LITERARY NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 12

LITERARY NOTES.

No fowcrtlan 9917 b™lc3 E wcrf isS-im i in advanoo of tho6e, recorded for 1906 Tho I increase was spread over tho entire yea'r, and m oither acti^ ty ™ s m oitlier of tho main publishing seasons. Tha increases in tlio di£ ferent main departments wero:—Religion and philosophy, 213; W, 145. and science, 610; voyages and travels, 163 history and biography, 232; poetry and drama, 69; modicmo, 63; essays etc 29 • miscellaneous, 116. Works dealing with cial economy rtmamed stationary in number as did year books, but there wJro m books nfTecting education and also in fiction. Reprints, however, wero moro plentiful owing to increased activity in the pub- | licatiou or now semes. 1 ' Tho year's poetical event in Englandtho publication of Mr. Swinburne's lonE-ox-pcctcd work,. "Tho Duke of Gandia," took placei on April 2, when tho. book was issued Eiraultanoously in Amorica and in England ' by , Messrs. Harpers and Messrs. Cliatto ami W nidus rrepoctivcly. The poet continues in oscollont health and spirits, and has latolv been busy revising tho proof-sheets of what is to bo his greatest work in prose "Tho Ago °f, Shakespeare." Of, "The Dulco of bandia it is said that by tho magnitude of the thome and its mods of treatment the piece promises to rank among tho most important of the poets productions. Written in blank verso, the work is roally the first of a dramatic trilogy upon the subject of the ]3oreia family, just ns "Chaatolard" waa tho opening piece of the "Mary Stuaxt" trilogy