LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Men of great parts arc often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.—Swift.

Good breeding carries along with, it a dignity that.is respected by the most petulant. 111-breeding invites and authorises the familiarity of the most timid. —Chesterfield.

. Mr. George, Moore has written a play based upon an incident at the end of his famous.novel, "The Brook Kerith." It is in three acts, and is called "The Passing of the Essenes." The Essenes wore a community of Palestine Jews formed in the year 2 A.D., which aimed at a,higher.degree of holiness than that attained by other Jews. They disappeared after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Sir Lionel Cuat, in "King Edward VII., His Court" (London: John Murray), affords many "close-ups" of one of tho most popular of the British sovreigns. Ho describes the King as admitting that he knew nothing about art, but did know something about arrangement, and this by way of preliminary to his jestful and wholesale clearance of Royal apartments of a lot of "junk" which had' accumulated there during Queen Victoria's time and remained thereby her imperative command.

"Deadwobd Dick" was no myth,.nor was he a born American. His real name • was Richard Clark, and he was born at. Handsborough, in Oxfordshire. He emigrated to the United States aB a boy of sixteen, and after a period of gold prospecting became one of the riders of the pony express, which was so often attacked by Red Indians. With Cnster he took part in the historic engagement at Black Hills, and hero and elsewhere, with "Buffalo Bill," ho had an important share in the subjugation of the Indian tribes. He took his name from Deadwood City, South Dakota.

The "Bookman," in acknowledging the New Zealand Artists' Annual, remarks on George Finey's caricatures, and mentioning two of them the journal describes them as masterpieces of grotesquely humorouß drawings. "Why hasn't somebody hero stolen George Finey?" asks the editor of the "Bookman." "But I shall content myself by saying that artists, authors, and editor (who is also one of the authors) hare combined to produce so clover and lively, aa annual that I wonder we do not see more of, it over hero."