BRACKEN AS POET

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 31, 5 August 1939, Page 20

BRACKEN AS POET

Mr. Pat Lawlor writes:—"My final two arguments that Thomas Bracken was a poet were, in your issue of Saturday last, attributed to another writer bearing the norn de plume of 'Maori Mac' The two points, which were apparently misplaced, were as follows: (1) Bracken's verse has been included in at least three notable anthologies, those of Bertram Stevens, Douglas Sladen, and Alexander and Currie; (2) writing in the London 'Bookman' in September, 1912, the late St. John Adcock (one of the most eminent critics of the century, also a 'self-respecting editor'), stated: 'I am told that Miss Jessie Mackay .and Arnold Wall have done notable work in poetry; and I know that Tom Bracken has.' To my mind the facts stated are unanswerable."

Lord Baldwin has written a foreword to the official life of Lord Rutherford, which the Cambridge University Press will publish. The biography is by Dr. A. S. Eve, a personal friend for many years and formerly Macdonald Professor of Physics at McGill University. Lady Rutherford has allowed full use to be made of her husband's correspondence and papers. The author has also had the co-operation of Rutherford's closest colleagues and friends, his aim being to give a complete picture of the man himself as well as an adequate account of his scientific achievement.