OUR EARLY HISTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 267, 10 November 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUR EARLY HISTORY.

ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA. RUSSIAN ARISTOCRACY. On page one "Cyrano" reviews the first volume of the biography of Lord Eshcr. Most modern travel books are the-work not of travellers who feel compelled to write, but of writers who feel compelled to travel.—Mr. Evelyn Waugh. "Out of Henry George by either Gronlund or Bellamy," wae a true pedigree of the convictions held by nearly all the leading propagandists who set Socialism on its feet in Great Britain between 1885 and 1900.—Mr. R. C. K. Eneor. Returning from a visit to Russia, Sir John Russell, the distinguished agricultural chemist, reports that his own books on soil science havrf a much larger sale in that country than in the rest of the world together. I don't believe- Shakespeare's sonnete contained any deep confessions. People don't eit down and write poetry when they are really very unhappy. As Coloridge once said: "When a man is unhappy ho writes damn bad poetry."— Dean Jngt'. The New Zealand writer Marten Stuart, whoso novel of New Zealand life '•Where the Apple- Reddens" recently appeared, has had another novel accepted by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, and it is to be published during the English autumn. The sceno is set in the Bay of Islands round about 1840, and the plot is concerned largely with Iho early missionaries. "Where the Apple Reddens" is shortly to appear in a French translation.