LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

"StaTs in tho'Smoke" i* a story of Yorkshire by Mrs. Muirhead Bone, which Cassell will shortly publish.. Another interesting work of tho biographical sort, "Cardinal Wiseman," by Mi\ Denis'Gwyniv-is nearly ready with Burns,. OateS,-: and; Washbqurne. :

Miss Tennyson Jesse has a romance of Burma, where one of her ancestors was an early English visitor, nearly ready with Heineniann, "The Lacquer Lady." .

The Anglo-Saxon tongue,. says the "Manchester Guardian," falls into three main divisions: (1) King's English, (2) American, and (3) the language used by Mr. A. S. M. Hutchinson. . .

Poetry does not usually appeal to the sportsman, but he will read Captain E. G. Roberta's "Somewhere in England, and Other Hunting Verses" (Constable), with illustrations in colour by Lionel Edwards.. ■

When R. H. Mottram, the novelist, was a bank cleric he pursued fiction writing as a hobby. Now that he is a professional novelist he finds recreation in writing about banking. "A History of Financial Speculation" (Chatto will be his next book. -■

The fourth volume of Dr. Robert Bridges's "Collected Essays" (Oxford Press) consists of his '"Critical Introduction to Keats." "Tho Times" Literary Supplement describes it as "a classic of criticism," in the sense that it is "a model of what a critical essay on tho poetry of a great poet ought to be."

Pursuing her studies on English and Scottish royalty, Mrs. E. Thornton Cook has now written "Royal Marys," which Mr. Murray will, publish shortly. The book gives biographical sketches of the Princesses Mary of England from earlcst times to the present Princess Mary, who is included, and to whom it is by gracious permission -dedicated. Mrs. Thornton Cook, it is' understood, has collected much quaint and out of the way information, and she - makes all her personalities live.'