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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12071, 15 September 1902, Page 6

If hits become a faslur.n of lute in speal: of " Lonia Doom:"' as Mr. mores best ■work, hut the truth is that the author alv.ays expressed surprise at this preference, fie considered that much of his other work 1 was at least equal, and in many respect;; '< superior, to " Lnrna. Doone," not only as ' regards style but in dramatic interest. An ' author may, of course, be allowed to have 1 his personal prejudices sis regards his own i work : lint In this instance his earlier critics , fully .11 need his own opinion. it is i only of late thai: a younger generation of < critics has maintained " Lorna Doone" alone : in the trout rank, and li ft the ofcher works ' nowhere. '('his is doubtless due to the fact 1 that " horna Itooue" has been brought so prominently before a large public by the '' enormous sale of its first, issue in the sixpenny foim, ail advantage which none, of the works (except "Clara. Vaughan") have yet had. Messrs. Sampson Low, :Vhiisfou, and Co. now propose to print several of .Mr. filackiriore's other novels, beginning with " Springhaven." which the novelist considered bis masterpiece : and followed at intervals by " Cradork Xowell," " Ciiviskiwell," " Alice Lorraine." ".Mary Anerlev" ( a Yorkshire story, by the way), and "Cripps the Carrier." For an unprovoked essaull, on a black | man James Hicks was at Truro sent to prison for two months. la excuse Hicks, a lighterman, said he. was in the habit of | kicking people of that colour in South Africa. < or prints, muslins, purine tines, fnu- 1 lards, tucked muslins, delaines, and newest ' slimmer textures, see Smith and Cauglwy's I dress department. Bedsteads tor the people who require good value for their money : special job lines now marked very low to dear; handsome Italian • bedstead for -Tonsim Garlick Coy, , I