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New Type Of Heroine
Discovered by D'Annunziio
Our London Literary Letter.


Special Correspondence
ONDON. oct 26.-F'rom an ac-
quaintance who recently visited
Gabrielle d'AnnunzIo, ] learn that
the foremost OF Italian novellst-
expects great THINGS of new romance
which he has nearly finished, IT J..
called "Amaranta," ana Anmnzio be-
lioyes that It Will be found as original
and viii attract as much attention as
The Triumph Of Death" whose moral
fly was called in question 30 severely in
the United States
D'Annunzio says that his new novel
is entirely modern and written with the
object of proving that even our times
can De made pCstIcal. The heroine viii
represent a psychological type which
the author afrms is now only begin
ming to be noticed In real life, but which
will, he says, be the type Of woman OF
the future. The story Is based ON AN
episode which took place some time ago
in Paris Its heroine was a girl of gem
tie birth who, although in consumption
had herself tied to an automobile which
nightly encircled the celebrated Ring
of Death" for the sake Of the sensa.
ton, Everything was done to stop the
crazy enterprise, but the girl insisted,
threatening suicide, and was allowed TO
go After the FIRST round she was found
dead.
D'Annunzlo's heroine, Amaranta,
leaves the family, riches and society
to which she was born to join q circus,
and comes, with her delicacy Of feeling
and refined intelligence, into close con-
tact with the hardened men of the sta
oles and trapeze, What her fate Is
DAnnunZio declined to disclose, but hu
declared that Amaranta remains deli
cately romantic where life seems most
arid and bitter and least novel;
There Is rather queer history In con-
neCtion with two volumes OF memoirs
that are about to be published in Lon
don. They were written over a CEN
fury ago by Buck or Jerusalem
Whaley, who was famous Irish poll
tician and gambler. Toward the end
of his life this picturesque character re-
GREETED his folles. and these reminis-
cences of his were written as a warning
to others He left orders that they
should be published by his executors,
but for some reason this was not done
and eventually the manuscript which
was bound In two large quarto vol
umes, disappeared entirely. Not long
ago Sir Edward Sullivan, the irish
classical scholar, who Is also a keen
collector Of bindings, while brows-
ing around in a second hand shop
came across n couple Of old volumes
which he bought for the sake OF their
covers, and on opening them discovered
the long lost memoirs Of Buck Wha-
ley.
The stories that are told in Ireland
of this gamblers eccentricities are le-
gion. His income, though It aggregated
$50 900 a year, was much too small %
make good the extravagancies which
he committed in Paris where In one
night alone, he lost $4,000 al the gam
ing table-a misfortune which caused
him 10 return to London, Here he ac-
cepted the wager which made him ia
nous for a time as Jerusalem Wha-
ley. one day, some friends hearing
that he was starting or on short trip,
asked where he was bound. 'Jerusa-
dem" he snapped In reply, though
he had no more intention OF attempt
Ing that journey-a decidedly different
thing from the personally conducted
tours OF today-than his questioners.
But they took him AT his word and bet
him, II is said, $4,000 that he would
never reach there, Whaley accepted
az once, and won, playing ball against
the walls Of the Holy CITY. as arranged,
and returning in about nine months.
4 O. N CA
was To the effect that he would jump
from the verandah OF his house In Dub
lin. into the first barOuche that pass
ed and kiss It's occupant His accom-
plishment Of this feat is duly recorded
i'm the pages Of the Dictionary OF Ma
tional Biography" though II is not
stated what the person thus saluted
did about Il.
Frank Frankfort Moore, who has fol-
lowed up pretty consistently his early
success with 81 Forbid the Banns" has
now reached that state OF prosperity
that makes a country mansion possible.
According Moore has taken pictur-
esque and stored house IN Sussex; one
of the two which stand within the pre-
cints Of the old castle Of Lewes, one
of the features of It which most de-
light the heart OF this novelist several
vi MNNef olpl lfn IhNf NNhlL WIN Aslie-
abethon and even earlier times In Eng
land, IS a bowling green which has
been in use ever since the reign Of
Charles II.
"Macaulcy's New Healander who was
one day to survey the ruins OF London,
has been familiar 10 all Of us FOR many
years. Now, however It seems that
the perennaily astounded traveller
ought to Doe known as Mrs. Barbaud's
Autipodean,' An English provincial
weekly, the Norfolk Chronicle, has Just
discovered that this lady, who took to
literary work after her husbands death
in 1903, wrote n gloomy poem three years
later called Eighteen Hundred and
Eleven" In which Il was prophesicd
that on some future day a traveller
frop, thp opffbo1ps tyoti1d f-pu1 a brOll-