BOOKS AND BOOKMEN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17287, 30 September 1916, Page 12

BOOKS AND BOOKMEN.

BOOKS OF THE DAY. GARDENING IN NEW ZEALAND. Amateur horticulturists—and not a few professionals also—are under a debt of gratitude to Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch, for an. excellent work just published . by this enterprising firm. Tk© title is “A Manual of Gardening in New Zealand,” the author being Mr David Taiiuock, F.R.H.S., who act's as superintendent of gardens, and reserves for 'the city of Dunedin,, Mr Tannbck >.has received the rasmstafleo of- three other expert autnonues on gardeiung,. Mr A. E. Lowe, 1* .it.fl.h., n'cau gin -' ideuer id t,'hy Lion it. Heaton Rhodes at Tai i'apu, who-contributes a cimpter on: ft. Hardy, Bulbs and Garden Foes ; .Mr Vi. Sinclair, head gaydenei to Mr A. E. G. iliiodes, Gnnateuurcn,, who contributes a useful cnaptor on “ Vegetable and Fruit Growing,” dud Mr It. 'Dicoli, a wcul-iiuowA'Dj'un.i'juii. iqso-grqiver. who writes ‘ “ itipso'’ ffTo'wrng, for Exhibition.” 'jU/',E manx years. n,o'.v'; since bdblc; 1 ; oil gardemiig'in N©w _Zeaiahd’ was published,' and •*ijt; rJ w*a3 righHy 'i’Ht that ~ fho, ,‘tlfnc had', arrived tor a new, enlarged, aikl tlibfoughly- np-to-clntO"Tfprk'’ljh'.'the" subject'.to '.'mkkp- its appearanee. - Of: English ■ books ‘(in gardening there -halv been, otemi'oht years, <d 'tremeAcTous' output,.bdit'jyHTjs Mf : Tannock' i)Q.iim; out,', .white .archot._ without ni-v torcst aini*'utility for the Now- 1 Zealand';, gardencr, the ' different'i conditions., due to our seasons r.iiri 'ejimatcj'jov’en.'iif. 1 the south, make it.’diffieiiß' in. apjiij.” their text' to on r abihh: and: the vltjfiV ties of .pir,nts 'rbCduiui.en.ded We.ofto:v. quite bHihethe.bbr- i ject of assistedkhrin with expert^/advi(-o' tfo/; make thbi.'b'cok as practice] As and tho’Ahfprm'atid'ii ;gij(cnas- simple,' | ' fiee froirtVrtybhiiJ.bal tedtfs,. .(fad as - oik-.. tailed as itno Bin its. 0f... a, work . dealing- . tvith cvdry• '-branch -Of ■ horti<in 11,uri> •*will''i admit, tin;-newer vor-. • sions haydiibefctl .'adopted .hi aoru'o : cases, * but in nipstTihe'iianics generally in use j have been adhered' to. The book may bo described;;as< a ;cy elopedia M New Zealand.gardpjiihg. for it is difficult to find anysubject of interest to the horticulturist -vrfiich'-dok not receive attention. .It"j's 'satisfactory ,tp. notice that the .author, has devoted, peviyal pages to native plants, and that :-vu;h matters! as the making and proper,maintenance, .. of , hodises and tinge*. I Eatlis and lawns are not neglected. Tim cok is’beautifully produced, the illustrations being •very-numerous. Many : were prepared from .blocks provided by j th© great English firms, such as .Slit- ; tons Cantors .arid' 'others, whilst many have boon reproduced from photographs j taken in the Dunedin Gardens for Messrs Nimmo 'and Blair. The coloured plate which serves as' a frontispiece is an exquisitely beautiful picture of the now peony, Lady. of: the West.. Tho supplementary chanter 'on “Garden Foes” .(insect and and “ A Calendar of Gardon Work,” deserve special mention, and the index is laud--1 ably extensive. Altogether this is a work of which author and publishers have each good reason to be proud. It is destined, we believe;, to be the standard work on gardening in Now Zea-

land for many years to come

LIBER’S NOTE BOOR. CONCERNING GRANGERISING. Considerable interest attached to a isalc of bocks recently held in London, from the fact that .the collection, that of the late Mr. A. W. Broadley, included a large number of what aro called " Grangerised ” or extra-illustrated books. The term "to granguiso ” is derived from the name of the originator of the • practice, the Rev J. Granger. ' To " grangeriso ” a book is to insert into it and bind up with it every kind of matter which may illustrate the or tne periods it deals withj and it is a passion with some industrious and wealthy book collectors. The gem of this sale in this respect was a copy of the original "granger”’ —the book from which the verb "to grangeriso” took its name. It is "a biographical history of England adapted to a catalogue of engraved British heads,” which was produced by the Rev James Granger, rector of Shiplake. "When Granger had enlarged it, this work extended to two volumes. The Rev M. Noble enlarged it to three. Mr A. M. Broadley started operations \ Dn it? and Granger is outgrangered. It is %tfende‘d'j.tb'i, twenty.;, yoluipes.; Thei’b aroy.-lboO portraits, 'autograph ; mojpzotipt ( S' and;,;watel’H;olpur, drawings. ' There ’ afe portraits ’of , kings;, andyqueqns;; lawyers, " generals, > aetprs,' poets and courtiers —in fact, or anybody who figured in the history of England. Some of the portraits have been- extracted from seventeenth and eighteenth century books, for the “ grangoriser ” leaves a* trail of missing: plates in all the volumes® he gets for this magnuin opus. The extent to rhidm this “ extra illustration ” is carried ia'-iftdicated fact,.that there are three water-colour drawings 1 of Shiplako, tho only reason for their inclusion being fhat- the industrious original Granger was once its rector.’ There aro included autograph letteis from Granger in 1765, stating that he was at work, on,,this hook, and there, is a special preface by. Mr A. M. Broadley on“ Granger, Grangerising and Graugerisers,” the whole .twenty volumes being bound in blue morocco. Mr Broadley, who 1 was beset by tho hobby of " grangerising,” was at one time much in the public eye, for he acted as counsel for Arabi Pasha when that once-famous Egyptian led a rebellion' in Egypt and so brought about the bombardment of Alexandria and the battlo of Tel-el-Kebir. Of late years Mr Broadley has been living in retirement down in Somerset, pursuing this hobby of extra-illustrating, a ’ pastime in 'which, being a wealthy man, he could well nfford to indulge. Tie was a. gjreat authority on Dr Johnson, and compiled a very interesting volume on the " great lexicographer ” and his friend, Mrs Thralo. „ Amongst tho “ grangerised ” works included in his collection was Forster’s "Life of Charles Dickens,” which, eriginally published in three vo!umes...Mr Broadley extended 'to seven by tho addition of portraits, autograph letters and scenes and characters from the Dickons novels. " Grangerising ” ,is generally regarded rs the hobbv of only rich bibliophiles, but- what might be called “ poorman’s , grangerising” is possible if the collator contents himself with modest half-tone portraits and pictures instead of expensive engravings. , A Wellington bookman of my acquaintance has indulged in this hobby ( fur some yonr*. He has extended, for irstaneo, a first edition of " Tlie Pickwick Papers’*, to no fewer than seven volnmeß; a copy of Clement Scott’s *• Drama of Yosterdfir and To-day ” to oight volumes, and Ims for some years Veil patiently collecting material with which to extra illustrate" Forster’s "Lite of Dickens.” which, he. expects will make, when rebound, some fifteen witniea.. “ Extra illustrated ”■ hooks, at least so -expensively put together ns those of Mr lirowdloy a re, um a rule, a

— * TREASURES OF THE SHELVES. i 1 (By “ LIBER.”) Give a man a pipe he can smoko, i , Give a man a book he can read; And his home is bright with a calm delight Though the room be poor indeed. v ; —James Thomson

poor commercial investment, for they raiely fetch at auction anything like their cost. Some years ago a very entertaining . little handbook on “Extra lllustra- , tion ” —tho term is not so ugly as i “ Grangerising was fvritten by Mr ;■ tjf. M. Bullrfckpa Lbndoq journalist, hut at think ,it is : now <fut ..of t print. The “ poor ffian ;grangcri?er ” makes liberal 1 uise of the illustrated papers and maga--1 zires, bundles of which are often to bo picked up. for an old song in tho auction 1 rooms... But ..the' work of mounting the illustrations and collating them properly with tho text is rather a laborious i job. " ' j EDGAR ALLAN POE IN ENGLAND, i Many peoplo who have read Edgar Allan Poe’s weird stories, or who know bio famous poem.-, “The lfavcn” and j “ file Bells,” may not be aware that‘l'tJni brilliant but ill-disciplined Aniori- ! can genius was educated in England, j attenu'i'g an academy at Sloko Ncwi ingt'du kept by a Air Brnnsoy. Boroo Interesting details of Poe’s English J school days have been ferreted out. of Poe’s correspondence by an industrious American wriSer. Poe.has left ajrw.v;i- -«g© descriptive of tho pedagogue in his i clerical Capacity: - if-’, “Of tliis 1 church the principal of our "school was pastor. • With hew deep a ."spirit of wander, and perplexity was I Aivont. to regard Inin from our remote rijfV'ihThe gallery,' as with step solemn .j'p'ftd' slow, ha ascended 'the- pulpit! This reverend man, with pbunteuan.ee so de-A-muretp betiign,' .with- robes so glossy so > olericaliy * Hop ing, . with wig so 'pmrdercd, iso rigid, and so v.yjiahtb— could ■ thie ' Ik*- r- he;! who, of late, L v/ith sour visage,;. .and in snuffy habili-. ,>hi on tsi n’d ms l list oral,; f-r rule in hand, the '.'t.Dijaocnian 'lawk 'of 1 the academyP - 0, . : gigjoiiia pdrodojc,' -.tuo; utterly monstrous solution !”,- . - - -.- "'' ' IWs idling-' towards Branshy is said '-'to; hayc'.,fDu]gl ,pxpr§s,«ion .inyhif story, T.Ni'niif m* Wilson.” • •Thcrfr-avos a con- - l vivial side to the Itev Mr Brnnsby’s. character. Ho was a- member of a club palled-: the Chummy Society.,- .“ where ! tho feast- of " mason and th« i flow- of boor iwod to occupy the princ'paf part of the evening.” Of Branr.by’s lighter picod. fhorb is ibis reminiscence:— “ I have just heard ore story* of Bro'naby which may be worth relating; : jf. comer, from n Indw who often hoard her m'o!her speak of Min. Mr -Brnnsby 1 wps exceedingly witty, and much in i request fit public dinners ns n post- • prnud’f! tpoakor. At these dinners tho i wine (lowed nrettv freely,' the decantar j l>e’'ng passed round by the -guests' them- - selves. When it > reached Mr Bransby it was invariably noticed that he would rise to tell a witty story, during which {ho would cleverly manage to pour out and drink dne glass of wine, aiid refdl | his glass before passing the decanter |on to his neighbour. Thus he would j get two glares to one overy time. Such is the tradition.”

PINK PARS FOR PALE PEOPLE. A woman will marry aimost anything, because matrimony was, in the first instance, designed for her. She often does not like the man slio marries, or the marriage state, put ’ klic likes matrimony: A man dpes not; what h© likes first and foremost is the woman-—marriage in tho abstract doesn’t appeal to him at all.” • ”. "A woman, carrying a" waterproof had always outraged Brian’s” sense of the fitness of things. Waterproofs wore designed to be worn .and not 1 , carried. Should showers overtake waterproofless women, they, the unprepared ones, should at once step into taxi? or omnibuses.” , ' • . , r , , —"An Undressed Heroine,’ by Mabel Barnes Grundy. i "You won’t change him. No woman alive ever changed a man’s habits- All you can do is to hide them.” . , —"Life and Gabrieli a,” by Ellen Glasgow. . ’ ” " One kiss, or tile lack of it, is altering lives’ the whole world over; and lips too careless, or lips too shy, can change destinies as utterly as any conqueror's sword.” _ • ,—" Fondie,” bv Edward Booth. "Those whom God hath failed to join together let no man dare to keep together,” ' s - r —"Joan and the Babies and I,” by Cosmo Hamilton. "Nobody knows why men marry, so it’s’best to make the most of any chance yog .happen to got.” , * —"Tlie Secret Sympathy,” by Mary' L. Pondered.,;.'. ■ " Nothing is;, 60 unclean as a used tea-cup; nothing. is sq cold as toast’ which has’ once been .hot.; and the concrete expression * of dejection is crumbs.” _ . —"..Selected Tales,” by Barry Pain. ' THE '" WINDSOR.; ’ The ’ September • number of the " Windsor "Magazine ” is a notably varied and attractive issue. Many interesting points , are brought out in a well illustrated article.on," Our Army s Fellowship with France,” and the picture given of perfect unity and brotherhood in arms of the Anglo-French: forces on the western front forms a sympathetic arid even genial subject for the opening war article of a holiday number. More strenuous in its actual technical details is a paper on "Tlie Work of Sniping in the War, defining tho importance - of the use of markamanship which dates its actual name, as a military term, from the South African wari Tho fiction in the number includes stories by Halliwoll Sutcliffe; Orme Agnus, Charles G. -D. Roberts, Ralph Stock, Fred M. White, Theodora Goodridge Roberts and others, among them Edgar Wallace, who contributes a new episode in his further series of West African stories from the careers of Mr Commissioner Sanders and his staff, including the excellent "Bonos.” There is also a delightful story, of child lifo by Ethel-Turner. (Simpson and Williams, Christchurch.) STRAY LEAVES. Over sixteen million volumes of Dent’s wonderfully cheap " liveryman s Library ” have been sold. Nelson’s cheap libraries have always had a big sale in Now Zealand, especially the volumes of the “ Sevenpenny Library ” and the excellent non-fiction series issued at'a shilling. The rise in tho prico of papor and ti shortage of labour have forced the firm to increase the prices. The sevenpennies will now be ninepence-and the shilling series is advanced to ono and three. These are net prices in England. New Zealand ; prices will, ;of. course, exhibit a corro- [ sponding increase’. - - - ' It is quite common to hoar people who pretend to a knowledge of English political history but who in reality are grossly ignorant of the subject praising Disraeli as an ardent supporter of a strong army and navy.’ But rend what Lord’''Cromer says on this point in tho course of an article in the last “Edinburgh Review,” on Mr Buckle’s fourth ’ volume of his ’" Life of Lord Boaconsfield.” In connection with Dis-

raeli’s claim to have been tho initiator of a spirited foreign policy, it is worthy of note that tho adoption of any such policy must depend largely upon naval and military strength. Now, if there is ono thing more than another which ik clearly proved by the researches of Mr Buckle,, it is that Disraeli constantly inveighed against' what he called “bloated armaments.” It, is understood that Sir Gilbert Parker has a new story, “The World For Sale,”. almost ready for publication. It is a story of modern prairie life in Canada, a Romany romance reverting to the scenes which tho author made his own with his “ Pierre and His People” nearly twenty-five years ago. Mr W. J. Locke, whose collection of short stories, “Far Away Stories,” appeared recently, promises a new long story, “ Tho Wonderful Year,” for autumn publication. He has also finished a second story, “Tho Red Planet,” which has the groat war for a background. It'is some time now sinco wo line! a long story < from Air Richard' Delian (Miss Cio. Graves), the clever author -of -“"The Dnp Doctor,” “ Between Two ThieVes,” etc. A new novel from Miss Graves’s pen, entitled “Gilded Vanity,” was to be published by Heinomann’s early this month. It is described as a “ comedy pf society life.” Mrs Alice Stbpford Green has brought, the late J. R. Green’s famous !< Short History of the English People ” up to date. As Grom finished the book the historical record closed at ISI-ii. Airs Green has row written an Epilogue of nearly two hundred pages, carrying the chronicle on to 1914. The new edition, containing this useful Epilogue, is issued (by Macmillans) at the same price as the older editions, namely, five shillings not. . At his best Mr Ed on Philpctts is not far behind Thomas Hardy,' Of. Into he has .opened up a new field, of literary activity in a- series of novels written round various British industries as they tiro carried on in tho novelist’s favourite West Country. “ Old Debaboli ” was tho first of tho series, and a'very fine novel it was. I notice that Mr Philpott-s’s now story, “ The Grech Alleys,” .is a romance of th,e ,'hbpfii'lds. But. for his local colour ,ho must surely have deyerted the West and igone to Kent. 1 . 1 '

Personally,, I much prefer Mr W. W -Jacobs’s short stories to his full-Pngtlv novels such as “ Salthaven ” ’ and “ Dialstonc Lane,” but a new. ‘JAcobs, be it. short- or long, is'always welcome,, and •>“ Castaways,'” • a how long story by this popular author to be. published shortly by iiodders, is sure of a hearty reception.

Other new novels to bo published by fludder.?, are “LcathuTace,” a tale of lbe Inquisition in Flanders in 157*2, by tho Baroness Orczy; “ The Five-Barren Gate,” by Mr E. Temple Thurston; "(■•iipid in Oilskins,” by Mr J. J. Bill, of “Wee Magreigor ” fame;; “Tbe Match makers,” another of Mrs TJucUroso’s pleasant Yorkshire stories; ana soverar English editions of new American novels. Tho excellent litt-lo war stories which Mr Noil Lyons gave us last- year, under the title of “ Kitchener' Chaps',” are to be followed by a second series from the same pen, entitled “Kiss from France.”

Amongst Hodder and Stoughton’s autumn'announcements (in fiction) is a story called “ Greenmantle,” in which Mr John Buchan relates the further adventures on a trip to Berlin nwa Constantinople, of the enterprising lur Hannay, tho hero of “ The Thirty-nine Steps.” ■ ■ Stanley Washburn, “Tlie Times '■ correspondent with tho Russian armies in the field, has written a second boon on the war under the title “ Victory in Defeat: The Agony of Warsaw and the Russian Retreat.” Mr Washburn contends that during the period under review the psychology of the,Russian nation -was crystallising, and that- when thi-s; Had taken placo tlie real "danger to Russia was" largely past. *. j Larry Fain, the -popular . English humorist, has joined the Flying Cdi’ps. Pain is hardly as .stout as the yet more famous GHLG,, but lie is “some,” weight, and more, than one 'H'ome newspaper suggests’ that lie will, require one of the- new British" Zeppelins' all 1 to ‘himself.,' ' v. Ellon Glasgow, usually' one of the most sedate of American novelists, is getting a little skittish. In her latest story, “ Life and Gabriclla,” the iieroina remarks: “If ever I’m born again, I Hope I’ll be born a fat blonde.' They always get taken care of.” . ; A new story by Arnold Bennett is promised us shortly by Messrs Cassells. The title is “ The Lion’s Month/ the speue alternating between London, Paris'and North-East Essex. Other new Cassells fiction includes “ The Park' IVail, P by clever Elinor Mordaunt; “Alike,” a social romance, with tho war in tho background, by tiie'ever-industrioUß* E. iicnsou j-eiki Air H. G. Wells’s “Mr Britting Sees it Through,” which is now running as a serial in “The Nation.” Madame Adam, the famous l'rench writer, who is credited with huvnig beeii tlie original insoirer ot' tho Vriin-co-Prussian advance, lias published her striking story .of. the g/eat Russian General Skobeloli, “the Great White General,” which first appeared thirty yeara ago. Skqbeloff’s motto> was "he GefmUn —there is the enemy, ’ and'Aladaine Adam’s book orhibits his extraordinary prevision of German aims and, ambitions.. Madamo Adam has no doubt that Bismarck caused him to bo mu rdered in consequence - of a s-peecb delivered ■to -ft' doplitatioii of Serbs *xt Moscow, in which Skobeloff foretold as inevitable the struggle between blav and Teuton." . • Like bis friend, Mr G, Iv. Chesterton, Mr Hilaire Belloc'has often sung the praises of, beef,- and is credited—indeed, in his writings lie not infrequently credits himself —with a distinct affect-ioii for Calvorley’s “ modest quencher ” in tho shape of a tankard of good honest ale. One of his favourite warns, so I x - ead in a Honie'paper, is of a Sussex yeoman who rode up onoafternoon to a country inn and called for a pot of beer. The beer being brought, he drained it at a draught, and called for a second, to which lie applied similar treatment. H,e then, so -the- veracious chronicler records, alighted from his horse and went into the inn, with tho remark, “I’ll havo some of that alo.” The story may or may not be correctly, credited to Air Belloc, but “Libor.” can-well remember it as- /having been told, a good many years ago now, of that excellent Yorkshire' 1 cricketer, and. doughty trencherman, George Ulyett, the scene being a wayside inn- outside Ballarat. Mr John Fortescue, tho Royal Librarian at Windsor. Castle, is, I read, at work on tho interim history of the war, which the Government lias asked him- „to write, but which will not be ready for some time. Mr Forteseuo has .already written a History of the British Army. It is in several volumes, and is a terribly stodgy work. The author, by the way was out here m NoW Zealand as private secretary to Governor Jervois, and was at that time, I believe, an unsuccessful applicant for the position of Parliamentary Librarian at Wellington. The Roy R.' Campbell, formerly pastor of the City Temple, whore the late and more famous' Dr' “ Joe ” Parker used to officiate, has been writing the story of his religious life. The title is “A Spiritual Pilgrimage;” Williams and Norgate will publish it. The fame’ of Will- Dyson 1 , tlie clever young Australian artist; whose knltur cartoons made such a hit in London, has been increased By a second series exhibited, recently in. London. One critic writes: “ Dyson is. perhaps, one of the most powerful Britons alive to-day. Pages of argument dry up before a few st'okes of his insoired pencil; the mouthed periods of tlie pacifist shrivel before his wit.”