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feast-the sight of the hero himself. When 1
hrst saw him. he had jumped upon and was
running along the Long Walk wall. followed by
his two young sons and bevy OF young noble
men and gentlemen's sons whose fathers he
knew. He was dressed in top hat. colored tie
brown cutaway coat, and top boots. and went
on or stood laughing. chattering to the boys, and
the boys laughing and chattering back, until he
jumped down into the midst OF them-the veriest
boy of them all. +. . Then he hurried off in
the midst of all mis- boys to his old Danes or
Dominic Raguenau, not TO call upon the old
gentleman, but TO run to the kitchen door, where
in his youthful days he had cut his name or in
itals, and he had a great desire to that eff
fort of youthful talent He stayed in Elton about
an hour and went back TO Windsor"
Some unpublished letters of George Canning
will appear in the third number of Lady Ran
dolph Churchill's Anglo Saxon Review" due
early next month. paper on Spain: Finan-
cial and Political" has been contributed by
Senior Moret Prendergast, and Mr.. w. II. NAL
lock is represented by article entitled 'Lu-
cretius Life and Death" Portraits OF Ma
poleon, Paderewski, Canning and Shelley and
his wife will decorate the volume
George Washington the man is to be consid-
cred In the art work which is to be prepared by
Mr.. Worthington c. Ford and issued by Charles
Scribner's Sons, In conjunction with Goupil of
Paris. The illustrations promise to be highly
valuable. all being reproduced by Goupil, many
OF them for the first time. A unique collection
of contemporary portraits of Washington and
his family, the members of his Cabinet and
other notable personages will be used in this
work. 1t is TO be published in two volumes.
with two extra title pages and two indexes, in
order that the subscriber may "Grangerize" 1t
to four volumes II he chooses. There will be an
Edition de Bibliophile," limited to fifty mum
bered copies and five presentation copies; an
Edition de Luxe" Of two hundred numbered
copies and five presentation copies, and a
Memorial Edition" OF 1,250 numbered copies
and % presentation copies. Mr.. Ford has been
for many years accommodating material for this
work
In talking about his sitters, Mr.. Mendes, the
London painter of portraits. has pronounced
Lady Dorothy NeviI 1.-The most brilliant woman
conversatopalist of the century. And what
memories, She cor-esponded weekly for twenty
years with the Duke OF wellington. When they
quarrelled they used big. formal paper: at other
times any scrap would do for them. She once
asked the Duke for small official appointment
for not very capable friend. Here is the Dukes
answer: Dear Dolly-The work is done! God
forgive me-
A correspondent OF 1.-The Academy" says that
in the restrained suggestion of dialect Thomas
Hardy's Wessex folk are unapproachable. THE
author" he adds never tortures the language
with strange spelling. making it difficult for the
unntiated to understand; and yet by little
turns Of speech he suggests the intonation and
the rhythm which, after ALL the chief feat
ures of dialect" This is emphatically true. OF
all the users OF dialect Mr.. Hardy is the only
enc who never bores his reader.
Mr.. H. W. Lucy says Of Du Maurier in the
course Of an interesting paper in THE Strand
Magazine He did not much about
Probably this in part due to resentment Of
the worlds neglect of what he held to be the
greater work, Peter Ibbetson.' Therein I agreed
with him, but not able to follow him In his
further conviction that greatest of all The
Martians.' He often talked to me about that
look while the story growing under his
hand He felt he must satisfy the expectation
created by the phenomenal success OF "Trilby.'
To that task he set himself laboriously and
hopefully. dying in the sure and certain hope
that he had achieved his aim. -.
''One Of his vain regrets was that he had not
hit upon his real vocation before time of life
when he would not have opportunity to work
out the abundance of plots and fancies with
which his mind was stored. Early IN 1896, The
Martians' Just out of hand, he told ne he had in
his mind the full plot Of fourth novel Too
] late. too late he murmured, speaking rather to
| himself than TO me-"