Show Book Gives New Slant on Samuel Sets Forth Impression Made by Great Diarists Diarist's Works By FRANK A. A HUNT I What a fascinating fellow Samuel Peps Pep's Is toda today much more popular popular lar than was when alive o and admitted to hundreds of homes from which w lIe he would hardly be welcomed wel- wel corned today it if was still but a a. navy official What a library of 01 literature has grown up about him But Arthur has ilas written a a. book that gives gins us a new slant on the great diarist First he sets tile the impression Peps Pep's made on ills hIs contemporaries Then Thell he gives tile the memory left ot of him after aCter ilis bis death In the long period pe- pe nod from 1825 1703 and then the marvelous and finished picture pie pie- tore ture of the man which began to emerge when the diary was first published It Is a great loss to us that Mrs l did not also keep keel a diary dlan for fOl what she sile Could have told of 01 l certainly have hare rounded out tile the picture with a flourish CULTIVATE EXTERIOR Men loten more especially thOse thoe WIlO ho have public duties instinctively elY cultivate an exterior for public exhibition ox- ox which often orten may not harmonIze lIar lIar- monIze with their private life says sas An n analysis therefore which detaches tile the public and the private before welding them together together to- to gether and considers at the same time the verdict ot of Immediately succeeding generations may have hae some value alue Diaries can reveal a aide of a person which Is unsuspected b by his con temporaries contemporaries It Is interesting to note noto that Eve E lyn ln who also kept a diary a much superIor man In his day to reps rep's makes but little mention of 01 our hero At tile the risk of stealing more from the book than the man who does docs not own It is entitled to we quote just ono one amusing paragraph to show style AMOURS NOT BOLD His Ilis amours were not of a bold dashing and brilliant king such as would have bave made him a prominent ure fi with the beauties of 01 tile the dissolute Restoration society On contrary they were surreptItious and rather sordid and being secret neither contributed to nor nOl detracted from his pUblic reputation tion lIe describes such ease tile the Nell Gwynn etc of 0 Ills day that we e are apt to picture him as being In with them all whereas of 01 course he was on only so soto soto to speak looking through the keyhole key key- hole book Is just large enough to t stick In the side pocket of your coat It Is one of the volumes volumes vol- vol umes worth buying McMillan Co New York and San Francisco |