LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

Vicente Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, will shortly give us a volume of stories) "The Old Woman of the Movies."

"The Cords of.Vanity," by James Branch Cabell, the American author of the mucli-discussed "Jurgen," will be published shortly.

Misi Vere Hutchinson, the sister of Mr.:A. S. M. Hutchinson, .has completed her third novel, which Jonathan Cape is publishing under the title, "The Naked Man."

E. V. Knox has cast hi* review of "May Fair" into the form of an amusing parody of the style of his subject. He heads it: "Being an impression rather than a .review of a tapestry rather than a book woven rather than written by Michael Arlen."

"We are all mad, more or less. If you knew everything about me that I know about myself, you would all get up,and rush out of the place." Mr. George. Bernard Shaw recently uttered thij warning at Mrs. Archer's nerve-training colony at Kings Langley, where he appealed for her assisted-cases fund. .

An American statistician has compile* a list of "Best Sellers" for the quartercentury since 1900. The "American" Winston Churchill, is at the top. Of English authors, W. J. Locke and E. Phillips Oppenheim are high up in the list, but H. G. Wells ranks only thirtysecond, and the late Joseph Conrad only seventy-seventh. The name of Rudyard Kipling v not included at all.

The late Anatole France, writing on Dickens:—"l am fond of Dickens. He is a very good writer. He is often compared to his disadvantage with' our Daudet. That is not my opinion. Of course, Daudet is charming, but he lacks depth, j. . Dickens's work, on the contrary, is of social importance. It insinuates a moral into the plot.* And then .he has the feeling of his dignity as a writer."

The Earl of Rosebery owns, among his other literary treasures, the manuscript of a story known by the name of "Lady Susan," which Jane Austen wrote about the year 1805. The manuscript, unlike those of her "Sanditon" and "The Watsons," is not a draft but a fair copy, free from correction and erasure. Lord Rosebery has lent it for a new collated edition of "Lady Susan," which the Oxford Press is to publish at once,. The volume will be welcome to Jane Austen lovers, m being an accurate edition, for that could not be said about the fint edition which appeared in 1871.