NEWS AND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18333, 24 February 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

)- * — n • Mr. J. D. Beresford has written an- ® other novel, which is to appear very soon. i, '■ Mr. Michael Arlen's next book will be a collection of short stories entitled ® "Those Charming People." - Mr. Kipling is engaged on a new imags inative work, which should be ready for 0 publication towards the end of the year. 5 A new illustrated reprint of " Henry Brocken," one of Mr. de la Mare's early " stories which is now a rarity, is to bo I 1 issued this year. i Messrs. Burns and Oates are publishing > the "Collected Poems" of Mrs. Meynell, ! and a second volume, "The Last Poems of Alice Meynell." 1 Mr. Frank Swinnerton's new novel, "Three Lovers," which has proved a great : success in the United States, is to be published in England . shortly. The late Olive Schreiner left two unpublished MSS., which are to be pub- • lished in the near future. They contain her "Thoughts on South Africa" and . "Stories, Dreams, and Allegories." •<& . It is not generally known that a freed man of Cicero invented a system of shorthand with which he took down "a verbatim report" of liia master's famous Catalinian oration delivered in 63 B.C. American publishers and booksellers, have combined together for the advertiseing of books, urging to greater general reading and not to the buying Of any particular book. One of the latest devices is a poster pointing out how many million dollars are spent every year in America on cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, and candy, and how pitifully little by comparison is spent on books. The poster concludes : "Several thousands die as a result of using the first four items. Several thousands have come to life as a result of using the i last item." In' a recent instalment of the Farington Diary—appearing in the London Morning Post—reference was made to Beresford's book ( entitled "The Miseries of Human Life," which "sold prodigiously, so as to 1 produce to Beresford a profit of £1000." The full title of the book was "The Miseries of Human Life ; or, the Last Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive with a few supplementary Sighs of Mrs' Testy," London, 1806-7. It was-praised bv Sir Walter Scott and ran into several i editions. • !