LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

It is .1 mystery why Dumas left a space of twenty years between "The Three Mifskctecrs" and its sequels. Now two I'rencli authors, MM. Fuval and Lasscz, have written a novel bridging the- gap, and done it much to the taste of the reading public of Franco and America. It is hi two volumes, "The Mysterious Cavnlier" and "Martyr to the Queen." Messrs. Fabcr and Gwyer publish "The Memoirs of Cannibal Jack" by William Diapea. "Cannibal Jack" was the author himself, a man who lived and died among the natives of the South Sen Islands, and who identified himself with almost every savage practice —even cannibalism, it is thought. In ISBS, shortly before his death, he handed a notebook containing an account of'his life and adventures to the Rev. J. Hadh'eld, the missionary, who has now consented to tho publication of the memoirs. Dr. Emil. Ludwig, whose writings have had such a vogue in England, is doing a book on President Wilson, and visiting America, partly for that purpose. Ho has completed a study of Goethe, the "greatest of all Germans." Dr. Ludwig says ho has only seen three great men in Europe this year—Bernard Shaw Einstein, and President Masaryk. Dr. Emil Ludwig's forthcoming study of Christ was only completed a very short time ago, and, as a matter of fact, is not yet on sale in Germany. Messrs. Beuu have arranged for tho translation to be done by Eden and Cedar Paul. "John o' London" in reviewing Mr. Hector Bolitho's "Thistledown and Thunder" (Capo) says the author's phrase as "a higgledy-piggledy diary" expresses tho disjointed character of the travel impressions of fourteen countries viewed for the most part in too big a. hurry to allow for very dee]) rellnction. "But the main interest of the book is tho progressive development of a young man's outlook on life and the crystal lisa I ion of a clever boy's jottings into the firm and shapel-y style of tho man. There is a univo enthusiasm about these- discoveries ot' the South Sea Islands, literary London, Bohemian Paris, the metier of tho dedicated artist, which, since it. is the reaction of a senslive, humorous mind, appeals to sympathy. And tin: sim-erily of 'man anil . iirtisl' lifts thi* engaging diary O'uiu journalism into literature."