The autobiography of Sir fiom Bench Thomas, the wollknown author and war corresponent, is on the way, It is expected that the book will contain some interesting: things about Lord North-diffe and the methods of the North-diffe Press.
The "Dublin Evening Post" has instituted a competition for an Trish National Anthem. Mr. W.
Yeats, Mr. James Stephens, and Mr. Lennox Robinson will act as Judges.
One of the strange things about Mr. Joseph Conard's literary career was that his books had to be trans-ated into his native language. The same thing has happened in the ease of Rabindranath Tagore. tne Kirin Couxrey.
Thurston, Hopkins. (Pa Lovers of Sussex and lovers of Kipling will alike want to possess delightful. book, R. Thurston Hopkins has collected Jan amazing amount of fascinating information bearing upon the localities described in certain of the Kipling books and poems. True, there may be carping readers who have no wish to see the "wheels. go round," and prefer to know only Jas much as the Master tells them. But they need not read "The Kipling Country." Tt will find many admir~ ers who will turn with enthusiasm from the stories themselves to this key, absorbing at the same time much that is worth knowing about the history of Sussex and. the character of its people. Mr. Thurston Hopkins, who founded the Society of Sussex Downsmen, has been fortunate in his illustrators, Captain Irvine B, Bately and Mr, Gordon Volk have done their work Joon amore. Lastly a word must be said for the excellent glossary gf Sussex provincialisms, William Cowper's famous poem on John Gilpin has low been translated into French by Mrs. Gutch, who will be remembered ax the
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