NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18281, 23 December 1922, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

i It is estimated that 95 por cent, of t novels sold are bought by public and t circulating libraries. 7 ' Major lan Hay Bieth has a ne>vr play 1 ready for production in the near future. 1 The * title of it is "Hostages." Mr. Maurice Hewlett's " The en - Road,' - and Sir A. Conan Doyle's "i'he j Sign of Four," are to be filmed. I Mr. Oven Wister, the distinguished American author of "The Virginian," and r other successful books, is a great grandr son of Charles Kemble, the famous * Shakespearean actor. s Mr. Carl van Doren, the well-known ? American critic, refers in his latest book. "Peter Whiffle," to Mr. Arthur Machen >' as "the most, -wonderful man writing Eng"s lisli to-day." " In his new book, "Difficulties," Mr. Seymour Hicks describes himself as "a ' poor, sad fellow, who spends his timo smiling to hide his tears. ' And Mr. A. ' B. Walkley comments: "It is onei of ; the happiest achievements in camouflage that we know." r e \V ,T. Locke, whose "Tale of Triona" 13 • one of the books of the moment, has a "> later novel completed, and is busy on a 0 third, which finds a sunny setting at > CaniK'H. Mr. Locke is now a permaJ nent resident on the Riviera, and is lookf ing round for a villa of his own there. e r. Bishop Core, speaking at the Moral - Ideals Conference in London, said ho read more modern French novels than English, because they were much better y on the whole, and the exceedingly lugh p' moral tone which pervaded them, pervaded also all modern French literature. What '» had happened in Franco could happen in '* England.n k How London does lure the literary 0 young Irishman! A few months ago, •. Melbourne Garahan, the author of "Snip •, Ahoy," was living in the south of County . Wicklow. There was always something j doing there. Twice he was rair' dby the military, five times bv the Black and . Tans, four times by the Irregulars, and .. twice by the Free Staters; and when one d pleasant Saturday afternoon Mr. Garao ban was taking the air in O'Connell e Street, he got a bullet through his hat. e Neverthe'ess, he could not resist the call of - London ; and now he is living in a Mid- - dlesex suburb; saving money on head0' gear, maybe, but suffering pangs of eny nui, for certain, through lifo'a now aneventfulness.