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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18629, 26 July 1930, Page 14

“I doubt (says the editor of “Everyman"; if there are fifty persons in our population of forty-eight millions who are near to saturation point in reading.”

Mrs Cynthia Stockley, whose new ] book, “Tagati,” has been recently published, is at present living in South l Africa, where she was born. She spent much of her early life there, although uhe was educated partly in England. She came to London in 1398 and took up journalism, afterwards acting for two or three years with the Benson Shakespeare Company. Since then she has travelled extensively, and has lived :n many parts of the world. Almost the last remaining link with the Brontes has been severed by the death in the Isle of Wight of the Rev. Charles William Heald. His father, the late Cancn Heald, was vicar of Birstall when Charlotte Bronte used to visit that part of the West Riding, and v/as the prototype of “Cyrus Hall” in | her novel “Shirley.”