LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 29

LITERARY NOTES

Mr. Alfred Knopf (of Now York) promises a monograph on Edison, tho' inventor. His biographer (Mr. Georec Bryan) says ho'has had to deal with two kdisons; tho "one who delighted in rigging up an electrical contraption tor suicide among tho cockroaches of a vermin-ridden office, and tho one who married scienco to industry and thoreby' promoted vast changes in living."

The selection of tho Priuco of Wales's speeches has not yet taken shape It is, however, being worked on, and probably tho book may bo at the disposal of readers by mid-summer. 1 Th« plan is to give tho most interesting and most important of tho Prince's speeches from tho boginning of his public career until the present time.

Reviewing Mr. F. Scully's "The Golden West and Other Vorses," tho 'Irish News" decides that Mr. Scully's Irish origin is unquestionable, though he abides in far Now Zealand. "Tho versos are inspired by a tender love lor beautiful things on land and sea, an£ there is a quiet note of roveronco an* love for tho Creator of all that is beautiful running through them. He has tho poetic imagination, and his versos have the spontaneous notos bogotten of personal feoling for tho themes which inspiro him They are the calm and mature utterances of a man of refined mind, who sits in tho sunset of his days and finds motives for tho uplifting of his hoart in tho waving woods, the splashing streams the passing ships, tho shimmering stars and tho wandering moon. 'The Golden West,' with its neat Jctterpress and its tasteful illustrations, is a hnnnv souvenir^" ' J

Mr. IX G. Hogarth^ writing in "The Times Weekly Edition," gives some account of the history of Colonel T. E Lawrence's book which has been published with tho title "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Tliis work, for which publishers on-both sides of the Atlantic were angling six years ago, has appeared at last as a privately-printed issue: It was over-subscribed at 30 guineas. But, Mr. Hogarth says, tho subscription has met little nioro than half its cost of production, so lavish and exacting has the author been in matters of typography and illustration; and the deficit has, to bo made good by advances on serial rights and anticipated profits of an abridgment to be published next spring at a commercial price.