Show THE WORLD OF LETTERS ANEW A NEW NOVEL BY MISS LILIAN BELL IS OUT it is 13 thin in plot but has bits ot of power A new author from australia publishes his first book correspondence Tribune 1 new york june 9 A A now new novel by miss lilian bell entitled the under side ot of things will mill be published by harper during the week the two I 1 0 olis novels 0 of miss hell bell the he love iove I ove affairs 0 of an old maid and a nd A little sister to the wilderness were so eminently successful that any future work by her ter has been expected with interest tills new story seems however unlikely to tile the reputation of the writer it bears marks ot of immaturity which would indicate that it was written before her other stories it deals moreover with a 9 backway back waid d theme having baying much to say about washington social life ot of which every reader ot of so called national fiction has long ago had much more than enough so that thai on llie lie whole the work Is far from fr 0 in meeting the expectation raised by the quiet intellectual beauty of one 0 of the authors novels or the sympathetic portrayal of the common people their sorrows s and ant pleasures find and dumois and eccentricities contained in the other yet tet it if the thread of the he story Is thin many bright things characteristic 0 of the author are nevertheless hung upon it the following comparison of 0 the east and the west for example seems likely to appeal to tile the readers of tile the in the west the broad open streets given by the genc generosity rosity ot of the never ending e pr prairies airles are symbolic of the towns radical hospitality in the east the narrow thrifty streets jammed in between the hills and the soft indicate the towns conservative selection of 0 guests in the west ever body la Is new nobody was born there and the graveyards graveyard a are fresh and small and bustling in the hast east everybody was boin a there everything Is old and the he graveyards are arc large large and stately and silent in ill west there Is freshly turned sod and there are arc miles of wire fences in the east bast there are arc stone walls and ivy and green mould and lichens in ili the west nobody knows who mho your grandfather wash wai in the east set everybody knows your great grand g rand father in the west to hustle Is to be great in the east everybody has tim to be slow find haste la Is inelegant the provincialism of tho the west Is uncouth and broad the provincialism of the east Is maddeningly denin gly narrow the innate feeling ot of a young man from the small western town that he Is only one ot of a tremendous moss mass of humanity and that in order to be individualized he mus must L boisterously assert himself that because his family name Is unknown in the great city he must shout it in your car and begin each argument mith the premise that he Is just as good as anybody springs from tho the nature of the new west this newness laidely consists or of a broad democratic brotherhood which evidences itself tit in servants insisting upon being called help find and of dining with the family in a town ton of the fame size in the east caste cable it Is re recognized c 0 from the ancient order of lof the bankers son who mho goes to t 0 new york states slates his name modestly modest IV and expects it to be known very likely it Is it if not he la Is neither hurt nor offended his place in the economy of 0 f tho the universe Is secure even it a few fe w do not know him lie he gots goss about big business quietly it would never occur to him to insist that he Is as good as you are probably because in his secret healt very quietly and elegantly he thinks himself much better belter roth doth young fellows being americans americana are at heal heair t gentlemen men 1 heir manners alone betray the difference of their environment and neither is 1 to blame both are the creatures or of circumstance and the natu namuia tat product ot of their respective cLINe chii civilizations 0 is another new mw novel A first flett fleet family will introduce a new writer to american readers reader a the author sir air imis becke Is an all australian whose first book by reef still and palm was published in england albut a year ago and made m a decided hit somewhat later the ebbing of the tide appeared hut but neither of the novels have formed a large audience in it tins tills country so that this new story which the macmillan company will bring out in a few days virtually presents pie mr it becke to america it is also ills hl most ambitious attempt in fiction and has been expected by tho the with some bome ress it Is in fact ills his first novel the oilier volumes from liln its pen being short sto stoil iles cs or rather of nt the life in tile the cola coial wands landa 1 of tho ile he his has always written out of full know ledge of his hii subject for tile the gicale r part of 0 ills his life lias has been spent about the archipelago anti and years of observation have lave taught him the strange evil history of tile the wands where here it Is in a always afternoon and where the ruling power Is the outcast expatriated white man it 19 1 part of tills till tillable ble and pathetic history that thai forms the frame boik ol 01 k of A first fleet family it it Is tile tho story ot of two unhappy BOU souls one it 11 smuggler and the othel r tile the innocent lon girl who inho loved him lie he Is condemned to and to still pal on oil tile llie first coclet to nolond hay bay site giving up tip the world for him goes with him delet mined mine to shall ciaio in ills cruel fate TIO tho romance of tile the story centers in ill poe two but the Inter interest cut of it to tile the average reader lies lather in its to dc of tile the voyage of the milt mill fleet and in the consequent bettl et sto of now new south wals wales the story ry Is supposed tup posed to bo be told LOW by a petty officer on oil one line of the ships it ft la Is nearly 1 a I handled years since ellice the I 1 i riding of those starkin beaten n ships with their of sin stained and buffering humanity on january 20 29 1788 since then that settlement the first bleeds of which were sown amid the highs and and tears of the wicked and worthless and till the swish of the dreadful cat and the th clank of lion geves upon mary limbs has bus become a tree free ind and flourishing colony find and the mer norles s of lb ihal and past ore are well nigh forgotten and indeed though I 1 did tea foa much that sickened iw of ct the swift a and nd ctorn punishment unish ment that aaa as the rate r of it the theo evil dobeis who ho sought to renew their crimea in it a land hind and though eerie of those in authority were cruel anti and heartless yet do I 1 honestly believe that thai motet moist of those who were then my superiors bete good and ron con mn m n who sought to do their duty to their country anti and their king turbulent scenes took place at first nept and the th hafti arety ty the very liate of tho the colony depended upon the enforcement of discipline the lawbreakers law liw breakers wro therefore warned that trespasses would be punished with death dath if sa bald id the officer in charge charac the n of lat last are rr attempted to be repeated the guard euard has orders to III anre re upon you to ailt nit it stop to your riotous debauchery therefore e for your wn ea rakes kes I 1 implore you to ta take kot heed hed out of some fix hundred of 0 f you who ought bs 16 work not morn mom than two lit adred have shown an inclination to do di so very well wd J will take care I 1 that hat the industrious shall not libor labor tor for tile the idle thoss who do riot not work shall not eat in england Rn Kland poultry li Is with death and there poultry Is 19 plentiful heie a fowl Is or nt the utmost to the for they arp ari leber ved to bleed as well as every other species of stock lack th belore understand unde me whoever steal the most leifling article of 0 stock tr or provi provisions ai ons shall lie be punished with mith death it vt will III be grievous to my illy feelings to exer elso severity but tho the welfare or of all demands most rigid execution of the laws lawa iio stopped for a while still and then hen resu resumed mod in a milder tone the work oil w will ill be called upon to do will not even equal the labors or of ill thy hiss husbandman bandman at home but every one ant of you must and shall do your share toward making the cook community u prosperous and we shaji begin by erectile erect erecting Ill comfortable dwellings tor for the ofil cers and men of the inarene detachment and afterward sul suitable table housea for yourselves is dut but the lawless beings with m whom horn he had ad to deal were not to be controlled ty moral suasion the 1110 convicts or at least leapt the greater part ot of them thein tore alvere sad rogues anil and it became necessary to lis flog and hang ma many fly of them before they could be got in any bolt ot of good food order A week after we had landed the triangles I 1 i egged and a few days later it a gallows gallowa was put up just within cry of 0 the little town we had made and we soon had bail occa occasion Mork to use them indeed hanging was the only cure for some of th wickedness that throve apace in the settlement as tor for flogging they seemed to take hut but little account ot of that thal and would take the risk ot of it with great cheerful cheerfulness nesa by committing all sorts of petty thefts and such rogueries eries erles not long after aan r the ho expedition had landed there began becan to be some talk of the th country containing gold and indeed I 1 had heard much ot of tills this on the voyage ou out t lor for many persons in the expedition had said that it was likely that gold would be found perhaps tills this was because that there were among us people whose ancestors could ber the talk about the south americas Amerl cas in the days when every adventurer strove to reach that part ot of the world where it was supposed that gold abounded and so BO in one way or another the idea we had taken Into our leads when we were very young got about among aronna us its again that the metal was to le be found in every unexplored country A few months made a in maikel al ked improvement p pro ro in the condition ot of the colony our settlement now began to show signs of 0 progress the married marri edd convicts for or the most part were industrious and the governor hold had given to each couple a small of 0 lind to cultivate and the abryants bryants so I 1 heard hean were setting getting to be well liked tor for con sli stent efforts and steady Indus industry ind tty the country all around nylund the cove being so poor pool a farm was begun tit at a place called rose hill some miles up an at arm it of the waters of post jackson a tine fine atrick li lck house was built tor for the governor and it a hewn stone lilt hut for the lieuten ant governor storehouses were also built of stone and a barracks for our men was begun meanwhile both we marinen ant and our prisoners had to lodge in roughly made huts buts each of out our officers 0 was allowed a grant ot of two acres 0 of f land and a convict laborer to cultivate the soil is yet still time was wag required for the r crops to prow grow and mature and the suffering of the colony meantime m was mas as very great the country itself yielded us nothing no food came from england as capt phillip philllp had expected and before long iong we soon felt what the actual p pangs angs of hunger meant up till this time we had always ila biad at least enough food hard and coarse as it was and otter after the governor had placed us its all on oil short rations will and ills his men would sometimes manage to hide bide a few small fish in the bosoms of oc their shirts for my children J dut cut by and by not even this much did they dare do for the moment the boat touched the ills shore their take was gare carefully runy examined and counted by s some 0 me ot of the marines detailed lor for the duty day by day matters grew worse and the small ration of lour flour and pork served out to us its had bad to be still further reduced and then I 1 had the misery of hearing my eldest child my boy emanuel wall wail and cry tor for more food the work Is said to be largely historical sir air decks who Is tile the sort son of a clerk of an australian benuit having drawn draun liberally upon the records of tile lie colony with which lie he la IS through association thoroughly familiar NANCY HUSTON BANKS |