NOTES AND NIBBLES

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 2, Issue 6, 1 December 1923, Page 49

NOTES AND NIBBLES

A pleasing compliment has been paid by the Italian Government to Admiral Lord Jellicoe’s book, “The Crisis of the Naval War,” A private edition of it has been translated into Italian for circulation among the officers of the Italian Navy. o o o A new romance by Mrs. Elinor Glyn will be published early in the New Year. Its title is to be “Six Days.” o o o “The White Flag,” the new novel by Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter, was written in memory of her girlhood in Indiana. o o o The business woman is the subject of “Bread,” the latest novel by Mr. Charles G. Norris, son of Frank Norris, and the husband of Kathleen Norris. o o o The most devoted husband has moments when the only company he wants is that of his own sex. —Duncan Swann. o o o Miss Grace Ellison, in her “An Englishwoman in Angora,” declares that she has never met an “old maid” in Turkey, and doubts whether one could be found. o o o “Instead of being a hindrance, women have been a great assistance in the progress of London University.” —Sir Sidney R. Wells. o o o It is not often that a lawyer, in winning his case in court, wins the heart of the lady in it. This was the unique experience of M. Poincare, the French Prime Minister, who thirty years ago or thereabouts was a favourite advocate for litigants in any way connected with literature. His greatest case, however, was the one in which he marshalled his arguments with such skill that his happy client became his happy wife. His charming lady fires his imagination with just as much zest to-day as she did when he fought for her in the legal battle. o o o “The very fact that children are young is an argument that they should have of the very best in literature.” Viscountess Grey of Fallodon in a prefatorial note to Mr. Philip Wayne’s “A Child’s Book of Lyrics.” O O O The English Queen of Roumania, a daughter of the one-time Duke of Edinburgh, has written a romantic story— Story of Naughty Kildeen.” It is mainly about young people. The book is to be embellished beautifully with pictures by a French artist. O O o .“Any woman can go to a Turkish wedding without being invited. You in England only ask your intimate friends, and yet you have to employ detectives to watch the presents.’ ” —Miss Grace Ellison, in her “An Englishwoman in Angora.”