NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr. Winston Churchill ;is to complete the life of his ancestor,' the Duke of Marlborough, begun by Lord Wolseley. Tolstoi's " Resurrection" is to be filmed. Jori. Sernie, the Finnish actor,; is .take the role of Prince Nekludoff. Messrs, Benn Brothers are preparing an . elaborate edition of Shakespeare's plays for publication this year. So is Mr. Jonathan Cape. " ' ■'^^ Mr. Caradoc Evans, whose outspoken book, " My People," caused no small sensation in a Wales, has written a comedy. The title is " Taffy Was -a Welshman.'; : A complete, limited edition of the writings of H. G. Wells, in thirty' volumes,: is now being prepared for publication. Both Mr. Wells' sons are keen and successful science students,., with ambition to devote their lives to research work. - ■■{; i '; Sir George Walter Protheroe, late editor of the Quarterly Review, left estate valued at £18,324. Mr. H. E. Hooper, of New York, publisher-proprietor of the English edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica," ; left estate worth £10,678.' THe Countess vcri Arrtim, now 1 Countess Rusßell, author of "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," whose new novel, "The Enchanted April," has just been published, is a sister of the late Sir Sidney Beauchamp, the popular St Bartholomew's doctor. .''•'.' ".' - E. T. Raymond, the author of " Uncensored Celebrities," ; whose "Mr. Lloyd George'' has just been published, is the leader writer of the Evening Standard. The- Londoners Diary," in the Evening Standard, is now edited by Mr. G.H. Mair, until recently an official of the League of Nations. Mrs. S. A. P. Kitcat, the novelist and poet, died recently'at her home, Waring Dean, Esher v Two successful books from her pen were "Concerning Teddy " and ** A Latter Day .Romance, published under the name of Mrs. Murray Hickson. She also wrote the story, of her widowed father, the - late Judge Greenhow, who had written to her every day of his working •life. She was the judge's only daughter. Although American books are rarely big sellers in England, English novels in America have a great sale. A novel by W. J. Locke, for example, has a first printing in America of 50.C00 copies, while Mr. Joseph Conrad's publishers claim that at least 40,000 people will buy any new book from his hand. Galsworthy, Bennett, Swinnerton, and Merrick are read, largely, and a book by H. G. Wells is considered an event in the lives of the American reading public. • , ■■■■.-. > ■.. , ,