The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Authors Works
And Their Ways

AIlu 1llCII w dyO
Blasco Ibanez's novel Tho
Shadow of the Cathedral" has been
turned into the Ebretto OF an opera
by two French authors, Lena and
Henry Ferrare, and set to music by
Georges Hue. A Partisan critic,
Pierre Lalo, writing in lie Temps
recently after its initial perform
ance, spoke highly of both libretto
and music, saying of tie latter that
it is "a composition of very serious
| value"
Linda Lee, Inc.," Louis Joseph
yance's new novel, which the Dut-
tons announce for April publication.
| Is tale Of the movies, wherein the
author writes of Hollywood, the
famous movie city of southern Cali
fornia, OF the stars and the lesser
lights who congregate there at work !.
end at play, of the making of pic
lures and of the stratagems and
spoils of producers and their back
ers. But the action begins in New
y ork with the disillusions and un-
happiness of a young married
woman, who fees her life and her
i. husband and by a series of chance
events lands in Hollywood, to be-
come Linda Lee, Inc.
; II. G. Wells's novel The War in
> the Air" with its illustrations by
Erie Pape, has been reissued by
l the Macmillan Company, and in the
: authors preface to this new edition
: he says. 1.-The War in the Air,
3 was written in 1907. This was be-
: fore the days of the flying machine;
g Bleriot did not cross the Channel
e until July, 1909, and the Zeppelin
e airship was still in its infancy.
o The reader will find it amusing now
y to compare the guesses and notions
d Of the author with the achieved
5 realities of to-day. But after all
q that has happened since this fam
If tasia of possibility was written |
ID do not think that there is much
u. wrong with its thesis. War in the
n air means social destruction instead
a. OF victory as the end of war"
Ia Some time hope to write Re.
% markable Characters of the Persian
m Cult" says S. b. H. Hurst, the
no sailor-author of "Coomer Ali.
However, | dare not call it any
thing but fiction, although nearly
re everything l write has basis o.
ST fact and my own experience. Would
Nv You say that the one eyed African
of lied to me when he told me in kisn
Sc that there is hidden, perfect pear
nd as large as a mans head? He wa
ad known as the Admiral because h
ry had been the boss OF a gang o
lat pirates who robbed the pearl fish
by ers." Mr.. Hurst is at work on
lal second novel, which Harper's vii
= ublish.
aid
MS The announcement that sti
we other diaries from the pen of Mari
le.' Bashkirtseff have been discoyere
de- since the death year ago of he
ty, mother has called renewed after
the ton to the extended view of he
yn. inner life which the public hf
re- known for so long in the diari,
Fal- translated by Mary J. Serrano al
published by +. p. Datton & c
The buttons say that the steat
ief' sale of this book shows an unaba
Jef- ing general interest in Mile. Bas
ne kirtseff and her life and writing
az The Valley of Warm Springs
Aih' the Virginia mountains has be-
~. the scene from which a great de
iii' Of the literary history OF this cou
try has emanated. Thomas Jefft
'o' son in the olden days said that &
mint that grew along its streaI
' cnuld not he e0uaied in aDy ma