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NOTES

S8 Three OF the best known of Mr.. Will
Si,am Dean Howell's books have gone
Sntn reprint through the Harpers: 'The
sRaered Lady" "A Traveller From Al
ssruTia," and The Landlord at Lions
Head
ff onc, upon a time Harold MacGrath
and his wife, both expert riders, were
Hiding through the Garden of the GODS,
IN Colorado. They were lettering about
S4nd Mrs. MacGrath, who is an amateur
Sreologist. exclaimed that nearly all the
ees we're represented here. Pointing
In an empty beer bottle at the side
;zbt the bride path, MacGrath remarked
AYES even the brewerage."
~ AUNT Jane of Kentucky" is an ex-
tremely popular book with club wo--
men The Kentucky Confederation of
9Women's clubs recently invited the
asuthor. Eliza Calvert Hall. to attend
2fhe annual meeting and read Aunt
sbsne Goes Visiting" while the Lotos
atlub of Lakeland, Florida, closed It's
gear with a meeting Of the Mite So
AIety of Goshen Church." adapted from
!pne of the chapters in the book, each
snember impersonating a character.
The Literary club of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy OF Dali
Ias. Texas, the Ladies' Guild of the
Unitarian Church of Jersey city, n. j.,
lhe Literary Club of Stanford, Ky. the
Current Events club OF Charlottesville,
Ind, the Six and Twenty club of Will
Ohio, the Book club of Lenoir,
n c., have all in various ways hon
bred the book and its author Little
Brown & Co. announce the eleventh
EDITION of Aunt Jane"
Max Pemberton is a lover of the
country, choosing IL above the town for
sork and play. OF his new cottage at
Erosion. Suffolk. called 1roston Hail.
b. writes: I'VE are now settled IN an
Did country house in Suffolk. with
Charming garden and beautiful soil
fude. As might be expected from
1nan who loves gardens and solitude
pr, Pemberton finds as much pleasure
'put-of-door as he does in his library
|slr Richard Escombe, his new novel
which the Harpers have published. re-
Fleets this quality Of sturdy enjoyment
an way which is comforting to any
Nho have grown little impatient of
melancholy in fiction.
On the recent occasion of the eighty
|ninth birthday celebration of Julia
Ward Howe, the only one of her chill
|dren who was unable to be present was
Maud Howe Elliott. After spending two
years in Spain with her artist husband
|John Elliott, Mrs. Elliott Is at present
Ifoiournng in Rome, where she is COM
spIeting the work on her new manu-
|fcript on Spain, which Little. Brown b
10. announce for fall publication. Dur
Iing the many months that she was
HNandcrer in Spain Mrs Elliott was
busy filing her note book with COM
inent and storing up treasure house
Ini Impressions and memories of things
Spanish. With an open mind and
isele pen, she is likely to present the
results of her observations in book
which, for charm and value, will take
us place beside her two previous vol
ulnes on Italy, Roma Beata' and
Two in Italy
Grace DEMO Litchield, the author of
|, The Supreme Gift" has left Wash
ihston, the scene OF her novel, for the
mus OF New London, New Hampshire,
Nhere she Is at work on dramatic
version of the book.
Apart from its clever plot and an
peaiing story, with it's peculiar char
acterlstlcs of Identity and sincerity.
pronably us most purely literary
aIHl"NeIleht IS the power Of portraiture
which Miss Litchfeld dlspiaye," said
one critic familiar with Miss Itch
helds work, of The Supreme Gift"