AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13286, 19 September 1906, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

A STORT of the labour movement in the East End of London, entitled "The Dumpling," by Mr. Coulson Kernalian. will be published shortly by Messrs. Cassell.

The long-promised "Philosophical Reader." edited by Dr. Emil Reich, will be published during the autumn.

Messrs. Jack announce a novelty for the autumn publishing season. A number of the most famous poems of all time will bo daintily printed in bold type and specially illustrated by a series of pictures by wellknown Artists of the day. "The booklets ■will be issued at sixpence.

A story from the pen of Mr. Hall Caine i.i to be published at 6rl by Messrs. Ne'wnes. It has the title "Drink,'' and may be called a study, in the form of a love story, of that problem. It was written a year or two ago, and was printed serially' in the Windsor Magazine.

j The " Jewish Literary Annual," to be published in October, will contain a symposium on Jewish religious education in England, to which several well-known Anglo-Jewish educationalists are contributing, and a. series of essays dealing with the progress of Jewish literature in European countries during the year.

"Rapid Methods in Arithmetic," is the title of a shilling booklet published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Limited. it is. naturally, designed for the use of the commercial student and the business man, and gives the principal short cuts in counting and the quickest methods of obtaining arithmetical solutions to questions which frequently arise in the comse of business. The rules are accompanied with short exi positions in simple terms. The book, i which can be cordially recommended to all who arc engaged in commerce, is by j Mr. John Johnson, headmaster of the 'Boys' High School, Wolverhampton.

' Mr. J. H. Dickinson, Lift. D., who has translated the. greater part of Captain Klado's "The Bottle of Japan,'* has just, finished the translation of still another bookie/ the same author, entitled "Naval War." Captain A. Mahan. who has read the manuscript, speaks well of the work and lias written an introductory chapter to it. In spite, of the punishment meted out, to him on account, of his criticisms of Russian policy, the authorities have recognised Klado's ability a.-> a naval critic and have placed in his hands official documents relating to the late war with a view to an authoritative history. Ho has now nearly finished the work, which is to be published shortly in an English translation exactly as ho wrote it. Certain portions-, we aro informed, in the Russian version are, nob likely to meet with the approval of the censor. The- work is to be edited by the Tsar's brother. SALISBURY SQUARE. Salisbury Square, where Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls have removed their English house, has a good many historical and literary associations, and they are good enough to remind us of some of those. About the year 1580 the site, ' formed the courtyard of the inn. or London house, of the Bishops of Salisbury, in which they resided when summoned to London on Parliamentary or other business. Thus the "Salisbury." But the popular designation of the locality was " The Wilderness," and their lordships were generally admired for their courage and self-denial in living in what was then a distinctly undesirable neighbourhood. The scene of Shadwell's comedy. " The Squire of Alsatitt," was laid here, " Alsatia" being another choice term applied to the district. In the time of Charles 11., Salisbury Court square is a modern —became a debtors' sanctuary and thieves' paradise on account of its special exemptions from City government. Scott tells us in "The Fortunes of Nigel" that: <—■" At the latter end of Charles ll.'s reign the dregs of an age that was indeed full of dregs were ratted in that disputable sanctuary east of the Temples, composed of broken lawyers, skulking bankrupts, sullen homicides, thievish moneylenders, and gaudy courtesans." But times have changed since then. No. 12, where Richardson, the novelist, built a house for himself and printed his " Pamela," has become the home of Llovd's News. Hanging Sword Alley, which lies at the back of Salisbury Square, was the residence of Dickens' "Mrs. Cruncher" (appealing in the pages of the "Tale of Two Cities"), who, it will be remembered, caused Iter estimable husband much annoyance by her habit of praying for him—" flopping," as he used to call it. ;