1. 5 May, 1900. THE DIVINE ADVENTURE, IONA, THE DEFENSIVE ARMOUR AND THE WEAPONS AND AND OF THE RENAISSANCE. BY ROBERT COLTMAN CLEPHAN. This volume has grown out of notes printed in Archeologia Eliana, that excellent repository of North of England lore, in 1898. Armour is a highly technical subject, and Mr. Clephan brings to it the experience gained in years of study. He treats of his subject under the two headings, "Defensive Armour" and "Weapons of War." (Walter Scott. 78. 6d.) In addition to the foregoing, we have received: THEOLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL. Pfleiderer (Otto), Evolution and Theology, and Other Essays Wadell (Rev. P. H.), Christianity as an Ideal (A. & C. Black) (Blackwood) 36 ...............................................(Black) 0/3 (Sands) 3/6 Percy Kent, 2, Bayley Mansions, Bedford-square, W.C., to whom a cheque for one guinea has been sent. Meanwhile his spouse, her sister too, And eke their children four, The reckoning paid, John Gilpin's wife, Did straight bestow her precious charge Then once again the wheels went round, Said Gilpin: "On our wedding-day Another contribution is as follows: The post-boy, weary of the race, Said Mrs. Gilpin-kindly soul: 66 My husband's gone to town; Altho' you lost by half a head, You sha'n't lose half-a-crown! When Mr. Gilpio, peeping out, He met them with a joyful shout, And laughed until he cried. 66 "'Tis odd," quoth he, our wedding-day "No matter," quoth his frugal spouse, [H. A. M., London, N.W.] Other replies, received from "Clorinda," Tisford; L. M. L, Stafford; T. B. D., Bridgwater; E. A. S., Sevenoaks; A. E. W., Inverness ; T. E. B., Ipswich; R. M. S, Bayswater; T. C., Buxted; A. H., East Dulwich; A. H. C., Lee; J. R. W., Cambridge; St. J. O., Bath; E. B., Liverpool; A. E. T., Bristol; K. L. E., Matlock; Miss R., Gower Park; L. L., Ramsgate; E. G. H., West Kensington; K. 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Following a score or so that we have already reviewed, to-day Mr. Pearse, of the Daily News, gives us a book; to-morrow Mr. Nevinson, of the Chronicle; the day after to-morrow Mr. Winston Churchill. The war-book business, like everything else, is being overdone. Within a week the rights of no fewer than twenty-five books about the War were offered to one American publisher. We are also to have a volume from the Bishop of Natal, who was at the Front with General Buller. It is in the form of a diary, and was written for the benefit of his friends; but "the urgent needs of his diocese have induced him to consent to their publication." The Bishop of Natal is a sanguine man. We wish him and his diary good fortune. MR. CONAN DOYLE, we understand, has accepted the offer of an American firm of publishers to write a history of the Boer War. MESSRS. METHUEN are preparing a sixpenny edition of Colonel Baden-Powell's personal narrative of the Matabele Campaign of 1896. The book, which is dedicated to his mother, has been illustrated by Colonel Baden-Powell with numerous and characteristic sketches. MRS. MEYNELL has been appointed art critic of the Pall Mall Gazette, in succession to R. A. M. S. Mr. W. E. Henley has written for the new number of the Pall Mall Magazine an appreciation of Mr. R. A. M. Stevenson. CHANGES have taken place in the editorial department of the Speaker. Mr. Philip Carr, we understand, has retired from the editorship, which he shared jointly with Mr. J. L. Hammond. THE work of reconstruction which has been in progress for some time in the publishing house of Harper & Brothers is now practically complete. The London branch in Albemarle-street has been placed under the control of Mr. W. B. Fitts, who is known in England by his work in connexion with the new series of the North American Review. Mr. E. V. Lucas has joined Messrs. Harper & Brothers as reader and literary adviser. MR. ANTHONY HOPE is writing three more "Dolly Dialogues," which will be published in the New Magazine, an American periodical of which the first number is announced to appear shortly. A SIXPENNY edition of John Oliver Hobbes's The School for Saints will be issued by Mr. Fisher Unwin at an early date. IN the report made by Edward Edwards on the first year's working of the Manchester Free Library (1852-53) it is interesting to read his remarks on the popular Price Threepence. [Registered as a Newspaper.] reading of that day. He enumerates some of the works most in demand in both the Reference and the Lending Departments, and the list of titles makes a curious contrast with the popular reading of to-day-not entirely to the credit of modern readers. In the Reference Department the Biblical commentaries most in demand were those of Calmet, Kitto, and Beard. The works of Jeremy Taylor, Richard Hooker, Robert Hall, and Bishop Horsley had been much read. During the first six months of the year, Hume and Smollett's History of England was issued 31 times; Lingard's, 41 times; Craik and Macfarlane's, 60 times; and Macaulay's 124 times. Cumming's Hunter's Life in South Africa was applied for nearly 200 times; Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, 74 times; and Layard's Nineveh and its Remains about as often. Biography was popular; and for a Life of Wellington, and the great Duke's Despatches, there were 122 calls. Various Lives of Napoleon had a total of 303 readers. Shakespeare's works, and books illustrative thereof, reached the respectable total of 324 issues; while in the realm of fiction, Scott and Defoe reigned supreme, there having been 1,141 issues of the former and 984 of the latter: Ivanhoe being issued 241 times, and Robinson Crusoe, 239. The Thousand and One Nights delighted 294 readers, Gulliver's Travels left the shelves 123 times, and Roderick Random had 82 issues. TURNING to the parallel six months in the Lending Department, we find that the same problem troubled the librarian of those days as now-viz., the great preponderance of fiction-reading. Dickens's The Chimes was borrowed 42 times; Oliver Twist, 30; and Dombey and Son, 20 times. Scott's Kenilworth was issued 34 times; Peveril of the Peak, 31; and The Fortunes of Nigel, 34 times. Vanity Fair was taken out 30 times; Pelham, 33 times; while the now forgotten Sewell's Rudolph the Voyager found 36 readers. "But," says the librarian, "of such works as these, four or five times the number of copies which the library possesses would be in equally eager demand were they forthcoming." The first volume of Whitaker's History of Manchester was borrowed 21 times, but the second reversed the figures, being issued only 12 times. Macaulay's History found 20 students. Fifteen issues were recorded of the early volumes of Lingard's History; but the perseverance of many of the readers evidently broke down, for when the ninth volume was reached they numbered but 10, the tenth totalled 7, and the thirteenth only 3. Clarendon's History found 14 readers for the first and second volumes, but the seventh volume reduced that number to 3. WE stated some weeks ago that the scene of Mr. Kipling's new novel is laid in Upper Burmah. The first draft of the story, we gather from the New York Bookman, was given to the printers in England before Mr. Kipling's departure for South Africa. In its original form it made about one hundred thousand words. The proofs were forwarded to Mr. Kipling at the scene of the war, and the author was obliged to make his corrections and alterations under trying and picturesque circumstances, |