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Connaught, with Lord Weardale as chairman, to secure an international celebration of the event. There will be visits and return visits between prominent American and British politicians, statesmen, clergymen, and all classes. Another committee, acting in concert with the above, has been formed, representative of the English Free Churches, to which the Pilgrim Fathers belonged. The Reverend F. B. Meyer, D.D., is the honorable secretary, and among the members are Mrs. Lloyd George, the Reverend E. Charles Brown, the Reverend Doctor Clifford, the Reverend Doctor Jowett, the Reverend Doctor Selbie, Principal Forsyth, the Reverend J. H. Shakespeare, Sir J. Compton Rickett, M.P., Miss Maud Royden, Sir Albert Spicer, M.P., Principal Garvie, the Reverend R. C. Gillie, Sir Beddoe Rees, Sir Murray Hyslop, Doctor Horton, Doctor J. D. Jones, and Doctor Scott Lidgett. This committee is engaged in producing pamphlets intended to reach all classes. At Leyden, in Holland, preparations are also afoot to celebrate the temporary residence there of the Pilgrims and their families.

It is proposed to hold a series of public meetings in the biggest halls throughout this and other countries to follow the track of the Pilgrims from place to place associated with their heroic sufferings, and to visit the United States for a similar purpose. A special feature of the celebrations will be the official Mayflower cinematograph film, which is being produced by Mr. Harry Maze Jenks, of the Clarendon Film Company ('Harma Photo-Plays') who has been entrusted with this historic film, which is being edited and directed for the committee and the Clarendon Film Company by the Reverend James Marchant, F.R.S.Ed. (secretary of the Cinema Commission and ofthe Cinema Educational Expert Committee).

Writing to Mr. Marchant, Mr. Lloyd says: 'I am glad to hear that the Free Churches are preparing to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower from our shores. Three hundred years ago this little group of pioneers braved a new world and carried with them to New Plymouth the Anglo-Saxon ideals of justice and liberty. We recall the Pil

grim Fathers with reverence for what they were and with gratitude for what has come back to us from the America of today. At this momentous time, when America is indissolubly linked with us in extending liberty over the world, the official cinematograph of the Mayflower story will do much to show the people, both of America and of this country, what we together owe to our forefathers, to quicken their love of liberty, and to establish that peace for which the descendants of the men of the Mayflower have fought and died side by side with our British sons.'

President Wilson writes:

'Paris, February 7.

'My dear Mr. Marchant,- The plans of the Mayflower celebration film interest me very much indeed, and I hope sincerely that these plans will meet with the most gratifying success. The trip of the Mayflower, as we now look back to it, has a new and fresh significance. It was the first movement of the shuttle which has woven so close a fabric of intimacy between the two sides of the water.

'Cordially and sincerely yours,
'Woodrow Wilson.'

THE BELL OF SAINT SENAN SAINT PATRICK's ancient bell - Clog an Eadhacta Phatraic― is still preserved, we hope, in Belfast. It was there seventy years ago. On Thursday next the bell of another holy Irish saint Senanus will be offered for sale at Christie's. Although without clapper, it has already caused a din in Runic-Celtic circles, for this tenth-century relic was for ages venerated and feared by the peasantry of Galway and Clare. Hagiographers agree that Saint Senan deserves high place in the hierarchy of saints, and put him next to Patrick, Brigit, and Columcillé. The ruins of the seven churches and the round tower on Scattery Island (Iniscatha), in the Shannon, remain today as the revered vestigia of the saint and his devout lifework, and his island has long been called 'Holy' and the desired last resting-place of the faithful.

The legend of Saint Senan's bell, as narrated in the ancient manuscripts, tells us that one day, when the saint was near

Kiltinnaun, a bell, clanging loudly, descended from the skies and fell at his feet. It was thereupon called 'Clog na Neal' the bell of the clouds - but as the years went by it became known as the 'Clog an Oir,' from its similitude to gold. Five inches high and two and a half inches at the base, it is constructed of bronze-gilt, of rectangular shape, widening towards the base, the four faces being decorated with slightly raised panels of Runic ornament outlined with silver, and with sunk receptacles for jewels. This (the original) portion of the bell probably dates from about the tenth century; it has, however, been enriched during the Gothic period with plates of silver which overlay three of its sides, these plates being engraved and partly enameled on a gilt ground, with serpentine monsters terminating in foliage, one having a crowned human head; at the top of the two side panels are human heads, while the plaque which covers the handle is engraved with fleur-de-lys.

For nearly six hundred years the bell was preserved by the comharbs of Saint Senan, the last comharb being Calvagh

O'Cahane, who died in 1581. It still remained in the keeping of the direct line of this family until 1730, when, through marriage, it passed to Robert Cahan, of Ballyvoe, from whom it descended to the present owner, Mr. Marcus Keane, of Ennis. The old comharbs caused the relic to attain a high degree of sanctity. No oath was held to be so inviolate as one sworn on the sacred bell. The peasantry grew to believe that anyone who told a lie, after being sworn on the bell, would have his mouth twisted forever awry. Down to about 1850 it was used as a menace. pair of saddle-bags containing three hundred fifty pounds were stolen. There was no clue or trace. The priest, as a last resort, announced that on the following Sunday he would bring the bell to the chapel and swear every member of his flock upon it. On Saturday night a contrite man appeared at the priest's house, saying, 'Father Kelly, there's no occasion for the Golden Bell; here's every bit of the money.' The 'Clog an Oir' may yet have another sphere of usefulness the Rhine.

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Of living faces, turned expectantly, As makes them seem a battle host of dead.

Till o'er the shivering silence sharply fall

The crashing chords, and with the hollow roar

Of storm waves beating upon rock and shore,

A tempest of wild music fills the Hall.

It rose in gusts and sank, then, birdlike, thin,

Came the clear warbling of a piccolo,

For doves that crooned in the leafy And ceased, when, throbbing, passion

noonday now

Were silent; the night-jar sought his

secret covers,

ate and low,

Burst the wild rapture of a violin.

The Bookman

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are requested to remember that the number bearing date any given Saturday is mailed on the Tuesday pres ceding. To avoid disap pointment and to allow time for correcting the mailing list, any changes of address should reach the publishers at least nine days prior to the date of the number which is to be sent to the new address. ¶ Subscribers are requested to send a new notice every time that a change of ad dress is desired.

Lovers of Dr. Johnson

AND BOOK COLLECTORS EVERYWHERE
will enjoy

The Amenities of Book-Collecting and
Kindred Affections

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By A. EDWARD NEWTON

T is the "human interest" of books that appeals to Mr. Newton, I books with a

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of bibliography he has added an infectious enthusiasm for collecting. In his choice of books and manuscripts he has been guided by a wise literary judgment; by a knowledge of rare books and their "points"; and by a wide biographical interest, with especial devotion to Dr. Johnson, Charles Lamb, and a few others.

The illustrations of the book-chosen from the author's remarkable collection-are unique. Profusely illustrated with colored frontispiece, xxi +355 pp., $3.50.

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS

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