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MR. SINCLAIR LEWIS.

IMPRESSIONS OF MORE COUNTRIES:

AMERICAN INFLUENCES,

Mr. Sinclair Lewis left Waterloo Station to embark at Southampton in the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin on his way back to the United States after a quiet fortnight in Londen, during which a talk bronkenst from 2LO was the only public sign that he gave of his presence in this country.

MARY QUEEN- OF SCOTS.

-CRIPPLE'S FEAT.

LX-SQUADRON LEADER'S

THE "CASKET" LETTERS A FORGERY.

The "Casket" letters upon the evidence of which Mary Queen of Scots was sent to the scaffold more than 300 years ago are held by Mr. Ainsworth Mitchell, the Home Office expert on documents, to be a forgery. Mary herself swore she

PARACHUTE.

ROCHESTER THRILL.

A during puruchute experiment was carried out at Rochester aero- drome by ah ex-quadron leader of the Royal Air Force.

that he is a cripple. As a squadron leader during the war he led a raid over the German lines and during the return his machine was struck by a German shell and crashed in

He undertook to test a new type of rachute which has aroused consi never written them. If any terable discussion in official circles. sich writings be," she decured,

they are faise und feigned, forged Some considered, the parachute and invened by themselves (the could be implicitly relied upon; He is going home, probably to Commissioners only to my dis others were frankly sceptical of its settle down in a house somewhere in honour and slander." She was not New England, and certainly to set believed,

performancs. The test waa de- and the Forgeries were, about the writing of a new novel, accepted by Hume and Fronde, signed to settle the issue by an after spending the winter in among other historians, as genuine, actual descent. wandering over Europe-France, Mr. Ainsworth Mitchell, the

The officer's during feat is nil Italy, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Home Office expert, has come the more noteworthy from the fact and Germany.

forward with proats that they are A request before his departure forgeries, and farther information that he should give some impress how available as to his reason for sions of his tour to The Observer this opinion. The Casket letters did not make him as promptly tulku include eight love letters to Both tive as the interviewer would have will, twelve love sonnets, a con- wished. Obviously he was torn tract of marriage said to have been jastween a desire to satisfy his intersigned by Mary and Bothwell, and leentor in search of copy and a fear another contruct or obligation in of treading on the ever-projecting which Mary promised to marry tous of the over-susceptible. It is Bothwell, Referring to the promise so much more difficult," he said, of marriage Mr. Mitchell says in the

speak one's mind frankly to adune number of "Discovery" :— newspaper than to put one's real *1 is written in an ink which

has turned brown with age, and the: belicis and feelings into a story.

"Not, by the way, that I want to edges of the lines are of a darker. arcilles, Ca. Flanes Loudon & attack anything in Europe. On the state of brown. This microscopic contrary," But I confess that I am appearance of the ink and of the constantly being surprised at the pen lines agrees exactly with that ger, and the dragging in of irrele of the signature. A comparison of valcies, which the merest attempt the writing of the signature with,

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A BAD DAY FOR DESCENT8. "We are off.. Up goes the nose of the aeroplane pointing towards the blue sky ahead. Sheds and people below dwindle swiftly to mere pinpoints.

The

**Zoom! Another rise. ground drops away. Over to the left the Medway sparkles in the evening sun. Up here we strike the full force of the gule blowing at 50 miles an hour.

"It is a bad day for a parachute descent-ulmost the worst possible. Prequent air pockels cause the machine to bump repeatedly. The needle on the dashboard begins to talk-500ft., 600, 700. We circle around the aerodrome. A black mass shows where spectators, and mechanics are watching us.

at plain speaking immediately en-that of genuine signatures of Mary genders. Even books do not cheapo Shunt shows this it cannot be entirely. For example, in America, accepted as her writing. because i Arrowsmiths I call! Dealing with the contract of it there have criticised certain | amrriage, Mr. Mitchell says: "On aspects of medical practice and studying the text of this "document scientific research, I have been it will be observed that there are branded ironically a patriot. As if frequent lapses into the cursive patriotism had anything to do with a writing of the period, and us Mary's the matter, or if it has, as if secretary, Sir William Maitland, of patriotism were not best displayed | Luthington, was acensed by his by galling attention to something utemporaries of having forged the Casket letters, it exired to me wrong!

tempore by muriern methods of

"Round and up again and the ***If I did not care for America, 1xamination these more flowing

chameters with should not be going back there.

the authentic parachute is thrown overboard, But I fell that I must do so. At the writing of Maitland.

dangling behind like a big cushion As the result of his examination below the tail of the plane. same time I am very sorry to be

Mr. Mitchell declares Mary's Get out is the order. Quickly leaving Europe, for the more I get

zretary to be the writer of the I climb out of the cockpit and to know Europe the more I like tatters which sent her to her deathswing over the edge of the fuselage, The appeal of England, in particuae letter, Mr. Mitchell says, at The cockpit looks very homely and tur, grows on me. Yet the wrench first glance shows little resemblance comfortable, making me

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graphic enlargements with the cor- make the jump. responding characters in Maitland's

"The fog of the cord at my waist | cannot be missed. Not only do the hang on grimly, waiting the order writing the points of resemblance nearly tears me from my grasp, but] ellers show the same mode for release with my feet dangling formation, but the methods of hold-in space. It seems absurd to think the pen and of applying the pen I am going to drop over those green murkable than any of these, is the than a small pureel that looks like pressure also agree. But, more re-fields, dependent on nothing more formation of the Maitland a soft cushion.

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THE TRUEMENDOUS TUC.

twenty years. But some of your drawn up extension, sometimes even 'Let go! Involuntarily, be newspapers. Your

akysigns,aching to the letter in the line fore I have time to think, my Wembley, and your architecture beneath.

This peculiarity appears fingers release their convulsive grip all are growing American, although more than go in the marriage con on the edge of the fuselage. Fulling, the architecture, perhaps, imitates tract. As things stand for the ulling, falling The parachute is, without rivalling ours. But possibly moment it, is believed that whereas not opening! I am crashing!

had better not say that if it is not the love letters to Bothwell were already a commonplace, it will cause probably forged, the love poems are

a likelihood genuine

trouble.

"Now France strikes me as re- taining her own individualty far! more than England is. Of course, in Paris it is possible, more than translated into German. Babbitt anywhere else, for an American to had considerable success in Ger forget that he is abroad, if he begins

my But no book of mine has the day with luncheon at Sam's Bar ever been translated inter French. and ends up withr" supper at Zelli's; getting his American newspapers Länd books and shoes, and so on, at "I have acquired a tremendous American stores, he need never seiki for the Austrians and the n word of French. But the great Bavarians. Prague did not appeal

mass

1+ VIENNA COVFEE,

"A tremendous tug under my arms. A gasp for breath, and I open

my eyes to see overlifead the red and white parachute spread above me 1ke some guily coloured fungus. The aeroplane I have just left is circling away to the left.

"I grip the cord on which I am banging like a plummet of lead, and I look down. The rour of the gale is in my ears. I drift over the The aerodrome, over the people. ground is rising towards me. The trees, the hangar, the fields become distinct again.

to me very much,, but Vienna was Frenchmen are stoutly in all ecartery and coffee. That the

"So great is the force of the wind sular, far more insular than the in- French make good coffee is to un of the aerodrome. I gaze anxiously that I am driven beyond the bounde finbitants of any other country. The

are all much the sume.

THE INSCRUTABLE FRENCH.

H

The parachute I have tested un- doubtedly solves the problem of

French Babbitt, for example, in American & Parisian illusion. different from all other Babbitts, But when I awoke each morning in around trying to mise the wood American, Czech, or Japanese, who Vienna, instead of ringing for which I see rising below. I have Good! The breakfast out of a sense that ou passed beyond it. must eat to live, I could not stay ground is coming up very rapidly abed for the prospect of a delight now. Now I am over the clover "And this insularity of the tut meal. And I should think the fields. Now down, down, down! French I regret. After five months Austrians must have the most de

"I have hit the ground at last, in France I do not feel that I know lightful manners in the world. at a speed of no less than 20 miles the French in the least, whereas But Austria still bears scare of an hour. Luckily it is a soft land- after five weeks in Bavaria I fancy war that Americans find it quite ing. Soft clods of earth choke the I do know something of the utterly impossible to picture. A release nippers, and for some dis Germans. But, on the other hand, banker in Vienna told me of a rail-tance I am dragged across the field. when a Frenchman takes up the way journey of thirty-six hours Willing helpers run to meet me. study of another country he does it which he made with his two small They hang on to the bord, tugging | with thoroughness that few daughters at the Armistice. During

to pull me up. Englishmen equal. André Maurois, those thirty-six hours he never shakily I get up.

We have stopped, and a trifie whom I met, and his knowledge of slept, and sat with hie revolver on England provide a case in point. his knees to keep the compartment And I met a professur at the from being overwhelmed by soldiers. Sorbonne who invited my advice on Every now and again the hand of escape after engine trouble.' how best be could study certain a soldier on the roof would clutch sides of American politics, and to the window frame to start getting m amazement I found that hein, and he would knock it off with already know more about the subject the butt of his & There were baggis when he sees it. A short It is a wise Seot who knows his than I do.

already three officers with him in This intereat in other countries the compartment. That is an ex-

time ago the Kitchen Committee cannot, I believe, be too much en-peripnds that must haunt a mind of the House of Commons. sanc- couraged, for to me the great need more intensely and longer than the tioned the serving of haggis to of the world to-day is closer mutual sight of a shell-wrecked house.

members one day a week as an understanding between countries, "My impressions of the Bavarians experiment. and while similarity does not ex are psychological rather than poll-

One night a well-known Scot- clude hostility and hatred, and may tical, and I won't go into them tiah member sat down to dinner, Leren foster them, understanding now. In the Oberland the in and the waiter placed a plate with makes both impossible. And then to some odd-looking food upon it. road to mutual understanding is strong, and in the village I stayed mutual study.

at, Garmisch, everybody in his As one-gola-farther east, one spare time was-an-actor and the Ands the desire for understanding artistic impulss of the people made more apparent instead of, as one them very good actors, too. might expect, less discernible. To In conclusion I might say that give a self-centred instance, I may both in Austria and Bavaria I found say that, my book, Arrowsmith, tha English and Americans are although it has been published": a now, lked, but, gosh! how the couple of months only, is already French are hated [***

In angry tones the member demanded-What is this stuff?" "Hargla alt" was the re proachful answer. **

The M.P. hid his diminished head. Fresh or

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