LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 68, 29 September 1928, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Tho title of Mr. Monte Holcroft's novel is to be '-'Beyond the Breakers." Tho author belongs to Christchurch. He has been advised that the book will be on the New Zealand market before Christmas. A map of high historical interest is to appear iii the reminiscences of the Earl of Oxford, which Cassell will publish early in the autumn. Lord Haig kept at his headquarters a map on which- he recorded from day to day the exact positions of the armies. He had a copy made of that map just before the breaking through of' the Hindenburg Line, and he gave it to Lord Oxford with the inscription: "To Mr. Asquith in memory of the Great War, from D. Haig, F.M., 1919." Madame Litvinoff, the wife of the Soviet Assistant-Commissar for Foreign Affairs, has written a novel in English.' She is an English lady, and under her maf3en name of. Ivy Lowe she has. already published one or two books. Her new volume is a detective story set in the Moscow of to-day, and it opens with-a murder, committed near the famous Red square. At the moment it is not, settled, whether it will appear under Madame Litvinoff 's married name or as by Ivy Lowe. Mr. Hilaire Belloc has had a particular though not, perhaps, an unusual experience with a history of England from the earliest times, which he is now writing for Methuen. The basis of it was a school history that he launched into the world years ago. It came to need re-writing, and he felt he could not re-write it merely as a school-book. He decided, therefore, to make it a history in two or three volumes. The third is just out, he is at work on the fourth, a fifth is planned, and a sixth may be necessary.