The San Francisco call., 1905-01-08
LIST INCLUDES
DUKES, EARLS
AND DUCHESSES
SEVERAL BOOKS By THE WOMEN
Their Gyaces of Sutherland
and Leeds Excel at the
Present Time.

the Beautiful" 1t scored distinct sue
cess and gave the impression that even
better work might be expected from its
author-an impression that was fully
confirmed by the Duchess next work,
volume Of short stories with the odd
title "Capriccios.' Strangely enough.
most of these were stories of humble
life. it being a singular fact that al
most none of the women of title who
are writing fiction to-day has dealt with
the fashionable life which they really
know best
The Duchess of Leeds has another
novel under way. She invariably spends
the winter on the Riviera, and she left
the other day for her villa at Bordig-
hera.
The other literary Duchess, her Grace
of Devonshire. is only so to a limited
extent, for her work with the pen has
been confined to the editing of certain
letters written by the loveliest of her
predecessors, which were published in
Lady Randolph Churchill's Anglo-SaX-
on Review.
ENGLAND'S LITERARY DUKE.
England's literary Duke is one of the
most exalted personages in the king
dom. For his Grace of Argyll, besides
being the author of a number of serious
works, many tales and poems, and an
opera libretto, is closely related to the
royal family by virtue of having mar
ried Princess Louise. own sister of
King Edward VII His most success
full work was THE United States of
America After the War
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English Countesses is Lady Jersey.
Most Of her literary work has been in
the way of juvenile literature Her
Hymns for Very Little Children
two series of them-were published be-
fore her marriage. since when she has
written Sleeping Beauty, Play for
Children Maurice or the Red Jar"
The beautiful Countess of Warwick
has an uncommon gift for writing, but
her many other activities have pre-
vented her from writing books to any
extent and her only published works,
exclusive of numberless magazine ar
ticles, are her History of Warwick
Castle and It's Earls' and 'Reminis-
cences of Joseph Arch"
The other literary Countesses are
those of Cromartie and Pembroke the
first of whom recently published a vol
ume of short stories called The End
of the Song" The Countess of Penn
broke, who is a sister of the Duchess
of Leeds, is represented by only one
work-an account of Wilton House. her
husbands splendid place near Sails
bury, which is famous for it's literary
associations There Sir Phillip Sidney
wrote his Arcadia and near by. on
the banks of the river Nadder, Izaak
Walton composed his Complete
Angler
A GIFTED NOBLEMAN. :.
After the Duke of Argyll. the Earl
of Iddesleigh, whose latest novel has
just made it's appearance. is perhaps
the most gifted of English noblemen
who write. That is not saying much.
however, for the male members of the
peerage who have gone in for literature
have done so much less successfully
on the whole than their feminine col
leagues. The Earl of Iddesleigh's nov
els are not half bad. and so far each
one of them has been better than it's
predecessor. His lordship's father. who
was leader of the House of Commons
under Disraeli, was a great book man,
arguments as to the merits of Charles
Dickens, of whom Gladstone's great
rival could say nothing good
There is also the Earl of Ellesmere.
who has published half dozen novels
or more, the best known of which is
called "Sir Hector's Watch