LITERARY NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5690, 8 October 1896, Page 2

LITERARY NOTES.

["Canterbury Times."] " "' Messrs Cassell and Company, Limited, publishers, of London, Melbourne and Sydney, will shortly publish in volume form, at'pbpular prices, a new illustrated story by Miss Lilian Turner, of New South Wales, entitled "The Liglitß of Sydney." Miss Turner won with this story the first prize jn an open competition, the conditions of which were announced throughout the British Empire in Cassell's Family Magazine. A bird that does not sinor, ■A hell that does not ring, A trim that will not fire a shot, A horse that will not go a trot, And hoys and girls who love not fun, Are wori.hless, when all's said and ilono. Such is" the leit-motif of a new story of Australian child-life, entitled " The Youngsters of Murray Home," copies of, which will arrive this month. Written by M.' Ella Chaff ey, of Remnark, South Australia, it will be published by Ward, Lock and Bowden, and be illustrated and produced uniform with Ethel Turner's successful "Seven Little Australians." Joseph. Hocking's new novel, "Fields of Fair Renown," may be expected in the colonies during October. It has met with such favour while running through the London Christian World, that it has been followed immediately by another story from tl c same pen. , Fifteen thousand " All Men are Liars " have been sold in nine months. , The first edition of Ada Cambridge's " A Humble Enterprise," was exhausted on the ■■ day of publication, aud but few are. left of the second edition. This last novel of the Victorian authoress is spoken of by the critic of the London Daily Mail- as "the nioßt perfect piece of literary fiction which has yet been produced by any Australian writer." The many thousands of readers of Scriptural romances of " The Prince of the House of David" and "Ben Hur" type will be interested to hear of "Tituß, a Comrade of the Cross" (a tale of the Christ),' a new story by Florence M. Kingsley. Like its predecessors, it comes froi:t America, where over a million copies have been sold. The Times refers to it as " showing real constructive talent, and written in a charming style." Ward, Lock and Bowden have been described by the BvMctin as "AngloAustralian publishers." With tho following colonial authors on their list, tho house can fairly claim tho title :— Ada Cambridge, Ethel Turner, M. Ella Chaffey, Mrs Wicken, Mrs Blitz, Guy Boothby, Henry Kingsley, Fergus Hume, Thomas Heney, J. B. O'Hara, A. Donison and S. G. Fielding. Messrs Angus ancl Robertson will issue about the end of the year the poems of the late Barcroft H. Boake, author of "Twixt the Wings of the Yard," " Where the Dead Men Lie," "Josephus Riley," and many other well-known pieces. The author's share of the profits will go to his relatives. Mr A. G. Stephens will edit the volume and supply a memoir ; and he will be grateful if persons having any letters or memorandum relating to Boake, any of his unpublished or little-known verses, or able to indicate where such may be found, -'will kindly communicate with him, addressing to care of Messrs Angus and Eobertson, 89, Castlereagh Street, Sydney.