BRIEF NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)

BRIEF NOTES.

A copy of " Vanity Fir," presented I by Thackeray to his doctor, has been sold in London for £6BO. For every threepence spent in the United States on books 5s is spent on moving pictures. editor of the London Mercury, is corneditor of the London " Mercury," is compiling an anthology of puns. Miss Kathenne Mayo, author of " Mother India," has been in Europe, .it Geneva, and in Germany and France, as well as England. While in London she carefully avoided publicity. Miss Fanme Hurst, whose novel " A President is Bom," was recently published, commands a higher price for her short stories than perhaps any other writer of repute in America. The announcement of the marriage of Mr. Sinclair Lewis to Miss Dorothy Thompson follows immediately on the appearance of Mr Lewis' " monologue" novel, " Hie Man Who Knew Coolidgo." The honeymoon was spent in touring England in a caravan. According to figures compiled from the new Oxford English Dictionary, more main words (27,£29) begin with "s" than with any other letter. "P" and "c" rank next (23.182 and 21,295). Latin prefixes account for the large number of works beginning with these letters.