him, in 1900, the degree of Doctor of Letters. His brother, Will H. Thompson, was born in Missouri (1846), and the experiences of their youth and early manhood were similar. Will Thompson was a marvellous archer, and shared his brother’s enthusiasm for hunting with bow and arrow. He has not been, in recent years, a resident of Crawfordsville, having removed to the State of Washington, but he wrote while in Indiana his “High Tide at Gettysburg,” one of the few poems of the Civil War that has adequately expressed the spirit of battle and the larger meaning of the conflict. III. _Mary H. Krout_--_Caroline V. Krout_ Mary H. Krout, another Crawfordsville author, has added to the distinction of an Indiana family in which an admiral, George Brown, and several scholars and scientists have appeared. In her girlhood she wrote the verses “Little Brown Hands,” which have enjoyed a vitality not always relished by the author, whose later and longer flights are better deserving of recognition. Miss Krout has been an indefatigable traveller, and her books include “Hawaii and a Revolution” (1898), an account of her personal experiences in the Sandwich Islands during the political crisis that preceded annexation; also “A Looker-on in London” (1899), which describes novel phases of English life freshly. Miss Krout more recently penetrated to the interior of China, visiting cities remote from the beaten track of travel. Her sister, Caroline V. Krout, a classical scholar of high attainment, has written, under the nom de plume “Caroline Brown,” “Knights in Fustian” (1900), a novel of Indiana. The “knights in fustian” are “Knights of the Golden Circle,” a treasonable society which menaced Indiana during the Civil War. The principal characters are the fatuous rustics, who indulge their crude taste for the mysterious in the secret meetings and sonorous ritual of the society. Miss Krout knows the people of her own soil thoroughly, and the particular type that has attracted her is set out in her pages with photographic accuracy. The tale is true to history and to the local life, and its literary excellence places the author’s name high on the roll of Western writers. She has also written many short stories for the periodicals. CHAPTER VII “OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END”