LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

From London the death is announced of Mr. Carl Hentschel, who was the inventor of tho Hentschel colour-type process and'tho pioneer of "process" work for newspaper illustration. Mr. Hentschel was one of the original characters in Jerome K. Jerome's book, "Three Men iv a Boat."

New poems by Mr. Edmund Blunden, the author of "Undertones of War," havo appeared with Cobden-Sanderson as "Near and Far." These pocins continue his interpretation of scenery, personality, incident, and emotion. Inevitably the note of English country life is expected from Mr. Blunden's poetry, and will be heard hero; but the spirit of man is his wider field.

Sir John Fortescuo has finished his "History of the British Avmy," the final volume—the thirteenth—coming from Macmillau, This authoritative history of the military achievements of the British nation has been in progress for no fewer than thirty years. It is a remarkable example of single-minded devotion to a great purpose, a long, sustained effort which has been rewarded by success. Sir John's final volume carries the story of the British Army onwards from 1852 to the abolition of purchase.

"Kalph Connor," who made his reputation as a novelist with "The Sky Pilot," recently finished a romance which Hodder and Stoughton will publish under the title, "The Runner." The scene of it is round about Niagara in the days when America and Canada battled on the frontier, and it has an historical colouring. But it is a remance first and foremost, because the Rev. Dr. Gordon—who is "Ralph Connor"—does not allow history to obtrude beyond providing an accurate setting. The scenes and times in which they move are fact, but the characters are fiction.