PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22126, 2 December 1933, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

The centenary of Merchiston Castle School, one of the most famous of Scottish schools, was celebrated this year, and to mark the event hag been printed a special supplementary issue of the Merchistoninn. This publication contains a history of the school, an account of the centenai’y celebrations, and numerous interesting photographs. Since the publication of the first volume of the “ Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18” (“The Story of Anzac ”) other material and some criticism of the records have been received, and the publishers, Messrs Angus and Robertson, have now issued separately at one shilling a new preface, which will also be included in the fifth volume of the official history. In the October number of the Royal Pictorial the kinema stars inform their admirers what constitutes sex appeal; two of the younger novelists discuss the modern girl pro and con; Claude Luke writes on airmen. There are several short stories, and the magazine contains a “ film album ” depicting screen actors in their new roles, (Gordon and Gotch.) The mid-October issue of Short Stories contains six complete stories, the authors including Donald Barr Chidsey, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Theodore Roscoe, and the third part of “The Ship Killers,” by Captain Dingle. Messrs B. II- Blackwell, of Oxford, have issued in Catalogue 336 a list of some 500 recent books which are being “ remaindered ” at greatly reduced prices.

Carroll Memorials I hear that Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations to, “Alice in Wonderland” are to be included in a stained-glass window which is to be placed in the parish church of Darosbury, Cheshire, where Lewis Carroll was born (says an English writer). It is fitting that this year, following last year’s centenary of the author’s birth, has been rich in memorials to the famous logician and wit. Last May a plaque, unveiled by Lord Crewe, was put on the gatepost of “The Chestnuts,” Guildford, where Carroll lived and died, and more recently a six-foot marble pillar, complete with a sculpture of “the rabbit with pink eyes,” was unveiled at Llandudno by Mr Lloyd George.