BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
TIU is not much of literary interest among the books published this week, but Mr. Frank Harris at last gives us a new book of short stories, Undream'd of Shores (Grant Richards), and Mr. C. E. Montague, "in a holiday humour," has written a volume of discursive essays, The Right Place (Chatto and Windus). Mr. Lascelles Abercrombie, in a book on The Theory of Poetry (Martin Seeker), has elaborated a number of lectures he delivered in the Universities of Liverpool and Leeds ; and the inaugural lecture of Professor H. W. Garrod, The Profess-ion of Poetry, is published by the Clarendon Press.
M. Maurice Paleologue, the last French Ambassador to the Russian Court, in An Ambassador's Memoirs, Vol. H. (Hutchinson), carries his story down to the entry of Rumania into the War. My Garden of Memory, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Hodder and Stoughton), includes anecdotes of many great men, from Charles Dickens to Mr. Masefield ; but deals most, naturally enough, with the authoress's triumphs and the compliments that have been paid to her. Dr. Mary Scharlieb has written her Reminiscences (Williams andNorgate) with a more sober purpose, " to cvnvince medical women students and junior practitioners that a successful, happy, and useful career can be, and ought to be, the guerdon of their toil."
Messrs. Kegan Paul send an addition to their International Library of Psychology, The Nature of Laughter, by J. C. Gregory. They also publish The Natural History of Crystals, by A. E. H. Tutton, a very learned and thorough introduction to the subject. We have received from Messrs. Chapman and Hall a translation by Mr. Fred Bothwell of M. Emmanuel Berl's The Nature of Love.
Lord Ilehester does us a good service by editing The Journal of the Hon. Henry Edward Fox (Fourth and Last Lord Holland). Holland had a very individual character, decided and rather testy ; the period of the journal, 1818-1830, was interesting in politics and literature, and both are dealt with. Messrs. Thornton Butterworth have produced the book soundly, and the illustrations are very well chosen. The centenary of Byron comes in April of this year, and Pro- fessor Samuel C. Chew has composed an exhaustive account of Byron's fame during and after his life, Byron in England (Murray). An interesting biography of Jefferson Davis comes from Mr. H. J. Eckenrode (Allen and Unwin).
We regret that in our review of There Was a Veil, by Emmeline Morrison (John Long), it was stated that this novel had won a prize of five hundred pounds. The publisher writes to correct us : Good Grain, a previous novel of the same author, won Messrs. Long's prize, but There Was a Veil won no prize.
THE LITERARY EDITOR.
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