LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1932, Page 19

LITERARY NOTES

BOOK 3; ANt) \ AUTHORS

.Some hitherto unpublished :p6ems of Lord /Tennyson' .have ." rjedently.'..! been found, and with "them several portraits of .him by Mrs. Cameron.! ■'.'':•'■

' t „ Sir;' Gilbertr Parker^ who , is-' ih "his: seyentiethv.year,;is engaged :on.'ari 'aiitof .biography, and, a ne\y - novel. "He has ;aJr,ea'dy ..published^ over thirty books.

In Sotheby's saleroom, London, recently was the manuscript of a poem by r Jane Austen, jn four stanzas, on caJomeJ as a cure for headache.

The refusal of the French publishes to issua a French translation of the masterly study of Poch, by Captain LiddeU Hart, of the "Daily. Telegraph," is-one of tho season's" literary sensations. • ', "

It is reported from Constantinople that Clu-istopher Columbus's own map, tiaeing hi* third voyage to America, has been discovered "in the Janissary Museum. .It had been lo3t'for four centuries.

AL.■ Henri'.Taucounier, whose Goaepurt prize book, "The Soul of Malaya," has just been published in translation, was at oho time a rabber planter in Malaya. He is now living in Tunis. It took him ten years to complete liis book. '*■* ' ■' ' ~)0r ffj<, ! *-A. '&. Milne, t^^iitftor of "Christoplter Robin,'? vnVis-Siiending a holiday in AmerieaJ'-lias been protesting against the repeated application of the word "whimsical" to his writings. Ho 'says, he is tired of hearing himself and bis works being described as whimsical or quaint.

. A hitherto unknown drama, by Bjorn£tj«Rie Bjornson, the greaf Norwegian novelist and playwright,, has been discovered among some old documents by his daughter. -It will probably be presented during the celebrations, qf' the centenary of his, birth, which will be held in December, 1932.

TJie notebook -nhieb Voltaiie kept during his stay in England at the beginning of the eighteenth century is to coma up for, sale in London next month. Another interesting item will be a letter written by Katharine of Aragon, one of Henry VIII.'s queens, to her nephew, the Emperor Chailes V., and relating to her divorce,

The results of a < Bolshevik experiment outside Eussia are recorded in a book entitled. "The City of the Bed Plague : Soviet Bule in a Baltic Town," by George Popoff. Riga, the town in question, was placed under Bolshevik rule for five months during 1919. The book contains a,first-hand account' of the, little known circumstances of that episode, translated by E. T. John.

From "Bernard Shaw," by Frank Harris: —Shaw has always been the opportunist who has an eye for an opening, and, dashing into it, makes people believe > that he has opened it.1 ■• . . Whenever Shaw has, succeeded you will find that ho has attached himself to some more enterprising spirit who has taken all tho money risks.

Mrs. _ Sinclair Lewis, who has been on a visit to London, earned a Teputation for herself as a journalist when she saw Miss Dorothy Thompsoa and the. Berlin correspondent of a New York newspaper. At present she is gathering material for a book on the situation in Europe. Her last book was called "The New Russia." She married Mr. Lewis, the winder of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1928. Mr. Lewis hns remained behind in America, where he is working -on a new novel.

Alnc'wand somewhat startling book nailed "St. PaMck, A.D. ISO," by Canon J.'E; Ardill; LL.D., is being-pub-lished by John Murray. Canflri ArdiU ig. an .a,uthorit.y...tipon; Irish history, eeolesiastical aiicl secular' and 'Vis -'new book announecs that St. Patrick lived in the second'century, not 250 years later,, as has .bcej£ J generally accepted. The author bases, his eonclnsjon entirely upon t St.-'Patrick^'*'own '-Writings' and contemporary1 sources,- and excludes all additional " knowledge—han/decl : 'down from father to.'son'during!'more than threb centuries—for- fear- <t£ inaccura.cies. .'■; ;-.'■ '; '''■ ■•■'■: •' ■ '.':.'" '■•■■ .•'•■■' .