The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-22
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

lished by E. P. Dutton 81 Co.
Mrs. Bennett was French.
woman before her marriage to the
English literary giant. Bennett was
mot sure of his own judgment
concerning the woman he was going
to ask to be his wife.
So he asked one of his male
friends. AS Mrs. Bennett puts it ir
her book: He was on the way tc
being in love and marry me but he
was not to fall hopelessly in love
and marry me without making sure
that l spoke good French"
And that is something new to me
at least as qualification for a suit
able wife but to Bennett it was
very important because at that time
he was trying to become a part OF
the life of Paris and of France.
Mrs. Bennett reveals that he1
husband had strange passion for
making fortune out of his writ
ings and even during the World wal
Dragged about the high prices he
was able to get.
Another strange trait about the
late Arnold Bennett, according to
his widow, was that he had a
strange passion for being exactly
on time when he made an appoint
ment and he insisted that everybody
be on time.
Concerning his religion, Mrs. Bet
nett writes: Religion had no in
spring effect on Arnold Bennett.
Though saturated in his youth with
the beautiful religion of Christ, his
intellect refused to be impressed
with it."
1t seems to me that Mrs. Bennett
was just a lovely ornament in the
life of her famous husband and he
used her as a sort of a decoration
in his study when he wrote and
that decoration must make no
sound, not even cough.
AS he became more famous and
wealthy, Bennett drifted farther
and farther apart from his wife,
although she maintains that he
considered her his own conscience"
and asked her: do you think it is
easy to live in front of ones own
conscience?"
Life became more and more diff
cult for the BENEFITS until as "a
result of a misunderstanding with
my husband, l was asked, to my
great surprise, by our solicitors to
leave our fiat at once, for the sake
Of Arnold's work"
And she did, never to return. And
she writes near the end of her book,
Arnold was by nature a bachelor.
He was, then, unconSciously striv-
ing to regain his freedom If
only for a time
Have received word from Jona-
than Cape g. Robert Ballou that
they will soon publish, THE Master
of the House." which is the first
book that Radcliffe Hall has writ
ten since the publication of The
Well of Loneliness.
Susan Ertz, famous English novel
list and author of Madame Claire .
1.-THE Galaxy" and The Story OF
Julian" is on her way to New York
on thesliner Majestic to be the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. John w. Hiltman.
Hiltman is president of D. Appleton
g. Co.
TTARRY PIDGEON tells the
Il L thrilling and glamorous story
of his solo voyage that girdled the
globe in Around the World Single
Handed" published this week by
Appleton.
Here is a great modern adven-
ture, an adventure too vast, no
doubt, to be realized by most of us,
and yet now We may live through it
step by step as it unfolds itself in
Pidgeon'S vivid narrative.
To begin with, the author set out
to build a boat himself. He studied
boat building and navigation in a
public library. Finally after a year
and a half of constant labor, his
34-foot yawl was ready, and off he
went from Los Angeles harbour on
a voyage which took him lacka-
daisically onward to the MarquesaS
and other South Sea islands, to
Samoa, Fiji, and thence to the In
dian ocean, to Timor, CocoS, Cape
town, and Trinidad, and then by
the Panama Canal to California and
home.
The story of this solitary sail is
a remarkable compound of romance
and excitement. The author is not
only a seaman but also a profess
sional photographer, and his own
striking and beautiful pictures fully
embellish the book.
n y
The murder mystery is reputed to
be the book that cheers. 1t is also
widely claimed to induce, not sleep
but forgetfulneSS. AS cure for
depression and pre-occupation with
ones sins it is said to have no peer,
The London News and Chronicle,
however. reports case. where it
produced an unexpected effect
while reading Death Answers the
Bell by Valentine Williams, Glen
cairn Stuart Ogilvie t74. collapsed
and died at his home in Leiston
Suffolk"
lone Hundred Years of Yose-
mite by Carl p Russell of the Ma
tional Park Service, will be pub
lished April II by Stanford Uni
versity Press. 1t is the first COM
plete history of the famous region
from the time Of It's discovery.