LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 17

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Dr. Jung, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst, has been awarded a ■ literary prize of 8000 gold francs - (about' £320 at: par) offered by.'the town of Zurich.

. Th^ death, is announced of Dame Elizabeth' "Wordsworth., .'■ who was a •grand-niece of the J?oet. /She was the first"5 principal of Lajy Margaret Hall, Oxford. Sho was in her 93rd year.

A mobile lending library has been started at Leigh, : on-Sea, England, books b.eiag>l.enti • at; 2dt a week; yAV small car call 3. /at,.'' private ■ houses, once; a; week with a selection of books. *'>'•.

:'. ; v The Goncouit Prize,,<jn.e of the most coveted ' French' literary awards, has been given'to'M. Guy Mazeline for his 'novel, "Lea Loups." Another popular- prize, tlie Femina, went to M. Kanion Fernandez'sV'.'-Pari'v' ' '

' ■-. A^inask,ed;: burglar who Sroke into a housrin'&aSgo'w anS-H^ia^np""two women observed on; the wall a'picturo of Bernard Sha-sf.' He-tied the women to chairs, and tjien^talked to. them; about Shaw-plays while5 his •companion robbed the-hou^e. ; . .

•: "Mother and Babe,: an Anthology for ii'qthers," is|the title of a book comphedby Lady Clementine, Waringi It will be dedicated'-by permission to H.M. Queen- Mary, and published for the benefit of the Scottish: Children's League of Pity. ~ ■ ■

M. de Beaumarchais, the Ambassador in ,Epm«, who died recently, was a great-grandson. of tfio Beaumarchais who wrote " The Barber of Seville" and '"The'1. Marriage of Figaro' '-—after Molier^ probably: the greatest French- comic dramatist. '

\' The .total number of looks- published ■in--England during 1932 up to. the end of r; November was": 14,269,- of; which 4169 ~w.ere new editions. "4477 novels have appeared, 2534 of them seeing the light of .day for the first time.

Mr. .H v <3v.Wells, .who recently returned to England from the South-of Prance, is to write the "book" of ;a musical show. Mr. Low, the .famous ex-New Zeaiand 'cartoonist,' will coli'laborate with1 Mr. "Wells,-designing the settings for the. production-.

> An original copy of William Blake's "Songs of [Innocence," with, colour plates, pne'of which is the only example in the world,: has-been presented to the British" Museum. The'aonor is Miss E. J. Carey, and it was given to her.greatgrandfather by Blake' himself.

'•• Mr. Aldous. Huxley, author of "Brave New World," the importation into Australia of which has been forbidden on the'ground of indecency, by the Commonwealth Customs department, is in bed with, influenza, and.ho is unable .toy comment on the action of the department. The Irish. Free State has already, banned the book. The Alexandria Book Club in Egypt recently burnt a copy of-; "Point- Counter •Poizit,'M an earlier novei by Mr. Huxley- ~■-.'■.: : .

■The author of "Datas, the M«mory Man," just: published, is one of the marvels of the worlds-music-halls. He attributes his astonishing memory to the; .weight of his brain. Twenty-eight year's ago medical men showed, great interest in him, arid, four American physicians who made a special examination found that hie had ''the heaviest brain of. any man in the world." "They measured and weighed it by: various calculations," he writes, "and informea me that my brain weighed 69 ounces, and that the heaviest brain before ,me; was that of' Couvier, .which weighed-"67 dunces, against that of Napoleon, whieln weighed 664 'ounces. I did not tell: them, that... the. brain of Charlea Peace, one of tho most infamous criminals of-'all-time, weighed 66 ounces." "Datas" sold his head (for post-mortem' delivery) to ' the four American doctors for £2000, but the doctors have; died before hini, so that he is apparently at liberty to sell his head again. ! /■■'•.•. ■ ' , '