Volume 156 — NEW BOOKS
Reading edition
FROM MESSRS. TRUEMAN AND WASHINGTON'S LIST.
THE ZOOMERS.
By GLADYS WANK.
Price 6/11¾.
A new writer who by virtue of her godlike genius takes her seat with HOMER, DANTE, SHAKSPEAKE and MARIE CORELLI, and a novel such as the world has not known since The Miseries of Mephistopheles startled the comatose mid-Victorians from their slumbers—both stand revealed in these soul-shaking pages. To say that this is the novel of the year is to malign its greatness It is the novel of the century, of all centuries, of all time.
FIRST REVIEW BEFORE PUBLICATION.
"It is not saying too much, when I solemnly assert that I really believe that Miss Wank's first book is the best she has ever written."—"A MAN OF KENT," in The Scottish Treacly.
SIMIAN SONGS.
BY ISABEL MUNKITTRICK.
Price 11/3½.
These remarkable lyrics are translations into vernacular verse of the prose versions of specimens of the literature of the great apes of Africa, collected by Professor GARNER. It is not too much to say that those touching cris de coeur redolent of the jungle, the lagoon and the hinterland, will appeal with irresistible force to all lovers of sincere and passionate emotion. The Chimpanzee's "swing song" on page 42 is a marvel of oscillating melody.
THE MILLENNIUM viâ ARMAGEDDON.
BY REV. ANGUS WOTTLEY, D.D.
With a Foreword by PRINCIPAL CAWKER.
Price 9/4¼.
This is a work of over 120,000 words of extraordinary beauty and distinction. It has gone into 150 editions in Patagonia, where the editions are very large, and ought to be in great demand in this country. Tiberius Mull, writing in the Literary Supplement of The Scottish Oil World, uses these remarkable words: "I do honestly believe that Dr. Angus Wottley's book is the most weighty volume he has ever given to the world."
POLLY ANDREA'S SACRIFICE.
By SALINA LAKE.
Price 8/3½.
This is the first attempt to present the limitations of the modern monogamous system in its true polyphonic perspective, several huge editions having been exhausted before publication. Professor McTalisker writes in the Theological Supplement of John Bull: "For a person in a state of partial exhaustion I can imagine no more efficacious stimulant than is to be found in those beautiful pages. Not being acquainted with any of the earlier works of the author, I can honestly declare that in my opinion it is the best thing that I have read from her pen, and, further, that it has made a deeper impression upon me than any other work which I have not read but which deals with the same subject."
DOPE.
Jack
. "'ERE'S AN ARTICLE 'ERE ON THE 'FASCINATION OF OPIUM SMOKIN'.' FASCINATION, I DON'T FINK! THE ONLY TIME I SMOKED IT WAS IN CHINA, AN' FOR THREE DAYS I 'AD AH 'EAD ON ME LIKE A SMOKE BARRAGE."
PEACE AND PROMOTION.
Lucasta, prideful times they were When first it came to pass That on each shoulder I might bear A little star of brass. And when by reason of my zeal I was awarded twain, 'Twas not mere vanity to feel Almost as proud again. My warrior soul was filled with song In triumph's clearest key, When, feeling thrice as broad and strong, My shoulders shone with three. Yet these I'll gladly from their place Remove, and in their stead Support one star of gentler grace— Lucasta's golden head.
"GENTLEMAN required, knowledge of short-hand essential although not absolutely necessary."—Local Paper.
A very nice distinction.
"In my opinion the Asiatic cholera, 1850-1851, took more lives and caused more anxiety than the flu. In Spanish Town, with a population of 5,000, 7,800 died."—Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica).
We agree that the 'flu mortality can hardly have been greater than this.
"Flageolets soaked or parboiled previously and placed in alternate layers in a fireproof dish with sliced tomato or potato sprinkled with onion also make a valuable dish." —Evening Paper.
We have fortunately not yet been reduced to eating our wood-wind instruments; but we think we should need a double-bass to wash them down.
Impressed Rustic Sightseer. "AY, AMOS, IT MUST TAKE YEARS OF OILING AN' COMBING TO TRAIN HAIR LIKE THAT."
