Rentier" Hull).— Jardine's Naturalist's -Jf/ihrary was published at Bdinl>ur<;li '1833-14. The set ; should consist,of 10 volumes. If none of the coloured plates are missing, an out- |

'*>■'''• . «ido Tabic would be about In a recently- i-ecoived English second-hand dealer's catalogue a set is offered at .£3 15s. Your friend's estimate of .'J2S is, as you see, farl over the mark. The jmbl'icar lion is by no means scnTce, still less- posj. swfled <if, any great value. I . r "G.H.," Wanganui.—Cannot undern lAko to answer queries direct. The : . lines: '■ I Who doeß his duty is a Question e I Too complex to bo solved by me; • A , But he. L,venture tho stiggc-Btion, i. I Does, part of his that planto a tree. 1.1 were written by .Tanies lliienell Lowell. I-1 (2) Tho Henry, Irving edition of Shake- . speare has no, special or "collector's" ej rolue. It is not accounted a scholarly . edition. j Stray Leaves. I I The many New Zealand readers who II enjoyed that story of Glus- -' gow life, "The Seton's," by. Olivia Dougf las, will bo: glad to know that a new 1, atorj-, "Penny Plain," by the same an- ''-' l-hor, is ..being warmlj- praised in the 1 Home pnpors. A review, of the story ' will appear in these columns next week; ; I William M'Fee, tho "engincor-author," " whose "('.'asiials of the Sea" i>nd "Aliens" I were novels much aboTe the ordinary 1 run of latter-day fiction, has a new story 1 j almost, ready, entitled "Captain Mac'o- ' I dome's Daughter/'' to be published by j! Martin Seeker,' who also announces ' a 3 : new story, "Tho Tragie Bride," by that .! brilliant young novelist, Francis Brett . ISoung;. 1 ] A tiermnn writer- on the war, General ; ,yoii Morgen, in his recently published j., book on the campaign on the Western . fTront, pays the New Zenlanders a oom- . i pliment, m the following paragraph: •• I .was mdro and more imprciseil that • tho British are tougher foea (Zahcr) than ) the French. They wore particularly good i troops,that I had to deal with m the : two months' ffghting. at Cambrni. The . . Guards, .Boynl Naval, and SSk Zealand i Diviaioni, and tho Canadians are counted I among thi! elite cf the British Army. Charles Marriott, author of "The Col- ; umn"- and other novels which "Liber" | greatly enjoyed,' but -which never achiev- ■ ed popularity with.:.what publisher call , tho ' big public," seems to devote all his > attention nowadays-to art criticism He • writes regularly for "Colour," and his ; articles on latter-day art, in "Tho Out- ; look," arc qui to a feature of that cxi orient wijekly. A volume of his collected ! essays, "The Modern Art ' Movement," I £> I see, announced by Chapman and 1 Hall. - , ;' After a long period of literary inactiv. , ity. Sir Hall- Caine is shortly to bo to . the for); agiiin with a new full-length i novel, e.nfit'eil "The Master of Men." I It is, Iread, a Manx story, and is to bo ' published next • month in London; ' Sir Philip GWibs, wliose latest waf j book, "The Realitiiis of War," has had . such a vogue durjng the last few months, > has written ;i new novel, "JVounded Souls." Sir Philip is no umateur novel-i-st, as all who rcmembfir that fine storj :' of journalistic life in London, "The - Street of Adventure," will testify, but during tho war period he confined him- ; self to War correspondence. Methtien's autumn list includes, amoi.g : other novejs, "His Serene Highnests," by ! H. 0. Barclay, and VCaliban," by W.-L. ■ George,.' author of "A Second Blooming" , and "The Making of an Englishman.'' ; .Mr. George's story deals with trii iimphant career of n great newspaper pro- ■ - prictor.'•"' ' , | A hundred years the literary men - 'of the day believed in calling a spade a i spade. In a recent "Athenaeum" n writer unearths ait article, in the "Monthly .Magazine", fot July, 1820, in ..which, the ."QuaitcrlyLßeview" is mercilessly'attacked for "its most strict adherence' to those principles of falsehood I and calumny on which it was originally | established." In the August of the .'.same magazine it is .the turn-of the . Edinburgh reviewers to bo "dressed i dowi)." "Tlie poetry of WaltsT Scott .lies ■ mouldering in the stalls, while'the indig--1 nant genius of Lord Byron, in all the ; I fierceness of its might and majesty, has > ! reduced the tiny critic -. (Jeffrey), who I pronounced him no' poet, to 'the coiidi- [ tion of one of those chirping-little birds | that are drawn fluttering and shrieking . I along in the volleying cour<|/ of the -! whirlwind." ■'•'._ . In addition to a new collection of es- . says, Mr, E. V. Lucas will be reprei sented this' autumn-by a new book, l ".Verena in tlin Midst: A Kind,of Story," containing a budget of fcjtterj which; pass- | edin 1919.between the lady of the title, , Verenn, and her circle, of friends and relatives, including that sluVwdgmd-aniiis- ', ing commentator' on passing events, Mr. [ Eichard Haden,. whore acquaintance wo \ made in "The yermilion Box." ( ( i . . • I