Early in the autumn Mr. Wickham Steed, the late editor of "The Times," will publish an extremely important book on European politics which he calls 'Through Thirty Years," and in which he reviews the course of affairs that Jed' to the war. Mr, Wickham Steed has an almost unrivalled knowledge of Continental politics. He has lived in many capitals and speaks many tongues.. can vouch for the fact that his French is the French of a Frenchman. Mr, Steed is a specialist in the peoples and many cross currents of the old Austrian Empire, and it has been said of him "hat he invented Czecho-Slovakia. He is a gentle-mannered, bearded man, notably courteous and always extremely kind to the lesser of his brethren. we An original-minded ''movie"' producer is preparing a series of twenty-six short films descriptive of Little Journeys to the Homes and Haunts of Eminent Pocts and Authors." The itinerary includes places associated with Scott, Dickens, Tennyson, Burns, Hugo, Dumas, Hans Andersen, and Ibsen. os Sir Hall Came is writing a "Life of Christ." He has not been influenced by any desire to rival Papini, for he has had the book in mind for many years, indeed ever since he first began to write. Sir Hall Came is now 70, and he feels that if the book is ever to be written it must be done now, and he has put aside a half-finished novel in order te devote his whole ime and attention to the study.
Our young people do not need to read The Red Badge of Courage" in order to know what war is like, because they have known Armageddon. Even so, it is a book which endures, and now we are to get a biography of its author, Mr. Stephen Crane. He was an American, and fitly, it is being written by an American, Mr. Thomas Beer. But he became English in the sense that he lived and died in England, and so, fitly also, the life will have an introduction by Mr. Joseph Conrad. When the life is ready it will most likely be published by Heinemann, who had "The Red Badge of Cour-
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