LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Cecil Ad air has a new novel appearing immediately with Messrs. Stanley Paul, under the title "Dreamland and Dawn."

Mr. John Galsworthy recently returned from a visit to .Vienna,' Budapest, and Prague, cities in which his writings are much read. He is seeing a new novel, which he calls "The Silver Spoon," through the hands of the printers.

The recent new. volumes of Queen Victoria's "Letters," bringing them up to 1878, are said to have been very widely read. Their editor, Mr. George Earle Buckle, is now at work on a further instalment of the correspondence.

From the "Putnam Book of News": The day after the new farmer had sent his two children to school the hookseller's -representative called. "Now your children go to school," he said, "you ought to buy them an encyclopedia." "Buy 'em an encyclopedia?" was tho reply. "Hanged if I do. Let 'em walk, like I did.''

It would appear that "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is a striking and easily remembered title, yet the publishers say they have received orders for the book under the following titles: —'' Gentlemen Prefer Plums," " Jingleinen Preferred Bland," "Junglers Preferred Blends," and "Gentlemen Prefer Blunders."

In the current number of the Alpine journal appear some notes about the Rev. W. A. B. Coolidgo, who died recently at his home in Grindelwald. He was followed to the grave.by a great assembly of guides, and rests in the lit' tie English churchyard. His old friend and colleague, Dr. Dubi, pronounced ar eloquent oration at the grave. One of the greatest of \ the pioneers, of Alpine climbing, he rests in sight of the Benuese giants;he loved so well. Alpinists all over the world are indebted to him for the many books ie; wrote about the Swiss mountains. Especially will he be romembered by the --great series of "Climbers' Guides," which, with Sir Martin Conway, he edited for Messrs. T. i'isher ■TJnwin.., These fifteen volumes are a monument to his memory.

Tfio London ''Daily Telegraph," heralding the appearance before long of "Places in the Sun,"by Captain Anthony Eden, M.P.,: quotes from the Prime Minister's preface. The book consists, as Mr. Baldwin says, of essays "written during the recent tour of the' British delegation which-attended the Empire Press Conference in Australia." For that reason, he continues, "they present a most interesting picture of various parts of the Empire, as seeu by n shresvd observer." Captain Eden discusses social, commercial, industrial, and political conditions in the' various Australian States and in Nejnr -Zealand. He also deals with' problems of Govern - mont and of migration, within the Empire, and with-Imperial unity and cooperation. ■• ■ -.