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NOTES


When Charles Edward Russell was
searching in the British Museum the
documents preserved there and relat-
ing 10 Thomas Chatterton he came
|upon a penciled marginal memorandum
| of three or four words that suggested
a wide and new field of inquiry. The
document was a draft of the first let
ter Chatterton wrote to Horace Wal
| pole and the memorandum merely said
This is in Barrett's handwriting.
meaning Barrett the Bristol surgeon,
who was Chatterton's guide and mem
tor
Investigation showed the memoran-
dun to be quite correct and disclosed
the startling fact that, in the impos-
| lures Chatterton had the active as
sistance and direction of Barrett. Mr..
Russell concludes from his investiga-
tions that Barrett was the real Lit
teraly Forger' and the world has
erred in attaching that name to
Thomas Chatterton.
Gertrude Atherton recently was guest
OF honor at London banquet OF the
I.yceum club, at which May Sinclair
was in the chair. The latter is said to
possess, under a retiring personality,
a marked degree OF executive strength,
while the former, whose administra-
i've capacity rs wei hIiONll, lidS itNNi
Identified herself with club organiza-
tons, Ancestors" Mrs. Atherton 8
latest novel. contains chapter which
sets forth the woman's club in man
ner that invites strong discussion from
all sides,
Mr.. Winston Churchill has recently
allowed himself to be interviewed and
has disclosed some interesting facts
1t. lie
methods of work. 1t appears that al
though his books have appeared at in
tervals of at least two or three years,
and he has consequently gained repu-
tatlon for exceptionally careful work
manship. even these intervals do not
correctly measure the time he may
have spent ON any one book. Thus he
eonfesses that his new novel, which
he IL just now completing, was actu-
| ally in his mind some time before
| "Conston" appeared. and consequently
before his famous campaign for the
governorship Of New Hampshire. 1t
will be particularly interesting, never
| theless. to see whether Mr. CrewG's
Career" embodies any OF the expert
onces which MIR, Churchill must have
gained in that campaign, as result
OF which he has become a powerful
factor in the politics of his state
Mr.. Robert Hichens' wonderful novel
THE Garden of Allah" is an actual
place. Biskra is its real name, easily
found on the map and the photo
graphs IN the new illustrated edition,
published by Stokes, New York. illus
trate the very phrases of the book.
Ana now there comes from an authort-
tauve source the statement that the
story itself is the faithful narrative Of
people still living. Boris Androvsky
did flee from his Trappist clOster,,
seeking forgetfulness In the desert and
finding, not restored faith, not a new
Idea, but Domini Enhlden, "A beautiful
English woman. like himself se kei
Tor peace. But. unlike the fugiti e
TrappiSt, she still elung with all her
constant, unquestioning soul to the
rigid tcnets Of her creed. These two
met rs strangers, out there In the des-
ort' the mad allurement of which Mr.,
Hichens pictures 50 convincingly; and
they loved and were married, all as the
story Describes. Before the first ecstasy
of their lonely honeymoon had died
away the inevitable discovery came