The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-08

to the magazines, in which field she ha taken a very prominent position within l year or two. Her novel is understood u be based series of short storiei which have attracted considerable atten tion in the magazines In which they havI appeared.
 publishing announcement of equal interest to scholars and the general pub lie is made by Duffeld & Co.,. New York and Chatto & Windus of London. Thes
 two houses ahve arranged for the publ
 cation of a series of books to be calleI the Shakespeare Library, in which vii be included various volumes indispervsa
 ble to thorough understanding of tn poet, but never before issued at reasonal dle prices. The Library will be dividel i into four parts. Part first will includl The Old Spelling Shakespeare" publish ed in forty volumes and in the ortho graphy of the poets own time, thetex under the editorship of Dr. F'urnival Part second. the Shakespeare classics under the general editorship of ProfesSoI I. Golancz editor of the Temple Shakes pearea. will include the various romancesl histories. plays and poems used bl Shakespeare as the original or direcI , sources of his plays Part three, calleI Shakespeare's England will include vol
 pmes illustrative of the life, thought anl literature of England in the time ol Shakespeare. A fourth part, 10 be callel the Lamb Shakespeare for Young People will be based on Charles and Mar Lambs tales. in which an attempt vii be made to insert skilfully within thl setting of prose those scenes and pasl sa ges from the plays witl which tn young reader should early become acI quainted. The work will he done undeI the special supervision Of Professor Col 1 lancz, the editor of the Library.
 The first of the volumes in the seconl part. the backbone of the Library, wi | be Lodges ''Rosalynde" the original q AS You Like It. edited by ". WI Greg, MA. Other volumes to follow shortly will be Greenes "Dorastus anI F'awnia, the original of the Winter Tale; Brooks poem of "Ropeus an Juliet" '"rhe History of Hamlet "Thl Play of King Leir and his Three Daughl ters," and various other Shakespearea source books.
 Among the first volumes to appear il the Shakespeare's England section vii be Robert Lanehams Letter. oescribin part of the entertainment given to Queel Elizabeth in Wentworth Castle in 157il Shakespea res "Holinshed." edited by thl late w G. Boswell Stone; the Shake speare Illusion Book in which the allul sions originally collected by Dr. Ingleb, Miss l.. Toulmin Smith and pr. Furn Ndll. VIII Dt LOT Ile HrSL tune 8TTdnRet in chronological order and supplemental with further material The whole II brary is expected to be completed bel tween September, 1907, and 1909.
 Time was when some publishers though that the use of novel as a serial woulI rob the book of just so many reader;' Recent experiences seem to belle thu theory Robert w. Chambers nov,' iul, inc tI,a ia and so evcited public gossip that the firs, edition of 1t was 50,G0O copies; yet it Ia on up to dizzy heights. The new novd by Chambers, '"rhe Younger Set" hal just finished it's course as a serial il Appletons ma gazine. and advance order have compelled a first edition of 10oNl copies. Australia alone has taken 10 0Ol It seems inevitable that the book shall al least double its advance sale. Serialzal tion has set the public to talking. a,nl Dame Rumor is the greatest of all salesl men.
 This latest book Of Maarten Maartenl disport itself amongst the many hygienl crazes. the medical and medicinal fada fancies, and follies of the moment, treatei in the authors manner. between a smil, and tear Without exaggeration, and above al1 without malice it reveals thi reSiStless impulse-like an ananke-in oui present-day social world. of the moderI medical specialist, a far more remorselesi dictator than any bygone priest of a sal ner age. and its story works out the sloIl deliverance of two souls. by strongly val ried developments among cosmopolita scenes of undoubted veracty, from ths pitfall delusions and deceits of our lifel long race after health. It bears thl strange title '.The New Religion, a Mod. ern Novel," and is published by D. Ar pleton & Co.