Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-02

is atavistic and inherited from the
family OF the poet. William Cullen
Bryant, to whom her paternal grand
mother was related. Mrs. Willis is
the widow of q great-nephew Of Pres
ident Madison.
Frances, Lady Shelley. in the new
and final volume of her diary (Scrib-
ner's) gives an amusing description
of the Duke of Wellington as a shot.
Here is part of It:
IF truth be told, the hero OF
Waterloo was very wild shot After
wounding retriever early in the day.
and later on peppering the keepers
CATERS. he inadvertently sprfnkled
the bare arms of an old woman who
CHANGED to be washing clothes at her
cottage window.
'I was attracted by her screams.
and the fearful calculations caused
by pain and fear. I took in the
situation at a glance and went to
the cottage door.
I'm wounded, miladyi" she cried.
my good woman" said I, this
ought to be the proudest moment Of
your life. You have had the dis
tinction of being shot by the great
Duke OF Wellington
40, ial' exclaimed the old wom-
an, as she glanced toward the duke
with eyes full OF tears. not knowing
whether to be proud or angry. Then
suddenly her face was wreathed in
smiles as the contrite duke slipped
golden coin into her trembling
hand.
1T was a scene worthy of a play"
Here the editor, who is Lady Shell
ley's grandson, observes:
at was on one of these occasions
that my mother-then about 10 years
of age-after watching the dukes
proceedings for some time, became SO
frightened that she burst into tears.
What's this, Fanny exclaimed
Lady Shelley. Fear. In the presence
of the hero of Waterloo! File! Stand
close behind the Duke of Wellington
he will protect you
MY mother. who told me the story,
VAST then too young to realize that
1t was probably the only safe place"
| Luke Vincent Lockwood's exhaus-
| tive work on colonial furniture, en-
titled Colonial Furniture in Ameri-
ca" will be published during the
summer by Charles Scribner's Sons.
The writer has covered the entire
field, for he has examined not only
every important collection in Ameri-
ca, but practically every collection
in existence and while the work is
| technically a new edition of one
which he prepared some six years
/ "a l.. <x~lr no
earlier one had the same title, the
same inventories, and was written
according to the same theory of de-
velopment
! But as about to be published,
Colonial Furniture" in two sumptu-
GUS volumes, is more than twice as
large as that earlier work, contains
| $50 illustrations, of which $50 are new,
and discusses large number of new
topics as we'll as treating the old
ones in a more detailed way. Its
preparation has occupied Mr.. Lock-
wood for. the six years since the pub
| lication of the earlier work, but in
preparing this he has had an advan-
tage that came from a change in the
attitude of collectors and owners.
They had formerly been fearful of
reproduction and were unwilling to
allow him to take pictures or even
gather information, but the publica-
ton of the original work has dis
PEELED this feeling. Collectors and
owners were not only anxious and
willing, but helped him to prepare
! this work.
Frank H. Spearman's new novel.
"Merrilie Dawes" (Scribner's), is
soon to be published. A Wall Street
panic is one of it's central events.
Mr.. Spearman's first great success
was whispering Smith''-a tale of
action pure and simple. But he sees
there is romance enough in the field
of business--the modern field of con-
fict for daring spirits and great
minds-if writer has skill to pre-
sent it.
In "Merrilie Dawes as, indeed, to
some degree in Robert Kimberly"
the characters develop mainly
through the events of business-bat-
ties of financial interests become as
vivid as those of armies, and large
business schemes loom in the back
ground.
Merrilie Dawes is the central char
acter When hardly a woman she is
suddenly left alone in the world and
great fortune comes into her hands.
Then things happen-the storm of
panic breaks in New York. She finds
herself in the centre of Il terrific
struggle trying to sa-e the fortune Of
the man she loves.
| Henry James's description of Lon
don as he saw it as q little boy in the
| ffties Is not only one of the most in
teresing portions of his biographical
work, "a Small Boy and Others" in
Scribners, but should be cited by those
who contend against current opinion
that Dickens's characters are exag-
gerated. For instance, he says in one
place: 1.-THE London people had for
themselves an exuberance of type.
We found it in particular a world of
costume, often of very odd costume,
the most intimate notes of which were
the postmen in their frock-coats Of
military red and their black beaver
hats; the milk women, in hats that
often emulated these, in little shawls
and strange, short, full frocks, reveal
ing enormous boots, with their pals
swung from their shoulders on wooden
Jokes. The range of character on the
other hand reached rather dreadfully
down; there were embodied and exem-
plified horrors in the streets beside
which any present exhibition is pale
figures reminding me Of George
Cruickshank's 'Artful Dodger' and his
| Bill Skies only with the bigger bru-