LIBRARY NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15822, 22 July 1913, Page 7

LIBRARY NOTES.

An important .work, from the point of view of thoso who hold that there is no essential conflict between, religion and science, has just been introduced into the Dunedin. Athenasum Library. It is entitled "The Spiritual Interpretation of •Nature," tho author being Dr James Y. Simpson, Professor of Natural Science, in New College, Edinburgh. In a recent review of this work The Spectator says:—" Professor Simpson writes with a wido knowledge and profound cotiviction, and he has a very pleasant style. It is plain that he loved the writing of this book. Ho delighted to see with his own eyes, and to set before the eyes of all men evidences and instances of the spirit creating and ruling the affairs of Nature. ... It will seem to many of ua that Professor Simpson .... is trying to prove too much. . . . But this fault may ivell be excused, for here is n careful, honest, lovcable book, which will have an excellent welcome."

Among the other recent accessions to the library are the following works:—" When' I Wus a .Child," by .Yosliio Murkino; "Michael Fnirless: Her Life and "Writings," by W. Scott Palmer and A. M. Haggard; " The Britannic Question," by Richard Jebb; "The New Gardening." by Walter P. Wright; and the recent and final volumo of Sve-n Hedin's '' Trans-Himalaya," tho first two volumes of which were published some time ago.

The following is a list of the latent works of fiction added to tho Athenteum Library: "Tho Ethics of Evan Wynne," by D. Hugh Pryce; ''The Unguarded Hour," by Lady Troubridge; "Dew and Mildew," by Pcreiva! Christopher Wren; "The LawJiringcrs." by G. B. Lancaster; "Leila and Her Lovers," by Max Peniberton; "The Mainspring." by Charles Agnew Maclean; "Some Builders." by Amy Le Feiivre; "Through the Window," by Mary IS. Mann ; " The Wind Among the Barley " ; " White Witch," by Meriel Buchanan; "Outside the Ark," by Adelaide Holt; " A Balkan Prince." by Charles G. D. Roberts: " Bv the Bluo River," by Isabel C. Clarke; "The Onto of Horn," by Beulah .Marie Dix; "I Fasten a Bracelet," by David Polter; " Tho Inside of the Cup." by Winston Churchill; "A Mystorv .of the Thames." by Florence Warden'; '.'The Outlaw," by David Hennessey; " Rolling Stones." by 0. Honrv; "The Straight Race," liv Kathlvn Rhodes: "The Strength of the Hills," bv Ilalliwell Sufclifio; "Seen in the Shadow," bv Fergus Hume; "That Which Was Written," bv Sybil Cormack Smith; "Tho Well Inte'ntioncd," by A. Stodart Walker. Among tho bent of the recent works of fiction nro "Tho Inside of the Clip," by Winston Churchill: "The Law-Bringers," by G. B. Lancaster; and " Tho Mainspring," by Charles Agnow Maolosin.