LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Tho Marquess of Huntly, who is in his eighty-second year, has just finished a new volume of reminiscences, called "Auld Acquaintance." Ho is tho Premier Marqness of Scotland and was formerly Captain of tho Corps of Gcn-tlcmen-at-Arms. I

Freeman Wills Crofts, an omnibus volume of whose excellent "Inspector French" detective stories has just been issued by Collins, is a railway engineer in Northern Ireland. His hobby is organ playing and the training of church choirs —an unexpected pursuit for such an expert in thrills!

Ex-King Manoel of Portugal has catalogued his collection of early Portuguese books and manuscripts, which are published in three illustrated volumes. King Manoel, who lives near London, has written a number of historical, literary, biographical, and bibliographical notes both in English and Potuguese.

The Marquis of Lausdowne, who >ias already made notable gleanings from the family papers of Bowood,. especially those of Sir William Petty, draws further upon his correspondence, and records in a work, "Potty-Southwell Correspondence," which Constable announces. The book is important from the point of view of those who wish to gain an insight into the inner history of the latter half of seventeenth century. Petty's curious, yet exact mind, was avid for information of every kind.

Miss Sophia Clcugh, whose new novel, "A Common Cheat," is just published by Thornton Butterworth, is a very old lady who lives in a. nunnery in busscx. She will never entrust her MSS. to the post, but requires it to bo fetched by a representative of the publisher. This now ono was evidently worth fetching. Thcro is all tho charm of the unexpected about the surprising adventures of Miss Charlotte Manisty, teacher of music in Miss Trout's seaside school for girls, who quite unexpectedly found herself involved in exciting happenings and intrigues in Morocco —and even became oiio of the principal figures in an elopement!