The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Another American
Publisher in London

I van jumps up TO do mis- peculiar lit
tie pace-two steps to the left. three
TO the right. two again TO the left
and then back TO the settee. They
are talking about O'Donovan's novel,
Vacations. which George Moore
and Rose Macaulay are SO enthu-
siastic about. and the last paragraph
of which. as / remember. Robert
Lynd wanted O'Donovan to change
in the fourth English edition. which
was then about to go to press. Lynd
has the most beautiful cameolike
profile, and you would have liked the
way his pretty wife. Sylvia Lynd.
the novelist, looked at him from her
big chair, where she seemed to be
eating a whole box of chocolates
with May Sinclair and Capt. Usher.
and you would have loved the under
standing way in which he always
returned her glances.
After ten minutes by the fire and
with the reinforcement OF a whisky
and soda was warm enough to ven-
ture of the arctic temperature OF
.he far side OF the long, beautiful,
aigh ceiling room where grouped
iround Rose Macaulay. who looked
stunning in a new evening dress
which happened to be stolen from
ner flat later that very evening"
| was the jolliest crowd imaginable.
These astounding aristocrats. Edith
Sitwell and her brothers. Osbert and
Sascha, all Of whom are doing the
most interesting things in modern
poetry, were discussing something or
other In laughing tones with Walter
de la Mare. to whom wish | could
devote at least a thousand words.
because he's worth IT,
And. ladies. beware! If Osbert Sit
we'll comes over here TO lecture. as
he's been asked to. you'll forget all
about William Courtenay and Henry
b. Irving and Doug Fairbanks.
can barely hear what Rose Macaulay
is saying to the serious. gentle look
ing, attractive six footer Aldous
Huxley, but / know that il is some-
thing about how much she likes hts
fine novel, Chrome Yellow" And
| just as thought that ! might have
Il chance to make a sparkling re-
| mark that I had been rehearsing all
the way down Piccadilly. Knights
bridge and Kensington road. Miss
May Sinclair and Bohun Lynch, the
author and really first rate artist.
and Desmond MacCarthy, the "Af-
fable Hawk" OF The Neto Statesman,
Joined our circle. making II possible
for me to offer a real contribution
to the fund of literary knowledge In
America
It has always puzzled my friends
who have read May Sinclair's 1.-The
Belfry" to know just what Tasker
Jevons did at the awful dinner party
to make his wife decide. after many
| sins. that this was the objectionable
one. AS Miss Sinclair told US. In
answer to my entreaty. sit was worse
than picking his teeth at the table.
He had eaten a chocolate nougat and
when part Of It lodged In his teeth
he made several futile attempts and
then a final successful effort TO re-
move the remains with his fingers"
So that's that-my first party in
London And as I am over the thou
sand words can't tell you about
George Moore's Impressions of w. u.
Yeats or w. B. Yeats's impressions
OF George Moore or what Robert
Graves thinks about John Gould
Fletcher and John Cournos, or about
Cournos himself. the most interesting
American living i'm England Nor
about the wide swath our own good
Sinclair Lewis is cutting in London.
where he IS becoming more and more
popular every day
HORACE B. LdvERIGHT.