LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3112, 16 June 1917, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Stray Lcavw. It-wilt be good newßtoma.ny Ism Ziealand readers to hoar that Sir Arthur Conan Doyio has in preparation a iew series of bherlock Holmes stories. Of detective stories there is in these days a larger supply than ever, but Conan Doyle's yarns havo a flavour of their oivn, and. are always welcome. A volume of hitherto unpublished poems by tho lato Algernon Charles Swinburne will shortly bo issued by Mr. Heinemann, who, later on, will publish two volumes of Swinburne'e correspondence), arid a volume of unpublished Italian stories from tho dead poet's i>eii. Uaudius Clear (Sir William Robertson Nicol) has an interesting urticlo in "The British Weekly" (March 22) on. it low book descriptive of journalistic lifo in London. Tho titlo is. "The Street of Ink. Tho author, Jlr. SimonSj is on tho etaff of tho "Daily News" and "Star." I. hope to givo some extracts on a future occasion. . With its issue for April that veteran magazine, "BLackwood's," celebrated its centenary. "Maga" is nioro readable than over, its war sketches being far ahead of anything of the some kind in its contemporaries. But the price (2s. 6d.) is prohibitive to the vast majority of magazine readers in this country. A special colonial edition, at, say, a shilling would, I beliove, ha a great success. Sovoral English papers warmly commend a novel entitled "Sonia," by Mr. Stephen H'Konna. Methuen's aro the publishers, so wo may oxpect a colonial edition in duo courso. .According to mors than one high literary authority, "Sonia" is something particularly good in. the vay of fiction.