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BOOKS and READERS GIANTS OF SCIENCE OUR LONDON AIR-

A FIRST FOLIO SHAKESPEARE

HOW THE ROSEBERY COPY WAS REDISCOVERED

NEW BOOKS AND AN OLD ONE

NEW NOVELS

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AN INTERESTING HISTORY

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MAIL LETTER

(Continued from Page 1). haul for the first time for many years. For this purpose Big Ben will be out of action for several weeks, but, as this stage of the work will not be entered upon until next year, listeners-in will have plenty of time to decustom them- selves to the thought of hearing a daily wireless programme in which the chimes of Big Ben will not, be heard.

Princess Royal at Osborne.: Cowes.The Princess Royal, who Commandant in-Chief of 'the

The

Professo Philipp Lenard' "Great. Men of Science: A History of Scientific Progress," which has for some time onjoyed a high re putation in Germany, is now avail able in English. (Bell, 12s. 6d.). The title indicates the plan of the book-a history of science from the TWO DETECTIVE STORIES earliest times to the present-day in the form of a series of short studies of the lives and work of "Detective," by Mr. Louis Joseph the great investigators. It is not Vance (Jarrolds, s.) is story of a compilation, but a carefully ar the underworld of New York and, ticulated whole, based on sources LONDON, June 10. Collectors and dealers are look at certain points, it bulges with and severely selective. ing forward with keen interest to

sentimentality. But

other Dr. Lenard stresses two points-18 the sale at Sotheby'e on June 30 points it gives a completely consis first, that the great investigators V.A.D., to-day inspected the British of lot No. 1113 in the important out of which all the sentimentality than they are credited with; and at the former Naval College at Os- tent picture of that underworld, have frequently achieved even more Red Cross Society's training camp library scrupulously formed by the has been left. I am not in a posi second, that the number of really borne. fate Lord Rosebery. It is a First tion to any ether it is a true great investigators is much smaller Folio of Shakespeare's "Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies," as is-ture or What I can say than is generally supposed his ceived by Sir Godfrey Baring, re- At Ryde Pier the Princess was re- is that, it ringa true. Such people own list contains only sixty-five presenting Major-General Seely, sued in 1823 at £1., “. }

(It was sold recently to an Ameri. As these may or may not exist: can collection for £46,000). This they certainly could exist without he justifies the biographical me- Lady Seely, representing Princess It is on these grounds that Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire; book which the Scottish Gibliophis doing violence to one's notions of thod of writing a history of science. Beatrice, president of the 1816 of le prized above all others in his calman nature. All this is in addi- Indeed, he goes so far as to argue Wight branch of the British Red lection-is, to quote the catalogue, trial which would he quite readable unity, so the select band of great county director; Capt. H. G. Adanis tion to a story of a murder and a that just as all natural science is Cross Society; Capt. H. J. Ward, "a perfect copy in very clean and good condition throughout, and one

on its own account.

investigators are a kind of cor- Connor, Chief Constable of the of the finest ever offered for mal "Hermes Speaks," by Miss Muriel porate body, who show not only island, and the Mayor and Mayoress Ly auction."

Jaeger (Duckworth, 73. 8d.), is the spiritual unity, but a definite of Ryde, Mr. and Mrs. Goble. No until 1008, however, did this third modern novel I can remember that the giants of science are a physical kinship. This suggestion volume emerge from abscurity. which tells of a plot to change the

Her Royal Highness inspected a When in 1002 the late Sir Sidney religious opinions of the world by special breed of Western man may parade of about 200 officers, each of Lee" published his invaluable means of a trick. Here it is to

seem to verge on the fantastic, but whom was presented, and distribut though necessarily incomplete Cen- Spiritualism, that the world is to be the numerous portraits that the ed a number of medhis. perfect copies, "in good, unrestor which can tell men of science some Most of Professor Lenard's studies plays. sus of First Folios, he recorded 14 converted. At last a spirit is found author has included to illustrate Princess took the salate at n march his thesis are certainly intructive, past and witnessed various dis ed condition," No. X. being the thing which they did not know be superb Belleroche example for fare and which they can yet test. which the famous Glasgow stock-The effect on public opinion is en three names, e... Leibnitz and are of single individuals, but often

Edward Unwin. he conveniently bracket two OT broker and book-lover, Mr. Ber ormous-and Miss Jaeger deal skil nard Buchanan MacGeorge (Obit fully with the awkward difficulty pin, Galvani and Volta, Mayer, 1924) paid £1:00 at Christie's in that the public at large would be

Joule and Helmholtz, July, 1800, a sum then regarded as most unlikely to be deeply moved Linnæue and Mendel, etc.

by a spirit which could present new

One criticism of the book may but valid mathematical discoveries tentatively be suggested. Prates to mathematicians. The solution is or Lenard has been so rigorous in found in the existence of a preco his selection that medical science cious boy-which is quite in accord is entirely unrepresented. with the history of mathematics. Hippocrates, Harvey, and Pasteur Miss Jaeger is an extremely adroit at least should be among the giante. story-teller, and her publishers are The translation, which is from the justified in their boast that the second German edition, has been "makes an intellectual fraud as excellently done by Dr. H. Stafford thrilling as the bloodiest murder." Hatfield, and Professor Andrade, I cannot say that I much like in a short introduction, pays an Mr. Mark Gault's The Face of enthusiastic tribute to Professor Death" (Methuen, 75, 6d.) for what Lenard's own eminence as a phy- is out of the ordinary in it. The sicist. first-person hero is a dilettante American, who takes a pride in be- ing dilettante, who escilates be tween Rome and Florence, who lives mostly in pensions, though he finds the company despicable, and is de- termined the mon shall have a chance of herring him while he is temporarily off his guard. This makes an unusual detective. To my find it also makes file was unable to silence Mr. him an impossible detective.. Gabriel Wells of America till beOne knows the type, and I, for one, bid £8.500 for a highly desirable and it impossible to see it doing Firat Folia, while six years earlier anything except keep out of such the superb Burdett-Coutts example an adventure as far as the police hought at the Daniel sale of 1864 would allow Edward Shanks in for 652, guineas, realised under John O' London's Weekly. Sotheby's hammer £8,600. Tintil the world-slump the estimated value of the Burdett-Coutts, MacGeorgs, and Rosebery Folios approximated lo some £93,000 each.

preposterous.

AN EXAGGERATED

LIMIT."

The story goes, indeed, that Mr. Bernard Quaritch, founder of the renowned Quaritch firm, had given his agent an exaggerated limit of £1200 to make certain of success and that this fiery young man," determined to punish his unknown opponent, exceeded his instructions by £400. For once, however, Quaritch did not "sce beyond his nose." When, reluctantly, in 1003 Mr. MacGeorge sold his set of four Shakespeare folios to the agent of Marsden J. Perry, Rhode Island. for the then unprecedented sum of £10,000, this meant that the 1823 Beileroche volume was valued at got less than £6,000 to £7,000- handsome profit of about £5,300 in six years. Furthermore, in the sum- mer of 1928 at Sotheby's. Quariten

SIR SIDNEY LEE ENLIGHTENED..

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VICTOR WHITECHURCH SHORT STORIES.

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Turn for healing-but it will only be an anodyne to. Mute Wit"] nesses, by Victor L Whitechurch (Benn, 7 d.). The contrast in mood is almost grotesque. Yet here To return to the Rosebery folio, is truth again, though in the guise Sir Sidney Lee, unaware of its fine of old history from which the pang enndition placed it as No. CXIVII. has long died. Canon Whitechurch in Class IV., "copies, otherwise tells the story of a Sussex village; unclassed owing to lack of full from the days when a prehistoric description." Apart from the then chieftain was buried on the height owner's name. "Augustus East above it, to the days of the motor field," the tentative information tween them. have revolutionized Manley, Esq., Manley Hall, Lich bus and the wireless, which, be given is limited to the size (which country life. The stories are sim- should have been 13 1/16 x 8), the ple, slight reconstructions of the condition, good, leaves cut by past, presenting no personal pro binder," and the note apparently blems, and the lulling voice of "that acquired by the present owner's old common arbitrator, Time," is great-grandfather, John Manley, nothing.

C. 1770."

AN ODD HEROINE.

In 1909 the folio was acquired privately by Quaritch, reputedly for about £1,000. When carefully Fanny, the heroine of "Describe

Darwin,

He

Unwin, the 02-year-old chairman of The familiar figure of Edward Unwins the Printers, with his pat riarchal white beard, will be missed in the City. Until a few weeks before his death on Saturday he still came to town regularly from his home. in Bromley, Kent. was born in Scots Yard, where went to the City of London School, Surely Cannon Street Station now stands, walking three and a half miles from his father's house at Hackney and back every day, and remembered. the North London Railway being built.

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the head of the composing-room of At fifteen he was apprenticed to the firm his father founded, and ten years later he became a partner. When Unwins went to Chilworth, Sarrey, in 1871, where, away from London's smoke, a sort of "factory. in a garden" was established, John Ruskin waa so pleased with the scheme that he wrote the firm n letter of congratulation,

Edward Unwin's interests outside printing were thrgely religious. He was for fifty years a deacon of the Congregational Church, and he was one of the founders of the Colonial reporting in thousands at welfare David Livingstone well, for the Workless women and girls are Missionary Society. He knew agencies in New York hoping to be great missionary was a frequent sent to the summer rest camp at visitor, with Dr. Robert Moffat, at Bear Mountain, which is sponsored his father's house at Hackney. by Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Frances One of Unwin's carly memories was Perkins, the Minister of Labour, A journey by steam train to Stepney There is room for only 300 at the and by rope railway to Poplar to camp, but almost all New York'ace the first John Williams, the penniless girls want to go there.

London Missionary Society's mission At the camp' they will sivim and cd for the South Seas.

ship, in the Thames before she sail- go boating and fishing.

Many have already left their homes and are wandering the coun- tryside like tramps with their workless brothers, and fathers.

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Although destitute, many of them are still smart, having spent their last dollars on clothes to keep up a good appearance in case the chance of a jéb comes along.

neat

that all the girls applying to go to It has been particularly notėd Mrs. Roosevel's camp are and tidy, though, hungry.

Destitution has had digerent effects on different types.

Some have become defiant and resentful, while others are meek and plead desperately to be allowed to go to the camp...

THE NEW TIN TAX IN FM.S.

INCREASING VOLUME OF

OPPOSITION

examined by experts, however, the

a Circle," by Martin Hare (Heine- folio was pronounced to be one of mann, s. 6d), will charm some the finest extant. Immediately ad readers. Others may find her vised of the precious "find," Lord dislikeable minx, with an all-suffic- Rosebery at once became its owner, ing selfishness. But ber story is Soon thereafter he invited Sir very well told by a writer whose Sidney Lee to dinner, and, having second novel marks another upward. listened to his guest's enthusiastic step. in a promising career. The praises of several fine examples of gift of handling characters as a the Folio in America, brought for good whip might handle a four-in- ward the grand Manley volume, novel writers that one should fail

hand is not so which Sir Sidney then saw for the to admire it. Mr. Martin Hare has first time. His surprised delight the gift-that admirable, comic, ed scale of tin taxation whereby

KUALA LUMPUR, June 24. was mingled with regret at seeing bitter scene of Fanny's farewell, to the F.M.S. Government will collect Opposition to the recently amend, it thus belatedly.

Sir Max shows how well he con much more from miners when the trols his tenm, and the easy hand price is below 8101 a picul gather ling thereafter never fails. Entering strength in the tin industry.

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