Show who W was a S who by louise al comstock a CO TF F MASTER the well i known beetle of co seems discouragingly clever and un reasonably lucky in in getting out of scrapes to modern little boys reading this children s classic they have only to realize that the beetle grew up to be none other than rudyard kipling to understand why ills 1 two class mates in no 5 study however G 0 beresford Bere stord the of the story and maj gen lionel 0 Dunst erville himself both have testified that kipling a picture of his ills youthful school days Is a bit overdrawn born in india kipling was sent to be educated to the united services college at westward hoi in england here at the age of twelve the future author of the ll light ht that failed and the banack room ballads Ballad 3 showed little of the talent in con coching real boy escapades with which te I 1 e later credits himself instead he pent much of his time reading at a prodigious rate though the king of and co a mr crofts in real life predicted for this queer little boy an Ign ignominious omInous death in an attic attle a scurrilous pamphleteer others rec his genius among these were ther the head master and the padre who gave him the run of their libraries a very special privilege who describes him as a sizzling fizzling literary impulse with a small boy tacked on behind and who finds promise in the youthful kipling Kiplin gil i contributions to the college chronicle of which he was also editor PET MARJ marjoree ORIE p ET IE 1 sir walter scott r called her little marjorie Marj orle flem ing who lived near him in edinburgh whose whimsical personality and astonishing toni shing literary career begun when she was six and ended by her death just before she was nine won her un usual friends in her day and a peculiar pecullar sort of tame fame ever since A statue to pet Marjo irle was set up just last year in her birthplace kir caldy scotland and she Is mentioned in the dictionary of national blog raphy as one whose life Is probably the shortest to be recorded in these volumes yet one of the most charm ing characters marjorie Marj orle Fi leming was born in 1603 when she was just turning six the family moved to edinburgh and mar afar borle took up writing and commenced her famous friendship with scott I 1 art of the waverly novels were written with pet marjorie Marj orle on the authors knee sometimes she would amuse him by reciting long passages from shakespeare at others they would tramp together across the fields while scott s do dog malda maida scamper scampered red joyously about them marjorie Marj orle has left us a number of letters recording her childish lations and philosophy an epic in verse concerning mary queen of scots whose royalty she upheld even while she condemned her morals end and a journal written between the ages of six and eight containing more lations on life and a number of poems all of them recently republished tor for the modern reader pet marjorie Marj orle died of measles in 1811 REBECCA sc OW do you like your rebecca 1 wrote sir walter scott to washington irving in the letter accod lanying his gift of one of the first cop copies lesof of ivanhoe off theoress the press does the rebecca I 1 have pictured here corn com pare well with the pattern given the pattern from which scott fashioned the handsome jewess who figures so heroically in the familiar novel was a real woman rebecca gratz whose lovely person and love her ifer deeds were well known to early philadelphians and whose grave may be seen today in the mikae israel cem eatery on spruce street eters hers was a story of star crossed love born of an aristocratic and influential jewish family well educated a beauty she was the center of one of the most dis social groups of the post revolutionary period when she fell in love with a man of another faith than her own she made a costly decision in favor of her family 8 re ligion and devoted her life thereafter to philanthropy and deeds of goodness that doubly endeared her to all who knew her thus it was in the arms of rebecca gratz that died matilda hoff man beloved of washington irvin irving g on a subsequent visit to scott in er eng ag land irving poured out his sorrow to his friend relating in connection with matida matilda s death the heroic story of rebecca gratz all who know and love the rebecca of ivanhoe pay nil uil conscious tribute to this heroic girl D 1932 western newspaper union |