BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
'ThE whole literary side of the Spectator is devoted this week to holiday reading. Mr. Penn Smith's stories arc the first of a series of short stories by modern writers : it is our intention to publish one a week throughout the summer, and we shall be glad to consider any manuscripts that are submitted to W. The articles and reviews are designed to help our readers in choosing books they may pleasurably take away with them.
It is fortunate that the standard of books published this week has been unusually high ; for here, too, we can recom- mend as well worth reading all the books we shall mention. The most important is undoubtedly Mr. Bernard Shaw's St. Joan (Constable). Two volumes of reminiscences are valuable, -My Musical Life, by Rimsky-Korsakoff (Martin Seeker), and The Book of My Youth, by Hermann Sudermann (John Lane). Mr. D. H. Lawrence publishes his Studies in American Literature (Martin Seeker), and Mr. Percy H. Boynton his more modest Some Contemporary Americans (Putnam).
Miss Tennyson Jesse has put a good deal of thought and research into her new book, Murder and Its Motive (Heine- mann). Mr. Basil Blackwell sends its Mr. H. Brett-Smith's pleasant reprint, The Shepherd's Week, by John Gay. Six more volumes have been added to the Tusitala Edition of Stevenson's work (Heinemann). Mr. A. Y. Campbell has completed a new interpretation of Horace (Methuen) ; Mr. Wildon Carr has collected a number of clear and comprehen- sible essays into The Scientific Approach to Philosophy (Mac- millan); Mr. Augustine Birrell gives us a new volume, More Obiter Dicta (Heinemann).
THE LITERARY EDITOR.
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