LITERARY GOSSIP

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 22

LITERARY GOSSIP

Mr Maurice Hewlett’s new work, “The Queen’s Quair,” which is running its serial course in “The Pall Mall Magazine,” will be published in book form by Messrs Macmillan next month. They will publish at the same time a new novel, “Helianthus,” by Ouida, and Mr Winston Churchill’s new story, “The Crossing.” Under the title of “My Airships,” M. Santos-Dumont has written an account of his life and experiences in aerial navigation. The book will be published at once by Mr Grant Richards. Messrs Methuen will publish shortly “A Modem Boeotaa,” by Deborah Primrose. It is described as “a plain record of some years’ experience of country people in a backwater of England.” Mr Grant Richards will publish at once “Social Life under the Stuarts,” by Elizabeth Godfrey, author of “Home Life under the Stuarts.” “Marian Voyne,” a new novel by Beryl Goldie, and “The Amazing Verdict,” by Marie Connor Leighton, will be published by Mr .Grant Richards. Messrs Macmillan’s forthcoming books will include the following:—“National Industries and International Trade/’ by Alfred Marshall, Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge; “The Return to Protection,” by Professor W. Smart, M.A., L.L.D.; “The Faith of a Christian,” by a Disciple; “Voices of the Orchestra, and Other Musical Sketches,” by C. L„ Graves; “The Racing World,” edited by Alfred E. T. Watson; “Notes on the Composition of Scientific Papers,” by T. Clifford Allbutt; “Le Theatre a t’Ecole,” by Mrs J. G. Frazer; “The Masters of

Literature,” by Stephen G-wynn; “The Homeric Hymns,” edited, with preface, apparatus eritieus, notes, and appendices, by E. E. Sikes, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and T. W.. Allen, M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College, . Oxford; and in the “EverSley Series,” ‘''The Letters of Charles Lamb,” newly arranged, with additions, and edited,. with introduction and notes, by the late Alfred Ainger. in two volumes.

“To-Day” has always beeai a bright paper; and has preserved many of the traditions it acquired during the editorship of Mr Jerome K. Jerome. Its latest feature, “In the Public Eye,” starts with a strange full-page picture supposed to represent the Rev. It. J. Campbell in the pulpit, with, three Nonconformist brethren in the background. That the picture of Mr Campbell is a mere earicature is the mature opinion of a friend of ours who knows the original; but the figures that most attract our attention are those in the background. Since it is barely possible that they may be intended to represent living men—although only Mr Campbell is described as “sketcned from life” —we refrain from saying more than that the impression conveyed is that the artist obtained them from a very different forum, of a legal or judicial character.

The brief description of the popular preacher informs us that in the pulpit Mr Campbell wears a slim, gracious and enthusiastic figure—an uncommon and scarcely defensible expression, unless a figure is some sort of garment. “A cedar sweep of hair prematurely white shades a "brow of thoughtful pallor, and eyes that bum —well, like • a religious Doctor Nicholas.“ His thoughts are the thoughts of the placid, but sincere, essayist/’ “While exquisitely dissecting his hearer’s soul, he is never overbearing with the merits of his own. ” The writer concludes with the admission that his subject is “A Christian gentleman.” Perhaps one of the hardest things a public man has to bear is the uninvited attention of the men of the press,

Mr Savage Landor’s new book, “The Gems of the East; Sixteen Thousand Miles of Research Travel Among Wild

and Tame Tribes of Enchanting Islands,”

with illustrations, diagrams, plans and maps by the author, in two volumes, will be published by Messrs Macmillan next month. Mr Savage Lander returned ■* three' months ago from .a journey among cannibals, headhunters, pirates, etc. His new work deals with the extraordinary

experiences he had while travelling in the Sulu and Philippine Archipelagoes—some 1400 islands, all counted—and gives a detailed description of practically unknown tribes, their customs, manners and 'superstitions, from an anthropological, ethnological and geographical point of view.

Messrs Macmillan will publish shortly “The Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie, 1v.T.,” by Sir William Lee-Warner, K. 0.5.1., with portraits, maps and plans, in "two volumes. The story of the early life of the great Governor-General who ruled over India between 1848-1856 and of his tenure of public office at home has never been written, while the history of his Indian administration has been told under difficulties owing to the care with which the bulk of his correspondence has been guarded from public view. The large mass of historical material at length released from the boxes in which it has lain for nearly half a century in DaUiousife Castle includes some 150 volumes of boupd-up letters, besides other MSS. In this book fresh light will be thrown mpon the history of India before the Mutiny. The first volume carries the story of the life of the Marquis through Harrow, Oxford, public office at home, and his Indian administration up to the war with Burma, covering the Punjab revolt- the second Sikh war, and the annexation of the In the second volume his conduct of affairs in the field of foreign policy and the several departments of internal administration will be set-forth. His theory and principles of annexation will‘be shown by numerous quotations from his letters, and the influence of his work upon the outbreak and suppression of the Mutiny explained. The publication of these records is sure to supply new facts to elucidate old controversies such as that in which -Sir Charles Napier was concerned —and the present structure of the Indian Government of which Lord Dal. housie laid the foundations. * ; .