LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1926, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Lord Dunsany personally rehearsed the Shoreham Village Players, who recently performed his play, "A Night at an Inn."

Miss Magdalen King-Hall, who scored a big. advertisement with the supposed seventeenth, century discovery, "The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion," is writing a novel.

Mr. Silas. K. Hocking, at the age of seventy-six, has another novel in'hand. He has stipulated with his publishers that if shall be completed at his leisure.

Mr. Austin, for forty years the stagedoorkeeper at Co vent' Garden, has written a book on.his reminiscences, which is to include 1 many stories about Dame Nellie Melba.

Messrs. Stanley Paul's best editions includes: "A Marriage in Bjirmah," by Mrs. Chan-Toon, dealing with the problem of the "mixed" marriage; "Princess Galva," by David Whitelaw, a story of love and adventuro; "The Fifth Finger," by .William Le Queux; "Storm-wrack," a detective mystery story, by Headon Hill.

Bishop Gore's new book, "Can We Thenl Believe ■?" : will be published immediately by Mr.-Murray. It'is a work in which the distinguished author takes his - stand upon ; those religious questions which are vexing all classes of the community to-day. In some measure it replies to criticism! - It takes into account the literature published since the author's greats trilogy on tho "Reconstruction of Belief," and it is addressed to the ordinary educated man or woman.

"Here and Beyond" consists of six stories by Edith Wharton. ''In two of these," says a writer of a note on the book, "Miss Wharton returns for a setting to the New England'which she used so masterfully, for example, in 'Ethan Frome;' The three stories dealing with the beyond cannot be ranked altogether. as ghost stories. They deal with fundamental struggles and passions whose reality is made more poignant by the supernatural element.''

Welcoming Stanley Paul's new editions at 3s 6d of Miss. Violet Hunt's "The Celebrity's Daughter," and.other of her novels, the "Outlook" remarks: "Of all living writers of fiction Miss Violet Hunt has been the ablest'to cast off the spell of ■. old. traditions. Miss Hunt's art is all her own.' It is crisp, smart, acid, and human. Also, it is qnite uniquely stimulating."

'Lucky is tho man. or woman beset by the wanderlust who is able to gratify this longing for strange scenes, strange faces. Mrs. Elinor Mordaunt, the novelist, is one of these, lucky ones. "The Venture Book", is the result of a tour which took her fi\>m Europe through the Panama Canal to the South Seas and Australia.' She travelled in all kinds of craft: cargo boats, si ketch, a schooner, and a native Fijian nutter. The greater part of. the book is devoted to the Pacific isles of onehantmer t.

"The Post's" London correspondent says that Mr. Hector Bolitho is editing a book of Victorian reminiscences based on Lady Augusta Stanley's Icttcra. For this purpose ho is living with the Very Yon. Dean of "Windsor, at the Deanery, Windsor Castle, -where ho will be during tho summer and winter. In all likelihood, when his present work is finished, ho will undertake two more books still from tho same historic headquarters. ■ Mr. Bolitho has lately finished a novel, and is also engaged in writing a new ono. ' Tho latter is to be published first in America, and will be entitled " Solemn Boy." It is a story of Australia and New Zealand,