LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Mr. Victor L. Whitechurch, who wrote "A Canon in Residence," has a companion novel of humour appearing with Fisher Unwin, "The Dean and Jecinora." A posthumous work of Sir William Osier's, of a bibliographical nature, is now in the press. It is a list of the j books in' the library of the Burton i whose "Anatomy" was non-profes-sional. Leeds University is considering the possibility of establishing a university Press. -.-..■ In "Thucydides: A.Study in Historical Eeality," G. 3?. Abbott accounts for the difficulties in the great historian's style by the theory that his origin and linguistic home were in Thrace, and that Greek remained to the end a foreign language to him. Morley Roberts, now nearly 70 years of age, is turning from fiction to medical subjects. His next book will be "Malignancy and Evolution: A Biological Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of Cancer." "The Parnell of Real Life," by William O'Brien, one of his closest colleagues in the Home Rule movement, is announced for early publication. "Before the war," says Sir Frederick Pollock, "there were printers' readers who could correct quotations in more tongues than one. I suppose they were killed, or else made their fortune! and. retired." An. abridged edition of Morley's "Life of Gladstone," with hitherto unpublished extracts in facsimile from Gladstone's diaries, is to be issued shortly by Hodder and Stoughton.

Viscount Grey ,is preparing a volume ofl'Tallodon Papers" consisting of essays on fishing, Nature study, and the joys.; of the open air.

Still more Locarno! The fear of German' designers, if not of designing Germans, appears to have vanished, for "the illustrations for the "Julius Caesar" about to be added to the Players' Shakespeare series are contributed by Ernst Stern.

Hardly ft month passes in which the publisher of John Davidson's poems does not get a request from an anthologist for permission to ' reprint one of them. '"A Runnable Stag" is in most demand.

The Oxford University Press will publish in a complete volume the discussions on'reunion that have taken place during the last five years between Bishops of the Church of England and leaders of the Free Churches.

Lady Benaon, wife of Sir Frank Benson, the actor-manager, has completed the writing of her reminiscences.

Mr. G. K. Chesterton is publishing a long novel under the title "The Return of I\u Quixote." In it a young Syndicalist faces a world of wealthy aristocracy nnd a girl stands between.

George Gissing is thus described by Austin Harrison in his book of memories of his-fathc \ the.late Frederick Harrison. Gissing i.fc parties wn an unforgettable spectacle of misery. He would sit in a corner of the room, crouched together like a wet bird, silent, and strangely .watchful. Ho had no small talk. He looked like a figure of despair in "society.'' But to us hj talked amazingly. loved to make him boil with indignation. Tho accounts of his midnight wrestlings over his first novels, supported by pints of tea, always held me spellbound. Gissing certainly knew, the "heavenly power" of nightly tears and travail.