LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1924, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

Received: "History of Australia," by Arthus Jese, from Angus and Robertson, Sydney. "The Spell of the Land," by John Armour, from the Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney. "The Infinate Shoeblack," by N. MacOwan, from Williams and Norgate, London. "A Sourdough Samaritan," by C. H. Gibbons; "The Three Hostages," by John Buchan, and "A Gentleman of Courage," by James Oliver Curwood, from Hodder and Stoughton, London. "The Animals of New Zealand," by F. W. Hutton and James Drummond, and "Angling in New Zealand," by.T.Carr Rollett, from Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch.

That clever writer Stella Benson has a new novel, "Pipers and a Dancer," announced by the Macmillan Company. Tlie scene is laid in China, where Stella Benson and her husband are now living, but the characters, or at least the principal ones, are English,

A. S. M. Hutchinson, famous author of "If Winter Comes," is spending most of his time in Haute Savoie, in the French Alps. He is at work on a new novel, which will probably not be com-, pleted for some time to come. Mr. Hutchinson recently returned from a thousandmile : trip up the Amazon, followed by a sojourn in the Balearic Isles in the Mediterranean.

The Authors' Club of London has acquired for £28 an acre of land at Box Hill, Surrey, adjoining Flint Cottage, the home.of George Meredith, a former president of the club. There was a danger of. the whole estate, of 240 acres of finely wooded park land, being built over, and "Country Life" Had ■ already raised a large sum toward the purchase of the 240 acres.' It,'is proposed that en oak seat made from timber felled in the neighbourhood should be' placed on the" acre purchased, and inscribed with the name of the Authors'. Club.

Mr. George Allan England, whose experiences with the Newfoundland sealing fleet were told in his fine book, "Vikings of the Ice," is spending summer and 'autumn among the lighthouse keepers and coast guards of Sable Island, known, because,of the many ships that havo been wrecked there, as "the graveyard of the Atlantic." It was there that Sir Humphrey Gilbert went down in 1583, exclaiming, according to the Chroniclers, /'Heaven is as near by sea as by land !".■■■

Under the title "The Garment Workers," Dr. Louis Levine, of Now York has written a history of the -International Ladies' Garment Workers'. Union to be published by B. W. Huebsch, New *ork. Dr. Lcyine is the author of 'Labour Movements in France," "Syndicalism, in France," "The Taxation of Mines in Montana," etc., and was for several years a special writer on economic subjects in "The New York World." For four years he was economic, expert in the New York State Department of Labour, and he has lectured on economics at Columbia.University^