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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18518, 15 March 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)

NOTES. The life of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith, is to be written by Mr J. A. Spender and Mr Cyril Asquith. Mr Aldous Huxley’s book “Point Counter-Point,” is to be dramatised. The name of the play will not be the same as that of the book, but the new title has not yet been decided upon. Among the literary centenaries of 1930, are those of Henry Kingsley, born January 2, 1830; James Payne—a fertile writer of sensational novels—born February 28; Christinia Roeetti, born December 5; and Alexander Smith, born December 31.

It used to be said that there were two topics of conversation in England —the weather and Mr Lloyd George. Certainly he had to be talked about, quarrelled about very often, in clubs, pubs, trains, drawing rooms, and churches. He achieved publicity by dividing the country into haters and supporters. But though the “war” is over now, the public are still interested in such a man, and there will probably be much eager discussion when Sir Charles Mallett’s “Lloyd George: a Study” is published by Messrs. Benn this spring. It will be controversial, as anything about Lloyd George is almost bound to be, and it is understood that it will be plain spoken.