HERE AND THERE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21332, 5 November 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE

The first festival of the English Versespeaking Association, which has been held at Oxford, was so successful that it will be repeated next year on a larger scale. A Manchester Guardian reviewer says he wonders why so many novelists think a clear-cut ending inartistic. It seems the fashion* now to close with Bomo figure out into the night or the Kunset or eternity. Mr. St. John Philby, who will publish a book dealing with his adventures in Arabia, crossed the grim Rub-al-Khali desert from oast to west, while Mr. Bertram Thomas, author of " Arabia Felix," crossed it from south to north. " Greek Memories " is the title of Mr. Compton Mackenzie's third volume of war memories, which Cassell will publish. The scone is mainly Athens, but there are pictures of Malta, Taranto, Rome, Paris and London. Mr. Mackenzie describes this, volume as " a book of verbs, not adjectives." When Lucas Malet (Mrs. Ma.ry St. Leger Harrison) died last year she loft an unfinished novel, " The Private Life of Mr. Justice Syme." The book has been completed by her cousin, Miss Gabrielle Vallings, who was also her adopted daughter. Lucas Malet was a daughter of Charles Ivingsley.