LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Ono of tlie mysteries of modern literature is Sir Hall Caine's long-promised "Life of Christ." He has been engaged on this work for thirty years, and within the last five years there have been many rumours as to its imminent appearance. It is said only five books out of seven have been finished, and that some time must elapse before the final result is in: print.

An Oxford examiner, in the habit of putting rather absurd questions, once asked: "What would have been Alexander the Great's politics nal he been alive now?" Oneiof the answers was: "Had Alexander the Great been alive now he would have'been too old to take any interest in politics. "—From "Victorian Jottings," by Sir James Crichton Browne. '. ■*■

According to the "Boston* Transcript," a schoolgirl paraphrased the line "To bicker down, the valley," from Tennyson's poem, "The Brook'" as follows:—"To have an uifdignified quarrel m a low place among the hills." Another girl handling the line from "Lochinvar," "He stayed 1 not for brake," paraphrased it:—"He never stopped for a mechanical contrivance to reduce speed by means of friction." .' ... '■

Dean Inge has written so much in recent years that ho has now reached the anthology stage. Sir James Marchant has selected and arranged, a volume, "Wit. and Wisdom of Dean Inge," which the' Longmans an.jiounce. It has an introduction by the Dean, and is grouped in six parts under* the headings, "Religion," "The Eternal Values," "Sociology," "Literature," "England," ssd "Beflections."