Of Books And Writers
S. ELIOT, poet and essayist,
T. wrote a play called Murder
in the Cathedral, for the Festival of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, and which was per- formed two years ago at the ser- Vice of tribute to the arts and z
crafts. His play is still running.
The play for this year's Festi- val was written by Dorothy Say- ers, whose last detective story. Busman's Honeymoon, is selling - in healthy thousands Her play is called The Zeal of Thy House, and deals with the burning of the Choir of Canterbury in 1174 and its rebuilding.
*
HE £1,000 prize offered by Messrs. Hodder and Stough-
THE
school. Her book, called 4 Stron ger and a Sojourner, has for background the Derbyshire moors, and will be published towards the end of the year.
Over 8,000 enquiries were re- ceived about the competition, and
three were entries from univer- sity dons and school teachers from all over Britain and many parts of the Dominions.
THE National Library for the
Blind has started on a five year job turning Gibben's Decline and Fall, complete with Bury's notes, into Braille.
HREE years ago Ruth Feiner,
ton for the best novel submitted refugee from Germany,
to them by a school teacher has. been awarded to Miss Nora K. Smith. head-mistress of the girls" section of a Manchester
arrived in London with few word- ly goods, but the manuscript of a novel in her possession. She man-
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Nearly 10,000 copies were sold in England and more in America: where MGM bought the film rights. Her second book, Fires in May, appeared last year. Her third, Sunset at Noon, ed last month
BRUSH UP YOUR WITS
Private Wire
A state of
exists between
elstei
and Depravia Schw publish- *as
who is engaged in manip
* The setting is the world of journalism and films in post-War Vienna, and tells of a girl who tries to make a career for her- self without money or influential assistance. Four film companies have already made offers for the screen rights.
Miss Feiner has been working on this novel for eight years. She put it aside to write Cat Across the Path, then a fortune-teller ad- vised her to make her second book the third, so she put it aside again and wrote Fires in May
A report in an American make
zine that Margaret Mitchell was writing a sequel to her amaz- ing best-seller, Gone With the Wind, involved her in such a spate of letters and telegrams that she had to publish denial of the re- port.
Whether she writes a sequel or not, her first book has roused such excessive attentions from the more hysterical among its admir- ers that she had to move to a friend's house to escape the visits of enthusiastic strangers to her home. As her coloured maid is reported to have said: ***Miss Peggy she done gone_aw wit de wind herself."
13 value of the Hawthornden Prize is only £100, but it is the most coveted of literary hon- ours. This year's winner is 'Miss Ruth Pitter. Her book of poems, A Trophy of Arms, is published by the Cresset Press. Her work, exquisitely fastidious, classically temperate, individual in experi- ence, has been highly praised by a few critics, but is little known to the public.
She has never courted publicity and is a partner in a Chelsea arts and crafts business. Her poetry, she says, has never before brought her more than
year.
LEMONS
Big, big lemons, hanging on the
lemon tree,
People admire them, and think
they look fine. ***
Oh, how I hate them! If only they
were oranges, **
Golden, juicy, and MINE!
Dad likes lemons, cos he's very
fond of marmalade,
Sis Jikes lemons, 'cos they help
her to slim,
Tom likes lemons, cos he makes
them into lemon drinks, Lots of lemons for him!
Mum likes lemons, cos she makes
them into pies and things, Gran likes lemons stead of milk
in her tea
HATE lemons, cos I have them
when I'm bilous, so
-
tion of Depraviage
XIOUS
stock, is an- know whether
war is likely to be declared. His agent in Floozleville, the capital of Depravia sends him the following wire: RIZY MTBV BYJWY LIV
-VGTZ BRIGS MGS LIMPR BIY LIPDI MCCTPYB RV
BYWYG VFR VN YPEIR GVJ HYBBMEY MERIYGRPD-
PRZ DMG DTMPH LIPDI SVYB GVR UYMJ RIY
"HVGXYZ CFKKTYP’B
This is followed 24 hours later by another
BLHRU MCATM VLMJY FPJGP RMMBB SXTRD .DEPYY, TTMYM BDZUY JYGYT YIBPI VGMQL. TMMRT JCMPB FIZYY
CMMY MSDHB ZFIBR -RVJBD RCVBG YLMCV SLXMM JYVMM YSPPV NZJZZ RMNOO Is it peace or war2
The Engine Driver
A train is controlled by engine-driver, a fireman, and guard, whose names are Brown, Jones, and Robinson, not respec tively,
On the train are three passen- gers. Mr. Jones, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Brown.
Mr. Robinson lives at Leeds. The guard Hives half-way be- tween Leeds and London.
Mr. Jones's income is £400 2s. id. per annua
The guard earns in a year ex- actly one-third of the income of the nearest neighbour, who passenger.
The guard's namesake lives London
Brown beat the fireman billiards.
What is the name of the engine- driver?
Solution to "Brush
Up Your Wits'
1.-Private Wire·
This is an ordinary substitution cipher plus an exercise în selec- tion The agent's doggerdis very quickly read
"They also serve who only stand ́and wait..
The which applies to seven out of eight.
Nor message authenticity can claim
Which does not bear the monkey- puzzlers name?
Interpreting this verse one de- duces that every eighth letter will be utilised. Also we must look for "monkey puzzler (arancaria, not aracaria). Eighth letters in the second message give the follow- ing series of sentences.
(1) This is only a spoof" (2) "War declared, to day." (3) Morkey expects (4) Twill be war monkey. (5) "Battleships ready?” (6) Aracaria says wail" 67) "PEACE OK - ARAU...
CARTA**
(8) Just another spoot" Hence the answer is PEACE.
I think I will poison that free! 2The Engine Driver
-M. AUSTIN.
Brown is the engine-driver