(_By our Special Parasitic Penman._)
_How I Got There and Back_ is the title of a new story of adventurous
exploration which Messrs. Jones, Younger announce for immediate
publication. The author, Mr. J. Minch Howson, whose text has been revised
by the publishers, has had some astonishing experiences as a bonzo-hunter
in the Aruwhimi forest. On one occasion he was rescued by a mad elephant
from the jaws of an okapi, into which he had inadvertently fallen while
flying from a gorilla. During his residence among the pygmies Mr. Howson
became such an adept with the long blow-pipe that they offered him the
headship of the tribe; but, as this involved the adoption of
anthropophagous habits, he was reluctantly obliged to decline the honour.
Mr. Bamborough, the famous violinist, who recently changed his name by deed
poll from Bamberger, has compiled a further volume of reminiscences based
on his experiences as a travelling _virtuoso_ in all four hemispheres. Some
of these have already been made public in the Press, but in a condensed
form. He now tells us for the first time in full detail his astounding
adventures in New Guinea, where he was captured and partially eaten by
cannibals, and his awful ordeal in the Never-Never Land, when he was
attacked simultaneously by an emu and a wallaby, and conquered them both by
the strains of his violin. The volume, which will be published by the House
of Pougher and Kleimer, is profusely illustrated with portraits of Mr.
Bamborough at various stages of his career, before and after the execution
of the deed poll; of Mrs. Bamborough and their three gifted children,
Wotan, Salome and Isolde Bamborough; and of her father, Sir Pompey Boldero,
F.R.G.S., formerly Attorney-General of Pitcairn Island. It is further
enriched with a number of letters in _fac-simile_ from the Begum of BHOPAL,
General HUERTA, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, Madame HUMBERT, Mr. JEROME K.
JEROME, Mr. CLEMENT SHORTER, Mrs. ALEC TWEEDIE and the late KING THEEBAW of
Burmah.
Messrs. Vigo announce the speedy publication of a volume of reminiscences
from the pen of Count Lio Rotsac, the famous Bohemian revolutionary. In it
special interest attaches to the long and desperate struggle between the
Count and his rival, Baron Aracsac, which ended in the supersession of the
latter and his confinement in the gloomy fortress prison of Niola Stelbat.
Miss Poppy McLurkin, the composer of that delightful song _Peter Popinjay_,
of which over a quarter of a million copies have been sold or given away,
has expanded the four verses of her lyric into a full-length novel, which
Messrs. Gulliver will publish under the same title. Miss McLurkin, who is
still on the sunny side of thirty, is one of the few female performers on
the bagpipes in the literary profession.
New novelists are always welcome if only for the titles of their books,
for, after all, perusal of their contents is not compulsory. In this
category may be included _Telepathic Theodora_, by Beryl Smuts; _The
Rottenest Story in the World_, by Dermot Stuggy; and _In the Doldrums_, by
Wally Gogg.
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