LIBER'S NOTE BOOK.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 241, 29 June 1918, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK.

Stray Leaves. A.mon»st now novels announced by Me-ssrs. Cussolls lire "The Pendulum," by Elinor Mordaunt, whose line stories "The ll'imuly," and "The I'arli Wall" will be remembered. and "Mary I'liiiitiigeni't,'' by ,1. C. Smiith. J. have pleasant reeolloctions of some of Mr. Snaitlis earlier novels, nolablv llial powerful study of ancient inlluenees vainly arrayed agiiinst modern lemleiieks, "Broku uf

Covcnden,' and tho deligliffullv amusing "Araniinta. " -Mr. '1, Martin \\ ood, the well-known art critic, has written a brief biographical study of Sir Hugh Lane, iho Irish art connoisseur and collector, whose personal exertion and generosity brought the Dublin National Gallery so much into notice. Laiie was one of I lie victims of the Lusiiania Iragcdy. \ in the days when the famous—or notorious—"Sporting Times" (otherwise known as "Tho Pink 'Uu") was at the height oi' us popularity, ouu of iU clovi'j'ost conti'ibutors was a genllonian who used the noin de plume of "The Pitcher," several of whoso collirilmtions, certainly very, amusing but doubtfully edifying, wer'o afterwards collected in volume form. A book is now announced, under l.lie title "Pitcher and his Circle," by Horace Leonard and ,1. I),' Booth, in which some interesting pictures of the old "Pinlc'Un" and Pelican Club sot are to be given. Satl'roni Middleton, who -wrote that capital hook, "Sailor and Boaclicotner," which hud a sequel the title of which I do not recall, has now written a third book of Polynesian experiences ami adventures. Tho title is "Wine Dark seas and Tropic Skies: Reminiscences oi the South Sens."

I" Bjdor Haggard's latest novel, "Love bteruttl, tho author returns to bis old love, the occult. Judging by the announcement of_ his publishers that the story "will .bring comfort and consolation to ninny who in. these days need it," spiritualism should be a fenttire of the novel.

The third volume of Professor Ramsay iUmrs Culmination of .Modern History —of which "Nationalism and Internationalism ' and "The Expansion of Lurope were the first two volumei-i3 about to be published bv Messrs. Constable, entitled "National Self-Govern-ment." Ethel Dell's latest story, "Greenheart," )vos to bo published , iu America early last month. -Tt tells how the flirtation of a young girl, released for brief timo from the harsh treatment-of an unlovely home, develops- until it assumes overmastering proportions, and she is barely saved from herself by'the physically weak brother of her handsome lover.