That able short-story writer, Mr. F. Britten Austin, has always been interested in war and the making of war. He has _written for Messrs. Williams & Norgate a new book, of which the title, The War God Walks Again," explains itself, That clever writer of stories} about India, Mrs, Alice Perrin, who lives in Have, has a volume of short stories,' "Rough Passages," coming from Messrs. Cassell in the spring.
Mr. George Sampson has written for the Cambridge University Pres "Cambridge Lessons in tHroe volumes. Mr. Sampson was formerly the head master of a London" elementary school, and is now an inspector under the London County Council.
It is revealed by a learned correspondent of the _"Glasgow Hearld" that, as far back as 1879, Stevenson's "Inland Voyage" was being used at Eton as a class-book. The boys were set the task of]
slating a part of it into Latin elegines, Mr. J. D. Beresford, who now lives on the Riviera, has a new] novel ready for publication early} this year. It will bear the title, "That Kind of Man."
The second part of Mr, Evnest} Raymond's story of girlhood, "Daphne Bruno," is one of the promising novels of the spring.
'Mr. Philip Guedalla, who is! engaged on & biography' of Palmerston, has collected his series of 18th-century studies in a volume! which Mr, Murray will publish during the spring under the title, "Independence Day: A Sketch Book." The essays are impressions of men who in one way or another! were responsible for the—independence of the United States: George IMf,, Lord North, Chatham, Burke, Buroyne, Cornwallis, Louis XVI, Washington, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton and Lafayette, Some time ago Mr. Werner Laurie gave us a successful book, drawn from old Chinese tales and called in' English, "The Incon-stanley of Madame Chuang andj Other Stories." He is now publishing a second series, also in English, by Mr, Edward B, Howell, of Tientsin, under the title, "The tution of the Bride and Other Stories." The tales appear have been written towards the end; of the Ming Dynasty, or—about the time of Queen Elizabeth, but, their authorship is a mystery and, up record of their first publiention exists. They have a quaint and cynical touch, and in many] eases they lay bure the everyday! workings of the Chinese mind, Mr. Arthur Waley has become! unofficial translator-in-chief in Eng land to the Far East. He Began with two volumes of English ver~ sions from the Chinese poets, ye us of singular beauty with a music of their own. He next proceeded to the No Plays of Japan. His latest enterprise is to trans. ate Lady Murasaki's "Tale Genii," a six-volume novel from. the ancient Japanese, Messrs. Chatto & Windus have on hand Mr. Arnold Bennett's Gramatized version of his story, "Mr. Prohack." This play is to be produced in due course at the! Haymarket Theatre, London, The Berlin correspondent of the "Observer" states that Stevenson is now becoming very popular among the Germans. A' new trans-Jation of Mr, Galsworthy's "Forsyte popularity, Saga" is also enjoying a merited, Lord Dunsany is best known a writer of fanciful plays, but it understood that Putnams are! publishing in the spring a novel from his pen,
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