LITERARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

LITERARY.

There has never been; a popular author since Dickens.I—Mr.1—Mr. G: K. Chesterton.

It is a ciiriousparadox that in making things easier for our children we are making' them more difficult^—Mr. J. G. R. Cairns. ..' ■ '■'■

A booklet by Eleanor Pagey "Careers' for Girls" (Allen Unwin) we can recommend as a useful little guide. . Thereare twenty-one different occupations open to women, from... professional work'.. to simple domesticity, and the main requirement is..an.:early beginning.

Two more-/ omnibus volumes are announced." . ''The.World's Anthology of Verse," which -Gassell and Co., London; will-publish,,will.contain'lsoo pages, and will include; verse by. the -poets of. all periods. "Great Poems of :the\ English' Language from ;:"Chaucer to, Moderns," which. Harrap 'and.' Co.; London;.will ■ publish, will, also, contain: 1500.'pages.. :

The fourth iyolum'er of ;the .. "British Official. History lof the -Great War" will be published.by Macmillahand : Co.,- London,' in a few week's.: ' It has been!written by Brigadier-General::Sir James Edmonds, and records the British operations on the Western Pront .during 1915. The same firm will, publish "Wanderings in Wild Australia," by Sir. Baldwin Spencer, in two illustrated volume's.'