The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-16

Music Mountain" Jean ivebster's
Dear Enemy" and Kathleen Norris's
'The Heart of Rachael" Many places
down the list is Walpole's Inn the
Dark Forest" the one deeply magma
tive novel of the war.
Belle Kanaris Maniates, best known
as the author Of "Amarilly of Clothes
Line Ally" has just written another
sprightly story in Our Next Door
Gus family. Her father was native
of Athens and her grand-uncle was
Constantine Kanaris, whose naval
victory in 1SA7 enriched Greek his
tory Miss Mandates Is native OF
Michigan, where she still resides, For
years contributor to the newspapers
and magazines, it was not until Feb.
49, 1915, that she entered the class OF
| popular authors with her appealing
story of precocious little bread-win-
ner of IA called "Amarilly of Clothes
ing steadily since publication, and
has attained a 18th printing.
Tho Mexican War Diary of Gen.
| George B. Mcclellan" announced for
spring publication by the Princeton
University Press, is both interesting
and valuable. Mcclellan as soldier
made u poor subordinate in some re-
spects. The diary, iotted down in
camp after marches and battles, con-
tains the out-spoken views of the
writer on the inefciency of volun
teer army.
One of the recent publications of
Dodd. Mead &, Co., is new and revis
ed edition OF Hawaii, Past and Pres
emit by William II. Castle, Jr., who
is native of Honolulu and descended
from one of the four missionaries with
whom white life in the islands began.
One of the anecdotes in Gamaliel
Bradford's Portraits of Women" de-
scribes an encounter betweenn George
Tichnor and Lady Holland. II under |
stand, Mr.. Tichnor." said the naughty |
ruler of London society, that New
England was originally settled by |
convicts.'' 81 was not aware OF that" |
Tichnor replied promptly, but
know that some of the Vassalls, your |
ancestors, were early settlers IN Mass |
achusetts," 1t was the same famous |
lady, by the way, to whom Lord John |
Russell remarked, when she tried TO |
get her husband appointed secretary |
Of foreign affairs. but they say,
ma am, that you open all Lord Hol- |
lands letters, and foreign ministers
might not like that"
Ring Lardner the Chicago sporting
writer whose baseball reports and
stories have brought him national rep
utation is the author of "Gullible's
Travels" announced by the Bobbs-
Merrill company. He is the most en-
tertaining humorist developed by the
Chicago press since the departure of
"Mr. Dooley."
Some time in the spring, Double
dey, Page & Co, will bring out "a
Diversity OF Creatures by Rudyard
Kipling
Talking OF Shakespeare and the
glasses" nobody was
the following passage from book
on sea life may he of interest
And yet on the strength of a single
line he confuted the theory that
had ever been at sea"
What was the line, Shaw? It's be-
yond me-
He said somewhere or other,
can't give you the latitude and longi-
tude, that a mans wits were dry as
the remainder biscuit after a voyage.
If he had ever been at sea he would
have known that old biscuit is soft
and weevilly Captain Brassbound.
The most colloquial novel of this
season is The Job" (Harper & Bros.)
Sinclair Lewis is closely acquainted
with the vocabulary and mental pro-
cesses OF average Americans This |
story abounds in dialogue that sounds
like dictaphone records of converse
ton from myriad business offices,
boarding houses, and three-room fats.
Let us illustrate with few lines from
Wally Babson, the superficial icono.
,last: 'Of course, I'm terribly crude
and vulgar, but then what else can
you be in dealing with bunch of
that haven't half the size or
beauty of farmers red barns? And =.
yet the dubs go on asserting that they
believe the church is Gods house. If
were God, I'd sure object to being