able Mr. Alwaysright. Mr. Dearmer may even yet be overwhelmed with invitations to dinner in the United States.

MR. BERNARD SHAW AS A PARLIA-
MENTARY CANDIDATE

THE West Edinburgh Labor Party not long ago suggested to Mr. Bernard Shaw that they would like to have him for their candidate for Parliament at the next election. Mr. Shaw promptly declined, on the ground that 'I shall stand, not for Parliament, but for telling Parliament what I think of it, and, incidentally, of the political intelligence of the people who elect it.' As Mr. Shaw hastened to explain to the Labor leaders, this, although ‘a useful and necessary occupation,' is 'not one that wins votes.' He reassured the political leaders of Great Britain with the statement that 'they have nothing to fear from me at the forthcoming general election.'

Mr. Shaw then proceeded to find fault with the present organization of Parliament in the following terms:

If the Labor Party, or any other party, will guarantee me an unopposed election and a salary of four thousand pounds a year, with a handsome pension, I may at least consider the proposition that I should narrow my audience from civilized mankind

to the handful of bewildered commercial gentlemen at Westminster who are now earnestly ruining Europe as the stupidest way of ruining their own country; but my answer would probably be the same would be easier and pleasanter to drown myself.

NEW BOOKS IN ENGLAND

problems of Western Europe and the United States. Messrs. Heinemann, who are bringing out an English edition of Emery Holloway's Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, are also including in their spring list an anthology of little-known minor poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the work of I. A. Williams, who contributes biographical notes from time to time to the London Mercury, and will be entitled Byways Round Helicon. Mr. J. C. Squire, editor of the Mercury, will contribute the preface.

Mrs. Watts-Dunton's Recollections of Swinburne, which was to have been published last fall and has been held over, will be published almost immediately. The book will describe the relationship of Swinburne and WattsDunton, and their methods of work. Hints that have leaked out from the publisher's office indicate that Mrs. Watts-Dunton will probably differ from some of the statements in Mr. Edmund Gosse's article on Swinburne in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Mr. Herbert Sidebotham is at work on an official biography of Lord Fisher, so long the one most prominent figure in British naval circles. This book will, however, not be ready for publication until next year.

BRITISH publishers announce a number of interesting new books for early publication. Messrs. Constable have just issued a book called The Jews, by Hilaire Belloc, which will deal with the

Luden

dorff's Selbstportrait. Berlin: Verlag von Politik und Wirtschaft. Flammarion, Camille. Death and its Mystery: Before Death. Proofs of the Existence of the Soul. Translated by E. S. Brooks. London: Fisher Unwin. 108. 6d. net. Graves, Charles L. New Times and Old Rhymes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 128. 6s. net.

able Mr. Alwaysright. Mr. Dearmer may even yet be overwhelmed with invitations to dinner in the United States.

MR. BERNARD SHAW AS A PARLIA-
MENTARY CANDIDATE

THE West Edinburgh Labor Party not long ago suggested to Mr. Bernard Shaw that they would like to have him for their candidate for Parliament at the next election. Mr. Shaw promptly declined, on the ground that 'I shall stand, not for Parliament, but for telling Parliament what I think of it, and, incidentally, of the political intelligence of the people who elect it.' As Mr. Shaw hastened to explain to the Labor leaders, this, although 'a useful and necessary occupation,' is 'not one that wins votes.' He reassured the political leaders of Great Britain with the statement that 'they have nothing to fear from me at the forthcoming general election.'

Mr. Shaw then proceeded to find fault with the present organization of Parliament in the following terms:

If the Labor Party, or any other party, will guarantee me an unopposed election and a salary of four thousand pounds a year, with a handsome pension, I may at least consider the proposition that I should narrow my audience from civilized mankind

to the handful of bewildered commercial gentlemen at Westminster who are now earnestly ruining Europe as the stupidest way of ruining their own country; but my it answer would probably be the same would be easier and pleasanter to drown myself.

NEW BOOKS IN ENGLAND

BRITISH publishers announce a number of interesting new books for early publication. Messrs. Constable have just issued a book called The Jews, by Hilaire Belloc, which will deal with the

problems of Western Europe and the United States. Messrs. Heinemann, who are bringing out an English edition of Emery Holloway's Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, are also including in their spring list an anthology of little-known minor poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the work of I. A. Williams, who contributes biographical notes from time to time to the London Mercury, and will be entitled Byways Round Helicon. Mr. J. C. Squire, editor of the Mercury, will contribute the preface.

Mrs. Watts-Dunton's Recollections of Swinburne, which was to have been published last fall and has been held over, will be published almost immediately. The book will describe the relationship of Swinburne and WattsDunton, and their methods of work. Hints that have leaked out from the publisher's office indicate that Mrs. Watts-Dunton will probably differ from some of the statements in Mr. Edmund Gosse's article on Swinburne in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Mr. Herbert Sidebotham is at work on an official biography of Lord Fisher, so long the one most prominent figure in British naval circles. This book will, however, not be ready for publication until next year.

BOOKS MENTIONED

Delbrück, Professor Hans. Ludendorffs Selbstportrait. Berlin: Verlag von Politik und Wirtschaft. Flammarion, Camille. Death and its Mystery: Before Death. Proofs of the Existence of the Soul. Translated by E. S. Brooks. London: Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net. Graves, Charles L. New Times and Old Rhymes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Pp. 128. 6s. net.