LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Humbert Wolfe's forthcoming poem, "The Uncelestial City" (Gollanez), is described as " 'Pilgrim's Progress' reversed." , y Arnold Bennett's "Journal, 1929" (Cassell) will contain many original comments on. people, places, plays, land books. ■~■.-, * The Religious Tract Society ' has issued a revision of Cruden's "Concordance,". correcting many inaccuracies of previous .editions. Sir Nigel Playfair has decided to call his autobiography " The Road to Hammersmith" (Faber), as it was his work at the Hammersmith Lyric that made his.: reputation as a theatrical manager. . ' , ~ . . Dean Inge has just finished writing a book on '' Christian Ethics' and Modern Problems," in which he will discuss various aspects oi "the revolt of, youth" against the standards and conventions of traditional morality. "The only difference between a poet and myself," says Professor H. B. Charlton, ,"is. that a poet can really feel a thing when it has not happened. It has to happen to me before I can. feel it." • Father .Ronald Knox ' criticises, in '^Caliban in' Grub Street". (Sheed), tho modern vogue for discussing religious questions in newspaper symposia. . . ■' ■ ' In "Shakespeare and His Legal Problems" (Black), G." •W. Keeton shows that, while not a lawyer, Shakespeare possessed an intelligent interest in law and could upon occasion ridicule its defects unsparingly.. ■