LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Dickens's home at Gadshill is to be sold/ but with the. condition that it is to be "kept intact in perpetuity. Stacy Aumonier left material for several posthumous volumes ef : 'jghort stories. ' • . '

Sir Francis rY"ounghusband's new book, , "Tho Coming' Country,".,is a uovel about a mythical country which gained world supremacy without the assistance of an army or a navy, but by developing tho intellectual, moral, and spiritual life of the people.

Mr. Edmond Flog, author of the "Lifo of Moses," has written a poem about the Wandering Jew, which has created a great sensation on tho Continent. Mr. Humbert Wolfo Ims transJated it into English, and Messrs. Victor Golliincz will publish it in the spring. It is entitled "The AVailing Wall," and will be issued in an edition limited to 750 copies.

"The slum mind," declared Mr. B. S. Townroe.in "Tho Slum Problem, 1' just published, "as well as the slum dwelling, requires to be converted.'.' A very large part.of the causes of the slum he finds to lie "in the mind of the-slum maker." . . '

The oldest London bookshop "has for 200 years stood at 29, Bond street, offering its fciendly invitation' and cordial welcome -to the book lover. In 1728 John Brindley, originally a merchant tailor's apprentice, impelled by the sheer force of superior attraction, gravitated into, tho business of bookbinding and selling. He bound, published, and sold books for 30 years. When he died in 1756 his widow took charge of the business and carried it or. briskly and successfully for a year, when she; too, .passed.on. Her assistant, James Kobson, was then master of the book, shop for almost 50 years', until 1806, and since then a succession, of half a dozen proprietors havo carried its business aud traditions down to the present jtinie. ' , •