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It is possible that the Red House, near Bexley Heath, will he preserved as a memorial to William Morris, who built it and lived there for five years. Morris’s friend Rossetti described it as “ more a poem than a house,” and ho and Burne-Jones were responsible for much of the interior decorations.

Talcing advantage of a “ finelcss week” at the Cambridge Public Library, a subscriber has returned a book, ‘ The Story of Scotland,’ which ho took out thirty-eight years ago! The amount of the fine should have been £SB.

The Bibliothcquc Nationale, the British Museum of Paris, has just opened an exhibition of books, manuscripts, and relies of various sorts devoted to Goethe and his times.

A fund has been opened at Llangollen, North Wales, to endow a cot at the Homo for Motherless Children, Ealing, in memory of Mrs Mary Hughes, the original Mary who “had a little lamb.” She lived near Llangollen.

Mr William Riley has deserted Yorkshire for the Lake district in his new novel, ‘ The Silver Dale.’ ‘ Windyridge,’ the book which made Mr Riley’s name, was written in 1911 merely to amuse his friends and without any thought of publication. Since it became popular he has devoted most of his time to writing and lecturing chiefly on Yorkshire subjects. Previously he was associated for some time with his father’s business—that of a stuff merchant —and_ then helped to found a firm of optical slide makers. He has published over twenty books.

' Mr K. C. Whearo has received the Beit Prize in Colonial History at Oxford for an essay entitled ‘The Statute of Westminster, 1931.’ The value of .the prize is £oo. Mr Wheare, who was the Victorian Rhodes Scholar for 1929, has had a distinguished career at Oxford, having obtained first-class final honours in the school of philosophy, politics, and economics, Cecil Peace Prize for 1931. Ho is lecturer on political institutions at Oriel College, Oxford. Mr Cape supplies some curious particulars regarding the publication of Miss E. H. Young’s new novel, ‘ Jenny Wren.’ A mile of bookbinding cloth has been especially manufactured for the volume, and six tons of papers, a quarter of an acre of strawboard for the binding, and 800 noggins of ink have been used.

From ‘ 1933 and Still Going Strong,’ a book of satirical verso by Mr J. B. Morton:

The poet loved her in his milky way, And wrote her fawning poems every day, Selecting always for his . highest flights The eyebrows that he dreamed about at nights. Reader, he little knew that very pair Was made by Maison Soured, of Mayfair. A collection of books in the estate of Miss Louisa Dodgson was sold in London in November. The manuscript of ‘ The Rectory Magazine,’ 1850, consisting of 11G pages in Lewis Carroll’s hand, and still unpublished, fetched £370. Two other juvenilo “ magazines ” of Dodgson’s, ‘ The Rectory Umbrella ’ and ‘Mischmasch,’ now in Harvard College Library, were published for the first time last October. Mr John Galsworthy has named his twenty favourite “ bed books ” :—The Bible, the ‘Odyssey,’ the ‘ Bacclue,’ 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 ‘ Reynard the Fox,’ and Hudson’s ‘ Far Away and Long Ago.’-