PUBLISHING NOTES.

Northern Advocate, 28 June 1924, Page 9 (Supplement)

PUBLISHING NOTES.

Locke's books are having quite a run in France, in translations. "The Rough Road" is being serialised in the "Echo de Paris." Kipling and Conrad both sell well in France, a number of their books being translated.

Hugh Walpole has revised and extended his monograph on Joseph Conrad. This is a very good little book in the same series as Darton 's H. G. Wells, and most readable.

"Quotable Anecdotes, ,, edited by D. B. Knox (T. Fisher TJnwin, Ltd.), is a specially arranged collection of anecdotes suitable for apt quotation in speeches, articles, and conversations. Mr Jfnox has been successful in gathering together many anecdote?, and has placed them, under appropriate headings, and arranged them in sections for doctors, lawyers, clergymen, politicians, business men, teachers, «,nd others, including chairmen of public meetings of various kinds, speakers at weddings, etc., etc. A , specially commendable feature of thq book is the large proportion of anecdotes related by English and American celebrities, and anecdotes of comparatively recent narration. \ Tile few of t?ie ''literary elect" who read and enjoyed David Gnrnett's remarkably clever fantasy, "Lady Into Fox," which won the Hawthornden and James Tait prizes last y;ar, should keep an active eye open for a copy of the 'fame writer's "A Man in the Zoo." Aldous Huxley's "Limbo ,, has been republished. His book of essays, "On the Margin," is worthy of every booklover's attention. Huxley's new and soon forthcoming book, '' Little Mexican 4,-nd other Stories," will, it is said, 1 please the admirers of tnis wayward but.undeniably clever young writer.

C. K. Scott Moncrieff, whose astonishingly clever translations of the earlier Marcel Proust stories, should be read by all who cannot manage the French originals, has steadily in view, as. the phrase goes in the political world, English versions of Stendhal's (Hrnry Beyle's) three books, "Le Rouge ei le Noir, ,, "La Chartreuse de Parme, ,, and " T .a Vie de Henri Brulard." There is *o-day quit? a Stendhal boom in Paris.

The centenary of Byron's death at Missolonghi has been responsible for some most interesting articles on the great English poet. Those who can afford it should buy the Florence Press book,, so beautifully printed, of "Selections from Byron. ,, "The Oxford University Complete Byron," at a very moderate price, is a volume *.vhich every good bookman should possess Also to be r.oted, in that most excellent literary paper, "John O , London's Weekly,,, are two admirable assays on Byron by "W.W.," otherwise Mr Wilfred Whitten (". T ohn 0' London ,, ), who is always readable, so agreeably informative. "London Referee," which many years ego publisher , the amusing effusions, "Mustard and Cress, ,, of the late George R. Sims, has been emulating Mr tolas Wegg and has "dropped into verse" apropos of some latter-day literature, as thus;: Little bits of Walpole, Little drops of Dell, Scattered over England Sell extremely well. ' Little poems by Blunden, , Smaller ones by Shanks, Published at'five shillings Earn the nation's thanks. \