NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14525, 12 November 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mb. Kipling's new book, " Rewards and Fairies," is now issued by Messrs. Macmillan.

"Uganda for a Holiday," says Sir Frederick Treves in a book he has coming out with Smith, Elder and Company. Since he retired from surgery, Sir Frederick has given us several delightful travel books.

There may be talk over a book entitled " The Romance of Princess Amelia," which Mr. Everleigh Nash is publishing. It, of course, concerns the sixth daughter of George 111., and the author is anonymous— so far. Anonymous, too, is another volume which Mr. Nash has nearly ready, " Recollections of a Society Clairvoyant."

It is now some time since Mrs. Hugh Fraser wrote her charming book, " A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan.'' She has since then won popularity and a good name as a writer of novels. But in a book that the Hutchinsons announce, ehe is returning to her reminiscences. This book will have the

title, " A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands." .'• Mrs. Fraser, everybody may not know, is a sister of Mr. Marion Crawford.

In anticipation of the centenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, which occurs in 1912, a lecture tour began last month in which the eldest surviving son of the novelist, Mr. Alfred. Tennyson Dickens, delivered an address on "My Fathers Life and Work." Mr. Dickens, who was born in 1845, is a godson of the late Poet Laureate. He has been absent from England for 45 years, and the address which he delivered is one which was enthusiastically received in Australia, in which lie has dwelt for many years. As a boy Mr. Dickens was constantly the companion of his famous fattier, of -whom he has many reminiacenoeß^