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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 31 May 1919, Page 9

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"The Powers in i «u..uc, « oy Guv H. Scholefield, B.Sc., which Mr Murray will shortly pu'olish, is a history of the relations of Europe and America with j the islands and peoples of the Pacific Ocean, containing critical 'chapters on the economic and ad-ministrative-problems which the Empire has to face in its Pacific domain. The work deals with British relations with Germany, France, and other Powers in the -region in which Australia and New Zealand have particular interests. ..

Here is a story told by Archbishop Temple, in "The Notebook of a Spinster Lady": "I saw a good deal of Gladstone at one time, but Disraeli I only came into contact with, on one accasion, when he gave me a taste of his quality. I was Bishop of Exeter then, and it was concerning the question of creating the Bishopric of Truro-- a question that found no favour in Disraeli's eyes. J was asked to head a deputation to him on the subject. . . .

I began by describing the long journey from Exeter to London. 'And .yet,' t said, 'in order to. give somo idea of the extent of our labours I may say that during the greater part of that journey I was travelling through my own diocese ' 'Dear me,' said Disraeli, 'you must be tired. . Take a chair!

The number of complaints made about the considerable increase in theprice of "popular" books prompted a writer to a London daily to inquire into the mattet. On© particular complaint, he says, "has brought me a sheaf of* protests from' publishers and other people who have good reason to be acquainted with the difficulties of book production just now. .Mr John Murray, for' instance, points out that the cost of binding is now from three to four times as great as it was three years ago—and a publisher, of course, does not bind every copy of a. book immediately it is printed, but only as it is required for issue to the bookseller —and Mr Stanley Unwin makes the fame point, and reminds me that this increase in the cost of binding is so great that what used to be a sevenpenny now sixpence to 'omct, and must, be l>orne„ by somebody.' The pictorial wrappers, or jackets, too, are Printed when the book is minted, and not when they are wanted from time to time. so . that it would be obvious wastage to scrap them when prie"< change 'nstead of affixing a small label. In short, the evidence sent, to me. suggests that if a. popular book " urintM to-day its cost must necessnrilv be high: and even i F it was prfntxl in the cheap days it still requires binding, and so can be no longer ciieap. '

"Voce d'ltalia," is the-latest addition to the Australian Press, and appears as the representative of Italian feeling and sentiment in the Commonwealth. Its purpose is to portr;:y Italian desires and aspirations, and to stimulate Italian /patriotism. The paper, which is printed both in Italian and English, conveys in its opening number a good variety of informationAmong other things, it explains and upholds the Italian position in regard to Dalmatia and Fiume.