BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10019, 4 January 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Ths Chitrai, Campaign' : By H. C. Thomson. Win. Heinemann, London. This volume is a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and B.ijour, with an account of the famous defence of Chitral Fort by Dr. Robertson and his comrades. There is also given a graphic account of the relief of the garrison by General Low's expedition. Ab the dose of tho narrative is given a summary of the reasons for and against) the retention of Chitral. Maps and plans are appended of the northern frontier of the Punjaub and also of Chitral Fort, and the actions of Clmkelwab w. Nisa Cob. The work is illustrated by about sixty photographic, sketches, whir greatly heighten tho interest* of the York, and servo to elucidato the toxfc. The story of tho Chitral Campaign shows tho triumph of Englishmen over savagery, and of civilisation over barbarism.

Bacon's Educational Pbulicitions .— We have to acknowledge receipt of s|)eeimens of Bacon'" Educational Publication?, published by E. W. Bacon and Co., Limited, 1'27, Strand, London. They comprise memory map?, test maps, picture lesson in geography, fraction form?, picturesque geography, picture lessons in natural history, charts of useful bird*, metric chart, examination result form,and time-table form. Also, graduated drawing charts for kinerg.irten, freehand, scale, model, and solid geometry. They appear to bo very useful publications.

A Comedy of Sentiment: By Max Nordan. William lieiuemauii, London.— This is the story of a German professor, who has got into the toils of an adventuress, whilo attending a congress of German naturalists at Magdeburg. The lady, it appears, had a history. Her own story was that elio is the daughter of a German Consul and was born and brought up in Riga; that she married a lawyer there, and lived with him for some years in St. Petersburg ; that he was a drunkard, and ill-treated her till she was finally obliged to get a divorce, and then went to livo in Berlin with her two children. After some loss of money, and a besmirched reputation, tho professor at last, at tho entreaties of his mother and his friends, escapes from tho wiles of tho adventuress, who was endeavouring to inveiglo him into marriago. Tho story of the professor's adventure is graphically told. Two ik thk Bosh, and Others Elsewhere: By F. Frankfort Moore. Macmillan and Co., London.—Tho volume is a series of sketches, ono of which, " Two in the Bush," is a story of a bushranging scare at an Australian station. Perhaps tho best of the lot is " Tho Cruise of the Diana,"

Terminations : By Henry James. William Heinoinann, London.— first of these sketches wore originally published in tho Yellow Book, tho third in Scribnor's Magazine, while the remainder now appear fcr the first time. Thoy are carefully written, and in a stylo which shows the author to be absorbed in his themes. There are only four stories, " Tho Death of tho Lion," "Tho Coxon Find," "Tho Middle Years," and the " Altar of Death."

Noemi ; A Story of Rock Dwellers : By S. Baring Gould. Mothuen and Co., 36, Essex-street, W.C., London.—This is a story of the history of France in the fifteenth century during tho time of the Free Companies. Ib shows the torriblo condition of the French peasantry, whoso homes woro ravaged alternately by tho English and banditti in certain districts of France. Tho only possible way in which a community of peaceful citizens or of villagers could struggle on was by making compacts with barons, whereby thoy undertook to pay them an annual sum, and on this agreement were freed from vexation by their armed men. It was not) till long after the English domination in some of tho districts had ceasod, and which had furnished the banditti with an oxcuse for their violence, that tho plague of the Frco Companies was put down. McMillan's Colonial Library.—" Tho Education of Antonia'' by F. Emily Phillips is the story of a strong-minded young woman who has become imbued with Radical notions of social reform, and inclined to tho theories of the New Woman. " Prisoners of Silence" ib a tale of a lifo secret between a man and woman. 'Clio wife of Dr. Vallotson bad in her young days been th i mistress of Sir William Ivarslako, by whom sho had a son, who,on- her marriago with Dr. Vallotson, was passed off as her brother. In course of time Sir William dies and Lady Karslake falls in love with North Brunston, the "brother" of Mrs. Vallotson. Ab the altar Mrs. Vallotson forbids tho marriage, and reveals tho secret, which brings shame to Mrs. Vallotson, and an end to the proposedjunion between Brun3ton and Lady Karslake. Oat of this plot an interesting tale is weaved, • " Minor Dialogues," by W. Pett Ridge with illustrations, have appeared in various English magazines, and are republished in tho present volume. . They are a series of skotchos of Cockney abroet lifo. "The Horseman's Word," by Neil Roy, is a tale illustrative of the lights' and shadows of Scottish life,; especially among > tho'.North 1 Sea fishor-'