JOTTINGS FROM HERE AND THERE

Shannon News, 30 July 1929, Page 4

JOTTINGS FROM HERE AND THERE

Madame Sarojini Naidu, the Indian poet and politician, who has been lecturing in the United States, has sailed for Europe. She will later visit England. While on MS recent visit to the Island' of Brioni, in the Adriatic, Mr Bernard Shaw drove round the island and visited the Roman ruins with Mr Gene Tunney, a fellow-visitor. Mr B. L. Jaeot, whose novel "Trust Wesley!" has just bean published,, is well known as a . Rugby footballer. While at Oxford he was once selected to play in the same match for both the English and French teams. A monument to Rupert, Brooke is to be erected on the Island of Skyros, where he is buried.' A' committee is also arranging for a volume of "International Home," and for the French and Arabic translations of his poems. Mrs. M&ud Diver, who has written a new novel, "A Wild Bird," has spent most''of her life in India, where her father was Resident in a small native state in the Himalayas. She new lives on the Dorset coast. "Lorna Doome's Church" at Oare Somerset, which has been without a parson for nearly six months now, has a new rector. Culbone Church, which goes with Oare, is said to be the smallest church in England. It seats only 24 people.