AMONG THE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14002, 7 September 1907, Page 7

AMONG THE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Mr Marshall P. Wilder is preparing a book of humour, which' will be entitled' "Smiling Round the World." It- is the outcome of a tour which Mr Wilder made recently. 'An interesting hook of travel is promised from the pan of Mr Philip S. Mardon, who lias just- returned from a. journey to the Mediterranean countries, Mr Mardon spent much of his time in Grcece and Sicily. Ilis volume will bear the title of " Greece and the /Egean Islands." "An Observer in the Near East," an anonymous hook published by Mr Eveleigh Nash, which has attracted considerable attention, is written, I believe, by Mr Le Qheux. Mr Le Qtieux is now in Lapland. A book on golf, "The Spirit of tho Links," "a pleasant book with no instructions ill it," lias been written bv Mr Henry lieacli, and will be published by Messrs Methuen.

Anything relating to Mr Gladstone cannot lie 'unimportant, and Mr D, C. Lathbtiry's "Religious Life of W. E. Gladstone," which will contain a selection of liis letters and papers 011 ecclesiastical and theological affan's, will bo eagerly looked for in the religious' world. < " Half-lengths and Other Essays" is tho title of a new book which Mr E. -V. Lucas is publishing with Messrs Methuen, uniform with his "Fireside and Sunshine." The book contains a number of character studies by simple minds, both known to fame and unknown, together with aTi the author's rcccnt contributions to periodical literature that he wishes to preserve, including a totally new .account of Charles and Mary Lamb," nominally from the month of Lamb's cousin, the bookbinder (now with God), which appeared in the Cornhill for Julv.

Mr Frank Yanderlip, the prominent New York banker, has collected in. book form under the title of "Business and Education"'fifteen articles and public addresses written by him in the last ten years, . five, of them, deal with problems iflf Commercial and industrial education. 'Four others treat of currency and finance, and the remainder touch upon a variety of topics—old-age pensions, American foreign trade, the industrial future, and the Ijke, The bold attempt to answer the quest-ion, "What, does Bernard Shaw mean?" will be made by "Ir Holbrook Jackson in a volume entitled " Bernard Shaw: A Monograph," which is to be published -by P.. Grant Richards. The book is divided into four parts. 'The first is mainly biographical, giving an account, of Mr Bernard Shaw's caree* from his youth to the present day, Tlie three other parts will be devoted respectively to "'The Fabian," " The Playwright," and "The Philosopher." The book i 6 illustrated by four portraits.

A collection of stories depicting the life of marine engineers, mainly in the East, will be published by Mr. Fisher Unwin. The book is entitled "'ln the First Watch, and Other Engine-room Stories," and is written by Mr James Dalziel. The stories range from comedy to tragedy, and all embody personal experiences and impressions. Mr' Unwin will also publish a new book by Mr W. C. Scully, whose stories of South Africa are well known. It is entitled " By Veldt and Kopje," and forms a( collection of scenes from South African life. .

The Hon. George B. Oorlelyou, Secretary of the Treasury, lias been authorised to OTFSi. !' l6 , the lato Present

M'KMey. Mr Cortelyou was a Government- clerk when ho attracted the attention of Mr M'Kiuley, who made him one of liis assistant secretaries, Subsequently Mr Cortelyou was promoted to the office of Secretary to the President, and has successively' filled the positions in the Cabinet of Secretary of Commerce and Labour, Postmaster-general, and Secretary of the Treasury. He was the chairman of the last Republican National Committee, and directed Mr Roosevelt's Presidential campaign.

The harassed clergyman who finds it difficult to compose liis sermons need despair r.o longer. "A complete pulpit equipment for parochial clergymen" is tho description of a monumental work which Messiß James Nisbet and Co. a-re going to publish. It is entitled "The Church Pulpit Commentary," and will comprise nearly 500 sermon outlines by the Church's best preachers, with notes by the Church's bast-scholars. It will consist of twelve volumes, five being devoted to the Old and seven to the New Testament. The volumes will be issued separately at intervals of about two months, and t-lio price of eacli will be 7s 6d. The first volume will be readv in October.

Although the Manchester Ship Canal has been in use as a great- and busy water-, way for over ten years, no complete and authoritative account has yet been published of that important enterprise. The omission is at last to be supplied. Sir Bosdin Leech, a prominent- citizen and former Lord Mayor of Cottonopolis, has writ-ten a liist-ory of the canal from its inception to its completion. The work will embody many personal reminiscences of the prominent figures associated with the enterprise from the time—more than twenty-five years ago—when it was merely a. scouted project. It will contain numerous plans, portraits, and illustrations, and will be published immediately in two volumes by Messrs Sherratt and Hughes, at two guineas net. It is announced that "The Holv Grail and Other Fragments," by the late Riyhard Hovev, with an introduction and notes by Mrs Hovgy, and a preface by Bliss Carman, will- soon be . published. The volume will contain Mr Hovey's outline, never before published, of the nine volumes of the Lancelot and Giiencvere series as he bad projected' it, together with certain perfected parts of the unfinished plays. This work, long advertised as in preparation, will help the reader to answer many of the questions which arise after reading the four completed volumes of the 6eries, "Laiincelot- and Guenevcre: A Poem in Drama." Several other posthumous volumes by Mr Hovey, including a- 'new book of lyrical verse, are eaid to be in prospect. The third volume of " Contemporary France," 'translated from the French of M, Hanolaux (Constable; 15s net), is of great interest, as it covers the period of the scare of 1875, which arose because itwas generally supposed that Bismarck had made up his mind to attack France and to make an end of that unfortunate country. Bismarck had told the Russian Ambassador at Paris, Prince Orloff, in 1874, that- he would never suffer France to rally round her the forces of clericalism. In the spripg of 1875 the Berlin Post- published its' famous article, " War in Sight," which filled Europe with alarm. Moltkc almost- simultaneously told a- foreign diplomat that Germany would not wait till France was ready- "it is our duty to anticipate events." The French Government in alarm applied to Russia, and tho Czar Alexandor promtply set to work to stop the mischief, enlisting the services of England, with the result- that Bismarck found the whole Continent ready to support Frajice against any act of wanton aggression.