The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-27
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

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 Few living authors have as large and devoted 8 following on both sides of the Atlantic as Arnold Bennett, and his recent American visit has added greatly to his prestige and popularity in the United States and Canada. MT. Bennett has kept a careful record of his literary output, and in the last eighteen years has written over seven million words-and his mum erous admirers will assert that there is not a dull word among them. Arnold fans" some of the more enthu- siastic of his young male American following call themselves, and the fa- nous English author is in grave dam ger of becoming the hero of a cult.
 Enoch Arnold Benedict was born in North Stafordshire, England, May 27, 1867, and will celebrate his forty sixth birthday to-day. After leaving school he decided to become a barris- ter, and was admitted to the bar, but as a lawyer he was an excellent writ CT. Twenty years ago he definitely abandoned the legal profession and became assistant editor of a woman's s publication, called Woman. After three years he succeeded to the editor ial chair of that publication, where he remained four years. For the last dozen years he has devoted himself entirely to literature. His viri1e, en- tertaining style and originality of thought and expression quickly made him popular in. England, and his fame soon spread to America, until now his works are often numbered among the "best sellers.''
 Charles Francis Adams the vener- able American historian who has late ly been delivering a series of lec- lures on American history at Oxford University, passes his seventy eighth milestone to-day, having Been born in Boston, May 27, 1885. His father during the civil war, and rendered to his country services Of inestinable value. His grandfather was Presf- dent John Quincy Adams. and his great-grandfather President John Adams. Tn his Oxford lectures Mir. Adams discussed the question of State rights, with it's application to present events, such as California's antt-Jap- anese legislation. He drew an anal ogy between Irish home rule and re- construction in the Southern States. MT. Adams fought throughout the civ il war, and was given the rank of brtgadier- general for his gallantry, but in one of his addresses he paid a high tribute to Gen. Lee, declaring that 'I feel that under the circumstances he acted as would have done, as he re- mained loyal to Virginia For twen- ty-f1ve years after the war MT. Adams was identified with railroad interests but has since devoted his time to his tor1ca1 research. and has written many books.
 Sir John Swinnerton Dyer, who re- cently played the role of bridegroom in a fashionable wedding at the Guard Chapel in London. is a very youthful husband, to-day being his twenty-sec- ond birthday. Sir John is the twelfth baronet of his line, the first having been created in 1878. He is an off cer of one of the crack regiments of the British army, and his wedding was a military affair.
 The first English historian the Ven erab1e Bede. died on this date in the year 735. The most learned writer and most eminent Englishman of his age was born in 673. He wrote on astronomy, mathematics, grammar and music, but his chief claim to fm- history a title won by his authorship of the Ecclesiastical History of the English Natfon,'' an invaluable record of early English history. In his con clusion to this work, he wrote: s'Thfs much of the Ecclesiastical History of Britain, and more especially of the English nation, as far as could learn either from the writings of the an- cients, or the traditions of our ances- tors, or of my own Knowledge, has with the help of God. been digested by me, Bede, the servant of God, and priest of the monastery of the biased apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Wearmou and Jarrow.'s