LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 22

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

During March 17,770 volumes in Braille type were issued by tho National Library for the Blind—a. record, circulation, 7 .-,,.. On his return from hi? world tour, Mr. Bernard Shaw revealed that be has written a new play. "At least," he said, "I havo Written enough for six plays.'-' , - ... Tho story of tlio Cairiadian- Mounted Police, based on reports, letters, aud personal reminiscences by the men themselves has been wiittcn by T. .Morris Longstrctji, under tho title, "In Scarlet aud Plain Clothes." Mrs. Gertrude de S. WentworthJjinies, a novelist well known to the older generation of readers, died in London lcceiitly at the age of 56. Sho wroto about forty' romantic novels, some of which u.rc in pre-war days considered daring. Mr. William Booscy, the music publisher, whose death at-the age of 09 is announced, wrote an interesting autobiography called "Fifty Tears, of Music." In it he said that his firm aequirfcd the rights of. 'Gounod's "Faust" for €100—and had great difficulty in- getting it produced- iv London! . » • Willi the seventh volirtno, devoted t<\ Australia and'New.Zealand, which the* Cambridge University Tress" is about to publish, the 'gerieral editors of "The Cambridge History of tho'.British Empire'" reach the'middle of-'their task. The next two volumes, both of which are in." preparation, will tr.*?c'o "Tiro Growth of tlic New Empire, 1783-1870,"' and the separate .history ,of' "South Africa."

M. Paul Moiand's book of-travel impicasuns tiom South America, the fruits of hip, aeroplane flight from* Buenos Aires dvei the eight lepublics,' entitled "Indian Air," has just been published. Translated by Mr. Desmond Flower, it presents the picture of the New World as the author suivcycd it fiom above, tracing its evolution from the prehistoric Indian through the Irffca civilisation'and the Spanish conquest to the present day. The, Chinese municipality of Shanghai has forbidden'production of ' Mrs. Pcail Buck's Pulitzer Prize novel, "The Good Earsh," fw a Chinese motion pic: tine (says the correspondent, of the "Christian Science Monitor")* ' Wprk had already been* started on tho'film -by a Chinese company." The novel, despito high praise by foreign'critic, as a classic of Chinese peasant life, has been condemned, by sensitive members of the Qhinose intelligentsia fr» a reflection upon their country.: Apparently- they feel, that Mr*. Buck .should havo' porr frayed members of a higher social, class in her novel, to draw'a true picture of Chiua, although sho has replied that it was: not within the scope of her purpose tp .portray. any .but the peasant classes with whom sho has had intimate sympathetic contact. _