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Southland Times, Issue 22158, 28 October 1933, Page 11

The Cambridge Press are shortly to issue Bibles with Zipp fasteners. First editions of “Loma Doone” fetched £B5 and £4O at a recent London sale. A first edition of “Omar Khayyam,” originally published in 1859 at 1/-, has been sold for £B9O. Frank Ver Beck, the illustrator of Mr Kipling’s “Just So Stories,” has died at Hockley, Essex, at the age of seventy-three. At the London sale of Alfred Denison’s library of books on fishing copies of the first five editions of Walton’s “Compleat Angler” fetched £1,250. Shane Leslie, the author and critic, has been elected an associate member of the Irish Academy of Letters. He is a cousin of Mr Winston Churchill. His wife, as a little girl, was a favourite companion of Robert Louis Stevenson. Sir John Henniker Heaton, who has written a volume of reminiscences, is the son of the Sir John who was mainly responsible for the introduction of the inventor of the typewriter, has been unveiled at Vienna. He was bom in 1822 and died in 1893—in poverty. Dog lovers will have a particular interest in a volume by Karel Capek, the Prague writer. The first is a puppy’s log-book, and the second part contains the fairy-tales which Karel Capek had to tell his terrier to keep it quiet when he photographed it.