LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

A book on "The Medieval Village," by G. G. Coulton, is announced by the Cambridge University Press.

A selection of Maurice Hewlett's letters is about to be published by Methuen, with a preface by Laurence "Binyen.

The 1 late Camilla Flammarion, tho French, astronomer, left a book which Fisher Unwin will publish in English.

Madame Melba thinks of calling her reminiscences, which Butterworth is to publish, "Melodies and Memories."

Mr. W. B. Maxwell, the novelist, has written a work of the "human document" sort, "Life :A Study."

A biography of William Archer is being written by his brother, Colonel Charles Archer, for many years an official of the Indian Government in Baluchistan.

Mr. James Oliver Cunvjod, the popular American storyteller, recently visited London, and about the same time Hodder and Stoughton published a new novel by him, "The Ancient Highway."

Historical research in Scotland will shortly be the gainer by the publication of another volume of "Culloden Papers," edited by Duncan Warrand. This will include many hitherto unpublished lettprs and documents casting new light on the history of the Highlands during the earlier part of the eighteenth century. One of its notable, features will be the letters of Simon, Lord Lovat.

"Darnley—A Historic," is the title of a book which Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, has written, and which John Murray will publish. It deals'with a crowded and critical period of Scottish history, about which much has already been written. Lord Shaw's aim' has been to take the period as a whole, and to try to make it live. The contrasts are, accordingly, strong, and the portraits of Queen Jlary and Kno.x and Eizzio and lJarnley are not conventionally drawn.

It is thought that a new series of the letters by the late Ambassador . Page, which aro promised, may equal in interest (he series printed two years ago. The sale of that, volume, in Kngland alone, ran up to 50,(X)0 copies, a very unusual figure for a book of the sort. Mr. Page went to London not only as American Ambassador, but .as tho intimate and trusted friend of President/ Wilson. It was to him the letters already published were addressed, and i.he same applies to the next batch, which, it was decided, should bo hcl'l bark until (lie events Ihoy dealt will) were a lilt'o older.

A jewel of humanity is (o bo found in .M.i-. Ha.nsay MnoUiJnaWs " W'nn.lctings and ICxcureinns," recently published liy Jonathan Cape. It *;ives us a picture of a shingle lieaeh, probably that of Lossiemonth, where two men inpi. (states James Milne in "The Graphic"). One was a " derelict, who, when I saw him last, was in the prime of life." That derelict did not recognise the other man, and yet spoke about him, partly in Scottish dialect, of what he-said: "Aye, 1 mm' those loons. They were a mischievous lot. Ane o' them ainco steal!. a boat o' mine an' he micht hao been droont. I gaed him a goid thrashin' and the nickum nearly broke my head wi' a stane." He paused, and. the faraway look came upon-him again. " An' ■vrbar'g that deovil o' % loon noo, think gtl". '! Bung^ I mgiuttdl"-' 'Pongf

Dei: a. bit, man. . . . Ye're may be faro the South. . . . Well, yell ken o' 'im. He's fiingin' stanes as big as the hill there at the heads o' the damned Tories. I wid like to see him again afore I dee."

" Suspense," Joseph Conrad's unfinished novel, will appear in October through Dent, with an introduction by his friend, Mr. Richard Curie. Sir Henry Juta, the well-known South African lawyer, has written a mystery story, which will appear in the course of the summer.

Captain Frank Hurley, whose book and film, " Pearls and Savages," have attracted much attention, has another volume in prospect with the Putnams. It concerns the Antarctic, and Captain Hurley's adventures when he accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Douglas Mawson. Captain Hurley, who has just reurned to Australia, thinks of calling his new book " Argonauts of the South."

Mr. Jonathan Cape will shortly publish the "Eemiuiscences of a Maynooth Professor," the late Very Rev. Walter M'Donald, CD. He was the son of a poor Irish tenant farnler, and he became a professor of dogmatic theology. He failed to obtain an imprimatur for any of the seven theological books which he afterwards wrote. But he retained his position as chief director of post-gradu-ate students at Maynooth College until he died, after 33 years of continuous service. His faith was invincible ■in the possibilities of Maynooth as the cultural centre of the Irish Catholics, and he wrote a volume of memoirs which is outspoken