LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Mr. Arthur Symons has written a book on the groat actress Eleanora Duse.

"London Lanes" are dealt with by Mr. Alan Stapleton in a volume shortly to be issued.

A study of the early life of Viscount Morley is being written by Mr. F. "W. Hirst.

"The Black Death," a chronicle, based on contemporary sources, of the plague from 1348 to 1720, is by Dr. Johannes Nohl. It is said to contain a full description of the plague from its earliest appearance In Europe, at Messina, to the last outbreak at Marseilles in 1720.

From "The Golden Sayings of Brother Giles" (in "The Little Brown Company"): All that can be thought of, seen, told, and touched is nothing in respect to what can neither be thought of, told, seen, nor touched. He who doth not wish to honour others shall not be honoured, and he who doth not wish to know shall not be known, and he who doth not wish to bear fatigue shall not rest. If thou workest the good which thou knowest, thou shalt come to the good which thou knowest not. ,

Stanley Paul's list of 2s editions includes "One-way Street,"' a story by Beale Davis, of the society life in several capitals of Europe, "written by one who has served at many Embassies, notably London, Copenhagen, and Madrid"; and "The City of Enticement," by Dorothea Gerard, in which "Mr. S. visits Vienna with much the same result that follows the fly's visit to the fly-paper—he sticks there! And so do the other members of his family sent to bring him back! They all have many diverting adventures."

Mr. Murray is publishing "The Letters of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin," which have been arranged by Lieut.-Colonel Nisbet Hamilton Grant. The countess was, the wife of the collector of the "Elgin Marbles," now in the British Museum. Her letters deal largely with the period her husband was Ambassador in Constantinople, 1799-1802. The Elgins were taken prisoner by Napoleon; their adventures are vivaciously described by the countess.

New Fisher TJnwin books include "The Twilight of the White Races," by M. Maurice Muret, and "Tho Boman Campagna in Classical Times," by Dr. Thomas Ashby. M. Muret, it is said, sees, as in a vision, the waning light of the whito races, the "twilight of tho gods" who have governed peoples of overy colour ancL creed. He believes that the white races will follow Cecil Rhode's advice to think in continents, not in countries, and thus will combine in spiritual as well as temporal dominions. Dr. Ashby's book on tho "Campagna" is intended especially for those who are interested*in the history of Rome and in all the Roman Empire has meant for mankind.

St. Francis and the Franciscans come into two books which arc appearing from tho house of Dent. St. Anthony of Padua ia tho most celebrated follower of St. Francis, and Mr. E. GilliatSmitli has written an account of him. He was a contemporary of St. Francis, and lie entered the Franciscan Otder in 1220, four years before tho friars came to England. That corning is the subject of another book, "How "the Franciscans Came to England," by' Miss Emma Gurnoy Salter. The basis of the volinno ia a now translation of the charming chronicles of Thomas of Eccleston and Jordan of Giorno, two friars who came to England in 1209 or 1210, with tho vanguard of the Franciscans.