SHACKLETON’S BOOK.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14132, 11 February 1910, Page 3

SHACKLETON’S BOOK.

EDITION DE LUXE WITHDRAWN. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. MELBOURNE, Feb. 10. The Argus states that Sir Ernest Sbackletou published a supplementary volume, an edition do luxe, limited to comparatively few copies. This contained the original autographs of all tho members of the expedition, two poems by Shackleton, and a prose article by Mawson. Tho price was fixed at £lO iOs. . The publishers sent a few copies to Australia, and seventeen wore already sold when the Australian agent received peremptory orders to stop tho sale, and'got hack by sonic means tho copies sold. Further instructions came, ordering certain pages to bo cut out and certain other pages, which wore sent, to bo bound up in thoir placo. Tho proceedings roused great interest as well as surrounding the new volume with an air of mystery.