HERE AND THERE.
A huge monument is to lie erected to Vicente Masco Ihauez, the Spanish novelist and anti-monarchist, in his native citv of Valencia. He died in exile in Fiance. Dr. Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts in tho British Museum, has a volume of verse coming entitled " Poems and Translations," a collection of occasional pieces written during tho last twenty years. A memorial is to be erected above the place where the ashes of Mrs. KennedyFraser lie. in the island of lona. Mrs. Kennedy-Eraser, who died in November, 1930, was a collector and preserver of many beautiful Hebridcan folk-songs. Mr. Hugh Walpole is president of the Wigan Educational Society in succession to Miss Edith Sitwell. llis presidential address was 011 " Novel Building." Among the past presidents of the society are Dean Inge, the Archbishop of York and the late Lord Haldane. Miss Grace Stebbing, who has just finished a new novel called " The Laird's Daughter," is in her ninety-second year. She is the author of over seventy books of various kinds. Science is her greatest interest, and she has been attending the meetings .of tho British Association for nearly fifty-five years. " Poets in Pinafores " is the title which A. B. Cooper gives to a book of parodies. The idea is to rewrite the better-known nursery rhymes in tho style of famous poets, living or dead. Shakespeare, for instance, is set on to rewrite " Humpty Dumpty," and Mr. Kipling is supposed to tackle "Polly Put the Kettle On." Mr. John Duguid, who recently created a stir with his travel book, " Green Hell," an account of travels and adventures in the high Andes of Bolivia, is now back again in South America, endeavouring to capture some jaguar cubs for European zoos. Sir Wilfrid Grentell tried to persuade him to go to Labrador instead, but jaguars are not to be had there.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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311HERE AND THERE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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