Shibli Listens In.

Will Lawson's “When Cobb & Co. Was King,” has run into a second edition, 2000 copies being sold to date.

Mr. Eric Ramsden, author of the recently published. “Marsden and the Missions,” has been elected president of the Anthropological Society of New South Wales.

A Limited Editions Society has been formed in Australia. There is a limit of 500 members at £3/3/- yearly. The proposal is to print at least one fair-sized book every year and to supplement it if possible with lesser works. The Hon. Secretary (Mr. Benjamin N. Fryer) tells me that the prospectus in hand will be among the best printed pieces that has ever been done in Australia.

Due for publication this month by A. H. and A. W. Reed is “Scalpel and Sword,” by Sir James Elliott, of Wellington.

Ian Donnelly, who has been doing relieving work on the Christchurch “Press,” is now busy on a novel.