TOPICS OF THE DAY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 5, 31 January 1912, Page 7

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

«• BOOTIES’ BABY." LONDON, December 15. It is already over a quarter of a century, though it seems only a few years, since •'Bootle's Baby” was born, and already a generation which knows it not is being married and given in i ge. it is very questionable indeed ■whether if the book was offered as a new thing to-day, it would meet with any success, but at the time of its issue it was an immediate and striking success, and for ten years it sold better almost than any contemporary work of fiction, no fewer than 2,000,000 copies being disposed of at prices ranging from 6d upwards. And now its author, ‘-John Strange Winter,” is lying dead at her home at Hurlington. where for nearly five months she had been practically bed-ridden as •the result of a fall sustained whilst stepping from a railway lift. The fall damaged one of her elbows, the wound refused to heal, and complications ensued