BURIED TREASURE

Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 6

BURIED TREASURE

The ' Manchester Guardian ' recently offered prizes for a list of six books suitable for the library of a ship setting out to hunt for juried treasure. The first prise went to this list;— 1. An edition de luxe of the .Hook of Koclesinstes. with illustrations after the manner of Gustavo Don.

‘2. A copy or reprint of the ancient hook enti Fled ‘ Stnltifera Navis, or the Ship of Fools.’ 3. A digest of the laws ol the nations of the world relating—(a) to Treasure 'Trove, and (b) to Larceny by Trover. 4. A scrap book containing cuttings from newspapers reporting inquests aiul other legal inquiries on all the persons who have drunk themselves to death, made away with themselves, or otherwise gone to the had, as a direct or indirect result of winning sweepstake prizes. 5. ‘ The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.' 6. ' Tim Hunting of the Smirk.’

The second pme went to tin-, list: — 1, ‘Treasure Island' U spot of romance is indicated). 2. The Prayer Book (since the burial service will be in constant use). ;!, A bool; of Community Songs (to keep low spirits up). <|, ‘The Law of Treasure Trove’ (to keep high spirits down). 5./‘The Journal of a Disappointed Man’ (it sounds as though it might be appropriate). fi. 'Williams on Bankruptcy’ (the usual treasure hunt substitute for a happy ending).

NOTES A portrait of Hans Andersen is to appear on Danish stamps to mark the centenary of his first boolt. Mr Llo.ytl George has decided to conclude his ' War Memoirs ' with ibe iii'th volume, which will probably appear, in September. A miniber of letters written by Sir Walter Scott to Charlotte Carpenter, his future wife, have been discovered in a secret drawer in a desk at Abbotsi'ord. Previously it had been thought that Scott burned the correspondence. The remains of D. H. Lawrence have been exhumed from the cemetery at Venco and cremated. The ashes arc being taken to the ranch which he owned afc Taos. New Mexico. His widow still lives there. . Following her successful biography of her father, the late Sir Gerald du Manlier. Miss Daphne du Maurier has been commissioned to write a life of her grandfather, George du Maurier, the artist and author. Dr Bready himself is a Canadian. He wrote the book after six years' research in the British Museum. Immediately after its publication he was made a doctor of philosophy of London University, on the recommendation of Professor G. M. Trevelyan and Dr .Matthews, now Dean of St. Paul's. Another of his hooks is a biography of Dr Barnardo.

Sir Harry Luke, Lieuieuant-Gover nor of Alalia, and a Well-known authority on Near Eastern topics, is following up 1 An Eastern Cliequerboard,’ a volume of travel pictures which was published last year, with a new book of even wider geographical range. This will be published by Lovat Dickson, and will be entitled ‘ More Mores on an Eastern Cliequerboard.’ ,

H. G. Wells tells an interviewer that Hollywood once paid him £3,000 for the film rights in one of his novels. The title was then altered, the story was completely changed, and the scene was shifted from the Arctic North to Central Africa. To this day he finds himself wondering what was the precious essence for which he was given that £3,000.

Full use of the recent discoveries in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, will be made by Air Arthur Bryant in the second volume of his ‘ Life of Pepys.’ This volume, entitled ‘Samuel Pepys: The Saviour of the Navy,’ will be published by the Cambridge University Press. It is based on a mass of unknown Pepysian material, of which the two recently discovered Alagdalehe journals form a pari.

It is not often that a book can be Said to have influenced* a statesman’s political programme. Yet this seems to have been the case in Canada. In announcing his " New Deal ” recently in Parliament and on the wireless, Mr Bennett, the Prime Minister, admitted that his programme had been inspired by the example of Lord Shaftesbury, flic Victorian social reformer. As he spoke he held in his hand a copy of Dr •). Wesley Bready’s book ‘ Lord Shaftesbury and Social-Industrial Progress,’ and he quoted freely from it.