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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 23

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

We have received from St. Ignatius College, Riverview, N.S.W., “Our Alma Mater,” a school magazine, which, from the point of view of the reader, the printer, and the illustrator, is equally meritorious and creditable. The first article in “Our Alma Mater” is an obituary sketch of the late Rev. Father Joseph Dalton, S.J., the founder of Rivet-view, with, an appreciation of his work reprinted from the “Freeman’s Journal.” and some “In Memoriam” verses by J.G.D. Some notable French verse under the title “Apres la Bataihe de L:ao-Yang” moralises on the strong unreasonableness of man which lends nations to wholesale slaughter, and concludes— My st ere ? Oui e'en est un pour le monde incredule; Alaio pour nous qui croyons a la revelation, Et que Thumanite souffrante se formule Dane in peche, la guerre . ... est une expiation. A translation from the Irish of the “Prayer cf Aongus” contains these tender and poetio words:—“O Lord God. take pity on this tender little child’ Put wisdom into his head and dispel the mist from his mind. O' Jesus, Thou wert once young Thyself ; take pity on youth. Thy didst Thyself shed tears: dry the tears of this little hoy. Give ear, O Lord, to the prayer of Thy servant and’ refuse him not this little been. O Lord, bitter are the tears of a child, sweeten them: d&eo are the thoughts of a child, calm them; keen is the grief of a child, remove it from him ; soft is the heart of a child do not let it be hardened. Amen." Blind persons who have learned to read on the Braille system will be glad to hear of the “Braille Weekly,” No. 1 of whi oil lias been issued by the company of that name. Its price is a penny per number. In new poetry the “Times” Supplement notices “The Valley of Dreams,” by H. IT. Sands, with pretty drawings by A. de Ncsti. The book is noted as “containing much musical verse about the moods of life and nature.” “Young Japan,” by James A. B. Scherer Ph.D. (Kegan Paul) 6® is a work by the President of Newberry College, U.S.A., who was at one time engaged in educational work in Japan. Captain A. T. Mahan’s new work, in two volumes, on “Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812,” will be published in October by Messrs Sampson Low, Marston. “An Eye-Witness in Manchuria” is the name of another war book. The author, Lord Brooke, who was Reuter’s representative with Kuropatkin’s army, is said by British reviewers to write simply and graphically and his work is described as throwing side-lights on many phases of the war which have hitherto been obscure. The hook is published bv Eveleigh Nash at 7s 6di

Miss Murfree, who; under , the pseudonym of George Egbert Craddock, is well-known for hert “Prophet of Great Smoky Mountain,” “In the Clouds,” and other strange stories of Tennessee life, has written a new love story of the American Oiv?s War. It is called “The Storm Centre,” and is published by Macmillan and Co. at 6s.

Those who know ho-w well Mrs Campbell Praed tells an Australian story w.ill be glad to hear of a new novel from her pen, “The Maid of the River.” It is published by John Long at 7s.

A work of interest to bacteriologists, medical men, and sanitary students generally, should be “Experiments and Observations on the Vitality of the Bacillus of Typhoid Fever and of Sewage Microbes in Shellfish,!’ by Dr Klein: It is a report made to the “Worshipful Company of Fishmongers,” hy whom Dr Klein was engaged to make the experiments, and is issued by that body.

Students of the Occult will find the result • of the latest investigations in two books issued at Is each by the De Jja More Press. These- are “Crystal Gazing” and “Thought Transference,” and are both by N. W. Thomas, M.A. The former has a preface by Mr Andrew Lang.

“Meteorology or Weather Explained,” by J. G. M‘Pherson, Ph. D.. is published in Jack’s Scientific Series at la.

Mr Kegan Paul has published at- six shillings a 510 page work on “Catholicity vnd Progress in Ireland,” by the Rev. M. (PRiordanp D.D. The work is a ‘vindication of the work of the Roman Church in Ireland,” and is a reply to recent works and speeches of a contrary tenor.

A welcome little cascade of posthumous volumes by R. L. Stevenson is bursting upon the world; “Tales and Fantasies” (Ohatto and Windus. 6s) is the second in a few weeks, and we are oromised a third shortly. It appears, like its predecessor, without a word to explain either why it has been withheld so long, or upon whose authority it is nublished now. It consists of three stories, two of them extending to several chapters, one only to some thirty ©ages The two longer ones are not new to the happy owners of the “Edinburgh” edition ; but except in those stately volumes they have not been published before in book form. They are comparatively early work, and illustrate the period of Stevenson’s arrival at fiction, after his severe apprenticeship among picturesque essays and sketches. In these latter he confided in the world with an extraordinary engaging air; but it was when he began to writ© stories that bis imagination took real colour and strength, and shook off the artificial ■nretrtinesis that hung over so much of his early writing. “The Misadventures of John Nicholson,” the first in this book is not very successful as a story ; but it has an unmistakable atmosphere. —“Times.”