2 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 14

MR. SINCLAIR LEWIS.

The author of Main Street and Babbitt has been making his peace with the Rotarians and they with him. Accepting an invitation to a Rotary lunch the other day in Vermont, where he has a country home, Mr. Sinclair Lewis delighted his hearers by a speech in which he praised Vermont as the one place in all the world where he would care to spend the rest of his days. But he bade his hearers beware of spoiling it with such evidences of modern progress as concrete roads, hot dog stands and bill-boards and the "mania which would have a town of 4,000 twice as good as a town of 2,000, or a. city of 100,000 fifty times as good as a town of 2,000."

YOUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT.

New York, Wednesday, October 30th.