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LITERARY NOTES

PEPYS RELICS AT

CAMBRIDGE

A Conversation With King Charles.

COLLECTION ON VIEW

of

THE CHINA MAIL.

Adventures Of A Rum-Runner

"The Real McCoy" Tells

His Story

HAD FUN IN GAOL

HILAIRE BELLOC ON NAPOLEON

Marlborough's Tactics And Strategy.

who

Mr. Hilaire Belloc.

has served in the French artillery, na- turally regards Napoleon as the greatest of captains, but Napoleon, The tells his readers, "seems to have looked on Marlborough as Вл equal."

This is in his new book. ne Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough." Mr. Belloc might have gone further, a critic

it was a happy and courteous idea of the authorities of Mag- dalene College. In this year Peppy'a tercentenary, to give the ¡wider publie an opportunity of see- ing the treasures associated with the diarist which have long been in

A man who time and again eluded ed. Though her guns were on us, their keeping. The collection is on

[ary Supplement," and said, "one of view at the Fitzwilliam Museum. the American Customs officers and she did not dare fire with her men writes in the London "Times Liter-

She started in pursuit. Cambridge, daily and on Sunday landed 700,000 cases of liquor in the aboard.

Napoleon read and re-read Marl afternoons, and will be continued United States before he was gaoled That wheezy old tub trying to catch his masters"; "for he admits that during the summer months. There has had his exploits chronicled in almy Arethusal

flabbergasted, and borough's campaigns, commentating on them continuously in his own is no charge.

hands." He is Captain Bill McCop, master The idea of the exhibition is to show Pepys rather as a connois-of the schooner Tomoka, who out- seur and a man of affairs than to witted the coastguards for years be- exploit the diary, which indeed fore the vessel was taken by the piays a comparatively small part. revenue cutter Seneca. The second and last volumes are

book.

"With the hitle I was able

are so distinguisited, the "stew'd back to their old trade of shipbuild- "Never heard of kin.

arp," the

the ing in Florida. raast chickens, !"jowle" (of salmon, the "tanzy."

Mr. Belloc "notes that in Mart-

BERNARD SHAW'S "ASIDE."

Perkins waS than angry.

"Heave her to!" he yelled. "Who are you to give orders on borough's career there is no exam- ple of a great defensive action; my ship?" I wanted to know.

"I'u damned soon show you." he like all great captains, he was The book "The Real McCoy" roared, his face crimson, and snap-normally inclined to take the offen- on view, the former open at the Stanley Paul, 128, 68.) is written ped to his boatswain's mate, a big annual by Mr. Frederic F. van de Water, lad named Ryan, "Take that wheel!" account of one of the

the but the words are those of McCay- Arey and Tanner were at the helm, "solemnities" in memory of

Both were big inen too, And after cutting of the "stone." More than himself.

the boatswain's to one look at them ever is one puzzled at the selection of words which the diarist writes keep from my rum-running profits," mate decided he was deaf.

"You're Bill McCoy ?" the lieu- in full: in this case, not only the he says. "I am able to get along."

and his brother have gone tenant snarled,

Will It Take The Place (proper names, but all the viande

I replied. "Well," he insisted, "he's on the Of "Introduction"? Evidently the profits were small ship somewhare.

He

Surrender

Will "Aside" take the place of A manuscript of unusual interest is for the great risk he took.

We returned to the dock. I call-"Introduction," or is Benard Shaw Peya's shorthand version of the writes:m

There were times, during my ed man after man aft and asked a law to himself in that way, as lo in which King 1conversation

years in the game, when I dreamed him gravely if he were Bill McCoy.many other ways? Charles described to him hie

When "Foreword" began to take jeape after the battle of Worcester., buying yachts instead of selling Each replied with great solemnity

"Introduction." A erulse to the South Seas that he'd never heard of anyone the place of telling how he and his companion

I thought Perkins viewers disliked and resented ta hide the Boscobel oak, taking promised myself never has come with that name.

Bermuda, Jamaica, Nas-was going to have a fit of apoplexy. use. with them victuals for the whole of either

"I've stood enough kidding." he Shaw has written "an Asido" to day, "bread, cheese, small beer, anda. St. Pierre, and the Newark and

New Brunswick and Trenton gaola blurted at last, "and I'm going to his friend Liliah MacCarthy's "My- nothing else."

wore the farthest I got.

take this ship in."

self and My Friends." a book which "Like hell," I told him. He yelled is being reviewed along with a We may see many relics of Pepe"

Sarab Bernhardt ya's official life: he seems to have me up as king of some far-off Poly- to his men. "Draw your guns!" and book

from that "Ellen Terry's Memoirs." · nesian isle where girls were beauti-ito Arey, "Get away ful and men were scarce, most of helm!"......

Across the cabin hatch we faced

His Official Life.

CA.

it hem

had no compunction In plundering!! the Admiralty for the benefit of

As for the cash that was to set

i went to make a lot of lawyers

Magdalene One of the many richer than, thanks to them, I shall each other, revenue men on one side,

Ap เมเ

Thrilled And Chilled

on

| rum-runners on the other, armed SEWING MACHINES

and scowling. Perkins was white He knew now instead of flushed.

Best Makes

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and

and I knew, as my anger obbed, that Treadle Models from H, K. $90,--

Also the latest

are

volumes of his official correspuit- donce is here shown, along with historical rolls of the Navy, an in-! ventory of supplies for the ship Bt. maintalus McCoy, if he made of the Spanish Armada, and anhe money, he did things that only

one false move would spell massacre. "ortographick simmetric of a ship a few could equal.

"This is a British ship," I told divided in the middle by a streight w been thrilled. and chilled. bine from stemm to stern," show. I've been double-crossed and robbed him more quietly, and you are seiz ing all the decks Of more gener- and shot at and gaoled. I've owning her on the high sean"

"Where's Bill McCoy?" he asked, lat interest in the rallection of old and sailed the sweetest schooner

"I'm McCoy," her books and manuscripts, which in that ever carried a bone in

"thought ao-Meday you clude several fine Caxtons, a New teeth-the Arethusa later the To- Testament in English of bout moka, still later the Marie Celeste, making a big mistake."...

"The only reason you' afe stili remember I've made friends I'll 1430 the orginal edition of New-

here," I told him, "Is that you are or so I'm ton's "Principia

Latin jalways. and an enemy Beyen rammars of 1495-1499. maps and entfrely willing to forget. I've had my countrymen. If you'd been any- thing but Americans you would all And if drawings of London, even Fronha lot of fun, even in gaol.

the overalde by now."...... fashion-plates (1670-16901.

there is anything more than that The remarkable "Caligraphi, atto life, I don't want it. „Collection." all carefully annotat-j An interesting sidelight as to the ́ed indeed, the whole exhibition audacity of McCoy is shown by one gives one a high idea of Pepyn agtncident of which he tella:

fine My schooner was in harbour an two fragments of uncial seript eut out July 4. Though she was under Bri-McCoy. I'm advising you for your

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bookman). includes

"Be sensible," he said. "If the Government hasn't anything on you! now, it will if you try to kidnap US. And we won't bo kidnapped Heave her to. without a fight.

own good."

He was right. I was clear-head- ed now. So we hauled down the

s friend of the diarist, who, as a "Why," he spluttered. "you low-bothered.

rum-runner!

crew

of the Gospels of St. Matthew and tish registry, I dressed ship, string. Larks in the Chapter Librarying international code signals on her Juf Durham Cathedral, where the lines and halyards; but I had no

I marched jib and threw her into the wind and aps may still be seen. The ex-American flay aboard. planation of the outrage is

that up to the Consulate and asked Lath-waited for the Senoca to catch up

with us.

She bore down, all hot and the Dean was Dr. Nathaniel Crew, rop to lend me one.

Perkins and his You rowed back to her. I lay, hove-to, broher of "my lady" Sandwich, did down. nervy not regard himself as under any come and ask me, the representa- waiting for his next move.

Every scrap of paper on board great restraint. This bit of loot live of the Government that you are

He dumped ts described as "n present to

I ought to the ship was burned. me gypping, for a flag?

alarma overside, too-machine-j from my most honour'd and re- throw you out of my unice." verend friends, the Deau and

"If I'm a crook, I'm an American runs, rifles, sawed-off shotguns, re- Chapter of Durham Cathedral, an-crook anyway, Consul," I told him. Volvers.

McCoy relates how they then tried "You won't lend me one?"

"Yes, I will," he snorted. "Cer-to make a dash of it, and had al- most goot away when the Senoca be- Only not officially, interest in the display must be tainly. I will.

gan to fire. Shells roared over their mentioned & song-book containing Bill."

heads and dived into the water.

no domint 1700,"

Among the many other points of

The Capture

one of the two copies of Pepys's nony, "Beauty Retire," in the Pep- ys's Library and the record in the the capture of the Arethusa, or staggered and several of the crew Magdalene College Register repri- Tomoka as it was generally known, were knocked off their feet. Įmunding him for being "scanda- was one of the best.

"I sang out to Arey," he adde," |lously drunk" on the preceding

The following is McCoy's descripwe let the jib run down. There evening.

tion of it:

were tears in my eyes.

We had Out of the mist loomed the white,

taken our chance and just missed high shape of the Seneca bearing winning free, my Arethuss and I down directly on us. I did not

were caught at. Inst." leave my position. My conscience was clear, When he came within! hailing distance he called "Tomoka

In a carcer of exciting incidents, One burat in the water, so close to the bulwarks that the schooner

THRILLS IN HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE

A "Comedy Shocker"

The Haunted Light. By Evadne [Price.

shoy! I'm sending an officer to £25,000 FOR “WAR

MEMOIRS."

examine your papers."

Even then I was not worried.

(Long. 78. ed.). My papers were O.K., but in order High Figure For Lloyd

that there might be no mistake, I

George's Publication.

This novel is described as altold my mate, St. Clair Tanner, to "comedy thriller," but there is a take the British flag aloft and lash shocking quantity of killing in its it to the mainmast.

"The suggestion" that the amount pages. Two lighthouse men have a whaleboat was sent by the being paid for Lloyd George's, wär already mot their death in the Seneca, and Lieutenant Perkins momojra, serially and in book form, Cornish Derry lighthouse, and a came overside.

both here and in 'Amorica, "stands

third is reputed to have gone mad. He turned to his crew and shout-around £25,000 is, perhaps,pretty when Sam · Higgins takes charge, ed. "All aboard." They swarmed up accurate, and It may be rallier He is a cockney, and the haunted to the Arethusa's deck, husky square- more, certainly not less."

So ab lighthouse, cannot subdue him, heads, each with a Colt in his thigh, editorial writer says in W. H..

But he is certainly tested not only grinned at Feridns.

Bmith and Bon',"Book Window." by the horror of the place, but by Lieutenant," I told him, "you are a certain Unclé Matt, as ghoulish a gothg for a ride.” dope merchant as ever gnashed bis Then I yelled. "Full speed to seal way through the movies. Still, he The engine pounded.

Tha Are-

has a charming niece, Jennifer, thusa quivered as the book the who, with the blonde Sylvie, and a thrust of the screw and turned her reporter named Jerry, manages to bows to the open main. tone down the horrors which it has There came a warning, blast from become her life purpose to avenge, the Seneca's siren, but I only laugh-

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