NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17426, 21 September 1918, Page 2

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

Tho exceptional length of Mr H. G. Wells's new novel "Joan and Peter," together with tho increasing cost of book production, have compelled tho publishers to fix the price at 9s net. This means that it will be sold in N'2W Zealand at 10? 6d. At tho beginning of the war Mr W. B. Maxwell laid aside the pen for tho sword, serving ,as an officer in "the Royal Fusiliers throughout tho Sommo campaign. "The Mirror and the Lamp," his now novel, is tho first ho has written since August, 1911.

Sir Oliver Lodge's "Christopher: A Study in Human Personality," is not concerned with the supernormal phenomena dealt with in ''Raymond" and other of his books. It is "In of Christopher Tennant, who fell in Flanders whilo serving as an officer in tho Welsh Guards,

A new volume of verse entitled "Herb of Grace," from the prolific muse of Mrs Katharine Tynan, is announced. Interest attaches to the publication of "Modern English Writers! Being a Study of Inviginntive Literature, 1890-1914," by Harold Williams. The book covers the work of <i! the ch.of writers of the period. Mr E. P. Benson's now book "Up and j Down" is not wholly a work of fiction. Sir William Robcrtson-Nicoll, in the British Weekly, dignifies it with a three-column review under the title "A Storv of the Supernatural." It is a book about the war set in a slight Italian framework. Mr John Butler Yeats, better known as .Tack B. Yeats, the artist and brother to the famous Irish poet and playwright, has in the press a volume of "Essays: Irish and American." ''Tho War and the Future" eontiirs the two lectures which Mr John Masefield delivered in America d !, "' ntr bis vecr-nt tour in that country. Mr Masefield has also published a new poem, entitled "Rosas," the theme being that of a South American outlaw who becomes a cruel dictator. There is shortly to be published in AmorW n collected edition of all Mr Masefield's poems and plays in two volumes, the first volume containing the poems and ' .the second the plays. _ A now book of poems by Rudvard Kiplinjr is announced for American publication. The title is "Getheemane." A new drama in English translation from the pen of M. Maurice Maeterlinck is down i for early publication. It is said to be a j sequel to the "Blue Bird," and will probably be entitled "The Quest of Youth." Mr G. K. Chesterton has in the press a new volume of essays to be entitled "The j Superstition of Divorce." Two interesting announcements are "The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne," edited by- Edmund Geese and Thomas James Wise: nnd "Renr'niscences of Lafcadio Hearn," by his widow, Setsuko Koizumi.