LITERARY NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 13

LITERARY NOTES.

[From the latest English, Australian, and American papers and reviews we have taken tho iollowing items.] "Intimacies of Court and Society," by the- widow of an American diplomat, is announced by Dodd, Mead, and Co., New York. "Doubleday, Page, aud Co., New York, have in the press "Many Celebrities and a Few Others," by William H. Rideing. , Included in Houghton Miffin Co.'s list of new books is "The Engravings of William Blake," by, Archibald G. B. Eussell. "The Works of Thomas Deloney,'' edited with introduction and notes by F- O. Mann, are about to be added to the Oxford English Texts (Frowde). C. E. Schutze, the cartoonist, issues this season, through Philip Mindil, two books of his drawuigs^ — "Red Book" and "Bunny the Sculptor." The publication of a limited edition of "The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and its Neighbourhood," by Harold D. Eberlein and Horace M. Lippincott, 1b contemplated by the J. B. Lippincott Company. John La Farge's posthumous work, "One Hundred Masterpieces," which includes a series of papers on Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velasquez, and others, is announced by Doubleday, Page, and Co. Professor Oliver Morton Dickerson is publishing, through the Arthur H. Clarke Company, of Cleveland, "American Colonial Government, 1696—1765 : a study of the British Board of Trad© in its relation to the American colonies, political, industrial, administrative." "A Peasant Sage of Japan," translated from the Hotokuki by Tadasu Yoshimoto, with an introduction by Dr. J. 'Estlin Carpenter, is to be issued by Longmans. The book recounts the long labours for social reform of Sontoku Ninomiya, who died in. 1850. Putnams have in preparation "The Religious Experience of St. Paul," by Percy Gardner. Travellers of a more sedate type than are. common now are the theme of a volume, rather elaborately illustrated, bearing the title "The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims," by A. C. Addison (Sir I. Pitman and Sons). "About Algeria" (Lane) is the title of a motor-car journey by Charles ThomasStanford. The author visited some of the remoter parts of the country, the sites of Roman empery that few tourists know, such as Timgad. J. M. Calwell's "Old Irish Life" (Blackwood and Sons) comprises a number of sketches of Irish life and character, some of which have seen the light previously in magazines, and are now enlarged. Under the title "Couch Fires and Primrose Ways" (Kegan, Paul, Trench. Trubner, and Co.'), H. B. Marriott Watson puts forth a number of essays too diverse in subject to bo here described collectively in a phrase. Many readers will note with interest the appearance of a revised and enlarged edition of "The Works of Dant« Gabriel Rossetti" (Ellis), edited, with notes, by W. M.' Rossetti. The Gifford Lectures for 1911, delivered in Edinburgh University by Dr. Bernard Bosanquet, appear under the title, "The Principle of Individuality and Value" (Macmillan and Co.). " The Atonement and Modern Thought" (Wells, Gardner, and Co.) is the title given to the Donellan Lectures preached before the University of Dublin by tho Rev. F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock, B.D. A new sociological work, by the authors of "The Family and Nation," comprises the substance of several artides and occasional papers published since that work, with much larger additional material that is new, and is entitled "Heredity and Society," by William Cecil Dampier Whetham, SLA., F.R.S., and Catherine Durning Whetham, his wife. J. B. Atlay, author of "The Victorian Chancellors," has written "The Life of the Right Rev. Ernest Roland Wilberforce, Bishop of Chicheeter" (Smith, Elder, and Co.), based upon the Bishop's correspondence, with reminiscences by Archdeacon Wilberforce and others. Natural History rather than sport is the of Douglas Dewar's volume "Jungle Folk" (Lane). It is not of the larger creatures of the jungle or of the antelopes and deer that the author writes, but -of the birds and lesser inhabitants. Readers who know Mi". Dewar's previous bird-books will anticipate the attraction this volume possesses for bird-lovers. A new series of biographical monographs appeal's under the title, " Queens of Beauty and Romance." Volume I. is "The Story of Nell Gwyn," by Cecil Chesterton, with four illustrations in colour and sixteen in photogravure. Volume 11. is consecrated to the famous Lady Hamilton, i 6 written by Hallam Moorhouse, and illustrated with the same number of illustrations of the bewitching Emma, after Romney. Our third exemplar is "The Story of Marie Antoinette," by Mr. Francis ' Bickley, and is similarly illustrated with portraits. These books are prettily produced by T. N. Fouli6, and are of handy size. A lady mountain climber, who has had much experience in Greece, California., and other lands, has produced an interesting account of her achievements in South America in a well-illustrated volume, "High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia " (Unwin). In this volume Miss Amie S. Peck, M.A., gives an account of her many attempts to climb Mount Huascaran — there were five altogether — before the conquest of that virgin peak was actually made. The book is not by any means a record of climbing only. W. B. Cotton's " Sport in the Eastern Sudan" (Rowland Ward, Ltd.), comprises the author's journal of experiences in 1910 and 1911 while hunting from Suakin to the Blue. Nile. The journal is introduced by chapters on ways and means, arms, and ammunition, with a brief description of the wild animals of the Eastern Sudan. From Egypt to British Columbia— from dust and glare to tho shude of cool, coniferous forests — is as great a change as a hardworked official could desire. Thus did Siv John Rogers, K.C.M.G., spend one of two autumn nolidavs, the record of which is given in a volume styled, " Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland" (Chapman and Hall). In both countries the author enjoyed excellent sport, as his diaries show. The book is well illustrated w.ith drawings,