The Washington herald., 1912-06-23

i many was stopped by the once boys.
His meaeer supply of cash disappeared.
/ and soon Dwyer was living IN room
in a lodging house in Brooklyn with
nothing to eat but a little rice. II went
out then, to get q Job" said DWyer,
with the Interborough Company as
gtreet car conductor. was referred to
an oficial who kept telling me there
was no chance OF a Job, but kept on;
/ you see / simply had to have that Job.
While I was sticking around his station
enc day, bruiser came up and began
TO abuse him. The official knew that II
he started a fight with the tough he
| would get good beating. and more
i over would lose his job, 50 he whispered
TO me to soak the fellow. I was too
weak from lack OF food to hit anything
4 but beefsteak. Just as sort OF
blum. Uttered over to the husky and
jostled him with my shoulder, saying,
set out OF the way and give somebody
else a chance In a minute we were
on the ground, going after each other
| with all our might, and the official tax
| ing his cue jumped q passing car and
was soon out OF sight. I extricated my
| self from the scrape as soon as could
| and jumped the next car for the barns,
where found the oficial He had TO
give me job all right"
A E. W. Mason's new novel "The
1
on the authors personal observations and
experiences OF political life He was him
self member of the House OF Commons
for four years as the Liberal representa-
tive of Coventry. In this book he pre-
sents vidid, forcefui adventurer pushing
upward in politics with steady calcula-
tion-a man who made his mark by lead
ing an expedition "farthest South for
the purpose of gaining reputation to make
Il DOliffcian and he lnN-a
story of this man OF cool ambition who is
nevertheless a human being, not a demI-
god, and OF a woman of insight and splen-
did ideals, is the central theme in the
novel
The popularity Of Payne Ersklne's ro-
nance Of the Blue Ridge Mountains Of
North Carolina. The Mountain Girl"
has necessitated the printing OF a tenth
edition. and the publishers, Little, Brown.
& Co, report that recorders are pour
ing in from booksellers from all parts
| OF the country. A half-dozen London
J publishers have written or cabled for
the English book rights. but these have
been sold to Sampson Low, Marston &
| Co.
Rex Beach, whose latest novel. The
Ne 'er-Do-WeIl," was published a few
months ago. is now on one Of his trans
| continental trips. He left New York
after correcting proofs Of the novel he
| has been at work upon the last year,
. which the Harpers will publish this fall.
| Mr.. Beach Is taking a long journey for
| the purpose Of gathering material and
| verifying facts from actual life for a
| new novel which may be located In
! The Silver Horde" or THE Spoilers
| country.
! 1t is seldom that the title Of book
i" chosen before the book itself is writ
ten. Yet such was the case with The
Broken Bell" by Marie Van Worst
! CBObbs, Merrill Coz. Close to Miss Van
! VOrst's summer home in the hills near
! Rome there stands a large Franciscan
J monastery, the bell of which Miss Van
! Worst could hear plainly as II rang
the Angelus or summoned the friars to
| chapel or choir. One day while IT was
ringing It cracked. and then was heard
| no more. The guardian Of the monas-
/ terry explained TO Miss Van Worst that
! they had sent il 10 the foundry. where
! il was being recast, and that soon II
\ would be ringing as sweetly as ever
| Yes replied the novelist, that is just
| the way with a woman's heart. 1t is
| broken to-day, but an entire change OF
! circumstances will reCast It and 1t will
/ be just as good as ever"
| Those readers Of Eleanor Atkinson's
story "Greyfriars Bobby who may wish
to go back to the original sources from
which she gathered the biography Of the
| little dog, can find in the files Of the
| Edinburgh Scotsman for April 13 1861,
an account of the citation Of his bene-
/ factor, the innkeeper before the Burgh
Court for harboring an unlicensed dog.
| There. as Mrs. Atkinson has remarked,
all the pride of civic history OF the an
cient royal Burgh" was the BACKGROUND
against which the fate settled. Bobby's
coIlar-literally comforting on him the
freedom Of the city-and marked: Grey
friars Bobby. from the Lord Provost,
1s67-Licensed.' is still to be seen at the
| caretaker's lodge at Greyfriars.
The plan Of the New York State COM
mission TO investigate port conditions for
making the waters Of He'll Gate peace
full by dynamiting its rocks, recalls the
fact that Capt Dynamite Johnny O'Brien,
whose flibustering adventures are told in
the recently published book, "A Captain
Unafraid,' was a pilot in these waters
in the '70s, before Pot Rock was blown
up. 1T was He'll Gate then!' Capt.
o. Brien told friend. There was no
towing in those days, and most OF the
ships that went through the Gate were
wind-Jammers, which meant that with a
current running nine knots an hour II
required some skill to avoid accidents,
particularly with an unfavorable wind.
My long acquaintance with the channel
and a recklessness that was much more
apparent than real gained me the sob
riquet OF Daredevil Johnny"
Timothy Cole, whose wood engravinEs
have been a feature OF the Century Mag
azine for many years, has Just received
the degree of Master of Arts from Dick
irson College, Carlisle, Pa.
An interesting new edition is Home
Life in Germany" which was originally
published in 1908. went through a number
Of editions and has been for some little
time out Of print in this country. The
book is the work Of Mrs. Alfred Sidg-
wick and is a particularly happy and
Intimate picture of the day to the chill |
dren, the students, the servants the
men, and the women of Germany. Mrs. |
Sldgwick also touches upon the schools |
upon the expenses OF living, upon Ger
man customs. their summer resorts, and
their holidays.
The collection OF hitherto unpublished
letters of Dickens, which appeared at
the time Of the Centenary under the
title Charles Dickens as Editor" con-
tains wealth Of interesting material |
that makes still more living the portrait |
Of the great novelist which each of us |
carries in his minds eye. The old IA |
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