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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

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Mr. Frank T. Bullen is the author of an adventure story, "Fighting Che icebergs," which Nisbet will publish.

"Over BemertonV was a '"buokev ' novel by Mr K. \ . Lucas, and the same agreeable element is introduced int-o a new story which Aye shall have from his pen this season. side. T? it is named invitingly, and many odd characters wander in and out of the pages, and a few quaint books are discussed. Mr Lewis Melville, the secretary of the Titmarsli Club; lias had an interesting letter from • CaloaTtc*. where Thackeray was bom. The- Cr.lciitta Historical Society fs organising n movement to commemorate the centenary, next year, of Thackeray's birth. A public fund has been initiated to acquire a replica in marble of bust of the novelist- as a boy. The plan is to place it in St. John's Church, the Old Calcutta. Cathedral, wherein Thackeray was baptised. Mr E. F. Benson's m»\v story, "The Osljornes." was to be issued in September by Messrs Smith, Elder ind Co.