After a silence of three years, Mr. A, B, W. Mason. has another novel in the press. It is to be published by Hodder and Stoughton, and will be called "No Other Tiger"—a title repeating a mysterious phrase occurring early in the boo} "No other tiger passed that way that night."
Mr, Thomas Renan, the original "Quinney," who has already'written two books which must have introduced a host of people to the romance and the fascination of "eollecting"—he called: them "Con: fessions of a Dealer" and "Old iful"—has a third ready for in the hands of and Boon, and its title is "In Search of the' Antique."
A. critical edition, by Mr, Bald,.of Thomas Middleton's play "A Game at Chesse," is in preparation at the Cambridge University Press. Apart from its interest, the play, of Which four manuscripts-are extant, besides being a -piece of political satire, offers exceptional material to the student of Elizabethan dramatic texts.
"My Best. Games of Chess: 1938- 1023," by the famous Russian chess master, Dr. Alekhin, is to be pub-fished by Messrs. Bell. In it he deals with one hundred of the best games he has played since the St. Petersburg Tournament of 1909, and his opponents include practical" ly all the principal masters of the roried, The games are annotated very thoroughly, Mr. Lolo A. Williams has written a book on "The Elements of Book Collecting," which Elkin Mathews and Marrot will publish in' the autumn, It is designed to be-of use to "all classes of collectors, rich. and Boor, veterans and novices," and contains chapters on such vital matters as the size und parts-of a book, es and editions, the formation of a collection, mo and so on, In-Mr, Cytil Davenport's "Byways: Among English © Books," which Methuens recently published, books of every description and odds and ends of librarianship ithetto unnoticed are described and discussed, many of them are illustrated, "The Gentle Art of Singing," which Sir Henry Wood, the author, himself describes as his. "magnus opus as pianist, organist, accom panist, conductor (opera and concert), composer (a very poor one), all-round—genoral musical and teacher, since the age of 12, of singing," is announced by the Oxford Univerity Press, Tt will be in four volumes, and will consist of "a com-plata graded course of exercises and vocalises designed to produce n perfect vocal technique equal to any task"
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