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...house, built half a century ago, stands far back from the street, masked by huge trees. There memories foregather. There Charles S. Stratton, exploited by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom Thumb," dwelt with his wife, that delectable midget, the onetime Lavinia Warren...
SIMONETTA PERKINS?L. P. Hartley?Putnam ($2). Demonstrating what might conceivably befall a high-caste Boston nymph when exposed to the languorous breath of Venice. Lavinia Johnstone, preserved by her friends as the symbol of their bloodless conventionality, undergoes strange fevers in the presence of a champion gondolier, calls herself Simonetta Perkins to absorb the shock, bids him?late one night?take her up an obscure canal, hesitates, is lost, countermands the order. Author Hartley admires Author Max Beerbohm...
...Harrison, now 67, who went into court. She is unique among the widows of Presidents, for although she lived two years in the White House she was never First Lady of the Land. When Benjamin Harrison took office as President in 1889 his first wife (Caroline Lavinia Scott) was alive. She died in the White House in 1892, leaving a son and a daughter...
...down his pen and his life of a Greek fever in the embattled swamps of Missolonghi. The present bio-novel might be regarded as a belated contribution to the centenary, atoning for its tardiness by its fervor. But such is hardly the case. The author of The Chaste Diana (Lavinia Fenton, later the Duchess of Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current taste in refined wantonness...
...Story. Lavinia Roderick, light of step and heart, the fairest flower of Henrico County, was coming down to dinner in Todd Hundred, Va. For three days a party had been in progress to celebrate her engagement to Gawin Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall, waited for her to descend, it was for Richard Bale that she wore a yellow rose in her bodice-for him that she sang, as she came, the dying fall of a sweet air. He, a Bale of Balisand, had been, like other Virginia gentlemen, a soldier. Fire...