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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20564, 4 June 1932, Page 13

Hugh Walpole, writing of Sir Walter Scott, in the London "Observer," says: It is not as a historical novelist that lio now stakes his claim. A hundred years ago it was of tJje utmost importance for English letters that he should correct the false romanticism. of Horace Walpole, Mrs Radcliffe, and the others. Bat false * romanticism has been corrected quit* sufficiently by" this time ; the danger ruiis a little nowadays in the other direction. Scott now appears to us as the finest creator in the history of the novel of the ordinary human being. It is not his kings and queens, although James and Louis and Elizabeth are grand achievements, that give him now his value. It is Ims gallery of homely men and women, the marvellous rhythm and naturalness of hi* Scottish dialect, the tenderness and humour of his understanding, that put him second only to Shakespeare as the creator of everyday men and women. April 15th of this year was the centenary of an artist-author whose work has had world-wide influence—Wilhelm Buseh, the German cartoonist, born April 15th, 1832 (died 1908). For many years on the staff of "Fliegende Blatter," ho is said to haro invented the "comic strip.'' His famous humorous poem "Max and Moritz," a classic in Germany, is announced in a revised translation by Christopher Morley. The. archives of the Borghese family, comprising some 100,000 manuscripts, are being transferred from the Palazao Borgheso to the Vatican. Among th« treasures are letters from many king?, secret papers of historical interest, a valuable collection of old maps; and Petrarch's own breviary.