LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 42, 17 August 1929, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

'.Joan Sutherland says that sho wrote much of her new, novel, "Tho Golden Altar," during various flights between London and' Paris. In private life sho is the wife of Captain Kelly. Sjr-Janies.Barrie, who has given a sports pavilion to his native Kirriemuir, the "Thrums".of his book, will perform the. opening ceremony in the autumn. .. ■ John Murray will have tho new, twovolume edition of "The Life of Benjamin Disraeli" ready in September. Nothing is omitted from the original six volumes, and Mr. George Earle Buckle has carefully revised the work.The next undertaking of Mr. A. A. Milne and Mr. Ernest Shepard will bo a new "Mother Goose," founded on the old, traditional Christmas tale. Mr. Milne is to rewrite it, in his own modern way,; and Mr. Shepard will decorate it with his characteristic-drawings. "Henry Green," whose second novel, '.'Living," has just been published, is in private life Mr. Henry V. Yorke, a nephew of Lord Leconfield, and a great-nephew of the late Lord Rosebery. He gathered material for his books whilu working for about three years as a factory hand in Birmingham. "Ancient Times in Zululand and. Natal" is a book which tho Longmans announce by Mr. A. T. Bryant, who was lecturer on Bantu Studies at the University of Johannesburg. It is tho first part of what will be an exhaustive work on the earlier history of the South African Zulus. The negro is now figuring in fiction as much as he did in music a few years ago when he expounded the qualities of jazz. The.negro novel "Porgy" is an immense,success, and now comes "Umbala,'* the autobiography of Captain Harry, Dean, who was once described by the late Sir, Harry Johnston as "the most 'paleface,' dangerous negro in the world," by Mr. Wyndham Lewis, is just out, and it deals with "the inferiority complex of the 'poor white' and the white man's prostration before the negro." The "London Mercury" wishes the Anglo-Swedish Foundation might be made a,model for similar schemes relating England with other countries than Sweden. "Our import of foreign literature," it says, "is at present entirely haphazard; many good foreign books take generations; to reach us, many great foreign classics have never yet been; put into Englisn, many that have been tanslated are now inaccessible, and we often get from a particular country mainly litrature which gives us a one-sided view of that country "