Evening star., 1925-01-09
THE PUBLIC
LIBRARY
). Real People Portrayed
in Fiction.

a recent issue OF the Bulletin of
the New York Public Library con-
tains a list of books in which real
people appear as characters. romans
a clef. compiled by Earle +. Wal
bridge. librarian at the Harvard Club
Of New York City. Though not very
trustworthy pictures of the charac-
ters portrayed, these novels are en-
tertaining, and afford an interesting
postscript to the real blogra ply
which has been under discussion in
the previous articles of this series.
The list Is too long to quote more
than a selection of the tales, those
which are given about some of the
more familiar characters. The full
list may be consulted in the reference
room OF the central library.
Daudet, Alphonse: Kings In Exile
AxeI Is thinly disguised portrait Of
King of Illyria, is a portrait OF Fran
els II, the last Kingof Naples. who
lost his throne in 1850.
Dickens, Charles: Barnaby Rud dge-
Dickens is supposed to have taken
Lord Chesterfield for his model in
drawing the character of Mr.. Chester
Dillon. Mary: The Patience OF John
Morland.-A political novel of Wash
ingtou about 1880. Kitty McCabe is
Margaret O'Neille, who married John
Henry Eaton OF Tennessee. Secretary
OF War in Jackson's cabinet and aft
erward Minister to Spain.
Du Maurier, George: Trilby.--Little
Billie is sketched from Frederick
walker e1s4o-1875), famous t.rtist
and illustrator. whose early death
blighted a brilliant promise.
Eliot George: Middlemarch.-Ac-
cording to Nudge and Sears George
Eliot Dictionary" Dorothea Brooke
is Mrs. Mark Pattison Qater Lady
Dilke). VIII Ladislaw is George
Henry Lewes, the Rev. Casaubon is
Mark Pattison, Oscar Browning is
Tertius Lydgate, and George Eliots
sister. Chrisuana Evans, is Celia
Brooke.
Ford, Paul Leicester: The Honor
able Peter Stirling.-There is no
doubt that a great deal of the popu-
larity of "The Honorable Peter Stir
ling" was due to the universal recog-
milton of its hero as a portrait of Mr.
Grover Cleveland.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble
Faun.-Hilda is a prophetic picture
of Hawthorne's eldest daughter, Una;
Kenyon is portrait of Paul Akers,
the sculptor.
Kiplins, Rudyard: Stalky & Co..
The Hon. C. c. Beresford is the
original of McTurk.
Meredith. George: The Amazing
Marriage.-Gower Woodseer is said
to be sketch of r. L. Stevenson.
Meredith, George: Diana of the
Crossways.-Diana Warwick's history
is founded on that of Caroline Norton,
one of the three beautiful grand
daughters OF Sheridan, immensely
admired in the society of her day
and popular as poet and novelist.
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas: The
doubt that In Ludwig Wehlitz the
author has presented a study of
Nietzsche.
Sinclair, May: The Divine Fire
THE Divine ire" is the one book of
May Sinclairs that everybody likes.
1t is the story of a genius, d char
acter said to be the prototype of the
poet, Ernest Dowson.
Stevenson, Robert Louis The
Wrecker.--Sorne of Loudon Dodd's
experiences were those of VIII II.
Low. Jim Pinkerton is genial, far
away caricature of S. S. Mcclure );
corpl. John may be identified with
John S. Sargent, the great portrait
painter.
Tolstoi, Leo: Anna Karenina.--Con-
stantine Dnhitrich Levine especially
in his religious experiences is in a
large measure Tolstoi himself, as
Matthew Arnold has pointed out in
his Essays in Criticism: Second
Series
Wells. H. Co.: Mr.. Britling Sees 1t
Through.-Mr. Britling is a trans
parent portrait of Mr.. Wells-an
amazingly frank portrait. He has
never before produced so engaging "a
likeness of himself. We are not
speaking about his private life, of
which We know nothing, but of his
Ideas, his lima ginative sympathies, his
character a. a man OF letters.