Nick, and are relieved that there a hippy ending to" lis ory moat auocestl ist moved Mr. Frank Swinnerton has chosen a large canvas for his new novel Fimere are several tales here, within tone tale, and his various groupe characters play out their lives against the ever-changing background of Seahampton, which Tom Root, her first "hero" provides the centre of another part of Mr. 'Swinnerton's canvas. It is due to 'Tom, tke builder's son, that Sear hampton eventually "rises high social status, There are many other characters besides: Mr, Lott, the political intriguer; Dr. Julian' Bradley, with whom both Beth and Eliza are love; Syd Rose; the architect the mew town; Roland Swift and Charlie Cordell, who represent. success and failure in the world of fle {ton and journalism. Exeltement, a {ouch of melodrama and tragedy are Jamong the ingredients which go. make up this singularly engaging Two Famous Men.
Two biographical works (or, to be. exact, a biography and an autoblography) should prove of general in-lerest. 'They concern two men 50 different in kind that it seems they jean hardly belong to the same world. One is "The story of my Life" by Clarence Darrow' (Watts 7 164.) The other is "The Life of Cardinal Mereler" by John Gade (Charles Seribners 10s, 64.)
Clearance Darrow may be called the most distinguished American lawyer of his generation, who made fa reputation throughout the world by his advocacy of unpopular cases fand causes. His eloquence was most always overwhelming and his successes were often astonishing, His name will be connected in the pub-Jig mind on both sides of the \Atla tle with almost all the most notorious egal cases of the past half century, his telling of his and their story ively as the man himself, wrdinal Mercier owes his world wide name to his defiance of the [German authorities during the inva sion of Belgium in 1914. But he has other claims to consideration. He iwas a churchman who received a jaclentific training and recognized the value of science in the maintenance lof religious faith, Also. as thi biography shows, he attempted a rejconeitiation of the Catholic and Protestant Churches. Certainly, himself in no uncertain. manner a leader of the Beleian nation Jand_a figure of world-wide importance,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.