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Southland Times, Issue 22158, 28 October 1933, Page 11

Edward Shanks, the Macmillans announce, is following his novel “Queer Street” with another entitled “.The Enchanted Village.” The welcome for a posthumous book by Lytton Strachey will be keen. “Characters and Commentaries” it is called, and it will of course, be issued by Chatto. Most of the essays in the volume deal with literary or historical subjects, but there are a few that verge on politics. Some of the personages mentioned are Matthew Arnold, Sarah Bernhardt, and Li Hung Chang. The Oxford Press is continuing the collected edition of the late Poet Laureate’s writings with a series of his essays and papers. Some of the personalities discussed by Dr. Bridges are Wordsworth, Stopford Brooke, and Rudyard Kipling. One paper, having the form of a letter to a musician, is of importance to any understanding of the metre in which Bridges wrote his “Testament of Beauty.” Lady Willingdon, the wife of the Viceroy of India, contributes a: little preface to an autumn Heath Cranton book. She says that, as one who has lived many years both in India and in Canada, she can appreciate the appeal it makes to the “exile.” The nature of the volume appears in the title, “Down English Lanes,” and the writer is Lukin Johnston, a Canadian writer who understands the romance of the Old Country.