LITERARY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2436, 21 November 1900, Page 67

LITERARY NOTES.

—Mr Murray is going to issue in the autumn a half-crown edition of Darwin's "Origin of Species." — A tasteful reprint of the "Areopagitica" has been added by Messrs Dent to their "Temple Classics." — Mr John Long is publishing a sixpenny edition of " Father Anthony," Mr Robert | Buchanan's well-known novel. j — The Rev. W. J. Dawson has a volume of stories in the press with Mr Grant Richards. It is entitled "The Doctor Speaks." — "James Martineau : A Biography and a Study," by Mi A. W. Jackson, M.A., will be issued at an early date by Messrs Longman. — Messrs Blaclawood are bringing out a book about China, a life of Sir Rutherford Alcock, who long represented the Queen at , Pekin. — Professor Arber is now adding the "Surrey and Wyatt Anthology" and the "Goldsmith Anthology" to his well-known series of British Anthologies, which are published by the Oxford University Press. — "Mrs Gaskell and Knutsford" is the title of an interesting book which is shortly to be issued. The author, the Rev. G. A. Payne, has compiled a biography of the author or "Cranford," and has been able to identify many oi the scenes of her books. — Mr F. T. Bullen will have two new books ready for publication shortly — "The Palace of Poor Jack," with an introduction by S. R. Crockett, and "With Christ at Sea," a religious autobiography. — Darwin's work on "Coral Reefs," which roused discussion when it appeared and which has never been without readers, is to be included in Messrs Ward, Lock's New Minerva Library. There will be a portrait of Darwin from the picture by Collier in the National Gallery, and a critical introduction by Professor Judd. —Mr John Lane will publish "The Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies," by Mr Richard Lo Gallienne. One paper is on his recent visit to America, and is entitled "So This is Americo"; and another, "Stevenson Dethroned." — Mrs Campbell Praed has completed arrangements for the publication of a new novel, entitled "Ap a Watch in the Night, a Romance of Dreaming and Waking." Messrs Chatto and Windus, who have published many of Mrs Praed's novels, were to issue the book early this month. —An important book on India is announced by Messrs Methuen. The author

is Sir T. H. Holdieh, KC.I.E, and thp book will appear under the explanatory title of "The Indian Borderland : Being a Personal Record of Twenty Years." — Miss Mary E. Wilkins, the American novelist, who has given us some admirable studies of life and character in New .England, is said to have gone to seventeenthcentury Virginia for the "local colour" of her forthcoming romance, " The Heart's Highway." —Mr Fisher Unwin will publish in his "Story of the Nations" series the long-pro-mised volume on "Norway," by Professor Boyesen. The book will foe brought thoroughly up to date by the addition of a new chapter by that competent authority, Mr O. F. Keary, on recent events and literature. —Mr Heinemann announces "A Little Tour in France," by Henry James, illustrated with original drawings by Joseph Pennell. — The first edition of "Nude Souls," by Benjamin Swift, has been sold, and Mr Heinemann now announces a second impression. — Now that the copyright of Balzac's novels has expired, the house of Ollendorf has begun to is»ue his novels in good style for 3f 50c. — Lady Dilke's volume on "French Architects and Sculptors of the Eighteenth Century" will be ready almost immediately. This volume, which will be illustrated with 20 photogravure plates and other reproductions, carries on the work begun in the author's "French Painters of the Eighteenth Century," published lasb year. The publishers are Bell and Sons. — Captain Adams, of the sth Lancers, who has lately returned from the front, is printing a poem, entitled "Rus Divinum," 'under the pseudonym of Auguste Smada. His verses do not celebrate Mars, but "Panaque Sil-

vanumque senem Nymi > ..sque sorores." Mi£ Fisher Unwin is his publisher. —"A Self-made Countess : the Justification of a Husband," is the title of John Strange Winter's next six-shilling novel, which Messrs White and Co. will publish shortly. It i? dedicated to Mr AtherleyJones. Q.C., M.P., and will be its author's seventieth book ! —Mr George F. Underhill has completed the manuscript of "A Century of English Fox-hunting," which will be published before the close of the present year. It is a work of reference of a somewhat novel character, anecdotes of the hunting field — the usual feature of books of the kind — being only partially in evidence. — Mr Heinemann will shortly publish "The Pageantry of Life," by Mr Charles Whibley, with a frontispiece. In this book the author gives a vivid study of all those masters of dandyism who have distinguished themselves, as did the great Beau Brummell, and have become historic characters because they cultivated to perfection the art of Life, and set the fashions of theii times. — Among the important literary undertakings of the present year which will be issued in a few months is tke republication, with copious additions, of the "East Galloway Sketches," which have appeared during tho last twenty years in the "Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser." They comprise descriptive, historical, and antiquarian notices of the most important places in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, interspersed with biographies of eminent natives, togethei with the folklore of Galloway, and numerous notices of the connection of the poet Burns with the district hitherto unknown. This work, which is from the pen of Dr Alexander Trotter, of Dalshangan and of Blyth, Northumberland, will be published by Mr Adam Rae, Castle Douglas. >