HERE AND THERE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21314, 15 October 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE

Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress" has appeared in 123 languages. London people borrow every year 10,000.000 novels and 5,000,000 other books from public libraries. It is expected that a volume of the letters of the late Mr. Lytton # Strachey will be prepared for publication before very long. A bronze tablet has been placed on the wall of the Royal High School at Edinburgh to commemorate the fact that Sir Walter Scolt was educated there. He went there in 1778. Mr. Edwin Chappell states that he has " constructed a pedigree of 13 feet long containing the names of 550 relatives of Samuel Pepvs, ending with the second generation after his." Mr. J. Jf. Harcourt, a member of the literary staff of the West Australian, Perth, has accepted an offer by Messrs. John Long, London, to publish his first novel, " The Pearlers," which deals with pearling life at Broome, Western Australia. Mr. Bernard Shaw has given £I9BB, part of the proceeds of the publication of the letters between himself and Ellen Terry, to the Ellen Terry Memorial - Fund. The object of iho fund is to buy Smallhythe, the actress's former home, for the nation, and to convert the large barn into a festival theatre.