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A' iZLSECTlON THREE THE FORT WAYNE JOURNALrGAZETTE UrlDAY MOBNINQ, OCToBlA 14, 1MX "Word are thing; and a mall drop ot Ink, (ailing like dew upon a thought, product that which makes thousand $, ptrhap million, think." Byron, AMONG THE BOOK EDITED OT CLAUDE G. DOWERS A. "Alt round the room mytlUnt eervant watt my In every eeason, bright and dim, angelt and Proctor Victoria Sackvillc Wcst's "Grey Wclhcrs" (George It. Dorn fcmpiwi Audacious 'Undertaking Although Victoria packvllle Weet 4a written a numbr ot novels of a high order ot ex CeUenee, denoting extraordinary capacity. It wa.

not Until ah had writ tn "Challenge" JJhat aha bataa.ta attract th atten of Americans. That whetied Jiur appstlt. for mora. In "Gray Wether, Inst published, ha Vlven Ma a romantic novel ef grip Sing Interest, bollt around two ex araordtnery eetore, and with a emlqu plot, laid In that aactlon of Id England which la redolent ot tha jjrulda. aatnratad with superstitions aactlon lonely with tha allanra pf tha Down.

Tha' plot la elmple, th action la (light, tha dlaloguo In vjoneequeptia). th aatorg few, but Mw atory faeclnetee from tha movant wataxa pannlttad to Join th old nn In front of th "Wagon of Hey." and to aana aoraathlng ot th tra mtlona, th auperatltlona. of th tlrb community. Tha author poV kesees tb genius ot Hltchana In th Writing of a great eubjeetlv novel, and ta th art ot eteeplpg har atory la atmosphere. In th "Garden of Allah" thar ar two oharaotar tha ther ar Incidental Jn "Gray iWetbere" wa hay two character and whU thr ar thr or tour other who help to underetand tha wo, the carry th plot.

Nona but a paychologlat would dara under take what Victoria SeokvUle Weet 'baa dona, Tha Downa, remote from ettlea, ram retnot from th prent age In aplrlt. with the brooding memoriae that oome from th aaoiiflclal etonaaof th Drulda: tha bumble community andth drab, ourlou goaalpy vll lag, and the myatertoua houae which eonceala th tragedy ot A Vmaa fcy the Dawn Loral. Thl th anting. They once burned wltche. In that section.

and the almpla minded had Inherited their auperatltlona honeatly The gossip, at the "Waron of Hay" had It that th grandmother of "Gypsy" Lovel had been a witch and had paid the penalty, and that ao carefully burled In the myaterloue bona that never welcomed a vteltor, had uncanny knd unearthly powera. Thar waa a brother, too ouppoe edty half witted, who waa ahunned, and deaplaed and feared becauaa of the feeling that could do Strang thing. And "Qypsv," a Jack of an traaes, wno could mo nothing; dark, handsom. reaerved to the point of mystery, who wandered over the Downa an enigma. Th farmers' glrla and the girls' of the village found him attractlra, but mad no sign.

Kear by, at Manor Houae, dwelt Mr. Warrender, an old man, com ptat1y obeaaed with, hta atudlea. Vivid and a daughter Cheraetera Clare, a whole a out of doora girl, poaaeaalng i certain wild beauty, and a keen In telllgence, who had been permitted to grow up much after her own cholde. And not far away, the only other representative of the gentry, Richard Calladlne, over refined, brooding foolishly for yeara over a lilting of hla youth. None of three had aught In common with the vil lager or th farmers to whom they apoke kindly and passed on.

But between Clar and "Gypsy Lovsl there waa a tie, atrange, Incomprehensible, born perhapa ot a common love of tha Downs, a common appreciation of the brooding memories of th Past a common pasaloA for freedom. Th plot deale with the strange wooing of Clare by th atranger Calladlne, and their even strange marriage, and th final escape of Mrs. Calladlne to Lovel th wild lit ot th But th plot la aa almple Edith "A Son at the'Front" (Charle Scrlbner'e Hone) Th appearance of a new novl from Edith 'Wharton has com to an event ot flret Importance In lit A Mild Pretaet eratura, even aa It waa true of hire. Ward's novela In (hej England ot yeateeday whtoh bow mi aa remote: Her perfect mastery of her arf her exteeordl kni in tha develonment and internretatlon of, charaoter, ber rar comprehension ot the human heart, her fidelity to nature In ber Slota, and tha sheer beauty of ber owing sentences, set her apart as one of th greatest of the maatara "When th publishers announced the "book before ua "A Bon at tha "rront. fancy that ther waa a general spirit ot revolt among Mrs.

Wharton's admirers. Another war story I Why persist thus In keeping alive th memory of the horrors, (the Buttering, th dad Ideals killed by 'the snipers after th armistice, 'th prejudices, passions, hates Be bause thl thought waa uppermost In tha minds of many, prefer to deal with this phase before taking tip th plot and th treatment. 'In one sense, then. It Is apt a war story. witness no battlss, aa maimI aaa anv marahlng msn.

and If ar shown th mlserlss ot vtha hospitals, and hear afar the marina the CUDS all this Is but part ot th background of a drama rar xrom vn hhuin. awa has to da with tha plots and plans of people to ears their children seam tha trenahea and th battle waid. Is la not a tale of soldiers. but Of th etay at home. Tb Pari, which are Introduced la th am cnarming aria oi hoceechewtnute that know, but It IS somouiina trlaaaa of tha character Indicated.

However It 1 abeer nonsenae to taelat that tha objectionable tea tares of a war story ar all absent. AMtn an hav th German, as and beasts, and the tvM.1, na a lnta ana aufferera fi virtue sake. Mr. Wharton 'U eaativ rtneh. and shs saturated herself la war daya with this kind if propaganda.

Wa might forgive hr thfs. but for ths fact that she i iDsoomes a little Indeoent In her tanner and flings at America. Of aairra exsatrlatea. like Mrs. Whar "ton.

having no use for America, innitna thamflelvee Of tOO fine YlSer to lit our life, and dwelling 3a Paris and In Europs generally, felt that should have plunged data tha war th moment that Vranee called. Because tried to ieep out of the atruggle, and save jour own sons, from butchery, and jour own land from' misery, these offensive expatriates In and London were terribly hu TOlliatad at our "disgrace "Our country," they whined. Why, bleee their hypocritical hearts, this Is not their country at all certainly jiot Airs. Wharton's. And we ehould have, thought batter th atory It Airs.

Wharton had spared us th 'Whimpering, th whining of thess nelt exlled snobs and hypocrites, nd their sneers at thyAmsrlcan president because ot hla attempt to ifceep ua out of war. In truth moat ef the characters In "A Son at ths ront," practically all, even the Miss Anthonys, ar a little disgust lng In this regard. But to the story! In the days ot Shs poverty stricken youth. John I Campion, air Amer I lean portrait paint Two Fathers it, married to aa empty headed woman, and having 'a child, had domeetlo infelicities re. 'raiting In a divorce.

Th erstwhile ovlf married Anderson Brant, a aVranco Amerlcan banker ot great wealth, and because of epoverty, the child waa educated, jnd scared for through childhood by the Step father, Late in life, but a little 'while befor the v.ar, campton had jhls triumph, and a ''Campton't be aiame an acquisition, sought by all ths (prosperous. The son, having gradu atsd from Harvard, Is planning some Him with his father, and the painter, Jwbose one great passion, aside from ihls art, waa for this child, has ar rangementa made for a trip 1th him to th South. The boy readies Paris In the midst ot the crisis preceding the formal declarations ot war, Ths la seething with escltemonl but vCamptea r4uai did. aloof an The Call from Beyend Convention American In xll, not concerned Then the moblllsiatlon. And the die oovery thst the son, having bsen ao cidentallr born In Prance, ie subiect French milltsry ssrvice.

(What, a butrld. lndafenalbla. aalnlnn lawil Thereafter the Brants and Campton ar drawn toaether as naver before I by a common impulse to sa thai boy xrom the trenchea. Brant, being a great banker, has relations with polltlclsns, ststesmsn, officers, and la in a better poeltlon than the painter, to exert the Influence required for aecnrlnr a clerical aealgnrnent far from the front for th youth. Thla is a blttar pill for th real fatherthat the atep father can the bettoi serve.

The poeltlon Is found, and for a tlms all three In Psrts are happy. Day by aay they meet others v. hose sons hav fallen, and they begin to feel some shame. Other American youths. soo gooa for tnsir own country, and dwelling In Paris, are entering the war too noble these little children ot th Idle rich for th degraded pol loy of such dlsgrsceful Americana aa Wilson Ana in urn tn son, rssort Ing to deception and aubtarfuge, haa hlmaelt tranaferred to the lighting lln.

Thr Is horribly wounded. Th consummate art with vhlchMrs. Wharton snters Into th mli.d and heart processes ot thees two fathers, ths real and the acqulrsd, not aurpaeeod by anything aha ha 9 done. The drama at th hoapltal, the insanely Jealoue roeentment of Campton becauaa Brant not only 'can do ao much more but does It ao much more generoualy, the almoat feminine tact and underatanding aof the banker this Is splendid. The son recovers sufficiently to be movd to Parta, and ther for a year he lingers, "doing bis bit" In ths war A Pitiful Pan' office, pursuing his flirtation with Mrs.

Talkett, a married woman, who Is willing so do every thing hut the courax eous thing of a uivurcv, inu lunging an eretly for the trenches again. The utter depravity of the tmpulee to keep the sons from th front is shown her In th willingness to en course th relations of the son, and ths marrlsd woman tn the hope of thua holding him tn Paris. Ths war had by thla time paaaad the period of hyaterla and exaltation. It had be rom drib and awfuL And tha Parla we have ptvaentsd Is that Jn which th poeeurs grow tlrsd or. posing, the philanthropists nd war worksrs begin to steal, and society ladles re.

turn to their teae and dances, covering them with a patriotic pretense, A pltKufjrarla filled with thess people still aahamad of Amerlcal And the reporta come day by day ot the slaughter of thla young boy and that and th cruel unmarried women con verted Into war hounds grow ecetatlc over each burial, ana iook venojnoue IV on all the boys ho hav escaped th sod Then a new phase of the Mrs. Tajkettaffalr and the eon la oft for th front again. This tlm Is Hilled, in me end campti There ar numerous featurea of tha atory we reeent the auperclllou un Amerlcsnlsm of these self. exiled An Indictment snobs! the bitter Of VVer touches tsndlng to Keep a nve hatreds of thewari but these are only Incidental, and ther ia real valu In th vivid pie tur Mr. Wharton haa mode of folka at home.

If It was hef Intent, and It was probably not, to maka theee parents aeeklng ao pitifully ti aava their children. altogether con lemptlble aha haa failed. She haa made them Ineffably pathetic, be cauae altogether natural And ahe haa gone deep into the effect of war on the minds and morale of thoae vho do hot tight. And 'ah has pictured sr with It heartaches, ita inultlnlving tragedies. Its poses, Its hypoorlslee in such a fashion that no ons thus reminded ot Its horrors, csn lightly accept the scoffing at ths attempt to find a way out of these slaughter pens.

But the genius in this story is to be found in th brilliant charsctsr studlss, th heart searchlngs, th mind unveil Ings, of the men and woman who play their part. No living novellat It. la at a tlm honored rustlo an nual fleatrvtty, th eednrlng. that we Introduced to Calladlne. Clare had ridden out upon th Down to look upon th games and flirta tion ot Ih youth of th nelghor hood, rather regretting ber Inability to participate, when Calladln rod up and Ineleted on taking her away.

Even her not th Irreconcilable claahlng of their temperament he a acholarly recluse, conventional, and ahe aa much of th out of doors as th sky and sea, and caring little for the conventions Into a peg or two th guthor suggssts thetr Inrompata blllty, A little later eh makes a caTT at his home cognisant of his timid "thought, mildly rebellious. Her th picture ef Calladlne Is comp1sted a weak, scholarly man, deservedly Jilted hy a girl whose memory and hardness he hae hugged to his bresst through all the years Here, too, Clsre grows clearer In her comments, her outlook on his mannsr of living. Ther wss no garden, no flowers, for this man' of the closet shut himself In from tha Downa ahe loved. Calladlne atands out under the pen of the author graphically a living sspulchre. Clara and "Gypsy" rid th Downs together, unsentimental, esch hiding something from the other creatures of two distant worlds, mutuslly attracted.

Of him ahe knew not hlng except that he wss a fins dtoraeman, a lover of the Downs, and Vt the aky and the sea. Even the half wit brother told her little of the tragedy ot hla lot. No one had aeen the mother, bitter, horderlpg on Insanity, wildly cherishing her as sumsd poseeeslon of strange power, elck and bed rlddeh. quertloua, quarrelsome; nor the house, old. hsunted with sickly recollections, with Its little garden In the rear where "Oypey" spent some time, Did she think of marriage with such an enigma? Scarcely for he seemed somehow remote from all th conventions of society.

Time cam when "Oypey" clearly evaded her. Then the final tragedy, A scene In the barn on tb farm of th fathr of a buxom, sensuous. Ignorant girl who A had been consplcu A Wemsn'a oua at the festivity Wilss whence Calladlne I had drawn Clar eome tlm befor Th girl th half wit brother of Gypsy" and th event. It was not Daisy Norland's first transgression foV she had been love making at the festival and It had been enough. Infatuated with "Gypsy." shs lays her piana to trap mm jut on me uowni they meet, and she makes ber plea.

cnngingiy ana then brasenly approaching her climax with the de. mand that the "Lovel name" shall be given to her child. Ills senss of cencv. hla feeling of reeiKinsiblluy for the queer brother. Is enough he agrees to marry her.

men yeirn ao itr urged Daisy, It you find that what I'vs told you trus. you'll do Itr Ob, yes. rll marr vou. said Lovel, toneleaaly. "But 111 apeak to Oliver he added, 'and you'll sea the 'Oh, there no mistake, vau'll said Daisy, bursting into a hysterical laugh.

'And I'm not so bad a. you think me, Lovij. rm thrifty In suun, anu i mane vou a Aon wifs, and I vloved you trulyi thla long time, as well you "Tor God's sake SDnr me that ai sake spare me aald Lovel. In 'a vole or mich angulah that even Daley In the midst oi ner reuel and Jubilation ae struck silent and aahamed Few naves' In fiction mnva natfc t. lcally tragical than tha description or the wbddlng and th homegoing uf A Tremendous Ialsy, When th Seen door of the house of tnysUry closes uoon har.

it aaAma to shut out til ths sunshine, to shut in an the norrors The crude fur. nlehlng, the leering brother, the frightful old woman with her malignant cackle, "Big already, my laa. and on your wedding day And then the sad kindness of Lbvel. which cut her like a knife. And his long nours or pondering by the fire his manifest misery and finally a tremendous scene when the brother, noUng the unhapplness ot his Idolised "Gypsy," and its rsuss, attacked hef with bitter reproaches, with Its lightning like climax, "Whose fault la It, anyhow, that Nlcco had to marry mi, to save me from the ehsme his own brother brought upon me? "Tou think you can trick me tike you tricked crl.d Oliver, horrible with rege.

"Why don't you say the shame Peter Gorwyn brought on you? Tou might be a llttl nearer th "Teter They faced one another, all civilisation, gohs from them They struck blindly st Ona another, keeping nothing back. "'I saw you, oh, I saw you, the day ot the "1 lovd Nlcco. I do lov him; I had to have love him? your killing hlm. "'He couldn't have got Miss Warrender not with a brother like Do Ian't ma that keep him, from her: Us you, you, 'Msr shouted Oliver. "'Tou; did youV never think of that before? It doesn't matter another my baby Is your baby or Peter Oarw fn's baby.

If you that spoils his lite for him you and your mother, you mlschevlous dolt, and four dirty blood In blm. 'Tlen't ms. cam long after) I'm Just an extra. "Tie ou and your mothsr destroyed him, from th' day he wss And that night th baby was born. Meanwhile 'the life of the Calls dines for Clare, partly In resentment for the cutting of "Gypsy," Dssp Cslts are married.

Winto Deep ter and the wlld Downa calling Clare: the Jlreelde uoolng him. Two natures' utterly Incongruous under the same roof. Kindly dlealmhlatlon on her part, awakward attempts to be congenial on his. And dtstre lng ntwi brought in of th marriage Horace Wyndham's "The Nineteen Hundreds" (Thomas Beltser) Ther la really no occasion for ths apologetic eelf bellttllng note with which Horace Wyndham alts Abeut down to gtv us Nebedlee I a reminiscence or. memoirs, for his long and distinguished career In Jejunal Ism and as a noveHet In England oftsra far mor Justifleatloa for the task thsn csn urged by two thirds ef th men and women who ar 'flooding the world with book ot thla charaoter, And yet art glad approaches the work In this spirit for it glvee full play his fins cynicism and sarcasm.

Th tendency, at he points out. Is to glorify th wrlur by rmotIy associating htm or hsr with some titled or celebrated per eohag one, and perhapa but casually and from a diatance. Thua Mr. Wyndham announce hla pur Kae to deal with the Nobodies be a known, and he has taken a vast number ot thsm and made them Somebodies ot real lotereeU This mi nnt imDlv that he had not touched on a multitude ot figures that even the moat hopeleaa anob anmit ba aomebody But, while hla referenoea to theee Some bodies are illuminating ana cievnr, we are perauaded that the greateat charm of theae unique reminlecencee la to ba found In the chaptera dealing with the. commonplace, life of people who never arrived.

"Nothing, for example, could be more charmlna than the chapters on the "London in Nineteen Hundred" and "Vellg a i uvenlll" th latter the atory or hla atruggles when he first woopsd down on London conquer, II was but to and, rather green whan ha wrote varloua celebrities In the literary world for advice and got Stead and Max replica from And then the atory ef Mark Twain's appearance at tha Jfaeauley when he apeared as "Mr. Clamena" and difficulty was found In uncov srlng a member obocur nough to msks th presentation until, that difficulty met, ths, discovery was msde that "Clemens" wss. Mark Twain and the obaeur mmbr waa unceremoniously eicuaed. Of Oacar Wilde we hav eome entertaining etorlee. Mr, Wyndham alyly explains In Introducing his A Nsw Picture 'Wild re minis Oscar Wilds cencss that In 20 year It haa been almost Impossible tn produce such a book without giving th author's "personal recollections" of th pot "I dldoot know Wild.

he saya, ao far from regretting It, am heartily glad of th fact." It wa In the streets of London thst be tlret encountered Wild a creature described was walking along Plcadllly with a young barrlater toqualntenee. I noticed, 'aa cam to Devonahlr Houae, a curious flgurs approaching me. It waa that ot a grossly built man, dressd In tha hight ot fashion. Thus he a glossy ball shaped hat, a long, black and elaborately! cogged overcoat with astra chsn collar and cuffa. and striped trouaers and patsnt Isather boots, and carried a malacra can wtth a tssssl dangling from it In on whit gloved hand.

The face waa clean ohavou, and almoat leaden colored, with heavy pouches under th eye, and thick blubbery Una. Indeed he rather reeembled a fat whit alug; anr) vn to my untutored eye, there waa something curiously repulsive end unhealthy In hla whole appear ance. This Is followed with an lllumln atlng Incident which light on the aueer character of that egotlo genluet, and another of a strange evening with Robert Ross, Wilde's Stead and Max Pamberton. But, how fortunate thst These sketches and reminiscences he did othsrwlss should not ars noi eiaooraio in tne case or any fhor.r, Fiw eentsncir "I don't e.e "why I ehould ba both Le Gallien. ram arkably vivid.

ered to advlae sou or anyooay eiae. ana rrann name and I decline to Fa ao. Nor do I R.n.rt w.nt to raan your allty I "eime of other wMch are returned herewith." And thla mor gracious not from ruMv.rfMM I vn" n'rauir, XTana nkiTia nuiuing No neeaaalty to apologise, ior "I'" t.A,.Min. mat i nnrl It mm htvrd. now vr, have q4)U a.

lot th.idU "ZZ eriitjre myaelf that don't feel LtSUt inn! i in ntva ntkar heoole country. "Harrle. Indeed, was quite hint, on tn. subject. I have reid th TT ELZEZ XeVharbarn'1, a mpVtAl.Mf.'r holding a non stop monologue' he fo, vourself Don't be Tdlecouraged would "hav.

won It against all cpm. at' Ur.Uf'TrJ'tu.T'n mtrk" h.PP.n. to. all of ua. and Wr often V'r bdor.UmMa"'bH uhn: that he talked Principally of him graclou.

for Mr. Wyndham ids take fif fne'vlto i. I'" "etenlnr he de that le tof you to read. that Jw Mow seriously th men of th still pretty surs thst Harrla wss Nineteen Hundreds took books. Es.

Wo I preaume still Is) one himself. peclally Interesting "hd never occurred to ms to In view, of the re thlnk of among the choaen rant aeain oi, Maurice Hewlett, who waa once a atorm center, thle seen at ths Maraulay rlubi Someone had Stoutly Insisted that Hewlett's mas. terplece wss "rubbish." Thereupon Frankfort Moore, always an Inv Ona of th charms ot "Th Nine Is Its references to people, then not so well known, and now especially In the limelight. We have a glimpse of Rebecca West teen Hundreds' Rebecca Weet and Ceem Hamilton, (IVora th forthcoming "Midwest Portraits," hy narry nansen. Harcourt.

Brace A Co), Carl Sandburg Prom Harteen's "Ha stands with Midwest hi. test on th Partrglta" city's pavements; th dust swirls about him, th throng lbow him aside, th noises la th city ring tn his ears. He la on of tha throng; what they hear he what they we sees! he looks. up at th tall buildings from their vantage point; he gasee out on tha waters from tha footway ot tb brldgee: Wrs th peopl talk, th plain, direct vernacular ot a living tongue," Sherwood Anderson "So thor oughly convinced la he that the art lat mue( expreae himself that he la apt to regard technique wtth a cer tain disdain Tear, ago when he Waa mor than aver convinced that th meeeage waa greater than tb in terpreter, he a onl expreaa scorn for tecnnieai porrectton. ana on ok me favorite remark wast 'Soma day.

when the eplrlt moves me, 1 am going to that piano and play for you, and I wont nsed a knowledge ot the piano to xprees mysslf. 1 wilt play what Is in Ban Hecht At th age ef II or thereebouta, ho waa an acrobat Id Coetello'a road ahow In a Wlaconaln country town, Make of that what Willi i Inoomprhnalbla aorobatl Incomparable mountebank ot the emotional Unexplained dreamer and poet, aoorner and critic, philosopher and friend." Lew Sarett "Hs knows life; he Uvea It Intensely and wrTtee It into all hie poems, HlaJl. not a surface acquaintance with the greatest ot all adventures. His boyhood ysara were harsh; hs had to light ovary stsp of th way. Except for a crtaln sans vt direction he might have Come out uf hi.

adoleacenc a flnlahed Hal stead street tough. When he cams to write poetry he waa not a oollsg sophomore sitting down to whittle rhyme after the fashion ot th parlor poets; poetry simply wellsd' up In him and commanded him to write. Emotionally he la blood brother to tha Indian ot the north." Wallac Smith "Tall you what a girl one aald about ma" ha com. Nmented, aa he tied up hla portfolio, aaia I waa a bitter little boy making black line on white paper. Robert Herrlck and Edgar Lee Mastsrs "Both were born In the aama year 1161 and both are descended from Anglo Saxon ancestry.

Todsy Robert Herrlck Is an astabllshsd novollst from whom pi may expect matured, well wuuuwu worn duj law surprises, now? mor ths pltyt A whimsical view of hi) The shy little man invited a the pul.lv. and warm hearted champion nU of A wrUr ui nU to submit a manuscript and found promptly tha Individual put v. i. V. ting forward this vlsw that hs was talking nonsense.

Thortupon ln.t Dn a ii. s.r"" week before for someof Cheater candor lost hla. tempsr, A good many other People did the earns. Bllt raturrd the other. Partisan, sprsng up on slther elds, .1 and in a fsw mlnutss somsthlng Ilks ot UaTlng our a battle royal was raging Th We.t." leua lasiea ior uaja.

wiinine ruii Uay l00A at him a llttl that one half, ot the club waa not curloualy. on apeaklng term with th oil ui ww. nan am RebScra Waat. k. series of of Cosmo Hamilton, who has adopted thla country end lev now aa a successful novvitai.

nutn vur aumur lira dub. arriving late, v. Barrle Rebuked paper named the Sovereign. Wa are bya Porter Indebted to thla Tolume for the In mlstsks he had formation that he la the brother ot nothr Sir Philip Glbb. His sens of humor club with a similar name, to rep in ih story of his pro rlmnnded by the hall porter "for gpropo.

of the suggestion serl erlng the front door Instead of by Juely made, that of a car." the area steps." Cub autlngulshed themselves ii ii 1 1 by wssrlng a small badgs'. I "I suggest as aa alternative to the of "Gypsy" and the child. She tried bav." he wrote "that this deslr to accommodats henelt fb him object would better failed uttery.e Wor.a, he a aw It and gCured If member, wore atrawa In worae atlll underatood It. Thua Lovel hir hair became an obaeaaton at length. Quar Uamllton a hreaant rng'ahauerlng'th.

'SESZSSSZ. facing them both with facta Then In comment to the effect that here the houae of myatery the dlacovery eem to have eeUbllehed him. of tha decepUon aa to tha parentege eelf aa an accepted authority on Eng of the child. And then revolt revolt society by dint of merely In. in the house of mjstery, in the home vesting to per cent ot his characters cf Cslladlne.

And then one night with titles" C'ars walks out Into ths night where Lnvel Is waiting and they ar gone. Masterful that acene two daya latsr when the broken Calladlne rldea up to. Manor houae to Inform th fath A Maeteriy en Two dreamers, Soene scholars, Incspable of passion or of erstandlng It, heliiless In a. crisis And ths sssrch of ths Downs, and the discovery of the shepherd's hut, and Its story. And then the meeting and the end with Calladlne going back to hla lonalr drab houae.

and the father to Manor Houae, and Lovel and Clsre remaining on the Downa. wild iij they, hard aa they, untamcabl aa they. What Is this atory "Grey Wethers?" I. It another expreeslon of re volt from old standards? or An Artistic merely a strange, Triumph I ting romance, a study of two ul not m.snt tor ths fsur walla convention? Whatever It Is It einul.lt.lv I done Victoria Backville Weat la an power and prscislon, snd beauty, As a psychologies! study It Is msstertuL The characters ars vivid. It Is worthy ol th author ot "Challenge." c.

ua. whereaa having gained a w(d audience with th tour foree or tne spoon River is writing proa that marka him still among th authors whoa future cannot accurately charted and whoas Ultimate place In our letters cannot ba foretold." c. B. O. Th poathumoua autobiography of i iwu.iiaa vviggin will aoon be published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

In It 1 told the Popularity atory of this extra woman's Ufa, but llttl enough Is aald of tha great popularity ot her Her publishers atata that they haveaold over 100,000 coplea In thl. country alone, and that certain of the etoiiea auch aa "Tha Blrae," "Chrletmae Carol" and "Revl peoca ox aiunnyDrooK rarm" have been tranelated Into almoat every known language, but a tew flguree from the Cleveland publlo library are mor eloquent evidence. The hv they have actually worn out some And this of Arnold Bennett! "Curlons fellow. Arnold Bennett. De.

splta all th long year he hae lived Arnold Bennett In London he has Provincial never really lost hi. Btaffordehire acfent. and still rontrlve. to look Ilk. a provincial who ha.

com. from th. midland, by to aa a Cap Tie. Early habit are strong, and It is said of him that whenever he goee Into a restaurant Instinctively turns hlsl plate upeldet down' to Jdentiry the manufacturer's trade mark. I am tld that th tint tlm he did thl at tha Reform club an Interestsd fellow member Inquired It he were conjurer But might run on and on, ao strong Is the temptation to' quota.

Seldom have we read a book of reminiscences so sparkling, delightful in Its whimsicality, comfortable In the brevity of Its character touches, and altogethsn amusing. Turning Its pages Is Ilk sitting dow with som on who nas seen muen, uvea much In Interesting places snd among In. tr renting people, and listening to him gossip In an Informal hop, skip and Jump fashion. It is easy to understand why It should hsvs been no enthusiastically received. a o.

A GENEALOGICAL KITES AND QUERIES DrT.W.SWrroocl meke their wente knewn In eolvlno their snssstrsl preblsms end the pub. aetee er aensrst mtsreet te member or th tana ef the Amerleen nevelutlen, Dau.nterc tne Amert Colonial I eeft Ravelutlea. deolatv Ware and kindred er.anlsatlene. At II enasaed In reeeersh werk. A I eem, nunleetlene te Oenaalelel Netee end Querlee eheuld be s.draesed te T.

W. harweed, poetef'tce eex Fert Wayne, Ins. Jennie M. daughter of M. and Wooden, lee 4, H2S 41 yre.

oilmaa Church, March II, Hie II yrd. I inn (daya Henrietta, daa Miter of O. an4 la C. Churtjh, April lttt 1 yr. rw Jsmss, soniof ii and J.

A. Woods, lJsil 1, 1111, d. Aug 14,1111 Carolina lal I daughter of B. and A. Wooden, ee! March II, llto, d.

Aug. U. Jill. Jullt Ann, wife ef BsnJ Wooden, b. Feb.

177, d. Sept 1, 1141. March 1, 1711, d. Aug. 17.

1M4. JulU Ann, daoghter ot B. and J. A. Wood, en, h.

Vib, II, llts, d. Aug. II, lit Mary, wlfa of David Raymond, daoslts nf TH ana B.n 11 aald to have moved to Rahoboth from JJ'J. d. Aug ifil.

Caroilna, daughtai Aug II. lllf. Banlamln Wooden. Aual II, 114111 yrs. I mo.

II days. tarn. yrs. II yr. over the fence again in old part.

Charles Whsrrey, July II, 1111' yrs. 4 mo. I dsys Stone erected IJanlel Hennel Nancy, nlf of Joshua Hoaian, Mar, Jl Ull yre. ll dara Infant of O. J.

and Nleholeom James May II. lilt 1 yre I mo. 11 days Hack in newer part again! Mosea C. Wooden, b. Oct.

B. till, July lltl. Lunlce 8. Mead, wlft of Moeee C. Wood n.

b. Jan. lllh d. Jan. II, till.

Mother Glale Wood ea Weybourn, b. Auavll, His, d. May Amarlcaa GeneeoTogy." Can anyone give me tne anceairy oi Marina Abrama and her datee? Jacob Laiwrvnoe, Mr was ths son of William Lawrence, of Flushing, Whet wss his birth data? Hla will tnade in 1771 mentlone wife Martha. In York Marriage Bana" I the entry, "Jaonb lAwrence and Maaaey Rhonda, March 14, 177" Was Massey a eomiptloo of Martha and.was she 141 Bullard John Bullard, who cam to America In m. a wlf JJ, lljl.

Kddle, son of Rdwln ans wk first name was Msgdslen. 8bs Msle Weyburn, b. Oct, 11. 1I5S, a. Feb, d.

Nov. II, 11, at Medfleld. Who waa Julia Ann, daughter same, ahe and what were her dates? Aug. d. Deo.

1. 1I4T, 4 Bennett ChemplotfWho were Evens, son of 'above, June ,11, lilt, th pare.ts of Henry Uennat, who was Esthsr, wife ot Ot Henry "Jennet, wno was a une 19. iai. Miliar, wua 4, m. Bared Champion Deo.

aeph Wooden, Aug. 1 A. Jan. IMS Hladaugh mo daa Moaea B. Wooden, 1I7 leeac Wllley.

of Lnn. Carrie M. Lynch, wife of abova ,1 TiiS 1 Manahtar at Dao f.vnrh. aon of Fran. ColJ Cowle'e) Juetln Cole was h.

I hjd Mary), Ull Betsey, wifs In Hatflald. Maaa In 17IU He a. in ef Thomas Hutchlna, Aug. 1. 1114.

iM rrn ixax ntNain alia nuiwii, rv, nui vn vUlt to hie eon. Juetln Cole Jr. Hie PeUe i rerguaon, b. 1107. d.

Sent WL SJI ha rn Ih. hln.Ml 1141. JOBePh Wooden. Aug 1114 It the name to Cole). Dleha m.

Esther yrs. 4 mp, II dava. Joaeujime saugnx What wss Esther's surname Wooden. March 17 Bherwood Who waa Selh Sher. 1141 11 mo.

Rosana. daughter I LB. wood, who waa appointed ene of the Wooden Julia Ann. teught! admlnlatratora of ths aetata of Daniel N. a.

and Pardee, b. May II, 1I4S, Sherwood In Woodetock. Ulater Sept. 4, 1141 Infant daughter ol N. TH in IHf, Ilia line or ancestry nu ot wanted N.

O. and M. Pardee. Nathaniel ll Coftln Jemima Coffin la aop Pardee, b. Deo.

dreb I 1141 posed to hsvs baen the daughter Matilda JVoodeh, of t. Trtetram and Mary (Bunker) Coffin. Pardee, b. March 14, 1174, 10 llO. He d.

Jan Itr, 1781. Would like to Hauls daughter O. and H. know If Jemima la mentmed In ths Msrrstt, Ills sstUement of Tristams sstata? I 1, JL. 14 Brown In the Brown family of Revolutlenery loldlere' Ojevba I Stonlngton, Conn, there waa a Davial (Oravea marked by the A.

ft. Of urawn n. niren m. nxa. Kna aon oi Daniel Brown and Mary (Mary Palmar1 Lafayette, Ind.

Oreenbueh eemaa New London, removed to Stonlngton. Fdward Clark. Oen George Rogers and wae Oct II. 1111 What Clark, Capt. Jonathan Clark, cap.

Mar waa the name of thle wife, with dates Iwether. John Nelson, James Richard' and perantags? son Wsatern cemetery! Cent. James 04 Bennet (b) Sarah Bennat b. Patten. Capt Iaham Talbott Old Oct.

II, 1711, m. Feb, 11, Mil. Kara Ida grsveysrd, now Baxter Squarei Jamna Perrln, of Perrlnton, N. d. Nov.

II. Brooks. Cspt. Mstcalfe Old Brecken. V.

1IU. It la' aald that aha waa b. at or near HartfordConn. Is Sherman The line Philip 1. mund I.

Elkanah I. tn the Bher All Salnta chapel, Floyd afreet Cant, George dray, of Culeppef Va Helen Place, Hardin Co 'Bernard HelmrThomaa Helm. Near Loulavlilei CoL John Floyd. Joan be no Oravee jnarkea oy b. a wee b.

In' piled by Bristol chaster D. A. R.I nd in 17H Tha caaa ai Jamea Allen, private apt. Porcas, la, however, another Col. Bmlth'e reft, o.

nept. While the 'Sherman' recoraa Oct 11. 11 Brlatol. eervlc Coiitl been thoroughly oombed by nenul (aee teo. Newport Hlat.

boon ever found will probably eome from cornel err. MaJ Itenjamla Beaworth, we are worxing en tne 'never giv up principle in ner caee. NovJ 1110. Wjor COI. Martin's rest.

atate unaaoe, ai --Allen a Co, North cemewryl, enlamlna Bourne, uertermaster gen. aral. b. Sept. I.

1711, Bpt quartermaater general MR. I regtj Juniper Hill Cemeteryi Mai Wllllani Bradford, b. I. ept. II, 1711.

Briatil Dec. 1, m. aide to usn. Charles Les, major of Col Bher i H.t ktirl TSaat cerneteryi A. tiu.u.v 17S4.

d. Urlatol II, 1761 1 Nov. Ull, private Capt. reck' Co, holda together it la not withdrawn from circulation In public Ubrarlea, Several thousand copse of Kate Douglaa Wiggtn's books ar oonsld ersd an esseqtlal part of all large puuuu iiDranaa, Lon Bakst. who is now In Parla.

la doing a portrait ot Wllla Cathsr to ba hung In the Omaha (Neb.) pub lio library. Th money to pay for It was ralesd by I noDUlar aubactin tlen by th women of Omaha a. ui tribute of honor to the author of "One of Oura," which won the Pullt ser prlie Ih lltl as the moet repre ssntatlve American novel Miss Catber'a new novel. "A Lost Lady." Is published this month by Knopf. On October I Itouahton Mifflin Co.

ku publishing "Th. Queen of Far ranaais, oy Clara Louis Burnham: New Heughten o' th Miff lln Book Dawn," by Harold T. Pulatfer; "Vic torlan Dsys In England." by Anna Maria Fay, and "Abraham IJncoln, Dfndant." by William H. Townaend (both limited editionalr a Juvenile, "A Little Sing. Ing Bird," by Lucy M.

Blanchard, and Heating's "Costs and Profit." Thay are also relaaufng four old booka that hav proved to be In on atant demandl "The Life of Lyman Abbott," "Dog Watchee at Sea," by Stanton" 11. King; "A Whit Heron," by Sarah Orne Jewett, and Lord Grey'. "Recreation." Sarah Orne Jewett died ,14 year. ago In th asm room 'that aha wa. born In 10 y.ara before.

Bh 1. alow New Edition ly coming to be of Sftrah raeognlsed 'a on Orna Jewett of the really true interpreter ox ail old fashioned New England. Th conetant demand for her books has made her publishers, Houghton Mifflin Co decided to reissue Jn mor modern form her "A Whit Heron," which Is a group of nsw England stories, and 'Hetty Leicester," a Juvenile of perenrtlal Importance. Th necessity of a new edition of thla laat book was called to their attention by th American Library aaaoclation. In a recent introduction to one of her booka, wflla Cather speak, ot th debt which shs fssls sh ows to Sarah Orn Jswett.

daughter of Jamee Redaway, tn grant. We have not got Bsfeh's dates other than of hsr m. Conln Trlatram Coffin, ssut hav, han tha falhar Jamlma fToffln. m. Mary Bunker, daughter of William Rlnnon Bullock.

He waa the aon of Lieut, John Coffin, i77s. North cemetery, prnsloasri who wss ths ehrhth aon of Trlatram Co). Peter Church, b. Bnetol Deo is. snd Dtsnls (Btepliens), a prsvlouS son d.

Oct. Jt, lltl, Rhode Island John having ssrly. Lieut. John wee mllltls. North cemetsry, Thomas b.

at Haverhill Oct. 10, Hs Church, prlvsts, Bristol Feb, Deborsh. daughter of Joeeplr and Sarah II, 111, d. Brlatol May IS, Auatla, and d. Sept.

I. 1711. He le Capt. William Iroop'a North tha anceetor of the Cofrine of Martha a ermetery, penaloner; Newbey COKfea Vlneyard and hold eome oftlcea hall, major, b. Portamouth, I Aug in Nantucket.

John waa aon ot Iria. 1 l72. Brlatol July 11, 1114, eeryke tram Coffin and Dtanla Stephens, unknown. North cemetery whom he about 1410 Trlatram wae Coggeahalll orderly aergt b. Bristol b.

in Brlxhsm Psrlsh (sometimes Jan. II. 1714. Bristol May 10,. celUdBrlxlon), Davonahlra, In 1405.

1. militia. North "cemetery; John Ho d. In lilt Trlatram waa the aon nVVi lf, pMvate, 1710. d.

of rstsr conin, ol Brlxhsm, wn Bristol Ocu 10, isti, Joanna Thumber, and had children Jo espedl Of "Piccadilly," Kathleen Coyle's clever and brilliantly written novel ot London's Bo hmfu Which th A Novel ef Dutton. published Bohemian' laat week, Rehecr London Weat eay. that "It full ot beautiful, writing, and the end 1. at one. exquisitely contrived and most and adds that ah think.

It "a novsl ol grsst promlas," Juniper Hill cemetery, pensioner; Falea, private, 1711, d. Brlatol June II. Knknnwn. Eaat cemetery; Tne following' puoiicaune are given (Nathaniel rate, pnvtnv. bv Ooodepeed a Book Btore," Boatoni Feb.

II. 1131. service unknVwn, onri vimtT. niienian. an aarlv aettlar of ancient 'Windham! Jan.

11. 1740. d. Brlatol March r. uk i.i.,i Nftrin III Fenton by Wi of Robert, cemetery! Lorln L.

Waaver) HI7i 167 I battle of Rhode Island, North cme. Fenton Family of America and Great I tarvt WlUlam Gladding, Prlaieann. Brltatti, by Thomaa A. Atklna, llll gunner, b. I'll, Nov.

II, ll. (11) a gel torr of ths Rahoboth America, brought down from English anceetor, John carpenter, 1301, oy Amoa earpentar, ieaa, (4il carpenter oenealogloal notes of the Carpenter family, by E. 8. Walker, 1107. (Ill) Carpenter family, by A.

A. JP. Kill nam. 11311 mimar a. unci geneaiosicai UOL ur irr a ra.

hlatory of th anceetor and deacend terr, penalonerl Monro, takan DrU: ilonerl Nathaniel Prlvata. b. Bristol April 'l7, d. WlWAp lsas, t. oniinanvi ter, penelonerf Dsvld Maxfleld, iwrgtr lISsT NoylV HM.

Col, C'ary'J J. at JJorth cerneteryi Miller, drum major, b. Warren, ini. is. m.

Bristol March 1, 111. Ileal numar A. unci genvaiogica, uol ur iry of Deacon Rteplien Palmer, other Hi I'almer. or mil I'oncora, mm Candla, N. with eome account of 4 17IB, Jasen pria of deecent om hla oner by British ana coniinea American anceetor.

Tte palmer, tha prison ahlpa. Juniper H1U oemeierr i one ot the rounaer. or Rowisy, jtasa, Fdward Monro, private. -in 1131 111'. 1117.

d. March 10. llll. in BriatoL h. I 411 11 1 almer anoeatora.

by George. Uenealoslea of Bant. 'Howe. Rarnea, (loodanow, Chapln, Qllbert, I Bruce. Klllum.

I'oUer 1114, (ltll) Pamiei Pedigree of William Lincoln Palmer, llll (1114) Palmer Bacon pedigree of William Lincoln Palmer. 1117. (llll) Palmer Ravlaed chart of tha American anceatora of William Lincoln Palmer, llll. (1161) Palmar Rome descendants of William Palmer, of Watertown. Maaa and Hampton, by Palmer, land militia, liaat eometery.

foseph rank unknown, 'b. 17M, tlrletoi apui an Monro Coomer oemetery, petisiuoer. Nsthsnlel Monro, prlyste, b. 1111.1 BrUtol Deo. 4.

1S1, Continental army during the war. Beat cemetery, penaloner; Bamuel tloyal Paine, rank Unknown, b. April II. 1717. Bristol Deo.

81. llll, kervioe unknown, Bat cemetery: Nathaniel Phillips J. m. aergt, id. at aea Feb COI.

Elllott'e regt and brlgaJe Iraiaed ior R. I. defenaei J17I 17IO. monument In Eaat cesaeteryi Blmeon Potter, major general foroee of the oolony, 0. tlve of the D.

A. C.1 Wooden cemetery. Just aoulh of Dob (Jornera, near Phelpa oanet, bin1 yra yra. 1IRS si Arilllam HM 74 yre. William yrs, jscou Juns II, 'llll, sarvlc.

unknown. North cemetery. Troop'a Cp.t Bristol Dot 10. llll Bristol milllia, vap Vatarioo. l.

V.I Daniel Nlchelson, May IS. 111310 yrs, 10 mo 14 dsys. Daniel, aon of Edward and Mis Dennleton, grandson of Daniel Nicholson, Jan. 11, list I yrs Ann It dsughter anlel Nicholaon, April It, 111111 yra 1 mo, II daya, Barthaheba, wife of Btephen Wllaen, daughter of Daniel Nicholaon, March 14, 111411 yra, I mo II daa. Lucinda, wife of Daniel' Nicholaon.

Aug II, 112111 yra. wlief of Austin Oaks, daughter Daniel and Ann Ktrnoleon. June sn, me zi rra uan lal Mcholaon. May isos si Aaa his wife. Aug.

7. 111014 Chariee tieaniaten, ueo. 2 yra mo. Margaret, wife Kane. June 11, Rana.

Rent. 11. Vun Bcoy, Feb II, 1114 Is George, aon of Van Bcoy, mi I yra. mo. is aaya.

nsrsn or risn. nsh M. The above names tsken from sn el. mnHt hnpelees Jungle where mnny stones mual Us undar growth of yesra Do not know the former nam or the cemetery. bt adjoining it on the other elde of the fence Is whst le now known as the M'nnden cemetery, and is ul nlff rant farma.

Thla la abai.t four ntUltla. Eaat cemetery! Thomaa Wll and'one half mllea northeast of C. Isoa, private, 1141, Bristol Oct 17, aavai (, ii Wv(te unknown, North cemetery. North cemetery; Bamuel Reynolda, pri rate, J. 1700, d.

H. lljl, aervloe unknown. North oeme tery ueorg aanioro, rana d. Deo. 1, llll.

aervloe unknown, Eaat cemetery. Uoyal Sanford. private, e. 1160. Brlatol Deo.

1, llll. service unknown, Ksat cemetery lot), Edward Talbes, private, July II, 1710. d. Brlatol March II, 111, In Capt.e Joneaa afterwerd captain, alao aerved in 'Conqueat of Canaaa, 1W 1710." North' oemetery; Stephen Talbee. private; b.

Oat. lltl. Brlatol June B. 114 battle o1t. i.

on dlabandlng of army he walked from Philadelphia to tile home In Brlatol. R. Eaat remetery, penaloner' Nathaniel na Weet Print, 1711, d. Brletol. Jan.

It. 1IM. Capt. Caleb Barr'i; Co, Oct. to 177, North oemetery Rev.

Henry Wight surgeon, Medford, Maaa, Ma 11l Brlatol Auf It three yeara aa surgeon, Juniper Hill cemetery Benjamin Hoox. rank un. 11 171 d. Oct II. HM service Wlllard neltt.

Jft 0 114. Drlatol May. H. 1H7, It Ultla. Eaat ceineteryl 'rno.