IN THE PRESS.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 14

IN THE PRESS.

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS Pat Lawlor's “Maori Tales” is in a fifth edition already. Several of Lafcadio Hearn's books are included in Jonathan Cape’s attractive “Travellers’ Library.” Some of Ambrose Bierce’s books, which are not easy to get in British editions, are also coming out in that series. Poems by Donne, Herbert, Francis Thompson, Yeats. Rose Macaulay and Harold Monro are being added to Benn's “Sixpenny Poets.” Among boofcs to be issued by the New Century Press, Ltd., Wellington, are “Men and Other Sins.” by John Barr; “Anzac Aussiosities,” a collection of “digger” yarns from “Aussie”; “More Maori Tales,” by Pat Lawlor: and “Quayle on Toast,” reproductions in colour of humorous drawings by Jack Quayle. One of the most notable of John Murray’s new books is “A Great Man’s Friendship; Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Mary, Marchioness of Salisbury. ISSO-1552.” The letters are said to throw quite a new light on the Duke. They have been edited by Lady Burghclere. Maud Diver’s books are very popular with women. The latest. “But Yesterday is being issued by John Murray. A. E. W. Mason’s latest story is ■ called “No Other Tiger.” The Hodder j and Stoughton firm is publishing it. ! Surely Edgar Wallace is the most j prolific of modern novelists! We have i had one new story from him already * this year, and yet two more mystery tales with the Wallace signature on them are announced by Hodder and Stoughton. “The Private Life of Charles the Second” should be interesting. It has been written by Arthur Irwin Dasent, and the Cassells house (now owned by Newman Flower) Is issuing it-