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this observed, Sunday, avril 24, 1910. MR. CHURCHILL'S NEW FIRST GLANCE. th-roat after a heavy loss on the turf THE CAXT0N BALZAC. BOOKS OF THE DAY.

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net. Dr. Llurda writes as an impctrtaxbable optimist" on the perplexing- problems involved in aha relation- of civilised humanity to the laws of Nature. Dr. Cajal states the paradox in his preface: "The social man of today, corrupted by bis unworthy worship of capital, represents a strange mixture ot civilisation and barbarism.

He thinks and feels, apparently, like a Christian but be acts like a citizen of the aristocracy of the ancient in-haman republics. nCTTON. THE WORKS OF GEORGE MEREDITH: MEMORIAL EDmOX. Vols. XI.

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These three books, all published within the week, are eloquent of the- fact that the obscure and the neglected are coming into their own. Hie sedulous resuscitation oi tho Nobody has recently been a familiar feature of literature in connection with the frail femininities of history now at last even that source of supply has given out, and we are driven back upon mere masculine second-raters and tliird-raters. There is clearly an insatiable demand for information about the lives of our progenrtore half as much interest in tho unimportant people of tho present would reform tho world. Of the ton subjects of these three volumes six are ignored by the Dictionary ol Biography which is at once an excuse and a criticism of the authors' industry. The one who best justifies the belated limelight is Sanderson Miller, who was known to his own tamo as an architect of parts, but concerns us much more as the centre of a very desirable circle of friends, political, literary and personal.

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This book, intended for schools, students and the general reader, aims at supplying a historical background to the art movements in various countries, so that the influence of one school upon another may be rightly judged. Ti is written in a popular manner and is intended as an introduction to a more serious study of the subject. POETRY AND THE DRAMA SKIES ITALIAN. By Ruth 8hepard Phelps. NOVEL.

A Modern Cunomcut By Winston Churchill (Macmillan.) 6s. The American Mr. Churchill having de scribed for us in Mr. Crewe's Career the fate of an honest man among American politicians, shows us now the struggles of a girl with ideals in American society. His heroine is a martyr to ideals, and combines with them the intense practicality of her country.

Whence it arises that at the age of thirty, when we bid her a Telnctant farewell, she has been married, divorced, married again, widowed, and once more betrothed. And it is a tribute to Mr. Churchill's skill and power that she is interesting to the end. She is a type of American which only Mr. Churchill could portray, ror the author is American of tho Americans, and reflects as no other writer does the restlessness, the quick decisions and resultant narrow outlook, the sophistication combined with a certain naivete, tho youthful- ness, the disdain of pretence and the curious idealism which go to lorm uie national character.

Compared with the foremost of our writers he deserves comparison with the best he is younger, more hopeful. Ho- reflects the strong American Deuel that youth will find a new way, tho strong American senti-mcntalism. His heroine is not altogether alien to the later Shavianism- should we say fJarkcrism: and has a touch ot the same disconcerting contempt of traditions and conventions. Hypatia Tarleton would, wo gather, be a success among the ladies of Newport. But Honora LefEngwell, Mr.

Churchill's heroine, has gone less far along the path of disillusion. She is less inhuman, and contrives to preserve some, at least, of her cherished ideals until the end. When we meet her first she is a girl living in genteel poverty in St. Louis. She meets a sprig of finance who drops from the clouds of cleverness and culture and a wider life, which for her enshroud New York.

She meets a French vicomte as well, and the friend of her childhood and adorer of her youth is also at hand. Mr. Churchill comes within hailing distance of farce in makinz these throe men pro pose to his heroine on tho same day. The financier offers her New iork and money, the Vicomte a chateau and love-making, the adorer nothing but his positively astounding nobleness. She chooses the first, on the principle of first come first served.

She finds he has no sou except for stocks and share's and no shrine but Wall Street. She becomes excessively bored with him, and warns him in a Shavian interview that she will leave him unless he gives her mora attention. He squanders money on ner, ana mey rise zrom a sunuro to the more rarificd atmosphere of the summer resort of Quicksands, and thence to the coveted gnomes ot rsew.port.an-d Wow York itself. But her ideals are active. She discovers that life is a hollow sham (Mr.

Churchill's irony here is very clever), and, failing satisfaction from her husband, seeks rocinrocal ideals ehewhere. The tertue ouae lure many and various, and are described with a perfect realism, the upshot is a Western divorce and a marriage with the ideal one found at last. The description of that marriage and' its failure is an extraordinarily fino piece of work. Few novelists have done better. Then follows the death of the 6econd hi'shand.

four years of seclusion and disaD- pointment, and finally the reappearance of the real Simon Pure, the adorer of her youth, whose nobility is by this time nothinn less than staggering. Such an outline as this is the mere skeleton, and conveys, nnrhans. a misleading conceDtion of the fine proportions and complexion of the wnoie. unurcniu wotks siowiy, conscientiously, and with an elaborate care. His reward is that his stories seem to grow from within, and his characters to develop naturally and without aid from him.

If he has still an occasional crndity of style, he has earned soreness and in ripeness and perfection of narration. His desenptiona of persons and places are deft, brief, and Striking. Bin portraitoraof the psychology oi isiew iotk ana xvowpora is masterly. It is a strange hectic world which he describes with 'an assured knowledge. And if tho cmrious perfection of his.

hero raises a tendency to elevation in the eyebrows, nis otner cnaracuera are ueur-cui, uu.iuist.miy drawn, and easily comprehended. A Modern Chronicle rises above the level of all those fine novels of his which have the inevitable C. in their title, and confirms his position leav ing Mr. Henry James out of the argument as the first of American writers. V.

A. B. PHILOSOPHY OF THE FOLD. Mad Shepherds. By V.

Jacks. (Williams and Worgate.) 9s. bd. net. Several thincs about these peasant studies will rivet the attention of the eclectic reader.

The author is a professor of philosophy, a theologian, and the editor of the "Hib'bert Journal." The characters described are apparently founded on real experience. Upon them a philosophical ideal has been superimposed, and one Tather suspects a lesson in agnosticism (a subject of Professor Jacks). a theory of the origin of the book be allowed, it may bo hazarded that Mr. Jacks knew a couple of shepherds whose elemental lives had produced in them a brooding, sullen melan choly. Consciously or unconsciously no developed a conceDtion of the difieience in the two men one became actually mad, an Ish-mael, and the' other he conceived as a sort of Buddhist, a tongue-tied peasant genius with a power (aided by drink) to project himself mto the etner ana to conimune wun tne spirits and yerities.

A fine subject this is, with more than one fine thought, such as the comparison of tha dumb poet at the fold fin dine utterance in the breeding of perfect sheep to Shakespeare finding his Hamlet. the question of the literary value of the book is left. Is the reduction of tho idea to words adequate to convince us that Snarley Bob is what the author says? His actual sayings do not fulfil expectation. They are all the more likely to bo true to life a fact which strengthens a feeling that Mr. Jacks read something of his own philosophy into shepherd who never dreamt of it.

INVERTED REALISM. Judas Iscabtot. By L. N. Andreyev.

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Griffiths.) Ss. net. Andreyev a form of the name unfamiliar and obscuring the identity of Andreieff, author of "The Red Laugh," a nightmare of blood and shellfire turns his creepy imagination upon the Gospels. Primitive literatures found inspiration in the Bible for both drama and farce. When the novel emerged, the Book was, in England at any rate, outside the scope of romance.

On the Continent, where Salome is not subject to the Censor, some novelists have found inspiration akin to primitive art in the Gospel story. Thus Peter Rosegger, spokesman of the peasant of the Austrian Alps, and Gustav Frenssen, with the mixed naturalism and mysticism of the Hol-stein peasant, haye recast the life of Jesus in the glow of romance. Andreyev has visualised part of the narrative with the fantastic melancholy and ur irammaUfld imagination of the Slav. His method can be explained to those who remember Browning's poem nn Lazarus as the substitution of horror for Heaven. Andreyev's picture of the life of Lazarus after he was" raised from the dead is a dreadful dream.

A sketch, five pages long, of the ascent to Calvary, as seen or rather not seen by a Jewish merchant who on that day suffered from a racing toothache, is a triumph of inverted realism. The motive of "Judas Is-cariot," which occupies seven-eighths of the book, is not a defence but an explanation jealousy of Peter and John led Judas to his treachery, which proved their cowardice, and to his suicide, which proved bis love, for he was the tm to join the Master. The differentiation of tb disciples shows enormous dramatic aldlL Vividnnr of idea is matched by a style the which is' heightened bv the aims: 3narc uw of eipinded THE ONLY COMPLETE AND UNEX PUBGATED EDITION OP BAL- ZAC'S WORKS EVEB ISSUED IN ENGLISH. A GBEAT PUBLISHING ENTERPBISE. No fact in the literary history ot the -time is more enoouraging to- thoce who are -inter ested in the development of eound literary tatu than the steady progress of the fame of Balzas.

during the past few years. With the celebra tion of the Balzac centenary there -began on of those strange 'literary awakenings' for-which it is not easy to account. English readers became anxious to read Balzac But tbe demand ivnft for. tlin mTlltA 1at. frtr n.

i.i a f. -It. tion that should give the works of tho author as they were written, in all their integrity and without.gloss, change, or expurgation. Balzac was at once the greatest of all nove. lists, and one of the most remarkable men who eve? lived.

Ho saw all all Character, and all happenings simply as raw material to be manufactured into stories. He studied humanity and the machinery of society, and was himself at once a realist and a visionary "first among the great, highest among the best." as Victor Huco said of him. Balzac never idealized, ho drew men and women as they are. And so his novels are meat 'for the strong, and they make their special and distinct appeal to the sincere eoul AN UNEXPUBGATED EDITION. The issue in English of the only complete; and unoxpuiatcd edition of the works of Balzac 'by the Caxton Company is-thereforo, an cvont the importance of whioJt will ibe fully understood dry the book-buyer whX has knowledge of book values.

Type, binding, and paper have oil bees specially choson in a style 'befitting the defiW tive edition of a standard author. THE EXQUISITE ILLUSTBATIONS. This edition ia exquisitely illustrated hygrea French artists, whose names are a guarantee ot their ability to embody the very spirit' of the author. The fact that the originals of these fine pictures were exhibited in the Salon is in itself sufficient proof of -their excellence. The Illustrations include in all 266 inD-pags! plates, of which 52 are etchings printed- from the copper plates.

THE C0HEDIE HUHAINE." These beautiful volumes include the eighty, five novels Honors de Balzac wrote in his twenty-active working years. Tho marvellous Comedie Humaine," into, which Balzac incorporated so many of hia storiosjwhen he had been writing already tea years, is a series the plan of which has ntif parallel in the histoiy of fiction. Its sub-divisions were continually altered, re arranged, and added to by Balzac himself up to the' time of his death. The Human! Comedy" or "The Comedy of Life consist of stories of Private Life, Political Iife Provincial Life, Military. Life, Parisian Life, Country Life, 'and Analytical and Philosophical all connected Iby tha-fine rob'of a narrative1 thaf has the Paris of tho Restoration for its centre.

These were ultimately classified by M. Michel Levy, the publisher of the Paris "Editioa Definitive," according to tho autftor's final in tentions. In this' wonderful series of profound studios each one of over three hundred oharactei stands out with life-like fidelity. AH sorts and conditions of men fops, men, scholars, philosophers, duchesses, thieves. 'Beggars, ranes, coniwjsans, suonsetpera, arunue, priests appear and reappear, each endowed with a disGinct personality, and each acting as, such a character would act through the -varying stages of that perennial Battle which we call Life." The "Droll Stories of Balzac stand aJona, They are a fine series in which be Teprodnocsj iwjth masterly design and' Rabelaisian imznon the France of the sixtecnlh century.

AU meal included hero. One of the most learned of his admirers today says that Balzac knows the whole range human emotions, and that ho dares to penotratel into tbe arena of passions almost too terrible-, for literature to touch. But one might go ou 'defending and praising, and even criticising Balzac for a Lifethno and ibo little further ad-vanced than when ono Ibegan. For to critical Balzac is it not to criticise THREE OPINIONS. Mr.

O. Madox Hueffer (the well-knosrq Author and writes I have been studying tne Caxfton Edition of Balzac with groat interest, and comparing wish tine original. It scorns to mo-a really admirable translation, alike in spirit and fidoDatj, and I cannot dma-gino at being done. IV 'leaves, indeed, almost ptrociscily t2ie came im-prceion upon the English reader as must rhe original upon 'the French-a tihiiig which cannot be said for many itr.iDSiotians, morc's tbe prty. Its production should bo ol real service to tllo oaire of --literature an Ens-land.

Lot mc'add iriiat tho binding, tyjw, pcuper, and especially tho very notowortSry ineVna4coas--atro en awoy way worthy of tibe ttrznssstaon.M Herbert Carey, Secretary, Cheshire County Unionist Club, Altrincham I am delighted with tibo Caxton Edition of Balzac's Works. The edition is meet exceBent value; -it loaves nofihing? to be desired. I consider, the Caxton Edition of Balzac- tie greatest feature of tiho ptAHaAang worad Hhat'we ba-rs seen during tine 'last tpmrbBT of a-centory." T. B. Burnham, Plaw Hatch, Earf Grinstead "I am very pHoased irStb tio Carton' Edkaora of Ba-lzac's Works.

The translation are the best I have so far seen. The binding i Jettorpreas cxcoHerrt, and the rllostra. tions are far above he average." A FREE BOOKLET. We have prepared a charming detailed pro speotus comtiaiariig interesting information obuu Balzac, bis life and his work, which wiH be sent post free to those who eppJy for it It contains a- full list of evervnbing Bslzae' wrote and its arrangement in flw voJumea. It will also teU you all about tins Carton editade-he only complete and- Tmexprgated edition ever issued in English and of (be very easy tarn oawbooh it os suppled.

The CaJton PubKdiina; Co, Surrey-street, London, PSaara send free of dmxgt, mod "isflsju- any obligation on my part Detailed prospectus of The Caxton EdKiota of Balzac," with n'aaT of yosrr tonne os easy 1 NAME (Semi this form or The Obterztr.) ADDRESS There is no danger," hia surgeon is reported to have said on one summons I have sewn him up six times already." In the end even throat-cutting failed as a re tort to creditors, and he fled, like Brummel, to the Continent. As Byron put it, with a certain lack of feeling, our friend Scropo is dished, diddled, and done up." Lord Webb Seymour "was one of the band, otherwise brilliant, which sat at tho feet of Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh, and, no doubt, of his famous wife Ivy." He hardlv did credit to the high association, for his slowness was even more of a by-word than his ambition. His life, says Mr. Courtney, was one long intellectual tram-in for enterprises never John Taylor was editor of the "Morning Post in days when that organ was youn and giddy and flippant and personal (especi ally about Mrs. Fitzherbert), and when punch was a conspicuous lubricant in the editorial sanctum afterwards ho ran the Sun in a spirit of oqual lightheartedness.

Lydia White was a popular saJonnierc of the beginning of last century, at whose table Bulwer Lytton vowed he had actually seen English people look happy, and one or two even almost natural Sir Walter Scott, another of her friends, was eood enough to overlook her dressing like the Queen of Chimney-Sweeps on Mayday morning and a free turn in conversation when she let ner wit run wild." Philip Metcalfe was the companion of Johnson in his rambles in Surrey and Susses, and of Sir Joshua Reynolds in his journey through the Low Country the Rev. John Warner, D.D., was a popular preacher and the devoted friend of George Selwyn and Lord John Townshend was one of tho band of Fox's associates. Such are the Eight, undistinguished (as men count distinction), but very human and mterest- ln and set down by Mr. Courtney with a suave and sympathetic pen. "THE DOP DOCTOR." The Dor Doctok.

By Richard Dehaa. (Heine- niann.) bs. After ton years the story of the siege of Mafeking has been told as it should bo told, in the memorable pages of a great noveL The author tfras written a fine and moving talc. wide in its range, deep in its sympathies, full of the pain and the suffering, the courage and the truth of life- Owen Saxhara, the Dop Doctor is tho current name in South Africa for alcoholic drink of any description), was a rising London practitioner, who, by a cruel stroke of fate, had become involved in a disgraceful criminal case. The Courts acquitted him, but he left prison to find has world in ruins.

Society shnnned him; the girl he had hoped to marry discreetly threw him over. Ho sold his practice and took refuge in South Africa, drifted to the littlo border town of Oueldorsdorp (a thin disguise for Mafeking), and set to work deliberately to drink himsell to death. And then tho war broke out, the siege began, and ho found himself forced, at first iinwillincrlv, to play his part in the drama. In tbe arduous, unTBmittinE hospital work, in the friendship and respect of a man, and his dawning love for a woman, he began to regain his lost self-respect. The man, who is never alluded to.

but as "the Chief" or "ttye Colonel," is a soldier whose portrait no one will have the least difficulty in recognising. With extreme boldness, yet without offence, the author has invested him with much more than an official part in the story, as, indeed, he has done with other people who may or may not be flattered at finding themselves immortalised in this clever but rather conspicuous way. Where fact begins and fiction ends it is not in the power of an nninstructed reviewer to say, but there is the stamp of actuality about those character sketches, as there is about the realistic picture of the beleaguered garrison keeping up a brave heart under the daily burden of famine, sickness, and sudden death. Yet it must not bo thouent that this historv of the siege, vivid and impressive as it is, is anythms but the back'irround for some of the scenes in a powerful drama, which embraces in scope a multiplicity of incident; of interests. a panoramic -view of life that only a master' nana couia weia togetner into one artistic i i- i ii i i wuuic xiiis is uui lo say mat uie dock nas not many faults, both of style and construc tion.

It is written with an enerirv that is almost superabundant, and there is much repetition. Lynette Mildare. the other nrotaramist in the tale, is also a victim not of man's injustice, but of man's viloness. The account of nor early years the lonely tavern on the veldt is painful to excess, but Mr. Dehan does not eloss over the brutalitv and hideousnoss nf life, and this is not a book for the young person.

He takes as his motto the wnr.i nf Emigration Jane, a little Cockney servant of rather exaggerated absurdity, whoso love altairs give a needed note of light relief, There's nothink lower than Nature, an' she gos as "igh as 'Eaven." While still a mere child, Lynotte escapes from tho nauseating villain who had caged her, and is picked up half-dying by some Roman Catholic nuns on their way to Gueldersdorp, where she is nursed back to life and happiness under the protecting care of the Mother Superior. The outbreak of hostilities throws the little convent community into the thick of things, and uyneKfl iot one nrsi urne comes mto contact with tho brusoue. dominatim? Tiersonn.lft.v nf the Doctor, and with the eav vonnir Guards man who steals her heart so qnickto. This is i i tinv lijb ucgjiumig oi i.ne siory, otrt it is im- possaDie in give even the briefest summary of a novel that is bound to make its mark by reason of tho knowledge, sympathy and humanity that inspire it. THE CHANGING OF MOROCCO The Passiso of tub Sitebeeitaw Estpiek.

By E. Ashmead-Bartlett. (Blackwood.) 15a. net. Of all the books compiled hastily, journalistically, impressionisticallv, about Morocco and the stirring evenU that have taken place there, this one by Mr.

E. Ashmead-Bartloit is quite the best. In the first place, the -author has been in the thick of it ever since the disturbances began, has resided in the place, studied them on the spot, has been au eye-witness of all the battles, has known the Sultans, has been to Fez against regulations has, in short, thoroughly saturated himself with the atmosphere of perhaps the most picturesque and interesting spot left in the vicinity of Europe. llr. Ashmead-Bartlett is as well known as the book Port Arthur." He has the real spirit oi adventure, the spirit that seeks the spirit and where there is trouble there is Mr! Ashmead-Bartlett to be found, generally with bis shirt sleeves rolled up, typically English in aspect, a modern Elizabethan to the core.

His account of the military operations in and around Casablanca is admirably clear, simple, i'ust and impartial; his criticisms of the 'rench Army are valuable in themselves (for in matters of war Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett knows what he is talking about), and there is no attempt at bombast, self glorification, or the usual egotism of the war correspondent, though, as a fact, the author has risked bis life at least once a month in a fashion that is not transparent from the reading of his book. Of the Moors he thinks highly, but he maintains that Moorish opposition is no longer feasible and that a concentrated French forward move would probably conquer the whole country all that is worth conquering in a very short time in which opinion he is doubtless right. Anyone who wants to know about that wonderful place, Morocco, should certainly read this volume, and then, for local colour and atmosphere, read Mr. Cuznunghame Graham's stories, when a picture can ie obtained as near the real thing as the written word can give it.

Here, at any tat, is the straight story of the whole afiajr, told with the directness of city of Bristol and fortifies his letter with ten postscripts, which, he says, he could write for a month together." Then he marries (it is a very pretty romance) a lady who la fully Jus equal at letter- writing Know than. Sir (sh writes to Mr. Miller), (that vour once guy, rambling friend has dwindled into a ohoerlull agreabie riusoami. that gooth to bed at eleven o'clock, can lye r.ij ni.id in fcho mornime. then read two or three hours to me whilo I am stitching, vissit with mo or receive our common trienos wun mo in the afternoon, or play at home tho old Kober faintiy gamo at whteJc tor a trine, aim finish tho evening with a single bottle of wino, rr ffmr ntTpiible nereona of either sex as for a Cotfeo Houso he hath forgot the way to it, and I verily believe doth not know wnetner wine oe sola an a xavem Uhandlor'o shop.

Sometimes, indeed, ho will look over old pomej undo on his former mistresses, and tne o'-'ior l-'tv in a ut or nno api: "wwo nf tatf. it o.n fir that blazed rirr-. nitre dill liifl OWJ1 nation for tJlO Celias and Delias, and with a sigh chat caino from tho bottom of his mart, cryea, MoUv. theso I sacrifice to Hymen." The most illustrious of the correspondents was the elder Pitt, in whom the act of ad dressing Mr. Miller seemed to work an unwanted rrenialitv.

He discusses horses lends carriages, introduces clients to the Great Master of UotiucK, ana in Tegrei- tin" his absence from a picnic, expresses the exuberant wish May the grand skip Painter, the Sun, spread his highest colouring oer the sweet scene, ana tne fairest Naiad of tho Lake frisk all her frolick fancy at the Cascade, and be, what you roust ever think a pretty Girl, most charming in her Fall." Miller deserves our thanks if only for that revelation of Chatham in frivolous mood. Most of Miller's friends were men of note they included the Grenvilles and the Lytteltons and the letters gave many interesting glimpses of mid-eighteenth century life. Robert Dodsley, whom Mr. Straus seeks to reconstruct, was a mora prominent per sonace than the vajnie and elusive Miller. He was, in fact, the most famous publisher of his century, and acted in that capacity for Fopo, Sterne, Johnson, Gray, Burke, Shenstone, Goldsmith, and many others of note He bought "London" for ten guineas when Johnson was still unknown and he was one of the gentlemen partners the only one with' whom Johnson did not quarrel vAvo were concerned in the Plan for a Dictionary of the English Language." He was a man of letters himself, and owed his emancipation from hit early occupation as footman to tihe success of his early poem, A Muse in Livery." Even more prosperous were his works for the the first of which, a satirical pieco called The Toy-shop," was accepted through the good offices of Pope.

The association of publisher and poet is now almost as extinct as that of the barber and the surgeon, and no one will grudge Dodsley the tribute of a book to himself. That his artistic did not wholly overcome his commercial instincts we pather from the case of the Elegy in the Country Churchyard." G-ray, it seems, "held a Quixotic- notion that it was beneath a gentleman to take money from a book-seller a view in which Dodsley warmly coincided." Dodsley was said to have made nearly 1,000 as the result of the transaction. It is rather a forlorn Eight whom Mr. W. P.

Courtney endeavours to help from the slough of obscurity. They are all Georgians, and a very mixed crew. There is Bishop Rundle, a broad-minded ecclesiastic, a gross feeder, and otherwise so o-noon-vention-a-l that it was found impossible to present him -to any but an Irish see (Ireland being more accaramodatiirg in these matters). Scrape Berdmore Davie was held the wittiest of the friends oi ByTon, but it is a style of wit which has lost its savour. There was, however, genuine humour in his ihahat of catting his LANE STREET, W.

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(Scientific Press.) 10a 6a. net. INDIAN BIRDS Being a Key to the Common Birds ol the Plains of India By Douglas Dmr. (John Lane 6a. net.

i Mr. Dewar's object is "to enable people interested in our Indian birds to identify at sight those- they are likely to meet with in their oompounds and during their excursions into the jungle." TRIAL OF OSCAR SLATER Edited by William Boughead, W.S. (Edinburgh and Glasgow: W. Hodge-arid Co.) net. This latest volume of the Notable Scottish Trials series deals watlh tbe remarkable case, heard, less than a year ago, of Oscar Slater, who was found iruiKy of the murder of Miss Marion Gilchrist, at Glasgow, on December 21, 1908.

The impostanoe of the oaeo, as Mr. Roughcad points out, lies in the fact that conviction was obtained by the Crown urpon evidence as to identity 'based on personal, impressions, the corroboration supplied by the caroamstsjafdal evidence, thoQg-h containing elements of strong- Hnspdoion, adding nothing conolnaivo of the prisoner's guilt." The verdict was only secured by a majority of three out of a jury of fifteen: and tbe death sentence was afterwards oorotrrnibed, a proceeding-illogical, but natural in view of the unusual ciroamstances of the case. LITERARY NOTES. The annals of literature present no more remarkable narallel than is afforded by the ventures in commerce of Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Both in the heyday of their success embarked in the business of publish ing other people work, prospered at it tor a timn and came eventually to hopeless ftnan1 eial disaster.

Then the splendid sequel was identical. Faced with liabilities which might well have paralysed the most astute ousmess head, tneso veterans -set to worK to give me mil a nf tboir n-enius to the dischanre of their enormous obligations. In Mark Twain's case the act -was purely voluntary, for the modern oanicruptcy laws would nave given him an easy escape from his burdens and with-, out social dishonour for an author of international fame. Such actions may be called quixotic, but they led nonuity to -me proles aion of letters. The shadow of the impending election broods heavilv over the publishing world.

It is curious, indeed, how the state of tbe political barometer affects the production of books. Without this bogey to paralyse tho energies of publishers the season should have been an excellent opportunity for the booksellers. Other West r-nd tradesmen are nourishing on tne recent harvests of the Stock Markets. Everyone who has made money freely is disposed to spend it freely. Hooks should have attracted their share of' this superfluous cash.

But the chance has been lost; and so.every book which can be held back is being reserved for the autumn, when we are likely to have a glut of new literature which will eclipse the records of even the last tew years. Mr; Heinemann is taking the occasion of the wide public intere. in the Japanese Exhibition to niihlisli next month' two works devoted to he arts of the Mand Kingdom. In the first Mr. W.

von SeidJatz traces Wie ol Japanese Colour Prints and the influence they have had upon Wertem culture. Ho has drawn his material chiefly from the-goldcn age of Japanese art, four-fifths of the work being absorbed bv great exponents previous to Hos-ku9ai. The other book is a history and study of "The Japanese Dance" by Mareellc A. Hincks. Some of these dances are religious rites, and others form plays and preluis to plays.

They are. illustrated by reproductions from Japanese printe and paintings. The centenary of Thackeray's birth nest year is to be observed with full honours. Already a committee, with Mr. W.

L. Courtney as president, is at work on the arrangements. All the most prominent, members of the -Titmarsh Club are'giving their services, and Mr. Walter Jerrold and Mr. Lewis Melville are acting respectively as honorary treasurer and secretary.

The TiUnarsh Club is one of the most successful of the several dining associations identified with a ereat literary name. A list and a record of these gastronomic gatherings to pay rever ence to tne memory or tne immortals wouja make interesting reaiing. Some -critics are cynical enough to sajr tjwt the dinner is more important than the illustrious dead at Ouae -functions. A second iiiiuii'ssii'm as faeirur priulaj of Mr. Legge'a volume on "The Easprws Eugenie," recensiy published bj Messrs, Harpez sod LONDON: ALSTON RIVERS, 21-22, BROOKE E.C Somo Press Opinions on Maxim Gorky's JVeiv Work.

A CONFESSION. Translated by W. F. HARVEY. Tbials the story of Gorky's pilgrimage through life: It deserves a place among the great pilgrimages of literature.

It is a wonderful book, vital, powerful, and simple id a degree almost startling in comparison with the Western literature of tho day. It is impossible to do justice to the beauty, the freshness, the supreme uusophistication. the faith and the agony that lire in these pages." O'srrirr. "The passage of this remarkable book from Russian through German to English has had no perceptible effect upon the style of the work. It is characteristic Gorky.

0nder-Iving all thi'i man's work is a fierce energy of propaganda, a resolve to shock, to temfy, to rouse, to enrage, to stimulate every feeling against tho condition of brutisnncss in which his people arc." Outlook. "The picture may be only half true, but it is splendid." Daily Tho book has all. the charm of semi-barbaric literature. Ktenino Standard. "One of the finest works which the great artist Jlaicin Gorky has giveu to the world.

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search of romance has his fill of it in the whirl of intrigue round the throne of Graustark. The story goes with a swing and a right royal and most deUghtful little chap is the young ruler The Tinus. A stirriug storv- vividly described." Glebe. LONDON EVERETT AND CO, 42, ESSEX STREET, W.C. TO DESCEND OUT OF A FOUR WHEELER AS IF 11 MUX i HbLUNU TO YOU IS THE PROPER ACCORDING TO MARIA (Metmteaj s- net.

An anthology of poema about Italy and Italian things and personages. It most hare been oHIficalt task to keep the Browning ex- tracfe within reasonable limits. OtJser recurring names ar Byron, Tandot md Oscar i By Mrs. JOHN PUBLISHED AT THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO.