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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 12

In 1922 Mrs Watts-Dunton wrote a book called "The Home Life of Swinburne,” and in recent years she had been at work on a biography of Daiite Gabriel Rossetti, a close friend of her husband and of Swinburne. .' A pilgrimage is to be made to Emile Zola’s house at Medan on the anniversary of his death. His daughter, Mme. Denise le Blond-Zola, has formed a museum there of objects associated with her father. Zola died in 1902 in rather mysterious circumstances. He was found dead in his bedroom, apparently asphyxiated by the fumes of a defective charcoal stove. Mr Vardis Fisher, author of Forgive |Us Our Virtues,” comes from the I Middle West. He was born in Annis, Idaho, and was educated at the Universities of Utah and Chicago, taking a doctor of philosophy degree at the latter. Since he was 20 he has never, 1 says, lived for more than three years in one place. He likes flying and "building things with my hands, which are perhaps more competent than my head." When he stayed in England he had, he says, a “swell time” , in the British Museum, thought the Thames a "foul stream,” loved the English countryside, and was robbed in Dover!