LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 21

LITERARY NOTES

Sir Thomas Lipton is preparing his autobiography for early publication. Its most impressive chapters will describe his arrival in New York as a penniless youth, his early hardships in America, and his beginnings in Glasgow, where his bed was under the counter of his little shop. A book entitled "We Fly," by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, -will be published soon by Dorrance and Co Philadelphia, "We Fly," following closely on the heels of "We" w« describe the early life of Colonel Lindbergh, his pranks while a boy his schooldays, and the events leading up to his flight from New.York to Paris. Shortly before Christmas there is due to appear a slim, inexpensive book of verse from the pen of Eileen Duggan. It is entitled "New Zealand Bird Rhymes," ana will contain some of Miss Duggan's choicest metrical work. A stone tablet to the Dorset poet William Barnes (1800-86) has been placed on the house where he lived in Dorches*u r fo£,, some years, now a hairdresser's shop. Thomas Hardy was keenly interested in Barnes, who -was first a schoolmaster and later a clergyman, and suggested the memorial two hours before lie died. A sketch of the design was made by Hardy. It has just been discovered that the British Prime Minister appears among the characters in "Felix Cassel," a •? 0V?L b? Miss Peggy Webling, published in 1912. Mr. Mac Donald figures as Mr. h erguson, one of the frequenters of an artistic studio in Drury Lane. Martm Anderston, the Scottish artist who used the signature "Cynicus," had a studio there in the late 'eighties, and Mr. Mac Donald was one of his close mends. . . ' '