AustLit

A First Novel. News has been received from London of the publishing of a first novel of a Melbourne girl. Under the pen name of Anne Praize, Miss Dorothy Blewett of this city has written a novel highly praised by a publisher's reader in London, who predicts that Anne Praize is an authoress with an assured future. Educated in Melbourne at the Methodist Ladies' College, Miss Blewett was in her Iast year of school life editress of the school magazine. She has called her book "Vision," and it is described as a book truthfully representing the freedom and space of Australia. For some time past people have been asking with emphasis when is there to appear the hitherto unwritten Australian masterpiece. Perhaps "Vision" may prove the answer to this question.