LITERARY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 19

LITERARY NOTES

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

■' A good copy of the fourth folio Shakespeare, formerly belonging to the late Viscount Dillon, has been sold in London.for £220. ... >;' : Professor Julian S. Huxley succeeds Sir J. Arthur Thomson as science editor of the Home University Library. While copies of Reiriarque's "All Quiet on. the' Western Front" are being burnt in Germany, it is issued in a half-crown edition by Putnam in England. "I am a professional writer and, like most of that ilk, live mainly on hope," ,a; frije-lrnie-e journalist, summoned for non-payment of 'rates at Southeud (England), 'told the Magistrate. British papers report.-the death, two ! days after her sixty-fifth'birthday, of I Miss Hilda Caroline Gregg, who wrote many excellent novels under her penname of "Sydney C. Grier." "Skerryvore," the • house in Alum Chine Road, Bournemouth, where R. L. Stevenson lived, has been made into a private hotel. It was there that. R.L.S. wrote "Treasure Island" and "A Child's Garden of Verses." ;-^lri-.*Eogan'-^Pea^ latest book has the title, ;pf "Oil Reading Shakespeare," was born in Philadelphia and educated.:at : Harvard ..and Oxford. He was a" member of the "pronunciation committee-, ; appointed by the 8.8.C. a few year: ago. He is sixty-eight' year's old. Budapest's - annual*' - Book ■ Week, which was begun someyears ago to help needy Hungarian authors,..was held, :a fortnight ago.-: Overa hundred coloured tents,were erected in the main streets, and prominent authors sat inside and , autographed* <?opies of their works as they were bought. A new life of Henry Fielding, laying emphasis on the fact that the author of "Tom Jones" was an eminent lawyer and Magistrate .as well as a great novelist, has been published p by Allen and TJnwin. 'The.author, Mr.-JS. Maelor Jones, traces Fielding's share in the reforms in criminal law arid administration effected between 1751 and 1755 and in the establishment of an efficient detective, force. Although- the. Australian Prime Minister .(.Mr. Ly.ona)..has not indicated that ho has reached'any decision the desire has been expressed in London that the bas-relief portrait of Adam Lindsay Gordon, the Australian poet, .which it is proposed, to place in Westminster Abbey, should be executed., by Lady Hilton Young, who before -her marriage to Sir Edward Hilton. Young, M.P., was the widow of Captain R. F. Scott, the Antarctic ,explorer, Lady Hilton Young has executed numerous public monuments in Great Britain as well as portraits in sculpture of the Marquis of Reading, the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Baldwin, Mr, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, and others. An interesting feature of "The Early Years of Modern Civil Engineering," by Messrs. R. S. Kirby and_ P. G. Lauriston, is the record it gives of first uses or discoveries and original enterprises. For instance, it is recorded that Petersburg ' (now Leningrad) in 1836 had the first wood-block pavement; Inverness hi 1866 the first concrete pavement (Napoleon 111 approved of macadam as a pavement for Paris because it would not make good barricades); that the steam roller originated in Bordeaux in. 1859; that the first cast-iron water pipes were made in 1655 to gratify Louis XlVs vanity with fountains at Versailles; that South Carolina had the first long canal in America, the Santee' Canal, finished 1800, abandoned 1850. Tlir same State had tho first railroad built for steam locomotives. It links Charleston to Hamburg, was built 1830-34, and is 136 miles long. The line was one of the few built within the estimate. The engine ran daily at 4.30 p.m., and at other times "by arrangement"; and a wood fire blazed on a truck iv front of it, the first known headlight.