LITERARY GOSSIP

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 25

LITERARY GOSSIP

Messrs Longmans, Green and Co. are issuing ah abridged and cheaper edition of the “Verney Papers.” It is in two volumes at a guinea. Mr Savage Landor’s account of liis recent journey through the Philippines is to be published this month by Messrs Macmillan and Co. Mr Clark Russell has finished another novel of the sea, xvhich he entitles, “The Yarn of Old Harbour Toxvn/’ That, indicates well enough the scene of its opening—a town by the seaside—and

the period of it is the early years cf the nineteenth century. An admiral and his son, and a retired captain of the mercantile marine and his daughter, as:e the chief characters in the story. It will be published by Mr T. Fisher Unwin.

Mr T. Fisher Unxvin is publishing a volume by Mr Arthur Hayden, entitled “Chats on English China.” The illustration® include a frontispiece in three colours, and more than eighty pictures of old china.

“One of My Son®” is the title cf a detective story by Miss Anna K. Green, which Messrs Ward, Lock and Co. will publish at the end of the month. They xxdll also issue soon a istory by Mr Guy Bootliby, entitled, “A Bid for Freedom.” The fourth issue of “L fe” (Fit diet t Bros., Melbourne) cental's Sir Joseph Ward’s article on “The Humours of the Post. Office/ 2 - Will Ogilvie’s account of “Fair Women and Grey Horses,” Lori* ■meir’s fourth paper on “Old Gordon Graham,” xvhile “Mr Speaker’s Day” provlues interesting and entertaining reading.

A nexv and 'uniform edition of the novels of Mrs Mary Mann is being issued by Messrs Methuen and Co.

Mr Grant Richards is publishing a romance of the Arthurian, age by Mr Warwick Deeping. He has also nearly ready a volume of short stories by Air G. H. Powell, entitled “The Blue Dryad.”

Mr Frank T. Bull on’s nexv story xxdll appear serially in the “British Weekly.” It has the title of “Sea Puritans.”

“Angelo Bastiani” is the title of a nov r ei by Mr Lionel Gust, xxdiioh Messrs Constable and Co. are publishing. It will be illustrated.

Mr Wm. Heinemann is publishing a tale by Mr Doll Wyllarde, whose previous volume, “The Story of Eden,” made a success. His new or v _ js entitled “Uriah the Hittilte,” and the scene of it is for the most part laid in a small island off the east, coast of Africa—an island xvith a British garrison.