LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1927, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

The Cambridge* Press announces "A Small Boy in the Sixties," a posthumous volume, by "George Bourne," who wrote "A Farmer's Life." Constable is just publishing the first reprint for a hundred years of William Godwin's beautiful little memoir of his wife, Mary Woolstonecraft. Sir Gilbert Parker has finished a short novel, "There Is The Man,?' which Cassell will publish in the early autumn. Colonel Lawrence's "Eevolt in the Desert" is believed to be the only English book of which the first translation into a foreign language has been in Arabic. A little known work by Daniel Defoe, author of "Bobinson Crusoe," is about to appear with an introduction by Mr. G. D. H. Cole. This is "A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. " It has never been reprinted since its first appearance just 200 years ago. . A volume of much literary interest is the facsimile, published by T Werner Laurie, of the original Kilmarnock Burns—otherwise "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect," by Eobert Burns, which John Wilson printed in Kilmarnock in 1786. The original is extremely. rarej uncut it was sold for £1750 two years ago. Two years before that it brought £1600. ':., Only 612 copies of the original edition were issued; and as it was bound in thin paper boards, and was no doubt very well read, most of the copies quickly became wastepaper. The pale blue cover of 1786 has been imitated to perfection, and so has the old hand-made paper. The Eev. J. H. G. Chappie (Tauranga) may possibly go to Dundee presently to fill for a while a vacancy there for the KeT. Walter Walsh, P.D.—overtures are taking place at the moment in that direction. Mr. Chappie has come to England mainly to be near his publishers and to be diligent. He has the MSS almost ready for new works. One, "Some Divine Rebels," which will need, a ; two-volume edition, will begin with "the rebellious carpenter of Nazareth," and continue to the late "Ellen Key" and "Mahatma Ghandi." "On the Growing Point of Truth" is the title of another book for which a suitable publisher has to be found. Further, in .fulfilment of a promise, Mr. Chappie hopes to write a book on "Avenues that Lead to God"; this may be written -in. Dundee. En route to New Zealand, about September, Mr. Chappie will visit his mother, who lives at Los Angeles.