IN BOOKLAND

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 October 1928, Page 18

IN BOOKLAND

Mrs Jean Baxter has chosen for her forth comma; volume of Scots verse the tit'e of “’A A’e ’Oo,’ ” which, as most people know, means “All One Wool.” Air Hugh Walpole, novelist, and Air J. 13. Priestly, essayist, have completed a joint novel, which consists of a series of letters between two correspondents, Mr Walpole heina the writer.of one set and Mr Priestly the writer of the ot lrer. ' The autograph log of a portion of Captain Cook’s last voyage, by Henry Roberts, mate of Cook's iship. BLjSI.S. Resolution, on 130 pages folio, and ranging in date from October 4, 1788. to November 30, . J 779, covering the second visit to the Sandwich Islands, and the death of Captain Cook, wan sold at Sotheby’s, London, in July for £I2OO. The factory girl Kathleen Woodward, who last- year wrote a life of Qiu?en Mary, has given the title “dipping Street” to a book she has completed. It contains a- record of her own childhood spent in a London slum. “Gallipoli,” by General Kannengiesear, an illustrated account of the campaign from the enemy side, is to lie published’ shortly. Tina author describes liis personal experiences with” the baud of German officers and men who served on the Peninsula with the Turks. a.s well as the life and organisation of the Turkish army in modern lighting. Another mystery s tory by Lord Gorell, “He Who Fights,” is forthcoming with. John Murray. • Sir Henry Jmbert-Terry has aijsn written a mystery vain and Hutchinson is to publish it with the title ‘•Acid.” “Winter Words in Various Aloodei and Meters,” will, lie the title of Thomas Hardy’s posthumous volume of poems. The Holy Office in Rome, which seventeen years ago banned certain works a f the poet D’Annunzio, has now added to the' list a. number of later publications! “which offend the faith and morals of the Catholic Church.” One of James Branch Cabell’s earlier books is" issued from the Bod-ley Head, under the title of “Chivalry.” Closely linked up with Air Cabeli.’s other books, it contains stories-of ten queens, the tales being, tenet 1 ostensibly lie that “extremely venerable person and worshipful Qjia.n,” Nicolas de Caen. An American edition of “Out of the vilence,” bv Air Erie Cox of Ale bourne, will be published in October. All* Cox's publisher expects the novel to achieve more than ordinary success in America, and has given “Out of the Silence” i- d;i“ of place on the first page of hi« autumn catalogue. John Hamilton lias already rvublished an English edition of the novel. James Oliver Curwood, the Canadian explorer and novelist, who- died early this year, made the interesting disclosure in the preface to “The Plains of Mil” (which was in the press at the time of his death) that his great grandmother was a Mohawk Indian. On his father’s side Mr Curwood was descended from Captain Marry at, the English novelist of the sea.

At the sialj .in Sydney of the Tyrol 1 collection of antiques, objects of art. and boohs oil August- 29 a copy of Henry Lawson’s 'first- book, “Short Stories in Prose and Verse,” wars offered, and three guineas was refused-. A few minutes iater a telegraph message was received from the Henry Law-yon Memorial and Literary Society, Foot&eray (V.) offering to buy it. The hook will he added to the society’s co-l-ection.

• u M. Forbes, writing to the “Spectator,” says:— There is an often-repeated story concerning Carlyle to the effect t-hait when : n the nre.senee of Queen Victoria he remarked “I am getting an old man, I all iust sit down.” I recently asked the great" man’s nephew -whether there was any truth in this;. The following is what really .hanpmied. When pre-•-•'nted f t.'’ Sage requested- permission to -it down a. request willingly‘granted, the only error on the visitor’s part was that he plumped clown one of the ’togs - his chair on the Roy.nl .skirt, so that Her Majesty presently found herself a prisoner.

The “Saturday Review’’ recently conducted. a Limerick ooni]>etition of unusual character. The Limerick' was tobe “so written that though, the terminal words do not rhyme the substitution of words equivalent in meaning would produce a rhymed Limerick.’’ The following Limerick won the first prize:— Tfcp-re was a. young man who. stand : “This Would be'a far heartier embrace Could I venture, to think That policeman would .shut an eye On such' proofs of our mutual .pleasure. According to “T-hs? Times Literary Supplement,” the most remarkable feature of a book sale at Sotheby’s in July was the enormous price of £4001) paid hv Qua fitch for the. Kelniscott Press edition of Chaucer, 1896, printed on vellum. This is- unquestionably the most famous modern, printed book, and | the price paid will probably bring other copies into the marker. Only 13 oop.es were printed on vellum, and of these only eight were for siilo nt £126 each. A few of ‘these have come under the hammer in the present century; the I'l-lis copy sold for £5lO in 1901, one at Hodgson’s brought £260 in 1906, whilst vet another mac-lied £916 at Sotlieby in 1919. The first prize in a competition oonducited by the “Spectator” for inscription on busts of various celebrated person,s named wa s won by Mr Coo. Baker with this effort:— H. G. WELLS. Time was too short for him ; Space was too small for him ; Art was too cramped for him. He dreamed of men like gods. Of God as King of men. Hut Mail it was he served ; Man’s Tale tire best he wrote. Ere Death was overmuch for him. Among the entries selected lor printing was this, written by Mr E. F. lien son : GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. Communist- and Vegetarian. His Admirable Principles were • That Xo.hodV should Fiat- what he did not like, And that He should have a.lj the Money lie. wanted While The Rost, of the World should share In Strict Equality Whatever Happened to Remain.