HERE AND THERE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 7 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE

A film version is being made of Mr. H. G. Wells' " The War of tho Worlds." Mr. Wells' son, Frank Wells, is one of the producers. According to Mr. Hugh Walpole, to write an indifferent novel has always been as easy as to crochet. The trouble to-day, he says, is that so many people are able to write clever ones. Reviewing Virginia Woolf's " The Common Reader," Mr. Basil de Selincourt lights upon tho truth that "what is wrong with critics generally" —not with Mrs. Woolf —"is that they aro not poets." It is reported from Italy that Signor d'Annunzio has finished the novel on which he has been engaged for somo years. The scene is medieval 1" ranee, and much of the dialogue is said to bo written in old French. Mr. Alfred Mudie, formerly of the famous Mudie's Library, London, died recently in his eighty-ninth year. Tho library was established in 1841 by Mr. C. E. Mudie, whose original enterprise was lending books at a penny a volume from his newspaper shop in Cheyno Walk, Chelsea. Mrs. Alice Campbell, whose latest book is a " thriller " entitled " Tho Murder of Carolino Bundy," is tho wife of Mr. J. L. Campbell, author of " The Miracle of Poillo." She comes from tho Southern States of America, but now spends much of her timo in London with her children. She is also related to Joel Chandler Harris, who wroto " Uncle Remus."