Engaged. Nicholas Llewellyn Davies, youngest of the four adopted children of famed author-play-wright Sir James Matthew Barrie; to the Hon. Mary Beatrice James, daughter of the noted sportsman Walter John James, third Baron Northbourne. As everyone knows, Mr. Barrie met the four Davies children years ago in Kensington Gardens, and adopted them after the death of their parents. Their mother, Sylvia (Du Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested one line of Barrie's play, Little Mary, and received one ha'penny royalty for each performance, until he was killed during the War while serving as a Lieutenant. The second son, Michael, said to have supplied the inspiration of Mary Rose, was drowned five years ago while an undergraduate at Oxford. When Sir James heard this news his grief was great. He sat in a darkened room, refusing to see anyone.

Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Campbell of Evanston, Ill., granddaughter of famed Judge E. H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corp.; to one Edward Sutherland Clark of Chicago.

Died. Arthur Smith, 32, night pilot for the U. S. Air Mail Service; killed in line of duty near Montpelier, Ohio, (see p. 35 AERONAUTICS).

Died. Dr. William Bateson, 66, distinguished British biologist, famed investigator of the Mendelian theory of heredity; in London.

Died. William C. Bobbs, 65, President of the famed Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Co.; at Indianapolis, of heart disease.

Died. Henry Holt, 86, famed founder (1873) of the publishing firm which bears his name, writer of various books dealing with the cosmos and of Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor; at Manhattan, following an attack of bronchitis. On his 80th birthday, Mr. Holt said: "Any young man who drinks whisky is a fool, and any old man who doesn't is another!"