HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE.

Illustrated editions of two of Mary Webb's novels will shortly be ready. Thoy will be " Gone to Earth" and " The Golden Arrow." Tho complete sets of Mary Webb's works are becoming more and moro popular, and it is a growing custom to give these seven volumes in their apple-green case as a wedding present. Miss Eliza Margaret Esdaile, who has died at Dawlish, Devonshire, in her ninetieth year/ was the only surviving granddaughter of tho poet Shelley. She was the second daughter of Howard Jeffries Esdaile, of Cothelstone, Somerset, who married in 1837 Eliza lanthe, only daughter of the poet by his first wife, Harriet Westbrook. Miss Anita Loos, the author of " Gentlemen Profer Blondes" and its sequel, " But They Marry Brunettes," has gone to London. London, she says, is the only place where she can find time to sit down and read a book. Miss Loos, who is engaged on a new novel, which will probably be called-"The Better Things of Life," admits that sho never reads anything except biography.