New-York tribune., 1922-10-01
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The Countess de Ehambrur, whose
first novel Playing With Souls has
Just been published, WIS Mias Clara
Longworth, Of Cincinnati, "a sister oil
Congressman Nicholas Longworth, arG
hence also sister-n-!aw of Alice Eecsa~
yelt. Nine. de Chambrum is known in
France as a scholar, and has received a
doctors degree from the Facuh6 dea
Iettres. Among fer works are "lNnc
Sonnets Of Shakespeare and "Gio-
vanni Florio, an Apostle Of the Renais-
sance in England in the Time af Shake
spesre." Florio, by the way. @az Mil
toms brother-in law and the first trans.
lator Of Montaignc. The Couny dc
Chambrun Is q great grandson OF the
Marquis de Lafayette, and was Chief
Liaison officer between the French and
American armies during the war. lie
is also the author of "The American
Army in the European Conflict" which
his wife has translated.
The old home Of James Russell
Lowell, at Cambridge, Mass, still has
a literary tenant. 1t is now occupied
by A. Kingsley Porter, who is busy
with q stupendoas work on Roman
esque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage
Routes which will be illustrated with
1900 illustrations in eleven separate
portfolios.
The Allied Arts gold medal Of the
American institute of Architects has
been awarded to Frederic w. Gouds
for "meritorious work in the art OF
typography" Mr.. Goudy has designed
no fewer than fifty different types and
has just published volume on "The
Elements of lettering"
A travel book will be the next effort
of Webb Waldron. who wrote "The
Road to the World" Mr.. Waldron has
been doing" the region of the Great
Lakes this summer, and reports it full
Of interest, notable scenery and pic
turesque people, especially strange re-
ligious sects. One such considers it
self the Lost Tribe of Benjamin, and
is expecting the millennium soon.
Thirty thousand dollars was offered to
Kathleen Norris, and declined by her,
for the serial rights to "Certain People
of Importance" before it was published
fusa was that she did not want the
book cut, as would have been neces-
sary Mrs. Norris worked on this book
for nearly four years, but during the
same period of time she also produced
several shorter novels for scrializatlon,
and about forty short stories. She de-
clares this type of plotless novel is
much harder to handle than the kind
with a set plot. The book was begun
in Brazil, and continued all over Europe
and America
In addition to being one of the most
popular writer's of detective stories J.
S. Fletcher, the author of "Ravensdene
Court" is a fellow Of the ROYAL His
torical Society and an authority on
Yorkshire. He has written many mono
graphs on Yorkshire in its various his
torical aspects. He will have another
detective story out in October.
"The London Daily Telegraph finds
the manners Of American society
peculiar as revealed in Margaret
Deland's "The Vehement Flame" espe-
cially the "torrential slang of Mrs. De-
lands young women and the horse
play of their pulling parties"
There is no slang in English novels, or,
any how, no taffy pulling.
An extraordinary personality passed
with the death of Wilfrid Scawcn Blunt,
whose "Diaries," published this year,
form a running commentary on Euro
pean affairs for more than thirty years.
ioned liberal, a champion of lost
causes; he spent year in jail in the
SOS for taking the side Of the Irish;
he travelled much in Asia and Africa,
especially among the Arabs; he spent
fortune breeding and buying Arab
horses and introducing them to Eng
land, for he was very rich, and he was
fond of Arab dress. His wife, Lady
Anne Blunt, was granddaughter of
Byron. Their early married life was
romantically happy, but they quarreled
and separated later, and Blunt also had
painful disagreements and lawsuits
with his only daughter. Blunt's birth,
wealth and talents enabled him to meet
almost every important or interesting
parsonage of his time, and he has
something to say of all of them in his
Diaries"
Richard Blaker, author of "The Voice
in the Wilderness" lives now in the
New Forest, not far from Southampton,
England, but he has travelled much. He
has seen something of India, Egypt,
Palestine, Germany, Austria and south
ern Russia, and has also visited the
Ford factory at Detroit, which he con-
siders the greatest wonder he ever
saw.
The younger poets of America have
founded new organ for their produc-
tions, "Caprice," magazine to be pub
lished in Los Angeles. The editor is
David N. Grokowsisy and the first issue
will contain poems by Lew Sarett, Mark
Turbyfill, Oscar Williams, Oliver Jen-
kins, Louis Grudin, Rex Hunter, John
Drury, Hi Simons, Pearl Andelson,
Juan Fujita, Virgil Geddes, Hardin
Masters (the son of Edgar Lee Mas
ters), and others. Rex Hunter, of New
York, and John Drury, of Chicago, are
associated with the venture.