LITERATURE AND ART.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITERATURE AND ART.

Mrs. Campbkix. Pkaed's now .novel, "By , Their Fruits," will appear'very soon withi Messrs. Cabell.' p - ■-• ';■> I'f . .Mr. Silas K. Hocking lias another story, called The Shadow Between,|V ! appealing with Messrs. Warne 'and Co.. . _ "V Mr. Alfred Austin's new volume,," Sac-' red and Profane Love, and other-Poem's," will be published by Messrs. Macmiilan and Co. very shortly. A pew novel, entitled "Tangled Wedlock,'' by Mr. -Edgar Jeohson, is appearing with Messrs. "Hutchinson. It deals with certain, phases' of literary and artistic Bohemia. "King Spruce," is a.novel by an American winter, Mr. . Hohnan Day, which Messrs. Harper will shortly publish. It is a- storv of a young man's fight against a timber "trust in Maine. It is good to hear that Mr. Barrie is soon to break his literary silence with a new book. The title said to have been chosen, When Wendy Grew Up,' indicates the nature of its contents. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff's book of memories—and good stories —has been so successful that he is pretty sure to follow it with another, for he has not exhausted the store of recollections on which he could draw. An exhibition, illustrating miniature painting from Tudor to Mid-Victorian times is being'arranged bv Mr. J. J. I'os- * ter, author of " British and Foreign Miniature Painters," and will shortly be opened at Messrs. Dickinson's galleries in London. . • -1 Canada has recently been paying much. attention to the work of a new poet, Air; - Robert W. Service, " Songs of a hour- , dough," and Mr. Fisher Unwin is now to publish the book in England. It has much to tell of the life of the miner and. the scenes of the Yukon. The discovery in the archives of the Rasponi family at Florence, is announced of 64 unpublished letters from Michael Angelo to Vasari. It is probable that Vasari utilised these letters in his" Lives of 1550. but the new documents will show how far he was accurate in some of his statements. Mrs. Farmiloe (wife of the Rev. W. T. Farmiloe, vicar of St. Agustiiie Victoria Park, London) has had her set ot drawings, "The Children of the Poor," purchased by the Queen. Mrs. Farmiloe has made 3 s'occial study of child in the slums, and as well as being a painter is a prolific writer on this subject. Mrs. Henry de la Pasture is one of the novelists* who have notably ascended in popularity during the past year or to. She has a new story, " The Grey Knight, which she describes as "an autumn love story," appearing wnth Messrs. Smith, Elder. They, also announce a novel, " Crossriggs," bv those two good writers, the Misses Findlater. Mr. J. S. Fletcher's new novel, "Paradise Court," is a story of sensation. Paradise Court is a West End flat, where a Frenchwoman holds a salon of literal and artistic folk. Here a wealthv young • Englismau and a I'iench girl fall in love, and their fortunes are involved in mystery and deadly peril. Mr. Fisher Unwin is the publisher. • Mis. Katharine Tynan has written a new life of that great anostle of temperance, Father* Mathew. It will appear 111 a series which the Rev. Dom Bede Carom is to edit for a new publishing firm, Messrs. Macdonald and Evans. Another volume in the series will be a life of Sir Thomas 'More by a lady, well-known in the. literary world, who is now nun. Other writers of books will be I'other Hubert. Hugh Benson and Mrs. MaxwellSi'oi.t . Mr. Jerome, who lias been to Switzerland for a. holiday, tells the London correspondent of the New York Times that he is trying to finish a novel, a light humorous work, for publication some time this year. "But," he adds, "my play work makes it uncertain whether I can accomplish this." We also learn that Miss Anna Douglas Sedgwick, the author of " Valerie Upton," has a novel coming along. It has the title. " Annabel Chaiuiice," and the scene of it is laid in England. Possibly, the average Englishman does not know so much as he should about the j home life of the German. Certainly there ! is room for a pleasant volume on the subject, and Mrs. Alfred Sidwick has written one. It is written rather from the woman's point of view than from the man's, and it is a picture of interiors and of the small intimate details of social and domestie life. There are no politics, no statistics, nothing about industrial affairs. Messrs. Methuen announce the book. Just now the fell disease of cancer is being widely studied, both in laboratories and in international medical congresses. A work on " The Natural History of Cancer," written by, Dr. Roger Williams, will shortly appear with Mr. Heinemann. The author has devoted his life to the subject, and has brought much thought and experience to bear on its problems. He endeavours to trace the influences which tend to increase or diminish the susceptibility of the individual to the disease. Mr. Elek Lippich, head of the Fine Arts Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Education, is acting as president of the Fine Arts Committee for the Hungarian Exhibition which is to be opened this month at Earl's Court.- The Hun- 1 garians arc confident that there will be one of the best shows of their national art ever made, as, in addition to a comprehensive display of modern Hungarian pictures, they arc also sending over a representative collection of their celebrated statuary. Dick Donovan, whose autobiography " Pages from an Adventurous Life" is al- . ready in a second edition, has completed a new novel which Mr. Wernier Laurie will issue shortly. It is called " Tangled Destinies," and the chief theme of the book is the love of the blind girl for a youth • around whom there is the glamour of ro- \ munce, arid her parting from him under [ the mistaken notion that by leaving him t she can add to his happiness. The story is a tender and poetic study of human passion. Wiiting on March 27, our London currespondent says: "Mr. John Murray tells ! me that lie is about to publish a transla--1 tioii of the work "The Truth About Port Arthur," which is said to have caused a ' sensation in Russia last year. M. Nojino, 1 the author, was the accredited Russian i war-correspondent in the fortress, and he ' has been recently honoured by the Tsar in I recognition of his services. The book tells j of the surrender of the forts without the • knowledge of the commandant of the fort--1 less, of how General Stoessel was twice 1 recalled in June, 1904, by Kuropatkin, 4 and how he concealed the messages sent to himself and destroyed the telegram despatched at the same time to General r Smirnoff, ordering him to take over the comf mand, and it ends with the final surrender i bv General Stoessel, made in opposition to - the strongly-expressed opinion of the 1 Council of War, and without even the 2 knowledge of the commmandant of the forta ress. It discloses many secrets, and is t a work well worthy of study by military men and other students of the science of fortification and the art of war*