LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 90, 12 October 1929, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

'*?I:have never been able to believe that G.B.S. believes* what he professes to believe."—Horace Annesley Vaehell. . . . ■

Hutchison:will publish shortly a fulldress biography of Marshal Foch, written by General Sir George Aston in Council with • two' other British officers who were-attached ..to Foch's staff.

To-day, holds John Masefiold, poets lack the inestimable advantage of direct criticism. What poets want is the dead cat thrown by the dissatisfied members of the audience.

"In the Evening of Thought"-has been chosen as the title "of a volume of memories and reflections by Clemenceau, to be; published iv the autumn by' Constable. ' . ■ j

Sir Hall Came is contemplating a visit to-Australia if his health permits. His cousin, Mrs. W. T. AJdridge, wholives;in Victoria, -gave, him the inspiration, for .the name -of his character "Gloria .Quayle," since . her. maiden name was Quayle., :

Since the , Hon. Lionel Tennyson assumed the Tennyson title, he has ; (says a writer in'tfae "Sp'ortingand Dramatic News") received an. amusing letter from a lady,, which ran something like this:—"My Lord, —: In honour of your recent visit to this town, and of your vigorous, batting on that occasion, I have purchased a volume of your poems, which I think are exceedingly good."