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ists and lawyers; friends of the great Washington; and also merchants as important in their day as Henry Ford in ours; and an inventor who was perhaps Edison's parallel of his time. But their names are forgotten except to local historians. As Mr. Marquand says, one feels diffidence in recalling their names, so important once, for there is an inescapable irony connected with them. Instead of them, "a roistering, intoxicated parvenu comes marching back." Oddly and ridiculously, "Timothy Dexter alone comes down the century free from the injustice of crowding new events."

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their commercial glories forgotten for an eternal repetition of the slander of their having "burned" the witches. It is not a source of unalloyed happiness to the native of Fall River, on his travels, to find that strangers neglect to ask about the prosperity of this busy town, and are merely interested in one citizeness who achieved most undesirable notoriety in the 1890's. But Newburyport may indeed feel pride in this new picture of her past as it has been painted by one of her sons. She already possessed, in the four volumes by the late John James Currier, what are probably the best histories written of any town in the United States. She now has a book about her greatest oddity, which is at once good biography, delicious satire, and loyal appreciation of the place and the times. It is a curious and pleasant thought-that of Mr. Marquand pursuing his researches among the files of the old Newburyport "Herald," and doing it in the cellar which once stored the wines of Lord Timothy Dexter, and is now the news

paper room of the Public Library.

approach on foot to the town where he Here is the description of Dexter's

was to make his fortune:

Possibly, despite his highest hopes and his magic book, Dexter himself never guessed that day that a time would come when he would roll back on that very Boston road in his own coach with his own exquisitely matched, silver-bitted horses, not an artisan with tan stain on his fingers, but a philanthropist and a philosopher pillowed in soft cushions. Beyond the lower green of Newbury and beyond a scattering of farm-houses, whose owners tilled their original family grants, as many of their descendants still do, the road veered slightly to the left, and ascended a gentle slope, from whence, on the right hand fields and orchards declined gradually downwards to a plain of golden marshes with cocks of hay raised on stakes above the tide. Further still the

marshes ended on a long low line of sand hills, where an island of dunes, still known as Plum Island, raised a barrier to the sea, and from that distance it also shone like gold beneath the sun. It was a symbolic sight, fit to spur a great man's mind to action, for even now, on any clear afternoon Plum Island continues to give the appearance of a heap of treasure, washed to land by a nautical god of plenty that all may seize their fill.

Certainly no one whose early memories go back to one of these old seaports can read without emotion Mr. Marquand's paragraph describing the spot. where Timothy Dexter set up his shop as a leather dresser and displayed the Sign of the Glove:

Dexter's corner fronts to-day a quiet small-town street, where a love of fame, however poignant, should by rights perish in the reek of hides and the daily haggle of a tradesman's life, but things were different then. A single property alone remains to the environment, a single reminiscent aura is left it, and that is all. It is a smell of salt water which reaches there; and that hint of the sea is always fresh, always poignant, always new. The sea is out there still, the sea which built the houses of that half-forgotten port, which once tinged all the life, and brought breadth and wealth and worldly wisdom. When Timothy Dexter worked at his hides close to the river bank, the sea was nearer than it. is to-day. The sea was in the wind, and voice and thought and prayer and epitaph. Lives and hopes came in with the sea and went out on the swirling tide. From the Sign of the Glove it was less than a minute's walk to the water's edge, and the water was a threshold to El Dorado then.

The author has made a number of discoveries, and investigated with great care Dexter's rise to fortune, and the authenticity of all the strange legends. Due attention is paid to the horror felt by all his fellow-citizens when he first burst into notice and bought the house of the ruined Tracy, the merchant prince. The curious pamphlet "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" is reprinted at the close of the volume. It should be said that the book is most appropriately and beautifully presented with a fine type page and excellent decorations by Mr. Philip Kappel. Perhaps I ought to warn my readers, when I recommend this book as the most delightful, which I have seen or expect to see this autumn, that they must a little discount my enthusiasm as a lifelong Dexterian. It was-oh, long ago a year or two before the Spanish War, that, in company with other antiquarians, I tried to restore some of the

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Mr. Masson, who has been called "the Marcus Aurelius of the Twentieth Century" by the New York "Times," was for twenty-eight years an editor of "Life" and is now an editor of the "Saturday Evening Post." His career as a humorist has not soured him, as Mark Twain was soured, although it seems to have left him with an antipathy to "intellectuals," whom he treats with somewhat disconcerting severity. After all, even an intellectual is one of God's creatures. As a good American, Mr. Masson will admit of no divided allegiance. He does not like international novelists, and he remarks of Henry James that "if he had lived here and done as Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson are doing, he might have escaped entirely being an intellectual and become as great as they are."

His programme of spiritual vagabondage leads away from the cynicism of the intellectual and the dogmatism of the material scientist to "the happiness and peace of the spiritual life, based on a union of patriotism and self-surrender." Mr. Masson writes with simplicity and directness, and his book will probably reach the large audience for whom it is intended.

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