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Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 11

Martin Boyd, author of “Scandal of Spring” is an architect. He has served in the Army and the Air Force. His “The Montforts” won the Australian Literary Society prize. Grant Richards has been a publisher for thirty-seven years, and during that time he has “discovered” various authors. Of them, of others, and of himself he tells in a volume, “Author Hunting,” announced by Hamish Hamilton. The story of “Black Beauty” is almost a Victoran classic, but a “biography” of a real horse is something new. The horse is Brown Jack, perhaps the most popular thoroughbred that has ever appeared on the English race-course. Though ten years old. he won at Ascot in June for the fifth time in succession. Perhaps this feat suggests the “biography” to R. C. Lyle, who has written it for Putnam.