NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14223, 20 November 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

"Her Mother's Daughter," a novel by

Miss Katharine Tynan, is just appealing. The protagonists are of Irish extraction, but the scene is laid partly in the North of England. / jl < — ■:■'-.'H I Professor Sombart's study of Socialism has been for some years a popular book in Germany and many other countries. An English translation has now been made from the sixth German edition, which deals with the whole question of Socialism, its aim and work, bringing down the history of it in Europe and America to the present. Dr. M. Epstein is the translator, and the book comes from Messrs. Dent. .*.-.-

Some people say that if war ever comes again in South Africa it will be between the advancing whites and those hardy, confident mountaineers, the Basutos. They are written about with great knowledge by Sir Godfrey Lagden, in a book which Messrs. Huchinson will issue. He spent nearly 30 years in South Africa, seventeen of those among the,Basutos, whose rise, under the famous Moshesh, he traces.

'The Duchess de Dino, whose memoirs j Mr. Heinemann is just issuing, was Talleyrand s niece. She acted as his hostess while he was Ambassador in London in the early thirties. This made her'a figure in the English political world of the day, and her memoirs are full of anecdotes of all sorts of people. Some of these are the Duke of Wellington, Lord Brougham, Lord Palmerston and Count d'Orsay. j

' Stanley's autobiography, a book o? decided interest, will be issued on an early date bv Messrs. Sampson Low, who published h-s "Darkest Africa," paying him £10,000 for it. We gather that Stanley desired the world to know every detail of his life-story, for he was not ashamed of his humble birth. He left ample memoranda, and this Lady Stanley has now' arranged in chronological order, leaving what the explorer wrote to speak for itself.

Professor Eucken, of Jena, who lately won the Nobel Prize for literature, is one of the most distinguished German philosophers. He has written a book, which is a presentation of life as regarded by the great thinkers of Hellenism,. Christianity and the modern world. Its success in German has been very great, for it has run through seven editions of fifteen hundred copies each. An English translation of it is now being issued by Mr. Fisher Unwm.

Mr. G. Denholm Armour, the well-known " Punch" artist, who last year in " Hunts with Jorrochs" illustrated • with remarkable success a selection of episodes from Handley Cross, is illustrating this year an equally handsome volume by Mr. E. D. Cuming on " British Sport Past and Present. . Ihe very varied phases of sport both past am present are pictured by Mr. Armour in a series of 31 drawings reproduced in full colour and separately mounted. Messrs. Header and Stoughton are the publishers.

in Messrs. Duckworth's winter list of coming books is notice of "Tho Fortunate Princeling and Other Stories," by A. D. Bright, illustrated by Harvey Rountree. This little volume should be of interest to Aucklanders, since author and illustrator hailed from this city. The work of both these New Zealanders is popular at Home, Miss Bright's last book of fairy tales having been especially' well received, and Mr. Rountree' clever* work on Punch, etc., placing his in the very front rank of English illustratore. L,

The coming of a new book from Mr. Henry James is always an event of importance. This time it is not to be a novel, but the warmest admirers of Mr. James* art in fiction will not complain of a choice which gives us, instead of a novel, a; book about Italy. It is of something the same nature as the earlier books of observation and reflection, " English Hours'' and "A Little Tour in France." We may "be allowed to suspect that by- virtue of : the natural appeal of the subject to the author, " Italian Hours" will be at least as successful as its predecessors. Mr. Joseph Pennell is once more to illustrate the text. His work has been reproduced in colour, as well as black- and white. . Mr. Heinemann announces the book.