New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

4 evening and we debated the
~ question as to wne4ar.. t,.,s
~ writer's talked literature when
sssg got together as much as writer's
4 other countries. ! didn't believe
sssy did, and Mary--who knows--aas
Sssisned to agree with me. I've gossip
ssaus our friends aud encmies,n she
~ we talk a good deal OF pure and
snadultersted shop. But In London
hardly ever find myself let in for a
seli.dress literary discussion. There's
soraething about US which makes us
ssy Of that kind of thing--I don't
sssw Why II is"
Il was jolly to see Mary's bright
sgss ard her flaming mop Of red hair
After her long absence from London.
Sic teid me that she had brought back
gssh her from the Baltic sufficient
AumbeT Of short stories to make a
yslgne, and promised to let me see
rem assoon as they were typed. Her
eossYisstion to the recently issued vol
mse Georgian Stories"-it was re-
sgasteS, fancy. from "The Dialn--was
ruch the best thing in that curio,,s
aileetion. She has real originality.
ard II she can only succeed in for
gstt1g Ulysses" she ought to make
name for herself as soon "a her
work gets known.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10
Luneled to-day at the Savage Club
wIsh aiee waugh, DIR. Johnston Abra-
ham and FL. Nj. Belgion. We had a
table IN one of the windows, from
shich there was q splendid view of
tbe river. ! have always thought the
view OF the Thames which you get
from Adelphi Terrace one of The hest
% London. The Savage is certainly
lueky in its premises. Our talk ranged
sfer all kinds of topics, but except
for some conventionaliy polite refer
tnces TO my little book about James
2lroy FIccter it didn't touch literature
vnce. This seemed to bear out Mary
Butts's contention of last night DR..
abraham has written some successful
novels, Belgion is a journal half
way through first attempt at
aetion and Alec is not only famous as
the author of "The Loom of Youth"
bat is also reader to his fathers pub
fishing house, Chapman & Hall. We
ought really TO have been frightfully
literary. But how easy it is TO get
sick Of ones jobi
In the evening went to the P. E. N.
glab dinner at the Florence Restau-
rant in Rupert Street. The P. z. N.
Club is an international" dining club
ioanded about q year ago by Mrs. Daw-
son Scott for poets. editors and nov
slists" 1t entertains distinguished
visitors and centers have been started
ia a number Of foreign countries, in
elading France, Germany, Austria and
Japan. / forget whether the U. s.
whether its inaugural dinner Is still in
shs future. John Galsworthy is the
4 PRESIDENT of the club, and his influence
has undoubtedly helped very largely
70 rake it success. Tonight the
i business of the evening (there is
4 gasly no business, and speeches, as
wls are taboo) was the election o.
8 aanittee and officers. This was
aaa gsr, and we were able to walk
Sssihe room and talk to our friends.
d long discussion with May
j akiir about 'tThe Criterion" T. s.
aas new review and about Eliots
R And Grant Watson and agreed
Isome length on the great Importance
! arming, and Sidney Dark walked
auut beaming with benevolence. I
4 ssticed also Stacy Aumonier--white-
faced. dark-eyed and black-haired
vearing high black stock-and great
many other familiar faces. 1t was a
pleasant evening. which everybody
seemed to enjoy.
WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER II
morning He is over from Geneva
Tor q short visit and seemed In excel
lent health and spirits, His interest
IN politics and personalities, in all
that the world is doing and all the
people who are doing it, never seems
70 flag. He told me that he was think
ing Of bringing out a new edition of
ms admirable book, ''My Second Coun-
ttry-tranee," for the United States.
Very few foreigners know France
better than Dell-he lived in Paris for
The Manchester Guardian" until
Clemenceau fin 1870 expelled him for
telling the truth-and his book is one
q the most brilliant expositions of
rfench mentality, of conditions in
france at the present day which has
sSer appeared 1t certainly deserves
vide sale in America and will, /
asRe, secure it. In appearance Dell
Ml,has touch of the boulevardier
s,sa sseSs NJ nm. He is, / suppose, in the
sasg ifties, has q bushy gray nous
asaewhich he is fond of twirling, and
ssss Trimmed prince-nez. He is an
~ iriend and great admirer of
aaa'ole France and, on topics of his
t.m egh choosing, he is one of the best
A,Sers / ever met.
IN the afternoon | went to tea with
fvals Y. Wilkinson, who has returned
s.sN .sm Bavaria and is staying with
..tehds at Chiswiek He looked ex-
snsemeiy well, but his iecturing work
~, = 50 heavy this winter that he does
nav sApect to be able to finish his
ysss sm novel before the autumn of next
THURSDAY, OCTOBER IL
R,at mhat refreshing creature Jane
nafr Isl Her directness of attack acts
e. one like stiff whisky and soda.
she always likes to startie her audi
sase, but in so doing she forces them
their own ideas. I invited
Soi;.,i naynes-a we'll known London
dis@asof VINO is one of the pioneers of
tssee Il law reform in this country
soa meet her at tea, and the conversa-
ssa sA soon became highly technical. 1t
a contest between the practical
Ss, SLa'l, whose aim is the elimination of
assue Jars and all avoidable dis
ssila,ort, and the idealist, for whom
ghg is good enough but the best.
aetests and distrusss senti-
nsase .ss ana has tried for years to sup
ks any traces Of it which NAV still
bses IN nImself. Jane and I, on the
psa s,,sT hand, are frankly sentimental
Il gWsepie and We make no bones ahont Il.
wisb ! disagree with Jane and agree
na;nta ma!nes rs in the Importance of
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