OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14531, 19 November 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

The peculiar talents of some, great criminals and the manner in which they were defeated in one instance by the courage and persistence of a simple English gentleman is the subject of "The Missing Belora," by E. Phillips Oppenheim (Methuen, London), a fascinating story, which will be familiar to readers of the Herald serial. Bound and cleverly illustrated, it will be found as readable a book as it was a serial, and can be recommended as a holiday volume to those who have not read it.

"The Great Longing," by Alan D. Meikle (Walter : Scott, London ; T. C. Lothian, Melbourne), is " a book for vain people,' which contains much philosophy, as in the opening paragraph: "We men are like the coral insects whose world is based upon the sea's floor. Above them is the grey glow of . the far-off sun's light, and below a great darkness: and ever they build upwards towards the light and away from the darkness. And so we build our world of life: behind is a darkness, and around us dense grey waters of mystery, and before a feeble glow that ever becomes more brilliant as the ages wear on. For ever we advance on the life's work of our fathers, as the ooral insects rise on the work performed by their kind who have passed away. And as the first insects worked for the last, so we work for Posterity, and our instinctive cry is not for the fatherland, but for the children's land that is to be."

"Heai-ts and Coronets," by Alice Wilson Fox {Macmillan, London), will interest all who are concerned with the difficulties of the poor peers, whose lordly incomes are exhausted in keeping up lordly halls, to which the public are admitted, free, on Fridays. In sad contrast to the simple and warmhearted family of Lord Feversham is the sordid and selfish family of the dull little bank clerk, uncle of the heroine; the heroine herself turns out to be the true heiress of the Feversham estates, and the family hands over everything to her witn enthusiasm' after finding ' out the fateful secret she had kept to herself for years. Marriage solves "all difficulties in the story, and if Mr. Lloyd George would only read it another veto" conference would surely be a success.

" The Lantern * Bearers," by Mrs. Alfred Sedgwick (Methuen, London), tells very pleasantly and cheerfully of a German housewife, settled in England with her English husband, and of the . romance of their daughter after finaxifeial ruin had befallen, them. Haifa is a, nice girl, and the ! son of the man her father hates is a manly young fellow, who quite deserves to marry her, and doessecretly, in order that they• may be bound to one another while he is away acquiring independence for them both. The book is packed with distinct and noticeable characters, English and German, and will not be considered dull by any who appreciate the domestic romance.

"Seed, of Fire," by Rachel Swete Mac-' namara (Blackwood, Edinburgh), will charm those. who revel in sex problems, and see no difference between the material and the

spiritual. An Anglo-French young woman, sister of a dull Egyptologist, passes her time, while" ho is " ghouling " for mummies in an oasis, in flirting with an Arab. Naturally, it is dangerous, but she escapes?, and the book leaves her returning to France. Sensations are explained in detail, but this does not offend the susceptible in these enlightened days. ' ' '