LITERATURE AND ART.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10319, 19 December 1896, Page 5 (Supplement)

LITERATURE AND ART.

Messrs. Cassel and Company will publish 1 shortly Mr. Archibald Forbes' new work, entitled "The History of : the Black Watch." • ■ The first stndenti of the University of Wales who was graduated by examination is a woman, Miss Dawson having bean admitted by the court to the degree" of B.Sc. Messrs. Archibald Constable and Co. have secured the entire copyright in the English language of Dr. Nansen's forthcoining work 011 his Expedition to the North i'ole. Mr. Spencer's new work, vol. iii. of " Tlio Principles of Sociology," is nearly through the press, and will be published as soon "as the American edition is ready for simultaneous publication. It is reported that the governing body of Trinity College, Dublin, are about to take step? to relieve the stagnation now affecting ,'if fellowships, and- consequently the of that college. ••The Liio and Work of Dr. Charles I'fiti'hard," lato Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, has been written by hi? daughter, Miss Ada Pritchard, and will be published shortly by Messrs, Seeley and Co. Mr. T. Fisher Unwin announces a new edition of Mr. C. D, P. Hamilton's treatise on " Modern Scientific Whist." The Times referred to the work as an attempt at reducing the game of whisb to "an exact icionce." Messrs. Henry and Co. have in preparation "The Parade, 1897," a new gift-book fir the young, which has been edited for them by Mr. Gleeson White. The same firm will shortly publish the second annual issue of "The Pageant." Kenan's humblo birthplace at Tregnio, in Bretagne, part of a fisherman's cottage;-, for that was tho profession of the illustrious Frenchman's father and uncles—has. had a slab added to it to commemorate tho birthplace of the colobrateil villager. A "Municipal Year-Book" is being prepared for publication, which will describe the work of all the municipal authorities throughout the country. It is being issued from tho offices of the municipal weekly journal, London, 125, Fleet-street, E.G. "Problems of Modern Democracy," a volume of essays by Edwin Lawrence Codkin, editor of tho Nation, the leading literary and political papor published in America, is about to be published by Messrs. Archibald Constable and Co., of Westminster. " The Electrician" Prinlilng and Publishing Company, Limited, announce that | " Motive Power and Gearing for Electrical Machinery," by E. Tremlett) Carter, C.E., M.1.E.E., and " Localisation of Faults in El ctric Light Mains," by F. C. Raphael, wi 1 shortly be ready. .Major Sharp Hume's "Courtships of Qu jen Elizabeth" is passing into the fourth edition within less than a year of its first appearance, and we now understand that Mr. Fisher Unwin has in preparation tha second edition of "The Year After tha Armada," a work that has been barely sit weeks before the public. Mr. Elliot Stock will issue shortly a work on tho Yorkshire dales, entitled, " Romantic Riciimondshire," by Mr. Harry Speight. Mr, Speight some three years ago wrote a similar work on Nidderdalo, containing a detailed history, accompanied by pedigrees, at t'lo late Archbishop's ancestry; and the two volumes will form-companion histories. "Tho Magazine of Art" commences-a new and enlarged series with tho November part. At least sixteen pages will be added to each issue, and several new developments will tako place, including the inauguration of a department for art notes and queries, »ud the commencement of a series of art competitions, in which cash prizes to the value of several hundred pounds will be given. Mr. Kudyard Kipling's new book of verso, "The Seven Seas," will be ready soon. The first portion, to which the title more distinctly refers, will contain twenty-seven poems. The first and most important of these ballads is entitled "A Song of the English," Bi:d is subdivided into The Coastwise Lights," "The Song of the Dead," "The Deep Sea Cables," "The Bong of the Sons," "The Song of the Cities," and "England's -Answer." Tho book contain* in all about fifty poems, and it will be good news to all admirers of Mr. Kipling's patriotic and military muse to hear Unit the second part of this new book contains mora than a score of fresh "Barrack-Room Ballads."