Show I i i I TOO MUCH SCANDAL IN IN ONE BOOK A book which has haa caused alt all kinds of ot gossip la In i England has haa been withdrawn by Its Lo don publisher the th John Lane com corn company company pany after the th publisher has has- sued Pearson a literary aunt agent supposed to be the auth author r Pearson denies he heI Is I is the th author and charges char es the book to Sir nell Ren- Ren Rennell tell nell Rodd known In the th British diplomatic Ue circles Now 1 sir Ren Ren- Ren Rennell nell Ren-nell Inthe ul nell denies he is the th author In the meantime Th he Whispering Gallery as the h book is titled has haa b been en widely read and the aristocrats of o f England are are ar bay log Ing C II a a busy time gossIping contents I Explaining why The Whispering Gallery had bad to be be cup pressed the th New l York Times says That volume 1 was as In effect too much like a scandalous un There letter There Ther were hints about the writers writer's personality aSsure aur a ances ances were were given riven that he h was waa a ot of who 10 know knew whereof he be spoke but the th conver conver- conversations conversations which he h reported and the confidence which he h betra d were r of so 10 sensational a nature that the they had ht to Je be b tied up to some name nam and a authority or else eli dismissed by honest folk as main main- mainly mainly I ly inventions Denial after denial or of the authenticity of ot Ue the tit stories In The WhIspering Gallery had been made by victims victim of ot malic-e malic or 01 ot of misreporting and the thing simply could not stand longer loncer Ina ina in a dark corner corner As AI the tb author would not and take the responsibility the book itself had to be disowned This This is not to say that the copl copies 1 of ot It already out ol or the publishers publisher's hands bands will not be b eagerly sou ht after atter and read rud We all al like Uko g gossip ossip ab about it t greAt our people even If It we w shake our heads over Us Its Indiscretions and dont don't believe belle half bait ot of ot It 11 to be betrue betrue betrue true But this particular pa budget of whispering went far beyond the usual Insinuations and sec secondhand hand ond-hand t tattle lIttle It gave gue speeches and quotations and char chal characterizations which If it they were not true were outrageous But Dut the th truth can can- cannot cannot cot can not be b proved by a anonymity even eyen It If that be be b only thinly veiled In Inthis Instance it appears to have been heavily veiled The grea great unknown declined to show his face Prom From this the fair later Inter Inter Once Ii Is that ho could not back backup backup up UIl his eXtreme statements statements ment With With- WithOut Without out full tull verification man man man- manor or of them must be bo set down n as In- In Incredible incredible In Incredible credible p |