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A 17-years-old Leeds girl, the authoress, of three novels, has had her first book published by the Lon- Rivera, Ltd. don publishing house of Alston,

James "The reprint,' writes The "beat peller,” outside fiction, is Mr. Michael Sadleir's Trollope: Milne, "the cheap edition, the a Commentary," if we may judge pocket-cultion, are not inventions of from the attention it has already ment might almost be described as

to-day, although the recent develop received in the periodical Press. į Mr. J. L. Garvin made it the sub- behind them, that of cheap books only child of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur now and greater birth. The idea She is Miss Nancy Roper, the ject of his leading article in the which shall go far and fare well, Roper, of Bramley, and the book "Observer," and Sir Edmund Gosse wrote two columas about it in the can be traced back to the time of a which she has had accepted is a

scholarly

Venetian, Aldus Manu- dramatic novel enittled "Dionys," "Sunday Times." Mr. Sadleir's

to the British Museum biography is evidently the final and ask for a copy, which is there,. something of the methods and tech-

tius. Go

At 17 Miss Roper has developed book on the subject, and it will do of his "Virgil." It will show you nique of the professional novelist, much to revive interest in a writer what he, and other book makers of she is whose work has lately been greatly his time, could produce for some cause of a serious illness she was

entirely self-educated.

Printing was a primitive art when ing for a few weeks when she was thing like a florin, of our money, never able to attend school, except- Aldus Manutius ilved, but books, 6 years old. including cheap books for the masses, have always had a good habit of being possible.

under-estimated.

Be-

"I have been writing almost ever since I could hold

pen," Mias Roper said. At 7. I wrote a dog- gerel pocm. Next year I wrote a rabbits, and after that I kept at it. story about a squirrel and three "Dionys" is my third book, I finish- ad it about April.

In the "Daily News" Mr. Robert Lynd predicts that it will make present-day English readers reallge how foolish is their tendency "to hail as a star any flickering candle of talent simply because it bears

"Naturally, our Venetian used an A French or Russian name. showing, as it doce, that "Trol-posed to its inventor, and, think italic type and, in fact, he is sup lope though not among the ing it hard to read, we should not greatest of English novelists, use it today except for foreign has undoubtedly more genius, words or to emphasise a passage in both

This book is just pure romance, as entertainer, and pain English. But what does the type and the setting is in Norway. ter of manera and character, matter in a book revolution? And have the theme of another book in than nine-tenths of the Continental certainly Aldus Manutius was a my head already, and this will be novelists who have been landed as scholarly revolutionary, who chal- a novel of the Yorkshire Wolds, mon of genius in our time." The lenged the old world wtih a literary which I hope to have finished by the chief reason for the modern in- venture which has grown into the autumn." difference to Trollope is the revela tremendous reprint, of our world tion in his posthumous "Autobio- and generation. graphy," that he worked steadily to time-table and did not belleve in inspiration.

If you are informed in the lore of books, and it is a piensant land In which to browne, you will have Sir Edmund Gouse points out, heard of the Elzevirs, the Etiennes, however, that the world has, made and others who came after Aldus a mistake in taking this modesty at Manutius in the same field of book. its face value. In writing his Barish exploration. An English token setshire novels--what Mr. Galswor to him has been an "Altine Edi- thy might call The Barset Sagn" tion" of our poets, and would not he showed no trace of a commercial that have pleased the okl fellow? nttitude to literature. He spent Mostly, a good bookman has a sweet year and a half in composing "Bar-vanity which likes to be recognised, chester Towera," and it was not probably Aldus Manutius had his until he succumbed to the fatal share of this eharm-because it is temptation of serialising his stories a charm." that the machine-made system of 1,000 words an hour day after day and week after week seized hold of him.

THE NABOBS.

STUDY OF THE ANGLO- INDIAN.

WAS

Miss Roper has read very few modern authors, but she has read Shakespeare and the Brontes, and much poetry, including the works of Shelley, Kenta and Milton,

"If I do too much reading," she said. "I feel to be wasting time."

Miss Roper shows originality in prevailing for her readers in her book, not a "sheik" hero. but a "eave", type of heroine. Leveral, who is a wanderer in the Sere

strange places of the world, feels the call of the Arctic North, and there he discovers an unsophisti- cated girl, whom he mistakes for a

The conflict between the tempera- ments of the man who has always lived in the sunshine of the South, and the girl who knows no land but the North, forms the theme of the book

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SCANDINAVIAN.

Mr. John Buchan, M.P., President dent Society, occupied the chair at Knut Hamsun, the famous Sca a dinner to commemorate the dinavian writer, was not wd twenty-fifth anniversary of the or known here until we got his nove zanisation. The proceedings took "The Growth of the Soll." Sind place at Holborn Restaurant, over then we have had various rich 200 guests being present. The of his pon, and now Mr. Alfre Duchess of Atholl, Dean Inge, Lord Knopf -announces "Mysteries) Riddell, and Sir Henry Newbolt meaning the oysteries which an were the chief guests.

inherent in all human relation

Mr. Sadleir's book has been for several years in preparation, and is enriched by the results of research, among many letters and documents, in the possession of the Trollope family. that have not previously

Among Indian words that have been available. Its introductory become current in Britain with a account of the career of that extra-: ordinary women, Anthony Trol-new application none is more curious than "Nabob," a corrap- lope's mother, is one of the most tion of "Nawab," a Hindu term for of the National Book Trade Provi fascinating sections of the narra- tive, and goes a long way to ex-Mohammedan officials and gover- plain the distinctive characteristica pors under the Mogul Empire. It of her son.

is not, however, of native Orientals that we think when we speak of A Tragle Career,

Nabobs, but of Westerners who have acquired a fortune in the We are reminded of a novelist of East and have returned home to a very different type by the publica- spend it with considerable magni- tion of "The Letters of George ficence and ostentation. One rare- Gissing to Members of his Family." ly hears the word applied nowa The Chairman; responding to ships. Do we, for example, eve There was a curious similarity be- days to any of our contemporaries. "The Society," proposed by Mr. H. R. really know or understand o tween Trollope and Gissing in the Perhaps there has been less oppor Brabrook, said that they had now neighbours or those we love? Han poverty and lack of public appre- tunity for its use, since the South started a fully-equipped provident sun sets the stage for a long serie ciation which made their early

African millionaire haa ousted the society, also a benefit society, so of perplexing events, around a her years a hard struggle, but the Anglo-Indian from his

that whatever profits were made who appears, following the suicid younger man was dogged through- eminence. It

they would go to their members. of a young divinity student in out his too brief life by an ultra-

during the sensitiveness and aloofness from Nabobs cut the biggest figure. heginning to change its status alto-

eighteenth century that the (Hear, hear.) It seemed the trade Norwegian town.

profession of bookselling was his fellows which reflected itself in the nessimism of his writings. He The popular conception of their Buffered all his days from what character and power is no doubt gether for the better. He was in-

derived

to think that bookselling wa ¿would now be called an inferiority mainly

complex. There is reason to

becoming a learned profession, and Macaulay's plcturesque be-

descrip if it did they would find the book- lieve that, if he had lived longer, tion of them in his essay of Lord seller not merely selling books, but he could have grown away from his earlier self and achieved

A recent book, "The Nabobs in era' tastes, helping a man in his guiding and directing, his custom- serenity comparable to Trollope's. England," by Mr. J. M. Holzman, researches, and being a most valu- Evidences of this change of mood which has for its sub-title "A able medium for the interpretation may be seen in "The Private Papers Study of the Returned Anglo- of good literature for the publi of Henry Ryecroft," a book which Indian, 1760-1785," has establish-, (Hear, hear.) will probably be read when "The ed some conclusions that differ

Dean Inge submitted *The New Grub Street" is forgotten. We considerably from Macaulay's. Its Press." He said the modern book- learn from this new publication author shows that the wealth of seller was usually well-read. The that he was contemplating, when this class has been greatly ex- days were gone when the young he died, another book on the same aggerated, and that the belief in lady at the bookshop asked for lines. The general impression of their inordinate Parliamentary in Browning's "Ring and the Book," Gissing's temperament left by the fluence also owes more to imagina- and the bookseller replied, "No, letters themselves is confirmed by tion than to fact. Mr. Holzman miss, we don't stock betting litera an appendix giving some reminis gives interesting particulars of the ture." (Laughter.) He thought cences of his sister. She tells us houses built by leading Nahoba more profit could be derived by that a note of depression was the when they came home to lead the reading than by listening to lec- most strongly marked of all his life of rural magnates. For some

tures and broadcasting. characteristics. "One always felt," reason or other, Berkshire was she says, "that his enjoyment and their favourite county, so much so the eagerness which he threw into that it was sometimes called "the all that interested him, would be English Hindustan.” followed, as they always were, by

a sinking of spirit." Glasing's career was, indeed, one of the tragedies of the literary calling,

Clive.

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A new romance that is much talked about is "Jew Suas," by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated by Willa and Edwin Mutr. It has eighteenth century Germany us. Its background.

An Australian professor, Dr. Griffith Taylor of Sydney, has com- pleted a volume of "Environment and Race," which will not only sur- vey the effect of climate and phy- the Earthly Paradise" is a criti sical environment on past history, but will forecast the direction of future national migrations caused by the congestion of population.

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E. Sylvia Pankhurst's “India and cism of the social; economic and ad- ministrative systems of India, an- clent and modern, from the Com- munist's standpoint.

Lord Riddell responded. Other toasts were "Books and the Future of Educat.on," proposed Mr. J. G. Wilson, and reptiled to by the Duchess of Atholl, and "The Guests," submitted by Mr. F. A. Denny, and responded to by Sir Henry Newbolt.

Dr. J. Newton Friend's "Iron in Antiquity" should appeal to anthro pulogists as well as metallurgists. it mentions several interesting re- ligious beliefs and superstitions at- taching to fron, including the avoid- ance of its use for ceremonial pur- poses and the attribution of a magi- cal character to the smith.

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