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Kenneth Roberts' revisions on the opening page of this copy of the first edition of Arundel. Tlals novel wal published in 1930; completely revised in this copy by Kenneth Roberts in 1932; and replated for a new

edition in 1933. Every pare of the novel contains revisions.

oo_r e, ow o ear y exNot so ma.ny years ago, Kenneth with a stable yarel. of realistic ap- per1ence abroad amid the turmoil of Roberts was working on a Boston pearance. There ls a huge study war and post-war conditions, can see newspaper. rooming with Olin with a fireplace at one end and a in him easily enough of those same Downes. now New York Times music balcony at the other, and there Is a sturdy qualities that distinguish the heroes of "Arundel, Lively Lady" and critic, on Beacon H11!, and occasion11:ennel !or the Roberts coupe. . his other novels. He could not be ally knocking off an interview with Now he Is at>qut to leave for his otherwise for in his veins flows the 1ome famous author or other who Itallan palace, tor he 1s the only blood of those first Maine settlers, came to town to autograph his New Englander we know of who who lived and died in the midst of lk>Oks and let people look at him. commutes between Maine and Italy. danger, adventure and toil. No ancestor worshipper, he has a deep Next Friday an:! Saturday, Roberts The period to which Mr. "Roberts admiration and affection for his so' Wl.ll play the role of the llterary lion,, has devoted his talents as historical human forebears, chuckling when he doubtless With his tongue In his novelist is bound up with his own recalls their Vices and departures cheek. 1! that is zoologically possible. family history. Kenneth Roberts was from the straight and narrow, On Friday he wlil visit Boston book-Jborn Dec 8 1885 at Kennebunk M laughing at the discomfiture of those lhops .and on Saturday afternoon · ' • ' e. who place the forefathers on a gilded at. 2:30 he will be delighted to write From this town two of his ancestors pedestal, but speakJng with revIlls name m the tiy-!gaf of "Arundel, went as captams 1n the continental erence of their gallantry, i:ourage and "Rabble In Arms" or whichever of army and another sailed as a forbearance. It is this estimation • • of hi s ancest b18 l>oOks you prefer, 1n the book privateer captain 1n the war of 1812 ors, this hnman in, terpretatlon of the qualities of men department of Jordan Marsh Com- to be captured and sent to Dartmoor that has apparently driven Kenneth pany. prison. one of ht,s forebears was a Roberts 1n his so real stories of Kenneth Roberts spends half his member of the secret expedition Jed pioneer and colonial times. time In a Spanish stable, and the by Benedict Arnold against Quebec. Had Jtenneth Roberts lived 1n the res& of the time 1n a half-baked Roberts, as a boy, hunted and fished days of the Nasons he would doubtalong Arnold's route to Quebec and less have been among those who palace. That's what he calls them. came to know the Arundel country I shouldered a musket and went !>ff The Spanish stable 1s in Kennebunk, intimately · with ,vnold. or with one of the reg. Me.; the half-baked palace In Italy. · iment.s at Ticonderoga; earlier he KNOWS THE COUNTRY would haYe gone to Louisburg or When he decided to butld a work.. Life 15 &Oft today, to be sure, and later, fought aboard a defiant prlvaShop across the dirt road from his the demands upon most men are not teer. He would have been as much Kennebunk home, he called In of a nature to teat manhood as it at home In the rough hostelries of Booth Tarkington, Samuel Blythe, was once challenged daily. But those the country with their supplies or and other writing friends. They drew who know Kenneth Roberts know ~u~ ~ adnd h«;>5pitality as he up piana. The result wu a low- his old-time fondness for the Main" I o e re tna.n s forests, or on Iym rrow-blue sort of bam. , r us the lak"" fishing and out: new world seas b6low bellowing can""""'vas.

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