LITERARY NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 13

LITERARY NOTES.

{From tho latest -English, Australian, and American papers trnd reviews we have takoa tho following items.] A volume appropriate to the present time is Lord Evereley's " Gladstone and Ireland," published by Methuen. "The Girl from Spain," by L. T. Meade. is a prettily woven tale of a> Spanish girl with the mercurial temperament of the South in the atmosphere of an English rectory and hall, in which scenea of joumalifitic life are interwoven. There is rich colouring in "The Quest of Glory," by_ Marjorie Bowen, and there are included in her list of characters the Marquis de Vauvenargues, Louia the Fifteenth, Voltaire, and Cardinal Richelieu. William Watson, the poet, is in America, where announcement of a new poetic drama by him is made. Its title is " The HeraJds of the Da-wn." It is in four act«, and Is written in blank verse. Mr. Wateon has published no book since " New Poems '* came from Hie Bcdley Head two years ago. Earl Russell has written a book on tho Gubiect of divorce, and it ie nearly ready with Ml. Heinemann. It is a summary of the whole matter, from itoman mar nage and divorce flown to the present day. Earl Russell suggests a number of changes in our divorce laws. Captain Granville Baker has written a j naw .book of travel entitled "A Winter I Holiday in Portugal," which Stanley | Paul and Co. announce for publication. "A Polish. Exile with Napoleon," by G. L. de St. M. Wateon, is announced by Harpers. Letters from Piontkoweki to Sir Robert Wilson, now in the British Museum, are given in this volume, aud a vigorous attack ifi made on Forsyth'o vindication of Napoleon's gaoler^ Sir Hudson Lowe. Hodder and Stoiighton announce "Who's Who in Dickens," containing two thousand pen portraits in Dickens'e own words, compiled by Thomas Alexander Fyfe, County Court Judge, Glasgow. A pocket edition, in six volumes, of the work of Charles and Mary Lamb is being issued by Methuen. This edition has been revised by E. V. Lucas, and new material will be included in each of the six volumes. Pitman and Sons have in, preparation "The Life of John Pym," by C. E. Wade, M.A., who has attempted to do justice not only to the revolutionary side of his subject, but also to "Mr. Treasurer Pym,"^ the director and organiser of an extensive Colonial enterprise. "The Fiscal Relations of Great Britain and Ireland" is issued by the Royal Economic Society. The volume consists of papers read before the society by Professor C. H. Oldham, Mr. T; Lough, M.P., Mr. Erekiue Childers,- Mr. F. MacDermott, Professor T. M. Kettle, and also a discussion in which Lord MacDonnell, late Under-Secretary for Ireland, and others took part. Constables will shortly publish a etudy of "The Laws of Supply and Demand," with special reference to their influence on overproduction and unemployment. I'heboqk is intended as a practical investigation of principles, underlying the habits of business men, and, while avoiding discussion of Tariff Reform and Freetrade, makes a direct assault on the orthodox theory of political economy. The author ia G. Binney Dibblee, late Fellow of All Spul's College, Oxford. In "Oxford Life and Manners," an anthology in prose and verse, by Thomas Seccombe and H. Spencer Scott, the following from T. E. Brown's "Magdalen Walk" may be given :—: — Ah little mill, you're rutnbling still, Ab sunset flecked with gold! Ah deepening tinge, ah purple fringe Of lilac as of old. Ah hawthorn hedge, ah light-worn pledge Of kisses warm and plenty, When she was true "and twenty-two, And I was two-and-twenty. Mr. Lloyd George, . Chancellor of the Exchequer, is contributing an introduction to L. G. Ohiozza Moneys new book "Insurance versus Poverty," which Methuen is publishing. The work is of a wide scope, and it is not only a complete guide to the National Insurance Act of 1911, but deals with the social conditions upon which it is based. It describes the British voluntary insurances, and gives a valuable account of the German insurance law. Mr. Norman Angell writes a preface to a volume announced by Heinemann, which ranges with his own "Great Illusion." It is entitled "War and its. Alleged Benefits," and the author is J. Noyikow, vice-president of the International Institute of Sociology. It is a parallel and complement to the "Great Illusion," and Mr. Angell says that "it contains more arguments against war in the abstract than anything I know." It is now generally understood that "Richard Dehan," author of "The Dop Doctor," is Miss Clotilde Graves. Its successor from her pen as "Richard Dehan" is to have the title "Between Two Thieves." This new story, which may be looked for shortly, is said to be strong, striking work. Lady Burghclere has a "Life of James, first Duke of Ormonde," who lived 1610-1688, appearing with Murray. He was notable as a soldier, as a statesman, and as a man of high character, when that was a minus quantity with many others. He ran constant risks and sustained great losses by his faithful adherence to the Stuarts. The crises and adventures of his life make a lively human story. It is curious tb know that the most recent life of John Pym appeared before Queen Victoria ascended the throne. Only in biographical dictionaries and in the pages of the great historians of the period has justice been done to him. He was a man, " King Pym," who stood for much in English nietory, and therefore a new life of him is welcome. It has been written by Mr. C. E. Wade, and will be published by Pitman. There is to be a Hindustanee as well aa an English edition of a novel that Methuen promises. Tho author, who uses the signature "Taj," calls it "Zorah." It is a tale of high-class Mohammedan life, and is written from the inside and by one who knows both Eaet and West. It portrays the Mohammedan* faith at its beei. It tells of Eastern magic, and contains a striking description of tho wedding customs of India. The character sketches aro drawn co faithfully that they stand out as living personalities Putnatn Weale, who has written several noteworthy books on the Far East, has no-w tried his 'prentice , hand at the novel. A new story by him, "The Revolt," a curious psychological study of a. modern man of mixed parentage, brought up in iiv> East and In Paris in the early eighties Ho hits the mififortuue faiKt to hate lus brother, and secondly to love and be loved by his brother's wife. It is this unhappy [ dgatinjj -which makes |i« w»gifi itorfo