NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

A hemoeial tablet to the memory of the late Miss Braddon has been unveiled in the Richmond Parish Church by the dead novelist's younger grandchildren, the son and daughter of Sir. W. B. Maxwell. In addition to the members of the familv there were present Mrs. Humphry Ward, Miss Winifred Graham, and other literary people. We have already had fighting near the plains of Troy and on the line of march of Xenophon's 10,000, and now that Bulgaria has entered the war, practically the whole of the lands of classic renown are involved. Schoolboys never know their luck. We very nearly long to take a leaf out of the book of Mr. Bultitude of " Vice Versa." Sir Edwin Pears, in his book, records that clever German Ambassador, Baron Marschall von Bieberstein's, opinion that it was delightful to be in England on account of its high moral atmosphere. It was Thackeray who said in " Pendennis" that " A high-bred English lady is the most complete of all heaven's subjects." " Poets do not really love," said Miss Corelli, at Harrow ; "if they did they could not write about it." Then Mrs. Browning's " Sonnets From the Portuguese" were simply a pose, and her final deathbed talk with" her husband, in which she gave the tenderest expression to her love for him, was another pose. Dr. J. H. E. Crees, headmaster of the Crypt Grammar School. Gloucester, discusses many vexed questions of educational organisation in a work which Messrs. Smith, Elder, will publish, under the title " Didasacahiß Patiens : A Satire, a Medley, a Romance." The author's primary object is to contrast with the aims of our greatest teachers " the lamentable effect of recent interference with secondary educa- , tion, when accepted in exchange for " free | Placers, and an often illusory grant in aid the spirit of education being broken between a mechanical hierarchy and the parochialism of local control." "Carmen Sylva's skill in poesy and in been ..corded that' EftUthV Wie'd' Queen-IWger of Roumania sineher Consort s unlooked-for death at the end <■ Inst October has now a fair rival ° « Mane. Queen of King Ferdinand on mania s new Sovereign Ladv has come out as the author of "Minola: The History of an I nfortunate Queen." and this « conte fantastique as she calls it. has been given the place of honour in that world-famous periodical, the Revue des Deux Mondes