LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, Robert Louis Stevenson's stepson, has written a new novel to which he has given the challenging title, "Not To Bo Opened." Stanley L. Wood, the pictorial creator of "Captain Kettle," "Dr. Nikola," and "Don Q.," died a poor man. It is announced' that ho left estate of the gross value of £114, with net;, personality £86. . ' . In his most recent book, "La, Vie dc PEspace," Mr.- Maurice Maeterlinck has attempted the strange task of rendering the Einstein theory of Relativity into verse. The book will bo translated into English.. i In a London, "Observer" vote for six books that arc considered by the voter to be too short, the .verdict has been for "The Pickwick Papers," "Treasure Island," "The Essays of Elia," "Alice in AVondorland/' "Pride and Prejudice," and Boswcll's "Johnson," in the order given. Mr. Compton Mackenzie's novel, "Vestal Fire," has been banned in Italy by Signor Mussolini. Tho reasons given are that the book.makes fui\ of the Carabinieri, makes remarks, derogatory to. the Fascist State, is harmful to tourist goodwill toward the island of Capri, is against good morals, and "mentions the unmentionable." "The Great Days of Sail," by Captain She waii, has enjoyed much popularity in England and in America. Published in last October, a second,edition has already^becn issued. Captain Shewan, who died m December last, left a great deal of manuscript as material for v second book., "Most novelists," said William Power, the editor of "Tho Scots Observer," "read novels of a class rather above their own. Every novelist reads Hardy and Conrad and Galsworthy. Most.of them read Meredith. And I fancy that nowadays nobody but novelists read Henry-James." • • Lord Balfour, in a postscript'- to his "Speeches on Zionism" (Arrowsmith), states that "tan years have now elapsed since the declaration on Zionism made by me on behalf of the British Government in 1917. Nothing has occurred during that period to suggest the least doubt as to the wisdom of this new departure. The experiment was undoubtedly a bold one, dealing with a unique situation in a manner wholly without precedent in history. I am, however, convinced that, if it be supported by Jewish communities throughout theworld, its success is assured, and that a Homo will be secured for tho Jewish race in the land which is immemorially associated with their name."