LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 20

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

The Municipal Council of Buenos Aires proposes to grant funds for the publication in Spanish of the books of William Henry Hudson, the naturalist and prose-writer.

The Cockermouth (Cumberland) mansion, gardens, and terrace walk where William Wordsworth spent his boyhood, were presented to the National Trust last month after being saved by public subscription from demolition at a cost of £2400.

Putnams announce for early publication in England and America an authorised English translation by Lewis W. Bush of Ashihei Hino's series of Japanese war novels, "Sea and Soldier," "Mud and Soldier," "Flower and Soldier," and concluding with the famous "Wheat and Soldier," of which over a million copies have already been sold in Japan. The whole work wiU be published in England in a single volume with the title "War and Soldier."

The latest German language textbook to be published in England says next to nothing about' Hitlerism. Customs, folk songs, extracts from famous poems, and other pieces of sugar are given with the bitter pill of learning, but Adolf is curiously absent, and the Swastika appears only once in the plentiful supply of illustrations.

British publishers in the last few weeks have been indulging in something like a private marathon. The Royal visit to Canada and the United States was obviously material for a book, and at least _nc have been commissioned. Hutchinson is the winner with "North America Sees Our King and Queen," by Keith.

The First Edition Club's annual exhibition of the fifty best books of the year was opened at London on June 6 by Mr. Shane Leslie. The fifty chosen books of 1938 include four novels (one is "Be a Gent, Little Woman, Be a Gent"), Virginia Woolfs "Three Guineas," Carola Oman's "Elizabeth of Bohemia," and "The Oxford University Chest," by John Betjeman.