LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 16

LITERARY NOTES

A cheap edition of 0. Henry is. good news to the reader who can appreciate good work. Hitherto 0. Henry has been obtainable only through American edii tions, but Hodder and Stoughton, of London, have brought out> a shilling series—" Whirligigs," "The Four Mil- ! lion," " Cabbages : and Kings," "The Heart of the W-est," " The Trimmed Lamp," and "Sixes and Sevens," comprising all the late author's best and well-known work. It is to be hoped that this firm will continue the publication to include all of o.'-Henry's books, So that it may be possible for the l-eader with a modest salary to place all on his bookshelf at a cost of. a few s'hillings. Messrs.' Hodder and Stoughton have also published another shilling production of a popular author, that of Frances Hodgson Burnett's charming novel, "T. Tembarom." Both series are--well printed and bound. ' " Love entered into the life of William ! Wordsworth in many forms, but perhaps "most completely in !the idyllic friendship with his sister. Dorothy' Wordsworth, herself a literary genius of no mean order, regarded her brother with an adoring affection. She was the first to recog- . nise, uphold, and encourage his genius; and never for one moment did she doubt his greatness. The comradeship between this brother and sister is one of trie most fascinating pa.ges in literary history. She, more than any other woman, fulfilled his exalted ■ ideal of pure and gentle womanhood." —Holbrook Jackson, in T.P.'s Weekly. Tho late Henry James is the subject of some English press tributes. His insatiable curiosity regarding human relationships began in his youth, when he confessed to being always an observer ■ and a "dawdler," and lasted through his life. In his remarkable book of travel, "Tlie American Scene," he refers to himself as "the musing moralist," "tho incurable eccentric,"'"the patient enquirer," "the constitutional story seeker," "the incurable man of letters," and repeatedly fas "the restless analyst.". The Germans have published a prologue to the play "Much Ado About Nothing" to show that Shakespeare has lost his home because England has sacrificed her, honour, and has come' to his second home —Geijnany. I Books are not better comrades than people, but they are often safer and kinder, always less expensive and less exacting. "And no one can know people without knowing the books into which they have been laid for generations, and out of which they all come, elegant or dingy replicas of other men and. women who live and move in tiles'! pages." writes Cocra Harris in the Independent. To enjoy being ma'i n man has to be very sane. The careful Herman critics do'not enjoy b^inc; mud; madmen never do G. K. Chesterton,