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would disgrace 1 third-form | preach. The grim dictator, whom scholar. He penned some of the no one could buy or cajole or In- most abominable things in our timidate, whose pen everybody language, but also some of the feared, snatched the last moments wisest and noblest. He. fiercely re- at night or the first in the morn. A story of the Eternal Triangle, pudiated the notion that he was an ing, lying at case in bed, pursing viewed from a novel if rather obrisan, yet was a far-seeing and his severe lips into baby language, valiant champion of Ireland. He and became beloved "Prosto," tuse angle, and introducing a was consumed by ambition, yet gossiping to "M. D." about every- fourth element-rather shadowy cared little for place or profit. He thing-rattling off the latest Lon- in the guise of a sailor-saviour, was a niggardly miser, but also a don story, how he had reprimanded is presented to us by Miss Evelyn tributing a third of his income in Berkeley, jested with Mr. Gay, man of constant philanthropy, dis- Mr. Secretary, romped with Lady Everett-Green in her latest book, charity and magnificently generous what he had paid for his dinner, Barbara Freeland is the heiress where ald was needed. He ferocl- and how he had chosen a silk apron and spoilt darling of the Freelands ously bespattered the whole human for his "little rague."
race with foul abuse, yet loyally of Chorley Manor, a county family, loved his friends and was warmly Into her home is introduced a poor loved by them. cousin of the same name. It is decided that the two cousins shall
Cruelty and Tenderness,
Vanessa in Dublin. His party fell into disgrace, and Swift's ambitions were doomed. He returned to Dublin, but he was So one might go on. But our followed by Vanessa, a rich young be called Barbara and Ra respec- subject is this incomprehensible lady of nineteen, with whom he had man's relations with Stella, that drifted into intimacy. The story tively.
"fair and tender creature, so lovely, of their relationship is related in so loving, so unkappy." Perhaps Swift's poem, "Cadenus and
English Humorists" strikes Thackeray's rhapsody In his Vanessa." Hesitations, excuses, A Bilences in his letters, had roused false note. After all, we know so Stella's suspletons, and now the little of her. If only we posscased two were in the same city. There her letters
as well as hial But were constant embarrassments in Swift. loved her, and to have won concealing his connection with and kept his love, with whatever Vanessa and preventing a collision reservations, WAS 1 wonderful between the two. Ardent and im-
During their childhood they grow up together and make the acquaintance of Basil Carden, the typleal hero of all feminine hearts, a veritable Admirable Crichton of fapperdom, and also of Comman- der Peter Peterson, a bluff naval man of the novelist type. Barbara at the outbreak of the European thing. Before we turn impatientlypetuous, understanding Swift far
sentimental less than Stella, demanding more raptures, there 13 one sentence than he could give, she boldly worth quoting: I have heard a avowed her desire. Swift wng woman say that she would have startled, and could offer her only taken Swift's cruelty to have had eternal friendship. his tenderness."
cataclysm, becomes engaged to Basil, whom Ra has always re- from. Thackeray's garded as her especial hero. But as the war anda Barbaru finds it impossible to face life with the now blinded Basil, and to save his life in a crisis. Ra marries him, for a while the deception is com- plete, Barbara in the meantime marrying Tony Taverner, a flame of hers.
Ra and Basil are perfectly happy until Basil learns the truth-and then the inevitable disillusionment follows, Tony dies and Barbara arrives home while Ra is away. Basil falls again to the old fas- cination, and the situation is sav- ed by Peter, now a Captain, pro- posing to and being accepted by Barbara. All ends well-Ra happy with her children and Basil who
is now Sir Basil Carden, and Bar-
K. E.
A
was a
cere-
There was a report that Swift Swift first met her when he was was secretly married to Stella. It 22, poor and uncouth, fresh from has never been proved or disproved. college at Dublin, where he narrow. All the evidence on either side is ly escaped plucking. He served, the Indecisive. If there statesman and pompous author, an but exalted Sir William Temple, timid mony, the marriage was nothing amanuensis in his atately mansion on
ceremony, and the of Moor Park, for £20 a year and tionship
mystery of .the rela-
remains. board:
Vanessa, In Esther Johnson years old, with a charmingly pretty impatience, wrote either to Swift gher unwise but so comprehensible face and curling black ringlets. or to Stella-there are different The secretary taught her to write versions-asking if the report was und guided her reading, in the true. Svift, In process learning to find consolation Vanessa's house,
a fury, rode to strode into her of presence, his blue eyes glaring at
in
waa
her affection. Conscious
SWIFT AND STELLA. no evidence.
A TRAGIC BICENTENARY
ARRIVES.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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goddess of
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45-A southern
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VERTICAL
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4-Wheeled vehicle.
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(Tres solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's, issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
dominating genius, he stealthily her from beneath his. bushy black bara content with Peter Peterson.
raged against his subordination. eyebrows, threw down her letter, For ten years, with an interval, and departed without a word. It A thoroughly delightful and
Swift remained very readable story, well told and Stella grew into lovely womanhood, health, she went to her grave a few with Temple. was her death-blow. Delicate in not too long, which we can recom- her relationship with Swift becom weeks later, having revoked a will mend to all readers who like to being a profound, intimate, ardent leaving her fortune to Swift. cleanly entertained without too
friendship of a curious kind. Her much mental effort.
Swift hid his bitter regret in mother was' a
maid-secretary to some unknown retreat for a time. Temple's sister, Lady Giffard. Her Stella survived only a few years. "The Two Barbarns." By E. father was "a merchant of respect-While he was In England she be- Everett-Green. (Stanley Paulable family who died young." It came ill. He returned in an agony and Co., Ltd., London).
was suggested that Miss Hetty, as of distress. She lingered until she Was called, WAS Temple's Jan. 28, 1728. That night he daughter. His treatment of her wrote a few scattered reminis- and his legacy of £1,000 lent colour cences, a manuscript of terrible to the theory, but there is really pathos. Swift lived until 1745, the last five years with darkened in- "The Naked Truth."
tellect and keepers to watch him, On Temple's death Stella and her sometimes repeating slowly, "I am chaperon, Mrs. Dingley, followed what I am!" After his death an Swift to Ireland. Though he con-envelope was found among his atantly visited them, and when he papers containing a lock of Stella's Two hundred years ago the Dean was away they occupied his apart-hair. On the paper he had written, of St. Patrick's, Dublin, sat writing ments in Dublin or his vicarage at
"Only a woman's hair." What in his study. Stella had died a few Laracor, their connection was care- Irony in those four words!"Dally
It is over twenty-five years ago, hours before, and he set about fully guarded against scandal. He
Telegraph."
actually on November 23, 1902, that recording her virtues and her never saw Stella except in the pre-
"Wee abilities, relating little anecdotes of sence of Rebecca Dingley, who wore
Macgreegor" was first her wit and her goodness, gravely hinged spectacles and stumbled
published. The author, Mr. J. J. describing her grace and beauty, over her petticoats as she walked,
Bell, did not hope for his simple Admiral Chambers hands out offspring anything more than a her kindness and charm. Knowing guarantee of propriety. Once what we do of Swift and of Stella, Swift brusquely crushed the aspire- his memoirs. It was during the greegor" took the English-speaking an appetising cut of salt junk in local circulation, but "Wee Mac- we find the paper appalling, its tions of a Dublin clergyman to cruise of H.M.S. "Satellite" in the world by storm. terrible calm concealing a frantic Stella's hand, and in reply to rage. Beneath the cool recital and reproaches told "the naked truth" days the mutton was not the although Mr. Bell has written his Pacific during the '80's. In those sells in thousands every year, and appraisal we sense a tortured soul, "if his fortune and humour served vivisected monkey" which men something like fifty books since, an agony of regret and remorse him to think of marriage," he mourned over on transports dur- none of the latter has exceeded in savagely repressed. Here, in this would prefer Stella to anyone detached, unemotional narrative, we earth. The relationship was much alive on board, and it was when
oning the war. Sheep were carried popularity his original creation. have the most consummate irony of more than anomalous. It was in the greatest ironist in the language. comprehensibly mysterious.
ship was held up off The story of Jonathan Swift and
Coquimbo in a thick fog that a In London, a great man, Swift sound of faint bleating was heard the two women who loved him, began that immortal "Journal to from somewhere forward. Mis- Stella and Vanesan, will never lose Stella," letters to his "two monkies" chievously the officer of the watch interest. Its enigmas have; on the other side of the Irish remarked to the navigating lieut- teased generations of critics and Channel. For a time he was one of erant: "We must be near the
ita
the
SHEEP AS NAVIGATORS.
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| commentators. The interest of the the most powerful men in the land; the sheep smell it! They story, never to be completely under- country, the familiar associate of are wonderful guides. Don't you stood, because some essential the Ministers in power. From his hear them?" "Yes," said the factors must always remain doubt .crowded life he would withdraw to lieutenant. "I think we had bet- ful, is not merely that of a romance pour out to the one being who came ter get a cast of the lead." Just of sentiment or passion on the part near understanding his strange, then the fog lifted and revealed of a great writer. It is that proud, tortured spirit his most Heredura lighthouse, and the of a profoundly-moving, strangely secret thoughts and feelings, cast- course was ahaped for the anchor- Ba, Wyndham Street, Tel. C. 22. remarkable genius, whose person- prattling in the "little language" lieutenant told of the wonderful obscure episode in the life of a ing aside all conventional pretences, age. That evening in the mess the ality no one can fully fathom, so they invented. full is it of glaring contradictions.
Shanghai. sagacity of the sheep, only to meet He, scribbled down all the a burst of ribald laughter. He was Glaring contradictions, indeed! triumphs of his omnipotence, with rot aware, or had forgotten, that The author of The Tale of a Tub" dukes doing the bidding of the the last of the sheep had been and "Galliver's Travels" wielded erstwhile servile secretary, Minis- eaten a week before." a prose style of masterly power, ters meek when he scolded, the yet his grammar is often such as Queen begging in vain for him to Chambers, London, Constable.)
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