'A new quarterly magazine for the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal air Vorce, "The" Fighting: Forces," has - just been founded. The Editor is Lt.-Col. F. E. Whit. ton, who wrote an admirable study of the campaign on the Marne.
In a recent fecture, Mr. Lewis! Hind made the surprising statement that Francis Thompson, the poet of mysticism, had an. extraordinary faculty" for reviewing—military books.
Turkish enthudlasts have started a campaign with the object of seeur-Ing the Nobel Prize for Liveratare for Alot Hak" Hamid, a isin Served for some time in the Turkish ished national pote, amt Bbassy" in London, Por a fow leaves weighing less than halt' an ounce Dr. Rosentach, fan American, pald £2,100," But the leaves were Henry Constable's "Diana," in which he sang "The: Praises of his. mistress in certain sweet sonnets," in 1592, which were sold at the west door of St. Paul's, The occasion was the sale at Sotheby's, recently, of the Britwell Court" Library. Dr. Rosenbach bought £12,497 out of the day's sales of £14,882. An insignificant little book, Francis Davision's "A Poet cal "Rapsodie," printed for Roger Tackion if in Plect-street near the Great Conduit," 1908, went to Dr. Rosenbach for £500. "Fou Birds of Noah's Arke," 1609, wa: remarkable collection of prayers. It consists of only a few pages, yet it fetched £300. A copy of Dekker "Villanies discovered by Lanthorr and Candlelight," printed in 1616, sold for £250.
We hear every now and again about Maxim Gorki, sometimes in a political way, sometimes in a literary way, The latest news about him is of a literary sort, for Mr. Philip Allan is publishing''a volume of fragments from his diary. Gorki has been in the habit of keeping' diaries in which he has jotted down, personal incidents of interest. He shag elaborated many of them into little sketches and stories, all portraying the: typical Russian life of Peasant and autocrat, Every author one knows has the intention of writing something. about the dandies of the world, men ike Beau Nash and Brummcl, has fallen to Mr. Beresford Chai lor to undertake the writing, in ix volumes, of "The Lives of the Rakes." We know him as an author-
don, with a very special knowledge ity on the historia! side of Lan. of the wonderful square mile which we call St, James's. His list of rakes is going to include, not only, the "'Merry Monareh," but my lords Buckingham, Rochester, and Sedley, There has recently been rather boom in literature dealing with men who have known how to live merrily, and the chances are that Mi Chancellor's volumes will do. very: wall.
Nowadays some people write thole reminiscences while they are young, bhut not so General Sir Elliott Wood, for he was born as long ago as 1844, and he has- only just done autobiography. It will be an: Arnold spring' book and it will rethe days when there was nothing on the English road except: horses. Sir Eliott saw much "service as a soldier and he narrowly escaped at Khartoum for he was under orders to join his friend, General Gordon. He' has been an ardent sportsman, as well as an arent} soldier, and especially he has mede many Voyages in canoes. And of these and "other adventures he writes brightly and entertainingly, "Cricket Form at Glance" is a good title for a book by. Sir Home Gordon. It deals exhaustively with almost every score made in' fivstclass cricket in England, It gives the individual performances every one who has batted and bow!- fal Ju to, seasons, as well'as the scores made for and against every first-class country, with the ageregates of all sides. Then the Roll of Honour in evieket is set out, likewise the averages in Test matches all over the world, and, finally, there is an introduction by that ex: cellent cricketer, Lord Hawke.
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