LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

_Tl J e kst letter to be written by John Wesley fetched £210 at a recent London sale. It was dated Z4th February, 1791 and was addressed to William Wilberforee. l < •

Dr ; Axel Munthe,! author of- tliat re"The; Story of 'San Macnele, recently paid one Of his infrequent visits to-London.

The 222 nd anniversary of ;Dr. Johnson's birth was recently celebrated at ia.chn.eld; his birthplace. A wreath was laid on his statue,' and hymns were sunc outside 'his old•'home." ../;:;.;.;.';•>■ b

':; " Changing Scotland' 'is the titled of a political treatise by the Hon. R. Erskine ofMarr. The same writer.has in preparation for publiciatidn '"Mary ana her.liittle Lamb,"ra study of the Queen of Scots arid the English succession. )■:-<■■■: y .'?- ;■■ ■•;:. ■.•-;■■..••:.:.■..• .-■:.-■ ■■;.:

The library of 400 books collected by Rupert Brooke was'purchased for £ 240 by an American firm at a recent Lon^ don jsale. The-volumes range from "Tfedttjgh. the,' Looking (Sags," given to him in 1891^ to toofes bought during 'the war. : ,-;■•,•-:;■, ; .. ....■.■■.-,:..; , s

Miss Alice Buchan, who has just' finished a first novel, is a daughter of Colonel John BuchanV Thus thfere are now three literary members of "this family, the third being Colonel Buchan's sister, who has'written -many ; popular books under the pen-name of "O. Douglas." Colonel; Buehan's latest is called "The Blanket of theipark;"-- -= '

Bradenham :Hall,. in West' Jfcrfolk, where Sir Rider' Haggarcl spent; his youth, was recently up for sale. It was bonght r at;the,erid of the 18th, century by; Rider. Haggard^ great-grandfather. The house w.as-, also connected with Nelson;*a> family, for after Trafalgar Nelson's personal belongings were sent there, and his Clothes were hung to air upon-the-lavender bushes in. the kitchen ga-Tde'nV -...:;• .-' -. . ;',-■;■'s■-.:■ ..■■■■■.■;■. ■■.■■.'.

.A copy of a rare Bhelley;pamphlet— The Proposals for an Association of those Philanthropists, who, convinced of the inadequacy of the^^ moral and/political State of Ireland to produce, Benefits which arp';nevertheless"attainable,' are -\tilling to 'unite to accomplish its .Regeneration;''—was recently, discovered in London) and has now beeri'sold^to a London collector. Only two-other copies are known ;to exist, because the pamplets were ordered to be destroyed by the. Government.