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Messrs Macmillan announce, beside a book of' poems by the late Miss Stella Benson, an unfinished novel of hers called ‘ Mundos.’ Like ) Tobit Transplanted,' it deals with a European community isolated among a foreign population in a distant part of the world. There has been a biography of Gilbert and a biography of Sullivan, but Mr Hesketh Pearson has ..written a biography of Gilbert-and-Snllivan ; he deals entirely with their “ lives and personalities.” and is said to' have adopted the ” modern spirit of impartial inquiry.” How is the plan as outlined in the recent White Paper for increasing the Army going to be carried out I" In ‘The War Office.’ the latest addition to the. ” Whitehall Series,” Mr Hampden Gordon, Assistant Secretary to this groat Defence Department, explains how such increases are made. 1 Golf From A to Z ’ is the title ol a new book on the game due from Putnam. The author, James Currie Macbeth, is the secretary of the Pitrcavio Golf Club. Jt is claimed that his is the first instructional golf book to have an easy reference system to all points of play and common faults. War in* Paraguay is described in Katharine V6n Dombrowski V‘‘ Land of Women.’ But this does not concern the present war in the Gran Chaco, hut the terrible ten-year conflict ol the ’sixties, when Paraguay, single-handed, fought against the Triple Alliance of Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil. The Paraguayan - population was nearly wiped out. Hans Fallada. author of ‘ Tattle Alan.. What Now?’ and ‘ Who Once Fats Out of the Tin Bowl.’ has finished another novel, as yet without a title. ’Phis new book will" not be published until 1036, but Kric Sutton’s translation of ‘ Once We Had a Child.’ the successor, to 1 Who Once Fats Out ’of the Tin Bowl,’ will he ready for aiitmhn publication this year. ;■ The song had a great and continuing popularity, and is to be. found in most of the piratical songbooks which abounded until Jong after ‘Clari’.fin which Payne’s song was sung) was produced. DibdiiTs musical setting' was good, but Bishop’s of John Howard Payne’s was better; it is to him that our gratitude is due for air immortal trifle. Volume I. of Dr Stroscmann’s memoirs, -translated, edited, ‘ and adapted by Mr Eric Sutton, is published. They constitute a survey of German political life from Stresemann’s Chancellorship in 1923 until his death in 1929. The German edition from which this is prepared was collected and edited by his secretary, Henry Bernhard.

Herr Hitler's ‘ MeinKampf ’ (says the London ‘ Evening Standard’) bag-been translated into 14 languages. Nearly 1,900,000 copies of it have been sold. The average price "per c»py is about 10s. The average royalty is believed to be about Is Bd. That gives Herr Hitler a net profit of nearly £160,000. Herr Hitler is more fortunate than other literary revolutionary leaders. His profits arb in marks, not as yet depreciated. There is no law forbidding him to accept them. Mr James Lillywhito, Aldingbolirne, Chichester (England), writes: “My late father, James Lilly white,, wrote, two books in connection with the tours of. the teams he took to (Australia in 1876-77 and 1881-82, Copies ' were ■ accepted by Edward VII., then. Prince of Wales. Members of. the family Hying have quite lost. sight of 'these books; nor is the name of the publisher remembered. 1 wonder if any reader knows of the whereabouts of :any copies or the name of (the publisher?” . . . t In the fetters of Sir James Brooke, the first white Rajah of Sarawak, to Miss Angela (afterwards Baroness) Burdett-Coutts. which Mr Owen gutter has edited, fresh light is thrown upon a romantic story. Brooke Ijad a long struggle to free Sarawak from the ravages of pirates and head hunters,' and a no Jess bitter struggle to procure the British,Government’s recognition of his Raj. One of his firmest friends and champions was Miss Angela BurdettCoutts. The two met in 1847, and this correspondence, none of which has been published hitherto, ensued. A great theatrical controversy lias arisen over the performance of a modernised version of ‘ Hamlet ’ at .the' Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen (says the London ‘Daily Telegraph ’). Mr Kaj Munk, a young Danish dramatist, who is the clergyman of a small village in Jutland, has remodelled Shakespeare’s play very freely, introducing a number of references to the present political situation. The main idea is “ Something is rotten in the State of Denmark.” Hamlet’s father lis represented to be a Prime Minister, and Claudius, who killed his brother through jealousy, instead of poison uses electrical'murder weapons or'Press attacks. Fortinbras is a Fascist, who arrives in an aeroplane to save Denmark from the failure of democracy, and the . parliamentary system. ( Mr E. Rimhault Dibdnj writes to the ‘Sunday Times’ suggesting a cource of inspiration for Payne’s song ‘ Home, Sweet Home ’: —In 1794 my greatgrandfather, Charles’ Dibdin, published among the songs he used in his table entertainment, ‘ Great'News,’ one entitled ‘ Home’s Home.’ The refrain of each stanza was:— } The good that we wish for mayn’t match what we’ve got. .Their minds are their kingdom, , who’re pleased with their lot; And to whatever place diseontended folk roam, At last they’ll he forced to say this of their home : • Our friends are as true, and our wives .are as coniply. And, damn it! home’s home, be it .ever so homely. ;