1909. Hewlett, English novelist, poet and essayist best known for his historical romances and travel books, begins Open Country: The name of Thomas Welbore Percival was soundly respected in the city of London. It stood for a turnover of fifteen thousand pounds, and a private income of at least six thousand a year. It centered in the person of a rosy-gilled, full-waistcoated gentleman of middle life-Mr. Percival was five-and-fifty and admitted it-to whom a joke was dear, and not less dear because its scope and measurements were accurately known. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.