LITERARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 293, 10 December 1910, Page 14

LITERARY.

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The Christpp* ppfflbpr of fli# ItoglUfc w Qrai^hic« contains a aeries of very hwnorpus" coloured piptw.es yedolept of the season as it is eelebnated in tfco old World- The literary aoptenta ar* ah»«»* dapt, and opmErise complete stories'by Eden PhiHpotts, E. Nesbit, Frances Fentiman, Daly Wyllarde, and other popular writers. "The"colour printing is particularly fin<j, especially the large reproduction of the picture by Craig, "Back from Battle: The Return of the Redcoats.' 1

'IJe "Cornhill >fagas!ine" contains the opening of a story in twoparts by Miss Jane H. Pindlater, "Charlie over the Water.'* In the second article of his series, "The Leave* qf the Tree," Mr. A. C. Benson of Bishop Westcott. In "Pastels under the Southern Gross," Mrs:- Margaret L. Woods writes of 'The Victoria Fall** Miss Edith Sellers writes suggestively on 'The Unemployable and the Unemployed,", specially comparing English and foreign casual ' wards. The number contains other interesting articles, and Mr. John "Barnett contributes a short story, ''The Man who Laughed." -

In "Chambers's Journal. 8 for .October " t-auriston" comes to a close, and a new serial by W. E. Cull, entitled '*The Heaminster Scandal," is announced. The centenary of Mrs. Gaskell elieita from Helen Melville- the opinion that " ' Cranford* alone will remain an enduring monument to her fame. 1 ' Sigmund Stein diacussing the prospects of sugar-beet growing in England, states that Great Britain is the greatest sugar-consuming country in the world. She consumes per annum about one million eight hundred thousand tons of sugar. Of these one million five bunded thousand tpus is beet SUgfir, and only twp hundred and ninety cahe-ssngitf. All the beetii grown on the Continent, and some of the cane sugar comes from foreign colonies, 5(Cr. Stein i*3 confident that the clima-tp of England is suitable for the growth of it can be made a very profitable crpp. He estimates the maximum coat of starting the mani_[faeas £55,000 for "plant* and 4 issW fop working cipitftl.' '"".'"

"Progress" fyr .Qesember states that an effort" is ' being ""made hy the astronomical section of the Wellington Philosophical Society to supplement the £3000 derived from the estate of the lata Mr. C. B. Garter for the establishment of an observatory at Wellington. The object aimed at is the provision of an endowment sufficient to maintain the institution. The public interest in aviation is catered for by a aoction devoted to a record of the development in aeroplanes, including a summary of a, lecture on the subject gi Te n by Mr." George Stevenson before the IJew Zealand 4ero C(ub. The aeries of articles on Napier liatbour works this month gives the case in favour of Nelson's inner harbour scheme agftinat that represented by .the ■breakwater.

"Liber,"? the able literary pritte of th« "New Zealand,' Times,", in revievring "Golden Days in Many Lands," says: "Next to Sir Frederick Treves' books, "The Other Sid? of the Lantern" and "The Cradle of'the Deep," and' Mr- Ponting's "Ijotus Land-Japan," I have hot happened this many a long day upon a book of travels v?hich has" afforded mc mqre honest enjoyment than ih\*. wellwritten record of an Anckland lady's wanderings in some of the most interesting places on the earth. It is not'a mere globe-trotting book, the record of one long frantic rush from train to steamer, from steamer to hotel, all bustle and Baedeker, and the very fact that there is no continuity jn its chapters is, to mc at least, a decided merty. Mis? Leys, has an alertness of vision, which results in a rich harvest of observation. There is .no suspicion of mere guide-book "padding**; the comments made on foreign lands, peoples, and customs, are frankly and brightly expressed, with much evidence -lof a special shrewdness of appreciation of what is really worthy of admiration to the exclusion of the banal and trivial."

l^tes'ipierw what tftey wage .ftboqt when they ordained that nearly thirty years should, elapse after the death of Disraeli before Ms authentic "Life" , Should be. given to the world, tot VSUSW pioiy appearg, »Pd ftlthPUgh H %dda little to what the experts knew. *nd the unoijicial have IW_ Wy? it" o.9ffle fresjfeiy ft? 4 i*M. pw'lflfilj *P O IJOI tfl m gefleratipn whißh Rever experienced the thrill £f his spsnupus ,4%5f*,-'*Wl Whiek bs|s xesjd littfe pf fe» ' ||MH_aj>*tißg career. Bisrae&'ii vlwek jp fh»fJwh hiatwy is ciesyiy n»rfced wit mm maW* ft wiy I <]**«. with the W*king «?f kiij charter. PPM JE* fo*t, i th* jwmsm sf the *hf 4esp««tlß*tloß ef «w JmmMmfm these wpyefflepta wast fee wl bww» of ©wseft ft W. «j[ P» wit« te. awd <$»% ift_taft Wn ftey m t h%ppeße4, Tfee «4' .vwt«r«wggKjg _>f the mg«sh f«mte »U4 f*a eM&QIR CTBlntipn of thefc fiß& tp, we?e «l parked eonr sfewey Whefpre th* dawn of the i»gt wwwf; l>wt *t •&$ ttate when fflwrteli wade h« political flehpt «m ris* of t& gpnthftinite j- Hadieais pt Utilitarians threatened then* with extinction. To the fPTpea pf resistance Israeli hxmU » pw spim in wlwoh the old instincts pf the raw lived again fflpro »wi more flexiWy. *&k 'Orient? fflx!" Bis fflwstpß was wrlfod emt fp? Mm fcj Wa Mita *Hd fey his nwn necessity for c^. PrP««?a. Thg t__s*phinga of his life conno *MhW-fflfiffle.pt.- flftwi fpr thP pFPWeiBS wfcidt fom v.?, $&m$ are much foe mm W.those which faced the Yowig Disraeli Whep I.P wrafa his «V3udi«itiQn' pf tlie Mthh Oonstitntipn," and Won the afoid--Btpi\e pleotipn of" as the first, pf tfoe. Tpry DtMTiperats, A aaiie Imperjtilisin ftlld » spirit of political oqniipropi\sp are aihong the crying neefe onr generation. We <»nid not have them r«taught in more fascinating and eflfeottyp fpTffl than ip tfe? WsrftelT life-dwna,.

4a a prologue tP 14r«. Breby'e novel, ' WWnward" (Laurie , *, Colonial iibmTy)»Mf'i4wriGfffpett9<Tere «9me rfr flections on. the ccx novel. (Iβ cajis in. question the righ,fc of tPtte Ml* rwlps u> §iti in judgment yppp, $c wor^i? Of all the new bftpka thftt pass through, their hands,, Hq argues that B the library I wiw, $»t the pwmlwffl wwia epfin ba p}ace<j pn the wpujatjon of the wWmw writers in repute, no matte* h.w «My, Wee, uisretTWaftflu their piotP9Mf Jjie might be, simply by tOio weeding out *nd steady Kuppression of all « flfo,uihtfu} « writers, who challenge $p Yft!«p ,? cd tfc.eTcrd.toe or ?w4etyj' «n.d h«t proceed tfl declare thai; « the 1 wqat OTigwaV- yfifitw* of out tkv VPW(4f ftf «pwty.« Tftie ie, up fft?.t wffry wp pf }Hpwy jUOgment <lpp!pre«, th»t » nausoant hnHiorftlity ifi, \tofi stuvpe of H*olYioue eiigwiWiPHt wy ?p?i? of geiiitw or wcruee at maral purpose, io«n4 Tewt in BPW« 80-enUea "sex npyete," ;uiii It ?1»«l lor iroruriea to Protect themselves and their clients frpm of such filth. No doubt Mr. Garnett wih be prepared to admit that the line of toleration must be (Irawn somewhere, but He fails to suggest any effective substitute for the plan which leading librarians have adopted. As a preface to 'fDbwnward* his plea Is somewhat misplaced, far: the book migM very, well h,ave b.een allowed to stand on its merits. It is quite possible to treat i any social question' forcefully without outraging a reasonable standard of decency, a truth wniah Mrs.. Braby exemplifies in her novel. The story deals with the lives of a mother and daughter, who successively fall victims to their affections, and yet succeed in preserving themselves from manifold temptations to follow along the downward track. Mr. G-axnett suspected that "the novel has been tinkered to meet the demands of the guardians of propriety, ,, a suspicion which the publisher afterwards confirmed; but whatever was eliminated, it can hardly,be eaid tnat the work has lost its efficacy as «n exponent of any lesson it may have been designed to teach, whi]e its artistic valur as a piece of literary worlon-anship remains unaffected,. •TEIEWARDS AND FAIRIES. ,, Mi. Rudyaid Kipling, in his new book, "ItevYarflg and Fairies" (Macmiilan'e ColjiibrftTy), hag folloyfed upon thq of "Pu.<:lc pf Hi 1.1." The ypluiitc compvHcs cjeven stories, which are tojid to ffyv, and yna (a year or two older /now* supposed to yyear (boots regularly) 'by' in,t&res.ting personages of oldeji times, who, as In the previous book, are introduced ip themby th.eiT. fT»? nd 7 Roiiin Gp.pdfeJlW- That aome of these a.re old acquaintances, from of. Pork's Hill" pleases tho reader quite as uiwh as it delighted Pan and Unfv, The stories are slight i» ; poiistruction, and freely interspersed with poems, which, if not.equal tp 34r. Kipling's i*est W«rk, cxliibit loapy of the characteristic qualities iof his. genius. A patwt'ic npte is etruQk at putset, W& i? maintained to the end^•«Take of English earth as much M either haufl may rightly cjutgh. In thfj tpldng of It breath* Prayer far alt Who lie bPijeath— Nat the great nor well bespoke, Bat the mere uncounted lolk Of whose life »"d death' la pone Keport or lamentation. Lay earth npon thy heart, And thy sickness shall depart!" In "The Yale of Gioriana," Queen Bess sends twq young heroes to certain death to fight with two ships iyjainarthe entire Spanish fleet One of th« most striking poems in the book is entitled "Cpid Iron." It is prefaced by *n allegory, \h wWch tie fairies are described as having captured a mortal •boy', whoss only chance of release from their trammels is to touch cold iron. This. at last he succeeds in doing. - The. poem J3 detached from the allegory. It reprefiepta, the rebellion of a Baron agajnsi his! King, and his subjugation by nteana oj{ cold iron, The King, treats hun gperously, "Bere ia Bread nod here ts Wine — sit and si\p \vitli mc; and drink in Mary's name, the Whiles I do recall " " «■" " How. Iron y~ Cold Ir«n — can be master of men He took the Ttflne. and blessed Jt; He blessed and brake the Bread. •Vpth His (>w,n Hands He served Them, - and presently lie '■'Look! These Hands thejf pierceS with najls n\y city wo"i Show Iro.n — COI4 Iron' — to be. maater of men all! "Wounds are for the desperate, blows are for the Strong, Balm and oil for weary hearts all cut and bruised with wrong. J, forgive thy treason, — 1 redeem thy faH, For Iron — Gold Iron — must be master of. ©en aUlv "Crowns.■are for the valiant — seijptree (or ..the bpl«U Thrones and powers tor mighty men who '"' dare to and hold."'"'" "Naj! said the Baron, kneeling In Ills hall, .'. ■ 1 ■ Bnt Iron — Colfl Iron -, la nsaste? of mm fill •

Iron — out of Calvary — la maater of men aui*»