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LAST ESSAYS OF MAURICE HEWLETT ?Scribner ($2.50). That rare combination of quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he spent his latter days seems to have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that...
...other members of the committee are: Borace Bowker of Hewlett, L. I., New York; Roger Sherman Coolidge of Boston; Henry Wilder Foote Jr. of Cambridge; Henry Bigelow Jackson of Milton; Richard Noel Lord of Lawrence; Richard Frothingham O'Neil Jr. of Boston; Harrison Musgrave Jr. of Saginaw, Michigan; James Walker Tufts of Pinehurst, N. C.; Lee Yates Ward of Rochester, N. Y.; and Enrique Carlos Zanett of Washington...
...Maurice Hewlett (Jan. 22, 1861), English novelist, poet, critic. The Forest Lovers, a medieval romance published in 1898, established Hewlett's reputation in a field in which, despite the wave of imitation that followed its success, he still remains among the most eminent. Other medieval novels include Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Song of Renny and The Queen's Quair, which deals with Mary, Queen of Scots...
Died. Henry Coster Emmet, 78, grandnephew of Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, a member for 29 years of the New York Stock Exchange, a founder of the Riding Club (N. Y.), at Hewlett, L. I., of heart disease...
Died. Maurice Hewlett, 62, novelist, authority on heraldry, of pneumonia, at Broadchalke, Salisbury, England. Among his famous books are The Forest Lovers, Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Queen's Quair...