NEW PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 7 (Supplement)

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

P. G. Wodehouse's "new book of laughter," published by Herbert Jenkins, is " Meet Mr. Mulliuer."

Warwick Keeping's new book, "Kitty," is announced as " ready" by Cassells in recently received English .papers.

Major-General Charles Ross is the author of a "thriller" to be published by Murray, entitled " The Castle Fenham Case."

" Speeches by H.R.11. the Prince of Wales, 1912-1926," is the name of a book to bo published with photogravure portrait, by Hodder and Stoughton. Forthcoming novels from tho house of Cassell include "Vestal Fire," by Compton Mackenzie, and " McTorrobin's Experiment," by Horace Annesley Vachell. A memoir of the nonagenarian Sir James Reckitt, tho Quaker philanthropist, has been written by Major Desmond Chap-man-Huston. It will be published by Faber and Gwyer. A new edition—or selection—of Adam Lindsay Gordon's poems has lately been published by Constable under the title, " Sporting Verse," with a set of coloured illustrations by Lionel Edwards. A forthcoming book from Faber and Gwyer is " Tho Black Book of Edgeworthstown and Other Edgeworth Memories," compiled by a niece and a grandnephew of the famous Maria Edgeworth.

A satirical comedy by Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell entitled " All at Sea," will shortly be issued by Gerald Duckworth. It is described, in the subtitle, as " A social tragedy, in three acts, for first-class passengers only."

Hutchinson's list of new novels includes " The Murder at Fleet," by E. Brett Young; " Lucia in London," by E. F. Benson " The History of Anthony Waring," by May Sinclair; and "The Way Things Arc," by*E. M. Delafield. " Industry and Politics" is the name of an important book by Sir Alfred Motid which Macmillans will shortly publish. The subjects treated include: "Socialism —What it Really Is," " Canada and Empire Policy," " The Unemployment Problem," and " Why I Joined the Conservatives."