Show I r i NOTES I 1 in Un III Held lIeh of uC OliO teI another the three BellMan broth us 8 have hn risen Into fame The Thu last 0 public attention and the tile tilene nc ne whose success Is I probably the post lost solid and c Is III h Ar 1 Christopher Benson First there tho m q tin thit novelist brother who wrote 1 todo odo and and 1111 ban never since attained vie IC popularity that wax WIlli his whIm when the tho look hook was sas In lii lift Ri It prime Although he hens hedU ns ju written other novels no io o closely s his reputation with the thc nov 1 that thaI ho he Is 13 known knowlI to hla hili hI friends us UI Dodo Benson Instead of ot hY by his 11 name Tho The second brother to till Jill the public t iye SO was Father Benson Although the tho son sn of CC an nn archbishop of o the Church hueh of at England he became a It oC ef tho the II Catholic church has hils at ut some seine note no to as liS u a I writer of theses concerning the position of ot his religion A C was late In coming to tu his own for his first lOOkS books were vero pub pul published anonymously They gained joined rec roe recognition but the author was wa almost III most unknown u Tills ruts Is in tn keeping with his work for his books deal less les with ac action tion and achievement than with the culmer resources of or a II life of or meditation meditation tion then Two of at hL his curlier earlier Tho rho House louse of o Quiet and The Thread of Gold have recently been repainted under tho the authors name The House of at Quiet from flom rote its It I first publication In 1004 Inot has hitts been printed 1 nine times nd The Thread of Gold Galli has hia been print printed ed 1 five time within a n year ear Mr 11 Ben Bell Bellson Benion son ion also has h s written a it biography of Tennyson soll less generally known Ono One third of the volume is given up to tho the events of life liCe tho the rest Is II devoted to his p characteristics his relations with Carlyle Carlle Jowett and others und and to 10 a criticism und and Interpretation of or his hI work Recently Mr 1 Benson published ne Be Beside side Still Waters aters and From Front a a College Window Indol These Thie have havo the essayists and It II Is upon this quality that ll II fume fame tests rests Competent Cori critics gIVe him place IllIce with Sir Leslie Stephen At tho the present time Sir Mr h Benson is writing n a series of 12 articles which ore are appearing In the Corn hili Maga Magazine zine zino In England Englana end In In America fhe The general title Is ha At large and In their familiar informal manner and personal tone they the ore to Pa In Papers pers Some Somo of the tho subjects to be treated lire are contentment friendship humor haunter and travel travelS S S S The library in Its Us report for 1008 acknowledges the tho receipt of ot nearly nearl books and f during durin the last year nr Tho The greater number of or these those consist of new nev books each publisher being obliged by b UK th copyright oct net to lo send one copy to five libraries In England ot or which fie Ile ta Is I one Of Ot these thou raids of at volumes how many are nrc really orthy tho place they occupy on tho the shelves of at the tho famous old library Charles hones Bocher flocher who IH Is In his IdA ninety frond Onit year car and nm Includes In his rem reminiscences that which ho lie has ha been told at tit hand places upon tho the tl tI I Itic tlc tic H pace of his hi Memoir Mr 1 hI father told him hint personal of or the Old Regime the Tb of elt tho the Empire His Ills col aol lr ke professor was Philippe I n fl i of or companion In life and loath death zand he hl himself remembers I I sister lie knew kraev Mote Mine anti and was admitted Into lotta the circle of Mine Ime GeorgI Montagu whose book on oat Ten Teti of Progress lies has ha just been beell published Is Itt II a son kon ot or Hear the lion Hon Victor Mon 1011 and R heir hell presumptive to I his hits uncle the Kul of ot Sandwich Ills partiality for oil nil matters pertaining to lo railway rail way locomotion Ion Is Itt only equaled by h his I en sa for Cm golf golt Ho went vent through the at tutu In II driving an tan engine Ho lb Is I also alo a politician and end represented South Huntingdon In III parliament In the last government Ho lie h wits was mar married married ried nod about two yours years ago ngu to an ai Amen Ameil oath girl 4 That the unexpected Is what hap pens pena has hns been leen once onci more Illustrated by hy the he decision of the th London Lundon city ctt council that thi Mrs Mary Barton Is It Immoral and not tit alt read rend hag Ing III for London youths natal and maidens It was tits consequently conle barred from fotia tho the public S S w S SA A most attest Interesting bit hit of ot literary his tory connects thou those two veterans of American literature William Dean Henry Henr James Mr 11 Howells Is six years ears the older eider not n IL great Ireat deal now that both holh ot of them Item are ure well wull advanced In lit years but butIl buta Il a period when they the were both 1 young to give glo Mr MI Howells I tho the start ID III Ii literary life lICe and have him hahn oc oe occupying I copying CUI IIII an tin editorial position when Mr James was las making his first literary efforts Most opportunely end and by b tho the strang strung strangest est eeL chance chanel the tho lust short story that Mr 11 James ever Over wrote fa aio It In ij said sald saida salda a story of the tho lie Civil War fell Into Inlo the editorial hands ot or Mr II Howells who vito Instantly recognized Its merits Ac AI Accept Accept It accept nil all wo we can got get front from this writer he lie said warmly and then Who Is IH this Henry James Han hu ho ever over done donI anything before this He lie Is certain to do remarkable work U It is to think that an nil ac ae acquaintance which began In tn such Buell u II chance chanco but hut pleasant way vay U was ins 40 years ago ugo developed Into warm personal friendship as tho the yens years passed and both li th Mr JIll Howells anti and nil Mr 1 James come came cameto cometo to know each other well us as well to know each others work It U Is curious too jolt that hint among tho tint recent works of oC these two 1110 longtime friends of con contrasting contrasting genius there thero should be one on This The American Scene by b James who Iio Is looked upon as ItS having become practically 11 CH 11 an tan Englishman and one unu on Certain Delightful h Towns by hy Howells who still remains American In spirit S S The fhe stor sIan of at tho the first association be between tween Howells and 1111 1 James Jumes Is 18 remind remindful ful fat of the lie interesting fact fuet that tho the first novel written by b Thomas Hardy Hard went vent Into the hands of or Meredith at lit that lint time lime a II publishers render reader Meredith was much impressed by the power shown In the hook book sent bent for Hardy then of course a young titan man to conic come and see lice him Hardy did didIn so In and Meridith gave him not only encouragement but wise Judicious alleo which Hardy II II Ill was so IO wise viso and Judicious as to 10 follow tallow That partIcular novel noel was never published for rOl or Hardy destroyed ld It und and wrote another and It II ItIs itIs Is not too much to think that the nd IId advice vIce so generously generous given glen and so BO wisely acted upon had Imd much to do with turn turning ing log Hardys genius Into the lie which led at ut length to that master mastel masterpiece masterpiece piece Tess of the i Ti q i pi i I C j I g tt W WI j 1 i 1 I I i ct ul f g 1 I I 1 fth 1 I I 1 r rI I V VIr T Ir r f Ih that ir ft tt of M Pr Dr H II t l tin tho I ha 1110 it re of or UI my av e I n HII n t jw 1111 I I I H II UM S ili aN N 1 I W 1 A ri Ion lo tal Y Ills t pen 1011 iho 11 i |