Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28

in several plays. The most notable was
The Strange Adventures Of Miss Brown"
vile and Terry's theatera On the death
OF her sister and her brother-in-law she
definitely retired. but evidently the desire to
write more plays proved too strong to be
resisted.
The plot of her piece when knights
Were Bold" is more or less original as
modern comedies go. 1t circles round the
love affair of a man and a maid. In the
first act. very twentieth century one. the
hero. despite the pronounced encourage
ment of the heroine, fails to screw up his
courage to the proposing point. When
alone, he can declare his love manfully
enough. but In the maids presence he be-
comes as shy an early Victorian school
miss. AS the curtain falls, he writes him.
self down an ass. takes big drink. smokes
a cigarette and-dreams. Act II repre-
sents the dream. 1t is the medieval age
the age Of chivalry. of bold, bad barons and
gallant knights. An ancestor of the hero
Is one Of these latter. His love story is de-
picted wildly. There is nothing lackadaisi-
cal about the ove-making. The bold knight
finally seizes the maiden in his arms and
carries her off bodily to the altar in the
face OF strenuous opposition. In Act Ill
the twentieth century again appears. The
hero wakes up and follows. so far as
modernity will let him. the example of his
ancestor shown him In the second act
X X
Cruising in the Mediterranean on a steam
yacht is a delightful occupation. But when
two noted novelists go together as COM
panions de voyage It may mean something
beyond the Willing away Of a few idle
weeks. Anthony Hope Hawkins and
Maurice Hewlett have just started together
on the steam yacht Argonaut for a cruise
to Naples. Greece and Constantinople. The
result will be a elaborated novel. At
least that is what Is whispered. At present
the matter Is secret. even among the pub
fishers, but q definite announcement in a
month or so may be expected. The book
ought to be fascinating one with two
such authors
Important on both sides of the Atlantic
is the announcement just made that THE
Life Of Mrs. Craigie' Will be published as
soon as the material can be worked up.
Mrs. Craigie's father, John Morgan Rich
ards, Is gathering her letters and the vari-
GUS threads Of her doings and sayings. Like
many other clever women, notably Mrs.
Browning and George Sand. Mrs. Craigie
wrote the most charming little notes to
her intimate friends. The late Lady Cur
zon was one of her dearest friends. and
Lord Curzon has been asked to assist in
furnishing what may prove to be the
most intensely interesting part of the vol
ume 1t certainly promises to be one of the
most delightful of biographies of a woman
Has any one stopped to note that this
fall is a season Of biographies and auto
biographies? 1t should go down in literary
history as the most noted of biographical
years. To name few takes up quite a
lot Of space. There are the eGn. Andre rem
iniscences. the Hohenlohe memoirs, Lord
Acton, Lord Randolph Churchill Field Mar
shall Sir Evelyn Wood, Henry Irving Sir
Joshua Reynolds, Rousseau. Joseph Jeffer-
son. Admiral Togo, the Earl Of Lyttop the
Empress Eugene, Rossetti, Vatican Cap
tain Gambler and other important ones
yet to come.
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To the United States has Just gone a
$4,000 book bound In rough calf, and to
the uninitiated looking more fit for the
scrap heap than the treasure library of a
millionaire. 1t Is 1912 copy Of THE Pas
sionate Pilgrim" which once belonged to
James Merrick. religious poet, and CLASH
cal and Biblical scholar Of Oxford UNIVERSE
ty. He died in 1769 and bequeathed the book
with others to his friend. John Loveday,
great-grandfather Of the Mr.. Loveday who
has just sold It to an American collector
CHARLES OGDENS