BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10014, 28 December 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Tim Badminton* Magazine: Longmans, Green, an! Co,, London.—The November number of this popular Magazine is to hand. Lord Willoiigliby do Broke contributes an article on "Fox Hunting," and Sir Henry Pottinger, one on "Sport in Norway." There is .in interesting paper, " Among tho Sea Birds." Mr. A. Watson furnishes a good review of Racing in 1895," and " Football," by Mr, C. R. Fry is also well worthy perusal. An article which will bo rend with interest by all yachtsmen is " The American Cup." The miscellaneous articles are, " A Night's Netting," "Old Sporting Prints," " After the Wild Deor," and An " Autumn Holiday," notes by " Rapier." Photography, its Materials and Appliances : John Birch and Co., Limited, 10, Queen-street Place, London, E.C.—This catalogue has been prepared for colonial circulation, and largely with the view of being of assistance to the engineer, architect, and professional man. Photography now enters so largely into all trades and sciences that a publication of this sort possesses more than a moro trade value, and it will be found of groat general utility. Tho most of tho papors at tho beginning of the work arc, it. is stated in the preface, written for tho edification ot beginners, and to assist them in the first part of tlioir progress, but in no wise intended to do more than propare the way for the uso of well known textbooks. It is hoped that what information is given may bo of some use in assisting tlio beginner over the first stumblingblocks, j and in giving him a rough insight into the mystorios of tho art as well as an appreciation of its charms. Commencing with " present day applications of photography," tho work goes on to deal with tho choice of cameras and lenses, bints on lighting, rulos for exposure, printing processes, tho platinotype process, cloud printing, and hints on instantaneous photography, and tho artistic value of photography, etc., besides a mass of useful information, which will bo greatly prized alike by the professional and amateur photographer. An Imaginative Man: By Roberb S. [lichens. Wm. Heinetnann, London.—Tho author "A Green Carnation " has in this work made an ad vanco upon his first work of fiction. Tho scenes of the story are for the most part laid in Egypt, and the description of a certain phase of life in Cairo as begotten by tourists is depicted with terrible realism. Guy Aintree, a young man dying of consumption, but all of whoso instincts are vicious, revels in those scenes of sin and sliamo, nursed by a mother whoso greatest virtue appears to be her affection for her son, despito his unlovely traits of character. These two characters aro powerfully drawn, especially the former, who is half-devil, half-satyr. The Moving Finger: By Mary Gaunt. Methuen and Co., 36, Essex-etreet, W C., London.—The volume is a sories of stories of bushranging life, and other Australian stories. They are capitally written, exhibiting great descriptive powor, and the wjiole series will bo road from start) to finish with pleasure. McMilun'sColonial Library.—" Comrades in Arms," by Arthur Amyard,is astory of military romance, in which is interwoven many of tho incidents of tho Soudan campaign. " The Wooing of Doris," by Mr. J. K. Sponcer, is the story of a young girl, whoso father, a lawyor, has used the fortune of a young man committed to his guardianship, and whose marriage with his daughter had been arranged. Tho death of tho lawyor separates tho couple, and it is only after some years in hor neighbourhood that Doris is ab last won by tho lover of her youth. "Red Rowans," by Flora Annie Steol, is a story of the lights and shadows of Scottish life, which are powerfully sketched. " A Son of tho Plains," by Arthur Patterson, is a stirring recital of tho deeds of American frontiersmen and their troubles with Indians and Mexican cowboys; " The Renegade," by James Chalmers, is a story of tho times of Paul Jones the privatcersman, and his adventures on tho coast of Scotland; " By Order of the Brothorhood," by Le Valour, is a sketch of Russian intrigue and Nihilism ; "A Set of Rogues," by Frank Bassetfc, is llio story of the adventures of Christopher Sutton, John Dawson, the Senor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelana, and Moll Dawson ; " Thirteen Doctors," by Mrs. J. K. Spencer, is a series of tales from the medical experience of thirteen doctors, ono of them is an exporimenb in hypnotism; " Winifred Mount," is the story of a young girl TvhoupencU her young days at) a Co

tinental boarding school, and who afterwards comes to England, is adopted by a childless lady of titlo, and at last after various adventure" found her fate in Percy Twiner. " rotor Steele, the Cricketer," by H. 0. Hutchinson, is as tho titlo of the work implies, all about the king of field sports. " The Lovely Malincourt" is the story of a young girl brought up by lior relatives from the provinces to the whirl and gaiety of London, of lovo at cross purposos, and everything being satisfactorily adjusted at the finish. Under God's Sky," by Dean Cromarty, is a Yorkshire tale, illustrative of woman's will. "The Burden of a Woman," by Richard Pryce, depicts tho cruel way in which the world treats a woman who has been betrayed, deceived, ruined, and gives no room for repontance. " Not Exactly," by E M. Strike, is a picture of English rural lifo. " Winifred Mount," by Richard Pryce. Tiik Martyred Fooi.: By David Chrietio Murray.—The early scenes of the story are laid in South Australia, and are a very graphic picture given of the lifo of the squatter, Mr. Pentheau, and the cockatoo, Esau Rhys. Feud« arise between the two out of land troubles in the old country be' tween their respective parents, and Rhys, through contact with a Russian Nihilist, Boris Petroina, and a New Caledonian escapee, the Comto do Montemaillard, a French Socialist, at last, hates with undying hatred tlio upper classes and the wealth they represent. Khys at last murders Pentheau in a quarrel, is tried and hanged, and tlio French noble, who lias been amnestied, returns to Paris, taking with him the orphan son ot his friend, young Esau Rhys, to educate and befriend him. Voung Rhys has inherited the Socialistic tendencies of his father, and in Pari' becomes associated with revolutionaries. In the end ho comes to learn by bitter experience that tlio wrongs of society are not to bo cured by such weapons as Nihilism, assassination, and infernal bombs, and that Law and Order always will come out triumphant. lie comes to find out that some of theso agitators aro criminals and impostors, familiar with prisons and well known to the police, and he is disillusionised. Rhys refuses to go further in their revolutionary ploti or to accept the lot to commit assassination. As his doom as a traitor is pronounced by the gang, he in tin altercation with his coconspirators uses one of the infernal bombs, and all are involved in 0110 common ruin, with the building in which they met. Tlio scenes depicted of the Parisian poor and their mode of lifo aro terribly realistic, and of how in their depth of hopeless misery they turn at bay, and wago war against society, it? institutions, and even tlio Deity Himself.