HAMPTON ROADS

an arm of the Chesapeake Bay, (at the mouth of the James River, It is between Hampton and Norfolk, Va., with Newport, Old Point Comfort, Fortre Monroe and _Fort Wool in the neighborhood. It isa \ favorite summer and winter resort and has a bathing beach, bathing places and many historical sites in the neighborhood. It is notable as being the scens. of the famous battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac during the Oivil War. author; his novel Sulit, trans, Hunger 1899, is perhaps most grimly powerful description of slow starvation liter a— ture; awarded Nobel Prize for literature 1920. Other works include Mysterier 1893; Norn, 1894; Stesta, 1897; Kratskow, 1904.