FORTHCOMING BOOKS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13859, 23 March 1907, Page 13

FORTHCOMING BOOKS.

A number of medical experts have combined tn writs a volume on "Tile Drink Problem iu its Medico.ft>ciologual Aspects." This will be. edited by I)r T. N. Kelynack, who is the honorary secret-arv of the .Society for the Study of Inebriety aud published by .Messrs Methuen. It- 'is characteristic of the progress of ideas that such a subject should he lifted- from the. exclusively moral or religious standpoint-, and be. studied in its biological conditions. Although so much has been done within the lust few years to extend the study of Crabbe in this country, it remain!: a remarkable fact that S-Im most- authoritative monograph on tiiis Knglish poet is by a- Frenchman, M. Heiie Huehon. who is. lecturer 011 Knglish- literature, at tho University of Nancy. His critical biography of Crabbe lias been translated bv Mr Frederick Clarke, and Mr John Murray will publish it in-the course of the present season.

'the attraction of the mystical or idealistic romance is permanent with a large class of readers. One of tbose who has cultivated this kind of fiction- with most delicacy is Father Robert 'Benson the youngest of the three awomplished sons of the late Archbishop of Canterbury. Hiii Mirror ot .Shalott," a collection of shoit stories, which is described as written some what 011 the linr-o of his vcrv t'ul The Light Invisible," will shortly be published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. Among other books to 1)0 published by Mr Fisher Urwin during the coining season is "Forty Years of Washington Society," from the letters and journals of Mrs Samuel Harrison Smith, Mrs-Harrison Smith whs one of Hie Bayards of Delaware, a wellknown colonial family, and married the editor of The National Intelligencer, the oldest paper in Washington, at the beginning of the nineteenth centurv. Her journals cover tlio period of the American war with England in 1812. Although Seumas MacManus is presently lecturing in America, 011 matters Irish, the printing press is working for him iu Ireland. We are promised 110111 his pen a- new book under the title of " Doctor Kilgaiiuon." The Doctor is a ligiitheartcd youth of threescore and ten, who remembers the fun of the old davs iu Ireland; ami wiw loves to lie back in his elixir after dinner, and set the table in roars of laughter with his recitals of the droll tilings he witnessed in tho course of his chequered cawcr. The. book will be a book filled with good stories, and hearty laughter. Messrs M. H. Gill aud Soil (Ltd.) will be the publishers.