STRAY LEAVES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 12

STRAY LEAVES

DOINGS IN WORLD OF BOOKS A third folio Shakespeare, printed in 1664, has been sold in London for £6OO. This edition is extremely rare because a great many copies were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. John Dover Wilson, the distinguished Shakespearean scholar, succeeds H. J. C. Grierson as professor of Rhetoric and English literature in Edinburg University. Baroness Orczy, whose best-known story, ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel,’ has been adapted as a talking film, studied painting before she was a novelist. Some of her work Was exhibited at the Royal Academy. A new novel by Mr Warwick Deeping is coming from Messrs Cassell. This is called ‘Sackcloth Into Silk,’ ahd is the tale of a boy of poor origin who became a rich and famous dramatist, possessing “everything he could wish for except love.” Captain E. H. Robinson, known for his books and articles on technical matters of wireless, has boldly struck a new word for his title in ‘Telviewing,’ a book explaining for the ordinary reader the problems solved and to be solved in the new science of television. British papers record the death of Mr A. C. BradlA. -formerly professor of poetry at Oxford, and of English literature at Liverpool and Glasgow, at the age of 84. His chief works were ‘Shakespearean Tragedy’ and ‘Oxford Lectures on Poetry.’ He was a younger brother of F. H. Bradley, 0.M., .the philosopher. It Is curious, Mr E. V. Lucas says, that Charles Lamb, who thought so little of America, should be in such demand by collectors in that country. Almost everything that is not secured to England in the British Museum, where the Barton letters are, and the Victoria and Albert MUseum, where the Forster letters are, is in America.

‘The Old Testament Omnibus Book,’ arranged by Mr A. C. Hannay, an attempt to present by selection what might be called the most powerful “fiction” or story-side of the Old Testament, Id to be published by Messrs Williattis and Norgate. The words will be from the authorised version, but the typographical presentation will be modern.

Mr David Garnett’s new novel, ‘Beany-Eye,’ promises to be as provocative as its title. Beany-Eye is a tramp, an unusual sort of tramp. His adventures are recorded in the first person, and in a sense the book is autobiographical. Some of the incidents actually occurred, some are vaguely remembered from childhood, and some are imaginary.

What should be a book of great interest is ‘Theatre of Life,’ the memoirs of Lord Howard of Penrith. He is better known as Sir Esme Howard, our Ambassador at Washington from 1924 until 1930. 'He also served in Berlin, Crete, Hungary, Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain. During the Boer War he was a trooper in the Imperial Yoemanry. His book comes from Messrs Hodder and Stoughton.