LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 259, 20 July 1918, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Stray' Leaves. j A /Correction.—Jn reviewing NaroUl < L'cgbie'.- new book "The Little That, is j Good" in this cnhiran on March 8 lust. 1 t attributed tlio book to Messrs. Rodder ] and Stouglitoii, whereas Messrs. Casscll < and Co. .were the'publishers. "' i ' The May "JJookuian" (Iloildor ami ( Stoughtoii) contains-two specially inter- ] esting articles, one on tlio , naval writer ( who signs himself "Bartimeus" , (whose "Long Trek" and "A Tall Ship" ] wcro so popular), tlio other dealing with , the work of "Taffrail." whose "Piuelier • Martin, 0.D.," made such , a hit, a hit i which was followed up bj: .a second and . ovon greater success, "The Sub." .An- ■ other interesting feature in "Tlio Book- : man" is a loiip and well-written article : on "The" Ccutcnarv of Frank Smedlev, . by S. M. Ellis, whose previous articles iii tho sama periodical on William Ita.r!■,:■•.n AniMMuii ami "insoUU'jy" \k\thnm wera so interesting to those who have still a weakness for the unjustly despised Victorians.' front Smedlev was, ; may bo remembered by some, of n.y older readers, tho author of "Frank Fairlekh," "Lewis Arundel," and "Hany Coverdalc's Courtship.." njl ihreo books having a great vogue'lifty years «gi>, but now, I fear, well-nigh forgotten. It seems a far cry back to tho days •when we were all reading and discussin" the lalo Professor Cramb's book, "Germany and England." So much bus happened since then. I note that an unpublished romance of Napoleon and his times, 'entilled "Schonbrunn," from Cramb's pen. has recently been discovered, ami-is shortly to be published. Iho story places Kapoloon at Schonbrunn in the'days when neace and war hung in tho balance, and on the conqueror s destiny depended the iale of Europe. Schonbriinn was then, as Merlin is to-day, the storm-centre of Europe. Swinburne could bo at limes a very silly person. Thus, in tlio recently published "Lottos of .Algernon Charles Swinburne," edited by Hake and Comptiin aickelts. 1 iiml the following:- ".\ victor lmd lev fall >'«mi' reninrk about .llnzlitt's critical work, and BwinImrne's' face assumed an expression ot frozen ansev. 'We ««n't, me ! l 7 tiiiu lliizliU , !, name here, said in a hurried whisper, ~s if reference had been made to an objectionable neighbour. Neither 'J nor Swinburne care lo- talk about him on account of his abominable treatnici.. ° Joiui'oxenham visited the French and Flemish battlefields last winter, and has written a description of his experiences under the title, "High Allars." 1 : 'P , popularity of Mr. Oxenham s versejs sti.l inuiniained. His "Bees-iu-Aniher is, I rend, now in its 'JlSth thousand. The Christinas number of " 1 lie bwvman" contained a lonir and most llltercsti,lß article enlilled "For Rcineml.rnncrt Soldier who have Fallen in the War," hy Mr. .T. St. John Adnoclt. I nm pliid'lo sit that, the nrliirle is to >ie ri-published in bonk form. riiHiuemo I'.-rrero's tamniis sketches of "Roman history, which run. in (heir ni-isinal form, into several volume.-, a"' lo be condensed and republished as a '•Short Slory of Tiome." 'Hux should 1,0 n volume worth acquiring by all historical- students.