LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 27

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

The county of Robin Hood is the latest chosen for inclusion in Mr. Arthur Mee's "King's England" series. Nottinghamshire surveys all its towns and about 200 of its villages.

According to the "Evening Standard," the chief examples today of authors drawing a regular income from reprints of their early works are H. G. Wells and W. W. Jacobs. Mr. Wells charges 20 guineas for reprinting one of his short stories of thirty or more years ago.

Bernard Shaw has denounced as "a blazing lie" a newspaper report that he is taking meat extract as a cure for anaemia. He sticks to his vegetarian diet. He has not been seriously ill, but has had "a bit of a break-up" through too much work, and he is getting on very well now.

Six years after the Yale University Press published Edwin Borchard's "Convicting . the Innocent," Congress, has passed a law providing for the payment of damages to people who have been convicted of crimes against the Federal Government- and who have later been proved innocent.

In their sixth novel competitionthe "Atlantic Monthly" judges found no MS submitted which they considered worthy of the prize award. One of, the competitor's, hearing that 918 MSS were submitted, calculates that the total weight of these unavailing efforts was one ton and a third, the total number of typed pages over a million, and the postage spent to Boston and back was about 1200 dollars.

Of the four men, Scott, Wilson, Oates, apd Bowers, whose names are inseparably associated with the heroic tragedy of Scott's last Antarctic expedition, Bowers alone has hitherto lacked a biographer. The omission has now been made good by the Rev. George Seaver, who wrote the life of "Edward Wilson of the Antarctic." The authorised portraits of these "two gallant, noble-gentlemen" as Scott, in his farewell letter to Bowers's mother, described the two comrades with whom he perished, have thus been drawn by the same hand. The new book. " 'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic," tells the' whole story of Lieutenant Bowers' life, besides describing that last epic journey from a new angle. There is a preface by Mr. Apsley CherryGarrard, who wrote the introduction to the memoir of Edward Wilson.