The Fool-Errant: bBeing the Memoirs of Francis-Antony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca

IN "The Fool Errant" the author bids good-by not only to the old times of the Renaissance, but also to much of the former Hewlett manner. The novel is a story of 18th century Italy, filled with the tone and color of that period. It is not a little singular that in commenting upon the probable inspirations of the book, none of the commentators mentioned Beyle. Mr. Richard Holbrook, writing in the Bookman in 1906 on "Some probable sources of Mr. Hewlett's Fool Errant" laid especial stress upo...