NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

;";"— —••*■—-. —- ,'.,"' ■ "Ths Case for Socialism," by Fred Henderson, reputed to be the best case ] Socialists are able to make for themselves, . ! is being issued in a sixpenny popular edi- \ : tion by Jarrold, London. ;.--■■-•■; ■••;■..■-'■•:•,' "Bill's Idees," by A. G. Stephens ' (N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Sydnev) is a volum„ ( of sketchy Australian. monologues, in the ■ dialect which is Ascribed to the bushbred natives of the weird continent. 1 Borrow students and lovers will be in- ( terested to know that Messrs. Jarrold and < Sons have, issued in facsimile the exceed- ( ingly rare and beautiful volume " Roman- , tic Ballads translated from-the Danish and Miscellaneous Pieces," by George Borrow, originally and only issued in ( 1826. The new edition is limited to 300 £ copies. ( "Little Humourists at School," by t Henry J. Barker, M.A. (Jarrold, London) a is full of fun, thanks to the shrewd selec- g tionfl from. " children's real answers and 1 written exercises." There are the boy f. who explained the Prodigal Son as ( ''spendin'. his money goin' to pictur' f palace, sir, every arternoon and evenin'," j, the child who explains that mot to split j the infinitive meant that " you should not a try to divide space," and many others. Among recent publications are:—'"The r Cage Unbarred," by Gertie de S. Went- G worth-James, telling of a neurotic woman a who managed to* get a divorce from a loving husband of whom she had tired and to whom she .- was gladly remarried p when her platonic lover deserted her w "Barriers," by the Hon. Mrs. • Julian o Ryng; "Abbot's Moat," by Florence d Warden (Bell, London.) Additions to ei Long's Colonial Library are: — " Seekers G Every One," by-Beatrice Kelston; "The G Terrible Choice," by Stephen Freman; si and " Catching a Coronet," by Edmund t] Bosanquet. 1 L The current quarterly issue of the y •" Bulletin of the Imperial Institute " con- t] tains reports of recent investigations by v the scientific ", and technical department ft of the institute, of which two are of w special v interest to the general reader: L 1 1) an article on the cotton industry of si Nyasaland, showing its great extension f< in the protectorate and describing the n evolution of a type of cotton which has . now been acclimatised and is recognised as a distinct commercial variety under the p name of Nyasaland Upland; and < (2) an. 8l article on Bermuda arrowroot, which, in p ■ the laboratory tests at the Imperial Insti- fi tute, has been shown to evince distinctive j r properties to some "Bermuda" arrowroots w on the London market that are reputed to D( come from Bermuda. A special article, a] illustrated by a coloured plate, is contri- w buted by Mr. .. Gerald .C. Dudgeon, e; Director-General of the Department of m Agriculture in Egypt, on the cotton worm in Egypt, in. which the correlation of the a jield in cotton with the degree of severity of cotton worm attacks is examined in detail. The second part of an article on Rl the coal resources of the British Crown jjj Colonies and Protectorates is published; jj and there are other general notices gt respecting economic products and their development, among which is a corapre- »t hensive survey of the occurrence of bis- . muth ores— distribution and utilisation—throughout the world. In the seventh .issue of "The Home tl University Library " (Williams and Nor- -w gate, London), Mr. Herbert Fisher, who m has recently become Vice-Chancellor of 0 Sheffield University, writes "on "Napo- lc leon," a subject of which he is one of the (,j first masters. Professor Estlin Carpenter, n, of Oxford, contributes a review of the tl field of " Comparative Religion," the d: story and study, of how "one religion y builds upon another." "The News- e£ paper," by Mr. G. Binney Dibblee, M.A., i )( is an account, from the inside, of British ] a newspaper organisation as it exists to- 0 j day. " The Navy and Sea Power " is by gj Mr. David Hannay. Professor R. Mel- j. dola, F.R.S., gives a comprehensive view of the vast scope of present-day jj "Chemistry;" and Professor Benjamin Moore, of ■ Liverpool, discusses "The rf Origin and Nature of Life " in the light of the most recent research, his notes on ■ the periodic or .cyclic character of vital £' activities being among the side issues of a ' peculiar interest. Sir Frederick Wedmore's "Painters and Painting" is mainly ?.' concerned with the French and British schools lof the 18th and 19th centuries. a ' In "Dr. Johnson and His Circle," Mr. P' John Bailey, M.A., treats the great lexi- )? cographer as "the accepted and tradf- ~ tional spokesman of the integrity, humour, ** and obstinate common-sense of the English people," and gives a notable vindica- "' tion of "The Genius of Boswell." Pro- ** fessor J.' G. Robertson deals with " The P Literature of Germany." and in a gentle e: protest against its neglect in England re- pi marks upon the value for the modern l * mind of its strong individualism, its $ imaginative qualities, and its closeness-to V the problems and' interests . of to-day. hi Volume 70 is a spirited and powerful' sur-' y< vey of "The Victorian Age in Litera- G ture," by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, who fa opens and closes his thesis with chapters as suggestively headed: " "The Victorian al Compromise } and its Enemies," and "The tl Break-up of the Compromise/- r I.