Scottish and Edinburgh Academical forward, has written a small book on "Rugby Football and How to Play It." It deals in a straightforward and simple manner with the tactics of the game and how they should best be met by the individual player and the team. Mr. Scott will be remenibered as one of Scotland's best forwards. Four prefaces have been written by representatives of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Mr. James Baxter, President of the Rugby Selection Committee, writes for England; Mr. J. Aikman Smith, the well-known secretary of the Scottish Union, under whose regime Inverleith was purchased as the Scottish National ground, writes for Scotland; Mr. R. A. Lloyd, the old Irish half-back, has word of praise for the book from the Irish point of view; Mr. J. E.
Partridge, the old' Newport, Army, and Blackheath forward, writes for Wales. The book will be published at'3s. 6d. net by Messrs. Chatto and Windus.
BENNETT AND, GOGOL, 'The text of Mr. Arnold Bennett's new play "Body and Soul' recent-produced at the Regent Theatre, King's Cross, has been published by Messrs, Chatto and Windus.
The same firm have in preparation translations by Mrs. Garnett of the avorks of Nikolay Gogol. It is proposed fo publish a complete series of translations of this famous Russian author. The first volume, Dead Souls," will be ready at the end of this month, and it is hoped that a volume of short stories will be ready for publication in the spring. 5
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