LITERATURE AND ART.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11346, 14 April 1900, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITERATURE AND ART.

The fourth and last volume of "C. H. Spurgeon's Autobiography" will be issued immediately.

fairs. Meynell has written the ? Bunking volume for Messrs. Blackwood s 'Modern English Writers."

Miss Beatrice Harraden has already planned and sold her next story-sold it so far as serial rights are concerned. _ he Fowler" has had a large sale both in Britain and in America.

A new story of Irish peasant life by Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert) is announced by Mr. Grant Richards. "Onoro contains many of the songs and much of the folklore of the South of Ireland.

" Mr Ernest Vizetellv h is altered his mind over the matter of Zola's new novel, and will nrenare an edited translation, with an intra- £& for publication by, Messrs. Chatto and Windus, under the title of Fruitfulness.'

"Moira O'Neill," whose verses have appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, is about to publish a volume, entitled "Songs of the Glens of Antrim." Moira O'Neill, who has spent a number of years on a rand, out west is, of course, a native of the Sister Isle.

Ruskin's "Giotto and His Works in ladua" will shortly be issued in Mr. George Allen's series of reprints of Mr. Buskins books. This book has not been re-issued since its appearance in 1854, under the auspices of the Arundel Society. It is freely illustrated.

Chatto and Windus will eoon have ready a new story, " Dora Mvrl, the Lady Detective " by Mr. Bodkin, the Irish Q.C., whose " Paul Beck" had considerable success. New editions of Mr. Alan St. Aubyn's " A Proctor's Wooing" and Mrs. Alexanders '".'he Cost of Her Pride" will be issued at the same time.

" A Tragic Fairy Tale" is the description of a new book by Mr. Richard Le Gallicnne, which Mr. John Lane is shortly to publish under the title, "The Worshipper of the Image." More than a year has passed since Mr. Le Gallienne published his last book, and the new tragic fairy tale has already appeared in America.

Mr. T. Fisher Unwiri is about to issue a new novel by Ouida, entitled, "The Waters of Edena.*" The central figure of the story is Don Silvanio, a priest who champions his village against the destructive plotting of a commercial company which has been granted excessive rowers by the Italian Government. The authoress thus returns to the attack on her old foe.

In a symposium on the " Hundred Best Poems in the English Language" in the New York Herald, Mr. Edward Dowden cites the following as what he considers the ten best poems in English:—Spencer's "Epithalamion," Milton's " Lycidas," Gray's " Elegy," Shelley's " Ode to the West Wind." Wordsworth's "Michael," Coleridge's "France: An Ode," Tennyson's "Ulysses," Keats' " Ode to a Nightingale," Browning's " Rabbi Ben Ezra," and Matthew Arnold's "The Scholar Gipsy."

The latest volume in the Haworth edition of the works of the Brontes is illustrated with the portrait of Emily Bronte from a painting of a family group by the ill-fated Branwcll. It is the only portrait ever made of Emily, and is considered by the Rev. A. B. Nicholls, her Brother-in-law, to be a good likeness. Among the other illustrations is a picture of Charlotte Bronte's dog " Grasper," drawn from life by Emily in January, 1834. It is a life-like sketch and bears Emily's signature.

The new edition of Professor Masson's biography of "Chatterton" (Hodder and Stoughton) will appeal to many. It has been revised and added to. The late Lord Elibank first lent and then gave to Lord Rosebery, when a boy, Professor Masson's volume of Essays, in which the appreciation of Chatterton originally appeared. " I suppose," said Lord Rosebery in later years, "that very appetite for books finally finds something that is absolutely congenial to it, and at that time and in constant re-readings ever since that book of Professor Masson's has had a charm and an inspiration for me that very few books have, ever had."