PUBLISHERS RAIDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 2

PUBLISHERS RAIDED

POLICE SEIZE NOVEL AND POEMS ' AUTHOR'S FIRST WORK The action of the police in seizing copies of a first novel from publishing premises in Bloomsbury, London, has been followed by a further official attack, the second within a few months, on the writings of Mr. D. H. Lawrence. * His literary agents in Ixmdon, Messrs. Curtis Brown, of Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, were informed by Scotland Yard that the manuscript of Mr. D. H. Lawrence’s poems, “Pansies/* had been intercepted in the post and was in the possession o i the police. The poems were posted by Mr. Lawrence from Florence to Messrs. Curtis Brown. First news that the manuscript had been dispatched by Mr. Lawrence reached his agents through the action of the police. A member of Messrs. Curtis Brown said that the packet in which the poems were posted was one of thousands which were sent to his firm in the ordinary course of business. The author has been communicated with, and it is understood that he has authorised steps to be taken on his behalf for recovery of the manuscript. Recently steps were taken to prevent circulation in this country of his new novel, “Lady Chatterley's Lover,” which was printed in a limited edition and circulated from Florence. Mr. Lawrence is travelling in Frafl'*. Her First Work The novel confiscated by the police in Bloomsbury was “The Sleeveless Errand,” a first novel by Miss Norah C. James. Police took charge oL about 2so copies under a search warrant issued by the magistrate at Bow Street Mr. Eric Partridge, the manager of the Scholartis Press, said it was the first novel his company had decided to publish and the first book written by Miss James. Miss James is employed on the advertising and publicity side of a wellknown London publishing house. She stated in an interview that “The Sleeveless Errand” was a “postwar psychological study illustrating the effect the war had bad upon the war generation.*’