LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

-Camilla Lacey, near Dorking, in Surrey, with its "Burney Garden,", in which Fanny Burney is said to have done much of her writing, is to be sold:

Mr. Sinclair; Lewisj who is touring Europe, has left Austria to spend a few weeks in Italy: His new novel, "Ann Vickers," will appear in England and America this month.

M. Paul Morand, the French author and traveller, has been yisiting England. He hopes to write a book on London something on the lines of his study of ■ New York. ■■•■..■:■.

■. M6st'of the'gerierals" have now had their, say ouT tW War,: bnel of the last being -■■ His ; "Memoirs," just published in two volumes/ jvill throw a good.deal' of'light -on' Eord. ErGiich. The Marshal-was so- keen Upon accuracy in the' text tHat ho initialled ■ every page arid every > 'correction, -in'tlie original French ■ manuscript. ■:;:' ~' : Miss' Catherine I. 'Dodd, :whose death was ' recently; 'announced,' .was well known -'as1, a'novelist" and' an educationist.l ;At one ;time: she< was a lecturer at Manchester University, for years she. was prindipal- of Chorwell Hall, Oxford. Her books -include "The Farthing Spinster," "Scarlet Gables,"-and "Apples and Quinces." 1 A Irving author whose birthday is being remembered is.! Herr 'Gerhart Hauptmann, the distinguished German dramatist, who was seventy recently. Celebrations are going on throughout Germany, and almost all his earlier plays havo been revived. His last play, "Before Suuset," was written specially for the Goethe centenary in March. Mr. John Galsworthyrbasnaniect his 20 favourite "bed books":-—Tho Bible, the "Odyssey," tho Bacehae, Plutarch's '.'Lives," Marcus. Aurelius, Shakespeare's Sonnets, "Hamlet," "King Lear/ "Midsummer Night's Dream," "Don Quixote," Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography,'"The" Ancient Mariner," " Pickwick Papers," "Smoke," "The Three Musketeers," '.'War and Peace," "Alice in Wonderland," "Huckleberry Finn'," : Masefield's "Keynard tho Pox," and Hudson's "Far Away and Long Ago." In connection with the celebration of the'tercentenary of the birth of John Locke, the philosopher, the annual master mind lecture of thef British "Academy was devoted to the subject of Locke and his work. The lecturer was''Professor James Gibson. Another famous man who was remembered last year is John Gay, author of "The Beggar's Opera," who died in December, 1732. An exhibition of first editions of his works was held at the Central Public Library, IPiuchley road,. Hampstead. ' ■ '.A number of books arid manuscripts of Lewis Carrdir'fetche'd over £.1000 in London at a recent sale; £370 was paid for k'The Bectory Magazine," an unpublished MS: of 116 pages written by"- young Dodgson'. aft •• the age ,of eighteen. A picture book; written and drawn by 'him when only nine years old, was sold for £42, and three of his pen-and-ink sketches:for "Sylvio and Bruno" for £72. At the same'sale a copy of ' Charles ' King'sley's "Water Babies"' (1863), inseribedto his wife, realised £118. The MS. of Mr.'Kipling's "Our Lady of the Snows'," first published in 1897, went for £90.