Evening star., 1935-04-14

market basket home for me?" He
graciously consented and trudged OF
with her basket.
The Canadian prime minister, Mr..
Richard B. Bennett, who Is by the
way a brother of the charming Mrs.
Herridge. wife of the Canadian Minis
ter at Washington, Is said in some
quarters to be largely responsible for
the selection Of the author and par
liamentarian, Mr.. John Buchan, as the
new governor general Of Canada. He
Is the kind of a Scotsman his coun-
trymen of the Dominion like-he Is
q commoner. too. It is> said, however,
that King George looks very kindly
upon Mr.. Buchan, and many things
may happen before he takes office in
the Autumn. This Is jubilee year
and there are favors to be given out
and who knows but that after all the
popular author may arrive to the
north as Sir john
Mr.. Buchan is the author Of some
thing like so books dealing with ro-
nance. history. biography and ad-
venture. The last books are said to
be favorites with President Roosevelt,
who likes mystery stories and tales
Of adventure. Cromwell and "Sir
Walter Raleigh" have been particu-
larly popular in America. His last
book, 1.-THE Kings Grace" Is awaited.
In the Pan-American library in that
beautiful building over which DR.
Rowe presides is most interesting
copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's History
of the World" in five books. 1t was
printed in London by Walter Burre
in 1914. There is also in this library
copy of THE Life of Christopher
Columbus" printed in 1881. In which
there is note setting forth the dis
coveries he made in the West Indies,
"vulgarly called the New World"
Mr. John Cooper Powys, after a
residence of 80 years in the United
States, during which time he has lee
tured in almost every part of the
country. is saying farewell to Amer
lea in the current number of Scrib-
ners Magazine. He carefully assures
his readers that he has not been
Americanized-that he still has his
British accent and that he is not re-
turning to his native country with a
pocketfu Of money made in the
States.
The Middle West appealed most to
him as the real America, but his
heart rests largely in New York. Penn
sylvania and New Jersey-where he
spent his happiest hours: Charleston
and Boston he has no regrets in leav-
ing, but Greenwich Village. he says
like Chelsea in London and like the
left bank Of the Seine in Paris, re-
sembles God, in that it is a circle
whose circumference diminishes and
increases according to human volition
but Patchin Place. where he lived, Is
unquestionably near its center"
Mr.. Powys looks upon American hu-
NOR as more cruel than ours" and
American slang as more ferocious.
And there is one Of his children
Wolf Solent," too. How could you
Mr. Powys? It's a delightful fare
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it that nostalgia overcame him and
always I'm an English a man had
more truth than poetry, Gilbert and
Sullivan.
Mr.. Claude G. Bowers, American
Ambassador TO Spain. had a birthday
present for Thomas Jefferson yester-
day on the 1920 anniversary of JEFF
ferson's birth. but it was not quite
finished and cannot be until Mr.. Bow
ers returns to America, which he ex-
poets to do this Summer, when he
will make some additional research
The Indianan announces that he Is
also at work on another book, THE
Spanish Adventures of Washington
Irving" This will be more spicy, eh
Thomas had a few adventures, too
He did not spend all Of his timt
writing letters about department te
his young daughter Martha. It may
or may not be true that he and Gen