LITERATURE AND ART.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11602, 16 March 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITERATURE AND ART.

Mr. John Murray announces still another volume of sermons by the late Mr. Jowett, the Master of Balliol.

Hutchinson and Co. will publish at an early date Mr. Frankfort Moore's new novel, which will be entitled " According to Plato."

Messrs. Wells, Gardener, Darton, and Co. have in preparation a small volume of "Recollections of Jean Ingelow," by one of her lifelong friends.

Some hope is being held out that Sir Jolm Tenniel may be prevailed upon to give us his reminiscences, which could not fail to be Ml of interest for the history both of the art and of the literature of the reign.

J. M. Dent and Co. will publish very shortly a new book by Mr. Leonard Courtney, entitled, "The Working Constitution of the United Kingdom." It will cover the whole round of Imperial, national, and local institutions.

Mr. Stephen Phillips' "Herod" is to be translated into French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swedish. The fact is a pleasant symptom of the increase of general interest in the poetic drama, and should afford some comfort to the pessimistic critics.

The first volume of the new edition of " Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English Literature," which will extend to three volumes, may be expected shortly. The work is being edited by Dr. David Patrick, who was responsible for " Chambers' Encyclopedia."

By the inclusion of "English Seamen of the Sixteenth Century" in their Silver Library, Messrs. Longman have now completed the cheap edition of Froude's work. Except Nelson, we have had no seamen tc compare with those stout old warrior's of Elizabeth's time of whom Froude writes in this book.

Under the title, "First on the Antarctic Continent," Mr. Borchgrevinck, the commander of the recent Antarctic expedition, has now completed the account of his voyage in the Southern Cross, and of the adventures and incidents in the land near the South Pole. The volume will be published very shortly by George Newnes, Limited. Besides portraits and maps, it will contain about 180 illustrations from phographs taken during the expedition.

Mr. Lane promises a volume of poems by Mr. Stephen Gwynn, which will be looked for with great interest by all who have watched Mr. Gwynn's literary career and have read the verse he has published from time to time in the periodicals. A volume of poems was called for to round off his essays in the belles lettres, for he has already published a novel, a volume of essays, a critical "monograph," and a sentimental journey. Mr. Gwynn was the critic to whom Mr. W. L. Courtney had recourse for the first of his surveys of recent literature in the Fortnightly Review: he has also for some time past contributed the Literary Notes to the Pall Mall Gazette.

Mr. Murray, the happy publisher of " The Love-letters of an Englishwoman," has another book in store which should not be without its sentimental interest. This is the "Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox," by Lady Tlchester, which he announces for the coming spring. For Lady Sarah Lennox, who herself had the blood of an English Sovereign in her veins, as a. girl attracted from George 111. attentions so marked that the gossips said he would have married her had be been free to follow his own taste. After both he and she had married otherwise, and Lady Sarah lost her second husband, tho King consoled her with a settlement of £1000 a year. Horace Walpole (who, by the way) wrote her name incorrectly with one " n") cannot mention her name without exclaiming at hei beauty. When he saw her in theatricals, "in white with her hair about her ears and on the ground, no Magdalen by Correggio was half so lovely and expressive;" and when he saw her among the bridesmaids at the King's wedding she " was by far the chief angel." Lady Sarah has furthermore the special interest for literary people that she was the mother of "Napier, tho historian of the Peninsular War-;