LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

The historic Assembly Rooms at (Bath are to be made into a public lihrary.

Mr. Peter Belloc, author of •'Below Bridges," is a son of 'Mr. Hilaire Belloc'

Hcrr Hans Fallada's popular novel, "Little Man, "What Now?" is to bo filmed by a Germany company.

Lord "Winchester, a\lio lias written a book of reminiscences entitled "Statesmen, 3Telons>, and Financiers," is the premier Marquess of England.

Mr. Edgar Ansel Mowrcr's "Germany Puts tho Clock Back" has, won this: year's Pulitzer Prizo for the best piece of foieigu conespoudence. Tho book appeared in England leeently.

A monument in lncmoiy of Pocahontas, the Eed Indian princess who saved the, life of Captain John Smith, the Virginian cplomst, has been unveiled at' St. Mary's Church, Heacham, Norfolk. '

The boat-ioofcd house- on the sands at Gravensend, said to hav,e suggested to' Dickens the idea of Poggotty's home a!t: Yarmouth Cm 'fDayidifepppcrfield"), is marked for demolition. It was. built more than a century ago.

M. Francois. Mauriac, one of France's best-kno^n poets, no\elists, and essayists, has been elected a member of the French' r , Academy, He was born, in Bordeaux in ISB3. His first volume of verso appeared in' 1910, and his first novel in 1913. ' .

Mi-. Logan Pearsail ;' Smitfe'' ivhpso latest bbol^, jias the title' of "On Reading Shakesppare," ;;jvas ;^n i/Phila--4c]ptyi a (;"hiid^;educajl;ea aj' Ha;ryard and Oxford."Ho was a'me'mb'or of the "pronunciation" committee" appointed by the 8.8.C. a fe\v Hyea^s. .ago.. He, is sixty-eight years 01d.;,;.'.,.,»■• .0 . - -

. Mr.A. Danvors-AViilker, w,ho has publislied^a. first novel-.;vontit}ed ; /.'Brief Authority," was unfjiii recently ..an announcer at a broadcasting-; istatipH in Australia. He. hasi;iliadv|^yierai:^!:p,lays produced, there, ■sndv:fh'is;Ta^ipjrpiay.s,'a.nd sketches have been.biQadcast'frpm: Melbourne. ( ; i.-;)1-! "■',:.•■■■•.'•!!':• V.,'';'';i .■'.>::(

Mrs.. Violet Trefusis;r.frho.:>'tas": just published a novel Called ,':•'! Tandem,'' writes in both fronch and Englishd Her first two book* appeared in Paris,! one of them, "Echo,.?.* being ruriner-iipfpr the Feinina Prize//iii,: 1931. She* is a niece of Lord Albemarle; <:

Oue hundred additional''sb'opks;' nave been, placed on .the shelves of "Carnegie (Pittsburg) Library-; • as, 'a.'; protest against theiHitler bookAurning decree. The books,' ; all; titles >,included in* the black Hst'v of the 'German, ■dictator, were college' student^' at*ineeting of.educators and clergymen in" Carnegie Music Hall, attended by 2000 persons.

When the great bonfire of "verboten'' books- was burning in Berlin, and fires in the grounds of thirty universe ties wore ablaze -with literature, Emil Ludwig and Erich Maria Kemarquo, in retreat in Spain, listened by radio to the crackling of their -works. Among American authors whose books wore destroyed are Helen Keller (iho blind Essayist), Jack London, and Upton Sinclair. . ■ '

According to a report in "Eeynolds* News," a man recently went to a. Birmingham bookseller to give back a book which he had purchased twenty-five years ago on the understanding that if ho returned the book ho should have his money back. Ho had not been in the shop 'in the meantime,- but he did get his money back.' Commenting upon this, the' "Publisher and ■Bookseller"" says: "We are. not told the name of this honest bookseller who kept his promise after a quarter of a century, nor are we told the title of the book; but visions of an almost priceless first-edition being offered at the original published price will force, themselves-on us."