LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 22

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AiNfD, AUTHORS

P. C. Wren, of "Beau Geste" fame, has written yet another Foreign Legion story. It is published with the title "Valiant Dust." Certain of the people in the earlier books are found again iv this.

A "Manchester Guardian" reviewer wonders why so many novelists think a clear-cut ending inartistic. It seems tho fashion now to close with some figure walking out into the night or the sunset, or cternitv.

Mr. St. John Philby, u-ho will publish a book dealing with his adventures in Arabia, crossed the grim Eub-al-Khali- desert from east to west, while Mr. Bertram Thomas, author of "Arabia Felix," crossed'it from south to north.

Miss Susan Ertz, whose sixth novel, The Galasy," ranked her as one of the most successful contemporary women novelists, has married Major J Ronald McCrindle, who retired from" the Eoyal Air Force in 1922, and now practises at the Bar.

: _ The cottage at Sompting, near Worthing, where Edward John Trelawnv spent his later years, has just been auctioned for £1800.' Treliwny, tne former friend of Byron and Shelley, was particularly proud of the cottage garden, where he succeeded in growing

Mr Lennox Kerr, author of "Baekdeor Guest," the stray of his adventures a s a « hobo ,, j/ AMer s ic^ v h e» written a novel called "Glen Shiels." It is a study of a working-class f am iiy in a Scottish town. After an adventurous life spent in many countries, Mr Hf 6,^ if 4, n°n set«od *»™ in tho beautiful little Cornish fishing village of Lamorna, arid is married to a daughter ot Mr. Lamorna Birch, the artist

, SS «mlora Klickmann's popular novel, "The Carillon of Scarpa?" 1 will shortly be published in a Swedish, translation. Miss_ Klickmann has a previous connection with Sweden, as she edited the English editions of the two flower garden books by the late- Crown i-rmcess of Sweden, Princess Margaret of Connaught.

•r?^ Sv?f.- Hedin's new travel book will be published under the'title" "Jehol, City of Temples." It contains the record of the author's cxpodition to the summer residence of the Manchu Emperors in order to secure the replicas of a Lama temple destined for Chicago and Stockholm. Included in the narrative is an account of Imperial life m China during the eighteenth, ceuryLlllustrate(l with- documents from the Manchu archives now translated for the first time. Among those is tho description of Lord MaeartDoy's Embassy

i f T,\ £ s il 1 "Yugoslavic Popular Balrpf'f Pr Dra Sutin Subotio tells of the retentive memories of the old bards Who sang of horoes:_lt has been cred ibly recorded that- a Serbian peasant, who ITas a Parliamentary Deputy, wa ahV2 n recito in disyllabic lines on the BUI for introducing the fresh monetary system into Serbfa.-. . Meh mcd Kolakovie, if he heard a son? no matter what its length, -accompanied by the sound of the tambura remembered it after hearing it but once.