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From
JANUARY
TO JUNE 25 , 192 /
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336 t °
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Alphabet G f Marv n
Ai Pin „ o sa^- & s «
., «lS' b '"«- S ~ Mountain-
An* lAr-'
Ar ch«oIogi Lli b Cent >- ^3
»«•. tes. Fi «-
I Al SS^ ag n aI
Lakf \ Dwellings : Swiss t
Preh Hri,ish . 549 ’
I ''“SISTfan*" »" d Anintab-
PU '« AS" *."‘"M* 0 ««n»n
Skulls—See ih,> rs.,
f t lum •■ a » d Sculpt,
Company—See n a .
. 02
Art—See
1 a . .. ee ^ctures ; an
I AscolTX’^eu''"-?' H A.C.
I Hn« o. ws °f the Course
I ... 8 5 8 , 859
K,n « and Queen ,
Pavilion, 8 j6-8j 7
Asnh C u g Tro P h 'es. 811
Asphalt—See Pitch I it-e
Astronomical_ Lake
Pons-Winnecke Comet
Snn.p^, Track “I- <73
Royal ,
mk-Notes, 54J
Austrian Cx-Em^rc
Family, 4 66
H?L‘°v- R r Rain . Thr “"e of
. . n,anger, 495 V,n * Steina -
Aviation— 73
ASSpkSe" e u N s a T , ' Cuh - ,, » 6
Liner V, Pass <-"ger Air |
, £■"
AiVPhoI 1 ”' S P ( ‘ < ‘ lJ RfCord, 53
A^hfc- KraP ^ lhat ^«
R Da y r 7 T 9 EpS ° ra on ^by
R 3^ Collapsed iu Yorkshire,
Aviation {continued,—
N "'S:
p a ';' 1 , A, ' r ;'Plan < -Carner 5II
RAp.il;^" :Sccnes
Min,s”TX NCWFI ^ ° Ver
BntrWdrtrttaB,,^.,^^
1 ay
R 36, with M P ’« ri; m » ■
in, 851 s c,lmb| n«
Caproni Giant Seaplane
^y&L d i •«
fists*
Helicopter (The Petrocry), 633
Bcerbohm, Max—See r •
BfRKar’s ()J ra n ^ancatures
.P?^la^ a Ctogct« fa
n .. Pheatres 94 ^ “Iso
<i B,utS ^S^ --
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SBrSfwSr**-"
M ^ch : Mr°C.?hh Foo,b “R
tonJZS&g M '“‘
u bridge ° Xford and Cam-
in Manipur,
“fev,*-*-**■
Chelsea Arts, 44...
Band ll'- tiinia Cotli.-rv) PUyina
Bank FL,5SS“? m R 4“u» <
Bn-Mn, sESS.'SK^S
Bedfordl? n „ Fe,ners . 831 ■ ,» " pats Memorial Volun
^ 2 Sri 8 HrB?S I Ssa «Ss«.j 5
^37 ™anipur,
Bolshevism_S«^> tv
R Russia^* Th « ted ; and
Bomb Outrages-
n , Ireland
^ i 'i lu . 5,rated -
^ u ate' v f:~- ■«
-S«* Italy, and
°tt!cel^ Drawings of Dante, 8,o
49 .R.^I >7
JNl>hX TO IN'.RAVIN'.S IN VOL. U.VIII.
Boxuu • Jimmy ^ il*lf and 1’ite j
Herman. no
Bey Souls (London Dkc*s*i») a
S'mersrl House* i *0
Bteushrl (lit.o the El-lot : “ A
Breuil I U-be) Lecturing cn K-.-ck
Painting*. 2 39
Bri Ige See Snuthwatk '
bull (’’ Hedges beo-ti 1 Series )
Bunyoui Custom*— See Ainct
,1 F-. hvlu* at 42 *\:')
t-' Pavement Rag *>39
Northern ; lunou* Sunrise
Cardiff. Prill. < ..I W.ilr*
Cardigan Ivl's lion — !
Chinese I..pe*trv. zo< :o 7
English '.iris ai S* h.*.l in Pans,
I |0 t«i 14 4
Grand t ai, vn of Anr.ma (Na- |
rural t •il.Hir l’h-«t.<s.),342-343
II->n Ians Sturt, 4<>3
Saw M-«i< 111 Ships, $«o 3*1
prime »t Wales. ;i?
Ou.s'ii Miry at Sandringham
i Natural - l-d-mr Photo|, >
|an * -up. I
Slatuarv Tvpr-s <>f Nix IVmnh
lr-lll t ret. t-> Atilt a 3 »«>. 1(1
"The Beggar’s 0|«ra," at the
| xr „ ,--_s,-e als-i H"garth
Whaling Kith a H ,r|*»n Line,
Jan, is Sup. Il ill
Comet Polis-W it t c. ke. S4"
Liaiiterei.. es. Allied—1 inlet Peace
Fiotball lonlinurj —
A>o» lal i- n Cut' I he stt
S> eur ul Imal Miii.l-»idbndgr,
eu>u-, Hie: S he-lule . Machines
for Sorting, Counting, etc.,
8448:3
Ihairs «| sia’e. Hist-mr, 4':
Kepli' a id Speaker's Chair /or
Binumghtm 1’insersits r la-r
1 I,IV efsits , I > mis I t '
British Aims r Er>i--h An
la-rd H'irnr and Em
Ce«n!'i. ■' l-din I»artiel.'' »M
C#- >a l*i- tuns at Butl.uglot. H-i
ho g an I l.Sieeft «
hiers. i*-z . I*r.i,te
es« t ntist.-j-her,
K- -m- i<% \'h«its. as* I
\Ce-l *1- g ot t r-'KII IT11 an il |
( Ireland (uKli«e/l—
. ' • Irish War Nrsl " < Pul't»E.ed
I i|iiti'(Ki|<u'l. , lltl' .4*0
Late'. 1 btit-su litA|» ti-au a
■ ll.K.et
t l liner-, It I ui-etal Ol M i)i« «n-!
K-rkhil' I I- III ," 4 han.pMKi
M1 liter , 4S-|
Cowans Sir I Ktsjuiem Mass and
' A'hes,” I'mC'tnt tilling the 1
M c 1 It.till l"t Austrati.
Ma)--t Ik -tiglas and I’Uve
Cl - estrs ol ' I'lrfusl |
S» ills- p 1 Its I -hi- 1 ■ 1 -~r
I* .ais C m o V .
Chelsea Arts ball: The “ br-ni
> 1 la rid— I
Mi I lasers. .
tn.-I at I rent I
ingham, 70b; |
Stt nd Test Platers "* ??<i: <
I or.l’s -l-irir s the <>anir, ^31
Sekct'-rs--t 1 i-ghsh learns. ?ct
Crooks. Will Euneial in Last ,
Inn-Ion. M*
Cline Mine ruder Radium I
Cycling ms I 'at t-mtrst) and,
Ss letv III Paris, v.s
CIrenr. Do* --vene* at, -1 t-- Sj
Children at Winter Sports i
Chamonix, go.- to jo>
China . I’m4 Liang Larlbtiuake-
See Earth-piakrs
Chinese Early Potterv : Fijure of
Chines.- r ipestrv fiiiC'oUnirl.Jot 207
Church. Leaders ol the. 51 r
Chur, hill (Mr. W mstoii) Panning,
Cinematography: “ ('.ale " - Making
bv Aeroplane Propeller, 243
Jutland battle Filmed. 475
Plat's—Under Theatre,
City’s (l.ond--n) Roll ot Honour at
0ml1lh.il!. 134
Clemen-.au (M ) Tigrr-Sh-->-tmg
with Indian Prunes. 457
Coal See Oil Furl j
Coal C nsis. Mines stoppage. Miners, ,
Bringing C-ciI H-tne fr--m Pit- J
H i 1 Humps, s-4 575 ,
Cann-Hk Chase: Mis, Meeting
ol Miners—Police Guarding .
Pit Head 4'C
Defence I'mt,—See Triple Alli¬
ance Fhreat. below
Hudge, iMr. F.t Stating Miners'
Case t<’ M.P.’s in Committee
Room of House of Commons,
Meeting of Men at N'e.ith. 498 I
Men Marching to Wa'.ts-T'-wn .
k a . I White ba'I 7-1
I, of St Sa >1 rut, *i»
l. .g r s-3 l-e.r, ’’)
Pupils at Guildhall St.h<»-1
Mu»i< : m, <
Russian btllet- Amlalusian Dan-
11 -.!» * * 1*T* t **'■
II .1 . i-t’s S...fs at t
Mu' g »tt K- g» t-t. '
hot It* *11 An mu in F"
r g .i.b.-l ‘.Utsls at the Par
1 >u f I * j m-ar, M4 '4>
Men’s Leaders at London Con¬
ference. an"
Miner’s Homeat DinnerTime. 373
Miners’ Ret n ations—Pigeon-Fly¬
ing and billiards, 572 I
Pit Forties' St. Lcger at Don¬
caster. 703
M.P.’s Listening to Mr. Hodges,
Mr. W 4 brace, Mr. Shirkie. and
Sir A. Nitnnio, 408-499 '
Naval Ratings 011 March through
London, 4W : P‘J r G" ‘ r, >
Duty at Abertdlery Mines,
549 ; On Pumping Duty, 4'-9
Notice Put up at Clifton Colliery,
Owners* and their Leader Mr.
Fvan Williams, at London
Conference, 498, 499
Pit ponies Underground and j
Dog Team Racing at Hudson
bay; and Winning Driver,
Gift to Prin'e of Wales, f- 7 t
Donoghue (J-* key) Going to I ans
bv Aeroplane, 775
Dover Election, 104
^Fash-on Sketches and Photo-
Stu-lciilv 1 ir
ENiruilure at t.wt-lvr < istle,
I-roin |.-ikr --t btaul-.rt'f (
lei tli.li, 85.1
Old F.ngli'h La- <iuer Cabinet,
All-cd Troops in, 3 * 4 -
Nests and Eggs, <>34 *35
Georg-. Mr. I.l- v-l
At Birmingham. Miking Spec- h
on (>ernian Reparations, 19U
At I’niv-TSity and in Civu
Procession, >95
At burial >)l France's Unknown
i-ss.-rs jss | Keslr. l» m th«- Nr-,:, 40#-; being |
,kr oil I 11 veiling ! Film.tf 407
Kc i I 'w it 1 ji Kig.-n.u 11--.sting bntish Flag at. |
C ith La t-l Kawtin- Kilaura ( rater in E.ruption. 514 313, ]
| 3in
Rare during Pu)a , Ki'ig <.f-rgr —
17 . Aru.v r. R A.F. Football Match, !
1 Tiger Shooting, I At. sj->
ir.i) ih« ul Gwalior As. --t. At 'i<- t.-t
11. :\7 “ DaU Mall" I lh- lenrjr Exhi-
ln-tian >--. lirr»
rhani, i-
Institut Erany
Chil-lr. n i»'i
Earth,,u tk'-s : Orig.n o/ Ping Liang
El.irth-iuake Regions Atlec-
ted -Diagrams of Causes— t
Milne Recording-Pendulum,
3*. 37 c '
Flclipse, Observing the, 513—bee
Pit ponies Underground and
Above, 50J. 503 ; Pit Pony
in a Truck, 470 ; Pomes; , ^^Crown Prince's Visit, 603 j
Racing, 703 r o pr , and prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 bb
at Lwynpia Pit, 4*J
Queue of People for Coal Permits ) wit h W ife and Lord
Triple* Alliance Threat : Pkatermburg—Nee Russia (Imperial
Government Precautions . De , l katcr ^ iu| ,| v)
fence Units Enrolling. 501 plections— b---- Parliamentary
Transport with ( .. r|s at a Pans Lyc*.
Pfe t’lfu' lMobdc) ‘ E nglisl»^V"k:nV ';mo , .;s Dinner to
Motor-Drivers m Hv'lc l'ark, !
«,o- Wireless Lint (Mobile)
? 4 ... Gardens, (li:
At IV.11 r 1 re it v Conferences - S<-e
th it Title
German l ast Atrlca See Kigoma
t.ermaliy -
Aircraft Dump for Surrender to
Allies, r 88
Allie-1 Tr-gips in Occupation— See
War Sublet *«
Communist Outbreaks, Armed
8-ilfipressi-jn of. 484
Burgomaster of W aid Apologis¬
ing t• 1 British Othicrs for In¬
sults, 497
Ex-Kaiserm's Funeral at I’ots-
Raco Mt-ting at Karlshorst, 464
Silesia —Sec that Title
Turkish ex Vin. r, Ialaat Pasha's,
Funeral in berlm, 454
War Criminals Trials at Leiprig ;
Oociiing; and Members ol
British Commission, 744
War Reparations : Allies’Claims
Inventi'-ns, turii-us See Pa
tiHi.e
Irel .ml -
Amn-urcd Car with Wire 1
Japanese 1 .--U minr.
|.>h. -.- * sultan ob an I hb^"* r l?
L.,-h.s«rr “4»” un 1401 ‘
R,.t.gtv.lrT4il.BS ' «»*
S(r a 11 r 1 iti 11 . Ikwrawen m
Sleigh* IM-'b-rl for
lul.v^ m">( at.iel amlherc^
Vauth.lb at IKnic "> ‘ >c *
\\ .les s>-<-
Vanxhall Kingb-n » jr '’ 'y(j, hin»
Wolsel. > (. -*r'. <>J4, > >« •
Sll--P. 33*4
M--.IM I V ! r *
I liill.lt 1 V all leak*. M
..
M.-untaiii'-enng at 1"“
I t’an| 4 I*inch (Timbmg
GitV Hall, 778. 779
Clergy A-lv-- a(--» ot Sum I
I'-liiiburgh. rs*
Irish Pr-'t-'-tant Clergy
nents of Slim Erin 1
3--rk. 439
Cork : Prisoner* being
i-ns*25“
Hu,,., -.j
Lake Dwellui.'s (I'rT-hist--nr) in I
Switrerland. 3.9
til.i-.f--1 burv lake Dwellings. 349
I„m--’v tSil Hugh, Disputed llr-pirst '
ol I'll HIM--, t .‘4. 37 1
Law I'll. H-Uiall In-tall- -1 as I ..ml
He lor --I t.U-g- w Uniter-
Namelnv* I xhll»ltl‘ ,r
to Kensington Gardens. 49 H : ,
Troops in K^W^un- 1
dens. 5 ' 1 ■
Muring of Parliamentary Com- |
Eton^Fourth of July Celebration, Glasgow,^Prince <
1 Visi/of Japanese Crown Prince, dasgowUnivepUi
F ”" Chum,
bank Failure: Mr. T. j
Farrow and Mr. Crotch, 3 1
Custom* House, burning of:
Scene* of Fighting, etc., 749,
750 731. 734 733
Execution of Sinn F'ciner* :
bursting Open Shop
Coveii-d l ourt Chanipioust
Winner*, 3t4
La 1 -m.i N-w C’.rtirt—!
I englen PLivtug, 41
Id's l hanipi.niolup Meeting: , Napde--" 1 „ j )n (GiU,
l'n-uniK ul I'layris, 848 849 | tJr . k , p.hihe
r l-> AMk* bre.nl, 439 1 ’i*r,rtrait Society * ■
al-. Koval Iri-tltution Lee National „ 7 .
tare* I . V":.|‘.ur Pb-b^al’^’
1 1 ><"srrt : M.ip of Mr» FwImm Natural Picture** 1 * 1
• Naval (See al- ^
I Aeroplane JkarricG
Binningham Street i
Colc - &IT 5»>1 ro.
" >
Gallardo. Jan * 3 t
A ‘tbit May Become t
Battle-Ship* .
Obsolete, 37 s 3/9
Film Plays—Under Theatres
l in Fire*—See Ireland
[,Jor ) Fish-Elevator on W aterfa
Fish-Elevator on Waterfalls
f River* (Canada), 543
Fiume— Under Italy
Flving Animals—See Haunts of
’ Life (Mastery of the Air)
Football, Teams, etc.— 1
Air Force v. Navy, Duke of York i
and Teams, 19,3
Army v. R.A.F., King at, 328. 3-0 1
Armv in England and Army in
Ireland Rugby Teams, 12a
bunkers, 745
Champion, Miss Cecil Leitch, '
with Kunner-l’p, 794
Mi-s Cecil I-citch and Miss A j
Stirling, 743
Ladies v. Gentlemen Tourney at
Stoke Poges : Miss C. Leitch, 1
Miss Alexa Stirling, etc., 5 34 I
Team Golf, A Player for Each
Club, iot
Thousand Guineas Tournament,
Winner (Mitchell) and Kun-
ner-Up (Kirkwood), 816
In Dublin, <><>7 London County Hall Sculpture:
Fires : burning of Sir A. Dobbin's Mr. F-. C--lc Working 0.1 a
House in Co. Cork, 744 Group, 411
Custom* House, Dublin, and Lord Chief Justice Sworn In at
National Shell Factory—See Law Courts, 33J
Dublin, above I oreto, Holv House --f, 331
Matahidc C-ustguard Station Luzon, Terraced Rnc Fields in,
*51 20-21
Greenwood (Sir Hamar) Inspect¬
ing R.l.C. Cadets, 134 M
Irish Problem through French
Eyes (by M. Ludovic Nau- McKennal (Mr. b.) at Work on
deau), 440, 440. 474, 536 E; t on W ar Memorial, 13a
Flotilla Leader.™-.
.r^V.t'tle Filmed, 475
Jutland L-ittir
Night Firing, Ghit)Lf° nar
Salving B-atle Nh.i>-
Vmei ibj . S,jbm< r *
s-grtW* 4 ’
gnbrn-ii-m.^ Ashore, 1$^
i
INIM X IO EXt.KAVIM.S IN V«U.. t I VIII.
I 111 l •!• > r»i- L. s
I ’ . I .
Scnuv>i —S«c F'orhe*. Mrs.
Shak'-sjieurc Htrth.D) Celebrations :
Sir Si lury l.ec and Mr, J. K.
II .i kett at Stratford, S^f
Ships iSts* alsu Naval)—
Battle Ship as Seen irom an Aero-
pi.'nr, t;t>
Effingham (l.tghl Cruiser) 8tA
1 1 l< 11.1: i .1 (IS Battle-Ship) .'4
Lei.nar.lo da Vinu, Nalvmg the,
ID)
>70
Sailing Ship A. 7it-7t<)
Sailing Ship Outward Bound, 1 f*)
Stuttgart, at Dartnii.uth. t»u
Submarine* and bul'inrrsit'le
ltattle-Ships—lnd« r Naval
Tenn 11' S. Hattie - Ship)
Sut* rxtructure o!. hj
Siltsia I'pper —
Co.il Miners at Work, 4:1
Plebiscite. Sc.-nes ol the 431
I’oli-h KevL.lt : Korfanly and his
IrrcKiilirv (no. ,,e, 7
German Conmiaudcr, Gen.
Holer, hiA
Oppeln, Sc. nes in, 7**7
Arrival ol British Tn«'p» 77s
Silver (Old): (»e* >tgc II. Ira I'm
and William 111 \>in-Cis¬
tern. son; larikards, Sconce,
and To let Service Irom Grey
Collection. ,S7'»
Smn F- in I 'nder Ireland
Skull-. Prehistoric v.r Man
South Anienean Skulls Trephined
am) Flattened, 74s
Sleigh .Motori |. r Snow Travel In
A aska, 2 7 * *70
Snuff lt..\ 1 at leau at Chauve-
Sun Trat A ot I ■ Bp-e. 4't
(il-u-rvmg the I . l:f-r, 11 t
Sunvjcv.s —Holes in Sun's Surfacr
Sunrise (with M -ck Suns) in
S»tth"n» Cam la, 6oj
Supplement^ in lot. nr -
C i. < n Mars 111 her Garden. 1 rn h
A It. autv ' I Spain. |an ty
Swanland. Alain ate n ol Quc«n ol
Swedish Ballet — I'inlei Tteatrrs
Swttii rlatul : Sea lely *1111 Winter
S|a.rt. 4*5
At l>.e •. f*
At Mutrer, 1 \r
At st Mntr. 110111
Mum-n : M.avmuht and Sunset on
the !- lif.r and Mon. h 4 1
Syracuse, " Again* nu.im * Invnl
in Ancirl.t ll.eatif St, Jtai
. Pan
Sovietv a. Win'rr sp rti in Switi-
er'an S-e Switmland
IV, mails at National Portrait
S vietv s Kxhinilion, 140 147
South Africa : I'limn Hun 1 ii.es |
Pretoria. 244 215
Southwark Bridge, Opening by the
Kin* ; Air View, nr , 77c |
Spain: Assassin »:mn ol l*r*itucr—
Car With Itullet-HoIrS y 7 1
King arnl Queen Leaving Schor I
Dato's H.-il-e tf>7
Queen at K.-iigi.,u» Ceremony,
Madnd, 77 -y
Spanish IVtures at Burlington
House, 4h; Jan. ij Sup 1
(Colour)
Special Constables Inspected at j
Olympia Is?
Menials t..r Gallantry in Air Rai.K |
Stained GiaiS Panel, Old English I
Stamps: New Issues, etc., with
Descriptions, yi, tJf', 2 4*.
3v fi . 4'53, ii f >. hho. 736 h«-
* 7 *
Statues—See Sculpture
Stentorphone—See Rnlways
Stoat (Argyllshire! in \\ inter, 18
Stone, Hilton-of-Cadball, 296
Stone-Age Men and Animals—See
Man
Submarines and Submersible Ships--
L'nder Naval
Tapestries* Karr Trench, at Vie
tofia an I Albert Mueuui
1 Tarpon Fishing ui Gull of Meaieo
Tell (| Amaina, R. lies at, t?*. 179
Tempie Bar, 0.4 (at Ihe>4>a.ds
I 1 ark 1. yf>7
I Tennis at Pau : Presenting Cup. 74; I
Territorials (London) Pr-scntri •
wiin N<w Coiouri by Puu-
| .r.« M.itv 2<)<>
1 hasie-! Chui> h : liolvhevist War
j 11 rat hint, 701; Viral ai !
I Curat-, 704 , I n l«ig:a luat s
Removing Re.1 hug 71.4 ,
| Theatres. Plavs etc
A Bill ol I iivofirmcnl (St. Mar J
Peep s h,,w iHipt»«lr.<uei "I»own
Hi. kens M'tet " |.S 2
Polls With a Past St. James's).
Ralph K-as.et Ik islet bv the
ui Hs tat Westminster
S* li.« ll 111 -
Rov-C a.|en.v of I>r mistlr Att *
Itime <d W \ i»it , and
I-,.vs l*»et in..) -40 'll
Russi.ri |ta“. t 5 i li'ns in Din-
| (»i», " 1 uadrii | mbnun,"
, ( h n't, *«o
I hwe !i-h Ballet * S*rne in " Mai-
S.EI .lew l.rns 42
! Svbll (Dais'*-, 114 to.*, 411 1
The Beggar's ia i 1 STK I. 177 ,
'•<S
(hatailirs It. Por.tlatn, *44
I lh. tur. In H- garth, : ir.
' The IW tr tha 1 . ... > V -, r«4
* Miss 1,' ilvs ( jet and the
ltd- ft. I fill, t:.#
The l harm s. h.« I ( nads), n4
I Thr ( i' ,. H >\t. >rk> 1 . 4; '
I In I >.t.g ..I Um law ii.ar
I-res
• H .•
lath
• » A "• ss
B t-'« .S wh. I Prrs-'M.t I-k
t‘w Oa*h 411
I*r.s, I...I w.ih t .1 . 1 M.m
strrs 4S1 , With Mr Brsau.
IVf l'. 4 <g• A., II ..I Ikrstrur
ti--i. at. »s ■
War M.m. liar. Alpha ISrlta H»i,
Wash,..,t ai Ik* I jpld \ lews
t» J ~fh D«la 4 . t * I
I'llip.h.e U in pt> blrm i»A in;
Venus IN mil SI ir..l at Bar. I «.a
Vernwri S ) in) " llie I ItOc Mtert "
Wales, l*i»i sr .4 .i.alistM —'*
(•.its Sst'is.M «>: ser»>ce
.. 1 ''i : o-rai 4.nit
a* 1 tM !»0 •• IS. 74 4
IN. It.. 1. 41 t nks at St I no
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OF FIUME. PROCEEDED AGAINST BY FORCE : GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO.
manifestos by aeroplane, one bearing the words : “ Italy celebrates Christmas by
making havoc of the Italians in the Fiume of Italy. Gabriele D'Annunzio greets
his executioners.” It was reported that he was wounded by a splinter from a
naval shell fired by the Dreadnought " Andrea Doha,” but this was officially
denied. The destroyer “ Espero,” which went over to D’Annunzio, fired on the
Italian Fleet on the 26th, and was sunk. On Dec. 28 the casualties in the
fighting were estimated at 400 killed and «*-•— --
THE 1LU SIK.VIKD I.ONPON NEWS. Jan
T HE French Revolution has become respett-
able by a conventional comparison with the
Russian Revolution. But in my boyhood there
still lingered some tradition of talking about
Jacobins as people now talk about Bolshevists.
Some of the talkers had the extraordinary notion
that the French Revolution was an effort towards
Socialism ; which is rather like saying that the
Russian Revolution was an indication of the
spread of Spiritualism. I for one have always
believed that the French Revolution did really
renew the youth of Europe, and create a heroic-
legend for the liberal idea. But there was a real
mistake made by its supporters, which seems
never to be adequately urged by its opponents.
Coming at the end of a rationalistic epoch, it tended
too much to a negative instead of a positive
equality. It abolished things for everybody,
instead of extending them to everybody. To
take a trivial instance, it began with a generous
indignation that many people shou'd be wearing
filthy rags while a few people wore beautiful
clothes. The proper issue of that indignant
idealism should obviously be that all men should
wear beautiful clothes. But the nineteenth cen¬
tury turned it rather into the notion that all men
should wear ugly clothes. They began by praising
ancient togas, and ended by producing modern
trousers. There was a curious mixture of a
Pagan stoicism with a Puntan commercialism, of
which the result was that all men went about
with high black hats like mutes at a funeral.
I am even disposed to extend the argument from
clothes to weapons. In the eighteenth century
all gentlemen wore swords ; by the nineteenth
century’ no men wore swords. I am far from
certain that it would not have been a finer declara¬
tion of freedom i all men had worn swords. I
realise all the dangers of a defensive weapon
being used as an offensive weapon. But I think
there is in that argument the same peril which
we see to-day in the argument that prevention
is better than cure. Just as men were forbidden
the sword, for fear they should abuse it, they arc-
now forbidden the wine-cup, for fear they should
abuse it. I agree with Oliver Cromwell, that it
is time enough to interfere with them when they
do abuse it. If a man kills another man with a
sword, let him be punished for killing him, but
It is only the tree nt life . a llli ie tilth 1 lit feeling
of interest in nm 's own family is one of the iti'M
natural and uniceis.il fittings, it has nothing
jeartu ularly ohganhual. or eccn aristixratu almut
it. And when the philosophers disco\end that
all men were important, they ought obviously to
have discovered that all families were lni|Mirtant ;
and even that all |*digreis were ini|*>it.int N i
CAPTAIN OF THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM IN
AUSTRALIA: COLONEL J W H T DOUGLAS. WITH
HIS WIFE. ON BOARD SHIP ON THE VOYACE OUT
This photograph ot Colonel and Mrs D.ugUs was taken by
Mr P G. H. F-r.ier. during 'he voyage 'o Aus ra on toard
•he " Os erley.' England was beaten by Australia in u.e first
Test Matcn. which ended at Sydney on Decent<r 22, by
377 runs, [f’katogtjf'h tu ppluJ by ('. ,V.|
can 1 see any reason why the genealogical tree
should not lx-ar flowers as well as fruit ; why
there should not lx- colours and emblems and
and eagles in half to tit in with the father's quartrr
lligs, or the niotlnr's piles and jsirtltlonv mi the
raw |ts\c hologu a| novelists are cutting up their
human Utt.gs into fatlu r c ••mplexes and mother-
i om.j it \i’s till tlit v resemble heraldic figures of
ul.ii li or.lv a he or arm remains in a tangle of
lx nds and chew..PS III tx.th cases the result »
a «! a.-r.im ni'te.i I of a drawing ; and in both »avs
the spirit is ped.ll.trv instead of jxxtry. But
111 neither ease- should wr forget the- original nature
of the- (xx-tiv inherit a flag or fighting sign
from a father, and hand it e.n te. a fanilh. is a |x-r
fi-* 11 \ |**-tn and simple- idea, and no more snoh
bisfi than having a sentiment al"*ut the house of
your childhi*■! >>r the plav ground of your ehildrrn
And. mde-e-<J. the- paralh I brings us to what is
real I v the- prat tie al jx»mt for the mtxlem world
For. if it was in this sense that the French
Revolution was wr. ng. it is exactly in this sense
that the- whole niexlnn world is wrong where the
French Revolution was right In <»ne most vital
matter the svmlx-ls of the sword and shield, the
oh] traditions of chivalry anti heraldry, were
tarried on by the Jacobins, and have only been
altaiitloru d bv us I he I-rt nth Revolution may
have discouraged the ufi-a of the paternal flag,
but it carefully preserved the idea of the paternal
farm It may have alxelisht-d the family tree,
but it kept the family trees in the sense of things
growing in the family orchard or vineyard. It
merely sought. s<* far as jxissible. to provide every
private citi/en with this experience of private
projx-rtv. and esjx-ti.illy of private property in
land. I lie r<x>ts of the new equality were the
same as those of the old feudalism. l°r they
were nx.ts in the soil. France has corr cted the
concentration of projx-rty by the distribution o
property, and not by the vague vrrlxal abolition
of property. For the atx>htion is in reality only
verlial, and merely means that the property
which was once concentrated in landlords u
again concentrated in officials. But the point to
sei/c is the sanity of this true democratic develop-
mc-nt, which, seeing something unwisely confin
to the few, wisely distributed it to the many. *
may have, rightly or wronglv. transferred property ,
but it never dreamed of alxilishmg property. n
that resjx-ct Marat and the Sansculottes were
better conservatives than we.
not for being able to kill him. If a man is drunk
and disorderly, let him be punished for being
disorderly, but not for be¬
ing able to drink and remain . - - —
orderly. And the sword con-
sidered as a symbol would be
a symbol of precisely those J
rights of the citizen which
are now most necessary and
most neglected It would
stand for the idea that he V
has in the last resort the
right to defend his family
individually, as to defend his
country collectively. I think
it would be a good public
army that was made of all
those private swords. At
least, there would be no
pacificism in that sort of
democracy. Who knows but
even the world of politics
might recover the conception
of honour ?
But whether or no every
bodv ought to have a sword,
I feel sure that everybody
ought to have a shield ; I
mean in the sense of armo¬
rial bearings. Here again is
an instance in which the
great revolutionary move¬
ment erred in equalising by - -
extinguishing instead of by QF THE M
extending. The rca error The names are (f rom
of the feudal tradition was M , p. g. H. Fender,
not in having too much Dc
external beauty to express the variations of tin-
social group. The art of heraldry degenerated
rd, 1 think
must lx- sc
not in having w' D
heraldry, but in having too
little For properly understood, heraldry is one of
the simplest ideas of humanity. In a certain sense,
indeed heraldry is humanity. It is what Mr. H. G.
Wells called mankind in the making; it is life con¬
sidered as a tissue of births. The genealogical tree
is really a most common or garden sort of tree.
SOME OF THE M.C.C. TEAM NOW IN AUSTRALIA: ENGLISH CRICKETERS C
The names are (from left to right)-Back row: Russell. Mr E. R. Wilson, Wool'ey, Park
Mi P. G. H. Fender. Middle row: Hendren. Col. J. W. H. T. Douglas. Hern-. a nf M .kr-’p-a:e.
Dolphin, and Strudwick. Eight of this group played in the first Test M-v
because it was turned from a real art to a sham
science. A gocxl many modern arts seem to In¬
going the same way. The art of fiction, for
instance, seems to be turning fiom the r» J.ty of
romance to the affectation of psychology or
psycho-analysis. As the heralds cut tlu-ir lions
suing the n
pertv, either
l. And cm
or to have a
i the street
some of our more Tory an
at, lung their heads over the
situation if such a gesture
of bewilderment can be con¬
sidered sufficiently aristo¬
cratic. Having been brought
up to regard France as one
great barricade of bloody
revolution, they are now
a< tually trusting to France
one is tempted to say hiding
Ix-hind France, as the one
great bulwark ot old Euro-
pean law and order.
. Intel of the Jacobin »
c hampion against the
sl.evistx \Miile the loyal
lan,Is of BliUhcr and Meb
tenmh are honeycombed
with Ix-ninism. the land o
Kolxspiern- and St.
stands for a more state y
tradition of diplomacy, and
for th amient chivalry
Poland Vet the explana¬
tion of the apparent parad<>
,, m .ji,ally apr»""‘
fait l ian<e is conservati
t«-.a..se dm ...receded in ^
,„g revolutionary : and that
with the only kind of revo¬
lution that can really sn¬
eer,I Atxuit property,
not alxiut rank or costumr.
she pursue,! a positive and
not a ...native ciualiv
111.- modern world, s ' >
a. „ , s pnrsuinK
)ti,.n of the mere nega
through capitalism <>r J
niiared with that, it w
n
*
1
r
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, Jan. 1, 1921.-3
i with the father's (ju- I
Jes and partitions, * •. I
ists are cutting op >
r complexes and efe I
-mble heraldic fans I
n remains in a tatie: I
i both cases then* 1 -; I
'awing; and in both ® I
instead of poetry, kl
forget the original mtr I
it a flag or fighting e I
t on to a family, sag I
idea, and no more sc
ment about the hos
. ground of yourdofe I
I brings us to ifc I
for the modern rr,; I
i sense that the Fir.: I
is exactly in this s©
orld is wrong when tit
ght. In one most is
e sword and shield, tit
ry and heraldry, *s
ns. and have only he
French Kevolutioi v
a of the paternal fa
the idea of the pat©
dished the family te
■s in the sense of tfc?
chard or vineyard l
sssible. to provide up
experience of p*
of private property : |
new equality were ® |
feudalism. f* ^
ranee has cott cted*
by the distribute i |
vague verbal ah’-
'ition is in reality e
is that the pnf
ated in
Is. But the p® :
e democratic de'^-'
ng unwisely ««*■
1 it to the many.
transferred proper
ishing proper^- -
» Sansculottes
Of the Rebel Force which Defended Fiume: D’Annunzio’s Lightly-clad Guards.
IN A UNIFORM CONSISTING MAINLY OF “ SHORTS ” : LIFE - GUARDS
As described on our front page, hostilities between D’Annunzio’s torces and the
regular Italian troops advancing on Fiume began on Christmas Eve, when the
rebels opened fire. By December 28 the casualties on both sides were reported
as 400 killed and many more wounded. The Government orders were to “ confine
bloodshed to the minimum.” D'Annunzio’s legionaries had converted houses in
the town into nests of machine-guns, and as the regulars refrained from using
OF D’ANNUNZIO’S ARMY, WHICH HAS FOUGHT ITALIAN REGULARS,
artillery, they found progress very difficult. They advanced along the coast road
west of the town. All the main streets were also defended by barbed-wire
barricades. Some legionaries in an armoured car made a desperate resistance, and
were all killed or mortally wounded before it was captured. The rebel barracks
were shelled by the Dreadnought “ Andrea Doria.” The above photograph, it
should be mentioned, was taken at a parade some weeks ago.
A Disaster to Many Small Depositors: The Failure of Farrow's Bank.
CHARGED WITH FALSIFYING THE ACCOUNTS OF FARROW’S BANK :
MR. WALTER CROTCH, A DIRECTOR.
Krea/d*' Ure °* ^ arrow s ® an h> which suspended payment on December 20, caused
£4 0 StreSS am0ng its num «™us small depositors. The total deposits were about
Mr W >0 °\A/ ant * ** WaS Sa *^ ***** *** e deficienc y might amount to about £1,500,000.
account t lter Cr0tch> one of the cWef directors, and Mr. F. D. T. Hart,
i, 30 ’ were charged at the Mansion House Police Court on December 21
aV,n g P u hhshed a false Report and Balance Sheet. On the next day Mr.
THE FOUNDER OF FARROW’S BANK : MR. THOMAS FARROW (LEFT)
UNDER ARREST, ON HIS WAY TO THE POLICE COURT.
I Thomas Farrow, the founder, appeared on the same charge. In the dock he said :
.. 1 am not well. I should like to see a doctor. I have been meeting imaginary
persons on the stairs.” All three defendants were remanded Decei " ber * 9 ’
Mr Thomas Farrow was formerly a private secretary to Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P.,
I and later to Mr. Robert Yerburgh, M.P. His books on the evils of usury led
to the passing of the Moneylenders Act. He founded the b—*- — '
OTT AND FRV AND C V
THE n.USlRAll.h 1.0 NTH >N MANS. Jan 1 l '>21
T HE French Revolution has become respect-
able by a conventional comparison with the
Russian Revolution. But in my boyhood there
still lingered some tradition of talking alxmt
Jacobins as people now talk about Bolshevists
Some of the talkers had the extraordinary notion
that the French Revolution was an effort towards
Socialism ; which is rather like saving that the
Russian Revolution was an indication of the
spread of Spiritualism 1 for one have always
believed that the French Revolution did really
renew the youth of Europe, and create a heroic
legend for the liberal idea. But there was a real
mistake made by its supporters, which seems
never to be adequately urged by its opponents.
Coming at the end of a rationalistic epoch, it tended
too much to a negative instead of a positive
equality. It abolished things for everybody,
instead of extending them to everybody To
take a trivial instance, it began with a generous
indignation that many people shou'd be wearing
filthy rags while a few people wore beautiful
clothes. The proper issue of that indignant
idealism should obviously be that all men should
wear beautiful clothes But the nineteenth cen
tury turned it rather into the notion that all men
should wear ugly clothes. They began by praising
ancient togas, and ended by producing modern
trousers. There was a curious mixture of a
Pagan stoicism with a Puritan commercialism, of
which the result was that all men went about
with high black hats like mutes at a funeral.
I am even disposed to extend the argument from
clothes to weapons. In the eighteenth century
all gentlemen wore swords ; by the nineteenth
century no men wore swords. I am far from
certain that it would not have been a finer declara¬
tion of freedom i all men had worn swords. I
realise all the dangers of a defensive weapon
being used as an offensive weapon. But I think
there is in that argument the same peril which
wc see to-day in the argument that prevention
is better than cure. Just as men were forbidden
the sword, for fear they should abuse it. they are
now forbidden the wine-cup, for fear they should
abuse it. I agree with Oliver Cromwell, that it
is time enough to interfere with them when they
do abuse it. If a man kills another man with a
sword, let him be punished for killing him, but
not for being able to kill him. If a man is drunk
and disorderly, let him be punished for being
disorderly, but not for be¬
ing able to drink and remain
orderly. And the sword con¬
sidered as a symbol would be
a symbol of precisely those
rights of the citizen which
are now most necessary and
most neglected. It would
stand for the idea that he
has in the last resort the
right to defend his family
individually, as to defend his
country collectively. 1 think
it would be a good public
army that was made of all
those private swords. At
least, there would be no
pacificism in that sort of
democracy- Who knows but
even the world of politics
might recover the conception
of honour ?
But whether or no every¬
body ought to have a sword,
I feel sure that everybody
ought to have a shield ; I
mean in the sense of armo¬
rial bearings. Here again is
an instance in which the
great revolutionary move¬
ment erred in equalising by
extinguishing instead of by
extending. The real error
of the feudal tradition was
not in having too much
heraldry, but in having too
little For properly understood, heraldry is one of
the simplest ideas of humanity. In a certain sense,
indeed, heraldry is humanity. It is what Mr H. G.
Wells called mankind in the making; it is life con-
. ,, tissue <n births, The genealogical tree
sidercG ** . . - .
is really a most common or garden sort of tree.
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
It is onlv the tree nf lift , a men* trifle The feeling
of interest in oil* ’<* own family is one of the m<>st
natural and timxetsal feelings; it has nothing
paitu ularlv ohgar* tin al. or even ati-tcx ratic altout
it And when the philosophers discovered that
all men were irn(tortant, they ought obviously to
have discovered that all families «ere itii|»>rtarit ;
and even that all jxeligrees were imj»>rtant. N< t
CAPTAIN OF THE ENCLISH CRICKET TP AM IN
AUSTRALIA: COLONEL J W H T DOUGLAS. WITH
HIS WIFE, ON BOARD SHIP ON THE VOYAGE OUT
This rhotocrarh of Colonel and Mrs D.oGas was taken by
Mr. P. G. H. Fender, during -he vc.at.e >.o Aia r„' a. cn tcard
■he " Os erley.' En^lind was be-.*<r. by Aus'rV.a in the first
Test Match, which ended at Srlney cn December 22. by
377 runs, [t'koiogrjph tupptuJ In (. \.|
can I set* any reason why the genealogical tree
should not lx*ar flowers as well as fruit ; why
there should not lx- colours and emblems and
external beauty to express the variations of the
social group. The art of heraldry degenerated
SOME OF THE M.CC. TEAM NOW
The names are (from left to right) -Bad
Mi. P- G. H. Fender. Middle row: HenJren, Col j. W. H. T. Douglas, He:
Dolphin, and Strudwick. Eight of ihis group played
AUSTRALIA: ENCLISH CRICKETERS ON THE VOYAGE
Russell, Mi. E. R. Wilson. Woolley, Parkin. Waddin.-ton, an:
*. an i M ikepea-e Front row. Howell,
the first Test Ma'ch.
because it was turned from a real art to a sham
science. A good many modern arts seem to In¬
going the same way. The art of fiction, for
mstanee, seems to be turning fiom the rr J.ty of
romance to the affectation of psychology or
psycho-analysis. As the heralds cut their lions
and eagles in half to lit in with the fath* r's quarter-
mgs. or the motlieis pales anil (sirtitions. mi the
in w ps\« hi •logit al novelists ate cutting up thru
human In mgs into fatlu r complexes and mother-
iofipl«\es. till the v resemble hei.ildic figurrs of
win. h onlv a leg or arm remains in a tangle of
N ii.Is and t hex Tons In l»>th cases the result is
a i)..tgram n. .t« a I *>| a drawing . and in l*oth cavs
the spiut is |«dar.trv instead of poetry. But
in neither ease- •Itotilil we forget the original nature
of the |nn'ttv l<> Inherit a flag or lighting sign
from a father, and hand it e>n to a family, is a per
fe« 11v |*n-tie ami simple idea, and no more snob
lush than having a sentiment aln.ut the house «.f
your ehildhinn! .»r the plav ground of your children
And. indeed, the paralh 1 brings us to what is
really the practical |*.mt for the mexlern world
For. if it was in this sense that the French
Revolution was wr< ng. it is exactly in this sense
that the whole modem world is wTong where the
Ernie h Revolution was right In one most vital
matter the svnilx>l* of the sword and shield, the
old traditions of chivalry and heraldry, w-cre
carried on bv the Jacobins, and have only been
aUmdoiied by us I he Fieiie h Revolution may
have discouraged the idea e»f the paternal flag,
but it carefully preserved the ule-a of the paternal
farm It may have atx.hshed the family tre*e,
but it kept the family trees in the sense of things
growing in the family ore hard or vineyard. It
merely sought, so far as possible to provide every
private (iti/rn with this exjwriencc of private
projMTtv. and especially of private property in
land I he mots of the new equality were the
same as those of the old feudalism. For
were roots in the soil. France has corr cted the
concentration of projxrty by the distribution of
projxTty. and not by the vague vertial abolition
of projx-rty. For the atmlition is in reality only
vcrUd. and merely means that the property
which was once concentrated in landlords is
again concentrated in officials. But the point to
seize is the sanity of this true democratic
ment, which, seeing something unwisely confine
to the few, wisely distributed it to the many,
may have, rightly or wrongly, transferred property ,
but it never dreamed of alxihshing property. n
that resjx'tt Marat and the Sansculottes were
better conservative** than we.
Indeed, I think some of our more Tory an *
texrats must lx* scratching their heads over t e
situation if such a gesture
of bewilderment can be con¬
sidered sufficiently
erratic . Having been brought
up to regard France as one
gr'-at barricade of blood,
revolution, they are now
actually trusting to ^ ra ” c ’
one is tempted to say hiding
U hind France, as the on
great bulwark of old Eum-
ix an law and order.
.luld of the Jacobin
champion against the
shevasts. While the toy**
lands of Bliiehcr and W*
ternic h are honeycombed
with Ia-nitiism, the land of
Kolx-s pierre
stands for a •»*'■- ,
tradition of diplomacy.
f..r th ancient chivalry
Poland. Vet the explana¬
tion of the apparent P a
,s ... the equally aPP®*™
fa. t. J-rane e is conservat
Ixe ai.se* sh«- succeeded »«
mg revolutionary : a"
»»«* deafly so¬
lution that can really
cre.l A lx nit property,
not alx.ut rank or■ c»
she pmsued a
not a negative i
The* mexlern world. ' ‘
as it is pursuing a ^ at)0n
is pursuing the notion of the mere s
of projx-rty. either through capitalism _
munism. And compared with that.
and St. J uSt
more stately
com-
would
lx* better to have a scxietv which allowed
man in the street to wear not only a
but a crown.
h the father's (pi? j
ind partitions,*:!
are cutting up c c
mplexes and nctir
e heraldic figm
mains in a tapii
th cases the itaV
ng; and in brth car
tad of poetry, fc
;et the original mr
i flag or fighting se
i to a family, is apt
i, and no mm ad
it about the heat
>und of your dnfc:
rings us to ihe;
• the modem wit
nse that the Fie
exactly in this s®
i is wrong when a
, In one most ts
word and shield, a
and heraldry,
and have only 1»
nch Revolntk* *'
of the paternal k
■ idea of the pa®
lied the famOy te!
n the sense of tss? 1
trd or x-ineyari I
ble. to provide nr I
of pn*
OTOpffTT: I
rctedfrj
iboti* <1
ah®**
hing propel
Sansculottes
1 order- *
ijcnbir. <
j$t the :
le the I
t and
1 St
or? 55
iff
jnu-
.ftf
if
r
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 1 , 1921.—3
Of the Rebel Force which Defended Fiume
D’Annunzio’s Lightly-clad Guards .
IN A UNIFORM CONSISTING MAINLY OF “ SHORTS ” : LIFE - GUARDS
As described on our front page, hostilities between D'Annunzio’s torces and the
regular Italian troops advancing on Fiume began on Christmas Eve, when the
rebels opened fire. By December 28 the casualties on both sides were reported
as 400 killed and many more wounded. The Government orders were to “ confine
bloodshed to the minimum.” D'Annunzio’s legionaries had converted houses in
the town into nests of machine-guns, and as the regulars refrained from using
OF D’ANNUNZIO'S ARMY, WHICH HAS FOUGHT ITALIAN REGULARS,
artillery, they found progress very difficult They advanced along the coast road
west of the town. All the main streets were also defended by barbed-wire
barricades. Some legionaries in an armoured car made a desperate resistance, and
were all killed or mortally wounded before it was captured. The rebel barracks
were shelled by the Dreadnought " Andrea Doria. ” The above photograph, it
should be mentioned, was taken at a parade some weeks ago.
A Disaster to Many
Small Depositors:
The Failure of Farrow’s Bank.
CHARGED WITH FALSIFYING THE ACCOUNTS OF FARROW’S BANK :
MR. WALTER CROTCH, A DIRECTOR.
/ rT Ure °* ^ arrow s ® an k> which suspended payment on December 20, caused
grea istress among its numerous small depositors. The total deposits were about
4 i°° 0 , 00 o, uid it was said ^ at t jje deficiency might amount to about £1,500,000.
a f a * ter Crotch, one of the chief directors, and Mr. F. D. T. Hart,
with U fi nt ’ WCre cliar ^ e< * at the Mansion House Police Court on December 21
avmg published a false Report and Balance Sheet. On the next day Mr.
THE FOUNDER OF FARROW'S BANK : MR. THOMAS FARROW (LEFT)
UNDER ARREST, ON HIS WAY TO THE POLICE COURT.
Thomas Farrow, the founder, appeared on the same charge. In the dock he said :
«< 1 am not well. I should like to see a doctor. I have been meeting imaginary
persons on the stairs.” All three defendants were remanded till December 29.
Mr Thomas Farrow was formerly a private secretary to Mr. W. H. Smith, M R,
and later to Mr. Robert Yerburgh, M.P. His books on jhe evils o» usury led
to the passing of the Moneylenders Act. H* 1
4—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW S, Jan 1 V.V21
WHERE CHRISTMAS REALLY IS CHRISTMAS
PHoTm...
OFF FOR A RUN ON LUCES : LADY MALCOLM RIGHT)
AND MISS GRUNDY.
AT THE EVER-POPULAR MORREN: A TRIO OF SKI
ENTHUSIASTS.
TAKING A CLASS IN SKI - ING : MR V CAULFIELD
THE WELL-KNOWN BRITISH SKI-RUNNER.
IUSIASTS-
TWO
ON THE ! KI INC CROUND AT MURREN
EXPEDITION : MISS HADCOCK 'RIGHT) AND MISS MAJOR
w ho like t0 * >e certain of spending the Christmas season in the “ genuine " atmosphere ot crisp, invigorating
ghts of skating, luging, ski-ing and curling, in a setting of dazzling white snow, lit up by brilliant sunshine,
desires. In the mountain resorts of that country of holiday-making, society may savour every outdoor delighi
England were wondering if Christmas Day had mysteriously fallen in April instead of December this year, Swiss
our photographs show, in the pursuit of classic winter sports. Our illustrations give a very good idea of what Sv
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Jan.
1
IS CHRIS! DECEMBER SUN A ND SNOW IN
SWITZERLAND.
1 . 1921—5 N
playing in a curling match
SIR FREDERICK LOBNITZ,
at mOrren
K.B.E.
STARTING A LUGE RACE FOR SWISS CHILDREN
LADY HADCOCK.
A BEAUTIFUL SCENE NEAR MURREN : MOONRISE AND SUNSET ON THE EIGER AND THE MONCH.
People who have been
nd in 1917-19. Miss
w ho is shown in one 0
' Ski Club of Great Brit
i-ing.
10 Caulfield,
s Port for t
works on s
A BRITISH ST. NICHOLAS IN DEVASTATED FRANCE^
Drawn by oui SpeoJ
*<»
‘THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” NEAR THE
Although Christmas Eve (ROveillon) is made a night of rejoicing and merriment in France, the day of days is Le Jo)
the time of festival and goodwill, as is the English Christmas. “The devastated areas" writes our artist, in
1 rries are leaving Paris at intervals for the larger centres, laden with food and gifts for district distribution.
charitable people are exploring the accessible roads of the remote areas
. light of the scattered inhabitants when the modem Santa Claus arrives ca
motors. Owing
be imagined. Th
CHEMIN DES DAMES ^
INHABITING A cA ^- X
j a ii over 111
* IAn (New Year'. Day). ^ „*.«•»' a
note on his drawing, “ are n ° and des<>l» ,e ^ >,
, order to reach the out-of-the-* 7 q{ Ae so \*"°’ ’ ^ S
er these soots are the aborn.nat.on fro*
iade north-east of the
Chemin des Dames,
by the French
uching beyond
family looking
as begun well
as
nces, the distribution of gifts ,
OUR DE VAN GIFTS
nsT, Bryan de Gr 1 ^
for
dwellers
1
r*'2i .s
THE IU-l’STRATF.P LONDON NF.WS J
THE CRIME OF EKA
THE TRAGIC FATE OF THE RUSSIAN
oil By PIERRE CILUARD. Tutor of th. lot • T-r-itch.
M. Pierre Gtlliard. nh» is a went to I’dtogi.id
in 1904. alter completing Ai* studies at the
I’niversitv <>/ l.ausattne. a » itcruh tutor
Duke Serge of l.eucktrnlnrg. and Ike next \<ar
taught Trent h to the (.rand Duchesses Olga
and Tatiana, then aged ten and tight rrs/v. It: elv.
In 1914 A? became tutor to the I sart> it<h .Ileus,
then in his tenth year. M (.tlltard lued at
the Palace, and shared the daily lile of the
Imperial Tamil v. When the fie.olnt ton <f
March 1917 broke out, he it as at I sarskoc
Selo. and. though given the choue of Dating,
he preferred to remain in captivity uith his
employers, and afterwards obtained permission
to accompany them to Tobolsk. At l.katenn-
burg, against his will, he uas separated from
them, and to that fact he owes his hie. M
Gilhard is the only member of the tsar's imme
Unite circle who shared the captmlv at I sarskoc-
Selo and Tobolsk from the first day to the last.
At likatennburg he uas one 0/ the first to inves¬
tigate the tragedy. His rviden.e is thus of
exceptional value L'nlortunatil\, he hairs no
doubt as to the fate of the Imperial Iamil\--
their extermination uas complete It i» not
only on the crime oj Ekaterinburg that M (.ilhatd
throws new light,
but also on the true
characters o 1 the
Emperor and Em¬
press and their
children. His on’y
interest is to te-l
the truth, and his
picture dispels
malicious and
ridiculous legends
M. Gilhard has
hitherto refrained
from publishing
his account, pend
tng the close of the
official inquiry,
now almost ended.
His reminiscences
will eventually ap¬
pear in a book,
entitled “ Thirteen
'\ ears of Tuition
at the Court of
Russia ,” in the
collection of me¬
moirs, studies, and
documents on the
history o 4 the world
war (Payot). The
c co m p an yin g
photographs were
mostly taken by M.
Gtlliard hims»T ;
the rest emanate
from the official
inquiry. 1 >% chro
notogical order, the crime of Ekaterinburg would
come last in the story, following the account
of the Imperial Family’s life before and after
the Revolution ; but it was decided to begin with
it, partly lo satisfy public interest, and partly
because other versions of the tragic event hare
already appeared, notably in that very interesting
and uell-illustrated book, “ The Last Days <•/
the Romanoffs,” bv Mr. Robert Wilton. Herr,
then, follows M Gilliard’s narrative in all its
moving simplicity.
with some nirmln is «*f tin'll '-ml** and a I- 11 -*
unrulier of serv«uits
When, in April l«H>\ ‘ oinmi^trv 'akovl. v
wax sent from Mom ow to lolx.lxk to pr.-e.-d with
the new removal of the Kmjxror ami his family,
the 1 sarevitih was seriously ill. ami was unable
to travel It was therefore det id«-d that he
should remain at Totiolxk with three of Ins siM. rs.
am! would lie let. lied later on
On April the I-.ni|>eror. the Impress. ami
their third daughter, the Grand Ihnhexx Mane,
at 1 ompamed by Prime Dolgoroukr (Marshal of
the Court). 1 >r Botkin, and three servants ler.mc
11 hemadourov (valet to the I* rn|»erotl, \nna
Demidova (the Empress's maid) and Ivan Srdniev
(footman of the Grand Dm Iu-xm-xI were taken oil
by Yakovlev. They rear lied I lumen Itlie nearest
railway station to ’Iolmlsk) bv tarri.ure. and
arrived at Ekaterinburg on April 30 With the
exception of Prime lMgorouki, who was taken
to prison the same day, the rernaimh r of the paitv
were unattended in the house of a nth nieiihant
of the town, named Ipatiev.
Ihree weeks later the Tsarevibh and lus
three sisters left Tobolsk, extorted bv the torn
misxanes Khoklinakov and kodioimv. This
,,tt With the thildien III the direction of the
How lit * I* did I k»i«ss that I was never to see
.uon tl. -se with whom 1 had *|*-nt nianv
v"ars ' I was ttrtain that they were coming to
f.-tih me. and that we would rejoin them. The
hours went bv Our train was taken bark into the
station, and 1 saw C.enrral I atu htihrv. I ountrss
Ibndrikov. and Miss Sthneider letl awav A little
later tame the turn of Volkov, footman of the
I mpr.xx. of Kharitonov, the.hef. the man servant
*1 r011 p ami of little NdtiHV. thestullnm.
With the rxuption of Volkov, who managed
to .M.ijs- Liter oil. ami little Srdniev. who was
sjat.d. all th<« m- who were taken away that day
w.rr kllletl bv the HoWiev IxtS.
W e were still waiting M hat was happening
W e were imagining all sorts of thinks, when about
live imUIi the ( onunixxary Rodionov came
11.to our t am.me, and anmmmetl "that they no
long. r wanted us and that we -.ere free " ! Free !
And we wi re N ink separated from them. Then
After our r\» dement a juofound
What was t«< l»e done ? "c were
all
w.i • finished '
l tlo|| s* t in.
d«sp.ur 1
Still. I do
umh-rxtan 1 wh<
Itolslie
MASSACRED TOGETHER AT EKATERINBURG ON THE NICHT OF JULY lt-17. |V18: THE
NICHOLAS II. OF RUSSIA. THE EMPRESS. AND THEIR CHILDREN.
I’hatografsh by I V |.
second convoy, of which I was a meml-r. eom
l'riscd nearly all who had remained at Tnt-.lxk
after the EmjK-ror’s departure. 1 will only give
the names of those who play a part in ,nv amount
General Tati.ht. hev. A IM to the Emperor;
Baroness Buxhewden and Countess Hendrikov
Maids of Honour to the Km press ; Miss Si hmid-r’
the reader ; Dr. Derrv, nko. surkeon atta.hrd to
Alexis Niiolaieviteh ; Mr. Gibl--s. my FiHixli
colleague, ete.
0,1 Ma >’ " wt ‘ drived at In.men. and wen
sent under a strong escort to the speual tram
which was to take us to Fkaterinburg |„st
I was going to get in with my pupil. I was brutally
separated from him, and conveyed to a fomih
class carnage. We reached Ekaterinburg dunm
the night, and stopj>ed outside the station
At al-iut nine o'clock in the
cabs stopped alongside the ti
had Ixen lx>a
ho|n* of yett
lx«n authorised t«
Ik it km ask ( oninu-
guard. Ill the n.im
n them. A
guided the
ts in their
choice which saved
our liven. Why in*'
juison Countess H-n-
dnkov. when Baron
i-ss Buxhewden wa-
set free and yet
they were both Maids
„( Honour to the Km-
pn-sx ? Why they
and not us ? Had
there been some con¬
fusion with regard to
names and functions?
Mv story '
(>n the morrow
and the days that
followed I went with
my colleague to the
British and Swedish
( nsulates-the
French Consul wa‘
away. Something had
to be done m order
to help the prisoners.
The two Consuls re¬
assured us. and told
us that steps had
Ix-en taken, and that
they did not believe
in the imminence ot
danger.
1 passed m front
of I pat lev’s house,
only the tojw of the
windows of
could lx- seen, as it
I had not l'* 1
nko. who had
led with planks
k 111. for Dr. Dcrev..
d to sec- the child, had heard T-
arv Avdiev . commander of ,ht
of the Fmperor. to all<>-'
hev had rcj.hed that he *■'«»
t,, Moscow. In the mean
T HE time has conic to make known, in all
its details and horror, the frightful crime
of Ekaterinburg. The silence imposed on me
by the official inquiry has Ixen largely exploited
by the authors of this crime themselves, and by
inferior publications, which have completely misled
public opinion. It is time that those who know
the truth should speak out. Leaving aside the
question of responsibility, I will simply relate
the events in which I was personally concerned
after my arrival at Ekaterinburg, and explain the
details of the crime as established by the inquiry.
eral
c hildrcn's
V. the
THE LAST HALTING-PLACE.
It was at Tsarskoe Selo that the Imperial
Family spent the five months which followed the
Revolution of March 1917. In August of the
same year, the Emperor, the Empress, and their
five children-the Tsarevitch (aged thirteen), his
four sisters, Olga (aged twenty - two), Tatiana
(aged twenty), Marie (aged eighteen), and Anas¬
tasia (aged sixteen) were transported to Tobolsk
* Our Extracts from the Article by M
child
fill licss
morning,
• m, and 1 saw
- men go m the direction of the
carriage.
A few minutes elapsed, and then
sailor attached to the per*.,, of Alexis" N
Mil, passed my window, carrying the
his arms; behind him came the'Grand I
carrying bags and small parcels I .
X d "« and
of the C ommissaries. A few
,, who w-is
together
But
» refer the ma)
ith the exi ej'tion of Dr. Derevenk .
lodged m town, we w< n- all (.imping 111 0,11 *'" r . crC
• lass 1 atu.ige in whuh we hail travelled. " l
f«> spend over a month in it. . . ^
<>n tin- j(,th we got the order to quit
d' lav the terntoiv of the (.overnment of *' ^
111 whuh Fkati'iinbiug is situated, and to ri
-k I m y had be n careful to give "
p.isspoit, iii order to keep
make our suj’ervision easier. ^
,ere no longer running. tllC a
elmg of Kussian and Czcl' 11 vo ^
eers was spreading rapidly, and the lino was
xilusively for military units, which were
• ith all sjH cd to Tinmen. the
One day. as I was passing Ipatiev*- house*
onipany of Dr. Derevenko and Dr.
•uncled bv Bed Guards. VVe
when we perceived that Sedn^
I the Grand Duchesses) was -
vo guards. Nagorny
two cabs surn
greatly moved wh
(the footman of tl
m the first cab tx*t
about
le second, nc t £
on the stej> and, raising lus head, caught^?
: C,llic
rd and the aci
away by one
minutes later the cab
>mpanying Itluslrati
•ling motionless a few yards awa ^ n( j s ,
le gazed at us fixedly for a te* * wo uld
us st;
him. 1.. u u; , ....
then, without a sign of recognition, which
have betrayed us. got in. The cabs drove
Copyrighted in the Lnited States and Canada.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Ja.v. I, 1921 .—!»
WORSE-FATED THAN LOUIS XVI.: NICHOLAS II. AND HIS CHILDREN.
uldren in the direct** i
ness that I was mere*
10m I had spent so k
i that they were coni*
e would rejoin them. ' j
rain was taken hactirtpt-
neral Tatichtchev, Gacs j
:hneider led away Aid
if Volkov, footm d
■, the chef; the mas-sera
lies-, the scullion.
of Volkov, who am
little Sedniev, rice I
ere taken away th: z |
shevists.
. What was haptra:
rts of things, whet u : If
iissary RoJjonor a: I
mounced " that they i
we ’.vere free "! h I
ated from them. '
ir excitement a fria ‘
i to be done?
(and what gmdeii?
Bolshevists o x
chuice which r
our lives.
prison Countess f
drikov, when fc
ess Bu.vhewfe r
set free - ns
they were both ^
of-Honour
press ? "-J '
ind not us • r -
here been
jsion mth fr¬
ames and
vstery I
On the c"
d the ii''
lowed I * a ‘ 1
collet/
fish and - f
nsnlat fi '
ich
y. Someth'-
e done '
Ip the r'
two fr-'
■d
iat st C
aieft r®-
id *< *’
jdie#-
°N THE ROOF OF THEIR PRISON AT TOBOLSK, FOR A BREATH OF AIR: (L. TO R.) SEATED-GRAND DUCHESSES OLGA
* ND AN A8TASIA, THE TSAR, THE TSAREVITCH, AND GRAND DUCHESS TATIANA; STANDING—GRAND DUCHESS MARIE.
the eighteenth^ ^1!**** su ^ ere< l *n the twentieth century a more dreadful fate than
he was centUr T inflicted on Louis XVI. ot France. He was not tried :
hnow, ^"th CVen ceremon,a,, y executed. He was shot like a dog, and he died
aT, d little ** ^ * mom ent the whole of his family -his wife, four daughters,
«t Iasi k * 0n W0U ^ * )e similarly butchered. The miserable story has now
een told in full, as far as it can ever be known, by (he Swiss tutor
of the Tsarevitch, M. Pierre Gilliard. who, against his will, was not allowed by
the Bolshevists to be with the Imperial Family in their last prison at Ekaterinburg
and so escaped sharing their doom. M. Gilliard 's narrative is given in these
pages. The family were at Tobolsk from September 1917 till April 1918. when
they were removed to Ekaterinburg. There they were all slaughtered on
July 17, 1918- The Empress was absent from the above group, being ilj.
SS&-W
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jax !. \V 2 \ 10
the direction of the prison. A short time After
these two brave fellows were shot : their crime
was that they were not able to hide their indig¬
nation when they saw the Bolshevist commissaries
take- away the little gold chain on which hung
the holy images above the bed of Alexis Nico-
laJevitch, who was ill.
A few more days elapsed, and then I was in¬
formed by Dr. Derrvenko that the request made
by Dr. Hot kin regarding me had been refused
On June 3 our railway carnage was attached to
a refugee train and sent to Tiumen. which we
reached, after numerous misadventures, on the
15th. A few hours later I was arrested at the Bol¬
shevist headquarters, where I had gone to get
my passport, and that of my companions, visld.
And it is only owing to a series of m«*t fortunate
circumstances that we managed to escape again.
On July jo the Whites took Tiumen. and
delivered us from the madmen whose victims we
nearly were. Some days later the newspapers
published the proclamation put up in the streets
of Ekaterinburg, announcing that : " The sentence
of death against the ex-Tsar Nicholas Romanov
had been executed in the night of July 10-17.
and that the Empress and the children had been
taken to a place of safety.”
On July 25 Ekaterinburg fell, and as soon as
communications were re-established- which took
a long time, as the railway had been greatlv
damaged Mr. Gihbes and myself dashed off
in search of the Imperial Family and those of
our companions who had remained at Ekaterin¬
burg.
The day after ray arrival I got into Ipatiev’s
house for the first time. I went through the rooms
which had been their prison : they were m an
indescribable mess, and it was quite obvious
that every effort had been made to obliterate
ever)- trace of those who had occupied them.
Stacks of ashes had been taken out of the
''stoves. Amongst them were the half calcined
remains of tooth-brushes, hair-pins, buttons, etc .
and amidst the rubbish I found a hair-brush of the
Empress which bore her initials. «. If it were
true that the prisoners had been taken aikay. they
must have gone without any of their belongings
I then noticed on the wall, inside the window-
embrasure of their Majesties' room, the favourite
symbol of her Majesty, the swas¬
tika, which she had put every¬
where to bring good luck. She
had drawn it in pencil, and had
put the date. April 17/30. the
day of their imprisonment in the
Ipatiev house. The same sign,
but dateless, was on the wall¬
paper. on the level of the bed
occupied by her or the Tsare¬
vitch ; but in spite of all my
efforts I was unable to find any
indication which could put us on
their tracks.
1 then went to the lower
storey, the greater part of which
was -a basement. I entered with
intense emotion the room in which,
perhaps, they had died. Its
aspect was most sinister. Day¬
light came in through a window
with iron bars across it. The walls
and the floor bore marks of bul¬
lets and bayonet thrusts. It
was quite obvious that a dread¬
ful crime had been committed
there, and that several people had
been killed. In my despair I
believed that the Emperor had
perished, and. that being the case.
I could not believe the Empress
had survived him. I had seen
her at Tobolsk, when Yakovlev-
had come to fetch the Emperor,
fling herself in the most dangerous
place. I had seen her after
several hours of agony, when her
feelings as a wife and a mother
had had a desperate struggle,
end by leaving her sick child,
though it tore her heart in two.
in order to follow her husband,
whose life she thought was
threatened. Yes, it was quite
possible that they had both been
killed. And the children ? Had
they also been massacred ? 1
could not believe it. The idea
was too horrible. And yet every¬
thing seemed to prove that the
victims had been numerous.
During the following days I
continued making my investiga¬
tion at Ekaterinburg, in the neigh¬
bourhood, at the monastery’, in
all the places where I hoped
to get some clue. I saw Father
Storojev, who was the last to perform the religious
rites at Ipatiev’s house. That had been on Sunday
the 14th. two days before the awful night. He
too. alas ! had but little hope.
THE OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
The inquiry proceeded but slowly. It had
started in very difficult circumstances, for between
July 17 and 25 the Bolshevists had had time to
FAITHFUL TO THE LAST THE LATE DR BOTKIN.
MURDERED WITH THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AT
EKATERINBURG
Dr. Botkin dept in the “ aak* " ne it to the room occupied
by the Emperor end Empreas in the Ip*Tier houee He »nd
three other* of their attendants— Ann* Demidova (the
Empress'* mud), Kharitonov (the chel). and Troup tan
old lootmanl—were killed akin* with the Imperial Family.
efface all traces of their enme F.ver since the
taking of Ekaterinburg, the authorities had had
a guard put round Ipatiev'* house, and a judicial
inquiry had been started ; but the threads had
been so cleverly entangled that it was very difficult
to unravel things. The nuwt important deprmtinn
was that of some peasants of the village of
Koptiaki. situated at twenty versts north-west
of Ekaterinburg. They declared that in the
night of the 16th—17th the Bolshevists had
occupied a clearing in a forest adjoining their
village, and that they had remained there several
days They brought some things found by them
near a disused mine shaft, not far distant from
which the traces of a huge fire could still be seen
Some officers went to the clearing and found
there other things, which. Uke the former ones,
were identified as having belonged to the Imperial
Family.
The investigations had been entrusted to Ivan
AlexaiuJrovitch Srrgueiev. member of the Ekaterin¬
burg tribunal, and followed a normal course, but
the difficulties were verv great Srrgueiev felt
more and more certain of the death of all the
members of the family The bodies, however,
could not be discovered..and certain depositions
seemed to favour the hvjxithesis of the departure
of the Empress and the children These depo¬
sition*. it was afterwards discovered, emanated
from Bolshevist agents, who had remained at
Ekaterinburg for the express purpose of muddling
the investigations Their aim was partly achieved,
for Srrgueiev l<*t some precious time before he
discovered that he was on the wrong track.
In January iqiu Admiral Koltchak. realising the
histone importance of this inquiry, and wishing to
follow it. asked (ienrral Ditenk* to let him see the
case, as well as everything which had belonged
to the Imperial Family On Feb 5. he sent for
NichoLxs Alexeievitch Stkolov. a judge ” for very
important cases. '* and asked him to examine
the case 1 wo davs later, the Minister of Justice.
Starankesitch. told hitn to continue the investi¬
gation.
It was at Omsk, where I had been summoned
bv tieneral Janin. hrari of the French Military
Mission, that I made the acquaintance of M
Sokolov.
In Apnl <»enrral Ditenks. who had returned
from Vladiv<»tock. where he had been sent by
Koltchak on a sjiecial mission, joined him in order
to help him, and was accompanied by Mr. R.
Wilton, of the Time* From that moment the
inquiry made rapid strides. Hundreds of wit¬
nesses were examined, and as soon as the snow
disapjteared the clearing in which the objects
belonging to the Imperial Family had been found
was thoroughly searched. M. Sokolov gave him¬
self up entirely to this work, and as a result o
untinng patience and devotion he
was able to reconstruct the crime
in a m«**t remarkable manner.
THE I.AST DAYS OF THK
ROMANOVS.
As I have mentioned above,
it was about the middle of Apnl
1918 that Yankel Sverdlov. Fte-
sident of the Central Executive
Committee in Moscow, yielding to
pressure by Germany, sent Com¬
missar)- Yakovlev to Tobolsk to
remove the Imperial Family He
had received instructions to con¬
vey them to IVtnigrad or Mos¬
cow. He met with great opposi¬
tion. which he did his best to
overcome, in the execution of this
plan. That has been proved b>
the inquiry. The opp<*sition had
been organised by the Govern*
ment of the region of the 1 ral,
which was at Ekaterinburg. *t
was they who got ready — un¬
known to Yakovlev the trap b>
means of which they would be
able to get hold of the F-.mperor.
But it is more than probable that
their project had the secret ap¬
proval of Moscow. It is more
than probable that Sverdlov was
playing a double game, and. whi ■«
pretending to fall in with the dc
mands of General Baron Mirbacn.
the German representative, had
an understanding with the Com¬
missaries of Ekaterinburg not to
let the Tsar escape. Whatever
the circumstances, the installation
of the Tsar at Ekaterinburg was
only temporary. In two days t e
merchant Ipatiev was turned ou
of his house, and the windows
were blocked up with planks
right to the second floor.
It was there that the Em
peror, the Empress, the Grah
Duchess Marie Nicolalevna. I r -
Botkin, and three servants were
taken. At first the guard was
formed by three soldiers, who were
chosen haphazard and who were
frequently changed. Later, these
were exclusively chosen from t e
workmen of the Verkh - Isets
works and those from the factory
of the Brothers Zlokazov. At their head they
i avtr ua!
•There used to be in Russia three categories of Judges—ordinary .
thov lor important eases; those for particularly important cases.
ALL BUT ONE MURDERED BY THE BOLSHEVISTS: (LEFT TO RIGHT) MLLE.
SCHNEIDER, GENERAL TATICHTCHEV. M. PIERRE GILLIARD (SURVIVOR. AND AUTHOR
OF OUR ARTICLE), COUNTESS HENDRIKOV, AND PRINCE DOLGOROUKI.
Countess Hendrikov, Maid of Honour to the Empress, and Mile. Schneider, her Majesty's reader
General^Tatich tchev a" nr* 3-4. 1918. Two bodies, believed .0 be those of
General Tatfchtchev. A.D.C. to the Emperor, and Prince Dol«orouk,. were found near the prison
at Ekaterinburg when it was captured. They did not die with the Imperial Family.
J 99999
*9tff9PffPfP
in which tbf obpi
Family had beta 1 °®-
M. Sokolov put to
rtructx** to a*-
ENCLOSED WITH A DOUBLE PAUSADE TO PREVENT THE PRISONERS’ ESCAPE : THE HOUSE OF IPATIEV AT EKATERINBURG, THE SCENE OF THE MASSACRE,
WITH "RED” SOLDIERS ON GUARD.
itiencr an d devotix*
reconstruct the aw
emarkaWe manner
r DA VS OF THF
JMASOVS.
e mentioned ah»t
the middle ot $
nkel Sverdlov. I*
Central ExccW
Moscow, jwHfflf 1 "
PENCILLED by THE EMPRESS ON A WALL : WITH THE DATE “17/30 APRIL, 1918 ”: A TRACING OF THE SWASTIKA FOUND WHERE THE BODIES WERE
SWASTIKA, HER FAVOURITE EMBLEM. PENCILLED BY THE EMPRESS. BURNED : JEWELS OF THE EMPRESS.
lid *** J<>r N * gorny ’ who was * n attendance on the young Tsarevitch, and a -1 windows of the room used by the Emperor and Empress and their son.
. Ct n * me <l Ivan Sedniev, were shot by the Bolshevists at Ekaterinburg, at the Yourovsky, who arranged the massacre and himself shot the Emperor and the
Manning of June 1918. “Their only crime,” writes M. Gilliard, "had been Tsarevitch, replaced a previous gaoler, Avdiev, who proved too kind. M. Gilliard
«r inability to hide their indignation when'they saw the Bolshevist commissaries j writes : “The crime, we know, was decided at Moscow by Sverdlov (President of
the little gold chain by which holy images were hung on the sick-bed of | the Central Executive Committee). Sverdlov was the head and Yourovsky the
is M,CoIaieir ‘ tch -” Fhe window of the room where the massacre took place arm.” The swastika pencilled by the Empress in an embrasure of her window
. e ** con <l from left (on ground floor) in the top middle photograph. Above j is seen in the left-hand lower photograph covered with a glass plaque fastened
« the window of the Grand Duchesses* room, and to the right of that the J by seals. The two jewels are a cross of emeralds and diamond pendant
-
HIE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jax 1. 1921 12
had the Commissary Avdiev. commander of the
“ house for special use ”— that was what Ipatiev's
house was called
The circumstances were much more painful
than at Tobolsk. Avdiev was an inveterate
drunkard, who allowed his brutal instincts full
play, and he and his subordinates exercised their
ingenuity in discov nng new humiliations daily for
those whom they guarded
On their arnval at Ekaterinburg (May 23) the
Tsarevitch and his three sisters were taken to
Ipatiev's house, where they expected to find their
parents. It was a great joy to meet again. They
were so happy to be reunited after all the tenors
of separation. A few hours later Kharitonov, old
Troup, and little Leonid Sedniev were brought in.
As to the others—General Tatichtchev Countess
Hendrikov. and Volkov — they were taken straight
to prison.
On the 24th, Tchemadourov. having fallen ill.
was taken to the prison hospital there he wax
forgotten and managed to escape miraculously.
Some days later, Nagomv and Ivan Sedniev
were imprisoned too. After a short captivity,
thev were shot at the beginning of June, in the
SHOWING EKATERINBURC. WHERE THE IMPERIAL FAMILY WERE
MURDERED, AND TOBOLSK. THEIR PREVIOUS PLACE OF CAP¬
TIVITY: THE REGION OF THE URALS.
neighbourhood of Ekaterinburg. The small num¬
ber of followers who had been left to the pris¬
oners was rapidly diminishing. Luckily, they still
had Dr. Botkin, whose devotion was admirable,
and a few servants whose fidelity was above
reproach
The Emperor, the Empress, and the Tsarevitch
occupied a room which formed the comer of
the square and the Vosnessensky I.ane ; the
four Grand Duchesses the adjoining room, the
door of which had been taken away. During the
first night they slept on the floor, as they had
no beds. Dr. Botkin slept in the sitting-room,
and the maid of the Empress in the room at the
comer of Vosnessensky Lane and the garden.
As to the others, they were installed in the
kitchen and the adjacent room.
The state of health of Alexis Nicolaievitch had
been greatly impaired by the fatigues of the
journey ; he stayed in bed the greater part of the
day, and when they went out for a walk, the
Emperor used to carry him to the garden.
The family and the servants used to take
their meals with the Commissaries, who inhabited
the same floor as they did. and had to live in
hourly promiscuity with rough men who were
usually drunk.
The house had been surrounded by an en¬
closure of planks, which transformed it- into a
real fortress-prison. Sentinels were posted out¬
side and in. The room of the commander — the first
that one came to—was occupied by Avdiev and his
subordinate Moshkin. and some workmen. The
remainder of the guard occupied the basement,
but the men used to go to the upper storey
and enter the rooms occupied by the Imperial
Family whenever they felt inclined.
Gradually, however, the guards became more
human. They were amazed by the simplicity
of their prisoners, attracted by their kindness,
and conquered by their serene dignity, and soon
they felt themselves dominated by those whom
they thought were in their power. Even the
drunkard Avdiev felt disarmed by so much forti¬
tude : he was conscious of his own infamy. Pity
succeeded ferocity.
ruthans, for the greater part A ustm-t German,
prisoners of war, !>etts. Chinese, etc . who reaJIv
are richly - paid executioners At Ekaterinburg
the Tchrezvytchaika was all powerful : its most
influential members were (Hinmissanes Youmvskv
and tkilochtchokin
Avdiev was under the immediate control of
the other Commissaries, members of the Presidium
and the Tchrezvytchaika. They hat no time 111
discovering the change which had come over the
guards in regard to the prisoners, and determined
to take some radical measures At Moscow, too.
anxiety was felt, as proved bv the following tele¬
gram sent from Ekaterinburg bv Bieloborodov to
Sverdlov and Golochtchokin (who was then in
Moscow) : *' Svromolotov has just left for Moscow
to organise the affair according to orders of the
Centre. Apprehensions vain Anxiety uselews
Avdiev changed. Moshkin arrested Avdiev re¬
placed by Vourovsky. Interior guard change*!,
replaced bv others " This telegram is dated
July 4
On that day Avdiev and his subordinate
Moshkin were arrested and replaced bv Commissary
Y«uimvsky. a Jew. and his underling Nikoulin.
The guard, consisting, as has already
been said exclusively of Russian
workmen, was transferred to a
neighbouring house, that of Popov.
Youmvskv brought ten men with
him -nearly all of them Austro-
< rerman prisoners of war chosen ”
amongst the executioners of the
Tchrezvytchaika. From that day
onward they were on guard in the
intenor — the extenor posts were
guarded by Russians
1 he *' house (or special use '*
had become a dependency of the
ichrezvytchaika. and the life of
the prisoners now became one long
martyrdom
At this penod. the death of the
Impenal t-amily had alreadv been
decided on in Moscow. The teh .'ram
quoted above proves it. Syromo-
lotov had left for Moscow " in order to organise
the affair according to the orders of the Centre '*
Hr returned with Golochtchokin. bnngmg the
instnictions and directions of Sverdlov. In the
meantime. Yourovsky was settling matters He
;i Room of lhe
Grand
"1 Duchesses | r
j tfooni of their
Majesties
'i and th«
Tsarevitch
,1k* a
THE MASSACRE.
The Soviet authorities at Ekaterinburg com¬
prised : (a) The Council of the I’ral region,
consisting of about thirty members, the President
of which was Commissary Bieloborodov ; (b) The
Presidium, a kind of executive committee con¬
sisting of a few members, Bielovorodov, Golocht¬
chokin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov, etc.; (c) The
Tchrezvytchaika, the popular name for the " Ex¬
traordinary Commission for the fight against
counter-revolution and speculation,” the centre
of which is in Moscow, and which has branches
throughout Russia. This is a formidable organisa¬
tion, which is the real basis of Soviet rule. Each
section receives its orders direct from Moscow
and fulfils them in its own way. Every- Tchrez
vvtchalka of am- importance has at its disposal
went out nding daily, ho visited the neighhourhood
seeking a suitable place where hr could make away
with the bodies of his
victims And this man.
whose cynicism is unsur¬
passed. goes to see the
Tsarevitch, who is in
bed ! Several days went
by; Golochtchokin and
Syromolotov returned
AH is ready.
On Sunday. Julv 14.
Yourovsky sends for a
priest, Father Storojev.
and allows a religious
service. The prisoners
had been condemned to
die and religious consola¬
tion could not be denied
them
The next day he gave
orders that little I.eo-
nid Sedniev should be
taken to Popov's house,
where the Russian guard
was Between six and
seven in the evening he
tells Peter Medviedov. in
w-hom he has complete
confidence — Medviedev
was at the head of
the Russian workmen — to
bring him twelve Nagant
revolvers in the possession
of the Russian guard.
And when this has been
done he tells him that
the whole Imperial Familv
shall be put to death that
same night, and that he
had better inform the
Russians of this later.
Medviedev announces it
to them at 10 o'clock.
A little after midnight.
Yourovsky entered the
room occupied by the Im¬
perial Family, awakened
them and their followers,
and told them to follow
him. The pretext given
is that he must take them
away, that the town is
in a state of revolt, and
that in the meantime
they will be in greater
security on the lower
storey. They were soon
ready Some little things
SHOWING THE HOUSE (LEFT LOWER CORNER
WHERE THE MASSACRE OCCURRED A PLAN OF
THE IPATIEV ESTATE AT EKATERINBURG
and cushions were taken, then they descended
bv the inside stain ase which led to the yard,
the entrance to the ground floor rooms You
mvmky went first with Nikoulin, then the Em¬
peror carrying the Tsarevitch, the Empress,
the Grand Duchesses. Dr Botkin. Anna Denu-
dova. Khantonov and Troup. The prisoners re¬
mained in the room indicated to them by You
mvsky. They were told that carnages or motors
were being fetched to take them a*ay. As they
might have long to wait, they asked for chair*
Three were brought in. The-Tsarevitch, who could
not stand owing to his bad leg. sat down in the
middle of the room the Emperor took the chair
on his left Dr Botkin stood on his right, a little
to the back The Empress sat down near the wall,
(to the nght of the door through which they
came in), not far from the window. A cushion
had been put on her chair as well as on that to«
the Tsarevitch One of her daughters st
behind her. probably Tatiana In the cor, * CT 0
the room, on the same side, stood Anna, wit
cushions in her arms The three other ran
Duihesse* leaned against the wall, and Khantonov
and old Troup st«*xi in the comer on th«
nght Thev waited a few moments longer, then
Room
JL
►loom ol Ihe
Commands'-
ot th«
Red Goard
i I ’
AND THE
Vosnessensky Prospeck
SHOWINC THE ROOMS WHERE THE IMPERIAL FAMILY SLEPT.
PASSAGES THEY TRAVERSED TO CO DOWNSTAIRS: A PLAN OF TH
FLOOR OF THE IPATIEV HOUSE.
ami:;;;:;:::
Vosnessensky
SHOWING THE DEATH - CHAMBER AND THE WAY TO IT TAKE hQI js£-
1MPER1AL FAMILY: A PLAN OF THE GROUND FLOOR OF THE > PAT1 t he
On the night of the murder the Imperial Family, after being awakened, P* 59 *^ * ^ by th *
dining-room and kitchen on the first floor and down the atairs on the right.
route indicated to the death-chamber on the ground floor
mi: Jl.U STK \TK|) I.O\|><>.\ XI:\\ S, I
THE MYSTERY OF EKATERINBURG SOLVED: A GHASTLY REVELATION
1 .Vikoulin, then tk; £r
Tsarevitch, tie fe
Dr. BotJdn. Anna As
Troup. The pnxar ■
cheated to liitfli hr F:
that carriagacr®?
ke them away, -to S'
they asked kt du
Tie- Tsarevitch, who &
ad ley, sat down:-
Emperor took thea -
vd on hit rigid je
sat down aw Ik*’
■ through wild a ;
> window, A taw
as well as « k’ ;
her daughter sat ■
a. In the esse: -
good .Anna,
three other to
raft and Kha*
"IT IS THE SIGNAL FOR A GENERAL VOLLEY EACH OF THE MURDERERS HAS CHOSEN HIS VICTIM ANASTASIA IS ONLY WOUNDED SHE SUCCUMBS TO BAYONET
THRUSTS • : THE DEATH-CHAMBER AFTER THE MASSACRE OF THE TSAR AND HIS FAMILY
he late of the Emperor Nicholas and his family remained for long a mystery.
11 sorts of reports were spread, and even after circumstantial stones of the
massacre had appeared rumours lingered that some of them had escaped. The
Bolshevists themselves were afraid to publish the truth, fearing the anger of the
ussian people, and issued a lying proclamation which, though it announced
**** ***cution of the Tsar, gave the impression that the Empress and children had
been transferred to a safer place. Not until M Gilliard published his account of
the true facts has the full extent of the ghastly tragedy been placed beyond a
doubt. It has finally destroyed any hope that the Bolshevists might have shown
mercy to four young and beautiful girls and their little brother, innocent of
political intrigue and not responsible for the accident of their birth in an imperial
house. Along with the Emperor and his family fell their devoted medical
attendant. Dr. Botkin, and three others Anna Demidova, the Empress’s maid •
Kharitonoff the chef , and an old footman named Troup
J
VosnessensJ.) Pro's*'
ISE (LEFT um m
»E OCCURRED; A fUlJ
"ATE AT EKATERim
aken, tien they fare
* which Jed to Ik rc
WITH CINDER-HEAPS CONTAINING FRAGMENTS OF TOILET
ARTICLES : THE GRAND DUCHESSES’ ROOM
WHERE THE TSAR. HIS WIFE. AND SON WERE ROUSED AT MIDNIGHT TO BE SHOT :
THEIR ROOM IN THE HOUSE OF IPATIEV.
V
PRESCRIBING the death-chamber as he afterwards found it, M. Gilliard says :
" Its aspect was sinister beyond all expression. Daylight only penetrated
through a barred window. The walls and floor-boards bore numerous marks
of bullets and bayonet-thrusts. One realised at a glance that a hideous crime
had been committed there, and that several persons had met their deaths.
But who How many : Of the Actual massacre he writes : “ Yourovsky
advances and says to the Emperor : * Yopr people wished to save you. but
they did not succeed, and we are obliged to put you to death.' He at once
raises his revolver and fires at the Emperor, who falls riddled. It is the
signal for a general volley. Each of the murderers has chosen his victim.’
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan I. 1921 II
Yourovsky suddenly came into the room with
seven Austro-Germans and two of his friends.
Commissaries Ermakov and Vouganov two of the
Tchrezvytchaika’s hangmen. Medviedev was also
present. Yourovsky went up to the Emperor
and said : " Your friends wished to save you,
but they have not been successful and we are
obliged to put you to death.” Thereupon he
pulled out his revolver and shot straight at the
Emperor, who fell immediately. That was the
signal for a general firing. Each of the murderers
had chosen his victim. Yourovsky dealt with
the Emperor and the Tsarevitch. Most of the
prisoners died on the spot. Alexis Nicolaievitch.
however, moaned feebly. Yourovsky made an
end of him. Anastasia Xicolaievna, who was
only wounded, started shrieking when the mur¬
derers approached; she fell under bayonet thrusts.
Anna Demidova was alive, thanks to her cushions,
behind which she hid. She ran from side to
side and finally fell, too, under the murderers'
blows.
The depositions of witnesses have enabled the
investigators to prove all the
horrors of this awful mas-
said : " Guard the outer posts for fear that the
people revolt ! ” And during the days that fol¬
lowed the sentinels guarded the empty house, as
though nothing bad happened and the prisoners
were behind the enchwure.
The Russian people hail to he deceived, and
were not to know.
Another fact which proves this, is the precaution
taken on July 4 to remove A\diev and take away
the Russian guard. The Commissaries no Winger
trusted these workmen from the Yerkh Istslu
works and the factory of Zlo'taznv Brothers, who
had rallied to the cause and who had come of their
own free will to guard " Nicholas the Sanguinary."
It was because they knew that only convicts or
foreigners, hired executioners, would consent to
do that infamous job. The executioners were—
Yourovsky, a Jew ; Medviedev. Xikoulin. Ermakov.
Vaganov, Russian convicts ; and seven Austro-
Germans.
Yes ; these men hid from the Russian people,
whose representatives they pretended to be. They
feared it. ami were afraid of its vengeance.
Costacks. 1 n Ike person of its President. approves
Ik* action of Ik* Presidium of Ik* I'ral Council
Tk* /‘resident of tk* Central Executive
Commit!** - V. StordJot
In this document a case is made of the
death sentence supposed to he pronounced by the
Ekaterinburg Presidium against Nicholas If. Lie I
We know that the crime was decided on id
Moscow by Sverdlov. and the instructions were
brought to Yourovsky by (.olochtchokin and
SyrotnoloCov.
Sverdlov was the head and Yourovsky the arm ;
they were both Jews.
The Emjwrof was neither condemned nor even
judged -be was assassinated What. then, can be
said of the Empress her chikirrn. I>r. Botkin, and
the three servants who died with them ? But
what do the murderers care ? They axe certain of
impunity The bullet has killed, the dame has
destroyed, and the earth has covered over what
the flame could n<* devour Oh ! they arc quiet :
none of them will s|>rak. as thev are bound by in*
famv. And It seemed quite
plausilir for Commissary
sacre. These witnesses are
Paul Medviedev, one of the
murderers; Anatole Yakimov,
who certainly was a spectator
of the drama, though he
denied it ; and Philip Prosk-
ouriakov, who related the
particulars of the crime ac¬
cording to the account of
other spectators. All three
were members of the guards
of Ipatiev's house.
When all was over, the
Commissaries took the jewels
off their victims, and the
bodies were transported on
sheets and stretchers to the
motor lorry which was at
the door of the yard, in the
wooden enclosure.
THE FUNEREAL IN¬
CINERATION.
They had to hurry be¬
fore day broke. The funeral
corUge passed through the
sleeping town in the direc¬
tion of the forest. Com¬
missary Vaganov rode at its
head, as all encounters must
be avoided. Just as the
clearing was reached he saw
a cart approaching with
some peasants in it. It was
a woman of the village of
Koptiaki, who left home in
the night with her son and
daughter-in-law to come and
sell some fish in the town.
They were ordered to turn
back at once. In order to
ensure this, he rode back
with them, and forbade
them under pain of death to
turn back and look behind.
But the woman had had
time to see the great, dark
mass which followed the
rider. When she was back
in her village she told what
she had seen. The peasants
became curious and went to SHOWING THE SPOT WHERE THE BODIES OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY WERE BURNED
find out what it all was about. (MARKED WITH A CROSS NEAR LEFT TOP CORNER): A MAP OF EKATERINBURG AND
and came across the cordon ITS SURROUNDINGS.
Voikov to rxclaim : " Tb#
world will never know what
»r have done with them ! ’’
Hut these men were mis¬
taken.
Aftrr some months’ grop¬
ing. the inquiry started a sys¬
tematic search in the forest.
Every inch of ground was
ransacked and explored, and
now the mine - shaft, the
ground of the clearing, and
the grass revealed their
secret Hundreds of ob¬
jects and fragments of ob¬
jects. mostly trampled into
the ground, were discovered,
identified, and classified by
tbe inquiry. Among other
things were found : the
buckle of the Emperor's belt,
a fragment of his cap. the
little frame which contained
the portrait of the Em¬
press — the photograph is
missing which the Em
peror always carried with
him. etc.
The favourite ear-rings
of the Empress (one was
broken), pieces of her dress,
a glass from her spectacles,
recognisable owing to their
special shape, etc.
A buckle of the Tsare¬
vitch’s belt, buttons, and
pieces of his coat. etc.
Numerous small articles
belonging to the (irand Duch¬
esses fragments of their
necklaces, of their boots,
buttons, hooks, fasteners, etc.
Six metal corset busks, a
number which speaks for
itself when one recalls the
victims —the Empress, the
four Grand Duchesses, and
Anna l>emidova. maid of
the Empress.
The artificial teeth of Dr.
Botkin, fragments of his
glasses. buttons ofl bis
clothes, etc.
And. lastlv. bones and
of sentinels in the forest.
After great difficulties, as the roads were very
bad, the lorry reached the clearing. The bodies
were placed on the ground and partly undressed.
It was then that the Commissaries discovered a
large quantity of jewels which the Grand Duchesses
had hidden under their clothes. They took
possession of these, but in their hurry they let
some of them drop on the ground, and these were
trodden down. The bodies were cut in sections
and placed on large stakes, and the fire helped
with benzine. The more resisting parts were
destroyed with sulphuric add. For three days
and three nights the murderers laboured at thdr
work of destruction under the direction of Yourov¬
sky and his two friends Ermakov and Vaganov.
One hundred and seventy-five kilogrammes of
sulphuric add, and over three hundred litres of
benzine were brought from the town to the
clearing.
At last, on July 20 , all was over. The mur¬
derers made away with all traces of the stakes, and
the ashes were thrown into the mine-shaft or dis¬
persed round about the clearing, so that nothing
should be revealed of what had happened.
Why did these men take such care to efface all
trace of their action ? Why did they hide like
criminals when they pretended they were doing
justice ? And from whom did they hide ?
Paul Medviedev tells us this in his deposition.
After the crime Yourovsky came up to him and
Finally, on July 20. they decided to break the
silence and to announce to the people the death of
the Emperor in a proclamation put up in the streets
of Ekaterinburg on that day. Five days later, the
Perm papers published the following declaration—
DECISION
of the Presidium of the Council of Deputies , Workmen.
Peasants, and Red Guards of the Cral region .
Owing to the fact that Cxecho-Slovak bands
threaten the Red capital of the Ural. Ekaterinburg,
and that the crowned executioner can escape the
tribunal of the people (a plot of the White Guards has
been discovered to free the whole Romanov Family),
the Presidium of the Committee of the Region
executing the will of the people, has decided that
ex-Tsar Nicholas Romanov, guilty before the people
of numerous bloody crimes, shall be shot.
The decision of the Presidium of the Council of
the region was executed in the night of July 16 to 17.
, Romanov Family has been transferred 'ram
Ekaterinburg to a safer spot.
The Presidium of the Council of Deputies,
Workmen, Peasants, and Red Guards of
the Ural region.
°/f ° f tke E * ecuiive Central Comm,
of All the Russias. July 18.
The Executive Central Committee of the Cou
of Deputies. Workmen. Peasants . Red Guards.
fragments of burnt bones,
partly destroyed by the acid, and which have
occasional marks of a saw or some other sharp
instrument ; revolver bullets those, doubtless,
which had remained in the bodies ; and quite a
large quantity of melted lead.
A lamentable collection of relics, which leave*
no hope, and which proves the truth in all *ts
brutality and horror. Commissary Voikov was
mistaken—" The world knows what had been done
to them."
The murderers began to get anxious, lb*
agents they had left at Ekaterinburg in order to
mislead the investigations kejit them informed o
the progress of the inquiry. They followed it step
by step. And when they realised that the who e
world would soon know what had occurred they
tried to shift the responsibility of their crime
on to others—they accused the Socialist Revolu¬
tionaries of being the criminals, and of trying
to compromise the Bolshevist party. In SeP*
tember 1919, 28 persons falsely accused of
having taken part in the murder of the Ini*
perial Family were arrested by them at Perm
and tried Five among them were condemned to
death and executed.
This odious comedy shows the cynicism 0
these men, who did not hesitate to send in¬
nocent persons to death in order to free
selves from the responsibility of one of the
greatest crimes in history.
" P"son o/.ts Preset,
' ****** of tic i faJ cmd
President of the Centeel Eum,
Committee—y. Sttrikt
ument a «e « node of 4
opposed to be pronounced hr*
sidtum against .Vichofa* II
the crime was decided * ,
Mov. and the instructioos m
rovsky by Golocitciobn *
c hfad. and Vourovsh tJifaiB
H-5.
u neither condemned nor mj
^'nated. What, then, at k
her children, Dr. Botin, nd
who died with them: Bs
■rs care ? They are certain c#
ft has Jailed, the flame ta
arth has covered ever ite
ievour. Oh! they are qaet,
ik, as they are bound by ns-
r amy. And it seemed qatr
dausib/e for Commisan
’oikov to exclaim; "He
orld will never know what
r have done with them.'"
Hot these men were ns-
ten.
After some months'pop-
the inquiry started airs-
a tic search in the fast
ry inch of pound was
acked and explored, and
the mine-shaft, the
id of the clearing, and
grass revraJed that
Hundreds ol oh
and fragments of oh-
mostly trampled into
und, were discovered
■d, and classified hr
airy. Among other
were found: the
f the Emperor's belt
ent of his cap, the
Tie which contained
rait of the Era-
le photograph 8
which the £0 1
■a vs carried with
vonrite ear-rings »
n press (one w*
■ces of bet dress.
, her spectacles
owing to thrif
■.etc.
of the Tare
buttons, and
coat. etc.
small articles
e Grand Duct-
nts of t* :
their boots
fasteners, etc.
rset lwskS' J
speaks fa
risthe
mP"* J
besses. and
maid *
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 1, 1921—15
A CRIME HID FROM THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: THE FORESTS SECRET.
Photogkaphs Copy wicmt fnv " L'Ilu stw itih.v ”) in the United States.
WHERE THE BODIES OF THE MURDERED EMPEROR AND HIS FAMILY WERE BURNT
M. SOKOLOV AT THE REMAINS OF A BONFIRE.
WHERE MANY RELICS OF THE VICTIMS WERE FOUND : M. SOKOLOV
EXAMINING ASHES NEAR THE MINE-SHAFT.
ON THE “FUNERAL ROUTE 1 OF THE MASSACRED IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD : THE POINT IN THE FOREST OF GANINA WHERE THE WAGON-FULL OF CORPSES
TURNED INTO A WOODLAND TRACK ON ITS WAY TO THE PLACE OF INCINERATION.
THE " TOMB ’’ OF NICHOLAS II. AND HIS FAMILY : THE MINE-SHAFT INTO WHICH
THE ASHES WERE THROWN.
Immediately after the massacre the Bolshevist murderers carried the bodies of
their victims secretly by night to a clearing in the forest of Ganina, and there j
bwnt the remains, throwing the ashes into a mine-shaft or scattering them on the j
ground. As M. Gilliard asks, if they pretended to be doing the work of justice, j
why conceal the deed like criminals ? From whom did they wish to conceal it ?
The answer is, they were afraid of the Russian people. When Ekaterinburg fell
to General Koltchak on July aj, 1918, nine days after the murders, an official
ON THE TRACK OF A GREAT CRIME : EXPLORATION WORK AT THE MINE-
SHAFT FOR THE OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
inquiry was instituted, of which M. Nicolas Sokolov later took charge as jugc
<T instruct inn. Patient search revealed the whole story of the burning of the
corpses in a forest clearing, and many relics of the dead were found there. In
March 1920, after the downfall of Koltchak and the return of the Bolshevists.
M. Sokolov, M. Gilliard, and Genera] Diteriks, who were then at Kharbin, rescued
these relics and the records of the inquiry, with the aid of the French General
Janin, and arranged for their despatch to Europe.
I« INK ll.l.l STKAIEU LO.VDO}
THE RITUAL OF THE LAW:
THE DIVORCE COURT, WHOSil
An Ihpvbssion by Stivu
BRANCH OF LAW WHICH THE LORD CHANCELLOR PROPOSES TO
; arise
In one of his recent articles suggesting various reforms
from the enormous increase of business in the King’s L
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" r “ d r , th ,! “ r r S _°‘ Ki "f B ' nCh Jud8 " •«“ - «■>. Divorce Court, to ,'Z,'ZTo r l„ * **•. ^ °‘ _ b ‘™™ blcMroond.
, a junior co u
Irom the enormous increase of ^siness in , h e ZZ TJit. ? *-'"*** * h * CoW *- ,h ' U ' d Chancellor Lord Birkenhead, says: “Our main
Kmg S Bench D.v.s.on, and ,he Probate, Divorce and Admtral.y Div.sion, ... The work of the
-- . Bill ne
London.
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COURT,
WORK “HAS
littsa*
a Spurriir, R.O.
NOW ASSUMED GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS.
* PlCA T
DIVORCE COURT SCENE-JUNIOR COUNSEL EXAMINING A WITNESS.
n * tr waiting to car ° f th * Court ‘ To the ,eft of them is one of the two Ushers, and to the left of him are Press reporters in their box, with a
ntrf the case w'th C ° Py ^ **** newspaper °^ ces - There is another reporters’ box on the right, hidden from view. On the front bench sit parties
c °me seat* _.. ^ e ‘ r solicitors. The second bench is occupied by senior counsel, the third by junior counsel, the fourth
c * r »ed j
d (
1 the Pl
seats for witnesses
'rize Court • 7"""’ Waitin « to be called.
Placed 0n 15 S,tting ’ and the anch °r device
0n ^e crutches in fmn* u:.
solicitors’ bench,
This Court is also used for Admiralty cases ; hence the large map on the right wall, required
over the Judge’s seat. On such occasions the Judge is preceded by the Marshal -
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
, | 1 &'***£•
By E. B. OSBORN.
I T is hard to keep
track of the ten-
* track of the ten¬
dencies of poetry in these
latter days, when everybody.
mi the inmates of our nur¬
series. is lisping in numbers,
even when the numbers refuse to come. I have
often been asked to recommend a guide to the
new allotments on Parnassus (mostly on the
broad, lower slopes that lapse imperceptibly into
the levels of prose, I am afraid), and the very
thing has at last appeared in " Somk Contem¬
porary Poets. 1920 " (Leonard Parsons ; 7s. 6d.
net), by Harold Monro, who is not
only a competent and catholic-minded
critic, but also a poet of real distinc¬
tion himself, whose sincerity cannot
be challenged. He is also the founder
of the Poetry Bookshop.
The origin of the " Georgian "
poetry is thus described by this
inspiring critic. ” About 1890.” he
writes, " literary language had passed
into a condi*ion of the utmost stulti¬
fication. A century filled with poets
of every denomination and of ex¬
treme productiveness had drained
our poetic vocabulary’ to its lees.”
An antidote to the *' bulky pomposity
of late Victorianism ” was required,
and it arrived at the psychological
moment in “ A Shropshire Lad,”
which at once became popular and
has remained so ever since. The
ease with which the small, simple
lyrics could be imitated made them
a dominating influence which per¬
sists even to-day. The Georgian
Muse is still sufiering from Hous-
man’s Knee. There were, of course,
deeper tendencies at work. The ^ ANIMAL
younger generation had become sick
to death of the solemn diction and
abdolla-cloak of the ” bard.” his ‘ ,n * umn “ T ’
mechanic devices in rhvme and ?
rhythm, his posing as a personage
apart whose mission was to track From '*
rather than delight an audience.
There was a disposition among the youngest poets
to throw over all the old technique, and to seek
new forms and a new and simpler vocabulary in
the common speech of common folk. Once more—
for the fourth or fifth time—the vernacular was
discovered, and its beautiful intonations, as useful
also as Elizabethan tankards made to drink out
of. were wrought into the new vesture of imagin¬
ative thought. But, as was inevitable, the later
attempts to dispense with technique altogether
were a failure. Either they were abandoned as
impracticable, or the experimentalists found them¬
selves involved in the wild ” Futurism ” which
culminated in the absurdities of Marinetti and his
disciples. But the thoroughgoing Georgian is still
ashamed of making a fine phrase or a quotable
line, though it is already true to sav that he tramples
on technique with a technique of his very own.
Mr. Monro does not include the extremists either
of the ” left " or of the " right " in his survey of
the twentieth -century poetic movement He prob¬
ably dislikes the Futurist* as much at he likes
not Mr. Sovcs f no other poet of our time, not
even the late Mrs. Wilcox, nor John Oxenham.
has won so spurious a reputation," hr einpl.ati-
callv declares), or the ” virulent talent " of Sir
William Watson I mvself have a secret tender¬
ness for the French and Italian Futurists, not only
because they provide modern literature with a
AN ANIMAL THAT TURNS YELLOWISH-WHITE IN WINTER IN COLD CLIMATES
AN ARGYLLSHIRE STOAT, IN ’FULL WINTER PELAGE.”
“ In summer, the outer fur of the upper parts is a russet-browi.In winter, in cold
climates, all the brown hairs . . . become white, but show a yellow suffusion . . . The above
is a specimen obtained in Argyllshire in January 1919. which shows the lull winter pelage ”
From iimhiow. Colour plate {by I he Auth<^ ,m “ British Mammals." by A Thorburn. FJS.
By Courtesy of the Publishers, Kojri Longmans, Orem, (s** Km/* on mother Page )
jest poets centre of levity, but also because of a little adven- dimly rec;
cl to seek ture of mv own with those literary Bolshies Years and abun
bulary in ago I fashioned a ” spoof ” Futurist p«>em—in (Elkin M*
:e more— four parallel columns, giving the menu of a dinner, arc oft
;ular was the grunts of the subterman and the imagery of shrewd ai
as useful the superman, and the appropriate musical direc- more we
Irink out tions for each course—which deceived Marinetti Masefield)
f imagin- himself, then on a visit to London, into believing ^ ^
the later I was a serious and powerful disciple. It was Japan
Altogether explained to him that I was merely poking fun
idoned as at the movement, but he thought the explanation which lie!
ind them- was prompted by professional jealousy, and still many, m
1 " which sends me Christmas gifts of manilestoes and Srcrkt ”
ti and his amazing masterpieces. Mr. Monro is very sar- Binyon,
an is still castic on the subject of Edith Sitwell (who in- craftsman
quotable dines to the Futurist philosophy), saying that jewels ”
the " mov'd with com¬
parative comfort among
the thrill Itowerx of hell,
through a spangled and
plum ex) atmosphere infested
with parrots. parTakeet*. apes.
mandolines, and deluded l*antaloons. amid the
boom of falling wooden fruits under a (taper tky "
His severity, it will l*e seen. lh mitigated not
only with understanding kindness, but also with
a tense of humour.
Humour in verse is to rare and refreshing
that " The Lays of a Limpet "
(Selwvn and Blount ; ,(t. 6d. net’.
H) I dward McCurdy, tltall take
precedence over all the serious
stuff I he interview in Sapphics
with a naval ofticer—
Reallv, h«»w Uk-st interviews break noe’»
morning !
Barrtv trilled down and 1 hear a talk*
B«-n here now f«ir hours—" have 1 tune
to see him >M ” Yes. I suppose »o,"
gets the departmental atmosphere to
a nuetv. '* Flowers in the Grass "
(Constable ; 5s. net), by Maurice
Hewlett, is tub-entitled ” Wiltshire
Ilainsong.” but such a stanza as—
Happy pipes the blackbird
In the flush t apple tree;
And the wren to live quickset
Happy is he,
suggests that the poet is really a lari
from Shropshire who had the com-
|>anv of \V H I>avies for part of the
wav There is none of this countrified
posing in " Shoots in the Siubblh ”
(Hamel. 5s. net), by Max Plowman,
who is not afraid to find a nch joy
in marriage warm and kind and the
CLIMATES : fruits thereof. " Songs of Donegal ”
(Jenkins : 5* net).bv Patrick McGill,
nter, in cold takes one to a land between Ireland
. The shore and the ” Irish Lift." and such
inter pelage ” lines as —
orfmm. FJS. Butter butts in the pantry stored, sticks
’ Fage) of eds m the kitchen,
dimly recall Ferguson’s fine lyric of a hospitable
and abundant land. In ** Ships and Folks ”
(Elkin Mathews ; 6s. net), by C. Fox Smith, we
arc oft to sea with sailormen who can give
shrewd advice to brisk young fellows, and once
more we reach the haven (best described bv
Masefield)—
Far beyond that scarlet sunset flaming down behind
Japan.
which lies half a world awav and across a gulf of
many, many years. Finally, I come to " The
Srcret ” (Ktkin Mathews ; 6s. net), by Laurence
Binyon, which contains sixty of that subtle
craftsman’s faint and elusive lyrics—” ghosts of
jewels ” 1 have heard them called.
FOUND in THE SCtLLY ISLES AND ELSEWHERE IN BRITISH WATERS;
THE GREY SEAL-A BLACK MALE (LEFT) AND GREY SPOTTED MALE (IN FRONT).
“The grey seal inhabits the North Atlantic. ... It is abundant along the northern coasts ol
Europe In England it is rather rare, but a fair-sized colony inhabits the Scitly
Islands. In Scotland it is much more common. . . . This species is also plentiful in
Ireland.”
From 12 in bv to in. Cdour plate* (by the Author) in « British Mammals " by A. Thorburn
LRE IN BRITISH WATERS; WITH A BRISTLY MOUSTACHE, AND TUSKS USED FOR FIGHTING. GRUBBING AND
Y SPOTTED MALE (IN FRONT). CLIMBING; THE; WALRUS (SCANDINAVIAN HVALROS, OR “WHALE-HORSE ”),
ndant along the northern coasts of “ The walrus . . . inhabits the Polar Seas and has only rarely been seen or captured in British
-sized colony inhabits the Scitly waters. The tusks, possessed by both sexes, are used as weapons . • • »l*> when grubbing
This species is also plentiful in up molluscs. . . . They are also said to be a help in climbing ice or rocks. - A f
young one is bom at a time ”
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In one of the wildest and most remote regions of Luzon, the chief island of the Philippine Archipelago, are t
labour in the mountain - sides, and resembling nothing so much as an enormous natural amphitheatre
the Bontoc Igorrotes, a people much addicted to tattooing, who are believed to be partly of Mongolian race,
contrast, necessity has led them to produce this marvellous piece of landscape gardening on a colossal scale, in
IN THE ISLAND ^
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these wonderful terraced nce
advantage By means of these terraces, the steepest slopes are converted into fertile fields for the production ol rice, the staple food
the pmupp^ ES -
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order to till the soil of their mount*! teff» fes
islands.
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connected by ' ■ •
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^tterican War i n t g 9 g Was there > on the island of Mactan, in that year. In 1566 Spain finally occupied the islands, and retained them until the Spanish-
***tnst whose forces 9 when the Spanish fleet was destroyed in Manila Bay. By the Treaty of Paris in the same year the Philippines were awarded to the United States.
C ° Un,r y like JaDan 1, war f*f* was kept up for some years by the Philippine leader. Aguinaldo. who proclaimed a republic. Obviously, a great rice-eating
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 1. 1921 22
THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE
in " Irene" was equally amazing . and. finally, her
following in the footsteps of father Robert Hale was
so like the proverh»al two pins that the audience
bestowed on her the greatest of all first-night
honours the demand for a speech. Then Ihnnie
showed that she was unconscious of all her glory,
for " Thank you *’ was all we got from her. but it
sounded nght from the heart. 1 should like to
write a few px-ans of praise for the work of Mr
Walter Williams, the safe ptkit
_ of the Vaudeville cruises , of
K Miss Phyllis Titmuss. who is
gaining in experience and dis¬
plays a nice sense of character
in her various parts ; of Mi«
-Joyce Barbour. who sings and
■ y daners with charm ; of Mr.
F.nc Hlorc and Mr Gilbert
T HE week before Christmas brought us two
revue*—** It’s All Wrong," mainly by Miss
Elsie Jams, at the Queen's; and " Jumble Sale,"
mainly by Mr. J. H. Turner, but studded with
witty lyrics by Mr. Reginald Axkell. “ Jumble
Sale ” is the better of the twain. It is a revue of
spontaneity—of the practised hand combined with
satirical imagination. Miss Janis's effort is—well,
it is what the word indicates, an effort, the ‘prentice
" Westward Ho ! " said the
astute Mr. Percy Hutchison,
one of the m<«*t enterprising
managers of the younger
generation, when he pene¬
trated Canada, and scored a
huge success with his unfailing
fetish. " The Luck of the
Navy.” He found, to his land
our) amazement, that not for
five years had an English
company of repute visited the
great western cities of the
Dominion. He found wherever
LEADING LADIES IN “A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL." AT THE LYRIC
MISS MAGGIE TEYTE AS PRINCESS JULIA. AND MISS CICELY DEBENHAM
AS COUNTESS ELOISE DE GOUSSY. [Phctogropk by Stoge Photo. Co ]
hand at work with labour and laudable intentions.
by Mr Hutchison that Canada is waiting to
greet, to honour, and to feast him. is on the
high seas . and anon, it is on the cards that
two great melodrama companies, and perhaps
the complete Gaiety Company, will yield to
the temptations of the Magnetic North. Thus
Mr Percy Hutchison's C anadian enterprise is
not only a great business undertaking, but
one of patriotic propaganda
Our Grand Guignol is leomung an institution
and all credit to Mr Jos* S Levy for his effort*
to give English plavs a predominant place in hi*
programme He has in ” Eight O’Clock." by
Reginald Berkeley. found a real human document,
a m<mt realistic and truthful picture of the dread
hour of a criminal's execution. Sir W. S. Gilbert
wrote for the late James Welch a similar tragrdi
of great power, but this little work by the happy
author of " Ereneh Leave ” has the character of
the slice of life In its evenness of construction
it is deeply moving : wc are as concerned in the
sorry struggle of the clergyman who endeavours to
preach all mercifulness to the doomed man as in
the anguish of the latter, who. too young to die.
waits vainly for reprieve and goes to the scaffold
in refientant protest The acting of Mr. Russell
Thorndike and Mr Lewis Cusson. as the condemned
man and the clergyman, are worthy of the play.
It was wholly untheatncal ; it was felt. The
audience was deeply impressed Of the remain¬
ing quartet of plays. Andrt de Lorde's " Private
Room No. f>" was the best—Sardou in a nut¬
shell and Russia of 1914 on the horizon. A
grandee of Tsardom feasts in Paris while dic¬
tating pogroms from a safe distance, he has met
a woman whom he desires and has invited her to
a private room She ts the true type of the
flaxen-haired Sonia of Nihilism. Her brother has
been killed by order of the tyrant : she. in the gay
feathers i»f a bird of paradise, will wreak vengeance
She watches the wine rising to high tide, she
tolerates his brutal caresses, she coaxes and cajoles,
then she winds her long white glove around his
throat and " parrots " him. Justice is done 1
Miss Sybil Thorndike was magnificent in this
part. She created mystery on her appearance :
she wore a vacant look . we scented the catastrophe
to come Her repellence. her decision, her nerving
herself to the fell deed, was intensely dramatic
Where revue is concerned, with its kaleidoscope
of scenes — there were twenty-three in " Jumble
Sale.” twelve in ” It’s All Wrong ’’ — memory is
as unfailing a registrar as a thermometer. Memory
exactly marks the rise and fall of your enjoyment.
Of ” It’s All WTong ’’ I remember very little : a
charming ballet it la Russe in Fragonard style,
more imitation than parody , a few funny war
scenes in an estaminei and at a bar. with the
ubiquitous Stanley Lupino in excellent form ; an
attempt to make fun of the nursery of 1950—once
again Stanley Lupino, a very funny overgrown
baby in surroundings of feeble humour ; a lilt of
a song by Mr. Herman Finck ; and some capital
skits on Delysia and Nelson Keys by Miss Elsie
Janis, who dances with the grace of a minia¬
ture Pavlova and sings several songs. 1 believe
that there was somewhere an attempt at symbol¬
ism-conflict between discontent and happiness
but it was so blurred and so diffuse that we lost
the trend en route. In sum, " It’s All Wrong
leaves the impression of the mountain and the
mole-hill.
In " Jumble Sale ” it is the other way about.
It creates great eflects with a wonderfully mar¬
shalled little company, every member of which
has rare versatility. It is an intellectual treat in
its endless variety of skits and parodies, some of
which, like all good wine, will mature when seasoned.
One feels all the time that the librettists and the
musician. Mr. Philip Braham. work in perfect
harmony of understanding and joy . and the last
tableau of all. ” A Triumph of Memory ’’—when all
the dear old songs of the good old times, from
“Champagne Charley ” to " Daddy Wouldn’t Buy
Me a Bow-wow," the Sisters Bilton and Albert
Chevalier, filed past and made us hum and wobble
in our seats^—is one of those happy thoughts which
in itself means a long life and prosperity. The
heroine of the evening was Miss Binnie Hale, the
clever daughter of a clever father. She sang
herself into fame in less than five minutes in a
oarody of Miss Phyllis Monkman- something so
brilliant, so finely observed and worked out, so
mordant and so deceptive in its amusing realism
that we hailed the little actress as a real artist.
And that was not all. Her imitation of Miss Day
he went "open sesame," great
enthusiasm, and eagerness to
learn more of the drama of
the Mother-country, which a
good Canadian affectionately
calls " home.” He was invited
to make speeches at the lead¬
ing clubs, the Kirwanis and
the Rotary ; from all sides
came the clamour. " Send us
English plays and musical
comedies; we are tired of
American control and we will
help you.” He became ac¬
quainted with captains of in¬
dustry and railway magnates
and found them ready to help
with all their might—money no
object. As a first token of
Canadian earnest, there arose
a new theatre in Edmonton,
a palace of which London
would be proud ; it was ready
in five months ; at Christmas
it will be inaugurated with
*' General Post,” which failed
when played by an American
company and came back tri¬
umphant manned by English
players, accumulating receipts
which dwarf all runs of Lon¬
don box-offices. Then, under
the aegis of the millionaires,
followed the great combine
which acquired one hundred
and thirty-six theatres all over
Canada, and arranged with
Percy Hutchison that he should LEADING COME
be the leader of the expc- MR. JACK HULE
ditionary forces from London DE FREC
and the chief comptroller on
this side. Already the Esmonds. H V. and liis
accomplished wife, Eva Moore, are gathering rich
harvest with Esmond's finest comedy, “ The Law
Divine ” ; already “ The Maid of the Mountains ”
with a bevy of British belles is conquering every
city ; as I wnte, Mr. Martin Harvey, persuaded
LEADING COMEDIANS IN A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL.' AT THE LYRIC ^
MR. JACK HULBERT AS CAPTAIN CONSTANTINE POSCH. AND MR LAUR
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H. V. and his A shudder ran through the house. Mr. Bcalb}^
gathering rich General was the type to the life: a bon * <u
dy. The Law with a certain polish of manner; underneat ,
tie Mountains” human beast. “ Grattez le Russe. vous trouv ^
nquering every le Tartare." It was frightfully thrilling. anf
vey. persuaded enjoyed it because it was - -of the Theatre.
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RAMSHACKLE HOUSING IN VIENNA: TUG-BOATS, CAVES,
DRAWN by KARL HORNSTEtN.
AND TREES.
TO nV»^ NE 0F V,EHNA S ANSWERS TO AN URGENT HOUSING QUESTION : OLD
w. the TUG ' BOAXS converted into house-boats.
E CABnK ,ESE BEC0MES "ARBOREAL IN HIS HABITS : HOLLOW TREES AND
^ IN THE PRATER AS SHELTERS FOR THE HOMELESS.
suffering .» V** ^ u * tr ** n ». recently admitted to the League of Nations, are
70,000,000 ooo" ^ r0fn til * *^ter-effecu of war. The national debt is about
the pound’ sterr r<>nen ’ Md the r * te °* exchan K* recently reached 2000 kronen to
44 Bankruptcy^ Th * pric * ol food and imported raw materials is still rising,
react danger Cl, * OS ’ *” d probably territorial disintegration," which would
rously on other countries, have been prophesied unless help is
4 A SUBTERRANEAN SOLUTION OF THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN VIENNA : UNDER¬
GROUND CAVES AS DWELLINGS IN THE SIMMERiNGER HElDfc
5. DISUSED ROLLING STOCK IN A PERMANENT - SIDING " : ANCIENT RAILWAY
CARRIAGES AS HOMES IN THE ERDBERG QUARTER OF VIENNA.
forthcoming. Among other troubles, the housing problem is acute, owing to the
immigration of refugees from the north and the return of war prisoners, and
homeless wanderers are driven to all sorts of shifts to find an abode. Even
people of social position are sometimes forced to sleep out of doors. Our
drawings illustrate some of the most remarkable substitutes for houses now to
be seen in and about Vienna, -f Drawings Copyrighted in Ike l ntled Slates and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jak I. 1931.-24
with great gmerowty. placed the ground floor and
garden of his beautiful house in the Hue da Faubourg
St Honor*, three doors from the British Embassy,
at the disposal of the small committee who had under
taken to organise the scheme With these raagnih
cent premises at their disposal, the committee were
not many days in raising a substantial sum. which
enabled them to serve dinners and luncheons to the
members at rates far below cunent restaurant charges —
a fact which quickly appealed to the large numbers
for whom the committee found themselves called
u P* ,r > to cater Here indeed was a very public
spirited work which was deeply appreciated bv the
officers of the twenty three Allied nations to whom
the hospitality of the club was extended
During the Peace Conference, the membership in
creased so enormously that Baron Ifenn de Both
schild was again approached by the Committee, with
a view this time to purchasing the whole house and
converting it to the uses of the club Shortly after
this, it was felt that ladies should also be admit ted
to certain parts of the building set aside for their
especial use. and a strong ladies committee was
formed, representing as many of the Allied nations
as ptusible
Frenchwomen have never acquired the club habit,
even to the extent that their English and American
sisters have, and one knows that there are many
women in both those countries who never set foot
inside a women's club With Frenchwomen, some
such inducement as bridge-playing or dancing has to
be offered, and the ladies' committee of the Inter-
alii* have been wise in inaugurating a series of weekly
dances and bridge teas.
So far. 1 have only referred to the social aspect
of the club, but there is another and more serious
side to it as well First of all. within the club itself*
is the Union Inter aIh*. with Marechal Foeh as the
energetic Resident, and having for its main object
the promotion, by means of lectures and so on. of a
better understanding between the various countries
which formed the Creat Alliance during the late war.
Another of its functions u the entertaining of distin¬
guished foreigners who visit the French capital and
thus it came about that last week the Union Inter
allie. on successive days, entertained the British
Ambassador in the person of Lord Hardinge, with
Marechal Foch presiding, and Mr. McCormick, a
distinguished visitor from the United States.
I have often been struck by the targe number of
small museums of extraordinary and varied interest
scattered all over Paris, the majority of them admir¬
ably administered by the Municipality as trustees
for the founders. The recent reopening of the Ornus-
chi Museum of Chinese Art. which is housed in a
beautiful hotel r _
in the Parr
Monccau. is
iUi example of
what I mean
Here is an
amazingly in¬
teresting col¬
lection of
Chinese and
Japanese pot¬
tery. bronze
and wood
carying. re
jirrscoiing the
very best in
Chinese and
Japanese art
dating from
several centu¬
ries before the |
Christian era |
down to the _
DwT"* collec ** 0 * 0*0 TO MR. L. P B MERftlAM
tion WO are t*' 0 " LADY ***JORY KENNEDY
told owe* its *"“ dr M4/>ory Ksanedy u the jrouagw dzughte.
, <* N-rqiwM sad Marchioness of Aik*.
. ^ Hw e n g nw eat to Mr Lawrtnc* PMrce
the enthusi- MerrUm. M.C.. Mt« Rifle Bn C ade. row**'
asm of two km of Mr. end Mrs. C. P. Merriam. he* loir
French gentle been announced (P W atee p * »r ->**.»*. I
men. from one
of whom the museum takes its name, who in the Ea*t
were attracted by the art of the countries in which
they found themselves, and began buying without any
special knowledge, but with apparently an extremely
good /fair, which is often almost as useful. Such a
collection, once embarked upon, would easily become
an absorbing passion . and as one wanders through
the well proportioned rooms, where the various ob¬
jects are beautifully displayed according to penodv
ooe realises what a life work the amassing of such
a collection must have become.
I am glad to see that the Mus*e Carnavalet is to
enriched by a very fine collection of costumes of
the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
which has been on view elsewhere for some time now
they will be an added attraction to what is already
one of the most fascinating little museums in Paris.
That well -.known firm, Messrs. Hunt and
Koskell Ltd., of 2 <i. Old Bond Street. W.i. can now
boast of a Koval feather in their cap. They have
been appointed jewellers and silversmiths to H.R.H.
the Prince of Wales.
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
Paris.
1 1 u not often that one hears of good coming out
* of evil; but certainly it can be said with truth
that good, in the shape of an Inter-Allied Union,
lias come out of the evil of war. for, without the
incentive of the great European struggle, the Allied
nations would have had no excuse for binding them
selves together in a Union which bids fair to have a
considerable future of usefulness before it.
It was somewhere about the third year of the
war that a few public-spirited gentlemen in l*am
conceived the idea of creating a centre where the
JUST OFF TO INDIA. MISS J. MACLENNAN
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of Radnor Hall. EUtree. and of Lady Byrne, the second wife
of Sir William Byrne. PC.. K.C.V.O.. etc. MU* Maclennan a
•uat off to India oo a vtait to Mrs Frank Lyall
Pkotofrmpk bv Lafayette.
•flicers of all the Allied armies might meet and enjoy
the comforts which would tend to make them feel
more at home in a foreign land. The idea was taken
up with enthusiasm, and Baron Henri de Rothschild,
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room whore it is in operation ; anil moe.t ol us who
have experienced the stuffiness ol a Swiss or American
hotel in winter will unhesitatingly agree with her
on this point. Hut she. g«x-s a great deal further, and
declares that it is the only means of heating where
we get the full value for our money. Although the
quantity of heat radiated from the fireplace is only
a part of that produced bv the combustion of the
fuel, the rest of it going, as the opponents of the open
fire tell us. up the chimney, it here dot's so nnnli to¬
wards warming the house that Hr. Fishcnden thinks
its efficiency is raised to 100 per cent. As she sa\s,
the only part of the heat which escapes is the in¬
finitesimal quantity which comes out of the top ol
the chimney, and all the rest, which is not directly
radiated into the room, is employed in warming the
walls and brickwork. \Nhen a lirephue is so con¬
strue ted that the haik. whether of iron or, prefer¬
ably. of fireclay, becomes ml-hot as soon as the fire
" burns up.” it is this rather than the blaring coals
themselves that is the chief generator of the heat
thrown out.
As to this last-named point, moreover, I>r.
Fishcnden gives us some little-known fait*. The
proportion of heat directly radiated she puts at
from 20 per cent, to 24 per cent, for coal, and at
30 per cent, to 31 per cent, for low-temperature
carbonising coke ; and she finds that the radiation
is greatest at an angle of some 50 deg. from the
honzontal. Hence it would seem to follow that
the lower the fireplace can lie set. the sooner the
direct heat from it will be felt in the room, or, in
other words, the nearer to the floor will it abide.
It should also lx* noted that, as the principal part of
the heat is really given off by the chimney-flue and
the walls on cither side ol the fireplace, the large
opening alxtve the fireplace, or " head-room.” so
attractive to the eye in a room of stately proportions,
detracts seriously from its efficiency as a means of
heating a fact discovered bv Count Humford more
than a century ago. All grab's, she says, should
have a register to regulate the draught at will.
Dr Fishcnden confined her researches to coal
fin's ; but it is plain that the same arguments apply
with equal force to open fireplaces in which wood
is burned. Whether wood is used, as our ancestors
Used it. exclusively, or. as is more often done at the
present dav. together with coal, or even coke, it is
plain that bv its use we get a most efficient mode
ol warming our pH>ms. Clean, sweet-scented, lending
itself to no pollution of the external air. while it
requires no outlay lor cxjH'n.sivc and difficultly
n paired apjxiratus. it follow’s from I)r. Fishcnden’s
rescan h«-s that the heat that it gives out makes it
one of the cheapest forms of heating imaginable. Its
• >ne draw link is its bulk, which makes its storage
a matter of some si ght inconvenience. Vet it is not
dirty, like coal, and can Im* stored in outhouses and
cupUiariU whuh need not !>e kept exclusively for it.
As to its place in the room itself, a good deal of trouble
might f>e saved bv having the wind cut into larger
logs or bl«x ks than the squares nowr mostly atlccted
by the vendors ; and with a little care large logs may
be made to bum as readily as the small ones. Should
coal continue to be scarce and dear, there is really
little reason whv we should not return to the Yule
logs of our forefathers. Finally, the grate or fireplace
that will bum coal will also bum wood without
alteration in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred.
Experto err Je. F. L.
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
O PEN fires have been reix-atedly condemned as
insanitary to their users, wasteful, and pol¬
luting to the outside air. and we are constantly told
that in the home of the future they will be replaced
by central heating if the house be large, or by electric
or gas fires if it be small. Such warnings—not always
free from suspicion of interested motives, when
traceable to those who have heating appliances to
sell —have hitherto passed unheeded over the heads
of the great majority of householders, for the best
of reasons. Central heating cannot be applied on
a large scale, as in the case of hotels and blocks of
flats, unless the whole of our national habits, in¬
cluding that of open windows, are to be radicalh
altered ; while with coal (and coke) at their present
prices, it is doubtful whether it is really an economy.
Electricity and gas have grown so much dearer with
the scarcity of coal that they are now about the most
expensive w’ay of warming a house that can be con¬
ceived. and the difficulty in getting repairs to the
necessary apparatus goes far to neutralise their
undoubted cleanliness and convenience in use. The
“ sea-coal fire ” of our ancestors, therefore, still
rules the roast.
Is this to be regretted from the scientific point
of view ? Dr. Margaret White Fishcnden has lately
been inquiring into the matter at the instance of
the Manchester Corporation’s Air Pollution Advisory
Board, and has come to the rather unexpected con¬
clusion that it is not. On the ground of health, she
finds the open fire is abundantly justified by the
stimulus it gives to the free circulation of air in the
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C HRISTMAS has come, been kept, and conquered
a good many of us. After all, digestion wants
short hours and light labour, as well as other agitator'..
The Royal Familv had an old - fashioned, merry
festive season, and are said to have been in good
spirits and to have thoroughly enjoyed it. 1 supjx>se
the Baron of Beef was there ; I am quite sure the
Christmas puddings and mince - pies were. Kqually
am I certain that, if the King and Queen could have
given a good dinner to every unemployed person,
they would gladly have done so. Also I hear that
their sorrow’ for the poor people whose Christmas was
shadowed by the failure of Farrow’s Bank was deep
and sincere. Of course, they were in sympathy too
with the youthful pleasure in the season taken by
their own fine family.
The New Year may bring us some sorrows, but
it brings us many sales - things always close to our
womanly affections. Of course, we affect to consider
it a trying duty to get up early on Jan. 3 and pn>ceed
to sample the sales. Stop any one of us from doing
it, however, and the shadow of bargains missed will
loom low for many a day. This year, too, we have
promise of very real reductions. For instance,
Liberty’s, Regent Street, who have not had a sale for
a year, have that interval’s accumulation of surplus
stock to dispose of from Jan. 3. Among the splendid
chances for investment are 18,000 yards of cretonne
in a wide selection and beautiful colourings, which
were 2s. lid. and 3s. nd. a yard, and will be marked
down to a uniform is. 6d. a yard. There arc 600 voile
dresses in dainty designs and useful colours, which
were £2 19s. 6d., and will be sold for £1 ns. fid. each.
Seven thousand dress lengths of printed voile, dainty
and exquisite, will be sold at 12s. (xl. a length.
Children’s cloth coats, which sold freely for ^4 4s .
will be £2 19s. 6d. : and there are day and evening
gowns in crdpe-dc-Chine and georgette at 15 18s. (xl.
each. It will be a great opportunity.
Jay’s Winter Sale begins on Monday. Jay’s things
bear a very precious cachet in the minds of women
who love and understand the art of dress. Many of
Jay’s wonderful model gowns will be sold at less
than half cost price—is not that a good telling ? The
reduction in jumpers and coats is from 7 to 4 guineas
in some instances, from 9| guineas to 5J in others.
Peau de velour gloves are reduced from iGs. 6d. to
12s. 6d. ; and there is rare value offered in hosiery and
underwear. Several black and-gold brocade evening
A BRIDGE PARTY FROCK
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scroll err.broidery,
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lined with crejie de Chit c and trimmed with fur,
were 52 guineas, will be sold at t8| guineas,
r's a chance ! Jay’s evening <l>iuks, t<x> 1
Haivey Nuliols’s wr 11 known and greatly esteemed
house in Knightsbridgc will be a favourite pilgrimage
for January sale shopjx-rs Among very many tine
ojqxjrtumti's for r\« client investments it will otter
are earl\ spring tailor built suits in small check black
and giey suitings, half lined with gixxl quality silk,
belt, pockets, and revere, at t>\ guineas. There are
elegant, graceful, and handsome crepe-de Chine tea-
gowns 111 black and a g.xxl many colours with wide
sleeves and belts of late. and lace side panels which
form pockets, at 80s (xl ; and dainty flowered ertpe
de Chine tea fnxks, very smart and pretty, at (xy. fid.
C.reat reduitions have been made in imxlel coats in
rn h quality fabrics. These were from 25 to 50 guineas,
an t will be sold for 18J guineas. For <>J guineas
attractive heavy weight artificial silk jereev cloth
frocks, with drop stitch giving a striped effect, can
be bought. These are in black, mole, saxc blue, grey,
nigger brown, copper, and navy-blue.
There are m.inv indications that prices will rise
again ; in anv case, purchasing now is g<xxl policy.
A first-rate field for g«xxl investment will be found
at the sale at Samuel Brothers. 221-223, Oxford
Street, close to the 1 ube station. This thoroughly
reliable and up-to-date firm have to lighten their
sfixk. and are therefore selling at actually cost price,
which is very unlikely to l>e repeated. The sale
Ixgins on January 3. Among the bargains to be
made at it are 1 y> jumpers, all wool, with deep
sailor collar and ojx-n V-shaped nock, in contrast¬
ing stnjx-s woven in the turned lKick culls, whuh
were 37s. (xl and will lx* sold for 27s. fid , in
black, contrasted with several favourite and
fashionable colours. Two hundred sports coats,
in artilK lal silk, in many pretty colours and stripes,
which were 8js, will be sold for only 2ns. fid.
There are undoubted bargains in little girls’ party
frock*., in silk crepe and georgette in a variety of
colours and designs, in sizes 16 in. to 24 in. at
2**c cx| Boys sc hool clothes are a special feature
of the sale, as well as girls'. There is such excel¬
lent \alue in these necessary outfits that it seems
invidious to mention anv. but one hundred double-
breasted overcoats for bovs from six to twelve, in
neat grev and brown cheviot, from 39s. 6d. to 60s.,
will ap|M-al to parents and boys alike. For men, too,
there are really gcxxl bargains, so that there will be
plenty of visitors to Messrs. Samuel Brothers during
January. For those who cannot go to the sale,
an excellent catalogue has been prepared, and will
lx* sent by them on application. Boots and shoes
for men, women, and children are also included in
the sale at greatly reduced prices. A. E. L.
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And continues until
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MONDAY, JAN. 3rd.
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
Th Tax t' e ^° rt to n,s ^ matters to
t- . 10 a conclusion, the officials of the
MU,W ''- Ministry of Transport
seem to have got into a pretty considerable ■■
muddle regarding the machinery for the
collection of the new motor taxes. Ac¬
cording to plan, we are to be compelled
to supply all sorts of details relating to our
cars and their pedigrees, the particulars to
be furnished on a most elaborate official
form, of which nothing but the sealed pat¬
tern appears to be available. At the time
of writing, none are to be had at the post- J
offices, to which we are told we must apply
for them. Many motorists have hurried
out and purchased one or other of the ap¬
proved licence-holders, which manufacturers
have placed on the market betimes. But *" 1 *
there are no licences, nor do we know when A
there will be. Certainly they will not be
generally available by January 1, when the ^
law says we must pay our motor tax. Even
if they were available, it does not look a bit
as thongh the Ministry would get its powers from
Parliament to enable it to put into effect the
elaborate regulations with which it
proposes to harass the motorist in -
the New Year. The Roads Bill is
in the House of Lords—I am writ¬
ing ten days before the end of the
year—and the general opinion seems
to be that the Upper House will
regard it as a measure which requires
a good deal of discussion, and, as it
is not really an urgent Bill, will re¬
fuse it a second reading until after
the Recess. Of course, it may be
passed, but even then it will be im¬
possible to get things properly work¬
ing until well into January.
It is really difficult to see why
there should have been such a hurry.
We could have paid our taxes at the
new rate in the way we paid the old,
and left the super-regulations which
have been drafted by the statisticians
of the Transport Ministry to be con¬
sidered later. Nobody would have
been a penny the worse, and the re¬
sultant Roads Act might have been
a coherent and useful measure in- THE RETUR
stead of what it is.
. .. • »• laird Montagu of Beaulieu told
An Optimistic , . _
p . the Institute of Trail'!* irt the
™ other day that he looked for
ward to there being two million motor vehicles on
afraid hi' wp II known enthusiasm for motoring earned
him rather loo far The whole output of our factones,
plus imports at the present rate, would not be suffi-
t lent to pro\ide that numlier of vehicles Further,
averaging the cost of each vehicle at only
1 n«i, w hn h is obviously too low, such an
in* reuse would mean a capital expenditure on
motor vehicles of £105,000,000 a year, which
is certainly a far higher expenditure than we
have any nght to antici|utc will be rrached.
1 if course, it is quite inqmssiblc to do more
than speculate very vaguely upon such rates
of increase, but 1 should say that if in five
years’ time we have a million-and-a-quarter
motor vehicles in active use. wc shall have
done very well indeed.
HANDSOME TWO-SEATER WITH A HIGH P1WFRFD CHASSIS
A DAIMLER "LIGHT THIRTY "
r was surriied to Mr A. J Hi. 1 , ol Brailor.1. ty M' Alt^n FVr.* M a ci
Bradtcrd agent and poneer motsoat, wt.o d«:cnel tie body
the roads in another five years’ time, compared with sc
an estimated three quarters of a million now I am m
THE RETURN FROM A SHOOTING TRIP: BLACK BUCK ON A B.S.A. MOTOR-BICYCLE
AND SIDE-CAR.
J . . . When wc do have to put
A Nr.. up th< , GfMm bbd jn
H ° the New Year, we can at
least make it look as little objectionable as
iwssihlc. To that end I am going to use a
holder which has been sent me by Messrs.
% Smith and Sons, of Great Portland Street,
which is the neatest thing of its kind 1 have
seen. It has been approved by the authorities, and is
made to match the well known Smith speedometer.
The pnee in brass is 7s. bd.. and in
nickel plate, 8s. Od. "•
All motorists who have tried it
know that “ Ronuk ” Motor - Car
Polish is an ideal cleanser and
brightener of woodwork, patent
leather, lacquered fittings, and articles
varnished or enamelled. Colourless
and smooth, it is just the thing for
preserving the finish of coachwork,
whether white or black or any other
colour. It revives and puts life into
the varnish. No hard rubbing is
required, and ” Ronuk ” is very suit-
abb- for the owner who cleans his
own car and cycle, and takes pride
in its appearance. Though it is not
a metal polish, a light application
of it after cleaning improves bright
tittings. It will also be found usefu
for domestic purposes. If the tin »
missing from the garage, it
protiably be discovered in the house,
being used for polishing the piano or
other furniture.
enthususojfor
numl *r of itiutie fy
cost of each
’ ob 'i««lT too In |j
"jean a capital apa^J
°* / , 0 j.ooo.ooo attr t,
* fcskr
to anticipate^
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J Mould say that e,*j
have a mloo-isia^
n active use, »e ■
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I ME lU.t'STRATFX) I.ONDON NEWS. Jan I. 1921—31 - --- jmjUW
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Not even during the war, when
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Neither, during more recent
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in Italy.
CORELLI
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tic. Incidentally, Corelli '?“
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON* NEWS. | vs 1 l'T >1 .T 2
CHRISTMAS IN THE PLAYHOUSES.
CENTRAL LONDON’S PANTOMIMES.
HOUGH the obstinate success of " The ('.ardcn of
Allah ” has compelled Mr. Arthur Collins to find
a new home for the Drury Lane pantomime, and tins
pantomime bears the same name as that of last
year, it would not be quite true to say that this
year's “ Cinderella ” at Covent Garden is a replica
of its predecessor at the Lane, for there are just
differences enough to make it almost a new thing.
Thus, the big spectacles of "Fairyland" and “The
Woodland Glade ” are more or less novelties, though
the ballet of flowers—a ballet it would be hard to
beat for beauty—seems related from last year, and
we have once more the delightful Ia>uis yuinze ball.
The new and pretty Cinderella Miss Kathlyn Hilliard
she is—is rescued in a new way by storks, who, as
the Penders represent them, are of piquantly vary¬
ing degrees of height; and some of the fun is fresh,
for, while the recalcitrant table cloth is missing,
there is some quaint business provided by the Egbert
Brothers with golf-sticks, Mr. Arthur Conquest has
his droll moments, and Miss Lily Long, as grotesquely
humorous as ever, pokes fun in song at the Car¬
melite hat. Once rrore Miss Marie Blanche deserves
to be styled a Prince Charming, but she, too, is
equipped with new songs, while one of the best turns,
a review of “ Dances of the Days Gone By,” which
falls to Miss MaWl Green, is certainly new. And
the topical illusions are right up-to-date in as merry
and gorgeous an entertainment as Drury I^ane ever
showed.
Robust humour is always the stand -bv of Lyceum
pantomimes, and this year's rendering of the " Iialx-s
in the Wood " story includes a fight between the two
delightful robbers, Mr. George Jackley and Mr. Gus
Sharland, first with rapiers and single sticks, then
with huge swords replaced by toy pistols, and finally
with vegetables and flowers, which should make the
young playgtx»r roll off his seat with joy. More fun
of a breezy order is furnished by Mr. Frank Bertram
as the Dame and Mr. Billy Danvers with a taking
song and illustrative pictures of the habits of the
house fly. The Babes find pretty representatives in
Cicely Maxwell and Kathleen Dixon, and a fairy¬
land glimpse of a " home of the butterflies " makes
very handsome spectacular effects.
The most striking feature of " Aladdin,” at the
London Hippodrome, is not its ” garden of jewels,”
brilliant picture though that is, nor the feast of
Oriental colour which other scenes provide, but the
vanishing of its magic palace, which one minute
stands solid with its multitude of lights, and the next
is gone on a site that has become bare desert.
There arc other wonderful things, including a record
number of " traps " gone through by Mr. Lupmo
Lane, whose comic powers, here given full play, arc
helped by the vivacity of Miss Nellie Wallace, one
of the most hard-working of Dames. And fully as
attractive as their work in another way are the sing¬
ing and dancing of Miss Phyllis Dare, surely the
daintiest of all this year's fairy-tale princesses.
’PETER PAN.” AT THE ST. JAMES 3.
Once more among our Christmas stage entertainments
for children, Sir James Barrie’s ever green fantasy,
*‘ Peter Pan." takes pride of place, and gives pleasure
to .the young of all ages ; for while the playgoers from
the nursery mr.st revel at first or second acquaintance
in the pirates and Red Indians of the story, in Peter
himself, or the adorable “ little mother ” Wendy,
children of older growth can swop opinions on Wendys
and Peters and Captain Hooks past and present, and
so extract from the newest revival of this classic of
yesterday all the joy to be got from recalling former
performances and comparing new-comers with their
predecessors. No one is going to quarrel with this
year's Peter Pan ; Miss Edna Best’s lx>y hero has the
right imaginative and pensive touch, the sense of
eeriness that should be behind all his pranks and
relish lor adventure. And Mr. Ainlcv. on the other
hand, expends a rich humour and a happy instimt
for burlesque on the double parts of the pirate ( aptain
and Mr. Darling. I he original Smec is hai k again in
Mr. George Shelton ; and ome more Miss Sybil
Carlisle enlists our sympathies for Mrs Darling We
have had more natural, less sophistic ated Wendys
than Miss Freda Godfrey's, but all the children in the
cast are as gixxl as ever, and give as great an air of
enjoying themselves. The scene of the Mermaids’
l.ag<x>n is dro]i(x*d from this revival ; it is not missed.
CHESS.
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Johnson llobham), H (>rasett B iWlwin < F iriiharnl, W H Matham
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town) arul H W Satow (Bangor).
In reprixhn ing the fine oil painting of II M S.
Malawi (the battle ship taking the Duke of Connaught
to India), by Major Charles Pears, 1 ( 0 . 1 ., in our
issue of Dec. 18, we omitted to mention that the
original picture has been purchased by the Govern¬
ment of the Federated .Malay States, who presented
the ship to the Navy during the war Major Pears,
we may add. is official marme'painter to the Imperial
War Museum.
” BRITISH MAMMALS ’: A NATURALIST'S COLOUR BOOK
/:•■»»•!»«■ « “*.j. * ix» - rtf,..
A KIIS 1 K skill and /oolugu al learning do not
alwavs go together but thev are happily united
in Mr A Ihorburn. F Z S . who is Ixith auth< r and
illustrator of ” British Mammals." with fifty plates
in colour and jx-n and ink sketches in the text
1 Long mans. Green, and lo) 1 he work is in two
volumes of which only the fust has at present come
to hand It is a large, handsome book. Ixautifully
printed, and the colour-plates aie of full page size,
measuring twelve bv ten inches 1 he pictures of the
various creatures, shown tn typical natural surround¬
ings. are ideal for their purpose, clear and well-defined
in outline, meticulously accurate in detail exquisitely
coloured, and. withal, p«issrxsing an air of life and
movement too oft« n lacking in such work. Many of
the animals are shown in tense attitudes, stalking or
devouring their prey. v» that something of the drama
of animal life is convened as well as its infinite variety
of form
The author’s intention has been, in his own words,
"to provide picture's in colour of all those animals
classed as mammals which inhabit or visit our islands.
I 1.11110x1 as a companion to the volumes on ’ British
Buds ' and ' A Naturalist s Sketch-Hook.* recently
published, it gives a series of rrpnxluctions from
water-colour drawings of the seventy species which
make up the list. and. m addition to these, are shown
various sub-species or closely allied forms”
In this fust volume six plates arc devoted to
the order of ( heiraf'lcra twelve varieties of hats.
Next, three plates illustrate British Jmrclnara —
namely, the hedgehog, the mole, and shrews of three
kinds T he remaining sixteen plates deal with car¬
nivorous animals the wild cat. fox, walrus, seals of
six species, the otter, badger, pine marten, polecat,
»t<wt, weasel, squirrel, and dormouse. Three of the
plates -the walrus, grey seal, and stoat in winter
dress are reproduced on our literary Page in this
numlx-r ; but. of course, their reduced size and
absence of colour can hardly do justice to the original
plates. The explanatory notes which accompany each
plate give all that the ordinary reader needs to know
•iNuit the ap|x*arante. habits. fi«xl. and geographiial
distribution of the different sjx-cies. and contain many
interesting oliserv at ions made by the author him>elf
and other naturalists It is not stated whether any
domestic, animals will apjx'ar in the second volume,
all those mentioned in the first arc wild denizens of
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THE ILLl’STRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan 8 1021 —31
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
I T is well known that in the matter of Prohibition
the Amencan decision was a great surprise to
the English. 1 susjx*ct that the American decision
was also a great surprise to the Americans. 1 do
not mention the matter for the purpose of discuss¬
ing again the moral question itself. Those who
wish us to copy it are naturally anxious to defend
it. For my part. 1 think it could be liest defended
on grounds which flatly forbid its being copied.
The best excuses for the American action can In-
found in the purely American situation. The
more we urge them in the American case-, the less
we can urge them in the English case. Even in
the American case, of course. 1 do not myself agree
with them ; but I have always agreed that it is
unfair entirely to ignore them. Two great differ¬
ences separate the problem in the Eastern from
the problem in the Western hemisphere. One is
that in Europe Prohibition is not merely breaking
a bottle, but uprooting a tree- not a metaphorical
tree, but the actual apple-tree of Hereford or the
actual vine of Bordeaux. It is as if we set out to
destroy all the flowers of France or England ; it
is destroying a thousand landscapes and a thousand
songs. In America, I take it, the thing is really
more like a dangerous drug in a chemist's shop.
The other difference is the very real problem of the
negro. We may well defer the matter until we
either cease to have hops or begin to import niggers.
But there is another point in favour of America,
apparent in this controversy, which is less com¬
monly observed.
The historic glory of America lies in the fact
that it is the one nation that was founded like a
church. That is, it was founded on a faith that
could be stated as a creed. The national charac ter
was not merely summed up after it had existed ;
it was defined before it existed. Some would
say that it never existed, however carefully it was
defined ; but I think this is historically false.
The Declaration of Independence was a philosophy
drawn up for m.*n who did not yet exist ; but that
philosophy was a religion, in the most real sense, for
multitudes of men who really existed. It embodied
itself in real saints and heroes as much as the
Gospel or the Koran. For instance, in all the talk
there has been lately about Abraham
Lincoln, there has been very little
appreciation of the fundamental fact
that he did understand the Declara¬
tion and did believe in it. This is
possibly due to the fact that large
numbers of Lincoln's English ad¬
mirers do not understand it in the
least, and w-ould not believe in it if
they did. The English often find it
harder to understand great ideas, and
easier to understand great men.
But in this case the great man is
really unintelligible without the great
idea. Abraham Lincoln was not an
Englishman—a fact that some Anglo-
Saxons tend too easily to forget. And
in nothing was he more distinct from
an Englishman than in this fact that
he felt his country to be founded on a
theory. And it cannot lx- too clearly
comprehended that this attitude
which distinguished him is really a
distinction.
Every nation has a soul, and
seems to have an immortal soul. At
least, no true nation has yet been
destroyed—even when, like Poland or
Ireland, it seemed to be destroyed.
But when we speak of the soul of a
nation we generally mean a person¬
ality that gradually developed, and
was still more gradually discerned
and described. In no other nation
save America did the description
come first and the development after¬
wards. We feel, for instance, that
the French have a splendid clarity
of mind, and the particular type of
irony and indignation that goes with
such a mind. But neither Clovis nor
Charlemagne nor St. Louis ever sum¬
moned a council and said, " We will
now proceed, by the grace of God, to
clear our heads.” The English have
bad an admirable instinct for
individual liberty sometimes to the p<* nt of
eccentricity ; and the national spirit has round,
perhaps, its happiest expression in humour But
no assembly of Normans and Saxons and Danes
THE LATE MISS
: ANDERSON t.
b« known by • *r
A GREAT WORKER FOR WOMEN :
MARY MACARTHUR (MRS. W.
Mrs W. C. Andersen, who t referred
ir.a.Jen name—Mary MacArthur--in c^r.n*-:i,..n wi*h her litr's
werk. was Secretaiy of the Women's T'lie Ur.._n Learie ,nd
Naricnal Federa’i n of Women Workers, anj was de. -ed to
the cause of werr.an. She was ten in Aueus’ laou. ar.d
educated in Glasgow and Germany. She w.V be n. ssed g’-e^-’.y
as cne of the most cultured and c - .ts* .nd.ng ter>r..,\e« ;f
the Labour movement. Her husband, who was Lat' ur M P.
for the Atterciitte Division of Sheffield, died two years ago.
Phaiogripk In Laja\fiu.
s, ” Ia*t us nil
” Li t us all
mg begun her
over came together to say in chori
lx- free ” ; and still less to saw
be funny.” America is alone in ha
THE AUTHOR OF THE NOTORIOUS "SCRAP OF PAPER” PHRASE: THE LATE
HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG. WHO DIED ON JANUARY 2.
Theodore von Bethmann-Hollweg was appointed German Imperial Chancellor on Julv 13. 1909.
and "fell" in July 1917. At the outbreak of the European War he used the "Scrap ot
Paper" phrase which has passed into history. [Photograph by L.N.A. 1
r.ition.d career with a definite explanation of what
she intended to lx-. And this is an experiment of
the highest historic al and philosoplm al interest.
It allows of a sort of logical test from which the
other nations are free, and may possiblv. in some
i.iscs, think themse lves luc kv to lx- free. Some
ni.i\ judge the American experiments in the light
of the American ideal otlurs mav judge the
American ideal in the light of the American
e\|x rn me
Now. | for one believe very strongly in this
pnneiplr whuh America added to the nations;
that of starting with an ideal standard I think
it is the one wav in which it is j-ossiblr to resist
a decline Such a metluxl cbx-s not so mm h suit
the English genius, but I wish even the English
had more of it 1 he danger of an unwritten con¬
stitution is that it mav lx- an unmogm-ed and
* umespe-c ted constitution Ihe danger of working
im relv bv i ustotn is that the* neglect of custom
ina \ itself Iws nine custoniarv. Ihe danger of
working bv compromise is that the compromise
may itself lx- compromising or mav itself lx- com¬
promises! In this sense there is no such thing as
the British ((institution . but there is emphatically
such a thing as the American Constitution. The
man uprising something like I’rohibition in the
1 luted States has at least something definite to
appal to, and something it seems to me. very
mm h on his side. I hold this truth to be self-
evident. and that when T ef erson said that every
man had an espial right to life-, liberty, and the
pursuit cif happiness he meant such a normal
life* as nu-n like |elierson lived, and such normal
hlx-rtv as men like Jefferson enjoyed, and such
normal happiness as r.c-n like Jet:erson pursued ;
and |ellersc>n would have lxs-n as much surprised
as Washington to hear that it did not include
wine. Let it lx- noted that Jefterson distinctly
said that all men have these rights . he said nothing
alxiut a majority, still less alxiut a single snatch
vote Hut whether or no it lx* true that I rohi-
bition fails upm this app’al. at least the appeal
can lx* made. ’1 heir laws are supposed to rest
ii|h in prim piles, while ours tend t<x. much to
rc-st njxin precedents If ever some such silly law
were promised by our Parliamentary
cliques, 1 am not sure that we could
refer Im« k to anything except the
last sillv law of the same sort. Eut
it is not inv concern here t<» insist
on the particular case, but rather on
the general principle, which is text
much neglected in England, and some¬
times. I S,qqx.se, even in America.
And the general principle is that we
require an ideal check oil our actual
changes. We require a check, lor
instance, on the tendency of aristo¬
cracy to turn into plutocracy. And
aristocracy itself hardly ever { r<>
varies any check on itself. I »vine
right and clemcxracv are both doc
trines ; they can lx* denied, but we
know when they are Ixing denied.
Anstocracy is an atmosphere ; it 1S
sometimes a healthy atmosphere;
but it is very hard to sav exact >
when it becomes an unhealthy atmo¬
sphere. You can prove that a man
is not the son of a king, or that he
is not the delegate of a dehni c
number of people. But you cannot
prove that a m.an is not a gen
man. when he professes to lx * *
gentleman. You can only fee l Hr
fectlv sure of it. The difficulty ot
saying whether a gentry is degen¬
erating is a difficulty that may
highly practical in our own country
That democracy may in fact• dege
crate is equally obvious. Bu
that very reason I think that a dem
cracv >s fortunate in possessing a
fixed democratic creed, by which
such fall may be measured an
such divergence corrected. Othe - t
the democracy might forget
was ever intended to be democ •
And when men forget their b,rt
baptism, they have nothing c - tQ
the folly of yesterday with wn
compare the madness of to- ay.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
WHOM THE
, DEUGHTETH T0 h ONOUR: IN THE NEW YEAR LIST.
Photog
II'ILAI.,
Photohrkss, V.
Harris.
De " eve ver V strongly in t!
nenca added to &'bs*
h an idea l standard. I fe
1 w 'h'cii it is possible to ns?
nethod does not so modi sg
but I wish even the h#i
danger of an unwrittent®.
“ay be an unrecognised ^
ion. The danger of wain?
that the neglect of custa
ustomar)’. The danger d
sc is that the compna®
ising, or may itself be oh- !
■ there is no such thing *
; but there is emphatic^ ‘
erican Constitution Jk I
? like Prohibition in tfe
ast something definite tr ’
SIR WILLIAM I I
BEARDMORE, ( I
BT. (BARON). V
“ff-SuK
MATHEW LEWIS VAUGHAN-
DAVIES, M.P. (BARON).
MR. FREDERICK ELEY
(BARONET).
HENRY SAMMAN
(BARONET).
Id this truth to be self
[efferson said that entr
to life, liberty, and *
lived, and such aona!
son enjoyed, and seS
ike Jefferson pursuaf
leen as much surptKsf
at it did not iadsi
it Jefferson distindr
rights; he said noffe
i bout a single j
be true that frtfr |
at least the arfa- 1
re supposed to rtf
tend too ranch » [
some such I
. our ftrlianwW I
su re that n M* 1 [
ything except * I
e same sort- ‘ It I
?m here to & J
jse. but rather tft I
)le which * w I
MW’S? I
Ml I
WILLIAM L.
COUTTS
BURDETT-
bernard opp
_[BARONET).
JOHN CLIFFORD,
(COMP ANION OF HONOUR)!
JOSEPH HEWITT
(BARONET).
Reginald h.
MR. DONALD MACMASTER.
(BARONET).
(BARONET).
COL. JAMES A. F.
MACKENZIE
H. STEWART.
(BARON).
MAJOR S H. HILL-WOOD
(BARONET).
COMMDR. AUGUST B
'BARONET).
cayser
Sir foh R H °cM UrS ,nCJUde tW ° Com P a ™nships of Honour-
Sir John Reeves Ellerman, Bt., the famous shipowner anc ca;
"7 during the war, gave much valuable advice to the Mini
and equipped and maintained the hospital which bore his
c-’ ^ egent s Park.-Sir Horace Brooks Marshall was Lor
Sir Wilham Beardmore is Chairman of the famous eni
Glasgow, and a Director of Vickers.-Mr. Vaujhan-Davies is
Mr. Eley is General Manager of the National Provincial a;
Mr. Samman is Chairman of the Shipping Section, Hull Chamb.
Mr. Burdett-Coutts has been M.P.
years.-Sir Joseph
THF. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan 8. l'.Vjj 36
CAUSE OF 14 MILLION DEATHS IN RECORDED TIME: EARTHQUAKES.
DRAWN BY SCRIVEN BOLTON. F R.A.S.
MOSTLY ORIGINATING IN THE OCEAN. AND CAUSED BY STRESS OF LOAD AT THE EASE OF MOUNTAINS
VARTHOUAKES-A MAP SHOWING REGIONS AFFECTED; DIAGRAMS OF COASTAL LANDSLIDES AND VOLCANIC ACfl
EARTHQUAKES-A MAP SHOWING REGIONS AFFECTED; DIAGRAMS OF COASTAL LANDSLIDES AND VOLCANIC
a wn process
Vlr Scriven Bolton, the well-known scientist, whose astronomical drawings have tains, such as the Himalayas, Andes, and Alps, where the setthng-do ^ ^ >t
a feature of our pages for some time past, has here turned his attention is yet in progress. Nearly all earthquakes are caused by the stress o o(
Mr. Scriven Bolton, the well-known scientist, whose astronomical drawings have
been a feature of our pages for some time past, has here turned his attention
to Earthquakes. In connection with his drawings reproduced above, he writes:
“ The great earthquake of December i6, 1920, in the Chinese Province of Kansu,
destroyed, among
other towns, the city of Ping-Liang. It did enormous damage,
and 2000 lives were lost. This shock literally made our globe tremble. The
tremor, which was one of the largest on record, completely circuited the earth,
but it was not until ten days had elapsed that the place of origin of the shock
was known. The majority of earthquakes originate in the ocean, round the toot
of islands and continents, and radiate inland. Comparatively few are due to
v lcanic action. They are most in evidence along slopes and folds in the crust,
V< here the strata have a horizontal flow, as well as in comparatively new moun¬
ts yet in progress. Nearly all earthquakes are caused Dy me ^ oW 0 f
the base of mountains, and an intermittent deep-seated subterranean _ han d
stratified material. A fracture of the crust, as above illustrated (on t *
page), may produce a series of tremors, or after-shocks, announcing ^ vive s
disturbed strata are settling to a state of equilibrium. Landslides and 0 f*| ye5 j n to
may be produced by the sliding down of steep slopes and unstable s e ^ t _ han< j
the bed of the ocean, due to ocean currents, as shown above (on t e ^ under
page). Force of gravity causes an intermittent readjustment of materi ^ strat a
the more sloping parts of the surface, together with a semi-rigid oW hor j zon tal
round the continents. Contraction of the earth's nucleus creates ^^ {esie <i
pressure and fracture of the accommodating shell. Earthquakes tppctU*
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 8, 1921.—37
EARTHQUm
OUR GLOBE MADE TO TREMBLE: THE PING-LIANG EARTHQUAKE.
DRAWN BY SCRIVEN BOLTON, F.R.A.S.
Simple type of Milne pendulum
The boom oscillates accoboinc to
THE AMOUNT OB’ GROUND-TILT.
PIVOT ON
BOOM I
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[A SUDDEN FRACTURE HAS CAUSED MANY LARCI
EARTHQUAKES.
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SUDDEN FRACTURE.
AMERICA.
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Origin of the great earthquake of dec 16™
The undulations traversed the entire globe
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Recorded by the milne seismograph at oxford.- world-wide waves of tremor caused by the great
CHINESE EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 10, 1020, WHICH DESTROYED PING-LIANG, AND KILLED 2000 PEOPLE.
wherever bending ol the earth’s crust is in evidence ; while if this phenomenon I reach the observing station by three separate routes : first, in a direct line through
occurs on the coast, it is accompanied by volcanic action. While explosions at the earth ; second and third, by travelling over the earth s surface in opposite
ocanic foci have shaken the earth, as instance the Krakatoa eruption of 1883, I directions from the point of origin, and reaching the observer from opposite
nearly all these disturbances are attributed to a sudden yielding in the flow I points. From the time elapsing between the arrival of these three waves, it is
r ” ateria, « due to local overloading. Tremors originate in the earth’s crust, possible to calculate the distance ot the earthquake. Within the world's history
winch probably does rot exceed thirty miles in thickness, and are usually within I about 14,0 00,000 ot people have been swallowed up or killed by earthquakes.''
welve miles of the surface. The greater pull of gravity on the earth’s surface I The modern science of seismology was practically originated by the late Professor
. New and Full Moons renders earthquakes more frequent at these periods. It Milne, who studied earthquakes in Japan, and for whom a Chair of Seismology
* ,u W**ted that the accumulation of deep-seated steam of high pressure may was founded at the University of Tokio. He invented the recording pendulum
£ Ca f e thr °ugh fissures to regions of low pressure, resulting in great explosions. illustrated above. On retiring he settled at Shide, Isle of Wight, where he
^arthquakes appear also to be connected with change of barometric pressure. I established an observatory. He died in 1913, bequeathing his instruments to
e have three principal types of waves accompanying a shock. The waves 1 Oxford University.-[Dwu-i«gs Copyrighted in the United State;, and Canada.)
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IS THIS THE ANSWER TO THE NAVAL PROBLEM? T%
Dratn y
WITH THE SEA AS “WATER JACKET” THAT TAKES THE IMMENSE SHOCK OF DISCHARGE: SUBMERSIBLE BATTL
AND SUBMERGE
SUBMERSIBLE ‘ EMDENS ’ OF A TYPE WHICH SOME NAVAL AUTHORITIES BELIEVE WOULD HAVE ENABLED GERMANY TO WIN
PATROLLING IN TWO COLUMNS.
Is the lesson of Jutland and the naval war generally that the era of great surface craft, inaugurated by the “ Dreadnought ” and culminating in such vessels as the '‘Q u * e ^
Elizabeth” and the “Hood.” is now closed: The course of the war was marked by the progressive evolution of increasingly powerful underwater craft. The clitu ^ #
reached, in the closing stages by the launching of the celebrated “ M i,” wrh her 12-in. gun ; and the question is being asked whether she is just such a foreruns* ^
new type of war-ship as was the “Dreadnought” in her day. A distinction ought to be drawn between true submarine vessels and those which are merely submersib *■ ^
true submarine, being a thing of stealth, will probably always remain comparatively small in size : the heavily armed ship, which must run to size in order to
necessary weight of metal, is not likely ever to be more than a submersible surface craft. The two smaller sketches above show the type of vessel which may be an » w
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PR0BL M ! UB MERSIBLE BATTLE- SHIP — A GLANCE INTO THE FUTURE.
iNK H. Mason-
iRGE: SUBXE18W* THE FUTURE BOMBARDING A COAST POSITION, FIRING WHEN SUBMERGED; AND ABLE TO BREAK SURFACE, RE-LOAD,
A.VD to'-'.THIN 30 SECONDS.
COULD OUR AUXILIARY PATROLS HAVE DEALT WITH SUCH A MONSTER TRAWLERS AS USED IN THE WAR
BESIDE A POSSIBLE SUBMERSIBLE BATTLE-SHIP
purpose? d ‘ Stant ^ Shou,d the “ M 1 ” prove to be the point of departure for a new trend in naval construction and design. The larger panel suggests some of the
course h ° SUCh Vesse,s C0U,d be P ut * If wiJ1 be remembered that the “Mi ” submerges her entire bulk, leaving only the monstrous muzzle of her 12 -in. gun (and, of
R ttr . Ad " I PenSC ° pe) Priding above the water. She thus provides herself very literally with a “ water jacket ” that adequately takes the immense shock of discharge.
r ' ‘“‘•marine'? * dvocate of the submarine against the capital ship, recently wrote: "It is my firm belief, and that of many others, that, had Germany employed her
patrols 0rpedo - v ««ls against our surface war fleet, and equipped a proper submarine cruiser fleet for a war on commerce, she would have won the war. Our auxiliary
’ • * would have been rapidly wiped out in detail. ... The difficulty in our next war will probably be . . . submersible ‘ Emdens ’.“—[Copyrighted in the Untied States and Canada.]
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T HE beginning of the Age of Man. some 500,000
years ago, roughly estimated as the close of
the Age of Mammals, marks in reality but the
beginning of the close of the Age of Mammals.
The extinction of the most superb mammals that
the earth has ever produced, during the early
stages of human evolution, progressed from natural
causes due directly or indirectly to the Glacial
epoch. With the introduction of firearms the
destruction has proceeded with increasing rapidity,
and to-day it is going on, by the use of guns and
steel traps, at a more rapid rate than ever. By
the middle of this century man will be alone amid
the ruins of the mammalian world he has destroyed,
the period of the Age of Mammals will have entirely
closed, and the Age of Man will have reached a
numerical climax, from which some statisticians
believe it will probably recede, because we are
approaching the point of the over population of
the earth in three of the five great continents.
The cradle of the human race was. in our
opinion, in Asia, in regions not yet explored by
palaeontologists. One reason that human and pre¬
human fossil remains are rare is that the ancestors
are shown to lie very far removed from the large-
brained walking line wliuh gave rise to our
ancestors Our own immediate ancestors did not
live in trees . they were erect or semi erect for a
very long period, perhaj*. as far luck as Miocene
time. Hack of this, pcrhafis a million years ago.
was a prehuman, artxireal stage.
The Tnnil ape-man. the PtlMrainlht>>pus of Java
(see centre of top photograph opposite), is the first
of the conundrums in human ancestry. Is the
Irinil race prehuman or not - The restored head
lw Professor J. Howard McGregor, of Columbia
l iiiversity, is ch-signed to show its half human, half-
anthropoid resemblance, as suggested by the top
of the cranium, the only jmrt known, which is far
more human than that of any ape cranium, and
at the same time far more ajx-like than that of
any human cranium. It is not impossible that this
ape-man is related to the Neanderthal man.
l'nc]uestionabl> the most ancient human relic
which has thus far been discovered is the jaw of the
so-called Heidelberg man. a fossil which mav Ik*
*50.000 years old. From it has been modelled
by McGregor the Heidelberg skull, which is very
stone implements. jMttlv chipjxd, partly polished.
1 hoy hunted with the wolf dog They brought
in jx>tterv In c entr.il and Southern France and
111 Switzerland they cultivated the ground and
introduced cereals.’ 1 on-runners of these Neo¬
lithic nun scattered o\er the Ikdtic shores and
reached Northern France.
" Hie Neolithic Stag Hunters” represent men
of a northern race blown or fair halted hunters
of the stag hung along the southern shores of the
Gallic in the earliest stage of the New Stone Age.
a stage known as the C anipignian from remains of
huts and rudely polished stone implements found
near (anipignv in France The scene is on the
lxirder of one of the northern lieech forests and
represents tlie return from the hunt After the
ardour of the chase, the hunters have thrown off
tluir fur garments The chieftain in the centre is
partlv 1 lad in furs . in the coming winter season
he will lx- wliolh fur-clad. His son. a fair-haired
\011th with a necklace of lx-ar claws, grasps a
Ixiw and arrow and holds in leash a wolf-dog.
ancestor of the modem sheep-dog of Northern
Frame The hunters. withs|x*ars tipped with stone
CONTEMPORARIES OF PALEOLITHIC MAN: SOUTH AMERICAN ANIMALS OF THE OLD STONE AGE. IN A LOESS STORM ON THE ARGENTINE PAMPAS.
The original of the illustration is a mural paintin? in the new Hall of the Ape of Man in the American Museum of Na'ural History at New York. In the forevreun-i on the left are mylodonts
(giant sloths), and on the right glyptodonts. Beyond on the left are toxodonts, and on the right macrauchenias On^-neck^i crea*urer». Brf.nd them it a fti'nr. of loess, or fine dust, of
which large fossil-bearing deposits exist, as in the valley of the La Plata River, where thir scene 11 laid and wr.ere many g^at fosiis have teen found buried in the loess.
Painted by Charles K. Knight under the Direction of Henry Fairfield II shorn. Photograph by the Ameruan Mu euin of \atura, History.
of man lived partly among the trees and forests ;
this does not mean that they were arboreal ; they
lived chiefly on the ground. Even when living in a
more open country the ancestors of man were alert
to escape the floods and sandstorms which en¬
tombed animals like the horse of the open country
and of the plains. Hence fossil remains of man, as
well as of his ancestors, are extremely rare until
the period of burial began. Only two races, the
Heidelberg and the Piltdown, arc certainly known
from the river drifts and gravels before the period
of burials.
The human remains known consist principally
of portions of skulls, of jaws, and teeth of members
of these races.
The ascent of man as one of the Primates was
parallel with that of the families of apes. Man has
a long line of ancestry of his own, perhaps two
million or more years in length. He is not
descended from any known form of ape either
living or fossil. One hypothetical ancestral stage,
of which we have a small jaw (see middle bottom
of exhibit in the top photograph on the opposite
page), found in the Oligocene of northern Egypt,
is the Propliopithecus, which in the opinion of
Professor \Y. K. Gregory, of the American Museum,
our leading authority on the anthropoids, is at
least structurally ancestral to the higher apes and
man—in other words, a possible prehuman link.
1'rom such an animal possibly four branches were
given off leading respectively to the living orangs,
the gibbons, the chimpanzees, the gorillas, and
some of their fossil ancestors.
AH these great man-apes are distinguished from
man by being more or less arboreal in habit ; they
similar to the Neanderthal skull. The Hciclcllx-rg
man may lx* ancestral to the Neanderthal man.
A few deep brown fragments of a skull and jaw-
ami one tooth represent all the remains known of
the Piltdown man. discovered in England a few
years ago. Two reconstrm lions of the Piltdown
skull have been made : the original by Professor
A. Smith Woodward in London, in the British
Museum; the second in this country by McGregor.
I he problem whether the Piltdown jaw belongs to
this human skull or whether it belongs to a fossil
chimpanzee is still not actually settled. The skull
itself is of a rather fine type, with a flat forehead
like that of the existing Bushmen of South Africa.
The Neanderthal man represents the oldest
fossil human race of which the skeleton is fully
known. Tliip remains are relatively abundant,
many skulls arid parts of skulls having been found
during the last half-century in Spain. Germany.
France, and Hungary. Foremost of these is the
skullcap found near Diisseldorf, Germany, in 1 «5<>.
which constitutes the type of the Neanderthal race
itself.
The highly evolved Cro-Magnon race entered
Europe from the east and drove out the Neander¬
thals. This was a race of warriors, of hunters, of
painters and sculptors far superior to any of their
predecessors. The contrast between the Cro-
Magnon heads and those of the Neanderthals which
precede them is as wide as it possibly could be.
The Cro-Magnons were people like ourselves in
point of evolution, and the characters of the head
and cranium reflect their moral and spiritual
potentiality.
Men of the Neolithic or New Stone Age used
1 < ads. are resting from the chase. Two vessels of
pottery indicate the introduction of the new
ceramic art, acc ompamecl bv crude ornamentation.
This race was courageous, warlike, hardy, but
of a lower intelligence and artistic order than the
( rb-Magnons ; it w.is chiefly concerned, in a
rigorous northern climate, with the struggle for
existence, in which the- qualities of endurance,
tribal lovaltv, and the rudiments of family
were tx-ing cultivated. Rude huts take the place
of caverns and shelters, which are now mostly
abandoned.
I hese were tall men. with high, narrow skulls
related to the existing Nordic race, more powerful
in build than the people of the Swiss I.akc Dwell¬
ings. Skulls and skeletons representative of this
hardy northern type are abundantly known in
Scandinavia.
In Europe man hunted the reindeer, the wil
horses and cattle-, and the mammoth. He used the
hide of the reindeer for clothing, the flesh and
marrow- for food. He carved the ivory tusks o
the mammoth. The mammoth, the northern,
hairy typo of elephant known to early explorers
of fossil remains, was foremost among the g rea
mammals hunted by man.
The evolution of the proboscideans culminates
in the mastodons and mammoths. 'Ihis is one o
the romances of evolution quite equal in in teres
to the evolution of the horse. The early stages in
the evolution of the proboscideans, beginning
the- Palemmastodon discovered in the Fayum region
of Northern Africa, carry us back into times far ante¬
cedent to the Age of Man. namely, into an early
period of the Age of Mammals, the Oligocene.
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hipped, partly pcJisM
>lf do g. They brouffc
i Southern FrancfiuJ
ated the ground and
niters ol these .Vec¬
he Baltic shores and
iters" represent ices
t fair-haired hunters
tuthem shores of the
the Sew Stone Ar.
ian from remains cf
5 implements found
he scene is on the
beech forests and
hunt. After the
s have thrown ol
n in the centre is
ns winter season
son, a fair-haired
claw’s, grasps a
ash a wolf-dog,
og of Northern
pped with stone
THE ASCENT OF MAN: 500,000 YEARS OF EVOLUTION.
Photographs hv thk Amhrican M.srom of Natokai. Histobv, Nkw York, Showing Exhibits i.v the new Ham. <>r the Ag* of >ia.s
MAKS PLACE AMONG THE PRIMATES: (CENTRE) A RESTORATION OF THE " TRINIL,” OR APE-MAN OF JAVA ( PITHECANTHROPUS
ERECTUS) ; (LEFT) HUMAN SKULLS ; (RIGHT) SKULLS OF ANTHROPOID APES.
IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS OF MODERN MAN : SKULLS, JAWS, AND IMPLEMENTS OF THE NEANDERTHAL RACE <50,000 TO 25,000 B.C.)
NAMED AFTER A SKULL (1) DISCOVERED IN THE NEANDER VALLEY, NEAR D0SSELDORF.
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PERHAPS 500,000 YEARS OLD, AND HAVING A BRAIN CAPACITY OF 1200 TO 1300 CC. : THE PILTDOWN SKULL (FRAGMENTS AND RESTORATIONS
CENTRE AND RIGHT) , AND
In the top photograph the skulls (numbered right to left) are : (i) gibbon ; I
r ^ chimpanzee ; (4) adult gorilla ; ( 5 ) young gorilla ; (6, 6, 6 ) restorations I
0 * ull and head of the “ Trinil, ” or ape-man of Java, and a cast of his brain- I
Hie I*ft are models of skulls of known races of man—( 7 ) Piltdown ; I
( 8 ) Neanderthal ; ( 9 ) Talgai ; ( 10 ) Cr 6 -Magnon ; ( 11 ) recent. Below ( 8 ) is a cast
° . Heidelberg jaw. “The ascent of man,” writes Mr. H. F. Osborn, whose I
article (abridged) appears on the opposite page, “ has in general paralleled that I
° the families of anthropoid apes, as is shown by the * tree of descent ’ in black |
n *». Man is not descended from any known ape, either living or fossil, but a I
Tpothetical ancestor of this entire anthropoid group.” In the middle photograph I
THE HEIDELBERG JAW (7).
are : (1) the Neanderthal skull-cap ; (a, upper) skull from Spy, Belgium ; (a, lower)
jaw fragments from Malarnaud, France ; (3) jaw fragments from Krapina, Croatia •
(4) skull from Le Moustier, France ; (5) skull from La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France •
(6) restoration of Neanderthal head ; (7, 7, 7, left to right) female skull found at
Gibraltar, 1848 ; a restoration of it ; and a reconstruction of half the head •
(8) stone implements. In the lower photograph are : (j) Piltdown (Sussex; stone
and flint implements ; (2) the Piltdown skull fragments ; (3, 4 and 5) restorations
of the Piltdown skull by Professor McGregor ; (8, 6, 6) stone implements ; (7) the
Heidelberg jaw, perhaps of 200,000 B.C. ; ( 8 ) skull modelled to fit the jaw, which
is large and ape-like in form, though the teeth are human.
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THE CHILDHOOD OF THE WORLD: STONE AGI
F«om Mi kai Paimtikiis hv Chari rs K. Knight rnock th» Dik:«tion or Hr.Nt\ Faiknku> 0>,m
ON THE SOMME IN THE GLACIAL EPOCH : A NORTHWARD MARCH IN SPRING OF REINDEER AND WOOLLY MAMMOTH, OF THE TYPE
DEPICTED BY CR&-MAGNON ARTISTS IN THE FONT-DE-GAUME CAVERN.
AUTUMN IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY DURING LATE GLACIAL TIMES : THREE EXTINCT NORTH AMERICAN ANIMALS THE DEER-MOOSE
LEFT FOREGROUND*, TAPIR CENTRE BACKGROUND-, AND CASTOROIDES. A GREAT RODENT. _
THE NEOLITHIC STAG-HUNTERS ” OF THE NEW STONE AGE, WITH A TAMED WOLF-DOG LIFE IN A TRANSITION PERIOD
BETWEEN PALEOLITHIC AND NEOLITHIC TIMES -ABOUT 7000 -1500 B.C.*.
*nd other*
ng details of tM
;rds of
in the ice ' fie ‘*
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ytc-Moose, W-
VoollT
to new researches and discoveries by Professor Eugdne Dubois, of Amsterdam Univers
the Age of Man in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The /oi
under whose direction the Hall is being arranged. At the close of the Glacial Epocl
ie seasonal changes. Whole carcases of Mammoths have been found fro a
Europe, but no Mastodons lived in Europe so late. The Royal Bison
r scotlti disappeared before the appearance of man on the North American continent TJ
rtinct North American animals. The Tapir survives in South America and Malaya. T1
Interest in prehistoric man is at the moment e
above remarkably interesting mural paintings ad
above pictures are taken from notes by Mr. Hi
Rhinoceros, and Reindeer, it is thought, migrati
Siberia. The Mastodon survived in America to a time contemporary with
runner of our present Bison. The native American horse [F.q\
and Castoroides (a great rodent much larger than a beaver) are
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ORLD: STONE
* THt Dig;
m °* * n mk
WAN
AND
BV COURTKSV
HIS FOUR-FOOTED CONTEMPORARIES.
of the American Musfum of Natural History, New York.
'OOLLY MAMMOTH. Of IS
ON THE MISSOURI AT THE CLOSE OF THE GLACIAL EFOCH : (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) THE MASTODON, ROYAL BISON, AND NATIVE AMERICAN
HORSE, FQCIS SCOTTI (EXTINCT BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF MAN IN NORTH AMERICA).
ANIMAL LIFE IN EUROPE IN PALEOLITHIC TIMES : THE WOOLLY RHINOCEROS IN A GLACIAL WINTER, NORTHERN FRANCE
BEYOND) SAIGA ANTELOPES AND MAMMOTHS
paleolithic culture in the days of the mammoth crO-magnon artists of southern France at work on the famous painting
FOUND IN THE CAVE OF FONT-DE-GAUME, DORDOGNE.
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Neolithic
•olf-doj,
extinct, as also is the Saiga Antelope. In "The Neolithic Stag-Hunters," the men, with their stone-tipped spears, are resting alter the chase. These
invaders were akin to existing Scandinavians. They introduced a rudimentary agriculture, polished stone, pottery, huts instead of caves, and domestic animals, like the
dose * ncestor of the sheep-dog of Northern France. Artistically, however, an earlier Palaeolithic people, known as the Cro-Magnon race, were far more advanced. At the
’•>« l4St G,adaJ Pefi0d they « ntered Europe from the east and drove out or exterminated the inferior Neanderthal race. The Palaeolithic mural paintings and reliefs found on
on the ^ ° f limeS,0ne mottoes in France and Spain show greater artistry than that of any other primitive people. Our last illustration represents four Cro-Magnon artists at work
tctptrt UmUS pr ° Cession o{ Mammoths found in the cave of Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne. Two are holding lamps. The clothed man on the left is a chieftain, with staff or
tn his hand as a sign of his rank. — f Copyrighted in the United States and Canada !
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THE “PREHISTORIC” AS SEEN
AT THE ALBERT HALL
SnCJALLY Du AWN FOB ** Tin lU-USTlAT* LOCOI Sfl
THE ** BRONTOSAURUS ” ATTACKS: * GUSSIE " THREATENS DANCERS P ^ ^
Art* Club Ball i* invariably a successful and amusing revel, “ featuring ” artists and art students, stage celebrities, and literary well-known*- ^ s tu4 ents ^
The ^^*^ es of society with a big “ S.” This year, the Albert Hall was thoroughly disguised, by the efforts of the great artist, Mr. Augustus John, ^ Tht or g*n ^ ^
The d 'cor was prehistoric, and tlie atmosphere of the Ball harmlessly heathen ; the great god Pan reigned in the monument of the good Prince on ^ ; and ,D ^
h dden behind a huge Temple of the Sun, set in a Palaeoroic landscape wherein fearsome beasts of the period prowled; grotesque creatures hung from .. Guss»«-
centre of the hall rose a strange, carved monument on which the dancers might perch. Curious monsters also perambulated the ball-room.
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TW£ %ALL: THE CHIEF OF ALL THE ARTISTS’ REVELS.
‘X’taAU.r D/tAtH tn. -t
T *i-ONDON News ” BY W. R. S. Stott.
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THE PALEOZOIC “ CENTREPIECE ” AT THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB BALL.
**■ ht fjj t ***** ^ u ^ ustus John) was easily the most impressive. His architects numbered a hundred, and he could be taken to pieces and returned to his “ ..
•Pnence ^ the* 10 ** 1 . °* walkin * the hall-room .' Our artist has shown " Gussie ” in playful mood, threatening to pull a Columbine off her perch. No doubt he objected * ^
C * ,tln '*> of n Pretl * 5t ° riC con, P*ny •' The procession at the ball was both beautiful and artistic. Dresses of the "correct” prehistoric period were well in evidence* 0 ^
*1' S * #0 * A ft mt^ 7 Strl * *" d P*” 0- were t0 he seen. It would be interesting to compare some of the Palaeozoic monsters represented in masquerade with the scientific" '"fa *
* nd *“* Q ua «lruped contemporaries elsewhere in this number !—{Drarint Cofotitkird in /Ar f'ffttaf S/atcr and Canada 1 **° ****
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ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
bffn lavishly expended in our talc - rooms.
Americans have bcei. especially keen, not only in
procuring Americana. but in capturing treasures
of our common art and literature, and in com¬
peting for Continental masterpieces.
If one could transplant certain objects just to
their right spot, how much worthier would they be
There was. too. a N.
Charles II. day bed, —
the precursor of the Orwl
modem sofa. But buyers
were not students of
evolution, and hence a
big price could not be expected.
But. although not sensational, there
y/ 'T'HE phrase " Art
-— ywJMl for Art’s sake ”
J Cap indicates a deliberate and
positive action in creating
something which is above
and beyond the apprecia¬
tion of one’s generation. William
A stream of jewelled reputations which posterity
crowns lived in an aching dream of aspiration for
recognition. Nowadays the artistic temperament
brings people equally to starvation To adjudge
modem art is a special gift. Nameless work stands
ONE OF THE GOYAS AT THE EXHIBITION OF
SPANISH PAINTINGS. AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
’’THE GREASY POLE."
This particular picture is lent by the Duke of Monteilano. In
it* description is the followine: "In the cftitr® of An open
place, a tall, bare, and polished pole, at the upper end of
which three cocks and three cakes are hanein*. tied together
To gain the prizes, children are climbing up the pole." The
work was painted for the Alameda of the Dukes of Osuna.
By Ccmrtay of the IHrectors of tk* Exhthdum
on no auction precedent. Even the plutocrat with
full and somewhat tightly closed purse must be
credited with some knowledge. If he buys un¬
known work at what he terms ” rock-bottom
price,” he has to await to morrow’s judgment.
But the artist cannot afford to wait. It is in¬
evitable that patrons, who portend Time’s favour¬
ites, have very often a bad time ; the stars are
against them ; but they never publish their
failures. In regard to modem art which comes
into the auction-room—and a great deal is offered
nowadays—there are always these postulates. But
concerning Old Masters, with the hall-mark of
half-a-score of sales or the proof not so much of
authenticity as of quality, there comes a saddening
thought on the outset of a New Year : the long
arm of circumstance in the shape of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, who may attempt to affix a tax
on auction sales. It is a suggestion that has
been made, and therefore must be considered.
Mr. Townshcnd Green, a past President of the
Auctioneers’ Institute, is of the opinion that a
small fixed tax would have a disappointing result ;
while a high one would deter persons with valu¬
able property from selling at public auction. It
should, too. be borne in mind that property put
up for sale on the winding - up of an estate
would, if such a tax be contemplated, be doubly
taxed.
These are shadows on the threshold of a New
Year. London is a great emporium. Continental
buyers have flocked hither. Foreign money has
the treasures of the five continents. Men have
given their lives to collect on the spot. It is like
the orchid-hunters searching in tropical swamps
for rare specimens But ornithological examples
come and go without real rest Rummaging is a
good word. In Mr. Steevens’ sale on Dec. at
rummagrrs were satisfied.
Embroideries, weapons, and a hundred speci¬
mens from l»ndon excavations made a pleasant
afternoon’s diversion. All sorts of side-lines came
forward here that arc not sought after in the
greater auction-rooms. There was an Ashanti
witch-doctor’s drum and beater with bronre bells.
The writer recalls certain examination given to
Ashanti gold ornaments, where undoubted Greek
influence was obvious—just tiny figurines in solid
gold (helieved by the owner to be lacquered)
standing on a Koval Engineer’s table at Salisbury.
Ashanti gold is not hall marked. If one specialises
in bone skates, here were some sixteenth and
seventeenth century examples. Drug-pots of old
delft should have* claimed a keener market, for
fashionable modem pharmaceutists have adopted
the pleasing plan of having old examples on their
shelves. One likes to handle the Indian elephant-
goad. a spiked instrument which is used to stick
into the legs of the animal when he halts idly.
But a goad with a secret dagger is a new and
pleasuig feature. The goad is for the elephant, the
dagger for some human enemy. Other objects
came along—clay pipes of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, knitted purses of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a series
of tradesmen's engraved cards, which invited
collectors to unexplored fields.
Messrs. Sotheby sold an interesting collection
of Greek and Roman coins formed by Mr. F. W. V.
Peterson, in a two days’ sale. The Greek occu¬
pied the first day and part of the next. There
is always the thought uppermost in regard to the
wonderful art of the Greeks, how greatly their
design eclipses all modem art -the fine bold por¬
traiture, the splendid symbolism, the noble viril¬
ity. But there comes the added thought—the
technique from a practical point of view on a lesser
plane. Our coins to-day are handled millions and
millions of times. Queen Vic¬
toria’s, Edward’s, and later coinages
show the signs of wear and tear.
The Greek and Roman coins were
not made for posterity. It is
happy that we get examples at all.
and of such fineness ; this is an
accident. The moral is that
modernity claims finer technique,
although design is on an admittedly
lower plane.
Old tapestry won an attentive
market at Messrs. Christie’s rooms
on Dec. 21. It was the eve of
Christmas, when public buyers were
busy, but in a quiet sanctum many
good prices were made. There was
a fine pane) of Mortlake tapestry
with group of figures pressing
grapes, and others ploughing and
harrowing, emblematical of autumn,
with the Mortlake mark and signed
Tho. Poyntz (u feet by io feet), a
nice piece. A Brussels panel, the
property of a nobleman, was woven
with a group of peasant figures at
a repast on the banks of a river,
with an extensive landscape. Of
seventeenth-century craftsmanship,
this sold for £997 10s. There was
a somnolence in this item which
breathed the innermost spirit of old
tapestry. It had a magic charm
in its repose which steeped one in
a restful languor as a quiet con¬
trast to the restlessness of modem
decorative art. Herein lies the
value artistically and monetarily
of such a subject.
At the same sale Worcester
and Chelsea china and old Eng¬
lish furniture passed in rapid
surveillance. A Chippendale ma¬
hogany six leaf screen attracted
attention, and sold very well.
was soundness in the result.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson offered a fine
pair of tea caddies on Dec 22. with maker's
mark ”P.K..’’ the same as on the Berners
toilet set. Among many other interesting items
there was a fine sugar -basin of Adam design
(Adam design, as we all know, is the delicate,
beautiful, symmetrical character displayed in an
attempt to bring Greek art into a colder climate).
We ail became (.reeks for a moment, and here was
one example, by John Lias, 1793—a sugar-basin
representing a type.
At Christie’s, searchers after bargains in fc
sale of old pictures and drawings on Dec. 22
made some fin Is. While all the world was
out in the fashionable thoroughfares, here
in the quiet galleries, without turmoil and
without competition, nice items found ready
purchasers. For here were little works by
Paul Sandys, his delectable views of Windsor
Castle . a Wilson landscape with peasants driving
sheep; while a Netcher, a lady and gentle¬
man at a window playing and singing, and a
Mieris, ” Love Song.” typified music. At times
Jove nods ar.d auctioneers grow jaded, but
connoisseurs are becoming especially far-seeing.
It is in these little sales of no apparent moment
that fine acquisitions are made by the alert
collector.
On Jan. 10 Eastern rugs are being sold by
Messts. Christie. Lovers of textiles will find
Ispahan, Karadjah. Khorassan. and Bokhara rugs,
and Persian carpets, together with coverlets of
Rhodian embroidery and Chinese and Japanese
panels. On the following day Japanese lacquer is
alluring There is a fascinating array of boxes
scintillating with colour- -octagonal, square, cir¬
cular. and fan-shaped—many from the Lawrence
collection. The Chinese carvings from Lord
Faber's collection offer delectable work in jade
and hardstones. A pricket candlestick is carved
with bats. Lotus-leaves arc surmounted by rep¬
tiles ; but. above all. there is a charming piece,
delicate and esoteric—a small teapot with cover
carved in pink crystal. Here is the Far East in
exetliis —the inner heart of far Cathay.
PAINTED FOR THE ALAMEDA OF THE DUKES OF OSUNA: GOYAS
” ROBBING THE COACH." AT THE EXHIBITION OF SPANISH PAINTING^
This picture also is lent by the Duke of Monteilano and it, too. was P*' nt
for the Alameda of the Dukes of Osuna Goya sent In his account for It
May 12. 1787. and valued the work at 3000 reale*.
B\ Courtesy the Ih'reclor « <>/ the Exhibition
C opper Wire
rr Loop ;
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Cork Washer
af-Cork Plate
S foel Wi res
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pass fhrou<>h an a
unburnf charge olr Jv
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bowJ before Mm
reaching the Mm
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(A) is a black picture card which ,
serves To represent Hie intrinsically dark
environmentof energy which surrounJsl
IA Device forV
I collecting 1
I human hair
I as it falls
I during cuffing.
I The Cape is
Formed eifherc
' flexible material
or of hinged
se$mente^^
The object ef the invention is"to
provide an active, emblem .which will
assist in imparting to the child a
clear conception of the relation that
exists between the human soul and I
its present dark and silent I
environment of energies.” I
Recep facie]
Top of recfan^u/arTable made in
Two equal parfs with a zig zaQ or
f' e Pped dividing line"so that
ienofh of fable can be increased
and iTs width decreased
specially far-seeof
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ladr by tie dot
*ANY INVENTIONS: SERIES III.—A SHIP ON FLOATS; AN
A SEX-DETERMINER ; A ZIG-ZAGGED TABLE;
Most of the devices illustrated are sufficiently explained above, but two call for I
* little further comment. One is the dark card showing a child's head with a
mirror in the forehead. Its purpose is real /y quite simple, though the explanation
(quoted from the specification) is rather mystifying. The object is to brirlfe home I
to a child's mind the fact that light and sound are not things per sc, but exist I
only in relation to the human powers of sight and hearing ; the material world, I
on which those powers are exercised, being in itself dark and silent. The child I
looking into the mirror fixed in the forehead of the pictured head, sees its
OBJECT LESSON IN SUBJECTIVITY; A “HAIR-CUT” CAPE;
A FOOT-WARMER ; A DOUBLE-BOWLED PIPE.
own reflection, which represents a subjective image formed in the mind of the
child portrayed on the card. The real child thus gains an idea of the nature
of subjectivity. Of the sex - determining pendulum, the inventor writes :
" The appliance is operated by magnetism derived from the contact between the
user of the instrument and the human being, animal, or egg. The device is
operated by holding the handle as lightly as possible, so that the wire around
the handle touches the hand. The instrument is then held over the subjecr
being tested.' ‘ lOraWnf CopyntkUd »* Ike Foiled Slain and C«—>~ >
I HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS Jan 8. 1921-4/
CURIOSITIES AND INGENUITIES OF THE PATENT OFFICE
DRAWN BY OUP SPECIAL ARTIST, W. B. ROBINSON
A Safety Ship on Float* for giving maximum
stability in all directions, greater manoeuvring .
qualifies,ancf safety from sinking or shipwreck. etc
Dieqntm —-__
UndvrYicle View of a Ship
suotuirnicl on ffoans .
: be eipeded. \\ /
national, there
result.
d Simpson offered i in
d Dec. 22, with nuki
ante as on the Beam
ny other interesting item
ar-basin of Adam deso
JI know, is the dehott
haracter displayed it u
art into a colder dwtt.
■ a moment, and here m
aas, 1793—a Mgar-taffl
rs after bargains is i
drawings on Dec.c
e all the world «
• thoroughfares, here
without turmoil tot
items found ready
we little works If
e views of Windsor
nth peasants driving
a lady and gentfc-
and singing, ud 1
i music. At tiaes
THE II.MTSTRATF.I) IX>NDON NEWS. Jan.
BOOKS OF THE DAY
\ITHAT is the func-
V V tion of literary
criticism ? It is, I have
always thought, to trace the
relation between life and
literature, holding the mirror
up to each and ascertaining whether or not
the art of this or that poet or prose-writer is
in harmony with the gTeat. all-engrossing art of
living. Such, if I read him aright, is also the
reasoned opinion of Mr. J. Middleton Murry,
whose *' Aspects of Literature ” (W. Collins*
Sons ; ios. net) is the best book of its kind that
has appeared for many years, and will surely help
to lift criticism in this country- above the level of
mere appreciation or depreciation to which it
has fallen—owing to the general belief of hasty
writers that " a man is the measure of all things/'
and that a confused statement of personal liking or
dislike is sufficient to settle the fate of any or
every- book. “ I like it,” says the average journal¬
istic critic, and his pontifical air is none the less
preposterous because
he deposits a tiara
By £. B. OSBORN.
splendid failure, yet brings the generations of
men nearer and yet nearer to that CtvtUu Dei
which shines above the flaming walls of the uni¬
verse and across that ocean of the divine, each
wave of which is 'a religion. '* Art, then/* as
Mr. Middleton Murry declares. " is the revelation
of the ideal in human life. As the ideal is active
and organic, so must art itself be. The ideal is
never achieved, therefore the process of revealing
it is creative in the truest sense of the word.”
When the implications of this high truth have
been grasped -as they- will be by anvtiody who
faithfully follows this arch-critic’s argument—the
privilege and responsibility of the true cntic can
be recognised. " The function of true criticism
is to establish a definite hierarchy among the great
artists of the past, as wrll as to test the production
of the present ; by the combination of these acti¬
vities it asserts the organic unity of all art.” And,
since the artist should be always pointing us to
better, braver things, but, being of mortal flesh-
and-blood, often fails to see the vision or even
proof that he cannot
have heard a real
night-jar. but "it was a
kindly thought.” Then, after
thus puking fun at this busy
coterie (in pre-war days we
should have called them ingenious log-rollers) he
turns to ** Wheels " (Fourth Cycle) and finds in Mr.
Wilfrid Owen’s " Strange Meeting,” beginning—
It veenird that out of the battle 1 escaped
Ik>wo sonic profound Jong tunnel, long since scooped
Through granite which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet alv» there cm umbered sleepers groaned.
Too fa«t in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I prot.ed them, one sprang up and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
I.if ting distressful hands as if to bless.
And by his snule 1 knew that sullen hall.
With a thousand fears that vision's face was
grained ;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground.
And no guns thumped, or down the dues made
moan
a more memorable
and momentous poem
of rhetorical jewels
(every glittering com¬
pliment thrice re¬
peated) on the book
he blesses in a hurry.
Though he knows it
not, he is merely an
aggravated version of
the half - educated
person who proudly
declares, ” I know
nothing about litera¬
ture and criticism
and the rest of it—
I haven’t bad time
to read it all up—
but I do know a
good poem when it
comes my way." And
then he calls you a
high-brow, if you re¬
fuse to be thrilled
and enthralled by the
canticles of Mr. John
Oxenhara or the late
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(all of whose jog-trot
rhymes and rhythms
grew out of her ab¬
surd name, which
sounds like a sack
of coal going down
a coal-hole next door).
Poor, dear, harmless
lady—she once wrote
to me a dear, silly
letter, rebuking me
for scoffing at her
designation of the
” Sappho of Connec¬
ticut,’’ and bravely
declaring that she
had written far better
poems than the Sap¬
pho of Lesbos, whose
’* poetical output,” as
she ol>served, was so
lamentably meagre.
RULER OF A COUNTRY WHOSE MILITARY ACTIVITY HAS ALARMED ROUMANIA: ADMIRAL HORTHY,
REGENT OF HUNGARY, AND HIS FAMILY
Roumania has drawn the attention of Britain and France to the massing of Hungarian troops on her frontier. Hungarian munition
factories are also active. These military measures are said to be a precaution against Bolshevist invasion. Our photograph, taken
at a royal palace, shows Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, with his wife and children, Nicholas (left), Stephen and
Margaret. There was recently a political crisis in Hungary over the proposal to form a national independent kingdom, and to
regard as void the Pragmatic Sanction, which secured the throne to the Hapsburgs. Some think that Admiral Horthy will become
King. [Photograph by Key it one View Co.]
than the finest of the
(Georgian stuff, for
all that its sombre
imagination, its
sombre rhythm, i#
that of the dying
Keats. Indeed. I
myself put it by
(hoping for a second
series of mv ” Muse
in Arms ”) as the
mightiest of the latter
war - poems, written
by a boy - poet of
genius who had the
certainty of death in
his heart. Would I
could touch on Mr.
Middleton Murry’s
other essays (more
especially ” American
Poetry "). but there
are two other critics
awaiting criticism.
** Life and Litera¬
ture ** (Heinemann;
25s. net), by Lafcadio
Hearn, is a third
selection, edited by
Professor John Ers-
kine, of Columbia
University, of the
lectures delivered by
that admirable critic
at the University of
Tokyo between 1896
and 1902. It would
be hard to over¬
estimate the services
of Lafcadio Hearn
in interpreting the
East to the West
and the West to the
East. He thought
that the object of
criticism was to find
out why you like
a book or why yon
Mr. Middleton Murry’s first essay (*’ The
Function of Criticism ”) is not easy reading. You
must have visited Plato’s ideal city and be sure
that the good and the beautiful are identical to
understand its full significance. The Greeks knew
this to be so by instinct, and so the word in their
everyday speech for a gentleman was *«Aoc
Kaya&oQ — ” beautiful - and - good.” And that is
why ” we have to go back to the Greeks for the
principles of art and criticism, and why only
those critics who have returned to bathe them¬
selves in the life-giving source have made en¬
during contributions to criticism. They alone
are_let us not say philosophic critics, but—
critics indeed. Their approach to life and their
approach to art are the same ; to them, and to
them alone, life and art are one. The inter¬
penetration is complete ; the standards by which
life and art are judged, the same.” But life
and art are not the same thing (here the realists
are confuted, though the results of their theory
or " working hypothesis ” are often helpful),
because the art of living is more than life is by
nattjre _for it is the recognition of the ideal and
the quest thereof, which, though it is at best a
deliberately ignores it (for pence or popularity,
or to please a patron or a coterie), the business
of the critic is vital to our needs. If he docs not
take his vocation seriously, he is the worst kind
of a sterile sophist.
The essays, in which Mr. Middleton Murry
lives up to his creed, are among the first courageous
and judicious pronouncements we have had on
certain phases of modem literature— e.g., the
amazing productiveness of coterie-boosted poetry—
in this country. He deals faithfully with the
Georgian poets collected by E. M., detesting their
corporate flavour, which is simplesse or false sim¬
plicity, compounded of worship of trees and birds
and contemporary poets in about equal propor¬
tions. He sees, of course, that Mr. de la Mare,
Mr. Davies (I ’m not so sure about him, though),
and Mr. Lawrence are free from this fault. He
is delightfully sarcastic in dealing with the mis¬
takes they make when patronising Nature pro¬
fessionally. When Mr. Shanks bids us : " Hear
the loud nightjar spin his pleasant note,” he
remarks that the poet’s description is sufficient
dislike it ; the good qualities of a book he
defines in terms of its truth to life ; and for
an impartial index as to whether the b^°*
is true to life, he would accept the opinion
of generations of men. He defined literature
so far as it is a fine art — as the best ex^
pression of the most intimate experiences. 1
is a good theory, though not the very best to
work on. But the lecture on " Character an
Literature ” shows him unconsciously fulfilling
the function of criticism as defined by Mr.
Middleton Murry. — ’* The Sacred Wood
(Methuen; 6s. net), by T. S. Eliot, is a collec¬
tion of critical essays of varying merit, the
best being a severe onslaught on Professor G*'
bert Murray’s translations of Euripides, whic
” stretch the Greek brevity to fit the loose
frame of William Morris and blur the Greek ly r,c
to the fluid haze of Swinburne.” This long-due
indictment will serve .until the Oxford Professor
crosses the Styx ami has to face the ironical re
quest of the Tragedian: " Could you give me a
Greek translation of these highly original close
dramas of yours, to which, for some curious
reason, you have attached my name ? ”
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™ E HUNT ,S up i we ^nown NEW masters of EOXHOUNDS
•hotoo,.™, „ Pool , | W „„ ro . D) p roto . ltsi w
Iknehal,
THE CARLOW (IRELAND): MRS. W. HALL
MAJOR H. HAWKINS.
(STONE : MR. D. BLEW JONES
(JOINT MASTERi.
THE STEVENSTONE : LIEUT.-COL.
(JOINT MASTER)
THE WHADDON CHASE : THE EARL
OF ORKNEY.
LADY MASHAM
THE EAST CORNWALL : THE EARL
OF ST. CERMANS.
THE ORMOND AND KING'S CO.
MR. G. LOUS AD A
need offer no apology for devoting this and the succeeding double-page to portraits
of some of the best-known among the new M.F.H.’s. In more than one instance,
it will be noted, the “ Master ” is a lady. The portrait of Lord Orkney is of
special interest in view of the Whaddon Chase controversy.
Sis,
ALBRIGHTON WOODLAND :
BR.- GEN. T. E. HICKMAN
MmVT MASTER).
HUNTSMEN AND HOUNDS
A PAINTING BY MR.
5(V -THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 8. 1921.
TALLY-HO! PICTURES BY A MODERN ARTIST OF THE
Krpeodlctions or Mi. Algernon Newton’s Pictures by Cole test or thb Eldar Galleiy. Photographs by Spoit am
I SIF or WIGHT: M*
JOHN WILLIS FLEMING
Here, and on a preceding page, we gire portrait* of some of the new Masters of Foxhounds who hare taken office this season. Among them, it will be seen, is the
Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Walter Long, who is Joint Master, with Sir A. Read, of the Aron Vale pack. His country seat is at Rood Ashton, Trowbridge, WUtshire. ^
aho enabled to gire some interesting examples of the work of an artist who has made the hunting-field his peculiar province, Mr. Algernon Newton. An « Ebn “ t j -j t0
paintings and water-colour drawings was held recently at the Eldar Gallery, 40, Great Marlborough Street, where the four pictures reproduced were shown. “ 0n * &nc<
back to the days of Morland," writes Mr. J. L. Rayner in a preface to the exhibition catalogue, “to find a serious painter interested in the sports of the peop «•
SOUTHWOLD : •
MAJOR T. JESSOP ,
(JOINT MASTER), j
THE BLENCATHKA
(NEAR KESWICK
MR fL J. HOLM-
WORTH
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 8. 1921.—51
?# !HUNTING - F,ELDi AND NEW MASTERS OF FOXHOUNDS
THE WEST PERCY : pj
MAJOR ALEXANDER j /
BROWNE (JOINT *
MASTER). , t
WEST PERCY:
! MAJOR W. NEILSON
(JOINT MASTER).
CUB-HUNTING IN CORNWALL
AVON VALE : MR. WALTER
LONG, M.P. (JOINT MASTER).
, NORTHUMBER
I LAND: COL. HON.
* H. E. JOICEY.
PYTCHLEY, WOODLAND
CAPT. G. BELLVILLE.
THE TRAVELLER'S FRIEND ” : A PAINTING BY MR. ALGERNON NEWTON.
:*
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Keene, Armour ***** **** P 4 ’ 0 *” 1 ** 3 °* sport on the fingers of one hand. The names that spring to the mind are not those of painters—Bun bury, Aiken, Leech,
Kojjj* **** ***«•• He h« r Hefe ’ ** home ’ is a ,and scape artistically virgin—the landscape of sport. It is into this landscape that Mr. Algernon Newton has entered and
^ ^ C4 ^*niy j„ j ^ IVe< ^ * n Northamptonshire—where he hunted with the Grafton—and has known horses since the age of eight His first exhibited picture (at the
°* . _ Was that o{ the famous Arab, Rebab, belonging to his brother. Lastly, paint is in his veins. The man who, with Mr. Winsor, started the famous
*'* thb °n* Place was his grandfather.' ’
A T the portals of a New Year, when our
Illustrated London Sews goes through many
hands in many lands, it may be in the fitness of
things to say a few words about our London stage
And I can find no cheerier message than the
remarks of a charming Londoner who. after seven
years of happiness in the Argentine, came home
to England's beauty and its Christmas, and made
a gay round of the theatres of the Metropolis
" I may be wrong,” said she. ” but in my recollec¬
tion I have never found in London such a series
of fine plays, so much originality, and so much
literary quality.” And then she reeled ofl her
coil: began with Shakespeare over the water and
at the Court, touched on Galsworthy's ’* Skin
Game,” on ” Milestones.” on " Marv Hose.” on
"The White-Headed Boy." on “The Wandering
Jew,” on " The Prude’s Fall," on " The Great
Lover." on " French Leave." on the “ Grand
Guignol," on “ Fedora.” on " The Knight of the
Burning Pestle." and " The Beggars’ Opera
can you beat it •
Can Paris beat it *-
can Berlin. Vienna
or Rome f She
spoke of the beauty
of " The Blue La¬
goon." of " Chu
Chin Chow"—the
picture, not the
piece ; she extolled
the ” nut-shell uni¬
versality ” of a re¬
vue like " Jumble
Sale.” the charming
music of " A Little
Dutch Girt,” and,
with a quotation
of a French song
A lots j'at pleuri
comm* on pleure &
vingt ans .” when she
referred to Milne's
' Romantic Age "
(about which more
anon), and Wont-
ner's chivalrous
creation, she. a
fond mother of a
little trio, raved
over the wonderful
change that had
come over the
’ Yuletide Stage.’
as she called it. ever
since Peter Pan be¬
came immortal by
play and statue
Oh I the lovely
“ Shepherdess with¬
out a Heart "—how
perfectly poetic. ^— __
how sweet, how
beautifully told in * •
word and canvas
and Frank Harvey's -MADNESS" IN SCENERY
melodies! How An¬
dersen would have The Swedish Ballet’* most-discussed
revelled in it !—he M. Rolf de Mare at the Palace The
who wrote for young de Dardel. The ballet »
and old, and glad¬
dened both in an
understanding equal to all ages, and is inter¬
preted by Bertram Forsyth and his acolytes with
all the imagination contained in that wondersomc
word, "fairy-tale." She had not yet seen the
great pantomime at Covent Garden, but she had
been to the Lyceum and enjoyed " The Babes in
the Wood "—what progress since yesteryears !
No crude jokes about the bottle and its fumes, but
humour wholesome and fresh ; fairy-children play¬
ing with all the joy of living of youth ; dancers
galore in fine frill and graceful figures; a chorus
of urchins and adolescents singing like gay little
birds; a fairy godmother (Nan Stuart) with the
warble of a prima donna—everything from gorgeous
scenery to discreet colouring of costumes—so neat,
so fanciful, so full of life and liveliness
•’ And what about acting ? " I interposed.
“ What do you say about the London stage as to
its interpreters, you who know the theatre of two
worlds—or rather, three. Europe and the two
Americas ? ” " Just as I feel ? Quite candid ? *
she asked. " Don't be afraid ; there is no com¬
promise in art—say exactly what you mean ? ”
“ Well.” she continued. " there is no finer acting
in the world than our men display ; I would go as
far as to say that our male actors arc nulli secundi,
and nowhere do you find such perfect gentlemen
By J. T. CRE/N.
in attire, in manner, and in restraint of emotion,
which is more powerful than the bravura so beloved
on the Continent and the hustle-bustle in America
She went into parts and names ; she quoted
tragedians, comedians, character players—there is
nothing which our men cannot achieve There is
as much temperament in the British actor as in
any of his Continental brethren ; there is merely
a difference of diapason. We prefer organ tunes to
the blare of brass " And our actresses ? ” " Ah.
there's the rub ! Beauty we have unrivalled .
refinement ditto . distinction, a great deal . clever¬
ness galore . but greatness real greatness that
electrifies an audience, that would lead to ovations
outside the theatre and the unharnessing of horses
there is none. Our actresses lack the grand trait :
their tragic scenes miss grandeur , somehow one
feels the touch of the bourgeois* -a turmoil in a
suburb instead of in the universe I have seen
some beautiful acting in Lmdon I have felt
moments of emotion but I have never been earned
-MADNESS" IN SCENERY. WEIRD D&COR IN “ MAISON DE FOUS." GIVEN BY THE SWEDISH BALLET
AT THE PALACE THEATRE.
The Swedish Ballet'* most-discussed production. - Maison de Fous ” (The Madhouse), recently the sensation of Pans, was presented by
M. Rolf de Mart at the Palace Theatre on December 31. A striking feature is the ifator (scenery and costumes) designed by M. Nils
s arranged by M. Jean Borlin, the premier danseur. and the mus
PhtMofraph by Henri Manuel.
away to the degree of heroine-worship which, like
an indefinable charm, haunted me after a creation
by Sarah, by Duse, by Segond-Weber. or the
Dutch Theo Mann. Somehow, our actresses seem
afraid to let themselves go — seem too lady¬
like or too middle-classy to break the walls down.
They fill one with admiration often enough, but
they do not overwhelm one by the same power of
personality which is the gift of some of our men.
I could name many plays of world’s fame which,
even though 1 am not a professional worker in the
theatre, I could * cast' at a glance beyond a fault
where the men are concerned ; but as to the
women, I should have to borrow l>iogenes' lantern
lest I should fall short in my search for
completeness."
" Thanks,” I said. " I wish I were a maker
of records, so that your words should be repeated
wherever the London stage is discussed. For
you have expressed, in the main, the opinions
of many.’*
He stands on his own plane, and on this
plane he stands alone." I remember this phrase
well : it was applied by a London critic—for aught
I know it may have been myself; you lose count
when you have reviewed some six or seven thousand
plays in thirty-five years—to the work of a man
who has since become world-famed And it seems
particularly apt in the case of Mr. A. A. Milne
who in ’’ The Komantu Age " has given us the
most delectable stage-fantasv since Rostand joyed
France and the rest of the globe with " Les
Romanesques ** A. A Milne is the man we have
been waiting for a successor to Oscar Wilde But
there is this great diilercnce between the two:
Wikle. except in ' The Importance of Being
Earnest.” hitched the art of the conversationalist
to the craft of an cUlturatr plot . Milne modern
in the must irresponsible sense of the term,
almost disdains the notion of plot, and weaves
lace of words, wit and humour in fanciful design
and endless maze of lines and side-lines. His
plays are things of gossamer ; the critical scalpel
could easily make lint of them, when thinking of
logic, common-sense, reality But what a p*ty
it would be thus to spoil a little world where alt
is sunshine, lightness, imagination, love—the little
world in which we
all wish to live awav
from the high-road
of toil and moil
and worry ! " Lu
iruness* n'a qu'un
temps." sai-s a
French poet, but he
forgot that some
possess the divine
gift of making us all
voung for a little
while, and that is
what Mr Milne does
in his " Romantn
Age." of which
Arthur Wontner is
the preux chevahet
and Miss laittie
Venne the fairy
godmother.
The great panto¬
mime. ’ ’ Cinderella. ’
in gay exile at
Covent Garden be¬
cause ’’ The Garden
of Allah " defies all
seasons at Drury
Lane, is a thing of
beauty : how could
it be otherwise
when Arthur Collins
sways the magic
wand of his inex¬
haustible imagina¬
tion ! The scine-d-
I at re at the end
of the first part
is an incomparable
spectacle. Mr.
rr'CTVUBf Collins evidently
K loves flowers, and
his children’s ballet.
THE SWEDISH BALLET with little bushes
in rare prismatic
isation of Pans, was presented by Rrouping. the Uv, " g
id costumes) deserted by M. Nils l*“d «f flowers, the
c is by M. Viking Dahl. bower of a myriad
blossoms with the
pumpkin in the
centre whence emerges Cinderella’s chariot as
radiant as Apollo's sun-cart- that tableau is worthy
of the vision of a great painter. Indeed, as a show'
in the artistic sense of the word, the pantomime
has never been more resplendent, more tasteful,
more discreet in colouring or realistic in build
and form. But it is a pity that Mr. Arthur Disc,
the librettist, has not adder! the " joy for ever ’ to
the "thing of beauty.” Frankly, the sweet tale
is baldly told without a touch of poetry in the
narrative, and the vein of humour is much in
need of strengthening life-blood. The task of
the exponents was stupendous during a traffic
which lasts as long as the journey from Calais
to Paris : the charming Miss Marie Blanche, the
winsome Miss Kathlyn Hilliard, the accomplished
Harry Clafl, the new humourist Miss Lily Long,
(whose song “ Miss Maisii f Piccadilly " was the
vocal bull's-eye of the evening), the quaint Egberts-—
and all the rest of the baron’s family — worked
like Trojans to extract fun and romance from
anaemic material. Hence, curious to note, the
honours fell to a wonderful circus horse, an
to the acrobats, the Penders. No doubt Mr.
Arthur Collins will apply his nimble writ to
burnish the text. When that is done, the panto¬
mime will settle down into opulent well-being.
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DRA*N BY LEONARD BRIDGMAN. LATE R.a.f
WORLDS RECORD SPEED MACHINES OF 1920:
(3) NIEUPORT 29 V. ; (4) VERVILLE V.C. 1
tha* Uf °» rt SCAle ° { W * n<1 re,ocit T 8 iv « 0»e result of 75 miles an hour as storm,
modem P '«- ’ hurricane Th,s P* ce . however, is a mere jog-trot to the
fly ” enein M ° * N,euport “ Goshawk ” (British), with a 320-h.p. A.B.C. “ Dragon-
June 17 At th ** *** flew at i66*s-m.p.h. at Martlesham Heath on
“ Swmiquav •• rn S * me p,ace on March 21, Mr. F. P. Raynham on a Martinsyde
* Nieuport'ao V . 3 °°' hp Hispano-Suiza motor, did i6r434>m.p.h. On
rench), with 300-h.p. Hispano-Suiza engine. M.M. Sadi-Lecointe
(1) NIEUPORT “GOSHAWK”; (2) MARTINSYDE “SEMIQUAVER";
RACER; (6) THOMAS-MORSE M B. 3 ; (0) SPAD-HERBEMONT.
accomplished 193 64 m.p.h. on December 12 at Villacoublay. On a Verville V.C.x
Racer (American>, with 600-h.p. Packard engine. Captain C. C. Moseley reached
186 m.p.h. on November 27 at Mitchell Field, Mineola, L.I. There also on the
next day Captain H. E. Hartney did 171-25 ni.p.h. on a Thomas-Morse M.B.3.
(American), with a 300-h.p. Wright-Hispano motor. At Villacoublay on
November 3 M. Bernard de Romanet achieved 191896 m.p.h. on a Spad-Herbemont
(French), with 300-h.p. Hispano-Suisa engine .—[Copmtkud >• V.S. and Canada. 1
—^iqao
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 8. 1921—54
“WELCOME OUR COUMBAROS!” KING CONSTANTINE’S RETURN TO ATHENS.
, RESTORATION SCENES IN ATHENS : AN ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD ROUND KING CONSTANTINE (SALUTING) AND QUEEN SOPHIE
(WAVING HANDKERCHIEF) OUTSIDE THE LAURION STATION ON THEIR ARRIVAL.
m.
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ATHENS GREETS THE RETURNED CROWN PRINCE : THE CROWD ROUND THE SECOND CARRIAGE CONTAINING
PRINCE GEORGE. PRINCE PAUL. AND PRINCESSES HELEN AND IRENE
King Constantine and family, who left Athens in disgrace in June 1917, returned
in triumph on December 19, i9*>- Their train arrived at the Laurion Station
at 11 a.m. Athens was en fHe in honour of the restoration, and an enthusiastic
crowd thronged the station and the line of the route to the cathedral and the
old palace. At the station the Mayor of Athens read an address, and as the
King and Queen emerged the crowd cheered and cried “ Long live the King !
Welcome our coumbaros (godfather) ! ” The upper photograph shows them after
they had entered their carriage. King Constantine, in general’s uniform with
plumed helmet, is seen saluting, and just to the right is Queen Sophie, waving
her handkerchief. In the lower photograph the Crown Prince George is seen,
wearing a military cap, just to the left of the small flag in the centre. Beside
him, to the left, is Princess Helen. Facing the Crown Prince is Prince Paul (in
a bowler hat), and beside him, to the right, is Princess Irene. At night Athens
was illuminated. A huge crown biased on the Parthenon, and free beer was
distributed by a brewer, said to be of German extraction, with a view to
stimulating patriotic fervour Such is now “the glory that was Greece.”
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LADIES’ NEWS.
T HK sales are on now, and from all I hear and sec
they are wonderful sales, whereat the careful
can make excellent investment. Everyone knows
what splendid value is always ensurable by shopping
at Shoolbred's famous Tottenham House, Tottenham
Court Road. When a sale is in progress, as one will
lie for three days, the ioth. nth, and 12th msts.. and
reductions—real substantial reductions—are made in
every department, shopping at Shoolbred's becomes
most wisely providing for the year, or at least six
months of it. ahead. In dress and all accessories
thereto, really good, up-to-date, well-made and smart
things share the general reductions, which go through
the general drapery, fancy goods, furniture, and
kindred departments, and prevail even in groceries.
Shoolbred's sale will be regarded as a great boon hv
all who know the ropes and keep careful eyes for the
liest at low prices.
Many a wise woman has looked forward to the
sale at Marshall and Snelgrove's famous house. It is
now in progress and will extend to the 22nd. offering
wonderful reductions, the more remarkable that they
are made on such thoroughly reliable things as arc
stocked by this fine estabbshment. Young ladies'
restaurant and dance frocks in good crdpe-de-C hine
in navy-blue and many colours, the skirt in three deep
frills, the bodice simple and having a ribbon belt,
are obtainable for £5 18s. Gd. There are bargains in
winter coats with large collars of selected seal coney
fur. They arc of good velours-finished tweed in navy-
blue, black, and colours ; the pnee is 6| guineas.
Knitted woollen jumpers in open lace stitch in various
shades are sold for 21s. They were 63s. and 73s. 6d.
Knitted sports coats in many shades which were 42s.
are selling at 29s. 6d. In fur sets there are many
bargains ; some in selected blue dyed kit fox, very
handsome and rich, are, for muff and stole, £10 10s.
There is a variety to choose from about this price.
The stock of blouses is most varied and attractive :
for 39s. 6d. there is choice in soft satin foulard, and
in soft silk Trianon , for 29s. Gd. there are cripe-de-
< hine and fancy erdpe blouses, well made, and the
designs new and very pretty. Early spring suits at
guineas' are quite a feature of the sales. There
are a variety of them in excellent suitings. For
children there are beautiful clothes at quite bargain
prices. Marshall and Snelgrove’s will be very full
during the next fortnight.
Harrods begin their one week's winter sale on
Monday next. January 10. This is an announcement
which will interest everyone, for it affords an oppor¬
tunity of obtaining the very best quality goods
at the lowest possible pnees. Men, women and
children always find what they want at this house,
whose name is as well and favourably known at the
ends of the earth as here, and in sale week, bargain-
hunters of every age and both sexes will hnd mar¬
vellous value for their money Men are usually
considered to be poorly catered for in sale time,
but Harmds ts a stnking contradiction of this
theory, for the " giKid things " at low pnee which
they offer to the strong sex during their wonderful
week are not only confined to male wearing apparel
of the best cut and quality, but include wines, cigars
and cigarettes at exceptionally advantageous prices.
Dress usually occupies the foremost place in Milady's
mind when she goes her round of the sales, but mar¬
vellous as is the chance of replenishing her ward¬
robe at Harrods’ sale, this is not the vile attraction
of the event. Every housewife bemoans the ternble
cost of such necessary household items as soaps,
brushes for house cleaning, glass and china to replace
breakages, dish papers, stationery, and all the require¬
ments of a house, so the fact that Harrods' sale offers
a unique opportunity of securing all these necessities
at low prices is one which no woman can afford to
ignore. It is an accepted canon of good housekeep¬
ing that the linen cuplioard should be replenished
every year in order to keep it in perfect order, and
the household linens which the Hroinpton Road store
^re offering in sale-time have no equal in the kingdom.
Sales, however, do spell dress, and dress alone, to
many of us, and thi*>e in search of well cut suits,
wraps, hats, jumpers, lingerie, shoes, stockings, gloves,
or any other article of feminine adornment, either
for present wear or in anticipation of the spring,
will find their journey 's end at Harrods. The coats
and skirts offered in sale time include a special col¬
lection of spring coats and skirts, made in accordance
with the modish forecasts for next season, at aston¬
ishingly low pnees, while the winter wraps and coats,
the weather coats and skirts for country wear, are
among the many good things offered. As for evening
and afternoon dresses, one may trust Harrods to
provide distinction and chic in their every model—
and they have a large selection in their sale attractions.
It is a great chance for those who are going to
invest their Christmas and New Year's gifts in furs
that Debenham and Freebody are selling their superb
stock of finest skins made up, almost without excep¬
tion, by their own furriers in their own workrooms,
and in all the latest styles, at half price. Most of us
know what beautiful coats, wraps, capes, stoles, and
muffs we have seen at this establishment—the fineness
of the skins and the style of the things. It is. there¬
fore. almost too good to be true that they are
and will tie sold at half pnee up to the 15th imt
when the sale closes. It is true— so true that I hear
provinci.il houses are sending friends to buy for
re sale. Nor is this all. l>ebenham's have very large
stocks of silks suitable for all seasons, and including
novelties and silks only just delivered from the manu¬
facturers' ; this too is being sold at half the marked
pnees. Here is an opportunity for wise outlay.
Several thousand golf coats and jumpers are being
sold at less than half pnee in a department specially
devoted to the purpose on the second floor. The
pnees are from 10s. to 21s.. and from 29s. Gd. to 42s.
Bargain prices at any rate, but for Dcbcnham's coats
and ]um|XTS something even bevond bargains. There
are all sorts of good, sound investments for school¬
girls going back, and for childreu ; and a good, reliable
fur coat is sold for 194 guineas; while the entire
stock of hrautiful lingerie at this famous house in
Wigmore Street is being sold very cheaply.
Sales this year are being looked upon from a
stnctly business point of view. Those who know
say that prices must rise again unless wages and
raw materials decline in value, which is very un¬
likely Reductions, therefore, such as arc being
made in Hollins' well known fabrics at every high-
class drapery store, will make a sure appeal to the
cleverly careful. Yiyella flannel, usually sold at
Gs. ud a yard, will be wild, so long as the stocks
last, for 4s. nd.; Aza flannel, usually 5s. Gd., will
be 4s. 6*1. , and Clydelta flannel, usually 4s. 6d.. will
be 3s. 6*1. For materials so reliable, so well known,
and to sightly, this is wonderful. Should any diffi¬
culty be met with, a card to the manufacturer's.
William Hollins and Co.. 74-26, Newgate Street, E.C.i,
will secure its being smoothed out.
There is one thing Irish that we all love, and that
is linen ; none other can compare with it. During
this month a particularly advantageous opportunity
for investing in it is being afforded at Robinson and
Cleaver’s great house in Regent Street, where sub¬
stantial reductions in price arc made on everything.
A special opportunity is oddments in the firm’s
famous hand-woven damask table-cloths, in sizes
2 by 2 yards up to by 4) yards, at one-third
under to-day's prices. Every house-mother knows
that these are the best table-cloths made, and lovely
to l*»ok at. Curtains are going at real bargain
prices ; those of the value of to-day—5 guineas, 60 in.
wide and 4 yards long—being sold for 79s. 6d. There
are masses of dainty, well-made, tailored, and other
blouses at this sale at half the usual price, in some
[fn<iW ererltaf.
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Security in Burberry Topcoats
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| BUKBERKYS’ HALF-PRICE SALE
DURING JANUARY.
I Men' i, Women's and Children'x Weather-
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THE TTJ.rSTRATFP T.ONDOX NEWS Jav S 10*21 .Vs
instances less. This is a genuinely splendid value
sale which should not be missed.
Up to the 15th inst.. the bargains at Waring
and Clillows* great reorganisation - of - departments
sale will delight all who are in search of really won¬
derful bargains. Ten thousand yards of 31-in. wide
cretonne in Chinese floral and in Old English patterns
will be sold for is. 3d. a yard, the original price being
3s. (id. Waring pile carpets, thoughtfully selected
as to materials used and manufacture,
are so reduced that one can buy one i———
18 ft. by 13 ft. 6 in. for £36 10s . which J '
sold readily for £53 2s. Smaller car- pTiP*
pets are also reduced, so that one \
which was £13 5s. is now £11 12s. <xi.
Bedsteads are reduced, as will be • H|
understood when eight 3-ft. mahogany
ones, of heavy construction, arc being j' :
sold for £8 15s., the usual price being |
£13 10s. Fifty bedroom suites of llJff!
Warings’ well-known " Overton ” de- v . ....
sign, direct from the firm’s own fac¬
tories, comprising a 5-ft. wardrobe,
one-third of it shelves, the rest hang- r _ „ .
ing ; a 3 ft. 9 in. dressing-table, with ; f r pr-n-
loose mirror ; 3 ft. combined boot-
cupboard and wash-stand, and two ' V
cane-seated chairs, will be sold for I CcJ
£35—the usual price is £55 10s. There -f |r'«j
are many other bargains in furniture,
such as best quality drawing-room fflTS J
easy chairs, with loose down cushions
in seat, and back upholstered entirely
in hair and covered in a black-ground _
cretonne—selling for 13 guineas, the
usual price being/i8 18s. In damask 1 an ^ 2 ' <*' T ' nr *" n c
. , , , . , . sacred chrysanU.err.unr.. tea
and brocades there are decided bar-
issue in honour of King A,
gains, such as 50-in. mercerised cotton .. V|Ctory •• lsa ,
damask in small Italian design, in pany's new 1
rose, green or blue, for 2s. ltd. a
yard: this sells usually at 5s. nd. a yard. There
are thousands of other bargains. A. E. L.
THE CULT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP.
BY FHHD I MFIVIIIF.
T WO Stamjis were issued in Japan on Sept. 25 t«
commemorate the taking of the first census fin
the whole of Japan. 1 understand that this is lteing
taken on a very thorough plan to emlnaie all J.i Junes**
citizens, even the JajMiiese colon> m London. It has
1«1 to some extraordinary discoveries, and in Japan
projK-r the census has discovered an entire native
tea h- m* < r.'y, J. A R't ut . .n i!<r[ •*, »». j g
: A'.t'er!'* visit 4 Tr.p Un.on J^lc i.rlti cn a Ur..>2 S'-
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ard. There
A. E. L.
The Children's Party to be held at Devonshire
House* on Jan. 12 promises to be one of the most
joyous of young people’s gatherings. H K.H. Ihnncess
Alice, Countess of Athlone, has promised to receive
the guests, and is very interested in the affair, which
is in aid of the Deptford Fund and Royal National
Orthopaedic Hospital. Lady Dorothie Moore, whose
father. Lord Denbigh, is Chairman of the Hospital,
has been working very hard over the organisation.
Tickets, which cost 12s. (id. each, can be obtained
from the theatre ticket agencies.
communitv whose existence was wl oily unknown to
the authorities. This community had li\ed and
apparently thrived in an out-of-the-way part of the
country and had no association with anyone outside
Naturally, the people were in a very pnmitixe state
of existence.
The census stamjis arc* interesting productions.
They depict a Jajunese sittir,, Western fashion, with
one leg crossed over the other, by the side of a small
table. He has a pen in one hand and a scroll in t br¬
other. In the upjier part of the d«*xign, in white on
a coloured ground, is the imperial crest— a chrysan¬
themum blossom with sixteen petals. The sixteen-
petalled chrysanthemum is as sacred an emblem to the
|a|vancsc as the tivc-cUwecl dragon is to the Chinese
I a< h is the exclusive prerogative of the Fmpen r. ami
it is suggestive of the dire jienalties inflicted on anyone
who inipro|*erlv uses the Imperial emblem that in the
native forgeries of the stanqw of Japan the chrysan¬
themum never has sixteen petals— it has either more
or less. Similarly, native forgers of Chinese stamps
dared not give the dragons live claws 1 The two
census stam|>s. 11 sen mauve and 3 sen carmine, are
intended only for domestic postage ; they can be used
on all correspondence within the limits
_____of the Japanese Empire, but not for
.-) mail going to other countries.
Two other commemorative stamps
are expected shortly from Japin to
I celebrate the Consecration of the
Mcippngu. the temple built in memory
of the Emperor Mciji. This will also
consist of two values. 1) and 3 sen ;
and as the stamps were to be reach
. .* for the celebration on Nov. 1. they
will Ik* arriving by an early mail.
Brazil has created a novel pre-
cedent by pi icing the portrait of H M.
the King of the Belgians on one of the
newest stamps of the I'nited State's
of Brazil. It is curious that any
monarch’s jiortrait should appear on
the stamps of a Rc*j ublic. The stamp
was issued to celebrate the visit of
the Belgian Sovereign to Brazil ; and
the poitrait in the nght-hand panel
of the stamp is that of Dr. E.pitacio
_I da Silva l'essoa, who was elected
^ President of Brazil in April 1919.
It has lately been remarked as a
b":t curiosity that the In ion Jack figures
: “ ll “ b ’ u: ■*" on the recently issued ” Victory
. 1 '^. Ar T' n stamps of the I'nited States. Mr. J.
S 1 1 I-andfear Lucas in the Daily Mail
punts this out as a remarkable fact.
The flag is included with the flags of the Allies on the
stamp issued to celebrate the victory over the Central
Empires Actually the I'nion Jack, in its eailicr
form, appe-ved alone on a I'nited State's stamp issued
in 1 yo j t«> commemorate the tercentenary of the
founding of Jamestown (Kki;). the first English
settlement in what is now the l nited States.
I also illustrate this week one of the newest stamps
from l ruguay. showing a view of the port of Monte¬
video. the capital, whose name, being interpreted,
is ” I see a mountain.” The last of the stamps illus¬
trated shows the design of the new series of postage
due stamps for the territories contiolled by the
Mozambique Company.
Physicians find Osmos
the best Remedy for
CONSTIPATION
The medical adviser of a well-known
Member of Parliament writes :— “ My
patient was suffering from a severe attack
of pneumonia, accompanied with Acute
Constipation. I tried a number of reme¬
dies, but all failed. I then administered a
dose of Osmos warmed, which produced
the desired result within half an hour.”
Another prominent physician reports that
Osmos “has worked wonders with a patient
suffering from Chronic Constipation.”
Osmos gently assists nature and encourages the
sluggish bowels to recover their healthy activity.
at British
Aperient Water
Sold at all Chemist*, Bom’s Cash Chemists, Taylor 1 *
l>ru* Stores, J imothy White Ltd., 2 6 per bottle or
post free from Osmos, Crown Wharf, Hayes, Middlesex.
We want every
“Swan” Pen
to please !
Thousands of “SWAN” Pens have
formed acceptable Christmas presents.
Obviously the nibs could not all be
chosen to exactly suit the recipient,
and if the nib is too broad, too stiff
or even not “ just right" the pen cannot
wholly please as it ought to do.
We willingly exchange unsuitable
pens at any of our branches.
If unable to call, please post the pen,
enclosing a sample steel nib worn to
its most comfortable state, and 3d.
stamps for return postage (6d. if for
abroad). There is no other charge
if the pen is in perfect order.
Lnlatogue post fret on request.
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7“^>. High Holborn, W.C. , ; Chfai-s.dk F. -
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celebrate the ns: ■
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the right-band p
that of Dr. £ p:
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:entenary of
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TS-2088
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. |an 8 1021 — SO
from the National Hen/ole Company which appears
t• > n c t<» merit attention. Tin v (mint out that since
the war a latge amount of capital has been invested
in installing plants for hen/ole production. The
costs of producing this spirit have gone up
enormously so much, in fact, that it is im-
^ possible to make anything like the reduction
\vhi< h has been made in the case of petrol
if the quality is to lie kept to its present un¬
doubtedly high standard Benzole has there¬
fore turn reduced by 3d per gallon only. The
Company ]* >mts out that brnz< le has hitherto
been protected by the import duty on petrol,
which was assisting to build up an industry
of national importance. Tin- withdrawal of
I the duty must necessarily deal a very severe
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR
Now that the motorist is subject
to the new rate of taxation of
his car, he has been told
y and to whom his thanks
?quitable burden he is com- r .
,r Henry Maybury, the chief
irtment of the Ministry of
:ompletely enlightened us.
Institute of
devoted to the
,’chides—
found ourselves very
indeed, and. knowing how much
Institute and owners of
•rally must of neces-
s driven to
ray of help-
such a con* L
ceed to earn
important matter
are on the
have
your permanent way—
that you may run
them."
Transport,
Speaking at a meeting of the
Transport — an organisation
interests of the heavy class of motor
he said : " Last year w<
short of fundi
the members ot thn
commercial transport genet
sity depend upon the roads. I wa
advise my Minister to see some v
ing to keep the permanent way in
dition as you. gentlemen, could pro
your dividends
for you. gentlemen, engaged as y
commercial side of the motor industry. t<
the roadway—which, after all. u
kept in a reasonable state of repair,
your vehicles with the least possible damage t«i
So what it all amounts to is that the private car
owner is to pay his £1 per horse¬
power, in order that the motor*
omnibus and big transport com¬
panies, whose vehicles do the
most appalling damage to the
road-surface, may have the major
part of the damage made good at
the expense of a type of trans¬
port which causes the minimum
of harm to the highway. If any
further argument were needed to
emphasise that the only cquit-
The question involved is a very difficult one.
Hie principle has been adopted that those who
use the roads should pay most towards their
ipkeep Unquestionably. the fairest method
>f ensuring this is by a tax on fuel in the case
>f the motor car, and on the vehicle itself in
he case of horse drawn tramqiort. It would lx*
ible that anv power - producing fuel should
liltv. since that would mean that a favoured
) could obtain home-produced fuel would have
of the roads for nothing. I cannot see, there¬
fore. how any such fuel could be
logically exempted. It would lie
= 71 d 1 Kerent if vehicle taxation went
into the general fund ; but so
long as it is specifically levied for
highway purposes, the argument
must hold good. It seems that
the logical way out for the ben¬
zole jK'ople is so to increase the
production of their spirit that
it ran compete on level terms
EXHIBITED AT THE RECENT MOTOR SHOW IN BRUSSELS
A DAIMLER LIMOUSINE WITH MAYTHORN COACHWOKK
It is
therefore. 3s. 5|d per gallon, for which the motorist
will no doubt* feel correspondingly thankful
In connection with this fall in the pnee of im
ported motor spirit. I have received a long complaint
A Useful
Book.
The price of
petrol was
reduced last
tx*r gallon.
A WELL-KNOWN SINGER WITH A WELL-KNOWN CAR MISS CARRIE TUBB AND HER
40-50-H.P. SIX-CYLINDER NAPIER, ONE OF THE LATEST MODELS.
HJOLSELEY
“The Cars that combine
Power with Economy.”
The striking success of the three “ Wolseley ”
models is sure proof of the way they meet the
requirements of the modern motorist. Their
remarkable flexibility in traffic, their astonishing
hill-climbing power, and their great economy in
running cost place them in a class by themselves.
“ Wolseleys ” are undoubtedly the cars of the year.
CURRENT PRICES
r.545
1595
£720
£1325
£1600
£1650
£1650
Write us for Catalogue No. 20, post free.
WOLSELEY MOTORS LTD., Adderley Park, Birmingham
(Proprietor *. VICKERS LIMITED)
LONDON DEPOT^ Pelty France. Westminster. S.W.l
INDIAN DEPOT : Sandhurst Bridge Road, BomLay
TTTE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
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He has fafcot
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CARS FOR 1921
I N addition to the fam¬
ous 25,30h.p. R.F.C.
Model a new 19 6
h.p. Crossley will be
manufactured during 1921.
L-rydiScahoR.
that these
t toradstk
fairest osedn!
uel ic the asr
•chide itseif e
l It vocld be
* fuel shed-
hat a favtcei
ltl would be
mot see, thee-
i fuel could he
. Itwocidbt
taxation vs.
Virtues of Sunbeam Cars
2 . Low Fuel Consumption.
Whether run on petrol or
benzole, or better still on a com¬
bination of the two fuels, the
Sunbeam may be relied upon for
a uniformly low consumption.
Send for illustrated booklet: ‘‘10,000 Miles
ip a Sunbeam Car ” — free on request.
This model enjoys a splen¬
did reputation for efficiency
and reliability. It has
given the greatest satisfac¬
tion to users in every part
of the world, and the ever
increasing number on the
road is a striking testimony
to its popularity. Pre¬
eminently a quality car it
is a fine example of real
value for money.
TWO PRESS
OPINIONS.
. The coachwotk
is describable in one
word — admirable. ”
" The Auto ”
11/11 20
. Both chassis are
to the forefront in the
world’s designs,and are
representative of the
highest achievements
of British motor car
engineering
ally levied fcr
the arnnaect
It seems tte
| for the bs-
d incm the
ir spin: tbs
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SUNBEAM-COATALEN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
THE SUNBEAM MOTOR GAR
GO., LTD.,WOLVERHAMPTON
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Southern Service and Repair Depot
EDGWARE ROAD. CRICKI.EWOOO LONDON, N.W 2
'telephone—Willesden 3070. Telegram,—- Suitoserv, Cricklc, London.'*
Introduced foi the first time at
the Olympia Show, 1920. this
new Crossley model has received
an exceptionally fine reception.
Eminently suited for the owner-
driver, designed to meet the
needs of those requiring a lighter
car. it is presented with every
confidence that its performance
will add still further to the fine
reputation already gained by
Crossley cars.
AN illustrated brochure outlining
/ \ the Crossley Programme for
£ \ 1921 will be forwarded with
pleasure to those interested,
on mention of this paper.
Crossley Motors Ltd.
Builders of Quali'y Cars
MANCHESTER
THE SUPREME
For all weather
at all seasons.
motorim
Fox’s Improved Puttees) “Non-Fray Spiral”
Regulation Heavy Weight, 9 /- per pair
ght Weight, 11/- per pair. Extra Fine Light Shade, 12 /- pe* P-»r.
Patentees & Sole Manufacturers :
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"The Manley Si Johnson Corporation, 260, West II 0.1 Uv 1 New Vorlt. U S A.
‘FOX’ is on the metal discs right /«■>.
to every genuine pair of FOX & /ji/
I rat FMttees. Mi/
ut Delta Shoe*
CAUTION.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan 8 . 1021 f >2
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A UTTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
Paris.
A DIPLOMATIC incident which occurred at an
official banquet given recently by M. Raoul
Ptret in his capacity as President ol the Cham tier has
since been the topic of conversation at every Pans
AN AEROPLANE WITH BERTHS AND BATHROOM:
SLEEPING ON AN AIR-LINER.
The new Lawson air-liner for the cany in? of rassencers and
poods between New York and Chicago, lays claim to te:ng the
biggest aeroplane in the world. It is fitted with sleefing-terttj.
and a " bath-room ” with shower. Thirty-four passengers have
flown in her at one time. [i’toogrjf'h by /•>/'uj.'.|
dinner-table, and has led to many heated discussions
as to whether or not the representative of a late
enemy nation should be received in Society. The
incident which gave rise to all this talk was simply
the refusal of the United States Ambassador to have
the German Ambassador presented to him at the
official banquet where they were both guests of the
President of the Chamber. A great deal depends on
whether an official gathering of the kind can also be
termed a social function or not. If the latter is a
proper description of the dinner, then duty to the
host plavs an undeniable part, and each guest is
expected to be sociable with his fellow-guests, whoever
they may be. On the other hand, if the dinner was
entirely official, as it seems to have been, the United
States Ambassador was entirely within his rights in
refusing to speak to the representative of a country'
with which, technually. the people he represents are
still at war.
Generally speaking, the view is held that, being an
official atluir, it would have been impossible not to
invite the German representative now that peace has
been signed between France ai.d Germany and.
moreover, seeing that France now has her Amtaissador
in Merlin ; but it will lx* a long time before public
feeling in France will permit the representative <( f
their late enemy to take his place in the drawing¬
rooms of Parisian sotiety ; much wall have to be
forgotten and forgiven before such a state of affairs
can come about, and there are many whose memories
will never allow them to sit down at the same table
with a German again. This is a point of view
which in Fngland would apjx-ar extreme, even to
those who, perhaps, have suffered most through this
war, and whose sufferings have made them generous
towards their late f«x*. Hut here in France it is not
so easy to forget and forgive, with the eternal picture
the awful devastation of her fairest provinces as
a jierpctiial reminder of all that she has endured It
is this o|x-n sore ever before their cvc*s which makes
Frenchmen so insistent on the complete disarmament
of Germany, down to her last machine gun. combined
with a strong conviction that unless this is enforced
Germany will bide her time and come again to com¬
plete the destruction of this fair land.
I he late Minister of War. M. la fevre, held this
view so strongly that he felt himself obliged to resign
his seat in the ( a .met when the UhamlxT voted for
the shorter period of military training for Army
recruits, to which he at first reluctantly agreed. At
the end of a spirited debate on the subject. M. Leagues'
Government received a very sultstantial vote of con¬
fidence from his supporters, and for the time bring
M. I-efevre and his sympathisers were defeated ; but
those who know him lx-st say that we may expect
to hear more of him later.
The figures cjuoted during th debate, in con¬
nection with the disarmament of Germany, were
certainly most impressive, and led to a renewed
expression of confidence in the Allied Com mi sion
whose duty it is to superintend the carrying out by
Germany of the terms of the Peace Treaty. T heirs
is an unenviable task, for. however vigilant they may
lx*, there will alwavs lx* the problem of hidden aero¬
drome's and carefully ” camouflaged ” stores of war
material to deal with, not to sjx-uk of the critics who
could do the job so nnu h better in their own estimation.
I hear that a great advance has been made towards
the establishment of a permanent French InstUui in
I-ondon. and with the* gilt of several house's in Crom¬
well Place for the accommexiation of the students and
visiting lecturers, added to a sulistantial grant from
the French Government, the scheme should be in
full working order by the New Year. M. Berthclot
has taken immense trouble to secure a good send-off
for the Institut from this side, and has personally
asked M. Yiviani to inaugurate the senes of lectures
early in the year The present scheme is really only
SHEWING THE SHCWFR ->N THE LAWSON AIR-LINER:
IN THE • BATi-.Roc'M " i by lo/ucai.,
an enlargement of a school that has already existed
in Loudon for a nuiiilicr of years ; but it was felt
that something on a much larger scale was needed
to meet the ever increasing de mand for really good
French leeiurers on .ill subjects.
“ The Magic of Islam."
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I _ MODELS & PRICES
Is so soothing and cooling for
baby’s tender skin after a bath
with Cuticura Soap.
Soap U.,Talcum 1* 3d . Ointment Is 3d andI 2a 6d.
Solif throughout the Empire. Hriti»hpepot:F.ICew- |
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, "oods at 'oeulv' . 1 , r rca ‘ ^ ris h Linen
housewives should not T’ 0 ?', D,scer ”>''if
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THE PLAYHOUSES.
•JUMBLE SALE.” AT THE VAUDEVILLE.
T HEY do the revue of the more intimate kind at
the Vaudeville uncommonly well at all times, hut
“ Jumble Sale ” is even better than the modem
Vaudeville’s high average. There is nothing ambitious
about its scheme : it is simply, as its name implies,
a melange of odds and ends , but there is nothing
stale about the items offered the public, and there is
never a sign of languor in the salesfolk. Songs,
dances, and episodes of fun, all of which have point,
make a succession of triumphant appeals, though
there is no straining at effect. And
even when almost forgotten ditties of the
past are recalled, as in the telling finale,
" A Triumph of Memory,” including
" Champagne Charlie," they are not vieux
jeu, despite their antiquity. And why is
it that so artless-seeming a show as tins
amuses so much ? Merely because there
are half-a-dozen extremely clever players
in the Vaudeville cast -#-Mr. Walter \\ illiams,
Mr. Eric Blore, Miss Phyllis Titmuss, Miss
Joyce Barbour, Mr. (Gilbert Childs, and,
above all. Miss Binnie Hale who are
allowed to convey the impression that
they are enjoying themselves, and so
give enjoyment to others ; merely because
wise management sees to it that these
mirth-makers are given the right material,
and have not to rely tfxi much on cheir
own resources. From the sestett Miss
Hale shines out niqst. Her burlesques
of Miss Phyllis Mtfikman, Miss Edith
Day, and. by way of climax, of her own
father. Mr. Robert Hale, are worth going
far to see and to hear.
we settle down comfortably to the anticipation
of entertainment as soon as a hero with ideas such
as Peter Bevan's inherits a girls' school from an
aunt, and premises straight away to put into practice
theories about the education of young ladies and the
need of investing them with charm. For we know
what is coming beforehand when into the circle of
bachelors there bursts a runaway school girl as
mutinous as she is attractive. Peter is the one stony¬
hearted male in the company. Fortunately, he is not
so insensible as not to capitulate in the end. and his
very delays have their use's in permitting lo\e-passage's
of the most exquisite ludu rousness to lx* rendered by-
Mr. David Miller and Miss Sydney Fairbrother—both
• THE CHARM SCHOOL,” AT THE
COMEDY.
Only purists and high brows are likely to
quarrel with a piece which appeals so
pleasantly to holiday feeling as " The
Charm School.” To them, then, may be
left the task of pointing out the artificiali¬
ties and improbabilities of its plot ; while
less exacting playgoers extract delight
from the alternations of humour and sentiment
in this Anglicisation of Alice Duer Miller’s Trans¬
atlantic love-story. If at first, perhajis, we rub
our eyes over the weird group of more or less
out-of-work bachelors keeping house together in a
Bloomsbury maisonette, and wonder how men of
such different ages and tastes struck up friendship.
THE RETIRED GENERAL MANACER ALSO RETIRED: MR JAMES WRIGHT.
OF THE L. AND N W R SIR I. T. THEATRICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF
WILLIAMS THE L. AND N W R.
Several chinpes lock t'..--e. at O' er. i of the Oil Year, in the he*<l luarle** staff of the
Lcnlon ani Nortf.-Wea'en R«. »>y. Sir I. Thomas W.h.arrs. who h-«s reorrd at sixty-s:x,
enured tr.e ce'rranv’s serv;-e in !67o. ar.l became General M.nag*r in 1919. when he abo
received his k.'.ipr.V.>.J. Arcvng otter* who have re’ired are the St*tion-master at Eustcn,
Mr Josein Jones, and the Thea'r,.al Sar«inter ien*. Mr. James Wti;hi Mr Wright, wfo
is sixty-one, has be»n with the company forty-two years. He is to be entertained to dinner
at the Hotel Cecil on J.njtry 22. D'jnruj his career he has hal much to do with tfe
transfort of theatrical con.i .rues. by HlnMt and Fry anU kefiuttJ ffamo |
inimitable, the one as a Scotsman with the cautu n of
■his race, the other as a school secretary distrac tingly
fatuous. They, however, only till in time, and the
cynosure of all eyes is Mr. Owen Nares’s zealot. Feter.
slowly but surely surrendering to the siege of Miss
Meggie Albanesi’s winsome school-girl. Actor and
actress are alike at their best, Miss Alhancsi excusing
the forwardness of the heroine by beautifully natural
handling of her scenes of sentiment.
PLAYS FOR THE CHILDREN.
There is no lack this season of entertainments
spec ially designed for children, the supply being largely
made up of plays which by a pnxess of natural
selection have conquered for themselves a permanent
place on the Christmas stage. Thus, not only have
we ’’ Peter Pan.” at the St. James’s; but there arc
revivals also of ” Where the Rainbow Ends,” at the
Apollo; Alice in Wonderland,” at the Victoria
Palace . and ’ he Shepherdess Without a Heart,” at
the Garruk. t.f these. ” Alice ” has the longest stage
history, and perhaps by this time its link
with Lewis Carroll is beginning to wear a
little thin. Still, in the present revival,
in which sixty pupils of the Stcdman
Academy take |»art. there is enough of
the original story preserved to render the
show familiar to nursery patrons; charat
ters endeared to memory, such as the Mad
Hatter and Tweedledum and Tweed It dee.
can !*• recognised Ix-hind the footlights,
and the hardly less well-known airs of
\\ .liter Slaughter’s music have lost little
of their freshness. There is a most ap-
pealing and demure Alice in Miss Phyllis
Griffiths . the fun is kept going by Mr.
Franklvn Ncrrmn. the quaint Hatter, and
Messrs. \\ ill Edwards and Harry Hcarnc
as the twin brothers. —” Where the
Rainbow Ends ” differs from other pieces
of its class in sounding a patriotic note
There i.s a handsome and picturesque
St. George at the Apollo in the person of
Mr. Henry Kendall; Mr. Charles Groves and
Miss Marion Lind play the naughty adults
inoc k-villainously ; and St. George s pro-
t grs find happy representatives in
Monica Morgan, Teddy Hayward, Dorothy
Seeker, and Bessie Livesey.-The
children's play, however, with the most
poetry and the most imagination in
it is Mr. Bertram Forsyth's " Shep¬
herdess Without a Heart.” Here at
the Garrick can be seen the sort of
things youngsters want to see- dreams
bee mning real, china figures starting to
life, the stork bringing a new baby to the home.
Father Time and Father Christmas with all the.r
accessories. Not a boy is there, surely, who w.ll
not fall in love with Miss Nellie Prierclitie’s sweet
Shepherdess, not a girl who will not like Mr. Maurice
Turners Sweep, not a playgoer who will not thank
the author and his inspirer, Hans Andersen.
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TAKING a STIFF fence
L he . Prince of Wal,
i* ln W«l to take «
^ * *tiff fence
THE PRINCE OF WALES HUNTING WITH THE HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE DRAG HOUNDS.
***** hunting regularly this winter, and may ah
'henever his duties will allow him to do so. He
plendidly across country. Our photograph shows
out with the Household Brigade Drag Hounds.
meet was at Shottesbrook Park, where the Prince was received by Major G. H.
Loder, M.C., second in command of the and Scots Guards. H.R.H. motored
down from London to the Victoria Barracks, Windsor, where he lunched with
the officers of the and Batt. Scots Guards.
THK ILl.rSTKATKH LONDON NEWS. Jan 15. I'.ril 6 h
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
I N looking at the dark splendours of the old
Spanish pictures lately exhibited in London,
most of us must have been moved with feelings or
fancies about the past and future of Spain. Some
rather old-fashioned people would read in these
grim symbols of her past the moral that she had
no future. But to explain that dark spirit in
terms of decadence is bad history. The Spaniards
always had that more mournful note long before
they had any failures to mourn. Their pictures
were black when their prospects were bright.
Even when their purple was not the purple of
Lent, but the purple of Empire, it was a very'
dark purple. And the sombre and rather sinister
strength that was behind it is behind it still.
It is disguised by our frivolous fashion of talking
of all the South as a sort of playground. But
in truth, the South is full of peasants . and they
are by no means stage peasants. Peasants may
merely dance and drink in a ballet at the Alhambra ;
but there is also another Alhambra, situated in
a somewhat differ¬
ent district. The
very scene of it is
a battle-field, and
the very name of
it is a battle - cry.
It is the monument
of the mightiest
effort ever made
by our European
race to overthrow
a non - European
power imposed on
it. We have seen
the retreat of the
Turks ; we may see
the return of the
Spaniards.
It was only com¬
paratively lately
that every Latin
in our lighter lit¬
erature was repre¬
sented as decadent
and deceitful; and,
indeed, in one sense
Latins are deceit¬
ful. They are al¬
ways deceiving us
into thinking they
are decadent. They
have a reserve of
vitality which is
actually hidden by
vivacity. There is
always a vineyard
on the volcano.
The silly legend of
Latin decay was
not entirely due to
the sillier legend of Teuton superiority.
when the corpse kicked the coffin to pieces and
began to knock the mutes and mourners about
the head.
It is true that D’Annunzio had always mixed
with the nonsense of Schopenhauer a little of
the nonsense of Nietzsche It is true that there
has been a strain of violence and croelty in his
decadence. But for practical purposes Nietzsche
was quite as negative as Schopenhauer The
optimist Nietzsche would have no more interested
himself in the practical politics of Kiume than the
pessimist Schopenhauer. The militarist Nietzsche
would no more have drawn the sword against
the Jugo-Slavs than the pacifist Tolstoi. It is
in this last phase of action that the Latin trans¬
forms himself and surprises his contemporaries.
It is this belated and disproportionate decision
that distinguishes the disguised man of action
from the mere philosophers of action. D'Annunzio,
like the Parisian aesthete, has languidly written
WW V,
theatrical gloom of Salvator Rosa I have com¬
pared the earlier triumph of D’Annunzio to a
funeral ; but the masterpieces of the Spaniards
seem to be parts of a funeral far less lively and
varied.
Nevertheless. I fancy we shall find the same
truth in the future, touching the Latin irony
and the l^tin surprise As it was partly an
Italian pose that made people think Italy use¬
less. so it was partly a Spanish pose that made
people think Spain hopeless. Great Spain, robed
in black and purple, seemed to be mourning over
her own fall before it came. Great Italy, clad
in flowers and nbbons. seemed to be refusing to
believe that her own greatness could be coming,
even when it had come. But. in the long run,
I fancy that the northern prejudice will find itself
wrong about the Spanish funeral, as it has found
itself wrong about the Italian carnival. The
whole of the northern notion that Spain conld
not revive was part
of the philosophy
that found it im¬
possible that Italy
should revive, or
that Poland should
revive, or even that
France should re¬
vive. It was part
of a dull material¬
ism of the ’eighties
and the nineties
which has since
been falsified in
almost every other
particular. It was
the philosophy of
Lord Salisbury
when he dismissed
the claims of Spain
by distinguishing
between what be
called the living and
the dying nations.
Since he spoke,
nearly all his dying
nations have come
uproariously to life:
and nearly all his
living nations are
dead.
A RUSSIAN IOOO-ROUBLE NOTE AS PROPAGANDA. PAPER MONEY WITH “WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE"
PRINTED ON ITS FACE IN NINE LANGUAGES.
Some time ago, Mr. G. Doyle drew the attention of the Premier to the fact that the Russian 1000-rouble note, the currency of the Soviet
Government, and then worth about ninepence, was being used for propaganda purposes, having printed on its face, in nine languages.
“Workers of the World, Unite.” Our reproduction does not give the note its actual size.—l«y CemrUsy nf ike “ Mom, Mg Peat ")
It was
also due to a certain irony or subtlety in the
attitude of the Latins themselves.
Thus, for instance, D’Annunzio was a decadent ;
a decadent who did not decay. The report of his
death was much exaggerated. But in a sense it
was he who spread the reports. Most of what he
said was morbid, languid, and deliquescent ; it
was what he did that was vigorous, virile, and
militant. After exhibiting himself for half a life¬
time as a broken lily, he suddenly brandished
himself as a big stick. When he was a young
poet and lover he was supposed to be a sort of
corpse dug up from the Dead City. Now that he
is an elderly gentleman with a bald head he has
filled a living city with youthful antics that would
wake the dead. After wailing so long like a pessi¬
mistic ghost, he began abruptly to bellow like an
optimistic ogre. It was astonishing that he who
had been classed with the old, pallid, aesthetic
consumptive should reveal himself as having
such lungs. It is no wonder that simpler people
in the North are puzzled by such a type, and feel
vaguely 'as if he had cheated them. They feel
as if he had imposed on the world with a sham
funeral. And. indeed, each of his earlier books
might be called a formal and yet fantastic funeral.
But this only accentuated the amazing awakening,
letters in fancy inks of all the colours of the rain¬
bow ; and then added a postscript written in
blood. Not merely in other people’s blood, like a
superman ; but in his own blood, like a soldier.
And, as Mr. J. C. Squire has pointed out in an
admirable article on D'Annunzio, he has shown
this boyish and brutal energy at an age when
Nietzsche, the northern superman, was an in¬
valid with softening of the brain.
That is what I mean by the surprises that
the Latin irony has always in reserve for us. We
have already seen it in the case of Italy ; and we
may yet see it in the case of Spain. Age after
age Italy has been treated as a desert of decadence,
a “ geographical expression ” only expressing it¬
self in confectionery and florid music. Age after
age it has given to Europe merely ornamental
figures so unpractical and negligible as Christo¬
pher Columbus and Napoleon Bonaparte. Though
the whole earth shook under the feet of Italians,
Italians were still spoken of as if they were
dancers tripping in a ballet, not to say mon¬
keys dancing to an organ. The case of Spain is
different in some degree, because the Spanish
genius has been naturally prone to accentuate
the element of pessimism in the pose of decadence.
Velazquez and Goya had something much more
naturally sombre about them than the more
It is certain that
the Spaniard still
has what may em¬
phatically be called
the root of the mat¬
ter in him. It »
almost literally true
that these older
countries have re¬
mained like an orchard full of roots, while too
many of the modem countries have become merely
a market full of fruits. It is by no means self-
evident that the apple-tree will prematurely perish
before the apple-stall. It is quite certain that the
apple-stall will ultimately perish without the apple-
tree. The enormous commercial power of Prussia,
which seemed the most modern thing in modern
history, is already ancient history. Romantic names
like Poland and Bohemia, that were regarded as
things of the past, may yet be the most dominant
and even menacing things of the future. Sooner
or later, for all wc know, events may turn Shake¬
speare’s blunder into a prophecy. There may come
a demand for a port for Czecho-Slovakia, to realise
the romantic delusion of the sea-coast of Bohemia.
The same recurrent destiny of dreams come true
may yet give a very different meaning to t e
phrase about a castle in Spain. It may tower up
again with very solid turrets and battlements,
and anything but a castle in the air. It may
recall the days when a whole country not on y
bore the cognisance but the name of a cast e,
and bring back alive out of the ages the greatness
and glory of Castile. Whether this will be *o
no man knows ; but he who thinks it iropossi e
is deaf, and has not heard what trumpet was
blown over the dead ; nor does he know in wha a
day of resurrection he is living.
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70—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 15, 1921.
THE JEW IN PUBLIC LIFE: PROMINENT MEN IN POLITICS, COM
Photographs bv Ri’SSkix, Vandyr, Elliott ami Tv >nn ^
SIR ALFRED MOOT). BT.. M.P., FIRST COM¬
MISSIONER OF WORKS.
MR SOLOMON J. SOLOMON, R.A.
THE FAMOUS PAINTER.
LORD ROTHSCHILD. SECOND B>
THE EMINENT ZOOLOGIST.
WELL-KNOWN
LT.-COL. SIR MATTHEW NATHAN, P.C.
GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND.
MR. LANDON RONALD,
MUSICIAN AND
SIR MARCUS SAMUEL, BT., OIL MAGNATE,
AND EX-LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
*tteO*> on
t of Lord Reading (whose portrait appears on another page) to be Viceroy of India, the greatest office under the Crown outside this kingdom, draws
rt now played by the Jewish race, as represented by its distinguished men, in all departments of public affairs in the British Empire. In connec
new post, we recall that it was another great Jew, Disraeli, who in 1877 proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress of India, and so established tb
ountry. The whole career of Disraeli profoundly affected the position of Jews in this country, and enhanced their prestige. It was, however, a culm
In 1753 a Jewish Naturalisation Bill was passed, but was repealed in the next year. In 1833 began a series of further Bills to remove Jewish i
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 15. 1921
COMMERCE, WAR, SCIENCE, LITERATURE. ART, AND MUSIC.
Syvaine, Lafavette. and J. Palmer Clarke.
DR. CHARLES WE1ZMAN, LEADER OF THE
ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
MR. WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN, THE WELL-
KNOWN PORTRAIT-PAINTER.
SIR HERBERT SAMUEL, P£, BRITISH HIGH
COMMISSIONER IN PALESTINE.
LORD SWAYTHUNG. HEAD OF SAMUEL
MONTAGU AND CO., BANKERS.
C H. COWEN, THE DISTINGUISHED
COMPOSER
MR. E. S. MONTAGU, P.C., M.P., SECRETARY
OF STATE FOR INDIA.
SIR PHILIP MAGNUS, BT.. M.P. FOR LONDON
UNIVERSITY, A LEADING EDUCATIONIST
AND CONDUCTOR.
^rejected them. Eventually, in 1858, a compromise was effected by which Baron de Rothschild, who had been elected for the City of London, was allowed
^ n i860 the Parliamentary oath for both Houses was amended in favour of Jews. Since that time, as this selection of portraits sufficiently shows,
race have come to the front in every walk of life, not only in politics and statesmanship, but in commerce, finance, philanthropy and education,
. science, and last, though not least, in war. The renascence of Palestine under the British mandate and the Zionist movement has been one of the
that have followed the signing of peace.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 15. 1921—72
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AND SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD: FATHER O'FLANAGAN.
Much rumour has been floating about lately regarding the reported return of
Mr. De Valera from America to Ireland, and the possibility of a meeting between
him and the Premier with a view to an Irish settlement. It was reported that
Mr. Lloyd George would be willing to treat with him, and that he would be
granted a “ safe conduct." On the other hand, an official Sinn Fein note issued
in Dublin on January 7 said : “ The statements about ‘ President ’ De Valera and
the views attributed to him in the Irish and English Press are nothing more than
speculative guessing. The Irish people will pay no attention to them until they
hear from 'President' De Valera directly and officially." Mrs. De Valera,
interviewed in Dublin on New Year’s Day, said she had been in Ireland for many
days. Mr. Tim M'Nulty, of Cambridge, presiding at a meeting of the I™**
Vigilance Society in London, said that Mr. De Valera had lost all power wi
Dail Eireann and might resign. Mr. De Valera came into prominence in 19*
He has a strong personality, but little oratorical gift. Father O’Flanagan, whose
telegram to the Premier will be remembered, arrived in London lately •»
Mr. De Valera's representative, and had a frank discussion with Mr. Lloy
George and Sir Hamar Greenwood, at the Premier’s house in Downing Street, on
January 6 , with a view to Irish peace. He then returned to Ireland.
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THE PREMIER’S NEW OFFICIAL COUNTRY SEAT: A “HOUSE-WARMING.”
Pmot<ic«am«« SurpLiBo »v L.N.A and Topical.
TO THE NATION BY LORD AMD LADY LEE OF FAREHAM AS A COUNTRY THE FIRST PREMIER TO OCCUPY CHEQUERS : MR.
RESIDENCE FOR PREMIERS : CHEQUERS. NEAR PRINCES R1SBOROUCH LLOYD GEORGE, LORD READING. AND MR. DAVIS.
THE NEW VICEROY OF INDIA AT CHEQUERS :
LORD READING (RIGHT) WITH THE PREMIER.
THE PREMIER AND HIS DAUGHTER AT CHEQUERS : MR. LLOYD GEORGE
WITH MISS MEGAN LLOYD GEORGE A GOOD JOKE.
THE PREMIER AND HIS GUESTS : (L. TO R., IN FRONTi SIR R. HORNE
•< HOUSE-WARMING " : (L. TO R-, IN FRONT) THE PREMIER, MRS. LLOYD GEORGE. MISS MEGAN
LLOYD GEORGE, LORD READING, MR. DAVIS (U.S. AMBASSADOR). MRS. DAVIS. LORD RIDDELL.
Chequers, the beautiful and historic house between Princes Risbo rough and
Wendover, in Buckinghamshire, among the Chiltem Hills, has been presented to
the State, in perpetuity, as an official country residence for the Premier, by Lord
Lee of Fareham, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and his wife, Lady Lee.
They gave a 44 farewell 44 dinner party there on Saturday, January 8, when the
house was formally hsnded over to Mr. Lloyd George, the first Premier to take
possession. His 44 house-warming 44 week-end party included Lord Reading (the
new Viceroy of India, of whom we give a full-page portrait elsewhere in this
number), the American Ambassador (Mr. John W. Davis) and Mrs. Davis, *
Milner, Lord Riddell, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir Hamar and Lady Greenwood.
It was a purely social party without any political purpose. In the large
shown above the figures in the back row (from left to right) are—Lad 7 Greenw
Sir Hamar Greenwood, Lord Lee of Fareham, Lord Milner, and Sir Robert orne.
An endowment fund for upkeep of the house has also been provided.
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By J. T. CREIN
S PECULATION was rife. There was to he an
actor in the Honours List on New Year's
Dav. Who could it be ? Everybody weighed
and guessed—and all were wrong, for the elect
was far away on the high-seas to conquer a
British Dominion for British Art. Then, when
we read that a knighthood had been conferred on
Mr. Martin Harvey, we tapped our foreheads and
said : " Of course I How could we lie so stupid
not to think of
him ? ” And we
added : " He de¬
serves it." For
Martin Harvey,
by name, art,
and benevo¬
lence, appeals
to our imagina¬
tion. and in the
provinces he is
an idol. He
shares with
Matheson Lang
the mantle of
Ix'wis Waller.
He is " the ro¬
mantic actor ” ;
not to have seen
him in " The
Only Way " is
as clear a want
in education as
to have missed
Waller as Mon¬
sieur Iteaucaire.
And then there
is his Hamlet ;
the romantic
Hamlet par ex¬
cellence ; the
Hamlet young
girls dream of,
and whom men
admire for his rhetorical splendour, his ringing
voice—a big voice, raising a small man to com¬
mand and above the shoulders of his surroundings.
Again, there is Martin Harvey the orator : hear him
after dinner on his art, and you are carried away
by his enthusiasm, his conviction, his aptness of
expression—he wafts the spirit of romance. Above
all, there is the man, a lovable creature with a
big heart, who has devoted endless hours to
charity in war-time, and who, night after night
when he produced Maeterlinck’s " Burgomaster of
Stilemonde,” harangued the crowds all over Eng¬
land to plead for Belgium, for patriotism, and
open-handedness. Thus the knightly honour was
bestowed on him for a double cause —for what
he has done as an artist and what he has amassed
in an altruistic cause. Not since King George
touched Frank Benson with the sword in the
stage-box of Drury Lane has
the theatrical world had such
a surprise and such pleasure.
It is late in the day to
refer to " The Beggar's
Opera," which has confirmed
the Lyric Opera House at
Hammersmith in public
favour, and has given the
coup de gr&ce to the obsolete
notion of unlucky theatres.
There is no such thing as
an unlucky theatre — there
are only unlucky managers
selecting unlucky pieces.
Generally, the public appre¬
ciates a good thing wherever
it is to be found—did we not
once upon a time migrate to
Camberwell, when Mr. Mul-
holland made it a font of
" new and original " work ?
Still, the success of " The
Beggar’s Opera " many
months after its d£but is
remarkable and gratifying,
in the patriotic sense of the
word. It proves that the
nation has an innate love
of its folklore in text and
music ; that there is a trea-
sure-trove in the old play-
box of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and—
that there is nothing new
under the histrionic sun.
Half the battle was, of course.
won by Mr Playfair’s production—now adopted
by America in a rare unison of approval -and by
excellent exponents of his choice. The other half,
methinks, is due to the flair of the public, which
in ’’ The Beggar’s Opera " not only discovered
the origin of musical comedy, but one with a
wittier text and ever so much more musical
music than is served up now bv a round half-
dozen of librettists and com|KKwr.v That Mr
Kanalow’s Mac heath is a masterly creation need
hardly be re-said : hr is the d’Artagnan of roguer\ .
nor need we re-sing the praises of Elsie French’*
delectable Mrs. l’cat hum, and of Miss Violet
Marquesita’s sinister charm a* Lucy l^ickit
But a hearty welcome should be given to the
newcomer, Miss Katherine Arkandv. the new
Polly, as dainty as a piece of Saxony, as piquant
as the most piquant lxiuis XV. soubrette. who
has a voice of very sweet timbre and a schooling
of such perfection that she tempts one to name
her in the same breath as Miss Maggie Tevtc.
An evening at the Lyric, Hammersmith, is an
experience and a study. The public consists of
all sorts and conditions of men and women -all
classes foregather here in the most
extraordinary mixture of styles, modes
and manners -but, from the moment the
orchestra begins to the last parade
of all the actors concerned, there is a
" Shmmung " in the house nowhere else
to be found. It is the complete har¬
mony of " Englishnexs ” -the family¬
feeling which is created bv the under¬
standing that this play an>. this music
arc truly racial of the soil.
Plans are in the air to endow West
London with a Yiddish Theatre. It
sounds interesting, but one feels inclined
to repeat Punih's warning to those
about to marry. In New York, which
is the focus of Jewry from all countries in the
world, it may flourish alongside the German
Theatre (recently reopened), the French, and the
countless little theatres d cfiU. Guignols of a kind
and with a difference ; but New York is essentially
cosmopolitan, and London, despite the many
foreigners in our midst, remains the city of one
language. This is not sheer assertion, it is the
outcome of actual experience : a French theatre
over here may draw full houses for a month,
but for a season—it costs money. In the begin¬
ning of the century, we had a regular German
theatre—it cost money. We had, in war-time,
at the Criterion, on sharing-terms (thus practi¬
cally rent free), a very fine series of fine plays,
including F'onson and Wicheler’s famous ” Kom-
mandatur "—it cost money. Even R£janc, when
at the Court, lamented—it cost money ; and I
am informed, by one who knows, that when Mos-
covitch was the hero of the Pavilion East, the
end of the storv was a da capo of the same erv
of negative financial success The truth of the
matter is that a Yiddish theatre in Western
Flurope can only live when it is established on a
very small ** ale and even then its existence is
ephemeral, except in the case ol the famous
Herrenfcld Theater of Iterhn. which manulai
tuml diverting Potash and IVrlmuttcr plays on
its own premises, and had a following because the
Berliners are nearly all able to understand the
vernacular, which to an average lamdoner.
sounds more foreign than French and Italian.
FIven in Amsterdam, with its vast Ghetto, there
is no (M-rmanent Yiddish theatre ; and in Antwerp,
where the diamond industry has attracted many
of the Chosen, there are two little bo(le< near
the station " flea-hive* ” a wag called them, on
account of the untidiness of the public where
Yiddish plays are performed in semi-amateur wav
THE WHITE-HEADED BOVS BRIDE TAKES CARE
OF HIS MONEY: MISS NAN FIT7GERALD AS DELIA
AND MR ARTHUR SHIELDS AS DENIS GEOGHEGAN.
Pkegograph b\ Stage Phot.i C o.
Now what would be the prospect in Lon
don ? At first, curiosity would no doubt fill the
stalls and the other high-priced scats, and pit
and gallery would, of course, be well patronised
by Jewry. But do the promoters of the West-
End Yiddish Theatre really believe that in the
long run the public would pay considerable prices
to hear " Uriel Acosta " by Gutzkow (of which,
by the way, Zangwill years ago was to make an
adaptation for Sir Herbert Tree), or Lessing’s
*’ Nathan der Weisc,’ which, if accessible at all tc
the English public—a doubtful surmise would
sound far more poetic and
dignified in English blank-
verse ? Of course, there arc
the " pogrom " plays, very
poignant in the days of Tsar
ridden Russia—but pogroms
are no longer burning ques¬
tions, and there is reason to
believe that they belong to
the past ; there arc the plays
of Jewish humour—" chetn "
is the word beloved by
Israel—but how much of it
would lx? understood by the
son of Cockayne and by the
new Jewish population which
has found refuge in England
since the great exodus from
the F'ast, and whose parlance
differs vastly from the time
honoured Yiddish? No; I
fear, well-intentioned as the
experiment is, it would be
doomed to disappointment,
for, granted that the Jews,
most of whom are in modest
circumstances, would patron
isc thefr national enterprise
and fill pit and gallery nigHt
by night, there is no hope
of making two ends meet in
these days of exorbitant rents
and expenses. The days
when theatrical enterprise
could live on pit and gallery
are past and done with, like
many other Iwms and bless¬
ings of a happier world.
DEMANDING THEIR MONEY BACK: (L. TO R.) MISS SARA ALLGOOD AS MRS. CEOCHEGAN,
MR. S. MORGAN AS GEORGE. MISS MAIRE O'NEILL AS AUNT ELLEN. AND MR. ARTHUR SINCLAIR
AS JOHN DUFFY, IN “THE WHITE-HEADED BOY."
"The White-Headed Boy,” which has now been running at the Ambassadors' Theatre since last September, is one
of the most amusing comedies in town. The " boy " is Denis Geoghegan, youngest of the family, a mother's darling
and a waster. The others rebel, and he is to be packed off to Canada, ostensibly "to a grand position.” Thereupon
his prospective father-in-law, John Duffy, demands either the immediate marriage of Denis and Delia, or compensation.
The Geogheeans give Duffy £320; but meanwhile Denis secretly marries Delia, and eventually gets the money.
Photograph bv Stage Photo. Co.
THE BREADWINNER OF THE
GEOGHEGAN FAMILY: MR SYD¬
NEY MORGAN AS GEORGE IN
"THE WHITE-HEADED BOYAT
THE AMBASSADORS'.
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NAPOLEONIC TIMES: THE HA.C. INSPECTED BY L1EUT.-GEN. THE EARL OP HARRINGTON.
SEPTEMBER 22. 1803 AN ETCHING BY MIT AN FROM A DRAWING BY E. DA YES.
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ARMOURY HOUSE.
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PERIOD ;
ONE OF THE FINEST CLUBS IN THE CITY : ARMOURY
THE LOUNGE.
, USED BY THE YAGER COMPANY. H.A.C.. EARLY
{ NINETEENTH CENTURY : THREE POWDER-HORNS
The Honourable Artillery Company, generally known a a the H.A.C., did aplendid work in the late war, thereby living up to its long ahd glorious record. It forms, »n **
heart of the City, a rallying-point of patriotic service, highly valuable in view of the ’ need for Territorial recruits, and at the same time provides an excellent centre iot
healthy exercise, recreation and social amenities. The facilities afforded by its club-house and sports ground at Armoury House, Finsbury, are described in an article on
another page of this number. Its older annals are very fully preserved in " The History of the Honourable Artillery Company,” by Captain G. A. Raikes. “ As the tn °*
ancient military body or corps in the British Empire, if not in the world ” (he writes in 1878), “ this veteran Company has long been famous. ... The Company has d"**’
been entirely distinct from all other military organisations, and, strictly speaking, belongs neither to the Militia, Yeomanry or Volunteers, nor yet to the more ancien
Trained Bands. It is the only military body over which Parliament has no control, being entirely self-supporting. ... The Company was incorporated by Henry V 1 II-, on
THE H.A.C.
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and its headquarters, armoury house.
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THE H.A.C. IN THE CORDON RIOTS: FIRING
VINCENZO LUNARDI COINC UP FROM THE HA.C.
1784-A DRAWING BY J. BREWER.
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J UNE 7, ^80 (RIGHT FOREGROUND) SURGEON SIR WILUAM BLLZARD TENDING THE INJURED.
THE CATERUtG SIDE OF ARMOURY HOUSE
THE MESS-ROOM.
CORNER OF
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THE BILLIARD-ROOM
* Ttr 7 early period * CCntur ^ before any other British regiment was raised, under the title of the Fraternity or Guild of St George, and consisted of Archers ; but
* m< ** experienced i ■ C * i,tence *PP*are to hare adopted the use of Artillery. . . As far back as the year 1588 (made memorable by the Armada), they had gained a
* ,n * on the roll 0 f h.- 161 *’ ^ **** known as the Captains of the Artillery Garden. ... No regiment can boast of a greater number of distinguished persons than are
^* 7 * held the command C ° mpany ' From the time when Charles, Prince of Wales, and James, Duke of York, joined in 1641, the Soxereign or the Prince of Wales has
ie j. * n 43 ^apt*in-General. . . . The title ‘ Honourable ’ first appears in the Company’s books in 1685. . . . Probably the most remarkable and interesting
'orica, continues ^ ^ **** ^ om * >an T was the formation, in 1638, of a branch, or second battalion, in America. . . . This corps, the first and oldest of all military bodies
** 10 ^ our ** h M the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, Massachusetts. ’ { Orcu^nt Copyrigkud in tke Uni tut SiaUt and Canada. '
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THE ENTRANCE TO THE HA.C. HEADQUARTERS :
ARMOURY HOUSE.
THE HALL AND STAIRCASE,
RELICS AND ACCOUTREMENTS OF THE HA.C.
OLD BADGES. MEDALS, AND ORNAMENTS.
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A CENTRE OF SPORT AND PATRIOTISM IN THE CITY:
ARMOURY HOUSE, THE H.A.C. HEADQUARTERS.
1 *
So it is that the boy leaving his school turns
his thoughts naturally to the H.A.C. Where
else can he continue his sports ? Where else
can he find a " club house ” of such propor¬
tions or so well adapted to his purpose as
is the Armoury House, with its luncheon and
dining rooms, its beautiful lounge, or its splen¬
did facilities for making and retaining friends :
The Public Schools Elevens, having sent teams
to the Armoury House to play against the
H.A.C.. constantly find themselves pitted against
old school-fellows.
M OST people who think of the City visualise
a -.cene the outstanding feature of which
is solid masses of bricks and mortar. They see
towering buildings and dense throngs of moving
HOCKEY AT ARMOURY HOUSE: THE H.A.C. (WINNERS. 7-1) v. THE WAR OFFICE-
A RUN BY AN H.AjC. FORWARD - [Photograph by Sport and General.)
A "RUGGER" MATCH AT ARMOURY HOUSE IN AID OF
EARL HAIG’S FUND: THE H.A.C. r BLACKHEATH—
JUMPING FOR THE BALL FROM A SHORT LINE-OUT.
Photograph by Sport and General.
citizens. Of course, speaking broadly, they' are
right. The City is a place of business. Yet
there is within the wonderful City* of London
much to relieve the sombre picture which its
bricks and mortar suggest. Behind the Halls
of several of the ancient City Guilds are. in
the language of the historian. " Faire gardens."
and of these the public occasionally get a
glimpse. The many little pleasant church¬
yards are too well known to need more than
a passing reference.
But the most extensive of the open grounds
still left to the citizens of London is without
doubt the six-and-a-half acres of beautiful green¬
sward in the possession of the Honourable Artillery
Company. To find in the City six-and-a-half
acres of ground, well kept and likely to remain
unbuilt on. is surely a matter of considerable
interest. It seems little short of marvellous that
so much ground could have escaped the de¬
spoiling hand of the builder right down the cen¬
turies. But such is the case. And it all happens
because of the sporting propensities of the English.
Next we hear
of the Artillery
Company, duly
addressed by My
Lords of the
Council as *’ Hon¬
ourable." in dis¬
pute with the
Master Gunner
of the Tower.
The said Master
Gunner laid
claim to the
Artillery ground
at Bishopsgate
as a possession
of his office, a
contention which
the officers of the
Artillery garden
were unable to
tolerate. The
dispute ran for a century or so, and. despite
the support of the Company by Privy Council
afW City interests, the Master Gunner seems
to have been powerful enough to be trouble¬
some. However, the upshot was a petition from
the Hofiourable Artillery Company to the Lord
Mayor and Corporation for a new ground, and
baths are in course of construction. With
such facilities, is it wonderful that the H.A.C.
teams give a good account of themselves ? Fine
play can be seen on this centrally-situated field.
But let it not be thought that this is all. Side
by side with the sport goes on the " work." After
all. is it not sport too ? H.A.C. men think so.
and we are more than inclined to agree. Cricket
or football on the field and gun drill and foot
drill on the square go on simultaneously— onr
helps the other.
HUGGER" AT ARMOURY HOUSE. FINSBURY: THE H.A.C. v STREATHAM — A STRUGGLE
FOR THE BALL IN FRONT OF GOAL .—{Photograph by Sport and General.\
At the moment a recruiting campaign is being
undertaken by the Territorial Force Association
of London. Young citizens might do worse than
investigate the possibilities of the H.A.C., for
the Corps is not yet up to strength, which in peace
time consists of a couple of batteries of Horse
Artillery and a battalion of infantry. As to cost,
it is nominal. A couple of guineas a year covers
the subscription. But on that subject a post¬
card to the Secretary at the Armoury House
will bring all details. Parents, too, would do
well to accept the invitation of the Court of
Assistants to visit these famous Headquarters, and
see for themselves the conditions under which their
boys would spend a proportion of their leisure
the Lord Mayor
and the Shentis.
enjoining them
to see that the
citizens wereduly
instructed.
the Corporation being sympathetic — all th»
Aldermen were members of the Company and
Colonels of the Trained Bands — granted the
“ upper field in Finsbury " to the Guild. That
was over too years ago. and the Company
has been there ever since. It has had to
fight occasionally to retain possession, but that
is another story, as Kipling would say.
The {mint is that the " upper field " at Fins¬
bury is still unbuilt on and continues to give the
citizen the opportunity of indulging his sporting
proclivities. Members drill on a portion of the
ground, and parades are held upon it, but mostly
those who guide the destinies of this wonderful
old Corps encourage the use of it for sport pure
and simple. They believe with Wellington that
battles are won on the playing-fields. Here, then,
on any evening may be seen the wisest of the
City’s youth indulging in outdoor games. As the
seasons change may be seen cricket, football
(both Rugby and Association), and hockey. There
are two Badminton courts, and a good paved
cricket-practice wicket under cover. There is
an excellent bat lung-tank, while eight hot shower-
What other nation could have saved so large and
valuable an extent of ground merely for the
purpose of spirt ?
The story is an interesting one. In old days
the citizen of I^indon took great delight in his
archery. He used to saunter forth on Sundays
and holy days-having first attended Mass, as
was the custom of all citizens—to practise ; and
on certain days there were " Feysts " of shooting
for a gold standard (13a. *d ) The marks for
this shooting were set up in various places out¬
side the City, particularly beyond Bishopsgate,
and in the fields between Moorgate and Islington.
It was not. however, a game to be indulged in
without teaching. One of the ranges, for instance,
is known to have been 308 yards, and the target
only 1 ft. 6 in. in diameter. That meant good
shooting, and for good shooting there must be
careful and consistent practice ; and so we find
the Artillery Garden in Bishopsgate. with the
Artillery Company or Guild of St. George, for the
teaching and better practice of archery. We
also find the Kings taking an interest in the matter,
and in the fifteenth century sending letters through
the Lords of the
Privy Council to
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granted tie
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and «>« Direcrors
s "°w„ in thc . EAUTY °1 SPAIN : , A . NAT,VE °P VALENCIA.
Exhibition of Smnics i> • • C Uo P,A Gallardo.
ispamsh Paintings ar the Rova/ Ar.a
YaI Academ V' and reproduced bv ™
of that Exhibition. urf csy of the Artist
ii srm.KMKNT ro tnr. iij.rsi. j-;i«
WHALING BY ARTILLERY: THE HARPOON-GUN IN ACTIOI $
From thh Painting nlutit**'
A METHOD OF HUNTING WHICH KILLED 23,000 WHALES IN ONE YEAR, AND 1
Whaling is now no longer a matter oi mast and sul and the “hand-to-hand” encounter in boats. Steame.s of 100 to 150 tons, fitted with powerful ^
winches and a deadly harpoon-gun carried in the bows, give a mode of hunting more effe five, if less picturesque, than did the old-time way. Once s ru ^
whale is doomed. The trying-out of the oil is done off shore in floating factories to which the dead whales are towed. In 1911 as many as 23,000
were taken, the value of the oil alor.e being over £ 2 , 500 , 000 . The ease with which, under modern conditions, the whale is captured has been cou ^
by grave fears that it will become extinct. The respite of the war, however, gave the whale a new lease of life, and whaling has since been resumed j ia ^ e S
goes on. In the left foreground of the illustration is seen a harpoon-gun, from which a harpoon, attached to a long rope, has just been fired into
1,F -vr to r ,
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,N K AGAINST
From tt . 3
kles Pears, R.O.I., S.G.A.
A GREAT SUBMERSIBLE” OF NATURE’S NAVY.
To THEIR EXTINCTION:
body.
A,r h as been pumn -, ^ ltS tai1 ,n the air ’ is P lun King in a vain struggle to
shown, t. • P d ,nto the
THE MODERN WHALING STEAMER, WITH HARPOON-GUN.
“ '"correct to call
rape. On the right is another whaler, with a dead whale floating alongside,
carcass to make it float while being towed to land. The position of the harpoon-gun on the bows of this seond steamer is clearly
and
mother.
hshes in many impo t t 3 W ^ 3 ^ e 3 though it lives entirely in the w. ter and is helpless on land. It is a mammal, of the order of citmm, and differs
is enabled to do so by t” ^ artlCU * ars ’ having warm blood and a four-chambered heart, and breathing air. It must rise to the surface periodically to breathe.
The young y ^ f '° r ' zonta ' flukes of its tail, which form its chief mode of propulsion. Whales are gentle by nature, and the female is a devoted
"snaily born singly, and can be suckled under water.
''o/fvrtghltJ in Iht l’ntlr.1 v
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 15. 1021 — tv
9
illustrated London news
SSM!?: Owe
NEW
B > professor
?* w Ac ademy at A
^"ates and founde,
?H 0g L apher Er at 08 th,
the bishop Synesius.
a 2 *** P 088 ^
a splendid or
w ay for processions
an d baths, and— M ’
more imposing— a
almost entirely cut
is unparalleled j
principal temple
ln a dominant p_
the spring, in f„n
phe first attempt at
pyrene was
Captain M. Smith
cher, R.N.
in discove....
as also those
reOfWCO HALBHC.HR.
:r t L r ristippm ’ d ^p‘<
-^-srsari
iat°”^ rable P " blic buildi,
VMt m "" V ' Slton> fi nd *
in t h. ,“ n> ' ntal n «ropol
“ th ' rock »' >H hills, whi
ancient Greek world. ]
A P°Ho, which sto<
“P«n a large terrace ne
* ° f domains in C
the Paconius Agrip
S - va «es and coins
amongst the
s ' more recent
ved of which »
ngs to be noted
^ a strange
>hs, statue of a
Jch hybrid Ori-
Its ental god-
* od dess, perhaps
Jar an Isis-Atar-
Ja gat is, en-
at tirely painted
n. in polychro-
> r * my. with a
? d red mantle
e, and a grefcn
gown, and
traces of
>* gilding on
the hair. The
e shrine where
it was found
{ was probably
: dedicated to
the Egyptian
gods.
An ancient
site, now
under ex¬
ploration, in
the neigh¬
bourhood of
Cyrene, at
Zania el
Be id a, has
proved to
contain what
remains of
the little-
known < :tv
of Balagr.t
with a tern- PA,N7
Pie and a TTRaf
hospital or ORIEN
sanatorium ISIS -
of .(Escula-
pius From its ruins, among
has been lately brought to
a winged Victory, which is i
illustrations on another page
While such a harvest of
Roman works his been gath
other considerable discoveries-
terent character—have been ma
region. We hope to be able i
them on a future occasion.
special department for Colonial a V end 2
Horae, under the directio„ ^ “
Mamm, w,th two local branches at ?? , c, °
Benghazi, An extensive survey o( ,J M and
was made daring the same yJr P {° •**
following. Systematic excavatmu, ' year
immediately commenced at Cyrene and*?' then
bourhood by the snn»>nnh« y* e ne and its neigh-
Dr. Ghislanzoni; and at Tripoli* yF^° tnted th ere.
places by his colleague in ! a " d 0,h ' r
gemma. To both thi s Dr ' Auri ‘
ology is indebted for the most £.. Llbyan Archas-
‘vhich led to the creation . b " lhant discoveries,
ixceptional importance for the^T ? USeums of
*oman Africa.^ ^ sunri^ 7 ° f Greek and
xcavations a specTal fund ofT furthe ^
as recently been J^nt^i h „ miUion fra ncs
f Colonial Affaire. V he ita,ian Ministry
Cyrene, where—as rninht Ko
ccavations have proved m*ore
in the
5 was that of
position u—
-J view o' the far”blu'e tJbyi ^
made" "'^'og.calcxcaval.on, ,
y two English gentlemei
’ and Commander P 01
*86 i and 1863. succeede
“““ «ry :Zl
on the Acropolis, bringin,
: antiquities, the colossa
of th" » hC IyrC ’ that 0
. f R oman Propraetor
[us Marcellinus, which are
-~-~.i Mus «um. In , 9IO
Archaeological Institute of
jsume excavations on the
. Acr °Pohs and its topo-
eak of the Turco-Italian
scution of the enterprise.
>e Italian occupation that
work has become possible
inaccessible land ; and at
*“t succession of striking
aroused so much interest
1 are now continuing with
who, between
Bering the re—
1 oi another
to hght amidst Qther
^atue of Apollo playing
Bacchus, and the bust ?
Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulu
now to be <:<.» n Z
a rnmm ,n the Bf itish
a commission of the Arc
Amenca was able to resu
spot exploring chiefly the
«raphy; but the outbrea
It L ^ ented the P rosect
It has been only since the
systematic archeological wc
-•bis, till ,he„. ahS'
the same time began that
discoveries which lately ,
m the learned world and
unceasing success.
The Italian excavatoi
first to the terrace of the
diggings had been left ui
explorers i n ,863. uneartl
the court and clearing out
itself. But the richest ha
reaped in the huge building
was discovered near it. Tl
Cyrena?an public baths goes
Ptolemaic rule. The buildh
a thorough reconstruction it
the storm of the Jewish
during which the city was se<
*ork was accomplished hv ♦
TED ,N POLYCHROMY
nce figure of A hyi
ntal coddess, perhaps
atarcatis, from cyri
sculptures,
1 Statue of
among our
ST ANCIENT of
AT CYRENE:
(MAIDEN) FROM
THE STATUES RECENTLY
AN ARCHAIC - KORE ”
1 THE THERM/E.
t . he He Henic colonies,
most splendid and
7- - —-vA. Common
ion to the Dorians
most ancient a ~-- -
and, excepting Alexandria' the
monumental Greek
tradition attributes ,
fl/he island of Thera.
J. Bc • : bu t recent
colon 3 prevj °u s swam
colonists reache
table-land of B«
in prehistoric tii
from the North
Cret «- Built c
terraces, which
,n° ah " ght o' about
inexhaustible
dlis ing all the
the desert
for commerce
u b ;
th « l >i«orian 1 He r J e 7 SOOn,and '
ab »“t 450 B c . , Who ’
was noticeahu ■ admixtur e
10 *be «mz i, o C f a the{rab ROma ” '
century A D J Ara bic invasion
*?• and costume r's"'"^ 0 ““
Of Greek lif P A ” SOon became
bered the cvrlir Amon « st its c.LL
^-ac^f^^mmon;
aty of North Africa,
its foundatic-' tz tL»
•a. the modem &ntorimTn
investigations tend to prove
t°. PeIo P°nnesian Pre-Doric
, J : \ coast and the lofty
hcrTAu *°” r ce " turies earlier,
-k invaders
of Minoan
upper of two
coast of Marsa Susa
a spot where an
the rock, fer-
its situation, between
was admirably adapted
and traffic with the ab-
/an or Berber stock was.
«i, as we know from
visited the city in
of Libyan blood
1. owing to the
settlers with Libyan
us Berber element,
its earliest days, through
nmon domination, down
in the seventh
stamp in culture,
-e a great centre
celebrities it num-
1 M the ,yric !***•
«es, the founder of the
d the Ijbyan cor" 4 — ■
lrca at least four <
mes, when the first Gre<*
nn °7 an also the shores
on the edge of the
1 nse above the c-»
2000 feet, at
spring fl ows from
ground below
and the sea. ’
Contact
he Emperor
his second THE FINEST EX
Fine archi- THE HEAD OF
TANT PORTRAIT OF AL
A WONDERFUL MARB1
CYRENE.
Photographs by th, Italian Department of
mpplud by Professor Federico
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 15. 1921—82
NOW DATED BACK TO 1000 B.C.: CYRENE—NEW ITALIAN EXCAVATIONS.
Photographs by the Italian Department or Colonial Archeology, supplied by Propesnor Fruenko Halbherr.
The ancient Greek city of Cyrene, on the northern coast of Africa, between
Carthage and Alexandria, stood on one of the finest sites in the world. It was
the capital of the district of Cyrenaica, which included also the Greek cities of
Barca, Teuchira, Hesperia, and Apollonia, the port of Cyrene. Under the Ptolemies
Hesperia became Berenice, and Teuchira was called Arsinoe, while Barca was
eclipsed by its port, Ptolemais. The fire cities were known under the general
name of Pentapolis. The chief city, according to legend, was named after Cyrene, ]
daughter of Hypseu* and mother of Aristaeus by Apollo, who carried her off from 1
Mount Pelion to Libya. The foundation of Cyrene has generally been ascrib
to Battus of Thera, in 631 B.c., but, as Professor Halbherr says in his article on
another page, describing the new Italian discoveries there, “ recent investigations
tend to prove that a previous swarm of Peloponnesian pre-Doric colonists reach ^
the Libyan coast and the lofty table-land of Barca at least four centuries earlier.
It was in the Thermae, or public baths (shown above), that the Italian excavators
have found the finest treasures of ancient sculpture, some of which we illustrate
on two other pages in this issue.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 15 . 1921 ._*3
NEW TREASURES OF THE SPADF . t nvn v
SPADE: LOVELY OLD STATUES FROM CYRENE.
thb Italian Departure op Colonial Arch.
APPLIED
Federico Hi
THE BEST. PRESERVED OF THREE GROUPS
THE THERMO: THE GRACES-A ROMAN V
FOUND AT ZANIA EL BEIDA, NEAR CYRENE
A WINGED VICTORY FROM BALAGR/E.
BY A HITHERTO UNKNOWN SCULPTOR, ZENION : A
STATUE OF JUPITER FROM THE CAPITOL, CYRENE.
THE FINEST STATUE FOUND : AN APHRODITE
(PROBABLY FOURTH CENTURY B.C.)
FOUND, LIKE THE APHRODITE, IN THE THERMAE AT
CYRENE : AN EROS (CUPID), ONCE HOLDING HIS BOW.
Aphrodit 1 rv* 1 ftne * t 8tatue found by the Italian excavators at Cyrene wa» the
“ The rhiJ !" U8 ^ shown »bove. Of other sculptures, Professor Halbherr writes :
young ' < ^ scover ies made after that of the Venus are two archaic korai, or
much fa*’ to the ™7 ancient ones of the Athenian Acropolis, but
Hermes ’ H 1 *** groups oi Hie Graces or Charities ; a severe statue of
p °lycleti» f MerCUriUS ’ copied » according to Professor Mariani, from a bronze of
p 4 j te ’ and ,tiI > preserving, inserted in the marble, the eyeballs in glass-
eyebrows in bronze ; a marvellous statue of Alexander the Great,
represented nude, as a god, his head being the finest marble portrait of the
Macedonian king which has come down to us ; a pretty Eros (or Cupid) shooting
with the bow. . . . From the ruins of the Capitol came a colossal statue of
the King of Gods, •aegis-bearing’ Jove, leaning on his sceptre, with a thunder¬
bolt in his right hand and the eagle at his feet. As we learn from the
inscription, the statue is by Zenion, a sculptor hitherto unknown, but probably belong¬
ing to the School of Aphrodisias.’* The winged “Victory ’’ was found on the site
of ancient Balagrae, at Zania el Beida, near Cyrene.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan 15. 1921-81
GLE3
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
H itherto. Dan¬
cing has been the
Cinderella of the Arts. Yet
it is rooted in ecstasy, like
all its sister arts, and can
boast the longest lineage,
being as old as Eros (the oldest of deities),
according to Lucian. It is also the most spon¬
taneous, for it is made up of emotions that
expre themselves forthwith in bodily gestures
and movements — in its primitive form, at
any rate, not being concerned with passion in
retrospect or " emotion recollected in tranquillity."
which is the stuff of poetry. With children and
simple peoples, who have never been taught that
it is indecorous to display their feelings, emotion
is immediately translated into action. For a
child, words are never enough for the expression
of heart’s delight—as may be seen at any street-
corner when a barrel-organ is grinding out the
tunes that once were beautiful even for musical
critics. The whole body then becomes an in¬
strument for joy to play upon. Joy for joy’s
sake, however, is not yet art "A child dancing
for its own delight,” observes Ruskin, " a lamb
leaping or a fawn at play, are happy and holy
creatures ; but they are not artists. An artist is
a person who has submitted to a law which it
was painful to obey, that he may bestow a de¬
light which it is gracious to bestow ” Dancing
No more skill was demanded of them than of the
banner-bearers at a Christmas pantomime. Mr.
Max Beerbohm (I think it was . . . yes, it must
have been !) described the ballet of the period as
chiefly a procession of “ rank after rank and file
after file of honest bread-winners from Camber¬
well and Peckham Rye. performing mechanical
mamuuvres with the dogged persistence of a com¬
pany of Boy Scouts ” Thus the public was
persuaded that the ballet was a bore, and the
art of the ballerina fell into undeserved contempt.
Still, when things were at their worst, signs of a
revival could be discerned It began in down¬
right earnest when Adeline Gen*e. in Delibes’
” Coppelia ” and in the ” I>ryad.” captured all
hearts with her brilliant technique, her arch-
merrimcnt. her never-fully-explored power of ex¬
pressing emotion. (As she never had a male
partner worthy of her art. she could never show
her true capacity of miming.) Then came the
Russian Ballet—a svnthesis of the arts wrought
by artistic revolutionaries -which taught us that
it was the lack of male dancers which had
reduced an old and still beautiful art-form to a
pretty insignificance with us. and in Italy, the
home of its true technique, to little more than a
soulless virtuosity. When it becomes the per¬
quisite of women, an art inevitably declines into
a mere accomplishment Since the coming of
the Diaghilev ballet, the public here has become
every emotion had its
appropriate and spon¬
taneous rhythm ? Can we
cure ourselves of the stutter¬
ing gait and staccato ges¬
tures. the whole gamut of
angular. jerky, abrupt, disjointed movements,
which is largely the result of sacrificing man to
machinery 5 In “ Rhythm. Music, and Edu¬
cation ” (Chatto and Wmdus ; 15s. net), by
Emile Jacques Dalcroze. translated from the French
by H F. Rubinstein and introduced by Sir W. H.
Hadow, this great problem is discussed and a
complete solution proposed. No man living has
done more for the study of rhythmic beauty,
but I find it impossible to follow M. Jacques Dal
croze when he” scorns both the ballet-dancing of
Karsavina and Nijinsky and the *' classical ”
dancing of Isadora Duncan. Both are conven¬
tions. no doubt, but I feel there is beauty in them —
and. after all. as Mr. George Moore observed in
the introduction to ” Gabriklle ” (privately
printed), you cannot get art without conventions.
In point of fact, the inventor of Eurhythmies
tramples on the conventions of others with a
conventionalism of his own. Still, he is right in
saying that the music to which the academic
or the classical dancer moves too often has not
the slightest connection with his or her move¬
ments. Nay. even Stravinsky has not solved
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was closely connected with religious ritual in
ancient times, especially in Egypt. It w-as among
the Egyptians that the first technique of this art
appeared. From the painted records that have
come down to us, it seems certain that they were
familiar with many of the movements— eg.. the
pirouette—of the modem ballet. Later in Greece,
where dancing escaped from the tutelage of religion,
another and ampler technique, a free and natural
revelation of the beauty and power of “ the human
form divine.” was communicated in statuary and
vase-paintings, of which Isadora Duncan and
others have been the accepted interpreters—
though I have my doubts as to whether Athenian
spectators, sitting on the benches of their marble
theatre and talking about the Empire and eating
fruit, would be as complaisant as we have been
to these fair and inventive ladies. Of this, at
least, I am fully convinced : no Greek would have
enjoyed Karsavina’s artistry, and no Egyptian
would have sat through a modem performance of
” classical ’’ dancing at Chelsea or elsewhere !
Long before the war there were signs of a
revival of interest in Dancing as an Art in all the
Western countries. In England even, the ” oper¬
atic ballet,” still so styled in spite of the creation
of the ballet d'actwn by Noverre a century and a
half before, had degenerated in the 'eighties to a
meaningless flourishing of legs, more legs, nothing
but legs. The original corps-de-ballet, whose busi¬
ness was to dance, became a chorus marching
and counter-marching with military precision.
keenly interested in all possible (and impossible)
forms of dancing—one of the most vital move¬
ments being Mr. Cecil Sharp’s rediscovery and
revival of English folk-dances and country-dances,
which might be made the basis of stories in rhythm
as quaint and alluring as ” Lcs Vierges Folles ’’
of the Swedish Ballet. Every form of art-dancing
now has its votaries in England, and the number
is constantly being increased by recruits from the
myriads, both men and women, for whom ball¬
room dancing is the most joyous of diversions.
During the war-years there were times and places,
where tango, and other irregular verbs in the lan¬
guage of rhythmic gesture, were conjugated in
such a way as not to admit even of the excuse
tendered by ” Saki’s ” kindly old dowager :
” Well, I suppose it doesn’t matter if they really
love one another ! ” Some saw in this war-time
craze for indecorous dancing a prelude of revolu¬
tion, heralding something like the Carmagnole-
storms of rags in the blood-stained streets of
Paris during the Terror, or even a symptom of
the jigging epidemics that ran through the whole
of Europe in dark and dismal periods of the
Middle Ages. But this corybantic excess is no
longer seen, except in holes and corners of the
London under-world, and the popularity of
dancing to-day means something added to the
joyousness of nations.
But can we get back again to that Golden
Age (let us assume it did once exist !) when music
and dancing were one art and indivisible, and
the problem of making music that can be danced,
the bodily rhythms having the same relation to
it as the words—or, rather, the emotions they
express—have to the melody of a song. Com¬
plete as it seems to us. the ensemble of a Russian
ballet such as ” Scheherazade ” or “ The Fire¬
bird ” (ah, worthy Professor, is not Karsavina
a veritable bird with flames for feathers in that
strange fantasy ?) is a broken and imperfect
thing. But it is in his conception of the Eurhythmic
crowd, executing movements in order and sym¬
metry without presenting the aspect of a battalion
of soldiers—yet counter-pointing the musical
design in a hundred different ways by gestures,
steps, and attitudes, and all the time convev.ng
an impression of unity and order—that M. Jacques
Dalcroze has made his great contribution to the
choregTaphy of the future. He has actually
realised these effects—e.g., at the Festival vaudois
of 1903 (long before Reinhardt's productions),
when a chorus of 1800 persons took part, according
to his principles; at Hellerau in 1911, when he
presented a polyrhythm of crowds on staircases
and inclines; and in 1914 at Geneva, when the
plastic interpretation of a symphony was secured
by zoo rhythmic students on a flat surface, tiers,
and monumental staircases. The crowd may now
be a giant protagonist, yet feeling every change
of emotion and thought, in the drama of music,
dancing, miming, and dUcor, and, to judge by
Mr. Bertrand Russell’s description of the pageant
of the ” World Commune ” at Petrograd, the
Russians think a mob can be introduced.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 15 . 1921—86
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
Isii
N the forthcoming,
sales there are
alluring items which, in
the pilgrimage through
the never-ending plains
of art dispersals, are
scattered like oases. In a sale on
Jan. 18 at Messrs. Christie's one
comes across a small panel of Warwickshire
tapestry of the sixteenth century, with the subject
Abraham’s Sacrifice, in coloured silks and gold and
silver thread, inscribed ” Have a Stronge Faith in
Cod onely,” and " Not this, but my Good Will."
In a walnut frame from the same collection is a
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ISSUED SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE THE CAPTURE OF QUEBEC
-* SECRET INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUR TRUSTY AND WELBE-
LOVED JAMES WOLFE "—A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY GEORCE IJ.
This very interesting historical document is included in the sale at
Sotheby’s, on Feb. 10 next, of the official correspondence of General
Robert Monckton during his service in North America, 1752-1763. It
bears date Feb. 5, 1759. Quebec was taken on Sept. 13 following,
when Wolfe fell in the hour of victory.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge.
panel of Charles II. stumpwork with the King and
Queen and other figures worked in coloured silks
-on satin. The long Oriental services of our great¬
grandmothers are now becoming rapidly scarce,
for hard porcelain gets chipped and broken easily.
The type is represented in a service, in a sale at
Christie's on the i8th, which included one hundred
■dinner plates, and other comjx>nent parts less
numerical, of Kien-Lung jiorcelain with enamelled
bouquets and baskets of flowers in the Euroftean
taste. This style was once passed off as “ Oriental -
Lowestoft,” so called, but the little Lowestoft
factory neither made nor decorated hard paste china.
In a sale of valuable books and illuminated
manuscripts by Messrs. Sothcby on Jan. 17 and
two following days, the Governors of Christ’s
Hospital come into the market as sellers with
some two hundred volumes comprised in ninety-
seven lots. It is an awkward precedent for
a foundation, but no doubt the Governors
require funds. We are all penurious. The Dean
of St. Paul's may have to barter his deanery to
an opulent cinema. The Governors are a century
removed from Charles Lamb’s record, in his essay-
on Christ’s Hospital, of his boyhood's tortures, and
one or two instances of lunacy and attempted
suicide by reason of excessive punishment. F»re-
aumably nowadays there is no " Monday’s milk
porritch, blue and tasteless,” and ” pease soup of
Saturdays, coarse and choking.” It is to be hoped
that the many volumes, including the Bible, the
Rev. John Eliot’s Indian translation (Algonquian
tongue), 1663, which is a first edition and exceed¬
ingly rare, will bring funds to the Governors to
2 ^.
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
, expend wisely, so that no new Lamb will arise to
complain of regimen. From the collection of the
late Baroness Amherst of Hackney comes one of the
finest specimens of Wynkyn de Worde’s printing
on very thick paper made expressly by John Tate,
the first paper-maker in England. This volume.
” Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum.” by
De Glanville, in date 1495. was translated into
English by John of Treves. Some rhymes at the
end of the b<jok state that Caxton first printed this
book in Cologne, and the stout paper English
edition is, curiously enough, mentioned as fAm.
” John Tate the yonger . . . which late in Englonde
doo make this paper thynne, that now in our
englvssh this book is printed inne.” Which
1 record shows how the competitive trade
* struggle for supremacy has waged between
England and Germany since the days of
tm/y ■ the Hanseatic League.
> j A French item of historic interest
(illustrated elsewhere) is a set of nine Road
Hmfatk Maps made by Tonnet, the Geographer of
* " Louis XV., and enclosed in the original red
. morocco case tooled with alternate dolphins
and fleurs-de-lys. with an achievement of
the arms of the Dauphin and Dauphine
• t inscribed ” Cartes de la Route de Madame
la Dauphine de Strasbourg 4 Versailles.”
They were executed for Marie Antoinette
for use in the French section of her journey
fc// from Vienna when as a girl of fifteen she
/ made her eventful journey to Paris.
* Messrs. Sotheby are selling on Feb. 10,
wMt* the property of Mr. George Edward
Monckton, a collection of official corre-
«_ 7 , spondence of General Robert Monckton
, . { during his service in North America.
^ 1752 - 1763, as second in command to
fa General Wolfe. The letters from Wolfe
j . to him are of unique interest, and prob-
ably form the finest collection of Wolfe
letters ever offered at auction. The papers
V and official documents as a whole, in
* * addition to their interest to the collector.
* throw a fresh light upon some of the more
.! important events of a very critical period
U 1 of North American history, and come
tgj : straight from the companion-in-arms of
W r olfe who was wounded on the Heights
’ of Abraham at the taking of Quebec,
ffa where Wolfe lost his life.
With the exception of the 1
**** first five lots, which are pic¬
tures, the whole of the col-
lection will be offered first as JD
one lot (nuipbers 6 to 180) ;
IEBEC but. if the reserve is not
'ELBE- realised, each lot is to be JL‘.
fGE II *°W separately and thus dis-
persed. m
at Some of the interesting m
63 it features comprise "The 7^
1 lowing Unanimous Address of the -•
Merchants and Traders of the f
City of New York to His ^
Excellency Robert Monckton,
congratulating him upon his safe re- fa
turn from the Expedition against
Martinique, with fifty-one signatures. ,
New York, 1762,” and other similar
addresses. There are fietitions of
French prisoners, instructions relative ^
to transportation of French inhabit- Mm -* i
ants of the districts of Chignecto out ^ j
of the province of Nova Scotia.
Longfellow immortalised the expul- f -jg^L
sion of the French in his ” Evange- 1
line,” a tale of Acadie. As these
letters show, the French inhabitants #
refused to take the oath of allegiance "A*
to the British Sovereign, and General
Braddock had been defeated by the
French and had died of his wounds. fa
The country had to be garrisoned '
and the inhabitants removed. There
is evidence that the order was carried *
out with undue severity, and without *— -——
due regard to the rights of humanity.
Among the Wolfe documents are
many giving directions for the con¬
duct of the campaign, and secret in- *'*’
structions and orders in regard to A RELIC C
the embarkation of a brigade in ” flat- WOLFE TO
bottom’d Boats to row along the A FEW w
South Shoar, until you perceive 3
Lanthorns hanging a breast, upon Th * abov * ia
that side of the Sutherland which is correspon met
,, . part of a do
opposite to that shoar. There is a 1759 from
document (here illustrated) being the regarding the
” Secret Instructions for our Trusty Sept. 13
and Wclbcloved
James Wolfe Esqr,
Brigadier-General of our
Forces in North America,
and Major-General and
Commander in chief of a
Body of our Land Forces, to be em
ployed on an Expedition against
Quebec, by the Way of the River St Lawrence.”
The events of the storming of Quebec are tinged
with melancholy. It is recorded that Wolfe, whose .
spirits had grown pensive, revived as the evening
wore on. It is well known how. as they rowed
down the river, he read Gray’s " Elegy ” to his
officers, and. coming to the line, ” The paths of
glory lead but to the grave," he remarked, ” I had
rather, gentlemen, have been the author of that
line than take Quebec."
Let no one suppose that the taking of Quebec
was a glorious fluke. Wolfe had his orders months
before, and the War Office of the eighteenth century
planned everything in detail, as these documents
show. Quebec was the eighteenth century Zee-
brugge. Benjamin West’s " Death of Wolfe *’
comes up for sale, together with William VVollctt’s
engraving. West broke all the canons of historical
painting. British Generals had to be in classic attire,
as in Westminster Abbey West was original, and
thought other* isc In vain the Archbishop of York,
stepping aside from his ecclesiastical functions,
called on Reynolds to expostulate at the " bar¬
barism of boots and buttons and blunderbusses.”
Sir Joshua came to view " The Death of Wolfe,"
and marvelled. He exclaimed : " This will occasion
a revolution in art." Henceforth Roman togas and
Greek costume were thrown to the winds, and
historic pictures represented real events as they
were. The Indian warrior watching the dying hero
to see if he equalled in fortitude his own race is a
fine stroke of poetry. " This event happened in
1759.” said West to George III., who questioned
him, "in a region of the world unknown to the
Greeks and the Romans . . . the same truth
which gives law to the historian should give law
to the painter." West won in the controversy,
for the King said, ” You will make a copy
for me.” Lord Grosvenor, who believed, held
the original, which hangs in his descendants’
gallery to-day. Here is another, the Monckton
copy, of undoubted authenticity.
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WOLFE TO HIS SECOND IN COMMAND. BRIG.-GEN. MONCKTON.
A FEW WEEKS BEFORE ITS CAPTURE AND WOLFE’S DEATH
The above is also included in the sale of General Robert Moncktons official
correspondence (1752-63), to be held at Sotheby’s on Feb. 10 next. It «
part of a document of one and a half pages in Wolfe’s hand, dated Aug. 17,
1759, from the Camp of Montmorency, giving orders to Brig.-Gen. Monckton
regarding the Highland Corps. Wolfe fell at the capture of Quebec on
Sept. 13, 1759.— \By Courtesy of Messrs. Sotheby. Wslktnson and Hodge.]
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
MAN-HUNTING.
'"PHE sport of man-hunting, as pursued, for ex-
* ample, by the head-hunters of Borneo, or the
Thugs of India, was one which demanded very special
qualifications to ensure success; and the most
essential of these were stealth and cunning. To-day,
a new forni of man-hunting has come to the fore,
and this also demands special qualifications, but of
a very different kind. Those who essay its pursuit must
be endowed with a patience in¬
exhaustible, and a knowledge of
the history of Mother Earth
which goes back millions of years
as well as of the creatures which
live, and have lived, in her secret
places. For the quarry now is
not creatures of flesh and blood,
but the mere fragments of men
who hunted, and were hunted,
igcs and ages before the dawn
of " history " in the general sense
of the term.
The most ambitious of hunt¬
ing expeditions of this kind yet
planned is that which is just
being sent out by the American
Museum of Natural History,
under the leadership of my friend
Mr Hoy C. Andrews. For five
vears he and his staff are to seek
buried treasure ” in remote
regions of Central Asia. Fossils
of every’ kind are to be sought,
but first and foremost, and all
the time, must come fossil man.
But among the members of this
expedition will be some whose
concern will be the living. They
are to collect wild animals and
plants of every kind. For them,
too, the study of man will be of
paramount importance. Little
known of the aborigines scat-
at long last, published descriptions of two wonderful
skulls of fossil men found by him thirty years ago
in Java, an island which is to receive most particular
attention in the course of this expedition. Some¬
where alvnit the time that Professor l>ubois. a Dutch
army surgeon, found these skulls, he found also
part of a skull, two molar teeth, and a thigh which
ever since have been “ bones of contention ” among
anthropologists. The long, low forehead of the
skull was unlike anything ever before seen in a human
cranium ; and discussion, often rancorous, raged
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is not known to exceed boo c.i. That of a healthy
human being to-day never falls below 88o c.c. A
survey of all the evidence seems to show that we must
regard Pithecanthropus as an extremely primitive
form of human being, but not entitled to be included
within the genus Homo. .
And now as to the other Javan skulls. About the
human character of these there is no question, but
they are undoubtedly of a very primitive kind
They bear a very close likeness, it would seem, to the
now famous Talgai skull of Australia. And if this
prove to he the case, the find will
have a greatly enhanced value,
on account of the light they will
throw on the problem of the
origin of the aborigines of Aus¬
tralia. The largest of the ncwly-
described Javan skulls is said to
lie that of a woman, and to have
a brain-cavity one-seventh larger
than the average Englishwoman
of tn-dav.
In this it recalls the very re¬
markable calvarium found near
Hoskop, in the Transvaal, in 1913.
Concerning this skull, which has
I»cen submitted to me for ex¬
amination. I hope to have some¬
thing to say later. For the mo¬
ment, let me remark that, as
lYofessor Elliot Smith contends,
the chief factor which above all
others determines brain superior¬
ity is not so much mere bulk, as
the size of the pre-frontal area.
It is certainly remarkable that
the brain-cavity of this Boskop
skull must have been somewhere
about 1900 c.c. — greater than
the philosopher Kant’s skull, and
almost as large as Bismarck’s.
W. P. Pycraft.
tered among the mountains of Yunnan and Kweichow,
and along the Thibetan frontier ; and it is hoped that,
as a result, a rich harvest of information will be
gleaned as to ancient tribes such as the Lolos,
Mosos, Lisos and others who are rapidly disappearing,
and this before we have learned anything, at any
rate of importance, of their origin, life or customs.
Just as this expedition is on the point of sailing
comes news that will not a little increase the desire
of all to get to work, for Professor Dubois has now,
for long years. It was suggested that the remains
were those of a microcephalic idiot, or of a monster
begotten of human and simian parents. Virchow
was of opinion that its pecularities were pathological.
Huxley regarded them as human, and he was right.
There be some, even to-day. however, who incline to
the view that these remains are of a gigantic gibbon,
that is to say, one of the higher apes. But the brain-
cavity renders this view untenable, for its capacity
is given as 850 c.c., while that of the highest apes
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LADIES’ NEWS.
M RS. BRINTON, who is still better known to
the general public as Mrs. Willie James, is
marrying off her daughters quite quickly. The third.
Miss Silvia Helena James, is now Mrs. John Menzies
Wilson, and her wedding last week brought us the
sight of part of a squadron of znd Life Guards in
full review order. Princess Christian was present,
the bride being her god-daughter. The procession of
bridesmaids was very pretty. Two pages carried
the train ; then came four dear, wee girls, three of
them Howards, nieces of the bride, the fourth the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Austen Chamberlain.
Then came the bride’s only unmarried sister and the
Hon. L>oris Harcourt. All were in soft, rich yellow.
Behind them came the stalwart Guardsmen. The
decorations were standard trees on which were
oranges and something white which might pass
for orange-blossom if. like '* the Marchioness ” of
Dickens, we made-believe a great deal. On so
dark a day. something brighter would have had
more effect. However, that is a detail, and the
wedding was a really pretty one.
Many people have heard with regret of the death
of Blanche Countess of Airlie. For some years past
she had not been about a great deal ; when one did
see her. she was a picturesque and dignified figure,
wearing a distinctive dress like that ol Quakeresses,
with a difference, for she did not belong to the
Society of Friends. Her mother, the late Lady
Stanley of Alderley. was a pioneer of higher education
for girls, and was. in early Victorian days, a friend
of Palmerston and of many other celebrities, for
she was the holder of a salon Blanche Lady Airlie was
a very cultured and clever woman, and knew many
of the great people of her day. including Lord Heacons-
field. The late Earl was killed leading a charge of
the Queen's Bays which saved the guns at Diamond
Hill, in the South African campaign.
The Queen at a Hunt Ball sounds somewhat demo¬
cratic. It was. I think, rather of a friendly and
county espeit-de-corps character. The ball, although
a subscription one, was held in a private house, and
one in which Royalty had often been entertained—
Hillington Hall, near King’s Lynn, long in the flolkes
family, and now the property of the Hon. Mrs. John
Dawnay. who was a flolkes. The Queen of Norway
was there; also the Prince of Wales, the Duke of
York. Princess Mary, and Prince Henry. The Queen
danced in a square, and the Princes and Princess
hardly missed a dance. It was the most brilliant and
THE POPULARITY OF THE CHEMISE FROCK.
A harmonious whole U produced br the alliance of tena-
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si Ik. The picture hat Is o< velvet, and it* only ornament is
an aetnch-laathar in copper and flame. \Pkniofvap* by L.S.A.]
successful ball ever held by the West Norfolk Hunt,
and now it is hoped to repeat it next season
under similarly brilliant conditions. The Prince
of Wales was in pink, and the other Princes in evening
dress, as they are not yet members of hunt clubs.
Some digestions have ” strikitis" after heavv
work during holiday time. A " light fare ” cookery-
book it therefore specially welcome. Brown and
Poison have issued a particularly good one. published
by them at 6. Bouvene Street. E.C.4, for the modest
pnee of zs. Cornflour and " Raisley *’ naturally play
a part in the dishes, which are carefully classified,
including soups, meat savouries, sweets, cakes, buns
and bread. It is easy and simple, and every recipe
has been tested. It demonstrates the value of Brown
and Pdson’s cornflour and " Raisley.” The blanc¬
manges. jellies, sponges, etc., are specially alluring.
The directions are clear and concise, and the
volume is one of great value to the cook. Although
the price is zs., • copy will be forwarded for is.,
post paid, to any reader of The Illustrated London News
who writes for it to the above address. It is a really
practical book, and the cookery in it is just right.
A Roman Catholic wedding, where bride and
groom are of that faith, is a long affair. That of the
Polish Charge d Affaires in I^ondon. M. Jean Ciechan-
owski, to Miss C.lady* Koch de Gooreynd, at the
Brompton Oratory, lasted for over an hour. The
wedding itself was quickly over, and was followed by
a I-ow, or Nuptial. Maas, which was said or sung by
Monsignor Carton de W’iart. brother of the Belgian
General of that name. There was lovely music, and
it was very impressive. There were many diplomatists
present, including the Spanish Ambassador ; the
Japanese Ambassador and Baroness Hayashi ; the
Belgian Ambassador ; Mrs. Davis, wife of the American
Ambassador, supported by the Councillor and Mrs.
Butler W’right. the Secretary and Mrs. Bliss Lane, and
Mr. and Mrs. Beale ; the Netherlands Minister and
handsome Mme. Van Swinderen ; and the Italian
Charge d Affaires It was really like an international
alliance.
Something quite new is the vacancies in rooms at
the big West End hotels Time was. and not long
ago, when it was well-nigh impossible to get a single
room in which to spend a few nights in London. Lots
of people are in the sunny South, lots more are in the
snowy mountains for winter sports, others are busy
attending hunt balls and staying at country houses;
so London is not so full as it was. Constant dances
in hotels drive away some of the quiet folk ; dances
are. however, not so frequent as they were, and are
likely to become still less frequent, for the craze is
gradually dying out, and the spring, with its outdoor
enjoyments, will kill it outright, I think.—A. F L.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan L r ».
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
Pans, Jan. 3, 1921.
T HE adoption of Verdun by the City of London
is one of those acts which will stand out when
the history of these times comes to be written.
Nothing could have pleased the French nation more
than this graceful recognition of the valiant city
whose heroic stand against the invaders has in¬
vested her with the halo of martyrdom.
The association of these two famous towns will
forge yet another link in the chain of sympathy
and brotherhood which binds the two nations
together. There have been many plans discussed
for a suitable memorial which should commem¬
orate the heroic sacrifice of the countless French
soldiers in that famous sector, and, after months
of careful deliberation, it has at last been decided
to establish a great cemetery’ on the slopes of the
Douaumont Hill, consisting of forty tombs repre¬
senting the forty most famous battles of the
defence. These will be guarded by four chapels,
representing in their turn the Roman Catholic.
Protestant, Jewish, and Moslem faiths. The com¬
mittee entrusted with the carrying out of this
scheme is headed by M. Poincax*, with whom is
associated M. Maginot, and the work is to be
put in hand immediately.
For some time past money has been coming in
for this purpose, especially from America, whose
troops were privileged to play a part in the de¬
fence of the famous citadel ; while it is proposed
to hold a " National Day,” some time in the
spring, throughout France, in order to secure the
funds necessary for the completion of the work
Verdun has become, in a sense, the second capital
of France, for, after Paris -whose place must
always be first in every true Frenchman's heart -
Verdun certainly ranks next in his estimation
He has invested her with an atmosphere which is
almost sacred.
The ultimate outcome of the battle now being
waged between the adherents of the ” Third Inter-
majority of the Socialist party ; but this is, perhaps. mankind. He may be a simple creature of little or
anticipating. no education, but he has a well-developed sense of
In the meanwhile, Messrs. Cachin and Frossard are personal property, and is difficult to convince,
busy trying to throw dust in the eyes of the French It will be extremely interesting to see what kind
public by means of cleverly written articles, the purpose of a fight the Committee of Resistance, consisting
of which is to prove that the great majority of French chiefly of the late extremist leaders, will put up. and
peasants are in favour of Bolshevism, pure and un- whether they will succeed in justifying their title,
diluted. I'nfortunatelv for this theory, in the course One thing is certain, the Socialist party has been rent
in half already, and Lenin’s telegram " excom¬
municating " Messrs. Longuet and Blum will
make further divisions in the Socialist house,
already divided against itself.
This* week has seen the production of a play
of unusual interest even for Paris, " Le Simoun,”
by a young dramatist of great promise. M.
I^normand. a wnter whose purity of style and
command of the French language have won for
him the approbation of so competent a judge as
M. Robert de Flers, has chosen a curious theme,
which he has handled with consummate skill.
The scene is laid on the north coast of Africa,
which is depicted in a series of beautiful scenes—
fourteen in all -the effect of the constant changing
being to retard in some measure the action of the
play. M. Gamier has scored yet another personal
triumph in the part of the hero, Laurency. who
is a Kuropean working in a small village in the
south of Algena. There he is joined, on the
death of hts wife in Europe, by his daughter
whom he left in infancy. Her strong resemblance
to her dead mother wakes passionate memories,
and he bitterly resents the advances of a young
native who desires her hand in marriage.
** Kitchener House " for officers and ex-
officers, which has been so much appreciated
for the last two years, has been moved from
34. Grosvenor Place to 59. Sloanc Street. Here
tuition in languages, bookkeeping, typewriting,
shorthand, carpentering, and. indeed, anything
which might help ex-officers to obtain employ¬
ment. can be had free. It is hoped that those
who have not already visited the house will
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national ” and the anti-Bolshevist Socialists, at
Tours, will undoubtedly have an effect in all the
countries of Europe. The overwhelming vote at
the opening meeting in favour of giving prefer¬
ence to the discussion of the Moscow terms was
decidedly disconcerting, but it was only the signal
for the battle to commence. M. Cachin led off
with a eulogy of Soviet Russia which was too fatuous
to be taken seriously—as. for instance, when he told
his audience that the Russian people were so happy
under the present regime that their only fear was lest
it should not continue. He was careful to refrain
from mentioning any of the twenty-one conditions
(originally eighteen) which Messrs. Lenin and Trotsky
seek to impose on their Prench " Comrades ” before
allowing them to join the Third International. When
these conditions come to be discussed, many of them
will be found to be extremely unpalatable to the
HOISTING THE NEW RAF. FLAG OVER THE AIR MINISTRY
FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE ENSIGN OF THE BLUE.
The ground colour of the ensign is Air-Force blue. In the left-hand top
quarter is the Union Jack, and on the right the round R.A F. identification
mark. The occasion illustrated took place on the roof of the Air Ministry
in Kingsway, on January 5 .—[Photograph by Photopreu .]
of the first day’s debate several delegates rose up 1
and declared their constituents to be strongly anti- '
Bolshevist, on the ground that Bolshevism meant I
the abolition of private ownership, and this they would ’
never agree to. i
Here, indeed, lies France’s greatest safeguard 1
against Bolshevism, no matter what a hall - full of s
Socialists may decide. The peasant proprietor is a I
great force in this country, and what he has earned i
by honest toil he does not intend to give up for a
vague promise’ of future benefits for himself and s
take an opportunity to call for particulars.
At Messrs. Armstrong. Whitworth and Com-
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1 launched recently a new geared turbine steamer in¬
tended for the Great Eastern Railway Company’s
Harwich-Antwerp service. The christening cere¬
mony was performed by Mrs. John Kenneth Foster,
who named the vessel At alines. The new boat will
be divided by water - tight bulkheads into nine
water-tight compartments, fitted with Stone Lloyd’s
mechanically worked water-tight doors, operated from
the bridge and controlled by the Captain. She has
accommodation, including many single-berth cabins,
for over 360 passengers, and is fitted with all modern
improvements. The Alahnes is a sister ship of the
Antwerp and Bruges, placed on the service last year,
and is expected to be ready for the summer season.
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A Good
Light Car.
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
The weight of the new taxation
is naturally turning the thoughts
of the motorist towards cars of
relatively low horse-power, and consequently light
taxation and costs of upkeep. The numerous cars
coming within the " eleven-point-nine ” class seem to
be receiving most attention now — and justly so,
because they aie. as a rule, very efficient, and in
performance are a long way in advance of their
nominal rating. Of course, the cars which make up
this class vary in merit, though it may be said that I
do not know one that 1 should call bad, or even poor.
It is simply that some are better than others. One
of which 1 have had recent experience, the Albert, is
certainly to be classed among those which arc very
good. Thoroughly well designed, built by a firm
with many years of engineering experience, and with
a real " service ” organisation behind it. the Albert
is one of those cars which one can purchase without
the slightest misgiving. It is. 1 think, destined to
become one of the most popular cars in the class—
which is saying a good deal in its favour, because
there are so many good ones that the discriminating
motorist is at no loss in making his choice. It is a
car which one has no hesitation in recommending,
not least because the owner is assured that the service
organisation at his disposal is second to none. What
that means the car-owner who has suffered at the hands
of firms possessing no such organisation will be fully
able to appreciate.
One alleged weakness of light-car
Light-Car design is the spring .
Suspension. ing Therc are hght
cars which are better sprung than some
others, but the very lightness of the
vehicle itself is against the designer who
sets out to give the maximum of comfort
on bad roads. My own view is that every
light car needs some auxiliary device in
addition to the springs themselves ; but
the difficulty is to decide which of the
many such devices offered is the right
one. At one time and another I have
tested most of them, with varying re¬
sults, but I have now come to something
like a definite conclusion as to their
merits. Recently I fitted a set of four
Gabriel “ snubbers ” to my car. and I
must say I have never experienced any¬
thing like the difference these have made.
Roads over which it was impossible to
travel at more than twenty miles an hour
“ Service.''
BEFORE THE STATUE OF PRESIDENT BRAND AT
BLOEMFONTEIN: A 25 30-H P. R FC CROSSLEY.
Sir Jan Hendrik Brand (1823-83) became President ol the late
Orange Free State Republic in 1863. and was re-elected four
tunes, tn 1869, 1874. 1879. and 1886 He visited England
in 1876.
before the " snubbers ” were fitted can now be taken
•with perfect comfort at thirty and over. In fact, the
car is a completely different vehicle, and I would not be
AN ADDITION TO A SPORTING MONARCH'S GARAGE: A NEW
RECENTLY SUPPLIED TO THE KING OF SPAIN.
without them for several times what they cost. Not
only is the added comfort almost unbelievable, but it
is obvious that the life of the car must be considerably
lengthened and the repair bills much lighter. The
Gabriel is an American device, which is sold in this
country by Messrs. Brown Brothers, of Great Eastern
Street, E C.
One reason why the American
car has made the headway it has
in this country is the service which is given to its
owner. Invariably, the manufacturer, if he is not
operating his own house on this side, insists upon the
firm to whom he grants a concession carrying a com¬
plete range of spares for every model imported, and
furthermore secs, to the best of his ability, that
concessionnaires and agents do really give proper
service to the purchasers of his cars. Unfortunately,
in the case of too many British manufacturers, this
quality of " service ” has been the last thing to be
thought about. Once the car has passed into the
hands of a private purchaser, all responsibility for
it has seemed to be ignored.
Generally speaking, the British maker has learnt
the lesson that if he would hold his market he must
give at least the same measure of attention to his
customers' cars as is extended by his foreign rival.
I know British firms whose service organisation is
superior to that of any American of them all. For
instance. I broke a front spring on my car a week
or two ago. and a telephone message to the works
near Oxford brought a new one within six hours.
When it was fitted it had more camber than the other,
so I thought I had better have another new one to
make a pair. The second one was on the
car the day after 1 wrote for it. That is
"service ” as understood by the Morris-
Oxford people.
„ . . .. Per contra, I had a
And IU Akn.no., Hghting madc by
one of the best-known firms in the car-
lighting and ignition industry. The other
day 1 had my tail - lamp smashed and
went to their London show-rooms for a
new one. I was told they could not sup¬
ply because they had none in stock. I
asked if 1 could get one from the pro¬
vincial works. " I might.” was all the
answer vouchsafed. People are crying out
about unfair competition from abroad,
but what, I ask, is to be expected when
such casual methods rule in British
trade ? Particularly is there talk about
the dumping of German magnetos. Not
long ago I wanted a cover for a contact-
[r ontitrued ciH-rUaf.
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The invariable high quality of the materials
admitted to the factory accounts for this.
These first-grade materials were unobtainable
during the war times, but are once again used in
the “ Clincher ” factory. The
20Z REDUCTION
taking effect from December 1st, 1920, combined
with the rigid maintenance of high quality,
means that super tyre service is the service of
The North British Rubber Co., Ltd.,
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upon it a pressure of more than <
quarter of a ton.
Yet that’s virtually what the insula¬
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fne explosions within the cylinders
increase in rapidity, the pressure is
practically continuous—a pressure of
Pounds dropping 300 times per
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o^tJ° mC T hi0n ot insu,ator 3450 and the
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 15. 1921 96
breaker of a British magneto. The London branch
of the manufacturers had not one. so I wrote to the
works. In three days I had a letter telling me they
hoped to dispatch the cover " in a few days."
Three or four days later I received a pro forma
invoice for five shillings, remitted the money and
received a cover of the wrong pattern and size.
Then I wrote certain things and got the right
cover by return of post. The Bosch people before
the war gave " service,” and it was not of the kind
l have recounted. The moral is too obvious to
need stating. W. W.
CHESS.
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G T Cutrkis (Perkham).—Apply to the Editor, Bnlith Chen Magazine.
who will probably assist you in the matter.
Correct Solutions or Problem No. 3830 received from LFon Kvlski
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K J Lonsdale (New Brighton).
Correct Solutions or Problem No. }8ji received from A W Hamil-
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Mr.S. F. EDGE’S APPRECIATION
of the 25 H.P. VAUXHALL
(
If you have formed
a fine taste in motor-cars,
the 25 h.p. Vauxhall is a
car built to please such
as you.
Its refinement is expressed both in its per*
formance and its appearance—and we doubt
whether you could find a fault in either.
Mr. Edge cannot, and he is a critic of
acknowledged competence.
The one paragraph we quote from his recent
article in “The Auto" is suggestive: it is not
the kind of thing one writes lightly.
T must once more emphasise my point that this is evidently a motor-car
I built by people who drive their own cars and know what a driving judge
of a car wants, to feel content. The general lines of the Vauxhall are, to
my eye, most artistic and pleasing. The mechanical details are all that the
most exacting could demand. And the car as a whole, as a motor-carriage in
which to drive or be driven, could not fail to impress the most critical. /
should like to offer my sincere congratulations to all concerned in its production.
No motor-manufacturer aiming to get into, and ^ /*
remain in, the high-class car market should
miss examining and trying the Vauxhall ^ ^
But wre should like you to read all that he haa to aay about the 25 h.p.
Vauxhall. Will you send a postcard asking for the S. F. Edge booklet ?
The 25 h.p. Vauxhall-Kington open-carseats 4-5 - £1450
The 25 h.p. VauxhalUSalisbury limousine • £1750
The 25 h.p. Vauxhall-Warwick landaulette £1750
The 25 h.p. Vauxhall-Sutherland cabriolet - £1750
The 25 h.p. Vauxhall Arundel cabriolet (V front) - £1725
The 30-98 h.p. Vauxhall Velox open car—the fastest
car of standard production- scats 4 £1675
The 25 h.p. Vauxhall i« guaranteed
for three years, and there is a free
inspection service. Buying a Vauxhall
is in every way a sound investment for
a user of best-class cars—in first cost,
in running expenses, in delightful
service, and in long - wearing life.
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POSTMASTER - GENERAL,
*»nce i^,-**^**'''^ enera l- Mr. A. H. Illingworth, who has been M.P. for Heywood
telephone r ^ * g °° d deal t0 sajr in rep,y to the cr *ticisms on the new
After receivin'*' Wh ' ch ’ “ °*»j®eted, have not been submitted to Parliament,
a statement "to ^ deputat *on from the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, he sent
accepted the ^ R,dde11 ’ in whic h he said : “ I was glad to hear that you
good by in,.* princ ‘ p * e ^hat any deficit on the telephone service must be made
creasing the charges to the telephone user and not by recourse to the |
AT THE TELEPHONE.
already heavily overburdened taxpayer. The increase required to meet the present
deficit represents an average of 67 per cent., on current rates, or 80 per cent, on
the pre-war tariff. Considering that wages have trebled, and the cost of plant
more than doubled, this increase can scarcely be considered exorbitant.” Answering
the argument that the deficit should be met by developing the service instead of
increasing the charges, he explained that, with telephones, expenses do not decrease,
as in other businesses, with an increase of subscriber*
THE ILUSTRATKP LONDON NEWS. Jan 22. 1921.-98
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
I have recently read a book on the new fashion
of Psycho-Analysis ; and my first impression
is that, whatever else it is. it is not analysis. It
may be suggestion, and even sometimes very
suggestive suggestion ; though there seems a cer¬
tain curious blindness to the difference between
suggesting a thing and proving it. But it is not
analysis ; for analysis implies the resolution of
something into all its elements. Now this is
exactly what these modern scientific fashions
never do. At most they extract one element ; at
best it is a necessary and neglected element. 1
have seen several of them in my time ; and this is
true of all of them all the time. The trend of
psycho-analysis is to detect in most things the
sexual element. But the same was true, for
instance, of the Marxian type of Socialism, which
was concerned to detect in all things the economic
element. I say " was ” rather
than '* is ” ; for wc have al¬
ready left behind the fashion
of Marxism, in spite of the
hundred Russian statues of
Marx. In Eastern Europe it
managed to produce a riot
at the very time when in
Western Europe it had begun
to suffer a rot. Sometimes
it is an exceedingly dry rot.
But, anyhow, the extreme
economic theory of history',
the theory that all the past
can be explained in terms of
the pursuit of food or wealth,
had already been modified
by all the ablest and most
large-minded Socialists ; as.
for instance, by that great
and admirable Socialist, Mr.
H. M. Hyndman. Neverthe¬
less, it will serve as a very
good working model of what
I mean by the analysts who
do not analyse.
A good hnd venerable
Socialist once propounded to
me, with defiant dogmatism,
this view that every’ single
historical event had a motive
connected with money. By
way of beginning with an
easy example, I said to him :
“ Well, for instance, what
about the Crusades ? ** He
paused reflectively, as if
admitting that this was a
problem worthy of grave
thought, and then said in a
deep voice : “ The Crusades
were due to the practice of
primogeniture in the holding
of land.” The younger sons.
I sup>p>ose, were at loose
ends ; so they started a
Crusade. But as the younger
sons are often at loose ends
nuw, why do they not start
a Crusade now ? We still
have primogenituie, why do
we not still have Crusaders ?
The obvious answer is. be¬
cause the other elements are
not present ; and the analyst has not analysed
all the elements, but only suggested the possible
existence of one element. Another way of stating
to explain a thing, when that thing would have
been quite a different thing if the same economic
motive had worked with different materials.
What we are by hypothesis asking is, what the
unoccupied younger brother will do : and it is
evident that we have to know a number of totally
different things, before we know whether he will
go to Jerusalem or Johannesburg. The common-
sense of the thing is. of course, that even when
the young knight had an economic motive, it was
only one of his motives ; and it was generally the
other motives that decided whether he should
become a Crusader or an outlaw, or a monk or
a murderer.
The truth is that this economic theory of the
Marxians is peculiarly inapplicable to history.
the same obvious truth is to say that everything
would have been different if everything else had
been different. If there had been no such symbol
as the Cross, it may be conjectured that the knights
would not have taken the Cross. If there had been
no such thing as the religion of Mahomet, pre¬
sumably they would not have attacked the religion
of Mahomet. Most probably they would have
done nothing ; but even if they had done some¬
thing they would certainly have done something
else. And what that something else would have
been, no economic theory of history can assist
us to form the faintest conjecture. And no
economic theory of historv can rationally be said
FRANCE’S NEW PREMIER AND MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS: M. ARISTIDE BRIAND.
M. Briand has become France's Prime Minister for the sixth time in the past twelve years, and also
holds the Portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs. His first tenure of the high office began in 1909,
when he was forty-seven, and lasted fifteen months. During the Great War. he was head of the
Government twice—from October 1915 until December 12. 1916; and from the latter day until March 17,
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even if it be applicable to biology. History is
the history of men, and especially of the varia¬
tions of men. Biology in that sense is the history
of animals, and especially of the uniformity of
animals. It is quite true that all animals seek
their food, and that men, being to that extent
animals, also seek their food. But if men sought
for nothing else except their food, they would be
like that happy but hypothetical nation that has
no history. A herd of cattle goes on grazing ;
but cattle do not write chronicles, if only because
they would have nothing to chronicle. Humanity
is like a herd of cattle in which one cow should
stand on its head out of a fantastic sense of
humour, while another cow should climb a tree
in order to hang itself. We have to conceive
a cow not only capable of producing a calf.
but the image of the golden calf or the parable
of the fatted calf.
History actually consists of these almost
fantastic departures from the direct line of the
search after food, or even of the search after
pleasure. For even in pleasure there has always
been a certain perversity. There is piathos, for
instance, which is the pleasure of pain. Our sort
of cattle arc perpetually tempting themselves
with the dangerous delight of listening to the tune
the old cow died of. There is fiction ; or the pleasure
of realising what we know to be unreal. We love
the most minute astronomical and zoological
description of how the cow jumped over the moon.
These and a thousand other paradoxes so mix
with and mislead the mere economic interest of
men that the economic motive, taken by itself,
would be quite misleading.
And so the sexual motive,
insisted on by the psycho¬
analysts, taken by itself,
would be quite misleading.
In the former case it is really
futile to tell us that a man
deciding to live in Monte
Carlo, and another man
dving to discover the North
Pole, both have some econo¬
mic motives, or in other
words, both occasionally re¬
quire something to eat. What
we want to know, for the pur¬
poses of history, is why one
man goes to Monte Carlo and
the other to the North Pole.
In the latter case of the
Freudian theories of sub-con¬
scious sex instinct, it is equally
futile to tell us that the sultan
in his harem, and the great
sculptor carving a statue of
Victory may both have some
direct or indirect associations
of beauty with sex. What we
want to know is why one is
an artist and the other only
a sensualist ; or, what comes
to the same thing, why the
statue of Victory stands in
Athens and not in Baghdad.
Sometimes, indeed, the new
psychologists seem to be very
fanciful even within their own
area of fact. In the pwycho-
logical work I have just read,
all sorts of works of art are
referred to the sub-conscious¬
ness which are no more sub¬
conscious than w’orks of geo¬
metry or engineering. We are
informed that Leonardo da
Vinci illustrates the dark and
shapeless sub-conscious origin
of our sense of beauty, because
he said, with characteristic
common-sense, that an artist
can often see suggestive shapes
in any mixed and variegated
surface, such as an old wall.
There is nothing in this that
is the least sub - conscious,
and certainly nothing that is the least sexual. If
ever there was a human being who had a con¬
scious rather than an unconscious mind, and who
knew exactly what he was doing, I should say
it was Leonardo da Vinci. In that respect the
mysticism of the modem psychology would evoke
nothing but contempt from the rationalism of
the Renaissance. I do not write as one rigidly
bound to rationalism, or one necessarily averse
from all kinds of mysticism. I do not deny that
there is an unconscious mind, nor that sex may be
an element in it. I merely repeat that to suggest
the possible presence of one psychological element
is not pisycho-analysis. It is pulling one thread out
of the tap>estry, as an idle child might do ; but there
are many richer colours and more intricate imagery
embroidered on the curtains of the tabernacle.
J
THE BILLIARDS CHAMPION DEFEATED : SMITH (IN PLAY).
THE WINNER, AND INMAN LURING THEIR RECENT MATCH.
BACK FROM UGANDA : REV. JOHN ROSCOE *
(LEFT) WITH DR. CHALMERS MITCHELL.
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
MR GERVASE ELWES,
THE SINGER
THE FIRST FOREWOMAN OF A JURY AT THE
OLD BAILEY : MRS. TAYLOR BUMSTEAD
promoted to V a N ! bl * clt ’ Naval Attache at the U.S. Embassy, was recently
Europe. Th mV P ut ln command of the U.S. Naval forces in
January 2 c r ' ’ ’ Pittsburg," flying his flag, will leave Gravesend on
billiard match^tVi! ^* w ** terranean --Smith beat Inman (the champion) in the
(Ind.) was elJtp^ ThUrSt ° n S by 16,000 t0 * 4 . * 39 --Colonel Sir Thomas Poison
(Co.U.)._| t 4t Dover b 7 * 3.947 T otes to 10,817 for Major J. J. Astor
Lord Milner SUtWl 0n J anuar T *7 that Mr. Winston Churchill would succeed
shot dead by r “‘* ned) “ Home Secretary — Mr. William McGrath, K.C., was
-y r I B v 0Wn mW1 Wb ° h™* 1 * * nto his house in Dublin on January 14.
aca ee. a well - known Anglo-American l>t, sine^«- •nan. who died
at Ascot on January n, was chairman of the British-American Continental Bank,
which recently suspended payment.-Count Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire, the new
French Ambassador, has been successively Minister-Resident in Morocco, Minister
at Bucharest, and Ambassador at Madrid.-The Rev. John Roscoe, the explorer,
recently returned from leading the Mackie Expedition to Uganda Mr. Gervase
Elwes, the famous English singer, was killed on January ta by a train at Boston,
U.S.A., while on a concert tour.-Mr. Samuel Roberts (Co.U.l won the bye-
election at Hereford. His father, Sir Samuel Roberts,, is M.P. for a Sheffield
Division.-Mrs. Taylor Bumstead was made forewoman of a jury at the Centra]
Criminal Court, on Tanu.irv rr. when women i>irors served for the first time.
THF. ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS. Jan. 22. 1921 <*i
PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE
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_ ’ ‘ * ****"* I.N.A., Yr.vr.Kne,, am. I.R.
CHAIRMAN OF A BANK
: THAT “ SUSPENDED " : THE
LATE MR J. B. MACAFEE.
MURDERED IN DUBLIN ON
JANUARY M : MR. WILLIAM
McGrath, k.c.
- -
THE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO
BRITAIN : COUNT DE ST. AULAIRE.
THE RESIGNATION OF A CABINET MINISTER : LORD MILNER. ^
SUCCEEDED AS COLONIAL SECRETARY BY MR. CHURCHILL.
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THE DOWNFALL OF THE LEEKS: ENGLAND BEATS WALES AT “ RUGGER.”
PHOToomaras iv C.N. awd G.P.U.
SCORING THE FIRST TRY FOR ENGLAND : LIEUT. C. A. KERSHAW (WITH
THE BALL, IN LEFT FOREGROUND) OVER THE WELSH LINE.
MR. A. M. SMALLWOOD (WITH THE BALL) NEARLY SCORES FOR ENGLAND I
COLLARED ON THE TOUCH-UNE CLOSE TO THE CORNER FLAG.
In the international Rugby football match at Twickenham on January 15, between
England and Wales, England won by one goal, one dropped goal, and three tries
(18 points) to one try (3 points). The English team's success was largely due
to the brilliant play of their outsides, especially the two half - backs, Lieut.-Com¬
mander W. J. A. Davies and Lieut. C. A. Kershaw (both Naval officers), who are
considered the best pair England ever had, and “ one of the really great pairs
in Rugby history.” The English forwards also played well. The Welsh j>ack
was heavier, but slow. Prince Henry was among the spectators, who numbered
about 40,000. The English team may be distinguished by their white jerseys :
the Welsh were red. Before the match a Welsh enthusiast climbed one of the
goal - posts and placed a bunch of leeks on top, but in sliding down he brought
the leeks with him—an evil omen !
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 22, 1921—101
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A PLAYER FOR EACH CLUB IN THE BAG! “TEAM GOLF.”
SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR “THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS" BY S. BEGG.
AND ANCIENT GAME in ITS --
CONVERTED INTO A “SOCIAL” PASTIME. THE niblick npcrctcr. .nd ThlTp.
.. .nrial ” pastime, but since the
its classic form is emphatically not a t0 Brighten it Up.
“ buddie ” has taken to the game he as se . at the idea of
i°us " gowfler” from north of the Tw a specia i player, but it
game, in which each club in the bag is a team, so that
m amusing variant of golf. Six is the usua num . r one mashie
i one driver, one brassie or deek player, one
. ™,tt*r The captain of the side dedt.es
expert, one niblick according to the Ue and position of the
which weapon is to be brought mmtn a side are usually employed,
bkll. Mi«d r ""l. ol tKU kind in p.dgrm .1 St. Enodod. North
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tk United States end Canada.]
S OMEBODY who
knew the two
brothers and their works once
expressed regret that William
James had not been the
novelist and Henry James the
philosopher. The same thought will inevitably
occur to many of the readers of " The Letters
of William James” (Longmans, Green, and Co.
two vols. ; 42s. net), which have been selected
by his son. Henry James, and strung, so to speak,
on a slender thread of biography. Whether or not
Henry would have succeeded as a philosopher is a
question which need not be answered, fortunately.
If he had made the attempt, he would at any rate
have been a master of the Hegelian method of ap¬
proaching a problem in a series of slowly-narrowing
circles, and the solution (if any) would have been
expounded in endless sentences resembling an apple-
pie, with the juice in its egg-cup, in construction.
But William James as a novelist would certainly
have been a " best seller,” for his gilt of pithy yet
picturesque narrative has never been surpassed,
and he could elucidate the most abstruse point of
human psychology in an epigram with the glow
and glitter of Emerson's jewels of imaginative
insight. The difference between William and
Henry, between the truth-seeker and the beauty-
seeker. was illustrated once for all when the former
discovered a story written by the latter at the age of
ten, in which, under a picture of a mother and child
clinging to a rock in the midst of a stormy ocean,
was inscribed the legend : “ The thunder roared
and the lightning followed ” 1 William tormented
the sensitive romancer about this meteorological
blunder so unmercifully that punishments had to
be awarded and the manuscript placed under a
maternal protectorate. One of the most delight¬
ful letters in this liberal—yet not too liberal—
selection is that in which William, having read
the " American Scene.” criticises the “ third
manner ” of his brother in a passage that seems to
parody the latter’s style, italics and all—
You know how opposed your whole " third manner ”
of execution is to the literary ideals which animate my
crude and Orson-like breast, mine being to say a thing
in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be
made, and then to drop it for ever ; yours being to
avoid naming it straight, but by dint of breathing and
sighing all round and round it to arouse in the reader
who may have had a similar perception already (Heaven
help him if he hasn’t !) the illusion of a solid object,
made (like the “ ghost ” in the Polytechnic) wholly out
of impalpable materials—air, and the prismatic inter¬
ferences of light, ingeniously
the Harvard professor’s keen sense of humour to
some extent justifies the hasty comparison. The
story of the student who stemmed the full tide of
a lecture one day by exclaiming ** But. Doctor,
Doctor !—do be serious for a moment.” brings
home to all who ever sat over him or heard him
talking at his leisure (as 1 did twice) the humorous
vivacity of his method of discussing the most
profound topics. Though be never fell info his
anccdotage. he loved an apposite little story, and
AUTHOR OF A NEW NOVEL. “ PRIVILEGE":
MR. MICHAEL SADLEIR.
Mr Michael Sadleir's new story, " Privilege,’* is to appear
on or about January 22. His previous novels. “ Hyssop ”
and " The Anchor.” had much success. He is on the
staff of Messrs. Constable, the well - known publishers.
one of the best in his fetters he got from his philo¬
sophic friend, M. Emile Boutroux, who told how
Kenan, when taking his seat in the French
Academy, gently observed : “ Qu’on est bien dans
ce fauteuil ! ” (the fauteuil is but a cushioned bench
with no back to it). ” Pcut-£tre n’y a-t-il que
cela de vrai.” He loved England and English life,
confessing that everything here was just a little
better than the same thing in America. Yet was
he an American of the Americans I
sjieaks of ” the mighty
good-will of him . . .
the safety of his second
thoughts . . . the fact that
he is an open, instead of an
underground leader.” All
these and other good qualities are exhibited in
“Theodoke Roosevelt and His Time ; Shown
in His Own Letters ” (Hotlder and Stoughton ;
two vols. ; 42s. net), which is a selection from
150.000 letters he wrote by Mr Joseph Bucklin
Bishop, who also provides a biographical thread—
a slender clue to the labyrinthine activities of the
virile statesman who was so well defined as a com¬
bination of St. Paul and St. Vitus. But the man-
in-himself docs not emerge from this vast dossier,
and we shall not read him aught till some writer
of vision explains him in lightning-flashes, leaving
out all the sawdust vf circumstance. Far more
vital reading is "Steeplejack” (Werner, I.aurie;
two vols. ; 42s. net), in which James Gibbon
Huneker. critic of all the arts, unfolds his amazing
autobiography. He quotes Walt Whitman : " I
find no sw> ter fat than sticks to my own bones,"
on his title-page, and the fluent impudence of his
revelations is worthy of the author of " Icono¬
clasts.” As Mr. George Moore haw dramatised
himself in " Gabrielle,” so Mr. Huneker now makes
himself the central figure, never off the stage, in
a twenty-spool kinema that might be entitled
" Criticism for the Critic’s Sake.” The descriptions
[e g., of Pans forty years ago) are delightful ; and,
if the author removes the pedestals and comments
on the clay feet of all the world’s idols of art, he
yet shows us their marble thews and bay-crowned
brows.
We are in the only aristocratic America remain¬
ing when reading ” From a Southern Porch ”
(Putnams ; 10s. 6d. net), by Dorothy Scarborough,
who surveys a quiet and considerate world from
• the verandah of a spacious house in old Virginia.
Thus she sits in her rocking-chair and teaches us
how to ” porch ”—for there ought to be, and is,
a special word for that happy art, dignified yet
curiously inclusive, of loafing amid the amenities
of the esoteric South, as yet unspoilt by financial
carpet-baggers from the North. She gently chides
those who clutter up the world with useless,
utilitarian tasks and turn life into a hortus siccus
of desiccated duties. "Most duties,” she avers,
" have no real cause to be performed, anyhow, and
he who rushes up to do them frenziedly finds out
later that he has fashed
himself for nothing." So
you sit in a rocking-chair
beside her and watch a
changing-changeless world
full of homely sights and
sounds and odours. Time
passes to the splash-
splash - splash of churn¬
ing. Darkies are singing
in the fields, puppies
worrying each other on
the grass, jays wrangling
on the gravel path ; there
is a hen with her cluck¬
ing brood in the flower¬
bed ; and a mule ambles
along the road in a cart
creaking with rheumatism
and old age. There is
time for everything and
anything, and also for
nothing at all, and the
long - remembered saying
of a Western worker at
a thinking - bee, " This
workin’ between meals
ain’t what ’tis cracked up
fer to be,” would b€
meaningless in the sun¬
drenched spaces of Vir¬
ginia, where a meal—or
even the snack between
meals known as a ” lunch ”
in America — is a sacra¬
ment. Miss Scarborough’s
book is thronged with
delightful coloured people,
many of whose " reels ”
and " ballets,” hitherto
unrecorded, she has taken
down from their ripe,
jocund lips. It is a wise
and beautiful book—this
where idleness is a fine
reallv worries over states-
focussed by mirrors upon
empty space. But you do
it, that’s the queerness. And
the complication of innuendo
and associative reference on
the enormous scale to which
you give way to it does so
build out the matter for the
reader that the result is to
solidify, by the mere bulk of
the process, the like process
from which he had to start.
I wish I could quote the
whole passage, which seems
to have been too much for
its subject. For, if the
absence of adverbs makes
it indifferent parody, it is
the most luminous piece
of criticism I know of
a novelist whose subtlest
work seems to me—am I,
then, a Philistine ?—like a
threepenny-bit wrapped up
in seven blankets.
Theodore Roosevelt appears once or twice in
these letters, and when there was a chance of his
liecoming President of Harvard, William James
burial of the dead
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IN THE l
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FORCES AND government
IN ACTION.
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B**n Wown up.
roc*. A barricade of
member 26 > The most
,n th * *ftemoon a
the town. One shell
"o’s room, and the
apartment,
splinter."
wound inflicted
WHERE
D'ANNUNZIO LIVED
MEN
PALACE, guarded by picked
A BARRICADE.
during the
blown up B
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D’ANNUNZIO’S MEN 1
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TO IMPEDE THE
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HE illu strated
the END of D’ANNUNZIO’;
LONDON NEWS
Jan. 22, X921.-
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questio' " eg0<:iation * when he found 7 t ** M * y ° r ’ t0 whom D’Annunzio
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frame ,ts own constitution. The town was ^ of nT ** *» to
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EVENTS OF NOTABLE INTEREST: NEWS OF THE WEEK ILLUSTRATED.
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DOVER'S APPROVAL OF THE “ ANTI-WASTE ” CAMPAIGN: “CHAIRING” SIR THOMAS
POLSON (CENTRE BACKGROUND) AFTER HIS ELECTION AS M.P
Another German submarine, a derelict of the war, has been washed ashore near
Hastings.-During the search for arms in Dublin, the troops used tanks in
breaking open shop doors. A pole was fixed in front and placed against the
door : the tank then gently moved forward and the trick was done.— The Prince
of Wales has arranged to unveil the War Memorial at Magdalen College, Oxfcrd,
on Shrove Tuesday, February 8.-The late Empress Euginie, fulfilling a promise
made when she visited Paris in 1913, has bequeathed to the Carnavalet Museum
a magnificent jewel bearing the arms of Paris, presented to her by the city in
THE FIRST WOMEN JURORS AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT : A MIXED JURY
WAITING TO BE SWORN IN ON JANUARY II.
1867.——A new medal in silver and silver-gilt, designed by Mr. Carter Preston,
has been struck at the Mint for presentation to native chiefs in Africa and- the
East for loyal service to the Empire. The obverse bears an effigy of the King :
the reverse (shown above) a merchant vessel protected by a war - ship. Colonel
Sir Thomas Poison (whose portrait appears on another page) was elected as
“ anti-waste ” candidate at Dover on January 13.-At the January Sessions of
the Central Criminal Court, opened on the nth, women served on juries for
the first time.
TO BE UNVEILED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES : THE WAR THE EMPRESS EUGENIE’S BEQUEST FOR ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN CHIEFS : A NEW MEDAL
MEMORIAL AT MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD. TO PARIS : A SPLENDID JEWEL. FOR LOYAL SERVICE TO THE EMPIRE -THE REVERSE.
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the
'LU'STRA TED U)ndon news
THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS IN _
mi - "-''-.~ ! V,TY: remar kable
PHOTOGRAPHS.
- »•*••• °h
n “ is the second day that
,n Wg* of .. .—.
01 J«nuary , ,***“* inte rest aroused bv fk
*** f^ eS ? bin « ** murder oMhe e!^! T '" UStratl0ns in «ue
«bl. bj ** Holsherists at * lchoJ « 11 Russia, with
J** Perted '“ether ph. tot ,J^“'"" b "« “ ** >7. ■«.«, h.,e
"""'Men M Jhtperie] Family'. cL,,^ , " ““ ““*• •'“*»» with the
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naJ e *P«rienc^ P * ln teres ting record, based on t***”. f ° n tW ° "deeding
' ' nM « »7 Mon,ieg, £ «“■»<• *-7 end hi, per'
"e GUhard, who was French tutor to
the young Tsarevitch, and shared . *:
U P to their removal from Tobolsk We of ** Imperia
“th‘ Photograph, standing i„ ^ * «*•*
the camera. I„ the present in sJLlt of f ^ h ° ,dlng * *P.<T. n
from the time of the Emperor’s visit to the "i"*?** h * reJ * te » "hat ,
Mohilev, on March 8. iq,, r„n J the Ru *»««n Army’a H—a
!^ on ’ “P to the’departure of**“ *"* *«*■!«£“
Tobolsk on August 13 of that year. Fanu, 7 f «r their new p ,
mi'. IIXrSTRATKl! 1 .ONION NKWS. ) vs 22 .
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THE GREATEST IMPERIAL TRAGEDY
LAST DAYS OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS II. AND HIS FAMILY.
Ill By PIERRE CILLIARD. Tutor of the late Tearamtch'
"uc^/v^in
*• in hi
In consequence of the great interest aroused by ike article and illustrations m
out issue of Jan i. describing the massacre of the Russian Imperial family by
Holskevists at Ekaterinburg, on July 17. 1918. we hare obtained from the same
source the following account and photographs of their original arrest and intern
ment at Tsarskoe-Selo in the spring and summer of 1917, after the prst Rev<Ju-
ii»u The auihot of the narrative M. Pi err, t.ilhard. seas tutor to the vomn?
Tsarevitch, and shared the captivi:. and dat\ h r t »/ the Imperial prisoners up
to their removal from Tobolsk to Ehatenuburg . when he u-as forcibly separated
from them against hts will The present portion of his memoirs takes ike
story up h their departure from Tsarsho* - Sflo her Tobolsk on Aug \ 1017.
T HE Emperor, after many hesitations, decided
to leave for Mohilev on March 8. 1917. He
was anxious at the state of affairs, but thought it
was his duty to rejoin General Headquarters.
His departure caused great anxiety to the
Empress, who, moreover, was apprehensive at the
state of health of the Grand Duke Alexis Nicolate-
vitch. The Tsarevitch had the measles, and com¬
plications had set in. The Grand Duchesses, too.
were ill, and only Marie Nicolaievna could be of
any help to her mother. Two days after the
Emperor's departure troubles broke out. and on
the nth the situation became critical ; there was
rioting in the centre of the town, and the attitude
of the troops was slack.
The Emperor had sent a ukase ordering the
suspension of the
Douma, but, owing
to the gravity of the
situation the Assembly
had decided to form an
Executive Committee.
The Empress was
greatly upset on hear¬
ing of the defection
of several regiments,
and that they had
joined the rebels who
fought for the pas
session of the Arsenal.
The story of the next
few days is well
known —- the Em¬
peror's abdication at
Pskov in favour of
his brother, and the
latter's decision that
the Constitutional As
sembly should decide
the fate of Russia
On March 21 the
Emperor, accompanied
by Prince Doigorouki.
returned to Tsarskoe-
Selo. He was pro
found!y moved at the
turn events had taken.
He was not permitted
outside a small gar
den, and access to tin-
park was prohibited.
He bore all these re¬
strictions with great
fortitude. and the
Empress was greatly
exhausted after the
trials of the past
week, and spent her
time on a couch in the
room of the Grand
Duchesses or that of
Alexis Nicolaievitch.
Marie Nicolaievna was
still very ill. She had
the measles later than
her sisters, and pneu¬
monia had developed
She had been her
mother's mainstay
during the days of
the revolution.
The captivity at Tsarskoe-Selo was not sup¬
posed to last long, and there was talk of our transfer
to England. The days went by. however, and our
departure was always delayed ; the Provisional
Government had to take the advanced political
elements into account, and felt that its authority
was being gradually undermined. We were- but a
short distance from the Finnish frontier, and it
would not have been difficult to take the imperial
Family to one of the ports of Finland, and from
thence abroad. But all feared to take the
responsibility, and were afraid of compromising
themselves.
FIVE MONTHS' CAPTIVITY.
The Imperial Family remained at Tsarskoe-Selo
till August 1917. During this period, which I spent
with them. I kept a diary of our life. I can only
publish a few extracts hen*.
Sunday. April 1—As Alexis Nicolaievitch was
feeling much better we went to church this
morning We had been preceded there bv their
Majesties, the Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana,
and some members of the suite who shared our
captivity. When the priest prayed foe the success
of the Russian Army, the F.mperor and Empress
knelt, and their example was followed bv the whole
congregation.
A few days ago. when 1 came out of the room
of Alexis Nicolaievitch I met some soldiers who
were lounging about the corridor I went up to
them and asked them what they wanted. " We
want to see the Heir." " He is in bed. and you
can't see him.’* " And the others ? ” " They ton
are ill." " And where is the Tsar ? ** *' I don't
know ” “ Will he go fix a walk ? “ "I don't
know ; but you must not stay her** and make a
noise, on account of the invalids." Thereupon
they marched off on tiptoe, talking in low voices.
And those were the soldiers who were described
as fierce revolutionaries hating their former
Emperor !
Tuesday, April 3. — Kerensky came to the
Palace to-day for the first time He went through
all the rooms and examined the positions of the
sentries, to see whether we were properly guarded
Before leaving, he had a pretty long interview
with the Emperor and Empress.
Friday. April 6. — The Emperor told me to-day
how sad he felt when he read the papers. The
army is ruined , no more hierarchy or discipline.
The officers fear their soldiers, who now spy on them.
I felt that the Emperor was greatly depressed at
the collapse of the army which he so loved.
.Sunday. April 8 . — After Mass Kerensky informed
the Emperor that he must be separated from the
Empress, that he will have to live alone, and will
only be able to see her Majesty at meal times, and
on the condition that only Russian is sjiokrii.
They can liave tea t<»gether too. but in the presence
of an officer, as no servants waited. The Empress
gTratly moved, came up to me and said " To
hehavr like that to the Emprror. to insult him lik«-
this after hr alidirated in order tu avoid civil war—
hirw wrong and mean it is ' The Emperor did not
want the blood of a single Russian to be shed fix
him. He was ready to give up everything for
the welfare of Russia." After a moment's jiaiisr,
she added : " This trial must lx borne too.”
Monday, April 9— 1 hear that Kerensky had
first intended to isolate the Empress, but it was
pointed out to him that it was most inhuman to
separate a mother from her sick children ; he then
dec lik'd to isolate the
Emperor
April 13, (loud
Friday. — The whole
family confessed m
tlx* evening.
‘Saturday. April 14.
At half past nine
in the morning, Mass
and Holy Communion.
In the evening at
half |«aM eleven, we
all assembled in church
for the night service.
Colonel Kornvitcb-
enko. commandant of
the Palace and Keren
sky’s friend, and the
three officers on
guard, were also pre-
>ont The service
lasted until two
o'clock, and we then
went into the library
to exchange the tra¬
ditional greetings The
Emperor, according to
Russian custom, kissed
all the men present,
including the Com¬
mandant of the Palace
and the officers on
guard. I noticed that
they could not hide
tlieir emotion at this
spontaneous greeting.
We then sat down at
a table for the Easter
night meal Their
.Majesties sat facing
one another. t\ c were
seventeen, including
the two officers. The
Grand Duchesses Olga
and Marie and Alexis
Nicolaievitch were ab¬
sent. The relative
animation at the start
soon dropped, and
the conversation lan¬
guished. Her Majesty
was |»rticularly silent.
Was it fatigue or
sadness ?
Easter Sunday. April 13. — I went out with
Alexis Nicolaievitch on the terrace for the first
time A wonderful spring day. At seven in the
evening, religious service uj>stain> in the children's
room. There are only about fifteen of us. I noticed
that the Emperor crossed himself devoutly when
the priest prayed for the Provisional Russian
Government.
On the following day as the weather- was very
fine, we went into the park, where we are now
permitted to walk, followed bv the officers and
the sentries. Wishing to take some physical
exercise, we amused ourselves by freeing the ice
from the sluices of the pond. A crowd of soldiers
and civilians assembled outside the park railings
and looked at us. After a time the officer on
guard came up to the Emperor and said that
the Commandant of the garrison of Tsarskoe-
Selo had warned him that he feared a hostile
demonstration, or even an attempt against the
Imperial Family, and asked us not to stay there.
FAITHFUL TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY: THEIR ESTOCKACE DURINC INTERNMENT AT TSARSKOE-SELO
IN THE SUMMER OF 1917.
Sealed in front is Count cm Benckendorff. Standing, from left to ncht. are: Prince Deljorouki. M Pierre Cilliard. Counters Hendrikov.
Baroness Buxhewden. Mile. Schneider. Count Benckendorff. and Dt Derevenko.
/‘katogreph Capvtigkn
m Onr Fet’ech from Me ArhcIt hi/ At. Pierre Cltti.iJ end the eetempanying IlluUralian . are Caraiighltd in the VniteJ .Steles end Canada
THt; illustrated
LONDON NEWS 2 2 1921
107
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UNDER MILITARY GUARD: THE TSAREVITCH AND
HIS SECOND SISTER.
MURDERED LATER, WITH HER PARENTS. SISTERS AND BROTHER. BY BOLSHEVISTS AT EKATERINBURG:
_____. .. D UCHESS TATI ANA. UNDER GUARD . IN THE GROUNDS OF TSARSKOE-SELO IN 1917.
THE GRAND
TAUGHT HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY BY HIS FATHER. THE EMPEROR THE LATE TSAREVITCH THEN THIRTEEN)
WITH HIS SISTER THE GRAND DUCHESS TATIANA. UNDER GUARD AT TSARSKOE-SELO.
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Emperor"** ^ UC,ess * a, ' ana wa * the second of the four daughters of the late
^ mpr * S4 oi Russia, and at the time these photographs were taken
^ordered tWenf, ‘ wk,le her brother, the Tsarevitch, was thirteen. They were
the follow <he rMt 0t ,h * b y th * Bolshevists at Ekaterinburg in
j„ the ye * r * n the u PP« r photograph the Grand Duchess is seen sitting
w We n^? r * l Ts * ,ik0 -Selo. at the boundary beyond which the Imperial prisoners
allowed to po. All the roads and walks were guarded by soldiers.
The lower photograph was taken at the same spot, where her brother had joined
her Beside them are spades and various implements used for breaking the ice
on the ponds and canals work in which the prisoners took part, for the sake
of exercise. M. Gilliard, who taught the Tsarevitch and his sisters French, records
in his diary how the Emperor and Empress were concerned for their sons
education during their captivity, and themselves took him in some subjects the
Empress in religious instruction, and the Emperor in history and geography.
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan 22. 1921—108
The Emperor replied that he was not afraid and
that the people did not worry him.
I'ridav. April 20.—We now take walks regu¬
larly twice a day, in the morning lrom 11 to 12.
and in the afternoon 2.30 till 5. We all assemble
in the hall and wait till the commamdant of the
guard comes and opens the doors leading to the
*j*ark. We go out : the officer on duty and the
soldiers follow us and halt at the spot where
we wish to work The Empress and the Grand
Duchesses Olga and Marie still keep indoors
“ It appears that Ku&skv has handed m his
resignation. He had asked for an offensive to be
started (one implores: orders are no longer given! :
the committees of soldiers have refused. If
this is true, it is the end. What a disgrace ! To
defend oneself and not to attack, it is equivalent
to suicide l We shall let our Allies be crushed,
and then our turn will come.”
Monday. May 14.—The Emperor referred tc
our conversation of yesterday, and he added :
“ What gives me a little hope is the fact that
we love exaggeration.
I can't believe that
the Army at the front
is in the condition thev
say : it can’t have de¬
teriorated to such an
extent in two months.”
WHERE THE IMPERIAL PRISONERS ASSEMBLED FOR THEIR OUTINGS. AND
ON THEIR DEPARTURE FOR TOBOLSK: THE SEMICIRCULAR HALL IN THE
ALEXANDER PALACE, TSARSKOE-SELO. lPkok>r«pfc C«pyo«hM
Sundav. April 22.—Prohibition to go as far
as the pond : we must stay near the Palace and not
go beyond the bounds which arc permitted. In
the distance we see a curious crowd who try to
catch a glimpse of us.
Wednesday. April 25.—Kerensky has come
back to the Palace Dr. Botkin seised the op¬
portunity to ask him whether it would not be
possible to send the Imperial Family to Iavadia
(Crimea) on account of the children’s health.
Kerensky replied that it was impossible at present.
He then went to see their Majesties, and stayed
some considerable time. The attitude of Kerensky
towards the Emperor has altered, and he no longer
lias the air of a judge. I feel certain he lias begun
to understand what the Emperor really is, and
is beginning to feel his moral superiority, as is
the case with all who approach him.
Sunday. April 29.—In the evening a long
conversation with their Majesties about the lessons
of Alexis Nicolaievitch. We must find some
solution, as we have no professors 1 The Emperor
decided to teach history- and geography, and the
Empress religion. The other branches will be
divided between Baroness Buxhewden (English),
Mile. Schneider (arithmetic), I>r. Botkin (Russian)
and I.*
Tuesday. May I.—It is the first time that
Russia celebrates the First of May. We heard
the sound of trumpets and we saw long processions
l>ass the park railings.
Thursday. May 3.—The Emperor told me in
the evening that the news of the last few days
was not good. The extremists insist that France
and England shall make peace '* without an¬
nexation or indemnity.” The deserters are more
and more numerous and the Army is melting away.
Will the Provisional Government have the strength
to continue the war ?
The Emperor follows the events with painful
interest. He is anxious, but he still hopes that
the country will pick up and remain faithful to
the Allies.
A VEGETABLE GARDEN IN THE PARK.
Sunday. May 13—It is the second day that
we are trying to make a vegetable garden on the
lawns of the park. Wc started by taking the
grass awav in hand-barrows. Everyone set to
work : the family, we. and the servants. Even
some of the soldiers on guard came to help us !
The Emperor looked very preoccupied these
last days. He said on coming in from his walk :
Saturday. May 19.—
Birthday of the Em-
prn»r (40 vrars of age) ;
Mass and congratula¬
tions
Sunday, May —
For some time past we
get but little wood, and
it is extremely cold
everywhere. Mme Na¬
rishkin (Grand Mistress
of the Court) is ill, and
she has Iwen removed
to-day ; her state of
health demanding care
which we can’t give her
here. She is in despair
at the thought of leaving
us. as she knows that
she will not lie allowed
to return to the Palace.
Saturday. June 2.—
We still work daily at
the vegetable garden.
We water it with a
barrel which wc drag
aloKg turn and turn -
about.
Friday, June 15.--
Wc have finished the
vegetalde garden, which
is magnificent. We have
every kind of vegetable
and 500 cabbages The
servants have aLso made a vegetable garden at
the other side of the Palate, where they will be
able to grow what they like. We went to help
them plough, the Emperor too. In order t«*
occupy our leisure, now that we have finished
our gardening, we have
asked and obtained
permission to cut the
dead trees in the park.
We move from one spot
to another accompanied
by our guard. Wc are
becoming quite skilful
woodsmen. We shall
have a provision of
wood for next winter !
Sunday. June 24.—
The days follow, one
like unto the other
Our time is taken up
with lessons and walk’
The Emperor told me
quite an amusing epi¬
sode this morning, which
broke the monotony of
our seclusion. He was
reading aloud to the
Empress and Grand
Duchesses. yesterdav
evening. in the red
room. Suddenly, at
eleven o'clock, one of
the footmen came in
looking very upset, and
said that the com¬
mandant of the guard
wanted to see the
Emperor immediately.
The latter imagined
that something very
serious had occurred at
Petrograd — a great
armed Bolshevist mani¬
festation against the
Pro visional Government
was anticipated — and
said that he was to be
introduced. The officer
two
about to leave, when one of the n.c.o.’s gave the
explanation of the mystery. The Grand Duchess
Anastasia was sitting on the window-sill working.
She occasionally leant forward to get things from
the table, and thereby covered and uncovered
two lamps with red and green shades. The
officer left in confusion.
Monday. July 2. We hear that an oflcnsivr
was started in the region of Tarnopol and is
developing most successfully
Tuesday. July 3.- Te l»eum " in honour of
the fighting, which seems to portend a gTeat
victory. The Emperor, radiant, brought the
evening papers to Alexis Nicolaievitch and read
him the bulletins.
Sunday. July 13. Nothing new ui our capti
vity. Walks are our only distraction. It is
very hot. and for several days Alexis NicoUIe-
vitch has bathed in the pond which surround*
the children’s island He enjoys it very much.
THE DEPAKTIRE.
Thursday. Aug. 9 - 1 hear that the l*rovision»l
Government has decided to transfer the Imperial
Family. The destination is kept secret. We all
hope it will be the Crimea.
Saturday. Aug 11 - We are informed that we
must get warm clothing. We are. therefore, not
being sent south. Great disappointment.
Sunday. Aug 12 [July 30. O.S.).- Birthday of
Alexis Nicolaievitch (13 years old) At the request
of the Emptess the miraculous ikon of the \irgin
of the Znamema Church has l»een brought. Mass.
Our departure has been fixed lor to-morrow.
Colonel Kobylinski (who, in June, replaced Colonel
Korovitchenko as Commandant of the Palace)
told me in secret that wc were being transferred
to Tobolsk.
Monday. Aug 13 —We must be ready bv
midnight, we are told. The train will leave at
one o’clock. Final preparations. Farewell visits
to the vegetable garden, the children’s island,
etc. At about one o'clock in the morning we are
all assembled with our luggage. The Grand
Duke Michael came with Kerensky and had an
interview with the Emperor, who was very happ>
to sec his brother before his departure. Our
train had not vet arrived. It appeared that
ditficulties ha«l arisen with the Petrograd railway-
men. who suspected that the train was for the
Imperial Family. The liours went by most
fatiguinglv. Should we be able to leave ? We
liegan to doubt. (This incident proves the help¬
lessness of the Government.) At last, at fivt
o’clock, we were told that all was ready. We
said good-bve to those of our fellow captives who
• It is important to note here that the Tsarevitch never h
* lierman lesson in his life.
anie m accompanied by
xplained that he had l>ecn
called by the firing of one of the sentries, who
noticed red ami green signals coming from the
room occupied by the Imperial Family. General
amazement. What signals r What did it all
mean ? The Empress and the Grand Duchesses
greatly moved. The officer ordered the curtains
to lx- drawn- the heat was stifling—and was
WITH AN OMINOUS PICTURE — A PORTRAIT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE AND
HER CHILDREN: THE EMPRESS’S SALOX IN THE ALEXANDER PALACE.
TSARSKOE-SELO. -{Pkotogrepi, r»/>vn«Af I
could not go with us. We felt sail at the thought
of leaving Tsarskoe-Selo, and this departure into
the unknown filled 11s with forebodings. When
our cars got out of the park gates we were escorted
by a detachment of cavalry to the little station
of Alexandrovka. We took our seats in the
carriages, which were very comfortable. Half
an hour went by, then the train moved slowly.
It was ten to six.
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IMPERIAL DIGNITY IN DURESS: THE CAPTIVE
PHOTitCiMPHS OiCVVirjiT
tsar and tsaritsa.
WATCHED BY THE OFFICER OF THE GUARD : THE LATE EMPEROR ON LEFT HELPING TO LAY OUT A KITCHEN GARDEN
AT TSARSKOE-SELO— (ON RIGHT) THE SAILOR NAGORNY, AFTERWARDS SHOT BY THE BOLSHEVISTS.
THE LATE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA IN CAPTIVITY : THE
TSARITSA IN HER WHEELED CHAIR ; WITH HER WORK. j
RESIGNED TO HIS HUMILIATIONS FOR RUSSIA'S SAKE : THE
LATE EMPEROR NICHOLAS II. SHOVELLING SNOW.
the *T ° f 41,41 Empress displayed wonderful patience and magnanimity during
t^ken^th 0 m ° nt * W °* ***eir captivity. At the time when these photographs were
famil* * T * P ” ng °* * 9 * 7 ). the Emperor had just abdicated and rejoined his
records* * tf rs * toe ' Se, °. where they were first interned. Of this time M. Gilliard
and greatn *** ^ mperor acce Pte<l all these severities with remarkable serenity
dominated T* °* ^° Ul Never a word of reproach passed his lips. One sentiment
w « lov /* stron K er even than the bonds of family affection, and that
ve o his country. One felt he was ready to forgive all to those who
inflicted these humiliations on him. if only they could save Russia. The Empress
spent almost all her time resting in a long chair at the bedside of the Grand
Duchesses or Alexis (her son). Emotion and anguish had broken her physically,
but since the Emperor’s return, she felt a great spiritual peace and lived a life
of intense introspection, speaking little, and yielding at length to an insistent need
of repose.’’ The sailor Nagorny, seen in the lower photograph, was in attendance
on the Tsarevitch, for befriending whom he was shot by the Bolshevists at
Ekaterinburg in June 1918.
Liu*
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THE GRAND DUCHESS TATIANA HELPING TO TURN A LAWN INTO A KITCHEN GARDEN AT TSARSKOE-SELO
REMOVING TURF WITH A SOLDIER OF THE GUARD.
T,
110—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Janv 22 1921
THE GREATEST IMPERIAL TRAGEDY: THE TSAR’S CHILDREh (M
Photographs hv M. Pimp* r,.ni»l „ u
RESTING FROM THEIR WORK OF LAVING OUT A KITCHEN GARDEN : (LEFT TO RIGHT) THE
AND GRAND DUCHESSES TATIANA AND ANASTASIA.
THE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA. THE TSAREVITCH,
History holds no parallel, at any rate among modern and civilised communities, to the simultaneous extermination of a whole Imperial Family, as in the crime perpetrated
by the’Bolshevists at Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. when the Tsar and Tsaritsa, their five children, and several of their attendants, were all murdered at once by revolver shots
and bayonet thrusts. Such was the awful fate of the four Grand Duchesses and their brother, who in the above photographs are seen gardening at Tsarskoe-Selo during the
early months of their captivity in 1917. The eldest, Olga, was then 22 ; Tatiana was 20 , Marie, iS , Anastasia, 16 , and Alexrs, the Tsarevitch, 13. As mentioned on a
previous page, they and their father, the Emperor, took exercise by laying out a vegetable garden on one of the palace lawns. On June 2, 1917, M. Gilliard, the tutor, who
the
taking their
WATERING
kitchen (
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Although the Spanish Exhibition at the Royal Academy is orer, the Spanish rogue is likely to remain with us, and no apology is needed for repro
ducing Gonzalo Bilbao’s picture “The Cigarette-Makers,” one of the most attractive exhibits. A certain topical interest also attaches to it from
By CoruTusv of thk Sf.crf.tary of thk Exhibition of Spanish Paintings Rf.cf
NIX)N NEWS,
makers.
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popular
1HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan 22. L»2L—1H
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
A curious volume is the ** I-rtterx of Junius." with
woo<l-cuts by Bewick Herr is Johnson's” Journey
to the Western Highlands of Scotland." first
edition. 1775. Coleridge's ” Poems," first edition.
1796. has the bookplate of Charles Lloyd and an
inscription by him to Susan Hawker in his auto¬
graph Bernard Barton has a collection of letters
addressed from Woodbridgr to his friend Woddcr-
spoon at Ipswich. Kdward FitzGerald. of Omar
fame, is familiarly alluded to as ” Teddy,” in
these unpublished letters Nor should go un¬
recorded .Miss Braddon's " My Best Story, and
why I think it so,” holograph MS., with corrected
proofs of the story, “ His Oldest Friends." Some
tracts by Savonarola from a Spanish press at
Astorga in 1547 is a volume of the utmost rarity.
At Christie's, on the 14th. among a miscel¬
laneous collection of modern pictures and drawings.
Birket Foster claimed attention with drawings.
*' Campa Santa. Pisa." and '* Fountain Square.
Seville.” from the artist's sale . and four tiny
stippled gems, the largest 5 1 by 9| in., of Craig-
millar Castle. Hythe and Sandgate. and the Bridge
of Sighs. Venice. In the same rooms, on the
19th, certain old English plate braved all financial
depression.
On the 21st, Messrs. Christie sold modern
pictures some items of which drew attention by
reason of new standards of value. Alma-Tadema’s
" An Apodyterium,” the ante-chamber of the
ladies' bath in the days of the Roman Empire,
was painted in 1886. It is only a panel 18 by
24 in. Other days, other views, and, be it said,
other prices. Peppercorn was once regarded as
the artist’s artist. We all love Clovelly. Here
was a panel offered of that delectable spot, but
Peppercorn, unfortunately, belongs to the 'eighties,
just that period which is not old enough to be
curiously evasive, and not modern enough to be
representative of to-day's outlook. Ospovat brings
a Russian version of ” Fra 1 jppo Lippi " and
" Old Pictures in Florence ” : illustrations for
Browning’s " Men and Women." These pen-and-
ink drawings, which come from the collection of
Judge Evans, attracted considerable attention a
quarter of a century ago. The coarse, almost
peasant, vision of Ospovat titillated the palates
of late Victorians. Old illustrated magazines con¬
tain his decadent work in coarse line, but instantly
eclipsed by the fiiusse and subtlety of Aubrey
Beardsley.
At Messrs. Sotheby’s, the final portion of the
Britwell Court library is being sold on Jan. 31,
anil two following days. Comprising valuable early
English works on theology and divinity, this
embraces early editions of the Scriptures printed
in English in England, with notable works by
Miles Coverdale. Erasmus. John Knox, Martin
Luther, Sir Thomas More, William Tyndale, ami
others of the Reformation period. Two of God-
fray’s (the printer of Chaucer, 1532), the " Boke
of Solomon, called Ecclesiastes (which is to say-
in English a preacher),” and the " Prouerbes of
Solomon," have delightful woodcut designs on
the title-page of a dragon and monkey, birds and
cloves, and are both unrecorded editions.
In a fine collection from various sources of
bronzes, armour, and weapons to be sold on
Jan. 31 by Messrs.
Sotheby. there is a touch
of romance in certain
MBE3SB1 items, the property of
Apart from the y
fine porcelain, the -ww rl
property of Ix>rd Wil
loughby de Broke, which
Messrs. Sotheby are sell-
mg on Jan. 27. the textiles
at the same sale include some re- \ \
markable examples. Needlework pic¬
tures. Stuart panels in stump-work, chair seats
in Mortlake tapestry, ail offer excellent variety.
An English Jatc thirteenth or early fourteenth-cen¬
tury stole is of great ranty. It has thirty-eight
shields of arms. It is one of the most remarkable
and rare examples of English embroideries extant.
Another item is a fine Stuart needlework binding to
the 1641 issue of the Book of iNalms. It is hoped
connoisseurs will realise its artistic excellence.
Persian art is exemplified in a collection of
miniatures and lacquer book-covers to be sold
by Messrs. Sotheby on Feb. 8. We know Per¬
sian bowls and beakers, we revere Persian tiles.
In this connection let us turn to Holland, where
Civ / I ^ miscellaneous
iKQf lyc collections of
rofi books under the hammer
there are always items
which prick the con¬
i' ///1 science of the man of
// letters as being books which he should
have read, but has not. Others awake
memories of faithful studies and long vigils
in years gone by. There are, too, items
which, by reason of their rarity and value, come
into the limelight of the auction-room, win
a momentary triumph, and pass again into
THE RULER UNDER WHOM PERSIAN ART
REACHED ITS ZENITH: SHAH ABBAS-A CON¬
TEMPORARY MINIATURE. OF A.D. 1613.
This portrait of Shah Abbas, signed Riza Abbasi, and dated
1022 A H. ( =• 1613 A.D ), is included in M. Lionce Rosen¬
berg s collection of Persian and Indian miniatures to be sold,
with others, at Sotheby’s on February 8.
By ComrUsy of Messrs. Sdketrv, Hi Ikinson and Hodge.
cloistered seclusion. Messrs. Puttick and Simpson
dispersed such a collection on Jan. 12. In
one lot there was Daniel Defoe’s " The Storm."
first edition, 1704, and seventeen histories and
novels by Mrs. Behn. Defoe, the tile-maker for
whom a reward was issued, stood in the pillory at
Cheapside ; and Mistress Aphra Behn. secret service
agent at the Court of Charles II.. who gave the
unheeded warning of the projected attack of
the Dutch Fleet on the Medway, lies buned in
the northern ambulatory of Westminster Abbey.
BEAR INC 38 SHIELDS OF ARMS: A STOLE OF
THE LATE 13 th OR EARLY 14 th CENTURY.
ONE OF THE RAREST EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH
EMBROIDERY.
This rare stole, the property of Lord Willoughby de Broke, is
included in the sale of valuable textiles at Sotheby’s on
January 28. It measures 8f ft. by 2| inches.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Scikcby, Wilkinson and Hodge.
we have, all of us. made a standard mentally.
The Dutch potters, in their imitation of fine
Chinese porcelain, to which ideal in technique
they could not attain, produced their imitative
delft. Persian potters did the same. China was
the creator. Persia was the absorbent art stratum
which arrested and spiritualised Far Eastern art
and transmitted it to the West.
In the examination of the collection of Persian
miniatures we find an originality and poetTy which
leave the Far East and approximate to Western
ideals. The delicate portrait of Shah Abbas
(1587-1628), in whose reign Persian art attained
its highest degree of perfection, is a real portrait.
East and West commingle in the curious designs
embodying the signs of the Zodiac.
In regard to Persian calligraphy, the fine ex¬
amples now sold were once valued at great price.
Nowadays, we buy in the West at ridiculous
rates. Sir Joshua's portraits sell for a hundred
times his price. Persian MSS. sell for a tenth
of their original contemporary estimation. We
remember the beauty of calligraphy of Persia,
and the colours and the poesie of her art,
and in so doing connoisseurs come ripe for
eager competition for the beautiful objects which
Messrs. Sotheby offer.
A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OF STUART NEEDLEWORK: A BINDING FOR THE
1641 EDITION OF “THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS.”
The above Is also a lot in the sale of textiles at Sotheby’s on January 28. On each side
is an esquire’s coat of arms in silk, with scroll-work in peails and gold thread and four birds
worked in stilts. The binding is in small 32mo size. 3} in by 2f in.
By Courtesy of Messrs Sotkeby Wilkinson and Hodge
Head Rest
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CURIOSITIES
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patent office.
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CHANNEL TUNNEL.
exploited by others, have now
new Institute of Patentees, with
'*• 41 th * °tfices of the National
patents was advocated, instead
tent in each Dominion. At a
iventor of a new Parliament was
io man should enter the Cabinet
*" ,ke f 'nUfd Suits mnd OWa.J
SOURCE OF 170,000,000 SQUARE YARDS OF ASPHALT PAVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE : A ° ElJ
WHO “ MADE TRIAL OF H ;
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pools of water. Asphalt is easily dug from ii with a pick or mattock, and is then taken by rail to a refinery (where the water is extracted), and shipped in j aJTl0US
various parts of ne world. Immense quantities have been used for road and pavement surface-—170,000,000 square yards in the United State* alone. Among ^
streets thus paved are the Victoria Embankment in London and Fifth Avenue, New York. The supply is practically inexhaustible. The most marvellous thing about « ^ ^
excavations 3 ft. or more deep are smoothed over again by the settlement of the lake level in a single night. Its depth is unknown. Mr. Algernon Aspinall mention ^
book. “The British West Indies." that “Sir Walter Raleigh is credited with having been the first European to discover the existence of pitch in Trinidad. The p
SOLID ENOUGH TO BEAR A MAN’S WEIGHT, BUT HOT TO THE FEET WHEN STANDING STILL, LIKE AN ASPHi
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan 22. 1921 11#
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THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE.
By J. T. GREIN.
W HEN on Saturday, January 8, I witnessed
the triumphant celebration of *' The Be¬
trothal," by Maurice Maeterlinck, at the Gaiety,
my thoughts wandered back a span of nearly thirty
years. For almost on the same spot, where then
stood the old Opjra Comique, I. in youthful
ardour and foolhardiness, had sponsored the
cause of Maeterlinck. His name was then in the
ascendant ; he was much admired and much
derided : Comyns Carr had called him a
very Belgian Shakespeare ; the younger men
at the time, fortified by the publication of
“ La Princesse Maleine ” by Mr. Heincmann,
went into raptures. At ladies' clubs, would-
be blue stockings whispered the names of
Hauptmann—Sudermann—Maeterlinck — oh !
the fun and the ignorance of it !—one breath
for three men " poles asunder ” ! So I thought
the time ripe to let our earnest students of
drama see what Maeterlinck really was on
the stage, and I arranged with Lugnl Poe,
the famous creator of the Th^Atre de 1 ’CEuvre
in Paris, still the vedette of all that is re¬
markable in international drama, to come
over with his company and to produce " La
Princesse Maleine" under the joint banners
of “ PCEuvre ” and the Independent Theatre.
Our expectations ran high ; we hoped that
London would flock to worship the exquisite
performance of Suzanne Desprfs and her
husband, Lugn6 Poe.
And this is how London answered the
call of Art ! In the stalls, seventeen people—
mostly Press. In the boxes, one party—
mine. In the pit. a fair muster of Inde¬
pendents and habitual first-nighters. In the
dress-circle, here and there a face, but mainly
grins of vacant seats. In the upper-circle the
same void. But the gallery was full—here
were the boys and girls who never failed the
pioneer, here were many members of the
Playgoers' Club, ever welcome guests of the
Independent Theatre. But the desert in
the house did not damp the ardour of the
performers, the audience shouted themselves
hoarse and clapped their hands into blisters ;
the Press, as usual divided in appraisement
of merit—there were those who still looked
upon Maeterlinck as a fumute /—lauded the
performance to the skies. If we had had
the money to pursue, if a M*cenas had been
found, which never occurred until Miss Florence
Farr captured an anonymous “ backer ” for her
season at the Avenue (it turned out later to be
Miss Homiman, the fairy - godmother of the
Repertory Movement started at Manchester), we
might have gone on. But Poe had no means
for London experiments, and
the coffers of the Indepen¬
dent Theatre, mainly lined
by my personal obligations,
were drained beyond drain¬
age—so we had to be con¬
tent with artistic laurels and
financial disaster. And that
was that.
But, ever since, Maeter¬
linck has spread like wild¬
fire, and both Tree and Mrs.
Campbell launched the argosy
of which we had laid the
keel. In 1921 all London
was at the Gaiety to pay
homage to the great poet.
The majority came, I think,
with preconceived intentions
to praise, for a Barker pro¬
duction, with scenery and
costumes by Charles Ricketts,
music by a young English¬
man, C. Armstrong Gibbs,
and the lavish hands of
Grossmith and Laurillard
granting carte blanche to
luxury beyond the dreams
of avarice—what could it
be otherwise than a feast of
beauty ? And so it was. In
fairyland dwelt the vast im-
agina ‘ ion of Charles Ricketts ;
in fairyland, the charm of
Carlotta Mosetti, our one girl
dancer who can vie with
men ; in fairyland, the music of Armstrong Gibbs,
often reminiscent of Debussy’s lace - work ; in
fairyland, the unseen yet ubiquitous guidance
of Granville Barker, who succeeded in imbuing
all his actors with the spirit of phantasmagoria—
all ? well, not all. but I would not be ungracious
and describe my vision of the fairy Berylune.
Still, Miss Stella Campbell’s Light was fanciful
and inspired ; Miss Gladys Cooper’s veiled Joy
was statuesque and anon a sight for the gods;
Ivan Berlvn’s Destiny, so weirdly beheld by
Tvltyl. was a magnificent lour 1it force in its
dwindling from giantdom to a midget; and Bobbie
Andrews, in the most difficult, somewhat passive
part of the Boy Hero, was all that the poet
•THE CHARM SCHOOL." AT THE COMEDY: MISS SYDNEY
FAIRBROTHER AS MISS CURTIS. AND MR. OWEN NARES
AS PETER.
Peter Berans inherits a Girls* School from an aunt who dies intestate,
and decides to put to the test his belief that the chief aim of the
educationist should be to teach girls to be charming. The result is a
most amusing play. [Photograph by Ike Stage Photo. Co.\
could desire, because he was all youth and no
affectation.
So the vision was perfect : there remains
the play; and on this point the great reputation
of Maeterlinck warrants candour. I have read it
in French, in Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, our
and uneducated of mortals : verily, were it not
signed by a world-famous name would it have
attracted universal attention ? I for one cannot
compare it with a fairy-play of home-growth,
** The Shepherdess Without a Heart." The one
is a painted lily ; the other—our own of Bertram
Forsyth—a simple flower of the field of intuitive
imagination. There arc spots of beauty in " The
Betrothal"; the scene in which the veiled bride
clasps to her bosom the child of her dreams
reminds one, in flight of fancy and poetry
of thought, of the touching episode in " The
Miracle " when the Madonna fondles her
little God-sent babe. Again, there is true
poesy in the boy's perfunctory courting of
the six maidens ready to be the elect, while
his mind is filled with the blurred picture
of the ideal woman, whom he has not seen.
But against this, how much there is in the
dream which is forced philosophy, *' voulu."
dragged in for want of greater invention ;
how much there is wholly beyond the crude
adolescent mind and inaccessible to the
understanding not only of children, but
even of grown-ups, unless, in purblind wor¬
ship of a Master, they seek explanation
without consideration of conscience ? Thus
the ancestral nonsense in the selection of a
mate ; thus the amusing but also ludicrous
dwarfing of Destiny ; thus the appearance
of the unborn children which, indelicate in
** The Blue Bird." becomes a pretty pic¬
ture. yet an absurd one, in " The Be¬
trothal." A fairy-tale, I take it, has for
object to appeal to all sorts and conditions
of ages, and primordially it must be seen
& tracers le temperament —in English, through
the eyes of the young generation. It must,
therefore, be as clear as crystal and as
simple as thought uninfluenced by experience.
In a word, the hearer must realise that
what is supposed to happen in the boy’s
dream must be such as is consistent with
his immature conception of life. In ’* The
Betrothal ” there is but a fragment of this
archaic simplicity ; there is an almost total
absence of humour, and what there is of it
seems forced ; and there is a great deal
of specious philosophy which carries no palp¬
able message at all, except to those '* high¬
brow " Poloniuses who, to please the Hamlet
of their worship, would see things against their
better belief. Thus, in the case of " The Betrothal,"
it is the display which enchants us, not the play.
THE CHARM SCHOOL” AT THE COMEDY: MISS MEGGIE ALBANES1 AS EL1SE CHALLONER
THE HEAD GIRL; AND MR. OWEN NARES AS PETER BEVANS. THE PRINCIPAL.
Photograph by the Stage Photo. Co.
most distinguished translator's, faceted English,
and now I have heard it. The threefold im¬
pression unified into the same opinion. It is not
a remarkable work ; its symbolism is tour de force,
and often irreconcilable with the simple mind of
a Belgian " campine ”-hov, most unsophisticated
In contrast to Maeterlinck’s effort, it is pleasant
to turn to an unpretentious
play of American origin.
* * The Charm School," adapted
from Alice Duer Miller’s
book, is a little comedy of
no pretence, but undeniable
charm. It is also a fairy¬
tale masquerading in the
garb of modern life. In
scheme it is all make-
belief, moonshine and ro¬
mance ; in action it has an
air of comely reality, gently
illuminated with the pleas¬
ant humour of youthful
adventure. A mere boy
inherits a girls’ school — he
is not equipped to lead,
but he will undertake the
stupendous task. The very
notion is comic. What must
that boy feel among these
wagging tongues and waving
skirts of a dozen sweet
damsels ! The inevitable
happens, of course: one of
the girls, just on the fringe
of romance, sets her cap at
him. It is all as light as a
feather and as fantastic as
if the world were an Eden
instead of a vale of tears.
But it lays hold of you. And
as Owen Nares is an ideal
" boy ’’ to play a lover—
even from a man’s point of
view ; as Miss Moggie Albanesi, with her dark
eyes, her charming face, her winsome, restrained
ways, is exactly the girl that would steal a man’s
heart and turn his head ; as Miss Fairbrother’s
wooed and wooing spinster is second blooming
in excelsis —there is no more to be said.
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TIIE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 22. 1921. 120
LADIES^ NEWS.
T HE wedding of Miss Gretta Cameron to Captain
Theodore Brinckman, ist Life Guards, was a
pretty one. although the day was dull and wet. The
playing of the regimental string band is no novelty
in Alt Saints’. Ennismore Gardens, the scene of the
wedding, where a service is held at 9.30 a.m. every
Sunday for the Household Cavalry at Knightsbridge
Barracks, conducted by their own padre. There
were trumpeters at the entrance to the church, who
blew a fanfare as the bride arrived, and the central
passage was lined by warriors who crossed their
swords over the bridal procession as it passed out.
They were all khaki-clad, and the bridegroom had
seen active service with them in the Great War.
The bride is a very notable horsewoman —there is
no animal of the genus horse that she cannot get on
terms with; and at out-door games she makes an
excellent show. She is fairer than her step-sisters,
the Indies Conyngham. all but one of them Lady
' Sometlung-else ” now. and has not their piquant
tyi>e of good looks so much as a more regular type.
She made a graceful and charming bride, and her
two Cameron men in miniature, as pages, were real
handsome little fellows in full Cameron Clan dress.
Luckily the guests had only to cross the road to
Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. John Gretton’s house
for the reception—and 1 very fine house it is.
Princess Alice in the middle of a group of fairies :
that was what I saw when I arrived at l>evonshire
House last week. A very nice fairies' Princess, too ;
albeit she wore an everyday frock of dark-blue
charmeuse and silk and a feathered hat to match,
and there was no visible sign of wings. A blinding
glare from a battery of cameras was the fairy blare.
It was a pretty party, and. seeing that my ideal
children’s party, at which all “ grown-ups ” shall
be invisible, does not materialise. 1 don’t see how
it could be bettered. Princess Christian. Princess
Helena Victoria, the Earl of Athlone, the Earl of
Denbigh and others, saw the children's ballet, the
cotillon, and the pas seul by little Miss Mamwaring
from special seats. The rest of us saw glimpses over
the shoulders, round the heads, and under the arms
of other cumbrous adults as best we might. Viscount
Trematon and I.ady May Cambridge were not in
fancy dress, but enjoyed themselves very much,
and are apparently as devoid of frills as their popular
parents. About nine hundred guests were present,
and the affair scored quite a success.
No one seems to know just w)lat is going to happen
to Devonshire House, but there is an idea that this
PREPARED TO FACE THE COLD OF THE ZARLY
MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
To add to the cosiness of her bottie-treen velours cioth suit, she
has a cloak attached to it. Her hat. with ita coque feathers,
carries out the general colour-schema, which is relieved by raccoon
at neck and wrists. The Maison Idare is responsible for the
costume. [Photoffaph by Blakt.\
was really its last social appearance. I missed the
great alabaster vase at the bottom of the stairway,
and I am told that the painted ceiling of the saloon,
in the design of which the Cavendish " serpent
nowed proper ” frequently appears, is to be removed
to another Cavendish mansion. I wonder what will
become of the circular marble stairway with its
crystal handrail clasped with engraved silver ? I
have heard it called the hardest stairway in London
to ascend gracefully, and I have seen some of the
noblest ladies in the land, including the greatest and
the ex-greatest, accomplish the feat with complete
success. Mr. William Gillett astonished me very
much by telling me that it is taken as true that Mr.
Cordon Selfndge has secured the lease of Lansdowne
House for five years, and that it is not for use as
a private residence, but to be utilised for show-rooms
for Mayfair. Mr. Gillett knows, if anyone does, and
if Devonshire House is to be a big hotel, why not
I^ansdowne House as an annexe to a great store :
However, changes are always trying, whenever they
come about, until time accustoms us to them.
Thousands of people are abroad enjoying winter
sports, or southern sunshine, or something different
from the very indifferent weather that our meteoro¬
logical authorities are handing out to us. No one
blames them ; we would all do it if we could. It
makes me think of days gone by when injustices to
the Ijind 0/ Ire were put down to the money made
in that distressful country being spent in this opulent
one. That is. of course, but a very minute if not
vanished part of the injustices complained of now.
Still. England is not tearing her hair because her
money is being spent abroad . she knows that it must
be circulated, and smilingly hopes some of it will
return in other ways. An uncle of mine was once
held up as a glaring example of an Irish absentee
landlord, and he told me that he was actually getting
no rents at all. and that how he was spending Irish
money was working as a Consul in the South of France
to get enough to keep his house in County Clare from
falling to pieces. They threatened to shoot him if
he ever went back, so he died instead, poor dear man.
and the tenants bought up all his ground, and the
money went in death duties, and Isis nephews and
nieces have only the most delightful recollections of
a wholly lovable man as legacies. Someone suggested,
in those days, the taxing of absentees, and someone
said the other day that those going abroad for pleasure
should be taxed : I imagine one would be about as
practical as the other !
What is irritating us all just now is the telephone
taxes. It isn’t that we don’t know everything costs
more ; we cannot live and not know that ! What
we do know is that the way adopted to get more
revenue from telephones is the wrong one, and that
when the deficit comes—as come it will if thousands
give up their instruments—we shall have to make
it up, in addition to being irritated, overcharged (in
some instances), discouraged, and annoyed.—A. E. L.
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
SHORT HOURS AND OUTPUT.
F ROM the scientific point of view, the Govern¬
ment seem, on the whole, to have been well
advised in putting State-controlled establishments
on short time, and in asking private
employers to do the same. Although
the ostensible reason is the better dis¬
tribution of employment, on the basic
theory that thereby two men will be
employed instead of one, it has already
been contended that one of its results
may be to reduce the volume of pro¬
duction, which everybody—except cer¬
tain Trade Unions—is agreed should be
increased if the financial situation is to
be saved. Is this contention well
founded ? Looking at it broadly, it
is not.
This is the more curious because
it really was only the w'ar which finally
convinced the employers of labour that
too long hours are a mistake. For
many centuries it has been considered
that when you have once got a man
into a factory, the best thing you can
do with him is to keep him at work
there as long as possible. It was
dinned into us that the blameless
Oriental was able to turn out manu¬
factured goods at a price which seemed
to us trivial, because he was willing to
work from sunrise to sunset without
the prolonged adjournments for food
on which the European was inclined
to insist. In this respect, the pre-war
Germany, in many respects the most
powerful rival of the Oriental, ran him
to a short head, and ten. eleven, and
even twelve-hour shifts were fairly
frequent in German factories. Hence,
it was argued, Germany was able, with¬
out any very painful effort, to turn out
the millions of tons of cheap [goods
which she annually dumped on our
shores.
The war. however, put an end to
this reasoning. Under the pressure of
the necessity for producing muni¬
tions at railroad speed, which our criminally un¬
prepared state had forced upon us. it was dis¬
covered that more and better (that is to say. more
accurate) work could be turned out by employing
two or even three shifts of operatives than by keeping
one of them at work during the whole of the working
day. Yet it is astonishing that wo did not arrive
at this result earlier. Nearly everybody must have
noticed, from his own experience, that work, whether
mental or manual, is more quickly, and on the whole
more efficiently, performed when one comes to it fresh
from a period of rest than when the nerves are jangled
and the attention wearied by a long and monotonous
spell. The only instances to the contrary’ are to
be found among a few individuals who, probably
owing- to a faulty mode of life, require to get, as they
say, " into their stride " before they' can work at V>p
speed The case of successful lawyers who in fl.t
heyday of their career ‘‘get up" their cases at nigh*
by a long spell of work after an exciting and busy
day in court, is not really’ in point, because there is
here a thorough change of occupation from talking
and arguing to reading and noting,
which brings a different group of brain
centres into play. It may, therefore,
be taken as proved that a man can
work quicker during the early part of
his shift than during the last.
This is. of course, subject to certain
deductions. In purely’ mechanical work,
such as the mere repetition of certain
movements with machines, the differ¬
ence in pace due to fatigue does not
begin to show itself for some time. The
shifts also had been so carefully arranged
that even the weakest found the task
easily within his or her strength within
the time appointed. Finally, there was
present in nearly all the workers the
spirit of emulation, and in many that
of patriotism, which impressed upon
the o|H*rative the desirability of doing
as much work as possible during the
shift, and therefore avoiding the sense
of boredom inseparable in other cases
from a purely mechanical task.
That with work that is less purely
mechanical the advantage of short
hours is more thoroughly marked is
only what is to be expected : but it is
conveniently shown in the late Report
of the Industrial Fatigue Research
Hoard on the Silk-weaving Trade. In
this, the Report states, the work de¬
mands special r ation on the part of
the operative. . ad is far less mechanical
than in some other textile industries ;
and the Board found that the output
was less during the winter than in the
summer and during the hours of arti¬
ficial lighting than in daylight. This is
probably due to psychological reasons
rather than to any connected with the
eyesight, and reminds one of the canon
laid down by Dr. Charles Myers in his
excellent book on “ Mind and Work ”
(just published by the University of London Press), to
the effect that to obtain any large increase of output,
the co-operation of the workman must be secured.
Given this, there is no reason to fear that short time
necessarily means less output. F. L.
BEATEN BY THE ARMY IN ENGLAND IN A TRIAL MATCH AT QUEENS CLUB
ON JANUARY 12: THE ARMY IN IRELAND RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAM
Photograph by Spurt an. I (,crural.
VICTORS OVER THE ARMY IN IRELAND BY 2 TRIES (6 POINTS) TO 1 TRY
(3 POINTS) AT OUEENS CLUB: THE ARMY IN ENCLAND TEAM.
Photograph by Sport atul (.crural.
OWNTREE’S CHOCOLATES command a ready sale
by reason of their purity and the superlative quality and
variety of their centres; also on account of the dainti-
^ ness and attractiveness of their shapes and wrappings.
The question ‘ Are they ROWNTREE’S ? ”
is asked so often by lovers of good
chocolates, that it is evident that the
A name “ROWNTREE'S” is regarded as
* the “ Hall-mark of Excellence.”
During recent years it has not been
possible to supply anything like the de-
mand for these choice Chocolates,
j but every effort is being made
/ Wf' I to increase the output, whilst at
MB7 I \ t * ie same time maintaining the
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ARE THEY ROWNTREE’S?
A Question which every
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should ask.
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and see .. ' r ° U ^ h a microscope,
teeming there 7 h ' ,gnan ' life
°"ce i„„ ’ he s ’S ht would at
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55,*“ •*as.‘T£^’=
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** is tr ue that we frequently inhale the
germs of such diseases without suffering anv
ha n n. But sooner or later, there comes a
Ume when the natural defensive forces of the
body are weakened, and then a mere S^re
Throa. ma y develop into a serious^!
Writing on this .subject in his book " I n -
fluenza. Dr. Hopkirk says: “ In Formamint
Tablets we possess the best means of pre¬
venting (and curing) infective processed in
iVr Uth and thr ° at ’ which - if neglected, may
lead to serious complications. ” y
These pleasant-tasting little tablets are dis-
solved in the mouth like sweets, and set free
in the saliva a powerful antiseptic which
thoroughly disinfects the whole mouth and
throat, destroying every harmful germ which
and diseases ^ r ranKine°f e CaUSe ° f most in '
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waving Trade, h
ates. the work dfr
Don on the part of
far less mechanical
textile industries;
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inter than in Lie
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 22. 1921 —124
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
Paris.
T HE French publishers have presented us with a
batch of interesting new books as a sort of
New Year gift, which is all the more welcome, since
there was very little of importance published in the
late autumn, owing chiefly to the paper difficulty,
which appears to have been, in some measure, over¬
come for the present.
As to the new books to which I —__
have referred, by far the most in¬
teresting, from every point of view,
of course, is M. Maurice Bands’
" Chronique de la Grande Guerre,”
compiled from his own personal diary
kept throughout the war. This is no
ordinary war diary, such as we have
had in too great abundance during
the last twelve months, and those
who look for petty gossip on piquant
” side-lights ” will not find them in
M. Barrfcs’ book; nor would it be
correct to describe it as merely a very
full record of the various phases of the
great world war. In writing of the
events of those fateful years, M.
Barr&s has set down from day to day
his own personal impressions, hopes
and fears for the future of his country.
He has brought to the task all the
clarity of vision, sense of justice, and
scrupulous observation of which he is
capable, and that is saying a great
deal. It is interesting to find such
critics as M. Jacques Boulenger writing
of M. Barrfcs’ work that it is worthy -
of Ch 4 teaubriand at his best ; it is READ]
undoubtedly a great and dignified ad¬
dition to the literature of the war. __ , , _
L'lnteme is another interest- ^ Attorney<;
ing book, written with a definite ob- his 4ppo i ntmen
ject—that of proving that a woman (seated, from U
can remain true to her sex in every and Sir Henry
respect, even though she chooses to
become a medical student. It is a valiant attempt to
break down the considerable prejudice which still ex¬
ists in this country against women entering certain
professions, more especially the medical and legal
professions. Oddly enough, I believe I am right in
saying that both these professions were open to French¬
women before their English sisters obtained the same
privileges; but it has been and is still difficult for
them to practise. The book is written by two women,
one of whom is herself a qualified doctor, and evid¬
ently she speaks with authority when she describes the
difficulties of the heroine, who emerges from her
course of training as charming and as feminine
a creature as the day she entered the medical
college.
France has lost a great writer by the death of
Mme. Daniel Lesueur, whose works are as well known
in England as they are in this country. I remember
meeting her years ago and hearing her declare with
LORD READINC CONGRATULATED BY THE BAR ON BECOMING VICEROY OF INDIA:
THE SCENE IN THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE’S COURT.
The Lord Chief Justice's Court was crowded with distinguished Judges and Counsel on January II. when
the Attorney-General (Sir Gordon Hew art) as Leader of the Par. congratulated the Earl of Reading on
his appointment as Viceroy of India. The photograph was taken during the speech. On the Bench
(seated, from left to right) are Lord Stemdale (Master of the Rolls). Lord Reading (Lord Chief Justice),
and Sir Henry Duke (President of the Probate. Divorce and Admiralty Division ).—[Photograph by L.N.A.\
attempt to pride that she was descended from Daniel O’Connell, tions of the
ich still ex- the Irish agitator ; she described a pilgrimage that sixteen illus
ring certain she had made to the birthplace of her Irish ancestor, Grenada. 1
1 and legal whose name she adopted as her nom-de-plume. Mme. Built,” reco
am right in Lesueur was a brilliant and versatile writer, and during young Quak
a to French- a long literary career carried off no fewer than six cocoa and cJ
sd the same of the great literature prizes offered by her country. duced into 1
difficult for When the war cloud burst in 1914, she set to work able, under 1
two women, immediately to organise help of a practical kind for began busini
those women who suddenly found themselves left
alone to struggle with the problem of existence.
The association known as ” Aide aux Femmes des
Combattants," which helped so many poor women
to tide over the first few months of the war, owed
its foundation to her prompt action in August 1914.
Later she turned her attention to the poilu, and.
having a great admiration for English ways, she estab¬
lished recreation huts on the English plan and worked
amongst the soldiers of General Humbert’s army.
PEEPS AT A FAMOUS INDUSTRY.
T HERE is more romance in a cup
of cocoa or a piece of chocolate
than is dreamed of by most con¬
sumers of those commodities. Those,
however, who read the volume on
” Cocoa ” by Edith A. Browne,
F.R.G.S., in Messrs. A. and C.
Black's excellent series, *' Peeps at
Industries,” will have a sense of
this romance next time they eat or
drink the delicacies in question. For
the subject of cocoa—like those of
tea, sugar, and rubber, already
treated by the same author—takes
the student first to picturesque
scenes in far lands, and then home
again to the mechanical marvels of
great factories, as at Bristol and
Bourn vi He. Ignorance about such
products is very general. Even the
explanation that coconuts do not
grow on cocoa-trees, and that the real
name of the tree that produces the
- cocoa-bean is the cacao, is probably
OF INDIA- st *H desirable. South America, we
learn, was the original homeland of
the cocoa-tree, and in Mexico “choco-
'aT'Reij'n*^" late ‘ froth 1 was served in golden
On the Bench goblets at Montezuma’s feasts.” Cocoa
Chiel Justice), * s now gr ow n *n many other parts of
*pk by L.N.A.] the tropics. The present book describes
in detail a tour of the cocoa planta¬
tions of the Gold Coast and Ashanti ; but some of the
sixteen illustrations show also work in Trinidad and
Grenada. The final chapter, " The House that Fry
Built,” records how that famous firm, founded by a
young Quaker doctor in 1728, is “ the parent of British
cocoa and chocolate factories.” Cocoa was first intro¬
duced into England in 1656, and had become fashion¬
able, under the name of "chocolata,” when Joseph Fry
began business at a little factory in Wine Street, Bristol.
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Carlisle's tense quietness in the role of the wife, Mr.
Leslie Faber's discreetness in the lover's scenes of court¬
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of a complaisant elderly doctor, and, above all, Mr.
Claude Rains* tour-de-fvrcc in the act in which the
THE PLAYHOUSES.
BY FRED J. MELVILLE.
«~pO celebrate the consecration of the Meijijingu.
1 the temple built in honour of the memory of
the great Meiji, the enlightened Emperor of Japan,
two stamps were issued on Nov. i They are the
i J sen. violet (right), and 3 sen. carmine (left), delicately
engraved with a view of the new temple
amid the trees. These stamps are not in-
- tended for general use on foreign letters, but
are available for use throughout Japan, and
throughout the extra-territorial postal ser¬
vices carried on by Japan in China. They
will remain in use until the end of March next.
A recent arrival from South Africa is a
r brown i$d. stamp; this denomination ha.«
become necessary for use on ordinary letters.
The Universal Postal Union meeting at
that will mean 5d. for a letter from this
country to a foreign country. The inter¬
national rates of postage are cfdculated in
French francs on a gold basis.
The increased postage rates, which will
l>e brought into force early in the New
Year, will necessitate a large number of
new stamp issues. Many of our Colonies,
have no 3d. denomination in current use,
and nearly all countries may have to re-
- arrange the colours of their present stamps.
The high value stamps of Czecho-Slovakia
“""J* bear a portrait of the first President of the
mp of Republic, Dr. Thomas Masaryk. He is
issued the hero of Czech independence. Born at
Hodonin in Moravia, the son of a coachman,
he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and sub¬
sequently became a lecturer in philosophy,
and a professor of Prague University. His portrait
figures on the 125, 500 and 1000 heller stamps.
The troubles and tribulations of a new country
are reflected in the many " provisional ” stamps.
Some extremely interesting provisional stamps were
issued for the prepayment of postage on newspapers
in Czecho-Slovakia during this period, the one 1 illus¬
trate being issued at Olmutz. Most of these pro¬
visional stamps are likely to prove very scarce.
1 and 2. Bearing a view of the new temple to the Emperor Meij:: Japan,
commemoratint its consecration. 3. A new South African l»d. stamp. no*
ordinary letters. 4. Bearing a portrait of President Masaryk a high-value
Czecho-Slovakia. 5. Likely to prove acaroe: a Czecho-Slovaklan provisional ata
at Olmutz, for newspaper postage.
Sump* tuppiud by Mr. FrU J. MetwiUs, no. Sire** W.C.t.
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Chocolates are always a welcome gift, whether in
winter or summer, and those who have a prejudice in
favour of the best of everything always ask for Cadbury
Brothers* B .urnville chocolates. They are manufactured
under clean and healthy conditions, and are delicious
examples of what high-class confectionery ought to be.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 22 . 1921 —128
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
A New A A ^° ver election marks a new
Policy departure in the policy of the A. A.,
which sent down representatives
to call meetings of local motorists and to formulate,
in conjunction with them, a list of questions to be
submitted to the candidates. These questions were
excellent in every way, and it is well worth while
quoting them in full—first, in order to show that
the A.A. and motorists generally seek nothing but
manifest justice, and have no desire to preju¬
dice the interests of the general community ; and,
second, for the purpose of putting on record the
real basis of a future fighting policy. The first
question propounded was : " Assvning that, in view
of the existing calls on the Imperial Exchequer, no
contribution is possible at the present moment from
the Imperial funds for the cost of road maintenance
and improvement, is it in your view equitable to
adjust taxation on the various forms of vehicular
BY A FIRM THAT WON TWO COLD MEDALS IN A LONDON-EXETER RUN :
A BEAN TWO-SEATER.
Two Bean cars competed in the recent London-Exeter run of the Motor-Cycling Chib,
and both secured gold medals.
traffic proportionate to the extent of road use and traffic ; (c) The r
road damage ? ” Both candidates returned an affirm- and mechanical rc
ative answer. It is difficult to see how anybody, save Imperial Excheqr
on grounds of pure self - interest, can quarrel with The last was the f
the fundamental proposition laid down in this question. Undoubtedly, it
Obviously, there is but one equitable basis of taxation contribution to
of road vehicles, and that is the one set forth country exist for i
The Fuel Tax. ^h e 8ecor, d and third question
put to the candidates are so inter¬
connected that they may be taken together. What
they seek to elicit is whether, in the view of the
questioned, a flat-rate duty on motor fuel is the most
equitable and practical method of obtaining
the greater proportion of the contribution from
motor traffic towards road expenses, and whether
the candidate, if elected, would support legisla
tion for the reinstatement of taxation on fuel as
an alternative to the present inequitable system
Again both replied in the affirmative to the
double proposition. The case against the horse¬
power tax and for the fuel tax has been set
forth so fully and often that it seems scarcely
necessary again to emphasise the desirability
of basing taxation on actual road usage. Obviously,
the tax on use is right ; while that on possession
is quite wrong and indefensible except from the
point of view of bureaucratic convenience. Every¬
thing seems nowadays to be subject to this last;
and no matter how unjust,
' ' I how inconvenient to the
taxpayer a particular man¬
ner of taxation may be. every
other consideration has to
be waived when a Govern- f
ment Department insists 1
that to do the thing another *
way will entail work on its *
officials.
Tax AH Road , N ° 1 . th< ‘
Vehicles.
tant part of
the A.A. campaign was that
bearing upon the obvious in¬
equity of drawing all road
taxation from a single class of
traffic. A question was drafted
as follows : " Apart from the
present financial difficulties of
the Government, is it your view
that the costs of road main-
XDN-EXETER RUN : tenance and improvement should
in principle be found from—
M Motor-Cycling Chib, ( fl ) The ratepayers and mechan¬
ical road traffic ; ( b) The rate¬
payers and all classes of road
traffic ; (c) The ratepayers, the Imperial Exchequer,
and mechanical road traffic ; or ( d) The ratepayers, the
Imperial Exchequer, and all classes of road traffic ? ”
The last was the principle favoured by the candidates.
Undoubtedly, it embodies the most just basis of
contribution to road upkeep. The roads of the
country exist for the benefit of the whole community,
and it is right that the community as such should
contribute. The locality derives direct benefit from
the roads within its area, and should pay a special
contribution accordingly. Road traffic, irrespective of
class, uses and causes damage, greater or less, to those
NOW PLYING IN BIRMINGHAM: A B.S.A. MOTOR-CYCLE TAXI.
This is one of the latest motor-cycle taxis fitted to B.S.A. Twin
Motor-Bicycles now being run in Birmingham. It gives ample room for
two passengers, while luggage is carried on a grid extended at the rear.
roads, and should lie mulcted in proportion to the
use it makes of highways and the ratio of damage it
causes. This again seems to be a proposition from
which no one can dissent, save from a desire to escape
the payment which should rightly fall due from
him. All things considered. I think the A.A. is to be
congratulated upon its efforts, the more so as I
have reason to know that these are only the begin¬
nings of a new’ policy which ought to produce
great results. VV. W.
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THE UNBORN CHILD DISCOVERS
OF
HIS MOTHER. JOY (MISS GLADYS COOPER):
“ THE BETROTHAL,” at the gaiety.
THE GREAT MOMENT
The most touching scene in Maeterlinck’s new play, " The Betrothal, at th *
Gaiety Theatre, is that in The Abode of the Children, where Tyltyl, in ®*
a bride, is greeted by his six unborn children. The Smallest of Them All dis¬
covers his mother in the silent White Phantom who has followed Tyltyl throughout
his quest. She proves to be Joy. Our photograph shows the moment when
The Smallest of Them All says : 41 Don’t cover your face ; they wouldn’t see it
and they wouldn’t believe me. . . . [Drawing aside the veils) Oh. mummy,
how lovely you are ! ” It is the great moment ot the play, when Miss Gladys
Cooper, after her long muffled silence in the previous scenes, breaks into speech
and is revealed a vision of beauty. -[Photograph by Stack Photo Co.J
‘Oar Note Book ” will be suspended for a time.
NOTE.— Owing to Mr. C. K. Che.terton. vi.it to the United Stole., the puUcoaon o.
_ 11
A CHARMING SKI-RUNNER AT A POPULAR CENTRE
IN IDEAL TRIM FOR WINTER SPORT: ST. MORITZ UNDER SNOW-
A GENERAL VIEW.
SUNNY CORNER ON THE CRESTA RUN AT ST. MORITZ : A GROUP OF WINTER SPORT ENTHUSIASTS WATCHING A BOBSLEIGH
ROUNDING THE CURVE.
whom, are many
i full swing here.
Run and West-en
roleome news that
Bnow was late in tailing in some parts of Switzerland this season, but it came at last, to the ereat delight ot the winter sport devotees, among n
5t. Moritz and Miirren are two oi the most popular centres. A message from St. Moritz about a fortnight ago said : " Winter sports are in
is open from Sunny Comer, and the entire run will be open next week. The Cresta Run is open from Stream Comer, and also the Village I
is one of the few Swiss resorts where the snow is good for ski-ing. Snow is falling now. ” From Miirren about the same time came the we
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan 29, 1921.
'ALL: Wt
Photogurl.
PORTS IN FULL SWING AT
. a sd General. ani>
K PQPUL4! &
ITER SPORT:
MRS. STEWARD LEALOR AT ST. MORITZ.
ST. MORITZ AND MURREN.
ROUNDING THE BETON CURVE : THE BOBSLEIGH RUN AT MURREN,
A FAVOURITE RESORT FOR BRITISH VISITORS.
“ BOBBING "
°N A FAMOUS RUN AT ST.
Snow followed
y «r
MORITZ : A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN UNDER THE ARCH OF THE RAILWAY BRIDGE
UNDER WHICH THE TRACK PASSES.
"Ninth ShirP * f0St 1135 re,ieved the minds of ski-runners and tobogganing enthusiasts, who, though they have been able to indulge their respective hobbies every
P ,er 7one, ind U( ii ng th bCgmninS t0 feel anxious owing to the abnormal lateness, all over Switzerland, of the January snowfalls this year. The situation is now excellent, and
r °meter 6 Slt4ters ’ * s conten t-” The fine conditions held, and on January 22 again a Miirren report said : "A heavy snowfall has just ceased here. There is a
’ a k «n frost, and a cloudless sky.”
15 bare.
'.RATH!
INVENTOR OF A NEW PRINCIPLE FOR
GIANT SUBMARINES : PROF. O. FLAMM.
MAKING A MODEL OF ETON PLAYING FIELDS
WAR MEMORIAL : MR. BERTRAM MACKENNAL.
TO FRENCH STUDENTS FALLEN IN THE WAR
A MONUMENT UNVEILED AT THE SORBONNE.
A ROYAL " MIDDY," SERVING IN THE
«• IRON DUKE " : PRINCE GEORGE.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 29, 1921. 132
PERSONALITIES AND OCCASIONS: MEN, WOMEN, AND WAR MEMORIALS
A’ POET AS REGISTRAR-GENERAL.
MR. S. P VIVIAN.
H APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF NIGERIA :
LT.-COL. H. C. MOORHOUSE, R.A D.S.O.
CONTAINING THE “ASHES" OF ENGLISH CRICKET: AN URN
IN THE POSSESSION OF LORD DARNLEY.
GREEK ROYALTIES: (L. TO R.) PRINCESS CHRISTOPHER (MR
PRINCE CHRISTOPHER, PRINCESS ANDREW. PRINCE AI
PROSPECTIVE COLONIAL SECRETARY AS ARTIST :
WINSTON CHURCHILL PAINTING ON THE RIVIERA.
Prince George, who recently became a Midshipman, left Portsmouth on January 24
in the ‘‘Vindictive,” seaplane-carrier, to join his ship, “The Iron Duke,” now
flag-ship in the Mediterranean.— Dr. Oswald Flamm, Professor of Marine Archi¬
tecture at the Technical College, Charlottenburg, Berlin, has patented a new
principle of stability which, he claims, will make possible huge and fast sub¬
marines. He is designing one of 8400 tons, to carry four 13-in. guns.-The
urn containing the historic “ashes” was presented by Australian ladies to the
English cricket team which won the “rubber” in Australia in 1882, after
hav ng lost the first Test Match.-Mr. S. P. Vivian, the new Registrar-General,
now busy “numbering the people” for the Census, was once interested in
poetic “ numbers.”-Lieut.-Col. H. C. Moorhouse, the new Lieutenant-Governor
of Nigeria, has been Secretary of the Southern Province since 1914. He served
there during the war.-Prince Christopher of Greece recently married a wealthy
American widow, Mrs. W. B. Leeds, now popularly known as “ the Dollar
Princess.”-Mr. Winston Churchill’s appointment as Colonial Secretary was
lately foreshadowed. He makes a hobby of landscape painting.-The tablet
in the Guildhall porch, unveiled by the Lord Mayor on January 20, commemorates
City Councillors, their sons, and members of the staff, who fell in the war.-
The Sorbonne monument, “ L’Offrande,” is dedicated “ Aux Etudiants Fran?ais
morts pour La Patrie.”-Mr. Bertram Mackennal, (he well-known sculptor, is at
work on a war memorial to stand at the entrance of the Eton playing fields. He
is an Australian who “remigrated ” to England. He designed our present coinage.
THE CITY'S ROLL OF HONOUR : A MEMORIAL
UNVEILED BY THE LORD MAYOR AT GUILDHALL
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEW'S. Jan. 29, 1921 - -13.H
COMING UNDER THE HAMMER: A CELEBRATED DUTCH MASTERPIECE.
VVVORLD-FAMED is rather a strong expression,” writes a corre-
* spondent, “ but it is in all fairness due and has often been
plied to Jan Vermeer’s ’A Street in Delft,’ to be sold by public auction
April 12, at the Muller Galleries, in the Doelenstraat, Amsterdam,
comes out of the Six collection in the Heerengracht, Amsterdam, and
ne into the Six family through marriage with a member of the van
nter family, into whose possession it had passed at the Oosten de
>yn sale, Amsterdam, April 8, 1800. This, however, was not its first
'earance in the auction-room, it having been sold at the great Vermeer
sale in Amsterdam, May 19, 1696, being then catalogued as No. 32. Jt
has a rare beauty, unsurpassed in its way, a * triumph of simplicity in
painting,’ and besides the Hague picture is the only street scene known
to have been painted by Vermeer. Artists have endeavoured to copy
it over and over again, but always fail to grasp or, in any case, to render
the exquisite beauty, the soul of the original. Dozens of celebrated
writers on art have extolled its unique charm, and its forthcoming
sale is awaited in art - collecting circles with an almost unprece¬
dented interest.”
BY A HARE DUTCH MASTEL OF WHOSE WORKS ONLY THIRTY-THREE ARE KNOWN : “ THE LITTLE STREET,”
BY JAN VERMEER, A FAMOUS PICTURE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION.
th*** ,ntemt ’ not to excitement, has been aroused among art-collectors by
th* ha"* ***** VCTmeer ’* famous picture "The Little Street ” is to come under
P *aammer. It is to be sold by auction on April 12, in Amsterdam, by Messrs.
/ Muller and Co. Only thirty-three Vermeers are known to exist, most
hem being in national collections, and for the last twenty years there has
* growing vogue for his work. In 1870 the Louvre bought his ” Lace-
er for less than £300. To-day it would probably fetch fifty times that
amount, if not more. "The Little Street,” which measures 21 in. by 17 in.,
has long been in the Six Collection, one of the very few private galleries retaining
pictures painted for the family by the great Dutch masters of the seventeenth
century. Professor Six, who recently inherited it, has been compelled by heavy
death duties to sell some in order to save the rest He is forming a trust
to preserve the family portraits in Holland. Vermeer was bom at Delft in
1632. and died there in 1675. His "View of Delft ” is in the Hague Gallery.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 29. 1921—13J
CAPTURED BY THE MILITARY IN CORK : PRISONERS INSIDE THE RAILINGS
OF THE COURT HOUSE, CORK, BEING QUESTIONED BY AN OFFICER.
Sir Htmtr Greenwood, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, inspected the Auxiliary
Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary at Beggar’s Bush Barracks, their
headquarters in Dublin, on January 2a. Addressing the men, he said : “ However
great the provocation, never forget that you are officers of His Majesty's Army,
again serving the old flag in this distracted country. You are policemen, whose
first duty is to prevent crime and maintain order, and I hope before the last
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND INSPECTING R.I.C. AUXILIARIES IN DUBLIN :
SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD PASSING DOWN THE LINES.
auxiliary man leaves Ireland the people of Ireland will realise, and from your
conduct and courage and chivalry will appreciate, that fact. You are here to
rescue Ireland from the assassin, to save her from the small misguided minority
of her people. You are here to maintain the United Kingdom intact, and to
break up that conspiracy which has for its object the smashing of the British
Empire." Lady Greenwood was with her husband at the inspection.
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 21>. 1021— 1.*ti
CURIOSITIES AND INGENUITIES OF THE PATENT OFFICE.
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. W. B. ROBINSON.
A MACHINE AOAPTtO TO TRAVEL ON
LAND or IM -nle AIR - 3tillable winds etc
allow Jbe autocar fo work as a FJyinO I
machine when desiredassuck. 7 I
Detachable
Robber
Holders
Helical Spring
in To be
.in section, tt>e
/wo verrical I
each occuponf.
iarness Is model
This diagram shows,
sea Land one of /he I
springs.provided for,
to which me elastic, hi
TRAVELL 'NC SAG AMO
eirce ESCAPE —
CLOTHES BRU3HIMC * g
MACHINE — ^ /
A flexible brush-carrying endless beJf
To revolve by a small motor within the e
The belt moves rapidly in a vertical direcl
me brushes thereon in contact with the outei
of me wearer as he presses against the mi
A Dust-collecting device is also prov.„ TO .
pa) Revolving Hat- Brush, (b) Revolving Brush For Shoes
.e'V *n ms t>o
himself and bad a
a burning bulletin-
Longitudinal Section
showing two seats and springs
,brin^in«jl
In Fliohtwith win^a
unfolded (4prc#d)
Showing me win^s folded
(rntnacbd) like the winos
bird
a motor sleigh with a screw
propeller adapted to be raised and I
lowered and vertically adjusted
So that it can run at a greater or
less depth in the ice or snow.
SNOW PL OUCH FOR
Two vyheels
! RAILWAYS -
ilb curved blades e
olive a
2SL jy* d ,n frontofa loco .motive and
£!3iS?2£5 n '".PPPosife cdirechonsby
belts and pulleys From a motor ™
motor.
MANY INVENTIONS : SERIES VI.-A FLYING CAR ; A FIRE - ESCAPE BAG ; A CLOTHES - BRUSHING MACHINE ;
A SAFETY SEAT : A MOTOR - SLEIGH ; A SNOW - PLOUGH FOR RAILWAY ENGINES.
him ”•* come ’ M *h* top drawing shows, when we may see motor-cars I
,nto fl t»ng machines and rise into the air ! Equally thrilling in an emer- I
doth T 0Uid . *** a kit-bag that turns into a fire-escape. The electrically driven
ttati **" nuhine ‘"•chine is recommended as useful for barbers' shops, railway
for ^ * nd h ° tCls ’ “ weJJ •* *n ornament in the borne. Of the safety device
occu o{ vehicles the inventor says : “ The object is to prevent such
** a motor vehicle, for example- from being thrown upwards and I
forwards in the case of a sudden shock and thus injured by falling head down¬
wards. It does not interfere with free movements. . . . The driver or other
occupant is elastically held at the shoulders ... and after the absorption of
the momentum of the body is pulled back again in a springy manner to his
seat” The motor-sleigh “is caused to travel by a screw-propeller supported
from the rear end of the vehicle body between and parallel with the rear runners
actuated through a telescopic shaft ''—iCepyrigkUi in Ho VnUed Stars tod C*muU.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 29, 1921.—136
T HE Play-Actors, that excellent combination of figures could easily point to graphic portrayals of
actors and actresses which, thanks to the Sovereigns and Prime Ministers and Generals—for
energies of Mr. Henry Oscar and Mr. George Mr. Fyfe knows: he has seen and spoken to many
Lingner, has resumed its promising activities who were men of light and leading. He indulges
with unabated ardour, did not only begin its in caricature, but he also maintains veracity :
season well by the production of the late Harold he has peeled his victims for us and shows the
Chapin's last and ablest work. “ The New often indifferent kernel hidden under a resplendent
Morality,” but it has added to its reputation skin.
and rendered a service to the progressive drama Within an ace the morality would have
of the country by giving a hearing to Mr. gone home with the power of a shell. During two
Hamilton Fyfe. In one word, his morality, " The acts we were deeply impressed ; we admired the
Kingdom, the Power and the Glory,” is an daring of the thing as well as the kaleidoscopic
achievement of mental nobility. It is original to manysidedness of the execution. Here indeed
the degree of boldness ; it is timely ; it impels was the secret revealed that no one is a hero to
introspection; it proclaims without fear or favour his valet ; and when, in the third act, Mr. Fisher
the futility of the three fetishes that blind White gave a picture of the crestfallen, benighted
the vision of men ; it hallows love as the one and General, so pathetic, so true, so painfully exposing
only quality of redemption and reconstruction. the vanity of all human glory, that we felt a lump
In the vein of satire the author divests kings of in' our throat—in the third act, the arch-enemy
purple and bares them into mere puppets ; in of dramatic etfect. anti-climax, suddenly, as it
the vein of demonstration that power is but a were, cut the current of interest. It was a mere
satellite of circumstances—he proves that war nothing—the iteration of proletarian talk by ser-
may be caused by an untoward gunshot in a vants in the midst of a crisis. It was the ominous
frontier incident ; in the vein of tragedy he humbles error frequently committed in a play with a pur-
a great warrior into dotage and ordains the totter- pose to emphasise a point. A few strokes of the
ing human remnant to be dressed up in his glitter- blue pencil could have remedied it. But some-
ing uniform and orders, to be honoured by picture how it passed unobserved at the dress-rehearsal,
and statue, in order that his outward glory may and the oversight disturbed the balance. Such
catct) more men for the army of his country, while are the (mis)fortunes of dramatic warfare. But
the poor mannikin has ceased to care for and what of it, after all ? It does not affect the
to understand the lustre of life and meanders character of the work, which is full of thought,
about his bodily needs—the caress of his mistress, rich in characterisation, lofty in aim, monumental
who is a harridan, and a dish of rabbit pie. Sic in design ; a work to be seen first, then to be read
transit I and pondered over, since its envoi bears on the
This is the theme, but there is much more destiny of mankind—kingdom, power, glory, and
in this play where we meet all sorts and con- the super-ruler of them all. the divine omnipotence
d'tions of rulers—from the vainglorious and the of love.
inept, to the Prince who understands both love In a cast of many, some stood out, all worked
and life and becomes imbued with the demo- with a will. Masterly were the portrayals of
cratic spirit; from the Ministers, the masters of Mr. Julius Knight, as close a reincarnation of
the situation, who govern for the welfare of William II., as well can be imagined ; of Mr. Bruce
their country, to those who are mere climbers Winston, akin to Francis Joseph ; of Mr. Halli-
in the democratic cause and become greedy of well Hobbes, akin to Count Berchtold ; of Mr.
titles and honours when vox populi has raised James Dale, as the prince who understood his
them to presidential power. Although Mr. Fyfe people as King Albert understands his; of Mr.
has hidden countries and identities under assumed D. Lewrin Mannering, the most distinguished
names, there is an imaginary representation of ambassadorial type conceivable, a Paul Cambon
the Conceit of Europe, as it played in complete both in physique and grandeur of manners. Withal,
want of harmony before the fateful days of 1914. an impressive performance of an impressive play ;
Those conversant with history and historical caviare, I fear, in the regular routine of a Lon¬
don theatre, but destined to
further the cause of our
drama in many lands across
the Channel.
Ian Hay makes his sun¬
shine where he finds it. & la
Moltire. If you would pick his
“ Safety Match ” to pieces, you
would find bits of Robertson,
of Dickens, of Thackeray, eke
of the Irish of the Abbey
and G. B. S. ^ou would
also find a strange “ change
of tenses,” now comedy, now
wild farce, now melodrama,
now fairy-tale. But why be
so cruel when you have a
fair entertainment by an
author out to amuse you ?
There is no pretence in this
little story of the Jugger¬
naut of forty - five who
wedded his early autumn to
flaming June and found the
truth that there are no roses
without thorns. That he
afterwards made the con¬
quest of his wife by heroism
and self-sacrifice was all to his
credit, and to Mr. Bourchier's,
who was admirable.
Brisson, the critic of the
Paris Temps, has spoken a
word in season. He has
admitted the insularity of the
French stage, where foreign
plays, except in theatres d
c 6 ti, rarely obtain a hearing.
And he has advocated the
A DISTINGUISHED POLISH VIOLINIST: M. PAUL KOCHANSKI.
Previous to his departure for America, M. Kochanslci gave several recitals at the Wig-
more Hall. He is a musician of rare distinction, and to Londoners who have heard
him the news that his American tour will be but of short duration is very welcome.
establishment of an Inter¬
national Theatre in order
to make the Parisians better
acquainted with the trend
Photograph by Malcolm Arbutknot,
of modem drama abroad. Comadia, the
daily organ of the theatre in Paris, has turned
the question into a symposium, and, if a vote
were taken, the odds are that such an in¬
stitution as proposed by Brisson would have
had a lukewarm reception. The general con¬
sensus is — it might be tried, but is it worth
trying when all is well in the best of all
worlds — when our own playwrights are turning
out plays as swiftly as the Bolshevists print bank-
A POPULAR RUSSIAN TENOR: M. VLADIMIR
ROSING.
It was arranged that M. Rosing should give a recital at
the Aeolian Hall to-day (January 29). His programme
consists of Russian songs, in which he is very much at
his beat.- [Photograph by LatuUlt.)
notes, and when a long file of the young generation
is knocking vainly at stage-doors ?
Of course, some of the men of the hour, who
are ever in demand, in order not to appear
too rapacious of royalties, extend a lame
welcoming hand to the idea. They seem to
say: ” Pour quoi pas ?—it is no concern of ours,
we shouldn't worry.” Never seems there to be
a necessity for seeking abroad what is grown at
home in abundance. When one thinks of a
Sacha Guitry, who at thirty-five has already
written seventy-three plays ; or of Vemeuil, the
author of " Daniel.” who at twenty-seven confesses
to twenty-three plays, one can bat conjecture what
the annual output may be in a country where every
self-respecting colllgien' begins at sixteen with a
tragedy in five acts and in verse !
Still, the outside observer, who contemplates
the French stage in a less chauvinistic spirit
than those who rule it, would not be slow to
admit that a little fresh international air, a
little less triangle, sex, and sordidness would
raise the standard. As a London critic who
recently made. the run of Parisian theatres re¬
marked : " Of course the French theatre is always
amusing, but it does seem to stand still.” The
bill changes, but the nature of the play does
not. It seems to turn in the vicious circle of
adultery and eroticism ; it is fragrant with perfume,
and it would be all the better for a blast from
the north and the north-west—from Scandinavia,
Holland, Germany, where there is at least an
effort to get away from the rut and the groove.
Even from England the French drama might take
a lesson : a few Galsworthy plays would be a tonic
and a revelation to the Parisians.
But I believe that an International Theatre
would have in London ten chances to succeed
against one in Paris, and that is — the main
chance. In other words, if the International
Theatre of Paris is to come, it must pin its
faith to Macenas and his money, not to the man
in the street, who is content with what is French
in the spirit of Victor Hugo, who would have the
world believe that every man has two countries—
his own and then “ la France.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 29, 1921.—137
lit, the
i tamed
a vote
an in-
d have
al con-
worth
of all
anting
bank-
FRANCE MAKING RUGBY-FOOTBALL HISTORY : THE FRENCH FIFTEEN,
WHO DEFEATED SCOTLAND AT INVERLEITH
BEATEN BY FRANCE BY A TRY TO NOTHING : THE SCOTTISH FIFTEEN
FOR THE MATCH AT INVERLEITH.
WITH THE FRENCH PRESSING : A THROW-IN IN THE SCOTTISH
TWENTY-FIVE LINE.
DURING THE SCOTLAND t. FRANCE MATCH : A TUSSLE
AT A LINE-OUT.
DEFEATERS OF BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY BY ELEVEN POINTS :
THE LONDON UNIVERSITY FIFTEEN.
The Rugby football match between Scotland and France, at Jnverleith, on Saturday,
anuary 22, resulted in a win for France by one try (three points) to nothing,
h ^ tfUe ***** Scotland’s backs were somewhat experimental ; but, on the other
* n , France played no fewer than riee reserves, and there is no doubt that the
goners secured their victory by superiority in speed of foot and brain. Some
ve-and-twenty thousand people were present. Scotland played in white, lest the
BEATEN BY THE LONDON UNIVERSITY FIFTEEN : THE BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
TEAM AT QUEEN'S CLUB.
similarity of their jerseys to those of France should cause confusion.-On the
same day London University and Birmingham. University met at Queen’s Club.
The home team won by a goal and three tries (fourteen points) to a try (three
points). For three parts of the game the Londoners did most of the attacking,
and would have scored heavily but for the fine tackling of the Birmingham backs,
who frequently saved the situation.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 29. 1921.—138
THE SUBMARINE DISASTER: “K5,” LOST WITH ALL HANDS.
pHOTOOB ArHS HY I.B., C.N., AND BRITISH I LI.US.
SUNK "AT THE APPROACHES TO THE CHANNEL ” ON JANUARY *o, WITH 6 OFFICERS AMD 51 MEN: SUBMARINE
(COMMANDER JOHN A. GAIMES, D.S.O.) AT SEA.
ONE OF A CLASS DESCRIBED AS “ THE LARGEST AND FASTEST SUBMARINES IN EXISTENCE ; CERTAINLY BY FAR THE MOST COMPLICATED ” :
THE “ K 5 ’ —STARBOARD SIDE.
Submarine " K 5 ’’ (Commander John A. Gaimes, R.N., D.S.O.) was lost with all
hands on Thursday, January 20, about 120. miles south-west of the Scilly Islands.
She had left Torbay with the Atlantic Fleet on the previous day, in company
with four other boats of the " K ” class. Wreckage was found which un¬
doubtedly belonged to her. Rear-Admiral S. S. Hall writes : " The * K ’ class
submarines are the largest and fastest in existence, certainly by far the most
complicated. . . . Probably the loss of the vessel was due to some delay in
checking the downward momentum in diving. . . . The water was so deep that
the submarine would inevitably be crushed and prevent control being regained.
The * K ’ boats could dive from 20 knots on the surface in about four minutes,
but with anything but a perfectly trained crew any attempt to do this would be
highly dangerous in deepwater.” " K ” boats have a length of 334 ft., and dis¬
placement, (surface) 1880 tons, (submerged) 2650 tons. Their special feature is that
they are steam-driven on the surface : the funnels are hinged down for diving.
1
S' 2.
THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS,
Jan. 29, 1921 —139
AS IT WAS IN THE LOST “ ic c» ,
5 * life IN A LARGE SUBMARINE.
Fhotomaphs mr Tohcai..
”““‘ss,"-*-- — —
TYPICAL of the well-appointed furniture and
^ OF A “ K
«e photograph* taken in a sister ship of the same class show \ -
k on board the lost submarine “ K 5,” and the type of officers who senred
Were Cr . . * Iere wcr *t down in the “ K 5 " six officers and 51 men. The officers
Vf f’ r fy t '^ omman< I er John A. Gaimes, D.S.O. (the captain), Lieut Frederick
G«onte w ef ° rd ’ ^ n P neer *Lieutenant Edward J. Bowles, Acting Engineer-Lieutenant
Baker, Lieut Benjamin J. Clarke, and Acting Lieut Robert J. M.
ROOMY CONDITIONS 1
BOAT AT HIS DESK
CLASS : THE COMMANDER
I SUBMARINES OF THE
IN HIS CABIN.
MiddJemist. Lieut.-Commander Gaimes, who won his D.S.O. in the war, was
one of the most experienced of British submarine-commanders, having volunteered
for that branch of the Service as long ago as 1908. He was writing a book on
the work of submarines during the war. As our photographs show, the living
accommodation in a large modem submarine is much roomier and better appointed
than in the older and smaller boats.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan. 29. 1921.—HU
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1 _ _LI
imeatton.
E NGLISH parents are beginning to realise at
last that a knowledge of French is not only
an important, but an indispensable, factor of
every' child's education. In the case of their sons
little is left in their hands, for the British
Public School is a necessity. With daughters it
is different, and Paris now contains a -large
number of pensions where they may have the
best chance in the world of acquiring this immense
benefit. Indeed, an English girl in Paris is much
to be envied, and happier still she who arrives
with a sufficient knowledge of the language to be
able to dispense with the drudgery of grammar
lessons and avail herself immediately’ of her great
opportunities. In this new atmosphere, so dif¬
ferent from that of England—an atmosphere that
arouses every ounce of energy, for everything in
Paris is perpetually in movement — she lives
a new life, and when it is over she will return,
very appreciative of her home, with new ideas
and memories for which she will ever be
thankful.
Of course, I am only able to speak of my
personal experience, which, I imagine, differs to a
certain degree from that of the majority of English
girls in Paris, although in many details it is
necessarily the same. For instance, I believe that
in a great many pensions (I must needs retain the
French word, as they cannot be called schools—
least of all the one where I am staying at present)
most of the work is done at the house ; whereas
in the delightful flats in the Champ de Mars,
my present home, there are given only a very few
private lessons, such as music, Italian, and sewing,
although all " preparation ” is done there. For all
other subjects, at eight o’clock in the morning
we daily wend our way, passing the Eiffel Tower
and the Ecole Militaire, along the dreary Champ
de Mars to the Lycee Victor Duruy. This Lyc6e,
formerly the Convent of the Sacr6 Cceur, was
originally intended for a considerably smaller
number of pupils than it now contains. So it was
not with enthusiasm that the Directress received
nearly a score of English girls.
At first we attended certain classes as listeners
only; although later, to the delight and interest
of the French girls, we attempted to do the
“ preparation.’’ Later, as a supplement to these
classes, a special one was started to help us to a
better understanding of the lessons, to extend our
knowledge of French literature, and to correct
the grammatical mistakes which were far too
frequent in our compositions. This class was so
successful in our case that before long we were
joined by girls of all nationalities—Australians,
Americans, Greeks, Alsatians, and Chinese, boarders
at the Lyc6e; and the ‘Cours des F.trangfres’’
sopn became official.
At length, after a short apprenticeship at the
Cours des Etrangeres, we gradually began to
attend more classes wnth the French girls.
Instead of all of us doing the same
work, each took her own subjects inde¬
pendently of the others, and some became
regular pupils of the Lyc^e, subject to
its rules and receiving marks like any
other member of the class. Our studies
now include a large range of subjects,
varying from the lives and works of
the ancient Greek dramatists to modern
languages and cooking. The cookery
class does not include any French girls—
and, indeed, they were much surprised
to learn that we did not already know
how’to cook. We take our lesson on
alternate weeks with the foreign boarders ;
while at the end of the term we all
combine to give an exhibition of our skill
at a tea-party to which the Directress
and other mistresses are invited. At
each lesson we are taught to cook a com¬
plete meal, two of us working on each
course. Failures are practically unheard-
of, but I doubt whether, in every case,
we should be able to repeat the ex¬
periment if left to our own devices.
In addition to these classes, every
girl is free to take up any subject she
pleases, outside the Lyc£e. Thus several
go three times a week to the Atelier
Julien, others fence at a salle d’armes,
and riding is also a popular form of
exercise. Then there are two of the
best professors of the Conservatoire for
piano and elocution ; while any modern
language may also be studied.
Every moment of the week is care¬
fully planned out, and we each possess a
minute note-book in which are written the
time-tables for every day. Each book is arranged in
such a manner as to allow the owner one free after¬
noon a week in which to visit the various monuments
and museums of Paris, and occasionally to do any
shopping that
may be necessary.
On Thursday the
Lyc£e gives
whole holiday,
and the morning
is taken up by a
lecture at the
Louvre, while the
afternoon is re¬
served for matin¬
ees at a theatre.
These, for pupils
who are more ad¬
vanced in French,
consist of perfor¬
mances at either
of the national
theatres—the
Com6die Fran-
^aise and the
Odeon—undoubt¬
edly the pleasant¬
est part of our
French education.
For those whose
French is insuffi¬
cient there is the
Op 4 ra Comique;
while parties of
five go to the
Op6ra, on an
average, once a
week.
Sunday is really the only day on which time
has a remote chance to hang heavy on our hands;
although to those who have work to do for the
Lycfe, to be given-in the next day. a long free
DURING A COOKERY CLASS AT A LYCEE IN PARIS.
BEATING UP EGGS.
Drawn by J. >n noni specially for " The Illustrated London Sews.”
afternoon is very welcome. It is in every sense a
day of rest, and we take full advantage of it in
the morning, as the Lyc£e necessitates breakfast
at 7.30 on weekday’s. After church we are free to
do what we like, and this is our chief day for
going out with friends ; while there is also a
possibility of going to a concert or a theatre, but
it has to be a classic one.
On weekdays it is only after dinner that
we are all united, without being on the
point of rushing off somewhere. This time is
passed either in reading the paper or conver¬
sation, or listening to the reading aloud of some
poem, play, or book that may be of particular
interest. Averil Ingram.
AFTER COOKING A COMPLETE MEAL (AND EATING IT): WASHING UP.
Drawn by J. Simon! sptrtally for “The Illustrated London Sews."
AFTER A SPILL IN THE KITCHEN: ONE OF THE ENGLISH
SOCIETY GIRL PUPILS OF A LYCEE COOKERY CLASS
SWABBING THE FLOOR.
Drawn by J. Simont specially for “ The Illustrated London Sens."
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Jan. 29, 1921. -141
AFTER GREEK
dramatists,
SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR
COOKERY: FROM EURIPIDES TO EGGS.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS" BY J. SIMONT.
SEEKING WISDOM FROM A FRENCH EQUIVALENT OF MRS. BE ETON : ENGLISH GIRLS
IN THE COOKERY CLASS COPYING OUT RECIPES FOR DISHES.
UNPLEASANT, BUT NECESSARY: DRAWING " FISH
FOR COOKING.
PREPARING THE SWEETS : CUTTING UP APPLES THE
FOR A TART.
girMn art * C | e 0n anotker P a ge describing the educational experiences of an English
va m ar * S ’ WC rcad : " ® ur stu< *‘ es now include a large range of subjects,
lan^ 10 ** fr ° m thC IiVCS 3nd works of the ancient Creek dramatists to modern
nguages and cooking." The cookery course for girls atlcndirg a lyct'e is very
DELICATE ART OF EGG-BREAKING : AN OBJECT-LESSON IN SEPARATING THE YOLK
FROM THE WHITE.
thorough, as our illustrations show. They do not shirk any of the more
disagreeable preliminaries, such as cleaning out fish and mopping up spills on
the floor, or the equally uninspiring sequel of washing-up, as shown in drawings
given with the article.- {Drawings Copyrighted in the United Slates and Canada.]
112—THE ILLUSTRATED LO]
*
A CAUSE OF SURPRISE TO THEIR FRENCH FELLOW-ST® El
Drawn Specially for “ The IllusAd r
QUALIFYING TO BE PRACTICAL RULERS OF HOUSEHOLDS: ENGLISH GIRLS STUDTO
The education of the modern English girl of good family is practical as well as intellectual. Though she may not have to do her own cooking when she comes
to rule a household, it is felt that she will at any rate need to know how such things ought to be done. As the article on another page explains, the lyctcs
in Paris have a domestic side to their curriculum for foreign students. " The cookery class," it is pointed out, does not include any French girls—and, indeed,
they were much surprised to learn that we did not already know how to ccok. We take our lesson on alternate weeks with the foreign boarders ; while at
NEWS, Jan. 29, 1921.—143
“ttsnuui
1
:LLo %NTS : ENGLISH
ALLY fqd *4 *
London News" by J. Simont.
GIRLS AT A COOKERY-CLASS
IN PARIS.
;,Ng cookery
at a PARIS LYCEE—A DEMONSTRATION IN PASTRY-MAKING.
end o'
Iess °n w 9 are u We a11 combine to give an exhibition of
We should to a t, C00 ^ a complete meal, two of us working on each course.
W3tChin e the ' rCPeat tha ^Perimcnt if left to our own devices.”
our skill at
°Perations of
tea-party, to which the Directress and other mistresses are invited. At each
Failures are practically unheard of, but I doubt whether, in every case,
The above drawing shows a group of English girls attending a cookery class, and
an instructress giving a demonstration of pastry-making.-I ring Copyrighted in the' l nited Slates and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 20. Ml.- 114
ADVENTURES IN COOKERY: ENGLISH GIRLS AT A PARIS LYCEE.
SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR “THE .LLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS" BY L SIWONT.
A SUDDEN SHOWER! A LIGHTER INTERLUDE IN THE PURSUIT OF THE CULINARY ART BY ENGLISH GIRLS
ATTENDING A COOKERY CLASS IN PARIS.
“THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING": ENGLISH GIRLS LEARNING CCOKERY AT A PARIS LYCEE ENJOYING
THE MEAL WHICH THEY HAVE
Cookery has its lighter side, as the upper drawing on this page shows. Elsewhere
in the number are further illustrations of the subject and an article describing
an English girl’s course of studies in Paris, of which this weekly class in cookery,
at the Lyc£e Victor Duruy, forms a part. At every lesson the girls are taught
ALL HAD A HAND IN PREPARING.
I to cook a complete meal, two of them working on each course. When it is
' ready, they eat it. Cookery has that advantage over most subjects it is easy
to test results, and to bring home mistakes (if any) to the perpetrator in a very
I practical manner.- [Draw ings Copyrighted in *he tinted States and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan 29, 1921.-145
SALE of old
English pot-
tery always has an atmos¬
phere of allurement. There
is a homeliness and robust
character in our native
faience. Worcester and Derby and
Bristol porcelain make their appeal
with brilliant colours, an echo of the cosmo¬
politan world of ceramics. To oak dressers
filled with old Staffordshire ware, a Chelsea or a
Bow figure comes with as perturbing an influ¬
ence as did the two town ladies who burst in
in upon the quiet drawing-room of the Vicar
of Wakefield and his family, and who ” talked
nothing but high life, with other fashionable
topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and
the musical glasses.”
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson on the 21st
sold the interesting collection of Staffordshire
pottery formed by Mr. Frank Falkner. which
was exhibited at the Salford Museum m ,906.
Mr. Falkner is remembered by his monograph
of “The Wood Family of Burslem,” and there
were some fine examples by the Ralph Woods,
father and son. There was the well - known
group, the “ Vicar and Moses,” in translucent
Colours. Modelled about 1750, it represents
Sunday morning in church with the Vicar,
in wig and cassock, asleep in a two - decker
pulpit, and the clerk at the desk below with
uplifted hands. This humorous piece has been
copied down to the present day, but the copies
lack the sharpness of outline and the delicacy
of the glazes of the Ralph Wood original.
Other Ralph Wood pieces were ” Minerva,”
standing figure, 12 in. high ; a bust of Milton in
white ; and ” Cupid.” seated on a panther, 8|in.
high, which realised 85 guineas. Of Enoch
Wood, nephew to Ralph Wood senior, there
were figures of " Diana ” and " Fortune.”
iij in. and 10 in. high respectively; ” St.
Peter,” a large standing figure with pedestal
at side, 18$ in. high; and busts of Whitfield
and Wesley—the latter gave sittings to Enoch
Wood in 1781, when on one of his preaching
tours. There was a Wood and Caldwell bust
of *• Alexander the Great of Russia.” On some
of the models from this factory is the inscrip¬
tion on a tablet at the back; ” Alexander.
Act. 15. Moscow burnt. Europe preserved.
1812.”
Wedgwood figures, decorated in colours,
of " Apollo and Jupiter,” “ Charity and Peace,”
and ” Fortitude,” and a large standing female
figure in white. 2i|in. high, with impressed
mark, indicated that Josiah Wedgwood made
large quantities of earthenware figures prior to
embarking on his busts and cameos in jasper
and black basalt. The earlier Whieldon school,
wherein native characters arc portrayed with a
fine mastery of potting, included the ” Market
Woman," the standing figure of a soldier with
a raised glass, a seated figure
of an old woman smoking a
pipe, a child with chicken, a
hawk, and other homely
subjects in mottled brown
and green and tortoiseshell
glazes These tiny figures,
with an artistic blending of
colours and glazes, indicate
a refinement of taste, e» en
though they were hawked
from fair to fair in the
country and adorned the
cottager’s mantelshelf. Con¬
noisseurs who treasure the
technical triumphs of Thomas
Whieldon and the Whieldon
*chool often have the linger¬
ing thought as to what might
have been had not his pupil
Josiah Wedgwood brought
*oout the invasion of Stafford¬
shire by the gods and god-
”*** of Olympia, who swept
*" de the record of English
^ntry life. •• lhe sim Ie
annals of the poor.”
.. A j Cowrie's on the 26th,
nglish silver-plate came
n P or sale from various
sources. A sugar basin and
2?* and a p*” of *«-
caddies. chased with flowers
and foliage, by Samuel
m,K ' 1748 *** * 749 . in
a hi ,ORa . nv case - w ere notice-
,e A curious
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
a spoon, early English, surmounted by the figure of
Buddha, and the bowl pricked with the date 1658.
We know that the raising of the price of pepper by
the Dutch in 1599 was the immediate cause of
the foundation of the English East India Company,
which received its Charter in 1600. and that Fort
St. George (Madras) was founded in 1639. The
dilettante collector found much in this sale to
POLO IN ANCIENT PERSIA:
AN OFFENDED MONARCH USES
HIS SWORD—A LEAF FROM A
PERSIAN MS.
Thi* leaf from a MS. of the Shah Abbas School Is included in tha
sal* at Sotheby's, on February 8. of Persian and Indian Miniatures
formerly in the Rosenberg Collection. The description says: “ Siawush,
displaying his skill at polo before Afrasiab and the Turks, offends
Afrasiab, who attacks him with a sword. The scene is laid in a
welled court; above the wall in the central arch are musicians, and
on either side in two tiers a large company of grandees looking down
into the court below."
By Cemrtay of Most*. Sctkdty, Wilkmaom and Hodge.
awaken his interest. An oblong, fluted tea-pot,
with gadroon and shell borders and claw feet,
Edinburgh, 1808. belongs to Sir Walter Scott’s
day, when the ladies of Edinburgh, after the tea-
s example was
BIG-GAME SHOOTING IN ANCIENT INDIA: SHAH JAHAN. BEHIND A LINE OF CATTLE, ATTACKING
LIONS AND TIGERS IN AN ENCLOSURE.
The catalogue of the sale of Persian and Indian Miniatures at Sotheby's on February 8 say* of this hunting scene ;
"Shah Jahan, armed with a gun. seated on an elephant, fo'lowing a line of nine long-homed cattle, each with a
spearman on his beck, advancing to attack two lions and two tigers within the enclosure of a stockade. - ' (Moghul School.)
By Courtesy of Mbits SoldeMi, WtJktnson and Hodge.
pot was emptied,
ate the tea-leaves
between slices of bread
with sugar, as a delicacy.
The collection of British
and foreign orders and
war-medals of the late Colonel Knox,
of Londonderry, is to be sold by
Messrs. Sotheby on Feb. 3 and 4. It comprises
medals of the East India Company, and includes
one for the action between the Ckesaptake and
the Shannon. Waterloo. 1815: William Ayre,
2nd Batt. Coldstream Guards ; Samuel Gillespie,
3rd Batt. 1st Foot, Serjt. William Shannon.
1st Batt. 4th Foot. Crimea. Alma, Balaklava,
Inkerman. Sebastopol—W. EUiss, R.H.A. Relief
of Lucknow J. Dowd, 60th Royal Rifleir—these
and many others stretch across the gamut of
the Empire’s wars. The descriptions run, ” extra
fine,” ” rare,” ” scarce ’’—and some arc ” with¬
out name.” One is reminded of the nameless
grave of a British Warrior in Westminster
Abbey, and the silent Cenotaph in memory of
the fallen. Be it remembered that collectors
are not buying medals — to quote ” Caller
Hemn ’— Call them lives o' men.”
On Feb. u, Messrs. Sotheby are selling
an important collection of old English and
French furniture and fine t ipestries, including
two unique specimens of Elizabethan needlework,
being the properties of Lord Willoughby de
Broke, Mr. George E. Monckton, Lord St. John
of Bletso, and Mme. Negrcl.
A series of (»eorgian wall-mirrors of mid¬
eighteenth-century period display the evolution
of various types, culminating in a pair of
Chippendale carved wood and gilded minors in
the Chinese taste, with scrolls, birds and foliage,
and two Chinese figures. These are 7 ft. 3 in.*
high, and are remarkable examples. They
belong to the period when Sir William Chambers
erected the Chinese pagoda at Kew Gardens,
and resemble designs shown in Chippendale’s
Director. Other fine Chippendale examples include
a state bed (exhibiting individuality in carving) a
fine commode, and a table with shajwd top with
spindle gallery border, on ball-and-claw feet A
fine early - Georgian three - back settee is of
walnut, m date about 1720. The heavy Dutch
splats to the backs and the claw-and-ball feet
betray its Batavian origin in regard to design
To what finesse the settee could be brought is
exhibited in a pair of Hepplewhite four back
examples, with honeysuckle pattern carved in
mahogany, and of the same design is a superb
set of six Hepplewhite chairs.
Lacquer has its votaries nowadays . in conse-
quence the Charles II. lacquer cabinet, in black
and gold, with folding doors enclosing eleven
drawers, is a fixice de rfs,stance to collectors. The
tapestry offers glorious opportunities. A large
panel, ,6 ft by ,2 ft.. is early eighteenth-century
Brussels work by Jos. de Voss, and represents a.
Teniers subject of a village
ffcte, with boors carousing
in front of an inn. This
is in fine condition and is
in brilliant colours; the
borders imitate a carved
“d gilt frame. J n ex¬
amples at the Victoria and
Albert Museum of similar
work termed ” Les Tenures.”
the borders have been cut
off. So this example comes
into the market as being
exceptionally fine, and will
realise a big price. A unique
panel of Elizabethan needle¬
work is the finest of its
kind ever offered for sale.
It is an example of old
English petit-pmnt or tent
stitch - work, and is 18 ft
k>ng by 4 ft. wide. Another
magnificent panel of old
English needlework was made
to commemorate the marriage
of Oliver St. John, first Earl
of Bolingbrokc. to Elizabeth,
the daughter and heiress of
William Pbulet. in 1602. The
borders are worked with
twenty shields of arms dis¬
playing the various alliances
of the noble family of St.
John, descended in male line
from one of the great tenants
m cafitte mentioned in Domes
day Bonk.
MRS. R. GUINNESS " ; A WATER-COLOUR
BY AMBROSE McEVOY.
THE HON. PAMELA BOSCAWEN ” ; A CHAR.
COAL DRAWING BY R. G. EVES.
T HE tenth Annual Exhibition I
of the National Portrait '
Society, at the Grafton Galleria, I
is something more than a show |
of modem art—and yet it is I
something less. It is more, in ;J
that it tells a tale of social life;
of modem tendencies in fashion r
and in pose ; and unfolds a j|
curiously fascinating panoramic r
view of modem Society as it
really is, for the benefit of those
who have eyes to see. It is less, I
in that it hardly accentuata |
the genuine achievements of i
modem art, for to judge the
artist by his portraits alone is ||
not to give him a fair hearing. |J
There is no doubt that the
imaginative work of a painter j
nearly always represents the |
high-water mark of achieve- i
ment, in contrast to the portraits j|
which have been ordered and are |j
not necessarily inspired work.
- MRS BENJAMIN GUINNESS 44 ; A
WATER-COLOUR BY AMBROSE McEVOY.
/^VNE of the featured
v - y of this year's
Exhibition of the
National Portrait So¬
ciety is the number
of Society women
who appear both as
“ subjects ” and art¬
ists also. The Hon.
Lois Sturt, daughter
of Lady Alington,
exhibits an oil, 44 Por¬
trait of a Girl,” and
is the subject of one
portrait by Gerald F.
Kelly ; two by Am¬
brose McEvoy ; and
four studies by Drian ;
while Miss d’Edanger,
colour drawing, is
portrayed by her
mother, the Baroness
d'Erlanger, in a
water-colour.
LADY SWAYTHLING " ; AN OIL-PAINTING
BY FLORA LION.
MRS. FREDERICK MENZIES 44 ; AN OIL-PAINTING
BY HARRINGTON MANN.
The modem manner in portrait-painting can be studied at large in the Exhibition of the National Portrait Society, which was recently opened at the Grafton Galleries, <
remain open until March. The portraits here reproduced have a double interest : artistically, as examples of the work of well-known living painters ; and socially, as
of modem women of Society. Every age has its own ideals, concerning both art and womanhood, and it will be natural to compare these, and other portraits
THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS. Jan- »■
1921—1 47
oil-painting
moncktoh hoffe
by CHARLES BUCHEL.
T-HE work of Mr. Ambrose
A McEvoy affords one of
the most interesting features
o£ the National Portrait So¬
ciety-, Exhibition, as he .s
perh.p. tl» most ^
™unl,r of the modem Soci «7
»n», >"d he is esh.bmng
„„ less thrn fifteen
at the Grafton Gallery,
.election of bis portraits «
reproduced on this page in¬
cluding that of Miss Juh.
James, the well-known act¬
ress ; Mrs. R- Guinness ; and
Mrs. Romer Williams, which
illustrate his Style both m
oils and water-colours. M •
McEvoy came into promm«ee
M « portrait-painter
before the war, and now has
an international reputation,
some of his works having*^
acquired by the Luxem^
and other foreign galleries.
" HRS. ROMER-W1L LI AMS ” ; AH 01L-PAIHT1NG
BY AMBROSE McEVOY.
OIL - PAINTING
VISCOUNTESS GR1MSTON ,
by p. A. de laszlo
__..I. less attention than the Old Masters
——<• — ** >° r,r * 7 . TZZZt Ghwi.i^. - — - *
.. He considered, see« w r— Gainsborough.
^•hihiw, with th, work of forms. periods. The modern ^ pmonolitr »“ th °“ * h ° “* ° a „,Uer d»JS-
.... . 1 «ri, „d dm,,,. P«hop. it is urn. *. modem -W- hm mom P«* ^ -omen .
k<rth of pictures and people, they certainly give the impression o
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T HOSE who Visit the Grafton
Galleries in the guise of
art critics only, miss a good deal
of the flavour with which the
National Portrait Society tickles
the palates of more frivolous
visitors, for the change in dress,
general style, and outlook of
the modem Society woman is
delightfully italicised by the
juxtaposition of such pictures as
Winterhalter 's portrait of Queen
Alexandra (which was lent by
her Majesty from Marlborough
House) and the beauties of the
twentieth century as limned by
Ambrose McEvoy, Gerald F.
Kelly, R. G. Eves, P. A. de
Lasilo, and other well-known
artists of the day. The modems
seek to catch an evanescent
moment; to put down a fleeting
mood of their sitter rather
than paint her in the calm,
everyday style of the Victorians.
•• jjitS. RAPHAEL" ; A WATER-COLOUR
B y F. KATHERINE MAYER.
MARGARET LINDSAY ” }
PAINTING BY flora uo*
HISS JULIA JA.W-.A •****““■
B Y AMBROSE McEVOY.
PN ON CANVAS AT THE GRAFTON GALLERIES.
I0CIEVVOMEN U1 rfsv oF tH , a ,t,sts. whose COEV..O.T , ___________ --
KfflBB^AFTOR galleria » y C __---_---— --
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jan 29, 1921 — 24«
T HERE is nothing
new under the
1 new under the
moon, not even Spiritualism.
Indeed, the tambourines
which were formerly so
often used in its obscure
ritual (to-day trumpets are preferred) serve to
remind us that it came to Imperial Rome from
the East when, in the similitude of the satirist,
the Orontes had become the tributary of the
Tiber. Also Dean Inge reminds us, in his monu¬
mental treatise on Plotinus and his philosophy,
that it was a widely current craze in the exhausted
ThirJ Century, when the Roman Empire had
ceased to be a progressive power, partly because
of the extinction by over-taxing of the middle-
class or practical "intelligentsia,” members of
which would take refuge in mines (as some Welsh
parsons are doing to-day) or among charcoal-
burners, in order to escape the deadly burden
of their responsibilities. In the Middle Ages,
again, all the phenomena of modern Spiritualism
were widely known under other names—thus
the “ control ” of to-day was then called a
" familiar ”; a " medium ” would be described
as the victim of " possession by a demon ”;
and what is now known as " materialisation,”
etc., would be condemned as " black magic ”—
so also, to be quite fair, would have been the
results of our power to control electricity and
other natural forces ! I can but regret, for
literary reasons, the colourless respectability of
the names of the modern medium’s familiars—
Rector, Feda, and Phinuit are far less alluring
appellations than Sack-and-Sugar, Peck-in-the-
Crown. and Grizell Greedygut, whom one meets
in the record of a famous Scottish witchcraft
trial. It is a curious fact that psychic evidence
was much more carefully scrutinised in mediaeval
times than is the case to-day with such zealots
as Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Consul
Doyle. Thus, in the amazing Gauffridi case
(see Michelet’s " La Sorcifcre ” for a most
intriguing description) a medium of genius
actually appeared in court, the familiar spirits
giving evidence through her lips, which was
honestly weighed by trained lawyers in accord¬
ance with the rules of criticism then accepted.
Lady Glenconner found that the book in the
place mentioned was ” The World We Live In.”
written by Brackett and published at Boston in
1909, and that the following passage occurred
oh page 83—
The pathway to the Unseen World
Is full of joy and hope untold.
With Love's rich bloom and fragrant air,
a v 1'
HEREDITARY EARL MARSHAL: “THE DUKE OF
NORFOLK"—A CHARCOAL DRAWING BY R. G. EVES.
The young Duke of Norfolk, now twelve years of age, ii Premier
Duke. Hereditary Earl Marshal, and Chief Butler of England.
From the Drawing tn the National Portrait Society *s Exhibition at
the Grafton Galleries. By Courtesy of the Artist. Copyright Reserved.
Unselfish deeds and silent prayer.
Who seeks to climb some other way
Will tarry long, will go astray,
For Love alone can point the way.
I can see no evidence for collusion, conscious or
unconscious. This and other results of these
" book-tests ” cannot, so far as I can see, be
explained on any theory
of thought-transference
But, looking at the facts already
known about the phenomena of
trance-mediumship, the crucial
question to my mind is : “ Is it
a spirit in the hereafter or a simulacrum, so to
speak, in the mother’s subconsciousness which is
at work in these supposed communications ? We
know how such simulacra, wraiths of the living
and the dead, present themselves in dreams
(in which the occluded things of the under¬
mind appear) and both talk and act in character.
After all, every person survives death in the
memory of those who loved, and were loved
by, him duriag his lifetime.
The study of trance-mediumship by scientific
experts is still in its beginnings, for the “ under¬
man ” or unconscious mind is still largely an
unexplored oubliette. It is not, perhaps, quite
true to say, as a Cambridge psychologist said the
other evening over a glass of College port, that
we know rather less about the older and deeper
strata of human mentality (remember, all this is
only a metaphor) than we do of the interior of
the earth. After all, the phenomena of dreams,
when elucidated by the Freudian theory or ” work¬
ing hypothesis ’’ of the suppressed wish, provide us
with a number of clues to the mystery’ within
ourselves. ” The Logic of the Unconscious
Mind ” (Hodder and Stoughton ; 16s. net), by
M. K. Bradby, is an excellent guide to this branch
of psychology. The two chapters (xv. and xvi.)
touching on the phenomena of Spiritualism form
the best bird’s-eye view, from the scientist’s stand¬
point, of the subject that has yet appeared.
Science, whether pursuing the historical method
(as Sir James Frazer and his disciples do) or
placing the individual under observation, will have
nothing to say to the theory that the spirits of
the dead communicate with the living through
go-betweens. It is only in a primitive stage of
human progress that the spirit-theory is generally
accepted—as it is with certain savage tribes with
whom every person is a medium on occasion.
Mediums belong to every’ age and clime ; the his¬
toric list includes the saint Theresa, the adventurer
Cellini, the prophet Wesley, and the
In " The Earthen Vessel ”
(John Lane; 6s. net), by Pamela
Glenconner, we have what seems to
be an unusually straightforward and
uncoloured account of certain spirit¬
ualistic experiments carried out with
the help of a fashionable medium,
Mrs. Osborne Leonard, under the
’’ control ” of Feda, a Hindu girl,
who is said to have been one of her
foremothers, if I may coin a term.
Lady Glenconner believes that by
means of " book-tests ” it has been
clearly proved that she is in com¬
munication with her son, Edward
Wyndham Tennant, who fell in
action on the Somme in 1916. A
keen love of literature was one of
the innumerable links of sympathy
between Lady Glenconner (the late
George Wyndham’s sister) and her
son during his lifetime on earth. The
love uniting this mother and son was
of a singular and touching intensity.
Is it not sad and strange to think—
if, indeed, it be so — that such a
mother and such a son must have
the help of a professional medium
and a familiar spirit before they
can communicate with one another 1
However, let us look at a specimen
of these “ book-tests ” which, as Sir
Oliver Lodge tells us in a short “ Pre¬
fatory and Explanatory Note,” came
into vogue during the war - years.
Feda is supposed to be speaking
through Mrs. Leonard, after some
time given to communication through
trance utterances—
Now Bim [the son’s pet-name] says
he is sending a message ; a Book-Test
for his Mother. He says it is in the
drawing-room, on the side of the book¬
shelf near the door. You must look in
the third shelf and take the fifth book
counting from left to right; turn to
page 83. He says the passage alludes to
his present life, and to what you feel
about it. He says: "Tell her that her
love for me has bridged the gulf, and
THE GRAND OLD MAN OF ENGLISH LITERATURE : ’’ THOMAS HARDY, ESQ., O.M.
AN OIL PAINTING BY JACQUES BLANCHE.
Mr. Thomas Hardy, the veteran novelist and poet, kept his eightieth birthday on June 2 last
year. The Hardy Players arranged to give "The Return of the Native" (dramatised from his
novel) at the Guildhall School of Music Theatre on January 27.
scoundrel Rasputin. They are as dis¬
tinct and easily recognisable as a class
as, for example, poets are. The same
distinctive character and the same
limited range are noticeable in all
their so-called spirit-communications,
whether these come by spirit “ raps,”
trance utterance, automatic writing,
or the visions of clairvoyance. They
never enlighten us on any point of
practical interest, nor do they ever
forestall the scientific discoveries of
the morrow ; they have added nothing
to the world’s treasury of literature.
All their activities are subjective;
these are set a-foot either by hidden
traits of the ego, demanding expres¬
sion, or by the influence of sitters in
the circle. The mind at primitive
levels is suggestible in the extreme;
so the medium accepts whatever ex¬
planations of her doings and sayings
is suggested by sitters, and does and
says, as far as possible, whatever is
expected of her. Moreover, it is de¬
monstrable that the strangest of their
activities are but extreme examples
of what ordinary people, such as you
and I, constantly do and experience.
For example, I myself when very tired
have written gibberish automatically,
and Miss Bradby tells the story of an
educated woman who suddenly found
she had written the strange sentence :
” A mastermaniac withdrawal from the
scheme of revolutionary progress with
Empedocles glorified at the outset
Had she been a gullible person at a
stance, she might have believed the
spirit of George Meredith was guiding
her pen 1 Lady Glenconner’s “ book-
tests ” are a complicated example of
suggestion and counter-suggestion, and
belong to a category of problems which
can only be completely solved when
persons with mediumistic gifts submit
their dreams to psycho-analysis—an
exacting experience, lor they will
have to dofl habits of the mind and
love has shown 'the way.” He repeats From the Picture in the National Portrait Society’s Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries. live, like Marcus Aurelius, for a time
that " love has shown the way.” By Courtesy of the Artist. Copyright Reserved. “ without walls or curtains.”
1HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 29, 1921.—149
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SUBMARINE CABLES AS PILOTS: SOUND-SIGNALS BRING SHIPS TO PORT.
PILOTED THROUGH A ROCKY CHANNEL BY SOUND-SIGNALS FROM A SUBMERGED CABLE OPERATED FROM THE SHORE : A STEAMER (WITH THE RECEIVING
APPARATUS INDICATED) MAKING A DIFFICULT PASSAGE, ITS WAKE SHOWING THE WINDINGS OF THE CABLE.
-pHE
* t u s
board ship
sists of two
angular fra
on which
wound isol
receive cui
from the
netic field
Th
frames ar
placed vertically
one lengthways
with the ship
the other in a
crosswise direc¬
tion
They can
be separated or
joined
quired.
Their
nected
tele¬
phone receivers
on the bridge
The musical re¬
sonance
intense that it
dominates
other noises. The
frames are seen
near the bows
the upper illus¬
tration.
TN‘ order to
* complete the
system, two
other frames of
the same dimen¬
sions as the pre¬
ceding ones, and
supplied with a
coil of insulated
copper wire, are
put up horizon¬
tally — one on
the starboard
side, and the
other on the
port side, as
shown in the
upper illustra¬
tion. These
frames, which
also receive the
inducted current,
whose musical
sounds can be
easily heard, are
intended to in¬
dicate on which
side of the cable
the ship is. The
frame nearer to
the cable, when
the ship’s course
is parallel to it,
sounds louder
than the other.
RECEIVING SIGNALS FROM A SUBMARINE “ PILOT ” CABLE : (L. TO R.) M. W. A. LOTH (THE INVENTOR), CAPTAIN
AUDOUARD, AND CAPTAIN FLOCH, OF THE FRENCH NAVY. ON THE BRIDGE OF THE GUN-BOAT “ BELLIQUEUSE.”
* * recent meeting of the French Academy of Science, Admiral Fournier
•nnounced the discovery of a new process in navigation by means of which ships
*** ** * b, « to make land in a fog and come safely into port. This, the invention
* young: physicist, M. W. A. Loth, has given such satisfactory results that the
rench Navy has adopted it after trials made on board the gun-boat " Belliqueuse ”
y the «med cruiser “ Gloire,” at Brest. It consists chiefly of a conducting
C * e ** toe bottom of the sea in a given direction, traversed by an electric
current in musical frequency, which can be interrupted in order to vary the
uration of the messages and indicate them by a signal or recognised note.
e current passes into the heart of the cable, and, returning through the
I armature and the sea, creates in the surrounding liquid mass a magnetic field
I of the same frequency, which passes into the air above and transmits easily
I perceptible currents into a special receiving apparatus placed on board ships.
I A similar system has been invented by the British Navy, and a demonstration of
| its use took place at Portsmouth on Jan. 4. It was used successfully in the war,
I but has hitherto been kept secret. The Portsmouth cable has become a permanent
addition to the navigating facilities of the port, and all large war-ships are being
fitted with the receiving apparatus. The cable gives out a musical note audible
300 yards on each side of it. A " leader cable ” has also been laid in the
Ambrose Channel, New York Harbour.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Jan. 20. 1921.—l.*V0
THE “RED TSAR’S” NEW FOES. A RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT IN PARIS.
RUSSIAN CADETS AND SOCIALISTS IN EXILE SINK PARTY DIFFERENCES TO COMBINE ACAINST BOLSHEVISM, AT THE SUGGESTION
OF KERENSKY : THE NEW RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY SITTING IN PARIS.
MORE JEALOUSLY GUARDED THAN THE LATE EMPEROR NICHOLAS II.: LENIN, THE “RED TSAR' 1 OF THE BOLSHEVIST TYRANNY,
READING THE “ PRAVDA ” AT HIS DESK IN THE KREMLIN AT MOSCOW.
Russian history is. repeating itself, so to speak, upside down. Just as exiled I Chief of the Cadets. Further to the right is the white-bearded M. Tchaikovsky,
opponents of Tsardom formerly assembled abroad, so now do exiled opponents
of Bolshevism. Paris has become the headquarters of the new Russian Con¬
stituent Assembly, which met for the first time recently in an old hotel in the
rue de Poitiers, a quiet street of the rive gauche. It represents a reunion of
the Cadets and the Socialist Revolutionary Party, who have agreed to sink their
differences. So long as the W ran gel Government existed, it was impossible for
them to combine, because some supported armed intervention against the Bol¬
shevists, and others opposed it. The idea of forming this new Assembly, it is
said, originated with M. Kerensky, who was present on the occasion illustrated
above, but is not seen in the photograph, as he was sitting at one end of the
horse-shoe table. Kerensky is still the moving spirit of the Social Revolutionary
Party. The second figure on the extreme left in the background is M. Miliukoff,
head of the Socialist patriots and formerly President of the temporary Archangel
Government The three central figures at the far end are (from left to right) :
M. Konovalof (a Moscow industrial magnate), M. Avksentief (presiding ; a Social
Revolutionary), and M. Minor. There are four or five million non-Bolshevist
Russian exiles scattered about the world. The photograph of Lenin was brought
from Russia by M. Ludovic Naudeau, author of “ In Prison under the Russian
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LADIES' NEWS.
T 3 RINCESS MARY has won the " Brush.” If
* anyone says she was given it because she is the
King's daughter, put it down to envy, for it was truly
and well won by a girl who in a long run, part of it
very fast, and over none too easy country, kept her
place, rode straight and with judgment, and. I* it
said, with evident keen enjoyment. This is not my
verdict, but that of a middle-aged man who knows ail
about hunting and who was in the run too, although,
as he says, “ not level with the Princess by a long
chalk." We all know the men who put D.S.O.'s won
by other men down to smoking cigars with the
General ! Well, whoever says Princess Mary did not
fairly win her ” Brush " belongs to that species, and
it is. happily, as rare as it is unpleasant.
Two very eligible men are about to ** range ” them¬
selves—the Earl of Dalkeith and Lord Somers. Lord
Dalkeith was a brother officer during the war. and is
an intimate friend of the Pnnce of Wales, who was
one of the first to congratulate him. He is a fine
man, minus frills, and greatly liked ; quiet, like his
father, but sincere and thorough-—what men call “ one
of the best.” He is heir to a great Dukedom—one
that, curiously enough, was created on the wedding-
day of an ancestress, Anne Countess of Buccleuch,
said to have been a singularly able and fine woman.
She married the Duke of Monmouth, and they were,
on their wedding-day, created Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch and Earl and Countess of Dalkeith. The
Duke, poor dear, lost his head ; but the Duchess kept
her honours, which descended to her son.
Miss Mollie Lascelles, who is to be Countess of
Dalkeith, is a charming girl. In 1913 her father died,
and her mother had died three years before, so she has
been long an orphan. She was much with her grand¬
father, the late Sir Frank Lascelles, and her great-
aunt, the late Lady Edward Cavendish, mother of the
Duke of Devonshire, who died some months ago.
Between them, the young people are related to many
families whose names are known in the history of the
country. Miss Mollie Lascelles will be one of the five
bridesmaids at the wedding of Miss Helen Cedi to
Captain the Hon. Alexander Hardinge on Feb. 8. I
believe that the date of her own wedding will not be
long deferred.
The Duchess of Sutherland, being in the Sudan
with the Duke, and having the Queen’s permission to
be absent until Easter, it is stated—although not
offidally—that the Duchess of Buccleuch will take
her place as deputy Mistress of the Robes. The late
Duchess of Buccleuch held that office for an un¬
usually long period, and was one of the most dignified
and stately holders of it also. Her Grace was a great
favourite with the Royal Family and in the Queen's
Household—things which do not always go together.
Her present Grace of Bucdeuch, who is a sister of the
Earl of Bradford, is not tall and stately, but is sweet-
AN EVEN INC DRESS AND CLOAK FROM PARIS.
The filmy softness of the tucked chiffon of the dress, with
its embroidered flower scroll-work of floss silk, and an oeprey
tufted waistband garlanded with roses, is further enhanced
by the deep-blue velvet of the cloak. [Photograph try Talbot. j
looking and dignified, and is a great favourite with
all who know her. She looks less like a grandmother
than anything, but her little grand-daughter was
christened quite recently, A. E. L.
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
T HE revival of Wagner at the Op6ra has produced
a controversy in. the Press as to whether or not
it is too soon to allow the works of the great German
composer to be heard in the Trench capital. The
public have shown their appreciation by filling the
< fpera* House night after night, and by according an
almost frenzied reception to the “ Valkyrie ” at each
successive performance. No concert programme is
complete without at least one item of the great
master’s work, and a series of Wagnerian concerts
given recently had to be repeated, so great was the
demand for seats. It is absurd to pretend that a
city as cultivated as Paris can continue to hold her
place in the musical world without Wagner. Why
should it Ik* more unpatriotic to listen to the music
of this great composer than to listen, for instance,
to Beethoven or Schumann, both natives of the same
country ? Thanks to Wagner, the National Opera
House, which has lieen through a bad financial crisis,
is rapidly recovering, and the crowds that flock to
hear the great German masterpieces are not only
enjoying themselves, but helping to pay off a large
debt as well.
Paris is alwa\s ready to listen to anvdhc who
has anything of interest to say, whether in the world
of art. literature, or music. Thus it comes about
that a young Russian sculptor. Prince Troubetskov.
entirely self-taught, but with an amazing power of
expression, has created something of a sensation by
his exhibition of sculpture, chiefly in bronze and
plaster. A head of Tolstoy, which he has managed
to invest with something of the mysticism of the
great thinker, is perhaps the most remarkable thing
in the exhibition. It is difficult to believe that the
same hands could have modelled the little dancer
whose lithe form is the very incarnation of move¬
ment and grace, depicted in the act of springing
into the air. There is some talk of acquiring some
of Prince Troubetskov’s work for the French nation ;
if so, it will be the first time on record that an amateur
has been so honoured. Prince Troubetskoy’s style
is decidedly original, and his bold conceptions are
very striking ; since he has so much talent, it seems
a pity that he should not perfect his technique by a
little study, which would remove all traces of ama¬
teurishness in his otherwise very fine work.
Clubland is a large and important realm, worthy
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of " Clubs,” edited by Mr. E. C. Austen-Leigh (i, New
Street Square, E.C.4). gives particulars of 3850 such
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THE PLAYHOUSES.
"A SAFETY MATCH." AT THE STRAND.
HE strength of “Ian Hay,” as those will know
who laughed over " Tilly of Bloomsbury,” is his
realistic humour, and though there is no such quaint
character as the bailiff’s man for Mr. Bourchier to
impersonate in “ A Safety Match,” its studies of
modem undisciplined youth provide refreshment
enough to excuse the weaknesses inherent in almost
any adaptation of a novel. The play proves a series
of episodes in which at least three strands of interest
are but loosely associated. First we meet a family
of rowdy, incorrigible youngsters, who would be
insufferable as housemates, but are most amusing
to watch. Next, married into this family is your
strong man of commerce, whose will-power does not
extend to control of his wife. Finally, there is trouble
with his collier employees and a serious mine accident.
Now, here are three plays spatchcocked into one, and
“Ian Hay” pulls first one string and thtn another
according to whim. Needless to say, in the matter
of construction, his drama is past praying for, but
it has its thrills, and Miss Ena Grossmith, that
promising young comedienne, is constantly delight¬
ful as the flapper who is leader in naughtiness of
the family of enfants terribles. Mr. Bourchier plays
the strong man role on familiar lines.
TWO NOVELTIES AT THE LITTLE THEATRE.
Comment is due at least to one of the two novelties
just added to the programme of London’s Grand
Guignol. This is ” The Shortest Story of All,” an
” episode ” written by Mr. G. E. Morrison, which
lasts in performance but seven minutes, but throbs
throughout its brief length with pathos and tender¬
ness. It is just a picture of a father soothing the last
moments of his dying girl-child, avoiding her questions
about her divorced mother, starting to tell fairy-tales
that are too long, and at last dramatising his own
future loneliness as she sinks out of life. A beautiful
little piece beautifully acted by Mr. S. Hawkins
and Miss E. Arkell in the right vein of simplicity.
Mr. Maltby’s attempt at nerve-racking horror, “ The
Person Unknown," though Miss Sybil Thorndike and
Mr. I.ewis Casson do their best for its interpretation,
somehow creates resentment rather than a thrill.
The Aeolian Company has just entered the field
as a manufacturer of gramophone records, and is
more than keeping up the standard of excellence
launched by its “ Vocalion.” The list of records
already on the market ranges over every field ot
music, and includes such interesting items as Kosing’s
rendering of the famous “ Pagliacci ” song ; Miss Des-
toumellcs’ " Musetta’s Song ” from ” La Bohirme ” ;
and I.enghi-Cellini’s ” Celeste Aida ” among the vocal
records. These are veritable masterpieces of clarity
and beauty of tone, and the orchestral records arc
also remarkable. Mr. Felix Salmond’s ’cello solos
of Popper’s Gavotte (No. 2). and Saint-Saens’ '* Le
Cygne ” are worthy of special attention ; and the
Hungarian March from " La Damnation de Faust "
and the Intermezzo and Valse Lente from “ Sylvia ”
given by the Aeolian Orchestra are exceptionally
successful gramophone renderings of orchestral music.
To all members of the Roman Church, and those
interested therein, " The Catholic Directory ” (Burns
and Oates) is a recognised source of information.
It is published with the sanction of the Archbishops
and Bishops of England and Wales ; and. besides
giving full details regarding this country, contains
also facts about the Catholic Hierarchy in general, its
establishments in the British Empire, and statistics
of Catholic populations throughout the world.
Writers and those associated with them will wel¬
come the 1921 edition of the ” Literary Year Book,”
issued by its new proprietor and editor. Mr. Mark
Meredith, from the Year Book Offices, 67, Dale Street,
Liverpool. It runs to over six hundred pages, and is
more useful than ever. The price remains at 8s. 6d.
net. A unique feature is the establishment of a
literary Information Bureau.
In the new " Hazell Annual and Almanack ” for
1921 (Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton ; 7s. 6d.
net), there is the customary wealth of useful informa¬
tion. Special articles explain the remarkable rise in
local rates and the finances of the United Kingdom.
The text of the League of Nations has been retained,
and a short account of the position up to date is given.
To the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force thirty-
three pages are devoted, and tables show the post-war
strength of the navies of Britain, the United States,
and Japan.
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when a hose-pipe is em¬
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the distances to be preserved between
vehicles whilst traversing any crossing.
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functions of the Ministry of Transport
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regulations as to speed - limits, etc. !
Hoylake and West Kirby District
wants power to make it obligatory on
of motor-cars not to drive at a greater
han five miles an hour while passing any
chapel, or other place of worship during
irs of Divine Service on Sunday. Christ-
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way. this would indeed be a happy land
a to motor.
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if based on sound reasons,
ight direction, and Gaston's, the
re to be commended on their
A Citroen Reduction.
is a step in tin
concessionnaires.
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POET; NOVELIST; DRAMATIST : MR.. JOHN MASEFIELD,
Sport has inspired much occasional verse and a good deal of doggerel, but it
h “ hitherto lacked a real and representative poet. That position Mr. John
Masefield bids fair to fill. He has already sung the Turf and the hunting-field,
K “°'| the Drawing hv the Hon. Nkvili.k Lvtton, now in the National Portk
or OF “RIGHT ROYAL" AND “REYNARD THE FOX."
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at will next claim Mr. Masefield’s muse.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Ff.b. 5, 1921.—158
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
^f<KKy/ A VITAL chap* necessary. When he was first asked to contribute
A ter of the his- an Introduction to Mr. Shaw Sparrow's history,
tory °* t ^ le ^ reat Sir Hubert Gough refused, on the score that the
-/T h)t War is to be read in " The subject was too personal to himself. But, reading
Fifth Army in March, an “ In Memoriam " tribute in a daily paper to
1918 ” (John Lane ; 21s. the " Heroes of the Fifth Army who gave their
net), by W. Shaw Sparrow, which has an Intro- lives for Britain, March 21-22, 1918,” he changed
duction by General Sir Hubert Gough and is his mind. " I felt,” he writes. “ that my personal
equipped with nineteen excellent maps. Even inclinations did not count, and that I owed it ‘ to
those with dim memories of the earlier phases of the glorious and undying memory ’ of my com-
the world-wide struggle have not forgotten the rades of the Fifth Army, living as well as dead, to
impression of the last great German offensive, help to throw on their heroism the light which
when it seemed possible that Germany, thanks to has been so long withheld.” Later, he continues .
the men and guns released by the Russian collapse " We have been brought up to admire and
and Ludendorff’s long-premeditated and well- praise the ' thin Red Line ’ which so often
devised plan, might greatly prolong the war, or stayed the foe. Never was the Red Line so thin
at any rate create among the Allied nations as the Khaki I-ine which manned the long front
a strong faction in favour of a temporary of forty-two miles for which the Fifth Army was
peace. As regards the purely military aspects responsible on March 21, 1918.” Yet it was never
of the March thrust, Mr.
Shaw Sparrow rightly con¬
futes two fallacies that were,
and still are, widely cur¬
rent in this country, though
not in France or even in
America. In the first place,
it is absurd to underrate the
strategical ability of Luden-
dorff. His preparations and
general plan could not have
been improved on. and it was
clear to the Allied (Venerals—
the only competent authorities
on the subject—that the great
mind which had achieved so
many successes in the Eastern .
theatres of war had con-
ceived and was controlling
the colossal effort to take
Amiens and Abbeville (in order
to pin the British forces
against the sea) and also to ^
capture Paris. Just as Napo¬
leon was underrated by the
historians before Napier, so
the historiographers or ersatz
chroniclers of yesterday have
written down this arch-strate- ....
gist, who will certainly rank
in times to come as at least 1
the equal of the greater / '
Moltke. Indeed, in the fur¬
ther future, his may be re¬
garded as one of the famous ^
lost causes (as Hannibal's /
was), and moralists may sug¬
gest that, though it was well
for the civilised world that
he failed, yet his personal
genius and capacity for detail
(comparable with Napoleon’s)
and sleepless industry deserved
success. Secondly, there were
no signs that the moral of
the German troops was failing
during the arduous days of
their great push. Haig speaks
of the enemy’s admirable offen¬
sive training, and Ludendorff
had good reason for hoping IN THE STATES TO SEE H13 NEW PLAYS PRODUCED, LECTURE, AND
that this thorough preparation ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP: MR. JOHN DRINKWATER. AUTHOR OF *7
would keep its main charac Mr. John Drinkwater sailed for New York on January 17 for another lecturing tour, on
teristics throughout the lm- drama in international affairs. He desires deeply to cement the understanding between
pact—above all, that disci- which he considers of the utmost importance in world-politics. One of his new play
plined initiative, " team-play ” shortly be produced in New York. Next autumn it will probably be given in London
as it were, which was until the and the other, “ Oliver Cromwell," by Mr. Henry Ainley. Mr. Drinkwater also has In vi
very end a conspicuous feature From the Portrait by R. J. .Sir-on, shown at the National Portrait Society’s Exhibition, a
of the German method of war¬
fare. It is high time people stopped writing for a moment broken, in spite of the colossal
of the German soldier’s lack of initiative, as difficulties of the manoeuvre en retraile and the
though he was a mechanical figure with feet of fact that there were no general reserves behind
pipeclay. Such attempts to belittle a most it. Until he knew definitely that the main attack
formidable antagonist merely serve to depreciate was to be on the Fifth Army (Ludendorff knew
our hard-earned victory at the long last. all about the thinness of its line) Haig was com¬
pelled to keep reserves in the north, where we
had so little room to spare between the German
What, then, was the causa causans of the lines and the Channel ports. As for the French
German failure to achieve any of the vital ends reserves, they were grouped behind (a) Reims,
Ludendorff had in view ? The answer is clear— (b) Verdun, (c) Belfort, to meet an attack through
the heroic resistance of the Fifth and Third Switzerland. Sir Hubert tells a grimly humorous
Armies under Generals who had always had the story to illustrate the inadequacy of French sup-
confidence of their own men and the respect of port at the crisis. During the battle General
the enemy. It was the Fifth Army in particular, Humbert arrived at his headquarters, and he
which had to sacrifice itself in order to break the said he was very glad to see him, as the Fifth Army
strategic plan of Ludendorff. It was a terrible was struggling against terrific odds. The reply
duty, for the over-confidence of the men at the was : “ Mats, je n'ai que mon fanion ” (meaning
back, the old British fault of squandering force the little flag on his motor-car). Outnumbered
in what Napoleon called ” small packets,” and the three and four to one, the Fifth Army had to
failure to appreciate the significance of the Russian sacrifice itself to gain time (the one priceless thing
collapse, had left it far below the minimum strength in war), and the loss of territory, which bulked
so large in the
minds of the politi-
cians (the civilian
always commits this blun-
der) was of no military
consequence. In point of
fact, ,the successful retreat of the Fifth Army
was one of the most glorious achievements of
the whole war.
The war has given a great impulse not only to
the study of the French language and literature,
but also to that of the life and letters of the peoples
dwelling in the minor theatres of warfare. One of
the abiding results of the presence of great numbers
of educated young men in Palestine, Mesopotamia,
and the regions adjoining (where it was necessary
to watch the intention of the natives) is a vastly
increased interest in the soul of Islam at the
Universities. The faith which
broods over the Near and
much of the Far East is a
reality to many undergradu¬
ates — veterans in war, if
novices in the pursuit of
knowledge — who, but for
serving in the ” small pack¬
ets ’’ mentioned above,
might never have under-
• stood the strange and vari¬
ous significance of the fact
that we. after all. are the
greatest Mohammedan Power
in the world. It follows that
there is a demand for such
works as “ Studies in Is¬
lamic Poetry ” (Cambridge
University Press ; 26s. net),
by R. A. Nicholson, Lecturer
in Persian in the University
of Cambridge, which cer¬
tainly did not exist in pre¬
war days. Persian poetry is
one of the gateways into the
city of the Islamic soul, and
Mr. Nicholson’s translations
of some of its minor celebri¬
ties, together with his learned
commentary, will provide a
new background of philo¬
sophy for more practical
researches. It is true, of
course, that Omar Khayyam
and the other major poets
give us the quintessence of
such key-literature. But,
though we prefer their attar
of roses, yet the mere roses
of the minor poets in the
Lubab, the oldest of Persian
anthqlogies, is often enlight¬
ening—just as Longfellow’s
” Psalm of Life ” is a better
index to the average Briton’s'
workaday mentality than the
crimson ecstasies of the plen-
< J. 5WAN, arilv inspired, from Shelley
to Swinburne.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 5, 1921—159
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EVENTS OF NOTABLE INTEREST: NEWS OF THE WEEK ILLUSTRATED.
Photographs hv Rol. Tk\ h-« s, C.N., Sport and Grnbral, ano G.P U.
WITH THE LEGION OF HONOUR, MfiDAILLE MILITAIRE, AND THE LAST TRIBUTE TO FRANCE’S UNKNOWN SOLDIER : THE BURIAL AT THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE
CROIX DE GUERRE : THE FRENCH UNKNOWN SOLDIER’S COFFIN. SHEWING MR. LLOYD GEORGE (RIGHT BACKGROUND) AMONG THE MOURNERS.
A WAR MEMORIAL TO FALLEN FOOTBALLERS : MR. W. E. MACLAGAN UNVEILING
THE LONDON SCOTTISH AND RICHMOND CLUBS’ TRIBUTE.
T
JUST AFTER BEING UNVEILED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES : THE MEMORIAL
TO INDIAN SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN THE WAR, AT PATCHAM. NEAR BRIGHTON.
f
BRITAIN'S FAMOUS TRANSATLANTIC AIRSHIP WRECKED: THE “ R 34 ” COLLAPSED
AND BROKEN IN TWO AT HOWDEN AERODROME, YORKSHIRE.
The French Unknown Soldier, whose coffin had remained in the Arc de Trioniphe
>n Paris since the ceremony on Armistice Day (Nov. n), was buried with ail honours
in a tomb under the Arch on January 28. M. Barthou, Minister of War, placed
on the coffin, which was draped with a gold-fringed Tricolour, the Cross of the
Legion of Honour, the M£daille Militaire, and the Croix de Guerre. Mr. Lloyd
** eor K e (seen in our photograph) deposited a wreath inscribed : “ Hpmmage
per * onnel au hiros franfais inconnu.”-A memorial to members of the
London Scottish and Richmond Rugby Football Clubs who fell in the war was
METROPOLITAN ’’ SPECIALS ” AT OLYMPIA : SIR EDWARD WARD THEIR
CHIEF, INSPECTING THEM BEFORE THE PRINCE OF WALES ARRIVED
unveiled on January 29 at Richmond Athletic Ground.-The Prince of Wales
went to Brighton on February 1 to unveil the Indian War Memorial there On
the previous day he inspected a large contingent of the Metropolitan Special Con¬
stabulary Reserve, and presented 46 medals of the Order of the British Empire for
gallantry in air raids. The medal is illustrated on another page.-_The " R 34 ”
which crossed the Atlantic an£ back in the summer of 1919, struck a Yorkshire
| hill during an instructional cruise, at 1 a.m. on January 28, and after being blown
| out to sea returned to Howden. Later she collapsed. There were no casualties
I
II
till' JM.rSTKATKI* I.ON IH >N
NFWS III*.- l!>2l — 1HO
PERSONALITIES
w. Ki.ii.nr
OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE
AM. Kkv. i S\. VANinic. I.AMmn, K«riL. i'nak.,; ;t Ra« m*
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
p. "Ti.i —1— ~ 3
f p— — —■— rr*
LLOYD'S NEW CHAIRMAN
* A LEADER OF WOMEN
* MARGARET BONDFIELD
SIR JOHN H. LUSCOMBE j
AUTHOR OP "THE FIFTH ARMY
IN MARCH 1918 -" : W S SPARROW.
c
THE ALLIED CONFERENCE IN PARIS : (LEFT
M. BRIAND.
TO
M.
RIGHT. SEATED) COUNT SF0R2A (SECOND FIGURE), LORD CURZON. MR LLOYD GEORGE.
BARTHOU. M. BERTHELOT. AND M. JASPAR (BELGIUM!.
THE PROSPECTIVE NEW LEADER OF THE ^ A FAMOUa
ULSTER UNIONISTS : SIR JAMES CRAIG, M P. THE LATE
RUSSIAN
PRINCE
ANARCHIST WHO DENOUNCED
KROPOTKIN IN HIS STUDY ,
BOLSHEVISM :
.T BROMLEY.
THE LATE LORD HERBERT
Mr. W. Shaw Sparrow’s book. "The Fifth Army in March 1918,'' is reviewed on
our “ Books of the Day ” page in this number.— — Sir John Luscombe. a well-known
underwriter at Lloyd's, has been elected Chairman of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping.-
Miss Margaret Bondfield succeeds the late Miss Mary MacArthur (Mrs. W. C.
Anderson) as Secretary of the Women’s Section of the National Federation of
General Workers. She was one of the British Labour Delegation to Russia, and
brought a message from the late Prince Kropotkin criticising Bolshevism. He
died at Moscow on January 28. aged seventy-nine. After escaping from prison in
Russia in 1873, he lived nearly thirty years quietly in London Sir Banister Fletcher
has been elected Chairman of the City Lands Committee, Corporation of London. Sir
Merton Russell Cotes died at Bournemouth, aged eighty-five, on January 27. He
was twice Mayor of the town, and gave it his famous art collection, besides many
other benefactions.- Sir James Craig, M.P., was recently invited to stand for
election as Leader of the Unionist Party in the new Ulster Parliament.— —Lord
Herbert Vane-Tempest, who was killed in the Abermule disaster on the Cambnan
railway, was a Director of the line. He was a son of the fifth Marquess of
Londonderry, and uncle of the present Peer. In 1911 he was host of the King
and Queen at Plas Machynlleth for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales.
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NEWS. Feb. 5. 1921—161
PARIS IN WINTER:
SOCIAL LIFE; AND A
THEATRICAL SUCCESS.
MADAME IN HER WINTER WRAPS, AND WITH BORZOI IN ATTENDANCE : PARISIENNES OUT WALKING
IN THE PARK OF ST. CLOUD
S “LES GROGNARDSNAPOLEON (M. DAMORES) ON ELBA. WITH THE PROCUREUR
MARION (MADAME AUGUSTINE LERICHE), AND MARUCHE (M. FA VIE RES).
deliver letters from Napoleon s supporters. Marion has a hold over the Court
officia., as she is his legal wife. He married her in 1793, when he joined the
Revolutionary Army to save his skin, and fell in love with the girl who sold food
to the troops. He then disappeared and married again, so when Marion finds
him he is completely in her power, and obliged to come to Elba when she orders
him to do so. Napoleon, who always loved to play tricks on people, pretends to
be ill and enfeebled, though in reality he is preparing to embark for France. The
subsequent acts of the play deal with his triumphant return to his country
e is fond of walking exercise, and our upper picture illustrates th<
charm of the Park of St. Cloud in winter, as a background for Madame in fut
wr *P», accompanied by her Borzoi. - Our lower illustration shows the great
Kene in the fifth act of "Les Grognards,” M. G. Lenotre’s historical play, just
Produced at the ThMtre Sarah-Bemhardt, where it is meeting with universal
approval. It deals with Napoleon’s escape from Elba and return to France. The
rooment of the picture on this page is that when Marion, the ex-cantiniire and
cvoted Imperialist, arrives on Elba with the Procureur-General of Louis XVIII., to
AS PRESENTED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES TO ••SPECIALS.' FOR GALLANTRY
IN AIR-RAIDS : THE MEDAL OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. '
" REPUBLIQUE FRAN(|A1SE GRANDE GUERRE. 1914-1918”: THE CHOSEN DESIGN
(BY M. ALEXANDRE MORLONl FOR THE FRENCH WAR MEDAL.
BEFORE UNVEILING A MEMORIAL "TO THE BRAVE MEN OF KINGS LYNN 1
PRINCESS MARY INSPECTING THE GUARD OF HONOUR.
PRINCESS MART' AT KING'S LYNN : INTERESTED IN A GROUP OF LITTLE ORPHANS
WHO LAID WREATHS ON THE WAR MEMORIAL.
/
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Finn
IN GENERAL'S UNIFORM : KING CONSTANTINE (LEFT) WITH HIS DAUGHTER
PRINCESS HELEN, AND HER FIANCE. PRINCE CAROL OF ROUMAN1A.
At Olympia on January 31 the Prince of Wales presented decorations and medals
of tha Order ot the British Empire to officers and men of the Metropolitan Special
Constabulary, of whom there were 1200 on parade, including two V.C.’s. Forty-six
members of the force received the medal (illustrated above), for conspicuous gal¬
lantry during air-raids. The Prince said that the great voluntary work of the
“Specials” would never be forgotten; during the air-raids they more than did
their duty on the home front. He congratulated all the 60,000 who had passed
through the ranks, and trusted the Reserve (already numbering 10,000) would be
SEEING HER SON OFF TO ROUMANIA TO VISIT HIS FUTURE BRIDE : QUEEN SOPHIE
OF GREECE (LEFT) WITH HER DAUGHTERS HELEN AND IRENE (RIGHT).
kept up to strength.-At King’s Lynn on January 26 Princess Mary unveiled
a memorial to the men of that town who fell in the war. Before doing so, she
inspected a Guard of Honour of Norfolk Territorials and the Lynn companies of
Girl Guides. The Princess said : " I unveil this monument to the brave men
of King’s Lynn who gave their lives in the Great War. May all who see it be
inspired thereby to endeavour to follow their example of unselfish devotion.”
The Crown Prince George of Greece is betrothed to Princess Elizabeth of
Roumania, and his sister Princess Helen to the Crown Prince Carol of Roumania.
WORKED BY ELECTRIC POWER FROM A SUBMARINE : PUMPING 8000 TONS
OF WATER INTO THE OVERTURNED BATTLE-SHIPS COMPARTMENTS.
AFTER HER COMPARTMENTS ON ONE SIDE HAD BEEN FLOODED : THE “ LEONARDO
DA VINCI ” RIGHTING HERSELF-WATER POURING OFF THE DECKS.
A wonderful feat of salvage was successfully concluded by Italian naval engineers
on January 24 at Taranto, where the 22,000-ton battle-ship “Leonardo da Vinci ”
was restored to an even keel. She was blown up in Taranto Harbour in August
1916, and in sinking turned turtle, embedding her funnels, turrets, masts, and
bridge in the mud at the bottom. A space was dug round her by divers, holes
THE FINAL STAGE OF THE OPERATION : THE " LEONARDO DA VINCI “ NEARLY
RESTORED TO AN EVEN KEEL IN TARANTO HARBOUR,
in her hull were cemented, and a mile-long trench was made, along which she
was drawn into dock. Later, she was towed out again to open water, and on
January 24 she was finally righted by the flooding of certain compartments. All
the high officers of the Italian Navy, and the foreign Attaches, witnessed the
proceedings.— [Photographs by £g*szia Fotogbafica Italians.]
IN A LAUREL-DECKED CAR AND SURROUNDED BY AN ADMIRING CROWD : GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO (BAREHEADED, TO RIGHT OF PILLAR)
LEAVING FIUME AFTER THE FAILURE OF HIS REGIME.
•nee the occupation of Fiume by Italian troops shortly after Christmas, and
* downfall of his regime, Gabriele d’Annunzio, the “poet-dictator,’’ was allowed
to remain there for some weeks, writing a record of the last days of his resistance.
* lived in the villa of the Hungarian ex-Govemor, guarded by ten of his
legionaries, the rest of whom had been disbanded and had almost all left the
c *ty He himself left at noon on January 18, in a motor-car decked with
laurel and flowers, amid popular acclamation. He had obtained a passport for
France, Switzerland, Spain, and Greece, and it was said that he was going first
to stay with friends in a village near Paris. D’Annunzio had not left Fiume
since he seized it on September 12, 1919. Before going, he handed to the pub¬
lishers his history of recent events there, and it was arranged that the book
should appear on January 26. r PH«Toc.«ApH by Topic a i..’
Fiume s Farewell to her Fallen Poet-Dictator: the Departure of Gabriele d’Annunzio
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Fkb. 5 . 1921 161
THE “TABLET” AND OTHER RAILWAY DEVICES; AND NAVAL OCCASIONS.
*im- hv Topic.si, Ckntrm Pri-»s, aki> Spur i \\i> Gkskku..
Sfcoe Battery Speed
ReJryBox Cont '
TO STOP A TRAIN EVEN IF THE DRIVER WERE
" DRUNK OR DEAD " : THE RECAN DEVICE.
FITTED WITH THE RECAN AUTOMATIC STOPPING
DEVICE : A C.E.R. ENGINE.
NEAR THE SCENE OF THE WELSH DISASTER : AN
ENGINE-DRIVER AT ABERMULE RECEIVING A TABLET.
ORDERING PASSENGERS ABOUT BY GRAMOPHONE : A NEW AUTOMATIC “ STENTOR "
AT A TUBE ESCALATOR SHOUTS “ KEEP MOVING, PLEASE I ”
Mr. J. H. Thomas. M.P., the railway leader, is reported to have said after seeing
the Regan train-stopping device tested : “ If the engine-driver of an express were
dead drunk—if even he were dead ; if both driver and signalman were dead -
the passengers would be as safe as houses." The left-hand photograph shows the
ramp (on the track) which, if there is an obstruction ahead, automatically engages
the shoe (seen in the adjoining photograph) on the engine, and pulls up the
train until released automatically by the removal of the obstruction.-The electric
train tablet system is used on the line where the Abermule disaster occurred.
COMPRESSED AIR FOR SHOUTING ORDERS TO TUBF PASSENGERS : THE INTERIOR
MECHANISM OF THE NEW AUTOMATIC STENTORPHONE.
Every engine-driver has to receive a tablet before proceeding. The tablets are
round metal discs about five inches in diameter and half-an-inch thick, carried
in a leather pouch with a stiff loop.-Submarine “ E 43 ” broke loose while
being towed from Devonport to salvage works in Wales, and struck the rocks
at Chapel Porth near St. Agnes Head, North Cornwall.-The ex-German cruiser
"Stuttgart" was recently brought across from Cherbourg to Dartmouth to be
broken up.-An automatic “ Stentorphone ” (shade of Homer !) has been
installed at Oxford Circus Tube Station, j shout at dilatory passengers.
AFTER A HEAD-ON IMPACT ON A SINGLE LINE : THE TWO ENGINES
THE LONDON COACH OF THE EXPRESS : THE SMASHED ROOF THROUGH
THE TILL’STRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 5, 1921—165
THE WELSH “HEAD-ON” RAILWAY COLLISION NEAR ABERMULE.
Photographs by Topical, Photopress and C.N.
A DISASTER WHICH KILLED SIXTEEN PEOPLE, INCLUDING LORD HERBERT VANE - TEMPEST AND TWO HARROW BOYS RETURNING TO SCHOOL
THE WRECKED ENGINE OF THE EXPRESS, WHOSE BOILER WAS FORCED CLEAN OUT OF ITS CASING, AND SOME OF THE COACHES.
A terrible collision took place on the Cambrian Railway, between Newtown and
Abermule, in Wales, on January 26, when sixteen people were killed and fifteen
were injured. The dead included Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, uncle of the
Marquess of Londonderry. Two trains—the 10.25 a.m. express from Aberystwith
to Shrewsbury, and the 11.30 local train from Welshpool to Aberystwith met
with a terrific head-on impact on a single line. The exprtts was going at about
thirty miles an hour. Its engine, whose boiler was tom from its casing, mounted
( • orei the other and crashed on to the roof of a carriage, but the express itself
it appears, suffered more than the slow train. Such a collision was believed to
be practically impossible owing to the electric train tablet system, by which no
driver leaves a station until he has received the proper tablet, and, when a
tablet has been withdrawn from the instrument at either end of a section, another
cannot be taken out until the first has been replaced. The official enqiiiry was
held in camera, and it was stated that the matter would later come into court
M AN craves for mystery. A new, uncommon
fact arises, and at once his imagination is
at work, he invokes supernatural powers, he believes
in miracles. Thus from time to time arise in
human communities great waves of mystical
enthusiasm.
In 1778 Mesmer, with his magnetic bucket,
pretended to cure humanity of all its miseries with
his new method ; again, in 1852, people in their
frenzy for turning tables
Q thought they could, by their
use, converse with the dead.
And to-day another mystic
wave is passing over us. As
usual, it comes from America.
— This time the phenomenon took
Fic. the fo ™ of Johnny Coulon, the
M«chan,c: A Dia- man wh ° cannot be lifted-
o«AM (ExrLA.«D .* that 1,ttle - well-built boxer.
THE Aeticie) Illus- weighing undressed hardly eight
tbatimg THE Tor whom, unless he con-
Photographs ok the ' descends to it. the strongest
Opposite Page. heavy - weight champions, in
spite of their exertions, cannot
lift up from the soil to which he seems to be
screwed.
To make himself " unliftable,” Coulon insisted
upon being held only in a particular way. Facing
him. the would-be lifter, taking the classical
position of a man about to lift heavy dumb¬
bells, would hold him at his sides, between the
ribs and the hips, seizing round the body being
forbidden.
To become at will a dead weight, it was suffi¬
cient for Coulon slightly to rub the neck of his
opponent under the left part of the jaw, and then
place there one or two fingers of his right hand,
whilst touching his opponent’s wrist with his left.
According to his explanation, having thus estab¬
lished contact, the fluid was passing. In fact, in
the position shown in Fig. 5 the midget was
“ ineradicable."
Coulon pretended to demonstrate that it was
really the effect of a fluid or current, as, by putting
a cigarette - paper between his finger and his
opponent's neck, the circuit was interrupted and
it was easy to lift him. The same result happened
if his finger was wet. However, sceptical people
thought all this to be bluff. Wishing to obtain an
indisputable demonstration, investigators altered
the conditions of the test, and invented the chain,
which was formed by several people holding one
another by the hand. Coulon entered the chain,
making contact with his neighbours by touching
the neck of one and the wrist of the other, whilst
facing his would-be lifter. When the last persons
forming the chain were touching the latter, Coulon
was immovable. He also introduced a variation
which he termed " The Remanent,” producing the
same result when standing upright, his arms
stretched, one slightly upwards and the other
slightly downwards. This lasted but a few
seconds, and he used to say, ” Do it quickly."
Soon competitors, even children, appeared on
the scene from all parts.
A human being able
at his own will to in¬
crease or decrease his
weight is an important
phenomenon. Mystics
proclaimed their belief
in the manifestation of
a new psychical force.
Spiritists thought to
find the still undis-
\ covered proof of the
I psychical forces in Cou-
’ Ion, whom they con¬
sidered as a medium,
explaining thus the
mystery of the chain
and the paper device.
Leaving aside the
propounders of more or
less ingenious theories,
Mr. Nogufes found a
mechanical explanation,
which he communicated
FIG. 2. — THE FULCRUM to the Acad6mie des
ADVANCED BY WEAR- Sciences de Paris. We
1NG EXTENDED WOOD- give below an abridged
EN SOLES: A DEVICE translation of this ex-
THAT MAKES LIFTING planation.
ADVANCED BY WEAR¬
ING EXTENDED WOOD¬
EN SOLES: A DEVICE
THAT MAKES LIFTING
POSSIBLE.
Peter is a powerful man, and proposes to lift
John, who is lighter than himself. They place
themselves erect, facing one another in the
identical position contrived by Johnny Coulon, and
which is represented in Fig. 3. The vertical lines
of both men passing through their centre of gravity
reach the ground near their ankles.
When Peter wishes to lift John, the latter’s
weight is added to that of his opponent. Peter's
centre of gravity is displaced and passes in front
of his feet ; therefore his equilibrium Incomes
unstable. Whatever may be his muscular strength,
his feet not being riveted to the ground he is
carried forward and loses his balance. His only
means of re-establishing it is to advance his feet,
and instinctively he assumes the position shown
in Fig. 6. This new position is favourable to
lifting, since the length of the resistance lever, or
distance from the fulcrum to the weight to be lifted,
is decreased. A simple diagram (Fig. 1) will give
a good idea of the unbalanced position.
If we represent the weight of Peter by P, his
muscles by M. and the weight of John by J, we
immediately see that, however great the strength
of the muscles M, their contraction may cause two
very different results : either John will be lifted
ur> or Peter will fall on John, the weight of the
former pivoting round the fulcrum (a) placed
somewhat forward. If the
, ^ desired effect is to lift
John, Peter must be
/ ^ either fairly heavy or
JT y. furnish his shoes with
F W long, rigid soles, the effect
1 of which will be to place
y\\ the fulcrum (a) nearer
vv . s Wll V |/\ John, the distance from
0 \ Peter to John remaining
the same.
\ Thus, the first con-
Ji'—.— \ dition re-
jf' / -x quired for
AT y\ \ - I lifting a man,
/ or any weight
j f kf __ whatever, is
I \ xl s ~ - to obtain a
l ! M favourable
\ / /y / fulcrum, giv-
I I M / *ng at OM
1 V/v / and *h e sam*
XgO/ time a poten-
t i a 1 lever
sufficiently
FIC. 3. — ANOTHER METHOD OF long and a
ADVANCING THE FULCRUM: THE resisting lever
LIFTER RESTING AGAINST A STOOL. correspond-
Duigrams by ConrUty of “ L'Illustration.” * n gly short.
In the pre¬
sent case the fulcrum is situated at the
extremity of Peter’s metatarsus. If the tips
of the opponents’ shoes are touching, this
fulcrum is placed in such a way that the
potential lever is three times shorter than
the resisting one. Under these conditions
it is necessary that Peter, if he wishes to
lift John, should weigh three times as much
as the latter—that is, about 24 st. if John
weighs 8 st.
Now that you know the principles of
the problem, you may, as well as Coulon,
make yourself ” unliftable.”
Are you a feather-weight ? Never allow
your opponent to come nearer you than
the end of your shoes ; if, on the contrary
you are a heavy-weight, you may let him
approach nearer.
In any circumstances, stand vertically
upright. If your opponent tries to ” up¬
root ” you with a violent jerk backwards,
be ready to counteract same by placing
your hand on his neck. You will thus
prevent him from tipping you forward, and
will keep your upright position.
Suppose your opponent to be afflicted
with a prominent abdomen, like a Japanese
wrestler (Fig. 4), you may laugh at his
double muscles ; his obesity will never allow
him to come close enough to lift you. If,
on the contrary, your adversary is very-
strong and not handicapped by such cor¬
pulence, make your leverage longer by-
bending backwards and supporting your¬
self on the end of your feet ; at the same
time, as a supreme guarantee, be ready to A
pull your opponent’s right wrist upwards, L
thus weakening the lifting-power of his arm.
Some method and a quick decision are
necessary.
Now, should you. on the contrary, wish f .
to lift an ” unliftable ” man, supposing the h
latter to have no notion of mechanics, ask i
him to allow you to tie tightly to your feet C
two pieces of wood, which will give you a
FIC. 3. — ANOTHER METHOD OF
ADVANCING THE FULCRUM: THE
LIFTER RESTING AGAINST A STOOL.
Diagrams by CourUty of “ L'Illustration.”
supporting base sufficient in all circumstances to
keep your equilibrium by simply contracting your
legs. Wooden soles protruding from 4 in. to 5 in.
beyond the tips of the shoes would suffice if
placed by the side of your opponent's feet on a
level with his heels (Fig. 2).
Or, again, you may ask him to allow you to
rest your back on a fairly high stool, keeping your
feet at each side and on a level with his own
(Fig. 3). In this posi¬
tion your equilibrium is
stabilised by the stool
on which you rest, pre- / w* |/ fW
venting you from fall- A f ?>» ?
ing backwards. In both \
these positions you will C t^^k \
lift the ” unliftable ” / y?*
man, unless he practises I /ft ^
on you the trick already / J
mentioned — that is to \ '
say, pulling your wrist V ^
A very interesting Li \ l
problem of muscular /
physiology is the out- j J Kfrjt T
come of these experi- J f il
ments. The feeling of j 1 1 \
the impossibility of lift- \ / \A \
ing these immovable V jl(\ J
weights is the result of \ W ft
the inability of our
muscular sense to appre-
date the efforts made. FIG. 4. — CORPULENCE
Not only are the FORBIDS I A FAT
muscles best adapted JAPANESE WRESTLER
for lifting weights, such UNABLE TO GET NEAR
as the deltoid and the ENOUGH TO LIFT,
biceps, strongly con¬
tracted and project prominently, but the an¬
tagonist muscles, such as the triceps, at the
back of the arm, are also contracted and
protrude. Whilst the contraction of the first
group of lifting muscles is voluntary and gives to
the lifter a painful feeling of effort, the contraction
of the second group of antagonist muscles is of
reflex origin, and prevents the lifter from falling,
which would unavoidably occur as a result of his
powerless efforts, if the same muscles did not in¬
tervene to counteract the effort produced.
The lifter perceives only the voluntary effort,
remaining unaware of the reflex contraction, and
thus forming a wrong idea of the intensity of
the vertical effort he is producing.
mm
•S* 1
A MYSTERY NOW SOLVED: JOHNNY COULON, THE “ UN¬
LIFTABLE'’ BANTAM-WEIGHT, DEFIES THE EFFORTS OF
A FAMOUS STRONG MAN.
Johnny Coulon, an American bantam-weight boxer, recently puzzled
all Paris with his ability to make himself “ unliftable,” even by the
famous strong man, Yves le Boulanger (seen above). Coulon put one
hand on his opponent’s neck and the fingers of the other on his pulse.
This was supposed to bring into force some strange physical faculty.
Our article explains the secret, which lay in keeping at a sufficient
distance from the would-be lifter’s point d'appui, or fulcrum.
Photograph by I.B.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 5 , 1921 .—167
THE “ UNLIFTABLE ” MAN: EXPLODING THE “MYSTIC FLUID'’ THEORY.
Rv Courtesy op " L’Illostration.”
'T’HE two top photographs on this
page are explained in the article
opposite. The left-hand one shows a
strong man (Peter) unable to lift a
light man (John) because he is standing
too far back, and the leverage support,
or fulcrum, cannot bear John’s weight
added to his own. The right-hand
photograph shows the position in
which Peter can lift John, by standing
close to him and thus shortening the
leverage arm.
FIG. 6.—ENABLED TO LIFT BY ADVANCING: PETER
STANDING WITH HIS FEET WELL UNDER JOHN S WEIGHT.
FIG. 5.- WITH HIS STANCE FULCRUM TOO FAR BACK :
A STRONG MAN (PETER) CANNOT LIFT A LIGHT MAN.
you can, still being able to rise again when resting
on the tip of your toes. Having thus found a favour¬
able position, take a fairly heavy chair, such as a
dining-room chair, and lift it with your hands.
Before holding this chair you could rise without
difficulty, but now this is impossible, whatever may
be the efforts of your legs and your back. The cause
[C'HtiHUtd i» tax Him
'TWO very simple experiments, which any reader
^ may attempt successfully, without any outside
help, will demonstrate the importance of the length
of the leverage arm. Place yourself in front of a
wall, your body bent forward as shown in Fig. 7,
rest your head on the said wall, supporting yourself
against it, then remove your feet as far away as
[COHitMHtti Of>pVSi>t
FIG. 7.-UNABLE TO LIFT THE CHAIR:
THE EFFECT OF TOO-DISTANT STANCE.
FIG. 8.—UNABLE TO LIFT THE WEI
ANOTHER CASE OF TOO-REMOTE FULC
PIG. 9— A CHILD RIVAL TO COULON : A LITTLE BOY
WHOM HIS GYMNASTIC MASTER FAILS TO LIFT.
yourself standing erect at arm’s length from the stool, your feet sufficiently apart
to give you a normal supporting base ; then stoop to place your shoulder at the
height of the. weight and try to lift it. If it weighs from io to 13 lb., it cannot
be lifted by a man of average weight. As in the preceding case, the vertical
line through the centre of gravity of the man and weight falls outside the sup¬
porting base or fulcrum of the man (See Fig. 8). Some of Coulon’s com¬
petitors make themselves “ unliftable ” by more conspicuous means. One of
them, Pierre Kahn, a boy 12J years old, a young well-developed athlete, weighing
fully dressed about 5$ stone, uses a movement en vrille, as he it, by con¬
tracting and bringing backwards his left side, thus displacing the right hand of
his adversary and unbalancing his effort. Even his gymnastic instructor, Professor
Pag*s, a well-known physiologist, does not succeed in lifting him, although himself
weighing over 12 stone. This subterfuge is easily perceived in Figs. 9 and 10
the two photographs at the foot of this page.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 5. 192! lttt
A T the Haymarket Theatre on Jan. 24, where the patronage would be swelled by a good many Rightly understood, it makes for good, and kindles
we foregathered by invitation of the Drama who hitherto would not have dared to enter a our feeling for those whom war has victimised for
League, the withering eloquence of " G. B. S." theatre on Sunday, lest it should have reflected their lifetime. Miss Sybil Thorndike's transition
annihilated the arguments in favour of a seven- on their reputation as good Christians. Moreover, from the gaiety of a happy evening to the awe
days’ theatre — in other words, Sunday perform- if Mr. Bourchier could see his way to set the of the early hours once more impressed us by her
ances, as on the Continent, and no rest for the project on a business footing, and appeal for the great versatility and power ; Mr. Russell Thorn-
actor. The cause had able defendants in Mr. cause of the people to start the enterprise with a dike’s discreet rendering of the mutilated maniac
Arthur Bourchier — prime mover of the pro- fund, 1 believe that men in the City, besides well- intensified the horror, but also the sad veracity of
opening party—and a distinguished cleric, whose to-do people in the West End and suburbs, would the thing.
gladly help with
donations where¬
by both actors At the Garrick Mr. Leon M. Lion continues
and playgoers his long-headed policy of fighting the heavy'
would benefit in economic conditions of the theatre by run-
many ways. ning two daily bills in tandem. While “ Brown
Sugar ” is still doing well, he has now found
another trump card in the revival of Brieux's
At our Grand famous " Three Daughters of M. Dupont,”
Guignol Mr. Jos£ that powerful indictment of the bourgeois
Levy has added marriage of convenience in which the dowries
a remarkable are the goods and the woman merely a chattel,
little play by Although even in France the cause of Feminism
Mr. Maltby to has advanced since the play was written, the
his sextuple pro- main theme remains of intense interest. The
gramme. At outstanding figure, now as before, remains the
the first glance, married daughter of Miss Ethel Irving. In the
‘‘The Person great scene when the woman aching for a
Unknown " is child, and denied her vocation by her husband's
a crude little egotism (and economic considerations), breaks
effort. The sol- out in fury, invective, and searing denuncia-
dier who was tions, she carried us away as in a torrent,
lured to arms by Breathless she screamed out her accusations;
Rubens’ recruit- breathless we listened and felt the repercussion
ing song under of her agony. It was intensely exciting, in¬
promise of hugs tensely painful, and the fall of the curtain came
and kisses on as a relief. Then, after a moment's hush to re-
his home-coming, turn to reality, there was an explosion of such
penetrates late applause, so prolonged, so genuine in its ring
THEOCRITUS DRAMATISED AT BEDFORD COLLEGE : A GREEK THRONG ON THEIR at night into the of admiration and release, as is only created by
WAY TO THE TEMPLE OF ADONIS, flat of the fair temperamental power and magnetism of oratory.
Performances in ancient Greek took place at Bedford College for Women, in Regent’s Park, ballet - girl who We were und<* the spell of an actress who
on January 27 . The above photograph shows a scene from the 15th Idyll of Theocritus. enraptured him rises to great heights when emotion overwhelms
Photograph by Sport and General. with vision her own being. Mr. Leon M. Lion’s father
splendid. He Dupont was also a remarkable creation. He
name escapes me, but who very broad-mindedly now is disfigured and hideous to behold, “ with a adapted the part to his personality. For there
averred that the question hinged, not on religion, caricature of a face,” and he comes to exact are two ways of conceiving Dupont. Brieux
but on economics. Mr. Bourchier—who, if I re- the ransom. There is intense contrast in the probably intended him to be a big and burly
member well, was once the fierce opponent of the picture : the glad home-coming of the girl and person with all the attributes of a faux bon-
theatre on Sundays—now painted the enfranchise- her comrades from a masked ball; the in- homme. That would have befitted neither the
ment of the holiday in glowing colours. Happiness creased joy in the small hours by the flowing stature nor the nature of Mr. Lion. So he
of the people—no more " pub.” and hanging about ; cup; then, as the day faintly breaks, the encounter represented him as a little man of nerves, a
happiness of the actors, for there would be liberal between the bedizened girl and the lovelorn man. Micawber, as minute and restless as a squirrel, and
extra pay on the Sabbath. “ Would there ? ” The struggle is awful and painful ; at first I found as wayward as quarrelsome—a humorous figure, in
rustled a murmur through the serried ranks of the it repellent, but
actors in the auditorium, for by this time they are when I saw the
as wary as the raven in La Fontaine's fable : jura play again I felt
mais un peu lard, etc. They know these glowing the meaning of
managerial promises: it was thus that matinees it. The world
began, and ended in fragmentary half-pay and easily promises,
much more work. So when Shaw rode in with his easily forgets,
common-sense and his sarcasm, a speech as brilliant The hero of yes-
as ever poured from his lips, and when a workman terday has lost
(one of the stage-hands) somewhat too vehemently, his halo : he is
but not without conviction, declared that during a mere reminis-
the week he saw practically nothing of his people, cence. The feel-
it was a foregone conclusion that the motion ing of intense
" against ” would be carried by a sweeping majority. pity, the feeling
And so it happened. of enthusiasm,
Mr, Arthur Bourchier took his defeat with good the feeling of
grace like a man ; and, resourceful as he is, it may interest in the
have occurred to him on the way home that, if fate of the men
in one way he was a loser, in another he might be who fought and
a winner and gather laurels for his thistles. We bled for us, has
all remember that lately he wanted to give faded fast. The
Shakespearean Sunday performances in aid of women who
charity. Why does he not persevere and widen yesterday would
this idea for the benefit of the people ? Why have given body
does he not endow London with a Sunday Theatre and soul to the
of good English plays at prices accessible to all soldier following
persons ? It would be not only a boon and a the drum, look
blessing for the masses, but it would be hailed as to-day upon the
a haven and a stepping-stone by the unemployed obligation as
actors thirsting for glory and clamouring for work. upon the trades-
The capital outlay would be comparatively small; man’s bill that ARISTOPHANES REVIVED AT BEDFORD COLLEGE: MEMBERS OF THE COMPANY
it could be simplified by co-operation. Most of is scrapped into • W H 0 GAVE THE TRIAL SCENE FROM “THE FROGS.”
the Sunday theatres on the Continent work on the waste-paper Aristophanes (444 to 380 B.C.) might be called the father of comedy. The Trial Scene from his play
sharing terms,, and, if the actors were engaged basket until the -The Frogs” was given at Bedford College on January 27.- ( Photograph by sport and General.)
for a series of Sundays during the year, it would pressure and the
mean a nice little certainty to those who are all writ come, and the rest is silence. It is this fine, with an undercurrent of sadness and de-
too often unemployed, and a welcome strengthen- that Mr. Maltby wishes to drive home. He spair. It illuminates the play and the surpris¬
ing of funds for those who are greedy for more work does it relentlessly, with needless emphasis, with ing many-sidedness of Mr. Lion’s talent. Miss
beyond the daily routine—which, after all, is an a certain rawness of manner, as is his wont, and Edith Evans' picture of the ascetic daughter
individual question. Of the success of such per- open to chastening. But, for all that, the little was pathetic in its wonderful self - effacement ;
formances, from Shakespeare to Pinero, Shaw, and work grafts itself on memory and conscience, like and Mr. Charles Kenyon pleaded the husband’s
all the rest of the modern men of. mark, there that other poignant episode, ” Eight o’clock,” by defence, in a great scene of the play, with such
could be no doubt. And, since we have heard that Reginald Berkeley, the more appreciated the more natural conviction that for a moment the un-
the Church is no longer an antagonist, but an ally, it is seen. It causes one to pause and think. sympathetic character tipped the scales.
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T HE Efundura are dances and marriage customs
of the Konyama people, a section of the
Ovambo nation, and until quite recently the most
powerful. They live in the flat, wooded- country
in the south of Angola and north of the South-
West African Protectorate, a part of Africa hardly
known to civilisation. The marriage ceremonies
may be said to be divided into three periods, one
taking place in the spring, and the other two after
the crops have been reaped.
Early in the spring, before the seed is planted,
which is woman's work, the girls who are of
marriageable age collect together in bands of
about twenty, of whom one is elected as " captain.”
They decorate themselves with the young and
nearly-white fronds of the ivory palm, which, in
contrast with their black bodies, -is very effective.
They carry long white wands of peeled branches,
some of which are decorated with strips of fur
round the top, giving somewhat the appearance
of bullrushes.
These bands go round the country singing and
dancing. One or two of the girls carry springbok
horns, on which they blow a few notes, and in
the distance these, blending with their voices,
sound very melodious. The songs are usually
set in a minor key, with solos taken up by the
chorus.
During the time, about fourteen days, that these
girls are banded together, as a sign that they are,
as it were, in the marriage market, they are
viewed at their best by the men in search of a
wife, or one to add to those they already possess.
It is probable that they already have sweethearts:
these and others give them presents of beads,
bangles, and various other things.
They then, after fourteen days or more, dis¬
band and proceed with the hoeing and planting
of the crops.
The second period or phase takes place in the
autumn after the crops are reaped. Permission
to hold this particular portion of the Efundura
must be obtained from the chief, who thus has
control over the number of marriages to some
extent. This stage is a great occasion for feasting
and drinking, and it is only the better-off native
who is able to afford it. He is in some measure
assisted by the parents of the girls who are to
take part in this particular Efundura dance.
Only these girls dance, the music being sup¬
plied by drums, or tom-toms, made from hollowed
trees covered with parchment, toned from a deep
bass to a high tenor, all in harmony', the tone
being obtained by a ring of beeswax on the
parchment, which is made larger or smaller as
the tone may require. These tom - toms are
played by men with both hands, being held be¬
tween the knees and beaten in about double time.
WITH THE HEAD-DRESS WORN BY A MARRIED
WOMAN: A SPECIMEN OF KONYAMA COIFFURE.
There is no singing at all during the dances,
which last for three days and two nights, the
people as a rule resting during the heat of the
day and at odd intervals, but never for very long
at a time. The function is under the control of
a master of the ceremonies, usually an old man.
who is absolute, and directs when the girls are
to dance. The girls are dressed
On the third day, in the afternoon, the dancing
stage has reached a climax, and the girls, after
the last dance, each have a piece of palm-leaf
tied round their wrist by the prospective hus¬
band. who then hoists his bride on his shoulders,
and carries her away about two hundred yards.
Then he puts her down and she is given one or
two light sticks by her female attendants, and
she chases the bridegroom back to the kraal
in the vicinity of the place where the dance
is held, hitting him whenever she can get near
enough.
As far as this, the dance and ceremony are open
to public gaze, but on the third night, the finale
of this phase is enacted. This initiation cere¬
mony cannot well be described in these pages.
On the fourth day, the brides, who are still
separated from their husbands, return to their
own kraals, but after a few days they band to¬
gether again as in the first phase, and elect a
” captain.”
They now cover themselves with white ashes
until they are white all over, except their hair
and lips, and they wear petticoats of string made
from the white fibre of the ivory palm tree, and
have very much the appearance of a corps de
ballet ; their eyes appear very sparkling and their
lips very red. These bands go all over the country,
and are well entertained wherever they go.
(Further details are given on the last page of
illustrations of the subject.)
After about ten to fourteen days, they go to
their husbands at their kraals, and the ceremony
is completed, except for a small family feast. The
girls, during the time they are painted white, have
” the time of their lives,” for, unless particularly
favoured, they now become the slaves of their
husbands.
The royal, or chiefs', females are exempt from
certain portions of the ceremony; moreover, they
have the right to order any man to become their
husband. There is no instance, as far as can be
ascertained, of the selected man having refused,
and one is inclined to remember similar selections
by one Catherine.
Inheritance is carried through the female line:
thus, for instance, the son of a chief’s sister
inherits on his death. Generally speaking, the
women - folk of these people are held in higher
esteem than in most other Bantu races, though
their morale is not of so high a standard.
in a sort of petticoat of skin,
covered again with another of beads,
decorated with ivory ornaments
and carrying valderbeeste tails like
” choweries.” There is no twisting or
twirling in this dance. The girls
stand in a line opposite the drums
(tom-toms), and cover their faces
with the tails they carry, appearing
to be bashful ; the master of the
ceremonies then capers up to them
and, by gesture, invites them to dance ;
he is sometimes assisted by other
men. A girl, on receiving the invita¬
tion, begins to shuffle forward to¬
wards the tom - toms, and gradually
starts stamping her feet in time to the
music, which becomes louder and
louder as all the girls line up in
front of the drums, and the dance
becomes faster as they throw up their
arms alternately. When they are ex¬
hausted, the attendants, of whom each
girl has one or more, go forward,
and slowly draw them from the throng
until all are back in the original line
again. The music ceases for a time,
and the girls have the perspiration
wiped from their bodies and faces by
their attendants, and such portions
of their dress as may have become
disarranged put in order.
This is repeated at intervals of
about half-an-hour and lasting about
the same time, until the girls are more
or less exhausted, when they retire for
a few hours to a special kraal
which has been built for them, and
then come out again in single file, as
they always go at this time, and the
WEARING IVORY BUTTONS WORTH A COW EACH: whole performance is repeated again PAINTED WHITE AND CARRYING KNOBKERRIES FOR
THREE PROSPECTIVE BRIDES OF THE KONYAMA and again until the evening of the BEATING MEN: THE ••CAPTAIN” OF A BAND OF BRIDES
TRIBE.
third day.
AND HER TWO ** LIEUTENANTS.”
fK3 ref J
DANCING, W DECORATED PETTICOATS, TO THE MUSIC OF DRUMS (OR TOM-TOMS) PLAYED BY MEN: PROSPECTIVE KONYAMA BRIDES DURING THE
SECOND (AUTUMN) STAGE OF THE EFUNDURA. OR MARRIAGE FESTIVAL.
* m »rri«ge market, which in more civilised communities is conducted on more
j f . *** ^"'•Ptitious lines, is a recognised institution among the Konyama people.
is a public and organised festival, affording young men an open chance to see
j «e>ect a suitable mate. As Lieut.-Colonel Fairlie tells us in his remarkably
nteresting article opposite, the Konyama belong to the Bantu race, and the Ovambo
nb *’ lnl »*biHng a little-known district of South Angola (Portuguese West Africa), just
north of the South-West African Protectorate, formed since the war under the
mandate of South Africa. Their marriage festivities, called ‘‘Efundura,’’ are divided
into three stages, the first taking place in the spring, at sowing time ; the second
and third at the autumn harvest season. The scenes represented by the above two
photographs, which illustrate the first two stages, are fully described by Colonel
Fairlie. Further photographs appear on the pages following.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 5. 1921.-171
THE KONYAMA MARRIAGE MARKET”: A CHORIC PROTHALAMION.
Photo™ , um4 . D Bv l.«ot.-Couw«. C. E. Pa„u«. M.C.
DECORATED WITH IVORY PALM FRONDS AND CARRYING LONG WHITE WANDS OF PEELED BRANCHES : A BAND OF MARRIAGEABLE KONYAMA GIRLS
DURING THE FIRST STAGE OF THE EFUNDURA, IN SPRINGTIME.
72 THE I ILLUSTRATED LONIKJ
A SURVIVAL OF MARRIAGE BY CAPTURE? KONYAM^
PHOTOGRAPH SUPPLIED BY Lir
BEFORE BEING ARMED WITH LIGHT STICKS AND CHASING THEIR HUSBANDS,
Rollicking fun and good-humoured horse-play mark the proceedings towards the end of the second stage of the Efundura, or marriage festival, among the Konyama
people, as described by Lieut.-Colonel Fairlie in his article earlier in this number. Explaining this part of the ceremony r which takes place after the marriageable girls
have danced at intervals before the assembled company for two days and nights, he says : “ On the third day in the afternoon the dancing stage has reached a
climax, and the girls, after the last dance, each have a piece of palm leaf tied round their wrist by the prospective husband, who then hoists his bride on his
////
Ucsi **m fel
DON NEWS, Feb. 5, 1921 .—173
> BR,DES “'NG CARR,ED OFF BY tuitid
&n *!T.-CoLONIEL C. E. FaIRLIE, M.C. ^ Of THElR
husbands.
^ll? c . THE KRAAL: KONYAMA BRIDES SHOULDERED BY THEIR -GROOMS”
5- -“ d iMs:rrrr j r„::r * -
* n,d '. B ajmtr >tnl . *™ * bl1 separated from ,heir husbands, return to their own kraals." The third and last sta f th enOU * h ’ ■ On
* Pile following. Probably the incident illustrated above is a survival th. oid custom .1 ™ ri Ige * “
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 5, 1921—174
WHITENED FOR A
“FLING” BEFORE “SLAVERY”:
Hhotoc.bakhs supplikd by Libot.-Colokbl C. E. Faibli*. MX.
KONYAMA
BRIDES.
Describing the third and last phase of the Efundura (Konyama marriage festival)
Lieut.-Colonel Fair lie writes : “ The brides . . . return to their own kraals, but
after a few days they band together again, and elect a * captain.' They now
cover themselves with white ashes . . . and have very much the appearance of
a corps de ballet. These bands go all over the country. . . . They carry sticks
and small knobkerries with which they beat any man who tries to molest them.
As they travel they sing, and very harmonious their voices sound through the
trees, against which their white bodies look very effective. Wherever they are
entertained they dance to their singing, and the hitting together of pieces of
hollow reeds. The dances now are all turns and twists, as a rule, one or two
girls dancing together or alone, singing the air to be taken up by the chorus,
who all, like a corps de ballet, keep time with their feet in a long line in the
background. At this time, these girls practically do what they like and go where
they like, demanding presents from any man who may have courted them.''
A fan aRacji
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THE UXrSTKATEI) U>NIX>N NEWS. 1'f.b 1921 I 7 ti
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
collectors. He missed that, as he missed a won¬
derful bottle-shaped vase of opaque white glass,
carved with birds, prunus branches, and bamboo,
in pink and green. The wonderful carvings in glass
by the Chinese (how small does the hobnail English
“ red-haired devil ” variety seem in comparison !),
inspired by the glyptic work of the jade and hard-
stone carvers, has. under the hand of the Chinese
^ say whether the
greater pleasure attends
the connoisseur when, at
the dispersal of a great
collection, he is a silent
spectator and exults at the great prices
for great works of art. or whether he
Lovers of colour \.
toe the line from ,
these eighteenth - century tvSj L
stipple subjects to Baxter ^7^8
early Victorian colour-
prints. But nobody can
advance that they are anything else
than fine printing in colours. Those
does not revel in smaller sales on a somewhat
lower plane where he may take a hand and be a
bidder himself. It may be that the auctioneer
of a fashionable London auction-room may catch
himself exclaiming. " Odi profanum vulgus "
but. for all that, he dearly loves a crowd of
the right kind, and never is there a more
decorous human collection (we adhere to art
terms) than assembles in a fashionable gallery
when objects of art worth thousands change hands
without much comment. Art notabilities and
cosmopolitan dealers spell plutocracy in art. and
so the modest
connoisseur
likes stealthily
to pass into art
solitudes where
there is no for¬
midable com¬
petition. He
has a power
which is only
bounded by
the limitations
of his slender
purse. He slips
into little-
known sales on
off-days, so to
speak, or he
haunts unad¬
vertised auc¬
tions. Like the
punters at the
tables of the
Casino at
Monte Carlo, he
has a system.
He is always
waiting for
something to
turn up. He is
silent and un¬
obtrusive—but
he sometimes
gets there.
At Christie’s,
on Jan. 27.
with decorative
furniture and
objects of art.
and porcelain,
scattered pro¬
miscuously, the
wandering con¬
noisseur must
have had many
delightful moments. From Chinese famille-verte
beakers to Bow candlesticks, from diminutive
Whieldon groups to Hispano-Moresque dishes, he
could take his choice. An Adam mahogany
sideboard with pair of urns on pedestals, and an
octagonal wine - cooler inlaid with satinwood
lines, must have seized his fancy. A score of
satinwood tables and settees and armchairs may
have bewildered him. but surely an old English
clock by George Conibeere, of Gloucester, with
brass dial chased with scrolls, in case carved in
Chippendale manner, fascinated him. At Messrs.
Puttick and Simpson’s on the same date he strolled
in and found George II. tablespoons with shell
ornament by Richard Rugg. 1757. Had nobody
been there before him who counted, he would have
bought the William and Mary plain tankard with
dome cover, with coat-of-arms in a foliage car-
touch e. the lower part with reeded band, by
Samuel Dell, 1691. Another item marked in his
catalogue was a pair of Charles II. oblong tea-
caddies, about 1683, with maker’s mark. P* K,’’
the same as on the celebrated Berners toilet-set.
He knew this piece of information, but somehow
somebody forestalled him.
It is to be presumed that the bargain-hunter
intent on outwitting the trade and the outer world
came along to Messrs. Puttick and Simpson’s on
Jan. 28, to win glorious objects of Chinese art in
porcelain. Had he known it. he would have pro¬
cured at once the libation cup of rhinoceros, horn,
only 3$ in. high, carved in high relief with fir-trees.
He may not have known its import—how, with its
protective charm against poison, it was emulated
by the Fo Kien porcelain in white, beloved by
lapidary, no equal. It was easy to carve glass in
comparison with rock crystal and nephrite and jade
and other hard stones, not to mention precious
stones like the ruby and the emerald, which were
sculptured into small images of. Buddha by the
Chinese. These Chinese bottles and their like
exhibit an art unequalled by the Westerns, and
so. connoisseurs and Philistines alike, we pass
by such objects as of little value because not
understanded. although the Salting Collection
might have taught us. Some day Chinese old
glass will be worth its weight in gold.
On Jan. 28, at Messrs. Christie's, the esoteric
lore of connoisseurship was tried by the litmus
paper of £ s. d. The ” Woody Landscape ” of the
Norwich school might be bought as speculative by
him who had the hope that he knew something more
than others. He might taboo some of the Gains¬
boroughs, the Morlands. and the Wouvermans,
but “ Three Children ” by Hogarth should have
appealed to him. and " The Follies.” a little Goya,
should have arrested his attention. But even
connoisseurship grows jaded with an embarras
de nckesse, and bargains come and go, and it is
always after the event—what might have been,
the same plaint of the punter on the Turf. In the
great auction-rooms connoisseurs should be strong
enough to back their fancy. Herein lies success.
But it must be premissed, as an axiom—know your
subject.
Choice engravings, framed and in the portfolio,
the properties of Countess Cowley, Mr. F. Capel
Cure, and of the late Sir Philip Duncombe. come
up at Sotheby’s on Feb. 9. The French school
< f colour prints is amply represented, and in
regard to the English we take, three items—
“ Cupid,” by T. Burke after Angelica Kauffman,
” Mrs. Jackson ” and ” Mrs. Tickell,” both by
J. Condd after Cosway. These works exhibit that
particular phase of stipple engraving when the
printer with superimposed colours stood on a
plane apart and claimed recognition for a delicate
craft, isolated, and, be it said, competitive with
black-and-white engraving and etching, and coming
into relationship with water-colour drawing and
oil-painting in its note of colour as apart from
line.
gifted in art perspicuity see otherwise. Rem¬
brandt's strong - bitten etchings (imagine, the
’’ Three Trees ” printed in colours!). Whistler's
fugitive lines, and Anders Zorn’s virile work
are all incapable of being printed in colours.
But lovers of colour must be catered for.
They are nowadays, in the coloured etching,
a contradiction in terms. It is not given
to everyone to transmute engraved lines into
poesie and colour. To some Beethoven and
Chopin, to others the revue and the musical
comedy (so called) ; it is a matter of tempera-
ment — and
training
There are
some collectors
who value the
initial red-hot
thought as it
Hashed from
the brain of
the artist (it
was Mrs. Rud-
yard Kipling
who rescued
Lest We
Forget ’ ’ from
her husbandv
waste - paper
basket I. The
perfected con¬
clusion grow*
colder and
colder with
each addition,
as genius ap¬
proaches a
symmetrical
ideal. Second
thoughts are
not always
best : often the
second thought
is the second¬
hand thought.
The brilliant
effulgence of
the first in¬
spiration, the
master's fleet¬
ing outlook
into futurity, is
whittled down
to mediocrity,
and so what at
first was a bril¬
liant lightning
flash becomes a subdued afterglow. The col¬
lection of Old Master drawings to be sold by
Messrs. Sotheby on Feb. 15 and 16 includes
work attributed to Claude, Fragonard, Poussin.
Watteau, Van Dyck, Van Goyen, Hobbema.
Rembrandt, Teniers. Van de Velde, and others,
among them Peter Brueghel. the Flemish
sixteenth-century painter whose ” Adoration of
the Magi ” has been offered to the National
Gallery for £15,000, of which £11,500 is forth¬
coming. The drawing, in pen and bistre, is a
Village Scene, with numerous figures of peasants.
It represents an allegory of human life, and is
signed and dated 1559. It has the detailed out¬
look of Hogarth without his brutality’, and the
sweet complacence of John Bunyan. the inspired
dreamer. A Terbosch drawing of a youth asleep
in a rush-seated chair, late seventeenth century’, is
a pretty conceit.
In a sale by Sotheby’’s of old silver on Feb. 14
a wonderful Paul de Lameric soup-tureen comes to
hand, in date 1738, with scroll handles, lion masks,
and the sides having a cartouche with design in
the great silversmith’s bold manner. Other fine
examples to be offered are a Charles II. tankard
with crossed dolphin handle, a Queen Anne por¬
ringer. 1708. by Job Banks, with fine chasing ;
and a George II. coffee-pot by Wm. Shaw and
Wm. Priest, 1758, of rococo design—the year,
by the way, when the Hanoverian army was
paid by the English, and a yearly subsidy
granted to Frederick the Great of Prussia. Here
it is that articles of ” bigotry and virtue,”
to quote Mrs. Malaprop, especially in dated
silver, annotate the pages of history
BY THE GREAT FLEMISH PAINTER WHOSE ’ADORATION OF THE MAGI" HAS BEEN OFFERED TO THE NATIONAL
GALLERY FOR £15,000: A VILLAGE SCENE. BY PETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (IN PEN AND BISTRE. 1559).
On the opposite page we reproduce ffrueghel's " Adoration," with a note upon it and his career. The sale of Old Master Drawings at Sotheby’s
on February 15 and 16 will include on the second day that shown above. It is described in the catalogue as ’* Village Scene: with numerous
grotesque figures of peasants, representing an allegory of human life: signed and dated 1559: pen and bistre. 10 3-8 in. by 154 in." Brueghel
used to attend village feasts disguised as a peasant, in order to observe types of character. — (By C-ourUsy of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson end Hodge.]
the illustrated
LONDON
NEWS. Feb. 5. 1921 177
SOUGHT FOR THE NATION’S ART TRFactdv *
Kl TREASURY: A £15,000 MASTERPIECE.
— C0U,,TESY ° F D " ,KT °« OP THB NATIONAL OALL»Y.
^ GREAT flemish painter, who hob-nobbed
For «>« fin t THE KAQ1, BY PETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER,
10 Private munifi cen ^ ^ eArs t ^ ie National Art-Collections Fund has appealed
tre ** Ur T- “The Aa * a: help * n acquiring a great picture for the nation’s art
* 5 ® 9 ). was offered to th °m *?** Magi ’” b 7 Peter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525-
, f amount "*1? N * Uonal Gallery for £13,000. The Trustees found
P^ately by its memhT Un< * contributed £1000, and £3000 was subscribed
P0UU °«t, would fill “ t L ,eaving ^3500 still to be raised. The work, they
e most important remaining gap among the masters
WITH RUSTICS FOR LOCAL COLOUR: “THE ADORATION
OFFERED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY FOR £16,000.
represented in the National Gallery,” and is probably the finest picture by
Brueghel left in private hands. Formerly in the Vienna Gallery, it was bought
after the war, for a Swiss collection. It is painted on panel, measuring 43 in.
by 32 J in., signed and dated 1564, and in splendid preservation. “It is a
representative work by the master, combining his . . . dramatic variety, and an
intensity amounting almost to grotesqueness in facial types and expression, with
richness and beauty of colouring and mastery of the technique of oil-painting.”
THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS. Feb. 5. 11*21. 178
•£>=
Cbe Wonder dtp or ibe “ berelic Pharaoh”:
«£>
&y D. C. HOGARTH, CM.C .
T HE site of the capital of the “ Heretic
Pharaoh," Amenhotp IV., has been famous
so long under a name firmly established in tourist
usage that it is hardly worth while to insist
on its proper designation : but the people of
Middle Egypt, who do not usually, like the
Delta folk, speak of “Tells," even where
true mounds exist, know it as " El-Amama "
simply. In point of fact, there is no con¬
siderable mound there, but only the buried
ruins of a very extensive city, whose
palaces and houses were built up from the
natural surfaces of undulating slopes rising
from the east bank of the Nile towards
the " Arabian Desert.” Ancient cities of
Egypt seldom or never clustered round any¬
thing like an acropolis, and rarely were
fortified at all. If one does find works of
city defence, they are usually on the eastern
bank, as at El-Kab. Amarna, being also on
that bank, which was anciently, as now, the
least settled and the most open to Bedawin
raids, had forts towards the desert, but
without any strong curtain of circumval-
lation.
The history and the remains of the place
are equally singular. Its greatness lasted
but a moment, and everything important
found on the site was made, or at least
brought there, during that moment. Its period
is one of exceptional interest to historians
and archaeologists, falling as it does just
after the zenith of the imperial Eighteenth
Dynasty, which extended Egyptian dominion
more widely over the Near East than any
before or after. It was a time of much splen¬
dour and great art. to whose inspiration
influences of practically all the lands then
civilised contributed. Relations with other
Mediterranean! peoples — for example, the
Cretans in their “ Late Minoan " age — and
with Western Asia from Mesopotamia to Asia
Minor, were frequent and close. Egypt was
for the moment the leading State in the
world ; and not only Kings of Knossos. but
of Hittite Cappadocia, of Assyria, of the
Mitannian State in northern Mesopotamia,
and of the Kassite dynasty in Babylonia,
courted it and were wary of provoking its
wrath. The evidence of these wide relations which
the soil of Amarna has yielded up already
is the most interesting that, perhaps, haw
come from any ancient site. So long ago
as the ’eighties of the last century, cuneiform
tablets, said to
have been found _
somewhere on the
Nile, began to come
into the hands of
Cairene dealers ;
and, on examina¬
tion, some of them
were found to be
letters to and from
the two Pharaohs,
Amenhotp III. and
IV. Their corre¬
spondents were con¬
temporary princes
of Western Asia,
or governors and
officials acting for
Egypt in Palestine
and Syria. The
tablets were traced
to Amarna, and it
was found that
native diggers had
stumbled on part
of the royal ar¬
chives. Some three
hundred and fifty
documents have
been recovered and
now are preserved
in several museums.
They allow us, as
Yecords of the past
seldom do. to look
right into the minds
of men long dead—
to learn their
hopes, their fears,
and their meaner
motives—as well as to follow the course of
great events and small, year by year in a pre¬
historic age. Thanks to them, not only are the
reigns of those two Pharaohs the most surely
and intimately knowrj to us of all in the long
dynastic record of Egypt, but the existence
BUILT WHEN EGYPT WAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE
WORLD: THE FORE-HALL OF A TOMB AT TELL EL-AMARNA.
From " El Ammnus," by N. it G. Demies.
and fortunes of many other States have been
revealed for the first time.
The art of Amarna, also, when Flinders
Petrie brought its first examples to light some
thirty years ago, was not less surprising than
MARKING THE BOUNDARY OF THE CITY OF TELL EL-AMARNA TOWARDS THE EASTERN DESERT:
A CREAT ROCK-CUT STELA (PJLLAR).-fP*<Ko*ra/»* supplied by Or. D. G. Ht *•**.]
its archives. Nothing found previously in Egypt
prepared us for its combination of naturalism
with preciosities of style. More than any
other Nilotic work, it represents an opposition
to secular conventions and an effort to pierce
through them to realism. Since its first revelation,
similar characteristics of style have been
noted in other remains of Middle Egypt;
and Maspero was doubtless right in con¬
tending that its local origins go back
behind the Amarna period. But neither
he nor anyone else has explained satis¬
factorily how at the first it came to
be developed between the two great pro¬
vinces of conventional art over which
Thebes and Memphis presided. Even if
Syrian or Cretan influence in the imperial
period of the later Eighteenth Dynasty
was not responsible for its singular
stylistic features, one still suspects
that either one of those arts at an earlier
time, or some other exotic influence,
inspired them. No one familiar with
the art of other Egyptian sites could
help feeling so, when he looked round
the extraordinary Amarna exhibition which
was on view in the Berlin Museum just
before the war. The German excavators
had come upon a sculptor’s workshop,
and recovered a most arresting series of
his trial pieces, models, and complete
and incomplete statuary'. Speaking por¬
traits of the weak, fanatic visionary who
was Amenhotp IV. looked at one from all
sides of the hall.
If objects of art of such singularity
and value as these, and records at once
so precious and so fragile as unbaked
cuneiform tablets, may be found any
day by native diggers on a remote site
peculiarly difficult to guard, it is impera¬
tive for scientific excavators to get to
work again there without further delay.
For this reason the British Egypt Ex¬
ploration Society has applied for and re¬
ceived the concession, which, first given
many years ago to Professor Petrie, de¬
volved subsequently upon the Berlin Aca¬
demy. In view of what has happened
generally since 1914, and in particular of what
has happened in Egypt, the resumption of Ger¬
man activities on the Nile cannot but be de¬
ferred for some time yet—even in the field of
archaeological excavation. Knowing this, and
aware that other
organisations were
pressing to step in
if it did not, the
British Society, be¬
lieving itself the
best qualified of
those to whom it
is open to resume
the German work,
arranged to attach
Amarna at the be¬
ginning of this y-ear.
It proposes to re¬
spect all Oerman
property. Professor
T. E. Peet of Liver¬
pool, well known
for his work at
Abydos,, has been
put in command
of a competent
scientific staff; and,
if all goes well with
Egypt, he cannot
fail to enrich know¬
ledge. We may hope
for both another
sculptor’s shop and
another chamber of
archives. But all
such work is now
far more costly
than of old ; and
if the Society is
to deal adequately
with so large a
site, it must have
generous support
from the public.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
FOUND IN A WONDER CITY OF fpvdt T r,.
11Y OF EGYPT: TELL EL-AMARNA RELICS.
Courtrsy OF Dr. D. G. Hogarth. I
of thi Egypt Exploration Soci.ti
O' thr Ashmolkai* Ml’srom
Alan H. Gard,rrr. E t
(Oxford); Dr. H. R.
•itor of thr •• Journ
British Mussui
Arch.ro logy.”
THE ROYAL SCRIBE ANI AND HIS CHARI01
ZAl : A PAINTED MEMORIAL STELA.
HISTORICAL RECORDS
OF THE 350 TABLETS
OVER 3000 YEARS OLD: TWO
FROM THE ROYAL ARCHIVES.
WORSHIP INTRODUCED BY AKHENETAN : QUEI
OFFERING A VASE TO THE SUN-GOD.
WHEN BEAUTY
A DAUGHTER
WAS “LENGTHY AND LANKY’
3F THE “HERETIC PHARAOH.
SHOWING “ARTIFICIAL DEFORMATION OF SKULL
A SEMI-PROFILE VIEW OF THE SAME HEAD.
THE “ HERETIC PHARAOH ” : AKHENETAN
(AMENHOTP IV.)—A SUPPOSED DEATH-MASK.
REALISM IN EGYPTIAN ART FIRST FOUND AT TELL EL-AMARNA : A
BEGGAR MAN ON A SUNK RELIEF, NOW IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
~ - -Z.
*
Th* ruins of Tin -i *
some 160 mil -Amama in Middle Egypt, on the right bank of the Nile
opposite, to ** • *, * belong, as Dr. Hogarth mentions in his article
*375 B.C He re ^ 11, that of Amenhotp IV., who built the city about
theistic faith th r ° * * rom the orthodox religion to found a new mono-
a™. pn«i„Tr.?“ P u » *“-6^ “«• to mark his severance from the
the old creed°° ' ChanK * <i name from Amenhotp to Akhenetan. Later, when
also introduced*** re * tore<1, he became known as the “ Heretic Pharaoh.” He
m onogamy. Egypt in his day had reached the aenith of her
power. The numerous clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions, of which some
350 have been found at Tell el-Amama, record diplomatic correspondence with
Asian rulers. Describing the bust of Akhenetan’s daughter (shown above),
Dr. H. R. Hall writes : “ It is a very fine specimen of the delicate and refined
art of that time in Egypt. The artificial deformation of the skull should be
noticed. As in most over-refined and decadent periods of culture and art,
lengthy and lanky faces and forms were considered beautiful : everything had to
be long, thin and slender, even the skull ! The hand is at Berlin.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Keb. 5. 1921—180
LADIES' NEWS.
T T seems to me rather a shame to publish the names
*■ of women jurors. I cannot remember that the
names of men jurors are ever published. Possibly
the new jurors have offered no objection. There
are many, however, who will be called upon to serve
who would greatly object to it. It would add another
disagreeable feature to what we all regard as a very
trying duty. I cannot think that many women will
like to be jurors ; most of us will go to the task from
a stern sense of duty, feeling that, having attained a
responsible position, we must f.ll it properly. No
doubt it is only the novelty which causes the pub¬
licity ; also the dullness of the times—for the jury-
women are quite ordinary, non-exciting people.
When I read of the death of Lord Herbert Vane-
Tempest in last week’s terrible railway accident, I
thought of several kindnesses he had shown me when
I was at Machynlleth—pronounced “ Mahuntleth ”—
in July 1911, when the King and Queen, the Prince of
Wales, and Princess Mary were his guests at the Plis,
a really comfortable, well-equipped, and lovely, but
by no means imposing, country house. The late
Marchioness of Londonderry acted as hostess, and the
late Marquess sent his state carriages and horses.
The late Lady Londonderry, always extremely kind
to me, asked Lord Herbert to be nice to me— and nice
he was and no mistake. Few men will ever have
been missed so much as genial, kindly Lord Herbert
Vane-Tempest.
There are to be no Courts before Easter, which
would seem to predict rather a dull Lent. Dull only
because some of the best-known people will be in no
hurry to return to town, and lenten weddings are
always rare. The Lords and Commons promise “ a
certain liveliness,” and the ladies connected therewith
must be kept lively too. So far no plans have been
fixed by the Court, but I shall not be surprised if
their Majesties do not settle in town until after Easter.
The new poor are putting a brave face on their
position. Several ladies are working together for a
well-known firm, and each earning from {2 10s. a
week. They are knitting jumpers and skirts, and
have between them taken a room to work in, so that
the domestic detectives may not publish abroad what
they are doing. In three instances the money earned
is for the education of boys, in otht.-s for the actual
help to live. They have quite good times over their
work, these ladies, but are haunted by the threat of a
decline in favour for their wares.
Countess Curzon of Kedleston is going on from Paris
with her husband to grace the Riviera with her handsome
presence, but her visit will not be a long one. Early in the
season she will have a reception at Carlton House Terrace
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such as she had last year for members of the Diplomatic
Corps. Lady Curzon is a perfect hostess, and her resid¬
ence in Carlton House Terrace is a capital one for a big
entertainment. The staircase is wide and handsome, and
hung with superb tapestries, and the fine first-floor rooms
open one from another. A. E. L.
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A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
Partr.
OMEBODY once said that a Municipal Council
was a body without a soul : certainly the Pari¬
sian municipal authorities have proved the truth of
this statement by their decision to demolish the old
ramparts of the city and replace them by public
gardens. In the present state of the public finances,
and with the urgent demands being made on the
Exchequer from all quarters, it is a little difficult to
justify the enormous expenditure which a work of this
kind involves. True, the scheme was first mooted some
time before the war, but was shelved year after year
on the grounds of expense ; what, therefore, can have
been the reason for suddenly putting this gigantic
work in hand so soon after the Armistice, and when
so much of the war-damaged area is still awaiting
restoration ?
Since last May the work has been steadily pro¬
gressing. and I was astonished to see how much
had been accomplished in the time, especially in
the Auteuil section, where the wall has completely
disappeared and the levelling process has already
begun. In the gate itself, as many as forty shells
fired by the Germans in 1870 were discovered firmly
embedded in the masonry. I believe that it has been
decided to leave two of the bastions standing, and
probably the gate through which the victorious
Army of Versailles entered the city and brought the
Commune to an end.
During the last war, the walls were a great moral
asset to the inhabitants of Paris, giving them a not
altogether false sense of security, and I well remember,
at the time when the German Army was too near
the capital for our peace of mind, it was decidedly
reassuring to go out to the city walls and see their
elaborate superstructure of barbed wire and sand¬
bags, which gave one the feeling that nothing short
of an earthquake could demolish them. In contrast
to the war-like aspect of the walls and the heavily-
guarded gates, the wide ditch surrounding them,
divided into flourishing little allotments, locked
extraordinarily peaceful ; mostly managed by women,
who, in the quiet evening hours, after a long day’s
work, could be seen digging and tending their
vegetables. These small gardens produced an
astonishing amount of wholesome food for the
Parisians, who will not see them disappear without
a pang of regret.
I^arge as the Bois de Boulogne already is, it would
seem that there is room, and indeed need, for the
public gardens and playgrounds which are to replace
the picturesque old city walls, for the erection of
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which M. Thiers was so violently criticised in 1840.
But, although they are not to be suffered to complete
their century of existence, they will have lived long
enough to figure in some of the most stirring pages
of the history of France, and from a picturesque
point of view they will certainly be missed.
Admirers of George Sand will be 'glad to learn
that a room is to be set aside in the Musee Camavalet
and consecrated to the memory of the great writer.
Here will be gathered together a large collection of
souvenirs of all kinds, now in the possession of her
grand-daughter, who has generously offered to hand
them over to the Museum authorities. The author
of “ Francois le Champi ” has no need of a museum
to keep her memory green, for her works are as
popular to-day, perhaps even more so. than when
they were first given to the world ; but, nevertheless,
it is fitting that she should have her memorial and
• take her place among the immortals of Paris.
The Ukrainian Choral Singers have taken Paris
by storm, and the Theatre des Champs Elys£es is
filled every night to listen to their strange and haunt¬
ing music, with its wonderful harmonies. The singers,
of whom sixteen are women, supported by about
thirty men, make an extraordinarily pretty picture
as they stand grouped on the stage in their gay-
coloured national costumes against an effective
background of dull silver. The thing that strikes
one most about their singing is the wonderful pre¬
cision of their ” attack.” and the closeness with
which they follow the curious beat of the conductor,
who has a wealth of original gestures at his command,
with which to produce the desired effect.
A Russian friend with whom I went to hear these
remarkable singers from his country tells me that
the peasants, especially in South Russia, have a
passion for part singing ; the children are trained to
it from an early age until it becomes almost second
nature to them. Apparently no Ukrainian peasant
can work unless he is singing: the rhythm of the song
is necessary to the peculiar Slav temperament, and
acts as an incentive to work, much in the same way,
probably, as sailors always haul better on a rope
to the accompaniment of a swinging song.
CHESS IN SWEDEN.
Game played in the International Masters' Tournament at GAteborx
Sweden, between Mr. Reti and Dr. Takrasch.
(Falkbeer Counter Gambit.)
black (Dr. T.) I white (Mr. R.) black (Dr. T1
|n. RtoKtsq
1J. B to K 5th Kt to Q B 3rd
13. B to Q 3 rd V *
Now B takes P would be fatal.
13- Kt takes B
14. B takes Kt Kt to B 5th
15. P to Q Kt 3rd Kt to Q 3rd
16. B takes RP R to Kt and
17- B to Q 3rd Castles
18. K to B 2nd P to K B 4th
19. Kt to B 3rd Kt to K 5th (chi
to. K to K 3rd R to K and
a 1. Kt to K 5th Kt to B 3rd
aa. K to B and
white (Mr. R.)
1. P to K 4th
a. P to K B 4 th
It is quite refreshing to see a
King's Gambit offered in a modern
tourney game.
2. P to Q 4th
3. P takes Q P P to K 5th
4. P to Q 3rd Q takes P
Blackbume here played Kt to
K B 3rd at once, and it would
seem Black gams by delaying the
SOLCTIO!
—By H. J. M.
BLACK
R takes B
R to K B 5th
5 Q to K and Kt to K B 3rd
6 Kt to Q B 3rd B to Q Kt 5th
7 B to Q and B takes Kt
8. B takes B B to Kt 5th
9. P take* P
Developing a charming " chessy
position, full of possibilities o
Ixnh sides. Black's reply, on th
whole, seems the best available.
himself against the pressure of
Black's Rooks, and has here the
road to victory fairly well open
before him. It is perhaps made
the easier by the despairing effort
Black makes to avert defeat. The
game is a most attractive one, and
will repay careful study.
32.
1 — R to t
23. P to Kt 3rd Kt to
24. BtakrsKt RtoQ,^,
23. K to Kf sq R takes Kt
26. P takes R P takes B
27. P to K R 3rd B to B 6th
28. R to R 2nd R to Q 4th
29. R to K sq R takes P
30. K to B 2nd K to Q 2nd
31. K to K 3rd Resigns.
Jth (ch)
We have received from Mr. Alain C. White his annual Christmas
vo!ume in the form of a biographical sketch of Mr. D. J. Dens more
to n thT ?r >bleni *: * nd » * r| *ction of the problems contributed
to the Densmore Memorial Tourney in the Pittsburth Gaxette and Times
rhe subject of thrs book, who was a son in-law < < the ever-famous
Sam Loyd, developed marked genius as a composer, and acquired
~ u nt J V 'Ii = although little known on th» side
oi tnc* water. H»s death at the comparatively early age ot fifty was
the cause of general regret, and the esteem in which he was held was
demonstrated by the success of the Tourney devoted to his memory.
The death is announced of Sir lobn Thursby, who for many years
was the President of the BriUsh Chess Association, and a warm sup¬
porter of the game. Although taking no part in actual play, he was
* r ^5 U ! w i J ' 1 c 1,or to 4,1 ,he ltn .P° rt; *nt tournaments ot hrs day, and he
could hold his own over the board with most amateurs. He had, ot
course other and greater interests in life than chess ; but he was a
° V laced Cnd t0 tbC * im< ' wbaie loM Wl11 ** keenly felt and not easily
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
Correct Solutions or Pboblrh No. 3847 received from H F Marker
(Porbandar, India) and P N Banerji (Benares) ; of No. 3848 from
W W M (Philadelphia* ; of No. 3849 from J B Camara (Madeira),
and K M Winslow (Winnipeg); of No. 3850 from Albert Tavlor
(Sheffield) ; of No. 3851 from J W Softon (Bolton). P W Hunt (Bridg¬
water) M J K Crewel I (Tulse Hill), J Graham (Woldingham),
W H Statham (Blackheath), f M K Lupton (Richmond). Edward
Bygott (Middlewich). C H Watson (Masham), Albert Taylor, and
Jas. C Gemmell (Campbeltown).
Correct Solutions or Problem No. 3852 received from H W Satow
(Bangor), J S Forbes (Brighton). H Grasett Baldwin (Faroham),
J C Stackhouse (Torquay), M J F Crewell (Tulse Hill), P Cooper
(Clapham), Albert Taylor (Sheffield), J S Grant (Lewes). J M K
Lupton (Richmond), A E Hutchuison (Liverpool), A W Hamilton-
” Who ’* Who ” for 1921 (A. and C. Black) con¬
tains 2936 pages of biographies, as against 2847 in
last year’s edition, while there are six pages of obituary
in each of these two volumes. It would seem that the
birth rate of notabilities exceeds the death rate. This
years Who’s Who” contains 30,000 biographies.
Its bulk is about the same; but what will happen
when Labour rules,” and we reach the social period
adumbrated by the Grand Inquisitor. '* when every¬
one is somebody,” it is hard to imagine. Even then
the corollary—” and no one’s anybody ”—will not
cause us to dispense with ” Who’s Who.” Now, as
ever, our literary Valhalla remains indispensable.
Dancing at the Grafton Galleries is more attractive
than ever just now, when- the National Portrait
Society’s Exhibition is on view there. Well-known
people are to be seen both on the floor in the flesh,
and on the walls in portraiture, and it is interesting
to look for chances of comparing a picture with the
original. The dancing club is deservedly one of the
most popular in London. Often the proceeds are
devoted to charity, such as the Red Cross and the
Fresh Air Fund.
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
AN EPIDEMIC OF HICCOUGH*.
T HERE can be little doubt that our old foe. the
influenza, has developed a new method of
attack. From several parts of England come reports
of patients contracting what at first appears to be
a slight chill, which is followed a few (fat’s later by
fits of hiccoughing The hiccough is not continuous,
but generally takes the shape of from six or seven
spasms in succession, with a pause if
a few seconds, followed bv another
half-dozen. In bad cases, these hav
sometimes lasted all night, depriving
the patient of sleep, and naturallv
leaving him or her much exhausted.
A case reported in the Lancet of last
month is so typical that it deserves
to be quoted, and is vouched for bv
Mr. Malcolm Sarkies, a well - known
practitioner at St. John’s Wood. The
patient in question was a medical man
of nearly fifty, and of rheumatic habit
Attacked by what is descnlied as an
" explosive ” cough following on a
chill, he neglected it for three da vs.
On the fourth night, he awoke at
2 a.m. with a fit of hiccoughs, which
lasted until breakfast time, after which
meal it stop) "d, to be resumed soon
after, and to continue until food was
again taken. This he endured for
three days. when, under medical ad
vice, he took to his bed and a milk
diet, with inhalation of benzoin vapour
and other medicaments for what was
supposed to be a merely local inflam¬
mation of the throat. He became
much worse, and developed a spasm
of the larynx, until the treatment was
changed to alkaline medicines, ammo¬
nium bromide, and a saline draught of
mornings, while boiled fish, chicken
broth, and one ounce of whisky a dav
were substituted for the milk. I'nder
this he recovered quickly, and made
a rapid convalescence with apparently
no ill results. The temperature mas throughout about
ioi degrees
All people have not been so luckv ; and stories
have been told of the fits of hiccoughs being followed
by extreme drowsiness, turning later into the sup¬
posed new disease of encephalitis lethargic a which
is always serious and sometimes fatal. No well-
authenticated account of these has been published,
and they should be received with extreme caution.
Every new disease appeals with fresh force to
neurasthenics and malingerers, and the power of the
mind over the body is so enormous that the charac¬
teristic symptoms are easily produced, not always
with the conscious wall of the patient If, however,
there should appear to be any real connection between
the attacks of hiccoughs and encephalitis, it might be
necessarv to make both complaints notifiable, and this
would be a golden opportunity lor the newly formed
Ministry of Health to win its spurs. I'p till nos it
seems—to change the metaphor a little abruptly—to
have given us all the powder and none of the jam.
What now is the connection uctween the new
hiccough and the old influenza t Dr. C. E. Jenkins,
Pathologist to the Salford Koval Hospital, who has
studied the matter, is ol opinion that the first-named
disease started in Austria, where the general lorn
level of nutrition and sanitation (including in thi*
last the heating of houses) is enough to account for
anything. Thence it travelled to Switzerland, and
from there to I’ans. wherefrom it reached our own
shores. It begins, according to him, with what he
calls “ mild catarrhal sy mptoms,” and a thin yellow
discharge from the nose. Analysing this last, lie
has succeeded in isolating an excessively mint)*
organism which he declares to be
indistinguishable from the influent.'
bacillus. He admits that his investi¬
gations, which are continuing, are bv
no means complete ; and there seetm
to lie some need of control experi¬
ments < >n the whole, however, Un¬
balance of proliabilitv seems to be on
his side, and it is likely that in turn
the new hiccough will be shown to
Ik* the forerunner of a fresh epidemic
of influenza, which is, from its ob¬
served periodicity, about due. lhr
moral is that attacks of hiccoughing
should not be neglected. As a rule
the sufferer is apt to regard them
as due to what are euphemistically
called errors of diet. That thrv are
generally and in normal times to b
put down to some form of indiges¬
tion. is true enough ; but if they an
accompanied by anv serious rise in
temperature, a medical man should be
at once called in. It is not a good time
of year for anyone — particularly for
those ot middle age and a rhcumati.
habit -to take anv risks . and influenza
, is a complaint so easily communicated,
and so sotinus in its effects on the com¬
munity, that it should l*c given as few
chances as possible. Finally, the treat¬
ment indicated in .Mr Sarkies’ com¬
munication is not painful, and might
even be looked on as pleasant — by a
good manv people. F. L.
It is announced by the London,
Hrighton.and Siuth Coast Railway that the night ser¬
vice between Ixrndon, Rouen, and Paris, via Newhaven
and Dieppe, will lx- resumed on and from March 21.
The service will be first, second, and third class, the
train leaving Victoria at 8.20 p.m., arriving at Dieppe
2.0 a.m , and Pans (St. I.azare) 6.0 a.m. The return
train will leave Paris (St. I-azarel, on and after Tuesday.
March 22. at 0.0 p.m . arriving Victoria 7.55 a.in
THE ROLL OF HONOUR OF THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS PREPARING
THt- MEMORIAL IN WESTMINSTER HALL
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War consummated with their lives the tradition of public service in the cause of right and liberty
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AI/’HEN you are sitting in a hot, vitiated atmosphere — with a draught chilling your spine and people
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you protect yourself bv taking Formamint Tablets.
Sucking Formamint tablets, you can hardly
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allaying thirst, refreshing the vocal organs,
and purifying the breath without scenting it.
Yet these dainty, white tablets, so innocently
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to the existing law, and, although I am still of opinion
that speed-limits fail of their purpose, 1 personally am
inclined to vote for an increase to thirty miles an hour
rather than for total abolition.
To judge by certain
Belt-Driven whlch
Dyn * mos - has been taking place
in the Autocar, a great many people seem
to have trouble with belt drives to fan and
lighting dynamo. I confess I do not quite
understand why, because, after owning
> several cars fitted with this type of drive,
I cannot recall any case of what I should
» ■* call trouble. My present car has two belts,
4 one driving the fan pulley, and the other
Wj the lighting dynamo. Both of these are of
/ the leather-link type—the “ Whittle ”—
and I have not touched either since last
summer (when I took a link out of the
WITH MANY IMPROVEMENTS IN DESIGN: THE NEW 15-H.P. TALBOT CHASSIS. dynamo drive), except that once a month or
so I wipe them over with petrol and then
give them a light rub with the special dressing recom¬
mended by the belt-makers. They never slip, and I
do not know what a breakage is. I should say that
any owmer who has trouble with this type of drive
has mainly his own neglect to blame for it. As to
\C<n.t heard overleaf .
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR
.... In view of the fact that early in
The Speed-Limi . the year the Government intends
to bring forward a Bill to amend existing
motor legislation, the A. A. is taking a refer¬
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of the speed-limit. The question they are
asked to answer is whether it would be
better to abolish the limit altogether or to
increase it to thirty miles an hour, bearing
in mind that any such increased limit would
be, in all probability, strictly enforced.
The speed-limit as such does not assist
to make the roads safe, since speed in rela¬
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conditions existing at a given moment.
Moreover, speed-limits are disregarded, as
we know, by every driver, and all ex¬
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one measure of offence only, and that is
driving to the common danger. If the matter were
to be decided on these grounds only, I should say
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make the penalties for really dangerous driving
much heavier than they are. But there are other
anti-motor districts, and every excess of speed over
the present limit of twenty miles an hour treated as
dangerous driying. That is what would most pro¬
bably happen if the limit were abolished altogether.
However, it seems that some alteration is to be made
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gear-driven fans and dynamos, I may be behind the the campaign against irregular number-plates is
times, but I don t want them. I prefer the flexibility anything to go by, a similar set against screen-earned
and ease of adjustment of the belt every’ time. licenses is practically certain. \V. W.
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Department, it depicts a typical London night scene
in the vicinity of Piccadilly Circus, and is produced
now clanhed its regulations reiat-
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new license *‘ card "—which is in reality nothing but a
flimsy slip of paper—may be carried. It is now laid down
that it may be affixed to the wind-screen, in the bottom
left-hand corner, provided a space of at least an inch
of clear glass be left between the edge of the holder
and the upright of the screen. I suppose this is to be
regarded as a concession, but it will be surprising if
those who elect to affix the card in this position are
not harried by policemen with measuring tapes,
anxious to see if the clear inch is there or not. If
Home billiards goes far to solve the parental
problem, how to keep the boys out of mischief. The
girls can join them, and the long winter evenings are
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-THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF M. DUPONT."
AT THE GARRICK.
J N these days of frankness it seems almost ludicrous
1 that the censorship should ever have placed its
ban on ' The Three Daughters of M. Dupont M
Indeed, one can imagine the younger generation of
playgoers marvelling why such a fuss was made about
a play which we can easily better in its kind at home
in England. Hut in its day it marked something of
an advance. M. Brieux presented here effectively, if
mechanically, the problems of the revolting daughter
the spinster who seeks her consolations in religion, the
wife who is refused her claim to have children. He
gave us the didactic drama almost at its best ; but
there is nothing here to shock modern youth, which
is more likely to complain that the dramatist’s
methods are those of the special plead* . that he did
less than justice to the French parent, the French
husband, a-id French customs. Still, it is a good
acting play, and Miss Ethel Irving has already made
famous in this country its role of Julie 'he exasperated
wife, and its study of baulked materni . It is pleasant
to renew acquaintance at Garrick matinees with, her
impassioned, though perhaps almost over-realistic, per¬
formance ; hers is a wonderful piece of virtuosity, and
she carries it through with all her original disturbing
intensity. A companion piece of acting in quieter
vein- that of Miss Edith Evans as the plaintive, self-
immolating elder sister—deserves unstinted praise.
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?***’ artists ’ amateur *. *nd directors of museums have taken an interest
opened * ^ r *ca from a purely artistic point of view, but the recently
te con . * > * t * on °* Negro Art at the Goupil Gallery represents the first attempt
th * publ,c in general that the idols, fetishes, and statuettes from
‘‘*sthet' * ^ n Z°< the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, and Hew Guinea are
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their grandeur, their genuine and simple beauty”—to quote the words of the
late Guillaume Apollinaire. None will deny that the examples of antique negro
art now on view at the Goupil possess a certain naive charm, but modern
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Perhaps he is not exactly a stylist, except in
so far as the style is the man (Peace, Pedant ! 1
know quite as well as your worship that Button
did not say “ Le style, c'esi ihomme meme " in these
very words), but the threadbare travesty is useful
and true for all that, and our scribe mechanical »s
not to be omitted from literary history on that
score. He is a man who has seen his chance and
has used it royally. The dry bones of his subject
are very dry. but he is not dry ; therefore he has
infused into them his own sappy personality. And
the result ? A modern comic Press worthy of
serious men’s attention. Although the main theme
is grave, founded on inexorable physical laws, the
treatment is light. The machine is inhuman, but
our new mechanical essayist always keeps an eye
on the human comedy, thereby getting over the
dead-centres gaily. He is at war with the pure
pedant, whom he guys without mercy as the '* slide-
rule " expert. But his own measurements are none
the less exact and punctilious, when he has to
describe some new gadget or contrivance. To be
accurate, he holds, one need not be dull. If there
is anything at all which he considers past a joke,
perhaps because it is too colossally shambling and
indeterminate, it is the Ministry of Transport.
But, if it has no efficient spear head, the
Department bristles with innumerable pegs (mostly
square in round holes) on which jests may be hung.
Chief of these is the machinery of motor licenses,
and the rules for the proper exhibition of the same—-
rules so obscure that they had to be explained
officially, and the explanation again explained.
Yet Authority did its gallant little bit to make the
Form of Application for License really light and
entertaining reading. It japed genially about
” conveyances for invalids not exceeding 5 cwt. in
weight ” (jtc), and with crushing candour it decreed
that ” this Registration Book must be kept in a
safe place, not on the car.” As yet we await
our witty modern Athenian mechanicals’ comments
on these Whitehall jeux d’esprit, but on the general
trend of Control they are sufficiently rewarding.
Some of them foresee a Health Certificate for rar-
THE SON OF A FORMER GOVERNOR-GENERAL MARRIED IN CANADA: THE EARL OF MINTO'S WEDDING—
A BRIDAL GROUP.
The wedding of the Earl of Minto (whose father was Governor-General of Canada, and, later, Viceroy of India) and Miss Marion Cook,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cook, of Montreal, took place there on January 19. There were eight bridesmaids Our photograph
shows, from left to right (top row), Lady Rachel Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire ; Miss Sheila McEacham: the Earl of
Minto; Miss Dorothy Cook; Lady Margaret Scott. (Middle row) Hon. Marguerite Shaughnessy; Miss Audrey Cook; the Countess of
Minto (the bride): Miss Sarah Cook. (Lower row) Masters Gerald and Desmond Farrell (pages). Miss Adelaide Beardmore, and Masters Charles
and Mark Farrell (pages). -[Pkotofrapk by the MlUar Studio, Montreal .|
owners, with a solemn schedule granting license
to use a hearse—“ as passenger only.” To this
favour of burlesque has grandmotherly government
come ! Surely the time is ripe for its Aristophanes.
The stage must not leave the whole duty of politico-
social criticism to lively engineers. It would be
fitting >f from their ranks a great dramatic satirist
of official foibles should arise. Long ago. the
theatre and rude mechanicals found an ever¬
lasting link in Bully Bottom.
This blending of Attic salt with mechanic exer¬
cise recalls, on a side issue, a whimsical association
of handicraft with polite letters During the past
week Oxford men the world over have noted with
regret the passing of a humourist who was to many
generations of undergraduates the British Workman
par excellence. A later abbreviating brood called
him “ the Britter,” a nick-name older men hardly
recognised in an obituary Load-line. The bearer of
that title, Mr. Her¬
bert Jackson, was
one of those eccen¬
tric figures that
only a university
can produce. He
was legendary, even
as Walter Pater was
legendary, although
men knew him far
better by sight than
the great master
of fastidious prose.
His extraordinary
ease, amplitude and
negligence of figure
and costume, his
utter negation of
the academic in
appearance, led
some prehistoric
w r ag to hail him as
the archetype of
British Labour,
and the nickname
became popular.
It was the thing to
point him out to
freshmen as part
of their initiation.
His pupils, many
and distinguished,
held him in affec¬
tionate regard, and
in the davs of his
activity as a pri¬
vate coach he was
a centre of hospit¬
ality. He had the
reputation of a
good sportsman in
his time, but later
Oxford knew him
best as a man
somewhat retired,
a constant haunter
of the Union. One
saw him oftenest in
the Cornmarket as
he went and came to and from his daily session in
the reading-room. A romantic stranger, noting Mr.
Jackson in his last phase, might have been tempted
to imagine him a second Anthony a Wood, secretly
gathering precious materials for a new Athena
Oxomenses. But that is not likely, although he
must have felt the drowsy spell of the place, for
he went up, as first of the non-collegiate students
(irreverently called ” toshers ”) as far back as 1869,
and remained ” up ” ever after, holding no univer¬
sity office. For half a century he lingered amid
the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, himself
a survival, a landmark, a monument, but of what
it would be difficult to say. His fame reached to
the far north of these islands. Rude Caledonian
youths, meditating a southern foray, heard of him
long before they had seen Magdalen Tower or the
High, and it was a great day when they first set
eyes on Mr. Jackson in the flesh. But there was a
surer proof of his celebrity'—the portrait to the life
that hung in Shrimpton’s window. That, too, is
now only a memory. Here, then, let this page of
the Note-Book, devoted to-day to the humours of
British Workmen, record a Requiescat for their
eponymous hero. |. D. S.
W HEN a new Thackeray sits down to write
” The English Humourists of the Twentieth
Century,” he will have to explore an avenue that
the previous age would have considered the least
promising in the whole range of literature. Purists,
perhaps, may object that with literature it has
nothing at all to do; and the purists may be right
within the limits of their own private mole-hill;
but that will not justify the historian in ignor¬
ing this particular contributory to the gaiety' of
nations. It is so characteristic a sign of the times—
as appropriate, in fact, as this journal’s venerable
sign of St. Paul's—that it will merit at least a
paragraph, and that not the dullest in the book.
Great names will not appear there, for the writings
in question are for the most part the work of jour¬
neymen who are not concerned with the finer
technique of the pen. But technique of a kind is
theirs, that which arises out of knowledge, vigour,
sincerity, and a great mobility. Therefore are
they technicians.
There, the murder
is out at last ' For
this spring of new
humour bubbles
and sparkles in
writings primarily
technical.
Once upon a
time, treatises on
mechanics held no
place for the jester.
They were con¬
cerned entirely
with grave discus¬
sions and formid¬
able diagrams, with
sines and cosines,
tangents and the
strange hierogly¬
phic of algebraic
formula*. But here,
as everywhere, the
war made a differ¬
ence, and gave free
scope to a tend¬
ency already ap¬
parent. It was a
mechanics’ war,
and it sent back
to civil life a
crowd of young
experts who had
learned in the
imminent deadly
breach to joke with
their machine and
with science as
lightly as they
joked with Death.
That was a trick
Macandrew had
not learned. He
left such vain
things to the skip¬
per ” on his way
to jock wi’ the
saloon.” The skip¬
per met the due reward of frivolity’. Was he
not ” scoughed ” by a typhoon as he went about
his giddy social pleasures, little approved by the
auld Scots engineer ? But the engineer of to¬
day, with the tang of campaigning in his blood
and the racy slang of the trenches lingering on
his tongue, is a creature of infinite jest, to judge
by his written word. Even before 1914 this
technical humourist had certain forerunners who
risked their bread-and-butter for the sake of a
lively pen, and came perilously near dismissal by
serious - minded proprietors. Now emancipated,
he has evolved a distinctive tyj>e of sly, pungent
wit and pleasant humour. He is not afraid to
be young. We like him the better for that. He
has evolved a poetry of the air and of the road
both in prose and in verse. If he speaks very much
like a schoolboy still, it is the voice of a schoolboy
with a man’s experience. This paradox of the new
age finds its freest expression in the literature of
transport, aerial or earth-bound. Its exponent is
a modern jester who believes, with Jack Point, that
the world is a huge butt of humour into which
whosoever will may drive a gimlet. He believes
also in ginger, hot in the mouth.
TUK 1LI.I STKATKli LONLKJX NEWS, 12. 11121. 1111
A NEW LONDON INTEREST: NEGRO FETISHES AS ART TREASURES.
Bv Coimrwv or Mess««. William March amt add Co., thr Gorm Gailrrv: almi Mr. Cnmuk Shammov. K.A. (Owmr* or No. iti amh Mr Tnoraa I/>wtnw Ovum o> No. y.
OP “DATELESS ANONYMITY,’’ BUT BELIEVED (IN THE AFRICAN EXAMPLES) TO HAVE AFFINITIES WITH THE ART
OF EGYPT: NEGRO SCULPTURE AT THE GOUPIL GALLERY.
A* recorded on our front page, the Exhibition of Negro Art at the Goupil Gallery j are described as follows : (i) Idol ^Irory Coast; ; (2) Statuette (Irory Coast; ;
Prodded the intellectual with a new subject of discussion in artistic matters. j (3) Bronze head of a warrior (Benin) , (4) Idol (Irory Coast) ; (5) Idol (Irory
In a preface to the catalogue by the late M. Guillaume Apollinaire, it is pointed Coast) ; (6) Mask (Irory Coast) ; (7) Mask (Baule Tribe) ; (8) Double-headed Vase
out that the artists who wrought these fetishes from Africa and Oceania are all (Nigeria. ; (9) Sacred head (Ba Huana) ; (10) Mask (Baule Tribe) ; <n) Mask
unknown, but that (in the African specimens) there is “ an indubitable relationship (Caledonia) ; fiat Ritual mask (Nigeria) ; (13) Mask (Irory Coast) ; (14) Mask
with the *rt of Egypt from which they are descended.” Those illustrated abore (Nigeria;. These works are undated as well as anonymous.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Fi:b. 12. 1921 192
PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
i
•' IF GERMANY IS PROSPEROUS SHE CAN PAY. AND SHE MUST PAY " MR. LLOYD GEORGE MAKING HIS SPEECH ON REPARATION
IN THE TOWN HALL AT BIRMINGHAM.
APPOINTED DEPUTY MASTER OF THE KING S HOUSE A WOMAN WHO CHANGED IRISH HISTORY : 1 j
HOLD : CAPTAIN LORD CLAUD NIGEL HAMILTON. D.S.O. S * THE LATE MRS. PARNELL.
APPOINTED BATH KING OF ARMS : GENERAL SIR
CHARLES CARMICHAEL MONRO, G.C.B., G.C.S.I, G.C.M.G.
Mr. L. Bolton, an examiner at the Patent Office, London, and a Wrangler of
Cambridge University, has won the £1000 prize offered by the “ Scientific
American,” of New York, for the best essay on Professor Einstein s Theory of
Relativity.—Marshal Pilsudski's visit to France has greatly strengthened the
“ Entente " with Poland. He reached Paris on February 3, and on the 6th
visited Verdun on his way back to Warsaw.-Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, M.P. for
Vancouver in 'he British Columbia Parliament, has been elected Speaker, being
the first woman in history to hold such a position, and the first woman to be
a Canadian M.P. Sne is the widow of the Hon. Ralph Smith (formerly Minister
of Labour). The Premier spoke at Birmingham on February 5 on the Allied
Conference and reparations. The war Bill, he said, was scaled according to
Cerman prosperity. “ If Germany is prosperous, she can pay, and she must
pay.”-Captain Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton is a brother of the Duke of
Abercorn. He accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour, as Equerry.-
Mrs. Parnell, widow of Charles Stewart Parnell, the great Irish leader, died at
Brighton on February 5. As Mrs. O'Shea, she was respondent in the famous
divorce case which ruined Parnell’s career.——Sir Charles Monro commanded at
the Dardanelles and in France. Later he was Commander-in-Chief in India.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 12 , 1*121.-193
“ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA”: A SHAKESPEAREAN REVIVAL AT OXFORD.
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. STEVEN SPURRIER. R.O.I.
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“THE TRIPLE PILLAR OF THE WORLD TRANSFORMED INTO A STRUMPET’S FOOL”: ANTONY (MR. C. E. RAMAGE)
AND CLEOPATRA (MISS CATHLEEN NESBITT) IN THE O.U.D.S. REVIVAL AT OXFORD (ACT 1 . SCENE 1 ).
If" Oxford University Dramatic Society produced their interesting revival of
hakespeare’s " Antony and Cleopatra,’’ at the New Theatre, Oxford, on February 8,
. ‘f wa * ranged to give it also on the 9th, xoth, nth, and 12th, with
"wtinees also on each of those days except the nth. That clever actress Miss
t een Nesbitt took the part of Cleopatra. Antony was played by Mr. C. E.
&ina ** e ’ Pembroke, who has personality and a fine voice. The Iras (seen
kneeling just to the left of the black attendant) was Miss Paulise de Bush
who spoke the prologue in “Ralph Roister Doister recently at Westmmstw
School. Next to her, to the left, is Mrs. Donald Calthrop (Miss Margaret
Ledward) as Charmian. The scenery was designed by Mr. E. St. Leger Hill
of Keble. The mus:c was arranged by Mr. A. L. B. Ashton, of Balliol, from
Purcell's “ Dido and -€neas." I CoftnglueJ m ike t nited Stain and < _ '<■ |
THE ROME ART SCHOLARSHIPS: EXHIBITS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE.
AWARDED A SCHOLARSHIP FOR PAINTING: 'THE DELUGE, BY WINIFRED
M. KNIGHTS (SLADE SCHOOL
BY A CANDIDATE IN THE PAINTING COMPETITION: “THE DELUGE,'
BY A. OUTLAW (SLADE SCHOOL)
AN EXHIBIT IN THE SCULPTURE COMPETITION: " SACRI
PICE, ' BY C. W. DYSON SMITH {ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART)
“"PHE British School at Rome was founded in 1901
for the benefit of British students pursuing
serious studies in Italy. It was reor/anised and
incorporated by Royal Charter in 1912. The manage¬
ment is in the hands of a Council and an Executive
Committee, and its technical work is supervised by
Faculties representing (1) Archeology, History and
Letters, (2) Architecture, (3) Painting, (4) Sculpture,
and (5) Engraving. The School's London address
is I, Lowther Gardens, Exhibition Road, S.W.7.
AWARDED A SCHOLARSHIP: “SACRIFICE,'’ BY A. F.
HARDIMAN (COLLEGE OF ART AND ACADEMY SCHOOLS).
A SCULPTURE EXHIBIT: “ SACRIFICE, '• BY ALEX-
ANDER STYLES (ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOLS).
ONE OF THE EXHIBITS IN THE PAINTING COMPETITION FOR RO
“THE DELUGE, BY J. WILKIE (SLADE SCHOOL;
AWARDED A PREMIUM IN THE PAINTING COMPETITION : “ THE DELUGE,
BY G. C. L. UNDERWOOD (SLADE SCHOOL).
The BriUsh School at Rome is now holding an interesting Exhibition in the Royal
Academy Galleries, at Burlington Home, of works submitted in the Open Examina¬
tions for the Rome Scholarships in architecture, sculpture, decorative painting,
and engraving, and for the Henry Jarvis Studentship in architecture, together
with works executed in the Final Competitions for the Rome Scholarships awarded
in 1920. H is to this latter group (the 1920 competitions) that the works above
illustrated belong. The subject for painting was “ The Deluge ” in oil or
:r with a cartoon, and the time allowed was eight weeks. The
icholarship was Miss Winifred M. Knights, and a premium was
G. C. L. Underwood. Both were students at the Slade School,
sculpture was a group, symbolical of Sacrifice, of two figures on
a sketch model of the group and pedestal. The competitors,
. were allowed one week for the sketch models and seven weeks
I groups. Each scholarship is worth £250 per annum for three years.
AFTER RECEIVING AN HONORARY LL.D. AT BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY: MR. LLOYD
GEORGE. WITH THE PRINCIPAL, DR. GRANT ROBERTSON, AND WOMEN MEMBERS,
the Premier and his party walked in procession to the Council House, where the
Lord Mayor entertained them to luncheon. Later, Mr. Lloyd George visited the
University, and received an honorary LL.D. He paid a tribute to the late
Mr. Chamberlain, and said it was a source of joy to him that they had been
reconciled before Mr. Chamberlain retired.—{PHOTOGaarH* bv L.N.A. a.vd C.N.)
IN THE CIVIC PROCESSION : (L. TO R.) MRS. LLOYD GEORGE, THE LORD MAYOR
OF BIRMINGHAM, MR. LLOYD GEORGE, AND MISS LLOYD GEORGE.
In his speech at Birmingham Town Hall on February 7, Mr. Lloyd George play¬
fully recalled his former visit to the dty during the Boer War, when he had to
disguise himself as a policeman to escape the mob. “ l have some recollection,"
he said, “ of an even warmer reception than you have been kind enough to
accord me now." After his speech at the Town Hall on German reparation,
International and Inter-Services: Teams; and a
GREETING THE AIR FORCE TEAM (v. THE NAVY) . THE DUKE OF YORK
(ON THE EXTREME LEFT, SIR HUGH TREMCHARD).
the thirty-first international match between Scotland and Wales, played at
ransea on February 5, Scotland won by one goal, one penalty goat, and two
1 (*4 points) to two dropped goals (8 points). It was the first match Scotland
WOn on the St. Helen's ground for twenty-nine years. The game was marred
repeated invasions of the field by a refractory crowd, and play had to be
VICTORIOUS OVER THE AIR FORCE THE NAVY TEAM INTRODUCED
TO THE DUKE OF YORK AT QUEENS CLUB,
stopped several times. There were 40,000 spectators, and the arrangements for
their accommodation were inadequate. At Queen's Club on the same day the
Navy beat the Air Force by four goals, one dropped goal, and three tries
<33 points) to one try (3 points). The Air Force team was not up to strength.
The Duke of York watched the match, and shook hands with both teams.
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I N our issue of Feb. 5 we published an abridged
translation of an article whose writer, M.
Pierre Nogufcs, claimed to have found a mechanical
explanation of the mystery of the unliftable man.
To-day we publish below, also by courtesy of
L'Illustration, a translated refutation of these
assertions, from the pen of M. Charles Nordmann,
a well-known scientist, who was the first man in
France to put forward the problem of Johnny
Coulon.
From experiments made a few days ago at
the laboratory of the Institut General Psy-
chologique, we shall prove that M. Nogu£s'
explanation has no foundation.
Before describing the experiments conducted
at the Institut, we think it necessary to give a
short account of M. Nogufcs’ explanations, which
were communicated by their author to the
Acad6mie des Sciences. That learned body, how¬
ever, did not insert them in their official bulletin.
According to M. Nogues, if Johnny Coulon
is " unliftable ” in the position which has been
described a thousand times, it is because the verti¬
cal line passing through the centre of gravity of
the whole mass formed by |ohnny Coulon and his
ALTHOUGH SUPPORTED BY A STOOL AT HIS BACK,
ACCORDING TO M. NOGUES' THEORY: M. RENAUD
STILL UNABLE TO LIFT COULON.
would-be lifter passes beyond the feet of the
latter— i.e., outside his supporting base. In other
words, all the scientists who had found mystery in
the phenomenon ottered by Coulon had forgotten
an elementary theorem of mechanics.
This would have been very humiliating for the
said scientists if. in fact, this theorem had not
been simply inoperative in Coulon's case. It is,
indeed, childish to compare a man to a weight fixed
to rigid levers, forgetting that, in his case, the
levers are articulated, and controlled by muscles
capable of resistance, and that these muscles are
themselves put in motion by nervous influx, a
thing that M Nogues seems to forget.
If his explanation were correct, all things being
equal, the greater the weight of a man, the greater
would be his weight-lifting power. Thus Fatty
would be champion of the world !
Those experiments we are about to describe
took place in the laboratory of the Institut G6n£ral
Psychologique under the presidency and control
of Professor d’Arsonval, the eminent successor of
Claude Bernard, surrounded by notabilities in the
world of science and sport.
We shall limit ourselves to giving only a few
of them, which will suffice to-day for corroborating
our explanation,
(1) M. Nogufes said, in his article, that for
easily lifting the “ unliftable ” it suffices to tie
tightly to the feet of the would-be lifter two
wooden soles protruding from four to five inches
beyond the tips of his shoes, so that their extreme
ends should be placed by the side of his opponent’s
feet. Now, one would have thought that M.
Nogufcs would have taken the trouble to verify
this affirmation before launching it ; unfortunately
for its author, it is absolutely contrary to what
actually takes place. The experiment made by
M. J. J. Kenaud, an athlete of extraordinary
strength, using wooden soles much longer than
those specified, gave an absolutely negative result—
namely, the total impossibility of lifting Coulon
when the latter placed his hands in the well-known
COULON STILL UNLIFTABLE (BY M. RENAUD).
DESPITE "FOOTBOARDS" TO ADVANCE THE LIFTER’S
FULCRUM: EVIDENCE AGAINST M. NOGUES’ THEORY
In our last issue (February 5) we gave an illuitrated article
explaining M. Noguis' theory regarding the “ unliftable"
boxer, Johnny Coulon, who has puzzled the scientific world of
Paris. M. Nogues ascribed the phenomenon merely to
mechanical principles of weight, fulcrum (supporting base), and
leverage. On this page M. Charles Nordmann disputes
M Nogues’ conclusions, and shows by illustrations that Coulon
can still make himself unliftable even under the conditions
which M. Noguis said would render the task easy. The lifter
here is M. J. J. Renaud, a well-known sportsman and writer.
position, although the centre of gravity of the
system formed by the two men passed very much
“ inside” the supporting base of the lifter. More¬
over. it is noticed that at every attempt at lifting,
ACCORDING TO M. NOGUES, IN AN EASY LIFTING
POSITION: M. LEON SEE FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO
LIFT COULON.
the tips of the feet, far from tending to rest on the
ground, have rather a tendency to rise, which suf¬
fices to prove that M. Nogues’ demonstration re¬
poses also very lightly on its ” supporting base.”
The top photograph given here shows exactly the
experiment represented by Fig. 2 in our last issue.
(2) The experiment indicated by Fig. 3 (in the
same issue) has also been made by several of us,
especially by M. J. J. Renaud, as shown in the
left-hand photograph on this page. Here again
the result was entirely negative, and, whilst one
of us was firmly holding the stool, it was noticed
that the would-be lifter did not support himself on
the stool in his attempts at lifting, but actually
left it spontaneously while exerting his effort.
(3) When Coulon does not lay his hands on his
opponent, he is easily liftable (as in the right-hand
photograph here), even if his opponent’s toes are
four inches—or, in the case of a strong-enough
athlete, eight inches—away from Coulon’s. On
the contrary, when he lays his hands on his opponent,
it is quitq impossible to lift him when their toes
are on the same straight line, or even if the toes
of one are at the same level as the heels of the other.
Yet. in the first case, the vertical line passing
through the centre of gravity of the mass formed
by both men was evidently passing further in
front of the lifter than in the second case.
(4) To conclude, the experiment shown in the
lower photograph completes our demonstration : not
only is the lifter advancing his feet to place them
on a level with Coulon’s, but he bends backwards
as much as possible, thus the verticals passing
through his centre of gravity and that of both
M. LEON SEE LIFTING COULON THOUGH STANDING
WELL AWAY FROM HIM: A POSITION M. NOGUES
SAID WOULD PREVENT IT.
men together reach the ground well behind his
heels. In that position the lifter would fall back¬
wards, bringing down Coulon with him, if he were
not supported by the arm of a helper. In this para¬
doxical position the result is—impossibility of lifting
Coulon when he lays his hands on his opponent !
To sum up. we maintain that the mystery of
the “ Unliftable Man ” remains in its entirety,
and cannot be explained by our actual knowledge
of physiology and of animal or even human
mechanism. Moreover, as this phenomenon is not
peculiar to Johny Coulon, but is shared by many
others, even children, the interest attached to it
is all the more general and places it among ” scien¬
tific ” phenomena. Sarcasms may be heaped by
incredulous or ironical people on scientists great
and small, but the fact remains that the general
phenomenon discovered and exhibited for the first
time by Johnny Coulon the boxer is actually in¬
explicable in the light of our limited knowledge.
Since the above was written, news comes from
Geneva that the Swiss champion wrestler, Maurice
Deriaz, succeeded in lifting Coulon twice at the
Apollo Theatre there on Feb. 6. Deriaz, who had
failed at three previous attempts, was to forfeit
£j\o if unsuccessful. He is reported to have said
that the mystery consisted in Coulon pressing his
fingers deeply into his adversary’s throat. Coulon’s
contact with the wrist, he said, was to keep his
opponent far enough away to prevent a favourable
grip. Coulon is said to have accused Deriaz of
shifting from the position imposed on him. Paris
scientists were reported to have, found that no
pressure on the throat was needed on Coulon’s part,
but merely contact.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feu. 12, 1921 197
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CURIOSITIES AND INGENUITIES OF THE PATENT OFFICE.
DRAVN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. V. B. ROBINSON.
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arranged on each horn.
HORN BUFFERS FOR C/VTTLEU
fAj When the ouferendof fbe lever is Vi
pushed by airempfed goring or fossing\\
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is raised and the consequenfoull on
the chain causes the animarpain.
KILLING FLIES.
A flicker ofclofb, leather or
rubber, ora teasel secured te the end
oFa piece of spring sfeel provided
wllh a handle at the other end.
AVOIDING MOSQUITOES.
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umbrella To Form a Tent".
A FOUR-WHEELED VEHICLE "PUSHED"
BY A HORSE harnessed lb ihe frame
at the back ,the steering being in Fronf
by means of a steering vvneeIThehor.se
is slopped by depressing a pedal
thereby raising a padded disc in Front"
of the horse’s head. To quicken the
horse's speed another pedal is
used to operate fWo spurs mounted
inside trie frame at each side of
the horse’s flanks.
An appliance for Vi
attachment to I % -J* •
brooding hens 1/ l\ R 1\ ^ “X ~
to prevent I[
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silting. A melal ^ -****
plate fits the underside <0*
of the hen's body. A projecting metal bow is secured to the plate
*Ih give a pair of Spectacles
the appearance oFa pair of
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dog whip provided with a
receptacle from which pep
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MANY INVENTIONS: SERIES VIII—FLY FLICKERS; BULL’S HORN-BUFFERS; UMBRELLA MOSQUITO TENTS ; HORSE-
PUSHED CARS; PINCE-NEZ SPECTACLES; BROODY-HEN PREVENTERS; “PEPPERY” DOG-WHIPS ; MANNED TORPEDOES
In the specifications of the man-controlled torpedo, we read : “ The position of
the operator is the same as the position of his body when in swimming ; . . .
therefore a nautical man would feel perfectly at home. ... If he cannot start his
«ngine, he may still get back to his base by paddling or sculling—that is, by
moving his feet up and down with long strokes he- will move his horizontal
rudders up and down and push the vessel forward. . . . When he sees aircraft
directly over him, he presses a button which pulls the muzzle shield (of the
vertical gun) away, which act energises the magnet which pulls the trigger
it will be in the nature of a comfort to the operator. . . . Should a submar,
not be able to rise to the surface, this vessel may be expelled from its tube withTJ
operator and speed away for help. ... The last man would set a time fuse to
fire the charge that expels him.” I/Win* Copyr^hud in th, Vnutd Slain and c am >d.
M R. HARRY WALL’S second appearance as
a playwright — this time under the wing
of Mr. Arthur Wontner, and in token of a benefit
for the Actors’ Benevolent Fund—reminds me of
the play competition of which some five years ago
he was the winner. We were then in the midst
of the turmoil, and. as the dramatic vein of the
nation was almost sterile for a while, I suggested
to Messrs. Grossmith and Laurillard that a prize
and a production would perhaps reveal a ” mute
inglorious ” new man. The proposal was accepted ;
the prize was to be a hundred pounds, and the
play was to be given a trial at the Court Theatre.
Among the judges were men well known in stage-
land : Henry Ainley, Frederick Whelan. H. A.
Hertz ; and the crop was a nice one—in quantity.
There rushed in no fewer than 264 plays, all
anonymously under a motto; and, of these, twelve
were to be delegated, on the selection of the
experienced chief readers. Miss Emily Stone and
Miss Agnes Platt, to the judges. Of the twelve
the competition was narrowed down to three : and
it was my duty, as umpire, to select the winner
after having considered the report on each play by
my distinguished fellow-sifters. Of the bulk the
least said the soonest mended. I employed my
leisure from time to time in perusing manuscripts
at random after the readers had done with them,
and, when I look back on the arid stuff that had
to be waded through, I regard it as a providential
ordainment that the two ladies who so valiantly
laboured in the cause of our drama were not bereft
of their reason. Of all the rubbish ! Well, that
is done with, and, although none of the twelve
plays of the narrower competition revealed in¬
ordinate talent, we were at least glad to be able
to arrive at unanimity in awarding the prize to
“ Ruts,” by a young and hitherto unknown author.
Mr. Harry'Wall.
The play was duly produced, and, mainly
thanks to the perfect performance of Miss Hilda
Trevelyan as a young woman who has decided to
defy the ruts of village conventions and to test life
for herself, it was a succis d'estime. It was not
taken up by Messrs. Grossmith and Laurillard ; it
was not heard of again ; but to a certain extent the
aim was achieved. Critics and spectators agreed
that here was a new man of promise, who would
redeem it when he had learnt his mitier —had
mastered technique and the wisdom that too much
palaver spoils a conversation. For that Mr. Wall
had original ideas, a nimble wit. a certain gift of
drawing characters akin to life, was apparent
enough in his firstling. But it was clumsy of
structure, and so long that the interest flagged
and the unquenched desire for five o'clock tea
damped the ardour of the audience.
Meanwhile, Mr, Wall joined the Army, and his
second effort, “ A Lady Calls on Peter,” proves
that we were not so far wrong in predicting a
future for him. The new comedy is an elabora¬
tion of a well-worn theme. When a fairly young
author is in quest of a typist to dictate a new
book; when he is pursued by a much-widowed
widow whom he does not want; when by the long
arm of coincidence a little country maiden from the
Land of Cakes w*afts into his solitude and takes
on the typewriting job—a blind horse can see the
inevitable. So the plot does not matter; nor is
it of much importance that the author wobbles
between comedy and farce. He will learn the
IN A RdLE " CREATED M BY SARAH BERNHARDT:
MR. CLAUDE RAINS AS THE OPIUM-SMOKER HERO
OF "DANIEL.” AT THE ST. JAMES’S THEATRE.
Mr. Claude Rains gives a powerful performance as the opium¬
smoking " wreck ” in the name part of Louis Vemeuil's play
“ Daniel.” now running at the St. James's Theatre in a
version adapted from the French by Sibyl Harris. The r6ie
of Daniel, who does not appear till the third act, was
" created" by Sarah Bernhardt. As she could not move
about the stage, the character was represented sitting with
legs enveloped in rugs, 1 1‘holograph tv Makolm Arbulhnot.]
difference, as he will learn to contrive the stories
that are not quite so banal as this one. His tw’o
paramount qualities remain, characterisation and
dialogue. His every character is not only deftly
drawn, but it is a type ; and one of them, the
unimaginative suburban shorthand-
occupied with the aspects of the play and the
achievements of the actors. As an ensemble, the
performance is so fine that it may well be held up
as an example of English histrionic art of to-day.
As a play. " The Skin Game ” is a human document
of rare value because, in spite of its inconclusive
end. which the author chose designedly, it leaves
us in sympathy with both enemies—the man of
birth and the man of his own making. There is
no author of to-day who fathoms English life so
deeply, who is so wholly English in his aspect of
life in general, with its traditions and its strife,
as Galsworthy. What a mission it would be for a
rich man who loved his England to man a company
exclusively for the production of Galsworthy’s
plays abroad ! It would do more for amity
towards this Empire than all political efforts. And
I would head my company with the two actors
named. Milward and Gwenn ; the one the incar¬
nation of the gentleman, the other of the man of
the people, as hard and as true as steel. With such
exponents and their retinue, we could convince a
doubting world that in art and in thought the
British stage and the British drama at their best
are second to none.
1 often wish that life were not so terribly
short and full, with ever so much to learn to keep
abreast; that I could oftener take a ‘ ’busman’s
holiday ” in order to discern new' talent, and perhaps
new plays, among the amateurs from whom so many
of our well-known actors have sprung. A recent
visit to the old-established Bancroft Company
kindled these inclinations, for I saw a capital
performance of an original, untried play by that
witty and deft amateur dramatist— i.e., a real
dramatist who is at the same time an amateur
actor of mark—Mr. Herbert Swears. ” Captain X.”
is a crook play in the vein of ” Arsine Lupin,” and
I should not be at all astonished if after the trial
trip it found its way to the regular stage. For there
were several managers present, and the reception
was not merely a tribute to a fellow-worker in the
twofold part of playwright and player, but the
outcome of genuine amusement. The whole thing
is a practical joke played by a sw'ell mobsman on
a nouveau riche. From beginning to end the farce
is well knit, the excitement maintained with the
observance of Sarcey’s dictum : ” The drama is
the art of preparation.” The acting was in some
instances of first-rate West End order—indeed,
Mr. Swears himself as Captain X would make a hit
in an evening bill ; and it was pleasant to find
among the cast the promising daughter of an actress
well beloved by playgoers and students—Miss Kate
Rorke. Miss Zoe Cree—that is young Miss Rorke’s
nom-de-guerre —has the voice of her mother. With,
experience, she will uphold the family standard.
writer who is matter-of-fact and noli
me tangere in her narrow little way,
is a masterly miniature played to life¬
like perfection by Miss Laura Lydia.
She is but a collateral figure, for Miss
Hilda Trevelyan is the heroine, yet
from the critic’s point of view hers is
the happiest creation of the author.
True to her colours and her belief in
Mr. Wall. Miss Hilda Trevelyan be¬
came the good fairy of his second
venture. Capitally supported by Mr.
Arthur Wontner, she is the life and
soul of the play. She spreads charm.
She is womanly, in all the various
meanings of that significant word.
Now arch, now wily, now capricious,
but always winsome, she conquers
hero and audience alike. She has but
one little fault—and that is, no doubt,
due to her provincial experiences,
where the audiences are wont to be
*' played at ”—she sometimes under¬
lines and emphasises her w’ords and
gestures too much. It is an exuber¬
ance of zeal, but she should not cul¬
tivate it. Her sweet self, unforced,
unaffected, makes for complete easiness
on both sides of the footlights.
I have paid my tribute of vale¬
diction to Galsworthy’s masterly ” Skin
Game,” and its two chief equally
AN IDEAL “ MINX ” AND A “ MOTHERING “ ELDEST masterly exponents. Mr. Dawson Mil- THE ” STRONG MAN “ CAPTIVATED BY THE PARSON S
SISTER: (L. TO R.) MISS ENA GROSSMITH AS VERONICA ward and Mr. Edmund Gwenn, and SOCK-DARNING DAUGHTER: MISS KYRLE BELLEW AS
AND MISS KYRLE BELLEW AS DAPHNE VEREKER. IN once more I came away so deeply DAPHNE VEREKER, AND MR. ARTHUR BOURCHIER AS
“A SAFETY MATCH.” AT THE STRAND THEATRE. impressed that for a good long while "JUGGERNAUT" CARR. IN “A SAFETY MATCH,” AT THE
Photograph try Fnuiskam and BmnfisJd, Lid. after the Curtain’s fall my mind was STRAND THEATRE. — [Photograph hy Foultkam and Hanfvthl, Ltd.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 12, 1921.—199
WINTER PASTIMES IN THE ALPS: SKI-ING, SLEIGHING, AND “TAILING.’’
FROM WATER-COLOURS BY L. SABATTIER.
PLEASURES OF A WINTER HOLIDAY IN THE FRENCH ALPS : A SKI LESSON BESIDE THE PAT1NOIRE (SKATING RINK) AT CHAMONIX
AND THE START OF A SLEIGHING EXPEDITION.
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l.LU LEV, AFTER THEIR SWIFT DESCENT.
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drawings of life at Chamonix, reproduced above and on succeeding pages, between
senoui winter sport as practised by experts for competition purposes, and the
pursuit thereof merely as a healthy and pleasurable pastime. It is this latter
phase which he has here set out to illustrate. “ I do not mean to imply, ’ he
Writes, • that the purely sporting side of Chamonix is negligible. I leave to
better - qualified pens the task of celebrating the cosmopolitan meetings of the
Patinoire, the thrills of international contests, the prowess of champions, and the
delights of the festivals held during the season in this glorious Alpine setting
My aim has been to show that, in this hospitable and wondrous comer of France
the tastes of the simplest as well as the most skilled can find satisfaction, and
that the pleasant winter sun shines as beneficently on the harmless • spill's ’ of
the girl novice ski-runner as on the giddy acrobatics of the expert skater.
When the Augers reach the foot of the slope, and are drawn up again,
a la queue leu leu, by a vehicle with one or two horses, that is called
‘ tailing.' ”—{ Drawings Copyrighted i» the Lnited Slates and Canada.)
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Children get as much fun out of winter sports as the most brilliant of |
champions, and, as M. Sabattier explains, this and his other drawings which we
reproduce in this number deal with the subject rather as a “ pastime " I
pursued for pure enjoyment, than as winter "sport " in the serious sense of the |
word. “ ‘ Sport,’ ” he writes, “has become synonymous with intense toil,
sustained and systematic effort, accompanied by a severe regimen, excluding
everything with the slightest suggestion of merriment. Sportsmen display in their
pursuits a ferocious energy ; they are highly serious ; if they do experience any
pleasure, they do not show it. They are woithy successors of the old Greek
: A PARTY OF LITTLE “SKI-JORERS ” AT CHAMONIX
OF THE ARAVIS CHALLENGE gUP.
athletes and Roman gladiators ; like them, they lead a life of laborious toil not
exempt from danger. The games of the circus were mainly amusing for the
spectators. The people whom I have depicted do not belong, then, to the world
of sport ; they amuse themselves without any regard for the austere rules which
govern the proceedings of sportsmen properly so called. These children, whom a
debonair donkey has taken in tow in the streets of Chamonix, are more joyous than
the winner of the Aravis Challenge Cup, and they have the air of being quite sure
that they are out on a regular ski-joring expedition." Real ski-joring consists in
being drawn along on ski by a horse.— [Droving Copyrighted in the United Sinus and Canada. J
THE illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Feb. 12
1921.-203
SERVICE PORTRAITS
ARTIST SELF-PORTRAYED: A NEW SHOW.
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ART—AND THE ARMY: “PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER
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ies in Piccadilly on February 5, and remains
* Ie portraits here reproduced represent the thi
the artists, portrayed by himself. Colonel
lot of the famous Cairo to the Cape flight
the South African Air Service. He did d
Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall is M.P.
Derby. Throughout the war he was Direct
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*OLD by order
of the Judge
of His Britannic Majesty's
Provincial Court at Han¬
kow," gave an added
Eastern atmosphere to the
Chinese porcelain at Christie s on the
ird. The whole-coloured porcelain com¬
prised a fine range of crackle vases, and bottles
and jars of apple-green, mustard-yellow, turquoise,
sage-green, lavender, and celadon. Among the
enamelled porcelain two tea-pots claimed the col¬
lector's interest : one. square, was decorated with
WITH GILT CARYATID SUPPORTS AND DECORATED WITH
CHINESE LANDSCAPES: AN OLD ENGLISH LACQUER CABINET
COMING UNDER THE HAMMER.
This fine cabinet is included in the sale of French furniture, decorative
objects, and porcelain to be held at Christie’s on February 17. It is
6 ft. 7 in. high by 5 ft. 8 in. wide. Further details of it are given In the
article on this page.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christ*, Man urn, anj U W».
flowers emblematic of the seasons ; the other,
formed as a hexagonal ewer enamelled with ladies
in colours on a black ground, had a handle in
the form of a kylin. On the 2nd inst. at Christie's
a necklace of eighty - seven well - matched and
graduated Orient pearls, the property of a lady,
realised /7000.
Lovers of Rowlandson’s drawings found over
a hundred representative examples, the property
of the late Mr. Edward Thomas, which were sold
by Messrs. Christie on the 4th. The subjects
exhibited Rowlandson in his best vein, and included
such varied items as " The Market Place, Diissel-
dorf,” *‘ An Owner and Jockey.” “ The Bell¬
man’s Clapper Stopp'd,” ” The Launching of a
Battleship," ” Glastonbury." ” A Dog Fight.”
” Charles James Fox.” " Travelling in the Prussian
Dominions." " Highland Beggar.” and illustrations
to ” Dr. Syntax." At the same sale were a number
of drawings by E. M. Wimperis, including “ The
Village on the Marsh,” "Tossing the Hay,” “The
Marsh, Llanbedr.” and " Moorland Stream," all
of which had been exhibited at the Royal Institute
of Painters in Water-Colours. Another property
included a David Cox, " The Gorge,” exhibited
at the David Cox exhibition at Birmingham in
1890 ; and an Albert Moore, " Lightning and
Light ” (with a pedigree from the Royal Academy.
1892 ; Grafton Gallery, 1894 ; Birmingham. 1904 :
and the Coronation Exhibition. 1911). found itself
side by side in the catalogue with ” The Cigarette."
a red-chalk drawing by Mr. Augustus E. John. As
to prices, old and new. the older masters claim their
toll before modernity. Messrs. Robinson. Fisher,
and Harding recently sold J. Van Goyen’s " Mouth
of a River," for £451.
At Messrs. Puttick and Simpson’s, on the 4th.
engravings, furniture, j>orcelain, and tapestries
were sold. There was a General Wolfe portrait in
mezzotint by Houston, and the rare " Death of
General Wolfe at Quebec." printed in colours. Two
BY ARY HUH HAYDEN.
little drawings in sepia. ” Views of Pans by
Thomas Girtm. the fnend of Turner had sad
memories. In ill-health and harassed by the
strict rules against sketching in Paris, although the
Peace Treaty had been signed at Amiens a few
months before in 1802. Girtin hired a coach and
sketched from the windows. He shortly- returned
to England to die in his t«enty-e,ghth y ear.
while finishing his Paris sketches and he lies
buried in the churchyard of St. 1 aul s, Coven |
Garden Two Brussels tapestry panels and
two Flemish panels, sold separately, brought
680 guineas; and a Mortlake panel was disposed
of for 290 guineas all were of the
seventeenth century
Objects of art and porcelain, the pro¬
perty of the late Mr. David Martin
Currie, the well-known connoisseur, were
sold on Feb. 9 and following day by
Messrs Christie. ” Objects of art and
vertu ” is a generic term including the
jewelled knick-knacks of the boudoir
which have been ingeniously invented
to please great ladies from (. atherine de
Medici to Madame la Pompadour. Some
of the notable articles in this collection
comprise a Louis XV. watch by Baillon.
3 Pans, in gold case, the back enamelled
with shepherd and shepherdess ; a snuff¬
box with piqu 6 leather sides and. minia¬
ture of a ladv. by S. Cooper ; another
gold snutl-box by C Schultz, d Moscow.
with a miniature of a lady ; and a
Ix>uis XVI octagonal gold box with
Sevres plaques painted with pastoral
scene's. On the second day s sale Limoges
enamel was evident. A fine enamel
Limoges casket had plaques with figures
in grisaille on dark blue ground ; another
fine Limoges enamel thdssr with sloping
top had plaques attributed to Couly
Noilier. There were altar candlesticks,
bronze inkstands, bronze table bells,
Venetian glass l>eakers. and rock-crystal
vases, to say nothing of Sevres porcelain
coftee-cups and saucers made for C athe¬
rine II. of Russia, and a plate painted
with Bacchantes and subjects from Roman
history by Dodin, part of the service now
in the Royal Collection at Windsor.
These are a few items from the wonder¬
ful array exhibiting fine connoisseurship
by the late owner extending over a great
number of years.
In another room at Christie s on the
10th a sale of fine English and Brussels
tapestry was being conducted, the prn-
jiertv of Lieut. - Colonel
Noel Baxendale and others. Tapes¬
tries are to the fore just now.
in the remarkable collection at
the Franco - British Exhibition of
Textiles opened on the 12th at the
Victoria and Allied Museum, where
so many example's of Gobelins and
other work have lieen lent by the
French Government from the Mobilier
National and from celebrated French
private collections. In addition, the
Duke of Portland is sending a set of
tapestries with subjects after Boucher,
and furniture en suite. The King is
lending a fine Flemish tapestry panel
of the sixteenth century, and the
Duke of Rutland a panel front the
celebrated Don Quixote series woven
at the Gobelins factory It was
natural, therefore, that considerable
interest was shown at Christie’s on
the 10th in regard to four panels of
Soho tapestry attributed to J. Morris.
1740, with figures of Juno. Euterpe.
Diana, and Flora, surrounded by-
arabesques. fruit, animals, and birds.
Another set of four Soho panels,
presumably by John Vanderbank. in
1722-25, according to certain account-
book notes by a former owner. Sir
William Heathcotc, were woven with
subjects after Lebrun allegorical of
the elements—Ceres in a chariot.
Juno on clouds, Mars and Venus with
Vulcan’s forge, and Neptune and
Amphitrite. A Brussels oblong panel
(14 ft. high. 18 ft. wide), of middle
sixteenth century, represents Noah
and his family after the Deluge :
three other Brussels panels are woven
with Teniers subjects, with scene
on quay-, peasants
carousing outside an
inn, and a winter scene on
a canal, late seventeenth
century. _
In French furniture
and porcelain to lie sold by Messrs.
Christie on the 17th inst.. much of the
Dresden porcelain to l»e otlcred Wsis in the Massey-
Mainwanng Collection, and was exhibited at the
Bethnal Green Museum. In the furniture section
seven tapestry fauteuils with gilt frames of
Ixiuis XV design are covered with Beauvais
tapestry with children emblematic of the seasons,
and with subjects from .lisop’s fables. Six Hepple-
white and four Chippendale chairs, the former with
lyre backs and the latter with seats and backs with
pastoral subjects in silks and wools, make an
F'nglish moment, as does a remarkable old English
lacquer cabinet with folding doors enclosing
drawers, on stand with gilt supports carved with
caryatid figures. The decorative landscape panels
with figures are in black and gold, with pearl
enrichments around border.
Messrs. Sotheby have an attractive catalogue
of Oriental porcelain, delft. English and Italian
pottery, early- English furniture and tapestries to
be sold on the 18th. The items are varied, but
have exc**ptional attraction. 1 here is a fine set
of twelve William and Mary high-backed chairs
which come from Chastleton, Oxfordshire, the
property of Mrs. Whitmore Jones, and are similar
to chairs of the same period at Hampton Court
and Broughton Castle. Two fine James II. chairs
and a panel of Sheldon tapestry of sixteenth-
century period come from the same house. Another
property includes a series of old Flemish tapestries,
of which the most notable is the Triumph of a
Roman general marching towards a walled city
at the head of his army. Lovers of portraits
royal and historical will find at Sotheby’s on the
17th and 18th insts. some rare examples from the
collection of Sir John Stirling Maxwell. Bt. There
are forty-seven portraits of James I., by Simon de
Pass. George Vertue, and other engravers. Again.
James I. is represented by twenty-two portraits,
also in one lot. by Simon de Pass. \ aughan, and
others. Henry Prince of Wales has twelve portraits
byC. Boel, F. Delarum, and others, and his Simon
de Pass portrait with a lance, (which, by the way,
finds itself duplicated in a brass figure at Rosenborg
Castle, Copenhagen) is also here, but a torn and
damaged example. Henrietta Maria in one lot is
represented by nineteen portraits, and Charles II. by
forty-one. Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Cardinal
York. Flora Macdonald, are all well represented.
The extra illustrator will revel in this dispersal.
SOLD FOR 70,000 DOLLARS (£18,500) IN NEW YORK—A RECORD
PRICE : A THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH STAINED-GLASS PANEL
FROM THE LAWRENCE COLLECTION.
The American Art Association, of Madison Square South, New York—the
"Christie's" of that city—sold on January 27 and 28 the late Mr. Henry C.
Lawrence's remarkable collection of Gothic and other ancient art, including
stained glass of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. The above
example fetched the record price of 70.000 dollars (£18.500). It represents part
of a Jesse tree wi»h a half-figure of Christ, with purple face and yellow crown,
white and purple robe, and yellow mantle. On either side are scrolled acanthus
'eaves in white, green, purple, and red. with a blue background. It is 301 inches
high and 311 inches wide. (Hr Courlcsv of the American \rt MsJnria/ton.l
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I N transferring the story of ” The Four Horse¬
men of the Apocalypse ” from the pages of
the world-famous novel by Vicente Blasco
Ibanez to the motion-picture screen, the producers
undertook an artistic task of which the magnitude
was apparent even before the opening scene was
“shot." Now, after six months of painstaking
labour at the extensive studios in Southern Cali¬
fornia, the final touches are being put to this pro¬
digy of cinematic craftsmanship, and its sponsors
discover that practically every known record of
the picture industry has been broken.
The setting up of new records for motion-
picture producers of the future to equal or surpass
has come about because of the very bigness of the
story’ of " The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”
Its characters work out their destinies
in two hemispheres. From the Argen¬
tine. with its far-flung ranges, to the
capitals of Europe, Seflor Ibanez carries
the readers of his master work with
breathless interest, whilst he unfolds an
overwhelming human drama against the
background of a world in arms.
South America, England, France,
Belgium, Germany — these lands and
multitudes of their people needed to
be depicted before the camera for the
colossal production. As a result, the
million-dollar picture, long the dream of
American producers, not only has been
realised in the visualisation of the Ibanez
novel, but has been eclipsed to an extent
that will not be definitely known until
the auditors have made final tabulations
before the formal release of the great
film production in five or six weeks’
time.
Even this unprecedented expense of
half-a-million pounds’ sterling in pro¬
duction costs has been dwarfed to in¬
significance by the physical magnitude
of the undertaking that made the screen
version of “ The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse ” possible. Statistics compiled at the
studios indicate that the production, judged bv
all the known standards of picture-making, wiil
prove the most gigantic photo-spectacle in the
history of the silent drama.
The following production facts impart some
idea of the immensity of the picture:—
More building materials were used in the
making of the picture than were required in the
erection of the world’s greatest sky-scraper, the
Woolworth Building in New York, no less -than
125,000 tons of steel, concrete, and lumber being
used. The settings for ” The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse,” among
them an entire French
village, which were con¬
structed far more sub¬
stantially than most back¬
grounds for camera work
only, involved the use of
much more than 125,000
tons of solid masonry,
steel, lumber, furniture,
and shrubbery.
A village capable of
housing 6000 persons was
erected in the foothills
°f the San Bernardino
mountains in Southern
California, and destroyed
for the -
“ Stars ” in a Film Cast of 12.000 Pfoflr tor “ The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse ” : (l. to r.) Mr. John SainpoliS
as Laurier, Miss Alice Terry as Marguerite, and Mr.
Rudolph Valentino as Julio.
Although the picture has not yet been com¬
pleted. more than 450,000 feet of raw film have
been exposed, developed, and printed, and the
total footage consumed before the final scenes have
been finished will probably be well over the half¬
million mark.
Fourteen camera men and a dozen assistant
directors have been employed in the picturing of
THE ENEMY IN MARCELO DESNOYERS' CASTLE: THE GERMAN COM¬
MANDANT IS INTERESTED IN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DESNOYERS FAMILY.
the production, every available spot where the eye
of the camera might find a new or artistic view
of the big scenes being used.
Of these eighty-five miles of film—enough to
reach from London to Salisbury—it is probable
that not more than ten or twelve reels, or a
maximnm of 12,000 feet (about 2$ miles) will
actually reach the eye of the theatre-goers who
view the picture.
The task of editing this mass of material, of
eliminating the duplicates and all but the perfect
reproductions of the scenes enacted before the
camera, will probably take many weeks. The
purpose of the
production. Since the de¬
struction was by artillery.
14 was necessary to con¬
struct every building com-
Pfctely rather than as
building fronts only, as
“ done with most picture
sets.
A total of 12,500 men
and women, or the adult
Population of
city of
£0.000, participated in the
filing of the picture
«ther before the camera
or as workers on the big
sets. 5
A costume factory was
erected on the Hollywood
ture' 0 A Rr ° Unds for the *' dressing ” of the pic-
inriHon* *i armour y and two machine-shops were
were & S >°* t * le ot h er building operations that
Cwnpfetod before the first scene of the
Picture teas photographed.
'FROM THE FILM VERSION OF "THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE": THE FLIGHT
FROM VILLEBLANCHE, ON THE MARNE, BEFORE THE ADVANCING GERMANS.
mere running of 450,000 feet of film through
one camera, at the rate of sixty feet to the
minute, would occupy sixteen days of eight
working hours each.
Vast quantities of food were provided by the
producers, the Metro Pictures Corporation, to feed
the 12.000 persons appearing in the picture while
they were working “ on location.” A luncheon is
given free to each ” extra ” player in addition to
his or her stipend for the day’s work when employed
at a distance from the studios.
The task of feeding these thousands of “ extras ”
was on a scale comparable with that of an army.
Field kitchens and a highly organised commissariat
department had to be established.
Because of the magnitude of the task of
placing this, perhaps the most widely read novel
every published, on the screen, it was neces¬
sary to revise the usual order of procedure
and change the methods generally adopted
in photographing big scenes for the camera.
Several patents have been issued by
the United States Patent Office cover¬
ing the new mechanical devices used
for the first time in the making of
pictures.
A complete telephone system, in¬
volving the use of a corps of elec¬
tricians, operators, and a small fortune
in cable and other materials, was
erected on the mountain ranch where
the big exterior scenes for the picture
were filmed.
The collection of the art treasures
that will be seen in the picture in¬
volved not only the expenditure of
large sums of money, but a canvass
of the art world for tapestries, paint¬
ings, curios, and musical instruments,
such as are described by Ibanez ‘as
used in the South American phase of
the story. The art treasures, however,
were lent by their owners, many of
whom would not consider putting a
price upon them. The insurance on
the tapestries and paintings used
in- the picture alone amounted to
1 55.ooo.
The original book of ” The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse," which has gone
through 150 editions and probably will reach
the 200th edition before present demands of
readers throughout the world have been satis¬
fied, is said to have been more widely read
than any printed work, with the exception of
the Bible.
The Ibanez novel has been read in every
civilised country of the world. It is due to this
" reader-interest ” that an unprecedented mass of
letters have been received at the Metro studios
from every quarter of the globe, containing sug¬
gestions concerning methods of production, in¬
quiries as to the time
of releasing the picture,
and about the personnel
of the cast that will be
seen in it.
" The Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse ” was
picturised under the direc¬
tion of Mr. Rex Ingram.
It was prepared for the
screen from Seflor Ibanez’s
novel by June Mathis.
John Seitz, of Metros
West Coast camera staff,
was in charge of the
corps of camera men em¬
ployed in the making of
the picture.
The cast of principals
is the most distinguished
ever assembled for a
motion picture. The lead¬
ing roles are enacted by
Rudolph Valentino as Julio
Desnoyers; Alice Terry
as Marguerite Laurier';
Pomeroy Cannon as Mada¬
riaga, ” the Centaur ” ;
Nigel de Bruiller as
Tchemoff, the Russian
visionary; and Mabel Van
Buren as Elena ; while
other prominent parts
in this remarkable film
are sustained by Joseph
Swickart. Brinsley Shaw,
Wallace Beery, Alan Hale. Bridgetta Clark, Edward
Connelly, Jacques d’Auray, Mile. Dolorez. and
Harry S. Northrup.
The picture is expected to be released early
in March.
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A £500,000 FILM WITH
A
12,000 PERFORMERS:
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“THE FOUR HORSEMEN
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LON I >ON NEWS, Feb.
12 , 1021 .
CONQUEST; WAR; FAMINE; AND DEATH
See Aitici.r oh Page m
That very remarkable and much-discussed novel of the Great War, “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” by the Spanish author Vicente Blascc Ibanez, has been filmed,
and in its new form will certainly awaken great interest The book is known the world over, thanks to translations : in the United States alone over a quarter of a millio
copies were speedily sold! The period-save for the earlier part, dealing with Madariaga--is that of the Battle of the Marne, when the spray from the wave of war fell on
Paris ; and of the days that followed, when the enemy were beaten back. Nothing could be better than the grimly realistic pen-pictures of the advance of the invading cr
the scenes in the village and the Castle of Villeblanche ; nothing more true than the descriptions of Paris under the stress, or the characterisation oi the Desnoyers and the ***
Well is the book titled : for vlid not the Four Horsemen precede the Beast ? —“ And the first horseman appeared on a white horse. In his hand he carried a bow, and a crown
.HORDES: VILLAGERS LEAVING THE VILLAGE
.advance TOWARD PARK.
THEY ” ENTER : GERMAN CAVALRY AND INFANTRY ON THE MARCH INTO
TORTURED, SHELL-TORN VILLEBLANCHE.
IN THE FIELD OF
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 12, 1921—211
*oZT'c« H T f c MILU0NAmE - treated
EATH : THE DESNOYERS AT THE GRAVE OF THEIR SON
JULIO ; WITH RENlt AND CHICHt.
^ H « rider brandished ° n<,UeSt ; accordin K to some, the Plague according to others. He might be both at the same time. . . . From the broken seal leaped a flame-coloured
len the third seal was b ° **** hMd enormous sword. He was War. Peace fled from the world before his furious gallop ; humanity was going to be exterminated. And
' ■ And there ‘ ‘ St J ohn saw a black horse. He who mounted it held in his hand a scale in order to weigh the maintenance of mankind. He was
Wl, h the beasts 0 f the aPPearwl a P^o-coloured horse. His rider was called Death, and power was given him to destroy with the sword and with hunger and with death
1Cr ‘l>mg the immense scale*^ Th * f ° Ur horsemen were be g»*ning their mad, desolating course over the heads of terrifled humanity.” On another page we give an article
°n which the film is being produced, involving a cost of £500,000 and an army of 1 2,000 performers, besides 500 other workers.
£ fd HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE”: IBANEZ’S NOVEL FILMED.
photographs by Metro Films.
212—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb 12. 1921
f
THE RESTORATION OF KING CARNIVAL AT NICE: THE W,
King Carnival XLIII.. of a famous dynasty restored after an interval of seven years caused by the war, made his state entry into Nice on January 27. On the 30th there was i S|^
a pageant of cars, cavalcades and masquerades, with a fete by day and night. The first Battle of Flowers took place on February 3 ; the second was arranged for the 7IH I I \ J >
and the third is due on March 3 (Mi-Careme). Sunday, February 6, was the day of the Corso Carnavelesque, with a grande redoute at the Casino, where costumes of the 1 HyV
Photograph bV \ 10
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, Feb. 12, 1921.—213
RST POST-WAR REVIVAL OF THE FAMOUS FETE.
1100 will close with Ce "^ 1Ue am ^ er ) were obligatory. The Burning of King Carnival was fixed for February 8, with fireworks and a torchlight procession. The Carnival
! tr ‘bunes was o * Bal1 on March 31. The first corso (on January 30) was a great success, in spite of rain. Masks and confetti were much in evidence. One of
it a Nr, ~ PlC<1 ^ young daughters of Mr. Winston Churchill, who had arrived at Nice that day.
ND General.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 12. 1021. 21
BOOKS OF THE DAY
-
By E. B. OSBORN.
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I T was in “ The
Seeds of En-
CHAKTMENT ” (Hutchinson;
8 s. 6d. net), by Gilbert
Frankau, that I heard at
last the breezy note of the
reaction against the novel of Freudian analysis
booming like a phrase given to the horns in dance-
music by Stravinsky. Indeed, from one page of
this remarkable story (certainly no imitation of
" They Went,” in which only the secular dicor
is romantic) the word " She ” leapt significantly
and set my thoughts winging back to the mys¬
terious Africa of Rider Haggard, with its dim
echoes of Phoenician culture and Egyptian art-
magic. It was a final proof that romance had
come round full-circle to what it had been,
essentially, thirty years ago. Mr. Gilbert Frankau
is the man to clinch a new bargain with the credo
quia incredibile of that stark
idealism which awards man
a mastery over actions and
things and emotions (even his
own) such as not even the
scientists dare dream of, though
they say and sing—
Poets of power must now them¬
selves reveal
In epic iron and in lyric steel;
In every engine exquisite that
sings
The soul’s new empire over soul¬
less things.
His essays in the Byronic
verse novel were not amiss,
though a bit too opulent in
detail -well, his gift was to
some extent inherited from
*' Frank l)anbv ”—and at times
regrettably H. J. Byronic in
their hard-won facetiousness.
He came to himself, or nearly
so. having " chucked ” the
Byrons for Kipling, when he
sang of the ” Guns ” and their
winged eyes in the air—
Before, beyond, almve her.
Their in»n web is spun :
Flicked but unsnared we hover.
Edged planes against the sun :
Eyes in the air aitove his lair.
The hawks that guide the gun !
And now. after a successful
experiment in the realism of
trade, warfare, and marriage
routine, he brings us the hand¬
ful of magic beans taken from
the cup-like palm of the mys¬
tery girl, Mflif.
Imlo-China is Mr. Frankau’s
land of high romance. He took
the suggestion of his story from
the drop-curtain in a theatre
in Bangkok, the picture show¬
ing little men in yellow mail,
fighting with the bow-and-
arrow, hamstringing axe. and
stabbing spear, and the white
elephant of Siam panoplied in
clanging brass. The action lie-
gins in Singapore and moves
on to Cholon, where his wonder¬
ful trio get the magic beans ;
thus being led to Saigon, and
thence plunging into the un¬
known land of Harinesia, be¬
yond the city of Bu-ro, where, among the moun¬
tains, dwell the White Women, last descendants
of the French aristocrats, of whom the tale ntn.s
“ from Pak-naru to Hai-Dzvong. from Ltiang-
Prabang to Buih - thuan, the tale the Red
Karins tell to the Laos girls of Chieng-Mai. and
Thibetan muleteers to the flower-foot maidens
in the tea-gardens of I-bong.” Thus he splashes
on the colours and odours of the East with the
lavish and reckless brush of father papering the
parlour in the music-hall ditty. As fair and futile
as the Elohim invented by Mr. H. G. Wells to
people the upper world a quarter-of-a-million years
hence, are the Flower-Folk who have found a diet
that delivers man from the tyrannies of toil, from
hard-fighting, from the lusts of the flesh—from all
that makes man a dreadful angel in Love and War.
Sweet and frail and of a cleanly wantonness are
Paquerette, Pivoine, and Safron£, who fall asleep
in the arms of the three European adventurers
as flowers droop and close at twilight. It is the
day-dream of Pacifism come true, and it fulfils
the vague hopes of Cyprian Beamish M.D., Glas¬
gow. who is ” befuddled with study of the Higher
Futilities ; of Internationalism ; Communism ; Col¬
lectivism. Syndicalism. Karl-Marxism, Guild-State-
Christian and other Socialism,” and so on for the
rest of the catalogue. But the little vellow men.
the man-pack that had so often terrified both West
and East, break the dream to seize the white
and wondrous flower-maidens, and the reckless
valour of the three adventurers cannot prevent
Floralia from experiencing humiliation worse than
death, for all its drugged weaklings becor e the
prey of unspeakable lust. It is a fine, furious
fantasy, and in spite of excesses of style which
even my Charenton lunatic uttered his warning
against—
11 faut toujours avoir soin
De ne pas danser devant le buffet,
it grips the imagination from start to finish. It
will lie interesting to compare and contrast it with
the new Haggard novel expected in the spring.
Two other new novels of power and insight,
in both of which social change and what one
of them call? ” period psychology ” are leading
motives, have already appeared thus early in
the year. ” Privilege ” (Constable ; 8s. 6d. net),
by Michael Sadleir, son of the famous educationist,
(to whose surname he has added an ” i,” perhaps
as a sign of a more insistent ego), is the better of
the two, for it creates character and tells a story
as well as working out a political problem.
Mr. Sadleir’s Barbara lives, and lives In an emo¬
tional atmosphere, which is more than can be said
for the pale and tearful Angela in ” Revoli tion ”
(Collins ; 7s. 6d. net), by Mr. J. D. Beresford,
which will be a little disappointing to his many
admirers. Paul, the hero of ” Revolution,” is a
sufferer from the malaise of modern Intellectualism,
who tries to play the man of action, in futile
fashion, when a Soviet is set up in his village.
But he ceases to exist
for me (and for all
others with red blood in
them) when, over the
dead body of his murdered
father, he parleys with the
murderer in. a spirit of sweet reasonableness.
Euthyphro’s priggishness was simple and tame in
comparison. Murder is murder—even when the
purpose is political, as in Ireland. And force is
the final argument ; as is conceded by those who
insist that a majority should have ’its own way
(because, if it came to a fight, numbers would
prevail . . . there is no other reason whv) or
by the Bolshevists, who think a determined minority
may do what it can.
I like Mr. Maurice Hewlett’s medieval romances
and prose sagas, and, in spite of its indefatigable
bergerie, or perhaps because of
it, some of his poetry even.
But his novels of modem life
are spoilt for me by n certain
cultured knowingness, added
to a flavour of preciosity, and
" Mainwaring " (Collins Sons :
7s. fid. net) is no exception to
the rule. Mainwaring. the Irish
adventurer who climbs to pro¬
minence and a moment of
power on the backs of dis¬
contented working men, is a
credible and creditable inven¬
tion. It is easy to believe
that a creature of such ex¬
plosive temperament would be
destroyed, body and soul, by
an unlucky love-affair with a
fair aristocrat whose business
in life was to collect adorers.
But the girl he marries and
neglects remains a figment to
the end. We are told that.
” as is always the case with
the real working-class, her
manners were unembarrassed
and simple. I find that the
highest and the lowest are so—
the highest. 1 suppose, because
they don’t care to be any¬
thing but themselves, the lowest
because they don’t dare. It
is the middle-class which makes
you uncomfortable because they
can never be simple.” IJzzv
Mainwaring’s simplicity takes
the form of refusing to act
as hostess at her husband’s
itinner parties, though she is
quite willing to double the
I>arts of parlour - maid and
housemaid. Thus the con¬
fusion between stmplesse and
simplictU, which spoils so much
" Georgian ” poetry, is trans¬
ferred to the sphere of con¬
duct in fiction with even more
disastrous effects. The young
man who is supposed to tell
the tale falls in love with
Lizzy and she with him, and
though they carry on with
unfailing delicacy, kisses being
withheld at moments of at-
one-ment (provocatively — for
the reader) yet they ” carry
on ” in the ordinary triangular
fashion. And now you know what I mean
by cultured knowingness ! Moreover, if Mr.
Hewlett really knew the real working-class —
if he had worked with them as I have done and
become closely acquainted with their womenfolk,
whose class distinctions, following wage differences,
often have the rigidity of a caste system—he
would not have been guilty of that too popular
form of snobbishness which imputes a perfect
courtesy to all who toil with their hands and
denies it to brain-workers. The plain truth is that
the further you descend in the social scale, the
less comfortable is the deportment of the people
you meet. It is pleasant to take refuge from such
works of sensibility as Mr. Hewlett’s novel in
” Bannerton’s Agency ’’ (Methuen ; 7s. fid. net),
by \Y. Pett Ridge, who knows the working-class
and what is sometimes called the ” black-coated
proletariat ” by heart. His Tom Bannerton, a
weak and untrustworthy young man finally co¬
erced into decency bv a pretty, masterful wife,
is a pleasing creation
AUTHOR OF THE MOST WIDELY READ WAR NOVEL. "THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE
APOCALYPSE." TO BE PRODUCED IN A FILM VERSION: SEflOR VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ.
Sefior Ibanez, the famous Spanish novelist, has had a wonderful success with his war story. " The Four
Horsemen ol the Apocalypse,” which has had a record sale in the United States and France, and is being
filmed (as described and illustrated elsewhere in this number) at a cost of £500,000. He is planning an
extended lecture tour in America. Sefior Ibanez was bom in 1866, and his present home is in Paris. His
other books include " The Shadow of the Cathedral ’’ (" La < aitJrul ") and ’’ The Matador ” (" Sangre y
.Irma "—Blood and Sand). Many of his works are attacks on established institutions.
By Courlrsv of ttu " World’s Hot*.”
the illustrated
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12. 1921—215
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remember the day when we gave “ Piggies ” his first
bath. We stood him in a large dish of water in the
middle of the kitchen floor. He sfood there lor a
moment, evidently mystified. Then he bent down his
head and tasted the water with the tip of his beak.
The next moment he hopped out and appeared to
contemplate this new experience. An instant after he
rushed back, flopped down into the water, and with
his wings sent it fixing in all directions. Then he
stepped out, shook himself, and plunged in again to
is the feeding of the young, for these are often fed
upon a diet quite difterent from that of the parent.
Instinct, not experience, guides the parents in their
selection of food. And the same is true of the sanita¬
tion of the nest, where the parents stimulate defeca¬
tion, and bear away the excrement.
The full-fed caterpillar which climb
places a girdle round its body
acts instinctively, performing th<
in its life, and without
Hut birds
be remembered,
trained
HUMAN INSTINCTS AND EDUCATION.
I N a recent address Professor John Adams, of the
London University, suggested that education
might be rendered easier, and more fruitful of
results, if it were directed towards " manipulating
the instincts ” through the " emotions.” He who
essays this task, however, will find himself treading
a very thorny path. For, in the first place, opinions,
even among the elect, are very much
divided as to what we mean by _
“ instinct.”
The rendering of the term given
by Professor Lloyd Morgan, our great¬
est authority on the subject, is the
most generally accepted. According
to him, instinct, or “ instinctive be¬
haviour," is " that which is, on its
first occurrence, independent of prior
experience ; which tends to the well¬
being of the individual and the pre¬
servation of the race ; which is simi¬
larly performed by all the members
of the same more or less restricted
group of animals ; and which may tie
subject to subsequent modification
under the guidance of experience.”
The term “ instinct " in regard to
human behaviour is commonly very
variously and loosely applied. And
this because, in the first place, it is
very difficult to say how much in
human behaviour is due to “ instinct,”
and, in the second, few people have
ever stopped to consider what is
meant by " instinct" in creatures
whose behaviour is largely due to the
functions of instinct.
I once had a magpie which H1GHE
afforded me an exceptionally good
opportunity of discovering what is ” The Cub.” d
meant by ” instinctive behaviour." aeroplane engin
This bird I reared from the nest. hundredweight
It came to me before its eyes had r ^‘
opened, for it was but a few days old. d ur P ot
Yet, when it grew up, it uttered all
the cries characteristic of its species, though, reared
in a London flat, it could never have heard the cries of
its species. It developed all the thievish ways of the
magpie. Similarly, it would hide all its surplus food
after the fashion of -its tribe, even though it had to
secrete its dainty morsels under a piece of old news¬
paper placed in the bottom of ijs cage instead of in the
earth. It learned to fly " instinctively.” I well
up a twig,
or spins itself a cocoon,
ie operation but once
ognisance of its meaning,
and beasts alike, it is to
in captivity can be
or ” educated ” to perform
feats which are not even remotely
akin to ” instinctive behaviour."
Because we can find so many proofs
of instinctive behaviour in the lower
animals, it seems to be commonly
assumed that man must be fashioned
to respond to a like control.
In man instinct has been almost
entirely superseded by the develop¬
ment of " reason.” Such vestiges of
instinct as remain to him have been
subordinated to reason. His varying
capacities for good or evil, his vary¬
ing capacities for the performance of
accomplishments such as playing the
piano, painting pictures, or wrestling
with the differential calculus, are due
to inherent tendencies which are rarely
transmissible in a like degree to his
offspring. We are more likely to suc¬
ceed in our educational experiments if
we set ourselves to discover, as early
as possible, what are the ” innate
tendencies ” of the individual, and to
develop these as far as possible, than
to frame a scheme of education based
on the assumption that we are
manipulating ” primitive instincts
common to the race.- -W. P. Pycraft.
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and each car has a separate name. Those of the
” parlour ” type are called the Calais, the Milan, and
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cars bear the names of Rosalind, Portia, and Palmyra.
They are 65 feet long, and will hold 129 passengers.
repeat the process, till at last, w
recognition, he managed to fly
a chair to preen himself dry.
fashion of magpies, in short,
experience.
Among wild birds one fi
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He bathed after the
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LADIES’ NEWS.
W E have their Majesties at Buckingham Palace once
more. There are to be no Courts this side of
Easter. It is probable, therefore, that when Parliament
has been opened, the King and Queen will go into residence
at Windsor for a while. The Royal Family all enjoy the
Castle in the spring, and the King and Princess Mary take
their daily rides in the Great Park. If. as it is said, their
Majesties, the Prince of Wales, and Princess Mary are to
be the guests next month of the Earl and Countess of Derby
at Knowsley, and to be present at Aintree for the Grand
National, it will be a crowded meeting indeed. Neither
the Prince nor Princess Mary has ever, I believe, seen
this great steeplechase, which would undoubtedly thrill
two such good sport-lovers greatly.
There are times when graceful and pretty and moderately
priced dressing is made remarkably convenient for us by a
firm of such splendid reputation as Liberty’s. Regent Street.
In their celebrated Yoru crfcpe, finished with hand-printed
Tyrian silk, they give a choice of dresses ready to wear in
three styles, and in sizes 13L 14, and 14) inch necks, at a
uniform price of 57s. 6d. The styles are charming, and
recently great improvements have been effected in the
workmanship of these dresses, and the Tyrian silk makes
a handsome and effective trimming. Some of the crfepe
is in plain colour dark-blue, purple, brown, ash-grey, reseda,
periwinkle blue, Wedgwood blue ; others are in silky-looking
mixtures—black-and-white, rose-and-white, cinnamon-and-
white. lily-leaf-green-and-white, and plumbago-biue-and-
white : all are very pretty.
Quite a handsome marine residence is Garron Tower,
which has been inherited by Mr. Winston Churchill through
his grandmother, the wife of the 7th Duke of Marlborough,
who was aunt to the late Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, to
whom it passed in the first instance. Twenty years ago
it was used as a hotel, having been leased for the purpose
by a Lame man. It has lovely views and very big rooms,
and proved a favourite holiday resort of people from
Lancashire. It is a place that, used as a private residence
(for which purpose it was built by the second wife of the
third Marquess of Londonderry, who was a great heiress,
and wished to employ the starving people of the district
in the great famine year), would require a big revenue for
its upkeep. The gardens are large and were excellent.
Also it was. when a hotel, only in the barest habitable repair;,
and a very large sum would have to be spent to bring it up
to date and redecorate it. It is on the lovely coast road
from Lame to Portrush, passing the Giant's Causeway,
but is much nearer to Lame. Not far off are the beautiful
falls of Glenariff in the Antrim Glens. There was a little
golf course in the grounds when last I saw it, but much in
the rough. As a hotel with some capital
expended it would probably yield a fair
income. There is some shooting on the
A PRETTY HOUSE DRESS.
Made of the celebrated Yoru crtpe, trimmed
with hand-printed Tyrian silk, this dress,
which comes from Liberty's, combines the
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place, and in these motor transport days
it is not out of the way of many places
of interest and beauty spots in Antrim.
There are some extraordinary satin foulards, printed
cr6pes-de-Chine, and silk brochls ready for the West End. 1
have seen a few dozen of them in the piece, and my eyes ache
when I think of them. The colours are bright, the designs
bold and big ; altogether they are striking materials—how
they will strike British women I cannot prognosticate.
Personally, I should feel like a perambulating poster arrayed
in any one of them. These feelings I had to disguise from
the courteous man who showed them to me, and who was
manifestly as proud as a peacock with them. British girls
have made considerable excursions into colour during the
past season ; but women who have the reputation for dress¬
ing really well distrust vivid hues gravely.
There are royal residents again at Esher in the persons
of Prince and Princess . Alfonse of Orleans, who are living
there in order to be near their three younjg sons, whose
education is to be thoroughly English. Princess Alfonse
was born at Eastwell Park, being the youngest daughter of
the late Duke of Edinburgh. She is very pretty, petite, and
high-spirited ; and made a run away marriage with Prince
Alfonse, who is a cousin of the King of Spain. Part of their
honeymoon was spent on Brownsea Island, placed at their
disposal by Mrs. Charles Van Raalte. Their matrimonial
escapade was soon forgiven, and for some time they lived
in Madrid. Princess Alfonse loves England, and loves her
boys ; she always said that she hoped, if she had children,
they would all be boys. Hers are fine little fellows
The Prince of Wales seems to be in for a busy life again,
having made many engagements. It is, however, his
intention to get in as much hunting as possible. His Royal
Highness likes going with various packs over different
country ; but it is said that so far he has found nothing
that suits him better in every way than the Pytchley. He
has no present wish to take permanent hunting quarters.
The King and the Prince are. I am now told, certainly going
to see the Grand National : the Queen and Princess Mary’s
plans are not yet fixed. Knowsley is a splendid place run
in a grand way. Lord Derby long had a gentleman comp¬
troller of his household. Major Milner, who married the late
Caroline Duchess of Montrose when she had been a widow
for some years, has filled the position for some time. He
was, of course, serving in the war, as he had also served in
the South African campaign, but is back at his post now,
to the great satisfaction of all concerned. A. E. L.
Egyptologists will doubtless have noticed that one of the
photographs of excavations at Tell-el-Amarna given in our
last issue (Feb. 5)—that showing the forehall of a tomb—
was printed upside down, a fact that might not be evident
to the casual observer. It was an unfortunate oversight,
and we draw the attention of our readers to the mistake
at the earliest possible moment.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 12. 1921 —220
impressive ceremony surrounded by all the panoply
that officialdom could provide. There is something
characteristic of the French nation in this delay—
the inability to conclude any plan at once, even though
unanimously agreed upon and in circumstances where
there would seem to be no hindrance to its com¬
pletion. Yet the instinct of the Frenchman is in¬
variably to procrastinate, and endless delays ensued.
When the coffin containing the remains of the
Unknown Warrior was first placed " temporarily ”
beneath one of the arches of the Arc de Triomphe,
it was deemed even unnecessary to rail off the en-
AN EX-CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
ON NATIONAL FINANCE.
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Paris.
“ J IN accord parJait des Allits ” is a very reassuring
headline in a leading French newspaper to¬
day, and one which heralds a paean of praise of British
statesmanship—very pleasant reading to us Britishers
this side of the Channel after months of rather bitter
comments upon the genera] policy of Great Britain.
Through a week of extraordinary tension we emerged
into the smooth waters of an accord par/ait, to find
the Entente once more a real
and living thing. _
In order to understand
really what the question of
reparations means to this . r
country, one has only to talk j•
to a bourgeois family, as I did “ — _ M
a few days ago, and hear them ^
tell, in simple language, calmly - » ***
and without exaggeration, of SB
their ruined home and mill in
Roubaix, of the stolen ma¬
chines, irreplaceable in these
days, of the damage to pro-
perty assessed by Government ra
experts at nearly a million
francs. Of the five years of
war and consequent privations
nothing is said, “ but we have
had nearly two years’ Peace
and still not a franc of the in¬
demnity has been paid ; in the
meantime one has to live.” I
take this case because I hap¬
pen to know of it first hand,
but multiply it a hundredfold,
nay, a thousandfold, if you
like, then you will begin to
understand the feeling of this
country, the feeling of despair
at the endless delays in bring¬
ing Germany to book.
It would be impossible to
exaggerate the effect that this unanimous decision of
the Allies has had on the French people : already
there is an atmosphere of fresh hope, a stimulus to
work which has been painfully absent for many
months. The success of the Conference, too, has
assured to M. Briand and his Cabinet a continuance
of the confidence of the people,
After a delay of nearly two-and-a-half months,
the remains of the “ Unknown Poilu ” have at last
been laid in their permanent resting-place, amid an
MR. MCKENNA’S GREAT SPEECH AT THE MEETING OP
THE LONDON JOINT CITY AND MIDLAND BANK.
T HE Right Hon. Reginald McKenna’s speech as
Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland
Bank, Ltd., at its recent General Meeting, was far
more than an ordinary statement of the domestic
affairs of a great banking house. It was a masterly
review of the nation’s financial and economic position,
and a forecast of the policy
needed to restore our pre-war
commercial prosperity. Mr.
McKenna, of course, has him¬
self been in charge of the
national purse, as Chancellor of
- [uer in 1915-16, and
the Excheqi
his words, therefore, carry great
weight, and have aroused world¬
wide interest. The great need
of Europe, he pointed out, is
peace. The various Govern¬
ments have not yet accepted
its conditions. Once they do
so, ” paper currency will cease,
the exchanges will be stable,
confidence will revive, and full
employment will follow. " Our
financial policy," he said,
” should be one which will
stimulate production and trade.
. . . The only condition under
which forty - seven millions of
people can live in these islands
... at all, is that our out-put
should be up to the highest
level of our industrial capacity,
and that the surplus of goods
which we do not consume our¬
selves should be freely ex¬
changed for the imported food
and raw materials which are
essential to our existence."
Regarding the London Joint City and Midland
Bank itself, of whose annual report he gave a
lucid and encouraging account. Mr. McKenna said
that the management’s guiding principles were to
keep the bank strong and to help the country’s
trade and industry. " Our balance-sheet," he said,
” indicates not only exceptional strength and
liquidity, but also gives proof of the great effort
the bank has made to meet the legitimate demands
of customers.”
THE FIRST TEST MATCH, BEFORE A HUGE AUSTRALIAN CROWD: GREGORY, “ABOUT THE FASTEST
BOWLER NOW PLAYING CRICKET,” BOWLING TO HOBBS.
Writing (from Melbourne) to the “Star” the other day, J. B. Hobbs, the great English batsman, said: “The First Test
Match . . . Australia won by 377 runs. The game took five days to play ; the aggregate score was 1319, with an average
of roughly 264 runs a day. The outstanding feature was the magnificent innings of Warwick Armstrong, who scored 158.
Gregory is about the fastest bowler now playing cricket, and, mark you, a very fine bowler. I have heard all sorts of
remarks made about the manner in which he makes a ball ' kick,' but with his stature and the height of his delivery,
how can he avoid making a ball get up ? [Photograph by Central Pres*.)
closure, since it was only for a few days. Eventually
the Press took the matter up. The authorities were
urged to make the final arrangements, so that the
Allied Premiers could assist at the culminating cere¬
mony during their sojourn in Paris. As for the
decorations, the highest grade of the Legion d’Honneur,
the Croix de Guerre, and the M6daille Militaire were
placed on the coffin, as a tardy recognition of service
rendered to La Patne. Thus all parties were satis¬
fied ; all sensibilities soothed. “ Requiescat in pace.”
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A ND now is the time most ol all when she
must guard against Pyorrhea—or those pretty
white teeth will loosen, her firm pink gums
soften and inflame, and perhaps Pyorrhea's infecting
germs will bring a train of other ills.
Medical science has discovered that certain changes
take place in the organic secretions of women
approaching maternity—changes that make them
susceptible to Pyorrhea.
The prospective mother may end Pyorrhea troubles
before they begin. Let her start to use Forhan’s
For the Gums to-day. It will prevent the disease
if used in time, and used consistently. Ordinary
dentifrices cannot do this. Forhan’s will keep the
gums hard and healthy—the teeth white and clean.
Hou) to use For ban’s
Use it twice daily,, year in and year out. Wet your
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Use a rolling motion to clean the crevices. Brush the
grinding and back surfaces of the teeth. Massage
your gums with your Forhan-coated brush—gently
at first until the gums harden, then more vigorously.
If the gums are very tender, massage with the finger
instead of the brush. If gum shrinkage has already
set in, use Forhan's according to directions, and
consult a dentist immediately for special treatment.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Fid. 12. 1021 222
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
Licensing Chaos. Be,ore the of ,ast ^ ar ;T a *
soon as it became apparent that
the Ministry of Transport intended to rush the Roads
Bill though Parliament before the Christmas recess—
it was obvious that there must be a breakdown of
the arrangements for the issue of motor-car licenses.
It was pointed out by responsible people that it would
serve all reasonable purposes if the new duties were
collected in the ordinary way. leaving the details of
The photograph shows how grease is retained by felt pads for the
of the springs
licensing and registration for more mature considera¬
tion than was possible in the time allotted to them.
As usual, the Minister of Transport refused to listen
to the voice of reason, and the Roads Bill was pushed
through with the aid of the big stick, and the inevitable
result has followed. The licensing authorities are
hopelessly in arrears with their work. Some of the
County Councils are quite ten thousand issues behind,
and there seems to be no reasonable prospect of these
arrears being overtaken by the end of the present
month. The authorities have been driven into a
most undignified position in consequence of this lack
of foresight. Before the end of last year the Minister
of Transport announced that, in order to give the
motorist time to get used to the new regulations,
it had been decided not to enforce the carrying of
the license on cars until February i. The date has
passed, and the greater proportion of cars one sees on
the roads do not display the objectionable badge,
for the very good and sufficient reason that their
owners have not been able to obtain it. They have
paid their taxes, but there is " nothing doing " in the
issue of the license and registration book. So it is
announced that the police have had instructions
not to enforce too literally the regulations in connection
with the display of the license until such time as the
county and county borough councils have been able
to complete the issue. It will be observed that, in
this case, there is no talk of a '* concession ” to the
motorist—nothing but an implied admission of failure.
Stupid Methods. *' ,ha “ vcra ? < ‘ ca l >aUe
of thinking in business like terms,
there would have been no occasion for all the chaos
that exists. The L.C.C. is an exception to the general
rule and has done well. One can go to the issuing
office in London, pay the tax, and be handed the
license over the counter. The registration book, being
a somewhat complicated document, is
not issued at the time, but comes by
post later on. There may be other
authorities equally alive to what is un¬
doubtedly the best way of dealing with
matters, but most do not appear to
have even thought a!>out this method.
What happens in most cases is that the
car-owner attends at the licensing office
and pays his tax. Instead of the license
being filled in and
handed over at
once, he receives
a form of receipt
for his money
with the intimation
that the documents of the
case will be sent on later. It
does not seem to have occurred
to the brilliant intellects re¬
sponsible that it is just as
easy to fill in the license as
to write out a receipt, and
that by so doing, time—-and
therefore money — could lx*
saved ; while the letter of the
law would be observed by the
motorist, and there would be
no need to confess that the
organisation has broken down- -
as undoubtedly it has. The
more one regards the situa¬
tion, the more the conviction
grows that the purpose of
the license, etc., is not, as
the Minister of Transport
claims, to safeguard the motor¬
ist against the theft of his
car, but to ensure that the
Government gets his money
down on the nail. If any¬
thing more were needed to
show the utter futility of
bureaucratic methods, it is the working of the new
motor licensing scheme. W. W.
“ Whitaker's Almanack ” for 1921, now in its
fifty third year, contains various new features and
extensions which add to the value of this indispens¬
able work. The chief additions include a key to the
surnames of Peers and to courtesy titles, a table of
Administrations from 1804 to 1920, fresh sporting
records, historical sketches of England, Wales, Scot¬
land, and Ireland, and accounts of the principal cities
of Great Britain. The geographical section contains
new articles on a number of countries—such as
Russia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Kenya, Egypt, and
others—whose conditions have been greatly changed
since the war. The new " Whitaker ” is printed on
paper of pre war quality, the price of which has risen
from {18 a ton in 1914 to ^88 a ton. The price of the
book (paper cover, 3s. net ; cloth, 7s. 6d. net) has con¬
sequently increased, but not in the same proportion
ROUNDING THE FIRST BEND OF A STEEP LONDON GRADIENT: A 19.6-H.P.
CROSSLEY AT THE TOP OF NETHERHALL GARDENS.
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first comer on third speed and then engages fourth speed. The ascent up Netherhall Gardens
and Heath Street to the Spaniard's Walk, is taken on top, without stress. This car easily
does over 60 m.p.h. on the level. [Pkotograpk by F. King and Co.]
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right kind of sweet to keep them
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Regularly, each week-end, enter your
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Mackintosh's Toflee-de-Luxe it made in
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Try also Chocolate Toffee-de-Laxe,
sold at I/- per j lb.
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THE PLAYHOUSES.
blank verse ; and the Juno of Miss Tree has the
right air and gait of majesty.
‘HANKY PANKY JOHN.** AT THE PLAYHOUSE
A good breezy farce based on perfectly innocent
materials is too rare a thing not to be welcomed
with gratitude and enthusiasm. Mr. Basil Macdonald
Hastings supplies us with that rarity at the Playhouse
in his deliriously funny story of " Hanky Panky John.”
It is a farce of self-sacrifice in which you see some ten
or more persons each confessing to theft to shield
somebody else, and in which the mystery of " Who
stole the /too note ? ” is kept most amusingly a
mystery until the last possible moment. The joke on
which all depends is spun out rather fine, but the
author’s inventiveness and high spirits are so un¬
flagging in his variations on his theme that to the
very end he keeps his audience roaring with laughter.
A dozen clever players help Mr. Stanley Logan to
keep the fun fast and furious, the happiest perform¬
ances, perhaps, coming from Miss Kate Cutler and
Mr. Weguelin.
SIR HARRY LAUDER AT THE PALACE.
A few words of greeting are due to Sir Harry Lauder,
who returns to the Palace after his long absence in
America and elsewhere, and contrives to hold the stage
for an hour and a half and leave it with his audience
still asking for more. His gift of characterising
every one of the Scottish types he presents in his turns
has suffered no eclipse, there has been no coarsening
of his art. and his new songs are as good as his old
whether in the vein of humour or of pathos. Of his
novelties, the sentiment of his ” Somebody Waiting
for Me ” was so much to his first-night hearers’ liking
that they quickly caught up the refrain ; but they
took just as heartily to his study of an old buck re¬
calling the love triumphs of his youth. Their wannest
welcome, however, was reserved for the familiar but
still brilliantly acted “ Saftest ol the Family.”
“THE TEMPEST.” AT THE ALDWYCH.
T HERE was magic on Prospero’s island, and it is
this quality which Miss Viola Tree aims at
bringing out in her Aldwych presentation of “ The
Tempest.” But she has also engaged Mr. Louis
Calvert as ” producer,” and it looks as if he had
different ideas. And there are similar differences
in the artistic methods of the players. One is
certainly conscious of a lack of harmony in the
interpretation. The Prospero of Mr. Henry Ainley
realises that he is speaking poetry, but, with all
his dignity and charm of intonation, is too caress¬
ing and gentle with his Ariel and lacks forceful¬
ness in his treatment of Caliban. The Miranda of
Miss Joyce Carey—a joy to the eye, an incarnation of
girlish innocence—misses at times the music of her
lines. Mr. Lister’s Ferdinand, on the other hand, was
a trifle too effeminate. The Stephano of Mr. Ambrose
Manning and the Trinculo of Mr. Hatherton are on the
right lines; but Mr. Louis Calvert, strangely enough,
makes Caliban altogether too refined and unbarbaric
a monster. Miss Winifred Barnes, a plump and even
coquettish Ariel, sings sweetly, if hardly at home in
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T HE woman juror lost no time in asserting
both her capability and her individuality ;
the former by her grave decorum and steadiness
throughout a murder trial, the latter by the calm
production of her knitting in Court. Although
the Judge winked at the clicking needles, in virtue,
perhaps, of the First Otlenders Act, the Bench
does not intend to accept that as a precedent.
Knitting, it is true, may be to .1 woman what a
pipe is to a man (Miss Mitford, by the wav, held
sewing to be the great feminine sedative), but
pipes in the jury-box are little likely to be justified
by the fact that men used to take tobacco, un-
rebuked, in church. That license may have arisen
from the sharp division between the parts of the
church reserved to the clergy and
the laity respectively. Tobacco in
the Sanctuary itself is unthinkable ;
hence it may not be correct to
argue that the Law has always
been more jealous of her sanctities
than Religion.
It may be questioned, however,
whether knitting in the jury-box
is altogether on a parallel with
pipes or newspapers. It is cer¬
tainly not, as one fervent person
declares, the final proof of woman's
judicial incompetence. News-sheets
in jurors’ hands are plain con¬
tempt, for they imply inattention
and possible prejudice to the case.
Pipes, while, free from that cen¬
sure, suggest too readily the ease
of the fireside or the tavern. The
atmosphere of law-courts, too, i 9
usually thick enough as it is. But
the soothing, rhythmical, mechani¬
cal process of knitting leaves a
woman’s mind free, and may even
help judgment. It annoys no one
if the knitter be perfectly expert;
and only the expert, to whom the
pursuit has become second nature,
would draw out her work in Court.
For all that, there are objections.
The difficult turning of a heel
might lead the knitter to miss
fine points of evidence or argu¬
ment. And the prisoner might
object, on grounds of sentiment.
A well-read man. on trial for his
life, could hardly escape uncomfort¬
able memories of the Vengeance
and her knitting women around
the Guillotine. Yet, on the score
of the fair juror's attention, he
might find a crumb of comfort
even there. The Tricoteuses. seem-
ingly preoccupied, were minutely
alert to the main business, and
never lost count of a single head.
Twenty-three !
This month of February, that
has seen the sad falling off of St.
Valentine, sees also the decline and
final failure of a sturdy New Year
resolution. No resolve, perhaps,
shows so copious a written (or
unwritten) record of its futility,
or erects so large a monument to
the frailty of human endeavour, But record and
monument alike remain invisible and unknown,
except to the individual defaulter. Failure seems
to prove no deterrent. The resolve and its decay
are both the hardiest of annuals.
Already the conscience-stricken will have caught
our drift. He sees before him a neat little accusing
volume, daintily clad in morocco or fragrant
Russia leather (if the latter still exists), and set
out with tempting spaces for the record of three
hundred and sixty-five strenuous days, or three
hundred and sixty-six in Bissextile, or Leap Year.
Not often did he purchase it himself, but it came
to his hands inevitably. Some kind friend or
other, at his wits' end for a gift at the Season of
Gifts, fell back on this pleasing little token.
Always it awoke the desire to keep it faithfully
and without break until the very last day of
December. Vain aspiration 1
The very earliest of these possessions still
exist, in the far and dusty recesses of an old-
fashioned bureau, their leather jerkins frayed and
faded, their guardian elastic bands perished past
all ductility, but with time, not with use, for they
are " come to forty year '' this many a day, and,
for the most part, blank. The entries, in large
text, sadly disproportionate to the space available,
how odd. how pathetic they seem to the eye of
middle age ; queer childish chronicles of holiday¬
making, of snow or skating, of this party and
that, and then, perhaps, the sure consequence
of overmuch festivity. " In bed to-day, very
sick last night " ; and once, oddest of all, a passage
shamelessly and inaccurately copied from a news¬
paper : " Rome, Thursday, Pope Pius IX. is ded.”
The force of effort could no further go. With
the demise of the Pontiff, the rec >rd dies also.
Nor are later volumes more reassuring. Here
and there, perhaps, the writ may run into March or
April, with longer and drearier intervals betv, en
the recorded days, but always with one event, a
dwindling of trivialities, and then—the rest is
silence. Once and once only, in the particular
case in mind, the entries persevered without break
into September. It was the penultimate year
of war, and continuous effort may have been
stimulated and supported by the strenuous times.
Perhaps the strangest note is that which shows the
Diarist reading the Georgies with a pupil while the
daylight air-raid on London was in progress. No
particular equanimity is implied ; for the attack
meant nothing more to the students than a dull
growl on the horizon It may be that such efforts
are made in too small compass. The real diarists,
those admirable men and women of character,
work on a larger canvas. Their day-book is a
goodly tome of fair blank leaves unhampered by
prescribed spaces. They set down their own dates
and are as brief or as voluminous as they please
or as matter demands. Vet the little diary is
not to be despised. Vscd as a record of engage¬
ments. it stands an excellent chance of being fully
posted with informal and usually anticipatory
entries, which through lapse of time become a
useful retrospective memorial.
These pleasant pocket companions are older
than might be supposed. In the Rosenborg
Palace at Copenhagen is a little
diary that might be in all respects
of format the work of a modem
publisher. It belonged to Chris¬
tian IV.. who wrote in it with great
care and neatness of penmanship;
how consistently as to daily post¬
ing one cannot say. for the treasure
lies locked away under glass with
only two pages visible. But the
presumption is that the monarch
was not slack in his chronicle of
minor jottings.
The diarists’ failure may be a
sad evidence of human irresolution,
evidence to convict the desultory
and unstable mind. But diarists,
it would seem, are born, not made:
for your Pepys, your Evelyn, your
Greville, your Amiel, and your
Bashkirtseff rank, in their degree,
with the poets and historians. They
are impelled to their gr**at work by
some native fervour akin to genius.
For the most part we are common¬
place people, with few things really
worth recording in our lives. Small
wonder, then, that the twelve-
months’ end finds the ruck of
miniature diaries with so many
virgin pages, and that February
sees a conclusion as notably abrupt
as that of VVarton’s " History of
English Poetry.”
But hope springs < temal from
generation to generatn n. A little
girl of our acquaintance, tongue
out and head o»i arm, is even now
at the old game. Her diary is her
present hobby, but grey experience
knows that its days, in a double
sense, are numbered. Eheu fugaces 1
But flying Time, that steals
away so much, is not wholly a
thief. It is also the great com¬
pensation balance of life. Dean
Inge might very well have made
that point in his recent remarks
on the future of public schools,
now j eagerly sought after by
the New Rich for their sons. The
Dean is right when he says that,
despite the threats of Labour, it
will not be an easy matter to
destroy an institution supported
by such enthusiastic loyalties and valued even
by the ” illiterate profiteer and his like.” It
will not be easy, and the Dean would find com¬
forting support in Disraeli’s ” Endvmion,” which
gives indirectly much hope for the profiteer’s
son. That young man is likely to prove one
of the strongest upholders of our great educa¬
tional traditions. Disraeli, recalling the current
opinion of 1832 that the new men in the first
Reform Parliament, with their different education,
manners, and modes of thought, would dissipate
the ” enigmatic tradition ” of the House of Com¬
mons. notes that after a short time ” the old
material, though less in quantity, leavened the
new’,” and in five years the House had recovered
“ much of its serene, and refined, and even
classical character.” As with Parliament, so it
w- ll be with the great public schools, and here,
i ., elsewhere, the whirligig of time will bring its
inevitable revenges. J. D. S.
THE VICTORIOUS LEADER OF THE IMPERIAL ELEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA;
GENERAL SMUTS.
General Smuts, as leader of the South African Party, in which the former Unionist party merged
itself for the recent elections, has won a notable victory at the polls, giving him a majority of
more than twenty over all orher parties. The main issue was the maintenance of the Imperial
connection, as against the Nationalist proposal for secession and a Republic. -\Photo&rapk by Topical.]
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ABDICATION IN
SWAZILAND: THE BLIND OLD QUEEN’S LONG REIGN.
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THE “ SHE . ELEPHANT ” IN HER ROBE OF LEOPARD SKl$, ADDRESSING HER DUSKY WARRIORS FOR THE LAST TIME :
LABOTSIBENL WHO HAS RULED THE SWAZIS FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS, ABDICATING
THE OLD QUEEN
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EXHAUSTED AFTER HER SPEECH AT THE ABDICATION CEREMONY,
AND UNABLE TO CLIMB INTO THE CAR : THE OLD QUEEN RESTING.
•_ i THE PARAMOUNT CHIEF BHUZA (RAISING HIS ARM) - SHOWN" TO
THE CHIEFS AND TROOPS . A CEREMONY BEFORE THE QUEEN.
A Mi cation*, including those of the Kaiser and the late Tsar, became rather
frequent in Europe as a result of the war, and it is an interesting comparison
to see bow such an occasion is conducted among a more primitive people, the
Swazis of South-East Africa. The abdication of the old Queen, or Chief Regent,
Labotsibeni, generally known among the natives as “ Ndhlovukazi ” (She-Elephant),
took place at the Royal Kraal, at Zombode, on December 31 last. A woman
of great ability and strong character, she was the chief wife of the late King
Mbandeni, and since his death in 1888 had ruled the Swazis firmly and well.
under the protection first of the South African Republic, and later of the British
Government, until age and infirmity compelled her to retire. She has always
disliked being photographed, and once knocked a camera out of a Government
official’s hand with her stick. In the top photograph she is seen making a
farewell speech to her troops. Beside her is Mandanda, Chief Induna of the
Royal Kraal (stooping). The Queen is also seen in the left-hand middle photograph,
next to Nomawa (extreme left), mother of Prince Bhuza. The Swazis are a
warlike Kaffir tribe, who fought for the British against the Zulus.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
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OF THE ADMIRALTY.
THE NEW MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE :
LIEUT.-COL. SIR ARTHUR GRIFFITH-
BOSCAWEN, M.P.
THE NEW SECRETARY FOR WAR
SIR LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS, BT.
THE NEW FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY
LORD LEE OF FAREHAM.
THROUGH ILL - HEALTH
CROOKS. P.C.. M.P., TH1
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rHE RAILWAY LEADER WHO
JEMANDED INQUIRY INTO IRISH
SHOOTINGS : MR. J. BROMLEY.
A WELL-KNOWN IRISH MAGIS¬
TRATE SHOT DEAD NEAR CORK :
MR. ALFRED REILLY.
MOVER OF THE ADDRESS IN THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS : MR. J. C. C. DAVIDSON. M.P.
RECENTLY SUCCEEDED TO A PEERAGE
THE NEW LORD TERRINGTON.
W* • or, hington - Evans has succeeded Mr. Churchill
WalV i° rd Le * ° f * ?areham ** First Lord of the Admiralty
sur Zt Un * through ill-health), and Sir Arthur
ceeds Lord Lee as Minister of Agriculture.-Mr. Will C«
. f ” ?>ected Labour Member, has sat for Woolwich since 190
^ * “"I**"*! regret.-Sir William Richmond, the famous
Gene *1 c * Hammersmith home on February 11, aged 78.—
fa ecret *ry of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engin
demanded a public enquiry into the shooting of rail way men at Mallow, threatening
a strike if it were not granted.-Mr. Alfred Reilly, a magistrate and prominent
business man, of Douglas, near Cork, was recently shot dead while driving home.
-The Address, on the King's Speech, at the opening of Parliament on Febru¬
ary 15, was 4 &>ved in the Lords by the Duke of Abercom and seconded by Lord
Gorell. In the Commons the mover was Mr. J. C. C. Davidson (C.U.), M.P. for
Heme! Hempstead.-The first Lord Terrington died on February 8, and is
succeeded by his son, the Hon. Harold J. S. Woodhouse, whose portrait we give.
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Cbe World’s Greatest Exploring itdoenture:
WILL MOUNT EVEREST BE CLIMBED 7
By GEORGE D. ABRAHAM,
Author of “ The Complete Mountaineer“On Alpine Height * and Britith Crag"Motor Way i in Lakeland.” "Surf** Mountain Climht,“ etc., etc.
A T last puny man is to try his luck against the
giant mass ol Mount Everest. The world’s
highest ground, or snow, rises 29,141 feet above
sea level, and dominates a vast array of moun¬
tains which form the national boundary between
Nepaul and Tibet. The great virgin summit is
wreathed in eternal snow. Its supporting bastions
.ire sheathed in ice and bulwarked by huge pre¬
cipices, where monster avalanches thunder and
roar, whilst fierce storms wage unceasing war on
the earth’s uttermost stronghold. At first sight
it seems like a gamble against Fate, with human
life as the stake, for man to attempt the conquest.
Vet these grim terrors and the added difficulties
of mere existence on the real roof of the world
but increase the keenness to these sporting
Britons who hope to plant our flag on the summit.
At the outset the odds will be on the side of
the mountain ; but
pluck and skill will
prevail. The .writer
fixes five years as
the shortest pos¬
sible time for final
success.
In the first place.
Mount Everest is
not an easy moun¬
tain In the same
wav as Mont Blanc.
It has been actually
seen by few white
men. and no one
has viewed it from
every side. In the
only genuine photo¬
graph of it, which is
taken from a south¬
westerly direction,
at a distance of
about sixty miles,
the ascent looks, to
an expert, almost
impossible. The
hope lies on the
opposite side.
An expedition,
organised by the
Alpine Club and the
Koval Geographical
Society, is to start
in March or April,
and after reaching
Darjiling, their ob¬
ject will be to reach
and reconnoitre especially the Tibetan sides of the
mountain. Next year the real attempt will begin.
Up to the present, entry into the Forbidden Land
has been impossible for political reasons ; but the
Indian Government has made arrangements to
permit the passage of the expedition to the base
of the mountain. Jomo Kang Kar, or Our Lady
of the Snows, is an object of reverence and wor¬
ship by the natives, and they may resent the
intrusion of white men on their lofty shrine.
Yhere have been several former expeditions
to other parts of the Himalaya, and most of them
have had trouble with the natives. As long ago
as the years 1854-58 some very remarkable climbs
were made by the two brothers Adolf and Robert
Schlagcntweib, who reached a height of 22,259
feet on the great peak of Kamet (25,443 feet).
After this, Adolf crossed the Karakoram Pass,
and was murdered at Kashgar. Then, in 1895,
1 he attack on Nanga Parbat by A. F. Mummery
came to u m\itcrious end. At the base of this
magniileeiu icy oltfisk the climbers divided,
f'hc leader ot the pai*v, with two natives, was to
cross a short pass /rom the viest to the north side
of the mountain, and meet the main part of the
expedition, who had travelled r.mnd by a longer
route. After bidding farewell to his friends.
Mummery and his companions were never seen
again. No trace was ever found. Those who knew
the skill of the greatest of British mountaineers
cannot believe that an avalanche caused disaster.
Yet these monster mountain falls will prove
one of the greatest dangers to the forthcoming
expedition. Everything is on an immense scale
in the Himalaya. Crevasses are thousands of
feet deep. A simple snowslide in Scotland, or an
Alpine avalanche, becomes on the roof of the world
a tremendous cataclysm, which shakes the greatest
mountain to its very base, and which may be heard,
or even felt, fifty miles away. A more insidious
risk lies in the smaller avalanche started by human
agency. One attempt on Kangchcnjunga (28,150
feet), the third highest known peak, ended in
tTagcdy. From a camp 20.343 feet high, a section
of the party decided to descend, on account of
a difference of opinion. Three amateurs and three
coolies were crossing a snow-covered slope, when
two coolies on the middle of the rope slipped,
peeling the loose snow off with them. In an
instant all were carried off their feet and flung
down the icy slope, a veritable human avalanche.
Two Continental climbers were the only survivors.
The four bodies were not recovered until three
days later. They were buried under twelve feet
of solid snow.
The expedition to Mount Everest will find that
serious rock-climbing is encountered before the
valleys are left behind, but they will be well
equipped with skill and knowledge to meet, all
contingencies, as far as is humanly possible. The
real test will come when the 20,000-feet level is
gained. Even before this, that grim enemy,
mountain sickness, will have sorted out the weak¬
lings. and, gradually, only the soundest will remain
at the loftier camps. Youth will be served, and
this great lesson may take years in the learning,
for elder experts are slow to give way. Breathing
becomes fast, and even painful, for the hardiest
on the world’s highest places. The lungs seem
unable U> inhale enough of the thin air. so lacking
in oxygen, and progress becomes slower and
feebler the greater the altitudes gained.
Past records are not. apparently, encouraging.
As long ago as 1883, W. W. Graham reached a
height of 24.->oo feet on Kabru, and, despite
numerous attempts, it was not until 1909 that the
Duke of Abruzzi's party succeeded in adding a
mere 400 feet to this in his unsuccessful attempt
on Bride Peak. Mountain sickness and bad weather
had made the perfectly organised party fail at
a comparatively low level on Mount God wen
Austen (28,250 feet), the second in height to
Mount Everest.
If there are serious technical difficulties on
the final dome of the world, the ascent will prove
impossible, but there are rumours that on the
Tibetan side easy slopes lead to the summit.
Yet only one white man. Colonel Dudley
Ryder, the head
of the Government
Survey in India,
has seen it from
this side, and that
from fifty miles
away. Thus it is
evident that great
mysteries and
difficulties have to
be solved ere man
stands on the top
of the world.
Nevertheless, in
recent years, much
progress has been
made in establish¬
ing high camps
above a height of
20,000 feet, and
life has been spent,
more or less com¬
fortably, even with
meagre supplies.
Perhaps the most
remarkable climb¬
ing feat yet achieved
was that by l>r.
Longstaif and his
companions on Tri-
sul. Whereas other
altitude records
have been made on
the sides of peaks,
without achieving
the crowning con¬
quest, the English¬
man's party reached the real summit (23,406 feet).
Trisul is the highest actual mountain yet climbed.
It is of vital interest to note that they ascended
from a camp at 17,450 feet, to the summit,
23,406 feet, involving a climb of about 6000 feet,
in ten hours ; the descent being made in about
three hours. This wonderful tour de force is
encouraging for the Everest optimists.
Aeroplanes wall not be used by the expedition
at the outset. In fact, it is more than doubtful
whether they will be of any real use at all. Control
for landing purposes is impossible in the thin
upper air. and as oxygen cylinders have to be used
to; sustain the pressure-stricken airmen, on account
of the sudden uprush, it is evident that observation,
a difficult undertaking amongst mountains, will
be unreliable.
Thus, the aspirants to lofty distinction—not
extinction—must rely on the human element.
Perhaps the most important factor is the supply,
training, and proper equipment of the Nepalese
coolies. Given this, with young leaders of ab¬
solutely sound physique, perfect conditions of
weather and snow on the upper dome, the
hopes of ultimately reaching the top of Mount
Everest may be fulfilled.
A DIFFICULT FACTOR IN THE PROPOSED ASCENT OF MOUNT EVEREST: SLOW CLIMBING IN THE RAREFIED
AIR. WHICH MAKES BREATHING PAINFUL, AND RESTRICTS PROGRESS TO TWO OR THREE STEPS A MINUTE.
AT HIGH ALTITUDES IN THE ETERNAL SNOW.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
EVEREST, TO BE CLIMBED
THE DOME OF THE WORLD.
BY FEW
ITE MEN, AND BY NO ONE FROM EV
PHOTOGRAPHS, TAKEN FROM
t is the highest peak in the world is a commonplace
even higher than was thought, for a recent re-caJcu-
7 gives it 29,140 it., instead of 29,002 ft. Hitherto
vented any attempt to climb it, but these have now
Government has agreed to allow an expedition from
U * ltM precipitous, and plans are being made jointly
SRY SIDE : MOUNT EVEREST—ONE
A DISTANCE OF SIXTY MILES.
by the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical
will be reconnoitred by a party under Col. He
from Tibet, and Mr. Harold Raeburn, of the
aeroplanes has been abandoned. The reconm
into Tibet when the passes open, about the tm
climb the mountain will be made next year.
genuine
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 19 . 1921.—232
CLIMBING IN THE HIMALAYAS: PEAKS OVER WHICH EVEREST TOWERS.
Photograph ok Nano a Dkvi bv Spkciai. Permission or Captain T. G. Ixinostakf, F.R.G.S.
DESCRIBED AS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEAK IN THE WORLD : SINIOLCHUM
(OVER 22,000 FT.) SHOWING A HIGH CAMP IN THE HIMALAYAS.
.. THE BLESSED GODDESS" : NANDA DEVI, A GREAT TWIN-PEAKED HIMALAYAN
MOUNTAIN (25,660 FT.) WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN CLIMBED.
The Attempt on Everest will be a great Adventure, for many perils and hardships
confront the Himalayan climber—perils from icy slopes, rocky precipices, and
enormous avalanches ; hardships from intense cold, terrific winds, and blinding
snowstorms. Lastly, there is the unknown factor of the possibility of human
exertion in rarefied air at a height over 4000 ft. above any yet attained by man.
Acclimatisation for Europeans has been found po^ible up to 16,000 ft. after about
THE THIRD HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD, UNCLIMBED, AND THE SCENE OF A
TRAGEDY AT ONE ATTEMPT : KANGCHENJUNGA (28.150 FT.) FROM PANDIM, BELOW IT.
WHERE GREAT PEAKS. IN ICY ALOOFNESS, RISE ABOVE THE GLACIER-FILLED
VALLEYS : AT THE FOOT OF PANDIM, IN THE HIMALAYAS.
a fortnight’s residence. In Tibet yaks and ponies are the principal means of
transport. In his article on a previous page Mr. George D. Abraham describes
the conditions of climbing in the Himalayas, with details of former ascents, some
of them disastrous. One attempt on Kangchenjunga, he mentions, ended in
tragedy, a party of six, of whom four were killed, slipping and falling down an
icy slope. This mountain, he thinks, is not likely to be ever climbed successfully.
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Feb.
19, 1921.—233
THE HIGHEST PEAK YET SCALED
TRISUL.
" V S,,C ' At I. G .
THE HIGHEST ACTUAL SUMMIT HITHERTO CLIMBED: TRISUL (23,406 FT.), IN THE GARHWAL HIMALAYA.
ASCENDED IN 1007 BY CAPT. T. G. LONGSTAFF, F.R.G.S.-SUNRISE ON THE MOUNTAIN.
AbrthaiT m ° St , remarkabIe climbing feat yet achieved,” writes Mr. George D.
expedition “ **** artic,e on * P f evious page, discussing the prospects of the Everest
other altiti h *** ***** *** Dr ' Lon K 8taff 40d his companions on Trisul. Whereas
the crown- * feCOrda h * T * been made on the sides of peaks, without achieving
Trisul is th* , COn<,ueat ’ the Englishman’s party reached the real summit (23,406 ft)
s * highest actual mountain yet climbed. It is of vital interest to note
that they ascended from a camp at 17,450 ft to the summit, 23,406 ft, involving
a climb of about 6000 ft, in ten hours ; the descent being made in about three
hours. This wonderful tour de force is encouraging for the Everest optimists.”
Captain Longstaff is the son of of another famous explorer, the late Lieutenant-
Colonel Longstaff, and, besides his work in the Himalaya and Tibet, has climbed
in the Caucasus, Alps, Selkirk, and Rocky Mountains.
234 — THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 19. 1921
SOUTH AFRICA SAVED FROM THE MENACE «0 lOIi
Photographs iy
UNION BUILDINGS AT PRETORIA CAPITAL OF THE UNION OF SOUTH
AFRICA : THE EASTERN TERRACE AND GARDENS.
ON ONE OF THE FINEST SITO^
OF UNION BUILOlWjsj
WHERE LARGE OPEN SPACES, LOGGIAS,
THE ENTRANCE TO
A GORGEOUS SIGHT WHEN IN FLOWER : SOUTH AFRICAN ALOES ON A KOPJE
OUTSIDE UNION BUILDINGS. SEEN FROM THE MAIN ENTRANCE.
The result of the recent elections in South Africa, giving a strong majority to the South African Party led by General Smuts, removed the Nationalist menace of secession from
the Empire, establishment of a Republic, and possible civil war. The magnificent Union Buildings at Pretoria, situated about a mile and a half from Church Square, the centre
of the city, occupy a grand and imposing position upon the plateau below Meintjes Kop, a site which Lord Selbome described as the finest in the world. The architect waj
Mr. Herbert Baker, who has since designed some of the new Indian Government buildings at Delhi. The approach at Pretoria is by a carriage-drive which winds round and
passes in front of the main terrace. A series of steps and terraces were necessitated by the rise of the ground immediately in front of the central or amphitheatre block.
rising tiers in the auditorium have been cut out of the face of the hillside—a natural amphitheatre, originally designed for purely utilitarian purposes, which has provided one
of the finest possible architectural compositions. The buildings are grouped in three main blocks formed by eastern and western wings, connected with the great semi-circular
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 19, 1921.—235
IECESSION
NEW ADMINISTRATION
ns, Pretoria.
N THE WORLD: A GENERAL VIEW
M PRETORIA.
ountains
SUIT TH 1
COURTYARDS.
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
CROWNED WITH A FIGURE OF ATLAS IN BRONZE, LIKE THE TWIN TOWER
ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE CENTRAL BLOCK : THE EASTERN TOWER.
On each side of
ornamental ponds,
‘rts. with fountains and
offices, providing accommodation for about
U possible ; the stone came
lets are laid out
** to meet on March
the central block is a tower, crowned by a figure of Atlas in bronze. The space within the semi - circle is terraced, and at the bottom
crossed by bridges, stretch the length of the amphitheatre. The building has been designed to suit the climatic conditions of the south, pro¬
loggias, necessary to keep it cool and well ventilated. The most striking feature is, perhaps, the long, unbroken tiled roof. Each block
1500 officials. The whole building is in freestone resting on a base of local granite. South African materials have
from the Orange Fiee State, the granite bases are quite local, and South African woods have been used for the panelling of the
on the great French ahd Italian models, in broad lines and vistas. The whole is a noble piece of architecture. The new South African
4 * A portrait of General Smuts appears on “ Our Note-Book ” page in this number.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Fkb 19. 1921 236
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
by E. Timbrell, 1705. when Marlborough was in
the heyday of his power a year after Blenheim,
and when the Queen and the Duchess of Marl¬
borough in the Orangery in Kensington, over their
dish of tea. heard of the destruction of the English
settlements in Newfoundland by the French from
Canada. (Longfellow never made a poem of this
V / OOUND drawing,
^ a poetic vision,
* LJ rJ trap' and a fi ne sense of chiar-
oscuro in a land teeming
with rich subjects, have
been the characteristics of
the English school of water colours.
William Kent, fumi-
ture designer, land-
scape - gardener, sculptor qWJT _
of the wretched Shake-
speare monument in West-
minster Abbey, inventor
of massive cornices and chimneypieces,
when our older water-colour drawings were done.
Among a band of men who in the 'fifties, 'sixties,
and ’seventies continued the tradition of Sandby
and Varley, Girtin and Turner, was Thomas
Collier. The National Gallery of British Art at
the Victoria and Albert Museum contains ten
of his drawings, two of them given by that fine
connoisseur, James Orrock. At Christie’s, on the
nth, there were over a hundred drawings in
water-colours by Thomas Collier to choose from,
the property of Mrs. Thomas Collier. Among the
most noteworthy were ’’ Fittleworth Common,"
which brought £126; “ Snowdon," £89 ; " Sandhills
near Barmouth." £31: " A Summer Day. Sussex.”
£37 ; and “ On the
Hot her," £39.
An interesting
series covering
varied scenery and
catching fine mo¬
ments. Other pro¬
perties at the same
sale included draw¬
ings : "Solitude.’'
by Alphonse
Legros ; " Vnder-
cliff, Ventnor.” by
De Wint; a Birket
Foster, "The
Flock, Sunset," of
Christmas-card
size (4!in by 6$in.),
sold for £63; and
a more ambitious
" Loch Awe, Argyll¬
shire ” (10 in. by
14 m.), with a peas¬
ant woman driving
a herd of cattle
along a winding
road, brought £215.
In oils, Daubigny’s
" Le Coucher dc
Soleil ’’ was a poem
on a tiny panel,
and Mulready’s
*’ Beys Fishing ”
was hall-marked as
having been ex¬
hibited at Burling¬
ton House in 1881.
At Messrs.
Puttick and Simp¬
son’s on the nth,
there were sonic
fine items going.
Old English porce¬
lain and pottery,
glass, furniture and
Persian rugs
formed the menu.
The summit of
the day’s sale was
reached in a fine
Nantgarw dessert-
service painted
with groups and
sprays of flowers by
Billingsley, which brought £319, all the pieces
bearing the impressed mark "Nantgarw C. W."
(presumably China Works). There were thirty-two
pieces in all, mainly comprising fine decorative
dishes, square, oval, and shell-form. Billingsley,
that Mercury of the potteries, renowned for his
Toses sponged on dessert-services, was at Derby in
1796. then at Pinxton, then in Staffordshire, and
at Worcester with Flight and Barr from 1808 to
1811. at Nantgarw from 1812 to 1814, and again
from 1817 to 1819, when he left for Coalport.
He brought realistic Billingsley roses into English
porcelain, and his name is sufficient to endow any
service with possibilities for collectors’ cabinets.
Old English silver plate is always alluring,
and Messrs. Christie were selling on the 16th some
fine specimens from the collection of that well-
known connoisseur, Mr. D. M. Currie, of Campden
Hill Court, Kensington. There were two boat¬
shaped soy-frames with reeded edges, one 1793
and the other in the latter days of York, with
the assay mark 1801. (An oval bread-basket by
W. Cripps, 1752 (48 oz.), was a collector’s piece,
as was a Queen Anne Monteith, with masks holding
rings, chased with cherubs and fluting (68 oz ).
pots, one By Romer. 1764. and another by W.
Plimmer, 1765. reminiscent of Wilkes and his
expulsion from Parliament for the notorious
" No. 45 " in his North Briton, and a poem, " The
Essay on Women.” At the time when Plimmer
stamped his initials on his teapot, in 1765. there
were riots in America over the Stamp Act, re¬
lative to documents there being stamped and
paying a tax to Imperial funds. At the same
date, George III. showed signs of lunacy, and a
Regency Act was passed. A fine William and
Mary tankard, with corkscrew thumbpiece. 1689.
had the maker’s mark, " Y.T.” Two Irish casters,
chased with bands of foliage, by Stinley. of Dublin,
INTERESTING TO COMPARE WITH THE PRESENT REVIVAL: “THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ’—A PICTURE BY HOGARTH
COMING UNDER THE HAMMER.
This picture, one of Hogarth's three versions of Gay’s " Beggar's Opera,” recently revived at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, is included
in the sale of Old Masters and Early English pictures to be held at Christie's on March 18. In the foreground (left to right) are Lucy
Lockit (Mrs. Egleton), Lockit, the gaoler (Mr. Hall), Macheath (Mr. Walker), Polly (Miss Fenton, later Duchess of Bolton), and Peachum
(Mr. Hippisley). At the back are Mr. Rich, the manager (holding a book), Mr. Cock, auctioneer, and Gay. the poet (with a big wig). On
the right are Sir Robert Fagg (with stick under arm), a famous horse-racer, and Major Paunceford, a dandy, talking to the Duke of Bolton.
On the left are Lady Jane Cook, talking to Anthony Henley, Sir Thomas Robinson, Lord Gage, Sir Conyers Darcy, and another.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie , Manson, end Hoods.
1699, and a fine tazza, by Joseph Stoaker, of
Dublin, 1670, inscribed " The Gift of Richard
Hannay to Richard Jones, January the 12th,
1673," were fine pieces of Irish work, happily
removed from the Sinn Fein holocaust, where
art objects have a precarious life. A fine 6pergne
by William Cripps (72 oz.), with oval basket
pierced with diapers, the borders and stand chased
with gadrooning, scrolls and shells, is in date
1754; and a shell-shaped basket, the handle chased
with a caryatid figure and scrollwork, supported
on three feet chased as dolphins, was by Handler,
1756. A Queen Anne silver-gilt beaker and cover,
by F. Garthome, bore the arms and monogram
of Queen Anne.
Old Masters came up at Christie’s on the 18th.
Among the drawings, Boucher’s “ River Scene,"
in gouache, with mill and women washing, clothes,
exhibited his artistry’ outside boudoir subjects'.
J. Van der Cappelle, with " Men o’ War ” and
other boats becalmed at the mouth of a river,
stood on a reputation. A reputable Lawrence
was offered in the portrait of Mrs. Anastatia
Jessy Bonar, which comes from the Thomson-
Bonar collection. 1897. If one wanted to know
painter of altar-pieces in London churches, here
is the pinchbeck Leonardo da Vinci, adulated by
his generation, set forth in a portrait by Hayman,
a little man in a brown coat, with red cap, holding
a scroll, forgotten by posterity except as a curio.
Another feature of interest was Gilbert Stuart's
portrait of Admiral Nicholson, of the American
War of Independence. Winterhalter, once so
belauded, limped in as a last item with a por¬
trait of FTincess Marie of Baden, in lavender-
coloured dress, standing on a terrace.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century,
a collection was formed, now the property of a
lady, which comes to light and includes some
remarkable ex¬
amples of choice
engravings of the
Fre'nch and
English schools
which were sold on
February 18 by
Messrs. Putrick and
Simpson. A good
wine needs no bush,
and here is a vin¬
tage dating from
1800 and un¬
touched Aquatint
is an art coming
to the fore in the
auction-room.
Topographical
views are para¬
mount, but even
here there is a
touch of poetry.
Sporting subjects
include '' Foxhunt¬
ing." by and after
S. Howitt. a set
of six published in
1794. fine aqua¬
tints in colours. A
volume of Bun-
bury's illustrations
to Shakespeare,
with twenty plates,
finely printed in
colours, is a rarity,
and apart from
some fine portraits,
there is a splendid
" Miss Farren ”
(Countess of Derby)
by Bartolozzi, after
I^awrcnce, second
state, published in
1792 — a splendid
impression with un¬
trimmed margins.
Messrs. Sotheby'
are selling, on the
22nd, miscellanous
properties of furni¬
ture and porcelain.
A fine famille-verte
bowl and cover
stands out as of
rare distinction. It is decorated in colours in four
panels, with flowers and trees emblematic of the
Four Seasons. The silver mounts in foot, rim, and
the fine handles of scroll design of late seventeenth-
century style, are an alluring feature. The maker's
mark. "S. N.,” is several times repeated, but, as is
usual in mountings, was not submitted to any
assay office ; hence the date is indefinite. It is a
rare example, and commands respect. At the same
sale, the suntmum bonum of craftsmanship is
reached in a table illustrating the intense love of
the craftsman in the Sheraton era, for furniture
that was essentially compressible. Here it is
shown in a remarkable table with eight legs on
casters, capable of being stretched out as a dining
table, the leaves being added without a similar
movement of the legs. This is a unique speci¬
men of especial interest; it comes in touch with
Sheraton, and stands as a link between him and
the development of cabinet design by Gillow and
other later makers. This piece is by Wilkinson
of Ludgate Hill, of the time of Wellington, and
the maker saw the great pageant of the Duke's
funeral file past, when the Iron Duke made his
last journey to St. Paul's Cathedral.
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OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, FROM WINCHESTER CATHFDRAL.
THE GREAT TREASURE OF LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL : THE “ GOSPELS " OF ST. CHAD.
OF EIGHTH-CENTURY IRISH WORKMANSHIP-AN ILLUMINATED PAGE.
ST. EDMUND DISTRIBUTING ALMS : A PAGE FROM THE TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.
LIFE OF ST. EDMUND, LENT BY SIR GEORGE HOLFORD.
jy!^* Was recentl Y placed on riew for a short time at the Victoria and Albert
medf Uni 'i • Utl> - ^ ens ‘ n K ton > * highly interesting and important collection of
jj. Va Illuminated manuscripts. It originally consisted of MSS. from the
St C^hiL ^ Ur ^* m ^thedral, but notable additions were made. The earliest is
• u bert’s MS. of the Gospel of St. John, lent by the Rector of Stonyhurst
St c* h U . bd ° ngs to the century, and is said to have been found in
C0Tw . U . Cr *;* , l* r *ue when his body was transferred to Durham in 1104-5. The
r «* believed to be far the earliest decorated leather binding extant. Next in
PROBABLY THE EARLIEST DECORATED LEATHER BINDING EXTANT : THE SEVENTH-
CENTURY COVER OF ST. CUTHBERT'S MS. " GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN." FROM STONYHURST.
age is the eighth - century “Gospels ” of St Chad, believed to be of purely Irish
workmanship, lent by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral. It came to
St Chad's Church at Lichfield in the tenth century. It was removed for safety
during the Civil War, And restored to Lichfield by Frances Duchess of Somerset.
The Dean and Chapter of Winchester have lent, among other treasures, the
twelfth - century MS. Life of Edward the Confessor, by St. Ailred, Abbot of
Rievaulx. Sir George Holford lent two MSS., one, written at Bury St Edmunds
in the twelfth century, relating the life of St. Edmund, the Martyr King.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONlH)N NEWS. Ff.b. 19. 1»>21. 2Ti#
CONTAINING THE FINEST KNOWN K1VA: REMARKABLE PUEBLO RUINS.
Hv Cocrrntv of Ik. Ci.» *k Wissi.ek. Cmaihmw of tii* I^fartment of Astmhofoi/x-.v. American Minf.vm rr Xatcrai. History.
THE HICHEST WALLS (29 FT.) THAT ARE STILL LEFT STANDING :
THE CENTRE OF THE NORTH WING OF THE RUINS AT AZTEC.
MOWING THE ENTRANCE TO A KIl'A UNDERGROUND CEREMONIAL
CHAMBER) IN THE LEFT FOREGROUND : PUEBLO RUINS AT AZTEC
RESTORED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SIMILAR ROOMS STILL USED BY PRESENT-DAY PUEBLO INDIANS : THE INTERIOR OF AN ANCIENT KIVA,
OR UNDERGROUND CEREMONIAL CHAMBER, EXCAVATED IN THE RUINS AT AZTEC, NEW MEXICO.
TO PRESERVE THE RUINS FROM COLLAPSE OR DILAPIDATION : REPAIR¬
ING THE WALLS OF ROOM 41 IN THE EAST WING WITH CONCRETE
STILL IN POSITION WHERE THEIR ANCIENT OWNERS LEFT THEM
WILLOW MATS, PROBABLY USED FOR SLEEPING ON.
the American Museum with a view to presenting it to the United States
Government, to be made a National Monument Dr. Clark Wissler is reported to
have said that one of the kivas, or underground ceremonial chambers, excavated at
Aztec, is the finest and most perfect ever found in America, evidently the holiest
shrine of a prehistoric race. The Pueblos, or Pueblo Indians, are North
American aborigines who have always dwelt in pueblos (villages) or agricultural
settlements. There are four groups in New Mexico and Arizona. Symbolism is
highly developed in their religion and tribal customs, and has analogies with
ancient Aztec culture.
On the outskirts of the town of Aztec, in north-western New Mexico, lies a group
ruins, remains of dwellings of ancient Pueblo Indians. The largest and
best-preserved, an E-shaped structure with a row of one-storeyed rooms, is known
as the Artec Ruin. The ruin was discovered and first recorded by J. S. Newbury,
on August 4, 1859, while on an exploring trip for the United States Government
No systematic attempt was made to examine or excavate the site until 1916, when
the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, in
Hew York City, undertook the task. The ruin was formerly the property of Mr.
H. D. Abrams, of Aztec, New Mexico, but the site has since been purchased by
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. ,9. ,92, -239
THE LECTURE HABIT: A GROWING INTEREST IN BRITAIN
SPECIAL ARTIST.
A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT THAT IS INCREASING IN FAVOUR: A LECTURE ON “CAVES AND ROCK - SHELTERS
PAINTED AND ENGRAVED IN THE REINDEER AGE,” GIVEN AT SOUTH KENSINGTON BY THE ABB£ BREUIL.
r rea< *ers will remember that we hare more than once illustrated the wonderful
prehistoric rock-paintings discovered in Spain and France by the Abb£ Breuil,
rector of the Institute of Human Palaeontology in Paris. On February 9 he
* ave a deeply interesting lecture on the subject at the Institut Fran^ais du
oyaume Uni (University of Lille) in Cromwell Gardenf, South Kensington,
rofessor Arthur Keith was in the chair at the lecture. Mr. A. Forestier writes of
* *k° Te drawing : “ On the screen is shown a painting (found at Cogul, in
aastem Spain), in which some women are seen dancing round a small idol. These
prehistoric women wear short skirts like those of the present day. In fact, they
are shorter, for, in spite of their apparent length, they hardly reach down to the
knee. As it is, the composition is most remarkable, and it throws light on the
customs of people living some 20,000 years from the present day. The picture is
one illustrating the development of art among Paleolithic races, until it declined
and died about 10,000 years after its beginnings, to be replaced by new modes
of expression introduced by a new race, the Neolithic." General interest in such
lectures is growing apace.—(Oravtag Copyrighted m the United Slates and Canada.]
®t9N NEWS, Feb, 19, 1921.—241
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^ERS BIRTHDAY.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 19 . 1921.—242
THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE.
By J. T. CRE/N.
husband was rightly focussed, but entirely Brit¬
ish in every aspect of manner. Miss Alexandra
Carlisle, back from America with increased tech¬
nical accomplishments, and with Transatlantic
intonations which should be re-attuned to the
British pitch, was excellent in the passive scenes.
She was the " incomfnise " bored to tears, yearn¬
ing for love, to the life. But when she began
to *’ orate ” we discovered a certain punch-ball
directness which is so dear to American producers,
but in the calmer waters of the English stage
seems a little too obvious and vehement. Miss
Carlisle's charm is her voice ; she must not allow
it to be forced beyond its natural tenour. Much
praise has been given to Mr. Claude Rains for his
impersonation of the morphinised wreck, and
certainly, as a theatrical figure, it was both thrill¬
ing and poignant. It struck me, however, as more
pictorial than felt, more tour de force than reality,
more kinematographic in its restlessness than
inwardly dramatic. Make-up and manner were
telling to a degree, but I found his speech laboured ;
it did not convey the aloofness which is so peculiar
to dopers in the aftermath of their enchantment.
I infinitely prefer Mr. Claude Rains’s creation of
the flaneur in Gogol’s ” Inspector-General "—a
characterisation with a touch of genius, for which
he received not half as much praise as for this
lesser effort.
“ OOOZAN ! ’* *• Sue-zenn ! ” " Suz anne ! "—at
O length. Suzanne : that is how the actors at the
St James’s mishandle the cosiest name of French
womanhood. ” Daniel ” fares a little better ; there
are only two varieties : Daniel b VA nglaise, with
the accent on the first syllable—or Daniel b la
Parisienne, with lingering on the ” 61 .” These
cacophonisms are mere trifles, some will say, but
one has no idea how disturbing they are to a
guilty heroine preserve the compromising letters
of her lover ? Why should she carry them about
and deliver them to her husband’s brother ? A
French critic said : “ People don’t walk about
with ‘ pieces b conviction ' ”—what we should call
damning circumstantial evidence. Perhaps the
public, in the spell of the author’s eloquence and
skill in leading np to a scene, does not notice the
anomaly. But it does not escape the critic—nor
It is a great pleasure to chronicle the progress
of the British drama abroad. Here arc a few facts
which so far have not been recorded in any paper.
Mr. Hutchinson's ” Right to Strike," after more
than fifty performances at Amsterdam (where Louis
de Vries gave an excellent portrayal of the leading
part), has been accepted by the Royal Flemish
Theatre of Antwerp, and, at the request of its
director, Mr. van Kcrkhoven, the leading Flemish
critic. Mr. Louis Krinkels, is making a special
translation of it ; while Miss Philom6ne Jonkers,
the director’s wife and sole producer of all the
plays — the only woman in Europe filling this
part at a regular theatre — is studying all the
details, so that an excellent performance may be
expected. Anon, Mr. van Kcrkhoven will ask Mr.
John Galsworthy to let him play ” The Skin Game ”
at the Royal Flemish Theatre; so that at length
our Belgian friends will become acquainted with
the master-builder among our playwrights. As I
write, all Amsterdam is flocking to *' The Wander¬
ing Jew,” again at Louis de Vries’s theatre ; and
so great is the enthusiasm aroused by Mr. Thur¬
ston’s play that Barbarossa, the wittiest and the
severest critic in that city, proclaimed in the
THE O.U.D.S. -ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA" AT OXFORD: MISS CATHLEEN NESBITT AS CLEOPATRA.
AND MR. C. B. RAMAGE (PEMBROKE) AS MARK ANTONY.
The Oxford University Dramatic Society jave eight performances of Shakespeare's " Antony and Cleopatra" at the New
Theatre, Oxford, between February 8 and 12. The play was produced by Mr. W. Bridges-Adams (Worcester), with Mr.
Gordon Alehin (B.N.C.) as manager, and Mr. A. L. B. Ashton (Balliol) as musical director.
Photograph by Niffs and Sounder*.
musical ear. When in a love scene or in a climax
Suzanne suddenly becomes ** Soozan ” or ” Sue-
zenn,” it would seem that all the charm and fascin¬
ation vanish ; and when in her supreme agony the
heroine announces that she has just left her well-
beloved in the " Roo La-fay-et,” we cease to believe
in her rue, however sincerely her remorse may other¬
wise be expressed. It is time that the producer
should dwell on uniformity of prbnunciation when
dealing with plays from foreign tongues. Mis¬
pronunciation spoils the make-believe; and since it
is already difficult enough for an English actor
to jump into a French skin, great care should be
taken to avoid little details which render the im¬
probable incredible. When we hear, in a French
play, an Englishman spoken of as " Sir Smith,”
or ” le lor' Mfcre,” we laugh or we shudder, accord¬
ing to our tympanum ; but what a Frenchman
feels when he is regaled with ” Soozan, ” *' Roo,”
or, in costume plays, " Monsiou le Duke,” is best
left beyond conjecture. And it is time that now,
when our performances are often approaching the
perfection of histrionic art, we should break with
a bad habit which conveys the unmerited im¬
pression of slip-shodness and ignorance.
Mr. Louis Vemeuil, the author of ” Daniel,”
is twenty-seven, and he has written, so we hear,
twelve plays. The latter fact is amazing; I can
well understand the former. It is a young man's
play in the best and in the less laudatory sense
of the word. It is bold, and it is somewhat
brutally frank ; it is discursive and it makes for
effect. When I listened to it—this strange story
of infidelity and palliation of the heroine by the
morphia-maniac brother of her husband, I had to
press my temples very hard to take it all in; and
when I had tried to sift the torrential dialogue,
somewhat deliberately delivered by our actors, I
felt as benumbed. My heavens ! how these people
talked, and what profusion of words they used
to explain the simplest little thing ! Undoubtedly
this loquacity is the fruit of youthful exuberance ;
time wall chasten and lop this exotic flore of speech
and verbal imagery. It is, in a way, the fault of
a quality. Vemeuil has so much to say in won¬
derment of the maelstrom of life around him
that he does not know when to stop. But more
serious is the fact that the climax of his story
hinges on a cardinal point which those who un¬
derstand life cannot accept. Why should the
did it in Brussels, where the play was first pro¬
duced, cheered by the audience and greatly dis¬
membered by critics who are not coaxed into
appreciating every play from Paris as heavenly
manna. So it is difficult to look upon *’ Daniel ”
as anything more than the curious effort and
promise of a young man who will arrive, when he
sees life more clearly, and through the eyes of
"THE MANNER OF THEIR DEATHS? I DO NOT SEE THEM BLEED": CLEOPATRA (MISS CATHLEEN
NESBITT); CHARM1AN (MISS MARGARET CALTHROP); AND IRAS (MISS PAUL1SE DE BOSH), IN THE
LAST SCENE OF " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA .”—[Photograph by Hill* and Sounder*.]
experience rather than through the inverted opera- Telegraaf ; ” This play is so far the most important
glasses of much reading and some imagination. event of the season—perhaps the only event of
To me the outstanding performance was that importance.” What balm this must be to the soul
of Mr. Aubrey Smith, the reasoner of the play. It of Temple Thurston, since so many over here have
was a human picture of sense and composure, the more or less conveyed to him the message that no
one character indicating Verneuil’s budding power one is a prophet in his own country—at any rate,
cf characterisation. Mr. Lyn Harding as the in the critics’ eyes !
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“GALE’-MAKING BY AEROPLANE PROPELLER: AN A-OLUS
OF THE FILMS
DRAWN BY W. R. S. STOTT
AFTER AN ILLUSTRATION IN THE “SCIENTIFIC
AMERICAN." BY COURTESY OF THAT PAPER.
capable of producing “anything from a gentle
MOTOR AND PROPELLER CAUSE A REALISTIC
Cinem* audiences hare been taught to demand realism. If a tornado, or a
* pwreek, or a fire happens in the story, it must be shown -not merely
Announced on the screen. “Wind-storms,” says the “Scientific American, ”
ezcnbtng the ingenious appliance here illustrated, " are often required in photo-
Py». They do not always occur when wanted, and it costs time and money to
or them. So a mechanical genius at one of the Fort Lee, N.J., studios got
Du *E »nd developed a sure method of producing a wind-storm wherever and
BREEZE TO A FULL-FLEDGED HURRICANE”: AN AERO-
WIND-STORM AT AN AMERICAN FILM STUDIO.
whenever wanted. Taking a light automobile chassis and an eight-cylinder
airplane motor fitted with a propeller, he developed a compact (and portable!
wind-machine. When in operation it has to be chained to the ground lest it
start off on its own account. The propeller blows the air past the engine, and
towards the scenery, as shown. The speed of the engine may be controlled so as
to obtain anything from a gentle breeze to a full-fledged hurricane capable of
bowling over the scenery.” (/>«*-»»•* Cofryrsfkttd ut Ikt ln>ud Suits and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb 19 , 1921 —244
OCCASIONS OF NOTABLE INTEREST: NEWS OF THE WEEK ILLUSTRATED.
Photographs by Central Press, Keystone View Co., Sport and General, and Topical.
.... . *■ I
MUSICAL MINERS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE : THE ST HILDA COLUERY BAND
PLAYING IN THE FORECOURT BEFORE THE KING
PARLIAMENT'S ROLL OF HONOUR SHIELDS PLACED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMON'.
IN MEMORY OF MEMBERS FALLEN IN THE WAR
WITH CREW ENCLOSED AND READY TO DIVE INTO THE
WATER: A NEW DUTCH ” UNSINKABLE " LIFEBOAT.
TAKING THE WATER : THE " SCHUTTEVAER
LIFEBOAT, WITH CREW INSIDE, DIVES
PRINCE NICHOLAS OF ROUMANIA IN THE ETON O.T.C. : DRINKING FROM HIS
WATER-BOTTLE AFTER A ROUTE MARCH IN RICHMOND PARK
The Band of the St. Hilda Colliery played in the Forecourt of Buckingham Palace
during the lunch hour on February 9. It was under the direction of Mr. William
Halliwell. This band gained a 1000-guinea trophy at a national contest held at
the Crystal Palace.-Shields enamelled on copper have been placed in the House
of Commons, opposite the Speaker's Chair, in memory of M.P.’s who lost their
lives in the war The four seen in our photograph are (from left to right) those
of Captain the Hon. Harold Thomas Cawley, William Glynne Charles Gladstone,
the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill, and the Hon. T. C. Agar-Robartes. The
THE NEW VICEROY OF INDIA AND THE NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY : LORD READING
(LEFT) AND MR. CHURCHILL AT THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION DINNER
shields are the work of the Birmingham Guild.-A new type of lifeboat
named the “ Schuttevaer ” after its inventor, has been successfully tested in
Holland. It can be enclosed, with about thirty people inside, and thrown into
the water.-Prince Nicholas of Roumania, who is at Eton, took part in the
College O.T.C. Field Day in Richmond Park.-The English-Speaking Union gave
a dinner in honour of Lord Reading at the Hyde Park Hotel on February 12
Our photograph shows Lord Reading, Mr. Churchill (who presided). Mrs. Davi*
(wife of the American Ambassador), and the Archbishop of Canterbury
- UK
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 19. 1921. 246
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
By £. B. OSBORN.
~ c TF'
I T is a keen pleasure
to see yet another
volume of the admirable
translations of the works of
M. Anatole France, which
are being published at the
Bodlcy Head. “Little Pierre” (John Lane;
7s. 6d. net), the work of transmutation by J. I>ewis
May. keeps up to the high level of the preceding
volumes in the series. The wise Frenchman is the
tender ironist in this charming story, in which he
describes little Pierre's longing for the Unseen
World, and it may serve as an introduction to the
other volumes, which express his darker pessimism,
depicting mankind for ever building up super-
civilised communities that are doomed sooner or
later to collapse in dust and uproar, and so exhaust¬
ing its energy in a never-ending cycle of endeavour
and disappointment. There is. it must be admitted,
something of the marionette in most of Anatole
France’s characters. It has been said : " They
are embodied comments upon life, but they do not
live.” That is because their maker is among them,
but not of them—for he cannot cherish any of the
ideals or illusions whereby men live, not even Man’s
final illusion that the wreck of all human hopes
has a dreadful beauty because it is according to
pre ordainment. But it was when he drew upon
the quick memories of his childhood, so near To
his heart though far behind the blue hills of Time,
and created for us the immortal picture of the
innocent, wayward, positive, romantic little Pierre
Nozifcre, that he came nearest—as near as ever an
asymptote falls towards its hyperbola reaching out
into infinity—to creating a living, breathing
human being. It is clear that he finds him by far
the most attracting of all the protagonists in his
comedy of unreason. He himself is, at certain
moments, the very child he so lovingly depicts
(does he ever see in this the last illusion of self¬
esteem ?) as in the exquisite story of how, after
visiting a regal chocolate-shop, he attempted to
present its splendours in play, but forgot an all-
important point and asked his mother : " Est-ce
celui qui vend ou celui qui achfcte que donne de
l'argent ? ” He is this child at times (the only
miracle he ever accepted by a momentary implica¬
tion), yet, as he sadly says, there is no link of
reality between them.
Je suis un autre personne que 1 ’enfant dont je parlc.
Nous n’avons plus en commun, lui et moi, un atome
de substance ni de pens£e. Maintenant qu’il m’est
AUTHOR OF -the NINTH Earl : HRS. BA,LET (MAT EDCINTON).
„«n h* «~L -OF. V—
devenu tout 4 fait Stranger, je puis en sa compagme
me distraire de la mienne. Je I’aime, moi qui ne m’aime
ni ne me hais. 11 m’est doux de vivre en pens^e les
jours qu’il vivait, et je souffre de respirer 1’air du temps
oil nous sommes.
Here, then, is a fitting introduction to a wisdom
which is quite non-English, being an urbane non
possumus rooted in the letters and life of the Roman
Empire. We English can no more produce an
Anatole France than we can produce a Horace or a
Lucretius, with both of whom he has analogies.
It is as well that he should have been translated,
for even if his French can be clearly understood—no
easy matter, for his style resembles a diamond
which is brightly translucent, yet never meant to
be seen through—the technicalities of the anti¬
quary, archaeologist, philosopher, historian, and seer
make obstacles to interpretation which a clever
translator can deftly remove. The January num¬
ber of the Bodleian. Mr. Lane's clever little monthly
magazine, which can be had for the asking, will
help those who knew not Anatole France to feel
and obey the lure of his tonic irony. Mr. Hardy
leaves you unhappy in your hopelessness . but
M. Anatole France, though he leaves you helpless
as well as hopeless, pours mystical comfort into
your earthen cup.
A new edition of " Poems ” (Macmillan ; 12s.
net) by William Ernest Henley, under whom I
served a joyous apprenticeship to letters, is to me
an event that thrills all the nerves of remembrance.
When, I wonder, are we to have his biography,
from the only person who could possibly write
it—to wit, Mr. Charles Whiblev, who is keeping
us all waiting a day or two too long ? Very few
indeed of these poems date themselves ; “ A Song
of Speed ”—
Speed as a chattel ;
Speed in your daily
Accent and economy;
One with your wines.
And your books, and your bath—
Speed !
does so because the blue levels of the air are faster
and smoother than any turnpike road, as well we
know to-day, and also because it is dedicated to—
Alfred Harmsworth ! Lord help us. how time runs
on and on, while oblivion scatters her poppy ! But
the form of it is so ultra-modern that nobody who
had not read it years ago would be surprised at
seeing it in a new book by, say, Mr. Aldous Huxley.
Indeed, I cannot find a
single poem which has
yet incurred the fate
threatened in the lines
prefacing " Three Pro¬
logues ”—
The Artist muses at his
ease.
Contented that his work
is done.
And smiling—smiling !—
as he sees
His crowd collecting, one
by one.
Alas ! His travail’s but
begun !
None, none can keep the
years in line.
And what to Ninety-Eight
is fun
May raise the gorge of
Ninety-Nine 1
Henley was the greatest
poetical experimentalist
that ever lived, and on
whatever by - way you
stand, O young and ad¬
venturous poet, a glance
back to the beginning of
the lane will disclose a
glimpse of that fiery-
haired fighter whom fate
crumpled up and com¬
pelled to scrap only in
the literary ring — what
a heavyweight he was
there, and what a punch
he had ! If you want to
find poetry which reads
and rings like brasses
and bells in another age.
almost on another planet,
read the “ Collected
Poems ” (Macmillan and
Co.; 12s. net) of Frederic
W. H. Myers, which have
been edited by his wife,
with autobiographical
But his lines on ** The
Ballerina’s Progress ”—
Lightly she comes, as though
no weight she wore,
The very daughter and de¬
light of air—
are fresh and fair as though written last night; and,
if the rest be old and strange, it is none the less
and critical fragments.
A NOVELIST OF SUSSEX : MISS SHEILA KAYE-SMITH,
AUTHOR OF -GREEN APPLE HARVEST."
Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith has made Sussex her literary province.
Her latest novel is " Green Apple Harvest.” Among others
well known are “ Tamarisk Town " and " Sussex Gorse.” She
has also published " Willow’s Forge and Other Poems," and a
study of John Galsworthy.
Photograph by H artchautki Studios, St. IuonanTs.
poetry. And the sadness that never waxes old
sighs in the last quatrain on the last page—
I care no more to learn or teach,
I love no more my breath.
And all but silent is my speech.
My life is all but death.
" The Twelve ” (Chatto and Windus ; 6s. net),
by Alexander Blok, is described as the “ first
masterpiece of Bolshevik letters ” by its translator.
We are also told that it embodies an effort on the
part of the Russian author to create a new form
of poetry. It is interesting to compare his results
with the poetical passages I have quoted above.
His method is to use the most prosaic words and
relate the most commonplace experiences. Here
is a specimen—
But where is Kate ? She’s dead, she’s dead !
A bullet has gone through her head !
Well, Kate, are you happy ? Mum’s the go !
Lie there, you carrion, in the snow !
I do not find such stuff grateful or comforting, or
likely even to touch my soul to that profound, not
unpleasing, melancholy which is supposed to be a
Slav prerogative. The illustrations by one Michael
Larionov are not much inferior to those made on
paper pilfered out of my desk by a little daughter
who is not quite four years old. The point is that
this sort of thing has already been done over and
over again—recently by several of Marinettis
disciples, and, long before that, by all sorts and
conditions of illiterate lunatics. Here is an
example collected from ” Le Journal <*e Charen-
ton,” which out-Bolshies this Bolshevist Blok and
yet expresses an idea that would have p ease
many mediaeval philosophers—
Les dents, U bouche !
Les dents la bouchent !
V aidant la bouche !
L’aide en la bouche !
Laides en la bouche !
Lait dans la bouche !
Les dents, la bouche I
The subtle modulations of the primary line jje
exquisite to a degree, and I hope this *ncompa™We
lyric will be imitated by some of <>nr eager-eared
Celtic poets, even if they have to ret f l to blat
straws for the chaplet of King Lear as e
for ever through the everlasting ram.
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,ONIM)N NEWS. Kf.b. 19. 1921. 2 47
OPENING UP MOROCCO
DRIVE THE ROAD AND BRIDGE THE FORD.
drawn by our special
SHOWING NEW MASONRY ADDED TO LEVEL THE ROAD: A BRIDGE OVER THE MAHDOUMA BETWEEN FEZ
AND MEQUINEZ, WITH A FRENCH MOTOR CHAR-A-BANCS SERVICE; AND ANCIENT STEPPING STONES.
Moit^cn * dmin * Strat *° n c ® n,merci * 1 enterprise are doing much to open up
char-ci ba ****** *j** Compagnie Generale Transatlantique hare established a motor
ncs ** rrice on the new road from Fez, the capital, to Mequine*. As
Sultana**!^* ** ° nly ioTt 7 miles, and Mequine* was an important residence of the
brid* ' *** * U con#t * nt intercourse between the two cities, and in former days
Q f ^ Were OTer rirers on the route. “ Roads in the proper sense
S\ac± Wnte * Mr- Forestier. “ did not exist then, no vehicles being used,
t »>e making of roads by the French, the bridges have been repaired and
raised by superstructure to the straight road level, the previous steep inclines
of their causeway scarcely allowing, especially when the bridge was built at a
sharp turning, the safe passage of the numerous motor-cars and lorries that ply
from one city to the other. The drawing shows an old bridge thus treated over
the Mahdouma. One can trace the difference of tone between the bid and new
masonry and the outline of the old structure. Below the bridge the river iorms
a shallow lake, crossed from time immemorial by a row of stepping-stones, still
largely used by pedestrians. (Diwiag Copyright*! in the Unit*! States and Canada.]
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NEWS.
seems now further from realisation than ever. For
years we have heard that the food of man should
consist of protein, carbohydrates, fats, and mineral
salts in certain proportions which were beginning to be
ascertained with some degree of accuracy. It seemed
to follow that in course of time it might lx* possible to
make them synthetically. Vet now it appears that
these things are insufficient in themselves to support
healthy life and growth, and that food that will do so
contains other elements that up till now defy analysis.
Other popular delusions
are also knocked on the
1 head
What these vitamines are remains a puzzle.
Dr. Arthur Harden, from whose admirably clear
lectures lately delivered at the Royal Institution most
of the above information is derived, hints that they
may be related to the “ enzymes " or ferments which
play so large a part in the chemistry of certain forms
of life ; and. as the head of the biochemical Depart¬
ment of the Lister Institute, his opinion is entitled
to the greatest respect. Another theory is that they
are merely hormones, or substances resembling certain
SCIENCE JOTTINGS
WORE ABOUT VITAMINES.
T HE researches now being conducted at the Lister
Institute have taught us more about vitamines
than at one time seemed possible. Following up the
trail .pointed out by Ih-ofessor Gowland Hopkins,
who occupies the Chair of Biochemistry in the Uni¬
versity of Cambridge, experiments on puppies, guinea-
pigs, and rats have shown that vitamines are of
more than one kind, and
may even prove to lie as
diversified as protoplasm it¬
self. Up to the present,
three have been isolated and
labelled, after the current
fashion in such matters,
A, B, and C respectively.
Of these, A is soluble in fat,
and is so necessary to infant
life that its absence or defici¬
ency will instantly produce
rickets. It is present in
many substances, of which
cod-liver oil in the animal
kingdom and cabbage in the
vegetable are, perhaps, the
most common, and certainly
exhibit the greatest quantity
of it. Then comes Yitamine
B, soluble in water, and oc¬
curring most frequently and
in greatest quantity in yeast,
yolk of egg, fruit-juices, and
meat. This is a most valuable
antidote to neuritis and other
kindred complaints, although
its effects seem to be less
marked than is the case with
Vitamine A. Although not
absolutely necessary to in¬
fant life, it is yet much
concerned with growth, pup¬
pies from whose dietary it is
excluded failing to put on
weight, although thriving in
other respects. Lastly comes Vitamine C. the search
for which originally formed the mainspring for the
whole inquiry. This, which is found in nearly all
vegetables, including potatoes, is the only effective
anti-scorbutic known, and its earlier discovery might
have saved many valuable lives in the Navy and else¬
where from the days of Queen Bess onwards. It is
not, however, largely present in milk, which forms a
pretty useful source for the other two.
discoveries.
It is an idea much fostered
by talented novelists and
others that fruits, other
vegetables, and water are
the natural food of mankind,
and that it would be better
for all of us if we devoured
nothing else. Yet the quan¬
tity of vitamines contained
in these substances is a
small, almost an infinitesi¬
mal, proportion of their total
bulk, and the quantity of
them which one would have
to consume to support life
would leave most of us with¬
out sufficient time to earn
their cost. Apart from this,
the consumption of so large
a quantity of vegetable food
would certainly over-tax the
stomach of any animal less
capacious than a cow ; while,
as even the moderate heat
of cooking destroys more or
less all the vitamines, it
would have to be eaten raw
and freshly gathered. Even
with milk, the amount of
vitamines that it contains
vanes sharply with the food
of the animal that produces
it ; so that Dr. Harden is
now trying to find out whether winter milk, when the
cows are fed on roots and oil-cake, cannot be made
as rich in them as that produced in summer, when
the cattle are grass-fed. Thus it is that in science,
as in other matters, the place where the rainbow
touches the ground is always a field further on.
Nevertheless, the work of the Lister Institute has
increased the sum of human knowledge appreciably.
More power to it I F. L.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT OXFORD FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE WAR MEMORIAL AT HIS OLD
COLLEGE (MAGDALEN): A GROUP TAKEN ON THE OCCASION.
The Prince of Wales visited Oxford on February 8. and received the diploma of his degree in the Shetdonian Theatre, where he made
a felicitous speech. Later he attended the dedication of the War Memorial at Magdalen, his old college, and unveiled a tablet and
the Roll of Honour. The service was conducted by the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Winchester, the Visitor of the College.
In the above group, from left to nght (beginning with the fourth from left) are the Archbishop of York ; Lady Wan-en ; Mr. Hansel),
the Prince's former tutor (behind Lady Warren). Sir Herbert Warren. President of Magdalen ; the Prince; Captain A. F. Lascetles
(at back); the Bishop of Winchester: and (extreme right) Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey. |Photograph trv Sport umi (,cneral.\
secretions of the animal organism which, like catalysts
in mineral chemistry, stir up other bodies to activity
without undergoing any perceptible change them¬
selves. It is along this line that future inquiry into
vitamines seems likely to develop.
These new facts have some very practical results.
The hope expressed that it may eventually be possible
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LADIES’ NEWS.
T HE Opening of Parliament is not much of an
occasion for dress; not many Peeresses have
new frocks for it. It comes too soon to get the very
latest ideas embodied ; it is not a good place to
show pretty clothes; and the safest gowns, where
there is so much colour, are those of black or
white. The display of jewels is quite another
matter ; it is a function where brilliance is called
for, and tiaras have been taken out of strong¬
rooms, and were cleaned in readiness to sparkle
their very brightest in the House of Lords on
Tuesday. The Grenadier Guards were very fine
in their scarlet tunics and bearskins, wearing the
tokens on their tunics of the war they had helped
to win. The Yeomen of the Guard never had
anything but their Tudor red-and-black-and-gold
uniforms. They looked new, and, as ever, most
picturesque.
The wedding of Captain the Hon. Alexander
and Mrs. Hardinge last week was quite an affair,
seeing that the King, the Queen, the Duke of
York, and Princess Mary honoured it and the
subsequent reception by being present The
Cecils are, of course, of the old school—exclusive,
quietly dignified, and averse from all ostentation.
Even they, however, could not hide such a royal
visit under a bushel. The Hardinges of Penshurst
are very much of the Cecil mind; yet that our
Ambassador in Paris, his son and his daughter,
were gratified was apparent. Who would not
have been ? The King very gallantly added a
favour of white heather, handed to him by a
pretty bridesmaid, to the white carnation he was
already wearing ; then he told her not to go out
in the cold. The Hon. Diamond Hardinge braved
the cutting wind in her blue chiffon dress, to take
favours to the non-coms of the Grenadier Guards
and the police outside the church. Very brisk
and very well looked Mr. Arthur Balfour. Lord
Robert Cecil is certainly something like a fair
Savonarola, and sat for some time with the collar
of his coat turned up, as if he felt a draught.
Princess Mary was much interested in the little (
blue-clad Earl of Burlington, son of Lady Hart- f
ington, who, as Lady Mary Cecil, was a chosen |
companion of her Royal Highness. The Duke of
York found many friends to talk to at the reception
held at Lord Salisbury’s house in Arlington Street.
There were a number of Court people present, as
Captain Hardinge is one of his Majesty's assistant
private secretaries. It was just on the cards that
the wedding might have to be postponed, as he
had a touch of jaundice, which happily proved
slight. The Queen cautioned him to keep his over¬
coat buttoned up. There was a baby in the gallery
that objected to the whole proceedings at the top
of its apparently strong and healthy lungs; and after
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On a foundation of black taffetas soft black lace is laid, with a fullness which
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blue with long streamers in the same colours - [Photograph by Paul O. Doyf .J
the service had begun a number of people took their
places in the gallery very noisily, which was dis¬
concerting to all concerned, and should have been
avoided.
Mn. Hartog, who has the house in Upper Grosvenor
Street which belonged to the late Prince and Princess
Alexis Dolgorouki, lent it to Lady Henry Somerset
for a sale and cafi chantant in aid of St. Barnabas'
Guild for Trained Nurses. Princess Marie Louise
opened it, and it was quite a successful two days’
function. There were a number of nurses present,
some looking very cheery in the red-caped and
red-bound uniform of the Queen Alexandra
Imperial Nurses. A number of footlight favour¬
ites contributed to the cafi-chantant programme.
Some of the best-selling things were those made
of fireproof earthenware from clay discovered
recently near Lady Henry Somerset’s Duxhurst
Colony. They are most useful for cooking, quite
moderate in price, and finer in finish than the
ordinary fireproof earthenware.
I feel aggrieved : studies where Kings, Princes
and Presidents do their work, as shown by models
at the Efficiency Exhibition, are deeply interest¬
ing, especially the Prince of Wales’s delightful
ivory-white-and-moss-green room. Studies where
Queens, Princesses, and wives of Presidents and
Prime Ministers do their work would intrigue me
even more. No doubt they are more like bou¬
doirs, albeit the President of the French Republic’s
room, in magnificent Louis XVI. style, is ornate
enough for any woman. The King of Spain’s taste
in a study shows the Spaniard in him more than
the lover of England. For our dull clime, its
dark oak, grey walls, and stone fireplace would
be dull. For his sunshiny country, the sombre
effect is probably a relief. The Afghan rugs on
the parquet floor I liked, but prefer the Prince of
Wales's mossy carpet. The King of Norway’s
study, in rough cast and brown oak. is foreign to
my ideas, but I love the carved Norwegian furni¬
ture which King Haakon has lent. It is quite
nice to know the kind of rooms all these rulers
sit and work in, but I want to know what the
apartments are like where the super-rulers work ?
We were all waiting impatiently for the
J German millions for our income-tax to come
down. A financier of our acquaintance gave
h us quite a cold douche by assuring us that we
^ had as much chance of getting this tax lowered
2 as we had of flying without either wings or
machines. What we want is, he says, gold,
and Germany has none, or none that we know of:
«*) we may be able to buy Teuton things cheap,
but we must pay tax on our incomes just the same.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 19, 1921.—252
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
The Future of Whatever may be his failings in
Roads certain directions, the Minister of
Transport is an optimist of parts.
His Department is known as the most grandiose of
all the Ministries, big and little, and it woulfl seem
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that he feels it is up to him to talk in a strain befitting
the importance, real or assumed, of the task he and
his henchmen have taken upon themsclves.y to co¬
ordinate the transport of the country. The trouble
is that he also seems to tell each audience exactly
what it would like to hear. When he opened the
Commercial Vehicle Show some months ago, he
endeavoured to pose as the greatest friend that
mechanical road transport has ever had. When, as a
fortnight ago, he addresses a gathering of surveyors,
he opens up a rosy vista of great road engineering
works which would, if it were possible to find the
money and a few other considerations permitted,
provide work for all the surveyors in the country
for long years to come
This last occasion was the annual meeting of
the Surveyors’ Institution, and it found the Minister
in great form. He indicated the main lines upon
which the roads of the future would be planned,
constructed, and classified. They will have their
camber flattened, the radius of curves increased,
the sight-line improved at comers, tortuous thorough¬
fares widened and straightened, gradients eased,
bridges widened and strengthened ; avoiding roads
will be made round towns and new trunk highways
across country be constructed. We shall have better
road - surfaces and more durable. The old water-
bound macadam is to disappear, and will give place
to something a good deal better. In fact, not to
labour the matter unduly, under the benevolent
aegis of the Ministry of Transport we are about to
enter upon a species of roads millennium—a period
in which we are to have such roads as we have
thought could exist nowhere but in the place to
which all good motorists go
after their decease.
an addition of another shilling or two in the pound
to the income tax in order that Sir Eric Geddes and
his merry men may proceed to work their will with
the King’s highway.
One direction in which he expects to find an
El Dorado is among the motoring community s He
told his audience with pride that he was now getting
£8,000.000 a year from the motorists, and he hoped
that before long it would be £i 2,000,000 ! True,
he said he hoped to get it not as a result of increased
taxation, but of increased use; but the main thing
seems to be that he expects to get an additional
^4.000,000 a year, in one way or another, from the
users of mechanically propelled road traffic.—W. W\
" Debrett’s Peerage ” for 1921 (Dean and Son) is
a welcome sight to those (and their name is legion)
who rely upon it for accurate and detailed information
about the world of rank and title. In a period of
change like the last six years its value increases
correspondingly with the labour of editing it. Some
Who is to Pay ?
It all sounds
very well,
until one comes to think out
the problem of where the money
is to be found to pursue these
grandiose schemes of road im¬
provement. I am not an expert
in economic matters (neither,
I imagine, is the Minister of
Transport), but I do know
enough of them to be able to
appreciate that we can only have
these wonderfully engineered
roads by adding to the weight
of taxation already borne by
the most highly taxed com¬
munity of the world. Certainly
the cost of inaugurating all the
magnificent improvements fore¬
shadowed is not provided for
in the current Finance Act. It
is as much as we can do to
find the money to put the existing roads back into
the condition they were before the war. I agree
that it would be excellent to have these things;
but the first question that one has to ask when
something seems desirable is : Can it be afforded ?
Naturally, as a motorist, and a keen one, I am all
for having the best possible roads; but I am not—
needing no votes—inclined to visualise with equanimity
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out the war, and since, *' Debrett ” has surmounted
all difficulties and appeared punctually to time.
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19, 1921.—253
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 19. 1921. 254
CHESS.
To Cotanrosotim.—Communications for this department should he
•ddrtssed to the Chess Editor, 15, Essex Street, Strand, IV.C.s.
Keshab D Dt (Calcutta).—We are very pleased to learn you are able
to resume your attentions to chess without detriment to your other
work. Your problem shall be carefully examined and reported
upon later.
H .J (Ha mpstead).—Problem received with thanks. Trust to find
W H Robinson (Walthamstow).—Your question is too vague. Kindly
pve^us the definite position either by a diagram or by the usual
CHESS IN SCOTLAND.
Came played in the First-Class Tournament of the British Chess
Federation held in Edinburgh between the Rev. W. A. Cunningham
Char: and Mr. L. C. G. Dewing.
(Euy Lopes.)
WHITE BLACK I WHITE BLACK
(Rev. W. A. C. C.) (Mr. L. C. G. D.) (Rev. W. A. C. C) (Mr. L. C G. D.)
i. P to K 4th P to K 4th
a. Kt to K B 3rd Kt to Q B 3rd
3. B to Kt 5th P to Q R 3rd
3. B to Kt 5th
4. B to R 4 th
5. Castles
6. R to K sq
7 . B to Kt 3rd
*. P to B 3rd
9. B to B 2nd
to. P to Q 3rd
P to Q R 3rd
Kt to B 3rd
P to K 2nd
i ioQKt 4th
P to Q 3rd
Kt to Q R 4th
P to B 4 th
0 to B 2nd
it. Q Kt to Q 2nd Castles
12. Kt to B sq Kt to B 3rd
13 Q to K 2nd P to Q R 4 th
14. P to K R 3rd P to R 5th
Both advances of this Pawn were
altogether weak. Black ought to
base developed his Q B at K B 5th 3 & B takes P
the service of this particular move
in winning the game.
*a. P takes Kt
23. Kt P takes P B to B sq
24. B takes Kt B takes B
; 23. R takes B (ch) Q takes R
26. R to K Kt sq R to R 2nd
27. R takes Q (ch) R takes R
28. P to K B 4th K to B and
29. P talus P Kt takes P
30. P to Kt 3rd P to R 6th
31. PtoQ 4 th Kt to Q 2nd
32. P takes P P takes P
3J- Q h> Q 5th (ch) K to B sq
: 34. B to 5 3rd R to K 4th
35. Q to B 6th R to K sq
Solution or Peoblem No. 3832.—Bv Mas. W. J. Burn.
WHITE BLACK
1. Kt to Q 6th Any move
2. Mates accordingly.
PROBLEM No. 3854.—By A. M. Sfabkb.
BLACK. _
■iafai Jr®
1 || 4 p nn g
15. P to K Kt 4th B to K 3rd
16. Kt to Kt 3rd P to Kt 3rd
17. K to R 2nd Kt to K sq
18. R to K Kt sq Kt to Kt 2nd
19. B to R 6th K R to K sq
so. Kt to B 5th B to K B sq
21. Q to Q 2nd
37. Q to Q 6th K to Band
38. B to B 4th (ch) K to Kt z nd
39 B to K 6th Kt to B sq
Another fascinating position.
Apparently Black cannot rmv* one
of his pieces without loss, and other¬
wise must let White’s Kt worm
its way into his game. HU effort
to escape from this dilemma is
an ingenious one, but there is a
A most interesting position, an ingenious one, but there is s
White very skilfully keeps alive fatal flaw ii. it which is imme
the danger of capturing his Kt diatelv disclosed,
undllhe is in a position to let 40. B takes B R takes P
^ D * n 1 4«- B to R 6th R takes Kt
v./o 1. o PtoB * rd 4 *. Q h> Kt 3 (ch) Kt to Kt 3rd
2a. Kt(B3)toR 4 : 43- P takes Kt R (R 5) to K t
The beginning of a beautiful I P takes P (ch) K takes P
combination, the development of I 45 . B to Q 3rd Resigns,
which, however, does not exhaust ! A very clever and brilliant
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in two moves.
Cokbxct Solutions or Pboblen No. 3849 received from Keshab D D 4
(Calcutta), Henry A Seller (Denver). P N Banerjv (Benares), H F
Marker (Porbandar), and Hombv Road (Bombay) ; of No. 3850
from J B Camara (Madeira). Walter M Learnard (San Diego).
Keshab D IV (Calcutta), and Horny A Seller (Denver), of No. 3S51
from J B Camara (Madeira) ; of No. 3852 from W' Strangman Hill
(Palmerstown), G M Hallen (Bournemouth). W C D Smith (North¬
ampton). Jas. T Palmer (Church), Jas. F Finlav (Irvinestown),
E J Gibbs (F.ast Ham). Chas. Redwav (Putney), E M Vicars (Norfolk),
A Van Labatmoudme, R.N. (Cologne), J W Set tun (Bolton), P W
Hunt (Bridgwater), R J Lonsdale (New Brighton). Leon Rylski (Bel¬
fast), and Edward Bvgott (Middlewich).
Cobbect Solutions op Phoblph No. 3843 received from H Grasett
Baldwin (Farnham). G Stillingfieet Johnson (Seaford). A H H
(Bath), John Harding (Lewisham), and H W Satow (Bangor).
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N O sensible playgoer will make it a fault in Mr
H. G. Wells, the inventor, or in Mr. St. John
Ervine, the stage adapter, of ’’ The Wonderful Visit,"
that its theme of a celestial stranger’s coming to earth
and disturbing its conventionalities is far from un¬
familiar in these days. Mr Wells being what he is. a
critic of old worlds and a maker of new, pictured his
angel as asking endless questions about the baffling
human cosmos into which he was pitchforked, and
growing more and more dissatisfied. Mr. Ervine.
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time into that of the war. On the whole, it may
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OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Paris.
T HIS week has seen the reception of the repre¬
sentative of our Polish Ally, with all the pomp
and circumstance that are usually associated with the
State visits of friendly monarchs. Marshal Pilsudski
must have been impressed with the ceremony that
dogged his very footsteps during his brief visit.
The newspapers have reproduced full-page photo¬
graphs of his manly features, each word uttered
by him has been faithfully recorded, and columns
have been filled with eulogies of the Polish Army
and all that it has accomplished. Yet it is not so
very long since Poland exasperated Europe by
throwing away the fruits of a just victory by her
ungenerous attitude as a conqueror.
Much of the fighting of the last twelve months
could have been avoided if she had been willing
to conclude a reasonable peace when she was in a
position to dictate her own terms. The obstinacy
of Poland at that juncture undoubtedly retarded
the general peace of Europe. Now, however, a
new era has dawned, and Marechal Pilsudski came
to us as the living embodiment of a resuscitate 1
Poland, purged by the trials of the past years,
filled with renewed hope and courage for the
future, and eager for the goodwill of the Allies.
History has taught us that after every great
war there has invariably followed a recrudescence
of crime, more or less violent, but never, I think—
certainly in this city—has there been such a wave
of evil-doing as is sweeping over Paris at this
moment. After many months of wholesale rob¬
bery in every quarter of the town, it yet required
the most violent protests and urgent representa¬
tions to induce the authorities to move in the
matter. Daylight robberies in jew-ellers’ shops
have become quite common occurrences. As for
street robberies at night, it seems like going back
to the eighteenth century to hear of people held
up on the Quai d’Orsay, for instance, at midnight,
and robbed by a “ gentlemanly fellow in a mask,”
who playfully points a revolver at your head.
Another form of theft easy to practise in this
country, where the habit of presenting open re¬
ceipted bills is common, was recently tried on a
friend of mine who was clever enough to see through
the ruse. A young man, purporting to come from a
certain well-known establishment, presented an appar¬
ently genuine bill for the correct amount due, and asked
for the money ; but something in the man’s manner
aroused suspicion. The firm was telephoned to ; they
immediately denied all knowledge of the messenger,
and the man was arrested on leaving the house.
The shortage of police has a great deal to do with
the present state of affairs, which is really a scandal
in a city such as Paris : but the authorities are now
taking steps to round up the criminals who are prey¬
ing on the Parisians in hordes, and I was recently
shown an extremely interesting report giving details
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bearing the arms of (6) Schwyz, (7) Zurich, (8) Ticino (Tessin).
Stamps supplied by Mr. F. J. Melville, no. Strand, H'.C.j.
of an amazing number of arrests by the police in the
last month. However, the same informant told me
that it would probably take several months to clear
the town completely, which is not exactly consoling
to one who has to live here.
THE CULT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP.
BY FRED |. MELVILLE.
D URING Christmas and New Year the Swiss
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sold at a ” sou ' above their actual postage franking
value. These are known as the Children’s Stamps,
the stamps ” Pro Juventute.” While they serve as
ordinary postage-stamps, the extra charge at
which they are sold at the post-offices goes to
benefit the voluntary institutions which devote
themselves to child welfare, especially in the
matter of the prevention of tuberculosis amongst
children. Three of these stamps have just been
issued for the current season, and they, together
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trating, in their correct colours, the arms of the
cantons of Switzerland. They are all by a famous
Bernese artist, Rudolf Miinger, and are beauti¬
fully printed in colours at the Swiss Federal Mint
at Berne. Some collectors will already have the
first two issues, but as, together with the new set,
they form an interesting group, I am illustrating
the complete set of eight stamps bearing the,
heraldic devices of the cantons.
In the first issue we get two values, the io
centimes, red, black and yellow, with the arms
of the canton of Uri ; and the 15 centimes, violet,
black, yellow and carmine, with the arms of
Geneva. These, and all the others illustrated, are
printed on a white paper, toned with bull colour.
In the second group we get three stamps : 7$
centimes, red, black and grey, with the arms of-
Nidwalden ; 10 centimes, green, black and red.
with the arms of Y'aud : and the 15 centimes, red-,
black and purple, with the arms of Obwalden.
The third group, which has just been issued,
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SCINDIA OP GWALIOR (LEFT) AND THE MAHARAJAH OF BIKANIR.
**- Clemenceau, the “ Tiger ” of French politics, has been shooting his namesakes
“ His tour was due to an invitation given by the Maharajah of Bikanir
** the Pe »ce Conference. He sailed last September, and, after visiting Colombo,
Singapore, Java, Bombay, and Benares, arrived at Bikanir during the Christmas
festivities. Thence, on Jan. at, he left for Gwalior, as the guest of the Maharajah
Sriiwi:. I. ... . .. . _.L. t.ll.-ln.
message: “ Trts belle chasse tigre Gwalior. Ai tu* deux." The third tiger
was shot by the Maharajah of Bikanir, with whom M. Clemenceau agreed to
have another shooting trip after leaving Gwalior. His plans then included visits
to Peshawur, the Khyber Pass, the battlefields of Alexander, Mount Abu, Mysore,
and Bombay. He found it impossible to accept Mr. Hughes’ invitation to visit
An.fralia and arrano-«*> ta «ail for hnma Irna, --- C-K — — —
258— THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921
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THE KING AT OLYMPIA : HIS MAJESTY
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THE LONDON CONFERENCE (L. TO R, IN FRONT) YUNUS NADI,
AND BEKIR SAMI. LEADER OF THE DELEGATION.
CLERICAL ADVOCACY OF SINN FEIN : ARCHBISHOP MANNIX (LEFT, IN BIRETTA)
ADDRESSING AN OPEN-AIR SINN FEIN MEETING IN EDINBURGH.
H JUFNELL i
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is OUR
A V.C. CANDIDATE FOR WOOLWICH : CAPT. R. GEE (COALITION UNIONIST)
AT WORK IN HIS OFFICE, WITH HIS AGENT.
SIR F. H. SYKES (ON LEFT, : THE MACHINE-GUN CORPS
WAR MEMORIAL AT SHORNCLIFFE.
UNVEILED BY MAJOR-GEN.
(CAVALRY)
The Turkish Nationalist (Kemalist) Delegates to the London Conference on Near East affairs arrived in London on February 21. The first sitting of the Conference was held
at St James’s Palace on that day, with Mr. Lloyd George presiding. It was attended by the Allied delegates, including M. Briand, the French Premier, and Count Sforaa,
Italian Foreign Minister, General Gouraud (the one-armed “ Lion of the Argonne ”), French Commander-in-Chief in the East and the Greek Premier, M. Kalogeropoulos.
On February 21 the King and Queen and Princess Mary visited the “ Daily Mail ” Efficiency Exhibition At Olympia. A few days before, they were at the Shire Horse Show
at the Agricultural Hall, where the King’s stallion, Field-Marshal 5th, won outright (Le., for the second time in succession) the 100-guinea gold cup and championship. Uis
Majesty has offered to present a new cup to replace it - At Calcutta there has been a non-co-operation movement among the students, who lay all day at the foot of
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CAICfUDENTS; IRISH AFFAIRS; A MEMORIAL; A
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WATCHING EX-SOLDIER DIAMOND-CUTTERS. F"f (WHO LOST AN ARM IN THE WAR), MR. LLOYD GEORGE. M. BRIAND, AND M. BERTHELOT
=d = ^-=rt: -- y- — -; ■ - -- -
CLERICAL OPPOSITION TO SINN FEIN : A PARTY OF IRISH PROTESTANT CLERGY
ARRIVING AT NEW YORK TO COMBAT SINN FEIN PROPAGANDA.
A CHAMPION MILK-PRODUCER : MR. G. T. EATON’S KIRKHILL FLO 3hu,
WHICH HAS BROKEN THE 24-HOUR RECORD.
THE LABOUR CANDIDATE FOR WOOLWICH : MR. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD CENTRE)
- HANDING HIS NOMINATION PAPERS TO THE MAYOR.
SELLING BREAD BEHIND BARBED WIRE IN DUBLIN :
CUSTOMERS IN THE INVESTED AREA OVER A
A BAKER SERVING
BARRICADE.
t- Patrick^ StfP * t0 ^ revent P ro ^ es *or* from entering.-Archbishop Maunix, the well - known Roman Catholic prelate, recently addressed an open-air Sinn Fein meeting in
'Otoganda $ ^ r ° Und Edinbur g h --The other side in the Irish question is taken by a party of Insh Protestant clergy who lately arrived in New York to oppose Sinn Fein
ive over twenty-four-hour record for milk-production has been broken by Kirkhill Flo 3rd, a cow belonging to Mr. G. T. Eaton, of Thurston Hall Framfield. She
’Ikestone g4,1 ° nS ' ^ ter c * ,T ‘ n X on January 8 her yield was 313 gallons in thirty-five days.- The Machine-Gun Corps (Cavalry) War Memorial at Shomcliffe, near
place W4S UnV ** ,wl Major-Gen. Sir F. H. Sykes, Controller-General of Civil Aviation.-The nominations for the by-election at Woolwich, Mr. Will Crooks' old constituency.
° n Febru « I y **• Troops in Dublin surrounded and isolated a large area on the north side on February 18, and then began a house-to-house search.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 26. 1921.—260
L ONDON has appeared once more in the dock
on the old charge of failure to produce great
men. The periodic impeachment may not be very
profitable, but it suggests at least that if the charge
be proved there is a word to say in mitigation of
sentence. Biographical records, it must be ad¬
mitted, provide considerable evidence for the pro¬
secution. and a cloud of anecdotal witness recalls,
with greater or less humour, the triumphant
invasion from the provinces. North Britain, and
the Principality. The counties and provincial
towns supply eminent politicians ; North Britain,
as a familiar legend attests, sends down, or up,
able managers—the visiting Scot, you remember,
made no English acquaintances, because he “ saw
only Heads of Departments ” ; and Wales is pre¬
eminent in the successful purveying of soft goods,
perhaps on account of
its conciliatory' genius.
On a numerical balance
of greatness, it is to be
feared that the indict¬
ment against London
must stand, but in
point of quality there
are extenuating circum¬
stances
When the Metropolis
condescends to raise up
great men within her
own borders she makes
thorough work. Among
her home-born sons she
can claim (to mention
only a few at random)
Chaucer, Sir Thomas
More, Spenser, Milton.
Pope, Defoe, Disraeli.
Byron, Keats, Brown¬
ing, Swinburne, and,
if Walthamstow may
count, William Morris.
In science and philo¬
sophy, Bacon, Faraday,
and John Stuart Mill
justify their London
parentage. So recently
as 1912 that eminent
man by accident,
Samuel Pepys, had to
be added to the roll of
native Londoners, when
Mr. Walter Bell showed
him to belong to St.
Bride's parish. At the
best, however, the emi¬
nent Londoners by birth
are but a handful com¬
pared with the legion
recruited from beyond
the liberties ; but Lon¬
don can plead that if
provincial talent, like
cheerfulness, will keep
breaking in, she pro¬
vides it with an unrivalled field for exercise. She
attracts and moulds to her uses the strong new
material by virtue of her own august person¬
ality. The weak she attracts and kills, but she
gives real strength its opportunity, making no
invidious distinctions as to place of origin.
If it be true that London lifts comparatively
few of her own sons to first places in the Temple of
Fame, that is not because of any littleness in
herself. One reason may be the proximity of
Londoners to London ; they miss the stimulus
of the distant vision, that masterful lure which
has led the Whittingtons of all ages and districts
to try their fortune to the encouraging rhythm of
Bow Bells. From the earliest times London has
stood for something apart, in every aspect she has
played the magician. Even as a mere label her
name has been significant and peculiar. " A
draught of London ale " meant something out of
the ordinary to a connoisseur like Chaucer's cook ;
“ London pride,’’ “ London life,” ” London news ”
are all words of power. Their attraction may defy
analysis, but it is self-evident. To pass from such
minor detail to the Metropolis as a whole, there is
abundant evidence that she was a fascinating siren
long before she grew to be Wordsworth’s ” mon¬
strous ant-hill on the plain of a too busy world.”
Dunbar, in 1501, addressing her as ” of townes
A per se," expressed truly the attitude of the
glamoured provincial before and since. It was but
a little London, so to speak, that Dunbar knew ;
but a London with all the attributes that make up
her individuality—attributes she keeps, no matter
how she extends, for it is her central region that
determines the concept. Curious and accurate
later testimony to London’s magnetism is to be
found in Mr. Arnold Bennett’s first novel, with its
picture of an ambitious Midland boy who made a
pastime of watching the express for London pull
it nightly from his home terminus. It was more
than a pastime : the train was to him a link with
a whole world of desire. That is the spell she
binds on men from the provinces to win their
first strength in her service. And behind it all
THE CARDIGAN BY-ELECTION: CAPT. ERNEST EVANS, THE NEW MEMBER. THANKING HIS SUPPORTERS
FROM THE BALCONY OF THE FEATHERS HOTEL.
Captain Evans (Coalition Liberal) polled 14,111 votes to 10,521 for his opponent, Mr. Llewelyn Williams (Independent Liberal).
The result was announced at Aberayon on February 19. [Photograph by Farrtngdon Photo. Co.)
lies the persistent legend of the nursery rhyme
that London streets are paved with gold.
When London has caught her votary from town
or country she can make him a very complete
imitation of a native. Often she gives him greater
insight into her secrets. From the south coast
she drew Charles Dickens to be her Londoner of
Londoners, and she made him governor of a pro¬
vince, ” Dickens’s London,” still under explora¬
tion by the curious antiquary. Dunbar saw only
the glories of the place ; Dickens was not afraid
to seize the repellent features, often to the ultimate
great benefit of the community. Much of the
grime of his day has gone, and, if Utopia is not
yet, life is wholesomer, although perfect Housing
Schemes hang fire. We have at any rate got rid
of an appalling frowsiness, and even fogs are
fewer. The London particular is now like Sam
Weller's new suit, ” a wery partickler and un¬
common circumstance.” To the country cousin
London fog used to rank with other reputed horrors,
such as the ever-present pickpocket and the lurking
murderer ; but these things could not deter him
from his ambition if he was of the predestined class
that sooner or later must arrive in the Metropolis,
to succeed greatly, to find a bare living, or to be
submerged.
These pilgrims, no matter what their fortune,
have come to stay. Yet some of them confess that
they are conscious of no determination to remain
for life. After nearly thirty years’ residence here
they have been heard to say that they still feel as
if they were up in London for a holiday. They
imagine that they have not taken root on the
London clay. At the same time they can discover
in their own breasts no wish to return home. The
fact is they are the willing thralls of this Babylon,
and they love her better than they realise. Banish
them by edict to their native parish, and they
would be found, night after night, playing the
heart-hungry game of Mr. Bennett’s early hero.
They would double their pastime, and watch the
incoming trains as well, with the same thrill as
that to which Mr. Hewlett confessed when first
he saw a railway en¬
gine on the wheels of
which might lie the
dust of Home.
It must not be sup¬
posed that the pro¬
vincial incomer, that
resident alien, has any
monopoly of Loyal
emotions. Your Lon¬
doner born is equally
attached to the grey
city of his birth, but
his affection is less
accentuated. He has
grown up with things
that were a far-off
wonder, a splendid ru¬
mour, to the provincial
until one memorable
day when he looked
upon them for the first
time, and pinched him¬
self to make sure that
it was no dream. In
that experience he has
the pull of the native,
who, being part of
London, is not con¬
sciously selective. He
has not seen the city
throned on a distant
horizon ; to it he has
not gone up as the
tribes went up to Zion ;
it is commonplace,
though not therefore
undervalued, any more
than a man would
undervalue that great
commonplace, his
breakfast. But he does
not romance about it,
and it is just because
the provincial born has
caught a glimpse of
the romance of London
that he becomes her
walling bondman for better or worse. Having
shown him the vision, she bids him keep it as a
stimulus, and see that he does not sink into an
idle dreamer of vague dreams. Her rewards are
to imagination tempered with practicality. And
of these her home-born sons receive their own share.
To attempt to define the term Londoner is to
enter a maze. The saying “ He is a regular Lon¬
doner ” seems to carry some meaning until it is
examined. It may be applied equally to the
exquisite of Bond Street, the gamin, the solid
citizen, and the inspired poet. But how to
eliminate the quality or qualities common to all—
there’s the rub ! What makes a man a Lon¬
doner ? Is it an alert gaiety, a ready sarcastic
tongue, keenness in business, a passion for sport
and amusement, a great valour, as our London
Regiments proved ? Admitting these, we get no
further, for they are not peculiar to Londoners.
Perhaps it is simply that we recognise Londoners
as such because they reflect in innumerable ways
and degrees the spirit of the city that, as Bozzy,
making one of his good shots, remarked, ” com¬
prehends the whole of human life in all its variety,
the contemplation of which is inexhaustible.”
Dunbar got home more neatly with his refrain—
” London, thou art the flower of Cities alL*’—J. D. S.
CHIEF FRENCH DELEGATE AT THE LONDON
CHIEF GREEK DELEGATE AT THE LONDON [
CONFERENCE : M. KALOGEROPOULOS, PREMIER.
CHIEF ITALIAN DELEGATE AT THE LONDON
CONFERENCE : M. BRIAND, PREMIER. I | CONFERENCE : COUNT SFORZA, FOREIGN MINISTER.
REPUTED GERMANY’S RICHEST MAN, ATTENDING THE
LONDON CONFERENCE : HERR HUGO STINNES (LEFT).
A WELL-KNOWN ANGLO-INDIAN : THE j
LATE SIR WARREN HASTINGS D OYLY. ^
! CONQUEROR OF THE ” MAD " MULLAH
[“*1 THE LATE F.-M. SIR CHARLES EGERTON
Ptain Ernest Evans, the new M.P. for Cardiganshire, was formerly a private
secretary to Mr. Lloyd George. He served in the war with the A.S.C.-Herr
ugo Stinnes, the German industrial magnate, is on the advisory staff of the
'man delegation to the London Conference to discuss reparation.— Dr.
illiam Odling, who died at Oxford on February 17, aged 91, had been Waynflete ;
rofessor of Chemistry there for forty years.-M. Kalogeropoulos became Premier
of Greece at the beginning of this month, in succession to M. Rallis. -M.
Aristide Briand, who arrived in London on the 20th for the Conference on the |
Near East, which' opened at St. James’s Palace on the 21st, is now Premier of
France for the seventh time.-Count Carlo Sforza, the Italian Foreign Minister,
negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo last year.-The Turkish delegates from the
Porte to the London Conference included Tewfik Pasha, Grand Vizier, and Rechad
Pasha, representative in London. The Angora Nationalist delegates were only
admitted as part of the Porte delegation.-Field - Marshal Sir Charles Egerton,
who died on Feb. 20, commanded the Somaliland Field Force in 1903-4, and decisively
defeated the “ Mad ” Mullah' at Jedballi. He had a distinguished career in India.
THE NEW MEMBER FOR CARDIGAN
CAPTAIN ERNEST EVANS, M.P.
IP
A FAMOUS OXFORD SCIENTIST DEAD : THE
LATE PROFESSOR WILLIAM ODLING. F.R.S.
262—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
A SYMBOL OF
Feb. 26. 1921
INTERWOVEN FRANCO-BRITISH
FRIENDSHIP/
RV CorlTKSY OK THE VICTORIA
M r. h. a. l. fisher, m.p..
President of the Board
of Education, in opening the
Franco-BritishTextile Exhibition,
said they were greatly indebted
to the Frehch Government for
their magnificent loan. No
such exhibition of textile art
had ever before been open to
the inspection of the British
public. On the walls of that
hall were the great series of
Gobelins tapestries lent by the
Government of France, and on
the floor were carpets from the
famous factory of Savonnerie,
as fresh and brilliant as when
they were first trodden by the
gay Court of Louis XIV. In
another room three panels from
the famous series of tapestries
belonging to Rheims Cathe¬
dral were now, by an extra¬
ordinary act of generosity,
placed on public view in Lon¬
don. The tapestries were rare
and precious treasures, and
they could not sufficiently ap¬
preciate the generous senti¬
ment which had led the French
Government to give to the
artistic public and to the
textile industries of this country
an opportunity of seeing such
masterpieces which had been
long renowned in the history
of art.
r
The Franco-British Exhibition of Textiles, opened recently at the Victoria and Albert Museum, contains (to quote the Minister of Education, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher) “ a collection of
tapestries, carpets, vestments, brocades, and embroidered fabrics such as has not been seen in any other exhibition of the kind." The scheme was originally planned in 19x6,
and its success has been chiefly due to the generosity of the French Government in lending some of the finest productions of the famous Gobelins and Beauvais factories, and
PJIUJI
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26 , 1921 .— 263
NDSHJP GOBELINS AND OTHER RARE FRENCH TAPESTRIES IN LONDON.
sv or tbs tc,
and Albkrt MVStVU.
‘T’HE French Ambassador (the
Comte de St. Aulaire)
replying to Mr. Fisher, said
that the French tapestries and
the French delegates alike had
been given a welcome at once
cordial and magnificent, splen¬
did and fraternal. For those
who knew its origin, this ex¬
hibition was an example of
those British qualities of ten¬
acity and perseverance which,
during the war, had benefited
the world, and especially France.
In the contrast between the
simple title of the exhibition
and its dazzling splendour he
found a new proof of the rare
and noble qualities of English
sentiment. . . . The title of
the exhibition was English, and,
like the English, there was
more in it than there seemed.
Before the splendour hidden
by the title, one could say of
it, as of many Englishmen,
whose apparent coldness con¬
cealed a profound sensibility,
that the rose grew from within.
He drew an analogy between
the Entente Cordiale and the
tapestries, declaring that the
destinies of the two Allies are
indissolubly interwoven by their
common sacrifice, their* his¬
tory, and their common in¬
terests.
° f **** * ua >orities of Rheims Cathedral in sending over three of their priceless sixteenth-century series of tapestries of the Life of the Virgin. The King, who, with the Queen,
•*** visited the exhibition, lent a sixteenth-century Flemish tapestry panel, and many private owners, both British and French, have contributed to the exhibition. We quote
»t>ove from the speeches of Mr. Fisher and the Comte de St Aulaire at the opening ceremony.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921.—264
ja.
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
NUMBER of me¬
moirs of Cecil
Rhodes have already appeared,
but several of them are dis¬
figured by personal prejudice
or some measure of odium
politicum, and the rest have been necessarily
based on an imperfect knowledge of the facts
bearing on the famous Empire-maker's character
and career. Mr. Ian Colvin’s tiny monograph
is the best anticipation of the ultimate verdict
of history, and it is pleasant to remember that
this brilliant stylist was chosen to write the
official biography of Dr. Jameson, which involves,
of course, a final investigation of the career and
character of Cecil Rhodes, since the two friends
cannot be separated on either
score. The book will be none
the less readable and reliable
because the author has the
faculty of seeing the heroic
in great men and worship¬
ping it—for, after all, the
conception of history as a
process of sifting and sort¬
ing the dust of circumstance
leads nowhither, and it is
surely the modern historian’s
duty to show us how the
statesman, in spite of a
thousand external obstacles,
and even his own errors and
shortcomings, can yet realise
a far-seen ideal, and so add
to the scope and variety of
living for posterity. The
great achievements of Cecil
Rhodes were the creation of
Rhodesia and that memor¬
able Will, which will always
remain an example of the
right disposition of vast
accumulations of wealth—
referring to it in conversa¬
tion, the late Sir Wilfrid
Laurier pithily observed in
my presence that it “ gave
the millionaires another fifty
years’ lease of existence 1 "
As for his crowning act of
architectural statesmanship,
it places Rhodes in the same
category of master-builders
as Abraham Lincoln and
John Macdonald. Lincoln
saw that the natural growth
of the American West would
guarantee the solidarity of
the Union in the end, even
if the South were momen¬
tarily triumphant. John
Macdonald foresaw that
what could be called the
“ Great Lone Land ” sixty
years ago, and now forms
the three rich and populous
Prairie Provinces of the
Canadian Confederacy, would
in time produce a sufficiency
of wealth, and support a
large enough population, to
insure the success of his
plan of a transcontinental
Canada—a cantilever bridge, as it ere, of United
British States spanning the vast and unsettled
spaces between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
And the creation of Rhodesia, so Rhodes antici¬
pated, would in the end secure the permanence
of a third great Confederation within the limits
of the British Empire, in spite of the ratine de la
rancune between Dutch and English settlers,
which is still so sedulously cultivated by General
Hertzog.
The .word ” Rhodesia ” on the world’s map
is the epitaph of Rhodes, written in letters that
can never be erased—only George Washington,
whose name is inscribed on both ocean-fronts of
the United States, possesses as magnificent a
memorial ! And ” Rhodesia ” is also the death-
sentence of Hertzogism ! In “ Cecil Rhodes ”
(Constable ; 15s. net), by Basil Williams, which
is an admirable historical monograph, a little
lacking, perhaps, in the fascination that originates
in an intimate acquaintance with persons and
episodes, the main lines of Rhodes’s policy are
kept clearly in view throughout. The reader is
shown how he was obsessed by the importance
of the North, and by the necessity of a recon¬
ciliation between the two races in the South—
and none knew better than he did the fine
qualities of the Dutch character, and the peculiar
kind of Imperialism to which it could be made
susceptible. It is in his interpretation of the
character of Rhodes that I find Mr. Williams an
inadequate guide, for he lays too much stress on
the feet of clay, and too little on the torso of
granite, of his colossal subject. After all, the
cynicism which prompted some of his sayings
(1 e.g ., that *‘ Philanthropy and five per cent,
cannot go together ”) was only skin-deep, being
really a form of self-protection against the senti¬
mentalists, whom he could never abide. He
had his petty mannerisms—some of them rooted
IN A GREAT HISTORICAL FILM TO BE PRODUCED IN PARIS AT THE CENTENARY OF
NAPOLEONS DEATH: THE FOYER OF THE OPERA IN 1822—A SCENE IN “ L’AGON IE DES AIGLES"
whose joyousness and
genius for friendship—
two characteristics of the
medieval saint—must have
some day brought him the
honour of beatification, had
he been a member of the Roman Communion.
Indeed, he had the three virtues— benignitas,
hilaritas, simplicitas —which were proper to those
who made the Benedictine Order a new power
for mankind’s redemption. At a time when the
Christian Social Union was almost alone in pro¬
claiming the evils of social injustice, he set up
the standard of the poor, and preached a crusade
against the materialism that was as the ” burden ”
of Nineveh or Tyre. It was easy for men to
distrust him in politics. A
man of meteoric vitality
(so that other ecclesiastics
seemed colourless and leth¬
argic in his company), he
could not weigh his words
or be rigorously just to his
antagonists. Yet he was a
living and inexhaustible force
to the end of his days for
that central fact which in¬
spires the humanitarian prin¬
ciples of Christianity : in
his own words, “ Not the
Divinity of a man. but the
Humanity of a God; not
the life out of life, so much
as life out of death.” So,
for him, the Church was to
express humanity at its
fullest and best, as a social
organism or universal brother¬
hood ; in which faith he
lived and died and is to¬
day immortal. He saw in
a large, shapeless flight of
starlings (seen when driving
to Cuddesdon in June 1911,
with the Archbishop of York)
a similitude of the Anglican
communion with its vast
variety of opinions : ” How
like the Church of England! ”
he exclaimed. *' Nothing
apparently keeping it to¬
gether ; and yet, somehow,
getting along all the time.
Dear little Anglican birds I ”
He was a famous letter-
writer, and some of the
letters here collected, es¬
pecially those to children,
are exquisite examples of an
art that is being lost in the
hurry and flurry of modern
life. Many such human
documents, written in the
very heart’s blood, are bound
up in this most un-sacer-
dotal book.
PARIS IN THE DAYS OF LOUIS XVIII.. AFTER THE DOWNFALL OF NAPOLEON: THE CAFE DE
LA REGENCE UNDER THE RESTORATION—A SCENE IN THE GREAT FILM. ” L’AGON IE DES AIGLES."
m a financial past which can never be made to
appear edifying—and in his case (as also in Lord
Kitchener’s, perhaps) we feel how great was the
loss of poise and equanimity due to the lack of
the family relations which have been for other
and even greater men a never-failing spring of
secret refreshment. No man, as I read the scars
in his character, would have benefited more
from a happy marriage. In the main, however,
for all his peevishness and petulance, he was good
as well as great, and the young, at any rate,
found in him an infinite lovability.
The cenotaph biography still survives—there
is a dreadful example of it on my desk at the
present moment, in a huge two-volume work
about the late J. H. Choate, whose flashing wit
and wise enlargement of the functions of
” America’s ambassador to England ” are buried
there under a huge pile of letters without dis¬
tinction. often indistinguishable. A far better
specimen of the in memoriam volume is " Henry
Scott Holland ” (Murray ; 16s. net), edited by
Stephen Paget, which enshrines the quick and
vivid memory of a great preacher and theologian.
” Musical Memories ”
(Murray; 15s. net), by Cam¬
ille Saint-Saftis, well trans¬
lated by E. G. Rich, is a
composer’s autobiography,
which is strangely lacking in egotism and sur¬
prisingly free from anecdotes. Massenet, Meyer¬
beer, and the other old - time celebrities one
meets here, are not perhaps as dead, at any
rate not as much damned, as is imagined.
More entertaining to the general reader is
*’ Charles E. Chapin’s Story ” (G. P. Put¬
nam’s Sons; 12s. 6d. net), which was written
in Sing Sing Prison, where the author is con¬
fined for killing his wife in order to save her
from the ills of poverty. The book throws a
lurid light on the American journalism which
lives up (or down) to McCullagh’s definition of
it as ” the art of knowing where hell is going
to break loose next, and having a reporter on
the spot to cover it.” The story of Irving Cobb's
remark when hearing that an enemy had been
taken ill: " Well, I hope it's nothing trivial,"
reminds me that he is supposed to be Mark
Twain’s successor, though his jests do not appear
to carry across the Atlantic as yet. Mr. Chapin's
acquaintances seem to have been a very mixed
grill, and I should say he meets a better society
in the curiously exhilarating environment of Sing
Sing, which is a convalescent home rather than
a jail according to English ideas.
I Hi; ll.l.l STKATEI* I.O\JX).N .NEW’S. f t«. liti, 1H2I. 26J
THE CENTENARY OF NAPOLEON’S DEATH: A GREAT HISTORICAL FILM.
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The celebrations in Paris in honour of the centenary of Napoleon's death, which
took place at St. Helena on May 5, i8zi. will be inaugurated by the production
of a great historical film called “ L'Agonie des Aigles ” (The Agony of the Eagles).
It has been prepared by a French society, Art et Cinematographic, established to
reconstitute for the films great episodes from national history, and has cost several
millions of francs. The story is based chiefly on the books of M. Georges
d Esparbds, the distinguished author of " La Guerre en Dentelle " and “ La
Ugende de I'Aigle,” and has been produced by M. Bernard Deschamps. Many
of the principal scenes have been filmed in the actual settings where the real
events recorded took place, chiefly in and around the Palace of Fontainebleau.
The “ charge before the Emperor,” shown in the top photograph above, was
made by young French cavalrymen of to-day, wearing the busbies of Napoleon's
Chasseurs de Garde, or helmets of the Or nano Dragoons, and armed with the
straight swords of the Ordener Cuirassiers.
266—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921.
NAPOLEON’S ACTUAL EAGLES AND UNIFORMS IN A FILNL TABU
WITH ORIGINAL EAGLES AND UNIFORMS, LENT BY THE MUSEUM OF THE FRENCH
the Presentation of th *
death. The above scene.
L’Agonie des Aigles.” has been prepared for the Paris celebrations, on May 5 , of the centenary of Napoli
The historical fill
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921._ J
SCENE IN THE GREAT FILM - '■ l-agonie DES AIGLES.”
* d ” Fet “ * FOnUmeb,e * U - Wlf fi,med in the “ tual r °° m; * nd «*J Napoleonic uniform,, were lent by the Murfe d. rArr
Tableau: history repeating itsc.d
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PARIS AFTER NAPOLEON’S DOWNFALL: DEMI-SOLDE PLOTS ON THE FILM
NAPOLEONIC PLOTS AFTER THE ‘ RESTORATION OF LOUIS XVIII.
A SECRET MEETING AT THE HOUSE OF COLONEL MONT AND ER.
IN A BEAR-FIT AT THE JARDIN DES PLANTES : A DUEL BETWEEN
A DEMI-SOLDE (LEFT) AND A SPY.
After Napoleon ’* banishment to the isle ol St. Helena, in 1815. and the restoration
of Louis XVIII. to the throne of France, the adherents of Napoleon continued to
intrigue with a view to his return. Between 1820 and 1S22 there was a series
of military conspiracies organised by the Demi-Soldes, or half-pay officer*, of
Napoleon's old army. Plots in his favour were hatched not only in Paris, but
elsewhere, as at Belfort, Colmar, Saumur, and La Rochelle. A leading part in
them was played by Colonel de Montander, of the old Imperial Guard. There
were daily duels between survivors of the Grand Army and Royalists, police raids,
arrests, and a trial before the Council of War ; finally, an execution, where the
French firing squad had to be replaced by Swiss Guards. All these dramatic
events, enacted for the most part in their original localities, including a duel in
a bear-pit at the Jardin des Plantes (the Paris “ Zoo ”), form scenes in the great
film, “ L'Agonie des Aigles," to be produced in Paris next May during the
celebration of the centenary of Napoleon’s death.
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26 , 1921 —269
, - ; ' —
THE CLOCK OF BOU ANANIA: A MYSTERY OF MEDIAEVAL FEZ
_ D,4 ’ N ” V °°* SPK, * L «™T IN MOROCCO. A. FORESTIEP
jl'.i-'j 7 ;
WHY THIRTEEN TIMBRELS? A FOURTEENTH - CENTURY MOROCCAN CLOCK, WHOSE MECHANISM HAS DISAPPEARED.
Here is a chance for the student of ancient clocks to solve an apparent mystery.
During his recent visit to Morocco, Mr. A. Forestier made the above drawing,
** ****» Hie capital, and in explanation of the subject he writes : “ In the Suk
(Souk) of the Tala, lined on both sides by curious little shops, where odds and
ends of all kinds are sold as well as eatables, and facing the important Medersa
(Koranic College) of Bou Anania, one’s attention is drawn to a row of large
bronze timbrels (or inverted bells), resting on brackets fixed on the wall above
e shops’ roof. These timbrels, thirteen in number, an equal number of small
| windows in the wall above them, and a woodwork arrangement, similarly corre¬
sponding, which protrudes from the wall above the row of windows, constitute
what is called ' the clock of Bou Anania.' Apart from some few traces of
mechanism showing on the window-frames, there is nothing left to explain how
the clock worked. The extraordinary part is the number of bells—why should
it be thirteen ? It has been supposed that a counterpart of that clock existed
at one time on the wall opposite. The date of this curious machiur is the
fourteenth century.”—(Draring Copyritkted if Ik* l nited Slot** and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS. Feb. 26 . 1921 270
PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON. Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen University.
We begirt here a series of abridgments, bv Professor J.
Arthur Thomson, of his recent lectures at
the Royal Institution, which proved so remark¬
ably popular, under the general title of ” The
Haunts of Life," Here follows the first —
” The School of the Shore " ; the others will
appear in later numbers.
T HERE are six great haunts of life—the sea¬
shore, the open sea, the deep sea, the fresh
waters, the dry land, and the air ; and each of
them is peopled by characteristic sets of animals.
The sea-shore
is a convenient
haunt to begin
with, and it was
probably the
first school of
animal life. It
is not to be
thought of as
the tract be¬
tween high-tide
mark and low-
tide mark, for
it is much more
than that. To
the naturalist
the shore means
the whole of the
comparatively
shallow, well-
lighted, sea¬
weed - growing
shelf (Fig. i)
around our
coasts. It is a
very long haunt,
going in and out
of creeks and
FIC. 10.—A LIMB FOR A LIFE : lochs, bays and
A COMMON STARFISH, WHICH fiords, for over
HAS LOST TWO ARMS, RE- a hundred thou-
GROW^NG THEM. sand miles, but
it is not a very
large haunt. It occupies between six and seven
per cent, of the earth’s surface, which is not a big
fraction. But the shore makes up for its com¬
parative smallness by its variety and interest.
There are some places where there is no shore at
all, where one can drop a stone from the cliff
edge into what must be called deep sea—it falls
“ kerblunkity-blink ” right into the dark abyss.
There are other places, not good for bathing,
where one can walk out and out for miles without
getting out of one’s depth. In some places, where
there are coral reefs—off Australia, for instance,
and in the Indian Ocean—the shore may extend
outwards for fifty miles.
The shore in one part of the country is very
different from that in another part. So much
depends on the nature of the rocks and the kinds
of green, brown, and red seaweeds that they bear,
on what the fresh water brings down from the
land, on the jetsam that the tide brings in from
the sea. It is a very difficult haunt of life—there
are risks of drought and of fresh-water flooding,
there are sand-storms and smothering masses of
wrenched-off seaweed, there is the scouring of
the breakers and swift currents. It is a place
where creatures are very subject to v/hat a great
preacher has called ” the discipline of dislodg-
ment.” It is a hard school of life. Moreover,
the shore is thickly peopled by a very repre¬
sentative array of animals—Simple Infusorians and
Foraminifers, sponges, zoophytes, sea - anemones,
a mob of worms, starfishes and their allies, crus¬
taceans galore, a few insects among the rocks, all
sorts of molluscs, very characteristic fishes, a few
reptiles, like the marine lizard, besides shore-birds
like the rock-pipit, and shore mammals like seals.
No doubt the shore is the scene of intense
struggle—a struggle for foothold, for fresh air
(usually mixed with the water), and for food.
There is a great deal of the conjugation of the
verb " to eat ” to be watched on the sea-shore :
“ I eat, thou eatest, he eats ; I shall eat, I shall be
eaten ; They have eaten " ; and grimmer tenses
still : “ They have been eaten.” Many of the
animals prey upon one another, and the House-
that-Jack-Built chains are very interesting. Ani¬
mate nature is run on a system of successive in¬
carnations. As the great chemist Liebig showed
so clearly, there is a ceaseless circulation of matter
throughout the world. It passes from one em¬
bodiment to another endlessly, and nothing is
ever lost. " After the last returns the first, ” as
Biowning said, ” though a long compass round
be fetched.”
One pound of rock-turbot means ten pounds of whelk ;
One pound of whelk means ten pounds of sea-worms ;
One pound of sea-worms means ten pounds of sea-dust.
Just as all flesh is in the long run grass, so all
fish is diatom, infusorian, and sea-dust.
By the sea-dust is meant the minute particles
which result from the wear and tear of the sea¬
weeds and the sea-grass (Zostera), and the debris
of the sea-shore animals ; and this sea-dust—The
crumbs of the shore—plays a very important part
in feeding the inhabitants of the comparatively
shallow water. The trouble is that it is always
tending to be swept outwards and downwards—-
passing out of reach—down the slope into the
. depths. One is apt not to realise how hard the
shore sponges, for instance, have to work for their
living, lashing large quantities of water through
their bodies ; for the sponge, with its elaborate
system of water canals, may be compared to a
city like Venice. As the water passes through the
sponge, many of the particles of sea-dust, and some
living animalcules as well, are captured as food.
It is interesting to kneel down by a shore pool,
and watch the little acorn shells or rock-barnacles
(Fig. 2) sifting, or’ fanning, the water with six
pairs of two-branched limbs, each bearing many
bristles and looking like a curl in the water (hence
the technical name cirripede, or curl-footed).
Huxley compared these rock-barnacles to shrimps,
or the like, fastened upside-down by their head
and kicking their food into their mouth with their
legs. But it is very graceful kicking 1 What a
long gamut there is from a sea-anemone waiting
for some victim to come within the reach of its’
stinging and grappling tentacles, up to the oyster-
catcher knocking the limpet off the rock (Fig. 6)
with a dexterous side-stroke of its strong bill !
The solutions of the bread-and-butter problem on
the shore are endless.
Under the ledges of the seashore rocks we find
clusters of neatly made vases, first pink, then
straw-coloured, each about the height of half the
breadth of our little finger-nail. These are the
egg-cases or cocoons of the dog-whelk (Purpura)
(Fig. 4, back), and each is the scene of a grim
struggle for existence, which we must face, of
course, as a fact of nature. In each vase there
are several eggs which develop into minute larvae.
But the first to hatch out devour their fellows
who lag behind a little in their development.
Thus we have an eerie cannibalism in the cradle.
The same stern struggle for existence may be
studied in the egg-capsules (Fig. 4, front) of the
Large W’hclk or ” Roaring Buckie ” (Buccinum),
which are fastened to the
rocks at a lower level on
the shore. Clusters of the
empty cases, reminding
one a little of the dried
fruits of hops, are often
seen among the jetsam at
high-tide mark along with
the empty " mermaid’s
purses ” (Fig. 3), the horny
egg-cases of skate and dog¬
fish. When these purses
are laid they fasten auto¬
matically to deep - water
seaweed by means of their
long tendrils, and they are
thus saved from being
smothered in the mud.
This is the more im¬
portant since the develop¬
ment of these gristly
fishes is long-drawn-out,
taking about a year in
some kinds of skate.
We may divide animals
into the hard-mouthed,
like a crab, and the soft-
mouthed, like an oyster.
Most of the soft-mouthed
animals live on soft food,
especially animalcules and
sea-dust ; while the hard-
mouthed animals graze on
seaweeds or devour their neighbours. The starfish
is a soft-mouthed animal, but it is a thorough¬
going carnivore. It protrudes its capacious
elastic stomach on its victims, and it is able
to open mussels. But still more interesting is
the way in which it disarms a small sea-urchin
(Fig. 7). It lays one of its five arms on the
prickly surface of the sea - urchin ; its scores
of locomotor tube feet are firmly nipped by the
scores of small three-bladed snapping spines on the
sea-urchin ; the starfish withdraws its arm and
the snapping blades are wrenched off ; the star¬
fish repeats the process with another arm and with
another until the sea-urchin is disarmed ; it is
then engulfed, smothered, softened, crushed, and
digested in the protruded stomach of the starfish.
This is an interesting seashore episode, especially
when we remember that this persistent starfish
which follows a plan to its distant end is entirely
destitute of brains. Its nervous system is without
a single ganglion. This is just at the threshold
of behaviour, but it spells endeavour.
Above all other haunts of life, the shore is rich
in shifts for a living. Thus many a crab masks
or camouflages itself (Fig. 5) with seaweed, which
it fixes on its back, anticipating the trick of ” the
walking wood of Birnam.” A starfish pinned
down by one of its arms surrenders that arm
and escapes (Fig 10). Brainless though it be.
it has in the course of time somehow learned
that it is better that one member should perish
than that the whole life should be lost. When
the common shore-crab has a leg badly damaged
by a loosened stone—a common accident on the
beach—it throws off that leg across a breakage
plane near the base (Fig. 8), and a double flap
of membrane beneath the line of self-amputation
folds over and staunches the wound. Surely
fine surgery, to cut and to bandage at once !
Within the shelter of the bandage a new leg is
formed in miniature, and shoots out like a Jack-
in-the-Box when the crab has its next moult.
Then there are the flat fishes (Fig. 11) like turbot,
plaice and sole, which quickly adjust the tint and
pattern of their skin, so that they can hardly be
seen against the background of sand or gravel.
They have in the course of time acquired the
power of putting on a garment of invisibility.
The shifts for a living on the seashore are as
numerous as they are fascinating.
It is not all a matter of caring for self or
struggling for self-preservation. The sea-leech or
skate-sucker (Pontobdella) lays its eggs carefully in
an empty shell and mounts guard over them for
many, many days ; during its patient watch this
parent of low degree has to fast. The male
lumpsucker or cock - paidle keeps watch over
the big cluster of eggs in the corner of the
rock - pool, and fans them with his tail so
that they are kept fresh and clean. The male
stickleback makes a seaweed nest (Fig. 9) and
takes great care of his family—a fine example
of a big soul in a little body. There is " love ”
as well as ” hunger ” on the shore.
But the most important thing is to see the
shore as a great school where many different races
of animals learned important lessons—never after¬
wards forgotten—such as the lesson of holding
tight, which leads on to tenacity of purpose, the
lesson of biding their time and making the most of
it when it comes, and the lesson of testing all
things and holding fast that which is good.
(Srr.'rt t» hr roHtitmrd.)
FIG. 11.—"CAMOUFLAGE’' AMONG FLAT FISHES: A TURBOT (ABOVE) AND
PLAICE. HARDLY VISIBLE AGAINST SAND OR GRAVEL.
The turbot’s eyes are on its left side; those of the plaice on its right side.
THE
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NEWS, Ff.b.
26 , 1921 —271
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HAUNTS OF LIFE: NATURAL WONDERS OF THE SEA - SHORE
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L-THE SCHOOL OF THE SHORE : CREATURES DESCRIBED IN PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON S FIRST LECTURE
AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
here are some places,” writes Professor Thomson, “where there is no shore
** *11, where one can drop a stone from the cliff edge into what might be called
P sea. . . . There are other places . . . where one can walk out and out
or miles without getting out of one's depth. . . . The shore in one part of the
country i$ very different from that in another part. . . . Moreover, the shore is
thickly peopled by a very representative array of animals simple Infusorians and
Foraminifers, sponges, zoophytes, sea-anemones, a mob of worms, star-fishes,
and their allies, crustaceans galore, a few insects among the rocks, all sorts of
molluscs, fishes, a few reptiles, like the marine lizard, shore-birds like the rock-
pipit, and shore mammals like seals .”--[Copyrighted in Hu l niled SiaUs and Canada.]
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THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
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A lthough the Guikihau school of Mu»v
cannot itself claim a high antiquity—it
dates from 1880—yet it has topographical associa¬
tions that reach far back into London’s historic
past. It stands in Tallis Street, close to the
Victoria Embankment, on the site of the old
Queen's Theatre, built in Dorset Gardens, in
or about 1667, by Sir William Davenant, the
dramatist. This house, as Leigh Hunt records.
" became famous under the Davenants for the
introduction of operas, and of a more splendid
exhibition of scenery," and " was the last to
which people went in boats.’’ Later, the Queen's
was managed by Christopher Rich, father of John
Rich, the founder of Covent Garden Theatre. It
was finally abandoned in 1706.
The little theatre attached to the present
Guildhall School of Music has thus a distinguished
ancestor, and the classic neighbourhood of White-
friars is no stranger to music and musicians. The
London Gazette of December 30, 1672. mentions
a “ Musick-School over against the George Tavern
in White Fryers." where " this present Monday
will be rousick performed by excellent masters,
beginning precisely at 4 of the clock in the after¬
noon. and even*' afternoon for the future, pre¬
cisely at the same hour." This seventeenth-
century predecessor of the Guildhall School was
at the house of John Banister, whom Sir John
Hawkins describes as " the son of one of that
low class of musicians called the Waits, of the
Parish of St. Giles near London, but. having been
taught by his father the rudiments of music,
he became in a short time such a proficient on
the violin, that by King Charles II. he was sent
to France for improvement, and upon his return
was made one of his band, but having occasion
to tell the King that the English performers
on that instrument were superior to those of
France, he was dismissed from his service.
He set to music the opera of ‘ Circe,’ per¬
formed in the year 1676 at the Theatre in
Dorset Garden. He died on the third day of
October. 1679, and lies buried in the cloister of
Westminster Abbey
The locality has also, of course, many links
with the sister arts of poetry, drama, and litera¬
ture in general. Hard by is the Temple, with
its memories of Shakespeare. Charles Lamb.
Goldsmith, and Thackeray. Milton. Richardson,
and Dr. Johnson dwelt near
in their day, and in St. Bride's
Church, within whose parish
boundaries the Guildhall School
'stands, is buried Richard
Lovelace, author of that ex¬
quisite song. " To Divine
Althea.”
A more prosaic period in
the history of the site began
early last century, when it
was occupied by some gas¬
works 1
In 1879 was formed the
Guildhall Orchestral Society,
a band of musical enthusiasts
connected with the City Cor¬
poration, under Mr. Thomas
Henry Weist-Hill (1828-91).
afterwards the first Ihrincipal
of the School. The Society
used to hold some of its
practice meetings in the Guild¬
hall. In 1880 the Court of
Common Council decided to
establish a school of music
within the City boundaries
at a maximum cost of £350
for the year. The school
began operations in a disused
Aldermanbury warehouse. In.
three months the number of
pupils grew from 62 to 216.
and in the next five years
reached 2450. The premises
were by that time hopelessly
inadequate, and the success
of the school had 1. been so
remarkable that, in 1885.
the City Fathers voted a sum
of £20,000 for a new and
worthy building.
The site was chosen, the old gas-works dis¬
appeared, and the foundation stone of the present
Guildhall School of Music was laid, on July 29.
1885, by Mr. Pearse Morrison, Chairman of the
Music Committee of the Corporation. (That
office, by the way. was held last year by a famous
lawn-tennis player. Mr. H. Roper Barrett.)
BUILT IN 1885 - 87 : THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF
MUSIC. IN WHITEFRIARS—THE ENTRANCE.
Draum by our Special Artm, E. H. Shepard
Another member of the Committee in 1885 was
Alderman Poiydore de Keyser, founder of Dc
Keyser’s Hotel, and afterwards Lord Mayor.
The cost of the new building rose by a further
£6000 before the old Aldermanbury warehouse
THE LADY MAYORESS DISTRIBUTING PRIZES WON AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC:
A CEREMONY HELD IN THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL CLOSE BY.
Itruu-n hr our Special Artist, E. H. S be par J
was again given up to the rats. and. in 1887 th«
fine School in Tallis Street was occupied
Under Sir Joseph Bam by, who became Prin¬
cipal when Mr. Weist-Hill died in 1891. the
Guildhall School prospered more than ever, and
there was such an immense influx of pupils that
the Court of Common Council spent another
£20.000 in building a School Theatre and v>
new class-rooms
The foundation stone was laid in 1897. and
the annexe was opened the next year. Hamby
died in i8qo, and was succeeded b\ Dr. V
H. Cummings, who died in 1915, when Mr
Landon Ronald, the present Principal, was
appointed. Space forbids mention of all the
eminent men who were connected with the
school, as teachers or otherwise, in its earlier
days. Among them were Charles Pye Smith,
the well-loved first Secretary,. W. H. Monk, com¬
poser of the famous hymn tune, " Abide with
Me ” ; W. H. Holmes, who taught composition
to Stemdale Bennett and George and Walter
Macfarren ; Ernst Pauer, who had studied under
Mozart's son, Wolfgang Amadeus Sir John
Stainer ; Henry Lazarus the clarinet - plaver :
and Sir Julius Benedict
Mr Landon Ronald, the present Principal,
has achieved fame as one of the most popular
song-composers of his day, and as a conductor of
what is probably the finest orchestral combination
in the British Empire. In the last ten years,
during which he has reigned at the School it
has turned out an immense number of young
artists, many of them now before the public in
various capacities, either as teachers or per¬
formers. Chief among these we must name
Gladys Ancrum and Fred Blarney, of the Beech&m
Opera Company, Carrie Tubb, Lilian Stiles-Alien
Rene Maxwell. I>ora Labbett. Doris Ashton, and
Dorothy Waring Among violinists we are re¬
minded of poor Mary Law, whose premature
death was so recently lamented : and of Mar¬
garet Fairless, who is even now making a great
name. There is scarcely a theatre orchestra
which does not number in its ranks many stu¬
dents and ex-students of the Guildhall School
of Music. Several of the best - known theatre
musical directors, such as Herman Finck. Philip
Braham. Cuthliert Clark. Herbert Hainton, John
Ansell. all hail from the School. .
An honoured place on tin¬
teaching start is held by Sir
Frederic Cowrn. the veteran
composer and orchestral con¬
ductor An old friend of
Mr. Ronald's, he has willingly
enlisted under his banner to
place his unrivalled experience
at the service of the Cor¬
poration’s School
A delicate compliment was
paid by a great sister in¬
stitution recently when its
illustrious head, the late Sir
Hubert Parry. Ifirector of
the Royal College of Musk
came to the Queen’s Hall at
the request of his old pupil
and friend. Mr. Ronald, to
conduct the Guildhall Students'
Choir and Orchestra in a
performance of “ Blest Pair
of Sirens." Sir Hubert ex¬
pressed bis amazement and
delight at the remarkable
ovation with which he was
greeted. Another charming
incident w-hich we must not
forget was an invitation by
Sir Alexander Mackenzie to
the students of the City
School to come to Maryle-
bouc and give bis young people
at the Royal Academy of
Music " a taste of their
qualit}’. ’* This mutual inter¬
change of courtesy between
great schools proves an utter
absence of jealousy or any¬
thing but friendly rivalry be¬
tween them.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Ieb. 26. 1921.—27a
MAKERS OF MUSICIANS: THE PERSONNEL OF A GREAT SCHOOL.
DKAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, E. H. SHEPARD.
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FOUNDED BY THE CORPORATION OF LONDON: THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC-ITS PRINCIPAL,
PROFESSORS, AND SECRETARY.
More than one celebrity is closely associated with the Guildhall School of Music.
On our double-page of illustrations we give some account of the Principal,
Mr. Landon Ronald, and of Sir Frederic Cowen, one of the chief members of the
visiting staff. But it is not only in music that those connected with the
institution have won renown. Mr. Herbert Roper Barrett, who was Chairman
of the Corporation’s Music Committee last year, and responsible for the manage¬
ment of the school, is well known in the world of lawn-tennis as one of the
leading players of the day. The fact emphasises the affinity that exists between
the harmony of mind and body. In the group of some of the Professors at
lunch (for, though “music be the food of love,” musicians need something more
substantial !), the names, from left to right, are—Messrs. Fred Hankins, Gregory
Hast, George Aitken, Hamilton Robinson, Orlando Morgan, Landon Ronald
Franklin Clive, Ian Robertson, and Saxe Wyndham (Secretary of the School)!
The stall includes many others.-IDraumj Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.]
"IN THE LAST TEN YEARS IT HAS TURNED OUT AN IMMENSE NUMBER
DRAMATIC. INSTRUMENTAL
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Since its foundation about forty years ago, the Guildhall School of Music on the Victoria Embankment has grown to be one of the most important institutions
of its kind. To quote the article about it on another page in this number : “ In the last ten years, during which Mr. Landon Ronald has reigned at the
School, it has turned out an immense number of young artists, many of them now before the public in various capacities either as teachers or performers.
Apart from his position of Principal, Mr. Landon Ronald is, of course, famous as a song-composer and a conductor. He has conducted the Royal Albert
Hall Orchestra (formerly the New Symphony Orchestra) since 1908, and he is Chairman of the Musical Conductors’ Association. He has toured and
OX NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921.—275
ND THE STAGE: THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC
ER OF YOUNG ARTISTS": THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC —
AND VOCAL STUDIES.
^ucted in all parts of the world. His compositions include 200 songs and many other works, among the most recent being the incidental music to •• me
en Allah.” Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, who was knighted in 19x1, is also a famous conductor and composer, having published a number of well-
orchestral works, and over 250 songs, duets, and piano pieces. He was born in Jamaica in 1852. Many well-known orchestras have been under
way 0 f his baton. M r Lewis c a i rns James, now Professor of Elocution at the chief musical colleges of London, was formerly on the stage, as a leading
Of the D Oyly Carte Company and Others.— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921.—276
DRAMATIC STUDY AT A MUSIC SCHOOL: ELOCUTION AND DANCING.
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, C. H. SHEPARD.
“SUIT THE ACTION TO THE WORD, THE WORD TO THE ACTION”: A DRAMATIC CLASS AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC
STUDYING SHAKESPEARE UNDER MISS KATE RORKE.
“ AND THEN TAKE HANDS ; FOOT IT FEATLY HERE AND THERE ” : A STAGE DANCING CLASS, UNDER MR. B. SOUTTEN,
AT THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
Besides lesson.', in all strictly musical subjects, the Guildhall School of Music also
provides dramatic training in elocution, gesture, stage dancing (under Mr. B.
Soutten), and fencing. The Shakespearean dramatic class is in the able hands
of Miss Kate Rorke, the well-known actress, and we may be sure that she
impresses upon her pupils Hamlet’s immortal advice to the players : “ Speak the
speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if
you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke
my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use
all gently. ... Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your
tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special
observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so over¬
done is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was,
and is, as’t were, to hold the mirror up to nature.” A dress rehearsal at the
school is shown on our double-page.— [Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Feb. 26 . 1921—277
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THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE.
G EORGE FORMBY is dead, and no one who
read the news could but pause a moment
and think of him in admiration and sorrow. His
was the struggle of years against the enemy within
breaking him inch by inch. When the house
shook with laughter, he shook with pain masked
by smiles, and his anxious wife was watching
in the wings lest his lungs should give out in the
midd'c of his songs. Yet the world knew little
of his sufferings: to the multitude he was the
inimitable comedian, the kinsman of August
in the circus, the forerunner of Charlie Chaplin.
In his quaint get-up, with his short trousers,
his antediluvian frock-coat, his frying-pan bowler,
with an inane smile upon a would-be imbecile
countenance, with a gait so uncertain that it
conjured up visions of the bar and its ceaseless
" rounds," he was a picture of the " compleat" vil¬
lage idiot. And his songs were mostly a plaintive
narrative of weird adventures in which apparently
everybody had the better of him, until towards
the last verse the tables were turned, and the
Lancastrian dodderer proved to be the " Severest
of the twain.” His art seemed absolutely guileless
and childish, in the vein of the Hatter's madness,
but there was method in it—that wonderful form
of humour which the Londoner appreciates, but
cannot imitate. It was racial of the Lancastrian
soil; it said a great deal in a few words ; it created
a type as if by the strokes of a lightning-painter ;
it amused and puzzled the hearer ; it had the
quality of the unexpected ; it reminded one
of the babble of children who. without effort
or design of effect, utter words of wit and wisdom
for which their elders would envy them. His
" One of the Lads " has become a classic in the
Piccadilly of Manchester as well as that of London.
It was the happiest combination of gaiety in
Bohemia and in that harder world where one
works with one’s “ nose to the grindstone.” George
Formby. whose fame spread, like Chevalier’s, from
the old Tivoli in London, was one of the few
latter-day comedians who. artists bom, have
created a kind of tradition (and many imita¬
tors). In popularity, he, with Lauder. Robey, and
Chevalier, formed the leading quartette of the
profession. He had no enemies, and he was
never criticised, for he knew his publk so well
that he never sang a song which ,’*.e 'cold not
make go down by his personality. His was the
all-conquering smile, and the way of one who—
I cannot say why, but only state it—endeared
himself to every man, woman, and child the very
moment he toddled out of the wings with those
strange features which seemed to apologise for
the intrusion, and to claim the indulgence of
the audience
There is a fortune
waiting for the Lon¬
don manager who will
revive some of Le-
cocq’s operettas. This
was my reflection
when, with a house-
full of enthusiastic
English people, I left
the pretty little thea¬
tre at the Casino of
Mentone. (Wouldn’t
we be happy to have
such a little jewel-
box in London ? And
the Azure Coast is
strewn with them !)
True, I remember
well enough that the
recent revival at
Drury Lane was not
as long-lived as we
bad expected. But
there was a double
reason for that. The
theatre was too large,
and the operatic art¬
ists, accustomed to
great music and great
characters, were too
solemn to interpret
these lightly drawn
figures and that
equally light - winged
music. But. oh !
how delicious is the
music of Charles Lecocq. how infectious are his
melodies, how lilting and joyful and romantic
bis romances in that little masterpiece “ Le Jour
By J. T. GREIN.
et la Nuit ” ! To me, who know every note and
tune, it was a study to watch the audience—
all quiet, staid English people who come to Mentone
to enjoy the air and the exchange—the latter
a delusion and a snare, for the good Riviera folk
"SINCE 1 HAVE MY DUKEDOM COT": MR.
HENRY A 1 NLEY AS PROSPERO IN THE LAST
ACT OF - THE TEMPEST.” AT THE ALDWYCH
THEATRE.
Photograph by Foulsham and ll onfield. Lid.
have learned by this time how many, many francs
go to the pound, and make us pay accordingly.
Still, the theatre at 14.40 francs, including taxes,
is cheap, and excellent at the price. Where
in England does one find a sea-side theatre, with
its own company, now playing operetta, now
comedy, with its own corps de ballet, and a
conductor who knows the whole repertoire from.
say, Verdi and Saint-Safns to Charpentier. and
all the little operetta kings with Offenbach at
their head ?
Well, these English visitors looked all very
grave as they entered the theatre, as is the
wont of our people when they are in strange
lands, and not quite sure whether they are going
to be amused or bored, because they don’t under¬
stand the language. But trust the muse of Lecocq
to lissom these stem features! A chord or two
of the overture, and already there is relaxation.
When the first romance is heard, with which
the older portion of the visitors is familiar, heads
begin to nod as if to say to their neighbour : “ Do
you remember ? ” Anon, when the air of *’ Les
Portugais sont toujours gais,” which once upon
a time ran through all Europe, conjures up pictures
of a happy-go-lucky land, where to-morrow may
take care of itself, we get a little effect not unlike
that at the Vaudeville at home. We dare not quite
sing viva voce after the manner of “ Kitty at the
Cowshed,” but we hear pianissimo here, there,
everywhere the gentle refrain, partly because
it is so nice to hum. partly because it shows how
familiar we are with the operetta of the French.
And so it goes on amidst thunders of applause,
and those who understand both music and the
language come away and say that the play was
as good as the tunes, and what a pity that we
have not got that sort of thing in London instead
of the jingles of musical comedy, and so on, and
so forth.
Making allowances for the holiday-mood, when
we are inclined to dub every goose a swan,
and in this neighbourhood to eat goat’s flesh
in the firm belief that it is lamb. I feel convinced
that, with the librettos properly smartened up and
brought up to date, the great English public, too,
would listen once more to all the pretty things
which gladdened the world a generation ago.
Nor is the reason far to seek. The composers
of the operetta, whether their name be Offenbach,
Lecocq, Planquette, Audran, and Lacome—oh !
also dear Lacome; can anyone forget the lovely
" Ma Mie Rosette,” with Eugene Oudin as Henri
IV. ? — were real musicians: their scores were
as artistically written as their melodies were
imaginatively conceived. The librettists, too.
were men of inventive power: the stories were
connected, and compact and coherent; not a
mere haphazard thing with a long tail and
very little head. Men like Meilhac, like Scribe,
like Sardou, did not disdain to write the
libretti, and some of the lesser providers of the
" genre ” were generally vaudeville-writers who
were as proud of working for a Lecocq as for
the Palais-Royal.
In this pleading for a return to the operetta
I am by no means reactionary. Even in the
hey - day of musical
comedy. I predicted
its renaissance, and
now that Revue, that
pis-aller mainly due
to the frivolity of
the war-mind, is on
its last legs (except
at the Vaudeville,
which is a genre d
part and excellent),
I foresee that the
lighter muse will
make a triumphal re¬
entry. And so long
as, for reasons best
known to managers,
there is apprehension
lest the works of
late enemies would
be taboo — although
“ The Little Dutch
Girt,” by Emmerich
Kalman; and” Sybil,”
by Victor Jacobi,
would prove the
contrary—it may be
a useful hint to
remind our theatres
that there is a trea¬
sure trove in French
operetta which casts
all the modern pro¬
ducts of Vienna and
Budapest into the
shade Lecocq, Plan-
quette, Lacome,
Hervf, Audran—
think of these names,
and the very reminiscence will turn your memories
into an aviary! For, as in other arts, the French
past-masters in music revelled in the joy of living.
’ TOADS, BEETLES, BATS. LIGHT ON YOU": CALIBAN (MR. LOUIS CALVERT) REVILES PROSPERO (MR. HENRY
AINLEY), WHILE MIRANDA (MISS JOYCE CAREY) SLEEPS — IN THE ALDWYCH REVIVAL OF "THE TEMPEST.”
Photograph by Foul sham and Ban field Ltd.
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921.—278
A Motor-Sleigh to Replace Dogs: An Alaskan
Engineer’s Invention .
/
WITH TRACTOR-LIKE “ CATERPILLAR ” WHEELS AND A GUIDE - WHEEL IN FRONT STEERED FROM BEHIND: A MOTOR - SLEIGH
ON THE TANK PRINCIPLE, FOR TRAVEL OVER SNOW.
The motor-sleigh illustrated above and on the opposite page, where it is further
described, was invented by Mr. Frank G. Horner, ot Alaska. It is constructed on
the Tank principle, with “ caterpillar " wheels of the tractor type. The driving-
wheels at the back are actuated by a 22 - h.p. four-cylinder motor, and the steering
is done by means of the guide-wheel in front, operated by the driver from behind.
This guide-wheel can be raised or lowered according to the depth of the snow.
In trials the machine has shown a speed of about 31 miles, and it can carry
enough fuel for a journey of about 625 miles, thus possessing a great advantage
over the dog-sleigh, for which caches of supplies must be arranged at points on
the route. The motor-sJeigh can also cross crevasses and brooks.
Buried on the Mount of Olives: An Imperial Victim of the Bolshevists.
BROUGHT TO JERUSALEM BY WAY OF CHINA : THE COFFIN OF THE GRAND DUCHESS SERGE DURING THE FUNERAL CEREMONY
IN THE RUSSIAN CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
The Grand Duchess Serge of Russia, sister of the late Empress and of the !
Ma/chioness of Milford Haven, was arrested in the spring of 1918, with other !
members of the Imperial family, and taken to the little town of Alapaevsk. 1
150 versts north of Ekaterinburg. A nun named Barbe Yakovlef shaied her !
captivity. They were murdered in the night of July 17 or 18 of that year, I
and were thrown into a disused mine - shaft. The bodies were recovered by |
Admiral Koltchak's forces in the following October, and were afterwards taken
to China, and thence by way of Egypt to Palestine. Recently the bodies of the
Grand Duchess Serge and the martyred nun were buried at the Russian Church
of St. Mary Magdalen, built by the Grand Duke Serge’s mother, on the Mount
of Olives at Jerusalem. The Greek Patriarch and several Bishops officiated, and
the Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven were among those present.
11 v H. J. Shepstoxk.
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the MOTOR OUSTING THE DOG OVER SNOW: SLEIGH TRANSPORT.
DRAVN BY W. R. S. STOTT. AFTER AN ILLUSTRATION IN THE •‘SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN." BY COURTESY OF THAT PAPER.
ABLE TO CROSS NARROW CHASMS AND TO CLEAR OBSTRUCTIONS: A MOTOR - SLEIGH BUILT ON TANK LINES.
DESIGNED BY AN ALASKAN ENGINEER, COMPARED WITH THE PRESENT TYPE OF DOG - SLEIGH.
The motor has practically banished the horse from the streets of great cities, and
is becoming paramount on roads in general. Now it seems likely also to displace
the dog on the sleigh-tracks of the Frosen North. We illustrate above and on
the opposite page a new motor-sleigh invented by Mr. Frank C. Horner, of Ruby.
Alaska, for the conveyance of goods and passengers over snow. The “ Scientific
American ” says : “ The runners do not extend the full length. ... A pair of
driving wheels are mounted at the rear. Towards the front is a pair of idler
wheels. Over each drive wheel and its corresponding idler is an endless
belt. The motor sleigh is so constructed that it is not damaged by contact
with rocks or logs or other obstructions. Being somewhat like the caterpillar
tractor in its method of locomotion, it can cross narrow chasms, brooks, and
other declivities alone or with the aid of felled trees. The inventor has
in view two other models ; one of heavy type for clearing tracks, the other
lighter, for sporting purposes, Wraumt Cnt-yrigM in the faded Stale » and Canada.}
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
silk bedspread with Immortals and flowers and
fruit and birds, the border with animals and birds
in shaped panels, in coloured silks and silver
thread. A pair of pricket candlesticks of green
jade, supported by figures of birds on circular
bases, stood apart, and lacquer and bronzes and
porcelain in self-colour, and Chinese rugs of the
Ch’ien-lung period, completed a touch of the
vanishing East. Similarly, Chinese porcelain sold
by Christie’s on the 22nd had its allurements. A
Nankin dinner service reminded one of the nabobs
who sent services home, in European taste, even in
that early day, but the vitiation was not wide¬
spread. A familU verte dish and two famtlle verte
vases and beaker, both of the Kang-he period, won
Egy ROVERS of the
V JW/. Henry Moore. R.A.,
^ R.W.S., had their op-
portunity on the 16th
[r //rj at Messrs. Puttick and
«9 ' " Simpson’s, when seven fine canvases
came up, the property of his daughter.
Mrs. J. Linton Bogle. “ The Seaweed Harvest.
Alt-na-Chrea, Westward Ho,” which was exhibited
at Munich in 1894, and was at the Cheltenham
Municipal Art Gallery in 1905, brought 126
guineas; a strong water-colour drawing, ” The
Shore at Schevening.” with fisherfolk awaiting the
return of the boats, exhibited at the Royal Water-
Colour Society in 1905,
brought 80 guineas. For
thirty years Henry’ Moore •
held undisputed sway as the
faithful interpreter of the
rugged fisher - folk.
on the 22nd which \
offered possibilities to Lj
bibliophiles. First editions
came uppermost. from
Spenser’s ” Faerie Queene,” "V • .
1590-1596. to Bewick’s XWtT
History of British Birds.’’ 1797-1804. \ \ ^
Swinburne’s " Poems and Ballads," and
Meredith's *' Ordeal of Richard Feverel." Cobbett’s
” Rural Rides ” and Crabbe’s ” Village.” and Blom-
field’s ” Rural Tales,’’ George Eliot’s ” Silas Mamer ”
and " Adam Bede.” Kingsley’s ” Westward Ho,”
Boswell’s ” Life of Johnson," and Gay’s " Poems,"
completed a fine run of first editions. Omar
Khayyam was represented by a series of translators
(wherein he rivals Horatius
Flaccus in his translators) :
from FitzGerald to Richard le
Gallienne, and Justin Huntly
there was a fine
crop of Omarian renderings
of Omar, once in the six¬
penny box of remainders on
the booksellers’ stalls in his
FitzClerald edition.
A four days’ sale by
Messrs. Sotheby beginning
on March 1 includes poems
by " R. Bums, chiefly in
the Scottish dialect." with
portrait. Edinburgh. 1787.
the first Edinburgh edition ;
and Voltaire's " Henriade.”
with a contemporary chalk
drawing of Voltaire bv Hu¬
bert inserted. Mr. Augustus
E. John came up in a sale
by Messrs. Christie on the
25th, for hall - marking in
properties of Sir Coleridge
Kcnnard and Mr. Albert
Rutherston. Most are por¬
traits in chalk or pencil, and
a few in wash. Indian-ink.
or sepia, possibly fugitive,
hence the fugitive prices ob¬
tained. But from the Lawley
collection Birket Foster (how
Futurists must gnash their
teeth !)• had his day with
twenty examples bringing
fine prices. Of course, there
was Turner, with ” Derwent -
water.” from Ruslan’s collec¬
tion, and exhibited at Bur¬
lington House in 1886 and
elsewhere, with a long pedi¬
gree ; and his ” Salute and
Grand Dogana, Venice,”
'' Remagen and Linz.” both
exhibited at Burlington
House and Johannesburg
(not South Africa) ; and at
the same sale Ernest Crofts.
R.A.. had his Battle of
Edgehill.’’ and B W. Leader.
R.A.. his *’ Solitude.” and
they came to their own under
the hammer: disappointing,
perhaps, but it is posterity’s
verdict, in spite of the less¬
ened value of the sovereign.
Fine Persian.’Indo-Persian.
and Indian manuscripts and
miniatures are to be sold by
Messrs. Sotheby on March 7.
The Persian miniatures are
wonderful in colouring and
design. The borders in quality dispute precedence
with fifteenth-century Italian art. Hunting scenes
and love episodes are en (vidence. Battles and com¬
bats of long-forgotten Persian heroes are pictured.
It is the Arthurian legend of Persian art. The ” Book
of Kings ” of the Persian monarchs was transcribed
in the seventeenth century, and is a gallery of feats
of arms of successive monarchs, as instanced by
the depiction of Gurwi Zirah cutting off the head
of Siaw'ush over a golden bowl before Afrasiab ;
and other tetrarchs are shown as slaying single-
handedly wolves, lions, and dragons. The portrait
of a “ Young Man ” holding a cup on which a bird
is perched in colours and goid is a touch of melan¬
choly and poesie which Aubrey Beardsley could
not snatch from the past. Here is the original, a
prince in delectable solitude, enshrined in a Persian
miniature begirt with wondrous design of cranes
and fallow deer, and with enchanting foliage which
Burne - Jones could not emulate in his designs.
” The Arabian Nights ” beloved of our childhood
contains no finer dream of ecstasv
From
i860 he set out to conquer
the sea in all its moods. It
has been truly said by a
foreign critic, ” He painted
the sea as though he had to
paint its portrait.” Wave
effects and instantaneous
photographs of the sea have
done not a little to endanger
Moore’s reputation ; but his
eye was a human camera.
English coins and medals,
several properties, and the
fine collection of Scottish
coins formed by the late
Sheriff Mackenzie of Tain.
N.B.. were sold by Messrs.
Sotheby on the 21st and
22nd. There were some in¬
teresting Charles I. examples,
including the crown, types
1 and 2, and Briot’s half-
crown, shilling and sixpence,
twopence, and pattern half¬
groat ; another set by Briot
of Charles I. is the Scottish
set of sixty, twelve, and
six shillings, which are
noteworthy. A Shrewsbury
pound-piece. 1642, and an
Oxford half-pound and half-
crown. 1643, and shilling,
sixpence, • and groat. 1644.
are rare types. Of the years
1645 and 1(146 are Newark
half - crown, shilling, and
ninepencc ; and of the date
1648 is the Pontefract shil¬
ling, octagonal, with *’ dvm
Spiro spbro” round "C.R.”
crowned. In the next year
Charles lost his head in
Whitehall. Among Scottish
coins are some interesting
specimens of Mary Queen of
Scots, testoons, and ryals.
lions and bawbees, before her
marriage to Francis, during
marriage with Francis, during
marriage with Damley, and
during second widowhood.
A sale of Chinese porce¬
lain must always claim re¬
spect. There is no bad
Chinese porcelain, or very
little, to hand as yet. We
cannot say the same of
Japan, where most of the modern exportations
have been atrocious in art, and, be it said,
very unwelcome here. The Chinese potter has
always made his objects for the sheer delight of
creating wonderful art. His poetry and symbolism
are innate. It is time we learned to discriminate
between China and Japan. The West has ruined
Japanese art for a century and more, and now the
West has penetrated China. The beginning of
things is when China attempts to emulate European
ideas in pottery ; the end of all things is when she
touches Western models. Collectors should, there¬
fore. remember that all Chinese porcelain reflecting
the older and finer ideals is precious as an art
acquisition. The Chinese objects of art and por¬
celain dispersed by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson
on the 18th had that tinge of sadness which a
reflective mind feels ; it is so little and so much ;
these things can never come again, just a man¬
darin's coat of blue silk damask, embroidered in
floral branches in colours, with flowers and gold
on a black ground at border, and a Chinese white
WITH A REMARKABLY MODERN HEAD. A LOHAN (DISCIPLE OF BUDDHA) WHO HAD COM¬
PLETED THE EIGHTFOLD PATH OF PERFECTION—A CHINESE POTTERY FIGURE <618-906 A.D.).
This is one of a set of early Chinese pottery figures of sixteen Lohans (disciples of Buddha who had reached the end
of the eight-fold path and attained perfection) found in cares of a mountain near Ichou. south-west of Peking. Over
a dark-green robe he wears a Buddhist priest’s robe of orange-yellow. The figure was recently acquired by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A similar one is in the British Museum.
By Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sne York.
comparative recognition in a somewhat flat market.
All sorts of little objects which were beautiful
escaped general attention, as. for instance, a pair
of bottles of Peking yellow glass, and a figure of
Kwan-Yin, green, yellow, and aubergine. A won¬
derful pair of figures of cocks, the plumage of one
pencilled in black and the other enamelled in
colours, were fine examples, but elicited less recog¬
nition than they deserveil as Ch’ien-Lung examples.
At the same sale Rhodian ware came uppermost.
It is primitive ; it has won a place in the modem
collector's heart. Its simplicity of design almost
bespeaks its aloofness from Chinese and Persian
prototypes. A dish with the centre decorated with
arabesques in blue and white on a red medallion,
and a cylindrical mug painted with sailing junks
were notable items.
At Christie's on the 17th a Louis XV. library
table, veneered with panels of tulip-wood, with
ormolu handles and escutcheons, brought 3000 gns.
Books occupy considerable time in selling, and
Messrs. Sotheby had a three days’ sale beginning
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS. Feb.
26 . 1921.—281
WILLED TO NEW YORK: AN EARLY AND NOTABLE REMBRANDT.
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LIKE REMBRANDT’S FATHER: "THE NOBLE SLAV,’’ BEQUEATHED BY WILLIAM
K. VANDERBILT TO THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK.
Under the will of the late Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, the Metropolitan Museum
•f Art in New York has received a bequest of high importance, including ten
pictures of Old Masters. Four of the paintings are of the seventeenth-century
Dutch school. "The Noble Slav,” by Rembrandt, is one of the most imposing
of the artist’s earlier works, and is remarkable for nobility of treatment. The
raodel, resembling Rembrandt’s father, is dressed in rich robes and a turban.
The canvas measures 6oJ inches in height and 43I inches in width. It is
signed “ R H van Rijn i63a{?).’* His full name, it may be recalled, was Rem¬
brandt Harmensz van Rijn. This picture has been formerly, at different times,
in the collections of King William II. of Holland, Lord Methuen (at Corsham),
the Tomline Collection at Orwell Park, and the McKay Twombly Collection in
New York.
the WATERLOO CUP: THE FIRST WIN FOR THE SEFTON
THE WATERLOO CUP : THE COUNTESS
F SEFTONS SHORT COMING.
OWNER AND NOMINATOR OF
THE EARL AND COUNTESS
THE WINNER
OF SEFTON.
INTERESTED SPECTATORS : (L. TO R.) MRS. BODELEY, LADY ST. GERMANS
THIRD FROM LEFT AT BACK). LORD LONSDALE. AND LADY DIANA SOMERSET
INCLUDING LORD MOLYNEUX, LADY ST. GERMANS. LORD LONSDALE, LADY
DIANA SOMERSET. AND [LORD SEFTON (RIGHT' : ANOTHER GROUP.
AFTER HIS ACCIDENT : MR. G. D. MULCASTER.
THE JUDGE. WITH BROKEN COLLAR-BONE.
LADY SEFTON CONGRATULATED BY SIR ROBERT
JARDINE (OWNER OF THE RUNNER-UPi
BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT : MR. G. D. MULCASTER
JUDGING FROM THE NEW STAND
The contest lor the Waterloo Cup, the “ blue ribbon " of coursing, was decided
at Lydiate on February 18, the final being between Short Coming (owned by the
Earl of Sefton and nominated by the Countess of Sefton) and Jassiona, owned by
Sir Robert Jardine, who has already won the trophy twice. The victory of
Short Coming was very popular, for although the Seftons have been the principal
patrons of the sport for over eighty years, no member of the family has ever
won the Cup before. It is presented by Lord Sefton himself. He and Lady
Sefton received hearty congratulations from all present, among the first to offer
them being Sir Robert Jardine, the owner of the runner-up. In the early part
of the day the judge, Mr. G. D. Mulcaster, had an unfortunate accident. He
had abandoned the new judging stand (shown in one of our photographs), and
was again judging on horseback, when, during one of the courses, he was thrown
heavily. His horse fell on him, and he broke his collar-bone and injured a rib.
His duties were taken over by Mr. Hector Clark.
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A HISTORIC LONDON HOUSE PRESERVED.
T N 1662 King Charles II. granted to his favourite.
1 Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans. ” St. James’
Fields, an area of no less than forty-five acres, which,
roughly, is now bounded by Piccadilly on the north.
Pall Mall on the south, Regent Street on the east, and
St. James s Street on the west. The recipient seems
to have been a man of considerable business acumen,
and before ten years had passed he had laid out
St. James’s Square and most of the streets con¬
tiguous to it. One is led to recall these facts, not
without some misgivings, by the announcement that
Messrs. Hampton and Sons are removing their
estate agency from Cockspur Street to the beautiful
eighteenih-century Adam mansion, 20. St. James's
Square, where also they will shortly be opening estate
sale-rooms for their auction sales of properties.
Enquiries, however, show that there need be no
misgivings. Happily, the House of Hamptons has
traditions, and this unique example of an Adam town
residence is to suffer no mutilation at their hands.
On the contrary, it has been their pride zealously to
guard all the original Adam work, as well as the
wonderful decorations by Angelica Kauffmann, and
other equally eminent decorative artists, sculptors,
and craftsmen. Henceforth, therefore, their clients
will have the satisfaction of negotiating for estates
and houses in a building which is unquestionably
the most beautiful of its kind in the world that is
in use for commercial purposes.
The history of St. James’s Square is remarkably
fascinating. For nearly three hundred years its
houses have been made historic by being the homes of
some of the most eminent men in English public life.
Not the least famous is No. 20. In the Rate Books
of St. Martin’s for 1676, 200 years earlier, the rated
occupier is given as Sir Allen Apsley, the Keeper of
the King’s Hawks and Treasurer to the Duke of York.
Among the most eminent of its later occupiers were
William Wyndham Grenville, who, when Prime Mini-
ster, lived there for some years from 1792 onwards ;
and, later, Earl Sondes and the Earl of Strathmore.
In 1771 Sir Watkin Williams Wynn bought the
freehold of No. 20, and had the old house pulled down.
To his instructions the Brothers Adam then designed
and built on the site a mansion which remains to this
day one of the handsomest of the many palatial
houses in the City of Westminster.
The Adam style expresses, perhaps more than any
other, the classic conception of what constitutes
elegance. An infallible feeling for ideal proportion,
and a telling restraint in the use of enrichments, are
conspicuous among the qualities which give to its best
examples such a peculiar distinction and atmosphere
of stateliness. Of the many historic mansions erected
by the Brothers Adam, there is not one in which these
tfi "^*N.
AN ADAM HOUSE, DECORATED BY ANGELICA
KAUFFMANN: NO. X, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE-
MESSRS. HAMPTON’S NEW ESTATE OFFICES.
qualities are more fully in evidence than they are at
No. 20, St. James's Square.
The planning, the structure, and the decorations
throughout stamp this house as being one of the
masterpieces of the Brothers Adam. Its numerous
sculptured marble mantelpieces are among the finest
that were produced in the eighteenth century, and
exemplify the highest point that craftsmanship has
ever reached in this country. All these are still in
perfect condition, and are being left just as they were
fixed in 1773. Directly on to these ceilings Angelica
Kauffmann painted some of her most beautiful decora¬
tive panels, depicting allegorical and other subjects.
The effect of these unique masterpieces, so well
designed and so soft in colour, is admirably enhanced
by the low-relief plaster work and the beautifully
carved doors and overdoors of wonderfully figured
Spanish mahogany.
AH these works having been carried out under the
personal direction of Robert Adam himself, every
detail exemplifies a skill in craftsmanship which has
been very seldom equalled and never surpassed.
Ralph, in his ” Review of Public Buildings in
London,” published in 1734, says of St. James's
Square : It has an appearance of grandeur superior
to any other place in Town ” ; and this is one of the few
really appreciative words to be found in this book,
his criticism of other places being mostly adverse.
St. James's Square was a favourite promenade of
Johnson and Savage, who, often hungry and dispirited
as well as homeless, could hardly have refrained from
envying the occupants of these princely residences.
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Johnson’s lines—
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it would have been to Messrs. Hampton and Sons’
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From the point of view of the public, it is a matter
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LADIES' NEWS.
-nHERE were more Peeresses at the opening of
T Parliament than usual, and they all wore many
and most beautiful jewels. The Peers and the oflicia s
put them quite in the shade as regards colour but
our sex had it in brilliance. There were a few ladies^
not Peeresses, who viewed the fine spectacle from a
high-up gallery. Miss Megan Lloyd George was one ;
Mrs. Asquith, in cloth of gold, another ; ILady Lister
Kaye, in crimson velvet and diamonds ; Mrs. Bnnton.
and others. Cloaks were more beautiful than frocks.
The Duchess of Wellington s A-as ermine ; the Duchess
of Somerset's sable . Lady Annesley s. Chinese dragons
in gold on aquamarine, satin lined, and with a collar
and stole of ermine. Priscilla Lady Annesley and Lady
Massereene and Ferrard were, as usual, much admired.
Tried and trusted, a material we women know to
be the very best of its kind. Viyella occupies a place
in the opinion of the woman who knows second to
none. Yes ; but the women who know don't know
enough Until a few days ago. I was quite unaware
that the beautiful fabric we love for blouses, summer
dresses, nighties, and many other purposes, also
appears in a weightier and more substantial form
as suitings. These have all the virtues of their less
heavy sisters : they never shrink, there is no necessity
to have them dry-cleaned, because they wash beauti¬
fully, they wear splendidly, they have that finish
which is a speciality of Viyella. and are made of the
same beautiful soft quality of lambs’ wool : are. in
fact, so far a supcr-Viyella that tailors welcome
them to make coats and skirts, dress-makers fashion
them into smart frocks, while for tennis, the river,
golf, and all holiday wear, these fabrics are un¬
surpassable. They are made in 46-in. and in 56-in.
widths Then there is quite a good selection
of alluring, fine herringbone Viyella suiting. The
stripes on white ground are full of fascination,
and just right for spring and summer wear. Some
are on diagonal and some on herringbone cloth,
the stripes dilfering in width, colour, and arrange¬
ment, so that all tastes are satisfied. In dark cos¬
tume cloths are greys, blues — really beautiful blues—
and blacks, striped in ditierent widths and arrange¬
ments with white; these are very smart and neat.
In the height of fashion are shepherd's-plaid cloths,
writb large over-checks in colour, yellow, or blue, mauve,
sepia, or green. These, for the new pleated skirts,
or for coats, are quite perfect in style as in texture.
There is a good choice in plain shepl.erd's plaids,
and there are most effective and styleful black
cloths, with a diamond crosswise design in colours,
blue, purple, white, grey and mauve. There is, in
fact, all that anyone can want ,n these splendid \ «> Hla
suitings. It is nice to know that this material ongm-
ated with William Hollins in i 7 77 . and some of the
work is still done in the place where it first saw
A DRESS OF THE MOMENT.
Black silk duvetyn is the material used for the drws. In
order to relieve its sombreness it is embroidered in heavy
silk floss in peacock-blue and mole. It has. moreover, a
waist-band of black aatin. with a large bow at the back.
Pkoiogteph h H J '' k *P* (m *-
the light. It is the proud boast of the proprietors
of Viyella that since, twenty-eight years ago. it
was first placed on the market, it has never altered
from the guaranteed standard. A. E. L.
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Paris.
T HE Eclair recently published an article from the
pen of Major Bovd Carpenter, on the Irish
question, which made a considerable impression on
the French thinking public. It was time that the
case was stated clearly, for it has been rather difficult
to bear the ignorant comments on England s unfair¬
ness " to Ireland, and the sometimes rather violent
abuse. Every outrage has been fully recorded by the
entire French Press ; photographs of bumt-out houses
and street fighting in Dublin and elsewhere figured m
even - illustrated paper; no Sinn Fein incident escaped
the unfavourable attention of the Press. At dinner-
tables and receptions in Society, one became weary of
answering the same set of questions on the state of
affairs in Ireland, questions displaying such ignor¬
ance of the history of Ireland that to answer them
properly would have involved one in a historical
lecture, with the Battle of the Boyne as a starting-
Major Boyd Carpenter’s clear exposi of the attitude
of extremist Sinn Feiners throughout the war has
come as a revelation to the French people, who
now realise for the first time that the Irish repub¬
licans in question were just as much the enemies of
France and England during the Great War as the
Germans were. His proofs are convincing, and his
explanations extremely fair ; everything is set down,
from the first treasonable acts of Casement and his
anti-Franco-British propaganda, to the final stages of
the war. when England, faced with the necessity for
raising more troops, had every difficulty to contend
with from the Sinn Feiners. who terrorised the Irish
population and successfully prevented many of the
younger men from joining the colours.
Finally. Major Boyd Carpenter presents a clever
analogv to the French people in support of his argu¬
ment that Ireland cannot be allowed to cut herself
adrift from the British Empire, of which she must
always form an integral part. He asks what France
would do in the event of Normandy or Brittany
demanding a form of *’ Home Rule ” entirely inde¬
pendent of the rest of the country ; could they con¬
template granting such a request ? The analogy is
a good one. so far as it goes, but there is one very
important difference between the two cases—namely,
the religious question, which, of course, is at the root
of a good deal of our Irish troubles. Strangely
enough, despite the history of France, with its
Massacre of St. Bartholomew and all the Huguenot
troubles, no Frenchman of to-day can realise what
a living burning feud exists between the Churches in
\CtmtinutJ evcrUnf.
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-KING HENRY IV.- (PART II). AT THE COURT.
The second part of " King Henry IV." has "ever
enjoyed the stage vogue of either the first part or .f
that p«ean of patriotism. “ King Henry \ . \ et there
are compensations. There is Falstaff. moving towards
his decline, but still full-blooded enough. There is
Master Shallow, that wonderful study of senility
hugging itself over the exploits (probably feigned) of
its gav-dog youth. And in this play are also to be
found two of the most famous passages in Shake¬
spearean drama-the situation in which the Pnnce
tries on his unconscious father's crown ; and. again,
the coronation scene, wherein the new King, with a
self-righteous cruelty no lover of Falstaff can ever
forgive disowns and disgraces the partner of his
follies. ' One can imagine a Falstaff in this his moment
of eclipse being as tragic a sight almost as Shylock
under defeat ; Mr. Alfred Clark plays him on natural¬
istic lines, abating some of his exuberance, bringing
him down more to the level of his comrades. He ha*
the support of a breezy if noisy Pistol in Mr. Benson
Kleve ; and the right note of coarseness is struck by
Miss Margaret Yarde’s Dame Quickly and Miss Leah
Bateman's Doll. In the royal death-bed scene there
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indeed, will more than serve. Mr. Laurence
>lav charms by its Louisiana setting, with
e folk and its Creole idioms, with its Negroes
and Negresses dancing attendance in
S song and service, with its scenes of
carnival and frolic. But it charms
even more by the scope it affords
that bewitching comedienne. Miss
Irene Vanbrugh, to air her versa-
or thirty v<
niece’s engagement
"ho
-j? long a 8°- and when
SEwm MM D^m £^ 4 X 5 in masquerade
n1 I R
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VJHUS choice vocabulary
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KB shock her niece.
and everybody else
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SURRENDER TO THE ALLIES: A HUGE DUMP But SO on she
AIRCRAFT AT JOHANN 1STHAL, NEAR BERLIN. throws off her dis-
:en tly gave some astonishing figures regarding the amount of guise, and. lo! here
surrendered since the Armistice. It includes 31,000 guns, she j s j n the frock
70.000 machine-guns, 3.000,000 rifles. 33,000.000 shells, and Q j hef y OU th. the
The German war-machine, he said, must be broken up most fascinating of
photographs indicate something of the quant,ty of aircraft temptresseS . bowl-
„ded over. [Photograph by PkoMkek. Berlin.] ^ ^ only
prices were excessive. M. Vilgrain. her former sulky old sweetheart, but
iculturist and philanthropist, ob- his son as well. Indeed, forgetting
to set up a number of wooden poor little Delphine, the youngster
levards and in everv quarter of is for marrying Aunt Nelly out of
lose of providing good and whole- hand, and away they dnvc at nnd-
he working-classes at reasonable night, this flirt of an aunt, to all
iss was instantaneous, and soon the seeming only too willing for the
?d all over Paris and the surround- escapade. If Miss Vanbrugh s art,
is undoubtedly averted something so rich in fun and high spirits and
revolution, certainly in the poorer diablerie, is delicious in this scene
it is even more taking in the sequel.
No description can do justice to the actress’s per¬
formance. It is a tour de force in which the whole
battery of woman’s wiles and a magnetic personality
is employed triumphantly. Mr. Hallard, Mr. Faber
and Mr.
THE END OF THE GERMAN AIR FLEET: MOUNTAINS OF DISMANTLED
PROPELLERS. {Phntotrepi by Pkotothek Berlin.]
is fine declamation from both Mr. Frank Cellier as
King and Mr. Basil Rathbone as Prince, and there is
a good Lord Chief Justice at the Court in Mr. Eugene
Leahy. But the most haunting piece of acting comes
from Mr. H. O. Nicholson as Justice Shallow.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26, 1921 —290
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
A New Move Automobile Association is
by the A.A energetically developing a scheme
to ensure that the interests of
motorists shall be more effectively and more strongly
represented in Parliament than in the past. Arrange¬
ments are being made for the formation of Area Com¬
mittees to cover every Parliamentary constituency.
In this way the whole country will be linked up by
a network of properly organised and representative
A NEW CAR ACCESSORY: A C.A.V. HORN OF THE
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committees, which will not only keep in touch with
the members of Parliament representing the various
constituencies, but can be called together at any
time to deal with legislative’ matters of national or
local importance to the motorist. Hitherto the task
of opposing restrictive or oppressive legislation has
fallen on the shoulders of a few M.P.s, who have done
their best to secure reasonable treatment for motorists ;
but the action of the Covcrnment in forcing upon
the country the present inequitable system of taxa¬
tion has demonstrated the need for the adoption
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of a new policy to secure the early revision of the
grossly unfair taxes and obtain a really fair hearing
for the motorist on other legislative matters which
are likely to be before the House in the near future.
The recent successes achieved on behalf of motor-
users by the Association at the Dover and Hereford
by-elections revealed that the importance of motoring
interests in present-day legislation can no longer be
measured by the extent to which the motorist lends
his car to one or other of the candidates. It is the
A.A.’s intention to show that the motoring vote,
including as it does both users and those employed
in the industry, is a factor seriously to be reckoned
with by those who stand for Parliament.
. In many ways this move of the
A Mos a.A. is to be regarded as the most
Important jmportan t which has ever been
Development. made ^ the whole history of the
political side of motoring. The weakness of the A.A.
hitherto has been that its constitution has not been
sufficiently democratic—the membership had no say
in either policy or management. That was very well
so long as the A.A. simply existed to give “ service ”
to the motorist; but now that
we want a powerful political
organisation—we need not mind
saying so—something more re¬
presentative in the real mean¬
ing of the term is required.
The R.A.C. is not really repre¬
sentative, since its whole policy
is directed by a small sec¬
tion of the Committee, and is
formulated without regard to
the opinions of the motoring
community as a whole, which,
indeed, the Club never troubles
to discover. The A.A. is the
one organisation capable of
really and truly representing
the motorist. Its membership
is both large and influential.
It, with all its faults, works for
the good of the movement.
That it has, perhaps, not carried
the full confidence of motoring
has been due to the narrow- ELEGANCE ANI
ness of its organisation, which
has not altogether kept pace „
... .. a .. 1 \ The Lanchester coup*
with the times. Now that , • .
The R.A.C. and The Departmental Committee on
Speed-Limits. the Taxati °n and Regulation of
Road Vehicles—rather a mis
nomer, since its task is to deal only with mechanically
propelled vehicles—is taking evidence on the question
of speed - limits and driving licenses. Last week
Sir Arthur Stanley gave the views of the RAC
and its Associated Clubs to the Committee. He
thought the present limit of 20 m.p.h. should be
abolished, together with all other speed-limitations
In support of this view. Sir Arthur urged that since
1903. when the present Motor Car Act was passed,
the motor-car has been greatly improved in every
respect, including brake efficiency. The public has
become accustomed to motor traffic, and speed is
regulated naturally by traffic circumstances and
other conditions. The roads have been greatly
improved, and the present taxation on motor vehicles
means constant further improvement. He drew
attention to the report of the Royal Commission
on Motor Cars. 190b. which suggested that more
effective control could be secured by amending
Section 1 of the Motor Car Act (relating to dangerous
driving), and contended that an arbitrary speed-
ELEGANCE AND COMFORT COMBINED: A HANDSOME SIX-CYLINDER
LANCHESTER COUPE
The Lanchester coup* here illustrated has two comfortable sliding seats of the bucket type,
also a dickey seat, and a patent collapsible Lanchester seat for a third passenger inside.
its scope is to be widened in
the manner set forth, its power for good will be limit weakens this clause instead of strengthening
immeasurably increased, and we shall have a real it. Danger to the public is not a question of speed,
fighting organisation. but D f care)^ or negligent driving. W. W.
and sweat smoking.”
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Vauxhall cars are
inexpensive to run
pROPERLY handled they are light on tyres and give
* a good mileage per gallon of petrol. Their oil
consumption is low. Mechanical repairs due to ordinary
wear and tear are a very small item indeed. If there
should be any trouble that can be attributed to faulty
material or workmanship, it is made good under the
three years* chassis guarantee without cost to the ow r ner.
OWNERS’ TESTIMONY
"TWO valve springs and new f4r pHE most remarkable thing
lining for the foot-brake— about it is the mileage I
this represents the damage get out of the tyres. On the
after running 12,000 miles, front wheel I have a Dunlop
No appreciable signs of wear grooved cover that was originally
either in engine or transmis- on the back wheel. It still
sion. ” W —D—. Ref. T.F. 715. looks good for a couple or three
• MY Vauxhall car is running tb " us " nd . ,n 1 iles yeL ..}. h * vc now
1 belter than ever. I havf f“‘ 1 ^ , P hel ! n , cabl *. , tyres on
ad her nearly a year and <he u b “ k . wbeeh < wh ‘' h ?PP car
ever had a moment’s trouble. to be . do,n « ve T we "- f « ■“ ■
>n Tuesday last I ran from su . r P ns e to me to get 8 to 10,000
ondon to Ilkley in seven mi,es Pe** tyre on a heavy car
aurs (actual running time) hke this. I may say that a
distance of 221 miles. The friend of mine here with a new
insumption (half benzol and 1920 touring-has never done
ilf petrol) works out at 19*1, more than 1500 miles on a tyre,
hich I consider excellent.” Lt.- How is this to be accounted
ymdr. T—C—. Ref. T.F. 712. for?” H-G . Ref. T.F. 716.
Culleton’s Heraldic Office
92, PICCADILLY, LONDON.
Arms and Pedigrees of English and !
Foreign Families .
Genealogical Research.** in Public Record*.
pedigrees engrossed and emblazoned
Seal*. Rings. Diet, Book-plates (ex-libris) Engraved.
ABMBBIAl STAINED SUSS. MEMORIAL TABLETS.
Shttckn and Otiitm for mil tmrfu j.
“ MV Vauxhall car is running '“T™* 5 yeL .. *, h * vc nov '
1 better than ever. I havf f“‘ , cabl *. , tyres or
had her nearly a year and th \ b “ k wbee,s ' wh '? h ?PP caI
never had a moment’s trouble. to •*. do,n « ve T we ' 1 -
On Tuesday last I ran from sllr P nse *° me “> i et 8 to 10,000
London to Ilkley in seven mi,es Pe r tyre on a heavy car
hours (actual running time) hke this. I may say that a
a distance of 224 miles. The friend of mine here with a new
consumption (half benzol and 1920 touring- has never done
half petrol) works out at 19*1, more than 1500 miles on a tyre,
which I consider excellent.” Lt.- How is this to be accounted
Comdr. T-C-. Ref. T.F. 712. for?” H -G . Ref. T.F. 716.
Have you ever tried a Vauxhall ?
WHE in vite intending buyers of best-class cars to become acquainted
with the delightful road performance of the Vauxhall by
trying one of the current pattern cars. Arrangements can be made
for this to be done in practically every part of the country.
The Vauxhall awakens enthusiasm in the most critical. It is
one of the finest things achieved by British motor-car builders.
PRICES: 25 h.p. Vauxhall-King ton open car £1,450; 30-98 h.p. Vauxhall-
Velox open car £1,675 ; 25 h.p. landaulette, cabriolet, or limousine,
£1,750. Any intending buyer of a best-class car can have a copy of the
Vauxhall catalogue 1 R on application. It gives full particulars of the
two Vauxhall productions, the 25 h.p. and the 30-98 h.p. (sporting).
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Feb. 26 , 1921-292
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
POISONING THE SEA.
D URING the war reports were numerous of gulls,
guillemots, and other sea-birds found dead or
dying, with their plumage saturated with oil. At
the time it was believed these were the victims of
a military necessity, since it was imperative, for
reasons then apparent to most people,
to spread a film of oil over certain
areas of the sea haunted by the sub¬
marines of the enemy. But that
necessity ceased long since, yet the
destruction of these birds from oil-
saturated plumage still continues.
During the last month or two, long
lists of victims have come in, not
from one or two localities, but from
a succession of stations, ranging from
Scotland to Lands End.
Are these occurrences due to a con¬
certed and diabolical plot on the part
of fishermen to rid themselves of their
rivals ?—for there are many who
anathematise these birds, believing
them to be enormously destructive to
fisheries, though there is not a scrap of
evidence in support of this view. Or
are they due to thoughtlessness of
those who set adrift the vitiated oil,
periodically drained off from motor
engines, of which so many are now in
use ? The matter calls for immediate
enquiry and investigation by the
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries,
*ince it is one of great gravity, con¬
cerning not merely sea-birds, but the
very existence of our food fishes.
Their existence is threatened both
directly and indirectly. Directly, from
the fact that, for the most part,
during the larval stage they swim at
the surface and haunt the shores.
Young plaice, cod. and whiting, for
example, come so far shorewards that
they are taken in thousands in the
" shove-nets " of the shrimpers ; while great numbers
are cut off from the sea to fend as best they may in
rock-pools at low tide, till released at high water.
These pools arc now becoming filled, and the sur¬
rounding sand is becoming saturated, with oil, bring¬
ing with it certain death. Thus, then, our store of
food fishes is seriously menaced. But this is not all.
Our shore-line, both between tide-marks and beyond.
is tenanted by a host of creatures, molluscs, worms,
and the like, which furnish the food of the fishes
which in turn feed us. And they are also killed by
this invading oil. Some of these molluscs, such as
oysters, cockles, and scallops, provide annually a
vast amount of wholesome human food.
The mischief, however, is not confined to the
immediate shore-line, for this discharged oil is found
miles from the land, and here it wages death upon
floating eggs which otherwise would bring forth
the larvae whose early stages are parsed inshore.
The fate of the eggs, moreover, is shared by myriads
of minute marine organisms, such as Crustacea,
known as copepoda, and allied forms ; and the still
more minute organisms on which these feed. Hosts
of fishes, as well as whales, depend on these copepoda
for their very’ existence. Even suppose that, as some
contend, the damage is "only local," the polluted
areas are constantly changing, and before any given
area has recovered, it will, in all probability, be
fouled again.
As if this were not enough, our military’ authorities
have been dumping enormous quantities of high
explosives into the sea by way of encompassing its
destruction. As a consequence, the
water in and around such areas is
poisoned, and will remain so until the
whole of the submerged material has
been dissolved and dispersed 1 One
result of this has been the extermina¬
tion of an oyster-bed. If we are to
avert disaster, steps must be taken to
prevent the discharge of such material,
both oil and high explosives, anywhere
within one hundred miles of land;
better still would it be, if possible,
to prevent its discharge into the sea
at all. W. P. Pycraft.
The eightieth edition of Burke’s
** Peerage ’’ has just been published,
and those who are interested in the
history of the great families of Eng¬
land. as well as those who simply want
an infallible work of reference, will
welcome its reappearance after four
years. “ Burke, 1921," is a lordly
tome, for even those who have " kept
track ” of the war honours will hardly
have realised that, besides a revival
of a royal Dukedom for his Majesty’s
second son, 3 Marquisates, 7 Earldoms.
16 Viscounties and 46 Baronies, to say-
nothing of 162 Baronetcies and a little
matter of 494 K.B.E.sand 530 Knights
Bachelor, have been created during the
last few years. The revival of the
royal Dukedom of York, which was
conferred on Prince Albert in June
1920, is the eighth revival of that
ancient title, first created in 1385, and
the changes of the titles of the Batten-
berg and Teck royalties constitute a precedent in the
world’s history. Woman's place in the Honours List
is another innovation in ’* Burke.” for the 99 Dames
created since the war are, of course, included in the
classic pages. A distinctly useful feature of the work
is the " Guide to Relative Precedence,” which arranges
all those entitled to precedence into various classes
designated by numbers.
A CHAMPION OF REUNION: DR. TEMPLE (LEFT) ON THE OCCASION OF HIS
ENTHRONEMENT AS BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.
Dr. William Temple, recently Canon of Westminster, and son of the late Archbishop Temple, was enthroned
as Bishop of Manchester in the cathedra! there on February 15. In a message to the diocese he spoke
of his friendly relations with the Free Churches, and said he hoped the present division might soon be
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THE LAW-MAKERS OF RUSSIA: A SESSION OF THE SOVIET IN PETROGRAD.
Whatever charges may be made against the Bolshevists in Russia, they cannot
be accused of extravagance in personal attire, if this photograph of the Petrograd
Soviet in session may be taken as typical. Most of the members are wearing
the ordinary dress of the Russian peasant, while here and there may be noticed
uniforms of soldiers and sailors. The general impression of the scene does not
convey an air of great prosperity in a body of men who must be among the
most favoured section of the population, nor can it be said that the expression
of the faces suggests contentment. News from Petrograd has been scanty of
late. A recent report from Moscow stated that the Government offices there
are now guarded by men of an international corps, 2000 strong, consisting
largely of Germans, who drill and train the troops, but also including Hungarians,
Italians, Frenchmen, and even some British ex-officers. The militarist party,
it was also said, are fostering the idea of a new war on a large scale, though
the present Soviet policy is to keep peace with Western Europe,
ixw Co.
Keystone Vi
THE ILIASTKATED LONDON NEWS. March 1<T21 2*M
T HE Royal and Ancient Game threatens to
become as controversial as theology, and
we may expect the rise of an Orthodoxy of the
Links, no less exclusive than that of the jarring
sects. “ The Ball great Question makes of Ayes
and Noes,” upsetting Omar’s considered opinion,
and here physical science intrudes with fine
distinctions and formulae that bring to the club¬
house fireside the atmosphere of the lecture-room.
Once upon a time, golfers were content, after the
game, to " tell each other how they did the
holes,” as R. F. Murray sang, and, if theory looked
in at all, it had short shrift at the hands of the
practical player. Professor Tait, you remember,
proved to his class by mathematical law that
a golf-ball could not possibly
be driven beyond a certain
distance: whereupon his son.
that mighty ]>erformcr. went
out to the links, and with
the unfilial logic of practice,
clubbed his father’s ideal re¬
cord to foolishness. But now
we decline on hair-splitting in
vexed newspaper correspond -
ence, theorist calling to theor¬
ist in decimal fractions, and
the end is not vet.
It is refreshing, amid the
clamour, to hear Yardon’s
sturdy championship of Ortho¬
doxy on the question of the
stvmie. He is not afraid to
deliver clear - cut dogma.
” The stymie,” he says. ” is
an integral part of the game,
and should be kept as such.”
Were it to go, the literature
of golf would, in time, require
a footnote to explain a poem
that should never stand in
need of explanation. It was
the provoking wile of the
stvmie that gave Andrew
Lang his cue for " A Song of
Golf and life,” that whim¬
sical exposition of human
tragedy and baulked en¬
deavour, put into the mouth
of a Scots divine -
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kirk.
Wi* teiiid, an’ glebe,
an’ a’ :
A bonny v.iird tc* feed a
st irk.
An’ links to ra’ the
ha* !
Anither lad earn’ in an’
fleeclied
A Convartit V.P .—
An’ a’ in vain tua t*est
1 preached.
That limmer stiinied
the X.E.D. remains non-committal. The word
has appeared in golfing treatises since 1832, in
various forms—“ stimey,” “ stcimy,” and. in the
song quoted above, " stimy.” " The thing they
ca’ the Stimy o’t, I find it ilka where.” A bother
it may be. but a sporting bother, and one that
makes for what the Americans call ” up-lift,”
moral and physical. The badly-stymied player,
who holes out with a neat lofting shot, snatches
a fearful joy. That, we take it, is at the hark of
Vardon’s plea for the status qun ante.
If the literature of golf would suffer loss of
lucidity by the passing of the stymie, that of •
another pastime has already received a sharp con¬
It was the same in’ love :
" Intil her heart I couldna
pass : anither man lay deid.”
Curious that the Church,
always a great upholder of a
game that works off “ that
Mondayish feeling ” so hap¬
pily. should have protested
the other day against the
prominence given during Lent
to a golfing discussion. One
would rather have expected a resounding deliver¬
ance. inclining towards Orthodoxy, in support
of a pastime so favourable to the welfare of
D’vinity, whose presence on the links is also in
restraint of alleged tendencies to profanity there.
Yet even here there is a stymie, if that be a
credible story of the St. Andrews caddie who,
asked where a Very Rev. Principal was to lie
found, replied : “ He’s ower yonder, tappin’ the
ba’ an’ sweerin’ maist awfu'."
Baffling in all its aspects, the stymie is also
a puzzle in the mere origin of its name. It is
probably connected with the phrase ” I can’t see
a styme,” meaning, ” I can see nothing at all,”
and with ” styme.” a glance or blink. Stymie is
also a term for a blind man, and the blinding of
an otherwise clear putt by the opponent’s ball
may very well account for the usage, although
GERMANY’S CHIEF REPRESENTATIVES IN LONDON: DR. SIMONS (SEATED), FOREIGN MINISTER
AND CHIEF DELEGATE. AND HERR STHAMER. THE CERMAN AMBASSADOR.
The German delegates to the London Conference, headed by Dr. Simons, the Foreign Minister, arrived at Victoria
on February 28 and were met by Herr Sthamer, the German Ambassador. They drove to the Savoy Hotel,
watched by a silent crowd. Dr. Simons, who Is by profession a lawyer, and is also a classical scholar of distinction,
was formerly State Advocate and Judge in Westphalia. He was one of the German delegates at Brest-Litovsk
in 1918, and sits in the Reichstag as a Democrat, but he has not previously held office. It was at the Spa
Conference that he first became prominent. He is a native of Elberfeld. and is now about fifty-five
Photograph l>v l.H.
tradictory shock from modern practice. Mr. Kipling
did not exactly conciliate football players when he
described them as ” muddied oafs at the goals.”
Perhaps it was by way of direct refutation that
these athletes have now brought the cult of per¬
sonal fastidiousness to a dandiacal pitch, and
that, according to latest Carmelite advices, they
appear in the field ” so prime, so ripe, so nutty,
and so knowing.” as Byron, anticipating modern
slang, says in ” Don Juan.” They dress for the
match with meticulous care, and groom themselves
literally ad ur.guem. for finger-nails are manicured
at the last moment. ” Some men even go the
length of shaving ” in the pavilion ; and a pocket-
comb and mirror have been used on the field itself,
if a chance arose. At half-time there is another
" wash and brush-up.” Not only at matches, but
during training, the great players observe this
P'Orsayism. and make it a point of honour to turn
out ” clean, neat, and fresh-looking.” If this be
Mr. Kipling's doing, directly or indirectly, he must
count the belying of his line an easy price to pay
for having brought erstwhile ” muddied oafs ’ to
the state of grace that is reputed next to godliness.
Perhaps he will respond with the " Ballad of the
Blackburn Brummells. "
When so many old traditions are attacked, it
is reassuring to note the return to patriarchal
methods instituted by the Mayor of Shoreditch.
His Worship is " At Home ” to his citizens every
Wednesday night ” to sign vaccination papers,
pension papers, give general advice on the Rents
Act, and other questions." The familiar in¬
vitation of Your Mayor”
has drawn thousands to seek
his help. Mr. Girling, who
must be a man of heroic en¬
durance. has made his Town
Hall a better sort of Cave of
Adullam, " where everyone
that was in distress and every¬
one that was discontented
gathered themselves unto
him.” and where he performs
for them the fatherly and
kingly offices of advice and
judgment discharged in hap¬
pier days by Prince Nicholas
of Montenegro, when he sat
once a week beneath the
Tree of Justice to hear the
pleas of all comers. Descrip¬
tions of these Shoreditch
audiences with their array of
poor suppliants carry one
back to the Arabian Nights,
and that Sultan’s divan before
which Aladdin’s mother ap¬
peared, not in vain. Here
also there is perforce a little
waiting, for the numbers arc
great ; but the police, who
represent at Shoreditch the
Oriental mace - bearers, do
their best to get everybody
into the presence in turn.
Where, however, 2000 appli¬
cants have to be interviewed
in three hours, there must be
some inevitable calling again,
as in the Eastern fairy tale,
but with the same ultimately
happy reward of patience.
The Mavor seems to have a
right historical sense in thus
adapting to modern uses the
Saxon ealdorman’s functions
at the folk-moot. Chaucer
would have owned him
” schaply for to lien an alder¬
man. "
This experiment in gov¬
ernment comes into notice
simultaneously with an odd
testamentary attack on a
master of political philoso¬
phy. MTiat ailed the late
l>r. Mercier at Aristotle that
he banned the Stagirite so
roundly in his will ? Time
was when Oxford set Puns
Scotus metaphorically ” in
Bocardo ” (».<?., in quod),
and put his pages to the
meanest uses. In 1535, Layton, the Commis¬
sioner. found ” all the great quadrant of Christ
Church full of the leaves of Dunce, the wind
blowing them into every corner.” And a gentle¬
man of Buckinghamshire made sewers or blanshers
of the same ” to keep the deer w’ithin his wood,
thereby to have the better cry with his hounds.
On that incident an academic wit. now departed,
remarked that, if the Cnivcrsity Commissioners
would set Aristotle and Messrs. Ritter and Preller
in Bocardo. many a young gentleman out of
Buckinghamshire and other counties ■would joy¬
ously help the good work. Can it lx? that Dr.
Mcrcier was one of these, and that the sorrows of
youth drove him to take this bitter revenge ? Be
that as it may, the testator, desiring to found a
Chair of Rational Logic, but by the same act and
deed barring the teaching of Aristotle, seems to
have laid his project a very pretty stymie.—J. D. S.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 5, 1921.—295
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PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK
Photographs bv Claude Harris, Russell, Willie Bur
: PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
(E, Lafayette, L.N.A., Topical, C.N., and Skakle Bros.
KILLED BY SINN FEINERS
MAJOR SEAFIELD GRANT, MX.
BURIED AT SEA: THE LATE
VISCOUNTESS FURNESS.
THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT IN CALCUTTA: H.R.H. PRESSING A BUTTON
TO UNVEIL THE STATUE OF KING EDWARD VII
THE FIRST AMERICAN TO BE
COME A K.C. : MR. R. N. CRANE
AUTHOR AND ART CRITIC : THE
LATE SIR F. WEDMORE.
THE OLDEST BRITISH GENERAL DEAD :
THE LATE LIEUT. - GEN. HENRY KENT.
RESIGNED OWING TO THE REINSTATEMENT
OF R.I.C. CADETS : BRIG.-GEN. CROZIER.
THE REINSTATEMENT OF DISMISSED RJ.C.
CADETS : MAJOR-GENERAL TUDOR.
WRITER OF A STRONG LETTER ON IRELAND TO
SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD VISCOUNT GLADSTONE.
FOUNDER OF THE INSTIIUT FRAN^AIS IN SOUTH
KENSINGTON : MME. BOHN, WITH .HER HUSBAND.
A WEIGHTY CRITIC OF THE GOVERNMENT’S
IRISH POLICY: LORD BRYCE.
Major Sea field Grant, who was kitted on February 25, while commanding a force
of seventy R.I.C. Cadets ambushed by five hundred Sinn Feiners near Macroom,
had served with distinction in the war, and received the M.C. He was twenty-
Sir Frederick Wedmore, the well - known author and art critic, was a
frequent contributor to this paper.-The Duke of Connaught unveiled, at Calcutta,
on January 29, a bronse equestrian statue of King Edward VII., surmounting %
triumphal arch.-Viscountess Furness died suddenly on board the yacht
Sapphire,” of! Cadiz, on February 25, while on the way to Cannes, and was
buried at sea. She had a serious operation last December. - Mr. R. N. Crane,
the first American to become a King’s Counsel, took his seat ‘‘within the Bar,”
on February 25.-Lieutenant-General Henry Kent, who died recently at
Wimbledon, was born in 1825. He served in the Crimea.-Brigadier-Ge
Crozier resigned when twenty-five R.l.C. Cadets, whom he had dismissed,
reinstated by Majr --General Tudor, Police Adviser to the Chief Secretary.
Viscount Gladstone and Lord Bryce strongly denounced the Government’s
policy in important letters which appeared in the “ Times ” of February 25.
Mtne. Bohn founded the Institut Franfais in Cromwell Gardens, inaugurated on
February 26, when the French Ambassador referred to her as its “ good fairy.”
urn
290—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Marci
1921.
THE WEEK’S NEWS: TERRITORIALS; “RUGGER”; THE INSTITlL;
Photographs by Sport and Gknkrai, L.N.A , C.N., I.B.,
| A CAUSE OF SCOTTISH PROTESTS : THE HILTON-OF-CADBOLL STONE (EIGI
! CENTURY), OFFERED TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Princess Mary presented colours to Second and Third Line units of the London Regiment, Territorial Army, on the Horse Guards Parade, on February *6 A Guard of Honour
was provided by the 2nd Ban. Grenadier Guards. The Bishop of London consecrated the colours, and among those present were General Gouraud, Sir L. Worthington-Evan.
(Secretary for War), General Jeffreys (Commanding the London District), and the Lord Mayor, who afterwards received the colours for safe keeping at the Guildhall.-The King
and Pnnce Henry watched the Rugby football match between the Navy and Army at Twickenham on the same day, when the Navy won by n points to 10.-The Iwtitut
Francis in Cromwell Gardens, South Kensington, was inaugurated on February 26. There were present the French Ambassador (Comte de St. Aulaire), M. Uon Bdrard.
French Minuter of Public Instruction, and M. Guillaumin, Vice-President of the Paris Municipal Council.-Scottish antiquaries have protested against the removal from Scotland
of an eighth-century relic, known as the Hilton-of-C.dboll Stone, offered to the British Museum. We reproduce a photograph of it by courtesy of the “Times.”-Archdeacon
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March >, 1921.—297
H£ ^iNQAIS; WESTERN FRONT PYRAMIDS; GERMANS AT DOVER.
v j. (Jj AIK-fiUVOT FROM A AlODK. L BV M. MOREAU-VAL'THIKK.
ARCHDEACON WAKEFORDS PETITION TO APPEAL : SIR MARL AY SAMSON
ADDRESSING THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
THE INSTITUT FRANfAIS OPENING : (LEFT TO RIGHT, FRONT) SIR A. MOND, LORD ASKW1TH
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR. M BeRARD, LORD CRAWFORD, M. GU1LLAUMIN
ARMY «• RUGGER ” MATCH : SHAKING HANDS
IHE KING AT THE NAVY v. ARMY RUGGEK
WITH THE NAVY TEAM
* ° fe ke * or< * * Potion for leave to appeal against the judgment o r the Lincoln Consistory Court was granted by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on February 28. The
in our photograph indicate (A) Lord Buckmaster, ( B) the Lord Chancellor, (C) Lord Dunedin, (D) the Bishop of London, and (£) Sir Marlay Sa nson, K.C., who appeared for
” ^ Archdeacon.-The Royal Military Academy beat the Ecole Polytechnique in a Rugby football match at Woolwich on February 22 by 22 points to 3.— -The German delegates
" tl * * rom * n the “Jean Brydel ’’ and landed at Dover on Sunday, February 27. General von Seeckt, the German Commander-in-Chief, represents the Ministry of War.-
*^ toce Proposes to mark the line on which the Gen-ian advance was checked in 1918 by a series ol boundary “ pyramids," to be set up, at intervals, along the whole Western
0 ^ rom the North Sea to the Vosges. The French Touring Club is planning the scheme, with the approval of Marshal Pttain. Our drawing shows a model of the projected
11 ' * pyramids, by the sculptor, M. Paul Moreau-Vauthier.— {Draining Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.]
BOOKS OF THE DAY
’"THE greatness of
i John Keats as a
poet and as a man has long
ceased to be challenged.
Nobody now believes that
he was slain by a chance
arrow of criticism. He was the most virile of
lovers, as well as a born fighter, and, had he
lived, English poetry might have been dominated
for forty or fifty years by a personality as large
and forceful as Victor Hugo's. Commenting on
the failure of the late W. J. Courthope, that
sturdy example of the academic critic, to appre¬
ciate Keats, Sir Sidney Colvin writes as follows
in his indispensable biography—
He supposed that Keats was indifferent to history
or politics. But of history he was, in fact, an assiduous
reader, and the secret of his indifierence to politics,
so far as it existed, was that those of his own time
had to men of his years and way of thinking been a
disillusion—that the saving of the world from the grip
of one great overshadowing tyranny hid but ended in
reinstating a number of ancient and minor tyrannies
less interesting but not less tyrannical. To that
which lie? behind and alxive politics and history, the
general destinies, aspirations, and tribulations of the
race, he was, as we have seen, not indifferent but only
too tragically and acutely sensitive.
Character is destiny in literature as well as in
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By E. B. OSBORN.
Three contributions stand out above the rest
in " The John Keats Memorial Volume
(John Lane ; -25s. net), which has been issued by
the Keats House Committee to help to raise the
£1500 still required for the purchase of the famous
house and garden in Keats Grove, where the poet
imagined and wrought some of his most exquisite
poems. It is a little oasis of peaceful charm,
haunted by the earliest of the winged songsters,
and 1 thought, visiting it during a spell of bright,
gentle, genial weather, that even if Keats had
never lived there, it would be a sad loss to allow
the spot to be covered by a huge block of flats.
Indeed, 1 hope the {1500 needed will be soon
raised, in spite of my belief that a better way of
paying homage to the memory of this poet who
never grew old—“ Age cannot weary him nor the
years condemn "—would have been to found a
travelling fellowship for some young poet in the
making, so that he might have a period of care¬
free leisure (in Home, for choice) for perfecting
his art in the company of many an august presence
in shining singing-robes, among them Adonais
himself. The younger generation was not at all
interested in the plan actually adopted of transfer¬
ring a little museum of Keats relies to the poet's
former habitation- the young men think, with
some show of reason, that the living temples of
poetry— t.e.. the oft-starved bodies
of the Muse’s apprentices—are of
more account than treasured letters
even from “ that warm scribe, mv
l hand," and mere bricks and mortar
”*■ ~ But Mr. Thomas Hardy’s lieautifnl
and wistful poem finally sanctifies
this plan of saving the Keats
House, and we must all work for
it now. Mr. Hardy imagines the
poet drawn thither, to his not
YaJ > unhappv Hampstead, and wonders
what his ghost would do at seeing
more changes wrought on the misty
hill once his home than in the
Home of his secular sepulchre.
Having himself seen both the
farther and the nearer habitation.
Mr. Hardy meditates as follows—
Where the Piazza steps incline.
And catch late light at eventide,
I «»nce stood, in that Home, and
thought,
‘ ’Twas here he died.”
WRITTEN BY KEATS ON THE DORSET COAST DURING HIS VOYAGE
TO ITALY: THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF HIS LAST POEM.
The ■' Myia Crowther ” was delayed by adverse winds in the Channel, and took
a month to reach Naples. On the way Keats landed in Dorset and wrote the above
sonnet, his last poem.
From an MS. Reproduced in Facsimile t n “ The John Reals Memorial Volume."
By Courtesy of Mr. John l.ane.
living, and we do know that Keats, had he not Surely we
been slain by a deadly disease and a consuming greatest liv
love-passion, would have had the moral power his greatnet
and intellectual industry to write the greatest liehind “ 1
poetry of all. “ Hyperion," his mighty exercise or the " Oc
in the Miltonic art of versification, has disillusion- Grecian 1 1
ment for its atmosphere, and is otherwise so as others tl
striking a protest against the ideal of poetry as exactitude
sheer, sensuous word-music that we feel sure it earnestnes:
marks the transition to the literature cleared for rather than 1
action which can only be written by those which ncitli
1 drew to a violet-sprinkled spot,
Where day and night a pyramid
keeps
HIS VOYAGE Uplifted its white hand, and said,
POEM. “ ’Tis there he sleeps.”
nnsl, and took Pleasanter now it is to hold
Tote the above That here, where sang he, more of
him
lal Volume." Remains than where he, tuneless,
cold,
Passed to the dim.
Surely we must all bend to the behest of our
greatest living poet, who has as one quality of
his greatness the profound acquiescence that lies
liehind " Adonais ’
or the "Ode to the
Grecian Urn,” and
as others that vivid
exactitude and sad
earnestness, Greek
rather than Homan, to
which neither Keats
which he once accused
Miss Ellen Terry of
improvising to hid<
of memory (frequent with
that incomparable actress),
so incredible did it seem
that Shakespeare should have perpetrated it.
In his vein of paradox. Mr. Shaw acclaims
Keats as the first of the Marxians (because
of the three-stanza indictment of the brother
merchants in “ Isabella ” which, as we are
WHERE KEATS WROTE HIS “ ODE TO A NIGHT
INCALE": THE POETS HOUSE AND CARDEN AT
HAMPSTEAD, ACQUIRED AS A MEMORIAL.
The house at Hampstead where Keats lived from 1818 to 1820.
and wrote much of his best work, has been bought as a national
possession and permanent memorial. About £1500 more is
needed to complete the purchase price, and gifts may be sent to
Sir Sidney Colvin, Hon. Treasurer, the Town Hall. Haverstock
Hill, N.W.3.
From a Photograph by Mr. 0. IF. Hoicard in “ The John Reeds
Memorial Volume." By Courtesy of Mr. John Lane.
told, “ contains all the Factory Commission Re¬
ports that Marx read, and that Keats did not
read, because they were not yet written in his
time.” But Mr. Shaw ends on a note of
blithe commonsense when he praises the geniality
of Keats, a quality rare indeed among major
poets. Professor Ernest de Silincourt’s Warton
Lecture is another memorable thing in this
abundant treasury of remembrance, and it
should provoke many readers to acquire “ The
Poems of John Keats ” (Methuen ; 12s. 6d. net),
by the same authority, of which a new and revised
edition has just appeared. Fur beauty of form
and printing. " Poems of Keats : An Anthology
(Cobden-Sanderson ; 8s. txi. net), is unsurpassed,
but I cannot forgive the anthologist for omitting
“ In a Drear-nightcd December.”
Who love their fellows even to the death.
Who Ud tne giant agony of the world.
Despair and disillusionment, however, were only
a momentary mood with Keats, even when dying—
for he gave Death the lie to the last, outfacing
his icy presence and keeping warm the anxious
ambition he expressed in a letter to his friend
and publisher—
I wish to diffuse the colouring of St Agnes’ Eve
throughout a form in which Character and Sentiment
would 1 the figures to such draperv. Two or three
such poems, if God shall spare me, written in the course
of the next six years would be a famous zradus ad
Parnassum allissimunt. 1 mean they would nerve me
up to the writing of a few fine plays—my greatest
ambition.
Had he lived, we must have had a dominating
Victorian personality in letters, who would have
been something between a second Shakespeare
and an English equivalent of Victor Hugo. With
robust health, he might have turned the whole
tide of Victorian poetry, so much of which,
through Rossetti, William Morris, and W. B. Yeats,
derives ultimately from such other-worldly fan¬
tasies as ” The Eve of St. Agnes ” and ” La Belle
Dame sans Merci.”
nor Shelley could yet
reach in the brief tale
of their far-shining
years I
Next in import¬
ance to Mr. Hardy’s
poem is Mr. Bernard
Shaw’s essay, which,
under his usual egot¬
ism and flip-flap wit
of a high-brow come
dian, exhibits a keen
sense of the abiding
worth of Keats’s
poetry and of the
man’s strong sweet¬
ness and sanity. Even
his worst lines, Mr.
Shaw points out, have
nothing ” minor '
about them ; they are
as brazenly bad as
Shakespeare's
In a most hideous and
dreadful manner.
HOW KEATS SAW "THE MOVING WATERS AT THEIR PRIEST-LIKE TASK’’:
THE BR 3 WHICH TOOK HIM TO ITALY—TO DIE.
John Keats and his friend. Joseth Severn, the artist, sailed from London for Naples, in the sailing
brig, " Maria Crowther," on September 18. 1820. Keats died in Rome on February 23, 182t, and
his centenary has just been celebrated.
From a 1),.,icing (the Original in Colour) by Joseph Severn, in “ The John Reals Memorial Volume .”
By Courtesy of .Mr. John Lane.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 5 , 1921—299
THE WAR BILL AGAINST GERMANY: ALLIES’ CLAIMS FOR REPARATIONS.
SHOWING THE RELATIVE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY GERMANY TO ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS:
DIAGRAMS BASED ON CLAIMS MADE TO THE REPARATIONS COMMISSION.
haS . * h0wn here * in diagrammatic form, the claims against Germany j column represent the relative amounts claimed by the different countries In t
pr^ented to the Reparations Commission by the various Allied Governments,
recently published by the Commission in a statement dated February 12.
e amounts have been converted into English money at the nominal (not the
trent) rates of exchange. At the current rates, of course, they would work out
rauc lgher. The figures given are approximate. The black blocks in the left-hand
column represent the relative amounts claimed by the different countries. In the
right-hand column are details of the British, French, Italian, and Belgian claims.
The diagrams are drawn to scale, and the total area of the blocks in the right-hand
column, under any one country, equals the block representing the same country’s
claim in the left-hand column. At the Paris Conference, the Allies decided to demand
£11,300,000,000, spread over forty-two years.- I Copyright* in (J.S. and Canada.] *
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
March
5, 1921.-300
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
atmosphere, master of his craft, and delineator of
incident which is not nineteenth-century story, but
real eighteenth-century genre subject an artistic
mirror held up to his age with all Hogarthiau
grucsomencss omitted. In mezzo-tints, at the
same sale. "Mrs. Crewe.” by Watson, and " I>r.
Johnson.” by Doughty, both after Reynolds, and
Mery on has two ex- \
amples, and Legros, vj;
with his ” La Mort du »
Vagabond ” and " La Soli- *
tude,” goes not unre-
membered. A Rembrandt
black chalk drawing on butt
altogether.
ZV the general
depression a tire ting in-
KJkrfe?* vestments has not put
a palsied hand on the
collecting world. Real
collectors collect to their dying day.
” Do you remember the brown suit
which hung upon you till all your friends cried
shame, it grew' so threadbare, and all because
of that folio Beaumont and Fletcher which you
dragged home late at night from Barker’s in
t’ovent Garden ? ” writes the inimitable Elia. At
Christie's, on Feb. 17. a small collection of French
furniture realised £17,000, and a Louis XV. library
table brought 3000 guineas. A choice collection of
engravings of some 160 lots was sold by Messrs.
Puttick and Simpson on Feb. 18 for /moo, an
average of £to per lot. On the same day, Messrs.
Knight. Franks, and Rutlcy sold some line Persian
rugs and carpets shipped from Batoum ; one silk-
bordered carpet with crimson ground, designed in
animal masks and foliage, only 12 ft. by 8 ft..
brought £ioo. At the same sale, a Queen Anne
bureau and a similar bookcase brought x 15 guineas
and 100 guineas respectively. Recently, at Messrs.
Robinson and Fisher’s rooms, a pastel, by Russell,
of “Miss Reid.” brought 500 guineas. On Feb. 24.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson were selling old
English silver, including a pair of George II. table
candlesticks with octagonal bases, maker's mark
” W.K. 1737”: and a George II. loving-cup,
Newcastle. 1758. On the 25th. the same firm
sold Chinese porcelain of a high average, culminat¬
ing in a fine oviform vase enamelled with phccnix
and other birds and flowers, with a river-scene,
with boats and figures in circular, square, and fan¬
shaped panels on powder - blue ground fatnille
vrrte, which sold for £409. On the same day
at Christie’s a Turner drawing, “ Derwent-
water,” brought 2300 guineas. At Christie's,
on March 1, a series of English engravings,
together with some fine aquatints, came up.
Collectors, if they be wise, will find in coloured
aquatints something surprisingly beautiful. Aqua¬
tint is an art which stands between the over¬
estimated colour-prints of the eighteenth century
and the modern revival of coloured mezzotints,
coloured etchings, and coloured wood-blocks
(which are all a contradiction in terms). Mezzo¬
tints included ” Sophia Western,” after Hoppncr.
early proof, with ear-rings; and ” Almeria ” (Mrs.
Meynott), after Opie, both by J. K. Smith :
■' Horatio Nelson,” by W. Barnard, open letter
proof after L. F. Abbott. Colour prints came
forward in fine states—” Nurse and Children ”
and ” A Party Angling.” by G. Keating ; ” The
Farmer's Stable ”, ” The First of September.”
morning and evening, a pair ; and also ” The
Thatcher.” all by W. Ward ; ” Fox Hunting.”
a set of four, by E. Bell ; " The Power of Justice "
and ” The Triumph of Benevolence,” a pair, by
J. Dean ; and “ The Industrious Cottager ” and
An Idle Laundress,” by W. Blake, are ail
after George Morland, the inimitable spacer of
lxith in first states, appealed to the connoisseur.
The same firm, on the 2nd, sold some tuv
silver, the property of Lady Mary Carbery. of
Castle Freke, including some notable examples of
Irish silver. Irish designs arc always intriguing.
(Wc hope we use this word, beloved by writers
in a proper sense.) A silver tea-kettle, of a
spherical shape, en¬
graved with masks,
foliage and strapwork.
on a tripod-stand with
lamp, was of the days of
Dean Swift, the moody
exile in Ireland. It
belongs to the period
when he wrote of his
lady friends of passing
tenderness, who would —
Receive the news in
doleful dumps,
The Dean is dead. Ihrav
what are trumps :
The Lord have merry
on his soul!
(Ladies, 1 ’ll venture for
the vole.)
A tea - kettle. by
W. Townshend. Dublin
about 1750. is another
fine Irish piece, on
tripod-stand with lamp
chased with flowers and
scroll - work. A two-
handled cup and cover
is of the date
three years after the
Battle of the Bovnc.
when William of Orange
defeated James, who
fled to France. It was
the hand of France
behind Ireland in those days. Another Wil¬
liam III. tazza, with elaborate scroll mantling
and cut card-work, of i«>o<i. has the maker's
mark. ” S. H.”
John Lloyd, of Dublin, had three chamber
candlesticks and twelve fine table candlesticks,
with Corinthian-column stems on square plinths,
in date 1773. just
when the Adam in¬
fluence was at its
height in Dublin. A
Queen Anne montcith,
wr’i mask handles,
by Francis Garthorne.
1707, is of the date
of the I'nion of Scot¬
land with England.
On the following day.
Messrs. Christie sold
an interesting Wil
liam 111. walnut
cabinet, inlaid with
pollard walnut and
boxwood border, and
a fine pair of old F'.ng-
lish cut-glass cande¬
labra for three lights,
with W e d g w o o d
pedestals in blue-and-
white jasper.
Messrs. Puttick and
Simpson sold, on the
4th, a collection of
engravings, of which
the most notable
were ” Morning ” ami
” Noon,” by H. Gill-
bank. after Wheat-
ley, finely printed in
colours.
Messrs. Sotheby.
on the 8th, have a
fine sale of etchings, together with old and modern
drawings and oil-paintings. In regard to etchings,
there is a field for perspicacity in connoisseurship.
Augustus E. John has ’ The Serving Maid ”
and others ; Mu. head Bone. ” Piccadilly Circus
in War-time, 1915 ” ; the late Anders L. Zorn,
two portraits ; Whistler, a fine series, including
some cancelled etchings; Norman Hirst. T. G.
Appleton, and H. Scott Bridgwater are represented
of a man with a beard was once
in the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The stupendous dispersal, by Messrs. Sotheby.
on March 10 and 11, of the residue of the Britwell
Court Library, the great Christie-Miller collection,
will attract all bibliophiles. Mainly sixteenth and
seventeenth-century rarities are here displayed.
The collection has occupied one man’s lifetime.
It will take the lifetime of many scholars to read
them ; that is if, happily, they fall into the hands
of scholars. There arc so many examples where
the copy is believed to be the only one extant,
and so many others where only one other is
known, that one wonders if literature is to be
enriched by this dispersal. We love the ” Soules
Solace.” by Thomas Jenner ; or ” Thirtie and One
Spirituall Emblems in Verse,” 1631, first edition,
with thirty-one engravings, one showing the poet
Wither sitting smoking a pipe. We desire to
possess the fine black-letter, in bold character, of
Fldward Goshynhyll: ” Here begynneth a lytle
boko named the schole house of women : wherein
every man may rede a goodly pravse of the
condicyons of women.” 1541 —the only copy
known, so that the esoteric law here contained
is lost to the world in this limited issue. Giles
Fletcher’s ” Licie or Poemes of Love.” 1593, has
the signature of George Steevcns. as has also
Jack Drum’s Entertainment. Kwi. the Comedie
of Pasquill and Katherinne mentioned in ‘ Alls
Well that Ends Well.’ Act III., Scene (>. once
attributed to Shakespeare.” Steevens was the
Puck of Shakespearian commentators. He set
gins for his contemporaries. He invented the
I'pas-trec fable, as to the deleterious exudations
of this noxious tree killing all within its region.
But he deserves notice as having trounced Malone,
that impious vandal, his contemporary’, who
whitewashed the coloured bust of Shakespeare at
Stratford-on-Avon. In this sale, an unknown
author comes forward with his ” Garland of
Greene Witte. Discovering the Constancy of
Calipolis — A precious spectacle for Wanton
Wives, fit to be read of all sorts if oppor¬
tunity serve. Printed for William Kirkham and
sold at the little North door of St. Paule’s
Church at the sign of the black boy, 1595.” Th**
work consists of a novel interspersed with verse
Courtesy of Messrs. Puttick mi J Simpson.
Another unique book is ” Here follyeth a
lytell translation of the Beauty of Women newly
translated out of the Frcnyshe into Englyshe,”
which comes from the Heber library’; and from
the same library’ comes “ The Flea,” by Peter
Woodhousc, with only one other copy known,
in the library of Lord Spencer. William Blake,
that wild genius, who drew the ghost of a flea,
would have found inspiration in this rare volume.
ENCRAVED BY H. GILLBANK AFTER A PA1NT1NC BY FRANCIS WHEATLEY:
•RUSTIC HOURS: MORNING"—A FINE COLOUR PRINT.
The two examples here given were among the most notable item; in the Sale of Engravings and
Drawings at Messrs. Puttick and Simpson's on March V
By Courtesy of .Messrs. Puttick and Simpson.
AFTER THE PAINTER OF "THE CRIES OF LONDON”: GILLBANK'S ENGRAVING
OF WHEATLEYS "RUSTIC HOURS: NOON" A COLOUR PRINT.
Francis Wheatley. R.A.. from whose work these engravings were made, was born in London in 1747. and
lied in 1001 He painted the well-known "Cries of London."
By
LONDON NEWS,
March
A ROYAL TIGER SHOOT : THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT IN INDIA.
STANDING BY HIS FIRST TIGER DURING THE TRIP : THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT
AND HIS "BAG.”
READY FOR ACTION
THE DUKE POSTED ON A TREE-PLATFORM IN THE MUKI
JUNGLE. WAITING FOR TIGERS.
ON A QUIET SPORTING TRIP BETWEEN ARDUOUS OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS IN
THE DUKE LUNCHING IN CAMP AT MUKI.
SHOWING A FINE SAMBUR (A KIND OF ANTLERED DEER MUCH HUNTED IN INDIA SHOT BY THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT (STANDING IN THE CENTRE OF THE GROUP) :
THE ROYAL PARTY. WITH BEATERS AND BEARERS AND TWO ELEPHANTS.
• rest from official functions, and a means of recovery from the slight indis- arrived at Madras on January 10. After the shooting trip at Muki he went on
iition which affected him on the voyage to India, the Duke of Connaught spent to Calcutta, and made a state entry into that city on January 28. On February 9,
aw days quietly in camp at Muki, in the Central Provinces, in the latter part at Delhi, he carried out the main purpose of his visit, the inauguration, on
January. While there he enjoyed some big-game shooting, including tigers, behalf of the King-Emperor, of the two new representative Indian Chambers—the
^shown in our illustrations, and the open-air life had a good effect on his ^ Council of State and the Legislative Assembly. The Duke’s speech on that
j 1 ' official tour has been a great success, his genial presence and wise occasion was a memorable utterance. On February 21 he arrived at Bombay,
statesmanlike speeches making a deep impression on the Indian people. He of which city he said that he did not know a more beautiful sight in the world.
till: illustrated London news. maxch 11121. 202
Wondcrs of £inie-Knou>n Central Africa.
I?fL^girS3W'l
N*. /. THE NEW MOON CEREMONIES OF BUNYORO. By thm Rmv. JOHN ROSCOE.
B UNYORO Ls a district in the Uganda Pro¬
tectorate lying to the north of the Equator,
and between 30 and 35'degrees longitude. One
of the interesting ceremonies of Bunyoro which
has fallen into disuse owing to the spread of
Western civilisation, and to the fact that the
King and chiefs have become Christians, is that
of the New Moon.
The people are a pastoral people ; nothing
in life matters in comparison with the welfare
of the cows and their supply
of millt. Thus the sun. cast¬
ing his shafts of red glow in
the morning, roused the men
to milk ; then, through the
day. the herdsmen knew how
to manage their herds in the
pastures, to take them to
water or to return to milk
them in the evening, by the
angle at which the sun's rays
fell upon them. As the sun
was the daily time-keeper,
so the moon marked months
for them, and played an im¬
portant part in the domestic
life of the people : it was by
the number of moons they
knew when to expect the
births of calves, and to re¬
gulate their duties in the
kraals.
Each new moon was
eagerly awaited and wel¬
comed with festivities into
which all classes entered. The
King, who was supposed to
be able to arrange and govern
all things, was the centre of
attraction ; all eyes were
turned to him to order the WEARING FALSE
festivities. Near the entrance
gate of his enclosure he had
a mound, upon which a priest stood and watched
for the first glimpse of the moon when it
was expected. Around the mound crowds of
people gathered with the royal band, composed
of drums and wind instruments. The King sat
on his throne until the priest let him know
that the moon was visible, whereupon he rose,
and, coming to the door of the throne-room,
he raised his hands to heaven and gave his
blessing upon land and people. When the
blessing was given,
the priest made a
sign to the band,
and the drums and
music began to re¬
sound throughout
the land.
I luring the next
seven days these
musical instru¬
ments continued to
sound by day and
by night before the
throne-room. The
musicians were not
allowed to leave in
a body for rest or
for food until the
ceremonies were
ended : one by one
they retired for
meals or sleep and
returned to relieve
others. The King
himself had to keep
long hours, sitting
where he could be
seen and admired
bv his subjects.
Dancing with songs
continued during
the festive season.
To a Western
ear, the music
sounds barbarous,
and lacks anything
approaching har¬
mony, but to the
savage mind there are rhythm and beauty, and.
what is more, such a regularity and sequence
of sound that the hearer detects mistakes in what
appears to he a mere conglomeration or medley
of noise.
From time to time dancing ceases while some
new episode is brought upon the scene ; it may
be a man steps forth and stands before the King
and wishes him a long life, and assures him of
the loyalty of his subjects ; or it mav be the
BEARDS AND CROWNS OF OFFICE: A BUNYORO KING AND TWO CHIEFS
IN CEREMONIAL DRESS. kv tk* Rev. John Rouot. W./4.|
King has to perform one of his priestly offices
in connection with the milk ceremonies. During
the ceremony of drinking the sacred milk there
must be silence, when for a few moments the band
ceases, and the crowds kneel with their faces
buried in their hands. The silence, after the
roll of drums and the roar of songs. Ls most
impressive ; it seems incredible that silence
could be thus enforced within a few seconds.
When the noise of drums and music begins
BUNYORO PRINCESSES DANCING IN HONOUR OF THE NEW MOON: A PERFORMANCE RESTRICTED TO WOMEN
OF ROYAL BLOOD, f Pkotopmpk by tkt K* John Rrmcnt. U.A. J
again, the memory of the silence produces an
effect of mystery.
During the morning of one of the festal days
there is usually a solemn procession made by
the King to a private courtyard in which he
meets his guild of notable chiefs, there to bestow'
pardon upon any member who may have offended,
or to condemn him to death. The path along
which the procession moves is carpeted ; and
three men, each holding a spear aloft, with a
fourth bearing an instru¬
ment like a hoe with a
bag of seeds attached to
it. back before the advan¬
cing King until he reaches
a hut, into which he passes.
There are seven such huts,
separated from each other
by a small enclosure; the
King passes through these
into the last courtyard,
where the chiefs of the
Sacred Guild have assembled
to await him. Each chief
wears a special robe of bark-
cloth. and his crown of
office. Into this courtyard
no other person is allowed
except the two or three men
who belong to the body¬
guard.
The King advances to a
royal rug under a canopy,
and stands with his back
to the fence facing the
chiefs. He wears a royal
bark - cloth of rich brown
colour on which are traced
geometrical patterns with
blood taken from the arms
of princesses or favourite
wives, who have painted
these and presented the robe
to his Majesty. When the King has taken his
stand under the canopy, he gives the signal
for the offending member of the Guild to be
brought before him.
The man is brought by a companion who
supports his trembling frame. If the King extends
his hands, and allows the man to put his lips to
them, he is pardoned and restored to favour;
should he be refused this honour, and told to
retire, he realises
that death awaits
him. When the
ceremony is over,
the King returns
to the throne-room
to the festivities,
while the chiefs
leave by their
private entrance
and return to their
homes to disrobe.
During the
night large fires
light the scene for
the music and dan¬
cing to continue.
The King provides
meat and beer for
the guests during
the festivities.
At the end of
seven days the
band proceeds to
the enclosure of
the King’s mother,
where there is
dancing for one
day and night ;
and after that it
goes to the chief
medicine - man for
a day and night.
After this the men
retire to their
homes for rest and
to prepare for the
next festival.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, March 5. 1921- 303
NEW MOON CEREMONIES IN UGANDA: PICTURESQUE BUNYORO RITES,
OMENS FROM WATER : A PRIEST POURING
FLUID INTO WATER-POTS SET IN THE GROUND.
INCLUDING “AN INSTRUMENT LIKE A HOE WITH A BAG OF SEEDS ATTACHED TO IT
BEARERS OF THE SACRED SPEARS.
WHEN THE BLESSING WAS GIVEN . . . THE DRUMS AND MUSIC BEGAN TO RESOUND
THE DRUM BAND FOR THE BUNYORO NEW MOON CEREMONIES.
PARDONING AN OFFENDER BY GIVING HIS
HANDS TO KISS : THE KING AS JUDGE.
ique New Moon ceremonies of Bunyoro, in Uganda, are described in
on the opposite page by the Rev. John Roscoe, the well-known ex-
recently returned from leading the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to
:a - His account explains the photographs given above. He mentions
itival has now fallen into disuse, owing to the spread of Western
and Christianity. Describing the augury by water, he says : “ A
>ots, usually nine, are made of day, and while the clay is still soft
they are embedded in the earth up to their brims, and filled with water. The
medicine-man kneels before a pot and washes his hands, using a piece of clay
as soap. When he has made the water a thick muddy colour, he takes a pot
of fluid and allows a few drops to fall into it. This at once clears the water.
If it clears with star-like shapes, the omen is good, but if it separates into small
globules, it is a bad omen. To confirm the oracle the whole nine pots are
treated in this way.”
-THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 5 , 1921 .
THE NEW MOON AS HERALD OF NEW MILK: AN
Drawn by A. Forestirr prom MatmJ soffir !?
The pastoral people of Bunyoro, in Uganda, as the Rev. John Roscoe tells us in his article on a previous page, are mainly concerned in the welfare of their cows and the
supply of milk. “It was by the number of moons they knew when to expect the births of calves,’’ and the coming of the new moon was formerly the occasion of *
ceremony recalling Biblical allusions, notably “ Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” As the time approached, a pnest or
herald stood on the top of an artificial mound outside the royal enclosure, facing the King’s hut, surrounded by a group of musicians with trumpets and drums. Directly
the priest had the first glimpse of the new moon, he signalled to the King, who came out of his hut—that is, his throne-room—raised his hands, and gave his blessing to the
A FESTIVAL THAT REQUIRES A BAND TO PLAY SEVEN DAYS AND NIGHTS ^
WHOSE ADVENT IS ANNOUNCED BY A PRIEST R
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 5, 1921—3(
Ml AN EVENT WHICH TIMED
THE BIRTHS OF CALVES
^ Supplied by thb Rev. John
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WITHOUT CESSATION: A BUNYORO CEREMONY-THE KING HAILING THE NEW MOON,
FROM A MOUND NEAR THE ROYAL HUT.
People and the land tk
*ues and lhe P r,est then made a sign to the musicians round him on the mound to begin, and the royal band gathered inside the enclosure with drums of divers
his hands I™” 1 *** 4 *k° ** e K an their music, which did not cease for seven days and nights. Our picture shows the King, after issuing from his throne-room on the left, raising
priest on* xh blCSSlng ' Across the threshold is an elephant tusk, which none but the King might walk over. Other people, on entering, had to make their way round it. The
*uit and th * m ° Un< * ** seen w '** 1 his hand still raised as a signal to his musicians to strike up. The royal band, which stood ready before the throne-room, then followed
noise began. Fires lighted near the different huts in the royal enclosure added a weird effect to the twilight scene -1 {hawing Copyrighted in the United States and CanaiL i.'
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 5, 1921.
CLAD IN ROBES PATTERNED WITH BLOOD OF PRINCESSES, OR
‘'3MI
TS
M
■4s?
PARDON OR DEATH: A BUNYORO CHIEF WHO HAS OFFENDED BROUGHT BEFORE THE
B “" ,0r0 “ “ * U,0<;r * , ‘'™"‘ hi * w ' ,h ,h ' l»-“ •' '«« *"<1 «»«■■ D«rtng th. New Moon eetemome,. descbw! b, ,h. Rev. John R.,co. in en ert.de
" . „„,o„ p. £ e, he g.eo. ludgmen, up™, ofiend.r, in . prio.t, cou,„.r<i be!.,. ,h. ehi.l. .< the Sec,eg Guild: E.ch ehi.i wear, , speed rub. ol berk-cloth. end to
r„’p, end u g, ' ITT 7 0 "’" Pm °" “ *" OW “’ ' h * ,W ° 01 ,hf “ ™“ ’ h « ^ *> >*• bodjguerd. The King .d,.„c«e . rope. nt, unde, .
eunopp, ,»nd, w,th h„ beck ,« the ienee l.cing the ehi.l,. He we.r, . ,o,„ berk-Cth .1 neb btuwn culdur. on which ore tt.ced geometr.cd pettem, with blood
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 5 , 1921.—307
FAVOURITE WIVES: A BUNYORO KING AS JUDGE.
4ackik Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa
if
KING IN THE COURT OF THE SACRED GUILD. DURING THE NEW MOON CEREMONIES.
from the
^ * arma of princesses or favourite wives, who have painted these and presented the robe to his Majesty. When the King has taken his stand under the canopy,
•>» hands, ' * 1Kn * J **** offending member of the Guild to be brought before him. The man is brought by a companion who supports his trembling frame. If the King i
^ man h> put his lips to them, he is pardoned and restored to favour ; should he be refused this honour and told to retire, he realises that death
8,1 toe ceremony is over, the King returns to the throne-room to the festivities." In the case here illustrated, the offender was pardoned.
NEWS, March 5, 1921.-309
. 4R&MB9
1® ,G Capitol .” from the park—a
FAMOUS ARTIST’S IMPRESSION.
' n h ' S in *ugura| address
L ,xhoceap H
»t Washington on March 4. What that policy would b« no one could tell for certain in advance, for the new President, while listening
"V JosKPH P«KNBLL. COPYRIGHT IN THR UNITED STATES AND CANADA.',
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 5. 1921—310
WHERE THOSE WHO SHAPE AMERICAN POLICY PASS IN AND OUT ON PUBLIC BUSINESS : THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL
AT WASHINGTON, AS SEEN BY A FAMOUS ARTIST.
United States in 1790, and the administration moved thither from Philadelphia
1800. Other drawings of it by Joseph Pennell appeared in our issue of Nov. a
1919.—[FauM Lithographs by Josrph Pen.yrix. Copybight in U.S. and Canada.]
The great dome, 285 ft. high, is the central feature of the Capitol at
Washington. The whole building cost £ 3,200,000, and no country has a
statelier seat of government. Washington was chosen as the capital of the
illpn
Bgg ■ •■ X «
WMb m r >
jLLLiJ \*:\ KSSfr
A BUILDING TOWARDS WHICH THE EYES OF THE WORLD HAVE LATELY BEEN TURNED : THE FACADE OF THE CAPITOL
AT WASHINGTON, WHERE THE PRESIDENT-ELECT ARRANGED TO DELIVER HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
The Capitol at Washington, all in white stone and marble, and crowned measures 751 ft. in length by 324 ft. in width. A Corinthian portico occupies
WI *h a dome supporting a bionze figure of Liberty, is one of the most the centre of the facade, as shown above. The Senate Chamber is in the northern
•nagnificent public buildings in the world. It is in the Classical style, and wing.— [Fron Lithograph* by Joseph Phnnbll. Cop\ right in L'.S. and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 5. 1921.—312
$!/ PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON. Profit of Natural History
T HE shore is a narrow shelf, crowded and
changeful ; the open sea is spacious, with
room for all, and, apart from storms, tending to
uniformity. The open sea. or pelagic haunt
includes all that lies beyond the seaweed-bearing
tract, but it is restricted to the upper waters
which are well lighted by day.
To understand the life of the open sea, one
must picture what Sir John Murray called the
“ floating sea-meadows ”—vast tracts of water
thickly peopled by minute Algae, such as Diatoms.
These utilise the energy of the sunlight to build
up the simple materials of air, water, and salts
into complicated substances like starch, on which
minute animals then feed. Of almost all animals
it must be said that they can feed only on what
is living, or has Ixx-n living, or has been made
by something living ; but green plants feed
on what is not living — air, water, and salts.
Therefore, in tracing the circulation of matter
we must always begin with the plants. The
naturalists at the Plymouth Biological Station
have shown that the abundance of mackerel
depends on the abundance of the minute, free-
swimming crustaceans called " water - fleas," or
copepods, whose abundance, again, depends on
the abundance of Diatoms (and certain minute
Infusorian animals) in what we may call the
" sea-soup.” There is a succession of incarna¬
tions—Diatom or Infusorian, copepod. mackerel,
man ; and so the world goes round. This is
important practically, for on the abundance
of the floating sea-meadows depends, in large
measure, the success of the fishing industry in
northern seas. In some parts of the sea there
are great sargasso banks of floating seaweed
(Fig. 9 ) ; but while these support a characteristic
set of animals that play hide-and-seek among the
fronds, they are not nearly so important as the
meadows of very minute plants which, along with
minute animals and floating eggs, form the stock
of the sea-soup.
The animals of the open sea are divided into
the active swimmers (technically called the
Nekton), and the drifters, or easy-going swimmers
(technically called the Plankton). Good examples
of the energetic swimmers are the whales (Fig. i),
the petrels, the sea - snakes, the herring, the
flying - fishes (Fig 2 ), the squids, and some of
the prawn-like crustaceans. Some of them appeal
to us strongly as conquerors of the pelagic
kingdom. Thus, the whales are not only the
giants of modern times and the most muscular
of all animals; there is a note of victory (which
man alone silences) in the vast distances they
cover, the speed at which they swim, and the
depth to which they can dive. They take
the biggest breaths of all animals and remain
longer under water than any other lung-breathers.
Similarly, the stormy-petrel (Fig. 8 ) is at home in
the open sea, skimming swiftly near the waves,
with its long legs dangling and its toes pitter-
pattering on the surface. It does not come to
land except to nest, and even then it is elusive,
arriving in lonely places at dusk and leaving at
dawn. The nestling Rets such a large crop-full
of oily food that it seems able to fast during day¬
light hours.
A fine example of the insurgenee of life is to
be found in the family of sea skimmers (tlalo-
batida'), which run along on the surface of the
sea, often a hundred miles from land They are
wingless insects, related to the water-measurers
of our brooks. When it is stormy they sink below
the troubled waters. They appear to feed on
floating dead animals, and another interesting
point is that the mother insect has been seen
carrying her eggs about with her after they have
been laid.
Among the higher animals of the open sea
must be included - some of the turtles; not the
edible turtle, perhaps, which is a vege¬
tarian, and must, therefore, keep for the
most part to shore haunts, but the
carnivorous Hawksbill (Fig. 10 ) and the
Loggerhead, which is occasionally found
on our coasts. The Leathery Turtle,
which occurs sparsely in most warm
seas, is a pelagic giant, for it may
be six feet long and weigh a ton. All
these come to the shore to lay their
eggs in the sand, which is almost
enough to prove that they arc the
descendants of land tortoises. The
same land origin holds for the very
poisonous fish-eating sea-snakes, so well
represented in the Indian Ocean, which
show an interesting fitness in the
flattening of the tail, and sometimes
of part of the body as well. Thus they
have an oar-like blade, well suited for
striking the water. A foundation for
some of the sea - serpent stories is
almost certainly to be found in the
Oar - fish or Ribbon - fish (Regalecus), a
silvery fish, flattened like an oar,
sometimes over twenty feet in length,
which may swim with an undulatory
motion at the surface, or occasionally,
when attacked by some enemy, shoot
itself in agony for several feet above
the surface. (See front page of our
issue of Feb. 19 ).
The drifters may be illustrated by
the ” sea butterflies ” (lightly-built sea
slugs on which whalebone whales (Pig. 1 ) de¬
light to feed), hundreds of kinds of small
crustaceans, numerous worms like the living
transparent arrow called Sagitta, complicated
colonies like the Portuguese Man - of - War and
the sail - bearers (Velella) (Fig. 3 ) often seen in
the Mediterranean in fleets stretching for miles.
More familiar are jellyfishes (I ig. 11 ), often borne
into shallow water and left stranded in thousands.
These drifters
are suited to the
open - sea haunt in
being lightly built.
Some have long,
projecting processes
like catamaran spars,
which make sink¬
ing almost imposs¬
ible (Fig 6 ). Others
are buoyed up by
gas reservoirs; and
many floating eggs,
like those of sar¬
dines, have a large
oil - globule which
makes them buoyant.
The delicate comb-
bearers or sea-goose¬
berries, like Berofi,
are very character¬
istic open - sea ani¬
mals, and their par¬
ticular fitness is
that, whenever there
is a hint of a storm,
they sink. They then
swim low and feel
nothing.
What is meant
by a special fitness
or adaptation is
beautifully illustra¬
ted by the Floating
at Aberdeen University.
Barnacle (Lepas fascicularis). A barnacle is a
fixed crustacean of low degree. It begins its life
as an active, free-swimming, pinhead-like creature
(P'ig. 4 ) ; it feeds, grows and moults ; it be¬
comes another kind of larva which exhausts its
energies and fixes itself by its head to a float¬
ing log, or to the hull of a wooden ship—it
may even be to the tail of a sea-snake. Now,
the particular kind which we are calPng the
Floating Barnacle often fastens itself to a small
piece of seaweed—it may be to a feather or a
wooden match. Its shell is very lightly built, with
little lime, and
this is well suited
to such a creature
that fixes itself
to a light float.
But in spite of
its lightness of
shell, the Float¬
ing Barnacle
often becomes too
heavy for its
float, and begins
to drag it be¬
low the surface.
What, then, docs
the creature do—
we wish we under¬
stood it better—
but make a some¬
what gelatinous,
roundish buoy con¬
taining bubbles
of gas ? (Fig. 5 )
This self - made
buoy enables it to
continue floating
on the surface.
Hunger is much in evidence in the open sea.
The baleen whale rushes through the water en¬
gulfing countless open-sea creatures in the huge
cavern of its mouth. The albatross often makes
so large a meal that it is unable to rise from the
water. But there is lk>ve as well as hunger on
the oi>en sea, and no better example could be
found than the paper nautilus or Argonaut
(P'ig. 7 '. The female, which floats on the sur¬
face (not to be confused with the Pearly
Nautilus, which belongs rather to the shore
haunt), makes for the protection of the eggs
what may te well called the most beautiful
cradle in the world. Another fact must be in¬
cluded in our picture of the open sea—that it is
the nursery for the young stages of many shore-
animals (Fig. 12 ). The eggs of the shore - crab
hatch into free-swimming larvae (Fig 13 ), which
are borne out into the safe open waters ; they
feed, grow, and moult; they turn into another
form of larva; eventually they become like
minute crabs and climb up the sloping shelf
to share in the strenuous life of the shore.
FIC. 13.—YOUNG STAGES OF THE SHORE CRAB: (LEFT) "ZOEA”—THE CYCLOPS
STAGE: AND (RIGHT) MECALOPA—THE PRAWN STAGE.
Drawn by H’. B. Robinson from Material supplied by Professor J. Arthur Thomson.
FIG. 11.—ONE OF NATURE’S “DRIFTERS”: A JELLY-FISH
FLOATING IN THE TIDE.
The jelly-fish throbs with tentacles round the edge, and has four frilled arms
streaming from its mouth, all bearing countless stinging-cells.
Drawn by M-’. B. Robinson from Material supplied by Professor J. Arthur Thomson.
FIG. 12.—A SHORE “ WATER-
BABY ": A MINUTE TRANS¬
PARENT SEA - CUCUMBER
LARVA (EARLY STAGE).
Drawn by IV. B. Robinson , from
Material supplied by Professor
J. Arthur Thomson.
thk illustrated
LONDON NEWS, Marc,
5. 1921. — 313
HAUNTS OF LIFE: NATURAL WONDERS
D,AWN " ° UB SPKIAL A>T ' ST ’ W " —»«• «°« material s W „, d By PROFESSOR ,
OF THE OPEN SEA.
ARTHUR THOMSON, IN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS LECTURES
TKe Whalebone Whale - a Areaf
bundle of filnesses.
She open sea Barnacle ihaL
makes For iTself a Buoy
nenir becomes loo heavy
Foril-s original HoaFofa
bir oF sea-weed.
man** **
open-sea snail (IanMiina
which makes a buoyant raft
For floating ils e<££s
ter- Nautili
The SanJassoWeed
which Forms <>rea]"PJoafin^ banks on ifie
open sea bavi'nb been wrenched off from
an often disfisnLahore. O’ forms the
headquarters of a very characteristic
asaem bla$e of open-sea ani mala su chas
one of fhe sea-horses whose body is
covered wilh tassel like processes.
A MarineTurHe which keeps to
>ne wafer excepl when iTcoVnes
To Jay ifs on the sandy shore
Ch1^T° rm PeFrei or
Uni^? n i which does
land arall except Ion
v f r y younj frcA swimming
of a stalled Barnacle
^?, lon .? \P ro cesses
which $real y t n\rease the
Power of flotahlan.
te ff >r Chun) \
II- THE OPEN SEA : CREATURES DESCRIBED IN PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON’S SECOND LECTURE
AT THE ROYAL
Febm C ° nt * nUe ° n *** e °PP° s ‘ te P a E e the series begun in our last issue (for
on " TjT *^ °* * >ro * essor Thomson’s abridgments of his highly popular lectures
dealt ' t. ^, aunts °* Life,” given recently at the Royal Institution. The first one
*nd tlT ThC ^ cho ° 1 of the Shore ” ; the second takes us to “ The Open Sea ”
M p r * marvel, ous creatures, great and small, which inhabit it. “The shore,”
ro essor Thomson points out, "is a narrow shelf, crowded and changeful ;
INSTITUTION.
the open sea is spacious, with room for all, and, apart from storms, tending to
uniformity. The open sea. or pelagic haunt, includes all that lies beyond the
seaweed-bearing tract, but it is restricted to the upper waters, which are well
lighted by day.” The Oar-fish or Ribbon-fish (the origin of many “sea-serpent”
stories), to which the Professor refers in this week's artide, was illustrated on
the front page of our issue of February 19.- [Copyrightod in U.S. and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 5. 1921. 314
By J. T. GREIN.
H ERE is a rare chance for a young man with popularity is achieved neither by a good Press
ambition and artistic taste. The other .day nor in printed form, but by the lips of tlie people.
I talked to a manager of a great hotel not a Success at the cabaret means that one may be sung
thousand miles from Piccadilly Circus. “ Well, into glory, and that from there to the (kleon and
how are things ?” said I. And he replied Things the Com&lie Eranyaise, if n’y a qit’un pas. I>id
are not what they were ; we have plenty of room not Maurice Donnay, to name one of the great,
for more company, and I am on the look-out for start at the Chat Noir under the ;rgis of that
a new idea to draw people to my hotel— a splendid quaint grand-seigneur-cabareticr, Uudolphe de
one, is it not ? ” “ Splendid indeed," I admitted ; Salis. who received crowned heads as if he were a
"and I have a splendid idea for you, which will king and they mere lieges ? Did not Donnav spring
fill your coffers and be the talk of London.” His from the Ouartier de la Iluttc to the Cupola of
face suddenly beamed like a city in illumination the Academic Francaiso via the Vaudeville, the
" What is this philosopher's stone ? ” " A Cabaret 1 ” Gymnase. and the Comedic Franyaisc ?
1 exclaimed. ” A real high-class, poetic, musical, “ Yes ; but in London —” my interlocutor
terpsichorean Cabaret, such as is the boast of every tried to stem my flmxl of enthusiasm,
great European city except our London.” The ” In London ! ” I exclaimed. “ Why should
argument waxed animated and fervent. The pros we not have in London what Paris can offer ?
and cons flew across the room : my aim was to Ask Frank Rutter, with his phalanx of the
convince him that a former effort in the West young men of Art and Letters in his vanguard ;
End did not count for anything at all. It was ask the editors of the ’Varsity magazines, of the
started by a woman of great talent, but who Chelsea Revues ; peep into the Poetry Shop in
did not quite understand London values and Marylebone and see the stacks of songs pant¬
ing to be sung. As for music, just broach
the idea to Theodore Holland, to Howard
Carr, to ’ That ' Tate, to Mark Hambourg,
and to Max Darewski; I just pick at random
among ' Savages * and other brethren of lyre
and lute. As for dancing, just ask Ruby
Ginner, Italia Conti, and Florence F.tlingeT
what they could do if in the centre of London
they had a little temple of art where they
could reveal the burgeoning talent bursting
with ambition in their academies. Why
London is literally > hock-a-block full of
potential cabaret talent. Nor need we stop
there. What about the Magic Circle, with
its wizards and its high priests of the oc¬
cult, thought-reading, transmission ? What
about the painters, the cartoonists, from
Hassall to ‘ Poy ’ ? What about the influx
of dancers from Russia, Poland, and the
East ? Why, it is a Golconda, and-”
" And,” cried the hotel manager, carried
away by my fata morgana, " bring me the
man who will harness this current, and 1 will
give you hospitality, light, and the flowing
bowl. Yes ; it might be a gold-mine, with
the Upper Ten and Bohemia flocking to it
like Klondike. But bring me the man.”
"Ah, there you have me. mon pauvre atm.
If I had the man, I could bring him to you
at once; but it is not a task to be undertaken
by Tom, Dick, or Harrv. He must be an
THE COMIC ELEMENT IN •‘SYBIL,*’ AT DALY’S THEATRE: artist, he must be a man of the world, he
MR. HUNTLEY WRIGHT AS POIRE, THE IMPRESARIO. must be a business man, he must have a
AND MISS MAY BEATTY AS MARGOT, HIS WIFE. name to command confidence, for our poets
Photograph by stag, Photo. Co. and our minstrels will not again be drawn
to associate themselves with any project of
London people. She had, indeed, a promising the kind that fails to gauge aright the needs of
committee at her side, but she would not let it its public. Frankly, I have not
was given in favour of the plaintiffs, and this is its
effect. The Revue criticism contained 201 lines ;
as there were two collaborators, each of them had
a right to 40 ’ lines, and if .Fschylus had not been
gathered long ago among the souls of the Pantheon,
he too would have been entitled to 402 lines 1 It
well-nigh makes criticism impossible. Fancy if
every playwright and actor were to refute our
MAKING A CONSIDERABLE “HIT": MISS JEAN
STIRLING AS THE GRAND DUCHESS ANNA PAV.
LOVNA. IN " SYBIL." AT DALY’S THEATRE.
Photograph hr Stage Photo. Co.
“ notices,” as dramatic criticism is elegantly called
in this country, at double space—why, in the days
of the great Clement Scott, who dashed off a column
and a half of the Daily Telegraph in an hour, it
would mean nearly half a page of that journal I
No, says a well-known writer, if things arc allowed
to remain as they are, criticism in future will have
to be in this form —
Mr. X. has just pndured at the-Theatre a new
piece of which I decline to give title or plot. This
piece is no good.
He cannot reply to that, according to the law,
because he is not named. On the other hand,
suppose I had named and praised him—or any
actor—what prevents him from claiming double
space in ” right to reply ” because I did not
praise him sufficiently ? Why, the whole business
is too ludicrous for words. And so say all of us I
” commit ” itself to any extent. She would have found the man. but I will tell
her own way, and she attracted the wrong sort of you what I will do. I will sound
talent. Its programme was, between flashes of real the bugle in The Illustrated Loudon
art in minstrelsy and dancing, something not much News, and invite those who feel
better than that of a “ beuglant ” in Montmartre that they arc made of the stuff to
the oddest people with the oddest manners ex- lead a cabaret to hand in their
hibited, in the name of cabaret, words and acts names and their credentials. If I
which might be deemed offensive when they were spot the right man for the place,
not ludicrous. The place became the haunt of that I will bring him to you. Will you
peculiar world of pleasure which loves the bizarre, be the man of your word ? ”
and dotes upon the eccentric. There were sometimes "Parole d'honneur 1 ” he said,
wild “ragging” scenes, and. despite high prices for “ If you will bring me the man,
supper and refreshments, it generally happened that I pledge myself to open the cab
feasting went on till dawn. So things continued, aret whenever you like at the
but the end was bound to come, although the Hotel--But no, you must not
scheme might have succeeded if conducted on the give the name of the hotel until
right lines. Finally, this haunt of misguided joy re- you have the man.”
turned to its pristine respectability as a warehouse. Once more, here is a rare chance
Thus ended the lamentable story of a London for one of the young generation.
Cabaret, and the blow has stunned other feeble
attempts at revival ever since, because those
who took the idea in hand had no notion of You know that in France there
the real raison d'etre of the art of the modern exists a law which entitles a man
troubadour. Yet it is a great and fine art when to respond to criticism in exactly
rightly understood. As I write, all France is ring- double the space in which he has
ing with the praise of a little volume of cabaret been criticised. Thank goodness !
poetry by Raoul Ponchon : all the youth of France we have not come to that in Eng
isquoting refrains from his war songs, his folklore, land yet. But with our neighbours
his love lyrics, his little rhapsodies and elegies of the law is enforced with ruthless
the people from the Luxembourg to the backwash energy, as the Revue des Deux
of I .a Villettc and the Halles. And Raoul Ponchon Mondes —still the most interesting
is but one of a band of singers, albeit that now by revue in the world—learned to its
acclamation he is crowned as their laureate. All cost. Recently it published a rather
the young musicians, all the young poets, are proud scathing article on a translation of
to be heard on the little stages of tiny theatres in an jEschylus play by two authors^
the luminous city, for they know that they are The collaborators furiously claimed
HDrine-boards of fame ; they know that the Thespian the ” right to reply. The Revue
car climbs from small beginnings ; they know that demurred—hence action. Judgment
THE HEROINE AND CHIEF ATTRACTION OF ’ SYE
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SASSOON AND M. AND MME. BERTHELOT.
definitely ***» Prem *w s new official country residence in the Chiltem Hills, has
Mr. anj CTt f ° n its P olit >cal career as the scene of important gatherings,
week-end Feb 1<>7d George ent ertained a distinguished house-party during the
the Germa a6 ' 28, prior t0 the discussion of the reparation question with
Foch wh*" *£ ates t0 the London Conference. The party included Marshal
M. Philipp 0 R * rnVC<1 ° n Sund *T. the 27th ; M. Briand, the French Premier ;
raised to A . ert,le * ot ' ^ ecr «tary-General of the French Foreign Office and recently
m a,s *dorial rank, the second French delegate to the Conference, with
THE SECOND FRENCH DELEGATE AT CHEQUERS :
M. PHILIPPE BERTHELOT ; WITH HIS WIFE.
AN ENTENTE "CONFERENCE”: MARSHAL FOCH
AND MISS MEGAN LLOYD GEORGE.
Mme. Berthelot ; General Weygand, Marshal Foch’s right-hand man ; Lord
D ’Abernon, British Ambassador to Berlin ; Sir Hamar and Lady Greenwood ; and
Sir Philip Sassoon. It was reported that Marshal Foch was summoned to London
for the Conference at Mr. Lloyd George’s suggestion. Although no formal
conference took place at Chequers, the French and British leaders were able to
discuss quietly the great questions they had to decide in London, and Mr. Lloyd
George, when asked for a statement there, replied that it was permissible to say
that “we are prepared for all contingencies.”
™ E ILLUSTRATE » NEWS, Merer , m ,_ 3 ,
A PRE-CONFERENCE PARTv. „
p-,,™,’ .. . REMIER ’S GUESTS AT CHEQUERS
PREPARED FOR ALL CONTINGENCIES ” : (L. TO R) marshai
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IHE ° IS “ F I S ™ " CHEWER! ’ ft- ™ ft. mme. berthelot, miss me.
LLOVD GEORGE. MRS. LLOYD GEORGE. AND LADY GREENWOOD
STUDIES IN ENTENTE EXPRESSIONS: (L. TO R.) MR. LLOYD GEORGE, MARSHAL
FOCH. M. BRIAND, AND SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND AND HIS
SIR HAMAR AND LADY GREENWOOD
1HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March u. 1921.- 31K
LADIES' NEWS.
O UR fashion-scheme for the coming months is
being rather more quickly developed than usual.
We are seeing dresses, coats, and hats, simultaneously,
instead of going head-foremost into spring clothing,
and looking as if we had not the courage of our
opinions sufficiently to be thorough. Doubtless
there is to lx? wide choice for us. and very charming
choice, too. If we choose short skirts, we shall
not do wrong, but they must be narrower than ever.
If we choose longer skirts, we shall be all right, but
they must be wide, even a little distended. With
all this license, there are yet laws, which, like those
of the Medes and Persians, may not be broken with¬
out seriously antedating our new clothes.
To me it seems that some of the smaller hats
for the coming campaign might be extra-ornamental
dish-cloths, so unconventionally are they treated
as Eastern turbans, bandages, pirates' caps, har¬
lequins’ caps, anything ! The point is they must have
some extraneous trimming Instead of upstanding,
it must fall over a shoulder, or down at the back, or
stick out at the sides, or lie along the sides. It may
be feather or fringe, or monkey fur or horse-hair, or
lots of other unlikely things, but it must he the
conspicuous feature of the modest-sized hat.
Fifty per cent, off summer prices looks good
from the purchaser's point of view. When it is that
point of reduction in the beautiful linen supplied by
Robinson and Cleaver, it seems almost too good to
be true. A White Sale is now proceeding at this
firm’s Linen Hall in Regent Street, and reductions
to that amount are being made in almost all depart¬
ments. Flax is lower in price now, but is still
scarce, and will pretty surely rise again. This,
therefore, is the time to buy Robinson and Cleaver’s
own make of high-class Irish linen. The sale wall
last another week.
Hunger is said to be the best sauce. 1 know a
better. It bears a charmed name—" The Pvtchley
Hunt Sauce.” It can be had from all gTocers and
Italian warehousemen. The recipe, held exclusively
by Reynard and Co., Liverpool, is of early-Victorian
origin. It was lost to the public for a long time,
and is now reintroduced, to the great pleasure of
the gastronomical expert, and of the plain man and
woman who enjoy a delightful combination of piquant
flavours and rich condiments.
There will be one of the very popular sales of
work at the Duchess of Somerset's house, 35 , Gros-
venor Square, on Tuesday and Wednesday, March
8 and 9 , in aid of the Invalid Kitchens of London,
which supply well-cooked and nutritious food to
poor folk in their own homes, often between dis¬
charge from hospital and return to work, and for
other well-known good causes. It is a good sale,
at which many things not found in shops are sold
at quite moderate prices. Queen Alexandra is much
A SMART AFTERNOON FROCK.
A brown duvetyn bodice with a lace vest, and a skirt of brown
charmeuae with knife pleated chiffon ruffles; the girdle » of
gold brocade ribbon. The dress comes from George Bernard.
Pkniograpk bv SktpsUmt.
interested, and usually attends it and makes many
purchases. Easter eggs will be a feature on the
flower-stall. At these sales, her Grace of Somerset
is always supported by many ladies of light and
leading. Admission is only half-a-crown, and every¬
one is made most welcome. A. E. L.
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
Paris.
OT long ago I had a conversation with an
American business man just back from Berlin
who was visiting Europe for the first time since the
great war. His impressions of the three capitals
he had visited—namely, London. Paris and Berlin__
were extremely interesting, and. for various reasons,
gave one msiderable food for reflection.
London, he said, was crying poverty, trade was
very bad. and everybody he met was talking
economy The Government’s wastefulness was the
main topic of conversation, and the general im¬
pression he brought away was that of a country
passing through a grave economic crisis. Arrived
in Paris, the same depressing story was to be heard
on all sides, and behind the brilliant lights of the
Boulevards, and the “window-dressing” of the smart
restaurants, theTe was no disguising the serious fact
that the country is in a had way financially, and
that economy is once again, as in London, the cry
of the day.
From Paris my friend went on to Berlin, from
whence he has just returned with strange impressions
of that city, the capital of the country conquered,
at such a sacrifice of human lives and unlimited
money, by the Allies. Never, he says, has he seen
such luxury, such gaiety, or such prosperity' ; here
at last is a flourishing town ; no talk of poverty
or retrenchment. No thought ol the bill that has
eventually to be met for those five years of devastation
is allowed to stem the tide of gaiety' or deprive the
citizens of one single luxury. The effect on the
visitor is quite extraordinary !
The net result of this European tour will be to
send our American friend back to his country with
the singular impression that the only prosperous
country is that of the vanquished nation—surely
a strange anomaly. And yet. supposing someone
long dead were to come to life to-day, and. hearing
for the first time of the Great European War. should
ask to be shown some proof of the victory over Germany
claimed by the Allies, what, for instance, could
one point to here in Paris to prove the truth of the
statement ?
Nowhere in this country can we turn for proof
of our hard-won Victory ; rather must we jour¬
ney to the Frontier, where the ravages of war
cease with startling abruptness, and travel through
the untouched enemy country’ to the banks of the
Rhine, where at last we can point to our Armies
of Occupation as final evidence that we are indeed
the victors we claim to be.
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LUJSTKA TED LONDON NEWS, March 3, 1«21
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS.
v-pHE experiments of Dr. Augustus Waller at the
1 Koval Institution last month left nothing to be
desired on the ground of clearness Starting with
the hypothesis that the emotions of the mind can
be detected bv the lessening of the electrical resistance
of the skin of the palms of the hands and the soles
of the feet, he proceeded to put an assistant, whom
he pronounced to be perfectly normal in this reflect
into a chair in sight of the audience and to connect
electrified metal plates held in the hands with two
Wheatstone bridges and a galvanometer m sue i
a wav as to produce a perfect balance. \Uien the
patient was subjected to an actual or threatened
prick with a pin. the resistance was lowered, the
balance disturbed, and the spot of light thrown by
the mirror of the galvanometer on the screen moved
along the scale accordingly. This new form of what
has been irreverently called " spot-hunting ” pleased
the audience enormously.
Dr. Waller, during the brief hour alloted to him.
had probably no time to explain the details of the
phenomenon, and one is. therefore, thrown back
on one’s own unaided intelligence for an explanation
of the physical part of the process. It seems, however,
that the most obvious explanation of what occurred
is that fear, with most persons, produces a more
or less slight perspiration ol sensitive surfaces like
the palms of the hands, and thus, by increasing the
conductive power of the skin, diminishes correspond¬
ingly the resistance to the current It is not surprising
to find that individuals differ considerably in this
respect, and Dr. Waller went so far as to divide
mankind into the three classes of normal. " imagina-
tives," and sensitives respectively, in which last
category he included spiritualistic mediums. Some¬
what unexpectedly, he seems to have measured the
extent of the reaction in these classes, not. as one
would have.expected, by the extent of the deflection
produced on the galvanometer scale, but by the part
of the body on which it manifested itself. Thus,
he said, with highly sensitive persons, the mirror was
deflected when the conducting plate was applied to
the arm or the upper part of the leg instead of to
the palm or sole, and so on.
The authority of Dr Waller, who is. among other
things, Director of the Physiological Laboratory of
London University, stands *o high that one hardly
dares to offer any criticisms on these experiments;
but a thing that struck one on witnessing them was
that only one emotion. fear, was experimented
with. This was, no doubt, due in part to the difficulty
of producing any other in a satisfactory way before
, Urge and enthusiastic audience ; but .t must be
that it would have been more convincing il *>">' °*
“uld have been used, il only by way ol control ^ hea
is perhaps the most primitive. »»d certainly the most
easily manifested, of all human emotions but there are
many others, such as joy. grief, anger doubt aa l 'ti
which plav a more important part in the life ol civdiscd
UNVEILED BY THE LORD MAYOR THE NEW PANEL
IN THE ROYAL EXCHANGE- * THE DESTRUCTION BY
FIRE OF THE SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE" (1838). BY
STANHOPE FORBES. R.A.
The panel, which was unveiled by ihe Lord Mayor in the Ambulatory
of the Royal Exchange on February 23. is the gift of the Royal Exchange
Assurance in commemoration of its Bi-centenary. The picture shows
the scene in Cornhitl during the burning of the second Royal Exchange,
on the night of January 10. 1838. The present building was opened
by Quuen Victoria six years later. The first Royai Exchange, opened
in 1569. was burnt in the Great Fire of I606.
man. and it would be most instructive to see how Dr.
Waller’s apparatus would respond to these. It is not
for a mere layman in such matters to suggest methods
to so experienced an experimenter as Dr. Waller,
but the alternate presentation of a real and fictitious
demand for income-tax might at the present crisis
be sufficient to produce all these emotions in turn.
This apart, however, there can be no doubt of
the extreme importance of the discovery, if the
emotions can be tested and measured as is now
suggested. It will, in the first place, go a long way
to remove the barrier, for a long time tottering,
which our ancestors set up between physics and
metaphysics, or, more popularly, between the seen
and the unseen. That some ol the emotions, when
sufficiently accentuated, translate themselves into
external action by trembling, stuttering, and so
on is. of course, an everyday experience; but if
all of them could be made to do so in a detectable
way. we should be a long step nearer to the Palace
of Truth. Not only could the malingerer, as Dr.
Waller himself suggested, be found out and made
to work, but the method might be used for the
detection of suspect criminals, and in time, perhaps,
might come to add another terror to cross-examination
in Courts of Law. But from this to the investigation
of the physical causes ol emotion we shall probably
not have fai to go, and we might then obtain a further
insight into the workings of the brain, of which Seflor
Kamon v Cajal’s discovery of the neurone afforded
us a first glimpse. We might even go further, and
do something towards clearing up the hitherto
unexplained difference lictween the brain of man
and that of the lower animals. Why. for instance,
should the first dawning of anger in the brain of
a dog cause the hair of his neck to lift perceptibly,
while in the human being it would only be shown
by the tightening of the muscles of the lips and a
certain intentness of the eyes r Yet this is only
one specimen of the problems to which Dr. Wallers
experiments might seem to suggest a solution— F. L.
Messrs. Berger’s advice to householders to Paint
Now." instead of waiting for the spring, would
benefit others besides themselves. For one thing,
it would, as they justly claim, help to reduce un¬
employment. They also point out that labour and
material would lie cheaper now than later on. while
better results would be obtained during the absence,
at this time of year, of dust, flies, and Mistering sun.
Messrs. Lewis Berger ami Sons, Ltd., of Homcrton.
London. E.u, arc the well-known makers of Berger
Paints, including colours, enamels, and varnishes.
They offer free colour schemes to suit data sub¬
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
It has been notified by the
Quarterly Car Ministry o{ Transmit that re-
Licenses. n ewals of quarterly car licenses
will be obtainable on filling up a short form at any
Money Order Office within the area in which the car
is usually kept. Arrangements are being made
so that these renewal licenses can be taken out within
any period from March 10 onward. Where no license
has been obtained for the period Jan. i—March 24 .
application must be made to the County Council
or County Borough Council within whose jurisdiction
the car-owner lives.
It looks as though some of us would lx . 1 able to
obtain license renewals before the original license
is issued at all 1 The organisation of the licensing
authorities appears to have completely broken down,
since there arc many motorists who paid their tax
during January and are still awaiting the license
which was to follow by post. The Ministry of
Transport granted a further period of grace—thus
again making a virtue of necessity— regarding the
display of the ticket-of-leave until the 14 th instant.
I.l'STRATEP LONDON NEWS. March .>._1021
_ if some of those who, through the failure of the
licensing arrangements, are not able to comply with
the law should chance to receive summonses for
their default. Is it certain that the Ministry of
Transport has power to instruct the police not to
prosecute under its own Order, once that has been
issued, and has become practically the law ? And
what happens if one should be convicted and fined
for failing to show the license one does not possess '
Is there a remedy against the licensing authority,
that is really the offender ? It seems to me that
there is only one certainty about the business, and
that is that the Ministry of Transport need not have
been in such an indecent hurry to get its powers.
At the suggestion of the Motor
A Fuel Economy Q wnfr w h, c h is providing sub-
stantial prizes, the Royal Auto¬
mobile Club will shortly carry out a series of very
interesting fuel economy tests. 1 he intention is that
on one day a series of exactly similar tests will be
carried out in various districts. The test will be one
purely of economy, and. while the prime idea is to
encourage the economical adjustment of an existing
carburettor, any form of appli¬
ance or accessory which, being
fitted to a car, achieves economy,
will not be debarred from the
test. The Club has not, of
course, lost sight of the fact that
by fitting an expensive accessory
it might lie possible to achieve
a monetary economy which
might be less in value than the
cost of fitting the accessory,
and, consequently, the Com¬
mittee of the Club, when
making the awards, will take
into consideration the outlay
involved in achieving the re¬
sults attained.
This seems to be a very
timely and necessary test. Motor
fuel, petrol and benzole alike,
costs a great deal of money
nowadays- much more than is
justified by the costs of pro¬
duction and distribution. We
are in the hands of a monopoly,
and the only way we can get
I «have not heard of any extension of this period, even at all is by using less fuel. 1 am perfectly certain
though, as I have said, there are still thousands that there is not one car in fifty which is giving its
of car-owners who have not seen their bits of blue maximum possible fuel economy. Taking a line
paper. At the moment of writing my own has not through my own car, by careful adjustment of the
arrived, and I am wondering what is going to happen carburettor and by the fitting and judicious use of a
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actors, to be sure, do wonders with their material
Miss Constance Collier puts colour and burlesque
vivacity into the part of a sort of adventuress!
heroine; Miss Mary Rorke gives us a refreshing
picture of warm-hearted motherhood, though a little I
uncertain in her Irish accent ; Miss Dorothy Tweedy
makes much of the humours of a Welsh maid ; an-
Mr Arthur Wontner struggles gallantly with the sell
made troubles of a marionette who is half-quixote,
half-cad. But even their skill cannot secure accept¬
ance for a preposterous plot. For what reasonable
person can stomach for a moment the craiy chivalry
of Sir Brian Dobree ? Having won a married woman's
affection, he calmly tells her of his inditlerence to her,
and of his plot against her to make her husband and
her rival happy. Incredible as is his brutality towards
one woman to help another, one could almost have
forgiven him this if, in agreeing to marry Mrs. Avenell,
he had not maintained his martyr air and had recog¬
nised even so late that she was worth all her stage
companions put together, were it only for her sense of
humour. Miss Collier brought out engagingly—nay,
fascinatingly—that side of her, and so, thanks to her
and her colleagues' acting, the premidre was not
without its compensations.
attractive than his owlish principal. But with the
appearance on the scene of an ingenue who falls in love
with the stranger, and mars the tableau in which he
arranges to compromise himself with his host s wife,
there enters a complication which has tempted the
author into deserting comedy for the sake of a
sentimental ending. Mr. Dennis Eadie is delightfully
easy as the hired co-respondent, but looks too much
a man of the world to have been fascinated by Miss
Stella Jesse's childish, amateurish ingenue. Mr. Nigel
Playfair gives a droll thumbnail sketch of the head
of a divorce agency ; Mr. Hubert Harben’s politician
strikes just the right note of priggishness ; and Miss
THE PLAYHOUSES.
•‘A SOCIAL CONVENIENCE.” AT THE ROYALTY.
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is kept consistently and as it were spontaneously
witty, and the humour of the situations proves as
telling as the wit, are all too rare a thing in the theatre
not to be accepted with gratitude w-hen provided as
in Captain Harwood’s new piece at the Royalty, " A
Social Convenience,” no matter what may come
afterwards. A dramatist who thus legitimately for
upwards of an hour evokes from his audience peals of
delighted laughter is too much of a public benefactor
to be reproached because he does not follow his stroke
through, and about half - way in his story changes
its key and plays for safety. Half a comedy is better,
vastly better, than none at all. Yet there can be no
harm in telling Mr. Harwood that his forte is the
comic, and that his weakness is sentimentality. His
idea of the gentleman co-respondent hired to deputise
for a politician who does not mind robbing a friend of
his wife, but objects to damaging his career by a
scandal, makes an exceedingly happy start, and no
less promising is the development which shows the
married woman in question finding the deputy more
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IN UNIFORM AND WITH MONOCLE : GENERAL VON SEECKT ENFORCING THE ALLIES DEMANDS ON GERMANY :
LEAVING AFTER THE FINAL CONFERENCE MARSHAL FOCH ; WITH GENERAL WEYGAND.
THE DISMISSAL OF THE GERMAN DELEGATES AFTER THEIR REJECTION OF THE ALLIES’ REPARATION TERMS:
THE CLOSE OF THE MEETING AT ST. JAMES’S PALACE.
OF THE MEETING
Conference at St. James’s Palace on the subject of reparations ended, on | i
to ° * ru P tur * the Allies and the German delegates, who declined
^ accept the conditions demanded. They left for Berlin on the following day.
q * ***** toolt steps to put in force the Ultimatum previously delivered to the
* rm * n *’ including the occupation of Duisburg, Ruhrort. and Dusseldorf Orders
were telegraphed by Marshal Foch, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and General
Maglinse, to the French, British, and Belgian troops on the Rhine, to proceed
with the occupation of the three towns. At the Conference, General von Seeckt,
the German Comrnander-in-Chief, wore uniform, and had the air and appear¬
ance of a typical Prussian officer.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 12. 1921.-326
T HE ceremonies of March n at Oxford add
to the Queen’s degrees that of D.C L. Her
Majesty already holds four academic distinctions ;
she is twice a Doctor of Music and twice an LL.D.
The two former were conferred in 1902 and 1903
by the Universities of Wales and of London
respectively ; the two latter in 1907 and 1920 by
Glasgow an I Edinburgh. The Oxford D.C.L.,
coming so soon after the admission of women to
full academic status at that University, bears un¬
mistakable significance, and may be held to ratify
an innovation much discussed. Queen Mary has
always been a friend to the higher education of
women, and is herself a student of philosophy,
taking, it has been said, special interest in the
works of Herbert Spencer.
Another interest of the
Queen's is reflected happily
in the first number of a new
quarterly, the Star and
Garter Magazine, conducted
by the patients and staff of
her Majesty's Home for
Incurably Disabled Ex-Ser¬
vice Men. During the re¬
building of the Star and
Garter at Richmond this
Red Cross institution has
been transferred to tem¬
porary premises at Sand-
gate. The periodical gives
a lively account of the re¬
moval—no easy task where
so many helpless patients,
were concerned — effected
without a hitch in a single
day. Every phase of life at
the hospital is represented
in the magazine, a very-
bright aflair, which promises
to fulfil admirably its in¬
tention of affording a vital
and enduring link between
the Home and its supporters
throughout the world. It is
good to know that surgical
treatment has improved
many cases at first believed
hopeless. The new journal¬
istic venture comes as a
timely reminder of war¬
worn soldiers and sailors,
many of whom must pass
the rest of their days in
hospital.
The ranks of ex-Service
men have been swelled lately
by a troop of another kind,
those Temporary Civil Ser¬
vants whom the broom of
national economy has swept
out of Whitehall. “ In the
clubs the young men’s talk
is all of jobs,” a more
fashionable counterpart to
the box-rattling of the un¬
employed on the street.
Literary ex - Temporaries
have at least one compensa¬
tion—a heightened appre¬
ciation of famous passages
in ‘Little Dorrit.” Many
men. who in normal times
could never have hoped to
see the Departmental Ma¬
chine from within, can now
read the Circumlocution
Office chapter with new
understanding.
official to official endures. In its general effect
the novelist’s picture is marvellously accurate.
Permanent officials might not see this, but the bird
of passage, who looked inside with an outsider’s
eyes, can bear fresh testimony to Dickens’s knack
of evolving essential truth, in the long run. from
his web of merely comical exaggerations.
Here, not inappropriately perhaps, one may
interpolate a note on the secret history of a new
London landmark. Early in the war, the building
designed as the headquarters of Agriculture and
Fisheries was handed over to the Ministry of
Munitions and rechristened ” Armament Build¬
ings,'’ these words being superimposed on the
THE WOMAN EXPLORER WHO HAS MAPPED THE LIBYAN DESERT: MRS. ROSITA FORBES,
WHO REACHED THE OASIS OF KUFRA.
Mrs. Rosita Forbes has just accomplished a remarkable exploit which entitles her to take rank as a notable explorer.
She has travelled from Cyrenaica to Egypt by an entirely new rate; has mapped hitherto unexplored districts;
and has visited Kufra. She is only the second European to reach this oasis, the headquarters of the Senussi, and,
to accomplish this, had to disguise herself as an Arab woman, taking the name of Sttt Khad ja. wearing Moslem
dress, speaking Arabic and reciting the Koran. She found the journey very perilous ; was chased by a robber band ;
nearly parched with thirst, and, on another occasion, almost starved. She discovered uncharted welis and made
the journey to Siwa by a waterless route never before followed by a European. Mrs. Forbes is well known to
readers of “ The Illustrated London News ” by reason of an article describing a previous journey, published in this
paper on August 7, J4, 21, and 28, 1920.- [P/n<lograph by MaUolm AtbuOin<A \
In justice, it must be admitted that the huge
leisure of the Tite Barnacles has been curtailed.
Hustle—incredible though it may seem—has
invaded Whitehall. Nowadays men (and women)
work there at high pressure, often putting in un¬
paid overtime to an extent that would give a good
trade-unionist an apoplexy. But certain features
of routine remain unchanged, and those who have
come to know bureaucracv at first hand realise
how accurate are many details of Arthur Clennam’s
visit to the Circumlocution Office. Gun-cleaning
is no longer practised in the State’s time, but the
ritual of Minutes, Files, and eternal reference from
proper domestic title already cut on the monolith
over the door. Recently, when the Department
of Husbandry and Pisciculture at length got
possession of its own offices, the temporary title,
“ Armament Buildings.” was removed, revealing
the original legend. But that—-” Board of Agri¬
culture and Fisheries "—was now out of date and
had to be chipped away. It seemed a great oppor¬
tunity for millennial symbolism to replace ” Arma¬
ment Buildings ” with ” Ploughshare House.” But
the Powers-that-Be did not rise to it, and the
fresh inscription merely records the erection of
the former Board into a full-fledged Ministry.
Judicial ignorance, that other enduring idio¬
syncrasy of office, has just been raised to the
sublime, most fittingly by the act of Mr. Justice
Darling. The learned Judge, it appears, was
moved in a recent trial to ask the question, ” Who is
Old Nick ? ” This leaves the Connie Gilchrist query,
hitherto the standard example, a mere ” also ran,"
most mild and excusable by contrast. Darling, J,,
so excellent in light verse, should not thus go back
on bis great colleague in that pleasant art. Thomas
Ingoldsby, who made Old Nick his very own.
But there is a further aggravation of culpa¬
bility. It was a professional lapse, a cut direct
to a legal brother, for (see ” The Lay of St. Cuth-
bert ”) ” Nick is pretty well
up in the laws.” Perhaps,
however. Sir Charles was
preoccupied with his Martial
Elegy on the Burial of the
Unknown Warrior, per¬
formed to music last week
at the Albert Hall.
One incident of these
past days, it is to be hoped,
will not become a legal pre¬
cedent—the use of hypnot¬
ism as a means of extract¬
ing admissions from accused
persons. Almost simultane¬
ously with the story of
hypnotic inquisition came
another of a condemned
prisoner respited because
he had committed murder
during a ” brain-storm.” If
one abnormal mental con¬
dition be an excuse, surely
another abnormal condition
should not afford condemna¬
tory evidence.
Only hypnotism, if even
that, could resolve the wist¬
ful and romantic question
posed in a letter written by
a French missionary in New
Caledonia to M. d’Andigne,
a member of the Paris
Municipality. This is no¬
thing more or less than the
starting of an inquiry into
the present whereabouts of
Joan of Arc’s armour. The
writer of the letter, a Lor-
rainer and devotee of the
Maid, has cherished for
half a century a poetical
dream that the armour, a
gilded suit, in which Joan
was taken prisoner at Com-
piegne, must have been con¬
veyed to London, and may
exist in some collection.
Nothing short of occult
means seems likely to help
the search. Those who be¬
lieve in such mysteries hold
that personal belongings do
retain some trace of their
owner's personality, and
that this is communicable
to the sensitive. But the
Quest of the Armour of this
Dead Lady must remain,
one fears, in the limbo of
forlorn vet charming fanta¬
sies. Where is the new
Francois Villon to write a
new Ikiiladc on this most
intriguing theme, although
it could only end with the same refrain as his song
of Roman Flora, Archippiade, Thais, Heloise, and
the rest ? ” Where are the snows of yesteryear ?
Tell me, whit r aim to-day inav hold,
Where shall we find, in hall or fane.
That armour of proof, enwroiiglit with gold,
Jeanne wore on the field of C oinpiegne,
In the hour that saw her fortune wane
And yielded her grace to a raptor’s jeer ?
Nav. quest not the treasure, for quest were vain
As to seek for the snows of yestervear !
So a Ballade might begin ; but any attempt
to imitate Maistre Francois is a hanging matter.
” May the Muse pardon us of her grace ! ” J D. - •
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PERSONALITIES OF
THE WEEK: PEOPLE IN THE
PUBLIC EYE.
LABOUR DEFEATS A MINI¬
STER : MR. J. WILSON, M.P
FOR DUDLEY.
THE LABOUR VICTORY AT
PENISTONE : ALDERMAN W
GILLIS M.P
ELECTED AN R.A. : SIR
JOHN LAVERY, THE FAMOUS
PAINTER
AN EMINENT DERMATOL¬
OGIST DEAD : THE LATE
DR. P. S. ABRAHAM
ELECTED AN R.A. EN¬
GRAVER : MR. WILLIAM
STRANG.
A LABOUR VICTORY AT KIRKCALDY :
MR. TOM KENNEDY, M.P., CHAIRED.
A COALITION VICTORY AT WOOLWICH :
CAPT. R. CEE, V.C., THE NEW MEMBER.
KILLED IN A SINN FEIN
AMBUSH THE LATE COL.
H. R. CUMMING. D.S.O.
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES :
^RESIDENT HARDING
LEFT) GREETED BY MR
W. J. BRYAN.
A PIONEER LARYNGOLOGIST
DEAD : THE LATE SIR FELIX
SEMON.
EX-SPEAKER, U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES : THE LATE
MR CHAMP CLARK.
A FAMOUS FRENCH
RECENTLY LECTURING IN I
M. PAUL LOYSON.
A RULER WHO DIED IN EXILE :
THE LATE KING NICHOLAS OF
MONTENEGRO
THE "UNCROWNED QUEEN OF
MESOPOTAMIA : MISS GERTRUDE
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Mr James Wilson (Labour) defeated Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen, the new Minister
® r griculture, in the by-election at Dudley. Alderman Gillis (Labour) headed
* in the Penistone by-election. Sir John Lavery has been elected a
D ° y * ^ c * demtc, * n - and Mr. William Strang a Royal Academician Engraver.
_ "*** S‘ mon Abraham was Dermatologist to the West London Hospi-
the h Mf T ° m Kennedy (Labour) defeated Sir Robert Lockhart (Co. Lib.) in
q* y election at Kirkcaldy.-Colonel-Commandant H. R. Cumming, Military
^overnor 0 f Kerry, was killed in an ambush near Clonbannin on March 5.-
I- • a * rwi ^* ma ** e l Harding took the oath as twenty-ninth President of the
1 eo States at Washington on March 4. He recently visited Mr. W. J.
J*. " Florida - -Captain R. Gee, V.C. (Co. Un.) defeated Mr. Ramsay
on (Labour) in the by-election at East Woolwich.-General Degoutte
is Commander-in-Chief of the Allied troops of Occupation at Mams. — —Sir Felix
Semon, the eminent throat specialist, died on March 1, aged 72. - Mr. Champ
Clark was formerly Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. -
M. Paul Hyacinthe Loyson, the famous French author, arranged to lecture at
the Institut Francois in South Kensington on March 10. On the idth he is to
be entertained to dinner at the Lyceum Club. The chair will be taken by Lady
Frazer, who has translated one of M. Loyson's books —" The Gods in Battle." -
Miss Gertrude Bell, a Staff Political Officer in Mesopotamia, will attend the
Conference regarding that country to be held in Egypt, with Mr. Churchill
present. King Nicholas of Montenegro died at Antibes on March 1. He war
buried at San Remo on March 4.-General Wood has succeeded General Crazier
(resigned) as Commandant of R.I.C. auxiliaries.
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DELHI; AESCHYLUS A
RUGGER
FAR AND NEAR: ROWING
Snort A.’cn Gtsuf
PHOTOGRAPHS BV C.S.. WalTKR BeNINGTOS.
IN TRAINING FOR THE VARSITY BOAT-RACE THF. CAMBRIDGE CREW PRACTISING AT MARLOW
: AGAMEMNON
ALACE
THE ORESTE1AN TRILOGY OF JESCHYLUS AT CAMBRIDGE
(MR. W. L. RUNCJMAN. TRINITYi ENTERING HIS t
BOUGHT AS A WELSH NATIONAL MEMORIAL . CRAIG-Y-NOS CASTLE
THE LATE MME. PATTI'S HOME.
THE ARMY v. RAF (STRIPED JERSEYS/ RUGGER" MATCH
HOT WORK IN A LOOSE •SCRUM.”
THE MI-CAREME CARNIVAL IN PARIS THE CAR OF THE QUEENS,
WITH A WOODEN-LEGGED POSTILION
>( the Cambridge crew shows deft to right* Messrs. H. O. C. Boret, A. G. W. Pen at
reman tie, P. H. G. H. S. Hartley (Stroke), and L. E. Stephens (Cox). The Oxford
. E. C. James, R. C. S. Lucas, G. O. Nickalls, S. Earl (Stroke), and W. H. Porritt
essed a remarkably fine production of the Oresteian trilogy of Aeschylus—the
in the original Greek, by members of the University. Nine performances were gi
excellent. —The Duke of Connaught inaugurated the two new representative lndir
General Lord Rawlinson is Commander-in-Chief in India.-The Welsh National Met
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONIX).\ NEWS, March 12, 192L—329
® CAMBRIDGE; MI-CAREME IN PARIS;
1 RrssF.u., Topical, Kill., and Farmnc.don Photo to.
GERMANS IN LONDON.
THE KING ENJOYS WATCHING “ RUGGER '* : HIS MAJESTY 'SECOND FROM LEFT,
AT THE ARMY v. R.A.F MATCH.
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SINCE RETURNED TO BERLIN AFTER REJECTING THE ALLIED DEMANDS :
DR. SIMONS AND OTHER GERMANS IN THE EMBANKMENT GARDENS.
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“ . ught Craig-y-Nos Castle, the seat of the late Baroness Cederstrom (formerly famous as Mme. Patti, the singer). - Mr. De Valera, the Sinn Fein leader, is said to have paid
At th ^ mtt t0 **'* ^ 0US * * n Wicklow, Craig Cliath (or Greystones) since his return from America, but, when a Pressman called there recently, was said to be ** not at home.” - -
the' r* * <1 ' C * r * me ("Hd-Lent) Carnival in Paris, twenty-three "Queens” rode in a decorated car. The Queen of Queens was Mile. Yvonne Beclu, a typist. - The King watched
Condon^C^ ^ ****** m *<ch between the Army and the Royal Air Force, at Queen’s Club, on March 5. The R.A.F. won by 26 points to 3 points.-The German delegates to the
front) h ° n erCnC * ' eJt <or Berlin °n March 8, after receiving the Allies’ announcement that the _:imatum would be enforced. Our photograph shows, from left to right (in
£ MT Bow, ‘ n ger, Dr. Simons, and Herr von Simson ; behind. Dr. Kep and a German dete-tive. On the front page of this number is a photograph of General von Seeckt,
Commander-in-Chief, who represented the War Ministry on the delegation.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12. 192L—330
LT> PICTURES"
as a title o! an
auction catalogue suggests
nothing or it suggests all.
It ia the ignis fatuus, the
Friar's lantern, or the
alluring Fata Morgana which lead errant
collectors into stray paths of art. Old
canvases, with their hall-mark of seeming age.
their bismuth evanishments, and their masterly
ineptitudes, mesmerise the umniriate, whose first
introduction into the world of pigment disturbs
their equilibrium. The world of art is so dilier-
ent from the Wool Exchange and Mincing Lane 1
Here is the halo of romance unknown in those
babels of commerce. The tyro is goaded into
action: behold him bidding for unknown Hol¬
beins. conglomerate Vandycks, and nebulous Lelys
and Knellers; but he dearly loves a Leader —
that is something he really appreciates. Monsieur
Jourdain. who spoke prose for forty years without
knowing it. is not dead.
So much for pictures in general. But of old
pictures in particular, the dispersal by Messrs.
Christie on March 4 of Mary Lady Carbery's col¬
lection from Castle Freke, Cork, falls into another
category. The portrait of Susan Lady Carbery
by Beecbey, standing on a terrace with a harp,
exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1794), sold
for 340 guineas. Nicholas Maes we know, with
his masterpieces at the Rijks Museum. Amsterdam,
and at the National Gallery. London (where
there are four). Here is a family group—the
interior of a Dutch chateau, with a gentleman,
his wife, and family, and through the open
window a view of the church of Dordrecht.
This is signed, and dated 1656, and brought
3000 guineas. Dirck Stoop misled Walpole by
his Christian name. Koderigo in Portuguese, or
Dirck or Thierry, which he used as he fancied,
and by the suggestion which the painter made
of a supposed brother Pieter. Walpole accordingly
made three men of him; but there is only one
Dirck Stoop, with free clouds and sky and quiver¬
ing motion. He outrivals Meissonier in romantic
posture; he suggests the freedom of the Dutch
colonials of the South African veldt in his wonder¬
ful horsemen ; and when he likes he can be the
George Morland of Holland without anyone sus¬
pecting it— as in the " Forge." with a farmer shoe¬
ing a white horse. Wilson's wonderful landscapes
went awry in his own day. but are acclaimed
nowadays. It was Vemct. the great French
painter, who told Wilson to study landscape. But
.his own generation neglected him, and he had to
solicit the post of librarian at the Royal Academy.
A Wilson is here oftered. a " I-ake Scene," with
boats and figures in the foreground ; and the com¬
position of Wilson is always quietly and dreamily
classic. It is as though the southern sun of Italy
had silently and nebulously illuminated some
haven of England wherein the painter might for
the moment catch that passing glimpse of poesie.
From the collection of Lord Kedesdale comes a
Guercino of the " Madonna and Child with the
Infant St. John." in a landscape. A Gierveldt
portrait of a gentleman is noticeable. Morland
came forward in a new guise to the general
collector. His canvas of " A View in the Isle of
Wight," with a wreck and figures landing salvage,
is Tumeresque in its outlook Morland's coast
scenes have a wonderful strength and beauty.
On the same day Messrs. F*uttick and Simpson
were selling Chinese porcelain, embroideries, and
A ROMNEY PORTRAIT COMINC UNDER THE HAMMER:
LADY NAPIER. WIFE OF THE SEVENTH BARON NAPIER.
Romnew’s portrait of Lady Napier will be included in the sale at
Christie's, on March 18, of Early Erelish Portraits and Wurks by Old
Masters, belonging to the late Sir William Clavering, Bt., together with
a number of important Italian pictures.
Bv r <mrU»v of Stmts. Christ*, Manson and WW».
A REYNOLDS COMING UNDER THE HAMMER:
THE PORTRAIT OF MISS EMELIA VANSITTART,
PAINTED IN 1773.
Miss Emelia Vaniittart was a daughter ol Mr. Henry Vansittart,
Governor of Bengal, and afterwards wife of Mr. Edward Parry,
Director of the East India Company. This portrait by Sir
Joshua Reynolds will be offered for sale at Christie's on March 18.
By CourUsy of Musn. Christ*, Mansius and M oods.
Chinese objects of art. the property of the late
Venerable Archdeacon Gray, and other properties.
The cover for a state umbrella embroidered with
the Immortals standing on waves among clouds
with dragons and phtvnix, and a pair of clmsonnt-
enamel figures of quails, were noticeable ; these
latter were on the original wood stand, carved as
a fruit-tree. Two fine cylindrical vases at once
claimed the attention of connoisseurs, painted with
scenes with the Chinese Empress and attendants in
a summer-house. They were K ang hsi porcelain.
Such examples as these are becoming
rarer, and collectors must not tarry.
A three days' sale of books by
Messrs. Sotheby on March 14, 15, and
16 included a collection of English
plays of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. There are first editions of
Drayton’s" Polyolbion,” 1613 ; " Para¬
dise Lost,” 1GO8 ; Oliver Goldsmith’s
" Citizen of the World," two vols.,
Dublin. 1762 — an unknown and unre¬
corded edition. The same firm on
March 17 and 18 are selling books from
the library of Mr. J. P. Heseltine. The
" Memoirs of Casanova," for the first
time translated into English, twelve
vols.. suggests the thought that Thack¬
eray liberally used these memoirs to
build up his fascinating history of
" Barry Lyndon.” that Irish adven¬
turer and card-sharper. There are
quaint Bible pictures, 294 wood-cuts
by Petit Bernard, printed at Lyons
in 1553, the first edition in English.
Who reads Anthony Trollope nowa¬
days ? Here are first editions of his
" Last Chronicles of Barset," and
others. In the first complete edition
of Homer's Iliad, by Chapman, circa
1612. one's thoughts go to John Keats,
the young poet who was fascinated in
dipping into this volume.
A great sale-making precedent in
prices of primitive pictures and early
English portraits is that of Messrs.
Christie's on March 18, being the dis¬
persal of the collections of the late
Mr. J. F. Austen and of the late
Sir William A. Clavering, Bt.. and
of others. One may
hesitate between a
Morland " Keeper and 1
Poachers " or a Pemgino
" Madonna." A Cuyp por¬
trait of Admiral Van Tromp*
may be set against a Gainsborough por¬
trait of an " Officer of the 4th Regiment
of Foot.” in scarlet military coat, standing on a sea¬
shore. A fine Hoppner comes to the front in the
portrait of Charles. Duke of Richmond, in scarlet
military uniform, wearing the Order of the Garter.
It has a good pedigree, being from the collection
of Mr. T. Baring, and having been exhibited at
the New Gallery in 189^-1900. A Raeburn portrait
of John Home is interesting. He was a minister
and a dramatist, the author of " Douglas," which
prompted some of his compatriots to exclaim
" Whaur 's your Wullie Shakespeare noo ? " He
fought in the Royal Army in the rebellion in 1745.
and was taken prisoner at Falkirk.
A Reynolds portrait of Miss F'melia Vansittart,
daughter of the Governor of Bengal, was painted in
1773. and represents the sitter in brown dress with
blue riband in her hair, holding a pet spaniel. Another
Reynolds portrait is Mrs. Nisbet as Circe, in white
muslin dress, with panther by her side, with land¬
scape background. Two Ikitticellis. one " The
Nativity," and the other the " Virgin and Child
with Saints," will not go unchallenged by the
cognoscenti. The interesting " Fight between the
Centaurs and the Lapithae,” by Bartolommeo
di Giovanni, has been exhibited at Burlington
House and the New Gallery, as has also Filippo
Lippi's " Madonna and Child Enthroned with
Saints." where Renaissance art is exuberant with its
details of costume. " The Clavering Children." by
Romney, painted in 1777, shows the painter dis¬
engaged from his Lady Hamilton series; at the
same time, it indicates where certain modern
portraitists have obtained their freedom of air and
space, the leaping hound, and the windy heath.
Romney's " Lady Napier," an austere dame, was
an ordinary sitter. But Romney had his thoughts
elsewhere ; the cabinet-maker came to London and
never went back to his wife in Westmorland for
thirty-seven years. " This country wife would ruin
everything. How could I have her here and keep
her bottled up. and how could 1 present her ?
Fancy Lady Hamilton having a talk with her !
Fancy me, with these deep, classic, thronging con¬
ceptions, Titanic glimpses of nature and the
passions, presenting a missus who says ‘ Yes, Mum,’
and ’ No, Mum.’ and calls me ‘ our George ’ I ”
But his wife nursed him till he died, and Lady
Hamilton died in a garret at Boulogne. Such is
Fate. But Romney stands as the painter of
Lady Hamilton always, and one recalls Brown¬
ing's "Time has its Revenges." Remembering
all and forgiving all to the artistic temperament,
we forget the human and linger over the divine.
AN OPEN - AIR PHASE OF ROMNEY S ART:
"THE CLAVERING CHILDREN." PAINTED IN 1777.
This picture was also in (he collection of Sir William Clawing, and
will come up for sale at Christie's on the 18th. The two children
are Thomas John and Catherine Mary Claverine. The boy succeeded
to the title as eighth Baronet. The girl died unmarried in 1785.
flv fowrVsv nf \tr\sr*. f'Untiu, M<tn%on <•***/ Wonds.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12, 1921- 331
An Accident to the World's Largest Flying-Boat:
The Giant Gaproni Seaplane .
DAMAGED DURING HER SECOND TRIAL FLIGHT ON LAKE MAGGIORE : THE MONSTER CAPRONI SEAPLANE •• NINEPLANNEN,”
DESIGNED TO CARRY ONE HUNDRED PASSENGERS.
The new giant Caproni seaplane, whose construction has taken a year of secret
work, made her first trial flight over Lake Maggiore on March 2, carrying only
pilots and i| tons of ballast. She rose to a height of 21 feet, and flew for
about 400 yards. During the second trial flight on March 4, something went
wrong, and the seaplane alighted badly, damaging the central keel and under- |
parts. The crew were not injured. The machine, which is called the
“ Nineplannen," is at present the largest flying-boat in the world. Her total
weight is 30 tons, and she is driven by eight 400-h.p. Liberty motors. The
wing-span is 130 feet. A still larger seaplane has been ordered from the
Caproni Brothers for the United States Navy Department— {Photookai-h iiv G.P.A.J
The Fabled Home of the Virgin Destroyed by Fire: The Holy House of Loreto .
SAID TO HAVE BEEN MIRACULOUSLY TRANSPORTED FROM NAZARETH TO ITALY : ONCE BELIEVED TO BE THE WORK OF ST. LUKE : THE
THE HOLY HOUSE OF LORETO. WITH THE FAMOUS "VIRGIN” OVER THE ALTAR. STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD NOW DESTROYED
A fire occurred on the night of February 23 in the Santa Casa, or Holy House,
*n the famous basilica at Loreto, on the Adriatic coast. The whole interior of
the Holy House was destroyed, including the famous wooden statue of the Madonna
and Child over the altar. Legend ascribed the figure to St. Luke. The body
wore a rich robe, covered with gold, silver, and jewels. The Holy House was
believed to have been the Virgin’s home at Nazareth, miraculously carried to
Italy after the Saracen conquest of Palestine in the thirteenth century. It stood
in the middle of the church, enclosed in a square marble casing. The church
itself was not damaged by the fire. The fire was apparently caused by a short
circuit in the electric-lighting apparatus recently installed, but it has since been
reported that the Bishop of Loreto received warning last January that criminals
intended to set fire to the sanctuary by bombs.
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
-
fi> E. B. OSBORN .
| N “ Notes on Life
and Letters ’*
(Dent ; 9s. net), Mr. Joseph
Conrad, though he compares
this collecting of more or less
fugitive papers to a process
of tidying up. remains always, and in all places,
the master of a pellucid and precise style.
We have him here in many an attitude (but
never in a platitude) : as critic, as statesman,
as sailorman, as dispenser of reminiscences, as
controversialist with or without the gloves on.
“ The onlv thing that will not he found amongst
A FAMOUS FINNISH COMPOSER WHO HAS BEEN CONDUCTING
AT QUEEN’S HALL: M. JEAN SIBELIUS.
M Sibelius recently made his first public appearance in England as a
conductor at the Queen’s Hall, where his Fifth Symphony was heard for
the first time here. He has since conducted other works of his at the
same hall, including the Symphonic Poem, ” Les Ocifamdes. Vaise
Lyrique. and Elegie from the "King Christian II." Suite. His Fin-
landia ” was forbidden in Finland duiing the Russian r~ime there, as
it Mined patriotic feeling.- by Breitkohf and Har'el ]
those Figures and Things that have passed away,”
he says in his prefatory note. ” is Conrad en
pantoufles . . . Schlafroch und Pantofteln! Not
that ! Never.” And he goes on to liken himself
to a certain South American general who used to
say that no emergency of war or peace had ever
found him ” with his boots off.” Indeed, we never
catch him for a moment in the literary equivalent
of dressing-gown and bedroom slippers, though he
does not don a Court suit to write in, as Hadyn did.
Yet English is only his adopted tongue, and thirty-
seven years ago, when he wrote it for the first
time (in a letter asking for a berth as able seaman),
he could onlv speak it so as to produce ** a series
of vocal sounds which must have borne sufficient
resemblance to the phonetics of English speech.”
Yet in the impeccable precision of his style, the
words fitting the thought like a glove its hand, I
sometimes seem to catch a faint suggestion of
a brilliant yet sound scholar translating out of
his own language. There is at times, in Mr.
Conrad’s incomparable English, a slight sense of
detachment and disinterestedness, as though an
artist were standing away from his picture and
looking at it critically. But never do you note
in his work those traces and touches of the exotic
which arc characteristic of nearly all Anglo-Irish
poets and prose-writers. Ireland is far more alien
to English mentality than Poland. And one proof
of this assertion is to be found in Mr. Conrad s
•• Crime of Partition ” (one of three articles on
Poland here reprinted), which reminds us that,
in all the long and lamentable history of Polish
oppr ssion, only one shot has ever been fired that
was not in battle—only one ! And the man who
fired it in Paris at the Emperor Alexander II. was
but an individual connected with no organisation,
representing no shade of Polish opinion.
always life with Mr. Conrad ; never a bright and
remote and other-worldly sphere like the Moon
slowly climbing among the stars to her ghostly
noon. When discussing such a practical matter
as the *• Protection of Ocean Liners.” he is a man
whose life has been all action, a lile of unceasing
vigilance in the presence of the strong and insatiate
sea. It is his sense of actuality as to what it truly
is—not a mechanism nor a block-universe, but a
profound and tide-racked ocean — which lends
the quality of truth touched with mystery to his
novels (also he is a great story-teller) and makes
his criticism something more even than a minor
art. Here is his definition of the novel¬
ist’s function -
In truth everv novelist must begin hy
creating for himself x world, great or little, in
which he can honestly lielieve. This world
cannot lie made otherwise than in his own
image ; it is fated to remain individual and a
little mvsterious, and yet it must resemble
something already familiar to the experience,
the thoughts and the sensations of his readers.
\t the heart of fiction, even the least worthy
of the name, some sort of truth can be
found—if only the truth of a childish thea¬
trical ardour in the game of life, as in the
novels of Dumas the father. But the fair
truth of human delicacy can 1** found in
Mr. Henrv James’s novels; and the comical,
appalling truth of human rapacity let loose
among the spoils of existence lives in the
monstrous world created by Balzac.
In the siccutn lumen of this definition,
Mr. Conrad reviews Alphonse Daudet, Guy
de Maupassant. Anatole France, Stephen
Crane, and Turgenev—and it is in Tur¬
genev’s present fate, as compared with
that of the convulsed, terror-haunted
Dostoievski (who does seem just now to
reflect the shaken and unbalanced world
of to day) that he sees the tragical comedy
of the literary life. More successfully than
any other modern novelist (excepting,
perhaps, Tchehov) Turgenev has tried to
see the world of men as it is and to see
it whole. Yet he is to-day the least con¬
sidered of the greater Rus¬
sian novelists, and this sad
truth causes Mr. Conrad
to declare (addressing Mr.
Edward Garnett, whose
” study ” of Turgenev is an
invaluable book) “ if you
had Antinous himself in a
booth of the world’s fair,
and killed yourself in pro¬
testing his soul was as fair
as his body, you wouldn’t
get one per cent, of the crowd
struggling next door for a sight
of the Double-headed Nightingale
or of some weak - kneed giant
grinning through a horse-collar.”
It is true ; the truly great novel¬
ists “ sup late." as I^indor said
of himself.
as I said here some
time ago, is the like¬
liest of all the younger
writers to come sedond to Mr.
Conrad, and his new novel,
"The Black Diamond ”
(Collins Sons ; 7s. 6d. net) shows a distinct gain
in scope and power, especially in the quick por¬
traiture of women. He still seems to hover
between pure realism and the bright fantasy
of his earlier work, the graces of which he
still retains. Reserve, without loss of frank¬
ness, is a Conradcsquc quality in his admir¬
able picture of the miner's life of work and
play, whence the noble nature of Abner Fel¬
lows emerges so impressively. If only he is not
tempted into that ” groovmess ” so amply re¬
warded by the British public—Mr. W. J. Locke,
whose new story “ The Mountebank ” (Lane ;
7s. 6d. net), gives us a hero of pleasing irrespon¬
sibility, might have been Meredith’s successor
but for the temptation—Mr. Brett-Young will
justify our highest hopes.
A little orgy of novel-reading has renewed two
old literary friendships. ” She and Allan
(Hutchinson ; 8s. 6d. net), by H. Rider Haggard,
brings two of the protagonists of romance, Ayesha
and Umslopogaas. into juxtaposition in a moving
yam of mysterious adventure. ” She-who-must-be-
obeved ’’ is still the half-divine, half-malign half¬
goddess (it appears both Aphrodite and Isis cursed
her !), L’mslojiogaas meets a giant worthy of his
axe, and Allan Quatermain is the leader of men
he was aforetime. ” Dodo Wonders ” (Hutchin¬
son ; 8s. 6d. net) did not please me so much, for
Dodo in her fifty-fifth year is irresponsible with
an effort, and her doings have degenerated into
a sort of brisk facetiousness. But " H agar’s
Hoard ” (He nemann ; 8s. 6d. net), by George
Kibbe Turner, a new American novelist, is an
extraordinary achievement, with its dreadful pic¬
ture of Memphis in the Southern States ravaged
by the Plague (a virulent form of yellow fever,
perhaps), and deserted by its whole population.
It is not possible to place
“ Why We Should Read -”
(Grant Richards; qs. net), by S.
P. B. Main, in the same category
as Mr. Conrad’s book of views
and reviews. Yet Mr. Mais has a
fine and contagious enthusiasm,
and, if we think him a less re¬
liable guide to the comparative
merits of Dostoievski than Mr.
Edward Garnett, there is no deny¬
ing that his appreciations are
just- and none the worse. I think,
for leaning to the side of poetic
justice ! I could forgive him mam-
more sins of commission and omis¬
sion than he is likely to commit,
for his commendation of the stories
of Mr. E. C. Booth (the Thomas
Hardy of Yorkshire), and of the
poetry of Mr. . Francis Brctt-
Youngs whose ” Prothalamium "
beginning—
When the evening came my love
said to me :
Let us go into the garden now that
the sky is cool.
The garden of black hellebore and rosemary,
Where wild woodruff spills in a milky pool,
The Pole turned artist is. like M. Paderewski,
•Aiwavs a man of action. That is why literature is
is worthy to be set with Meredith’s " Love in the
Valley ” as a companion piece. Mr. Brett-Young.
A NOTED 3AR1T0NE HEARD RECENTLY AT STEINWAY HALL:
MR. DE CARO.
Mr. de Caro, the well-known baritone. gave a successful concert at Steinway Hal'
March 4. He was heard in several operatic numbers, and also read passages r
his book, "The Art of Singing,’’ demonstrating their meaning.
Photograph by Hana.
Mr. Turner’s descriptions have a haunting power
that recalls the Thucvdidean picture of the plague
at Athens. It is the most enthralling story wo
have had for a long time from an American ban
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 12. 1921 —333
A BRITISH AIR-SERVICE STARVED OUT: SUBSIDISED FRENCH
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST IN PARIS. BRYAN DE GRINEAU.
RIVALS.
** BRms H PILOTS OUT OF WORK AT LE BOURGET : EXAMINING THE ATMOSPHERIC
CHART FOR THE LAST TIME.
2. THE LAST CROSS-CHANNEL MAILS CARRIED IN A BRITISH MACHINE : TAKING
THEM ABOARD A HANDLEY-PAGE.
For lack of timely financial support from the Government, which would have
enabled them to meet competition from the heavily subsidised French machines,
** essrs - Handley Page were compelled recently to discontinue their cross-Channel
«»r service between London and Paris. What has been Britain’s loss is France's
opportunity, for the French Government, apparently, has greater faith in the
national value of commercial flying, and is prepared to spend more money in
3. A FRENCH PARIS - LONDON AIR SERVICE OUSTS THE BRITISH : A FARMAN
»GOLIATH ” ARRIVING AT LE BOURGET WITH MAILS FROM LONDON.
4. THE LAST BRITISH CROSS-CHANNEL FLIGHT WITH THE MAILS : A HANDLEY-PAGE
LEAVING LE BOURGET FOR LONDON.
fostering it. The British Air Estimates provide for a future subsidy of £6o,ooo,
but the help did not come in time, and meanwhile the British service has had
to stop. Mr. Churchill, in introducing the Estimates on March i, promised
the immediate establishment of a Committee to discuss the subject, but this was
cold comfort, most airmen thinking that aviation has suffered enough from
Committees already. -{Dratrtngs Copyrighted in the lulled Slates and Canada .)
334—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 12, 1921.
THE PRINCE OF WALES’S FIRST POINT-TO-POINT: H.R.H.! Tl
Phot«w;raphs by Sport and General, Newspaph I !m»
FOLLOWED BY AN ADMIRING CROWD : THE PRINCE RIDES TO THE START.
BEFORE BEING WEIGHED IN: THE PRINCE
WITH LORD DALMENY.
RIDING IN THE GRENADIER GUARDS' POINT-TO-POINT
THE PRINCE TAKING A FENCE.
AFTER FALLING AT
The Prince of Wales is a keen rider, as he showed in Australia during his tour. Since his return he has done a good deal of hunting. On March 4 he took par ,
time, in a point-to-point race at the meeting held at Warden Hill by the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards. The Prince, mounted on his gelding, Pet Dog, ro
Grenadier Guards’ race for Lord Manners’ Cup, and, although he fell at the second fence, came in third out of a field of sixteen. He was delighted with his first
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12, 1921.—335
HU THIRD, after a fall, in
Itl.lfSTRATtONS. FaRRINDDON PHOTO Co.. AND C.N.
THE GRENADIER GUARDS’ RACE.
* 10 Point racing;, and made light of his fall, which fortunately caused no injury. The winner of the race was Lord Dalkeith, and Lord Henry Seymour was second.
j.* r4Ce the ^‘nce walked over the course. He had arranged to change at a farm, but as there was not time to do so, he changed in his motor-car instead. He
v is seen __
tending at the door of the car in the third photograph from the right in the upper row.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12. 1921—33d
Wonders of dtfle-Knouin Central Africa.
No. II.-BLOODTH/RSTY “ CORONATION " CEREMONIES ONCE PRACTISED IN BUNYORO.
By the Rev. JOHN ROSCOE ..
N ’O king might die a natural death from
senile decay or .from sickness ; when the
king was growing old, or was seriously ill, it was
his duty to end his life, which was usually done
by poisoning himself. The medicine man attached
to the royal residence kept the drugs at hand,
and, when commanded, he prepared the potion
which in a
few moments
ended the
monarch’s life.
It was not
permissible for
the people to
speak of the
late king as
dead : he was
alluded to as
having passed
into another
place of exist¬
ence.
When the
king died, it
was the duty
of the prime
chief to have
the body
stitched in a
cow-hide at
once ; and the
death was
kept secret
until arrange¬
ments were
made’ in the
royal household for the inevitable war which must
follow. Princes and princesses were removed to
a distance, and other property was secured. For
a few days the sacred cows were milked as
though for the king; a particular royal spear
was placed in the throne-room when the king
was absent during the milking; and the milk
was brought in as though the king had only
become indisposed. When the death was an¬
nounced, a cowman, from the number of those
who milked the sacred cows, was told to mount
a royal hut with a pot of milk from the king’s
cows ; this he raised above his head and shouted :
" The king has gone : who will drink the milk ? ”
He then dashed the pot to the ground, smashing
it and spilling the milk. When he descended
from the hut, he was seized by the soldiers and
strangled, and his body was cast out of the
enclosure.
At the news of the king’s death, rival
princes, aspirants for the throne, ran to arms,
and men took sides
and fought for their
favourite prince.
The guild of chiefs
assembled and kept
guard over the body
of the dead king until
the war ended. For
days, sometimes for
months, the war con¬
tinued until the rivals
were killed, leaving
one only to take the
throne. Sometimes
several princes as¬
pired to the throne,
and each fought with
his army, and as one
fell, his followers
joined one of the
other princes, and
augmented his fight¬
ing force, and the war
continued until all
the princes had fallen
in battle, leaving one
prince only. When
the victorious prince
had finished the fight¬
ing, he came and
claimed the body of
his father, and took
it to be buried in a
part of the country
to which the kings
were taken for interment, and where their temples
continued to be kept in good preservation.
The tomb, or, as it became, the temple, was
a large conical hut built after the pattern of
the throne-room, and inside was a large pit
dug to receive the body. When the pit was
dug, it was lined with cow-skins, and had a
bed in the middle made of bark-cloths until
a height of two feet was attained ; upon this
the body was laid. Two favourite wives placed
the body in position and reverently covered
it with one or two bark-cloths. When these
wives had arranged the bed neatly they took
their places, one on each side of the body,
raised the bark cloth and lay down beside
the corpse, covering themselves as though in
bed. The grave was then filled with bark-
cloths, and the
widows were left
to die from suf¬
focation or from
hunger. No earth
was put upon the
grave ; bark-cloths
alone filled the
cavity, and a mound
of them was formed
over the grave.
This grave was
guarded by widows,
who were chosen to
come and live there
under the super¬
vision of the prime
chief.
The ceremonial cleansing after the funeral
was elaborate, the first part being performed by
a princess chosen by the new king. For this
ceremony she stood with her eyes closed and
her left hand over them ; in front of her stood
the king with the princes, princesses, and people ;
behind them were ranged herds of cattle. A
man with a bowl of medicated water and a
bunch of herbs now came, who handed to the
princess the bunch of herbs with which she
sprinkled first the king and people, then thr
cattle ; finally she sprinkled the fluid over the
country, turning to the four quarters of the
globe. With the last wave of her arm she
opened her eyes saying, ’’ I see such a country ”;
this became her possession to which she went
to live and die, because she must not see the
king again.
After this ceremony the prime chief per¬
suaded a child prince to sit on the throne as
king. He told him the princes and people
wished him to reign ; when he was seated, the
real king and chiefs brought presents of cattle
and congratulated him. The prime chief then
stepped forward to the real king and asked
him for his present ; and when the king said
The real king then pretended to be angry
and went away rapidly, whereupon the prime
chief turned to the make-believe king, say¬
ing, ’’ Let us flee, he has gone to collect an
army.” He then took the young prince to
the back of the throne-room and strangled him,
and the real king came and took his seat on
the throne.
From time to time offerings of cattle were
made to the de¬
parted king, when
the reigning king
wished to consult
him upon poli¬
tical points. There
was a priest with
a medium in con¬
stant attendance
upon the king in
the temple, holding
communication with
him.
Once each year
there was a special
ceremony when the
dead king was said
to be reincarnated :
a man, chosen from
a special clan, was
brought and, for a
week, reigned as
king, dispensing his
favours to the people
who assembled for
the ceremony.
At the end of
the week this make-
believe king was
taken to the back
of the temple and
strangled by the
priest.
THE NEW ORDER IN BUNYORO: THE PRESENT KING WITH MEMBERS OF HIS MODERN PARLIAMENT.
AND SOLDIERS IN UNIFORM. —{Photograph by the Rev. John Rou*x.\
A “ TRINCULO ’’ OF UGANDA:
THE BUFFOON, OR COURT
JESTER, OF THE KING OF
BUNYORO.
Photograph by the Her John Roscoe.
After the funeral,
numbers of cows
were killed, and a
feast was made for
the men who had
taken part in the
interment. The
spirits of the cows
were supposed to go to form the herd of the
king in the other world, while the men who
took part • in this ceremony feasted as in the
presence of the dead king.
HIS COUNCIL.—{Photograph bv (he Ra •. John Roscoe.)
he had given his gift to the rightful person
on the throne, the prime chief pushed him
gently, as in' anger, saying ” Give me mine
also.”
MODERN PROCEDURE INTRODUCED INTO A NATIVE AFRICAN COURT: THE KING
OF BUNYORO WITH
llJ.rSTRATEl*
I-OX DUN NEWS. March 12. 1921— Xi7
WHERE KINGS NEVER DIED
NATURALLY: ROYAL STATE
IN BUNYORO.
ard quivers full of arrows.
WEARING THEIR CROWNS. FALSE BEARDS. AND ROBES AS ON OLD-TIME
STATE OCCASIONS: A KING AND CHIEFS.
COVERED WITH LION AND LEOPARD SKINS. AND STANDING ON A WHITE
COWSKiN : THE THRONE OF BUNYORO.
A ROYAL MODE OF TRAVEL IN BUNYORO : A LITTER
USED BY FAT PRINCES AND PRINCESSES.
n the opposite page the Rer. John Roscoe, the well - known explorer, who
eon ucted the Mackie Ethnological Expedition in Central Africa, gives a further
instalment of his deeply interesting account of old-time native customs in the
unyoro district of Uganda, begun in our last issue, in which he described the
ceremonies of the New Moon. Here he relates the remarkable procedure that
ormerly accompanied the death of a king (who usually committed suicide by
poison), the inevitable war that ensued between rival princes, and the blood¬
thirsty ceremonies connected with the inauguration oi the victor aa the new
king. These old barbaric rites have given way before the spread of Western
ideas and Christianity. Regarding the Erst (top left) illustration above, Mr.
Roscoe writes: "The litter in which people are carried is used by the better-
class ‘ pastorals,' who are either too fat to walk, as in the case of some women,
or are wealthy enough to employ slaves, as in the case of better-class cow-men.
The litter photographed belonged to a prince."
338—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12, 1921
DESTINED TO BE STRANGLED AFTER A WEEK’S “REIGN”; A
Dravn by A. Forestier, from MaTOUiI Su?r
THE SHAM KING DISPENSING LARGESSE OF BEER, MILK, AND PLANTAINS TO
hings in Bunyoro, now replaced by more enlightened practices, the passing of a king, as the Rev. John Roscoe records in his
r the monarch himself, when too old or ill for his post, burial alive for his two favourite wives, and death by strangling
the ceremonies inaugurating his successor, who obtained the throne by war witfe rival princes. .But that was not the en<
o time,” we read, “ offerings of cattle were made to the departed king, when the reigning king wished to consult him u
im in constant attendance upon the king in the temple, holding communication with him. Once each year there was held a
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, M
arch 12. 1921.—339
“REItlA MAKE-BELIEVE KING “REINCARNATING” A DEAD KING.
KT,! *. Supplied by the Rev. John Roscoe.
grateful SUBJECTS: AN ANNUAL CEREMONY FORMERLY HELD IN BUNYORO.
king was said to b« reincarnated : a man, chosen Irom a special clan, was brought and for a week reigned as king, dispensing his favours to the people who assembled for
m>w; em ° ny - en< l of the week this make-believe king- was taken to the back of the temple and strangled by the priest." In the drawing the spurious king is seen
of his^f 11 * 6 °* ^ seven days’ royalty by exercising all royal privileges without restraint. Here he is sitting on the throne in the royal hut, and in the act of making gifts to some
. subjects assembled round him. His minister watches over the proceedings while the gifts are carried away. They consist of beer, milk, and plantains. As
**ch man receives a
gift, the assembly thanks the king by joining hands as in the act of prayer, but lifting them to the left side of the face.— [Copyright* in tht l'l
1921.—340
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AFRICAN CARVING IN IVORY:
A MASK ((SIXTEENTH CEN-
TURY). WITH A FRINGE OF
PORTUGUESE HEADS.
By CoufUsy uf ike HrUttM Museum.
T HE art of
statuary,
both by sculp¬
ture and other
methods, such as
wood-carving and
earthenware, has
taken many
forms in different
climes and ages.
On this page,
and in the colour
reproductions op¬
posite, we show
examples from
six different
sources, ranging
from Egyptian
and Minoan cul¬
ture 3000 years
ago to African
life of compara¬
tively recent
date.
One of the
most interesting characteristics of ancient Egyptian
art is the fact that Egyptian sculptors usually
endeavoured, when making a statue of any
particular person, to represent the heads and
faces of their human subjects as they really
were in life. The body, arms, and legs are
entirely conventional (though exceptions to this
rule, as in the portrait-figures of dwarfs, are
known), but the head is really a portrait. We
know this, apart from the obvious characterisation
of the majority of heads, from the speaking resem¬
blance which the portrait-statues of Kings such as
Seti I. or Kameses II. bear to their actual mummies
in the Cairo Museum. The famous stone statues
of the Pyramid builders, Khafra and Menkaura,
and the bronze figure of Pepi I., in the same
museum, show jhis unmistakably as the regular
practice as early as 3000-2700 b.c., and many
obvious portrait - figures of private persons are
known of the same early period.
One of these is the coloured statue, rather
larger than life, of the noble Ankheftka, in the
British Museum (illustrated opposite), the face of
which, perfectly preserved, is evidently
a speaking portrait. The figure is in
white limestone, with the face and
body coloured red, and the wig black,
leaving the natural stone for the white
waist-cloth. Later in date is the
well-known colossal head (here illus¬
trated) of King Amenhotep Ilf., of
the XVIIIth Dynasty (about 1400
B.c.), in red quartzite, one of the
greatest treasures of the British
Museum. The fact that the sculp¬
tured representation of the false beard,
which the Kings wore as part of
their costume, has been broken oft.
enables us to appreciate more fully
than we otherwise could the truth of
the portrait. The colossal statue to
which this head belonged was set up
in one of the temples at Thebes.
This skill in portraiture was never
rivalled bv the sculptors of other
nations till the Greek period. The
Assyrians represented their Kings as
all exactly alike, without any attempt
at individuality. We are, therefore,
justified in regarding portraiture as
the most striking feature of ancient
Egyptian sculpture.
Sculpture of the Minoan period,
that brilliant age which was first
known as Mycen;ean. is extremely
rare. But our few examples show
that this form of art was boldly prac¬
tised in prehistoric Greece, and the
excavators may at any time reveal
new works of unforeseen originality.
Yet none is likely to be more aston¬
ishing than the Cretan Snake Goddess
and her votaries. These figures, one
of which is shown opposite, were
found by Sir Arthur Evans in the
strong rooms of the Palace of Cnossos,
with other sacred ornaments in the
same glazed earthenware technique.
The goddess was worshipped as Lady
of the Underworld. The snake, which
lives in the earth, was a creature of
the dead.
Mausolos, Prince of Caria, was the
Oriental dynast whose tomb at
Halicarnaasos. one of the Seven Wonders of the
ancient world, was known as the Mausoleum.
This was built and decorated by famous Greek
artists at the order of his wife and sister Arte¬
misia. Its ruins were utilised by the Knights
Hospitallers for building their Castle of St. Peter
in 1402 and later, and the site was excavated by
Sir Charles Newton, of the British Museum, in
1856. From castle and excavations many remains
They were the
com montit,
cheapest pro¬
ducts of their
time, moulded in
hundreds by
humble artisans
for funeral offer¬
ings. Yet their
charm and fresh¬
ness still survive
in witness to the
undying beauty
of Greek art.
One is illustrated
opposite.
The antiqui¬
ties of Roman
Britain are not
conspicuous for
beauty. The art
of Rome was sup¬
plied from Greece;
there was little
elegance to spare
for distant provinces,
was the remotest of
MEXICAN SCULPTURE: A
FIGURE. IN VOLCANIC ROCK,
OF THE AZTEC GODDESS
CHALCHIUHTLICUE.
By Courtesy of Ike Braitk Museum.
EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE : AMENHOTEP III. (MOO B.C.)
A COLOSSAL HEAD IN RED OUARTZITE. WITH
BEARD BROKEN OFF, FROM THEBES.
By Courier* of Ike British Muteum. Photograph by Mansell.
of marble sculpture were recovered. The most
important, and happily the best preserved, is the
noble statue of Mausolos himself, here illustrated.
Not all, or even most, of the Greek terra¬
cotta statuettes associated with Tanagra were
really made at that town, but the first, and
perhaps the best, were found there, and so the
place has given its name to the whole class.
ROMAN SCULPTURE: A MARBLE
STATUE OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN
(117-138 A.D.) IN GREEK DRESS. DIS¬
COVERED AT CYRENE.
GREEK SCULPTURE. MAUSOLOS.
PRINCE OF CARIA (3S3 B C.) — A
MARBLE STATUE FOUND IN THE
MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSOS.
and barbarous Britain
all. Yet the statuette
(shown on the opposite page), found at Barking
Hall, in Suffolk, in 1795. is not only the finest
work of art from Britain, but one of the best
Roman bronzes that exist. It certainly repre¬
sents an Emperor of early date, most probably
Nero, in his younger days of unfulfilled promise.
There is intentional reminiscence of Alexander
the Great in his pose and expression. The right
hand held a spear, the left a shield. The breast¬
plate is inlaid with niello and silver.
The excavation of the Greek city of Cyrene,
which has been carried out by the Italian Govern¬
ment during their recent occupation of Tripoli,
was anticipated in 1861 by two British officers
who were stationed at Malta. Major-General Sir
Robert Murdoch Smith, then Lieutenant, R.E.,
and IJeutcnant E. A. Porcher, R.N. Those mili¬
tant arcfwrologrsts explored much of the site, and
secured a priceless senes of Greek and Homan
sculpture for the nation. The special value of
sculpture so obtained, in modem excavation, is
that the pernicious hand of the re¬
storer, so active from the Renaissance
to the early nineteenth century, has
not been permitted to deface it. The
British Museum is rich in such un¬
spoilt originals. One of the best pre¬
served is the marble statue (here
illustrated) of the Emperor Hadrian
in Greek dress, crowned with a wreath
of pine.
The art of savage Africa is only-
just beginning to meet with sympa¬
thetic appreciation in this country. A
fine and imposing example oi African
wood-car\ ing is shown opposite. This
female figure is the handiwork of one
of the Baluba tribes which stretch
westward across the continent from
the region of Lake Mweru. Equally
fine is the remarkable ivory- mask
figured above, which comes from
Benin, in West Africa, and of which
the eyes and tribal marks are inlaid
with iron, and the ornamental collar
with copjier. With regard to the date
of the former, nothing can be said,
except that local conditions in Africa
render it unlikely that objects of wood
could survive for several centuries.
The ivory mask must date from the
sixteenth century, as proved by the
ornamental fringe of the head-dress,
which is carved to represent the
bearded heads of Portuguese. ,
The early civilisations of America
produced many fine works of art.
especially in stone, of which one is
shown above and the other opposite.
Both arc carved in reddish volcanic
rock and come from the Valley of
Mexico. That opposite is the figure
of Xochipilli, god of flowers and games,
nearly life-size, and seated in the
characteristic native fashion. The other
represents Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of
running water, and in this case the
eyes and teeth were originally inlaid
with stone of another colour. Both
these figures belong to the fifteenth
century-, and are the work of artists
of the Aztec period.
• HI'. Il.l. I S I R.vi i;i> |. () \[
'X M \\S, M\rcii 11!, l‘>21.
STATUARY OF SIX PERIODS: FROM CRETE TO AFRICA.
F~:
| EGYPT (3'00 - 2700 B.C.) : A PORTRAIT STATUE OF
ANKHEFTKA IN WHITE LIMESTONE, COLOURED RED.
* 1
! ROME: A BRONZE STATUETTE, PROBABLY OF NERO, Ml
FOUND AT BARKING HALL, SUFFOLK, IN 1795.
J BA TRIBE OF THE
MALE FIGURE.
i
That colour in statuary was a favourite device ol ancient art, both in prehistoric
and later turns, is shown by these remarkably interesting figures, which the
authorities of the British Museum, where they are preserved, have kindly allowed
us to reproduce by colour photography. Other examples are illustrated not in
colour' on the opposite page, with a descriptive article. Realistic portraiture
was a great teature ot ancient Egyptian sculpture as eaily as jooo B.C.. and the
face ot the noble, Ankluitka, is evidently a speaking likeness. In Greece ot the
fourth century B C , coloured terra-cot a statuettes were very common. Examples
were first discovered at Tanagra, which gave its name to the class. Most
interesting for its extreme antiquity nearly forty centuries' is the figure ot a
priestess of the Minoan Snake-Goddess found in Crete The statuette, believed to
be Nero, found at Barking Hall, is one of the best Roman bronzes extant. Aztec
sculpture must have been wrought with stone implements as the ancient Mexicans
possessed no hard metals, only gold and copper. The primitive art of Attica
has com? into vogue, owing to its affinity with modern tendencies. Negro sculpture
shown at the GoUf.il Gallery was illustrated in our issue of Fibruary 12.
342—THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON M
THE “TITAN OF CHASMS”
IN NATURAL-COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH
Reproduced from Autochromes by Miss Helen Messinger Murdock F
< .
M R. HAMLIN GAR-
L A N D, the
American novelist, writes
of the Grand Canyon :
“ It has a thousand
differing moods. ... It
is li re a mountain range—
a cloud to-day, a wall
of marble to-morrow.
When the light falls
into it, harsh, direct, and
searching, it is great,
but not beautiful. But
wait 1 The clouds and the !
sunset, the moonrise and
the storm will transform
it into a splendour no
mountain range can
surf ass. Peaks will
shift and glow, walls
darken, crags take fire, 1
and grey-green mesas,
dimly seen, take on i
the gleam of opales¬
cent lakes o' mountain
water. ”
“CHEOPS’ PYRAMID’’ AS SEEN FROM
A VIEW AT SUNRISE IN II
SHOWING A
GLIMPSE OF
THE COLORADO
RIVER A
MILE
-!
BELOW
THE RIM :
THE GRAND
CANYON FROM
HOPI POINT
AT
NOON.
-1
THE “TEMPLES” OF BRAHMA AND ZOROASTER RIGHT): TWO
ANGEL TRAIL JUST BELOW THE INDIAN GARDEN
These remarkable autochromes, or natural-colour photographs, of the greatest physical wonder of the United States, perhaps of the whole world, were taken by an
American lady, Miss Helen Messinger Murdoch, of Boston, who has made the art peculiarly her own. During a two years’ tour in Europe, Asia, and America,
she took hundreds of autochrome photographs of the famous places of the earth, from Tintagel Castle to the Taj Mahal, and from the Great Wall of China to
the Temples of Luxor. But of all the wonder-places that she visited, the Grand Canyon of Arizona is unsurpassed in grandeur, in beauty, and in sheer
immensity. “From the rim of the Grand Canyon,” she writes, “one looks down into a stupendous gorge 7000 feet deep, 10 to 20 miles wide, and 217 miles
long, cut in the heart of the desert. As seen from the point where the Hotel El Tovar stands, the Canyon seems filled with mountains, rising in terraces and
FROM THE HEAD OF BRIGHT ANGEL TRAIL (6866 FT.
ABOVE SEA-LEVEL) : A VIEW ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON.
NEWS, March 12 1921—343
“■U'STRatjj,
PHOIOajjy, AUTOCHROMES OF THE CRANn
Iflt viKAND CANYON OF ARIZONA
F.R.P.S., of Boston, U.S.A , by her Permission. (Copyright.)
p ^
PYRAMID" AS Si
A VIEW AT SH
1 DM THE BRIGHT ANGEL HOTEL :
2 THE GRAND CANYON.
y
"J^HE late President
Roosevelt said :
“ The Grand Canyon of
Arizona fills me with
awe. It is beyond com¬
parison : absolutely un¬
paralleled throughout the
wide world. ... Let this
great wonder of Nature
remain as it now is.
Do nothing to mar its
grandeur, sublimity, and
loveliness. You cannot
improve on it. But what
you can do is to keep it
for your children, your
children’s children, and
all who come after you,
as the one great sight
which every American
should s;e." The Grand
Canyon has inspired
many pens to flights of
eloquence. Mr. Roose¬
velt's words are especially
memorable.
*-'! " ISIS ” ( LEFT ), “CHEOPS' PYRAMID - (CENTRE), “THE BATTLE-SHIP,” AND
t PLATEAU (FOREGROUND) : AFTERNOON SHADOWS FROM EL TOVAR.
§ THE “TEMPLE OF ZOROASTER ’ (LEFT DISTANCE):
ANOTHER VIEW FROM THE HOTEL EL TOVAR.
$
(jifn bv P e aks, range after range on either side of the Colorado River, running at fifteen miles an hour seven miles (by track) below, and only visible from a few points
n d Antcnca- on t * le Hidden away in the many smaller canyons, down in the depths, are level spots where peach trees blossom, while the snow is still deep in the
0 f Chin* w u PPer regions. Such brilliant hues ! red and yellow limestone, granite, marble, lava, every kind of rock and every shade of colour, blended by the blue and
j jo sb# P Ur Ple of the great distance, constantly changing as the shadows shift with the sun. Nothing green but a few trees on the upper slopes : only a little dusty-
j 2 j? mil** looking sage-brush and cactus, and no birds to break the wonderful silence.” The Grand Canyon was discovered by Spanish explorers in 1540, and again, in
(iri cei ^ l ^ 9 < by Major J. W. Powell, who made an adventurous journey along it by boat on the Colorado River, braving unknown rapids and falls.
THF. !T.T.rsm\TF.D LONDON NF.W?, Mai
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12, 1921.— 1*45
By J. T. CREIN.
T HE other day, when it was my privilege
to address the Gallery First Nightcrs—
that club of men and women of the worka¬
day world who devote the best part of their
leisure to the theatre, waiting in queues in
all weathers, seeing every play worth seeing
(and often otherwise), hallowing their Sundays
by serious and harmonious discussion of their
histrionic harvest—the debate turned on the
women of our stage. And the inevitable
question arose : “ Have we great actresses ? ”
We need not discuss the actors; we have
them right enough. After much weighing pro
and con, we arrived at a kind of consensus.
" Yes, we have great actresses ; but oh. so
few ! *' Don't blame me for the verdict—
' I was only one among the multitude; I was
the auctioneer of the occasion, and time
after time I asked for " any more ? ” But
the bidding was lukewarm, and when the
hammer fell we had five names wreathed in
the aureole of " Greatness ” ; and let us can¬
didly admit that, on the heinous principle of
“ out of sight,” we forgot the sixth—Marie
Tempest. I could have whipped myself for
not having remembered her, this Kitty and
Becky of . indelible memory, until the sober¬
ing east wind without recalled " things which
I left unsaid ”—as is the penalty of discussion
on the spur of the moment without notes or
preparation. However, there were five, headed
by Ellen Terry, supreme and hors de contours,
as they say at the Salon in Paris; the undis¬
puted Queen who bears her crown of seventy-
three in evergreen laureate. In vain I pleaded
for introspection, for addition to the number.
I furrowed and burrowed my mental file of
criticism of one year and several: there was
no response—the plebiscite stopped at the
quintette. It gave me much to think over.
I was weighing in my mind this one and that
one : it is one of my ideals to see the right
person in the right place ; but I had to
silence my would - be preferments. ” Great¬
ness,” despite Press-agent, advertisement, boom,
and first-night delusions, is an ominous word :
to use it lightly is to degrade art to patent
medicine or face-
powder. ” Great¬
ness,” thrown in the
diamond scales, is a
thing that awakens,
arouses, enraptures
a people ; it flits
through the land
like a winged sen¬
tence: it scintillates,
it vibrates, it lives
beyond the whims
and tastes and
moods of men. It
carves names in¬
delibly on the mile¬
stones of time. A
great actor is dis¬
cussed by coming
generations in the
same vein as a great
general, a states¬
man, a builder of
empires — the un¬
heard echo of his
fame sounds forth
by tradition. . . .
A few days after
this inspiring even-
ing(for these knights
of labour surpass
in parlance and in
thought most of the
polished fatuities
pronounced in pom¬
pous form in Society
quarters) I left for
France, and I made
once dismissed. Whether you see plays in Paris—
and oh ! the joy of Guitry in ” Le Com£dien,” by
Guitry’s boy, the heaven - blessed Sacha ! (see it, Arthur
Bourchier, secure it at once ; the choice can only rest
between you and Hawtrey !—or in the provinces, the
ensemble is usually as round as a circle. Of course there
are old 'bus horses, trotting in well-worn lines, vieux
chameaux du mitier who talk to the audience and at the
audience—have we not got them too ? Of course there
are cronies — lovely word of theatrical argot for the
inept, either pretty or partly bald, with no brains under
their pates—have we not got them too ? Of course
there are a few actresses propelled by other considerations
A DEPUTY LOVER: MK. DENNIS EADlb AS DENNIS
I.ESTRANGE. AND MISS HILDA MOORE AS MILI.I-
CENT HANNAY, IN "A SOCIAL CONVENIENCE." AT
THE ROYALTY.
deputises in compromising
“ Polly with a Past.” masquerades as
affections. Sir Brian Dobree. in “ The Fulfilling of the La-,
but who loves Mr. Avenell, to marTy the latter after divorce,
beautiful dresses (by Reville) add to the
up my mind to see
as much of the theatre as a well-earned holiday
would allow—secretly to fathom why we are so
much stronger on the male side than on the
fairer one ; incidentally, to find out whether it
was true, which was printed some time ago
in a London paper, that French acting had de¬
teriorated since the war.
The latter part of the question may be at
and the Blue Book. But generally — I
italicise that word — the French actress
comes into her own : because she has been
trained ; because she knows her business;
because she has graduated like a soldier;
because she has been moulded by a pro¬
ducer ; because she is young and not afraid
to look old—on the stage ; because she has
no time or . inclination for deification at
“ five - o’clocks ” ; because she reads books
and knows something of the dramatic litera¬
ture of the world ; because she is an artist
first and a lady after ; because she rarely
marries into the Peerage to continue mediocre
acting ; because she is merely somebody on
the stage and, unless she be a genius, nothing
in Society ; because she is criticised — often
severely—and not " shampooed " by well-mean¬
ing and often purblind admirers who prefer
her smiling nod to her cold shoulder ; be¬
cause, at well-ordered theatres, especially in
the provinces of France, she is engaged for
a long season, instead of working in fear and
trembling lest a poor run should cast her
on the waters ; because—most potent ” be¬
cause " of all—she is endowed by Mother
Nature with a temperament : not to fence
with the word, but to explain it—because
she has striven, struggled, lived, lingered,
suffered ; because there burns in her the
godly flame of warm blood and vocation.
Because, in fine, to her the theatre is not
merely an altar for the wbrship of "I am
I,” but the holiest of holies wherein to be
canonised you must have the spirit of the
Carmelite — ay, perhaps the soul of the
pagan ! — to reach the kingdom of the
artistic heaven.
Here, my readers, lies the difference be¬
tween the French actress and ours. Her
ideal is to aspire to the lofty heights of a
Rachel, a Decide, a. Sarah, a Duse. To
reach them she will defy Calvary- and Pur¬
gatory. sacrifice body, soul, and salvation.
On our cooler strand the supreme price is
ephemeral immor¬
tality in picture
papers, ” among
those present ” at
functions, the bless¬
ing of Lady X. and
Marchioness Y. and
Countess Z., a mar¬
riage beyond one’s
social station, ap¬
plause when enter¬
ing the stalls on
a first night while
resting from work,
and generally such
adulation as is not
good for any young
woman.
We cannot all
have tempera¬
ment—it is an en¬
dowment. like birth
in a palace or in
a mansion—but we
can cultivate that
which is in us be¬
yond the drawing¬
room ballad and
the pretty frock.
Acting, after all.
is a question of
losing one’s per¬
sonality in another
incarnation — a
question of, once
more to quote a
poignant French
saying, ” S'y mettre
on se di mettre. ”
When that por¬
tentous message is
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be impossible to deny. But it would be equally
untrue to say that they are representative. Of
course, we have not got any actresses of that
type in this country !
In our blessed land merit is the only pass
and sometimes the advertising manager
port.
stage, as elsewhere in the community of life, our
women will be the equal of men. But the road lies
in the narrow, dark alley of the stage-door, whither
grope the modest workers, not under the glittering
chandeliers of Mayfair and the land of Jazz where
the snapshot thrives and the paragraph.
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12, 1921. 346
3y PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON. Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen Unioersity.
A LTHOUGH Sir John Ross fished up a Brittle-
star (Figs. 3 (left) and io) from very deep
water more than a hundred years ago (1818).
little was known of the animal life of the great
depths of the ocean till the Challenger Expedi¬
tion of 1873-76. This, like Darwin’s voyage of
the Beagle, was a Columbus voyage, for it re¬
vealed a new world- the world of the Deep Sea.
It is one of the largest haunts of life, occupying
more than a third of the earth's surface ; and it
is one of the strangest. No one has ever seen
it; probably no one will ever see it ; for by the
deep sea we mean the floor of the great abysses
and the layers of dark water near that floor.
We can throw a stone into it from the deck
of a steamer, but it is a bourn from winch no
traveller can return.
The world of the deep sea is very deep, for
the average depth of the ocean is 2$ miles; and,
as vast areas are comparatively shallow, there
must be other parts extraordinarily deep. Just
as the earth’s crust is Ruckled up into moun¬
tains. so it is dimpled down into depressions.
The very deep holes are called “ deeps ” ; and
the so-called Challenger “ deep " is nearly six
miles deep---namely, 5269 fathoms. If one could
FIG. 10.—ONE OF THE FIRST DEEP-SEA .CREATURES
KNOWN: A BRITTLE-STAR, SUCH AS SIR JOHN
ROSS FISHED UP IN 1818.
throw Mount Everest into this “ deep,” the moun¬
tain would be swallowed up. with 2600 feet to
spare. Some of the ’’ deeps ” are actually over
six miles. In deep water there is great pressure-
2} tons on every square inch at 2500 fathoms—-
an unendurable pressure, if it weie felt. A ship’s
hawser is squeezed into a rope ; a weighted piece
of wood is so much compressed that it will no
longer float when brought to the surface again ;
but the deep-water animals do not fee 1 this pres¬
sure, their bodies are so permeable.
The deep sea is a very cold haunt, for the
sun’s heat is practically lost at about 150 fathoms :
and there is a continual sinking-down of cold
water, rich in oxygen, from the Poles. Through¬
out the year there is little variation in the tem¬
perature, which remains near the freezing-point
of fresh water. Eternal winter reigns. Besides
the cold of this unfriendly haunt, there is the
darkness. Very sensitive bromo-gelatine plates,
automatically exposed and closed again at 300
fathoms, show that some rays of light reach that
depth ; but there is very little light beyond 250
fathoms. The deep sea
is a world of dreadful
night ; the utter dark¬
ness (Fig. 7) almost in¬
tensified, one would think,
by the fitful gleams of
phosphorescent light.
Perhaps it is like a moor
on a dark night with a
few stars overhead.
The deep sea is a place
of calm, for the severest
storms are comparatively
shallow in their grip.
There are no swift cur¬
rents, but at most a
gentle flow over the beds
of ooze. There is no
scenery, but a monotony
of sweeping undulations
like those of sand-dunes.
Only here and there are
there ridges like water-sheds or volcanic cones
rising to the surface, perhaps to form the founda
tion of coral islands. What an eerie picture of a
deep, dark, cold, calm, silent, monotonous world !
What of the life of the great deeps ? The
biggest fact is that there is no " deep " too deep
for life. There are most animals at moderate
depths ; there are more animals on the lime-ooze
than on the ” red-clay ” mud-ooze ; and we do
not know much about the thinly peopled miles
of water between the limit of the light and the
floor itself. But the big fact is that wherever the
long arm of the dredge (Fig. 1) has reached down,
it has brought up living creatures. There
is no depth-limit to the distribution of
life. Of course, there are no plants in
the great depths, except the resting-
stages of a few alga; that have sunk
down from the surface. We say “ of
course,” because all ordinary plants,
green with chlorophyll, require light if
they are to live. There do not seem to
be even bacteria — those microscopic
minions of decay—in the abysses ; and
that means that there can be no rotting.
If a dead whale sinks to the floor of the
deep sea it is nibbled to fragments, and
all of it is devoured or dissolved, save
the cowrie-like ear-bones, which are al¬
most as hard as stone. The floor of the
deep sea is a sort of universal clear¬
ing-house. If there are no plants, it
seems at first sight as if all the animals
must be eating one another, which is
absurd, as Euclid used to say. The
deep-sea fish eats the deep-sea snail, and the snail
the worm, and the worm — something else ; but
that cannot be the whole story. There must
be a food-supply from without, and that is fur¬
nished by the ceaseless rain of minute creatures,
killed or dying at the surface, which sink through
the miles of water like snowflakes on a quiet
winter day (Fig. 9). The microscopic atomies in
their never-ending shower count for much more
than the carcases of whales.
The deep-sea animals are of many kinds—
very representative. In his last voyage,, the
late Sir John Murray dredged with an otter trawl
with a 50-feet beam at a depth of 2820 fathoms,
which is over three miles ; and, just as on the
Challenger Expedition, he brought up an astonishing
variety of animals—fishes, molluscs, crustaceans,
sea-spiders (Figs. 3 and 6), sea-urchins, star-fishes,
corals, and endless minutia*. There is reason to
believe that the deep sea has been colonised by
shore animals which in the course of ages have
gradually followed the drifting food-particles down
the long slope. If a shore animal of to-day were
suddenly transferred to the deep sea. it would
doubtless die at once ; but, with ages for the
journey, the transition is possible.
This raises the interesting question of the
special fitnesses that deep-sea animals show in
relation to the strange conditions of their life.
Many of the fixed ones, like the sea-lilies, have
very long stalks (Fig. 4). plainly of use in raising
the important part of the body out of the
treacherous, smothering ooze. Some of them, like
the lanky crabs, and the still more lankv sea-
spiders (Figs. 3 and 6). have their legs extraordinarily
elongated—well suited for walking delicately on the
soft surface of the floor. Another fitness may I*-
found in the porous, permeable architecture which
enables the animals to be indifferent to the great
pressure. If a closed glass vessel is weighted and
lowered into deep water, it is soon shivered into
dust because the pressure inside cannot be adjusted
in any way to the pressure outside. But an open
glass vessel is unaffected, since the water gets
inside as w’cll as outside. It is the same with a
delicate deep-sea sponge, like Venus’s Flower
Basket (Fig 4. centre)—the water permeates the
whole. Even when it cannot be said that the sea
water as such penetrates the whole of the deep-
sea animal’s body, there is an adjustment of the
fluids and gases in the body. The very bones
of deep-sea fishes are sometimes so spongy that
we can run a needle through them without break¬
ing the point. Yet another fitness may be found
in the exquisite sense of touch which many deep-
sea animals show ; a prawn (Fig. 2) may have a
feeler, and a fish a barbule (F g. 8), very much
longer than its body. For a world of darkness
what could be better than a highly developed sense
of touch ? Another adaptation is the huge gape
(Fig. 3) of some of the fishes.
There is prospect of another Challenger Ex¬
pedition, and w'e strongly wish that the hope
may be fulfilled. There are many unsolved
problems in regard to the deep sea ; many ques¬
tions that the splendid results of the 1873-76
Expedition have made us ask. We should like
to know how the everyday life of deep-sea animals
goes on in the strange conditions—-of persistent
cold, for instance ; we should like to know about
the development of the young in these great
depths ; we should like to know more precisely
where the deep-sea animals came from. There is
the puzzle of some fishes with very small, almost
useless, eyes, and other fishes with very big eyes
(Fig. 5c). Are the first dwindling organs that are
useless in a dark haunt ? are the others taking ad¬
vantage of the gleams of " phosphorescent ” light ?
And what is the significance of the phosphorescence,
or, better, luminescence (Figs. 3 and 8) (since it
has nothing to do with phosphorus), of so many
deep-sea animals, both of sedentary and free-
swimming habit ? Is it a guide in some cases,
a warning in other cases ? is it a lure, or a means
of recognition ? or is it just a kind of bv-play ol
the body ? And what are we to make of the occa¬
sional occurrence of bright colours (Fig. 5c) in the
animals of the deep sea ? Have they any utility
at all ? or are they simply like the colours ol
withered leaves, with no use, save beauty ?
Puzzles there arc in plenty ; but more important is
the big fact that the deep sea, like every other haunt
of life, is crowded with beauty, order, ami fitness.
FIG 9.—THE DEEP-SEA FISHES' LARDER. MINUTE CREATURES. KILLED AT THE SURFACE. SUNK INTO THE OOZE
OF THE OCEAN FLOOR.
From left to right the three sections show : (a) Pure chalk ooze made of the sunk shells of pinhead-like animals killed on the surface : (b) Mixed ooze consisting of
a variety of fragments and shells: (,c) Pure Radiolarian ooze—the flinty shells of small creatures killed on the surface.
THAN ITSELF—AND DIES I THE CHIASMODOS S'tGRUM.
This fish is extremely voracious, and will attack and swallow a fish larger
than itself, when its body becomes highly distended and death follows.
LONDON NEWS. March 12 1921—348
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LADIES’ NEWS.
I ENT has brightened up considerably, from the
social point of view, since the King and Queen,
the Princes and the Princess, came to town. One
thing that has intrigued us women is the dress shows.
They are really interesting, not only from the
point of view of desiring to know what is to be
worn — all self - respecting women must know
that—but as a contrast to how we used to get
our fashion knowledge. One sits in rows on de¬
lightful couches, or on “ comfy " chairs, and,
for as long as one likes, mannequins parade up
and down the space allotted to them, attired in
the newest models. Such mannequins they are,
too ! chosen for their powers of making clothes
look their best, and skilled in showing them off.
I have seen wistful looks and heard pathetic
remarks from onlookers as to the impossibility
of getting clothes to look like that on them.
Yet orders subsequently given prove that they
will not despair, but fulfil the sex’s mission and
make the best of themselves. That best is, hap¬
pily, mostly very good.
After two big shows, an hour spent at each,
I had to exercise mental digestion, and have
arrived at the conclusion that we are very
lucky. The modes are charming, not extreme,
dainty and very becoming. There are sequins
for day-time dresses, which is not entirely an
innovation. The manner of applying them, in
long lines, in designs such as clusters of grapes,
or berries with leaves, in squares, in lattice—
always with a purpose, not the careless scatter¬
ing or dose sewing which did obtain—is all to
the good. Jet is more in favour than ever, and
the grace of falling ropes of jet, beads, or
chenille, is made the very most of in imparting
an appearance of slimness and length to the
figure. Their usefulness in this way, when skil¬
fully employed, is almost beyond belief.
The King and Queen’s Afternoon Party at
Buckingham Palace was, I hear, a very pleasant
affair. Several state rooms, including the old
Throne-room, were used. A number of ladies
present were glad to put aside their furs, the
rooms were so warm and bright. Their Majesties,
and members of their family, chatted informally with
many guests, and one of the Guards' regimental
string bands played. Quite a number of people were
present who had not before been in the Palace, and
much appreciated the party. It was on similar
lines to the royal afternoon parties of this time last
year, and was designed to bring into touch with the
King and Queen, and with each other, several sections
of the great whole that we call London Society.
Viscountess Astor gave a big evening party,
following dinner : both were in honour of the
retiring American Ambassador and Mrs. Davis, who
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scale, and the ball-room was open for dancing for the
first time since the war. Viscount Astor was, un¬
happily, indisposed, and unable to be present. The
occasion was, in addition to the honouring of the
departing Ambassador, also the welcoming of Miss
Alice Perley, a niece of Lady Astor's, into Society.
This young lady will be presented at the second Court
of the season. Lady Astor, with a smart dark
headdress, wore a tiara of diamonds, of which
the famous “ Sancy ” diamond forms the centre.
Also, she wore neck and corsage ornaments of
fine diamonds. The Ambassador took her in to
dinner and sat at her right. The Earl and
Countess of Reading, Earl and Countess Beatty,
Viscount and Viscountess Burnham, and Field-
Marshal Sir Henry and Lady Wilson were of the
dinner-party, as was also Sir James Barrie. The
• whole house was gay w'ith flowers, chiefly those
that bloom in the spring, sent from Cliveden.
There were quantities of diplomatic people pre¬
sent, masses of M.P.s and their womenkind, for
Lady Astor considered neither Coalition, Wee
Frees, Labour, and other political labels, but
asked them all as men and brothers. The party
proved a great success, and the Ambassador
might have altered Shakespeare and said :
Parting is such pleasant sorrow, that I could
say good-bye again to-morrow 1
There was a tea-party last week at the Officers'
Families Industries London Depot, 21, Beauchamp
Place. It is quite surprising what charming
things these officers’ wives, widows, and daughters
make. Lady Patricia Kamsav sent over a few
very “ nobby ” jaunty jumpers to be copied.
There are golf-coats, made for women who golf,
and who know precisely what is wanted for the
game, and what looks best on links. There are
wraps to be easily donned for a walk in the
garden. The Marchioness of Lansdowne acquired
one of these at the tea-party, and so did the
Countess of Dartmouth and Lady Emmott.
Viscountess Lewisham had some wonderfully
made lingerie, and some golf-coats and jumpers.
The children's clothes are beautifully made, and
the officers’ womenkind do so badly need the help
the sale of their work affords them.—A, E. L.
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
A PLEA FOR THE KINGFISHER.
T HERE is a widespread belief among us that birds
of brilliant plumage are the product of the
Tropics. This is, however, by no means true, for even
among those of our own islands there are species
which can hold their own in any company ; and fore¬
most among these stands the kingfisher. But beauty
among the birds has ever been a fatal possession. Of
all our native species, none has been so
persecuted as this " Sea-blue bird of .
March.” In thousands they have been
shot in order that their mangled bodies
might decorate women's hats, or make a
brave show among the household gods
enshrined in a glass case. But it is not
for these ends alone that the kingfisher
has been so ruthlessly slain. The owners
of trout-streams have always borne it
malice, convinced that it was a poacher
of no mean order, levying a far heavier SKx-
toll upon the eggs and fry of their coveted
fish than the stream could support. Hence ii
they show it no mercy.
But the kingfisher has at last found
a champion who speaks with authority.
Dr. W. E. Collinge, some little time ago.
set himself the task of carefully scrutinis-
ing the alleged crimes of this outlaw
among fishermen ; and his results show,
as might have been expected, that the
slayers have been persistently slaying
their best friend. So that, in striving
to increase their stock of fish, they have
all the time been defeating their own
ends, inasmuch as every kingfisher on a - —
trout-stream has been shot at sight as a AT
reputed enemy, while the real culprits fmpirf ■
have not only got off scot-free, but hjive
been enabled to increase a thousandfold ! ADI
For Dr. Collinge's investigations make The < ** ueen ;
it certain that the benefits the kingfisher made *° hu
confers are twice as great as the injuries Australia f>
it inflicts: because he is able to show, m odel (near
beyond a peradventure. that trout larvae been lent t
form no more than 7*28 per cent, of its
food, while 15-66 per cent, of its diet is
made up of insects which are injurious to the fisher¬
men, since they either prey upon trout fry or their
eggs. ” Neutral fishes.” such as minnows and stickle¬
backs. furnish *53-39 per cent, of its food ; while the
remaunder is furnished by tadpoles, molluscs, Crustacea,
neutral insects, and worms.
This analysis of the kingfisher's bill-of-fare has
been made from an examination of stomach contents.
and of the pellets formed of the hard, indigestible
portions of the creatures swallowed, which are ejected
from the mouth after the fashion of rooks, hawks,
and owls, for example. But, besides, much valuable
material has been gained by an examination of the
remarkable nest of this bird. In one sense it builds
no nest, but deposits its eggs upon a flattened-out
mass of pellets formed of fish-bones and the hard
parts of insects. Such nests, though of considerable
thickness, have little adhesiveness, and readily fall to
AT THE EXHIBITION OF GIFTS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES DURING HIS
EMPIRE TOURS: (L. TO R.) PRINCESS MARY. THE PRINCE. THE OUEEN, AND
ADMIRAL HALSEY INSPECTING A MODEL OF THE "RENOWN” .
The Queen, Princess Mary, and the Prince of Wales recently visited the Exhibition of presents
made to him during his two ereat F.mpire tours, opened at the Imperial Institute on March 2,
and to remain open till the end of the month. There are over 500 gifts and addresses from
Australia, New Zealand. Canada, the West Indies, Samoa, Hawaii, Fiji, and Bermuda. A Urye
model (nearly 20 ft. Ion;) of H.M.S. “ Renown," the battle-ship which carried the Prince, has
been lent by the Admiralty. The proceeds of the Exhibition are to go to the Boy Scouts
Association .—[Pkctofrapk by C..V.1
Now that at long last wc know precisely where
we stand in regard to the kingfisher as an enemy of
trout-streams, we can join with Dr. Collinge in trusting
that a very strict and rigorous protection will be
afforded this bird in the future. A clause in any new
Act of Parliament affecting wild birds should, h*
suggests, make it an offence tri stuff or set up specimens
of the kingfisher, excepting under a permit, since this
would certainly reduce the present senseless slaughter
of this wondrously beautiful and interesting bird. To
me there is a strange fascination in
watching a kingfisher feeding. Motion-
- less he sits on some perch over the water
watching for prey. Suddenly he will
rise, hover in mid-air, then dart down,
and with a plunge for an instant dis-
* appear, emerging with a fish held cross¬
wise in his bill. A moment later he is
back on his perch, against which he beats
the head of his victim two or three times
to stun it, then with a dexterous twist
turns it head-first along his beak and
swallows it. How this bird, with such
small and feeble feet, contrives to drive
tunneLs a yard or so in length through a
bank of solid earth is a mystery. His
•*nly rivals in this regard are the sand-
martin and the bee-eater.
Our kingfisher has apparently attained
his maximum in the matter of splendour
of plumage, for this is not only exquisitely
beautiful and wondrously iridescent, but
the same livery is worn also by his mate
and their offspring, from the very first
appearance of - the feathers. In many
species, however, in other parts of the
^1 world, the female and young are soberly
clad ; while in others even the males are
ING HIS in like But the j n t er esti n g story
iN, AND of the coloration and ornamentation of
the kingfisher must await another occa-
f presents sion. Suffice it to say that it furnishes some
Minch 2, striking facts in regard to the evolution of
***** [ rom resplendent plumage. W. P. Pycraft.
pieces if an attempt is made to remove them from the
burrow at the end of which the brood-chamber is
formed. Hence there has grown up a myth that the
nest of the kingfisher is worth a considerable sum.
As a consequence, the authorities at the British
Museum of Natural History are frequently offered
specimens which have been successfully removed for
sums ranging as high as £50 !
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 12. 1921—.*tf6
THE RIVIERA SEASON AT ITS HEIGHT.
W HILST lugubrious patriots at home lament the
general state of aflairs, when they reach the
Riviera they find nothing of that sort matters. How
can it ? The golden mimosa in cascades on the steeps
of the valleys just reflects the sunshine ; and the shore,
curving in laughing bays, each lovelier than the other,
is lapped by a sea out¬
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whilst every woman one
meets is looking her
b“st in white and furs—
delightful combination.
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THE " WIZARD " OF MONTE not least, picnics.
CARLO: M. CAMILLE BLANC. Carnival is still in our
Photograph try Enrutti. veins, making a brother¬
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superior people. They, of course, fled to their havens.
Monte Carlo, or the enchanting golf-links of Mont Agel,
that ovejjiang the Principality, and are a joy and
source of health to increasing numbers.
These links are the pride and glory of Monte Carlo.
They owe their existence entirely to the resolution
and disregard of difficulties of Monte Carlo's wizard,
M. Camille Blanc, whose magic wand nothing long
resists. The rebellious mountain resented having its
rocks dynamited for its shoulder, 3000 feet up, to be
made a playground. It already carried a big fort on
its crest—enough. So it landslid mightily, carrying
off greens and fairways and all. Nothing daunted,
men carted tons of earth up the zig-zag road of clever
gradients and wonderful coast views, remade like the
rest. The finks are now, old St. Andrews apart, the
most celebrated, and certainly the loveliest and best¬
loved, in Europe. The Club is excellently managed
by the popular and energetic secretary, Mr. Galbraith
Horn, who made the pretty Evian Links so prosperous
last summer.
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the whole Riviera has never, in all its pre - war
history, been so invaded by sun and fun worshippers
as now. Frances Mary de Borrinc.
OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Paris.
HE decision to raise the three great French
Generals — Fayolle, Lyautey. and Franchet
d’Fsperey—to the rank of Marshals of the French
Army is a just, though tardy, recognition of their
services to the nation.
It was General Fayolle who co - operated so
brilliantly with the British troops in the series of
battles fought on the Somme (previously he had
commanded the 70th Division at Nancy and in Artois) ;
and it was General Fayolle who, when the Armistice
came, was given supreme command of the French
Army of Occupation, from whence he was recalled to
become a member of the Conseil Sup6rieur dc la
Guerre in Paris.
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hero of the Battle of the Marne, for it was his army
which penetrated the German lines, the immediate
result of which was the precipitate retreat of the
trerman Army, and an important turning point in the
war It was General Franchet d’Fsperey who with¬
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Chemin des Dames, and arotind the shattered Fort of
Malmaison, recaptured again and again from the enemy
by dogged French troops under the leadership of a
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greatest service to France.
France has honoured the Army through these three
distinguished soldiers, and the Army will heartily
endorse their promotion to the highest rank of all.
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limited to forty.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON* NEWS, March 12, 1921.-358
cannot see that actual costs are likely to undergo
reduction yet. Even if wages come down and material
costs should follow, it must not be forgotten that for
many months to come makers will be assembling
manufactured parts which have gone through at the
earlier prices, and thus the cost of the completed car
will not undergo change. AH things considered, I
should say that now is the time to buy, when prices
have been forced down by the need for ready cash.
They are much more likely to harden in the course of
the next three or four months than they are to fall.
Wolseley
Activity.
Recently 1 have spent quite a lot
of time in visiting various fac¬
tories in different parts of the
country, and, to put it as mildly as possible, I have
not been impressed by any general air of prosperity.
Last week, however, 1 had a change by way of a visit
to the Wolseley works at Birmingham. Every shop
was working full time, and 1 understand that no fewer
than 120 cars a week are being completed, and, what
is more to the point, delivered to actual purchasers.
Of course, the Wolseley Company has the advantage
of being one of the pioneer firms of the motor trade.
and of possessing a reputation which is second to none
for the production of a sound, reliable series of cars.
It is a natural consequence that they should be doing
good business when others of more recent growth
should find the market depressed against them.
I was particularly pleased to have an opportunity
of seeing the methods employed in the construction of
the three chassis which form the present Wolseley
series of a six-cylinder 24-30-h.p., a 15-h.p. four-
cylinder “ general purposes ” car, and a 10-h.p. four-
cylinder light car. I particularly liked the “ Fifteen,”
which is remarkable for its clean design
and for the sweet running of the new-
overhead-valve engine. The ' Ten,” too.
is also remarkable for its new engine,
which is generally of the same type
as the other. 1 know of no light-car
motor which seems to run quite as
smoothly as this new Wolseley. What
the car is like on the road I do not
know, but on its general design I should
say it would rank very far up in the
class. All round, the Wolseley Company
deserves to be congratulated • on the
results their policy has produced, especi¬
ally in a period of acute depression such
as we are passing through now.
Theft and the
Registration Book.
One of the main rea¬
sons advanced in
favour of the new
Roads Act and its licensing provisions
was that these latter—and particularly
the “registration book” -would be a
safeguard against theft of cars. 1
myself thought so, and. therefore, sup¬
ported the idea, while opposing the
compulsion to display the license. 1
ONE cannot see how a thief is going to
be able successfully to dispose of a
car unless he can get possession of
the registration book, which the lawful owner keeps
under lock and key at home. Obviously, if he
cannot produce the title-deeds of the car he cannot
deal with it.
Now, however, my faith has been shaken, be¬
cause the Ministry of Transport is solemnly warn¬
ing the public that it does not follow that because
the vendor of a car produces the title-deeds he has
a right to them. I am inclined to suspect some
subtlety here. Does'it mean that the Ministry really
thinks that all cars belong to it de facto as well as
de jure ? W. W.
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
Car Prices v ' ew °* certain reductions
Now and Later. which havt ‘ been mnde in the
prices of cars, there is a well-nigh
universal movement in the trade to guarantee to pur¬
chasers benefit from any further fall between now- and
the end of summer. This guarantee takes the shape
of an undertaking on the part of the manufacturer
to refund to the present purchaser any difference there
may be in the price now paid and any lower figure
fixed between the date of purchase and
the assigned date—say. six months
hence. This has been found necessary
in order to restore the confidence of
the public, which has held aloof from
buying in the hope and belief that
prices are destined to undergo a drastic
cutting process. It is a very salutary-
even essential—arrangement in the cir¬
cumstances, and should assist in help¬
ing sales back to normal by establishing
the bona-fidcs of the manufacturing
trade in the eyes of the potential car-
purchaser.
Apart from these guarantees, if I
were asked for advice in the matter of
buying or not, 1 should certainly say
that the proper course is not to wait.
In spite of recent price reductions, I do
not see how- the general trend is to be
downward for some considerable time
to come. Such reductions as have
been made have generally been dic¬
tated by the necessity to turn stocks
into ready money, and have meant a
loss to the manufacturer. In a few
cases they have been made as a result
of cutting down costs in one way or
another. I know of one case in which
reduction has been effected by the
adoption of methods of finishing which the manu¬
facturer would have scouted two years ago. but
which have enabled him to save considerably
on his body-work. Added to this, an alteration
in equipment by the substitution of a cheap elec¬
trical installation for the one that was standard
in last year's model meant a further substantial
reduction in works’ cost. The public has had the
benefit—not an unmixed blessing, to my way of
thinking—of both these savings. But not every
maker is prepared to take this road to reduction, nor
is the one who declines to be blamed. Therefore, I
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R u ffon
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Cq/~ Qu&jfity &lci/(jQ
The Low Running Costs
of the 16-20 h.p. Ruslon-Hornsby, the simplicity of its
tzi zz;Lr °' comb,ne *
The engine is silent and notably flexible, makin* the car
particularly handy in traffic. It runs comfortably It 5 mSs
an hour on top and picks up very quickly. y
The Ruston-Hornsby is built by a firm of British entrineers
whose reputation is world-wide - sufficient guarZeH
irreproachable workmanship. Note the very moderate price.
Prompt
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WHAT
IS THE BEST CAR OF
THE YEAR?
Mr. W. H. Berry, the well-known Motoring Editor, said,
in an article which recently appeared in the Daily Dispatch :
rC<1Ch * he prob,em of wh “» *• the best car of the
year, aking everything into consideration—factory, service
the many appreciative r Show \ Hereunder we reproduce one of
which provides fr ° m act L Ual OWT,crs reccived daily, any one of
P des additional testimony to the soundness of Mr. Berry’s judgment.
I shoul < i <o write and tell yon how ivell the
Tendon h fo f Z m y0U last "* ei Shaved in the
During tl Ed rf Ut & h Reliability Trial last week-end.
i g H ? ko! \ run oui and home-a distance of 050
miles, covered in j* days-the car ran perfectly . /.O.''
“V' Wined TALBOT- ;
; DARRACQ accessibility — often a mere
: P“ ra * e . takei °n a new meaning by the '
wry simplicity of its achievement.
Catalogue and all details
from our Head Office.
Trial runs arranged by letter,
personal call or ’phone.
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The 25 h.p. Talbot is one of the most successful models
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durability and Efficiency, combined with low up-
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conditions averages 18-21 miles to the gallon) this car is
unbeatable. Hereunder we quote from one of the
many appreciative letters received from satisfied owners.
AN UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS:
‘‘ 1 have rauch pleasure in stating that my new 25-50-h p
two-seater Sports Model CLEMENT-TALBOT car is an
i Very wa y- ^ing surprisingly easy
to handle, both m traffic and on the open road It is a
most comfortable riding car, and the bodywork has been
admired The speedometer has already registered over
5000 miles, and considering the bad roads met with, 1
think the test has been none too easy ; the engine is
very powerful and quiet, the brakes act in a way that
gives perfect confidence, whilst the dutch and change-
speed gear is very sweet in operation. There is nothing
connected with the car which I have any regret about.
(Signed) W. F. B.”
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 12 . 1921 . IttiO
“THE MYSTERY OF EXISTENCE.*
N these days
conclusions are stated very briefly. It is not possible
to summarise them adequately in a few words, but
it may be said that he divides human consciousness
into the subliminal and the supraliminal, and regards
it as part of the World Spirit, or God, and a.s tending
constantly towards greater individualisation, know¬
ledge and power, until at last, in the course of
millions of years, man will attain complete mastery
over nature. He attaches great importance to
man’s tailing a guiding hand in his own evolution
by applying the precepts of eugenics, and in the
supplementary chapter he brings this doctrine into
the sphere of practical politics as the only means
of ensuring the safety of the British Empire and of
France, and the prevention of future danger from
Germany. The book is frankly unconventional, and
likely to provoke controversy : at the same time, it
is deeply sincere and merits careful study.
a philosopher who takes an optimis¬
tic view of life is a person to be encouraged,
and we are glad to call attention to a little book
which propounds a scientific faith that is full of hope
for the future. The author is Mr. Charles Wicksteed
Armstrong, and his book is called “ The Mystery of
Existence, in the Light of an -Optimistic Philosophy ;
to which is added A Brief Study of the Sex Problem
in its Relation to Social Evolution ” (Grant Richards).
The first part was published eleven years ago, but the
chapter on the sex problem is new. In spite of its
cumbersome title, the work itself is terse and com¬
pact, full of concentrated thought, and the author’s
“ Kelly’s Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and
Official ( lasses ’’ (Kelly’s Directories. Ltd.) has
been made more useful than ever by the inclusion,
in the new iotr edition, of the names of prominent
business men, such as the chairmen and directors
of the chief railways and public companies. These
additions have increased its bulk by about sixty
pages, at the same time enhancing its value as a
source of information often not obtainable elsewhere.
Its alphabetical arrangement makes it particularly
handy lor reference
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r»« cpyriru of M a, E4iloriol M ^
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Iks C _J
the excitement aroused by the execution of
OF SYMPATHISERS IN DUBLIN,
MoJTV 1 * > *°^*’ men women, knelt in the rain on the road outside
,0 ^ ao * w **‘t e mer were executed within, on the morning of March 14.
d ^° W . bc S an to gather soon after 5 a.m., when the Curfew Order expired,
exec ted PnS ° ners were h * n K*d in pairs at 6, 7, and 8 o’clock. The first pair
were Thomas Whelan and Patrick Moran, convicted of complicity in
SIX CONVICTED SINN FEINERS : A GREAT CROWD
OUTSIDE MOUNTJOY GAOL.
the murders of military officers in Dublin on November 21. The next two were
Thomas Bryan and Patrick Doyle, and the last, Francis Flood and Bernard Ryan.
These four had been (to quote an official notice) “ found guilty of high treason
by levying war." As a protest against the executions, no work was done in the
city till 11 o'clock, by order of the Irish Labour Party.
BY T'PKAI.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1921.-^62
OUR NOi
T HE burden of France has been explained
copiously enough by economists and statisti¬
cians, but it has been reserved for a geographer
to state the case most cogently in small compass.
With that succinct vividness in which the Gallic
pen has no rival, M. A. Demangeon, Lecturer in
Geography at the Sorbonne, reviews the question
in the light of his own subject, and his work, if
translated and widely circulated in this country,
should do much to silence those quasi-idealists
who condemn the recent strong action of the Allies
with regard to Germany. M. Demangeon's essays,
published last year, have special significance in
view of current events. His main theme is The
Decline of Europe, and the shifting of the com¬
mercial and financial centre of gravity to America
and Japan ; but he leads up to it with a thumbnail
sketch of the general world effects of the war,
and the sufferings of France in particular.
Focussing the situation in a few brilliant pages,
this writer first draws a historic parallel with the
ravages of the Hundred Years War, the Thirty
Years War, and
bill of costs, M. Briand had good cause to be firm,
and’the Allies to strengthen his hands. At the
best, France can receive only a fraction of the
reparations due from the aggressor, whose paltry
offers and subterfuges appear more than ever
contemptible under M. Demangeon's concentrated
searchlight.
The Prince of Wales has seen the Clyde restored
to normal activity, always a fascinating sight,
but now greatly shorn of the romance it held in
the war years. In those days, to sail from the
Broomielaw to Dunoon was to realise to the
full Hamlet’s line. " Such impress of shipwrights
whose sore task does not divide the Sunday from
the week." The river was then a microcosm of
war conditions. It reflected not only armed pre¬
paration, but such immunity as our commerce
enjoyed under the sure shield of the Grand Fleet.
The first few miles of the voyage revealed merely
a great trading seaport going about its lawful
occasions ; it seemed, but for tied-up enemy craft,
as if the arts of peace were undisturbed. Then
sped roaring, to remind summer voyagers that
to them the unforgettable Clyde of those days
must say : “ Thus far and no farther."
Memories of the Firth of Clyde, that open door
to America, coincide to-day, not inopportunely,
with the news that New York is about to lose
an interesting landmark—the old office of the
New York Herald. The building had a curious
individuality, and its two-storeyed humility was in
edifying contrast with the cloud-aspiring homes
of other newspapers. Standing on an island site,
at the junction of Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Streets, Sixth Avenue and Broadway, the Herald
office was, in a double sense, a centre of publicity,
for its spacious arched windows invited the
passer-by to watch the wheels go round. From
the *’ side-walk *' one could see the paper printed
and the staff at work. The Herald people lived
in a veritable glass house. For the nearest
approach, this side the Atlantic, to such journalistic
courage, one must go to Paris, where the Malin
used to exhibit a few compositors at work in a
front window.
the Napoleonic j __
Campaigns.
These, he ad-
m i t s, are
dwarfed by
comparison, but
they serve to
emphasise the
tediousness of
recovery. In
the seventeenth
century, the
iron industry of
Champagne, so
prosperous
under Henry IV.
and at the be¬
ginning of Louis
XIII’s reign,
was almost ut¬
terly ruined by
the incursions of
the Swedes and
Croats. Most
of the forges
ceased work,
and many were
never restarted.
Even at the
close of that
century, despite
the efforts of
Colbert, former
prosperity was__
only partially L ~
regained. Re- GREETED BY THE STUDENT
membering
these bitter ex- Mf l* w was installed as Lord
periences, the students yelled their slogan, “ Va
France under- requests for a song. Our photograph s
stands only too standing to
well how long
and arduous a road she must travel before
she can recover from the immeasurably greater
loss of recent years. For the German crime
has " sapped the very foundations of civilised
existence ; intensive cultivation of the soil, the
complex labour of highly specialised factories,
regular transport services, the easy access of
country to country," not to mention the loss in
man-power. " In the North the cataclysm has over¬
whelmed everything." Besides the forests, factories,
mines and houses wilfully and wantonly destroyed
by the enemy, M. Demangeon bids his readers
consider the " Zone of Death,” that tract of
country 500 kilometres long by from 10 to 25
broad, where not only was cultivation suspended,
but the good soil has been transformed into a
poisoned desert, difficult to restore to the uses
of husbandry. Between 1913 and 1918, France’s
production of wheat alone fell 30 per cent.; that
of potatoes practically ceased.
The problem that faces the French people is,
»n a word, the reconstruction of their whole
economic life. In the work before me, the writer
estimates the total damage at 120 milliards of
francs, of which 34,600 millions are for dwellings
and public monuments, 19,220 millions for agri¬
culture, 4250 millions for coal-mines, 11,140
millions for the metal industries generally, and
22,000 millions for textiles. In view of such a
GREETED BY THE STUDENTS’ SLOGAN, "'VARSITY YGORRA ’’: MR. BONAR LAW INSTALLED AS LORD RECTOR
OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.
Mr. Bonar Law was installed as Lord Rector of Glasgow University in St. Andrew's Hall, on March 11. When he appeared on the platform,
the students yelled their slogan, “ *Varsity Ygorra, ’ Varsity Ygorra." and his Rectorial address was at first interrupted by snores, whistles, and
requests for a song. Our photograph shows him with Sir Donald MacAlister, Principal of the University (the right-hand figure of the two seen
standing together in the centre foreground), during the proceedings.—| Photograph by C.N.]
>ad she must travel before came another hint of war—a liner on which guns severely for subject-matter, an
om the immeasurably greater were being mounted. Nameless she was, but ^ne found nothing else. More for
irs. For the German crime recognised her for an old friend, and recalled son’s Shakespeare enthusiast,
very foundations of civilised with curious emotions a dance on those very decks, sense was nothing, sound every
e cultivation of the soil, the one sub-tropical summer evening a point or two of great literature ” spent pei
r highly specialised factories, west of the Azores. The old acquaintance slid on a cheap copy of Shakesp
services, the easy access of past, and a new region opened. The quays of understood not one sentence
,’’ not to mention the loss in merchant traffic retired in favour of the ship- his favourite part was that of i
e North the cataclysm has over- building yards, that ^colossal and fantastic world the least—the inimitable, i
.’’ Besides the forests, factories, of constructive industry. On the slips lay the very montade of the ghost in * Ham!
wilfully and wantonly destroyed latest inventions of naval warfare, strange and discerning (but not much), ye
Demangeon bids his readers unfamiliar monsters some of them, their par- taste, was R.L.S.’s beggar friei
le of Death,” that tract of ticular uses only to be guessed at, and the less old soldier who “ loved the ex<
ftres long by from 10 to 25 said the better. word, the moving cadence of a
nly was cultivation suspended, critical power did not carry
has been transformed into a Lower down, as the stream broadened to an “ Shelley was a fine poet, S
fficult to restore to the uses estuary, commerce asserted itself again in yards atheistical in his opinions. S
ween 1913 and 1918, France's where merchant vessels were being built or poetical a writer. With the w
t alone fell 30 per cent.; that repaired. All the busy riverside towns below I am not so well acquainted,
illy ceased. Glasgow told the same tale of effort to replace poet. Keats—John Keats, S
losses due to the enemy submarine. It was sym- fine poet."
at faces the French people is, bolic of the Clyde’s fidelity, even in the midst
econstruction of their whole of war, to peaceful pursuits, and of her service as Within his own province ol
he work before me, the writer a great life-sustainer. Then came the final and ever, the old soldier justifiec
damage at 120 milliards of prohibitory' note of actual war. In quieter times votary of word - magic, with
,600 millions are for dwellings our boat ..would have sighted the peaks of Arran Keats in the upper room. Th
ents, 19,220 millions for agri- and Ailsa Craig before she put about; but opposite poets **; Keats—Jo hn Keats,
ions for coal-mines, 11,140 batteried Dunoon, from shore to shore, heaved fine poet." Appreciation of po
ietal industries generally, and the dark line of the protecting boom, and beyond, may be, as Stevenson sugge
textiles. In view of such a across the dangerous open waters, a destroyer we suppose.
But that was
' a small effort
• compared with
the New York
Herald’s gener¬
ous self-revela¬
tion.
Ingenuous
self - revelation
touched high-
water mark in
the case of a
humble author
just departed—
Mr. George
Meek, the East¬
bourne bath-
chairman, whose
autobiography
was reviewed
in high critical
quarters. Mr.
Meek, whom Mr.
H. G. Wells
encouraged to
write, con-
fesssed that he
had given
Shakespeare a
fair trial, but
could see no¬
thing in his
plays; he could
-- not stand Scott
STALLED AS LORD RECTOR and Thackeray,
but he liked
When he appeared on the platform, J* 13 ' Humphiy
-at interrupted by snores, whistles, and Ward,
the right-hand figure of the two seen bath - chairman
k by C.N. 1 evidently read
Shakespeare
severely for subject-matter, and failing to find it.
found nothing else. More fortunate was Steven¬
son’s Shakespeare enthusiast, that boy to whom
sense was nothing, sound everything. This " lover
of great literature ” spent perhaps his last pence
on a cheap copy of Shakespeare, although ” he
understood not one sentence out of twelve and
his favourite part was that of which he understood
the least—the inimitable, mouth-filling rodo¬
montade of the ghost in ' Hamlet.’ " A little more
discerning (but not much), yat a man of genuine
taste, was R.L.S.'s beggar friend, that picturesque
old soldier who " loved the exotic, the unexpected
word, the moving cadence of a phrase,” but whose
critical power did not carry him fuither than
" Shelley was a fine poet, Sir, though a trifle
atheistical in his opinions. Scott, Sir, is not so
poetical a writer. With the works of Shakespeare
I am not so well acquainted, but he was a fine
poet. Keats—John Keats, Sir—he was a very
fine poet.”
Within his own province of appreciation, how¬
ever, the old soldier justified himself. He, the
votary of word - magic, with true instinct put
Keats in the upper room. The others were "fine
poets " ; Keats—John Keats. Sir—was " a very
fine poet." Appreciation ol poetry tor pure sound
may be, as Stevenson suggests, commoner than
we suppose. J. D. S.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1921.—363
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THE FIRST WOMAN D.C.L. OF OXFORD: THE QUEEN’S
Photographs by I.B., Sport and Gknkral. ayi> Fkrmincdon Pmoto. Co.
DEGREE.
“ THE FIRST QUEEN TO APPEAR IN CAP AND GOWN " AT OXFORD : HER MAJESTY, IN HER D.C.L. ROBES, WALKING WITH THE CHANCELLOR
(LORD CURZON) IN PROCESSION, AFTER RECEIVING HER DEGREE.
GOOD-BYE TO LADY MARGARET HALL : THE QUEEN CHEERED BY
THE STUDENTS ON HER DEPARTURE FROM THE COLLEGE.
THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCIPAL OF OXFORD’S PREMIER WOMEN’S
COLLEGE; HER MAJESTY SHAKING HANDS WITH MISS J EX-BLAKE.
AT THE OLDEST WOMEN’S COLLEGE IN OXFORD :
LADY MARGARET HALL STUDENTS PRESENTED.
ADMIRING « CHILDREN OF THE COLLEGE ” : HER
MAJESTY SEES MRS. JULIAN HUXLEY’S BABY SON.
FROM OXFORD WOMEN’S SOCIETIES : MISS
BUTTERWORTH GIVING THE QUEEN A BOOK.
The Queen and Princess Mary, who is seen with her mother in sereral of the
»bo»e photographs, visited Oxford on March ix. In the Sheldonian Theatre her
Majesty received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law, the highest that
the University can bestow. She was not only the first Queen, but the first
woman, to receive it The Chancellor, Lord Curzon, referred in his speech to the
*|**t» of previous Queens—Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Catherine of Aragon,
Elisabeth, Henrietta Maria, and Catherine of Braganza. Queen Mary, he said.
was “ the first Queen of England to receive an honorary degree at the bands of
the University, and the first Queen to appear in a cap and gown.” In the
afternoon her Majesty visited Lady Margaret Hall, and was presented with a
vellum-bound copy of Sir Thomas Jackson's history of the University Church of
St. Mary, on behalf of the five women's societies in Oxford, the others being
Somerville, St Hugh's, St Hilda’s, and Oxford House Students. At Somerville
she saw some “ children of the College, ’' that is, children of former students.
IXISTRATED
LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1021
Mil
BRITISH TANKS IN DUSSELDORF: THE OC
I’HOTOOR arhs HV Spu RX ^*1
<,Kn «'RAL,
AFTER PLACING WREATHS ON THE GRAVE OF SOLDIERS FALLEN IN THE
WAR OF 1870 : GENERAL GAUCHER. THE FRENCH COMMANDER AT DUSSELDORF.
WITH FIXED BAYONETS AND COLOURS FLYING : A REGIMENT OF FRENCH
TROOPS MARCHING INTO DUSSELDORF.
BRITISH COASTAL BOATS ON THE RIVER AT £
GENERAL MORLAND OH
— . - . — - -
THE ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AT DUSSELDORF : THE PARK HOTEL. WITH
TWO FRENCH SENTRY-BOXES AT THE ENTRANCE.
i-.--. ..
Acting promptly in accordance with the Allied ultimatum to Germany at the London Conference, French, British, and Belgian forces advanced in the early hours of March 8
and occupied the three Rhine towns of Diisseidorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort. At the same time the British Rhine flotilla of coastal motor-boats, under Commander Macdonald,
moved to an anchorage under the walls of Diisseidorf. The British cavalry, comprising squadrons of the 14th Hussars from Cologne, were commanded by Colonel Brown.
They controlled the southern part of the town, while Belgian troops occupied the northern section. British tanks also entered the town and took up a position by the railway.
They became an object of great interest to the civilian population, who gave no trouble. The French General Gaucher, who is in chief command at Diisseidorf, has handled the
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1921—36..
njgURt . MILES FROM DUSSELDORF : A LONG
•nLlIltf * THROUGH THE TOWN.
BRITISH TANKS ENTERING DUSSELDORF : THE CHIEF OBJECT OF INTEREST
TO THE CIVILIAN POPULATION
the b ° n W th ***** Uct ’ “ ▼cry popular. The British troops are under the command of General Morland. Diisseldorf, the Ruhr capital, twenty-two miles below Cologne, is
most convenient port on the Rhine for the manufacturing districts of Elberfeld and Barmen. It has grown rapidly in the past fifty years, and now rivals Cologne. Duisburg
t hu m * nufactunn K fifteen miles north of Diisseldorf, and about a mile from the right bank of the Rhine. Ruhrort, its waterside suburb at the mouth of the Ruhr, a
jj/* 17 ° f the has one of the largest inland harbours in the world, and carries on an important trade in coal, unwrought iron, and hardware. The manufactures of
«* include iron, brass, and copper, for which its position in the Ruhr coalfield makes it especially suitable.
Mil i
Ft
THE THREE RHINE TOWNS BY ALLIED TROOPS.
)# SEN NECKK, I.B., AND KEYSTONE VlKW Co.
ON IHE DUSSELDORF : THE RHINE FLOTILLA CARRYING
jjERAL MOKLtf A T0UR 0F INSPECTION.
BRITISH CAVALRY IN THE RUHR CAPITAL : ENTERING DUSSELDORF TO CONTROL
THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE TOWN
READING THE FIRST FRENCH PROCLAMATIONS IN DUISBURG : GERMAN CIVILIANS
WITH SOME FRENCH SOLDIERS SEEN ON THE LEFT
DK" n uta-"
^GENERAL MORLAND, THE BRITISH COMMANDER,
_ GAUCHER SALUTING.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19, 1921.—366
PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK:
PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Photographs by Lafayette, “ Daily Mail,” Central Press, Russell, Keystone View Co., Topical, Vandvk, and Elliott and Fry.
A FAMOUS THOUGHT-READER DEAD:
-f=====-1
MURDERED : ALDERMAN GEORGE MURDERED : MR M. O’CALLAGHAN, i-
A TEMPERANCE REFORMER : THE
THE LATE MR. A. 0. CAPPER.
CLANCY, MAYOR OF LIMERICK. J! EX-MAYOR OF LIMERICK.
—n .. . .... . .——— r.
LATE LADY HENRY SOMERSET.
-—--»
NEARLY EIGHTY, AND RETIRING : SIR COURTENAY
ILBERT, CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
RESCUER OF WRECKED CHINAMEN : CAPT.
EVANS, OF “ BROKE ” AND SOUTH POLE FAME.
THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A FAMOUS LAWYER
AND SCIENTIST : THE LATE LORD MOULTON.
Mr. Alfred Octavius Capper, the well-known thought-reader, died suddenly in a
in Paris on March II.-Alderman George Clancy, Mayor of Limerick,
and Councillor Michael O’Callaghan, ex-Mayor, were both shot dead at their
homes by armed men in the early hours of March 7. Their wives were both
injured in trying to defend them.-Lady Henry Somerset, sister-in-law of the
Duke of Beaufort, died in Gray’s Inn on March 12. She was long President of
the National British Women’s Temperance Association, and founded the Duxhurst
Farm Colony for Inebriates.-Col. T. E. Lawrence, who did such wonderful
work among the Arabs during the war, has been made Adviser on Arabian affairs
to the new Middle-East Department. He went with Mr. Churchill to Egypt for
the conference on Mesopotamia.-Senor Dato, the Spanish Premier, who was
shot dead in his car by motor-cyclists in Madrid on March 8, was thrice Premier,
taking office in 1913, 1917, and 1920.-Mrs. Florence Barclay, the popular
novelist, died on March 10. Her best-known book, “The Rosary,” had a huge
sale.-Sir Courtenay llbert became Clerk of the House of Commons in 1902.
Capt. E. R. Evans, commanding H.M.S. “Carlisle,” recently effected a heroic
rescue of 200 Chinamen from the wrecked steamer “ Honginoh.” During the
war he commanded the “ Broke,” in the famous sea-fight. Previously he led
the British Antarctic Expedition after the death of Captain Scott.-Lord Moulton,
the eminent lawyer and scientist, died on March 9. He was a Lord of Appeal.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 19 , 1921—367
NEWS OF THE WEEK: IRISH FUNERALS; TEMPLE BAR; ROYAL INTERESTS.
Pmotockaphs by* Fakkincdon Photo Co., Topical, and Spout and General.
AM IRISH TRAGEDY OM THE SIKH FEIN SIDE : THE BURIAL OF THE MAYOR AMD
EX-MAYOR OF LIMERICK (SHOT AT THEIR HOMES)—THE SCENE BY THE GRAVES.
AN IRISH TRAGEDY ON THE CROWN SIDE : THE MILITARY FUNERAL OF
COL.-COMMANDANT CUMMING (KILLED IN AMBUSH) AT GOLDER’S GREEN.
TO BE RESTORED TO LONDON? OLD TEMPLE BAR,
NOW IN THEOBALD’S PARK, WALTHAM.
HOW SEllOR DATO WAS ASSASSINATED : THE BACK OF HIS MOTOR-CAR,
SHOWING HOLES MADE BY THE BULLETS WHICH KILLED HIM.
ROYAL SYMPATHY FOR A MURDERED PREMIER . THE KING AND QUEEN
OF SPAIN LEAVING THE HOUSE OF THE LATE SENOR DATO.
The body of the late Col. - Commandant H. R. Cumming, D.S.O., Military Governor
of Kerry, killed on March 5 in a Sinn Fern ambush, at Clonbannin, Co. Cork,
was brought to London and buried with military honours at Golder’s Green, on
March 10.-The funeral of Alderman Clancy, Mayor of Limerick, and Councillor
O’Callaghan, ex-Mayor, who were shot dead at their homes in the night of
6-7, took place a few days later. Portraits of them appear on another
P** e - "A hockey match between England and Ireland took place at Beckenham
on March ra. The King was present, for the first time at an international
hockey match.-A scheme is on foot to set up old Temple Bar, which gave
place to the Griffin outside the Law Courts in 1878, at the Embankment entrance
of Middle Temple Lane. It belongs to Sir Hedworth Meux, and stands at present
on his estate at Theobald’s Park, Waltham. His consent to its removal is neces¬
sary.-Mr. Joseph Gibb, of Glasgow, has invented a device enabling blind men
to follow every move in a game of football. Our photograph shows him using
it with a St. Dunstan’s man at the English League v. Scottish League match at
Highbury on March 12.-The Spanish Prime Minister, Senor Dato (whose
portrait we give on another page) was shot by motor-cyclists while driving home
in his motor-car in Madrid on March 8. More than twenty bullet-holes were
made in it The King and Queen of Spain visited the grief-stricken widow and
daughters, and the King attended the funeral on March 10.
THK
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1921.—368
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN
HAVE always
wondered that
M. Anatoli* France, whose
knowledge of the history
and psychology of the
Middle Ages is unsur¬
passed. never took for his theme the tragical
romance of Abelard and Hdloise Little was
known of them, save the half - legendary
story of their learning and their »ove. until
Victor Cousin, close on a century ago, edited
the famous theologian's writings, and proved
that he was among the most virile and
original of the great scholastic philosophers.
Indeed, his figure passed like a meteor across
the intellectual firmament of the twelfth
century, and the opposition to his teaching
on the part of high-placed ecclesiastics was
a striking proof of the far - reaching nature
of his personal influence in an age when it
was still possible to revive a minor heresy
without running the risk of fiery obsequies.
I myself once looked through some of the
material for a character in lTutarch's vein
of this triumphant theologian, whose love-
affair—perhaps, in reality, a comparatively
minute matter in his historic career—seems
to have been disregarded by contemporary-
masters of disputation. It was the con¬
cluding effort of a period of curiosity in
regard to the men and affairs of the early
Middle Ages, which began with a painstaking
inquiry into the amazing life of Gerbert (Pope
Silvester II.). which had been summed up
in the mystic line—
Scandit ah R Gerbertus ad K post Papa
vigens R,
for Rheims. Ravenna, and Rome were the
stepping-stones in the progress of the famous
scientist to a dubious immortality. From him
1 went on to other and later celebrities,
searching the monastic chronicles collected by
Muratori and other documents most faithfully,
and everywhere discovering that most modern
pictures were but vague and uncritical im¬
pressions. But Abelard I dared not adventure
on. secretly fearing that the beauty and
learning and sweet temerity of the Abbess of
the Paraclete might vanish in the cold light of
historical truth, and not wishing, furthermore,
to see the man greater as a theologian than
as a lover Avoid scientific history if you
wish to believe in all the old romances which
have lived on the lips of unlearned people !
In " HEloise and Abelard ” (2 vols ; privately
printed for subscribers ; 63s. net) Mr. George Moore
strives to fan the old tale into a new and living
conflagration But he has not. alas ! either the know
ledge or the temperament to reconstruct the tumul¬
tuous and bewildering twelfth century, or to reanimate
the protagonists in one of the most renowned dramas
in which passion spins the plot. Neither the valiant
PRIVATELY PRINTED. AND RARE : KIPLING'S " IN SIGHT
OF MOUNT MONADNOCK "
We reproduce on this page illustrations of three of the lots in an
especially interesting sale, which will be held by Messrs. Sotbeby,
Wilkinson and Hodge on April 4. 5, and 6. and includes a com¬
prehensive collection of the writings of Rudyard Kipling, the property
of Captain E. W. Martindel!. The particular “ lot M t'.ustrated above
ia described ss follows: "In Sight of Mount Monadnock. 811. (last
page blank), illustration on title, original wrapners. with title on upper
cover, in a folder, the whole enclosed in a half morocco open case,
lettered, a fine unopened copy. rare. Privately printed, 1894."
By (^mrtay of Mum. SatJuby, H ilAiiuon and Hodge.
hunter, who was
learning to be mer¬
ciful to wolves for fear
of killing them all and
losing his job; and that
ol the pious parrot which
escaped from its cage and was chased by a
goshawk, but saved itself and settled its
pursuer by screaming aloud “ SancU Tkoma,
Adueva!” That is a touch in the true
mediaeval vein—not. of course, meant to be
laughed at—which one can imagine M Anatole
France inventing between one sad smile and
the next.
Mr. Moore, who is most at home in the
'Nineties and is not afraid to be ” ninetv-
ish.” would have been better advised if he
had given us a romance of the kind that is
evoked in remembrance by the mere utterance
of the name—Paul Verlaine! He should have
transferred his Abelard and Hlloise to the
Quartier Latin, in the dear, unforgettable
days when it had not yet become a sort of
white-washed city of mechanical wonders for
the gullible tourist.
Several recently-published books have in¬
trigued me m a week of fine, confused read¬
ing. " The Challenge of the Dead "
(Cassell ; 7s. 6d. net), by Stephen Graham, is
the first example of a new kmd of war-book,
which will set a limit to the reaction against
remembering the world of ghosts “over there"
in places the demobbed soldier will never see
again, except in visions of the night, when
the star-shells break overhead, and the for¬
gotten places stand up black in the sudden
pallid green illumination. *' London’s River "
(same publisher; same price), by- H. M. Tom¬
linson, brings home to us the memories of the
met infecte of the great waterway with art¬
istry as powerful and precise as that of
Mr Tomlinson's epic picture of the Amazon,
and the serried patience of the endless tropi¬
cal forest. And for a book of war-pictures.
I can commend " I Was There " (Putnam's
Sons ; 218. net), by Leroy Baldridge, whose
drawings of the scenes and adventures of
“ Sammy " at the front (1917-19). a" faith¬
ful and dramatic and appealing.
tenderness of his HHoise, nor the con¬
flict of thought and desire he imagines
in the soul of his Abelard (it is too
much a scene A fa ire !), ever touches the
heart for a moment, and these twain,
and all his other characters, move as
shades in shadowy places. It is the
pastoral clement in the book which in¬
terests us most — and that means that a
false note is heard, or at any rate over¬
heard, throughout, for there was no love
of nature in the mediaeval mind. He
takes unpardonable liberties with his¬
torical facts. Thus, he makes Abelard
a trouv+rr in his youth (certainly an
anachronism !) in order that he may sing
love songs to his mistress, and she is
made to become the mother of a boy
who is named Astrolabe. The notion
that the victorious disputant with the
mighty St. Anselm at Laon could have
graduated in minstrelsy, is a reduclio ad
absurdum of all the implications of
mediaeval history. In all his other
books, and in his recently-published play,
Mr. George Moore has always insisted
on being the jeune premier, the young
lover, and here once more his generous
egoism insists on monopolising the centre
of the stage. He ought to have been
one of those handsome actor-managers
before whose portraits flappers light
little red wax candles saved from their
last Christmas tree ! But the fatal fault
of the book—alas ! that I should have
to say it of the work of a writer of such
variegated talent !— is that it bores one
even in its rendering of unsanctioned
ecstasies. There is, however, one episode
which is in his best vein. That is the
account of the joumev to Brittany, with
its vivid pictures of the country-side
through which the Loire flows, and its
jovous vams such as that of the wolf-
CONTAINING UNCOLLECTED ITEMS: KIPLING'S "WITH
NUMBER THREE . .
Thu is described as follows: " With Number Three. Surgical A
Medical, and New Poems, also Letters from Julian Ralph, Charles E.
Hands, and Douglas Story, original buff paper wrappers (stained and
slightly defective). exceedir*)y rare, the existence of other copies
appears to be doubtful, cr 8vo Santiago de Chile: Hume A Co
1900. Contains the following uncollected items: With Number Three:
Surgical and Medical, and New Auld Lang Syne"
By Courtesy of Mum. Satheby, Wi Ikintnn and Hodge.
A KIPLINC WHICH WAS SUPPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR:
' LETTERS OF MARQUE": ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
In the catalogue this is described as follows: " Letters of Marque,
vol. I., original wrappers. w<th a design on front cover, lettered :
Letters of Marque. No I. By Rudyard Kipling. One Rupee,
in a folder, enclosed in a half morocco open case, lettered.
Withdrawn from Circulation and Suppressed by the Author,
a fine copy, exceedingly rare 8vo Sampson. Low. Maraton
A Company. 1891.
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CHASE : (L. TO R.) PRINCE HENRY, THE DUKE
OF YORK, AND THE PRINCE OF WALES.
WINNER OF THE ALLIES' GRAND STEEPLECHASE :
COMTE H. D’OULTREMONT, ON HIS RAZZLE DAZZLE.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE MEETING :
TALKING TO AN OFFICER WHO RODE IN
THE GRAND MILITARY GOLD CUP.
THE FINISH OF THE GRAND MILITARY GOLD CUP: MR. W. FILMER-
SANKEY, 1st LIFE GUARDS, WINNING ON HIS PAY ONLY.
THE ALLIES’ STEEPLECHASE: HUGUENOT (RIGHT) LEADING FROM
RAZZLE DAZZLE, THE WINNER (LEFT), AT THE FIRST FENCE.
ROYAL INTEREST IN HORSEFLESH : THE PRINCE OF WALES (THIRD
FROM RIGHT AGAINST THE WALL) STUDYING MOUNTS AT SANDOWN PARK.
ROYAL ENTHUSIASM : THE PRINCE OF WALES (RIGHT). THE DUKE OF YORK
AND PRINCE HENRY (THIRD AND FOURTH TO LEFT), WATCHING A RACE. |
was a great gathering of oiBeers, past and present, at the Grand Military
eetang at Sandown Park, where, contrary to the usual custom, everyone who
d ever held a commission could obtain a pass for the Members’ Enclosure.
* K‘ n f> the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and Prince Henry were
present on March n, the first day, when the chief event was the race for the
M raf "u| M, * lUrT GoW Cup * a steeplechase. It was won by a neck by
r - Filmer - Sankey's Pay Only owner up). Colonel Brooke’s Secretive
Captain Doyle up) was second, and Sir H. Meux’s White Surrey Major Walwyn
up) third. On the second day, a novel event was the Allies’ Grand Steeple¬
chase, in which four French and four Belgian officers rode. Only the Belgians
finished, the Frenchmen being unused to the open ditch. Commandant Comte
Hermann d’Oultremont’s Razzle Dazzle i owner up) won by four lengths from
j Huguenot (Baron Gaffier up), and Southern Joy (Lieutenant Llame up) was
third. These three are seen in the top right-hand photograph.
370 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1921
“I WANT TO SEE THE PEOPLE”: THE PRINCE OF WALEsjAl
Photographs by Lakaykttk (Glasgow), PBOTomJ S,<>11
INSPECTING THE GUARD OF HONOUR OF GORDON
HIGHLANDERS : THE PRINCE AT ST. ANDREW’S HALL.
THE PEOPLE OF GLASGOW WANT TO SEE THE PRINCE : H.R.H. (IN THE CAR, RAISING
LEAVING THE KELVIN GROVE ART GALLERIES.
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The Prince of Wales, as usual on such occasions, made an immense success of his visit to Glasgow and neighbouring places on the Clyde, the enthusiasm of the workp«>P lf
and general public being especially marked. During his visit he was the guest of Lord and Lady Blythswood, at Blythswood House. The house party group (top l«f* P hoto
graph) shows, from left to right, front row, beginning with the second figure—Mrs. W. H. Coats, Lord Blythswood, the Prince, Lady Blythswood, Hon. Olive Campbell-
Admiral Halsey. Behind are Lieut Lewellyn, Mr. W. H. Coats, and Lord Gtentanar. The Prince arrived in Glasgow on March 8, and received the Freedom of the Citf
in St Andrew’s Halt In his speech he said : “ I want to see the people. I want to see all those who have made Glasgow what she is, the second city of the Emptf*-
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 19, 1921.-37/
)F W|AT GLASGOW, “THE SECOND CITY OF THE EMPIRE.”
1 ^port and Gbnkral, C.N., and I.B.
**** ev,d «nt that the people also wanted to see him. Later, he visited the British Industries Fair and the Art Galleries in Kelvin Grove. On the pth, at Clyde-
Union Castle liner, “Windsor Castle,” at Messrs. John Brown’s yard, where he talked with the workmen and i|as (to quote an eye-witness) “engulfed
the loth he visited Paisley, where he went over
0 b * nk ’ he inched the n<
• *** ° f cheerin K workers.” Next, be laid the foundation-stone of the Scottish Veterans’ Garden City, at Mary hill.
4 ^ ^ 111,1 * Q ue « n '» Park he inspected Boy Scouts and Boys’ Brigades. He presented to the ist City of Glasgow Scouts the King’s Flag which they won last year at
^ e jamboree at Olympia.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NEWS. March 19. 1921.—372
f
i
OOK ye. my
\~j lads, did ye
ever see such a fowl as
that before ? That’s the
bird which the old Indian
kings of Mexico let no
wear but their own selves, and
therefore I wear it—I, John Oxenham
of South Tawton, for a sign to all brave lads
of Devon, that as the Spaniards are the masters
of the Indians, we are the masters of the
Spaniards.” The said bird was a whole Quezal
bird, ” whose gorgeous plumage, fretted
golden green, shone like one entire pre¬
cious stone,” fastened with a great gold
clasp on a Spanish hat. The language of
" Westward Ho ! ” reproduces the days
of Drake. We like the contemporary
account where ” the Queen’s little pirate
whispered in her ear as he walked beside
her,” and made Queen Elizabeth one of
the greatest collectors in the world.
Drake, with his one ship and eighty men,
came home with gold - dust and silver
ingots from Potosi, with pearls and
emeralds and diamonds, which formed
the cargo of the great galleon which sailed
once a year from Lima to Cadiz; he
brought jewels which Elizabeth wore in
her crown. From the sailor in Lime-
house Causeway with his green parrot in
a cage to the latest distinguished mem¬
ber of the Royal Geographical Society,
the collecting habit has continued. It
is true unwise Tommies have brought
home sacredly guarded ginger-beer bottles
from remote places of the earth, but that
was due to their ignorance of ginger-beer
and of native art.
Curios of ethnographical interest were
sold by Mr. Stevens, of Covent Garden,
on the 8th. It is here that Oriental and
native work finds an atmosphere. Won¬
derful throwing sticks. Ju-Ju rarities,
savage amulets, slave chains taken from traders,
deities of all races, Hindu, Siamese. Chinese,
come under the hammer. Here is London’s
emporium for curios as distinct from elaborate
furniture and superlative porcelain.
Objects of vertu from various sources, and a
collection of coins, the property of the late Pro¬
fessor Julius Bogdanovitch, of Petrograd, were
sold by Messrs. Christie on the 9th. Roman
and Byzantine examples and Polish gold ducats
only brought £609 in all, being outside esoteric
numismatic interest.
An oval ivory snufl-
box, with a lid sur¬
rounded with a border
of diamonds on a
blue enamel ground,
was set with a minia¬
ture of Warren Hast¬
ings. It was pre¬
sented to Warren
Hastings by Indian
rajahs, and had an
authentic record from
a niece of Mrs. War¬
ren Hastings. One
wonders whether it
was from the brush
of ImhofI, the com¬
plaisant husband with
whose wife Hastings
fell violently in love
on the old East India-
man on the tedious
voyage out —- till,
and by arrangement,
ImhofI bought an
estate in Saxony, and
Mme. ImhofI, after
her divorce, married
Hastings at Calcutta,
and became Vicereine
of India.
On the 9th, Messrs.
Pu trick and Simp¬
son sold valuable
books, the property of a Baronet and others.
A Fourth Folio Shakespeare (1685) sold for
£12°.
On the nth, Messrs. Christie were selling
modern pictures and drawings. A ” Lake Scene,”
by Wilson, with figures in foreground, exhibited
something of the master’s touch. Alphonse
Legros. as Philip Gilbert Hamerton was never
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
tired of telling his contemporaries, was a masterly
portraitist in fine line, and a silver-point, the
” Head of a Lady ” bore this out. A Crome
” View on a Norfolk River ” came as a harbinger
of the centenary celebrations of Crome’s death on
April 22. There were three Birket Fosters : “The
Cottage Garden,” ” Verona.” and " Florence ” ; and
A. D. Peppercorn’s ” Early Morning,” and Cecil G.
Lawson’s “Harvest Time near Richmond,” were
echoes of a full time of art in the last decade of
the nineteenth century. Leader had a full com¬
plement of four canvases, including " Evening,
LEFT BY SIR HUGH LANE, WHO WENT DOWN IN THE ’’LUSI¬
TANIA.” TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, AND CLAIMED FOR DUBLIN:
” THE PRESENT,” BY ALFRED . STEVENS. THE BELGIAN PAINTER.
The two pictures here reproduced belong to the disputed bequest of the late
Sir Hugh Lane, particulars of which are given on the opposite page.
By Courtesy of the Tate Gallery.
Worcestershire,” 1886, which sold for 265 guineas;
and " A Summer Stream, North Wales,” 1884. He
has that pictorial sentimentality which attracts
the novice and wins the same approval as the
hackneyed refrain of a third-rate ballad. J. F.
Herring, sen., with his two canvases, ” Blue
Bonnet, Winner of the St. Leger, 1842,” and
and ” Our Nell, Winner of the Oaks, 1842,” found
recognition at only 60 guineas each.
Certain old English pottery from the E. H.
Coopman collection was sold by Messrs. Pu trick
SIR HUGH LANE’S DISPUTED BEQUEST OF FAMOUS PICTURES TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY:
THE "CONCERT AUX TUILER1ES,” BY EDOUARD MANET. {By Courtesy of the Tote Gallery.]
and Simpson on the nth, together with some
Worcester porcelain, the property of a nobleman.
Three of Mason’s ironstone - ware dinner ser¬
vices, painted with birds and flowers in the
Chinese taste, represented a fine pottery. Mason,
in his deep blues on utilitarian ware, approached
more nearly the Chinese blue than any other
potter. An egg-stand, surmounted by * bust of the
Duke of Cumberland,
brought 94 guineas,
and two figures of agate
cats, 5 inches high, sold
for 95 guineas. Salt glaze,
that delicate English ware,
was represented by a fine series of
teapots, mugs, and teapoys, with
coloured decorations. A Porto Bello jug. although
faulty, brought 52 guineas, inscribed : ” The
British Glory revived : By Admiral Vernon : He
took Porto 13 ello with six ships only: Nov. ye 22nd,
* 739 -" The Worcester porcelain covered
the gamut of marks, with oval pierced
baskets with square mark, plates with
crescent mark and c fi r mark, and Cham¬
berlain Worcester vases painted with
Ariadne, Orpheus, and Eurydice, by
Baxter, with gold mark.
On the 15th, at Christie’s, among
the old English porcelain sold, the pro¬
perty of Sir John Smiley, Bt., were some
interesting Worcester examples; and a
fine Nantgarw dessert service, painted
with flower sprays in colours, had the
impressed factory mark. Nantgarw always
brings high prices.
Decorative furniture, porcelain, and
tapestry were sold by Messrs. Christie on
the 17th. This included a suite of
Louis XVI. furniture, with settee and
six fauteuils covered with Aubusson
tapestry with pastoral scenes, and a fine
Louis XV. marqueterie secretaire stamped
"EVBB ME.” The Brussels tapestry
included panels with Teniers subjects;
but a set of five panels of Mortlake
tapestry, the property of a nobleman,
fetched a great price: brilliantly woven
with subjects allegorical of March, April,
May, June, July, August, and September,
by Stephen de May, signed “S. D. M.”
An oblong panel was 9 ft. by 17 ft., and
four upright panels were, respectively,
9 ft. by 8 ft. and 9 ft. by 4 ft.
Glass is much collected nowadays, but col¬
lectors cannot be too careful: the market is
flooded with foreign replicas, and a regular in¬
dustry exists to simulate old examples. Messrs.
Sotheby were selling, on the 17th and 18th,
collections from various sources, including a
Jacobite wine glass with portrait of Charles
Edward Stuart, inscribed Audentior ibo, the
property of the Rev. Sir Genille Cave-Browne-
Cave, Bt. ; and a pair of Waterford oval dishes
and covers with ser¬
rated edges, the pro¬
perty of Lord Wil¬
loughby de Broke.
Waterford such as
this, of unimpeach¬
able authenticity,
needs no bush, but
it cannot too strongly
be advanced that
99 per cent, of the
glass on the market
purporting to be old
Waterford is nothing
of the sort. Fabri¬
cators have erron¬
eously believed it to
be black-tinged or
blue-tinged, whereas
it is clear and limpid,
as a study of the
subject will show the
tyro. Experts can¬
not easily determine
what is old Water¬
ford, or what was
made in Ireland and
elsewhere. Some old
English porcelain in
•this sale claimed
attention: a set of
Rockingham plates
bore the griffin mark
of the factory, the
arms of the Fitz-
william family, on whose land the pottery
stood, at Swinton, in Yorkshire. Some Hep-
plewhite furniture, a settee, and ten cabriole
chairs in white and gold, with shield - shaped
backs, were of the right period. Two Chip¬
pendale chairs, and two similar comer chairs,
with backs pierced and moulded, had a character
which invited competition
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I.ONW)X NEWS. March I9 ,
1921 —373
FOR LONDON OR DUBLIN? aw „> ic .
—....:.!!, SH CR1EV ANCE in the art world.
* LONOTIaV \ Rti .
r tmr Tatr Gai.lkrv
ONE OF THE PICTURES IN THE DISPUTED BEQUEST* OF
SIR HUGH LAN E: “ LA DOUANE," BY ANTONIO MANCINI
.. “tVUEST SAID TO NEED AN ACT OF if *\. >
^ PARL I AMENT: M LOVE' S OFFSPRING," BY NARCISSE DIAZ.
of f th U ^‘ , the famous art dealer and patron, who was among the victims
Lad *r Lu * itan ‘*»’’ “ the subject of a biography (just published) by his aunt,
7 regory. He spent thousands on establishing the Dublin Art Gallery,
ut, provoked by what Mr. P. G. Konody calls “ slanderous ingratitude in his
h Wn |, C ^ Untr7 ’" h * made * new wiu leaving some forty foreign pictures, which
Lat h PreTiOUSly bequeathed to Dublin, to the National Gallery in London.
w. e revoked this will by a codicil, which, however, was not witnessed, and
72 *.*** ® n,orced without a special Act of Parliament. The Secretary
e ational Gallery is reported to have said that the pictures will be retained
at the Tate Gallery, where they now are, and that a new room is to be built
ThTV.don.rrT 0 " •/ m ° dCrn FfenCh ° f Which thej wil1 iorm ^e nucleus
f t W “ ,UKeStedl W ° Uld n0t ob i ect *0 lend them to Dublin
but did not intend to part with them permanently. In that case, the orom«ti« ’
of a Bill to legalise the unwitnessed codicil would r«t with^e^ub.L ZS?
JJU" ” pect ^, that a ^ ue *tion would be asked in the House on the subject
Besides the pictures we illustrate, the collection includes works by Corot, Ingres
tBy PROFESSOR /. • ARTHUR THOMSON, Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen University.
T HE fresh waters do not occupy even a hun¬
dredth part of the earth’s surface ; but the
haunt makes up for its small size by its great
variety.
It includes the deep lake and the shallow pond
(Figs. 5, 6. and 7, pond life), the brook and the
river, the ditch and the swamp. A striking feature
about the fresh-water animals is that they are often
much the same in widely separated basins. This
is partly because water-birds carry the same small
animals on their feet from one lake to another ; be¬
cause the wind does the same, and because changes
FIG. 11 .—THE COMMON EEL: STAGES IN ITS LIFE
HISTORY.
A. The second stage, a transparent knife-blade-like form
swimming near the surface of the open sea. B. The so-called
“ Glass Eel,” with knife-blade body beginning to be cylindrical.
C. The Elver, which ascends rivers and has now developed
pigment.
of the earth’s crust not only separate valleys, but
bring them together again. But the most im¬
portant reason is probably that the animals that
colonised the fresh waters have, for the most
part, come from the shore, and that only certain
kinds of constitution could stand the change.
But why do we think that fresh-water animals
came from the sea ? May they not have begun
to be where they are now ? To this good ques¬
tion we cannot give a short answer, but part of
the answer is this : Among the first animals to
have bodies—namely, the Sponges—we find one
family in fresh water, and all the rest—hundreds
of different kinds—in the sea. That is a straw
which shows how the wind blew. Among the
Stinging Animals which come next in order—the
sea-anemones and corals, the jelly-fishes and
zoophytes—half-a-dozen live in fresh water, and
thousands of different kinds in the sea. So in many
other cases, and the home of the great majority
is likely to be the original home of the race.
To understand the animal life of a lake we
must picture the immense numbers of simple
plants which float in the surface-waters. They
often make the water like green soup ; and there
are often far more in a pitcher than we can see
of stars on a frosty night. These minute plants
are the chief producers ; the animals are the con¬
sumers, though many of them devour their smaller
neighbours, who thus rank also as producers.
When an animal dies in the
water, the Bacteria break
down its body, through a
stage of rotting, to salts and
gases, which become sooner
or later, often with the help
of other bacteria, the food of
green plants. Thus the Bac¬
teria are the middlemen.
The experiment has been
made of putting mud and
manure in boxes round the
edge of a fish-pond. Bacteria
worked at the material and
made it available for Infu¬
sorians. The Infusorians de¬
voured what the Bacteria
prepared, and some of them
devoured the Bacteria too.
A living cataract of Infu- FIG. 12.—“ THE 1
sorians fell into the pond THOMSON’S B
and formed the food of water-
fleas or Cope pods, and these again were eaten by
fishes. If we believe that fish-food is good for the
brain, we may trace the links of a chain between
mud and clear thinking (Fig. 12).
The fresh-water haunt is a fine place for the
study of the web of life : that is to say, the linkages
that bind one living creature to another. The
mother fresh-water mussel keeps her young ones
in the cradle of her outer gill-plate, and will not
let them out until a minnow or some other fish
comes swimming past in a leisurely way (Fig. 2).
Then the pinhead-like larvae are liberated ; they clap
their tiny valves, they exude sticky threads, they
fasten on to the minnow, and after undergoing
a remarkable change, they drop off, to begin their
independent life somewhere else. The two animals
are linked together; and it is very remarkable
that there should be a fresh-water fish, called
the bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), that lays its
eggs in the gill - chamber of the fresh - water
mussel, where they go through their develop¬
ment (Fig. 3).
The pied-wagtail may be linked to successful
sheep-farming, for it is fond of the little water-
snail which harbours the juvenile stages of the
parasitic worm called the liver-fluke, which causes
fatal liver-rot in many sheep. If the decline of
Greece was partly due to the introduction of
malaria, we may link the decline to the mosquito
which harbours and spreads the microscopic
animal that causes malaria in man. And as there
are certain little fishes that greedily devour the
aquatic larvae of mosquitos, we may link little
fishes to the decline of Greece.
Life in fresb-water haunts is beset with diffi¬
culties. Thus in many parts of the world there
is the freezing of the water in winter, which may
be fatal even to a resourceful animal like the
otter. Some small water animals die off in winter,
and only their
eggs live on, '
protected
within hard
envelopes.
Others, like
the fresh-water
sponge, die f /£} ft \
away, but do l 1 /sS
not wholly die, ^ f
for pinhead- 1 Sy /
likegeramules, V ** /
protected V\
within a sphere /
of capstan-like
spicules of flint,
are formed
throughout the I—
dying body, FJC , 3 _ A FATHER WHO CARRIES
and start new HIS FAMILY on HIS HEAD :
sponges in the
THE CURTUS.
Spring. Of
great import- ^ ma,UTe male Curtus carrie » h “
family about 00 top of hia head until
&dc€ is si pecu- , , , . . , . t . , .
.. r , they are hatched. A double bunch of
liar property ^ is attached to the remar kable bony
of water. It hook ^ the back of the skull,
has its maxi¬
mum density — that is to say, is most closely
packed together—at 4 degrees Centigrade ; when it
cools below this, towards freezing, it expands.
Thus the water at the bottom of the pond rises
to tljp surface as it cools below 4 degrees Centi¬
grade, and forms at the surface a protective
floating blanket of ice. For eighty-five days in
the year the warmer water of the basin is at the
bottom ; the pool does not become solid ice;
FIG. 14—THE EEL’S RECORD
OF ITS AGE: RINGS FORMED
IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS
The successive rings indicate the
growth of successive years, and thus
the age can be read.
MUP ]
manure
INFUSORIA
--jgfr
-
WATER. -
FLEA FISH
-TROU'*
^ FISHERMAN
FIG. 1Z—“THE LINKS OF A CHAIN BETWEEN MUD AND CLEAR THINKING": PROFESSOR
THOMSON’S BLACKBOARD DRAWING TO ILLUSTRATE A PASSAGE IN HIS LECTURE.
1 were eaten by the fresh-water animals are able to continue ; become the elve:
is good for the and from this many consequences flow. There can be
1 chain between In warmer countries the great danger is drought, eel is a deep-w
and many fresh-water animals have learned to ally taken to e
ie place for the lie low in a state of latent life. Some small as the salmon
say, the linkages crustaceans have been known to lie for forty-six in most cases,
1 another. The years in dried mud, without giving up the power able excursions
of living when the mud -.'as moistened again.
The African mud-fish may remain for half the
year in a hole in the mud, with a ventilating shaft
rising to the surface and bringing in fresh air
(Fig. 8). A fish ’ _
water, ■■■
indeed !
Another risk—
in streams, es- V (/*■.
pecially—is that ■ - ; \
of being washed I , J
down to the sea, ■
or carried out W £
into a flood-bed I ufj
and left high J
can understand,
many fresh- V,
water animals, ' "" QU ■
leeches and in-
sect-larvae, have '' ■’'Mv H
gripping organs v ff/Yl
anchor < W
them ; and why — y |
some others, such
as the fresh- H
water crayfish
(Fig. 4). shorten F1C u.^the EEL - s RECORD
down the juve- OF fTS AGE: RINGS FORMED
srsrjt: «—
ing washed away **" ******" rin « s indicat * the
. . growth of successive years, and thus
are grea es the age can be read.
Some of the
life-histories of fresh-water animals are remarkable
(Figs. 1. Gnat; and 13, Curtus). The large sea-
lampreys make a stone nest in the bed of the
stream, so that the eggs are not washed away
(Fig. 10) ; the young ones live as “ niners ” for
four or five years in the river before they be¬
come full-grown and go down to the sea. This
is an instance of prolonging youth ; but the lam¬
preys have suctorial mouths, and are very well
able to look after themselves. The male stickle¬
back makes a nest among the water-weed, and
gets more than one mother-fish to visit it and leave
eggs there. He then mounts guard, and drives
off enemies much bigger than himself (Fig. 9).
When the eggs are hatched and the tiny stickle¬
backs begin to move about, he has still his hands
full—if one may say so—keeping them within
bounds until they are ready.
Strangest of all is the life-story of the common
eel (Figs, n and 14). The elvers come up the
rivers in spring ; each about the length of our first
finger, and the thickness of a knitting needle.
They form a crowded ” eel-fare," usually keeping
close to the banks, obeying an inborn impulse to go
upstream. The impulse stops when clouds hide the
sun, or when night falls. The elvers circumvent
water-falls, swarming up the moss-covered rocks,
or making a little detour on land. In the ponds
and quiet reaches of the river they grow for four
to eight years; as they become full-grown, a change
comes over them. Their eyes become larger, their
skin becomes more silvery, their blood changes,
they become restless. They
leave the quiet waters and
swim excitedly by night down
stream to the sea. The North
Sea is not cold enough nor
deep enough for them ; they
swim out to deep water in the
Atlantic, where they spawn
and die. The young ones are,
for a while, open-sea animals,
swimming near the surface by
night, sinking by day ; they
are like transparent knife-
blades (Fig. 11a), with no
colour except in the eye. In
their second year they become
shorter and lighter, with a cy¬
lindrical body, and are known
as “glass-eels” (Fig. nb).
NG”: PROFESSOR The y migrate shorewards,
HIS LECTURE. often journeying over a
thousand miles, and there
become the elvers with which we began (Fig. nc).
There can be little doubt that the common
eel is a deep-water marine fish which has gradu¬
ally taken to exploring the fresh waters, just
as the salmon is a fresh-water fish which has,
in most cases, learned to make very profit¬
able excursions to the sea.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, March 19. 1921 —375
HAUNTS OF LIFE: THE “DIM WATER-WORLD” OF LAKE AND RIVER
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIai artiqt « <> .__ _
—- “ ■-umarnu niiuf 1\1 T I. I ~ ,
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. W. B. ROBINSON P.nu
AL SUPPLIED BY PROFESSOR ). ARTHUR THOMSON. IN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS LECTURES.
” . '"V - A CORNER OFTHt
'v ’ " FRESH WATER
showing wafer spiders
carrying down bubbles of air Fo their diving-bells .
B,4 headed Pupa
breaming at Itie
surface by means of
fWo breamtnO trumpet-.
on the fop of ife head.
(a) Larval sfa^e of the May Fly
which lives under wafer for fwt
or three years, (b) Winded May
riles which may n of survive
more man one evening.
IV.-THE FRESH WATERS: CREATURES DESCRIBED IN PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON’S FOURTH LECTURE
AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
Haring dealt, in the abridgments of his previous lectures given in our issues of
February 26, March 5 and 12, with the life of the shore, the open sea, and the
great deeps, Professor Thomson now turns to the fresh-water life of rivers and
brooks, lakes and ponds, swamps and ditches. Fresh-water creatures, he explains,
originally came from the sea, and some of them, like the eel and 1 the salmon,
still spend part of their time in the ocean. The eel, he says, is “ a deep-water
marine fish which has taken to exploring the fresh waters." Life in fresh
water is made difficult by changes of temperature, and in hot countries by
drought, and we learn with amazement that some small crustaceans have remained
alive for forty-six years in dried mud ! The African mud-fish (Fig. 8) is one
of those which thus lie dormant The water having dried up, it is breathing
meantime with lungs instead of gills. - { Copyrtfhled in tkt ( niiad StaUs and Canada ]
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 19. 1921 — 376
THE BATTLE-SHIP AS
AN AEROPLANE’S TARGET :
PlIOTOT.HAPH BV K. MrU.HR, JlNIOK, NhW Y«KK.
AN AIR PHOTOGRAPH.
IS the modern capi-
* tal ship," asks the
“ Times," “ likely to
be in serious danger
if bombed by squad¬
rons of aeroplanes ?
Clearly the answer to
this question has an
important bearing on
the building of new
great ships for the
navies of to-day. In
the United States the
view that the aero¬
plane can inflict heavy
damage on battleships
by bombing attacks
from the air has been
strongly maintained
by Brigadier-General
William Mitchell.who
was in command of
all the American Air
Forces in the Amer¬
ican Expeditionary
Force during the war.
He gave evidence on
the point before the
Appropriations Com¬
mittee of the House
of Representatives,
basing his arguments
largely upon tests
which are made every
day in practice by
American Air Service
men. A blue print
diagram of 251 bombs
dropped from 6000 ft.
upon a target the size
of a modem battle¬
ship shows, he says,
55 direct hits, 50
within the danger
zone, or a total of
41*8 per cent, of
destructive hits. The
evidence of General
Mitchell is quoted by
the ‘ New York Her¬
ald ’ : * In many in¬
stances aviators have
made 80 per cent, of
hits at 10,000 ft.’
Air attacks at sea
would not, of course,
be carried out by
single aeroplanes. In
attacking a target
from a height of
12,000 it or 15,000 ft.,
a bombardment of
three groups, each
containing about 100
'planes, would be
used. These bomb¬
ing ’planes would be
protected by pursuit,
or light, swift fighting
’planes. Each squad¬
ron would have one
observer who directs
the squadron on the
target. When he
throws his bombs,
all the others throw
theirs, each squadron
dropping several tons.
It has been said that
the British Govero-
to abandon airships
for use with the Navy,
pinned their faith to
aeroplane carriers.
On this point General
Mitchell’s evidence
before the Appro¬
priations Committee,
as summarised by
the ‘ New York Her¬
ald,’ is interesting :
‘ He would have
"floating aero¬
dromes ”—swift air¬
craft carriers capable
of making greaver
speed than the swift¬
est destroyer or Dattle
cruiser, and with a
capacity of 100 or
more ’planes. ’ He
argues that the effect
of movement of a
battleship ‘ is practi¬
cally negligible where
collective bombing is
concerned, ’ because
4 there is nothing on
the ground or water
that can move more
than one-fifth as fast
as an airplane. ’ Gen.
Mitchell’s evidence
was not directed
to convince the Ap¬
propriations Com¬
mittee that the mo¬
ment had yet come
for substituting de¬
fence by air for
defence upon the
water ; nor did he
argue that the build¬
ing programme of
the United States for
battle-cruisers and
battle-ships should be
abandoned. But he
did insist 4 that *he
indications are mat
with proper develop¬
ment air weapons can
be so improved as to
make naval weapons
of secondary import¬
ance. General Mit¬
chell’s belief seems
not to have made
much impression
upon Mr. Daniels,
Secretary for the
United States Navy
in the Democratic
Administration which
has just left office.
4 We are not taking
General Mitchell’s ad¬
vice very seriously
in the Navy,’ he said,
and added,when asked
whether he would be
willing to remain
aboard a battle-ship
while General Mit¬
chell bombed it : 4 If
General Mitchell
doesn't handle bombs
any more accurately
than he handles facts,
I should be perfectly
willing to let him
bomb me all day
long.’ ”
IS THE CAPITAL 8HIP
We quote above, from the 44 Times,’’ an interesting account of bomb-dropping
experiments, recently conducted by the United Sutes Air Force, with a target
similar in size to a battle-ship. Out of 251 bombs dropped from 6000 feet.
55 direct hits were obtained. The result might be different under war conditions,
but it is of importance in considering the question whether the capital ship as we
now know it will be rendered obsolete through the development of aircraft.
OBSOLETE THROUGH AIRCRAFT MENACE?—A BATTLE-SHIP SEEN FROM AN AEROPLANE.
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 10, 1921._377
TWO CENTURIES OLD AND STILL
DELIGHTFUL
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA.
A PAINTING BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. STEVEN SPURWER. R.O.I.
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THE PLAY THAT “MADE GAY RICH AND RICH GAY:”
A SCENE ILLUSTRATED IN A
That genius is independent of date is proved by the wonderful success of Mr. Nigel
Playfair's revival, at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, of that eighteenth-century
ntasterpii-ce, “The Beggar's Opera,’’ by John Gay. It was first produced in
London by John Rich, at his theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, some twa hundred
years ago, and was afterwards toured throughout the British Isles. Its triumph
was said to have “ made Gay rich and Rich gay.’’ As a satire on Society it
proved immensely popular, and its wit and charm have survived the centuries,
“THE BEGGAR’S OPERA," AT THE LYRIC, HAMMERSMITH-
WELL-KNOWN HOGARTH PICTURE.
I along with the old tunes, now arranged in new settings, with additional music,
by Mr. Frederic Austin. Our illustration shows the scene in Newgate (Act III.
| Scene ii.), where Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit intercede for Macheath. The
I figures are, as in Hogarth's picture reproduced in our issue of February 19 (left
to right) : Lockit (Mr. Tristan Rawson), Lucy Lockit (Miss Violet Marquesita),
Macheath Mr. Frederick Ranalow), Polly Peachum (Miss Katherine Arkandy),
and Peachum (Mr. Frederic Austin). [Copyrighted m the L'niled State s and Canada]
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WHAT WILL BE THE CAPITAL SHIP OF THE FUTURE ? BRITISH BATTLE-SHIPS
Sir Percy Scott and
The question of the utility and futui
development of the capital ship has been exercising th<
inds of naval experts ever since th<
madness to trust entirely to submarines
school think that the day of the battle-ship,
The opposing school regard it
it exists at present,
fford to scrap the
tircraft to defend the Empii
The balance between these two opinions
struck by Sir James Thursfield, who wrote
hether submersible ship or flying ship—which is equally qualified to be . . . the capital ship
The very narrow escape of ‘ R 14 ’ from fatal disaster, following closely on the
its place some alternative type
have provided
But these developments
face to face with
awful disaster of ‘ K 5,
this most vital topi<
The whole nation and the whole Empire are
“^ib,
V NEWS. A
March 19 . 1921 .—379
SUfi %LES? BATTLE-SHIPS THAT „
^ Norman W.lk,nson. MAY BECOME OBSOLETE.
.xfitfer
O' ™0'A." -BENBOW,- and ” MARLBOROUGH."
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** ".a,„ tams that h ‘ t 8e h Pr0gramm " »' battle-ship construction. A, the same time the head „ the A A p 8 ""’ ' h ' U " i '' d ^ J ‘ P< “' * r<
,* of destructive hits a, r T ? SUfl ' r h ' aV7 dama8 ' ,rom "omb-droppine aeroplanes. Recent tests with HaT, dUri " 8 Bri8 - G ' n ' Mi
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HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19, 1921.— 381
iMitir.^
Wonders of Cittle-Knoion Central Africa.
nr j-
/Vo. III.-THE SACRED MILK CEREMONIES OF BVNYORO. By M. *». JOHN ROSCOE
T HE subjects of the King of Bunyoro regarded
him as a divine being ; not only was his
person sacrosanct, but ' also his food. He was
expected to bestow his blessing and thereby
increase the people and the cattle ; he was also
expected to preserve them from all evils and to
provide them with the necessaries of life.
Because he was so sacred it was considered
that his food should differ from that of ordinary
people ; and, as it consisted mainly of milk, a special
LIABLE TO BE STRANGLED IF HE FELL ILL, OR CUT
HIMSELF: A -HERALD" BRINGING THE SACRED COWS
TO BE MILKED.
herd of cows was provided to supply this. The
cows chosen were set apart from the herds of other
people and from those belonging to the king
for his household use. A particular name was
given to this herd, and the men chosen to keep
them were taken from special families. The
herd was large, and .is the cows tielonging to it
roamed about in distant parts of the country
according to the needs of pasture, it was necessary
that a number should be kept near the royal
residence for the king’s daily use. Nine were
selected for this purpose, and each morning and
evening they were brought before the throne-
room to be milked. The men who herded the
cows were not permitted to milk them, nor did
they come with them into the royal enclosure.
A boy called the ” herald ” brought the animals
to be milked. In the early morning the cows
came from their kraal, which was near, to be
milked before they were taken to the pastures
I hey were brought in through a private entrance
and stood before the throne-room. Again, in
the evening, at about four o’clock, the ’’ herald.”
accompanied by a few companions, sallied forth
to bring the cows. This ” herald ” was chosen
from a particular clan, and his person was
sacrosanct ; moreover, he had to be careful where
he went, and what he did, lest by sympathetic
magic he should injure the king. If'he should
fall sick, and be considered in a dangerous con¬
dition, he was strangled, because his illness
might cause the king ill-health ; and. again,
should he cut himself and cause blood to
flow, this also was considered dangerous to
the king. When he went for the cows,
he did not go far ; they were brought into
the vicinity to await him, and were driven
to him on his approach. He then walked
in front of the cows, while his companions
followed driving them. At intervals he
uttered a cry to warn people from the
path, whereupon men and women fled into
the grass or side-paths and covered their
faces while the cows passed. When he
reached the royal enclosure, there were two
chosen milkmen who came forward to take
the cows and milk them. A carpet of
fresh grass was now laid in front of the
throne-room, and the " herald ” brought a
calf of the animal to be first milked, and
allowed it to suck a little ; he then drew
it back and held it in front of its dam,
while the milking proceeded. In the mean¬
time two milkmaids appeared, one of them
bearing a horn of water and a brush with a
short handle, the second carry¬
ing a milk-pot. Each of these
women was purified and de¬
corated, having the face, chest,
and front of the arms whitened
with pipe-clay. The milkmaid
handed the brush to a milkman,
who rubbed the cow’s udder,
and handed it back to the
maid. He then took his place
behind the cow and held its
tail, so that it could not whisk
people, who then rose and went about their
duties. The other cows were then milked ;
their milk was used either to make butter for
SET READY FOR THE KING’S USE: A ROYAL MILK-
POT, FOR THE SACRED MILK, IN ITS BASKET.
anointing the king’s body, or as a gift to
favourite princesses or wives.
A similar custom was observed each afternoon,
when the king took his meal of beef. A cook,
who was purified, and had his face, chest, and
arms whitened, came at the sound of the royal
drums with the food. The king was told by
HOLDING THE COW’S TAIL LEST IT WHISK DUST INTO THE MILK:
ONE MILKMAN ON DUTY READY FOR ANOTHER TO MILK THE COW.
f'krtozrmphs by Ike Rev. John Rosa*.
dust into the milk during the milking.
The maid now turned to the other
man and poured a little water over
his hands, as he squatted by the side
of the cow. After washing, the man
held his hands together raised, until
the other milkmaid placed the milk pot
between his knees, when he milked
the amount the cow was expected to
give. Neither of these men must look
at the women or speak to them, on
the pain of death. In this manner
two cows were milked, and the milk
was earned away into the dairy.
When these cows were milked, and the milk
deposited in the dairy, another milkmaid, who
was ceremonially cleansed like the other two,
came and knelt before the king and announced
that the milk
had arrived.
The king then
rose, and, as he
did so. the guard
at the door an¬
nounced to the
court that the
king had gone
to drink milk ;
hereupon men
and women
knelt down,
covered their
faces, and re¬
frained from
coughing or
making any
sound, especially
from clearing
their throat ;
such an action
was punishable
by death. When
the king re¬
turned from the
dairy, the guard
notified the
TO HOLD THE SACRED MILK, BROUGHT TO THE KING TWICE
A DAY WITH ELABORATE CEREMONY: ROYAL MILK-POTS.
his guard when the time arrived for different
duties to be performed during the day ; so, about
four o'clock in the afternoon, he struck a blow
on each of nine drums which hung round the
throne-room to announce the time for the meal.
The cook, who had the meal prepared in a hut
situated near the enclosure, started out, walked
round the enclosure, and entered by the private
gate through which the cows pass for milking.
A boy carried a pot containing the meat, and
a second boy carried a basket of other food. The
beef was from an animal of the sacred herd, which
must be a yearling. The meat was cooked and
cut into small pieces ready for eating. When
the cook arrived he entered the throne room
and knelt before the king, while the boy placed
the pot before him and retired. The cook held
a two-pronged fork, which be dipped into the
pot, brought up a piece of meat, and put it into
the king's mouth ; four times he did this, and,
should he by accident touch the king's teeth
with the metal, he was put to death on the
spot. During this meal the people within
the enclosure knelt silent, and covered their
faces until the king had finished, when they
might rise and return to their own affairs.
The meat in the basket was given to the king’s
favourite pages. The four pieces of meat were
all the solid food he was supposed to eat.
Owing to the stringent rules for the milkmaids
and cowmen, their office was held for two’ days
only at a time.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 19, 1921—382
DAIRYING AS COURT RITUAL: PIPE-CLAYED BUNYORO MILKMAIDS.
Photographs bv thk Rrv. John Roscor.
A LESSON IN CLEAN DAIRYWORK FROM UGANDA : A BUNYORO ROYAL MILKMAID HOLDING A BRUSH FOR THE MILKMAN
TO CLEANSE THE UDDER OF A SACRED COW.
WHITENED WITH PIPE-CLAY : ROYAL MILKMAIDS WITH THE KING OF BUNYORO, ONE HOLDING A WATER-HORN,
ANOTHER A BRUSH FOR CLEANSING THE COW'S UDDER.
The remarkable and elaborate ceremonies formerly observed in Bunyoro, Uganda,
in milking the sacred cows for the king, and serving him with the milk, are
described in an article on a previous page by the Rev. John Roscoe, leader of the
Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa, whose descriptions of the New
Moon and “ Coronation ” ceremonies of Bunyoro appeared in our issues of
March 5 and 12. After the sacred cows had been led to the royal abode by a
herald fas illustrated on the article page), “ two milkmaids appeared, one bearing
a horn of water and a brush with a short handle, the second carrying a milk-pot
Each of these women was purified and decorated, having the face, chest, and
front of the arms whitened with pipe-clay. The milkmaid handed the brush to
a milkman, who rubbed the cow’s udder, and handed it back to the maid. He
then took his place behind the cow and held its tail (as illustrated on the previous
[Cantinmd
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, March 19, 1921.—383
WHERE “GOING A-MILKING
WAS PERILOUS: BUNYORO SACRED RITES.
Photogbapm
“NEITHER, OF THESE MEN MUST LOOK AT THE WOMEN, NOR SPEAK TO THEM, ON PAIN OF DEATH’’:
BUNYORO MILKMAIDS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE MILKING OF A SACRED COW FOR THE KING.
P*S*), SO that it could not whisk dust into the milk during the milking. The manner two cows were milked, and the milk was carried away into the dairy.”
maid now turned to the other man, and poured a little water over his hands, as Thus the terms “milkmaid” and “milkman,” as applied to the royal rites of
he squatted by the side of the cow. After washing, the man held his hands Bunyoro, had a meaning the reverse of the usual, for men milked the cows and
together raised, until the other milkmaid placed the milk-pot between his knees, women delivered the milk to the king. We feel the absence of the light-
when he milked the amount the cow was expected to give. Neither of these hearted spirit we are accustomed to associate with “going a-milking,” for any
men must look at the women or speak to them, on pain of death. In this little mistake in the ritual might mean death to the delinquent.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON M W
lit. L»J1
WHERE ONE GLANCE AT THE KING MEANT INSTANTANEOUS DEATH
A YOUTH STANDS BEHIND
ceremonies formerly observed
pot of milk offered to him by a kneeling milkmaid.
placed to keep its natural warmth.
the king at the milkmaid.
pe the king's mouth before and after drinking.
sponge used
rhitened, and she
rhich her face and neck are painted,
might imagine it to be
latural hair, although
prepared skins
READY TO INFLICT DEATH FOR ERRORS OF DETAIL A
Drawn by A. Forestier from Matuu
■PP
pot which she has taken from
extraordinary adipose development due to
THE HXCSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, March !<*, j<)21
L 0EI ‘A king of bunyoro receiving
Supplied by thh Rev. John Roscof
HIS SACRED
MILK.
ffl: BUNY °RO milkmaid handing his majesty the sacred milk, while
10 1 Con CEAUNG a large knife.
if 01 yoJth^o^ Behind the king, on a dais raised only slightly above the floor of the hut (about 15 inches), and covered with splendid lion and leopard skins, stands a
y ready to haTd •* ** PreSent near the king - and accompanies him everywhere. He bears a lion skin on his shoulder, but concealed beneath he holds a large and sharp blade,
y of the cerem * **** t0 ^ master should the >*tter stretch his hand out for it, to punish by immediate death the person who should disobey or not observe the very detailed etiquette
y and cu rr r At th * d °° r ’ ° n * ° f 016 fuards “ iust in to announce to the court assembled in the royal enclosure that the king is drinking. At this news all must kneel
y either side h^ - Until **** ***** Mys * “ The king has finishe d drinking.” Outside are seen the sacred cows. Inside the royal hut are drums tied to the wall, and one at
} t* 0 t e dais. When needing help, the king struck these drums in turn, always ending with that on his right.—{Drawing Ca^yrifitted in the Untied States and Canada I
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 19. 1921.-386
* » #
THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE.
By J. T. CREiN.
I FEAR tlu-t the brilliant pen of Mr. Harold
Terry has been spluttering a little during
his quest of a solution to the knotty problem
of “ The Fulfilling of the Law.” For two
acts we enjoyed pure comedy, with a little jarring
dash of vehemence on the part of the heroine
when she attempted to knife the man she was
destined to love, in exchange for his untoward
embrace. But that was only a moment’s aber¬
ration, for the tale was fascinating, the dialogue
scintillant with a peculiar brightness of humour,
and we hoped that the vacillating
character of a very wobbly hero
would develop into virility and
decision. That, however, did not
happen: in the third act the
comedy strayed perilously near to
problem - play seriousness. Some¬
how, 1 think, Mr. Terry did not
end his play as he intended. This
time the game of " General Post ”
was not so dexterously handled
as in the famous comedy which
brought Harold Terry deserved
fame and fortune.
But I would not linger on the
play, because the chief interest
was one of its impersonations. Of
course, we* had both the delightful
acting of Mr. Arthur Wontner.
with his distinguished style, and
the adorable accents of Miss Mary
Rorke, who—let me be prophetic—
in the right motherly part, will
carry London by storm of tender¬
ness ; but the unexpected came
from Miss Constance Collier. She
was the woman who, by the words
of her husband, we should dislike
as an unwifely, unmotherly, un¬
feeling creature, but who wound
herself around our heart - strings
by smiles of witching charm, by
an enfant - terrible insouciance that
was irresistible, by an unobtrusive study of
all that femininity means in wile and guile and
seductiveness, which revealed the comedienne in
an artist hitherto considered as an actress of
much heavier calibre. The American stage, which
by its methods may prove to our players a
destroyer or a master-builder, has done wonders
for Miss Collier. It has shorn her of self-con¬
sciousness. of an inclination to be ponderous, of
a kind of inexpressible handicap, which stood in
her way ; she has come back a bird of freedom,
gaily fluttering in lightness of feather, revelling
in her part in natural
glee, toying with her
dialogue as if she en¬
joyed the fling of every
line ; smiling benignly,
divinely, on all and
sundry around her of
whose conquest she is
less certain, of whose
doubts she made light.
A charming imperson¬
ation, in fine, of ex¬
quisite art, which
should mean a long
line of fresh woods and
pastures new in her
London career.
Strange to observe
how the merry - go -
round of the London
theatre changes in an
incredibly short time.
When recently I took
my 'busman's holiday
in France, whence I
gave our readers some
impressions of things
seen, I left the London
stage in a most roseate
condition. There was
a rare array of good
plays—so many as to
make Paris blush with
envy and apprehension.
Full houses were the
order of the day.
What a dibdcle these
last four weeks 1 —
eclipses of time-honoured runs, short runs of still¬
born plays, general depreciation of quality—of the
plays, not the acting — on two occasions the
" bird,” that rara avis in the gallery and pit, utter¬
ing ominous sounds on the first night. Whence
this reaction ? For one thing, we both—public and
critics—have awakened. We have recognised that
there has been too much consideration and conces¬
sion to judgment ever since the war. For another,
money is tight, and the man who pays for his
seat no longer says “ Give me anything ’*; he wants
something of value for his coin. At length the
playgoer has grown tired of stories that harp
on the same overtired string—marital infelicity.
Not that the plays bore him, but they irritate a
community which is well aware of the unpleas¬
ant aftermath of the war—unfortunate marriages
galore contracted in the seventh heaven of vain
illusions, and now clamouring at the besieged
gates of the Divorce Court. It is, after all, a
very human feature to resent the rubbing of
salt into wounds, and it is therefore unwise to
load the theatre with plays which insist on a
sore and unedifying phase in our midst. What
we want in the theatre in these days of pain¬
ful remembrance and hopeful reconstruction is
romance and tonic stuff, including melodrama ;
next, a sound handling of the loftier problems
of the period—plays of the character of “ The
Right to Strike,” " The Skin Game,” ** A Grain
of Mustard Seed ”—above all, the cheering cup
of comedy.
As Miss Sara Allgood, the renowned Irish
actress, recalls in her appeal for the Abbey
Theatre of Dublin, it was from there that the
repertory movement began, flourished, and en¬
dowed our drama with priceless gems of dramatic
art. So there is no need on my part to add
exhortation to the words of one who was one of
the standard-bearers, and who, in
“ The White - Headed Boy,” so
splendidly upholds the tradition of
the grand work of the Abbey
Theatre. This is what she says—
" The Abbey Theatre is at the
present moment in very low water,
owing to the terrible state of
affairs in Dublin, and in Ireland
generally, and Lady Gregory is
afraid that the theatre may have
to close definitely, unless they get
help. So, as most of the first
members of the first Repertory
Theatre in the Kingdom are play¬
ing at present in ' The White-
Headed Boy,' we are doing our
best to help this splendid move¬
ment by giving a matinee of three
of the one-act plays representing
the first three authors. We pro¬
pose giving this matinee on Wed¬
nesday, March 23. Captain Har¬
wood has very splendidly given us
the use of the Ambassadors Theatre
free of charge. We now ask the
support of the public, and I feel
certain we have many friends and
admirers who will very gladly help
us to keep alive the Abbey Theatre.
The plays we propose doing are :
* Cathleen ni Houlihan,' by W. B.
Yeats ; * Shadow of the Glen,’ by
J. M. Synge ; and ' Spreading the News,' by
Lady Gregory. Please give our matinee all the
publicity you can, and accept my grateful thanks.
Yours sincerely, Sara Allgood.”
George Robey is the darling of the gods, the
mortals, and—the critics. We love him for the
gift of countless hours of mirth, for what he has
done for the country : to praise him is our joy
and his due. But this time he has not over¬
rated^—that were an unkind word—he has mis¬
calculated his sustaining power. Not that he has
tried to give us a one-
man show, for in truth
Jack Waller, with his
delightful musical skits
on oratorios and trios,
runs him close in space
and opportunities, and
others are equally well
provided with a
“chance.” Still, he was
the head of the firm
which bears his name ;
he was the cynosure,
the pivot, the corner¬
stone of the entertain¬
ment at the Alhambra,
and for once he seemed
out of his element.
He seemed strangely
nervous and halting;
he seemed to dig for
jest, instead of collect¬
ing it like manna ; he
had few songs—and
those of no importance.
And as the whole
scheme of the kaleido¬
scopic entertainment
was, for the Alhambra,
small, modest, thinly
peopled, and archaic
of display, we ex¬
perienced exactly the
same impression as
when Pelissier, years
ago at the same theatre,
tried to turn his kite
into a Zepp. There is
much delightful stuff
and flavour, in the “Casserole,” but there is too
little breast, and too much bone, too little sauce,
to make it a complete relish.
A STAGE TABLEAU REPRESENTING THE LID OF A SNUFF-BOX: A SCENE AT
THE CHAUVE-SOURIS (BAT), A NEW RUSSIAN THEATRE IN PARIS.
Paris is much interested in M. Nikita BaliefTs new Russian theatre known as the Chauve-Souris
(The Bat), originally started in Moscow as a night club for players at the Art Theatre, and
transferred to Paris after the Russian Revolution. The stage is draped in black velvet, in which
are framed various tableaux. Some represent lids of snuff-boxes, old photograph-albums, and so on.
Photograph by Delphi.
IN THE CAST OF " THE BILL OF DIVORCEMENT.” MR. NORMAN McKINNEL’S LEADING LADY IN
AT THE ST. MARTIN'S, POSTPONED THROUGH “THE NINTH EARL,” AT THE COMEDY
HER ILLNESS: MISS MEGGIE ALBAN ESI. THEATRE: MISS JESSIE WINTER.
The production of “The Bill of Divorcement,” at the St. Martin’s, was postponed to March 14 owing to the illness of
Miss Meggie Albanesi, who was cast for an important part. Miss Jessie Winter plays heroine to Mr. Norman McKinnel’s released
convict peer in “The Ninth Earl,” with which he has begun management at the Comedy Theatre.
Photographs by Malcolm Arbuthnot and Dorothy Wilding.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 19 . 1021
LADIES' NEWS.
O XFORD gave the Queen a great welcome last
week when her Majesty went to take her degree
as D.C.L. The first lady in the land was the first
woman to receive it. Naturally, the women's colleges
at Oxford were delighted at the Queen's visit and at
her Majesty's taking the degree, for the other great
University has refused to grant any to our sex.
Although these great and venerable seats of learning
are in accord, even they are not above a little friendly
rivalry, so Oxford exceedingly rejoiced in the visit of
the Queen and its purpose.
There were a great many ladies of light and lead¬
ing at the Duchess of Somerset’s sale at her house
last week. Princess Helena Victoria was purchasing.
Olga Lady Egerton, by birth a Russian, was busy for
the Russian refugees, and very keen about*a Thi
Dansant for them this week at Chesterfield House,
lent by Viscount Lascelles. The Vicomtesse de la
Panouse, who was at the head of the French Red
Cross here all through the war, was selling. The
Marquise Medici, in brown, looked very handsome and
elegant; so did the Comtesse du Halqouet, Mme.
Thierry, and the Comtesse de la Rochefoucauld—all
delightfully French to buy from and to look at. Nor
were our own ladies at all behind in attractiveness.
Priscilla I^ady Annesley, always decorative, wore a
dark sable brown ostrich-plumed hat. with a long silk
coat having bands of the now inevitable cirt satin.
Tall and fair and handsome, Mrs. Coningsby Disraeli
reminded one of another conference than that from
which the Germans retired last week, at which her
husband’s uncle, the great “ Dizzy,” was a central
figure. Lady Ingletield was doing good business
with Anglo-Belgian lace. Lady Clanwilliam. tall and
elegant, had her daughter, Miss Gwendolen Howard,
with her. Lady Clanwilliam has one boy and two
girls of her second marriage, and a boy also by her
first, Mr. Hubert Howard, who is heir-presumptive
to his cousin the Earl of Carlisle, whose only child is
a daughter born about eighteen months ago.
Our recent weather has been doing all it can to
encourage our incorrigible meteorological optimism,
which is a dangerous thing to cultivate in our
capricious climate. An American visitor said that all
the world knows it usually rains in Great Britain, and
that only the Britishers ignore that fact. We are
improving, the reason being the style and cut and
comfort of Dexter weatherproofs, especially those
made of feather-woven Dexter cloth. It keeps out
rain and wind, and is yet light and always smart.
There is a distinct improvement in our weather
caution, as was seen by the number of Dexters at the
Grand Military last week. Soldier men and women
know what’s what !
Dust is one of our greatest modern nuisances.
There was never any real significance in the old saw
AN AFTERNOON DRESS.
In order that the white front of this black-and-white Canton crtpe
dress should not look too startling, it is embroidered in jet. A
large picture hat is worn with it [PHoto&apk by C.roum Inc., Paris .|
that " March dust was worth a guinea an ounce,”
only in so far as it meant dry weather. The deadliest
enemy to malignant, microbe - haunted, drapery-
destroying, carpet-clogging dust is the ” Hoover.” It
is an absolutely efficient suction sweeper, and it costs
less to own one of these than to be without one,
because it saves cleaning and renovating bills. It
can be switched on to any electric-light plug, and it
costs about one penny an hour to work. It beats
and cleans as it sweeps. There is no need to dust
everything in a room swept by a " Hoover,” for it
makes no dust. Everyone knows, after a room is
swept in the old-world way. the curtains have to be
shaken, and everything has to be dusted. When
all this dusting has been done, there is still a lot of
dust about. Not so with the “ Hoover ” ; it gobbles
it all up. and delivers it only to be burnt. Once a
house-mother has seen a “ Hoover ” at work, she will
not be happy until she has one. The ” Hoover ” head¬
quarters are at *88-92, Regent Street, from where an
interesting booklet on the easy ” Hoover ” way of
keeping the house clean will be sent to anyone applying.
Among the new fabrics that we are examining
with a view to the coming season, few intrigue me so
much as one introduced by the famous firm of Liberty
and Co. They are made from artificial silk and wool
and also from artificial silk and pure silk, and they
are wonderfully lustrous and effective, and the colours
are those for which Liberty’s are far-famed. The
name of these most fascinating fabrics is ” Sungleam,”
and they are as beautiful as their name, and will make
very lovely day and evening dresses and cloaks, and
this is going to be a cloak season. *' Sungleam " can
be seen at East India House. 220. Regent Street, and
patterns can always be obtained by writing a post-card.
The thing that makes a room is its carpet. Every
home is being brightened up at this season, so it is
real good news that at so celebrated a house as
Treloar and Sons, 68-70, Ludgate Hill, there is a
reduction in price of fine British W r ilton, Axminster,
and other of our own makes of carpets. They have
also large shipments of Indian and Turkey carpets.
There is a stock of all sizes, patterns, colours and
textures at this famous carpet shop, and the prices are
most moderate. Treloar’s are, of course, the world's
specialists in economical floor coverings.—A. E. L.
For the Easter Holidays, the London Brighton
and South Coast Railway have arranged a period
excursion on March 24 to Portsmouth and the Isle
of Wight, leaving Victoria 2.55 p.m., the return fares
ranging from 15s. to 22s. 6d. according to distance
travelled. The return journey must be made by
certain specified trams on Easter Monday evening.
Day excursions will be run to Brighton on Good
Friday. Easter Sunday and Monday, and to Hove,
Worthing, Littlehampton and Bognor on Easter
Monday. Excursions to Dieppe on March 24, 25 and
26 have also been arranged.
The delicate nail root js only
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If you could see. magnified, the 3
cuticle that has been cut. you would
notice little raw. exposed places J
where more than the dead scarf
skin has been cut away. All these «
tender cut surfaces grow up more j
quickly than the uncut parts.
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the end of the orange stick, dip it into
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The surplus cuticle is softened,
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and summer one—a fact which has led to
the rather hasty conclusion that the two
diseases are identical. Later researches,
however, show that this is improbable, as
Messrs. Loewe and Strauss, writing in the
Journal oj Infectious Diseases, and Mr. Tral-
himer in the Archives of Neurology and
Psychiatry (both published in the United
States), claim that the organism producing
the “ sleeping sickness ” has been isolated,
and that it is a spherical body passing
through all ordinary filters either singly, in
pairs, or (less frequently) in chains, and
that it much resembles that long ago iden¬
tified with infantile paralysis or poliomy¬
elitis. This organism has been found in the
cerebro-spinal fluid, the blood, and the nasal
secretions of patients suffering from it, and
injections from these have proved capable
of infecting rabbits and other small animals.
On the whole, however, it seems to have a
very small power of infection through the
breath or otherwise than subcutaneously.
As to the symptoms, although at first
sight they are apt to be confused with those
of other diseases, they are easily distin¬
guished even by lay observers. The attack
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 19 , 1921.—390
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
THE PUZZLE OF SLEEPING SICKNESS.
E ncephalitis lethargica, to give it its
long-tailed name, has at last attracted the
attention of our Ministry of Health, which has issued
a pamphlet on the subject giving some statistics
which go to show that the epidemic, slight as it was,
is now declining. This was, on the whole, to be
expected, as it seems to be almost entirely
a winter complaint, as influenza is a sprine _
eyeball called nystagmus; some kind of facial paralysis
generally follows quickly.
With regard to the cure, very little is at present
known with certainty. Hexamine was at one time
thought to be a specific, but a writer in this month’s
British Medical Journal thinks its effect doubtful,
although he says at the same time that it can do no
harm, if no great good. 1 he removal of a fairly large
excitement, which in a few days gives place
to a positive inability to keep awake for
more than a few minutes at a time. The
pulse is rapid and temperature high, while
headache and a general feeling of lassitude
mark the rapidly decreasing intervals of
wakefulness. Generally pains in the limbs
are present, with sometimes spasmodic
twitching or jerks of the muscles. The
speech usually becomes difficult or slurred,
and a peculiar mask-like expression of the
face is observable in the majority of cases.
The most certain symptoms, however, are «
double, drooping of both eyelids, and some local ]
like shaking of the head or the peculiar rolling c
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This interesting offertory dish has been presented to Westminster Abbey for the service
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Sir Wyndham Murray, K.C.B., Scarlet Rod in the Order of the Bath, and Lady Murray.
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dedicated to the service of the Abbey by the Dean, at the morning service on Sunday,
March 13.
quantity of the cerebro-spinal fluid by lumbar puncture
seems to give certain relief, and this will probably be
the treatment in most hospitals if the frequency of
the disease increases later. It can apparently be
repeated more than once in severe cases, but is open
to the objection that it is merely doctoring symptoms
without any endeavour to get at the seat of the
disease. A case that went the round of the daily Press
showed that a lady attacked by it made a complete
recovery after being delivered of twins ; but this is
a remedy clearly impossible of application at will,
and one from which, in the nature of things, the
much-enduring male is excluded. Whatever
_ ground, moreover, this might afford for the
conclusion that the malady is what is called
” nervous ” is cut away by a case recorded
in this month’s Lancet, where a woman within
a few weeks of becoming a mother was at¬
tacked by it and died some three weeks later
after giving birth to a perfectly healthy infant.
Other guesses as to its origin and methods
of propagation have up till now proved
equally futile. The theory mentioned in this
column a few weeks back, suggesting that
the epidemic of hiccough might have some
connection writh it, seems knocked on the
head by a communication to the Soci£t6 de
Thirapeutique de Paris, by Dr. Petges of
Bordeaux, that this epidemic, which seems
to have lately been prevalent in his district,
is entirely rheumatic in its nature, and that
he has found aspirin in one gramme doses
very’ efficacious. It has, of course, no dis¬
coverable connection with the regular “ sleep¬
ing sickness,” or trypanosomiasis, of Central
Africa, which follows the bite of the tsetse-
fly, the absence of trypanosomes, the organ¬
isms causing this last complaint, being con¬
spicuously absent in encephalitis. Yet the
theory that it is due to the bite of some
parasite is by no means to be lightly dis¬
carded. That the lesser mammals can be
infected writh it is in itself significant, and
TORY the story that has lately appeared in the
JBEY. papers that cats have in some places been
service found suffering from it in considerable
Lionel numbers seems to point to one possible
lurray. source of infection. It Would be an excellent
517 plan if the rats and mice—particularly the
last-named—in any district where cases of
h was encephalitis have lately shown themselves
unday, were caught and their fur examined for any¬
thing like unusual parasites. With the filth
-daily dumped upon our too hospitable shores
by shoals of immigrants from the war-stricken dis¬
tricts of Eastern Europe, we may easily receive
other p>ests than Bolshevism. F. L.
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THE PLAYHOUSES.
“THE NINTH EARL," AT THE COMEDY
E VERYONE must wish so sterling an actor as
Mr. Norman McKinnel good luck in manage¬
ment, He starts with a play of Hugo-like stamp,
which, with a hero somewhat in the case of Jean
Valjean, enables him to offer a haunting study of
a man half - dehumanised by prison life and the
isolation resulting from social boycott. This con¬
vict is, of course, made an innocent convict in
Rudolf Besier's and May Edginton’s story.
His offence had been manslaughter occa¬
sioned by his championship of a defence¬
less girl — and, tc heighten the irony of
his situation, on release from prison he
is shown as inheritor of a title and
estate. The mere sight of the clergyman
brings back the cowed, hang-dog look of
convict days—the actor’s facial play is
wonderful in that scene. Once he catches
his footman sniggering at him, and—here
Mr. McKinnel makes us shudder with his
suggestion of ferocity—nearly strangles
him. His one comfort is a packet of
letters sent him all through his period of
imprisonment: did he but know it. the
writer of them is close at hand. She is
the little girl he befriended. Miss Jessie
Winter invests her with quiet charm ;
Mr. Goodrich and Mr Halliwcll Hobbes
are good as a lawyer and a butler re¬
spectively ; but the triumph in acting
is Mr. McKinnel’s.
"THE REBEL MAID." AT THE EMPIRE.
“ The Rebel Maid,” newly produced at
the Empire, is veritable comic opera, with
a Sullivanesque touch in its score. Really
it is a cape-and-sword melodrama, set to
music; Devonshire is its picturesque back¬
ground. and the conspiracy which brought
Dutch William to the throne is drawn
upon for the plot. Throughout the play, Miss Clara
Butterworth makes a dashing and vivacious heroine.
Her fine voice is also used to advantage, save that it
is difficult to hear the words of her songs. Mr. Thorpe
Bates, as the maid's sailor lover, sings fervently and
acts no less well. In addition, Mr. Hayden Coffin makes
a welcome reappearance ; Mr. Leslie Carter is equipped
with a " fat ” part as villain ; and there are excellent
low-comedy opportunities for Mr. Walter Passmore
and Miss Betty Chester. As for the music of Mr.
Montague Phillips, it is content, for the most part,
with being melodious, but his orchestration is con¬
sistently clever, and now and then he reminds us that
he could do more ambitious work, were it wanted.
ADVENTURES OF FIFTY YEARS.
I N 1870, when he was fifteen, Mr. Frank Hedges
Butler gratified for the first time the wanderlust
within him. The occasion was a mere visit to France,
from Dover, yet he was able to note : ” Saw many
soldiers reading the pro* tarnation of the war” His
most recent travellings took him to the same country,
and again there was war. Between whiles, he saw
many things in many places, and adventured boldly
on land, on the seas, and in the air. His memories
are always of interest and value, often full of colour,
ever informative, and fascinating in their contrasts.
Witness two very different scenes. The first concerns
the monastery at Cartuja, as it was in '7 8. The monks,
of the Order of Certosa, ” never spoke to one another
except that, when they met. one brother would say,
” We must die.” and the other would solemnly answer,
” I know it.” The second tells of wine-pressing in the
Medoc district at the same period. ” I visited the
Chateau Lafite. owned by Baron Rothschild, where the
vintage was in full swing. . . . When the troughs . . .
were full, men stepped into them, and, while a fiddler
played a merry tune, they danced with bared legs a
form of quadrille. The movements took them all round
the large vessels, and when towards the end they joined
hands to finish the dance the grapes were completely
crushed. The process occupied about ten minutes.”
But let us pass to pioneering days, In 1878 Mr.
Hedges Butler was in Paris, and went up in the captive
balloon at the Tuileries. Years later, in 1901, he made
the first of his hundred free balloon ascents, voyaging
from the Crystal Palace in company with his daughter,
the late Hon. C. S. Rolls, and Mr. Stanley Spencer,
the aeronaut—and, incidentally, founding the Royal
Aero Club while in the air. On Dec. 15 of the follow¬
ing year, he made his first solo ascent,
covering 115 miles. In July 1906 he went
over London with a biograph In Novem¬
ber 1907 be was one of the first two Eng¬
lishmen to make an ascent in a dirigible
airship not belonging to the Government,
to start and return to the same point—
this from Sartrouville, Paris, in the ” Ville
de Paris. ” So much for lighter-than-air
craft. He made his first aeroplane flight
in 1908 on the invitation of Wilbur Wright,
who took him upon his machine at LeMans.
As to motoring, Mr. Butler had his
first experience of a car in 1896, when, at
Beaune, he saw a part of the Paris-Mar-
scilles race ; and in the following year he
was the proud possessor of a Benz, de¬
scribed on the invoice as a motor velo¬
cipede, price £120.
With details of such experiences ” Fifty
Years of Travel by Land, Water, and Air ”
(T. Fisher Unwin ; 21s. net) is filled, to¬
gether with much that is intriguing of the
author's joumeyings in Europe, in the
United States, in India, in Morocco, in
East Africa, in Lapland, and so on ; and,
latterly, in France, during the Great War.
We published in our issue of March 5 a
photograph of Major-General Tudor, show¬
ing him presenting a medal to amemberof
the R.I.C., and, to indicate the occasion for publishing it,
we titled it : " The Reinstatement of Dismissed R.I.C.
Cadets : Major-General Tudor.” It has been pointed
out that this title might be taken to mean that the
photograph shows an ac tual reinstatement of a cadet.
As we have said, the particular man shown was not
being reinstated, but decorated. The illustration was
given primarily as a portrait of General Tudor, no
studio photograph of him being at the moment avail¬
able, and the ceremony was merely incidental. We
much regret that the title was misleading. Had space
permitted, it should have read : ” Apropos the re¬
instatement of R.I.C. Cadets : Major-General Tudor
decorating a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary.”
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A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Pans
T HE French literary world has recently been shaken
to its very foundations by the violent con¬
troversy arising out of an adverse criticism which
appeared in the Revue des Deux Mo tides on a certain
play taken, more or less, from the Greek by two
distinguished authors. The criticism is admitted to
have been a perfectly fair one, though perhaps a
trifle severe ; but there was nothing in it to which
exception could be taken as regards language. The
authors in question, however, considered
that their work had been unfairly treated. _
and wrote a reply which they desired the
editor of the Revue (who had. incidentally,
written the criticism) should publish. This
he refused to do, and hence the contro¬
versy on the " droit de reponse which
ended, so far as that particular case was
concerned, in a judgment in favour of the
authors, given in open Court.
The result of the judgment has unfor¬
tunately been to kill all intelligent criti- _
cism for the time being, and to till the |HT
newspapers with the baldest armptes-rendus HR
of the new plays and books now appear- 1*^
ing. The' famous decision was based on
an old law of 1881, Article 13 of which
confers " absolute and unlimited ” right of
reply by the author to any criticism of
his work. Now that public interest is
really aroused, perhaps something may “
be done to alter this inconvenient law. j ^ fii
Not long ago, while motoring along part 2 a new
of the old battle line of the Somme, o( p a iest;
l came across a small white stone column Englis
set by the roadside, the apex of which
was crowned by an effigy of a simple shrapnel helmet
of the pattern worn by the French trexips, and the
whole encircled by a wreath of palm-leaves for valour.
On the front of the column there was carved the
simple inscription, “Passant, souviens-toi” (Passer¬
by, remember), and then the dates of the opening and
the closing of the Great War. Something in the
simple dignity of the little monument was extra¬
ordinarily touching ; it said so little and yet so much ;
none could fail to respond to the mute appeal and
bow the head for a moment in memory of those
unknown heroes whose sacrifice preserved the soil of
France to future generations.
There are indications that a great campaign
against social evils is about to be inaugurated by the
Government, who seem at last to be alarmed at the
high death-rate from tuberculosis, and the rate of
infant mortality. A great deal has already been done
by private enterprise here, as in England, to educate
the mothers of the poorer classes to an appreciation
of cleanliness ; but what can a few well-intentioned
women do towards educating a whole nation ? It is
time that the State took up the matter seriously.
There is already an able Minister of Hygiene who
is very much alive to the situation. At a big public
meeting presided over by M. Vidal, forcible speeches
were made by M. Leon Bourgeois, M. Kaoul Peret,
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1. The first of Jamaica’s new series: a stamp showing the Kingston Exhibition Buildings.
2. A new Australian 2d. stamp: the King's head between a kangaroo and an emu. 3 to 6. Stamps
of Palestine under the British Mandate: an E.E.F. set overprinted "Palestine" in Arabic,
English, and Hebrew.— {Stamp* supplied by Mr. Fred J. Melville, no, Strand, H-'.C.a.l
and other distinguished statesmen. To be told that
even now 18 per cent, of the families in France live
in one room prepares one in a measure for the appalling
tuberculosis statistics. This is by far the greatest
scourge from which France is suffering at the present
time, and, despite the energetic measures taken by
the Rockefeller Commission, which has been busy in
twenty-six French departments, with almost un¬
limited funds behind it, they have only been able
to touch the fringe of the trouble. It is hard to know
how best to combat the evil, which, if not checked
soon, will depopulate the country as effectually as
any war. Education is slow, but it is the only real
and lasting remedy.
THE CULT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP.
BY FRED J. MELVILLE.
O I’R British colony of Jamaica, having no further
excuse for issuing war-stamps, is turning its-
philatelic attention to the concerns of peace. The
first of a new series of stamps has just appeared, a $d.
stamp printed in olive-green and blue-green. It is of
a large size, and shows a view of the exhibition build¬
ings of the great Exposition at Kingston, the capital,
in 18y 1. The design is one of a series which has l>een
prepared from the sketches of an artist in the colony,
and the complete issue will extend up to the 5s.
denomination. Each stamp will bear a
n scene representative of the life and pro¬
gress of the colony. The stamps are sur¬
face-printed on chalk-surfaced paper by
Messrs. De La Rue and Co., London.
The Australian Commonwealth has just
issued a new zd. stamp in connection with
the raising of the postal tariff. Hitherto
the stamp of this denomination has been in
the earliest Commonwealth design, show¬
ing a kangaroo superimposed on a skeleton
map of Australia ; this was printed in grey.
The new stamp is printed in orange, and.
as will be seen from the illustration, it
shows the profile of King George in a frame
in which a kangaroo and an emu figure.
The first stamps of Palestine under the
British regime have arrived. They have
already been described by me in these
notes, but I now illustrate a short set
- showing the stamps of the Egyptian Ex-
„ peditionary Force overprinted “ Palestine ”
Buildings. . , , , . „ ,. ,
6 Stamps ,n three languages—Arabic, English, and
n Arabic, Hebrew. Since I last wrote of these,
tt'.c.a.l the Egyptian Expeditionary Force stamps.
have also been overprinted with an Ara¬
bic inscription meaning " Beyond the Jordan,” for
temporary use under the provisional Arab Government
that has been set up under British auspices at Es Salt.
Continental Easter arrangements by the S.E. and
C.R. routes (Dover-Calais, Folkestone-Boulogne, Dover-
Ostend. Folkestone-Flushing) include the issue of cheap
return tickets by the 7.20 a.m. service from Victoria
(S.E. and C.R.) to Calais, and by the 8.45 a.m. service
from Victoria (S.E. and C.R.) to Boulogne. The
Casino at Boulogne will be open during the Easter
holidays. Passports are essential. AH information
can be obtained at the Continental Enquiry Office,
Victoria Station (S.E. and C.R.), S.W.i.
T HE fine cigarette is the product of
the blender’s skill working on the
leaf selected by him from the picked
crop. Neither alone suffices. And
taste is the test.
High skill in blending is a very
rare gift. The blender bewails a
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crude quality. He challenges from
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test-by-taste of
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THE “PHARAOH” OF TO-DAY ON A JOURNEY IN HIS DOMINIONS: THE SULTAN OF EGYPT, RIDING A DONKEY.
AT ASSOUAN DURING HIS RECENT TOUR.
Egypt has been much in the public mind of late, what with the Milner Report
•" d Mr. Churchill’s visit for the Middle-East Conference. The Sultan recently
completed a tour along the Nile from Cairo to Assouan, visiting the various ruins
of the ancient temples on the way. The above photograph of him typifies the
changes in Egypt since the Pharaohs of old portrayed in ancient Egyptian sculpture,
such as the head of Amenhotep III., illustrated in our issue of March 12. It is
also interesting to compare it with the photographs in the present number of
models 4000 years old representing scenes in the life of an Egyptian noble.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 26. 1921— 39#
T O sav that the novelist and the' dramatist
have their keenest competitor in the annalist
of crime is only to make a lumbering parody of
the neat old saw about truth and fiction. Recently
the competition has been unusually brisk, for the
world had no sooner rested from lour years of
legalised killing, during which private violence
seemed to slumber, than the Law Courts presented
a full calendar of murder cases The dramas staged
there will bear comparison with any of the classical
examples, although their full bouquet may not be
appreciated until the records appear in carefully
edited volumes, secure of a large body of readers
who bring to the problems there set forth powers
of reflection not usually exercised by the majority
of those who idly devour newspaper accounts.
The taste for criminal annals cannot be dismissed
A FAMOUS RA’S SKETCH OF A NOTORIOUS
CRIMINAL: JOHN THURTELL. WHO WAS HANGED
FOR THE MURDER OF WILLIAM WEARE.-BY
WILLIAM MULREADY.
Thurtell, »mone*t hi* other activities, backed " Ned Rat nose "
tn his famous ftcht with Tom 0:iver at North Watsham.
His connection with the contest is familiar to alt Borrovians.
His application to a neighbouring magistrate (Mr. J. B. Petre,
Of Westwick House, according to Knapp) for the loan of a
** Pfchlle ” lying among his broad acres. “which he deemed
would suit a* a milling ground, is one of the moat familiar
scenes in “ Lavengro." the author skilfully ind.cating, by a
few master-strokes, Johns theatrical air and style of speech.
S*4 Ike ” Sate-Book " on tku Pa{e.-By Courtesy of ike Victor*
and Albert Museum.
as merely morbid. Healthy intelligence finds in
these records of human imperfection all the
materials of tragedy. However bitterlv com¬
mentators may disagree about Aristotle’s precise
meaning when he defined tragedy as a purging
of the passions through pity and terror, there is
no ambiguity in Milton's pregnant adaptation of
that saying at the close of ** Samson Agonistes.”
and here it fits in well. From the tragedy of real life,
no less than from that of poetic fiction, the reader
may nse “with new acquist of true experience. ’
me fascination of crime, and of murd<
particular, rests on a b. ( sis so complex as to
full analysis. De Quincey, in his revel of exq
peisiflage, evades the question , he is cone,
only to prove our right to ” get into a werv
state o’ admiration ” (as another eminent ph
maker would say) at the meritorious perfom
ot a homicide, when tried by principles of i
The average reader of notable trials does
pretend to be an aesthetic amateur of the enm
workmanship. All he knows , s that with a
he annalmt or able editor has come to him
be cannot choose but hear Possibly the ai
!* T much *° the Hyde as to the J
that dwells in every one of us To resolve t
case were an endless speculation, involving sti
quests down shady and sunny alleys of the
Lucretius states the broader aspect of the que S
hen he notes the pleasure man takes i n vie
evils from which he is himself exempt, though
*' not from delight that any should be afflicted.”
How far this may apply to Selwyn's and Roswell’s
curiosity in Tyburn episodes, is doubtful It is
one thing to hear or read the details of a great
criminal process ; quite another habitually to make
a gazing stock of the condemned at the gallows
foot. Byron held that it was good for a man once
to see the finishing of the law. The emphasis is
on the ” once.” In Selwyn and Hozxv the thing
had become a vice. The reader of notable trials
stands on a different plane. Not as a critic of
taste in the criminal act. but as a student of
judicial method and of human mystery, he accepts
the invitation to review the gallery of murderers
'* from Cain to Mr. Thurtell.”
The Mr. Thurtell aforesaid, promised by De
Quincey as his terrmnus ad quern, is dismissed by
the Opium Eater as ” much overrated.” He
enjoyed, nevertheless, an extraordinary vogue
ninety-eight years ago. and he has just come up
again in the latest volume of the ” Notable Trials ”
senes (William Hodge and Co ). ” The Trial of
Thurtell and Hunt.” edited by Mr. E. K. Watson,
gives implicit confirmation of the jesthetic critic's
dissatisfaction Viewed as Fine Art, Mr. Thurtell's
performance was certainly ” something lalsetto,”
but the record, as a plain tale of villainy and as
an exposition of a popular sensation, has undeniable
points. Mystery there is little or none as to the
fact and as to the chief criminal's psychology.
Thurtell’s slaying of Mr. William Weare. of
the immortal rhyme, showed the utmost disregard
of precaution. Over both crime and trial. John
Bull, in Sir Walter Scott's opinion. ” became
maudlin,” and the yellowist of yellow journalism
was anticipated in the news sheets fed by a hundred
horse expresses plying from Hertford. The pro¬
letariat’s interest is easy to understand — it was
the ” bloody news ” of the Tumham Green broad¬
side raised to the nth power; but Mr. Watson is
at a loss to account for the way in which the crime
attracted men of refinement. Even Scott was
” maudlin ” enough to visit the scene, Gill’s Hill
Cottage. Borrow, in ” The Romany Rye,” describes
the execution, and glorifies Thurtell as a good-
hearted fellow. Mulready made sketches in court.
But for the prisoner’s speech in defence, the trial
has no dramatic touch. The accomplices Hunt
and Proliert are negligible Yet the bald incident,
as a whole, remains to-day as compelling as a
melodrama of the most cunning construction.
Apart from the facts, the interest of trial
records is heightened by the purely forensic
elements. Construction of incident, in the
novelist's or dramatist's sense of the term, is not
to be expected, although not infrequently a true
THE PRISONER WHO WAS ACQUITTED THAT
HE MIGHT TURN KING’S EVIDENCE AGAINST
THURTELL: WILLIAM PROBERT-A PEN-AND-INK
SKETCH BY WILLIAM MULREADY. R.A.
By Courtesy of Ike Victorui mid Albert Museum.
story works out like contrived art. But the
.appointed order of judicial procedure lends to a
trial a definite and impressive framework, and the
whole effect is that of suspense and climax. The
duel between counsel, the minute sifting of
evidence, the application of scientific method, lift
the proceedings into the region of intellect and
soften natural loathing of sordid details. A great
speech for the defence arouses emotions com¬
parable only to those of the highest tragedy.
Speeches for the prosccutiou and summings-up,'
however able, touch a less vibrant chord in our
AN ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT IN THE
THURTELL CASE : JOSEPH HUNT — PENCIL SKETCH
BY WILLIAM MULREADY. R.A.
By Courtesy of Ike Valor* and Albert Museum.
hearts, since we too. although not accused, dwell
in our isle of terror and under the imminent hand
of death.”
Such a speech was that by which Inglis saved
Madeleine Smith from the gallows. The story can
be read anew in ” The Notable Scottish Trials
issued by the same publisher as the Thurtell and
Hunt volume Inglis made ample use of emotion ;
but it was his acute analysis of evidence and
not his moving appeals to feeling that secured the
verdict of ” Not proven.” always unsatisfactory,
but a useful pis alter where the jury is not con¬
vinced of guilt, and yet cannot decide on u
acquittal Inglis defied the prosecution to show
that the accused had arsenic in her possession at
the date of L’ Angelicas first illness and that the
parties had met on the other dates libelled. Jus
at these points the gaps in the evidence gave e
way of escape.
” The Notable Scottish Trials ” include also
other Glasgow mystery, that known as tne
ndyford Place murder, in 1R62. a sensation
verberated far into the next decade. 0
culiarly atrocious murder of a ma,dsc {' V .
rs. Jessie McLachlan was condemned. but
cumstances were so dubious that pu ,c .
reed a reprieve The Mcl-achlan afla.r
iblic mind much as the Williams horror ag tated
>ndon in but with the
ttered party wrangling. All publ 9
tired before the fierce quarrel as to wheth th
lilty person was Mrs McLachlan or nafnc
,d elusive character » Old Fleming
came a hissing and a byword, and
ith execrations on walls and hoardings.
.All the trials here alluded to
bed in Messrs. Hodge's
eludes civil cases, is long and I £, uctlon
very volume carries an e\ce or actising
id notes by an authority, not always a P
wver. for the Wainwnght and Maybnck^ c
ere edited by the late H. B. “^ing
,e haunting sense of the thousand nsks
cry process at law that of
>th men and women, prefer th But
ct to the most artfully wr°“ght *{£ ^
talvsis is futile. As well try to exp
Eugene Aram ” or the shudder o p s
' Reading Gaol.”
'Vi* W-\ :l
FAR AND NEAR: PEOPLE OF LEADING; AND NOTABLE OCCASIONS
THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY AT WASHINGTON : PRESIDENT HARDING
DELIVERING HIS ADDRESS.
KISSING THE BOOK
AT HIS INAUGURATION PRESIDENT HARDING TAKING THE OATH.
ADMINISTERED BY CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE.
SIGNATORY FOR RUSSIA OF THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN
TRADE AGREEMENT : M. KRASSIN
THE LEAVE-TAKING OF THE NEW VICEROY OF INDIA : LORD AND LADY READING, WITH FRIENDS
SEEING THEM OFF AT CHARING CROSS.
QUEEN AT LIVERPOOL : HER MAJESTY (IN THE BACKGROUND ON THE LEFT,
IN THE DINING-ROOM AT THE SEAMENS ORPHANAGE.
THE RESIGNATION OF THE LEADER OF THE HOUSE
MR. BONAR LAW.
Lord and Lady Reading left Charing Cross on March 17 for Marseilles, there to
embark in the “ Kaisar-i-Hind ” for India, where Lord Reading will enter on his
duties as Viceroy. To the left of Lady Reading (with bouquet! is Mrs. Asquith.
and on the extreme left. Sir Alfred Mond. On the right is Lord Crewe.-The
Queen and Princess Mary, who, with the King, went to stay with Lord and Lady
Derby at Knowsley on March 16, visited the Seamen’s Orphanage at Liverpool.-
The resignation of Mr. Bonar Law, on grounds of health, as Leader of the House
and of the Unionist Party in the Commons, was announced on March 17.
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CHOSEN FOR THE HIGHER STAGES OF THE MOUNT EVERES1
PlIOTOGRAPJI-
A TEST OF NERVE ! CAPT. FINCH DESCENDING A GREAT PERPENDICULAR
CUFF ON MONT BLANC BY ROPE.
-WOWING DETAILS OF A CUMBERS COSTUME
A MEAL ON THE WAY
CAPT. FINCH RESTING FOR
UP MONT BLANC.
ON ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT PEAKS IN
CLIMBING THE AIGUILLE
oming attempt upon Mount Eve,
and experienced British climbers
'* e *P*d*tion upon whom
«n climbing in the Alps
possible manner for the
est, by an expedition under the joint auspices of the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society, the serv
have been enlisted. Discussing the arrangements recently, Col. Sir Francis Younghusband, President of the
11 have to depend for reaching the highest points, We have selected two younger men who have made a nam
• L. Mallory and Capt. George Finch. Our party for the reconnaissance is thus complete, and we are now e
important work it will have to do this summer, in examining the mountain from every angle and testing the possible
^EXPEDITION: A FAMOUS
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26 , , 921 -
CLIMBER AMONG PERILOUS PRECIPICES
SNOW ON THE HIGHEST ALPINE
NEARING THE TOP
PEAK : CAPT. FINCH
OF MONT BLANC.
MOST IMPORTANT ITEM IN A CLL
REPAIRING HIS BOOTS IN A
CAPT. FINCH
m * 7 b « reached.” &
5 w,th Slides in the i
Jeer. As our photog,
The ascent of Everest
:t of rarefied air at h,
Shaun .Spadab at the winnrng-post
At Becbers Brook
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ft*NA.irc
GRAND NATIONAL
WON BY MR. T. McALPINE’S SHAUN SPADAH (F. B. REES UP), WITH THE BORE SECOND AND ALL WHITE
THIRD : THE GRAND NATIONAL AT AINTREE.
Shaun Spadah
m’s The Bore
plished a fine
’s Ail White
This year’s Grand National, run over the four-and-a-half miles course at Aintree
on March 18, with the King, the Queen, Princess Mary, and the Prince of Wales
present, was a record both for the size of the “ field " and the number of
“spills." No fewer than thirty-six horses ran, and there was an unusually large
number of falls early in the race. There were, in fact, only six standing up at
Nal
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, March 26 , 1921.-^103
the Many Falls
The Most Dramatic ‘ National
RUN BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN: THE GRAND NATIONAL
A RACE IN WHICH NEARLY ALL THE THIRTY-SIX HORSES FELL, EXCEPT THE % WINNER: A GRAND NATIONAL
WITH A RECORD FIELD AND MANY “SPILLS."
ContiwuJ.)
Bennet, came in fourth. Shaun Spadah started at 100 to 9, The Bore at 9 to I, straight from their boxes on to the course, and walked round for general in-
All White at 33 to 1, and Turkey Buzzard at* too to 9. Altogether, the race spection. The King and his two sons went round the boxes. The Prince of
was one of the most dramatic in the long history of this classic event. The Wales had been out on the course in the early morning to watch the horses
weather was ideal, and there was an enormous crowd. In order to avoid the exercise. When the Royal party, who were the guests of Lord and Lady Derby
crush, the Grand National horses were not paraded as usual, but were taken at Knowsfey, arrived for the race, they were greeted with hearty cheers.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26 , 1921.—404
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
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By £. B. OSBORN.
^INCE the war, loud
1 and strident young
voices—with a touch of the
parade rasp in them, for
these critics served when the
struggle ceased to be a sport
and became a business — have been heard at
every corner, insisting that the old poets must
be disestablished and their messages cast into
the waste - paper basket of oblivion. Poetry’
must begin again at the beginning, we are told,
and d'scover in the colloquial talk of common
people new rhythms and a new poetic diction.
So far the plan has not worked out very well,
and even the youngest of us—certainly many of
the young poets of Oxford and Cambridge, where
once more, to adapt Matthew Arnold’s famous
sentence, we see our Baudelairians all at play—
are fed up with the intolerable false berperie of the
lesser Georgians, and all the conscious crudeness
which is the literary’ equivalent of the dirty attire
of the professional friends of humanity in all
ages. It may not
be too late for some
of these lazy ap¬
prentices to an old
and honourable
craft to learn that
the refusal of
beauty — the de¬
liberate preference
of the ugly and un¬
couth — is not per
se a short cut to
truthfulness. In
“The Pier-Glass”
(Martin Seeker; 5s.
net), by Robert
Graves, the most
virile and sincere
of the later war-
poets, there is too
much which is with¬
out a touch of dis¬
tinction. nay indis¬
tinguishable, owing
to the author's de¬
liberate rejection of
verbal melody or
harmony—a strange
failing in one who
aspires to be the
Anglo - Welsh lau¬
reate ! The chaotic
cacophony of such
a stanza as the
following—
Such menace totter¬
ing overhead,
Old Jess for ague
scolds no more ;
She sees grey bobtail
flung down dead
Lightning - blazed
by the barn-door,
must be deliber¬
ately intended, but
what a mistake !
Strange indeed it is
that stuff suggest¬
ing coals coming in
next door should
be written by one
who found pity as
well as piety in the story of the poor guileless
old scapegoat, Christ’s most faithful lover, and is
the singer of ” The Hills of May ” in this, his
fourth volume—
So she walked the proud lady,
So danced or ran.
So she loved with a calm heart.
Neglecting man. . .
Fade, fail, innocent stars
On the green of May
She has left our bournes for ever,
Too fine to stay.
There is, however, a reaction rapidly gathering
force against the war-engendered reaction against
poetic traditions, and it is only the mild, pompous
old parasitical versifiers—Alfred Austin is the
most dreadful example, surely—who will be
finally disestablished. The appearance of works
of creative criticism, two of them dealing with
French poets who were idols of our ” ninetyish ”
mood, is a very significant omen. In ’’ Paul
Verlaine ” (Constable ; 12s. 6d. net), by Harold
Nicolson, a vanished faubourg of the Bohemian
soul rebuilds its romantic walls, and middle-aged
exiles are wafted back, and find themselves young
and hopeful and most happily unhappy once
again. For them, the spirit of Verlaine, as Mr.
Nicolson says at the end of his book, “ will still
limp and linger in boulevard and alley, in book¬
shop and in tavern ; or along those quays whose
jumbled outlines glitter in the gay and gentle
river as it slides with garbaged waters past church,
past prison, and past charnel-house; and so,
through soft French meadows, to the sea.” It
may seem at first sight unnecessary to write a
biography of Verlaine, seeing that it has been
done so adequately by Lepelletier and Delahaye ;
but Mr. Nicolson has more than justified his
adventure in authorship, for not only does he
give us the best life of Verlaine and critical estimate
of his work we have got, or can hope to get, but
he has made the poor smirched poet’s career a
thread on which to suspend a really profound and
intimate history of French poetry during the
second half of the nineteenth century. Verlaine
was only at home in prison or in hospital ; but if
he had had all his lile a little home such as he
achieved before his death, with Eugenie for house¬
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MR. E. TEMPLE THURSTON,
Au'hor of “The Wandering Jew."
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MR. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.
Author of “ The Circle.”
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MR. RUDOLF BESIER,
Part - Author of " The Ninth Earl " ;
and ** The Prude’s Fall.” j
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PLAYWRIGHTS OF TO-DAY : AUTHORS OF SOME OF LONDON'S LATEST SUCCESSES.
•’ A Social Convenience" is at the Royalty, with Mr. Dennis Eadie in the principal part. Miss Clemence Dane, the author of two suc¬
cessful novels, “ Regiment of Women ” and " Legend,'* has written a brilliant first play.’ “ A Bill of Divorcement,” which was produced
recently at the St. Martin's. “ Ian Hay ” (or, to use his real name, Mr. J. H. Beith) is having a big success with his ” A Safety
Match,” at the Strand. Mr. E. Temple Thurston's '* The Wandering Jew" is proving an enormously popular production at the New
Theatre. Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, the well-known playwright, has struck another " good thing"—*' The Circle," at the Haymarket;
and Mr. Rudolf Besier, who collaborates with Miss May Edginton. has two successes now running in town—" The Ninth Earl.” the new
melodrama at the Comedy, and ‘‘The Prude's Fall." at Wyndham's. {Photographs by Hoppd, Lafayette, Elliott and Fry, and Bertram Park.]
keeper, and oranges placed along the mantelpiece,
as in farm-houses of the Ardennes, to lx? mimic
suns, he might have worked peacefully and at
his leisure under the mild discipline of a reasoned
domesticity. It is not in cafes, with riotous com¬
panions. but in quiet and orderly houses that
all the greatest French poetry has been written.
The Silcnus myth, which flourished in Paris of
the 'Nineties, was only true superficially. Au
fond, this absinthe-minded poet yearned for a
peaceful and unperplexed career, and the ” ex¬
hibitionism ” of his later years was merely a re¬
duction of the Symbolist idea in poetry to the
prosaic terms of that practical cadging which
was forced on him by penury and neglect. He
remains rather a poet for the foreigner than for
the essential Frenchman. In France of the bien
pensants —and that is the essential France, after
. all !—he is looked upon as the author of only
one perfect verse—
11 pleure dans mon coeur,
Corame il plcut sur la ville—
and it is thus appreciated, as Mr. Nicolson
wittily suggests, because the two lines make up a
single Alexandrine with the orthodox break or
csesura. But he was a master of the art of
suggesting infinity from the finite, which is the
ultimate secret of Sym¬
bolism. He did not)
invent it (nay, it is as old as
Catullus), but was able to
catch and reflect the float¬
ing aspiration, and to give
to it a definite cadence and a form. In Verlaine’s
best verse, " the effect resides in the sparing and
skilful use of attributes, in an apparently inci¬
dental but vivid reference to minor objects, which
for him radiate with emotional significance.”
And by this method he sets the reader's sentiment
of association vibrating, if it be used with absolute
tact, as in ” Apres Trois Ans,” which begins—
Ayant pousfe la porte qui chancelle,
Je me suis promene dans le petit jardin
Qu’eclairait dourement le soleil du matin,
Pailletant chaque fleur d’une humide 6tincelle.
Mr. Nicolson uses a critical diction which is
ultra-modem and his own,, but in ” Charles
Baudelaire : A Study ” (Elkin Mathews ; 15s.
net), by Arthur
Symons, we have
once more the
heavily perfumed,
allusive, suggestive
eloquence of the
young critics of
the ’Nineties. Mr.
Symons’ book is
really a prolonged
essay, full of sudden
alarums and swift
excursions, which
ever and anon re¬
turns to his subject,
adding something to
our sense of Baude¬
laire’s significance
in the dark hier¬
archy of the un¬
happy poets. It is
the manner of
Whistler in paint¬
ing a portrait, and
in the end we have
no exact definition,
either of the poet or
of the man-in-him-
self. He Is nearest
to the truth, per¬
haps, when he calls
Baudelaire our
modem Catullus,
one who abhorred
and adored the flesh
as much as did
the Roman singer,
when he wrote
the eternal two-line
epigram which Mr.
Symons translates
so deftly—
I hate and I love;
you ask me how I
do it ?
I know not; I know
that it hurts ; I am
going through it.
The pathos of lov¬
ing, the pang of
satiety—here is the
soil out of which
the Fleurs du Mai blossom to no fruition. He is
also Villon in a gas-lit nook. But he is not,
after all, immoral—still less non-moral—because
the darkness of disillusion hangs about all his
baneful splendours of artistry. For if intentions
such as this strange artist's pave the roads of
Hell, they yet form the roof of Heaven.
Two books which light up that inferno in the
snows called Soviet Russia, have lately appeared.
" Russian Portraits ” (Jonathan Cape ; 10s. 6d.
net), by Clare Sheridan, gives us pictures, in clay
and in words, of Lenin and Trotsky, and the other
protagonists of Bolshevism. Russia was a wonder-
world to her, a spectacle of brute forces incarnate
and frozen agonies, but she was clearly glad
to get out of it. In “ A Prisoner of the Reds
(Murray; 18s. net), by Francis McColIagh, ft
skilled observer piesents a powerful and precise
obsession of Soviet Russia as a colossal polity
crumbling into dust, in the ruin of which there
are only two living thing!—Typhus and Bolshevism.
And he shows that the terror of the Terrorists
is this—a menacing certainty that the real counter¬
revolution is the natute of man who cannot live
by bread alone.
RECEIVING AN OVATION AFTER HIS FINE WIN IN THE PYTCHLEY HUNT LIGHT-WEIGHT RACE: THE PRINCE OF WALES,
AN OVAT ^ ^ qwn HoRS£ RIFLE GRENADE, ON THE WAY TO THE WEIGHING-ROOM.
On March 16 the Pytchley Hunt Point-to-Point races were held at Great Bnngton.
There was a scene of .great enthusiasm when the Prince of Wales, riding his own
horse. Rifle Grenade, won the Hunt Light-Weight Race over three miles of stiff
country, out of a field of fourteen. The Prince took the lead at the third ence
from the winning-post, and rode a fine finish, winning by a length from General
Vaughan (on Suzette), who made a desperate effort to catch him. The Duke of
York, who was watching near the post, ran after his brother to congratulate him.
and the Prince received an ovation as he made his way to the weighing-room.
taint's
>g and
’ roci-
whici
ance. 1
tawt
state
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26. 1921 —405
The Lincolnshire Handicap Surprise: An Outsider Wins, with the Favourite Nowhere.
The Prince of Wales Wins his First Race: H.R.H. after his Victory .
FINISH OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP : SORANUS STARTED AT 33 TO 1 AGAINST : LEADING IN MR. S. B. JOEL’S SORANUS
WINNING FROM SENHORA AND QUEEN’S GUILD. CARSLAKE UP) AFTER WINNING THE LINCOLNSHIRE.
The Lincolnshire Handicap, run at Lincoln on March 16, was won by Mr. S. B. I Guild (P. Jones up) was half a length behind Senhora. Soranus had an accident
Joel's Soranus (Carslake up), which started at 33 to 1 against. Major D. Davies' j recently, and his trainer, De Mestre, had only three weeks in which to get him
Senhora (T. Weston up) was two lengths behind, and Sir Robert Jardine's Queen’s ] fit. The favourite. Ugly Duckling, was not placed.
I’hotouraphs by Kocch and Sport and General.
un
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26, 1921.—406
A WONDERFUL NATURE FILM: YOUNG KESTRELS IN THE NEST.
Captain C. W. R. Knight, M.C., F.R.P.S.
Photographs
HUNGRY, AND ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THEIR MOTHER'S
RETURN : BABY KESTRELS IN THEIR NEST.
SHOWING ONE OF THE YOUNG KESTRELS DEVOURING
A FIELD-MOUSE : A FILM PHOTOGRAPH.
GREAT EXCITEMENT OVER A FIELD-MOUSE BROUGHT BY THE
MOTHER BIRD : YOUNG KESTRELS FILMED.
A cinematograph film of remarkable interest illustrating; the life and habits of
birds in their natural surroundings will be shown to the public at an early date.
Baby hawks in their nest in the tree-top may be seen exercising their wings and
practising for the time to come when they are able to fly away and take care
of themselves. The mother bird, whilst hovering, sights a field-mouse, and
swooping down, secures it, flies home, and deposits the mouse in the nest, where
it is flayed and ravenously eaten by the young hawks. Another section of the
film shows a young hawk, which has sneaked off with a good share of l*rk to
a branch out of reach of the rest of the family. The tail of the lark is seen
slowing disappearing as it is swallowed by the greedy little hawk—the latter gives
a final gulp, and then looks up with a pained expression, as though to say,
“I’ve eaten too much ! Wish I hadn’t! ” The film is the result of the enter-
{CofdiHMd «//*«*•
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, March
26. 1921—407
THE BIRD-PHOTOGRAPHER’S
FILMING HAWKS IN THE NEST.
" OM " AT *” A1 - « CAPTAIN C w. R. RNKIHT,
M-C. PJLP.S.
PHOTOGRAPHY in THE TREE-TOPS: CAPTAIN KNIGHT
uxjojskvatioN
-— -- aa rnua AM “OB
&.AWJ POST" that took nearly two months to build, so AS NOT TO a t.a pw thb birds.
•* c W t «■ W. R. K*tt. U.C., F.R.P.S., -to.. to. -4 thc otkcr far nrwmj * tt . ^ Ur n ,
—oi vapt. C. W. K. Ivmgnt, M.C., f.K.l'.S.,
methods of photographing up in the tree-tops are shown in our drawing. The
«n«natograph camera is attached to a bracket screwed to the ■ tree, and the
g position is screened by old sacking, with two peep holes—one for the
took nearly two month, to build. Part of the sacking is M , f
m practice the operator is entirely obscured by the cowering which is fastened
to the four nails shown on the tree.-JXWiag Copy^kud m VnLi Suus ^
1HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26. 1921.—408
THE KING OF BRITISH GAME FISH: A SALMON NEARLY PLAYED OUT.
DRAWN BY G. D. ARMOUR.
SALMON -F iSIii-N G ON THE SHANNON FROM A BOAT PECULIAR TO THAT RIVER: READY WITH THE GAFF—
AN EXCITING MOMENT IN A “COT,” A CRAFT WORKED BY A SHORT PUNT-POLE.
Discussing the landing of a salmon, the “ Encyclopedia of Sport” says: “So
soon as the fish lies quiet within reach, let the gaff be put over the middle of
his back, and fixed smartly but steadily. The only exceptional circumstance in
which the gaff should be put under the fish is when he has to be struck from
a boat in deep water, as in the Shannon or on a lake.” Fishing in the Shannon
is done from a kind of boat peculiar to the river, called a “cot.” These boats
are managed by the local men exceedingly skilfully. They are fitted for rowing
with oars, but, weather permitting, are worked like a punt with poles—shorter
than those of the Thames punt—with which the expert boatmen can guide or
hold them in any position required. It is quite common to see a local trout
fisher sitting alone in his cot and holding it in position in quite swift water
while fishing, changing his fly, or doing anything incidental to the sport, as if
possessed of three or four hands. The man in the middle of the boat is seen
holding the gaff. [Dratnng Copyrighted in the United Steies and Canada. 1
THR ILLLSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26 . 1921.—409
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DWARFING THE SALMON TO A MINNOW: A TARPON’S WILD LEAP.
__ _ DRAWN BY W. R. S. STOTT.
“THE GAMIEST OF SALMON COMPARES WITH THE GORGEOUS ‘SILVER KING’ AS A SATYR TO HYPERION”:
TARPON-FISHING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO-THE FINEST SPORT ON EARTH.
The Tarpon, the “Silver King,” haunts the Gulf of Mexico and neighbouring
waters. Some are over 7 ft long and weigh over 200 lb. “ The gamiest of
salmon,” we read in Messrs. A. W. and Julian A. Dimock's fascinating book,
“ Florida Enchantments ” (Outing Publishing Company, New York), “ compares
with the gorgeous Silver King as a Satyr to Hyperion. As a game fish, the
tarpon is in a class by himself. . . . Imagine a gracefully contorted body, as
big as yourself, quivering ten feet in the air, panoplied with a thousand glittering
silver scales . . . surrounded by a halo of prismatic drops of flying water. .
He leaps out of the water, several times his own length, from two to a score of
times. ... He may speed like a race-horse away from you until your 600 ft.
of line runs out, or he may dash straight for your skiff, rubbing against it,
diving under it, or even leaping over it and tangling you in your own line.”
A double page of photographs of tarpon-fishing, by Mr. J. A Dimock, appeared
in our issue of July 17, 192 O.-{Drawing Coftyrtgkled in Ike UntUd Stales and Canada.]
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26, 1921.-^*10
K IPLING once remarked that excavating com¬
bined all the excitement of gold-mining
with an intellectual pursuit. Indeed, it goes one
better than mining, for the prospector gets little
variety. His Tesult is either positive or negative.
The surprises of digging are many. Surface
indications ; the location of the site ; reports of
previous diggers, both
plunderers and scientific
excavators—all give the
archaeologist clues as to
the nature of what may
be expected to turn up
below the ground which
he has determined to
clear. Often his calcula¬
tions turn out to be
wrong; but once in a
while his luck is far
above his hopes.
In the course of the
work of the Egyptian
Expedition of the Metro¬
politan Museum of Art
on its concession on the
west bank at Thebes,
our attention had been
drawn to that part of
the site south of Deir
el Bahri, among the spurs and cliffs of the
mountain which separates the Valley of the Kings
from the plain. Here, during the troublous times
in Egypt, a good deal of plundering had been
going on, and in forestalling some of this un¬
authorised digging I had been fortunate enough
to find the burial-place of a young prince of the
Eighteenth Dynasty, who had been torn to pieces
by ancient tomb robbers in their search
for gold, and had then been reburied^ by
the priests of the Twenty-first Dynasty.
The tomb had been in an almost inacces¬
sible cranny of the cliff wall, and similar
clefts in the rock face looked as if they
too might contain hidden tombs.
At the beginning of the season of
1919-20, these were thoroughly cleared,
but not a trace of occupation was found.
A huge tomb of the Eleventh Dynasty—
from its sire and position evidently^that
of a high official of the last of the Mentu-
hoteps — looked as if it might give us a
chance of recouping our fortunes. Winlock,
who was in charge of the excavations,
looked it up, and found that work had
been done on it in 1895 by Daressy, and
that he had found fragments of finely
painted relief there. We could see that
the clearing of the forecourt at least had
not been thoroughly done, and it was
there that the sculpture had been found.
Winlock finally decided that it was as
good a chance as'any, and the men were
set to work there.
A very few days’ work with a big
gang of workmen laid bare the platform
which had been the forecourt of the tomb. It had
originally been in the form of a portico, and the
walls had been built of' fine imported limestone
sculptured in low relief, and painted with a
delicacy rarely equalled
in Egyptian art. But of
this only a few frag¬
ments were found, none
of them as much as six
inches square, and they
only resulted in making
our disappointment the
keener. Two mauls, so
rough that, if found
in other circumstances,
they would have been
taken for Palaeolithic
implements, suggested
the ruthless manner in
which the ancient
quarrymen had broken
up the sculptured blocks
for building-stone.
So our hopes were
dashed again.
In order to get an
adequate plan of the .
tomb, it was necessary
So, as it is our practice always to clear and plan
thoroughly, we felt obliged to do so in this case.
Conscientiousness was rewarded.
In clearing the fallen rock from the main
corridor, a workman dislodged a loose stone from
the side near the floor, and the small chip began
trickling into a small dark hole. It was the evening
THE TOMB OF MEHENKWETRE : A SECTIONAL DIAGRAM SHOWING THE SLOPING CAUSEWAY LEADING
UP TO THE ENTRANCE IN THE CLIFFS.— [By Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.]
of March 17. Burton was in charge of the work,
and was called by the excited foreman. The hole
was small, and the passage dark, and even matches
helped little to show what was hidden within. A
hurriedly written note brought Winlock and my¬
self up from the house with an electric torch.
Each of us in turn glued his eye and the torch to
the hole in the rock. None of us expect ever again
MODELS
WHERE A GREAT FIND WAS MADE: THE CHAMBER OF
BEFORE IT WAS OPENED.
The photograph shows the brick wall blocking the chamber and the crack above
through which the first glimpse of the interior was obtained.
By Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
to have such a sight appear to us. " The beam
of light shot into a little world of four thousand
years ago, and I was gazing down into the midst
of a myriad of brightly painted little men going
THE TOMB OF MEHENKWETRE: A GROUND PLAN OF THE CAUSEWAY, PORTICO, AND TWO CORRIDORS
RUNNING INTO THE CLIFF.— [By Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.]
to clear the corridors and the two burial shafts.
We were sure that we should get nothing in the
way of antiquities in doing this, for the previous
excavator had evidently dug them thoroughly,
and the debris appeared to be nothing but stone
fallen from the walls and ceiling. Still a good
plan is better than nothing, and is always of
interest to the archaeologist, if not to the layman.
this way and that. A tall, slender girl gazed across
at me perfectly composed ; a gang of little men
with sticks in their upraised hands drove spotted
oxen ; rowers tugged at their oars on a fleet of
boats, while one ship seemed foundering right in
front of me, with its bow balanced precariously
in the air. And all of this busy going and coming
was in uncanny silence.”
It was too late to do anything except to seal
up the crack, set a guard lor the night, and
speculate till late on what we thought we had
seen, and what the morning would bring to light.
The next three days were the busiest of our
several careers. To clear that small chamber of
its contents before the change of air loosened the
friable shale of the
ceiling, and yet not to
remove the different
objects before all the
evidence was recorded
and the necessary photo¬
graphs taken, was a job
requiring hard work and
nice judgment. But it
was done ; and just in
time, for, soon after we
had everything out, the
stones began to fall.
The set of models,
by far the finest as
regards completeness
and preservation which
have ever been found
in Egypt—the two com¬
panies of soldiers from
Meir are the only ones
which compare in work¬
manship—present a picture of the life of an
Egyptian noble and the activities on his estates
which volumes of writing could not equal.
In the largest scene he is seated in a portico.
Beside him four scribes enumerate and record
the herds of cattle being driven before him.
From among these cattle the choicest beeves
are selected, and they are shown in the model of
a cow stable, some eating from a manger,
and others being fed from a pile of green
fodder. It is evident that they are being
fattened — indeed, the model-maker has
given them such proportions that they
could * not squeeze through the doors of
the stable if they tried. A third model in
this group is the slaughter-house, where
two oxen, bound in the manner in which
they are shown on the reliefs, are having
their throats cut. A further set of three
models gives us a picture of the disposition
of the produce of the fields. Sacks of grain
are brought to the granary’, in the anteroom
of which scribes take down the amount
coming from each farm, and give credit to
the proper person. It is measured out,
carried up a flight of steps and dumped
into bins. In another model, the baking
of bread and cakes is proceeding on one
side of a dividing wall, and the brewing
of'beer on the other. The third shows
a weaving establishment with women
workers.
The most interesting of the house models
are two gardens, almost identical. A porch,
whose roof is supported by eight brightly-
painted columns, looks out on a tank sur¬
rounded by seven sycamore trees. In the models,
the pool is lined with copper, and may possibly
have held water when it was placed in the
tomb. These models arc especially interesting
from an architectural
point of view, as few
traces of columns from
private houses have
come down to us.
The noble—he was a
prince and chancellor of
the kingdom about 2000
B.c., by name Mehenk-
wetre (an Egyptian
equivalent of Helio-
dorus) — was evidently
very fond of boating on
the Nile, for no fewer
than twelve different
boats were found among
this collection of models:
boats rigged for sailing
up stream, and others
for paddling or rowing
down-stream ; comfort¬
able boats, with large
cabins and accompany¬
ing kitchen tenders, and
afternoon outings on the
smaller boats, for
river.
Such is the life which the prince hoped to
enjoy in the future world, through the magical
virtue of these models. Ambrose Lansing.
Our next istue will contain illustrations in detail of the
ahovt -drscribed models, which give a contemporary picture of dailr
li/e in Egypt eoco years ago, of unique • n ^.niinare interest.
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“ EACH NOON AND EVENING A PROCESSION OF WORKMEN WENT DOWN FROM THE CLIFF CARRYING TRAY-LOADS OF MODELS •» :
A REMARKABLE FIND BY AMERICAN DIGGERS IN EGYPT.
“ GREAT BUTTRESSED CLIFFS OF TAWNY LIMESTONE PRACTICALLY ENCLOSE A DEEP CIRCUS ” : THE ENTRANCE TO THE TOMB (R2GHT)
AND SLOPING CAUSEWAY LEADING UP TO IT.
The discovery, by American excavators in a cliff-tomb near Thebes, of a small
chamber containing numerous little models—servants, boats, buildings, and so
on of Egyptian life 4000 years ago, ranks among the greatest archaeological
“ ^ nds ” of recent years. They were buried near the tomb of Mehenkwetre
Chancellor and Steward of the Royal Palace, about 2000 B.C., to serve him
after death. The thrilling story of their chance discovery is told in the article
opposite. "The site,” writes Mr. H. E. Winlock, leader of the expedition, in
the Bulletin of the Metropolitan 'Museum of Art,’’ is weirdly impressive. The
great buttressed cliffs of tawny limestone practically enclose a deep circus a
quarter of a mile in diameter. . . . High above, around the rim of the circus,
where the cliffs start vertically upward, are the black mouths of the tombs ol
the courtiers. Mehenkwetre had chosen the side of a mountain spur, grading
the slope until be had an avenue 25 yards wide and 80 yards long which climbs
the hill at an angle of 20 degrees. . . . We were three days photographing,
planning, and removing the models from the tomb to the house. Each noon
and evening a procession of workmen went down from the cliff carrying tray-loads.''
412—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDffii
SEEN THROUGH A HOLE IN A ROCK: A LITTLE WORLD OF
find” illustrated on this and other pages is one of the most remarkable of all cases of "Digger’s Luck.” During the clearing of fallen rock (rota *
thousand years ago, and I was gazing down into the midst of a myriad of brightly painted little men going this way and that A tall, slender j
By Courtesy or the MBTRoroifl
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°** at me P* rfec tly composed." The discovery, which was made in Egypt, near Thebes, is fully described in an article on a previous page.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26, 1921.—414
SERVITORS OF THE
DEAD: MODELS OF AN EGYPTIAN NOBLE’S LIFE.
Bv Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
AN EGYPTIAN NOBLE’S LIFE 4000 YEARS AGO : MEHENKWETRE IN HIS PORCH COUNTING HIS CATTLE BEING DRIVEN PAST—
A MODEL PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE ROCK-CHAMBER BEFORE ANYTHING WAS TOUCHED.
THE PORTICO OF A THEBAN HOUSE: DETAIL FROM
A MODEL OF A GARDEN SCENE.
SMELLING A LOTUS BUD : MEHENKWETRE LISTENING TO
HIS MINSTRELS, A SINGER AND A BUND HARPER
"The twenty-four models which Mehenkwetre had prepared for his tomb,” writes
Mr. H. E. Winlock, “ to supply his wants in the years to come . . . depict the
life of the Nile Valley 4000 years ago. ... On either side of the chamber stood
the statues of two girls—one with a basket of wine-jugs, and the other with a
basket of. meats and breads upon her head, and each with a live duck in her
hand. They are carved of wood, half life-size. . . . Largest and most imposing
of all was a model showing the noble at the counting of his cattle, in the court¬
yard before his house. Here he sits, with his son and heir squatting on
floor on one side, and four clerks on the other. . . . The figures average eig
or nine inches high. . . . Two model gardens were provided for the soul o
great man—models which ... are unique. . . . there is a cool, deep por
with gaily painted columns : at the back of the porch a great double doorway. . • •
On each boat Mehenkwetre sits in his chair at his ease smelling a lotus bu,, wi
a singer. ... In one case the singer is accompanied by a blind harper.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26. 1021.—415
T HE human in¬
terest is a
strong factor in collect¬
ing ; ribands and glasses,
snufl-boxcs and locks of
hair, and other personal
relics are on a plane apart. It is diffi¬
cult to gauge the tastes and predilec¬
tions of otherwise easily understandable people.
There was George Selwyn, wit and man of fashion,
the friend of Walpole, who'never missed an execu¬
tion. When upbraided by a Duchess
for his going to the Tower to see
Lord Lovat's head cut off. he re¬
torted. " I made full amends, for I
went to see it sewn on again."
The collection of first editions,
apart from intrinsic value, possibly
grew from the curiosity to see what a
shabby little volume the first edition
of Defoe's “ Robinson Crusoe ” was.
or to handle some of Dickens's serial
parts in their green covers, which
brought tearful remonstrances from
his readers to deal tenderly with the
heroine.
A three days' sale on April 4, 5,
and 6. of valuable books, chiefly by
celebrated English writers of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
conducted by Messrs. Sotheby, pro¬
mises to be of unusual character.
The largest and most important
Kipling collection ever offered for
sale, Lots 1 to 213. is to be offered
as one lot. It comprises rarities
hitherto unknown of this voluminous
writer. It includes pamphlets pub¬
lished at a penny, now described as
" exceedingly rare,” and offered as
one lot. The illustrated catalogue
alone is an education in Kipling’s
activities. Robert Louis Stevenson
has his first edition of ** Treasure
Island," 1883, but this came out
serially in a defunct journal—" Young
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
Fulke Grcville's account of the £ 10,000 provided to
convey the troops to Danzig to assist the King of
Poland against the Turks. It has quite a modern
ring, especially when we find that the Polish
Ambassador, who received ^2300. refused to re¬
fund it on the ground that the expedition never
reached Danzig—** balances irrecoverable ” again.
A rich pool is that of the collection of autograph
letters of the late Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott of
Abbotsford, the great-grand-daughter of Sir Walter
Scott. Dickens had his " Edwin Drood ” ; here
USED AT GEORGE WASHINGTON’S INAUGURATION: THE BIBLE ON WHICH
PRESIDENT HARDING TOOK THE OATH-THE TITLE-PAGE.
At hi* inauguration u twenty-ninth President of the United State* at Washington on March 4.
Mr. Warren C. Harding took the oath on the Bible that was used when George Washington
became the first President, in 1789, and stood by the table on which Lincoln’s hand had
rested. The title-page of the Bible (dated 1767) bean the imprint of ” Mark Baskett, Printer
to the King’s meet E seel lent Majesty .’’—[Photograph try Ktyitoru Vuv Comply |
Folks’ Weekly Budget ’’—under the auspices of
Dr. Japp, published in the early ’eighties by
Henderson and Son, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
The field is large and varied—Harrison Ains¬
worth, Wilkie Collins, W. W. Jacobs, Gissing, and
a score of others, all in first editions. The bonne
bouche is a rare Shelley
manuscript volume, ’’ A
Philosophical View of
Reform," with notes of
some of his poems, and
a landscape drawing by
Shelley of considerable
merit. It is the most
important Shelley manu¬
script item that has ap¬
peared for years.
Autograph letters, when
they come from a good
fount, claim the reverence
of posterity. The open¬
ing of the closet of a great
litterateur may open the
flood - gates of history.
We all watch for the un¬
expected in unpublished
letters. In yesteryears
persons of station did not
publish their intimate
correspondence for a mess
of pottage. There was
one lady who held certain
letters from the Duke of
Wellington and threatened
to make them public, to
which the old I>uke re¬
torted laconically, ” Dear
Fanny, publish and be
damn’d.”
A two days’ sale by
Messrs. Sotheby on April
ii and 12 offers unusual
items. There are the Red¬
grave Hall Muniments,
manor rolls, charters, and
is Scott’s equivalent of ’’ Edwin Drood ”—the
unpublished manuscript of a second scries of
his “Talcs from French History.” It was com¬
menced in May 1831, laid aside, and never re¬
sumed. The publisher’s reader was averse from its
publication ; but here it is, the fragment of a great
OPEN AT THE PAGE WHERE GEORGE WASHINGTON PLACED HIS HAND WHEN TAKING THE OATH;
THE HISTORIC BIBLE USED BY PRESIDENT HARDING AT HIS INAUGURATION.
The two illustrations on the left-hand page repreient Genesis, XLIX., 13 and 14: “ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the
sea : and he shall be for an haven of ship*; and his border shall be unto Zidon. Issachar is a strong aw couching down
between two burdens.’’ Zebulun is seen on the left, with net and anchor; Issachar, with an ass, on the right.
Photograph by Topical.
<leeds stored since the sixteenth century by
Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper under Elizabeth, and
his son, the half-brother to Francis Bacon, Lord
Venilam. The whole is to be offered, some 227
items, as one lot, or sold separately. Here is a
chance lor Baconians. What Shakespeare-Bacon
find ol cryptogrammatic virtue may be here en¬
shrined I Other letters at the same sale include
genius, flickering and on the eve of extinction.
The Scott papers embrace some 5000 letters
to the Wizard of the North from the great
men of his day.
Messrs. Robinson. Fisher, and Harding sold on
the 17th a collection of pictures, the property of
the Earl of Leven and Melville, and other pro¬
perties. Connoisseurs found variety and charm.
A red chalk drawing,
a study of a lady
holding a fan. by Watteau,
came from the collection
of Lady Henry Bentinck.
Some interesting Micrvelts,
one signed and dated 1617. portraits
of ladies, won favour. A Northcote
portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds in brown coat,
white vest, powdered hair, and wearing spectacles,
came up for assessment.
On the 18th. Messrs. Puttick and
Simpson, in their sale of old English
furniture and porcelain, included a
set of six Hepplewhite chairs with
shaped backs, the tops carved with
Prince of Wales’ feathers, and a
Charles II. walnut marqueterie chest
of drawers, inlaid with seaweed
ornament.
On the same day the firm sold
engravings, etchings, and modem
drawings, including one or two nice
items. There was a Helleu " Duchess
of Marlborough,” signed proof; Scott
Bridgwater’s ” Mrs. Camac,” mezzo¬
tint, signed proof; some of Frank
Short's signed-proof mezzotints after
Turner’s ” Liber Studiorum,” and
other Turner pieces, including Lup-
ton's " She«mess"and " Scarborough. '
proofs before letters. F. Pet it jean,
with his " Le Coucher de la Mariee ”
and " Le Bain,” in colours, signed
proofs, was noticeable. Two por¬
traits had a pedigree as coming from
the collection of John Adams of
Gosport, who married Caroline
Wheatley — Hamilton's portrait of
Francis Wheatley (an oval), and
Downman’s portrait of Mrs. Wheat-
ley. "Morning” and “Evening,"
by J. Barney, after F. Wheatley,
and “ The Rapacious Steward "
and the " Benevolent Heir ” by H.
Citibank, after W. R. Bigg, in
mezzotint, came up with untrimmed margins in
fine condition.
Messrs. Christie on the 22nd were selling the
property of the late Rev. J. F. W. Woodyeare,
which included a powdered-blue oviform vase,
Kange-He, in farmlleverle, enamelled with land¬
scapes. and a pair of
cylindrical powdered-blue
vases painted with river
scenes in blue. Other
Kange-He examples of¬
fered were a famille-verte
bowl, enamelled with a
procession of boats, and
a vase with flowering
plants and rocks in
panels. A Chelsea des¬
sert service, painted with
birds, trees, and branches
of fruit, had the coveted
gold anchor mark.
The important sale
of Italian pictures and
early English portraits,
one of the most interest¬
ing of the season, con¬
ducted by Messrs. Chris¬
tie on the 18th, pro¬
duced the looked - for
prices. In regard to the
” Beggar’s Opera.” by
Hogarth, we think of
Swift, who suggested
the idea of a Newgate
pastoral to Gay. It was
shown to Congreve, who
read it and said : " It
will either take greatly
or be damned con¬
foundedly.” The play is
having its run to-dav,
and Hogarth’s picture
of the cast (from the
Huth collection) which
was illustrated in The
Illustrated London News of Feb. 19, claimed its
guerdon from posterity.
“ Miss Emelia Vansittart," painted by Rey¬
nolds in 1773, made a good price, as did Romney's
portraits of the ” Clavering Children,” painted
in 1777. a spirited piece, and ” Lady Napier,"
a sound canvas—all three appearing in The Illus¬
trated London News of March 12.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 2 G, 11121 .—I 1 G
(By PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON. Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen University.
O VER and over again in the history of animal
life, representatives of aquatic stocks have
colonised the dry land. Perhaps we should not
be far wrong if w’e said that one of the great un¬
spoken wishes of animals was to get out of the
water. In any case, it is almost certain that
the great majority of land animals arose from
ancestors in the sea, some of them making the
transition — which might require a million
years—through fresh waters. If it be asked
why land ahimals may not have begun on
land, instead of being derived from marine
ancestors, part of the answer is that land
animals carry about in their bodies the tell¬
tale evidences of a marine or aquatic ancestry.
Thus all embryo reptiles, birds, and mammals
have gill-clefts on the sides of their neck, and
in two or three cases, in reptile and bird,
traces of the gills themselves have been re¬
cently found. These gill-clefts are of no use
for breathing in reptiles, birds, and mammals ;
they are historic relics ; they soon disappear,
except the first one, which becomes a tube
leading from the ear-passage to the back of
the mouth. Then there is the very remark¬
able fact that the proportions of salts in the
blood have a close correspondence with the
proportions in sea-water, and it is difficult to avoid
the conclusion that the salt composition of even
our own blood represents that of the seas of long
ago—fhe early Cambrian period—when blood began.
Ttie conditions of life on dry land are too
difficult for beginners or apprentices. There is
much more oxygen available than in the water ;
but it is not so easily captured. The skin of
land animals requires protection, and it ceases
to be able to absorb oxygen. In the water
an animal can move up and down, along and
anywhere ; but a land animal is limited to
one plane of movement—the surface of the
earth ; unless, indeed, it becomes a burrower,
or a climber of trees, or learns to fly. A third
great difficulty of the dry land, as compared
with the water, is that it is impossible simply
to drop the eggs or the young ones, as so
many aquatic creatures do. The dry land is
not a good cradle.
When we look at some parts of the dry¬
land— the sand-dunes, the rocky island, the
desert, the mountain-top—we feel at once that
this is a haunt very much more difficult than the
sea or the lake. It is plain that no great colonisa¬
tion by animals was possible till after plants had
prepared the way, and provided food, shelter, and
moisture. There seems no doubt that long ages
passed before land plants began ; for while there
are fossil-records of seaweeds in very ancient
FIC. 8.—HOW CATS CAN INCREASE THE CLOVER CROP:
HUMBLE-BEES —THEIR FRIENDS AND FOES.
" Darwin showed.". writes Professor Thomson, “ that if the purple
clover is to bear seed it must be visited by humble-bees carrying the
fertilising golden dust or pollen. The field-mice, or voles, destroy the
combs and grubs of the humble-bees. The cat from the cottage kills
the field-mouse, though it does not eat it. The more cats, the fewer
field-mice; the more humble-bees, and the better next year's clover
crop I Such is the web of life.’*
rocks, there are no definite records of land-plants
betore the time of the Old Red Sandstone ; %nd
it was not till ages after that that grass began to
cover the earth like a garment. As to the origin
of land plants, it is possible that very simple
plants migrated from the sea to the fresh waters,
and thence into the swampy ground, and gradually
gave rise to a land vegetation, making, as it were,
FIG. 6. —A SURVIVOR OF THE LEADERS OF THE SECOND
GREAT INVASION OF THE LAND, AIR-BREATHING ARTHRO¬
PODS: THE " SHY AND ELUSIVE" PERIPATUS.
a fresh start. But one of our botanists has
recently argued that the highly developed shore-
vegetation of seaweeds may have given origin to
the dry-land plants. If the coast was slowly
raised, as it often was, the great seaweeds might
be gradually transformed into land plants.
FIG. 7.—CREATURES TO WHICH THE SECOND INVASION
OF THE LAND LED ON: CENTIPEDES
In the conquest of the dry land one can dis¬
tinguish three great invasions or colonisations.
The first was the Worm-Invasion, led by simple
worms, which had begun the profitable habit of
moving with one end of the body always in front,
and had, for the first time, acquired head-brains.
It led on to the earthworms (Fig. i), and its great
result was the making of the fertile soil of
the world. The second was the Air-breathing
Arthropod-Invasion, led by simple jointed-
footed animals, surviving in the shy and
elusive Peripatus (Fig. 6), a sort of connect¬
ing-link between worms and insects. It led
on to centipedes (Fig. 7), millipedes, insects,
and spiders ; and it seems fair to say that
its great result was the establishing of a
linkage between flowering plants and the
insect-visitors who carry the fertilising golden
dust or pollen from blossom to blossom
(Fig. 8). The third was the Backboned-
Invasion, led by the ancestors of our frogs
and toads, and leading on to reptiles (Fig. 2),
birds, and mammals. This was the opening- -
up of new possibilities for animals, and in
the long run it led to man. No doubt there
were other colonisations, like that which
led to land-crabs (Fig. 3) and wood-lice ; or
that which led to snails and slugs; but
the three greatest attempts to conquer the
dry land were made by Worms, the air-
breathing Arthropods, and Amphibians.
What did the conquest imply ? It
meant new ways of capturing the oxygen
of the air, which keeps the fire of life
burning. Thus insects got their air-tubes,
carrying fresh air into every hole and comer
of the body — surely part of the secret of
their great activity; and amphibians got
lungs, probably transformations of the swim-
bladder of fishes. It was also a great event,
probably beginning on the shore, when
certain worms began to have red blood, for
the iron-containing red pigment gave an
increased power of capturing oxygen, and
opened the portal of a more vigorous life.
The capturing of air inside the body should
be thought of in connection with the need
for tougher skins, protecting the animal
against too much heat and light, and the dis¬
appearance of gills.
In the water there is greater freedom of
movement, and more " anyhow ” movements are
permissible ; on land the movements have to be
more precise and very quick. This meant better
brains. The conquest of the land also led to new
ways of caring for the young, such as hiding them
in underground nests (Fig. q), or keeping
them within the mother’s body for a long
time before birth, or carrying them about
after birth, as in kangaroos and opossums.
A water-snail lav’s its eggs in the water, and
they soon develop into free-swimming em¬
bryos ; the Cape Peripatus carries its young
before birth for over a year. When it
became possible to take great care of the
young creatures, it also became possible for
animals to have smaller families without
running any risk of losing their place in the
sun. And this is curiously wrapped up with
the growth of brains and the growth of
love. The cod-fish has its two million eggs,
and there is terrific infantile mortality ; the
golden eagle has usually two eggs, and the
eaglets get a good start in life.
Of great interest are the betwixt-and-
between animals, at present in transition between
water and dry land. Thus the big robber-crab
(Fig. 3) of some of the Pacific Islands goes up the
mountains and climbs the coco-palms and breaks
off the nuts. In a case like this there has to be a
yearly journey to the sea, for the infancy has to
be passed in the old aquatic home. On many
tropical shores there is a fish called Perioph-
thalmus (Fig. 4), which skips about among
the rocks, hunting small animals, or climbs
on the roots of the mangrove trees and looks
round with strangely protruding, very mobile
eyes.
Along with the dry land we must include
the underground world in which many ani¬
mals have sought safety. It is likely that
earthworms sprang from a fresh-water stock
(a few of them, like Alma and Dero, have
still got gills) ; when they became terrestrial
and discovered the possibility of living be¬
neath the ground, they must have had
for a time a sort of goiden age, free from
enemies. But other creatures made the same
discovery, the centipedes first, then some carni¬
vorous burrowring beetles, and, ages afterwards,
the mole. This has always been the way
of life. Another haunt is the cave, which
has given shelter to blind (Fig. 5) and infirm
animals, and to those who arc in no wray weak
lings, but simply do not like the light of dav
FIG. 9. — THE FIRST PLASTERER AND THE
FIRST HINGE-MAKER: THE TRAPDOOR SPIDER
AND ITS NEST.
"This interesting little animal was the first plasterer and the
first hinge-maker. A carefully hinged door over the top pre-
vents the ingress of all intruders/’ The nest in the fore¬
ground is shown in section, with lid opening. That on the
left is closed, and that on the right almost closed, with the
spider just disappearing inside.
1 HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26 , 1921.—417
HAUNTS OF LIFE: AQUATIC COLONISERS OF THE DRY LAND.
DRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, w. B. ROBINSON. FROM MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON, IN ILLUSTRATION OF HIS LECTURES.
a blind .
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without' p't^mer^
The Australian
H Frilled Lizard
■Bwy afr- . which is at preaei
becoming a bipe
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distance it folds its bi$
collar round ifo neck . /
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN ANIMALS
The bi$ Robber Crab (BirQuslofro)
Ifiat climbs Ibe coco-nut palm and
breaks off the nula.
TheThird G reat Invasion
hinted at by’Periopbtholmus" the lilNemud-sK
ascends the trunks and branches
V. -THE CONQUEST OF THE LAND : CREATURES DESCRIBED IN PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSON’S
FIFTH LECTURE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
Professor Thomson has already deal, with his first three lectures— “ The School
ol the Shore,'’ 11 The Open Sea,” " The Great Depths,” and “ The Fresh Waters ”—
in his abridgments published, with illustrations, in our issues ol February 26,
March 5, 13, and 19. In the present number he tells the no less fascinating
story of the colonisation of the dry land by aquatic creatures of the dim past,
some of whose descendants still survive. In this land-colonising process, he tells
us, there were three main stages—the Worm Invasion, the Arthropod Invasion,
and the Back-boned Invasion. One of the surviving creatures that recall the
last-named invasion is the African Mud-Fish, illustrated in our last issue. There
are still some creatures, such as the Robber drab of the Pacific Islands, in a
“ betwixt-and-between ” stage of transition between the water and the land, and
there afe many amphibians. — [thawing Copyrighted in the United States amt Canada .]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 26. 1921.—418
By J. T. GREW.
H EROISM, what an inspiring force it is I Ah 1
if in my Peter Pannish enthusiasm I had
not been a critic, doomed to untoward neu¬
trality, how I should have jumped on my seat
at the Philharmonic Hall, and shouted myself
hoarse in acclamation of that great comedy-
drama, " The Ross Smith Flight,” and its hero,
who, in the simplicity of the humblest of mortals,
yet in wonderful power of graphic description,
studded with humour born of happy thoughts,
tells a tale so thrilling, so inspiring, - so uplifting
that it dwarfs the modem romances of fiction,
bar those of our prophetic genius, H. G. Wells.
A film is not strictly drama, but a film such as
this belongs to the World of the Theatre because
it makes a theatre of the world, and encom¬
passes in picture and in word all the noble
thoughts and emotions of a lofty play. Talk of
the educational power of the film—well, here it
is in excelsis. In this journey of rare adventure
and wonderful sights, there is more unobtrusive
instruction than in a sheaf of books ; above all,
there is the manifestation of the virile qualities
of valour and perseverance. Let every man,
woman, and child behold " The Ross Smith
Flight," and profit by its message of patriotism
and progress.
What a splendid, coercive brain has Mr
Somerset Maugham I That " devil of a man,” as
our neighbours say affectionately of very clever
people, shares with ” G. B. S. " the unique gift
of setting up impossible propositions and im¬
pelling us to accept them seriously as if ” people
did such things." Besides, a doctor as well as
many other things, he knows human nature
inside out, and with a wit almost exotic in its
nimbleness, he coins phrases as fraught with
meaning as complete volumes. But in his au¬
dacity, and always inclined to judge humanity
with his tongue in his cheek, he sometimes
crystallises symptoms into an incorrect diagnosis
which imperils the fate of his "case.” It is thus
in his latest Haymarket play, “ The Circle,” clever
to a fault, vastly interesting, impossible of pos¬
tulate, yet plausible until well-nigh the end.
when his heroine, unmoved by the beau geste of
her husband to set her free with ample means,
elects to leave this man of small horizon, yet
human possibilities, to follow the young lover
who promises her nothing better than physical
pleasure, a life of adventure and, in his own
words depicting his character, a kind of pur¬
gatory existence that must end in unhappiness
No, my dear Maugham, she would not have gone
with him, although you will force us to believe
it. After all, you
of the ex-convict-Earl is a fine piece of work. There
is life in it, and soul, and the tragic note, and
such agony as creates infinite sympathy under
the surface ; there is more—there is a fierce con¬
demnation of our prison system, which degenerates
men into automatons, and sends back into the
world wreckage instead of mended craft. But
that is another story, of such portent that I
dare not go further than mere indication in this
page. Let all who take interest in criminology
A RELEASED CONVICT WHO HAS INHERITED A
PEERAGE, AND HAS NO FRIENDS: MR. NORMAN
McKINNEL AS THE EARL OF RADENHAM, IN
"THE NINTH EARL,” AT THE COMEDY THEATRE.
Photograph by Fouls ham and Banfield, Ltd.
and the criminal see the play. It will open their
eyes, as well as their hearts. Above all, their
hearts, for Mr. Norman McKinnel’s impersona¬
tion is an achievement of such power, such feeling,
such human chording of every accent, that I do
not hesitate to apply to it the word of which I
am so chary—the word " great ” 1 To summarise
my impression, I can but think of one tragic
act—that self-examination of a lonely soul who,
in his solitude, speaks to himself of himself
and the woes that rend his bosom — should
not be spoken to the audience, it should be
uttered, as it were, over the table at which he
takes his meal in solitude. That would be the
right aspect—the other is theatrical, and not in
the picture. This said, there remains but a chorus
of praise for the new actor-manager, of whom
great things were expected, and who, in one march,
has reached the summit. In Miss Jessie Winter
he had a charming companion on the thorny
path. In the last act she was truly touching—
I thought of that symbolic saying: the heart
of a woman can turn a desert into a Garden
of Eden.
Do those who follow the blessed work in honour
of Shakespeare at the " Old Vic ” realise that
the young generation is grappling with a titanic
task—realise what it means to play " The Merchant
of Venice ” to-day. " Julius Caesar ” to-morrow,
" Hamlet ” anon, with endless rehearsals to fill
in the gaps ? And these herculean efforts are
conspicuous—thanks to the vigilance of the “ Old
Vic’s " excellent producer, Mr. Robert Atkins—
for their smoothness and ease ; these hard-working
young people are " word-perfect,” however much
is demanded of them. This is itself a noteworthy
fact, since many a West-End production betrays
signs of unreadiness after weeks of rehearsal.
When, in addition, individual achievement, un¬
heralded and unparagraphed, reaches a remarkable
level, it is a matter for congratulation to the
young actors whose devotion and labour are thus
rewarded, and to Miss Baylis, whose " Home,
of Shakespeare ” gives them golden opportunities.
Mr. Ernest Milton’s “ Hamlet,” coining, as it
does, after a racial and powerful Shylock. an
eloquent Mark Antony, and an impassioned Romeo
is a stepping-stone in his career. Two years ago
his Hamlet was an arresting figure. Now, having
lost nothing of his sensitiveness, he has rounded
off comers, and broadened his conception. And
what he gives us is sincere—free of extravagant
“ business ” invented beneath the midnight oil.
We feel that such as this may Hamlet well have
been: determined on the deed of revenge, vacil¬
lating as to the when and how, brooding at one
moment, the next rapid in speech as a river in
spate—a slim, lonely figure, his energy lamed by
the self-questionings of youth, doubt, and shattered
illusions. We may find matter for criticism here
and there, but Ernest Milton has shown us some¬
thing of the very soul of Hamlet.
There is plenty of other talent rallying round
the banner of Miss
have painted her as a
young, impressionable,
womanly woman?
Such a woman has a
heart, and, wheji it
is touched by unex¬
pected revelations of
generosity and love in
her husband, there is
likely to be introspec¬
tion and reaction. The
pit and gallery felt
that, and did not
mince matters; and
we, too, felt sorry that
a fine piece of work
was blurred by an
unacceptable, cynical
ending. The acting
was as admirable as
the portrayals by the
author: Miss Lottie
Venne, Miss Fay Comp¬
ton, Mr. Allan Aynes-
worth, Mr. Leon
Quartermaine all added
to their laurels. By
gad, there is some fine
acting in London these
days I
THE FRIENDLESS EARL PAYS £2000 TO GET RID OF FALSE ACQUAINTANCES: THE END OF ACT II.
OF "THE NINTH EARL,” AT THE COMEDY THEATRE.
Baylis: Florence Saun¬
ders, whose tempera¬
ment matches her
picturesque beauty;
Mary Sumner, of the
tender notes and
gentle dignity ; Rupert
Harvey, a sound and
manly actor, whose
Hamlet should prove
interesting; Wilfrid
Walter — to mention
but a few in an en¬
thusiastic company.
Hail I Hayden
Coffin, on your return
to comic opera I So
the prophecy proffered
to you at the O.P.
dinner of Gross mi th
and Laurillard has
come true. What feel¬
ings must have heaved
your breast when,
after “umpteen”years,
on the self-same stage
of the Empire whence
started your fame, we
greeted you with a
rousing cheer 1 Nor
Yes. there is! From left to right the figures are: Miss Jessie Winter as Margot Sexton, Miss Frances Wetherall as Mix. Sexton. Mr. Lindsay has 411116 marred your
Whatever may be said as Mr. Sexton, Mr. Fletcher as Andrew Sexton, Mr. Norman McKinnel as the Earl.— [Photo. Foulsham and Banfietd Ltd.) youth ; evergreen, a
against “The Ninth better actor than
Earl," by Rudolph Besier and May Edginton— character of which this Ninth Earl is a kind of before, a voice still ringing with emotion, you
that it is melodrama of a novelette pattern, modem counterfoil—King Lear. Yet 1 would were an outstanding figure in “ The Rebel
that it is a one man's play, that it is not alter one part of the conception which Mr. McKinnel, Maid.” Now let them give yon a real song to
of the same distinguished fibre as 'Besier’s usual being actor and producer at the same time has not sing, and once more you will be the king of the
work—the fact remains that the character-drawing rightly focussed. The long soliloquy in the last playgoers' heart!
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26, 1921 — 419
POPULAR WITH PARIS REVELLERS, AS IN LONDON: THE TOY BALLOON.
DRAWN BY RENE LELONG.
A TOY THAT ADDS TO THE GAIETY OF DANCES IN PARIS AS IN LONDON: A “BATTLE OF BALLOONS**
AT A KI-CAREKE BAL MASQUE AT THE OPERA.
No fancy-dress dance is complete nowadays without a plentiful supply of toy
balloons. All in different colours, they add brilliance to the scene, while at the
time they lend themsetres admirably to the uses of frivolity. They can be
dropped from above on to the heads of the dancers, bandied lightly from hand
to hand, kicked about like airy footballs, or driven with mock ferocity into pretty
***** against gleaming shoulders without fear of offence. They evoke
naturally a spirit of mirth and joyous frolic. As our drawing shows, the toy
balloon is as popular in Paris as in London. The particular scene represented
is a Bal Masque at the Opera during Mi-Cartrae, got up by the Maison des
Joumalistes. There was a procession of the Paris theatres, each represented by
characters from its current programme. Dancing took place all over the theatre,
on the floor of the house, on the stage, in the foyer, and in the galleries. The
revelry reached its height when a cloud of balloons descended from the boxes on
to the dancers below.—(Drmwic Copyrighted tn the United States and Canada.)
1 HK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 26 . 1921 .— 42 B
CRc lrlsl) problem Cbroufll) frencb fcpes.
The article printed below is a condensation of one by
Af. Ludovic Saudeau, the well-known French
unriter, who was sent to Ireland by our contem¬
porary “ L' Illustration ,” in order that he might
study the Irish question on the spot and report
upon it. M. Saudeau is unbiassed, and it is
particularly interesting, therefore, to see how the
problem of Ireland appears to a Frenchman of
knowledge and experience.
W HEN, on arriving at a hotel in London, I
found all the war-time questioning renewed,
1 naturally thought that it would be much worse
when 1 got to Dublin. But nothing of the kind
occurred. I was presented with a pre-war visitors'
book, in which 1 signed my name, and that was all.
There were no signs of terrorism. 1 thought I
had been deceived. Where was the terror 1 had
heard so much of ?
On my way from the boat to the hotel, 1 passed
through streets which were brilliantly lit; all the
largest shops were open ; the jewels sparkled in
the electric light ; there were crowds at the doors
of the picture palaces. Huge tram-cars lumbered
along ; unarmed soldiers walked about mingling with
the crowd, some of them flirting with servant girls.
In the public - houses men were drinking beer and
spirits. As in London and Paris, women, young
girls, and children were walking about the streets,
obviously quite unafraid. The soft white mist of a
mild winter evening increased the feeling of rather
dull peacefulness.
1 dined late, I wrote some letters, and then
decided to explore the streets. The hotel porter
warned me that the curfew would soon be sounded,
and that no one was allowed to walk about the
streets after ten, and that if I did I ran the risk
of being arrested, and perhaps even shot. On hearing
this, I promptly returned to my room and started
studying Irish history. At one in the morning,
just as I was getting off to sleep, the sound of an
explosion startled me. Then 1 heard firing, which
was going on in the fog at 500 or 600 metres away
from the hotel. So people do fight in the Dublin
streets at night ? Then another bomb exploded,
then again the sound of firing, then silence; and 1
fell asleep, having previously come to the conclusion
that such things apparently did happen.
The Sinn Fein Leaders.
The soldiers, the guns that can be seen about the
streets—all the forces directed by the Viceroy and Sir
Hamar Greenwood—seem so predominant that it is
really difficult to believe that there are people mad
enough to oppose the orders of Dublin Castle. And
yet there exist, in the very heart of Dublin, other
authorities, other leaders, who have the sympathy of
an immense majority of the population. There is
another Governing Force; the English do not
see it, cannot discover it ; they only feel its
organisation. Some London Sinn Feiners, by
means unknown to me, recommended me to
their Dublin confederates, and, twenty-four
hours after my arrival, some harmless-looking
emissaries managed to let me have an address
where 1 would meet some of the chief Sinn
Fein leaders, who were actually wanted by
the police and on the run. 1 found these
leaders, not in the midst of a dark forest,
or in the Donegal caves ; nor were they
desperate - looking fugitives : they were
most ordinary in app>earance, occupying
a commonplace house or dice in Dublin.
The fact that they were inconspicuous
was of. great advantage to them. They
were men of whom the British authorities
heard daily, but of whom they actually
knew nothing at all, and whose exact
description they have not even got. 1
did not see Mr. De Valera, it is true, but
that was merely because 1 did not want
to see him, and because his lieutenants
proved to me how dangerous the smallest
imprudence would be to him, and I did
not want the responsibility of running
him into any risks. But I have often
had prolonged interviews with those who
belong to the Sinn Fein General Staff,
and who a short time previously had
conferred with the President of the pxissible future
Republic. One of them said to me—
“ What paralyses the British authorities in Ireland
is the lack of a good Intelligence Department. They
do not know us. They know nothing about us. In
India the British Intelligence Department is a
marvellous thing. And why ? Because it consists
chiefly of natives who spy on their fellow-countrymen.
But here the situation is different. There are but
few Irishmen who are willing to serve Dublin Castle,
and those are known, watched, and isolated. Nowadays
Irish national feeling is so strong that betrayal is
almost impiossible. You will understand
why presently. Every Irishman does not
take part in the Sinn Fein war, but every
Irishman feels sympathetically towards us.
Our Intelligence Department is the whole
nation, unanimously devoted to the idea
of its liberation. Consequently, if an
Irishman with a sordid mind feels inclined
to betray his confederates, he is imme¬
diately found out and denounced by all
the Irishmen who surround him and who
are not traitors. Our strength lies in
IHSIMMJUI NEWS
THE IRISH REPUBLIC.
PUBLISHED DURING THE EASTER REBELLION
OF 1916 IN DUBLIN: THE FIRST AND ONLY
COPY OF THE “ IRISH WAR NEWS.”
The paper is dated “ Dublin, Tuesday, April 25.
1916.” The article on the front page compares the
state of Ireland to that of England if conquered by
Germany. Under “ Stop Press" (elsewhere) is a
statement that “ The Irish Republic was proclaimed
in Dublin on Easter Monday, 24 April,” with the names
of seven members of the " Provisional Government.”
Photograph supplied by Augustin RischgiU.
the fact that wc are fighting in our own
country amidst a population which is de¬
voted to us, which sees in Sinn Fein the
sword of its preople—a population which
know, loves, and helps us—whereas the
English are not in their own country : in
spite of a domination of seven centuries,
they know nothing of Ireland. Our island,
though insufficiently populated—or rather,
depopulated through emigration enforced
IRISH HISTORY THAT HAS REPEATED ITSELF. “AN ATTACK ON THE
POLICE BY THE INSURGENTS UNDER SMITH O’BRIEN,” IN 1848.
The crowd attacking the police barracks is armed with blunderbusses, pikes,
scythes, and pitchforks. The police are firing from the windows.
Contemporary Print, supplied by Augustin Rischgits.
by the English—is nearly as large as Bel¬
gium, Holland, and Switzerland put to¬
gether. The English keep here, on a war
footing. 60,000 soldiers, and about 15.000
auxiliary police, and these forces are sup¬
plied with several thousand armoured cars,
tanks, lorries, and aeroplanes, and that at
a minimum cost of £250,000 a week. Well,
60,000 or 75,000 men mean something,
but they are quite insufficient to dominate
a country like ours. Let us be quite frank.
In order to reduce us, England has not got
either the enormous army of occupation which would
be nectssary, or the Intelligence service without
which she is helpless. Our tactics are to make the
occupation of Ireland very expensive for the British,
and a thoroughly bad job. They will end by clearing
out. We feel no hatred towards the English indivi¬
dually : you will notice that their commercial travellers
and journalists can travel about the country in all
security. We only attack the British Government,
the representatives of British authority—that is to
say, the oppressors who make us suffer.”
(Here M. Naudeau goes on to state the diffi¬
culties of a Frenchman with regard to the Irish,
espiecially owing to their attitude during the war.
He warns them most emphatically that views such as
those put forth in the Irish Review regarding Germany
will never gain them the sympathy of the French.).
The Irish Cause.
I^t us put our case clearly. In 1916, intellectual
Ireland, exasperated by her hatred of Great Britain,
speculated on the triumph of Germany, on which she
had founded all her hopes. And it is enough for
us to ask ourselves what would have happened to
Europe generally, and what would have been the
fate of France in particular, if these hopes had been
realised, to temper our pity with lucid and firm
reasoning, which, however, must not make us mis¬
judge the justice of the Irish cause. Now the Sinn
Fein leaders tell us : " In 1916 we did not betray
anybody, for during seven centuries Ireland has con¬
tinued to declare that she was not English, and that
she would not be English. . . . Ireland loves France,
but her love of France is less great than her hatred
of British tyranny. Had she been free in 1914, she
would then have spontaneously offered her sword
to France; but as she was not free, she had to
think of her own freedom first.” . . .
English Opinion.
It would, of course, be presumptuous and in¬
terfering for us to attempt to arbitrate on the subject
of the present state of Ireland, which shows no signs
of becoming quieter for some time to come; and
it is certainly not our place to meddle in this conflict,
of which British statesmen must be better judges
than we are as to what is the best means of secur¬
ing the poace of the Empire. But it will not be in¬
discreet for us to state that opinion in England differs
greatly on the Irish question. .• . . Therefore, a
foreigner, a friend, should not offend British suscepti¬
bilities by carefully examining the contradictory and
exasperating aspects of the most complicated of
European problems. And perhapw, just because we are
impartial (we who desire, in our own national interest,
before all things the power and prosperity of our ally),
we may be able to make some opportune remarks.
Are the measures which Britain uses for the coercion
of Ireland always those which are the best for
the security of the Empire ? Is it expedient,
is it prudent, in order to repress the striving
after independence of a little Western com¬
munity, to employ the same means which all
European nations use pitilessly in their colonies
should coloured races attempt the smallest re¬
bellion ? Can a white race, intellectually equal
to the most civilised nations, and which has
produced many great men, be treated
after the manner of a savage tribe ? Can
a white race, even one of the greatest,
hold under its dominion, in Europe, another
white race, physically less strong, but
morally her equal ?
“ But who says that Ireland is a nation ?
l>o the Irish form a nation ? Have they
ever been a nation ? ” protested one of
my English friends in Dublin. ” You say
* nation.* But what if I reply : * Not a
nation, but a rebel province I * How were
the insurgents of La Vendee treated ? We
English must cither decide to evacuate
Ireland or, if we think that we must pre¬
vent the secession of a territory which
we have owned for seven centuries, it is
essential that we should make ourselves
respected, which we cannot do by amiable
means. Assassins lie in wait for us daily,
we are harassed by a continual guerrilla,
and, as it is quite obvious that the whole
of Ireland is in the conspiracy, we must punish the
whole country in self-defence.”
T! is concise declaration was quite logical, but it
increased my doubts. Is Ireland a nation ? A per¬
secuted nation has the right to use all means to gain
its independence. The same means, however, cease to
be heroic and become mere criminal folly when used
by a rebellious province. Once more, is Ireland a
nation ? Is there a moral justification for the murders
committed ? To try and find this out, I travelled for
six weeks throughout Ireland—from Dublin to Cork
and Limerick, and from Galway to Belfast.
(To be continued next week.)
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, March 2ti. 1921—122
a Duke of Doudeauville, and they live in Paris,
where the newly betrothed couple will live after their
marriage. Prince Felix, another brother, married in
P EITE a large party had the Earl and Countess 1919 the Grand Duchess of Luxemburg. One of her
of Derby at Knowsley—which is indeed a sisters is in the Benedictine Convent in the Isle of
palatial place, where things are royally done—
to meet the most important quartette in the Empire.
In 1911 the same party stayed at Pl&s Machynlleth
as the guests of Lord Herbert Vane - Tempest. The
Prince of Wales had not then " grappled to his soul
with hoops of steel ” the hearts of the people ; and .V
Princess Mary was little more than a child. Now yy\y *
this quartette that stayed at Knowsley holds all our
hopes and engages all our loyalty. They went up in ' if*./f
a train beautifully florally decorated, and returned in j
one equally beautiful, the flowers arranged by the
specialist whose work their Majesties most appreciate.
The royal party returned on Monday, and will spend
Easter at Windsor, where they will stay for some nS aw
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The Season proper will not really set in before
May, although daring next month we shall have
several weddings of importance, including that of the
Earl of Dalkeith and Miss Mollie Lascelles. May
promises quite a gay time, and the visit of the
Crown Prince qf Japan in that merry month will
be marled by brilliant entertaining at Buckingham
Palace. I believe two Courts will be held, one
before and one after Ascot, in June, and things
will be kept humming until the end of July. Last
season they thinned out rather towards the end of
that month.
LADIES' NEWS,
Dress parades were an excitement of last week.
Several big West-End houses showed their models in
this way. I noticed in one or two a distinct move¬
ment towards the Elizabethan style of dress. It was
tentative, and met with approval from several of
those whose flair for clothes is acknowledged. There
were skirts wired out at the hips in the narrow way,
which probably fore-ran the all-round distended
skirts of the days of good Queen Bess, and there
were undoubtedly the straight Tudor bodices. What
was not of that time were the fabrics, which were
soft, if rich. Elizabethan stiffness was not reintro¬
duced. The ruff made no reappearance at the dress
shows, but I saw two white lawn rufRes at the Grand
Military on quite smart-looking women, and very
becoming they proved. In comparison to Elizabeth’s
rufls they were in miniature, but ruffles might blossom
into ruffs, given time, and our necks have been left
au nalurel for so long that we should delight in
dressing them up again. A. E. L.
At the private view of the American Contem¬
porary Art Exhibition. I found that many people
who understand art were puzzled over many of the
pictures. The Duchess of Rutland, attended by her
stalwart Duke, went from canvas to canvas looking
wonderingly at her catalogue and then at the picture.
The Duchess of Buckingham, who had a one-woman
show of her own work the other day, asked many
friends what they thought, and got very varied
answers. Lady Randolph Churchill talked of many
things rather than art. Lady Leslie and Lady
Ribblesdale were other Americans who looked much
and said little. Lady Sarah Wilson, very smartly
turned out, frankly enjoyed meeting friends, and
forgot pictures. Lady Cynthia Graham and her
daughter, quite unconsciously, made a more delight¬
ful picture than any on the walls. Lord and Lady
Sligo made laughing remarks, received many con¬
gratulations on their eldest girl’s engagement to Earl
Stanhope—which is to culminate in a wedding on
April 16—and seemed to like a few of the pictures
very much.
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was the first of its kind, and it still keeps pride of
place. It is specially useful for the nursery’, and,
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An entirely new and original idea is this modified red ingot e
effect made of black taffetas with white embroidery.
Photograph by Crosea lac., Parii.
Princess Margaret of Denmark’s engagement to
Prince Rend of Bourbon - Parma disposes of
rumours that she was to be betrothed to a British
Prince. Her mother was an Orleans Princess, so they
are connections. Prince Rend is one of a family of
eighteen, seventeen of whom are alive. The youngest.
Prince Gaetan, is sixteen. The ex-Empress Zita of
Austria is one of his sisters ; and Prince Sixte, an
elder brother, figured conspicuously in the war by
l>eing the medium for letters trying to make peace for
Austria. Prince Sixte married in 1919 a daughter of
Wight. Being a member of so large a family, the
Prince has many connections. Queen Alexandra, who
has always taken the greatest interest in her mother¬
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doubtless have liked her niece to settle in England.
She has been here a great deal, and loves London.
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A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Paris
I N a small glass-factory, not very far from Paris,
two enthusiastic men claim to haye rediscovered
the secrets of the ancient glazier’s art, and to be able
to reproduce the beautiful old stained glass of the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with all the true
colourings. The story, as recently told in an open
letter to the Ministfere des Beaux Arts, is something
of a romance.
It was in 1912 that M. Fayet, a well-known art
collector, and owner of the famous Abbaye de Font-
froide, a twelfth - century Cistercian
monastery, decided that he would replace
the windows of the little chapel attached
to the Abbaye with the best modern
glass procurable. Ten years previously,
M. Fayet had employed an artist by the
name of Richard Burgsthal to do a series
of large water-colours on special Chinese
paper, for the great hall of the Abbaye.
By placing these between sheets of glass,
the discovery was made of the possibility
of giving the illusion of stained glass.
They immediately set to work to improve
on this for the windows of the little
chapel, but in 1914 came the war. M.
Burgsthal was called to the colours, and
remained in the trenches for four years.
No sooner was he demobilised than he
returned without delay to his researches,
and after countless experiments, which
resulted first in the discovery of one
colour process and then another, the
** Chartres ” blue, the ruby-red, at last
all the old colours were faithfully repro¬
duced. M. Burgsthal claims to have
rediscovered the ancient process of
colouring the glass en masse, so that the
raw material is impregnated with the
colour, and mixed with a solution of iron which
gives the depth of tone. Careful examination of
glass taken from the famous windows of Chartres
and Rheims Cathedrals has proved this theory to
be correct, and now that M. Burgsthal claims to be
in a position to reproduce this glass exactly in his
factory, his discovery will have a world-wide effect.
M. Fayet and M. Burgsthal are now offering to restore
the glass in Rheims Cathedral, which suffered so
terribly from the German guns. If the French
Government decide to accept this generous offer,
the scientific world will have an opportunity of seeing
for themselves this modem miracle, for it is no less.
It is a long time since P^ris has had a really
good ’’ Apache ” play. In " Cceur de Lilas,” Messrs.
Tristan Bernard and Henry Hirsch have produced a
powerful drama in three acts, which grips the specta¬
tors and gives them a series of thrills right to the
end. There is, of course, a crime, the reconstruction
of which provides an opportunity for some fine acting,
and incidentally, too. a little friendly parodying of
some representatives of the law. There is, for in¬
stance, the fussy juge d'instruction, whe insists on
copious measurements being taken of everything,
whether relevant or not to the crime ; behind him
sits the indifferent and bored avocat, who says not a
word, but fingers his dossier absently throughout the
proceedings. Then there is the enthusiastic police-
sergeant. who goes off at a tangent on what is quite
AN IMPORTANT MATCH ON THE NEW COURTS AT LA FESTA: MLLE.
AND MAJOR KINGSCOTE PLAYING MISS RYAN AND MR. F. G.
obviously the wrong scent, and the emotional young
clerk who falls in love with the heroine. The piece
is full of humanity and works out to an interesting
and unexpected conclusion.
At the Porte Saint Martin, “ Madame Sans-Gene ”
is a very welcome revival, and has come out as
fresh and up-to-date as ever. The wit is just as
pointed, and the dialogue rings as true as when it
was first produced at the Vaudeville in 1893. Even
those who remember the brilliant performance of
Mme. R6jane, when she created the part of the vulgar,
good-hearted washerwoman, have little fault to find
with the interpretation of Mile. Mistinguett, famous
on the music-hall stage, whose selection for the part
was a happy inspiration of the producers.
NEW ATTRACTIONS AT MONTE CARLO.
L AWN-TENNIS is now an institution among the
> English who winter on the Riviera. The initia¬
tive taken by the Socidti des Bains de Mer and Cercle
des Etrangers at Monaco, the energy of the Nice Lawn-
Tennis Club on the Place Mozart, to say nothing of
the popularity of the courts at Cannes and elsewhere,
no doubt fired the ambition of M. Camille Blanc to
score a point for the Riviera in the Principality for
which he and his father have done such splendid
service. The ideal for Monte Carlo is undoubtedly to
provide a pleasure-ground from which no form of
attraction is missing, and this is what M. Camille
Blanc has achieved. The old music-hall
and dancing-room known to visitors of
earlier years as ” La Festa ” has been
covered in. and the basement now serves
as one vast garage for public and private
automobiles. The new arrangements have
been much appreciated by teunis players,
as the courts are within a few minutes of
the sunlit terraces and gardens of the
Casino. After the marked success of the
recent international tournament held at
La Festa, its position and popularity
may be said to be definitely established.
The courts were the scene of yet another
Lenglen victory, and over £1000 worth
of souvenirs were received by winning
players. The opening of the La Festa
courts was, in fact, not only a sporting
event of considerable importance, but
a social carnival of equal magnitude.
A large number of the distinguished
visitors to the different towns on the
Cote d’Azur assembled to see the play
and inspect the new attractions of
Monte Carlo.
LENGLEN
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Travellers to the Continent welcomed
the reintroduction, on March 21, of the
night .service from London to Paris via the Newhaven-
Dieppe route of the Brighton and French State
Railways. Most of the pre-war facilities by this
route, including baggage registration, reservation
of seats, and through bookings, have now been
restored. In the few years prior to the war several
improvements were made. Following the addition
of the turbine steamers Newhaven and Rouen to the
fleet, came the Paris, which materially shortened
the sea crossing. Then came the opening of the
Pontoise route between Dieppe and Paris in 1913.
The journey was thus reduced to 104 miles, a
saving of twenty miles over the Dieppe-Rouen-Paris
line. A feature of the new Pontoise route is the
beautiful scenery, and the absence of tunnels.
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•‘A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT," AT THE ST. MARTIN’S.
M ISS CLEMENCE DANE can write a play, can
work out in the theatre an interesting theme
in a way that enchains her audience’s attention. The
discovery of that fact is worth being enthusiastic
about, for our list of accomplished dramatists* is
none too large. Not only are there ideas in her
first stage work; Miss Dane also shows confident
technique. We are asked in her story to suppose
that the Majority Report of the Divorce Commission
has been carried into law ; that a wife can, under
certain conditions, divorce her husband on grounds
of lunacy. The heroine of “ A Bill of Divorcement ”
has thus freed herself from a man she had married
too hastily, and is on the verge of marriage with a
man she really loves. At this awkward moment her
husband comes home professedly cured for years
under ward, he has no knowledge of the state of the
law or of his wife’s action or feelings, and she has to
break the truth to him. It would be plainer sailing
THE ROYAL VISIT TO THE PASCALL CHOCOLATE FACTORY
AT MITCHAM.
A group showing the Queen and Princess Mary, with Mr. Sydney Pascall.
Managing Director of the Company, his daughter. Miss Joan Pascall, and
other Directors.
fore the argument weighs with her that he needs her
more. But there is a young daughter of the unhappy
marriage, engaged to a fiance herself, but possessing
all the frankness, intellectual curiosity, and courage
of modern youth. If lunacy often skips one generation,
then obviously she ought not to marry, and with
tainted blood in her veins ought to look after her
father and give her mother her chance of joy in life.
So she decides : a rather staggering decision it is in
these days, when youth so often claims to be served
first. The play is beautifully acted. Both Miss Meggie
Albanesi as daughter, and Miss Lilian Braithwaite as
the wife, give exquisitely natural performances ; Mr.
Malcolm Keen puts colour and pathos into his study
of the cured lunatic ; and Mr. Aubrey Smith’s easy,
unexaggerated style is also of service to the author.
Pascall’s well-known Royal Taste chocolates now
deserve their name literally as well as metaphorically,
as, when the Queen visited the famous Pascall choco¬
late factory at Mitcham, she actually conducted one
of the operations for making it. Her Majesty
was accompanied by Princess Mary, and at¬
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Keppel, and Mr. Harry I.. Vemev. The royal
party arrived in the afternoon, and were
received by Mr. Sydney Pascall. Managing
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Jones, and S. E. Perkins. Directors of the Com¬
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large dining hall, kitchen and appointments,
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as the welfare and new school buildings. The
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how the chocolates were made, and both the
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Versailles chocolates. They spent some time
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The Queen was so taken with the figure of Chu
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Before leaving. Miss Joan Pascall, daughter of
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,-.11 Taste and Versailles chocolates.
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PROBLEM No. 385A-BY H. I . I.. Mr vex.
BI.ACK.
WHITE.
White to plav, and mate ju three moves.
Solution of Pbobi.em No. 3854.—Bv A. M. Spark*.
WHITE BLACK
CHESS IN ENGLAND.
Bournemouth, between Mr. O. H. Labone anil
Dr. Neville Hast.
(O*i/rr Count ft Gambit.)
black (Dr. H.) white (Mr. L.) black (Dr. ll.i
1. P to K 4th P to Q 4th 13. B to B 4th R to Q 4 th
2. P takes P Kt to K B 3rd 24. Kt to Q and Q R to Q sq
3. P to 6 4th Kt takes P 15- P to B 3rd B to B sq
4. B to Q 3rd Kt to Q B 3rd 26. Kt to K 2nd R(Q4)toQm<!
5. Kt to Kind P to K 4th 17. Q to K 6th (ch) K to B sq
o. P to Q B 3rd B to Q 3rd 28. B to Kt 3rd Q to Kt 4th
7. Castles P to K 5th 29 Kt to B sq R to K 2nd
Alt,*rib,r P"™" 1 " ]?. Q £ Q Ht.lh P “ QRJh
he should have made his own posi- White is very cool in his defen-e,
lion secure first bv Castling. and has always something in hand
„ , „ ,, . , n , | to meet Black's rigorous efforts (o
8. B takes P B takes P (ch) I retrirve his iortun „.
8. B takes I* B takes P (ch) 1
9. K takes B Q to K 5th (ch)
10. K to Kt sq Q takes B
11. Kt to Kt 3rd Q to R 5th
33. Kt to Q 4th P to K
F W Renwick (Rod bo rough).—You had better try again at 3854.
You should always suspect the accuracy of a solution that begins
with a check.
Ahmad Mixza (Decca, Bengal).—Your other problem will appear in
due course, and we shall always be pleased to consider further
contributions.
C Willing (Philadelphia)—Acceptable, as always. Many thanks.
John Lobshixe (Toronto).—We fear it would be stirring up troubled
waters to recur to the problem you mention ; we had too much
correspondence over it at the time. In any case, we are not able
to put our hands on the position at the moment.
J A Bittancoubt (Dawson, Yukon Territory).—We do not care, as
a rule, to look at positions except on a diagram, but we will make
an exception in your case, and report later.
P N Hanes n (Benares).—Thanks for problem, which shall have our
careful attention.
Donald D Cavey (St. Helier. Jersey).—Your solution is quite correct,
and we are pleased to welcome you to our list of solvers.
E L Lovett (Broughton).- -You roust trv 3853 again. How do you
mate if after I. Q to R 6th, K to B 4th ; 2. R to. Q sq, BUck
play’s Kt to Q 4th ?
13. P to Q 5th Kt to Q sq 35. Q
14. Kt to K 4th 36. §
Black is now paying the penalty 37 ’ 9
of his haste. Both his King and 3 ” g
Queen are separately the objects 39 - K
of an onslaught, which, whilst He
aimed at either, forms one com- pawu
bined operation. serves
14. P to K B 3rd ^ 1
15. P to Q 6th P takes P 39.
16. Q takes P Q Kt to B 3rd 40. Q
17. P to Q Kt 4th Castles 41. K
18. P to Kt 5th R to Q sq 42. Q
19. Q to R 3rd R to Q 4th 43. K
18. P to Kt 5th R to Q sq
19. Q to R 3rd R to Q 4th
A clever replv, threatening, if
20. P takes Kt, K to R 4th, with
an apparently winning game. In
face of White’s care, however, he
cannot escape the loss of ttwo
Knights for a Rook.
2nd 34- Q takes P K to B 2nd
35. Q to Kt 3rd H to R 3rd
36. B to B 2nd R to Kt 2nd
naltv 37 Q to R 4th R to R 4 th
and 38 Q to B 2nd B to B 5th
ijects 39- RtoKsq
vhikt He can well afford to let the K
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serves to put him in a more favour-
^ able position for the final stroke.
39. R takes P
3rd 40. Q to K 4th R to Kt sq
41. KttoBfith B to Q 4th
42. Q to K 7th (ch) K to Kt 3rd
1 43. Kt takes R B takes P
if 44. Q to K 8th (ch) K to R 3rd
20. Kt to Kt 3rd R takes P
31. R takes Kt Kt takes R
22. Q takes Kt B to Kt 5th
to K 4th, with Black wages a gallant struggle to
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. March 2t>. 1!K*1.— I2X
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
No New Motor Durin 8 the debates on the Roads
Legislation Act, towaf d s the end of last year,
the Minister of Transport clearly
foreshadowed the introduction of comprehensive legis¬
lation for the amendment of the existing motor laws
during the present session of Parliament. In answer
to a question addressed to him a week or so ago, he
said that none but absolutely essential
nected with motor traction, from dazzling headlights
to compulsory examination for drivers. 1 happen to
know that serious differences of opinion exist within
certain of these sub-committees, and any decisions
they’ may come to are bound to be controversial.
For instance there are two parties within the com¬
mittee on lights. One holds the view That the problem
of dazzle is practically insoluble, unless the risk is
taken of cutting actual light down below the safe
cannot lead anywhere for some time, more especially
as the future of the Ministry of Transport is very
uncertain after the retirement of Sir Eric Geddes
at the end of August.
A Ltfhdon Th° Automobile Association has
Pilotage Scheme. instituted arrangements whereby
tourists and countiy members can
l>e met, in any part of London or its outskirts, by
competent pilots having an inti¬
mate knowledge of the Metropolis
and its traffic conditions. The men
will lx* available for guiding mem-
liers’ cars by the lx*st routes through
or around London. Full particulars
concerning this new A.A. service,
for which a moderate charge is
made, may be obtained upon appli¬
cation to the Secretary at the Asso¬
ciation's headquarters. This service
ought to prove a boon to motor¬
ists whose knowledge of London
is sketchy' or altogether wanting.
There is probably no city in the
world in which it is so easy for the
motorist to lose his way, especially
on the southern exits. Rven the
Londoner is often at a loss to know
exactly what road to take in order
to get out southwards or south-
eastwards by the shortest way.
measure the Government cared to
introduce. That much was evident
while the Roads Act was under dis¬
cussion. If, therefore, we are to have
a respite of a year or two, it will
give an opportunity for setting the
house in order and for preparing for
the strenuous fight that will have to
be made if mechanical road transport
is not to be saddled with a further set
of restrictions and disabilities, which,
it must not be forgotten, would lx* of
a much more permanent character
than those under which it at present
labours. I doubt not that the organis¬
ations which represent the interests
of motoring will take the fullest
advantage of the extra time that will
be given them, and that they will
immediately take the necessary steps
to secure co-ordinated effort. We
have suffered too much from decen¬
tralisation in the past to tolerate
more of the detachment which has hitherto charac¬
terised the work of these bodies.
A Fine '^srs r. won-
Ptrform.net. ""‘J a ™ 1
me the following
telegram received from Monte Carlo :
■' F. S. Bennett, driving Cadillac,
won second place in the sports type
class in the hill climb from Monte
Carlo to Mont Agel, the distance
being six-and-a-half miles, rising
The time taken was H> min. 35 sec.,
and fourth fastest time of the day in a field of
sixty-five competitors.
“ The fact that Mr. Bennett drove a standard
limousine against sports cars, and only lost first
place by a quarter of a minute over a course
with thirty-four hairpin bends, made the perform¬
ance remarkable. Universally admitted the finest
driving feat of the day, and a wonderful record
for a car with limousine body." Undoubtedly a
very' fine performance. W. W.
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driving limit. The other seems to think that, as the
Minister has set a task, it is up to the committee to
make recommendations of some sort. In such cir¬
cumstances, it would surely* be better to suspend the
work of inquiry over the summer months at least.
In the meantime, it is quite conceivable that scientific
research may result in a solution of the many problems
involved, and save the committee from stultifying
itself by making impracticable recommendations. It
is the same with all the rest of these committees. It
is of very little use to go on with inquiries which
As the proposed motor legislation
has fallen through for the time
being, it seems pertinent to ask
,-hrther it is necessary' to continue the expenditure
f public funds and the waste of time entailed on the
art of those, officials and others, composing the many
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DEATH IF HE TOUCHED THE KING’S TEETH ! A COOK CEREMONIALLY FEEDING A KING OF BUNYORO
WITH MEAT ON A TWO-PRONGED FORK.
The remarkable native customs formerly observed in Bunyoro, Uganda, were
described in our issues of March 5, 12 and 19, by the Rev. John Roscoe, the
well-known explorer, and fully illustrated. Describing how the King took a
ceremonial meal of beef, he writes : '* A cook, who was purified, and had his
face, chest, and arms whitened, came at the sound of the royal drums with the
food. ... A boy carried a pot containing the meat .... The meat was
cooked and cut into small pieces ready for eating. When the cook arrived, he
Drawn bv A. Fokkstikr, from Matbriai. supplied by the Rev.
entered the throne-room and knelt before the king, while the boy placed the pot
before him and retired. The cook held a two-pronged fork, which he dipped into
the pot, brought up a piece of meat and put it into the king’s mouth. Four
times he did this, and, should he by accident touch the king’s teeth with the
metal, he was put to death on the spot During this meal the people in the
enclosure knelt silent, and covered their faces until the king had finished, when
they might rise and return to their own affairs.”
John Roseau. Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 2. 1921.—130
to the
ry
lughlv^y windows j n to the only spring poem that is
ance^fg f rom the sneer of a cynical modern conven-
nu ‘ as tion. While the spring poet is shown down¬
stairs in the market-houses of literature, the flower-
seller is free to make his booth an idyll of the
season, a song without words that challenges only
criticism in its truer sense, the discovery of beauty.
There, if you will have words, you can practise
Divination by a Daffodil with Herrick, and with
him, too, recall How Lilies Came White, or, leaving
the mere prettiness of conceits, hear anew the
loftier music of Perdita's rhapsody on the flowers
that frighted Proserpine lets fall from Dis’s wagon.
The spring-time of English song seized its oppor¬
tunity so thoroughly in this regard, and with
such perfection, that intolerance of later effort
may be justified; but prejudice may go too far,
to the unjust repression
of courageous genius.
A word on behalf of
the poor spring poet is,
in fact, somewhat over¬
due, were it only for his
sublime courage. He
knows that to-day he
plays a losing match, but
no ridicule can stay his
pen. For that he deserves
some consideration, and it
is hard that he should
be dismissed unread and
with bitter words, or
worse, on the mere an¬
nouncement of his theme,
surely the most proper
that enthusiastic bard can
choose, and not neces¬
sarily exhausted because
others have done virtu¬
ously of old time. As well
say that the force of spring
itself is outworn. But the
ideal of the season, in our
treacherous climate, car¬
ries a heavy handicap that
accounts for much of the
poet’s discredit. If Spring
would only live up to her
reputation, her latter-day
singers might enjoy an
easier time, and their
shrift be less short at the
hands of their ghostly
confessors.
The beginnings of the
trouble cannot be deter¬
mined precisely, but an
unlucky word of James
Thomson's helped to make
it articulate. It is not re¬
corded that J. T.’s own
generation cavilled unduly, but in the fulness of
time there arose one Thomas Hood, who saw and
exposed the fatal flaw in the first line of “ The
Seasons.” It is strange that Hood, that humane
spirit, himself not the most fortunate in the re¬
wards of his art, should, for the sake of a jest,
have winged a shaft very venomous to other
struggling singers in its after - effects, when he
rewrote, with damning italics :
** Spring, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come,”
Oh, Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason,
That thou poor human nature thus could’st hum—
There’s no such season !
By the time he finished his burlesque. Hood had
left the vernal quarter of the year not a rag of
reputation. As for the bard who (lared to attribute
any charms to the season, he was laughed out of
countenance, and out of countenance he has re¬
mained ever since. It is difficult enough to be a
poet of any kind, but to appear as a spring poet
is to champion a lost cause to the tune of more
kicks than halfpence. So the cause be good, how¬
ever, the championship is the more honourable :
let our poet of spring, then, be allowed at least
to open his bulging wallet and show whether he
has caught some fresh echo of the awakening year.
No matter if he sing only of an ideal too seldom
realised in these latitudes: his work will be correct¬
ive to an age somewhat debauched with ” actu¬
ality.” If he prove a mere imitator or plagiarist,
anoint him with oil, crown him with fillets of
wool, and conduct him to the next city, but
let that be your harshest usage, for the poor
rascal has felt some kindling of divine fire within
him, though he may have failed to make it
communicable.
Perhaps he spent his remainder sixpence, in
days when sixpence does not carry a man very
far, on conveyance to Kew, there to sec the resur¬
rection of the garden flowers, or if blessed with a
shilling or two. he may have pushed as far afield
as the Surrey lanes, or the woods where Herts
and Bucks rub neighbour Chiltem shoulders, to
THE NEW LEADER OF THE UNIONIST PARTY IN THE COMMONS: THE RIGHT HON. AUSTEN
CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., AND HIS WIFE.
Our photograph of Mr. Austen Chamberlain was taken outside the Carlton Club just after he had been unanimously elected,
at a Unionist meeting held there on March 21, to succeed Mr. Bonar Law as Leader of the Unionist Party in the House
of Commons. Mr. Chamberlain married, in 1906, Miss Ivy Muriel Dundas, daughter of the late Col. Henry Laurence Dundas.
They have two sons and one daughter .—[Photographs by Photopress and Hugh Cacti.}
feast his eyes on primrose and hyacinth, and the
delicate green mist of beeches breaking into leaf.
Or, city-bound by penury, he may have had to
content himself with the florists’ window, or the
new-dressed morning beauty of Covent Garden
bouquets.
Alike in country or town, the result would
be the same. The spirit of essential spring-tide
laid hold of him, and he knew that her traducers
merely clutched at local accidents of weather to
vamp up a case. He had sight of the inwardness
of spring’s joyful mystery, and he knew there
was but one way, and that vocal. Perhaps he
came off ill, he was no Trumpeter of Seckingen,
to convey quintessential spring in a single couplet,
but, greatly daring, he celebrated his mistress
boldly, knowing that in the very act he courted
rebuff. For that chivalry alone he is to be let
down lightly, although his effort must remain
alms for oblivion.
The universal stirring of the sap has other
counterparts in the mind and heart of man than
the perilous impulse to song. Once upon a time,
April set the pious pilgrim afoot, and although,
to-day, the road to Canterbury holds but few
professed votaries of Martyred Thomas, the
season still prompts to new quests after excellence.
It is the hour when social reformers start schemes
of spiritual spring-cleaning, and this year, just
when the house-painters are getting busy in the
West End, and the Hanging Committee is sitting
down to its fearful labours on other painters'
work at Burlington House, we are urged to con¬
sider the claims of Art in Common Life, and the
beautifying of everything from cathedrals to
sand-bins.
This pilgrimage towards the Periclean ideal
that made Athens architecturally " a means of
education for all Greece,” compels sympathetic
support. It has been mooted before, without
any overwhelming result, but that need not
discount a fresh effort, or discourage the promoters.
" It's dogged as does it,”
and the new attempt
may be symptomatic of
a real public movement.
One hopes it is. The
only consideration that
might cause doubt is a
fear that the inspiration
comes from an elect body
of experts, representing
the artistic minority. As
a nation we are not
artistic, and the great
body of the British peo¬
ple is not easily moved
by projects based on
the love of pure beauty.
It does not see the neces¬
sity. The Renaissance
began with a nation
essentially artistic: it
touched England late and
soon withered, for it was,
as far as this country
was concerned, rotten at
the root, and died of
theological discussions.
The impulse towards
lieauty for its own sake
was for Ancient Greece
and Quattrocento Italy a
perfectly natural thing,
that became general be¬
cause of national instinct.
It was not initiated and
directed by Committees
of Taste, still less by any
Ministry of Aesthetics.
The decorative policy of
Pericles was simply the
instinctive act of the
most representative Greek
of his day. He spoke
to a people that under¬
stood and sympathised ;
r^Qi
he was not imposing upon the Athenians the
views of a remote and specially enlightened caste.
Granted that he stood in the van of intellect,
he taught, nevertheless, a doctrine that did not
bewilder his fellow-citizens in its mere statement.
There we are at a disadvantage, and while willing
to be optimists, cannot evade scepticism as to the
triumph of Art in Common Life.
There can be little hope in any Committee of
Taste ; for what would be the Taste of that Com¬
mittee ? It would be convened to determine
the most elusive of all questions, a question upon
which no two men are in agreement. Any de¬
cision of such a body would be a compromise
fatal to art, and one reflecting probably the
opinion of the least artistic but most aggressive
members.
As for a Ministry of Aesthetics, or such - like,
that would be the entry of the seven devils of
the parable. Heaven help the cause of Art in
Common Life or anywhere else, if Bureaucracy
is to direct it 1 The mere proposal to work by
Committee shows exactly where we stand at
present in this matter. Yes, the Spring comes
slowly up this way. J. 9- S.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON
PROMINENT PEOPLE; AN AMRI ISHFn td»™ »
’ ah AMhsUbHED TRAIN; A BOMB IN A THEATRE.
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CIRTON’S NEW MISTRESS : MISS
BERTHA PHILLPOTTS, O.B.E.,
LITT.D.
THE CREATOR OF " RAFFLES ”
DEAD: THE LATE MR. E. W.
HORNUNC.
A WELL-KNOWN DRAMATIST
DEAD : THE LATE MR. C.
HADDON CHAMBERS.
AN X-RAY MARTYR : THE
LATE DR. IRONSIDE BRUCE,
THE RADIOLOGIST.
A FAMOUS ACTRESS HONOURED :
DAME GENEVIEVE WARD. WHO
IS EIGHTY-THREE.
AUTHOR OF MUCH-DISCUSSED
WAR REMINISCENCES : SIR
WILLIAM • ORPEN, R.A.
BY BULLETS : THE TRAIN AMBUSHED AT HEADFORD,
FIGHT IN WHICH NINE OF THE MILITARY AND ONE
CIVILIAN WERE KILLED.
A FAMOUS PAINTER DEAD :
THE LATE MR. MARCUS
STONE. R.A.
A TERRIBLE BOMB OUTRAGE IN MILAN ; THE WRECKED ORCHESTRA
OF THE DIANA THEATRE AFTER THE EXPLOSION.
Miss Bertha S. Phillpotts, Principal of Westfield College, has been appointed to
succeed Miss K. Jex-Blake as Mistress of Girton College.-Mr. E. W. Homung,
the well-known novelist, died on March 22, at St Jean de Lux.--Mr. C. Haddon
Chambers, the dramatist, died suddenly at the Bath Club on March 28.--
Dr. Ironside, the eminent physician and radiologist to Charing Cross Hospital,
died from the effects of exposure to X-rays in the course of his duties.-Miss
Genevieve Ward, the veteran actress, who recently kept her eighty-third birthday,
has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.——
Sir William Orpen, the painter, records his experiences as an official war-artist
AFTER THE BOMB EXPLOSION WHICH DESTROYED THE FRONT ROW OF THE
STALLS AND KILLED MANY PEOPLE: THE DIANA THEATRE AT MILAN.
in his new book, “An Onlooker in France, 1917-1919.’’-A train conveying
twenty-nine men of the 1st Royal Fusiliers was ambushed on March 21 at
Headford Stauon, Co. Kerry. Lieut C. E. Adams, five soldiers, and a civilian
passenger were killed, and three other soldiers wounded died later. On the arrival
of a second train with reinforcements, ;he ambushers were dispersed.-Mr. Marcus
Stone, R.A., the famous painter of sentimental love scenes, died on March 24,
aged eighty.-Many people were killed and injured by the explosion of a bomb
in the Diana Theatre at Milan on March 23 during a performance of Lehar’s
new opera, “La Mazurka." The crime was ascribed to Anarchists.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 2, 1921.—4T,
THE WORLD OF THE THEATRE.
By J. T. GRE1N.
Miss Braithwaite, exquisitely tender and lovable,
rising to unwonted emotion. Anon, Miss Meggie
Albanesi, the most promising actress of the younger
generation, deeply interesting in her study of the
modem girl with a heart and a will. Then Miss
Agnes Thomas's vivid incarnation of puritanism
and yesteryear mentality. Lastly. Mr. Aubrey
Smith, perfect as a gentleman and a gentle man.
At the end, ovation ringing true.
A FEMINIST to the core, and one who, long
before these days of approaching equal rights,
has never wavered in the belief that when woman’s
brain is fine it is also much more finely attuned
than man's, I rejoice at every fresh manifesta¬
tion of her progress. Latterly she has become a
power to be reckoned with in the World of the
Theatre. In France, in Holland, in Germany, the
woman playwright flourishes; in England her
ascent has made great strides
since pre-war days, and the —>>„r—«c
recent production of
of Divorcement "
Dane, at the St. Martin's,
that love of one's neighbour is the universal
religion and the noblest, hardest task of men.
These clergymen’s very artlessness heightened the
impression of the two actresses. Miss May
Haysack’s performance as Good Deeds stood out
in diction and feeling. The message of the play
went straight to the hearts of the large audiences.
A Bill
by Clemence /
• goes o
to prove that the great pro- Jj
blems of life are well within a
the grasp of the woman JJ
dramatist. t
Here is a play of stimula- ig)
tion, of polemic force, of
penetrating knowledge, of
rare analysis of character.
Austere criticism might say
to the gifted author, when
she allowed the returned
lunatic to spread desolation
in the happy home of the
wife who divorced him by
virtue of the new law and
was about to enter a happy
second bond : “ You are
evolving your story on an «
illogical basis. You know very U
well that the man who came a
back, a* fugitive from the U
asylum, remained hopelessly A
insane, and that his old V
doctor would have at once P
ordered his re - internment .j
as a person incurable and
dangerous." But what of
that ? Clemence Dane set out
not merely to illustrate the
efficacy of the divorce law
now before Parliament; her object was greater :
she wanted to place before us two distinct types
of woman. One, the mother, weak and yielding,
with one foot in the Victorian era of thought,
the other vacillating on the side of modernity ;
the other woman, the daughter, strong, inde¬
pendent. outspoken to the degree of hardness,
yet chastened by a classic . _
spirit of self-immolation. For, ^5 ^ °^~
to save her mother from un- / , m
happiness, to allow' her re- vj ™
marriage, she sacrificed her A C . Q
own fianc^ and would hence- v I
forth devote her life to the A 6 J
imbecile, her father, whose y <
blood flowed in her veins, j]
whose taint hovered over her - ;iFli •In I
as something ominous to her
fate. The idea, painful in its ■
nature, is as portentous as
Greek tragedy. The character -—Ml • J jfis f»J
of the girl is so splendid, so \ | ■
great, that we came away in - ~
elevation instead of sorrow. „
We feel that the war has ^
bred other stuff than things
evil, that in widening the MkL
horizon of youth and woman¬
hood it has in some way re-
suscitat' d altruism and un- fr
selfishness as potent as in « Q
the annals of the classics. A IWJR 1
No doubt, on close inspec- ^
tion, there remain issues de- M pi|H
batable and open to criticism. ^ I
But all details pall before the V |
magnitude of the theme, the A
individuality of the characters,
the terseness—and often the <M „
beauty—of their parlance, the
human chord that vibrates
through every scenF and con- ^ rom left t0 ri * ht th
. , , _ Collins (descending sta
tmues to echo long after we
, , , ,» . l , (with arm extended)
have left the playhouse. In¬
deed. the firstling of Clemence
Dane—already notable by books of thought and
power—is something more than a passing event.
As a drama of conflict and intellect, it is of
moment. It will open eyes, and brains, and new
paths tow-ards better solutions of the marriage
question than are vouchsafed by the law of to-day.
The acting is a string of cameos. First and
foremost the fine, lifelike, poignant portrayal of
the lunatic by Mr. Malcolm Keen—a leap into
fame after many years’ toil in the provinces. Next.
BEAUTIES OF A DAINTY MUSICAL COMEDY: A PICTURESQUE GROUP IN
AT DALY’S THEATRE.— [Photograph by Stage Photo Co.]
SYBIL,’
I wish that Mr. Ben Greet, that sturdy pioneer
of the Bard, whose work in the land of children
is both priceless and uplifting, could be prevailed
upon to propose to the League of Nations a
world tour of " Everyman.” His production at
the Church House. Westminster, manned by
clerks in holy orders and two actresses by pro-
2 s'!-3 rs vW^.i'S-
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 2, 1921—433
ABROAD AND AT SEA: POLITICAL AND NAVAL OCCASIONS.
I HOTOT..APHS HV Ghuch P, H s« Pmoto Vmoii.h (B.run), Topical, and Janson iH*i_sing*o*s'.
A REQUIEM OF THE DEEP: THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR " K 5 " ON BOARD H.M.S. “ BARHAM," "FROM COMRADES AND BROTHER ‘BUFFS " : THE
SHOWING BUGLERS WHO SOUNDED THE “LAST POST" ABOVE THE BIG GUNS.
WREATH CAST OVERBOARD FROM THE "BARHAM
REFUGEES FROM KRONSTADT IN FINLAND : SAILORS AND ARTILLERYMEN
WHO ESCAPED ON HORSEBACK, AT TERIJOKI.
It was announced in Berlin recently that the German Government, “ in the certain
expectation ” that Upper Silesia would be awarded as a whole to Germany in
view of the result of the Plebiscite, had instructed the Minister of the Interior
to proceed with the Upper Silesian Autonomy Act, passed in November last,
providing for the election of a Diet.-A memorial service for the victims of
Submarine “K5,” lost with all hands, was held on board H.M.S. "Barham,"
the flag-ship of the Second Battle Squadron, on March 20. The wreath cast
THEIR FIRST MEAL AFTER ESCAPING FROM KRONSTADT : WOUNDED AND SICK
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AT TERIJOKI, IN FINLAND.
into the sea, as " a token of esteem from Comrades and Brother ‘ Buffs, ’ bore
the following inscription : “ Sleep on, thou Mighty Dead ; A glorious tomb they
found thee : The broad blue sky above thee spread, And boundless waters round
thee.-No vulgar foot treads here ; No hand profane shall move thee : But
gallant fleets shall proudly steer And warriors shout above thee. Requiescant
in Pace ! ”-Some of the Russian anti-Bolshevist forces who escaped from
Kronstadt on its capture by the " Reds " found refuge in Finland.
-131 — THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April
THE BATTLE
OF
THE BLUES FOUGHT ONCE
more
Photographs P |
MR. P. C. MALLAM
l LANCING AND QUEEN’S).
MR. D. T. RAIKES
(RADLEY AND MERTON).
MR. S. EARL
(ETON AND MAGDALEN).
MR. R. S. C. LUCAS
(ETON AND MAGDALEN).
MR. G. O. NIC (CALLS
(ETON AND MAGDALEN).
MR. W. E. C. JAMES
(ETON AND MAGDALEN).
THE DARK BLUES : THE OXFORD BOAT SHOOTING HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE
DURING A FULL-COURSE TRIAL.
For the second time since the war, snd the seventy-second time since the event was instituted, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race was arranged to take place over the
4$ miles course from Putney to Mortlake, on March 30. The first inter-'Varsity race was rowed at Henley in 1829, but it did not become an annual event until i 85 4 -
Before this year's contest, Oxford had won thirty-eight times and Cambridge thirty-two times, and there was one dead-heat, in 1877. Cambridge won the last race beforr
1 he ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, April 2, 1921.—435
MdTHE 72nd OXFORD AND
^ Sport and General.
CAMBRIDGE
BOAT - RACE.
MR. J. A. CAMPBELL (MELBOURNE
GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND JESUS).
MR. H. 0 . C. BORET
ON AMD THIRD TRINITY).
B. PEARSON (WIN-
«D FIRST TRINITY).
MR. A. B. RITCHIE (R.M. COLLEGE,
OSBORNE, AMD TRINITY HALL)
MR. H. B. PLAYFORD
(ST. PAUL'S AMD JESUS).
when the event was resumed last year after being in abeyance for five yean.
> rough weather : in the second race, Oxford won. The record time of x8
the left above, and the Cambridge crew on the right.
1 * » ■ _ r-
MR- L. E. STEPHENS (FELSTED
*"*> TWI,I TV HALL), THE
CAMBRIDGE COX.
J-—.
TH THE L,CHT BLUES: THE CAMBRIDGE BOAT SHOOTING HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE
DURING A TRIAL ROW.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 2, 1921.-436
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
Japanese colour-prints and Chinese and Corean
drawings come up for sale by Messrs. Sothebv
on the 7th and 8th. The Japanese colour prints
are the property of Mr. Arthur Morrison, and
consequently come under the aegis of a great
connoisseur. Perhaps one should turn first to
the books on the subject in Mr. Morrison’s
library to understand the symbolism and de¬
corative value of the various prints coming
under the hammer. The European books offer
the best tuition to the tyro ; they include Bing’s
*' Artistic Japan.” Anderson’s " Japanese Wood
T HE question.
What are
curiosities, what are
and what are
objects of art ? puzzles
[ V ///the modem auctioneer,
sQ * / with all his cleverness at nomenclature.
That " one man’s meat is another
man’s poison ” is true in collecting. Ethnological
examples fit to illustrate Dr. Frazer’s learned
tomes ” The Golden Bough ” will not appeal to
the lover of curios in the Horace Walpole sense—
the patch-box, the clouded and bejewelled
walking - cane, or the pinchbeck buckle.
We cannot imagine Richard Burton the
Orientalist having held regard for objects
which might have won the admiration of
Byron. George Borrow would have eschewed
the niceties of Bulwer Lytton. It is the
same to-day. Collecting is on a wide plane,
and its votaries are as the poles apart.
Violins and stamps, Baxter prints and coins,
flint weapons and Roman glass, hold different
sets of collectors enthralled. Mr. Stevens
was selling on March 22 a collection of
Oriental sacrificial swords, including a curious
beheading - sword from Cambodia, and a
Nepal sacrificial cleaver, with an eye en¬
graved at the end, dedicated to the god¬
dess Durgha. A rare item came up in
the silver-mounted staff or Gnomon stick,
carved with figures, formerly used by the
Tibetan hillmen for telling the time, as well
as a staff. At the same sale, Chinese pro¬
cessional maces, one in the form of the
hand of Confucius, were included. South
Sea Island fish-hooks, Cingalee feather capes.
Tierra del Fuego bone spearheads, New
Guinea necklaces, offered themselves as
relics of a world that must soon be cine-
matised and bowler - hatted. Before it is
too late, let us snatch the savage charms
of primitive man, and treasure them as
indicating what once was and is rapidly
passing away.
On March 23 Messrs. Puttick and Simpson
offered some sound examples of plated
ware. Here was a selection for the wise
collector, in a quiet market where exclusive
specimens did not hold sway. Similarly at
the same sale the silver plate, mainly of the
George III. era, had much solid work to
win approval. A JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINT
On March 31 Messrs. Christie sold decora- BY HIROSHIGE,
tive furniture and porcelain from various
sources. Some years ago, when Lowestoft
was more in the public eye than it is now,
a pair of octagonal plates, with powdered-
blue ground painted with Chinese river scenes
in circular and fan-shaped panels, would have
brought a higher price. But Merton Thoms,
the great connoisseur of Lowestoft and Longton
Hall, is dead. Some Chelsea figures in Turkish
costume at the sale were modelled by Tebo,
with the impressed mark “ T.” Tebo is a some¬
what ubiquitous modeller, who was supposed to
have been not only at Bow and at Chelsea,
but at Worcester and Bristol, and even at Etruria
under Wedgwood. But there are pieces preserved
in the Wedgwood Museum marked T.B.O. and
T.T.B.O.. which mean respectively " top ” and
'* tip-top ” of the ” biscuit oven.”
colour, as anything more than of ephemeral
value. But of recent years intense interest
has been paid by European collectors to
these sheets of design, representing colour¬
printing in excelsis. The master Hokusai
is one of the best-known artists renowned
for his delicate studies of women, of street
scenes, and of landscapes. Harunobu is
another greatly esteemed designer, here re-
presented by a youth going hawking and
a woman viewing chrysanthemums. L’mtaro
(Kitagawa), 1734-1806, has his “Five Fes¬
tivals,” each signed, and the seals of the
publisher — ** The Seven Herbs," or the
festival of the New Year; " The Festival
of Dolls,” the girls’ birthday festival ;
“ The Fifth Day of the Fifth Month.”
gSj the boys’ birthday festival ; “ The Weavers’
Festival,” the seventh day of the seventh
month ; and ” the Chrysanthemum Fes-
rival,” the ninth day of the ninth month.
A favourite is Hiroshige (Ichiyusai), 1797-
Btt *8.^8. His ” Cherries in Leaf ” ; his “ Twi¬
light Moon ” ; ” Evening Bell.” a woman
in a boat bowing her head in prayer;
"Returning Boats”; and "Night Rain.”
exemplify this artist as the forerunner of
certain pathetic moments caught and de¬
veloped by some of the Western modems.
Another fine Hiroshige is " Moored Junks,”
in the light of a full moon with a cuckoo
flying by.
In the same sale, Chinese and Japanese
drawings, the property of Sir Edmund Tre-
lawney Backhouse. Bt., have an old lineage,
"THE MYOKEN (TEMPLE). and embrace items purporting to be as
YANAGI-SH1MA”: A COLOUR- old, and older than, the Norman Conquest,
PRINT BY HIROSHIGE. THE which, after all, is not old for Chinese
FAMOUS JAPANESE PAINTER. art. One picture bears an inscription
dated 1342. Some fine Chinese tapestries
(wall hangings) are very exquisite work;
and some Corean and Chinese silk and paper
wall hangings, the property of Admiral James
Ley, exhibit some. fine portraits in costume.
Other properties include further Japanese prints,
among which is a fine series of Hiroshige. Cer¬
tain kakemono exhibit that restrained natural
humour, such as a group of five baboons
on pine trees watching wasps, and a Chinese
statesman contemplating matrimony depicted
as looking down at a goose with a boy atten¬
dant beside him. Of course, a peacock on a
blossoming cherry - tree, a peahen and chicks
under peonies, a golden pheasant, and fishes
resplendent in their scaly iridescence, all afford
models which the Japanese artists have seized
from nature to make their own eternally.
Engravings.” De Goncourt’s “ Outamaro ” and
"Hokusai,” Strange’s "Japanese Illustration,”
Ficke’s " Chats on Japanese Prints,” and Mr.
Morrison’s " The Painters of Japan,” together
with many sale and exhibition catalogues.
Armed with these, the collector should have
his. footsteps guided into the right path. But
as these are on the second day of the sale,
there is no just impediment why the cautious
student should not pay a previous visit to
the British Museum or the Victoria and Albert
Museum library.
The surimono, or colour - prints, of Japan,
originating in the late eighteenth and early nine¬
teenth centuries, are to be distinguished from
the kakemono, or hanging pictures the latter
TWILIGHT MOON, RYOGOKU ”: A JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINT. BY HIROSHIGE. "NIGHT-RAIN, KOIZUMI”: A JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINT. BY HIROSHIGE.
This, and the other prints here reproduced, will be offered at Sotheby’s on April 7 . In the foreground of the picture, on the right, are seen two peasants meeting on the road
By Courtesy of Messrs. Sotkeby, Wilkinson and Hodfe.
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Photographs sum-hid by Miss I.iuja* Hlackii.
A HINDU BOAT-RACE.
A BOAT-RACE WHICH INCLUDES A MINIATURE “NAVAL BATTLE : A THRILLING STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE RIVAL CRAFT TRYING TO OVERTURN
EACH OTHER. ENCOURAGED BY A HUGE AND EXCITED CROWD ON THE BANKS.
STRIPPED AS THEY WERE FOR THE RACE : MEN OF THE WINNING
CREW. IN ORNATE LOIN-CLOTHS, AFTER THEIR VICTORY
PADDLING OUT FROM THE OPPOSITE BANKS : THE START OF THE
MANIPUR BOAT-RACE DURING THE PUJA FESTIVAL
GRAPPLING IN MID-STREAM AND TRYING TO UPSET EACH OTHER:
™ E RIVAL BOATS LOCKED TOGETHER DURING THE RACE.
IN ELABORATE COSTUME WHICH IS DISCARDED FOR THE ACTUAL
RACE : MEMBERS OF THE CREWS WEARING CEREMONIAL ATTIRE
An interesting counterpart of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat - Race is rowed,
under very different conditions, every year in Manipur, a Native State lying
between Assam and Burmah, governed by its own Rajah under British protection.
“The boat-race,” writes Miss Lillian Blackie, “takes place in the Holy Puja
week, the great Hindu religious festival of the year. This is a time of great
religious frenzy and fervour, modified somewhat by the sporting element, of
which the boat - race is the chief part. The people during this Puja do no
work, and it is a time of ceremony, display, and gorgeous scenic effects. At
the race itself the Rajah holds a reception and invites other princes from the
vicinity. Thousands of the natives gather on the banks, and it is a very
colourful and brilliant scene. The crews themselves are wonderfully and elaborately
attired, but they discard some of their decorative costume for the race itself.
The Manipuris are very staunch Hindus, and adhere strictly to all the rites and
customs of their religion."
THE EARTH
AND THEY SAID. GO TO. LET US BUILD A CITY AND A TOWER
THE BUILDING OF BABEL.
PACAN IMAGES IN SOLOMONS TEMPLE
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438—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 2 1921
The Old Testament has provided a rich store of picturesque material for a wonderful new film drama, entitled “ The Dawn of the World,” which the Astra Film Coinpa
arranged to produce on Easter Monday at the Palace Theatre, thus inaugurating a new phase in the history of that famous house, which began its career as a home
English opera. Mrs. Patrick Campbell was engaged to present the film in a prologue and an epilogue specially written by Mr. Louis N. Parker. As our photographs show,
Old Testament story has been treated at once in a spirit of reverence and on a scale of lavish profusion in the matter of setting and costume. Beginning with the
THE OLD TESTAMENT FILMED: WONDERFUL SCENES FROA
By Courtesy of r
HIS WIVES TURNED AWAY HIS HEART AFTER OTHER CODj
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INF. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 2 , 1921
if 1 : 5 ??’ 000 PICTURE - “THE DAWN OF
THE WORLD.”
K. S WIFE LOOKED BACK FROM BEHIND HIM. AND SHE BECAME /
LOT ESCAPING prom sodom.
Egypt, , he hlstory . . * u ““ eplSOdeS #< Ca,n and Abd ' De,Uge ’ the of th * T — of «*- ««»* •* Lot iron, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Captiri,
Shulamite The fil ^ ^ * hr ° Ugh **“ *° ° f So,om ° n > of <?««" «l Sheba, and the lore story of the be*
£*.500,000 and tS ’^ Afmand ° V ** • the P Coducer of “ <*" V *^” “ «« of ™»t remarkable eeer shown on the screen. It
hee years to produce, 12,000 people taking part in it, and 250,000 ft. of film being used.
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Cite Irish problem Cbrouflb french €pe$. ^#^1'
HV continue here the article begun in our issue of
March 2<i. condensed from one by M l.udovir
Saudeau, the well-known French writer, who
went to Ireland on behalf of our Parts con¬
temporary. ' L' Illustration," to study the Irish
question on the spot. It is particularly in¬
teresting to see how the problem presents itself
to a well-informed and perfectly unbiassed
Frenchman.
T HREE days before I lelt for the < Miuth, while
I was in a picture palace. 1 heard the sounds
of a quarrel proceeding ltehind me. Three men
insisted on one of the spectators following them
into the street. He resisted and called for help.
Thereupon his agressors shot him in the chest,
and while the panic-stricken spectators rushed into
the street, the assassins got away quietly. You
will, no doubt, ask, What about the police ? In
order to show their complete neutrality in political
conflicts, the Dublin police carry no arms - - and
that explains many things On tlie following
day, at one in the morning, when, theoretically,
no one is allowed in the streets except the Forces
of the Crown, six unknown men broke into
McGrath’s house, killed him, and got off unmolested.
Two executions ! And who could have
committed them ? Only the Sinn
Fein agents. Whereupon, the British
authorities, without giving notice of
their intention, invested a part of
Dublin. 1 saw regular warfare tactics.
Some of the streets were barricaded I
with sandbags, wire netting, ami
machine guns, and tanks and lorries
were mobilised. The houses were care¬
fully searched one by one, and nothing i
was found. The head of the Repub¬
lican Army, however, Michael Collins,
whom the authorities hoped to catch
in this trap, hail been warned in time,
and just as the troops were going to
lay hands on him. he rode off on his
bicycle with an umbrella under his arm.
Strange things do happen here.
A kind of enthusiasm and stubborn
fervour forms a barrigr of complicity '
which unites the whole island, and
which it is impossible to discover.
This Irish conflict consists really in a
mere series of skirmishes, but it is
tragic, for all that, and its echoes
resound in various parts of the world.
The history’ of the seven centuries is
continued : a small people in tbeir i j
obstinacy and proud spite opposing
the stupendousintcrestsof the greatest
Empire in the world. We shall have j
‘to look, meditate, and compare atten¬
tively before we can get at the truth,
which, doubtless, hides beneath so
many alarming symptoms.
tion of that year. At the beginning. Ireland, as
a whole, did not sympathise with the leaders of
the rising . but after they had been shot she saw
in them martyrs- her martyrs—and the country
became sentimentally and illogically indignant at
the punishment meted out to them. After April
191(1, the Sinn Fein clubs began to get very
numerous, and this new organisation supplanted
the old Nationalist Party, whose policy of Parlia¬
mentary negotiations completely lost for them the
people's confidence.
it must, however, be admitted—and this I
gathered from the various explanations made me—
that it is one of the consequences of the Great
War which have made the Irish determined to get
their national independence. The complete eman¬
cipation of the Poles, the Czechs, and the Finns,
and other small nationalities, hitherto enslaved,
excited the imagination of the Irish, and they say
very bitterly and defiantly : " We are the one
European nation which is enslaved.” During the
elections, in which the Sinn Fein party gained a
sweeping majority, their chief argument used as
propaganda was the comparison between Ireland
and Belgium. Holland. Denmark, and Switzerland,
all of them smaller countries ; and with Serbia.
The Origins of the Conflict.
The great political drama, the
various aspects of w’hich I wish to
analyse, will not permit me to digress
about the beauty of the landscape.
During the innumerable conversations I have’ had
with Irishmen of all classes in all the localities I
have visited. I tried anxiously to determine how
J should reply to the question w’hich the French
public is asking : Who was first to blame ? Is it
the English or the Irish who are responsible for
this awful series of murders and reprisals which
are of daily occurrence in Ireland ?
In order to solve this question, it would be
necessary to study seven centuries of history,
during which period the inhabitants of Ireland
never ceased protesting against their inclusion
within the I'nited Kingdom. We must confine
ourselves to the Parliamentary debates of the
last few years on the subject of Home Rule-
debates in which the hesitations and contradic¬
tions of politicians ended, so I was told, by
exasperating Irish public opinion, and did away
with the prestige of the Nationalist Party, the
leader of which, John • Redmond, hoped to get
freedom for his country by Parliamentary’ and
constitutional means. The words “ Sinn Fein ”
signify in Gaelic “ ourselves,” or ” by ourselves,”
the fundamental idea of the party being that
Ireland must save “herself.” Therefore, it be¬
came immoral for the Irish to sit in an Finglish
Parliament and swear allegiance to the King of
England.
It is strange to note that the Sinn Fein party,
which was not very influential up to 1910, gained
numerous adherents after the fruitless insurrec¬
THE CHIEF OF THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY. WHO ESCAPED ON A BICYCLE
WHEN DUBLIN WAS INVESTED: MICHAEL COLLINS.
'■ The British authorities . invested a part of Dublin. . . . The houses were carefully
searched one by one. and nothing was found. The head of the Republican Army, however.
Michael Collins, whom the authorities hoped to catch in this trap, had been warned in time,
and just as the troops were going to lay hands on him, he rode off on his bicycle with an
umbrella under his arm.”
Portugal, Greece, and Bulgaria, which Ireland
almost equals in size.
Ireland was more populated than Norway.
Denmark, or Switzerland ; and, whereas the annual
revenue of each of these States varied from
three to nine million pounds, during the same
period Ireland paid thirty-five million pounds into
the Treasury’. And whereas the yearly total of
commercial enterprise realised by each of these
small States was from eleven to ninety-two million
pounds, the figures for Irish trade returns for the
same period were one hundred and fifty-one million
pounds. Sinn Fein orators thought these figures
proved that Ireland was perfectly qualified to
declare her independence, especially as in 1914
England had declared that she came into the
war to protect Belgium and to liberate other
small oppressed nations. Those on the side of
the English authorities accuse the Sinn Feiners
of having started systematically a campaign of
terrorism and atrocities. But the Irish leaders’
reply to this is—
” During the twelve months of 1917 not a single
policeman was killed in Ireland, but during that
same year two innocent civilians were massacred,
five died in prison, more than a hundred were
flogged or bayonetted, 349 men and women were
arrested as political offenders, and 'twenty-nine
leaders were deported. During the twelve months
of 1918 no policemen were killed in Ireland. But
during the same perfixl five civilians were put to
death, thousands of people were arrested, and
many were ill-treated during their detention. Two
hundred and sixty houses were searched during
the night : eleven of our national papers were
suppressed ; and, in order to exercise pressure on
our population, the British authorities began to
stop our fairs and markets.
‘‘Owing to these persecutions, in December
1919 the Irish people renounced British rule 111
Ireland ; they nominated their own Parliament
and their own Government. Then the rage of
the authorities became boundless, and the out¬
rages committed by the police increased. The
suppression of the fairs and markets became
general ; imprisonments multiplied, and twenty-
five newspapers were suppressed. (,)uict meet¬
ings were attacked by armed police and soldiery
seventy-six times, and 2<>o women and children
were injured by rifle-butts and bayonets. Finally,
eight civilians were massacred.
" It was only after two years of suffering, peril,
and persecution that we decided to take measures
to ensure our own defence, and that is how in
1919 sixteen policemen were put to death in
Ireland. We only did this in self-defence, but
we are treated like criminals ; the severity of
the police was increased, thousands
of perquisitions took place, and very
frequently this was made an excuse
for pillaging the houses. Towns were
sacked, numerous dwellings and
factories were systematically des¬
troyed. and the perpetrators of these
crime’s were neither judged nor pun¬
ished. Eighty-eight men and women
were immolated during the first ten
months of 1920 and they were in¬
nocent. and were not up against
the Army or the police in armed
conflict. Their murderers kept their
jobs in the Forces of the Crown.
As the rural elections of June 1920
marked a complete defeat for British
rule, this was avenged by the authori¬
ties by a recrudescence of its attacks ;
seventy - two localities were sacked
by the troops during the ensuing four
teen weeks.”
British Reprisals.
Travelling through Ireland by
train, I first thought these accounts
were exaggerated. For instance, in
Tipperary, the name of which has
l>een so prominent in various un
pleasant episodes during the last
few months, six or seven houses
only had been burned. Killamev
onlv had a few shop windows broken
and 1 noted the same at Tralee and
Limerick, it is necessary to travel
through the country by motor to
realise the amount of damage com¬
mitted by the representatives of law
and order, and to see also the ruins
of the police barracks set on fire
by the Republican Army. I think
it was at Balbriggan, a small town
to the north of Dublin, and Cork, the impor
tant southern city, that the destruction caused
by the reprisals of the authorities bore the most
sinister aspect.
During iny journey 1 realised full well how
it was that the Manchester Guardian was able
to publish under the heading ” An Irish Louvain'
an account of the destruction of Balbriggan.
sacked and partially destroyed on September 21.
1920. And on September 30, 1920, the Times
itself waxed indignant, and declared that the
outrages committed by the soldiery at Mallow,
Co. Cork, could only fill the ininds of its readers
with shame ! During December 1920, the British
labour Party sent to Ireland an important
commission, presided over by Arthur Hender¬
son, and included amongst its members were
a legal and military adviser, the latter being
Brigadier-General C. B. Thomson. The account
of their findings covers 119 large pages of a
closely-printed pamphlet.
Owing to questions of space, 1 can merely
say. on my soul and on my conscience, and
in my capacity of an absolutely impartial foreigner,
that the results of my investigations corro¬
borated this sad narrative. Those who will read
this ” Report of the labour Commission to
Ireland.” published in London in 1921, will find
there accounts of all kinds of acts of violence,
pillage and arson.
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ADORNING THE RIVER FRONTAGE OF THE
iri JZi »T WUn 1 I
Now that some of the scaffolding has been cleared away from the river frontage of
ondon County Council’s new and imposing abode at the side of Westminster
.. k*’ C ** 1 *** * e * n ***** ** ere ** * budding that will greatly help to enhance
eauty of our rirer. It will also be noticed that it will balance St. Thomas’s
been*' *° **** WCS * °* **** bridge. The decoration of the new County Hall has
arti ti en f| rUSt * d t0 * ?° Un * British scu, P tor * Mr - Ernest Cole. wh0 has already,
Wo * Ca ‘*’ * world-wide reputation. Previous to the war, he buried himself to
at a statue that eventually obtained him the commission for these sculptures.
AT WORK ON A HUGE SYMBOLIC GROUP.
When the war broke out he joined up and served in the ranks, working all his
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” u , d “' in *~in* represents the .chip,.,
eh C , " / nE T °' ,h ' ^-"tr HU. work on hi. group r«pre,enting
the Spirit of the Thames, which is at the eastern end of the building facing thf
nver. Another group, to stand over a pediment on the south side, represents
the creation of Eve, symbolising London’s creative energy. Mr. Cole himself is
a Londoner, born at Greenwich f Drawing CofiyrigkM in th< Vnttrd Stairs and Canada )
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 2. 1921—442
BSPi^
THE HAUNTS OF LIFE:
VI.-" THE MASTERY OF THE AIR."
$» PROFESSOR 1. ARTHUR THOMSON. Profnuo, ./ Nnturol History ot AM"* Uniwilly.
A GE after age life has been slowly creeping
upwards, and who shall say that its pro¬
gress is going to stop ? In other words, for
millions of years there has been among animals
a search after new kingdoms to conquer, some¬
times under the spur of necessity, sometimes
prompted by a spirit of adventure. The last
haunt to be conquered was the air. Getting iirto
the air meant increase of safety, the possibility
of rapidly evading enemies (as when the sparrow
disconcerts the cat), a power of rapid movement
from scarcity to plenty, or from drought
to flowing water, and, last not least. —
new opportunities of reaching suitable
places for laying eggs, or bringing up the ^
young.
The problem of flight has been solved
four times by animals, and each time in a
different way. In insects the wings are
two pairs of hollow, flattened sacs, which
grow out from the sides of the body. The /
insect's body is lightly built, and the
secret of the insect's flight is the extremely
rapid vibration of the wings. A watch a
ticks sixty times in a minute, but many J
an insect, such as a humble bee, vibrates
its wings 200 times in a second. When the
wings are large, as in dragon-flies, or big
butterflies, the number of strokes in a
second is small. Some of the strong fliers,
like dragon-flies and hive-bees, can cover
two or three miles, but the majority, such
as house-flies and mosquitos, have, happily,
a short range. wk
The power of flight in insects (Figs, i ™
and 3) sometimes rises to a very high pitch.
A wasp has been known to fly tail foremost L_
for a quarter of an hour in front of a
bicycle. Dragon-flies arc not only very FIG '
swift, but have an astonishing power of
changing their direction instantaneously.
When they pass from a sunny to a shaded
part they often " soar " like vultures. Bees and
their relatives link their hind-wings to their fore¬
wings so that the two act as one. Beetles (Fig. i)
spread out their heavy fore-wings and clamp
them, so that they serve as vol-planes ; while
the hind pair of wings strike the air. On the
other hand, one should notice that some insects
fly only once in a lifetime, when they are starting
a new generation ; and that some insects do
not fly at all. The flea makes up for its loss
of flight by its power of taking extraordinary
leaps. This leads one
to notice that it is
quite possible that
insects used their
wings as parachutes
in taking skimming
leaps along the
ground, or from
branch to branch,
before they used
them to strike the
air as organs of true
flight. Just as a
creature must walk j
before it can run, so
perhaps it had to
jump before it could
fly (Fig. 7). L
The second solu- F j C , 3 A prominent
tion of the problem 0N BRE aST-BONE OF EACI
of flight was dis- ^
covered by the extinct
Flying Dragons, or Pterodactyls (Figs. 6 and i 2b ),
which flourished in Cretaceous and Jurassic times.
They varied from a sparrow’s size up to a spread
of 18 feet ; and their wing was a sheet of skin
spread out on the enormously elongated outer¬
most finger. How far they could fly we do not
know, but probably they were not adepts, for
the breast-bone has only a slight keel for the
fixing on of the wing-muscles ; and we know that
in birds a prominent keel is associated with
highly developed flying powers (Fig. 13). On the
other hand, the Flying Dragons show, as flying
birds do, a solidifying of the middle part of the
back-bone, giving the wings a firm fulcrum against
which to work.
The third solution was a triumphant one :
it gave birds their mastery of the air. There
seems no doubt that birds sprang from an extinct
stock of Dinosaur reptiles which had become
bipeds, and it is highly probable that they took
long, skimming leaps along the ground before they
could fly. It is all uncertain, but in thinking of
the bird's conquest of the air, it is reasonable to
FIG. 12.—THREE OF THE FOUR ANIMAL SOLUTIONS OF THE
PROBLEM OF FLIGHT: A. THE BATS WINC; B. THE PTERO¬
DACTYL'S WING; C. THE BIRD’S WING.
Drawn by W. B. Robinson from Material supplied by Professor J. A. Thomson.
nd remember that birds have a high-pitched life, a ot
re- strong heart, very rich blo<»d. a hot skin, a power va
1) of keeping up an almost constant body-tempera- of
up ture, a very’ good digestion, and the great advan- in
ile tage that the flapping of the wings, even before ne
he flight was fully attained, and still more after- th
:ts wards, must help the breathing. But what made gri
ng the bird’s flight possible was the growth of tn
do feathers—feathers with the barbs united together is
ks to form a vane to strike the air (Fig. 12 c). In sk
.ry the ship the air strikes the sails, in the bird the lef
F1C. 13.—“A PROMINENT KEEL IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHLY DEVELOPED FLYING POWERS”: A. KEEL
ON BREASTBONE OF EAGLE; B. FLAT BREASTBONE OF OSTRICH: C. SLIGHT KEEL ON BAT'S BREASTBONE.
Drawn by W. B. Robinson Jrom Material supplied by Professor J. A. Thomson.
tctyls (Figs. 6 and 12b ), sails strike the air. How feathers began—per- Foxes. None of these
eous and Jurassic times. haps it took a million years to perfect them—no are clever parachutists
ow's size up to a spread one knows ; but they have the same general leaps. And what sha
ng was a sheet of skin nature as scales, and perhaps they may be samer Spiders’ (Fig.
nously elongated outer- thought of as glorified shredded-out scales. without wings ? They
ley could fly we do not In ordinary flight the wings start vertically breeze which lifts th<
y were not adepts, for above the bird's back—everyone knows how they which flow out from
l a slight keel for the clap together on pigeons; then they are moved quaint inventions, alt
»cles ; and we know that forwards, downwards, backwards, and upwards failures of the paracl
teel is associated with again. The downward part of the stroke keeps phant successes of the
owers (Fig. 13). On the the bird up, the backward part of the stroke a reasonable wonder
Dragons show, as flying makes it speed onwards, the upward part—side- of life.
on—simply serves to make the next stroke possible.
But these are cold facts. We must think of the
Swift never stopping in its triumphant flight from
dawn to dusk, save for brief moments at the
nest. We must think of the Arctic tern occurring
sometimes within the Antarctic circle, literally
girdling the globe. We.must think of the Pacific
golden plover flying from Hawaii for over two
thousand miles to its breeding-place in Alaska.'
The second kind of flight is gliding, well seen
when a gull, having got up a considerable speed.
meets, as it flies out from the land, a
— breeze from the sea, rising upwards from a
cliff. The play of this up-current on the
under surface of the gull's outstretched
wings enables the bird to rest on its oars
for a considerable time without checking
its seaward flight. But the third kind of
flight is more puzzling ; and though many
wise men have pondered over it, we do
not understand it yet. It is well seen
in the albatross circling around the ship,
or in the vulture describing great spirals
in mid-air. It never takes place unless
there is some breeze ; the bird may tilt
its body, but it does not strike with its
wings except at long intervals ; the move¬
ments do not depend on up-currents in
the air ; the bird goes with the wind and
then against the wind. Thus the alba¬
tross describes great ellipses around the
ship, behaving like an intelligent kite,
probably taking advantage of currents of
unequal velocity at different levels in the
air. Sometimes it seems to rise when
sailing with the wind, and to sink a little
_ when it turns and goes against the wind.
But the way of the eagle (or, rather.
^ vulture) in the air is still too wonderful
for us, as it was for a very wise man
( long ago.
The fourth solution of the problem
ot flight was discovered by bats (Fig. 8). They
vary in size from two inches to a wing-span
of five feet ; but the wing is much the same
in all. A double fold of skin, beginning at the
neck, runs along the fore side of the arm, skips
the thumb, and is continued between the
greatly elongated fingers (Fig. 12 a). This is a
true wing that strikes the air, and the flight
is helped by the continuation of the fold of
skin down the sides of the body to the hind
legs, and thence to the tail, if there is one.
Quaint creatures these
‘ bats : able to hang
themselves up by their
toes, and to fold
themselves up in their
arms !
Four times the
problem of flight has
been solved, but how
many* times has it
been tried ? It is
very interesting to
think of the Flying
Fishes (Figs. 10 and
ji), the Flying Frog
(Fig. o). the Fly¬
ing Lizard (Fig 5)-
with its skin stretched
"IG POWERS”: A. KEEL out on ver y mOV '
ON BAT'S BREASTBONE. ab,e ribs - and the
^ Flying Phalangers.
Squirrels (Fig. 4). and
Foxes. None of these can really fly. They
are clever parachutists that take adventurous
leaps. And what shall we say of the Gos¬
samer Spiders’ (Fig. 2) long aerial journeys
without wings ? They are borne along by the
breeze which lifts the long threads of silk,
which flow out from their spinnerets. Such
quaint inventions, along with the splendid
failures of the parachutists and the trium¬
phant successes of the true fliers, fill us with
a reasonable wonder at the adventurousness
of life.
VI.—THE MASTERY OF THE AIR: CREATURES
SIXTH LECTURE AT
of°!t CSSOr ^ bomion con cludes, in the article opposite, the series of abridgments
at leCtUres on p 1 * Haunts of Life, which proved so popular when delivered
" Th Vwf 07 * 1 Institution - The Previous articles—“ The School of the Shore,”
of th l Th * Great Depth3 -'’ “ ,The Fresh Waters,” and “The Conquest
io H ^ ’;r apP ~ red res P««tively in our issues of February 26, March 5, 12,
9 , and 26. “The problem of flight,” he tells us, has been solved four times by
n, m s, and each time in a different way.” These four solutions were achieved
DESCRIBED IN PROFESSOR J. ARTHUR THOMSONS
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
£e P,CTO<Ucty,S < or Wagons). the Birds
the Bats. All but the Birds are represented in the above drawings. “ And
shall we say. the Professor asks finally, “of the Cossamer Spiders’ long
" e b ° rne a '° nK by the *««. which lift
long threads of silk which flow out from their spinnerets. Such quaint inven
*J °"5 7 1 5Pl r did f "' Ur “ ° f * he P * r#Chutiats triumphant sue
of the true fliers, fill us with a reasonable wonder at the adventurousness of
444—THE ILLUSTRATED
FIFTEENTH - CENTURY BRITTANY IN LONDON : COST
Drawn by
DRESSED IN BRETON COSTUME: CHILDREN DANCING AND SINGING OLD SONG
Our drawing illustrates a picturesque scene at the Institut Fran^ais the other day, when its Director, M. Emile Audra (Croix de Guerre, M.C.)» Agreg<
1 ’University de Lille, gave a delightful lecture entitled “La Vie en Bretagne.’’ It was illustrated by costume dances and songs and magic-lantern slides,
group of children, prettily dressed in old Breton costume, historically correct, sang three old songs of Brittany, one of them dating back as far as the fift«
century. It is by such excellent interpretative work that this admirable institution is justifying its existence, and drawing closer the bonds of Anglo-Fr
friendship. The Institut Fran^ais du Royaume Uni (to give it its full title) was founded in 19x0 by a young Frenchwoman, Mile. d’Orliac, now Mme. No:
NEWS, April 2, 1921.—445
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forms at once a first-rate centre for British students of French and for French students of English in London. Its facilities include frequent lectures, French
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 2, 1921.-446
CiDice as Old as Caesar: models or Undent €pgpt
to a singer and an old blind harper. Inside the
cabin squats a steward beside the bunk, under
which are shoved two little round-topped leather
trunks. A kitchen-boat follows, and the cooks get
ready a meal to be served when evening comes and
they are moored to the bank. There were yachts,
to be sailed with the wind or paddled against it,
and a low raking skiff, from the bow of which two
men are casting harpoons, while others land an
enormous fish over the side.
" Thus had the great man lived, and so did he
expect to live after he had gone to his ' eternal
abode,’ as he called it. Finally, the funeral day
had come. His body was brought across the river
from his mortal home in Thebes, through the green
fields where the wondering peasants leaned on
their hoes to watch it pass, and then up
V through the rocky gorges to his tomb.
\ A long procession followed him, each
\ model borne on the head of one of
\ his serfs, and a crowd of peasant girls
\ and women from his estates brought
\ baskets of wine and beer and baked
\ meats for the funeral banquet. Even
their contributions were expected to
go on for ever, and statues of two
I of them, half life - sized, had been
/ made to go with the models in the
/ chamber. There we found them,
/ towering above the horde of miniature
J men and beasts, looking over at us
/ with grave, wide - open eyes. Four
/ thousand years they had stood thus
/ silent.
“ Four thousand years is an eternity. Just
saying it over and over again gives no conception
of the ages that have gone by since that funeral.
Stop and think of how far off William the Con¬
queror seems. That takes you only a quarter of
the way back. Julius Caesar takes you half-way
back. With Saul and David you are three-fourths
of the way, but there remain another thousand
years to bridge with your imagination. Yet in
that dry, still, dark little chamber those boats and
statues had stood indifferent to all that went on
in the outer world, as ancient in the days of Caesar
as Caesar is to us, but so little changed that even
the finger-prints of the men who put them there
were still fresh upon them. Not only finger¬
prints, but even fly-specks, cobwebs, and dead
spiders remained from the time when these models
were stored in some empty room in the nolile’s
house waiting for his day of death and burial. I
even suspect that some of his grandchildren had
sneaked in and
_ played with them
^ 'u \explain otherwise.
' 2 m f/jf\ Possibly that is a
A V wild guess, but at
SI — * any rate there is
no doubt of what
had happened to
^ them in the little
9 chamber in the
: \ tomb on the day of
W B I the funeral. After
all of the models
had been stowed
, away and the
masons had come
to brick up the
doorway, they had
boats in their way.
So one of them
/ laid it to one side
granary, and under
‘ bow and stem he
m left a great smear
m ' % of the mud he had
just been mixing
for mortar. There
those smears still
T HE dramatic discovery by American archae¬
ologists of a rock-chamber near Thebes con¬
taining a set of models buried near the grave of
an Egyptian noble of 2000 b.c., named Mehen-
kwetre, and representing all the details of his daily
life, was described in our last issue by one of the
excavators, Mr. Ambrose Lansing. He told how
the contents of the chamber were first seen, by the
light of electric torches, through a crack in the
rock above. The leader of the expedition, Mr.
Herbert E. Winlock, Assistant Curator of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, describes
the objects found as follows—
" As we worked along through those three days
and nights we began to realise what it was that
we haul so unexpectedly discovered. The tomb
was that of a great noble of four thousand
years ago. He himself had been buried in a /
gilded coffin and a sarcophagus of stone in /
a mortuary chamber deep down under the /
back of the corridor, where the thieves /
had destroyed everything ages before /
our day. Only this little chamber /
had escaped, and it was turning out
to be a. sort of secret closet where the /
was stored for the future
hold real water—were surrounded by little wooden
fig-trees and cool, shady porches. Then there was
a carpenter-shop, and another shop where women
spun thread and wove cloth. The very threads
on their distaffs and spindles—frail as cobwebs
though they were with age, had remained un¬
broken in that eternal stillness.
" The business of the great man entailed a lot
of travelling, and his idle hours were passed in
pleasure sails or fishing trips on the Nile or on the
still backwaters of the marshes. On the celestial
provision
life of the great man.
" He could not conceive of an \ -
existence in which he would not re- \
quire food and drink, clothing and \
housing, such as he was used to in this \
life; and. being a rich man, naturally \
he wanted an estate in eternity lik? that \
which he had owned on earth. His philo- \
sophy carried him beyond that of the savage
chieftain who] expects a horde of servants to
be slaughtered at his grave. He attained the
same end by putting in his tomb a host of
little wooden servants, carved and painted, at
their daily tasks, working before little portraits
of himself. The spirits of these little servants
worked eternally, turning out spirit food or sailing
ships upon a spirit Nile, and his soul could enter
any one of the little portraits of himself at will to
reap the harvest of their labours. In short, we
had found a picture of the life the great noble
hoped to live in eternity, which was nothing more
or less than the one he had led on earth forty
centuries ago.
“ The first thing we had seen when we had
peeped through the crack had been a big model
nearly six feet long, showing the noble seated on
a porch among his scribes, taking the count of his
cattle as they were driven past. In the back of
the room we found,
under a lot of
other models, neatly
stacked, the stable
where these same
cattle were being
fattened, and finally
when we came to i iB V '
move one big box¬
like aflair in the far V
comer—a model I
had tried my best
to get a peep into
and almost fallen SXV
headlong the
process—we found
it was the butcher- ' V
shop where the
BEGUILING A VOYAGE ON THE NILE WITH MUSIC
4000 YEARS AGO; MEHENKWETRE SITTING IN
FRONT OF HIS DECK CABIN LISTENING TO A
SINGER AND A HARPER.
By Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Nile he would want to go voyaging or yachting too,
and therefore a dozen model boats were put in the
chamber. We found them setting sail, the captain
bossing the sailors who sway on the halyards and
set the backstays. A man throws his whole weight
against the pole as they put off from the bank, and
another stands by in the bow with a fender in case
they bump against another vessel. When they
making fast the
A TRAVELLING-BOAT
AND HAULING ON THE HALYARDS
AIL FOR A VOYAGE ON THE NILE.
NILE TRAVELLING-BOAT ,ON THE RIGHT). WITH ITS
'ITCHEN TENDER (LEFT) ALONGSIDE.
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FOUND IN A ROCK-CHAMBER NILE CRAFT OF ,000 TEARS ACC
Cr * ft ’ made aboUt 2000 BC - and recently discovered in a rock-
hoalT * n Egypt /** descr ‘ bcd 0 PP<»«te), give a vivid contemporary picture of
writ ng M 0n u the NUe f0rtT centuries »g°- "There are four travelling-boats/’
. ” T ‘ erbert Winlock, “ 30 or 40-footers supposedly, but in the models about
caotai° ng ~TK th CfeWS oi from 12 t0 18 so* 10 ”, besides helmsmen, bowsmen, and
the T*v Th * T * et * ?'*** *“*. * nd we see the little sailors making fast
* ays . “ d hauli «g on the halyards. Coming against the wind, the mast
On °^ e Lr. m * reS *’ **** **** showed on deck, and the crew got out the sweeps,
hnat v . I Mehenkwetre s ‘ts in his chair. . . . The kitchen was upon a second
w c ollowed behind and was moored alongside at meal times. On board
omen ground flour ; men baked . . . and in the cabins joints of meat were
hung up and racks of beer and wine jars were stowed. For shorter trips and
^ Ure !“** thw * w ««r ac hts-long, narrow, green vessels with high, curling
prows and stems. . . When the wind was contrary, mast and sail were lowered
and sixteen members of the crew got out their black, spear-shaped paddles to
propel the boat. . . The master and his son sat under a little opeT canopy
For sport there is a little, narrow, light-draught skiff for hunting birds and
spearing fch in the backwaters. In the bow stand harpooners. and the enormous
** ® ne “ be,n * Unded 0Ter the gunwale. Lashed to the side of
the cabin are the poles and stakes for bird-nets, and a boy and girl are brinrinr
hv. ducks which they have caught, to the master and his son who sit on d«t
Finally, there are two reed canoes drawing a seine full of fish.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 2. 1921—448
LORD AND LABOURER 4000 YEARS
Bv Courtesy or tmr Mstrofoi.itan Museum or Art, New York.
AGO: ANCIENT EGYPT REVEALED.
Photographs hv Mr. Harry Burton, of the Expedition Staff.
----- --
CARPENTRY IN ANCIENT EGYPT: SAWING AN UPRIGHT BEAM INTO ^
PLANKS ; CUTTING MORTISES WITH CHISEL AND MALLET.
A GRANARY IN EGYPT 4000 YEARS AGO : SCRIBES RECORDING THE
GRAIN WHICH LABOURERS MEASURE AND DUMP INTO BINS.
1 - J
* G“ ‘•MILL LASSES” OF ANCIENT EGYPT: WOMEN SPINNING FLAX, WHILE
* OTHERS WEAVE ON FLAT LOOMS ON THE FLOOR.
. ... ,.J
FAT - STOCK BREEDING IN ANCIENT EGYPT : CATTLE IN THEIR STABLE
ON A NOBLEMANS ESTATE BEING FATTENED FOR SLAUGHTER.
EACH CARVED LEAF PEGGED IN PLACE : AN
EGYPTIAN GARDEN, WITH FIG TREES.
FASHIONED FORTY CENTURIES AGO : THE LARGEST MODEL IN THE ROCK-CHAMBER
THE NOBLE AT THE COUNTING OF HIS CATTLE DRIVEN PAST HIM.
In these wonderful models, 4000 years old, we see vividly portrayed the daily
life and industry on an Egyptian nobleman’s estate near Thebes about 2000 B.C.
Describing them, Mr. Herbert Winlock writes : " Largest and most imposing ot
all was a model showing the noble at the counting of his cattle. The scene is
laid in the courtyard before his house. . . . Here he sits with his son and heir
squatting on the floor on one side, and four clerks on the other, each busily
recording the count on a papyrus roll. . . . Herdsmen lead and drive past the
beeves—red, black, piebald, and speckled. The little figures average about eight
or nine inches high. . . . Next in the life history of the ox is the stable where
he is fattened. . . . Finally comes the last scene in the slaughter-house. The
beeves are thrown on the ground and trussed up for butchering ; a scribe with
pen - case and papyrus roll is present to keep the accounts ; a head butcher
superintends the killing, and two men make blood puddings over braziers in the
comer. On a balcony at the back the joints of beef hang on lines to ripen.
At the granary clerks sit with papyrus rolls and tablets keeping the account,
while two men scoop up the wheat in measures and load it into sacks, and others
carry it up the stairs to dump it into three capacious bins. By the front door
there sits a boss with cane in hand superintending the work. Then comes the
I Continued opposite
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 2,
1921.—449
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IN 2000 B.C.: A SLAUGHTER-HOUSE, BREWERY, AND BAKERY IN EGYPT.
Bv Courtesy or thi Mbiropolitan Musrum or Art. New York. Photographs ry Mr. Harry Ritrton, or tiik Expedition STArr
THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE: BUTCHERS AT WORK IN THE FOREGROUND, j| J THE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE: KILLING OXEN PLUCKING GEESE AND
AND JOINTS OF MEAT HUNG ON THE BALCONY AT THE BACK. j ^ j BLOOD-PUDDINGS; WITH A SCRIBE HOLDING A PAPYRUS R^ 0
A BREWERY AND A BAKERY SIDE BY SIDE : (ABOVE) BREWERS
MAKING BEER, AND (BELOW) COOKS MAKING BREAD AND PASTRY.
cH
BREWING AND BAKING : (LEFT) A BREWER POURING BEER INTO
JUGS; (RIGHT) WOMEN GRINDING FLOUR; BAKERS MAKING CAKES.
Continued. ]
bakery and brewery combined in one building. In the first room two women
grind the com into flour, and a man makes it into cakes of dough, which another
treads into a mash in a barrel. Near by, the rising mash stands in four tall
crocks, while the yeast ferments, and when it has finished working, another man
pours it into a row of stoppered jugs which stand along the wall. In the other
room is the bakery. Men are cracking the grain with pestles ; women grind the
flour ; men mix the dough, and make fancifully shaped loaves and cakes, which
others bake in ovens. Handicrafts take up two models. The women spin and
weave in one shop, and the carpenters ply their trade in another. . . . Two
model gardens were provided for the soul of the great man. . . . There is the
high wall which shuts out the outside world. Within, a little oblong pool of
copper, so that it will hold real water, is surrounded by fruit trees, and facing it
is a cool, deep porch with gaily painted columns. ... The trees, made of wood
with each little leaf carved and pegged in place, are typical of the naive realism
of all the models. The fruit is shown, not growing from the twigs, but from
the main stems and branches, so that there shall be no doubt but that the
sycamore fig is intended. ... In the cabin of one (boat) sits a steward beside a
bunk, under which are tucked two little round-topped travelling - trunks."
— J
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 2. 1921—450
BOOKS OF THE DAY
y DOTH in the letter
-D and in the spirit
My Cricketing Life "
(Hodder and Stoughton;
6s. net), by P. F. Warner,
is the best book of remin¬
iscences of cricket and cricketers we have had
since Nyren's “ Cricketer's Tutor ” appeared
with its immortal portraits of the Hambledon
worthies. Mr. Warner does not deliver any of
the surprising phrases which occur in the famous
chronicles of Broad Halfpenny down, causing
critics to regard Nyren as a rustical disciple of
Sir Thomas Browne, or else to insist that his
name was borrowed by some man of letters.
Nowhere do we find any passage comparable
with Nyren’s vindication of the nobility of the
beer of then and there : " not the modem horror
under the same name that drives as many men
melancholy-mad as the hypocrites do; not the
beastliness of these days, that will make a fellow's
inside like a shaking bog—and as rotten ; but
barleycorn, such as would put the souls of three
butchers into one weaver. Ale that would flare
like turpentine—genuine Boniface !—this immortal
viand (for it was more than liquor) was vended
at twopence a pint.” You cannot buy such ale
nor such prose nowadays at any price, and it is
not Mr. "Plum” Warner’s fault that he cannot
get all tliis poetical swerve and spin into his straight¬
forward stuff, which, none the less, has the high
merit of being always on the wicket, so that the
reader who is really and truly in love with the
greatest of our national games will not, dare not,
miss a line of what he has written. It is the
fault of a too genteel and gingerly age, which
compels us to write about our diversions in the
same too discreet style as is thought appropriate
to politics and economics. The late Albert Knight,
the famous Leicestershire profe-sional, who was
seen reading Horace in a quiet comer before
going in to bat in a Test match down under, was
the only chronicler of modem cricket with a touch
of the poetic genius which transcends all the
power of the psychological style so popular to-day
among sporting writers (Mr. C. B. Fry is. or was,
a master in that mode). Even the humour of
exaggeration so curiously exploited by the American
baseball expert seems beyond those who write
with authority, and also as journalists, on a
sport which is a phase of English life to-day, and
BftnSB
By E. B. OSBORN.
very much more than a mere game, as hockey is.
or lawn-tennis.
Yet there are passages here and there in
Mr. Warner’s book which, being packed with the
humour of circumstance and bright with his joyous
love of cricket, fascinate us as much as anything
in Nyren’s portrait-gailery. How charmingly, for
example, W. G. presents himself in the author's
first Middlesex v. Gloucestershire match at Clifton.
He arrived on the ground in white flannel trousers,
a cutaway black coat, and a black hat, half topper,
half bowler, and his jocund cry booms across the
years that have been : ” Eight o’clock to-night.
Webbie ; don’t forget ; it’s down the well.” The
Middlesex side were dining with W. G.. and " it ”
was champagne. And here is a pleasant sketch
of rare old Tom Emmett, when he was the pro¬
fessional coach at Rugby. Mr Warner’s school—
He had a prominent nose, which was not altogether
subdued in colour, a mischievous eye, and a merry
laugh, and he carried himself very erect, a Yorkshire
cap crowning his grey and well-shaped head. He was
a good coach, if, possibly, a little too keen on knocking
the cover off the ball—a fault on the right side—and
he was indefatigable in his zeal. " Lash at it,” was a
favourite expression of his, whenever a half-vollev
outside the off stump came along, and “ if you come
to her, come ” was the way he urged one to drive.
He taught one to play back in the right way—to
move the right leg back, and in the line of the ball—
but he would allow no facing of the bowler.
Mr. Warner is particularly judicious in his remarks
on teaching boys the art of batsmanship, which
can only be done on plumb practice wickets.
” A sticky wicket.” he observes. ” is an entirely
different thing from a dangerous wicket, and
boys must take their chance of this ; but the
rough, dangerous wicket must go in the interests
of the game.” He attributes the fine, fluent
style of Australian batting and the extraordinary
number of outstanding batsmen produced in
the island continent, in spite of a population
which is meagre in comparison with ours, to the
fact that boys there always learn the game on
true, fast wickets. As an expert in the art of
captaincy, which makes eleven men into an eleven
and, what is more, a band of brothers, he is able
to criticise the style of world-famous batsmen
and bowlers from a wealth of intimate knowledge
not vouchsafed to the ordinary first-class cricketer,
much less to the average spectator. W. G. Grace,
Trumpcr, and Ranjitsinhji are
happens—I believe he
once confessed that his
persona dramatis were always
getting out of hand and doing
unexpected things. In his
posthumous novel, ” An Old
Man's Yoi’TH ” (Hcinemann ; 9s. net), the missing
chapters of which have been filled in by his wife,
wc have the first instalment of a life history,
manifestly autobiographical, which would have
required many volumes if he had lived to com¬
plete it. It would have been a Dexter Street (a
A LEADING AMERICAN WOMAN NOVELIST:
MRS. EDITH WHARTON.
Mrs. Wharton was bom in New York in 1862. Her maiden
name was Edith Newbold Jones, and she married Mr. Edward
Wharton, of Boston, at the age of twenty-three. Her first novel,
"The Greater Inclination," appeared in 1889, and has had
• numerous successors. Her “ Ethan Frome" is reckoned the
greatest American short story. She has travelled much, and her
later work, including “ Fighting France ” (1915), “ French Ways
and Their Meaning" (1919), and "In Morocco" (1920) has
strengthened the ties between France and America.
A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN NOVELIST: MR. JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER.
Mr. Hergesheimer’s stories, long and short, are very popular in the States. They
Include “The Lay Anthony.” "Mountain Blood.” "The Three Black Penny*." "Gold
and Iron.” “ Java Head." “ The Happy End." and " Linda Condon.” Last winter he
published " San Crist6ba) de la Habana," a charming impression of the city of Havana.
the greatest batsmen of all time,
in his opinion ; and the last-
named, if not the greatest of
all, was yet the pioneer of the
modem style of batting with
its two-eyed stance and subtle
back-play. Blythe he thinks the
finest slow bowler seen in our
days, Barnes the best by far
of the medium-paced artists,
and Lockwood the greatest fast
bowler, because he was not con¬
tent with tear-away expresses
(as Tom Richardson was) and
had a most dangerous slow ball.
But it is the spirit of the book
as much as its letter which
fascinates us, and there could
be no better motto for the
young player than Mr. Warner’s
saying : “I have tried hard to
keep a straight bat and a modest
mind.” Such, indeed, is the
sportsmanship ot cricket, which
is nothing more nor less than
chivalry adapted to homely,
joyous purposes.
The late William de Mor¬
gan’s novels were notable for
their deit characterisation (how
often we get a living, nay a
loving, impression of some cabbie
or charwoman who incidentally
enters his story), simple and
kindly philosophy of life, easy
ambling style, and that singu¬
larly refreshing lack of ethical
thesis or artistic theory which
causes his still, calm books to
reproduce the significant aim¬
lessness of ordinary life. He is
never set-king a seine A faire ;
like the true dramatist, as con¬
trasted with the mere play¬
wright, he creates living, breath¬
ing characters, and lets them
do what they like, and sees what
curious contrast to ” Sinister Street ”), by a young-
old author rebuking the brilliant and self-con¬
scious achievements of old-young artists, such
as Mr. Compton Mackenzie, with its deeper love
of human nature and profound understanding
of what was, and still is, the essential London
of kindly Londoners. It is sad to think this
the only instalment we shall ever see, for the book
has all the old charm of a reality beyond realism,
and Jacky Pascoc becomes for us a living person,
old and lonely and garrulous, writing down for
his own amusement anything and everything he
remembers of his past. The chapters entitled
” The Story " (as distinguished from " The Narra¬
tive of Eustace John ”) are written by Mrs. de
Morgan, and they fill the gaps adequately, even
if not as brilliantly as ” Q ” finished R. L.
Stevenson’s ” St. Ives.”
As fascinating as this or any other prolonged
act of psychical mimicry, is *' Deadlock ” (Duck¬
worth ; qs. net), by Dorothy M. Richardson, the
most advanced of the ultra-modern psychologists
in fiction. A professional critic was asked the
other day by a puzzled reader what Miss Richard¬
son's novels were about, and he replied, ” Mostly
about a quarter of an hour.” No doubt, if a
complete analysis were made of the thoughts,
emotions, motives, reflections, etc., of a quarter
of an hour of anybody’s life, the results would
fill at least one novel. Miss Richardson does
not go quite so far as that in her presentation of
the stream of tendencies which she calls Miriam—
it is herself, of course, for she could never have
seen so much of what is happening, within as well
as without, to another person. But other novelists
stand on the banks of a river of personal existence,
while Miss Richardson pulls you down into it, and
it is well worth submitting to the process once or
twice. For my part, I now know all I want, and
a good deal more, about Miriam, and should
stoutly refuse to read another instalment of
Dorothy’s—1 mean Miriam's—autobiography, were
it not for the brilliant flashes of insight into character
in the making which illuminate the psychological
deeps. Compared with Miss Richardson’s analysis,
the most profound reaches of ” The Egoist ” or of
Henry James’ stories are mere weed-grown shallows.
Pfc*o<r«*>A by Kobe* H. ftaris.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 2. 1921.—451
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A BELGIAN WAR MEMORIAL IN PARIS : THE MONUMENT RECENTLY UNVEILED THE ASSASSINATION OF AN EX-GRAND VIZIER OF TURKEY IN BERLIN : THE
IN THE MUSfiE DE L’ARMEE, AT THE INVALIDES. . FUNERAL OF TALAAT PASHA, AT THE CEMETERY OF ST. MATTEUS.
The wedding of the Crown Prince George of Greece, Duke of Sparta, and Princess
Elisabeth, eldest daughter of the King and Queen^ of Roumania, took place at
Bucharest Cathedral on Sunday, February 27. They afterwards went to Athens
by sea, arriving March 9, for the marriage next day of Prince George’s sister,
Princess Helen of Greece, to the Crown Prince of Roumania.-The group of
the new American Cabinet shows, from left to right, seated in front : Mr. J. W.
Weeks (Secretary for War) ; Mr. A. W. Mellon (Treasury) ; Mr. Charles E. Hughes
(Secretary of State) ; President Harding ; Vice-President Coolidge ; and Mr. Edwin
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(Postmaster-General) ; Mr. H. K. Daugherty (Attorney-General) ; Mr. H. C. Wallace
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The Belgian War Memorial in Paris was inaugurated by M. Barthou and the
Belgian Minister of War.--Talaat Pasha, ex-Grand Vizier of Turkey, was shot
dead in a street in Berlin on March 15, by an Armenian student, named Solomon
Teilarian, in revenge for the Armenian massacres, in which his own parents had
perished, and for which he held Talaat responsible.
'HE WEDDING OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF ROUMANIA AND PRINCESS HELEN
OF CREECE t THE CROWN PRINCESS OF GREECE AT ATHENS CATHEDRAL.
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LADIES* NEWS.
r HIS is to be a marriage month. May not being
considered auspicious for matrimony. Such
considerations still hold weight with some people,
although the fashion is to laugh at the old super¬
stitions and put up new fetishes. The Earl of
Dalkeith's wedding to Miss Mollie Lascelles will be
quite an interesting affair, and is to take place on
the 2ist in that beautiful old church, St. Margaret’s.
Westminster. On the i6th, at St. Peter's, Eaton
Square, Lady Eileen Browne, eldest daughter of the
Marquess and Marchioness of Sligo, rill be married
to Earl Stanhope, besides which there are a number
of other wedding dates fixed. The King and Queen
will be out of town, but only at Windsor, from where
this time last year they motored to town fairly
frequently to fulfil engagements.
Lord Desborough is likely to gain real gratitude
if he can get his Bill passed to stabilise the Easter
Holiday. It would be so much more convenient,
and the time of year better. Now that the holiday
is over, everyone is in favour of the fixed Easter,
from a quite illogical feeling that it would be still
in front of us. The weather is much commended,
for it has played few of its old tricks; even the
Grand National was accorded a glorious day. It
was a wonderful exposition of tailor-built clothes.
Nothing looked smarter than striped or checked
tweed skirts, well cut, and in some instances pleated,
with plain cloth or velvet coats the colour of the
ground of the tweed. Sometimes they were bound
with braid, sometimes not. 1 also noticed that high
neck - wear appealed to the sporting ladies, and
remarkably smart it looked. Black taffeta scarfs,
tied in what men know as waterfall fashion, beneath
a high black band, over which were turned-down
points of starched white lawn, in an up-to-date version
of stocks worn by what we call gentlemen of the
old school, were much in favour. There were, of
course, more ethereal chemisettes of silken muslin
and lace, daintily made up with ribbon and finished
with frills. These were becoming and pretty, but
disdained harmonious relations with the severe tailor
build of some of the suits. In hats alone colour pre¬
vailed, and of colours the reigning two were red and
blue, purple coming in a good third. It is a long way
back to the “ National ” now. but it was the last great
big assemblage of well-dressed women I attended.
There is a besetting anxiety for men and women
alike, when one of the marks that stem old gentleman
with the scythe puts upon them is the turning white
of hair. It is the most aging mark he can contrive.
and he is rather fond of making it. greying our locks
too soon for our liking, and often really too soon
for our years. A friend tells me that her hair is
growing younger. Seeing me smile, she said, " No
THE CHARM OF TAFFETAS.
Tmy tucks on the bodice and longer ones on the skirt are the
only adornment of thia black taffetaa frock, aave for the demure-
looking pink rosebuds scattered about with artful carelessness.
Photograph by Shepstoru.
such thing, not a wig; not a hair that is not home
grown.” It turned out that she was using “ Astol,"
a new restorative; neither a dye nor a stain, nor any
other such thing, it simply gives back to tired hair
vigour and colour. Certainly, her hair looked all
right. She had read about a free trial in The Illus¬
trated London News, sent to 20, Lamb's Conduit
Street. W.C.I, for one, and been so pleased that she
has persevered, with a result of rejuvenation that
spreads over her whole person, through circumventing
this most spiteful time-mark.
Easter has brought out a great show of sports
coats, jumpers, skirts and stockings. Such smart
stockings ! -some with real decided contrast stripes,
some with shadowy stripes, others in heavy spun
silk in checked and round designs ; all manner of
leg coverings in silk and wool have been seen on golf-
links and seaside promenades, and at hotel this dansants.
Coats have been greater favourites than jumpers.
Girls say that the coats are more becoming to the
figure, and are less trouble to get off and on. It
was also quite apparent that knitted dresses have by
no means run their course. 1 saw one most beauti¬
fully made in silkena, with a dainty border round the
hem. and a sash with a border and fringe. It was in
crimson lake, and it looked very smart, and was most
becoming to a creamy-complexioned, dark-eyed wearer.
The horse has quite come into his own again for
racing, 'chasing, riding and hunting. The How. too,
is far more full than it has been for a long time so
early in the year. No doubt there are people who
continue to regret the days of formal equestrian
attire for the morning or afternoon ride. Assuredly
they are not those who ever had to wear it. Men
whose correct, strapped-down trousers necessitated
an upright position when out of the saddle, and whose
topper silk hat and eyeglass were so special a care
that sometimes the glass was screwed into the brim
of the hat ; women whose length of habit skirt
swaddled their legs, whose tight habit coats un¬
comfortably compressed their bodies, and chignons
and top hats afflicted their heads, must love the
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the Row to-day. A. E. L.
When illustrating the coal-mines of Upper Silesia,
in our issue of March 26, and writing in advance, we
inadvertently followed an earlier statement that the
Plebiscite in that country would take place in April.
This, of course, was incorrect, as it was actually held
on Sunday, March 20. Although Germany obtained
a large majority in the aggregate, much of the coa!
area, as indicated in our note, favoured Poland.
It was said that the Allies, in allocating the various
districts according to nationality as shown by the
poll, would probably assign to Poland the important
mining centres of Rybnik and Pless, and the industrial
district of Tamowitz.
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RUMPLESS FOWLS.
T HE perpetuation of what are commonly called
"freaks” of nature, or "sports," has always
exercised over the breeder of domesticated animals
a strange fascination. Dogs, fowls, and pigeons
seem to have furnished the most striking in¬
stances of this instability of character, or tendency
to throw " sports ” ; and the breeder, by selec¬
tion, has contrived to produce some really ex¬
traordinary creatures; such as Pekingese spaniels,
hairless dogs, short-faced Mimbler pigeons, and
rumpless fowls, to mention but a few of the host
that might be named.
Some little time ago. Mr. \V. Territ presented
to the British Museum of Natural History a
rumpless, or tail less, fowl from his famous pens.
Unfortunately, I had no opportunity of examin¬
ing this in the flesh, but the further gift of a
hen has given me the opportunity I desired, to
discover whether any traces remained either of
the tail-feathers or the oil - gland. And though
1 searched most carefully, I could find neither.
The absence of these structures is more
than merely curious. Among wild birds, both
are absent only in some of the ostrich tribe ; but
in the bustards, many pigeons, and parrots, the
oil - gland is wanting, though they have well-
developed tail-feathers. In no other gallinaceous
birds, however, wild or domesticated, are either
the tail-feathers or this gland absent. The
domesticated birds might well, it is plain, dispense
with both, yet they show no sign of decadence.
The oil-gland is popularly supposed to serve
for the purpose of anointing the feathers, and
to be particularly well developed in water birds.
Even in scientific text-books it is assigned this
function. When, years ago, Charles Waterton
ventured to state that no evidence could be
adduced in support of this view, he brought
down upon himself much hostile criticism. But
he was right. What purpose the gland actually
does serve has yet to be discovered. Long since
1 ventured to point out a number of water
birds which, though possessing a large oil-gland,
would be quite unable to make any use of it as
a " preen-gland,” owing to the peculiar structure
of their beaks. As. for example, in the scissor-
bill, the open-bill stork, the whale-headed stork,
and the darters. If it were so essential as a
dressing for the plumage, then the ostriches,
pigeons, and parrots, which have lost it. should
fare badly ; but such is not the case
But to return to the rumpless fowl. Though
birds displaying this peculiarity have been known
for at least three hundred years, they cannot be
regarded as representing a distinct race, for this
taillessness occurs sporadically, apparently, among
very widely different breeds. They are " sports,"
in short. But they transmit their peculiarities to
their descendants. They are represented by birds
of verv different types. There are bantams and
TO AMERICANS AND CANADIANS WHO FOUGHT IN THE
GREAT WAR: A MEMORIAL FOR THE ALPHA DELTA PHI
CHAPTER HOUSES
The memorial is by Capt. Robert Aitken, who served with the A.E.F. It
represents a Canadian officer and an American officer, wounded, helping each
other on their way from the battlefield. The original is in the Alpha
Delta Phi Club. New York; and a replica ia to be placed in each of the
twenty-five Alpha Delta Phi Chapter Houses in the United States and
Canada. The Chapters in question supplied some 2300 fighting men.
giants ; rose, single, and cup-combed Years ago
the favoured colour was black ; the birds recently
presented to the Museum are of a beautiful golden
buff, spangled with black and white. Though the
appear to be good layers, they are said to be pror
to produce infertile eggs. As table fowls they at
excellent, but they lack that favourite " tit bit,
the "parson's nose.” owing to the loss of the bon<
which normally support the oil-gland
The older breeders believed that the rumple;
fowl was derived from a wild species found in tli
jungles of Ceylon, and known to the natives a
the Wallikikilli, or Cock of the Woods. This belw
was shown to have had a purely mythical orign
Many years ago, specimens were exhibite
at the Birmingham Show that " stood as uj
right as the penguin duck ; in fact, as erect a
a hawk.” These birds were exhibited under th
name of Crondooks. The plumage was of
shining black with a metallic lustre, they ha
“ top knots ” in place of a comb, and ver
short, heavily feathered legs. Except for the
bizarre appearance, birds of this type seem t
have had little to recommend them, and the
accordingly died out. To those who ai
attracted by the problems of evolution, an
riddles of heredity, these " freaks ” are extremel
interesting afid instructive. W. P. Pycraft.
It is announced by the London. Bnghti
and South Coast Railway that, in order 1
reduce the time allowed for transit at l)iepp
both outward and homeward bound, the Frenc
State Railway Administration have arranged f<
passports to be examined on the trains betwet
Dieppe and Paris (and vice versa) by the da
services leaving Victoria (Brighton Railway) i
10 a.m. and Paris (St. Lazare) at 10 a.m.
Since March 21 the Folkestone - Boulogr
Day Service leaving Victoria (S.E. and C.K
at 8.45 has been resumed. In pre-war da;
it left London at 10, and that time will be r
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any other day service. Pullman cars will run 1
Folkestone, connecting with one of the newe
steamers. " The business man's service " to Pari
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with meads between Victoria and Dover
Among the illustrations of the Grand Nation
in our issue of March 26 was a photograph
the handsome trophy which went to the winner
the race. This trophy, we should like to mention, w
the work of Messrs. Elkington, the well-known silvt
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at a distance of 220 feet from the car,
providing he was no farther from the centre
of the beam than 10 feet ; and. similarly,
that the driver would see a pedestrian
stepping into a roadway 30 feet wide
when 208 feet away. At an eye level
of 4 feet the dazzling effect of the lamps
ceased at a distance of 20b feet from
them.
The second device submitted was the
" Flatlite ” reflector made by the Hertford
Record Company. This is an additional
reflector inserted within the existing lamp.
The results show that a driver using these
lamps would be able, at a distance of 138
feet, to pick out a pedestrian dressed as in
the former test, if within the beam, which
at the distance is 20 feet wide, or he would
see a foot-passenger stepping off the kerb
into a 30 feet roadway when 89 feet
away. Dazzle ceased, at an eye level .of
5 feet, at a distance of 225 feet from the tamp>s.
THE COMING OF THE MOTOR-CYCLE TAXI: B.S.A. MACHINES IN BIRMINGHAM
READY TO START FOR BRIGHTON, TO BE USED THERE.
A number of these B.S.A. motor-cycle taxis are in use In Birmingham and other large towns.
Fleecing the The AA ' nforms me that cases
Unwary Motorist. ar ' **"* bro "f h * notice in
which, owing to official errors
in the calculation of horse-power, motorists are being
served with demands by registration authorities for
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25-h.p., the tax payable being £25. The registration
authority concerned actually amended this to 26-h.p.,
and obtained payment of £26. Upon the matter
being raised, however, the excess amount of £i was
refunded. The moral seems to be that car-owners
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of their cars — particularly where these are of
foreign manufacture—before accepting the calcula¬
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but, alternatively, the A. A. will advise in any
cases of doubt.
A recent experience and the way
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trouble. My car has never been an easy starter, but
A Starting
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Cure.
was especially bad when the engine was
hot and had been stopped with the
extra air-inlet open. In some cases I
have actually had to inject petrol into the
cylinders before I could get a start—an
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app>ear to have verified the theory. I
now have no trouble in starting, whether the
engine is hot or cold. W. W.
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£1100
£1000
£1300
I F in considering the new Vauxhall prices
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WORK WHOSE STOPPAGE MEANS “THE EQUIVALENT OF A COLOSSAL EXPLOSION’’ THROUGHOUT THE RHONDDA
VALLEY: WATER, PUMPED BY VOLUNTEERS, POURING OUT FROM THE LWYNPIA PIT AT 3000 GALLONS A MINUTE.
It wu reported on April 3 that the local miners had consented to 25 men being said that stoppage of the Lwynpia pumps would mean calamity. Owing to
( employed at Lwynpia to keep the pumps going, but next day such an arrangement geological formation, the water has increased to 3000 gallons per minute, enough
was denied, and a miners’ meeting at Porth passed a resolution that every man, to fill a headway 18 miles long in 5I days. It would soon cause a pressure of
irrespective of grade, including managing directors, must be withdrawn. When 520 lb. per square inch, which would blow down barriers between pits, and “ the
this photograph was taken, however (on April 4), the pumps were still being disturbance would be equivalent to a colossal explosion through practically the whole
worked by volunteers, members of the clerical staff, draughtsmen, and so on. Rhondda Valley.” It may be well to point out that the miners deny that there has
The general manager of the Consolidated Cambrian Collieries, Mr. Hedley Clarke, been a “ strike,” and ascribe the stoppage to a "lock-out” by the coal-owners.
l*HnTr>il*AFM BY 1 11 .
Tllli, ILLISTKATED I.ONDON NEWS. April 'J. l'J‘ 21 .—lt »2
had finished its business. Certain scandalised
reactionaries were found to cry, “ Let Mr. Speaker
go ! ” but the House locked its doors even in the
face of the King's Usher, and, the Speaker being
in the Chair, no matter how, but there. Parlia¬
ment dealt Absolutism three shrewd strokes.
Thirteen years later the Chair was again
in question, this time rather differently. In
1629 it had been Monarchical by deputy and
Parliamentary only by force In 1642 (Jan. 4)
it was out - and - out Parliamentary, respectful
outwardly to intrusive Majesty, even to bended
knees, but not otherwise pliant. Very much the
opposite, as the royal would-be player at Spoil-
Five found. Charles could not have damaged
his case better than by his opening words :
“ Mr. Speaker, I must for a time borrow your
Chair ! ” He had to content himself with
standing on the step and demanding the Five
Members, while Mr. Speaker Lenthall, albeit
kneeling, taught him the privileges of Parlia¬
ment in a condensed statement of the Speaker's
duty, as that officer understood it : "I have
neither eyes to sec nor tongue to speak in this
place, but as this. House is pleased to direct
me.” Nothing, except the supple knee, of Mr.
Finch about William Lenthall, Esq., Member for
Woodstock. Not, mark you, as the King (who
directed Mr. Speaker Finch, understood) directs
me, but as this House directs me. So the poor
King, still untaught, turns away beaten and
sullen, and the first step he took away from
that Chair he could not borrow or learn to
respect, began the last stage of the journey to
M R. SPEAKER,” more than any other
public official, upholds the saying that
" the individual passes but the type remains.”
The closing days of the present week see the
retirement, amid universal regret, of a First
Commoner who has sustained for sixteen years
with increasing credit the burden of a duty second
to none in honour and difficulty. In Mr. Lowther
seem to be gathered up all the virtues of a tradition
formulated by age-long practice. The Chair of
the Mother of Parliaments can be filled only by
a man of specialised training, talents, and abilities.
Personalities must vary, but the Speaker, qua
Speaker, conforms to a well-defined ideal of which
few First Commoners have fallen short. That
the right man is so often found is only another
tribute to the collective
wisdom and acumen of the
House, and to its power of
interpreting and transmitting '
its principles from genera¬
tion to generation.
To give another turn to
Bacon's overworked words.
Mr. Speaker must lie at once
a full man. a ready man,
and an exact man ; “he had
need have a great memory,”
and although he certainly
does not ” conferre little,”
none the less ” he had need
have a present wit.” In his
case, these qualities cannot
be rigidly referred to Veru-
lam's assigned sources, each
to each, in separate com¬
partments. It may be taken
that he neglects none of the
means, yet he may derive his
Parliamentary virtues mostly
from one, and that Confer¬
ence alone. There he has
before him the open book of
Man, and of History in the
Making, and hourly he lis¬
tens to Logick and Rhetorick
(good and less g<x>d) in prac¬
tice. Although, as Moderator,
he sits outside debate, yet
on occasion he also must be
” Able to Contend.” Thence,
too, he may draw his power
to be Witty, reinforced,
doubtless, by his private
studies in the Poets and the
Schoolc - men. What these
may be does not precisely
appear, but he proves him¬
self, at need, a nice judge of
language and of the values
of words, with a subtlety, at
times, that can hardly be
engendered, by the Mathe-
maticks. It was pure
Philology, a science scarce
arrived even at swaddling-
bands in Bacon's day, that
gave Mr. Lowrther the cue
for his famous ruling on the
questionable epithet " im¬
pertinent," as applied to an
Honourable Member's re¬
marks. " Doubtless,” said
Mr. Speaker, " the term im¬
plied that the Honourable
Member’s words were not
pertinent to the question before the House."
This was at once admitted frankly, and a threat¬
ening incident closed in laughter.
BUILT IN MEMORY OF 655 OLD CHELTONIANS WHO FELL IN THE WAR : THE NEWLY
DEDICATED MEMORIAL CLOISTERS AT CHELTENHAM COLLEGE.
The War Memorial Cloisters at Cheltenham College were dedicated on April 3, by the Dean of Hereford,
the Very Rev. R. Waterfield, Principal of the Collete from 1899 to 1919. The architect was Mr. L. W.
Barnard, F.R.I.B.A., of Cheltenham. The stone below the window was laid by Lord Lee of Fareham, now
First Lord of the Admiralty, " in memory of more than 650 Old Cheltonians who gave their lives in the
Great War.” The windows commemorate two officers.- [Pludograph by Dfbenhams, Longman and Co.)
While upholding precedent with a jealous arm,
Mr. Speaker must be quick to respond to the
sense of the House in times of crisis, and to act
as it directs in vindication of principle. At that,
we may take it, we have long arrived. But there
was a day when Mr. Speaker Finch, a courtier
(type now extinct), refused to put the question
when ordered by the House, and " at last took
to weeping,” which watery precedent of his own
he followed once more on the second day of
Remonstrance, and even made to leave the Chair.
But young Mr. Dcnzil Holies, the Earl of Clare's
second son, with kindred remonstrant spirits,
held Mr. Speaker Finch down until it should
please the House to rise, in fact, until the House
the Banqueting House and its scaffold. F
that Mr. Speaker lenthall may, in effe<
taken to have started Charles on his ill-fatc<
stage, he was no bigoted contemner of Kin;
His kneeling -showed that. In 1651, on a da
recorded, at Lenthall's house in Chancery
was held that Conference where Cromwell
others discussed inconclusively the form of S
ment. Mr. Lenthall thinks " It will brt
strange confusion to settle a Government o
Nation without something of Monarchy.” H
conservative, too, over Chancery Reform in
the Protector’s Ordinance in Council, an er
un-Parliamentary measure, but Oliver brough
to heel as a King could not do. It is 1
a pity for the former Speaker’s fame that <
ence in this case. save<
his present salary as ^
of the Rolls, for hi
talked loudly at fir
hanging for his convic
He ends as one of <
well’s lairds in thal
which Carlyle finds "
as wc can read it, ver
exceptionable, practical
stantial.” Had the
Commoner stood, inste
kneeling, when he enum
a Speaker’s duty 1
Monarchy, had the Cha
and Rolls affair issued <
wise, he might not
been nicknamed Old SI;
Lenthall by the Arch
of Nick - names. Ceri
he spoiled his chance,
performance, not wi
merits, was not first -
I-atcr Speakers have
customed us to expect
first-rate exhibitions,
they have succeeded
marvel, the more marv
that their efforts mu«
made on the spur o
moment. On the poi
order the Speaker exall
majesty of the spoken
to supreme power. In
tinental Senates they
bells and even break 1
in vain. This is one c
things wc manage bet
Fkigland.
The origin of the Spe;
office cannot be daten
actly, wherein it rese
Mrs. BardeH’s fateful
" There is no date, g
men, but I am iustrucl
say ” that early in th<
tory of Parliament, whe
Commons went apar
discuss their own a
they used to appoint 1
their own number as
dent who acted as Spea
communicating the opi
of the Third Estate t
Lords. To-day the Sp
is chosen at the openi
every new Parliament
attends at the Bar o
House of Lords to r<
the approval of the C
delivered by the Lord Chancellor in a set
of words. In the Speaker's procession from 1
to House he is attended, among others, t
Secretary, whose office before the reforms of
was peculiarly rich in “ pickings.” In thos
old days the Secretary had fees on Eli
Petitions and. as Mr. Orlo Williams notes,
every conceivable proceeding of Parliament.’
could also, while Parliament was sitting, ri
free of charge all letters and packages se
him under cover addressed to the Speaker,
would kindly frank’ his letters as well
Secretary' and Speaker alike are the h*
victims of a twopenny post. It is hard to u
stand why the penny' post was not as invii
as habeas corpus and trial by' jury. We th
so once, but how tamely' we let it go !
it be restored early in Mr. Speaker Whi
reign ’ J • H
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 9, 1921.—463
ts ^old. Fj,
ma . v - 'D ffeg,
on his ill-fitej ^
tf ™*rof fop--
,6 5i.wi a daj jt
in Chanctiy Lc.
herf Cronwtfl a
th f form of Srtj
“It will fai,
( >oveniro«)t of fe
|o narcby."
7 Rtlornt is ifc
Council, an afe-
Oliver brought fe
do. It b nthr
s fame that obec-
im case saved fe
t salary «Jfcjs.
<olls. for he {j
idly at first '
>f bis convietMts
as one of Gw
rds in that hr
Jylc finds "sot-
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ble, practical, «>
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stood, instead it
hen be enunoais;
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had the Chaser
Hair issued othr
might not hao
iraed Old Sy-fc
f the Archfor
imes. Certait)-
his chance. Ifc
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not first dip
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to expect och
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succeeded to i
note marvrib
Kurts must b
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aker exalts tb
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the Speaker
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in the if
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apart
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INCLUDING THE NEW VICEROY OF IRELAND: MINISTERIAL CHANGES.
Pm«>tockaphs i»v Rc kskli., Yanj>vk, I. afavkttk, F.i.i.iott asi> Kiev, Mbnihiza, Suaine, ani> Bkrksford.
MR. STANLEY BALDWIN.
President of the Beard of Trade.
(Ex-Financial Sec. to Treasury 1
DR. CHRISTOPHER ADDIsON.
Minister without Portfolio,
i Ex-Minister of Health.)
VISCOUNT PEEL. G.B.K
MR. CHARLES A.
McCURDY. K.C.
it Pari. Sec. to the Treasury
(Former Minister of Food.1
THE EARL O F
CRAWFORD AND
BALI A RUES.
First Commissioner of
Wor ks. i Ex -Chancellor
Iluchy of 1-ancaster.)
MR F. G. K.EI.LA-
WAV
Postmaster-General. (Ex-
Pari. Under Secretary
for Foreign Affairs.
LORD EDMUND TALBOT.
First Viceroy of Ireland under the
Better Government of Ireland Act.
LT.-COL. LESLIE WILSON.
Joint Pari. Sec. to Treasury lEx-
Parl Sec. to Ministry of Shipping.)
SIR P. LLOYli-GREAME.
Director of Overseas Trade Dept.
(Ex. Pari. Sec. to Board of Trade.,
COMMANDER B. M. EYRES-
MONSELL.
Civil Lord of the Admiralty.
LT.-COL. SIR R. A. SANDERS.
Under Secretary for War.
(Fjt-Unionist W’hip 1
SIR ALFRED MONO, BT
Minister ol Health. (Ex-First Com¬
missioner of Works.)
HE HON. G. F. STANLEY
Financial Sec. to War Office.
VEx-Unionist Whip.)
MR. JAMES F. HOPE
Chairman of Committees. 1
Financial -Sec., Munitions.
MAJ THE HON. F-. F. L. W'OOD
Under Sec. for the Colonies. 'M.P
. for Ripon Div., W. Riding—U.)
LT.-COM. E. H. YOUNG.
Financial Sec to Treasury. (I xml
an arm in the Zeebrugge Raid.)
COL. GEORGE GIBBS,
freasurer to the Household.
(Ex-Assistant Unionist Whip.)
! CAPT. F. K. GUEST, C.B.E.
LT.-COL. L. C. M. S. AMERY.
L
SIR R. S. HORNE. G.B.E.
#
%i Secretary of State for Air. ! Ex-
f
Pari, and Financial Sec. to Ad¬
*
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
ft"; Patronage Sec. to Treasury-1
miralty. 1 Ex-Under Sec.Colonies.)
1 *
Ex-President Board of Trade.)
Mr. Illingworth has retired from the Postmaster-Generalship on the ground of
ill-health, and Sir Archibald Williamson has retired from the Financial Secretary¬
ship to the War Office, in order to return to his business. By far the most
significant and important appointment is that of Lord Edmund Talbot to be
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in succession to Field-Marshal Viscount French. Lord
Edmund, the first Roman Catholic to become Viceroy of Ireland, will be the
first Viceroy under the Better Government of Ireland Act, 1920, which comes
into force on April 19, and is known more commonly as the Home Rule Act.
It will be his duty to summon the two Parliaments of Northern and Southern
Ireland. He is the leading lay Roman Catholic in the United Kingdom, only
brother of the late Duke of Norfolk, and Deputy Earl-Marshal of England,
acting for the present Duke, who was born in May 1908.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 9. 1921
16 I
AT HOME AND ABROAD: SPORT; R.A.F. CHIEFS IN EGYPT; SINN FEIN.
Photockakhs by Pmoiuthfh (Bkki.iv), LB., asp CVstrai. Puns';.
WHERE THE WHOLE •• FIELD " IN A RECENT STEEPLECHASE WAS DISQUALIFIED PROSPEROUS BERLIN GOES RACING. WHILE BRITISH MEETINGS ARE STOPPED
THE KARLSHORST RACE MEETING NEAR BERLIN BY COAL DISPUTES : A WELL-DRESSED CROWD AT KARLSHORST.
AN ENGLISH COUNTERPART OF MONTE CARLO'S DISCREDITABLE “ SPORT" : A PIGEON-SHOOTING MATCH
TAKING HIS SHOT AT A BIRD RELEASED FROM A TRAP.
AIR MARSHAL SIR HUGH TRENCHARD S FIRST VISIT TO THE ABOUKIR DEPOT ;
A GROUP OF RAF. CHIEFS IN EGYPT.
While British race-meetings have been stopped owing to the coal crisis, Berlin
indulges in the joys of the Turf unchecked, and the size and appearance of the
crowd hardly suggests the poverty of a conquered nation At the Berlin steeple¬
chases at Karlshorst on April 3, the entire field in one race—the Fredersdorf
Stakes was disqualified for “exceeding the time,” and the Race Committee
decided to punish all the jockeys for pulling their horses. There was an angry
demonstration by disappointed backers after the race.-A pigeon-shooting
competition said to be organised by the Abbey Wood Gun Club took place on
the Chatham Football Club’s ground on March 31. Thirty dozen pigeons, with
their tail feathers clipped, were brought down from London packed in baskets,
and only about thirty got clear away. The ground was arranged on Monte
Carlo lines, with five traps a few yards apart, forming the arc of a circle at
a maximum distance of 31 yards 'minimum 21 yards) from the shooting point.
SINN FEINERS ARRESTED AT AN IRISH CLUB IN MANCHESTER : SIXTEEN PRISONERS
IN THE DOCK AT THE CITY POLICE COURT.
As each marksman raised his gun and called “ Ready,” one trap (nobody could
tell which) was opened by a wire, and the bird rose. The traps were soon
surrounded with feathers like snow. The company numbered about fifty, in¬
cluding fifteen competitors and numerous bookmakers.-In the group taken at
the R.A.F. Aircraft Depot at Aboukir, near Alexandria, on March 9, the five
officers in front are (from left to right) : Group-Captain B. C. H. Drew, Wing-
Commander N. Goldsmith, Air Commodore O. Swann, Air Marshal Sir Hugh
Trenchard, and Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Salmond. The two latter were with
Mr. Churchill in Egypt. Sir Hugh Trenchard has been appointed Principal Air
A.D.C. to the King.-On April 2, the Manchester police raided the Irish Club
in Erskine Street, Hulme. One Sinn Feiner was killed and several policemen
were wounded by revolver fire. Sixteen of the prisoners arrested were brought
before the City Magistrates on April 4.
THE IKI.rSTKATKI) I.ONIX>N NEWS, Aprii *». 1921 40 ..
FEIN,
r
DANCES OR “A PIGEON-KILLING ORGY”: MONTE CARLO ALTERNATIVES.
A BETTER USE FOR THE PIGEON-SHOOTING GROUND AT MONTE CARLO
MLLE. JEANNE RONSAVS PUPILS DANCING THERE
DRAWING CROWDS TO THE TERRACE, WHICH WAS AT ITS EMPTIEST
DURING THE SHOOTING : CLASSIC REVfeLS ON THE PIGEON GROUND.
WHERE THE PIGEON-TRAPS HAVE NOW BEEN COVERED WITH FLOWER-BEDS
ENGLISH GIRLS PLAYING BASKET-BALL ON THE SHOOTING GROUND.
SHOWING SOME PIGEON-TRAPS (IN THE LEFT BACKGROUND, : BALLET
EXERCISES PRESENTED BY FEMINA SPORT DE PARIS.
WHEN THE PIGEON-KILLING ORGY WAS RAGING ” : THE SO-CALLED “SPORT” AT MONTE CARLO DENOUNCED BY SIR FREDERICK TREVES.
THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER. THE PRINCE OF MONACO, AND OTHERS.
Pigeon-shooting, as practised at Monte Carlo, and at certain places in this country,
«uch as Chatham and Perivale (near Ealing), has aroused a growing chorus of
denunciation. The matter was raised by Sir Frederick Treves, the famous
surgeon, in his recent book about the Riviera, and among the many prominent
people who have supported his protest are the Prince of Monaco and the Duke
of Westminster. In a letter to the “Times,” which has led a campaign on
the subject. Sir Frederick Treves wrote from Monte Carlo on April 2 :—“ If the
Administration wish to attract people to Monte Carlo they would do well to
( take to heart the lesson of the last few days. The degrading display of trick
shooting at helpless birds has ended for the season. The traps have been covered
with flower beds and the ground given up to a display of athletics by com¬
panies of women. In the place of dead and dying pigeons have been witnessed
classic dances on a green lawn with a background of blue sea. When the
pigeon-killing orgy was raging the Terrace was at its emptiest ; while, on the
other hand, the games and dances have attracted the largest crowds seen on the
‘Front’ this year.” We illustrated the pigeon-shooting on March 1 2.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 9. 1921.-166
FROM FAR AND NEAR: OCCASIONS OF NOTABLE INTEREST.
Photographs rv Ki'skri.u Viuavura, Mkmwiza Gai.i.ekiks, and Topicai-
WITH HIS LEAD DOG : WINTERTON, THE DRIVER OF THE WINNING
TEAM IN THE HUDSON BAY DOG DERBY.
RETIRING FROM THE SPEAKERSHIP AFTER
FIFTEEN YEARS : MR. J. W. LOWTHER, M.P.
The Hudson Bay “ Dog Derby," a non-stop race of aoo miles, from the Pas,
Manitoba, to the FI in Flon Mine and back, was won by Morgan's team, driven
by Winterton. The time was 33$ hours.-It was stated recently that Mr.
J H. Whitley, M.P., of Whitley Council fame, had provisionally accepted the
post of Speaker, from which Mr James W. Lowther is retiring after fifteen
years. Mr. Whitley has represented Halifax since 1900, and was for a time
Liberal Whip. He became Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker in
1911.-M. Gabriel Nicolet, the well-known French artist, died on Good Friday
at Villefranche, aged 64. His work is familiar to our readers : the picture,
“ Day-Dreams," seen in the above photograph, was given as a presentation plate
with our Christmas number. -The photograph of the ex-Emperor Karl’s family
shows (from left to right) the ex-Crown Prince Otto, Archduke Charles Louis,
Empress Zita, Archduke Felix, Archduchess Adelaide, the ex-Emperor, Archduke
Rodolph and Archduke Robert. A seventh child (a girl) was bom on March 1
last.-in the Egyptian Cabinet group, the figures are (from left to right) Abde
Fattah Yehia Pasha (Minister of Justice), Midhat Yeghen Pasha (Wakfs, i.e. Piou:
Foundations), Ahmed Ziwar Pasha (Communications), Hussein Rushdi Pash)
(Vice-President of Council, without portfolio), Adly Yeghen Pasha (Premier, withou
portfolio), Gaafar Waly Pasha (Instruction), Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha (Interior]
Neguib Ghali Pasha (Agriculture), and Ismail Sidky Pasha (Finance).
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 9. 1921 —467
THE COAL DISPUTE: PITHEAD INCIDENTS; THE
Pmotogkai’hs hv Photo. Illus. Ca, Rknmson, Photoukkss, and I.B.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
WHERE MOTOR-BICYCLES SEEM TO ABOUND: A MASS MEETING OF MINERS
AT THE PIT-HEAD, CANNOCK CHASE.
THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF A STOPPAGE IN THE COAL-FIELDS :
YOUNG NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS SHARING OUT.
WORKING THE PUMPS AT THE LILLIES HALL MINES.
HI SHROPSHIRE: A VOLUNTEER “SAFETY MAN."
GUARDIANS OF THE LAW : STAFFORDSHIRE POLICE
AT THE PIT-HEAD. CANNOCK CHASE.
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE LEADER : MR. BOB WILLIAMS.
SECRETARY OF THE TRANSPORT WORKERS’ UNION.
CLERKS AND SURVEYORS KEEPING THE PUMPS GOING : VOLUNTEER STOKERS
AT BARNSLEY MAIN COLLIERY. YORKSHIRE.
When the stoppage occurred to the coal-fields, and for the first time the Miners'
Federation instructed the pumpmen and enginemen to cease work along with
tke rest, many volunteers set to work on the vital task of keeping the pumps
going in the mines to prevent floods. Among them were mine officials and
members of the clerical and surveying staffs. The attitude of the miners
towards these emergency “ safety men ” differed in various localities. The situation
was most difficult in South Wales, while in some other coal-fields no objection
was at first raised to the work being carried on. The important question whether
SHOWING THE HUGE WHEEL FOR HAULING UP THE CAGES:
KEEPING THE WINDING MACHINERY IN ORDER,
the other two parties to the " Triple Alliance *’ of Labour the Railwaymen and
the Transport Workers -should support the miners by coming out, was fixed for
discussion by the Transport Workers’ Federation on April 5, and the Railwaymen s
National Conference on the 6th. The miners form more than half the total member¬
ship of the Triple Alliance, and the Railwaymen the majority of the'remainder. The
Associated Society of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, who do not belong to
the Alliance, declared their neutrality. On April 4 an Order in Council authorised
the Executive to protect the community under the Emergency Powers Act, 1920.
11T21
BOOKS OF THE DAY
B. OSBORN.
He not only has by heart ami at heart the memories
of the soil into which he has transplanted himself—
Sussex is perhaps the only coun.y in which the
continuity of English history is unbroken—but
he has also become possessed of the very spirit
of the land, so that he feels what a certain king
felt about Oxford, when he said that everything
old there seemed new. and everything new seemed
old. Happily it is not necessary to be bom in
the county to become a Sussex poet. Indeed, it
is better to be bom elsewhere, for William Collins
and Shelley and other famous writers of Sussex
origin have never been inspired by the tender
beauty and ancient amenities of their birthplace,
whereas poet lovers blown in bv the four winds.
‘HERE is
_ nothing
JL among the books
in that do not S row by moon-
-Th" Ljf light (like the olive trees), but
are made to sell, quite so
dull and exasperating as the
average guide-book. “ For a guide-book, - " ob¬
serves Mr. Hilaire Belloc in a delightful essay
entitled " On Getting Respected in Inns," “ will
always tell you what are the principal and most
vulgar sights of a town ; what mountains are
most difficult to climb, and, invariably, the exact
distances between one place and another. But
these things do not serve the End of Man. The
end of man is Happiness, and how much happier
•are you with such a knowledge ?*
Now. there are some Guide-Books
which do make little excursions now > i
and then into the important things. ^
which tell you (for instance) what ;>
kind of cooking you will find in what
places, what kind of wine in countries
where this beverage is publicly known,
and even a few. more daring than
the rest, will give a hint or two upon
hiring mules, and upon the way that
a bargain should be conducted, or how
to fight." In " Kipling’s Sussex ”
(Simpkin, Marshall ; 12s. 6d. net), by
R. Thurston Hopkins, we have one of
the rare kind of Guide-Book, based
on intimate personal knowledge anti
illustrated not only by ordinarv pic¬
tures. but also by well-chosen excerpts
from the works of the greatest lover of
Sussex living to-day. From Burwasli.
the poet’s home, the reader is per¬
sonally conducted, first to the Weald
and Marsh, and then to the Downs,
concerning which Mr. Kipling says
and sings—
I’m just in love with all these three.
The Weald and Marsh and the Down
countrie;
Nor I don’t know which I love the
most.
The Weald or the Marsh aSr the white
chalk coast.
In " Puck of Pook’s Hill,” which is
one of the dozen books I—a lover of
Sussex for many a long year—keep in a shelf at
the head of my camp-bed and take with me on
holidays, Mr. Kipling has surely proved himself
the chief of Sussex poets. He has found in the
boon soil of Burwash a cure for the anxious rest¬
lessness of the Englishman errant—
Take of Knglish earth as much
As either hand may rightly clutch
Anatole f ranee 01 this interpreter of the mys¬
tical East, " and that he is possessed by a
need to see and comprehend everything, he
would, like I.afcadio Hearn, have adopted a
Japanese life and passed the remainder of his
days in a joint appreciation, with this people so
dedicated to the love of landscape, of the festivals
of the first snow and the bursting of the cherry
trees into flower." As it is, he ls
vet another link, he ami his price-
less book, between Orient and Occi-
gi dent, destined before long to be
^ united in a common sympathy with
fc/J all that is deeply lovable in the
life of mankind. Particularly charm-
£4 ing are his chapters on the kaikai or
seventeen-syllable lyric epigram, that
K 'l tiny master - key that unlocks the
Sj^ i; . Japanese heart. The cult of the Aa>Am
r.tjl goes back as far as the fifteenth
t jjd century, and even the earliest essavs
r SjT in a swift impression of things seen
and suggested, such as the dreamily
?•* immobile white heron of Sokan (1465-
yU Save for his thin voice .
& The motionless heron
£3 Is but a drift of snow,
'j-'jlj would have charmed the soul of
* ^ Jules Kenard or have set the al»-
_sinthe-minded Verlaine (the nearest
of ail the Svmbolists to the spirit
of Japanese poetry, which is apt to
be sheer suggestion) thinking out
terser and tenser forms. Here is a
rinv seascape which seems to me
inimitable—
What commotion !
Under the sudden shower
The sails swing towards us and away 1
And this little lyric cry comes from
the heart's core of Japan when it
expresses the grave and perpetual
thought of death, as in the two following epigrams—
Death against the heart,
Nothing announces it
In the grasshopper’s song.
The summer’s green 1
All that remains
Of the dreams of dead warriors.
There is something vulgar \as Mr. Bernard Shaw
testifies through the life of one of his characters) in
the incessant quest for personal happiness, and the
THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO VISIT THE OASES OF KUFRA. THE
HEADQUARTERS OF THE SENUSSI : MRS. ROSITA FORBES—TAKING -A
MEAL IN THE DESERT.
Mrs. Rosita Forbes recently made a remarkable journey from Benghazi into the heart of
the Libyan desert to the oases of Kufra, the Senussi headquarters, and thence by a new
route to Egypt. Though carrying credentials from the head of the Senussi. Sidi Idriss,
whom she met at Benghazi, she was frequently in danger, both from murder by hostile
fanatics and from starvation. Only one or two Europeans had previously been to Kufra.
She went by the name of Sitt Khadija, as a Moslem woman. half-English and half-F /ptian.
“ travelling lor the good of {Ham.”--{Photograph supplied bv < enlral Prets.\
such as Swinburne and Tennyson, have given
us undying pictures of the fair land of the indi¬
gestible South Saxons: who does not remember,
for example, the Tennysoman picture of—
Green Sussex fading into blue
With one gray glimpse of sea ?
Herein Sussex strongly differs, perhaps because
it is so truly an epitome of the essential England,
from I.ancashire and Cornwall, the other counties
I know and love best of all.
Lay that earth upon thy heart,
And thy sickness shall depart.
Two other guide-books are worthy to come
into a comparison with this gallery of Sussex
pictures seen through a poet's eyes. One is
’’ England’s Outpost " (Robert Scott ; 10s 6d.
net), by A. G. Bradley, which tells us the story
of the Kentish Cinque Ports. History is living,
breathing reality in Mr. Bradley's picturesque
pages, and, open where you will, there is some¬
thing to arrest the attention and touch the imagin¬
ation. As when we are shown, in two sentences,
about the little traditional, square-rigged vessels
of this old Litus Saxotticum (the Romans kept a
fighting admiral there), that the mediaeval sea-
fight was just a land-fight transferred to an in¬
convenient element. " The titles of the chief
officers suggest a country village rather than a
sliip of war. For the master and boatswain were
known as ‘ Rector ’ anti ‘ Constable,’ while the
•h1<1 boy lat the beck ant? call of the crew of
twenty or thirty men) was registered as a ’ groom.'
The other humane guide-book is " A Nf.w Book
about London ” (Allen anti Unwin : 10s. 6d. net),
by Leopold Wagner, which avoids the conven¬
tional quotation anti tenth-hand trite reference
ami could almost In* defined as an epic of inns and
• hop-houses.
For a guide-book to the life anti spirit of Japan
there is nothing more inspiring than " Japanese
Impressions" (John Lane ; 7s. txl. net), trans¬
lated from the French of I)r. Paul-Louis Couchoud
by Francis Kumsey anti provided with a Preface
by M. Anatole France. Dr. Couchoud has lived
long in the Island Empire anti fallen deeply in
love with the still passion of its people for beauty,
the exquisite Epicureanism which has created the
(ieisha as a living work of art, their Buddhist
tenderness for flowers and animals, their frank
DISGUISED FOR- A MIDNIGHT FLIGHT FROM
JEDABIA. TO AVOID A PLOT AGAINST HER LIFE:
MRS. ROSITA FORBES DRESSED AS A BEDOUIN
SHEIKH.
Photograph suppl -ed by Central Prr
•TRAVELLING FOR THE COOD OF ISLAM. - ’ AS
STATED IN HER SENUSSI PASSPORT: MRS. ROSITA
FORBES ON A BAGGAGE CAMEL WHICH CARRIED HER
NEARLY 1100 MILES.,
Photograph supplied by Central Prest.
Japanese soul rejects it as vain, knowing so well
that an inspired and delicate pain, a creative
melancholy, is the best life ran offer ns mortar.
and so in these latter days he is no more vexed, I
doubt not, by that nostalgia of the East which
n *ne who have ever lived in India ran quite escape.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Aprii 9 , 1921 —469
UNDER A NAVAL OFFICER : P'
ING WATER FROM A PIT.
UNDERGROUND PUMPING STATIONS
ONE TYPE OF MACHINERY.
IN A BOILER HOUSE IN 1919
A NAVAL SHIFT OFF DUTY.
HOW THE NAVY SAVED A YORKSHIRE COAL-MINE FROM BEING FLOODED DURING THE STRIKE OF 1919: BLUEJACKETS RE-STARTING THE ENGINES
THAT WORK THE PUMPS AT TRENCH PIT, GARFORTH COLLIERY.
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FIGHTING FLOODS IN MINES: AVERTING A COAL-STRIKE PERIL
DRAWINGS BY W. B. ROBINSON AND BRYAN DB GRINBAU.
gOME of the strata forming
the earth’s crust are por¬
ous, and some impervious. The
volume of water held by the
former may be large, and if
these be pierced and broken by
shafts and coal-workings, rain
may find its way into a mine
very rapidly. Pumps used in
mines are of many different
kinds. There may be Bucket
or Lift Pumps, Plunger or Force
Pumps, or Piston Pumps. The
pumps, again, may be driven in
various ways, either by means
of steam, electricity, compressed
air, or hydraulic pressure.
| ^ITHOUT the Navy during
the South Yorkshire -trike
in 1919 (when the drawings were
made), the mines there would
have been reduced to a disas¬
trous condition of flooding.
For every ton of coal extracted
from a mine, some 18 tons of
water are drawn up by the
pumps, so it is easy to imagine
the effect of even a short stop¬
page. The mine officials, being
too few, were utterly unable to
cope with the emergency. The
situation was saved by the
arrival of some 350 men of
the Navy.
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One of the most serious effects of a coal strike, when it extends to the men who
work the pumping machinery in the mines, is the peril of floods. Unless the
pumps are kept constantly at work, water accumulates in the workings very
rapidly, and even a short stoppage may soon do a great deal of damage. The
cessation of pumping for any length of time means disaster. When the recent
strike was declared, it was stated that some associations of enginemen decided to
remain at work, for the safety of the mines, in defiance of the general instructions
from the leaders. There was a suggestion that the Navy might again be called
in to help with the pumps, as during the partial strike in South Yorkshire in 1919.
On the other hand, some thought that, in the event of a general strike, it would
hardly be possible to provide such assistance in hundreds of pits all over the
COUntry. —1 Drawings CopyrtgkUd u» tk* UniUd Slate* and Canada.j
470—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, apki
9, 1921.
THE FIRST COAL “STRIKE” INVOLVING “SAFETY MEN
Photographs by Topical, <
kllliltiuisiiii
TIED IM A TRUCK AND HAULED UP 900 FEET: A PIT PONY BROUt
TO THE SURFACE AT PEMBERTON COLLIERY, NEAR WIGAN.
•STRIKE" PROPAGANDA IN LANCASHIRE : AN AGITATOR SPEAKING TO A GROUP
OF MINERS AT A STREET CORNER IN WIGAN.
TREASURER OF THE MINERS 1 FEDERATION
MR. JAMES ROBSON.
LANCASHIRE MINERS ON “STRIKE" AND DISCUSSING THE SITUATION
ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE MINERS’ FEDERATION
MR HERBERT SMITH.
The cause of the coal'strike" from the miners’ point of view was explained as follows in a statement by Mr. Frank Hodges, Secretary of the Miners* Federation,
he said, “ in all the coal-fields because the miners have found it impossible to accept the coal-owners’ wage proposals. . . . The coal-owners were advis
automatically revoke the wage advances given during the period of control. They therefore gave notice to the miners to terminate contracts on March
to impose new district wage agreements, involving tremendous reductions in the miners’ earnings. . . . These proposals, considered in relation to the
meant a smaller real wage for the miner than he received before the war." On the other hand. Sir Robert Horne, President of the Board of Trade
Exchequer) said : “ There are some people who seem to think that the cause of the stoppage is an attempt by the coal-owners to exact too drastic red
This is an entirely erroneous view. . . . Mr. Frank Hodges has pointed out that * the owners have not the means to prevent a drastic reduction i
LONDON NEWS,
April 0,
IRIKERS
PIT SCENES; AND THE FEDERATION’S “ BIG FOUR,
Bakratt. and Swainp..
NOTICE
WHEN ALL HANDS -STRUCK,” AND OFFICIALS AND STUDENTS CARRIED ON
VOLUNTEER STOKERS AT THE GARFORTH PIT, NEAR LEEDS.
WAGES . .
STANDARD
FOR APRIL 1921 WILL BE 110 PER CENT. ABOVE
PUTTING UP A NOTICE AT CLIFTON COLLIERY, NOTT
SECRETARY OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS'
ASSOCIATION : . MR. WILLIAM STRAKER.
ROUPS OF-STRIKERS* STANDING IDLE IN THE MARKET PLACE AT WIGAN AFTER
|ORK HAD BEGUN.
SECRETARY OF THE MINERS’ FEDERATION OF CREAT
BRITAIN : MR. FRANK HODGES.
roposa] is not that the owners should offer higher wages, but that the Government should come to the assistance of the industry with a subsidy. . The
»ers’ Federation is to insist on a national wage without regard to districts. This policy necessarily involves a national pooling arrangement. . . . The stoppage
s, therefore, is an attempt to intimidate the Government into the granting of a subsidy to the coal trade, and to impose upon it a bastard form of nationalisation
all incentive in the industry. . . . But not only have the mines stopped. The Miners’ Federation, for the first time in their existence, have issued instructions
pumpmen and the enginemen and leave the mines to their fate. ... A community which gave way to such a menace would be always in peril. We
unteers to man the pumps, and if necessary, protection must be provided.” The four chief leaders of the Miners’ Federation now are Messrs. Frank Hodges
ames Robson, and William 'Straker. Mr. Hodges described the withdrawal of the "safety men” (pumpmen and enginemen) as “a desperate decision ”
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
which was blue glass. Cameos and intaglios are
here in abundance, with pedigrees from well-
known collections, such as the Arundel and the
Marlborough
Tanagra figures always make an appeal almost
by reason of their seeming modernity in character.
These charming statuettes have claimed the
assiduous attention of the forger, and, in spite of
the precautions of the Greek Government to
prevent “ finds ” leaving the country, they have
enriched many British and American collections.
They are common to all parts of Greece, but
attained their greatest excellence at Tanagra, in
Bceotia, in the time of Alexander the Great and
O what motto
an auct ' oneer would choose
' jV v> ' / if he were challenged.
Perhaps the line from
fr ///f ‘'Macbeth,” “Come like
^9 ' * shadows, so depart.” might fit the
routine of everyday dispersal ; but in
his firmament he glows with pride and enthu¬
siasm over, mayhap, one precious work of art
above all others “that gems the starry girdle
of the year.” Of course, meteors swim across
the art sales with coruscating glamour, but it is
oftentimes the little-heeded master who attracts
the true connoisseur, who should
be, above all others, armed with —
just that special knowledge to
discern, identify, and appraise
works of art not hall-marked by —t
precedent and the clamour of
the fashionable auction - room.
” The tumult and the shouting
dies ” does not apply to him,
for he quietly walks off with
his prize, coolly lifted in public
as easily as a winner at the
tables at Monte Carlo pockets
his capriciously acquired wealth.
century, and represents
Hcrakles and Omphalc in V
a splendid repou&st com- T HI
position. A Persian bronze lion (4J \ n
inches long) is a rare example of
ancient Persian art ; it is supposed to have
been found in the palace of Darius at Susa.
A bronze statuette of a Greek girl fastening
her girdle (4 1-8 inches high) is a masterly
example; and a similar miniature is a silver
Graeco - Roman statuette of a Winged Eros
(2 inches high).
___________ On the 18th and two follow¬
ing days Messrs. Sothebv are
selling valuable books, includ¬
ing first editions of Robert
Louis Stevenson, a set of Kate
I Greenaway books illustrated in
colours ‘ by that dainty and
original artist with a winsome-
ness and naiveii which leaves
us spellbound nowadays. A
fine Izaak Walton's ” The Com-
pleat Angler or the Contem¬
plative Man’s Recreation,” 1653.
comes up. The first four folios
of Shakespeare and a Her¬
rick’s ” Hesperides.” 1O48. are
interesting items in a full list
of rarities.
We like Christie’s dispersal
on the 2bth of books by William
Blake, which have as stable
companions certain autograph
letters by Wordsworth and
illuminated Persian and other
manuscripts. William Blake is
not only a mystic, he is a
mystery. He was somewhat
derelict in his own day ; Fuseli
found him ” darn’d good to
steal from,” and Stothard
snatched his ” Canterbury Pil-
erims.” and won renown from
sian subjects of episodes in
village life won him distinc¬
tion, and there hangs in the
Louvre his ” Le Corps de
Garde.” The pictures offered
for sale represent the exterior
of a French chAteau ; there is
something more realistic than
Watteau, and the gallants and
ladies are flesh and blood. It
is vivid in moving effect, with
nothing mawkish or sentimental.
Messrs. Christie, on the (>th.
sold some fine old English silver,
the property of Mr. F. J. C.
Holdsworth, of Kingsbridge,
Devon. The fine Cieorge I.
punch-bowl and ladle by Paul
Lamerie. engraved in Hogarth-
ian style with a procession of
figures on a quay, inscribed
Amicitia Perpetua,” and on
reverse eleven figures at a
banquet, inscribed ” Prosperity
to Hooks and Lines,” had a
Waltonian flavour about it. It
weighed 140 ounces, was eagerly
competed for, and won the great
price which was prophesied.
Another notable example at the same sale was
an Elizabethan cup and cover, 1590, with maker's
mark. " R.W.”
Greek and Roman antiquities from the collection
of Mr. J. P. Heseltine have perturbed collectors
who are desirous of filling gaps in their cabinets.
Hence the interest in the forthcoming sale by
Messrs. Christie on the 19th. Apart from the
specialist’s knowledge in Greek and Roman art.
there is always the wonder which encompasses the
tyro in seeing jewellery which was worn two
thousand years ago. He marvels at the Roman
matron’s safety-pin of the same design as now in
vogue ; a snake pattern ear-ring is like an early
Victorian duplicate. Among the antique gems to
be offered there are many to provoke a thrill of
admiration. Josiah Wedgwood, caught up by such
adulation, duplicated in pottery the Portland Vase.
A RELIC OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS FOR EDINBURGH: HER BED-CURTAIN FROM
LOCH LEVEN CASTLE, WITH ONE OF THE VALANCES.
This historic curtain once adorned the bed in which Mary Queen of Scott slept at Loch Leven Castle. After
her flight thence it came into the possession of the Earls of Morton at Kinross. It is a fine example of
French applied work of the sixteenth century, and belongs to a set of four, probably acquired by Mary in
France, made of thick cherry-coloured cloth and divided into panels by strips of embroidery. She may have
had a hand in working them. The curtain, with two valances, has just been presented by the National Art
Collections Fund to the Royal Scottish Museum at Edinburgh.
By Courtesy of the Hationol Art - Collections Fond. Hertford House.
his successors (350-200 b.c.). The chief types
are seated and standing female figures The col¬
lections at the Louvre and at the British Museum
are of exceptional value. They arc variously
believed to have been household ornaments or
tomb furniture. These terra-cotta statuettes have
a charm not easily dismissed. Among the examples
to be offered is a Greek Lady at her Toilet, seated,
and fully draped in chiton and chlamys, holding a
mirror in her hand (10 inches high). A Seated
Aphrodite with the apple of Paris in her hand is
another example of a gracefully posed figure
(seven inches high). Another noticeable specimen
is a Reclining Draped Female Figure of a dancer,
dainty and debonair, and in faultless condition,
although in date some three hundred years before
Christ. Other items include Greek, Roman, and
other bronzes, and gold and silver coins, mostlv
THE MOON
passing in front or
THC SUN AS SKIN FROM
THE LOCALITY SHEWN
mow.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON*
VISIBLE IN BRITAIN: AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
DRAWN BY SCRIVEN BOLTON. F.R.A.S.
P
MAKING STARS VISIBLE BY DAYLIGHT: THE TRACK OF THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF APRIL 8 ACROSS THE SHETLANDS,
ORKNEYS, CAPE WRATH, AND THE OUTER HEBRIDES.
It is sixty-three years, ss Mr. Scriven Bolton, the well-known astronomer, points
out, since there has been an annular eclipse of the sun visible in the British
Isles, like that on the morning of Friday, April 8. Writing a few days before
the event, he said : “ The forthcoming eclipse of the sun on April 8 is of special
interest from the fact that the track of the shadow will pass over a northern
portion of our islands. The. most favourable places from which to observe the
eclipse are those which lie in the central line of the eclipse shown above, and
which are chiefly the Shetland Islands, Cape Wrath, and South Uist, in the Outer
Hebrides. In England the sun at its greatest phase will appear \a a slender
crescent. Weather permitting, the phenomenon may be observed through smoked
glass, or by reflecting the image in a pail of water.” Along the track of the
eclipse, depicted above, daylight will be reduced sufficiently to allow the brightest
stars to be seen, if the sky is clear enough, and Venus will be found to the left of
the sun. 1 Chasing Cofntigkifd in the I'mted Slalts and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, April 9, 1921 —474
Cfc Irish Problem CbroufllD frencb €pes
We conclude here the article begun in our issue of
March 26, condensed from one by M. Ludovic
Xaudeau, the well-known French writer, who
went to Ireland on behalf of our Paris con¬
temporary. " L’Illustration," to study the Irish
question on the spot. It is particularly in¬
teresting to see how the problem presents itself
to a well-injormed and perfectly unbiassed
Frenchman.
A S will be remembered, there have been two dis¬
tinct phases in the British reprisals. Up to
December 12. I9«>. that is to say, up to the period
of the abominable destruction of the centre of
Cork, these operations were, to a certain extent,
left to the individual initiative of policemen and
the Black-and-Tans. The authori¬
ties, affecting to have been over- -
powered, declared that, owing to
repeated acts of aggression and
provocation, it was impossible for
them to foresee and repress the re¬
prisals of the exasperated soldiers.
The act of furious folly committed
at Cork was, according to all the
evidence I collected, the work of
ruffians and auxiliary police, some
of them over - excited by drink,
others by the desire of filling their
own pockets. Many eye-witnesses
affirm that they saw incendiaries j
carrying off trunks loaded with
valuables from the houses they ran¬
sacked. A block of fine shops was
demolished, and is now a mere
heap of ruins. The damage com¬
mitted here can quite well be com¬
pared to the worst acts of the kind
on the German front. The Irish
Labour Party has recorded in a
pamphlet of 68 large, closely-printed
pages, entitled “ Who Burnt Cork ■ — —
City ? ” very striking depositions,
which leave no doubt in one’s mind ^ IRISH
as to the fact that the authors of SEARC
this crime were the ’’ agents of the
Crown.” Besides which, General -
Strickland, to whose inflexible
honesty all parties bear witness,
vas ordered by the Government
to proceed with investigations con¬
cerning the circumstances of the
affair. Several weeks ago he sent
in his report, but the Cabinet
keep silent, and Parliament knows
nothing about the document. How
is this silence to be interpreted ?
After this scandal, the system of
" spontaneous reprisals.” inevitably-
degenerating into sanguinary orgies,
was severely prohibited, and it was
decided that the military authori¬
ties would officially control the de¬
struction of property which would
be considered necessary. That is
how I assisted in Cork at the gut¬
ting of two houses, where the police
had been ambushed a few days
ago. The execution of this act
necessitated a great display of
troops ; a part of the town was
surrounded, and for several hours
small explosions were heard at in-
tervals. Too large quantities of
dynamite could not be used at once, A TRENCH
for fear of damaging the adjoining AT wo
dwellings. Several days later, in These photogra
Dublin, I saw the house formerly been abandonee
occupied by Casement destroyed in wa " had bcen
the same manner. These were sad
scenes, which wrung my heart.
The Destruction of the Creameries.
The worst blow dealt by the British authorities
to the Irish population has been, however, the
destruction of the creameries, a co-operative or¬
ganisation, which was very well run. To this
organisation the peasants brought in their milk,
which was used for the production of butter and
cheese. The creameries usually possessed im¬
portant machinery, which represented a con¬
siderable capital. Since April 9, 1920, whui the
first creamery was destroyed at Rearer ass, Co.
Tipperary, about sixty more have been destroyed
by the forces of the Crown, and the damage com¬
mitted is estimated at from /500 to (20,000 a time !
” Why.” said George Russell, the brilliant
Irish writer, to me (he is a Protestant), ” were
those organisations specially attacked ? Just
because they had hundreds of members. When
the barracks were burned and policemen killed
-luring the lamentable struggle going on in Ireland,
or if the armed forces of the Crown were unable
to capture those responsible for these political
outrages, the policy of reprisals, tolerated and
excused by the Government orators, tended to
the destruction of any enterprise which happened
to adjoin the place where the skirmish occurred,
and they purposely chose to destroy those enter¬
prises the destruction of which would ruin a
greater number of people. And that is performed
without any regard as to whether the people
owning the property are innocent or guilty. This
idea of justice is not only detestable, it is stupid ;
it is the maddest of tactics when the end in view
is the submission of the population to those who
use their power in this manner. Every innocent
person whose property has been destroyed, what-
AN IRISH AMBUSH FORESTALLED: R.I.C. AUXILIARIES HOLDING UP AND
SEARCHING CYCLISTS WHERE A WALL HAD BEEN BROKEN DOWN.
A TRENCH DUG ACROSS A ROAD RE-FILLED BY R.I.C. AUXILIARIES: CADETS
AT WORK ON THE SCENE OF AN INTENDED AMBUSH IN IRELAND.
These photographs were taken on a certain road in Ireland, where preparations for an ambush had
been abandoned incomplete, apparently on news of the Auxiliaries' approach. About ten yards of
wall had been broken down to make a barrier, and a trench had been dug across the road. It
was filled up by the Cadets, who stopped and searched passing cyclists and pedestrians.
Photographs by C.S.
eries. ever his political convictions were before, becomes whether In
authorities the irreconcilable enemy of a State which has affirm is tl
iwever, the treated him so iniquitously. Consequently, the portant ex
>erative or- British authorities are doing their best to arouse vibrates wi
1. To this this ill-feeling and increase the hatred which fans that comp
their milk, Irish national feeling.” called the
butter and I myself have visited several ruined creameries ; Who c
isessed im- at Bridgetown, near Limerick, I happened to nationality
ed a con- get there just a few hours after the demolition, conquerabl
1, when the by men in uniform, of the creamery in that village. twenty yei
ir crass, Co. Looking at the ruined plant, I shuddered at the in 1800, m
n destroyed thought that this destruction had been com- of the Iri
amage com- mitted in defence of law and order. fraudulent!
,000 a time ! Let us speak frankly : To-day in Ireland similar of Union,
he brilliant things are happening to what I described eighteen ever rebell
int), "were years ago, when I wrote about the miseries endured intense th;
ed ? Just by the Macedonian populations, then groaning fectly mon
•ers. When under Turkish rule. When Ottomans burned her most
emen killed villages where Bulgarian comitadjis had been her head,
ti in Ireland, observed, how great was our indignation! Is hope : she
it possible that in a country under the rule of our
illustrious ally, noble England, who has given
an example of democracy to all nations, similar
tragedies should be enacted ? A system of terror
equalling that which the Teutons used towards
the Belgians will not have the approval of British
citizens for long.
” You see,” an Army > iptain said to me in
Limerick. ” all this is a sad business, and we do it
without any pleasure. But reimmber that every¬
day British officers and soldiers are sacrificed.
And it is an undisputed fact that an enormous
majority of the population are the tacit accomplices
of those who assassinate us. They facilitate their
escape, feed them, hide them, give them informa¬
tion, and hope for their success. Consequently,
as it is extremely difficult for us
_to capture the actual culprits who
attack us unawares, the only means
within our reach is to inflict suffer¬
ing on the masses, secretly hostile
to us, from whom they are recruited,
and who aid and abet them and
champion them. We must do this
or go.”
Rebel Colony or Nation.
What is the answer to this ?
Yes, it is true. As soon as the in¬
habitants of one country protest
against the dominion of another
country, and go as far as starting a
guerrilla warfare against its soldiery,
it is inevitable that the hostile acts
committed on both sides must in-
] crease daily by a fatal progression,
J and that with fatal reciprocity the
antagonists try to intimidate one
another by increasing terror. The
question, therefore, is not whether
the British use too forcible means
-' to subjugate a rebellious colony, for
a State can only subjugate a rebel
UP AND colony by fear. The question is
SOWN. whether the British have the moral
right to consider and treat as a
— -1 colony a small Western community
_which demands freedom and insists
on being a nation. And here we
are faced once more with this pro¬
blem which means everything. Is
Ireland a nation or not ?
It would indeed appear as though
fate had taken a malicious pleasure
in setting the nations of Europe one
against the other, owing to their
proximity and the differences of
their languages, their religious and
their national prides ; and the same
fate has thought fit to put next to
the great British Isle another island,
which, it must be remembered, was
too small to uphold its independ¬
ence, but at the same time too large
and too distinctive not to absorb
the various invaders who settled on
its shores. The facility of assimila¬
tion and digestion of Ireland has
always been wonderful. Of course,
the primitive Gaelic type must have
been considerably modified during
seven centuries of wars, massacres,
■ — famines, invasions by Danes, Nor-
UES CADETS ma ns - English, and the systematic
RELAND plantations, at various periods, of
numerous colonists from Great
an ambush had Britain. But for her own salvation,
< en ?! Erin has always been able to trans-
ss the road. It . • . , , , . ,
pedestrians. form the descendants of her adopted
children into real Irishmen. I
cannot make up my mind as to
whether Ireland is a nation or not, but what I can
affirm is that from north to south (with the im¬
portant exception of the Belfast region) Ireland
vibrates with that wonderful, unconquerable feeling,
that complicity of hearts which George Russell
called the spirit of nationality.
Who can help noticing it ? The spirit of
nationality is much stronger to-day, more un¬
conquerable and purer than it was a hundred and
twenty years ago, when the British Government,
in 1800, managed to corrupt and bribe a majority
of the Irish Parliament, and made them vote
fraudulently that collective abdication, that Act
of Union, against which the Irish people have
ever rebelled. Nowadays the national ideal is so
intense that such an act of venality appears per¬
fectly monstrous to the Irish. As in the time o f
her most martial epoch, to-day Ireland raises
her head, in full possession of her energy and
hope : she wants to exist.
NIGHT HPIR]
That the British Navy is ever ready is a truism so trite that it is accepted more often than not without thought of the hard work o rain^ ^ ^ interesting
makes it so. The painting we reproduce illustrates but one of the many ways in which efficiency is secured. In connection with firing p introduced
to recall a picture, 'by Mr. Cecil King, which was published in our issue of June 12, 1920. On that date, dealing with a method of n ” g oW ing to a lateral
into the Royal Navy in recent times, we stated that the firing ship steams on a more or less parallel course to that of the target-ship, u , wireless to
deflection of her guns, the projectiles fall well astern of the target. In such a case, the target-ship does the spotting, and results are s>g
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^-firing.
( tW 1 the firing ship, after each round. One of the after-turrets of the target-ship is kept trained on the firing ship, and on the aeroplane platform on top of the
rti 2ti [ turret a lath (with divisions marked on it) is fixed at right-angles to the guns ; this is called the “ tow-bar. Another lath, with vertical nails, or pegs, at
regular intervals, crosses this within six degrees of right-angles, and is called the 11 rake.” The six degrees represent the error of the “ enemy s guns, so that
h0il *h e rake is actually parallel to the course of the projectiles. A gunner warrant officer notes how far the shot has fallen to right or left, as the case may be.
2 9 picture given above, a battle-ship is seen illuminated by a ship’s searchlight during night firing.
^Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 9. 1921.—478
By J. T. GRE1N.
T SEE that " Three,” the three-act comedy of
A three characters by a new author, Mr. Lips¬
comb, which formed the penultimate programme
of the season of the doughty Play-Actors, has
received a chilly reception at the hands of the
Press, and—frankly—I am surprised. On the
Sunday when it was played before the members,
it roused enthusiasm, and I for one, always an
admirer of multum in parvo, of simplicity in art,
would have cheered the author, as I will now
encourage him to go on. Nor was it the plot
that interested us so, but the apt, profound,
witty analysis of a woman's character. I have
to go back to Galsworthy's masterly ” Fugitive ”
(revive it, revive it !) to find an understanding
so correct both psychically and physically of a
woman’s character as of this real Eve's daughter,
swayed by male strength and male serfdom,
electing in the end to bow to strength. Even
more curious is it that Mr. Lipscomb appears to
have greater knowledge of women than of, at
any rate, some men. ” Manners maketh man.”
and with all my acquaintance of planters and
East India merchants, I have never met quite
such a boor as the hero, exquisitely played by Mr.
Leslie Faber. But when this is said, there remains
a capital, witty, trenchant little play, which I
am glad to hear has been acquired by Mr. Norman
McKinnel. Miss Alexandra Carlisle played the
heroine well, but still d /' Amiricaine ; and Mr.
Henry Oscar, clever as the softer spirit, would
have been even more convincing if he had dis¬
played more worldly distinction.
I am all for the promising enterprise of Miss
Irene Hentschel and Miss Monica Ewer—the Play¬
wrights’ Theatre. It is a capital idea, as valuable
as a bacteriological - research station, and with
discrimination it may add to our dramatic arsenal.
I am not quite so enthusiastic about the half-
share arrangement—that the cost should be borne
in equal parts by the playwrights and their
theatre. It sounds like a brain-tax on the man
who writes a play, and I hope that in measurable
time there will be a sufficient membership to allow
the production of a new author's play without
the levy of his pay. If a tithe of all those who
talk of their love for the theatre would help the
directors with a deed in kind and coin, the Play¬
wrights’ Theatre would have a raison d'/tre even
in its experiments that do not succeed beyond
good intentions. Such was the case with ” Rhoda
Fleming,” Mr. A. Phillipson’s adaptation of Mere¬
dith's novel. It was certainly not worse than
many novel-plays; but it was not better, or
more entertaining, and it was not Meredith. His
dramatic value has been tested ere this, and,
despite fine setting and enthusiastic actors, the
result was negative. So of " Rhoda Fleming ”
no more need be said, except that it sometimes
interested us as a curio, and oftener caused our
interest to languish, in spite of three capital
characterisations—the Rhoda of Miss Moyna
MacGill, Victorian maidenliness to the life; the
Dahlia of Miss Dorothy Massingham, and the
Farmer Fleming of Mr. Allan Jeaves.
“The Young Ladies, get their Medals,” to
quote the title of Mr. Miles Malleson’s little panel,
which was the joy and the gem of an interesting
afternoon by the students of the R.A.D.A.—and
they deserve them. Joan Swinstead achieved
the highest honours; Ralph Leddra fairly won
his year’s engagement by Vedrenne; and Laura
Wallis Mills was well worth her piece of silver for
her touching, beautiful rendering of the girl who—
in Malleson’s playlet—studied for the stage of ne¬
cessity and saw the others soaring with the medals
while her breast remained sad and unadorned.
Generally the performances—not forgetting the
capital dancing class of Mr. Louis H. d’Egville—were
well up to Academy standard. There was life in the
modem work and grit in their Shakespeare : but
when they played the Malleson gem (which Sir
Oswald should at once car-mark for the Coliseum)
they were at their best, for they acted themselves
among others. It was a treat ! On the other
hand, the selection of Maeterlinck's over-rated
and untranslatable ” Sister Beatrice ” was a
little error. It was beyond the forces of the
students ; it was frankly long-weary ; and as
to miracle plays, I prefer the monks of the dark
Middle Ages to the d la mode exhibitions of Maeter¬
linck. They sound mannered and manufactured,
instead of felt.
The French section, to which it
was my privilege to offer a prize
of a week in Paris to see what
French plays, French theatres,
and the Conservatoire are like,
distinguished itself with great credit
to the Professor, Mile. Gachet. I
cordially agreed with her and Miss
Irene Vanbrugh that the laughing
Pierrot of Miss Joan Swinstead
deserved the little trip sans phrase :
her French was as choice as her
impersonation. But deep down in
my heart, and if my purse had been
deeper too, I could have added
Miss Margot Sievelring, the weeping
Pierrot, to the expedition to Paris.
Mine was a case of “ Entre les
deux mon coeur balance,” and I
shall certainly offer her a con¬
solation prize ; and one also to
Miss IJna Bell, a lovable Columbine
whose French was only marred by
a few vowels of English sound
In sum, it is a joyful observation
that at the R.A.D.A. French has
become an item of consequence, and
that the tuition in all directions
betokens the zeal and efficiency
of Mr. Kenneth Barnes, the adminis¬
trator, and the whole corps of
teachers whose efforts year by year
demonstrate progress all along the line.
“Genius ” is one of the words which I hoard up
like the miser his
gold in ‘ ‘ Les Cloches
de Comevillc,” and
when I use it 1
mean it and am
prepared to substan¬
tiate my verdict.
Now, little Nelson
Keys, the talk cjf
" London, Paris, and
New York,” Coch¬
ran’s best and
British revue, is a
genius, because he.
possesses the unique
gift of merging his
brain, his body.,and
his soul into count¬
less characters—not
only in the vein of
imitation, but of re¬
incarnation, which
is quite a different
thing. Behold Nel¬
son Keys as du
Maurier; behold him
as an old and gouty
Admiral, as a
Spaniard —above
all, as a Spaniard
with castagnettes,
bolero, sombrero,
and grandezza; be¬
hold him as a hero
of drawing-room
drama, as Beau
Brummel, and—for grand finale—as the Japanese
conjurer with his jargon and his dexterous
trick — not fake, these, but often real Magic
Circle — and you must admit that he is a verv
chameleon of an artist. Indeed, he is too good
for revue. If he were to tackle real comedy,
real drama, even tragedy—yes, tragedy !—he
would be facile princeps of our excellent array
A HUSBAND’S DEVICE TO KEEP HIS WIFE FROM
LEAVING HIM: MR. ERNEST THESIGER AS ARNOLD
CHAMPION-CHENEY, M.P., AND MISS FAY COMPTON
AS ELIZABETH, IN “THE CIRCLE.”
When Elizabeth tells her husband of her intention to run
off with Edward Luton, Arnold offers to give her cause to
divorce him, and to settle on her £2000 a rear, hoping that
such generosity will make her stick to him.
Photograph by Foul sham and Banfield, Ud.
of actors. He does nothing by halves, nothing
slipshod ; his work is as finished as the facets of
brilliants, and as luminous. He is a great little
man, and we owe him many unforgettable, hours
of unalloyed joy. In Violet Loraine he has found
a foil to his vitality. She also is a real artist;
she also is too good for revue ; as a comedienne she
can carry all before her, and in certain scenes I
have seen her in such emotion that she drew lumps
to our throats. Alas that the “ holy state " will
drive her away from the stage ! But not for long,
we hope.
To Genevieve Ward on her eighty-third birth¬
day and the King’s Honour: “ Hail, Grand
Dame ! ”
LORD PORTEOUS REVOKES AGAIN: (LEFT TO RIGHT) MISS TONIE EDGAR BRUCE
AS MRS. SHENSTONE, MISS LOTTIE VENNE AS LADY CATHERINE CHAMPION-CHENEY,
MR. LEON 0UARTERMA1NE AS EDWARD LUTON, MR. HOLMAN CLARK (STANDING)
AS CLIVE CHAMPION-CHENEY, AND MR. ALLAN AYNESWORTH AS LORD PORTEOUS,
IN “THE CIRCLE,” AT THE HAYMARKET.
Thirty years ago Lord Porteous ran off with Lady Catherine (wife of Clive Champion-Chen*/’,
and has lived with her ever since. Edward Luton wishes to run off similarly with Clive's daugi t'.r-
jn-law, Elizabeth .—{Photograph by Foulsham and Banfidd, Ud.)
WHOSE WIFE SHALL SHE BE? (LEFT TO RIGHT) MR. MALCOLM
KEEN AS HILARY FAIRFIELD, MR. AUBREY SMITH AS GRAY MERE-
DITH, AND MISS LILIAN BRAITHWAITE AS MARGARET FAIRFIELD,
IN "A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT," AT THE ST. MARTIN'S.
Under a law assumed to be reformed, Margaret has obtained a divorce from
Hilary, who was insane, and is about to marry Gray, when Hilary returns cured.
Photograph by Stage Photo Co.
I
THE STYLE IN WHICH THE 7ACE WAS WON : AT THE OPEN DITCH.
WELL OVER: THE PRINCE TAKING THE FIRST FENCE.
THE RIVALS : CAPTAIN R. WYNDHAM LEWIS ; FINISHING
MAJOR R AULD ; THE PRINCE.
Riding his own horse, Pet Dog, the Prince of Wales, as Colonel of the Welsh
Guards, won his first race orer a regular steeplechase course, under National Hunt
Rules, on April i, when he was successful in the Welsh Guards’ Challenge Cup
at Hawthorn Hill. He rode excellently well and finished alone, the other
competitors (Maid of the House, ridden by Major R. Auld ; and Lodger II., ridden
by Captain R. Wyndham Lewis) having fallen. As a result, it is thought
possible that his Royal Highness may ride a horse of his own in next season's
Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown Park. Needless to say, the win was most
ALONE : THE PRINCE OF WALES, COLONEL OF THE WELSH GUARDS,
WINNING THE WELSH GUARDS' CHALLENGE CUP.
popular. The occasion was the first on which an Heir to the British Throne had
ridden in and won a steeplechase. He rode at II st. 9 lb., and wore his own silks
of red, blue sleeves, and black cap. It will be recalled that his Royal Highness was
third—after a fall—in the Grenadier Guards’ Race for Lord Manners’ Cup, on
March 4 ; that he rode in the Brigade of Guards’ Inter-Regimental Race at
Astwell Mill on March 15; and that, on March 16, he won the Hunt Light-
Weight Race at the Pytchley Hunt Point-to-Points. Thus he is becoming quite an
experienced gentleman jockey.
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FALLS AT KEMPTON PARK.
THE RIDER WARNING HIS MOUNT TO KEEP CLEAR OF HIM
F. WOOTTON HAS A FALL AT WINDSOR
THE FIRST OPEN DITCH : CAPTAIN H. E. DE TRAFFORD
AND ANIMOSITY. AT HAWTHORN HILL
A FALL
IN AN EVENT IN WHICH THE PRINCE RODE : A FALL IN THE BRIGADE
OF GUARDS 1NTF.R-REGIMENTAL RACE
AT HAWTHORN HILL : ANOTHER «< SNAP" OF CAPTAIN H. E. DE TRAFFC
AND ANIMOSITY FALLING (SEE ABOVE',.
A MOST DANGEROUS - LOOKING FALL: GOLD BAR
AT SANDOWN PARK.
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No steeplechase or point-to-point is without its spills ; and to the lay mind it is wonderful that there are not very many more serious and fatal accidents, although,
course, riders well know how to fall with the least possible risk of damaging themselves. It will be recalled that in this year’s Grand National only one horse out of thirty-
runners—the winner—did not fall. At the end of the first round only six were standing up. All of which makes the Prince of Wales’ riding the pluckier. As it was put
the “ Daily Telegraph ” the other day : “ Because of the element of personal risk, which must always exist to the best men and the safest jumpers, there was one long roll
cheering as the Prince came cantering by the winning-post at Hawthorn Hill, the gallant winner of the Welsh Guards' Challenge Cup. ... At the open ditch on the far :
THF ILLCSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 9 , 1921.—IS 1
AND THE SAFEST JUMPERS”: REMARKABLE RACING FALLS.
Bureau, Topical, s. am* G.. ani> Photoprkss.
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AT HAWTHORN HILL : EILEEN AROON
(MR. F. G. W. JACKSON) FALLS.
AT THE LAST JUMP IN THE BRIGADE OF GUARDS REGIMENTAL RACE
TWO RIDERS COME TO GRIEF AT ASTWELL MILL.
A NASTY TUMBLE : A RIDER COMES TO EARTH IN A STEEPLECHASE
AT SANDOWN PARK.
A SPILL AT SANDOWN PARK : COLONEL G. PAYNTER PARTS COMPANY
WITH CARDINAL.
WITH HANDS OUT, TO SAVE HIMSELF : MR. J. MISA SPILT BY RIFLE GRENADE,
AT HAWTHORN HILL.
AT THIS YEAR’S REMARKABLE GRAND NATIONAL : LONG LOUGH
AT BECHER’S BROOK.
Ihe Prince may have ’ called a cab ’ through his horse hitting the fence and pecking on landing, but there was no trouble afterwards ; indeed, there was no anxiety, as the rider
simply banished all fears by the clever way he sat his horse over fence after fence. He was taking no chances, too, at the open ditch in front of the Royal Stand. He may
have thought Pet Dog would hesitate about the take-off, so he used his whip three times exactly at the right time, and the horse flew over in perfect fashion. So he went on,
jumping the rest of the course in splendid isolation, giving his horse an ‘easy ' up the last hill, and finally taking the last two fences in the straight in delightful style.” On
another page we give a number of photographs of the Prince taking various jumps in the race.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 9, 1921.—482
SURPASSING THE
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CHAIRS THAT ARE HISTORIC: ANCIENT SEATS OF STATE, INCLUDING THE CORONATION CHAIR,
THE “CHAIR OF ST. PETER” AT ROME, AND RELICS OF EGYPT AND POMPEII.
Although “to take the chair ” still implies the seat of honour on public occasions,
chairs in general hare become so familiar that they hare lost their pristine
dignity. In antiquity, however, the chair was regarded as a state seat reserved
for persons of rank. Legend recalls, for example, the “ Siege Perilous " among
the seats of the Knights at Arthur’s Round Table. Ordinary folk occupied
benches, chests, or stools. It was not till the sixteenth century that chairs came
into common use, and up to the middle of the seventeenth century they lacked
upholstery. “Ancient Egyptian chairs” (to quote that useful work, the “New
Age Encyclopaedia ”) “ were generally of carved and gilded wood, inlaid or
decorated with ivory ; Roman chairs were frequently of marble ; and the chair
of Dagobert, preserved in the Louvre, is of bronze. Mediaeval chairs were usually
low, with arm-rests terminating in the heads of beasts or birds, and were without
backs. The oldest-known English chair is that of Edward I. (1239-1307) at
Westminster (shown above in the centre). It is of oak, and is used in the
coronations of British monarchs.” Of all the historic chairs here illustrated, the
one most resembling the Speaker's Chair is that shown in the right-hand lower
comer, associated, like the Coronation Chair, with Edward I., and now in the
Chapter House at Lincoln Cathedral.— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 9, 1921 —483
THE REPLICA OF THE SPEAKER’S CHAIR: A GIFT TO CANADA.
Photogi
Coirtesv ok Messrs. Harrv Hi
RO LONGER TO BE A •• PERQUISITE ” OF RETIRING CANADIAN SPEAKERS
THE REPLICA OF THE WESTMINSTER CHAIR FOR OTTAWA.
REPRODUCED FROM PUGIN’S DESIGN, WITH THE MACE AND SCEPTRE
THE CARVED PANEL BEHIND THE SPEAKERS BACK.
BETTER SEEN THAN IN THE ORIGINAL AT WESTMINSTER : THE UNEN-FOLD
PANELS AT THE BACK OF THE REPLICA, WITH THE MONOGRAM •« V.R."
CARVED IN EIGHTH-CENTURY OAK FROM WESTMINSTER HALL : THE ROYAL
ARMS ON THE CANOPY OF THE CANADIAN REPLICA.
After the splendid buildings of the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa were burnt
down, in February 1916, the United Kingdom Branch of the Empire Parliamentary
Association conceived the happy idea of presenting to the Canadian House of
Commons, for its new Chamber, a replica of the Speaker’s Chair at Westminster.
Members of both Houses subscribed, and the work has now been completed by
Messrs. Harry Hems and Sons, the well-known sculptors and wood-carrers, of
Exeter, under the direction of Sir Frank Baines, of the Office of Works. They
hare faithfully copied every detail of the chair used at Westminster, which was
designed by Welby Pugin ; but the replica for Canada, which, like the original,
is of oak, has an added interest in the fact that the Royal Arms on the foliated
canopy hare been carved from ancient wood taken from the roof of Westminster
Hall during the recent repairs. When the roof was constructed, the timber used
was then already some 500 years old, so that the original oaks must hare grown
in about the eighth century. Mr. James W. Lowther, the retiring Speaker, will
convey the new Chair to Canada and make the presentation. Hitherto Canadian
Speakers, on retirement, have kept the chair they used, but this practice will cease.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 9, 1921.—I# 1
SUPPRESSING GERMAN COMMUNISM: TROOPS; GUNS; ARMOURED CARS.
Photographs St pri.nu> bp Prkssk I li.i strations Vf.ri.ag, and C.N.
MARCHED AWAY IN A " KAMERAD ” ATTITUDE : ARRESTED GERMAN
WITH HANDS HELD UP BEHIND THEIR NECKS : GERMAN COMMUNIST
RIOTERS, CAUGHT LOOTING, UNDER ARREST.
♦
♦
It was reported from Berlin on March 30 that the Communist rising there had
ended in a fiasco, and that the men had returned to work. Some thousands of
prisoners had been taken, and the streets were still being patrolled by the Sicher-
heitswehr (so-called police, but really a military force) armed with rifles. A
message on the previous day (March 29) from Halle, in Saxony, where other
risings occurred, stated that the Communist headquarters, the Leuna Works, had
been captured by Government forces, who took 1000 prisoners, and that the
agitation had moved towards Leipaig. The trouble began about a week before
in the Mansfeld area, near Halle, where there are many large chemical, nitrate,
and power works. At Mansfeld the railway station, post office, and savings
banks were raided and looted. The worst disturbances occurred at Eisleben. a
Saxon town of about 25,000 inhabitants, where the Communists had 40 machine-
guns and about 10,000 rifles with ammunition. They blew up a bridge. A
battery of Reichswehr reinforced the Security Police in the Mansfeld district, and
artillery cleared the Communist stronghold between Eisleben arid Heilbra. The
Communists dynamited public buildings, including the Law Courts at Mansfeld.
LONDON NEWS, April 9. 1021—IHfi
she has also two brothers, I.ord Stavordale and the
a Dryad’s dress ought to be seasonable, for rivers
LADIES’ NEWS.
Hon. John Fox-Strangways. Lady Hermione Herbert
is the only daughter of the Earl and Countess of
Powis. She is very dainty, and has one of the
prettiest and sweetest little faces possible to see. A
great favourite with all who know her, she is adored
in her home. Her aunt is the Countess of Yar¬
borough, who has no daughters, so she is a favourite
visitor at Brocklesby also. Her aunt and her mother
hold, in their own right, ancient English Baronies
which will pass to their sons. Lord and Lady
Powis lost their fine elder son. Lord Clive, through
wounds received in the war ; and Lord and Lady
Yarborough’s eldest son was killed in action. The
present Viscount Clive, Lady Hermione Herbert’s only
surviving brother, is £bout seventeen. The Duchess
of Buccleuch will be presenting another daughter.
Lady Alice Scott is twenty, and Lady Mary Scott has
entered her eighteenth year. There are said to be
no Courts until June. There were none until that
month last year ; the first was held on the ioth, and
the second after Ascot, on the 24th. Probably
approximate dates will be fixed this year.
VV admit interest in them at any age. Three
of importance in our social world have just attained
to man’s estate. Prince Henry, the King's third
son, wisely elected to enter this planet on the last
day of March, not on the first of April. He is the
tallest of our Princes, unless Prince George has dis¬
tanced him, and I hear that the sailor Prince is still
growing. Prince Henry's own choice was the career
of a soldier, and by nature and disposition he is a
sportsman. He is in the Rifle Brigade and is attached
to the 13th Hussars, being a good horseman, a clever
rider across country, and a promising polo-player.
He is also a good shot. I am sure everyone wishes
him long and happy years. On Monday the Mar¬
quess of Worcester attained his legal manhood, and
he also is a soldier, being in the R.H.G., and a sports¬
man. He is the only son of the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, heir to Badminton—a name that stands
for all that is best in British sport—and he is a very
fine rider to hounds. The Duke gave him a pack
of harriers when he was quite a boy, a very young
Master of Hounds. So he learned all there is
Among the debutantes of this coming season arc
two good-looking daughters of Elarls. One is Lady
We shall have some very desirable American
visitors here for the season. There will be Colonel
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, with their very pretty,
vivacious, and altogether delightful daughter. They
were here towards the end of last season, and char¬
tered Earl and Countess Beatty's yacht for Cowes
Week. Their Majesties liked them greatly, and there
was entertaining on both sides. Mrs. Corrigan, an
American of great wealth, has taken Colonel the
Hon. and Mrs. George Keppel's house in Grosvenor
Street, and is said to intend to entertain a great deal.
I have been told that Americans wanted Lord Rose¬
bery’s house in Berkeley Square: so it promises to be
an American season to some extent, and we are
lucky in the fact that all the ladies who intend to
enjoy it with us are great favourites in American
society, and are already or are fast becoming so in
our own best sets. A. E. L.
Was dark blue or light blue most worn for the
Boat-Race ? It is hard to say, but I think Cambridge
had it. A third blue, caused by the cold, was also
much in evidence, for, indeed, the wind was shrewd
and the sun was shy all day, and retired completely
ere the historic struggle began. However cosy are
tur coats, thin - silk - clad legs are chilly possessions,
and it was rather funny to see their owners try to
draw them up, with the colder feet at the end of them,
under the said fur coats. I heard one girl bewail
the fact that her lower limbs had not the same faculty
of being absorbed as a snail’s horns. Some wise
Dryads devoted to the river and its sports wore
neat well-cut and well-fitting gaiters over stout
shoes, and looked quite cosy and comfy. After all.
Spinet Mixture, a blend of high-grade American
and Oriental tobaccos, cool to smoke and unadul¬
terated. is the outcome of 145 years' experience in the
art of tobacco manufacture. Spinet Cigarettes, oval
and cork-tipped, are guaranteed pure Virginia. The
bright golden leaves of finest Virginian tobacco used
in making them ensure that seductiveness of flavour
and aroma so much appreciated by connoisseurs.
Spinet Mixture is put up in J-lb. tins to retail at
4s. 4d. per tin. also in 1 or. and 2 or. packets. Spinet
Cigarettes are in boxes of 50 to retail at 3s. 9d. ; also
in enamelled tins of 20 and boxes of 100.
THE RACE FOR LACE.
Not content with having her skirt and sleeves of lace, !
swathed her hat with it, and one long end flows down
knees .—[Photograph fry Topical.]
Mary Fox-Strangways. elder daughter of the Earl and
Countess of Ilchester, and niece of the Marquess of
Londonderry. She has entered on her nineteenth
year, and is tall, with dark hair and eyes, and an
expression which charms. She has only one sister,
who is three years old and to whom she is devoted ;
BURBERRYS HAYMARKET
Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON and HODGE
TAILORED GOWNS
To Order or
Ready-to-Wear
1921 MODELS
are back to the high quality
pre - war records, with a
great choice of new and
beautiful colourings and
patterns.
Burberry fash ions for Spring
are attractive and very dis¬
tinctive.
Of the world-famed cloths
in which Great Britain ex¬
cels, Burberrys have those
exclusive makes that for
years have led the markets.
An especially gratifying
feature this Spring is that
Burberry Prices are
on the decline
Very fine ranges of cloth
are available for :
Will hold the following Soles by Auction at their Large
Galleries, 34 and 35, New Bond Street, W. 1, each Sale
commencing at one o*clock precisely.
APRIL 11 and 12.—
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
AND HISTORICAL DOCU¬
MENTS, the property of
G. R. Holt-Wilson, Esq.,
and of the Hon. Mrs. Max¬
well Scott, deceased, etc.
APRIL 13 and 14.-
PORCELAIN AND GLASS,
the property of the late
Canon Millard, of her Grace
the Duchess of Wellington,
and of John Upton, Esq..
Ingmirc Hall, Yorks.
Illustrated Catalogues, with
2 plates, price is.
APRIL 15.—OLD ENG
LISH AND CONTINENTAL
FURNITURE, the property
of her Grace the Duchess of
Wellington ; Fine Old Eng
lish Needlework. Tapestries
and Persian Rugs, the pro¬
perty of Sir John Trclawny,
Bt., of Captain Richard Ford,
and from Whitton Court,
Shropshire.
Illustrated Catalogues, with
5 plates, price 2 s.
IMPORTANT WILLIAM AND MARY CABINET IN RED
LACQUER.
So/« April 22.
APRIL 18-20. — VALUABLE BOOKS, including the property of Major
the Hon. Maurice Baring, of Captain A. W. Clifford, of Sir A. Jodrcll. Bt.,
of Sir John Homer, K.C.V.O. (from the Library at Metis Park, Frome). and
of Mrs. Simpson Rostron.
Illustrated Catalogues may be had.
APRIL 20 and 21.— CHOICE ENGRAVINGS, comprising the property of the
late S. M. Milne. Esq. (sold by Order of the Executors), and including very fine
eighteenth-century Prints and Sporting Prints in Colours.
Illustrated Catalogues, unth 4 plates, price is.
APRIL 22.— VALUABLE TEXTILES AND FURNITURE, including the property
of the late Edwin A. Abbey, Esq., R.A.. Magnificent Tapestries, etc., from Cobham
Hall, Kent, the property of Lady I^veson, etc.
Illustrated Catalogues, with 0 plates, price 2 s.
BURBERRY SL IT A1574.—Burberry
Tweed Costume for Sport and Country.
Exceptional freedom, ample pocket
accommodation and perfect tailoring
characterize its design.
GOWNS
A SPECIAL DISPLAY OF I
Burberry Sprint Faahiona at Haymarket
April. 11—15 iocloaivc.
Mannequin parade* lta.rn.-l p m. A 3-5 p.m |
Patterns and Illustrated
Catalogue sent on request
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HAYMARKET
S.W.1 LONDON
8 & 10 Boulevard Maleaherbe*, PARIS
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9. 1921.—487
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In adding to the joys of Motherhood Savory &
Moore’s Food plays a very important part. It
helps the mother to continue nursing her baby and
it satisfies the child when a food has to be found.
POOD
How Beautiful Your Table Looks
Your friends will compliment you on the appearance of your
furniture if it is kept spotless and well polished with Johnson’s
Prepared Wax—the universal W’ax for household use. It cleans and
polishes at the same time, giving your furniture, linoleum and wood¬
work a beautiful glossy finish that will last and not collect dust, and
will protect and preserve the finish.
Johnson’s
Prepared Wax
Liquid , Paste , and Powdered ,
is easily and quickly applied—and no hard nibbing is necessary.
Johnson’s is just as necessary in the garage as in the hoi -
keeps the finish of a car in perfect condition, protects the
and keeps it highly polished. An old car can be t
to look just like new.
Ask your dealer for Johnson’s Prepared Wax. If he
does not stock it send sixpence for a trial tin of
For Hair And Skin Health
Cuticura Is Supreme
The majority of akin and scalp troubles
miRht be prevented by using Cuticura Soap
Sf .« 1 S!L for **' ; o,let purposes. On
Uje slightest sign of redness, roughness,
pimples or dandruff, apply a little Cuticura
Unttnent. CulK-urs Talcum soothes and
cooto the skin and overcomes heavy per¬
spiration. Delicate, delightful, dastingutL
^ sy ts-T sla— U. U . OtatsMat U ltstls. M.
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Franc# British Ex Ink- 1908: GOLD MEDAL
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 9. 1921.—488
THE CULT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP.
BY FRED J. MELVILLE.
A SUCCESSION of pictorial issues of
the stamps of the United States
presents in outline a history of the great
nation that has grown up in the New
World. Such issues as the beautiful
Columbus issue of 1893, depicting scenes
from the life and voyages of Columbus,
make most attractive pages in our
stamp albums, as also do the stamps of
the Omaha, Buffalo, St. Louis, James¬
town, Alaska and San Francisco Exposi¬
tions. Within the past few days our
American mail has brought us a new
set of three stamps issued to com¬
memorate the tercentenary of the land¬
ing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, on December 21, 1620.
There are only three denominations : 1
cent green. 2 cents red, and 5 cents
blue, printed from plates engraved in _______
recess. The 1 cent is the most attiactive
stamp, from the comparative simplicity 2 ’ and 3
of the vignette ; it shows the picture **
of the Pilgrims’ ship, the Mayflower, in $ b
full sail. The 2 cents shows the landing
of the Pilgrims, and the 5 cents depicts
the signing of the Compact. These two are not such
effective stamp designs, as the subjects are too big to
be effectively reproduced in the centre of a mere
postage-stamp. The frame design, which is uniform for
all three values, is interestingly emblematic The
1. 2, and 3. New American stamps commemorating the Pilgrim Fathers Tercentenary: (1) The
"Mayflower" in full saiK; (2) the Pilgrims landing, (3) the Signing of the Compact-4 Issued
by the Armenian Republic before its collapse : a fire-rouble .red stamp, with Sanskrit inscription-
5, 6 and 7. Bearing the Polish Eagle and the St George or White Knight of Lithuania: three
Lithuanian stamps issued under a Polish filibustr-
i not such border at the left represents a vertical row of hawthorn short sen
too big to blossoms, the British mayflowrr ; the border at the the auspiet
f a mere right shows the trailing arbutus, the American may- The herald
aifonn for flower which tradition savs was named by the Pilgrims eagle witl
tic. The after their ship.—The Armenian Republic, which was arms of 1
using Russian stamps with a cypher
_ _ overprint meaning ■* Armenian Posu
during the early part of last year. wa>
preparing to issue a set of stamps m „
definitive design when the new State
collapsed under the stress of Bolshevism
and Turkish marauding forces Onh
three of the new stamps appear to have
been issued before the collapse The\
depict in the centre an eagle beanni
an unsheathed sword . a Sanskrit ir.
scnption appears at the top. and the
English " Armenia ” at the bottom. Tfu
values are 3 roubles green, 5 roubh
red. and 10 roubles blue
In pre-war days the 10-roubie stain;
was the highest denomination current
in Russia, but to-day, in countries lik<
Armenia and Georgia, the postal service
that can be rendered for a rouble must
be small Recently the Georgian rouble
_________J rose from 20.000 to 14,000 per pound
sterling. For anyone who lancied the
y ' ^ titular distinction of millionaire, one
_ could be the possessor of a million in
uania : three Georgian roubles for /50. The little
stamps inscribed “ Srodkowa Litwa
hail from Central Lithuania, where a
short senes in this crude design was issued under
the auspices of the Pblish filibuster, General Zeligowsk:
The heraldic emblems in the centre combine the Polish
eagle with the St. George, or White Knight, of th<
arms of Lithuania.
U»e the
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A rms and Pedigrees of English and
Foreign Families .
Genealogical Researches in Public Records.
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BATH CHAIRS A
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These Chairs are illustrated, with
prices, in Sectional Catalogue N0.3.
If further interested, plea<<e ask for
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the standard work of reference for
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Obtainable in all 17 degree* from 6B to 9H.
i indicating Softness. I H’s indicating hardness.
I or F for genera] writing. I H or HH for hard, firm writing,
nr BH for softer lead. I “ VENUS ” Copying and Super Copying.
Of All Stationers. Black lead, bd. each, J/6 den. ; Copying, 4d. each, 3I9 dot.
“ VENUS,” 173/5, Lower Clapton Road, London, E. 5.
PEEK FREAN S
CHOCOLATE
BISCUITS
See the name
PEEK FREAN
on every biscuit
are coated with
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CHOCOLATB
What to Do
for CONSTIPATION
Take a good dose of Carter’s little liver
Pills— then take 2 or 3 for a few nights after.
They cleanse your system of all waste matter
and Regulate Your Bowels. Mild—as easy to
take as sugar. Genuine beat lignatur*—
Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price.
Linens are Cheaper
We are clearing our stocks at 25°/ 0 reduction .
Robinson & Cleaver are offering their
beautiful Irish Linen at special reductions
in price to clear the stocks in their work-
shops. These linens are wonderful value
for money, for they will stand hard wear
and repeated washings without losing
their whiteness.
LINEN SHEETS.-No. I.L.N. Plain
Hemmed, sue 2 x j yds. 7 / 1/0
Per pair 70 /Z
LINEN PILLOWCASES. - No. I.L.N. 04.
Plain Hemmed, si 'em to X Jo ins., 70 /Q
Per dozen « », r
1 LINEN TOWELS.—No. I.L.N. 94. Grass
► bleached all-linen Huck, size 40 X * 5 ins.
Delivery of Parcels guaranteed to Customer's
own address and carriage paid on all orders
value jol- and upwards.
LINEN SHEETING.—qo in*, wide, per yard,
15/2; 80 ins. wide, per yard, 14/5 ; 72 ins. 1 017
. per yard A £//
Samples ot our Household /. insets and out
Catalogue Ho. 40 D will he sent post free
on request.
Robinson & Cleaver, Ld., Linen Manufacturers, Belfast.
J. B. CRAMER & Co., Ltd.,
139, New Bond Stmt, W.I.; 4C, Moor gat* Stmt, E.C.2 ; 130, KawngWa High Stmt, W.8.
CRAMER
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The Finest Instruments Obtainable.
For Cash. Hire System,
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ADVANTAGEOUS PRICES.
Tributes of great musicians to Cramer
Pianos from
LEONARD BOR WICK. SIR FREDERICK
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PERCY GRAINGER. LEONCAVALLO.
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£795
£850
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YOU know the world - wide fame, the
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razors of the finest steel. In all that great
history of razor manufacture, the best razor
that Sheffield ever produced is the Kropp.
That is a big statement to make, but it is
fully justified by the fact that it is true. The
Kropp is absolutely the very finest razor
that money can buy.
KROPP
ALL-BRITISH RAZOR
PRICES:
Black Handle. 10/6 Ivory Handle. 18 -
Every Razor is packed in a Case.
From all Hairdressers, Cutlers, Stores, &c.
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22 to 25 miles per gallon
for a large touring car is by no means common. Yet with the 16-20 h.p.
Ruston - Hornsby such an average is an every-day performance.
This fine car seats five persons in comfort, and has remarkable hill¬
climbing powers, even on stiff gradients and when carrying a
considerable amount of luggage.
In design and construction it is a credit to the famous British
engineering firm who are responsible for its production. The price
charged is the lowest possible for a car of its power.
Prompt
Delivery
16-20 Lp. with con.-
£^£650
20-25 h.p. with con-
Write for Specification—it will interest you.
CARBURETTERS
can now be supplied
with special attachments
to facilitate fitting.
ZENITH CARBURETTER CO., LTD.,
40-42, Newman Street, Oxford Street, W.
Telephone—Museum 4812-4813.
iiiimwiiiiii
miiinmiiiiiiii;^iniiiii;i'iiiiiiiiiE
A proved petrol saver
Zenith Carburetters do
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f 11 k H.f.l STKA fKL) LONDON NEWS. APKir. 9 —191
SOLE CONCESSIONNAIRES:
C. B. WARDMAN & COMPANY, LTD. |
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Telephone : Un g ham 1530-1531. Telegram.: “ Ramey. We*ia. London.”
" The first cm in the verlJ Us emtr 100 milts witkin tkt kemr."
CLEMENT-TALBOT, LIMITED.
BARLBV ROAD, LADBROKE GROVE, Telegrams : “ Clemtal Norkens, London."
KENSINGTON LONDON, W.to. Telephone - - - Park 5000 (4 lines).
ilMIDIIlilllHlililP^^
Catalogues and all details will be posted oh application, and trial runs
as ranged by appointment.
The 25 h.p. Talbot is one of the most successful models
ever introduced by the Company. For reliability, durability
and efficiency combined with low upkeep cost (the petrol
consumption under touring conditions averages 18'21 miles
to the gallon) this car is unbeatable. Hereunder we
give prices of the three models for the 1921 season.
The CLEMENT-TALBOT Co., Ltd., have pleasure in
announcing a price reduction in all three models ; the
2$ h.p., the 36 h.p. 6-cyl. and the 15 h.p. This reduc¬
tion has been made possible by the intelligent and intensive
co-operation between the various Companies associated with
the Clement-Talbot Company, added to a considerable drop
in the cost of labour in the principal Foundries and Stamping
Plant of the Combined Companies at Suresnes; this, in
addition to the heavy fall in the price of raw material, has
reduced production costs enough to warrant the new prices.
CURRENT PRICES:
15 h.p. Chassis
j 25 h.p.
i 36 h.p. 6-cyf. „
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 0 . 1021—192
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
WHAT IS ELECTRICITY ?
N 'O change in scientific theory has been so revo¬
lutionary as that which has lately happened
with regard to the nature of electricity. Some
twenty years ago electricity was still looked upon
as an agreeable toy chiefly useful for awaking in
the mind of youth an interest in what was called
“ natural ” science, but certainly of no use as an
explanation of the constitution of the universe. It
had already, indeed, done much to increase speed
of communication between one country’ and another
that of the Rontgen rays, which enabled us to see
through substances hitherto supposed to be opaque.
Then came the discovery by the Curies of the extra¬
ordinary properties of radium, which seemed to
put an inexhaustible supply of energy at the ser¬
vice of mankind. Looking back on all these new
ideas, now commonplace enough, one is lost in
admiration at the level - headedness—or absence of
imagination—which prevented the brains of scien¬
tific men from reeling under the Gargantuan doses of
knowledge regarding hitherto unsuspected mysteries
of nature thus poured into them.
This, however, was all the work of the physicists ;
and meanwhile the chem-
THE FINISH OF ONE OF THE FINEST RACES ON RECORD: CAMBRIDGE
(ON THE LEFT) PASSING THE POST A LENGTH AHEAD OF OXFORD IN THE
UNIVERSITY BOAT-RACE.
Cambridge beat Oxford by one length in the Boat - Race on March 31 after one of the most
exciting struggles in the history of the event. Oxford won the toss, and chose the Surrey side.
Cambridge led at the start, but Oxford was ahead for a great part of the course. The time
was 19 min. 45 sec .—[Photograph by l.B .)
ists had not been idle in
enquiring into the nature
of matter, or, to put it in
another way, of the stuff
of which the universe is
made. Dalton’s atomic
theory had taught us that
this, on what was then
supposed to be the final
analysis, consisted of
atoms, or particles, pro¬
bably spherical, and of
weight differing with the
different “ elements,” or
substances, such as metals
and gases. Some other¬
wise unaccountable rela¬
tions between these atomic
weights led Prout to con¬
clude that these so-called
elements were all multiples
of the lightest among them,
which is the gas called
hydrogen. The discovery
of radium, which gives
off, in disintegration, one
or more atoms of helium,
by means of telegraphy, and was beginning to make
itself felt as a new nfechanical power. These benefits,
however, were looked upon by our pundits at school
and university as merely commercial matters with
which they had nothing to do, and the theory that
electricity was a ” form of energy ”—whatever was
meant by that—was as far as the Science Master
had got in the direction of guessing what electricity
was.
A little later, however, things began to move.
Hertz’s discovery of the huge waves in the ether
which make wireless telegraphy possible came to
shake our feelings of omniscience. Then followed
a gas only four times heavier than hydrogen, first
gave us to understand that the elements might
not be so incapable of further analysis as we had
been accustomed to think, and Sir William Ramsay
and Dr. Norman Collie, among others, brought for¬
ward some proofs that it might be possible to trans¬
mute, under certain conditions, one element into
another. Evidently, the enquiry into the nature of
. matter had made a leap, and a very long leap, forward.
Sir Ernest Rutherford’s lectures at the Royal
Institution last month show us that this step was
by no means the last. When Dr. Gustave Le Bon,
until then chiefly known as a writer on psychology.
hazarded the guess—or, rather, the deduction from
somewhat slender premises—that radio-activity was
a property with which all matter was endowed, the
view was received with howLs of execration by
nearly all those whom our neighbours call ” princes
of science.” Yet later discoveries have shown that
this was, if not the truth, at any rate very near
to it. His book on the Evolution of Matter brought
home to the general public the idea that in the
constitution of electricity itself might be found the
key to the problem, and in this quest physicists
and chemists again joined forces. The mere names
of those engaged upon it would make a list too
long for this column, but among them those of Sir
Joseph Thomson, Professor Soddy, and pre-eminently
Sir Ernest Rutherford himself, will perhaps be those
most familiar to the English public. The result of
the researches of these distinguished men, and of
their Continental and American confreres, may be
summed up in the announcements made by Sir
Ernest Rutherford in his recent lectures, namely,
that electricity, like matter, finally consists of
atoms or particles which cannot be cut, and that
all the elements, of which—in his own words—
" all the universe, including ourselves, is made,”
can probably be resolved into mixtures of hydrogen
and helium atoms in varying proportions.
The far-reaching nature of these discoveries, if
they can be substantiated—as to which Sir Ernest
was commendably cautious—almost exceeds belief.
The transmutation of metals, of which the alchemists
dreamed, is now, in all probability, only a question
of time, and, were this once effected, other syntheses
of far greater importance to the welfare of the
race would probably follow quickly. The discovery
of better means of
utilising the energy
imprisoned within the
chemical atom would,
as Dr. Le Bon pointed
out sixteen years ago,
well-nigh abolish the
difference between rich
and poor, and other
problems of even more
revolutionary kind
would then offer them¬
selves for solution. If INDISPENSABLE IN SPRING
all matter is electricity, CLEANING: THE “RONUK’*
as Sir Ernest seems to POLISHER,
think, electricity be- , n the
spring the housewife’s
comes the most in- fancy lightly turns to thoughts
teresting thing in the of—dust. The “ Ronuk ” polisher
universe. F. L. is her invaluable ally.
'T'OO many moderns let their
* cigarette smoking develop into a
mere nervous habit of unconsidered
repetition.
No harm in that, perhaps, so it stop
short of real excess. But what a
sad misuse of an exquisite gift of
the kindly gods!
Mere gratitude should dictate a more
thoughtful appreciation of such good
things as
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THE MOST HIGHLY TRIED PREMIER: MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
Dealing with the coal dispute, with the calling-up of Fleet and Army Reserves,
and with the appeals to loyal citizens, the Premier said : “ Coal is the foundation
of industry, and to wreck the coal mines or to allow them to be ruined by
flooding is to strike at the life of the whole body of citizens. It is accordingly
the duty of the Government, as the trustee of the nation, to prevent this cata¬
strophe. . . . Protection, and adequate protection, must be given to those who
are engaged in preserving these vital assets of the community. No other course
is open to us. The nation is, for the first time in its history, confronted by
an attempt to coerce it into capitulation by the destruction of its resources, and
this menace is, apparently, now to be supplemented ... by a concerted plan
to suspend the transport services which are essential to the life of the country.
Were that threat to materialise, the supply of food and other immediate neces¬
saries of life spill be denied to all classes of the population unless volunteers
come forward to carry on the minimum of transport work required to maintain
the most essential national and municipal services. The Government propose
to call for volunteers.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 16. 1921—194
O UR water-logged coal-pits and attendant
happenings evoked from some back shelf of
memory an old story for schoolboys. It was a
tale of a scuttled ship, with a mutinous and
drunken crew, too glqriously fuddled to leave the
vessel their own action was sending to the bottom.
They had raided the rum, and were so well pleased
with the consequences that they resolved to stay
where they were. One or two messmates managed
to get out a boat, and as they pulled away over
an oily sea reflecting a tropical sunset, they heard
the suicide club on board strike up the chanty :—
The good ship Porpoise, we are told,
Has ten foot water in her hold.
Hurroo, hurroo, miranev !
The song continued in a crescendo of hilarity
until the ship went down to a last roar of “ Hurroo,
hurroo, mirancy.”
act it recognises treachery. Not formally organised,
this public, in times of crisis, can act with spon¬
taneous organic unity. How otherwise can we
interpret the orderly army of workers, not
extravagantly paid or pampered, that, in the
absence of the usual conveyance, got to its job
somehow, by hook or crook, in the last resort
even on foot ?
The Public visible in part during the troubles
of September 1919 was the same body that won
the war by its power of obstinate endurance.
It took the measure of the foreign enemy, and,
however slow and inarticulate it may be. it can
equally well take the measure of an enemy at
home. Infinitely tolerant, even to apparent
apathy, it has a huge horse-sense of what is due
to itself, and the moment the limits of fair play
for him. He is weary of strife, he has had a belly¬
ful of fighting, war has cost him dear and will
continue to cost him dear for the rest of his time;
therefore he hopes, not unreasonably, to enjoy a
little peace and such settlement as may be possible
in the early years after upheaval. He knows that
things cannot come right in a day, that much
inconvenience has to be put up with in peace, just
as he put up patiently with the greater inconveni¬
ences of war. But he considers it only the most
modest of claims that hard times should not be
made harder by those who should be shouldering
the common burden. It is the more galling to the
patient, silent man that the difficulties of the time
are increased by those who have already secured
the largest measure of the spoils of agitation. He
does not cavil at those concessions, but it irks him
that the beneficiaries should continually " from
ancient grudge break to new
mutiny,” and, having the power,
should strike at the very springs of
the national life. He sees in that
the act of no sportsman, if not
the act of a bully. And bullying is
the very thing that will rouse him
at length to the most obstinate
resistance. That is the feeling of
the noiseless thousands, in the City
office by day, in the suburban
garden at even-fall, those toilers
individually of small account, but
in the mass, once moved, a power
that can sweep away selfish sec¬
tionalism by its united will. No
need for " bronze Artillery officers ”
and w’hifls of grape-shot, as when
earlier Sections were blown away,
mainly about the Church of Saint-
Roch. A public that stands no
nonsense, determined to stand no
nonsense, can do the trick, without
bloodshed.
Yet, apart from whiffs of grape-
shot, most undesirable at this issue,
ther* is a parallel or two between
to-day and Oct. 5, 1795. “ Sacred
Insurrection once again : vessel of
State labouring on the bar; and
tumultuous seas all round her.”
Or again, " But now see how the
contumacious Sections kick against
the pricks . . . the truth is,
long right of Insurrection has
spoiled these men. In men spoiled
by long right of Insurrection, what
confused ferments will rise ! ”
The hope and safety of 5th Ven-
d&niaire was a man at the helm.
That, too, is necessary; possibly
already found and at his post.
But he will prove effective only
as the instrument of a Public, a
People, not insurgent, but quietly
resolute and law - abiding. The
man who will get us out of this
pickle must rise to the height
of the great argument, and,
putting huckstering compromise
aside, vindicate the Nation’s
right to live and to go unmolested about its
lawful occasions.
Vague proclamations of " a state of emerg¬
ency " might cut little ice, but it was only
necessary to take action implying that the State
was in danger to rally that solid backing of
national opinion on which a leader had a right
to count. With that he could proceed confidently
to frame measures of public safety, holding him¬
self ready, in case of need, to point to any traitor
and ask, “Quousquc tandem abutere, Catilina,
patientia nostra ? ” J. D. S.
One or two of our readers seem to have misunder¬
stood our motive in publishing the articles by M.
Ludovic Naudeau, ” The Irish Problem Through
French Eyes” As we stated at the beginning of
each of the articles, they were from our Paris con¬
temporary, ” L'Illustration ,” and were given in
our pages merely to shoiv a typical case of how
the Irish problem is presented to the French
public ; and not as an expression of our editorial
opinion.
To draw a parallel between
those abandoned sailors and vir¬
tuous and down - trodden miners
fighting for their legitimate rights
would be a perversion of morality
not to be endured by the heralds
of freedom. Only capitalist scribes
could trace any resemblance be¬
tween the two cases, and it would
be an outrageous piece of class pre¬
judice to compare sober, indus¬
trious, and underpaid coal-getters
on an enforced holiday with be¬
sotted mutineers who sought their
own destruction to the tune of
“ Hurroo, hurroo, mirancy ! ”
Avoiding odious personalities, there¬
fore, one may be content to record
an odd trick of mental associa¬
tion, and to note therewith an im¬
personal fact—the ominous rise of
water in the hold of the Ship of
State.
That good vessel is far from
foundering, but it will cost a pretty’
penny to pump her out—a penny
the owners are ill able to afford,
especially at the present time.
Here, it would seem, is a chance
for the Hot Gospellers of Anti¬
waste to get in their fine work with
a watchword made to their use.
Waste we have had in superfluity,
but nothing so radical as this
accident to the mines. That it is
the cry of emergency need not
deter our counsellors, now that a
” state of emergency ” (odd phrase)
has been proclaimed. That pro¬
clamation, by the way, did not
have the electrical effect one ex¬
pected, and the fault lay in the
phrase itself. What, in the name
of wonder, is “a state of emerg¬
ency " ? To proclaim with noble
simplicity ” the State is in danger,”
might conceivably have had some
awakening effect. But your ” state
of emergency ” leaves us, like Pet Marjorie’s
turkey-hen :
. . . More than usual calm
She did not give a single dam.
The public took the announcement without a
thrill, and there followed no girding of loins. No
Cicero arose with his Quousquc tandem, Catilina.
We merely read and got back to the old arid
round of disputations, conferences, and cross-
references. However, our propagandists may yet
set the saving ” stunt ” agoing with one good
word, germane to the occasion. They may’ risk
the obvious for once with good heart and cry,
” All hands to the pumps ! ”
The heart of the nation is sound. That was
proved in the difficult days of the Railway Strike,
when we had a glimpse of that elusive entity,
“ the Public,” at its best. It is a creature not to
be defined in words, but, at need, it becomes
self-determinative—the negation of sectionalism.
It is impatient of any section seeking self-
ag.rrandisement at the general expense. In that
BRINGING HIS BRIDE HOME IN THE TRADITIONAL WAY: LORD MINTO
CARRYING HIS WIFE INTO HIS HOUSE ON THEIR RETURN TO ENGLAND.
The Earl of Minto, who was recently married in Canada to Miss Marion Cook, brought his wife
back to his ancestral home last week, and followed out the old custom which decrees that a
bridegroom must carry his bride over the threshold of her new home. The custom is said to
be a relic of the old Border runaway marriages. Our photograph shows Lord Minto carrying
Lady Minto into the house .—[Photograph by P.P.P I
have been transgressed, it becomes a force very
perilous to the transgressor The saving quality
of the British Public lies in the fact that it is the
greatest of all sportsmen, and therefore it has a
short way with welchers of every kind. It is so
big that no individual can realise or visualise the
mass in its entirety ; hence the error of inflated
agitators, who in these last days have shown
themselves so empty of humour or sense of
proportion as to clainT that the sections they
represent, or misrepresent, constitute the only
public that matters. These claimants ” think
the rustic cackle of their bourg the murmur of
the world.”
The Man in the Street is not to be hustled,
still less is he to be intimidated. He may not be
a very advanced thinker, or even a thinker at all,
in the opinion of neurotic reformers with a smatter¬
ing of hazy political philosophies. But he has one
conviction, he wants to get on with his job.
Possibly it may not be a very great or a very
lucrative job, but it is his livelihood and the live¬
lihood of his wife and children, the centre of life
Till; II.I USTRATKl) I.ONI>ON
NEWS, A vim. 16. — 19.'>
EX-EMPEROR KARL’S FAILURE: THE REJECTED OF HUNGARY.
LEAVING THE FRONTIER TOWN OF STE1NAMANGER AFTER THE FAILURE OF HIS ATTEMPT TO REGAIN THE THRONE OF HUNGARY :
THE EX-EMPEROR KARL EXTREME RIGHT) IN HIS SPECIAL TRAIN RECEIVING THE FAREWELLS OF HIS ADHERENTS.
AFTER AN ALL-NIGHT DEBATE WHETHER TO MARCH ON BUDAPEST :
THE DEPARTING EX-EMPEROR WITH HUNGARIAN OFFICERS.
After his unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne of Hungary and persuade the j
Regent, Admiral Horthy, to relinquish his powers, the ex-Emperor Karl retired
to the town of Steinamanger, on the Austro-Hungarian frontier, once the capital |
of the old Roman province of Pannonia. There he discussed with his adherents, !
including Count Julius Andrassy and Colonel Lehar, brother of the composer of |
•'The Merry Widow,” whether he should make an armed attempt and march on
Budapest with the troops who supported him. After an all-night debate, he was
RECEIVING THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENTS AMNESTY FOR OFFICERS
ASSISTED HIM : THE EX-EMPEROR KARL IN HIS SPECIAL TRAIN.
finally dissuaded, and left Steinamanger in a special train at 10.45 a.m. on
April 5 on his return journey to Switzerland. In a proclamation he declared
that he left because “ 1 have satisfied myself that the resumption of my Apostolic
Kingly right to rule would expose the nation, at the present moment, to intolerable
ordeals.” The Swiss Government permitted his return only on several strict
conditions, among them the avoidance of “ all ^‘.ilitical activities.” He went to
Lucerne and stayed, under close surveillance, at the National Hotel.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS April 16. 1921.—496
PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Photographs »v Voigt, Hark at r. Mash, axii Lavavettk.
A POWER IN IRISH POLITICS : THE LATE MOST REV. WILLIAM WALSH, ROMAN CATHOLIC
ARCHBISHOP OF DUBUN.
APPOINTED TO COMMAND THE METROPOLITAN
AREA DURING THE COAL CRISIS : LORD CAVAN.
The Ex-Kaiserin died at Doom, where she shared her husband's exile, on the
morning of April II. She was the daughter of Duke Frederick of Schleswig-
Holstein-Sonden burg-Augus ten burg, and her marriage to the Ex-Kaiser (then Prince
William of Prussia) took place on February 14, 1880.-Mr. Duncan Graham,
M.P. for Hamilton, suddenly emerged as a champion of the miners during the
coal crisis, and as their spokesman in the House encountered the Premier in
argument Mr. Graham has been a working miner himself, and is self-educated.
He was formerly political agent of the Scottish Miners’ Federation.-Captain
Peter Wright’s new book, “At the Supreme War Council,” with its revelations
and strong criticism of Allied leaders, has caused much discussion. He was
Assistant Secretary to the Supreme War Council at Versailles in the winter of
1917-18.-The Most Rev. William John Walsh, D.D., Roman Catholic Arch¬
bishop of Dublin, died on April 9, aged 80. He had long been a power in Irish
politics, and sympathised with Sinn Fein. He was one of the witnesses before the
Parnell Commission in 1888-9.-It was announced on April 11 that Lord Cavan
had been appointed to command the London District and Aldershot, and as
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Metropolitan Area, during the present
emergency, would have his headquarters at the Horse Guards.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Aphii Hi. 1921 197
Where Rumour Said a Rising had Occurred: In Rhineland—A German Apology .
ASSERTING BRITISH DIGNITY ON THE RHINE : THE BURGOMASTER OF WALD READING A PUBLIC APOLOGY TO BRITISH OFFICERS
FOR INSULTS TO WHICH THEY WERE SUBJECTED DURING COMMUNIST DISTURBANCES.
During the formation of the new Defence Units for protective work in case of a
strike, reports were spread near the recruiting offices, in order to dissuade men
from joining, that a German rising had occurred on the Rhine. These rumours
were denied on April n by the Secretary for War* Sir L. Worthington Evans,
who said : “ As far as I am aware, there is no German rising, and British troops
on the Rhine have not come into any conflict with the Germans." In the
recent Communist disturbances at Wald, near Solingen and Elberfcld, some British
officers were insulted. Afterwards the Burgomaster of Wald read a public
apology to them, as shown in our photograph. Captain Lawson, one of the
officers, and others were present. 'PmrmcKArH nv Kjevstovk Vie* Co.'
Egypt*s Welcome to Zaghlul Pasha: Woman 9 s Share in the National Rejoicings.
WEARING THE BARKU‘ .VEIL) : EGYPTIAN WOMEN WALKING IN A PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF THE RETURN OF 2AGHLUL PASHA,
HEAD OF THE DELEGATION TO LONDON.
Both at Alexandria, where he landed on April 4 on his return from Europe, and
at Cairo on the following day, Zaghlul Pasha, the leader of the Egyptian delegates
to London, received a popular welcome of indescribable enthusiasm. It was
through his deliberations with Lord Milner, resulting in the Milner Report, that
decisions as to the constitution of Egypt were reached that point to a new era
of independence lor that country. At Alexandria he said he had returned to discuss
with the Cabinet the results of his mission. Women, wearing the long veil
(barku‘), of white muslin, were prominent in the procession that hailed Zaghlul’s
arrival at Cairo, and his wife rode at its head in a flower-decked car. ** Every¬
where,” writes an eye-witness, “ could be heard the zagkarurt, the shrill throat-cry
of the women, expressive equally of exquisite pain or intense pleasure, but in this
instance unmistakably the latter."— [Pin*Tnr.a*ru r.v G.P.A.)
m THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16. 1921.
PHASES OF THE COAL CRISIS: MINERS AND OWNERS AT
Photographs by G.P.U., I.B.,
THE COAL-OWNERS’ LEADER : MR.
EVAN WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT OF
THE MINING ASSOCIATION.
A MINERS' MEETING AT NEATH. TO
THE MAIN COLLIERIES.
A RANK-AND-FILE “ CONFERENCE ” :
OPPOSE PUMPING AT
HEADED BY THEIR BAND: A 1
WATTSTOWN PITS TO
LABOUR ADVISER TO THE MINES E
MR. W. BRACE, M.P. (ON THE
MILITARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT ESSENTIAL SERVICES IN CASE OF A STRIKE : GUARDS MARCHING
TO KENSINGTON GARDENS.
Important phases in the coal crisis are represented in the above illustrations. The formation of special Defence Units was announced by the Prime Minister in P
April 8 and during the week-end and later there was a great response to the call for enrolment Numbers of women also signed on for volunteer service. Royal I
were issued on the same date calling out Class B of the Royal Fleet Reserve, the Army Reserve, and the Air Force Reserve, and continuing soldiers and airme
In London Guards encamped in Kensington Gardens. The War Office deprecated any suggestions that troops were to be used for strike-breaking purposes, point
their function was to aid the civil power in preserving the public peace and maintaining essential services. On April n Mr. Lloyd George presided over a confer.
\\ NA^lA
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16, 1921.—499
*S AI20NFERENCE; WOMEN VOLUNTEERS; TROOPS AND SAILORS.
' G P.U. !! hkrrv, C.N., Topical, and Sport and General.
WOMEN AGAIN TO THE FORE FOR
NATIONAL WORK: VOLUNTEERS
v ENROLUNG IN LONDON.
HOW THE PRICE OF COAL AFFECTS THE POOR: AN OLD WOMAN IN A
BIRMINGHAM STREET UNDER REPAIR SEARCHING FOR FUEL.
THE EMPLOYERS’ SIDE AT THE BOARD OF TRADE CONFERENCE IN LONDON : FOUR OF THE MINE-OWNERS
WHO ATTENDED IT.
THE ADMIRALTY’S EMERGENCY CALL: NAVAL RATINGS FROM PORTSMOUTH ON THE MARCH
THROUGH LONDON ON APRIL 9 .
representatives of the miners and the mine-owners respectively at the Board of Trade. The owners’ case was stated by Mr. Evan Williams, President of the Mining Association,
aad that of the Miners by Mr. Frank Hodges, Secretary of the Miners’ Federation. Further meetings took place on the 12th, on the evening of which day the Triple Alliance had
announced a strike to take place unless meantime an acceptable offer had been made to the miners. Mr. Robert Shirkie represents the National Federation of Colliery Enginemen
tf i ,i^*nd Boilermen. Mr. Duncan Graham, M.P., whose portrait also appears on another page, is General Secretary of the Lanarkshire Miners’ Union. Mr. William Brace, M.P., is
^Labour Adviser to the Mines Department Sir Adam Nimmo is Vice-President of the Mining Association, and Director of the Fife Coal Company.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 16. 1921.--500
BOOKS OF THE.DAY
exotic types ami esotc-
ric clashes of character.
But he could have enforced
his moral that the war has Lrl A Ay t”
weakened the moral fibre of
every class, even that which
held by the adage noblesse oblige, without the sordid
catastrophe of the false pearls and its squalid sequel.
regions where prehistoric roots can be dug up and
" conjectural primitive Teutonic word-forms *’
flutter and gibber past, but for the intelligent
person who takes an educated interest in the origin
and history of words. In the fulfilment of this
high intention he has produced the most complete
work of the kind in tlfc language, and one that
has as much personality in it, and far more wit
and humour than Johnson's famous '* Dixionary,”
which, be it remembered in passing, has given birth
to errors that still survive in the cheaper lexicons
of English. Professor Wecldcy has included the
new terms that arose out of the Great War, only
a small proportion of which are likely to resist the
process of demobilisation of war-words now going
on. And the Anglo-Indian vocabulary of the
British Army is so abundantly represented that
foreign translators of Mr. Kipling’s stories, which
are just now being transmuted into a variety of
tongues, will find there the solutions of many
brain-racking puzzles.
fjnj tJ “ T APPROVE.”
y A wrote the great
SW Ix>rd B°l' n g br °ke, “ the dis-
jJv' £)r course of a studious man at
Christ Church, who was over¬
heard in his oratory’ enter¬
ing into a detail with God, and acknowledging
the divine goodness in furnishing the world with
makers of dictionaries.” All intelligent students
of English will concur with his lordship's observa¬
tion, and ask that a special measure of happi¬
ness be vouchsafed to those scholars, hodsmen of
literature though they be, who, in Dr. Birkbeck
Hill’s words, " bear burdens with patience and
beat the track of the alphabet with sluggish
resolution.” Our gratitude is due to the late Sir
James Murray and his many coadjutors, living or
dead, who have carried to completion (temporary)
the monumental Oxford Dictionary. The last
volume appeared two weeks ago, the final word
being " zyxst" (Kentish dialect for “ Thou
The " Education of Eric Lane ” (Hutchinson;
8s. 6d. net), by Stephen McKenna, once more
brings the Sonia set on the stage, and there is a
speed and concentration in the narrative which
were lacking in some of the stories preceding.
Two biographies, one very much to my taste,
and the other utterly repugnant, have lately
appeared. The kind of memoir that seems to
me entirely detestable is ” The Intimate Life of
Sir Walter Scott” (A. and C. Black; ios. 6d.
net), by Archibald Stalker, who has the impudence
to assert that Scott's " long poems arc uninspired,”
and that ” people after a hundred years have
admitted the truth of the opinion ” that his
** method of writing was apt to become intolerable. 11
Then, insisting that the reticence of such gentle¬
men, by nature's right divine 'and social status
alike, as the " Shirra ” was only a passing charac¬
teristic of his generation, this Mr. Stalker proceeds
to stalk his noble quarry down into all kinds of
secret places where Lockhart would never have
deigned to turn his eyes. The master - passion
of Sir Walter—a noble enthusiasm for goodness
and beauty — escapes this raker in the dust-
heaps of bygone circumstance.
A GREAT FRENCH NOVELIST WHOSE CENTENARY
OCCURS THIS YEAR: GUSTAVE FLAUBERT.
Gustave Flaubert was born at Rouen on December 12, 1821 •
and died at Croisset, near that city, on May 8, 1880.' His
chief work, " Madame Bovary," appeared in 1857.
Photograph by Sadar (Paris) ; Supplied by Augustin Kischgit:.
Lady Barbara Neave is in the limelight once again,
and there is no denying that Mr. McKenna has a
profound insight into the personality of such
priestesses of the art of living by impulse, con¬
trolled only by a sense of artistry, who give us.
after all. something that conventional beauty is
incapable of. When we are as old and profoundly
civilised as the Japanese, they may come to form
a Geisha caste—who knows ? In “ The Path
of the King ’’ (Hodder and Stoughton ; 8s. 6d.
net), Mr. John Buchan regains his best adven¬
turous method in a development of the ” Mile¬
stones ” idea, which shows us how-, in successive
generations or re-incarnations, beginning in the
far-off days of the Vikings, the spark of virile
initiative smoulders under the ashes of family
history, and at intervals flares up in a bright
living flame to warm the world. The British Em¬
pire, after all, is from first to last an epic of the
works and days of younger sons.
It is a relief to turn to M Queen Vic¬
toria ” (Chatto and Windus ; 15s. net), by
Lytton Strachey, whose keen and flashing
gauloiserie changes to a summer lightning of
tender humour as he contemplates the life and
love and unrelaxing labours of the great Queen
who is still for us — who can yet deplore
the German sympathies of the early Victorian
Court—the shadow of a glorious name, perhaps
the symbol of the happy climax of our national
history. Mr. Strachey sees in her absolute sin¬
cerity the strongest trait of a strangely impressive
character—appositely quoting the Ijtdy Lyttelton
who knew her so well: “ There is a transparency
in her truth that is very striking.” Her people
at home and beyond the seas felt her absolute
truthfulness, saw the beauty of it, and wisely made
her an ideal of queenship, as an elder generation
made of Elizabeth, that celestial virago, an idol
onto themselves.
A FAMOUS POET, SATIRIST. AND POLITICIAN
WHOSE TERCENTENARY WAS RECENTLY CELE¬
BRATED: ANDREW MARVELL.
Andrew Marvell wu born at Hull on March 31, 1621. In
1660 he was returned to Parliament as Member for his
native town, which he represented till his death in 1678.
From a Picture in the Trinity House at Hull. Photograph
Supplied by Augustin RischgiU.
seest ”), which would have been a heaven-sent
boon to persons labouring at the silly task of
getting all the letters of the alphabet into the
shortest possible sentence As a matter of fact,
this vast lexicon can never be finally finished, for
the English language is a living, fertile thing,
reflecting in its changes and additions all the
many radio-activities of the peoples who speak it.
The invention of new words—slang that insists on
being accepted and ennobled, so to speak, and the
ever-extending terminology of science built up of
Greek elements for the most part—is so rapid
and continuous in our eclectic tongue, which is
the nearest thing to a universal language in the
modem world, that a Supplement to the Oxford
Dictionary will be necessary once every ten years,
at least.
Of some
twenty novels
read during the
last three weeks,
to cure a stub¬
born attack of
accidie (Dante’s
name for Mr.
Kipling’s ” cam-
eelious hump ”),
three have left
a distinct im¬
pression. In
"The Spirit of
the Time”
(Cassell ; 8s. fid.
net), Mr. Robert
Hichens is not at
his best ; but in
his analysis of
the muted pass¬
ion (the pathetic
appeal of Last
Love) of Derrick,
his hero, for the
Princess Aranen-
skv. he proves
himself still an
adept in the
psychology -— or
pathology — of
In the same week that saw the appearance of
the last volume of this Oxford monument of
learning was published “ An Etymological
Dictionary of Modern English ” (John Murray ;
42s. net), by Ernest Weekley, M.A., which is an
admirable example of our national humanism —
that rare and ripe quality which enables English
scholars, unlike the Teuton philologist, to be exact
and erudite without ever lapsing into dryasdust
dullness. Just as every integral number could be
called a personal friend of a famous Hindu mathe¬
matician at Cambridge—a wanderer in the weird
jungle of numbers, and well skilled at tracking
down the elusive prime—so it may be said that
Professor Weekley knows the life history and
private peculiarities of every English word. He
makes etymology a lively and fascinating sport,
inviting us to watch words on their travels in time
and space, and the way their significance changes
with a change m their surroundings. Professor
Weekley’s Dictionary is intended, not for those
who like to roam in the dim and rather dismal
ANDREW MARVELL’S LONDON HOME UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH: HIS HOUSE AT
HIGH GATE (SINCE DESTROYED), AS IT WAS IN 1858.
The house at Highgate where Andrew Marvell lived when, in 1657, he became Milton’s assistant in the
Latin (or Foreign) Secretaryship under Cromwell, was pulled down in 1869. The site is part o(
Water low Park, and is marked by a tablet in the garden wall of Lauderdale House. Marvell’s grave
is at St. Giles-in-rhe-Ficlds.
Prom a Water-Colour by J. II'. Archer, 1.I5S. Photograph Supplied by August in Kischgil:.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16. 1921.—501
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IN CASE OF A STRIKE: LOYAL CITIZENS JOIN THE DEFENCE UNITS.
Photographs bv Central Press. Top.cal, Illus. Blxeau, and S. and G.
Sbi^tiws
AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE 8TH MANCH ESTERS (T) : PUTTING UP THE
PROCLAMATION CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THE DEFENCE UNITS.
THE MAJORITY OF THEM EX-OFFICERS : VOLUNTEERS OFFERING THEIR SERVICES AT
THE WAR OFFICE. FOR DUTY IN THE EVENT OF THE THREATENED STRIKE MATURING.
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-pHE call for
* volunteers
for the Defence
Units contained
the following :
i. A Proclama¬
tion having been
issued calling out
the Army Reserve
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for permanent ser¬
vice, loyal citizens.
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including those
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WAITING TO ENLIST IN THE NEW DEFENCE UNITS: A QUEUE OF APPLICANTS AT THE CENTRAL LONDON
RECRUITING DEPOT, NEW SCOTLAND YARD.
CtmhnuiJ.]
not exceeding
ninety days, with
the Regular Army
in new units to
be created, called
“ defence units,”
for service in Eng¬
land, Scotland,
and Wales only.
2 . The number
of new units at
present to be
formed is limited ;
. consequently, pre¬
ference will be
given as far as
possible to men
with military ex¬
perience and tech¬
nical qualifica¬
tions, such as ex¬
soldiers, ex-air¬
men, and serving
Territorial sol¬
diers.
3 - Loyal citi¬
zens, on present¬
ing themselves
*t a Territorial
drill hall, will be
informed of the
conditions, and
either be attested
at once or asked to
register theirnames
and addresses. |
VOLUNTEERS FOR THE DEFENCE UNITS : PASSING THE DOCTOR-A SCENE
SUGGESTING GREAT WAR RECRUITING.
As soon as a ‘ Triple Alliance ’ ’ strike became possible, various precautionary
m !* SUre * were taken by the Government, and proclamations were issued for
c mg out men of Class B of the Royal Fleet Reserve, for calling out the Army
eserve, for continuing soldiers in Army service, for calling out the Air Force
eserve and for continuing airmen in the Air Force service. Appeals were also
m * * or Special Constables to join the Reserves of the Special Constabulary,
DEFENCE UNIT.
and, especially, for loyal citizens capable of bearing arms and
s it txr^r sr
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of service was fixed as not exceeding ninety day. It wsTmad. , f*
th«* fete wo. inlodri only lo, protobv. purpo^, „ ot .oikotrokC
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16, 1921.—502
ALL BUT TWO SAVED: PIT PONIES RAISED FROM DESERTED MINES.
I.B., Topical,
TO WHOM A STOPPAGE MEANS A DELIGHTFUL HOLIDAY : PIT PONIES BATHING AND GRAZING AT A WELSH FARM
DURING THE COAL DISPUTE.
A T an early stage of the crisis, the
** Prime Minister made special
reference in Parliament to the question
of the pit ponies. ** It is essential,”
Mr. Lloyd George said on April 5,
41 that the Miners’ Federation should
give every facility and assistance to
prevent the pits from being destroyed
during the discussions, and also to
save the lives of those poor dumb
animals which, in a few cases, I am
sorry to say, are at the present
moment, under horrible conditions,
being allowed to remain down.” At
that point in the Premier’s speech
another Member said : “ A statement
has been made that that has been put
right."
RAISED TO THE UNACCUSTOMED LIGHT OF DAY : PIT
PONIES BROUGHT OUT OF A DERBYSHIRE COAL MINE.
SINCE 1913: PIT PONIE
ENJOYING A HOLIDAY.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR RE-SHOEING : PIT P
TO THE SURFACE AT CLIFTON COLLIERY,
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, April 16. 1921.—503
ONE TOUCH OF NATURE” IN THE COAL DISPUTE: PIT PONIES
drawings by e. blampied.
THE FOUR-FOOTED “MINER- WHO NEVER STRIKES: A
knocking his head
PECULIAR ATTITUDE TO AVOID
Nor WORRYING ABOUT WAGES AS LONG AS THE MANGER is FULL : PIT PONIES IN THEIR imnp B r D n,mn
WAS A matter of anxious concern when the pumps were stopped STABLES-AN1MALS WHOSE FATE
hid been ** LeTen - Fife - "here two ponies hod to
mines had h ^ *** “ **“ knew ’ 411 P° nies in E"* 1 **** *nd Welsh
said to haveT ® U * ht Up> The failure to r *“ e the two ponies at Loren is
coal disoute JT" ! t0 th * P r «**nce of a crowd at the pit-head. Directly the
and Wales R-S.P.C.A circularised its inspectors throughout England
es. urging that ererything possible should be done to secure the safety
nr
Th. mine, fa fa. ZLZT, IT “ L
merciful fa hi, Ifafaf-fOrnfa*.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16, 1921.—504
INTERNATIONAL SPORT: FRANCO-IRISH “RUGGER”; POLO;
Photographs hy Topicai, Spout and Gknerai . and Photoprkss.
“ SOCCER.”
VICTORIOUS OVER IRELAND BY FOUR GOALS TO TWO, AND BRACKETED SECOND
WITH WALES : THE FRENCH RUGBY pAM.
BEATEN BY FRANCE, ON THE C0L0M8ES GROUND IN PARIS, BY FOUR GOALS
TO TWO : THE IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL TEAM.
CANDIDATES FOR THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL POLO TEAM : (L. TO R.) STANDING—COLONEL MELVILLE, LORD DALMENY, LORD WODEHOUSE, COLONEL BROWN ;
(CENTRE) COLONEL HUNTER AND MAJOR LOCKETT ; (FRONT) COLONEL TOMKINSON.
VICTORIOUS OVER ENGLAND BY THREE GOALS TO NONE : THE SCOTTISH
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL TEAM.
The French have taken very kindly to Rugby football, and are coming on very
fast at the game. France beat Ireland in the international match on the Colombes
ground in Paris on April 9 by four goals (20 points) to two goals (10 points).
Thus for the first time France is second (bracketed with Wales) among the inter¬
national teams. The British team for the international polo matches at Hur-
lingham in June has not yet been chosen. Three players regarded as certainties
are Col. H. A. Tomkinson (at present commanding the Royals), Lord Wodehouse,
BEATEN BY SCOTLAND IN THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH AT GLASGOW :
THE ENGLISH “SOCCER" TEAM.
and Major Vivian Lockett. The choice for the fourth member of the team
(to be No. 2) is said to rest between Lord Dalmeny and Capt A. H. Williams, of
the Central India Horse, who has a great reputation as a polo-player in India.
The international “ Soccer ’ ’ match between Scotland and England, played at
Hampden Park, Glasgow, on April 9, resulted in a win for Scotland by three
goals to none. There were about 100,000 spectators, and the gate-money an
sale of tickets totalled some £14,000.
A,, R"- If). 1921.-50;)
THE
H-M STRATEI) LONDON
NEWS.
SUPPING AT A CYCLE-RACE: SOCIETY AND A SIX-DAYS CONTEST
__ DRAWN nv Dr.,i - * 1 .
LELONG
A NEW DAY-AND-NIGHT SPORTING ATTRACTION FOR FASHIONABLE PARIS: THE “SIX JOURS,' A “PUSH-BIKE
CONTEST AT THE VELODROME D’HIVER-SUPPER ON THE LAWN.
Perhaps In view of a possible stoppage of transport facilities, the “bike” is
coming into its own again. It is also regaining popularity in France. Describing
the scene illustrated, a Paris writer says : “ The cycling contest called the 4 Six
ays took place last week at the Velodrome d’Hiver. This sporting trial comes
to us from America. It was, in fact, in the United States that the idea first arose
o putting on the track during 144 consecutive hours a number of vigorous young
men and totalling the kilometres they would succceed in covering. This match,
... ' 4 . ' - — ut monotonous enough if the
public did not give it a touch of the picturesque. From mom to eve and eve
to morn the Velodrome d’Hiver was never empty. . . . After the theatres a
*««„, public .rn™L in Kok
the track, on what would be the lawn of a race-course, where supper-tables were
arranged and champagne flowed. They reached the spot by an underground
passage beneath the Jrack.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16, 1921.—506
IBY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
sold by Messrs. Sotheby on the 13th and 14th.
The property of Sir Edmund Trelawny. Bt.,
included a set of the Eight Immortals in Chinese
porcelain of the Ming period. The order is this :
Chung-li K'uan holding a fan ; Chung Kwoh with
a bamboo tube, with sticks to beat it ; Lii Tung-pin
with a fly-switch and sword ; Ts’ao Kwoh-K'iu
with castanets ; Li T'ieh-Kwai holding a gourd ;
Han Siang Ts’ze with a flute ; Lan Ts’ai-ho, a
female holding a basket of flowers ; and Ho Sicn-
Ku, a female holding a lotus-flower. These are
the eight immortals, of which two are. strange to
say, female. A complete set of the eighteen
Lohan or disciples of Buddha in Chinese porcelain
is in contradistinction to the above, which are
some 12 inches high—only 1} to 2 1/8 inches high,
all seated, holding various emblems. It is incum¬
bent upon us as a World Power to know more of
Chinese art than we do. German scholarship has
been intense in the Far East. Chinese gentlemen
are at our universities at Hong Kong and at Oxford,
and we should stretch out hands to assimilate the
wondrous symbolism of the Far East.
In the same sale a Chelsea sweetmeat-dish in
white, with shell decoration, was incised with the
date 1760, and won acclamation. But in
regard to Chinese art, what a poor com-
parison ! In national art we find a Bristol
hard-paste sweetmeat-stand, and a finely Mg
decorated vase and a tea-service, that is a
replica of the Chinese paste only attempted
at Bristol and Plymouth. The vase claimed
the greatest respect.
Messrs. Christie offered on the 14th
decorative furniture and tapestry, indud- IgSjJ
ing four Chippendale chairs and six Dutch
marqueterie chairs, the property of Sir
Harry Verney, Bt. From the collection
of the late Albert Brassey, Esq., were
some interesting tapestries—five panels of
Brussels tapestry signed " Va Leyniers,
D.L.,” with scenes of Telemachus and
Calypso, and six panels of Aubusson tap- Mm
estry with garden scenes and landscapes
signed " M. R. d’Aubusson. L Dumonteil.”
On the following day Messrs. Sotheby
sold some valuable old furniture and needle¬
work. including some fine Queen Anne
chairs, the property of the Duchess of Wel¬
lington. Some interesting English needle- !
work panels of the early eighteenth cen- j
tury, the property of Sir John Trelawny, Bt., k &
had a fine pedigree. One panel had a '
pathetic note, with an obelisk with mourn-
ing figures on each side, inscribed : “In IAi
memory of my worthy and only Son
^ and at the same
time a serious, task for
the art critic to deter-
mine among a series of
f V //TJ sales what is and what is
/ / not worthy of commendation. There
are fashionable prejudices and pre¬
dilections to be reckoned with. But the critic
has his own inner judgment apart from what
happens to be the vogue. He loves many things,
and possibly to him art is spelt with a capital A.
silver should not be
written around hall- " * ,vi
marks with dates, exact T
enough, it is admitted, representing ' ' (£
various reigns. We have all come
to regard silver as appertaining to certain reigns,
such as Charles II., Queen Anne, or George II.,
but the interest should centre around the
makers. It does in Irish silver. It has in
English plate in the case of Paul Lamerie, who
is the Chippendale of silversmiths. The sale
of old English silver, the property of Catherine
Lady Grey and Sir John Foley Grey, Bt., at
Christie’s on the 20th, is an object-lesson in makers
over an extended period sufficient to indicate an
individuality. Unhappily, there is a scarcity of
detail of their lives. We know the peccadillos of
painters, and there is a record of the idiosyn¬
crasies of great engravers, but the silversmiths’
lives are for the present hidden from public
gaze. We are sure they were men of artistic
temperament and worthy of note, but letters and
PROBABLY A WINE-CISTERN (SEE END OF ARTICLE):
A SO-CALLED GEORGE II. “ TEA-URN,’’ BY PETER
ARCHAMBO, 1728.
The tea-urn here illustrated is a lot in the Grey sale of
old English silver at Christie’s, on the 20th. Like the wine-
cistern below, its handles are in the form of boars (the Warrington
supporters). The cover is surmounted by an Earl's coronet.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods.
But he is in a mart where dealers spell art with
three letters —£ s. d. That is the difference. But
Art wins in the end.
At Messrs. Christie’s, on the 8th, old pictures,
the property of the Right Hon. Lord Ravens-
worth and of the late Rev. J. F. W. Woodyeare.
were offered. Two Snyders with dead game, fruit,
and lobster, and a J. Weenix with dog and dead
game, were all larder subjects from the former
collection. A Reynolds portrait group of a musical
subject is believed to have been painted in 1751
in Rome. Other interesting items included a pair
of oval portraits of William Oliver Jones and his
wife, a pastel by J. L. E. Liotard, a pair of oval
portraits (lady and gentleman) by N. Dance, and
another pair by Hone, and J. Wright had a portrait
of a lady. A set of four coursing subjects by
F. Sartorius was noticeable; a minor Raeburn
portrait was that of the Edinburgh doctor, James
Hamilton; and by Stuart were portraits of Benjamin
Franklin and Thomas O’Grady of Kilballyowen.
English, Continental, and Oriental porcelain,
and a collection of old English wine-glasses, were
ted boul. Laetma ireiawnys Love containing his autograph MS. of “ A Philosophical View of
Letters of Myrtilla and Philander ’ (1706- feoucht mt s^by-* the other day by Dr. A. S. W.
173 6 ) were privately printed in 1 884, recount- Philadelphia, for £1750—probably the English record for
ing the ten years’ courtship of Laetitia by ft belonged to Mrs. T. W. Rolleston. The work was 1
her cousin. Captain Harry Trelawny. last year.—(By Courtesy of Messrs. Sotheby, WMinson *
From Whitton Court, Shropshire, came
a fine set of late seventeenth- memoirs and biographies are silent,
century Flemish tapestries, to take their work on their own initial
with a history dating from grams as though it were centuries ret
ib97. when Sir Francis Chari- influence of Paul Lamerie in the first
ton added them as decorations eighteenth century is apparent here,
to a gallery he built. his jugs are presented, dated 1732.
A two days’ sale of engrav- chambo, from 1728 to 1740, has 3
ings, including many colour Isaac Liger, from 1710 to 1730, has 4
prints, is to be conducted by Edward Feline, with his 11 examples
Messrs. Sotheby on the 20th in 1751; and Magdalen Feline has 1
and 21st. There are fine im- 1753—possibly the widow who carried
pressions by W. Ward, after 17 examples here. David WiUaume b
Morland, including such well- pies, 12 in number. So here is a set «
known subjects as ’* The men who left a brilliant record in the
Thatcher,’’ ’’ The Warrener," the eighteenth century. Phil Rolles <
‘ The Angler's Repast.” ” The wine-cistern, in date 1701, the year ■
Public-House Door.” “ The enacted that no alien could sit in Ps
Promenade in St. James’s in the Privy Council, or hold offi<
Park,” by F. D. Soiron. after from the Crown, and that the Sovere
E. Dayes, with its fashionable a member of the Church of England,
throng, is an object-lesson. to leave England without consent of
Promenaders now are the fair A Peter Archambo tea-urn (so descril
and engaging inhabitants of 1728, anticipates later usages. We
the series of corrugated-roofed was a wine-cistern with a tap; as :
sheds which have encroached comes nearly a century too early,
upon the haunts of the Archambo piece is a plain oval wii
water-fowl, and have added Chippendale mahogany stand, in dal
gaiety to the luncheon hour a year after Gay’s “ Beggar’s Opera.
HOW WINE CAME TO TABLE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:
A WILLIAM III. OVAL WINE - CISTERN, BY PHIL ROLLES, 1701.
This wine-cistern is included in the sale at Christie’s on April 20 of old English silver
plate belonging to Catherine Lady Grey and Sir John Foley Grey. It is 15 in. high
by 25 in. wide. The boars on the handles are the Warrington supporters.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods.
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FROM THE ARMADA TO TRAFALGAR: OLD-TIME SERVICE MEDALS.
Bv Cocktbsy of the British Mt ski m.
5. BEARING PORTRAITS OF CHARLES I.: ONE OF
THE NUMEROUS CAVAUER BADGES.
6. FOR THE VICTOR OF NASEBY : A ROUNDHEAD
MEDAL GIVEN TO SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX, 1645.
7. THE FIRST REGULAR WAR MEDAL ISSUED TO
ALL RANKS : THAT VOTED TO CROMWELL AFTER
DUNBAR, 1650.
8. ADMIRAL BLAKE’S DEFEAT OF VAN TROMP, 1653 :
A FAMOUS NAVAL MEDAL.
9- FOR BLAKE’S MEN WHO SAVED THE BURNING
FLAGSHIP "TRIUMPH": A SILVER MEDAL, 1653.
xo. BESTOWED BY GEORGE II. ON CAPTAIN CALLIS FOR
BURNING SPANISH SHIPS : A GOLD MEDAL, 1742.
IX. AWARDED FOR CULLODEN : A RARE BRONZE BADGE
(1746) SHOWING THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND,
xa. FOR THE BATTLE OF THE NILE : THE DAVISON
MEDAL, 1798.
ij. FOR TRAFALGAR (1805) : THE BOULTON MEDAL.
X. AN ARMADA MEDAL FOR NAVAL COMMANDERS :
QUEEN BESS AND HER INVIOLATE ISLE, 1588.
a. THE EARLIEST AWARDED TO THE BRITISH ARMY :
A DUTCH MEDAL FOR THE BATTLE OF
NIEUPORT, 1600.
3- STRUCK WHILE CHARLES I. WAS AT OXFORD. IN
1643: THE “ FORLORN HOPE ” MEDAL.
4- FOR THE VICTOR OF EDGEHILL : A ROUNDHEAD
MEDAL GIVEN TO THE EARL OF ESSEX, 1642.
The history of our service medals, whose numbers and significance have been
so much increased by the war, is a fascinating subject. The article by Mr.
J. Allan on the next page describes the earlier British medals illustrated above
and on that page, as well as the modern decorations illustrated in colour on the
page facing his article. Fuller information may be found in Mr. Stanley C.
Johnson’s admirable book, “The Medal Collector” (Herbert Jenkins). “The
fashioning of medals,” he writes, “was a craft almost unknown in England
prior to the time of Henry VIII. . . . Between Henry’s reign and that of
Elizabeth, the industry grew. . . Interesting pieces can be found
with events in Scotland, the voyages of Sir Francis Drake, the relations of the
Queen with Holland, a.id the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The latter are
the first English decorations to be conferred for warlike services.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16. 1921—508
?rom tl>e Armada to tbe 6reat War-Briti$b Serctce medals.
(N.B.—The “Figures” referred to In this article appear on the preceding page; the “Plates" on the colour page opposite.)
W HILE all our distinguished service medals
are of quite modern origin, the custom of
bestowing such awards can be traced back to the
sixteenth century. The earliest English decoration
for special services is the celebrated Drake jewel,
presented by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis
Drake on the completion of his voyage round the
worM. A jewelled hat-badge was presented to
Drake on the defeat of the Armada, while his
Rear-Admiral, Sir John Hawkins, received a
jewel. To the period of the Armada belong
several medals presented to distinguished naval
commanders. One of the best known (Fig. i) of
these bears a facing bust of Elizabeth, with the
flattering legend, “ Ditior in toto non alter circulus
orbe,” and on the reverse an island uninjured by
storm, with the motto, ” non ipsa pericula tangunt.”
The earliest medal awarded to the British Army
for distinguished
services is a foreign
one, gained in
Flanders. This is
the medal (Fig. 2)
given by the
States-General of
the Netherlands to
the English troops
under Sir Francis
de Vere, who bore
the brunt of the
fighting in the
battle of Nieu-
port in 1600, when
Prince Maurice of
Nassau defeated
the forces of the
Archduke Albert
of Austria. The
obverse shows a
plan of the siege
of Fort St. Andries, and on the reverse Prince
Maurice rides over the enemy.
During the Civil War, Charles I. caused several
medals to be struck for distinguished services, such
as that presented to Sir Robert Welch for recap¬
turing the Royal Standard at Edgehill. One of
the best known of these is the “ Forlorn Hope "
medal (Fig. 3) or badge, ordered to be struck in
1643 while Charles was at Oxford. It bears his
" Royal Image
and that of our
dearest son, Prince
Charles.” The
numerous Cavalier
badges (Fig. 5),
with portraits of
Charles and mem¬
bers of his family,
are, as a rule, not
of the nature of
rewards. Numer¬
ous special medals
were struck by
the Parliamentar¬
ians during the
Civil War, e.g.,
those given to the
Earl of Essex after
Edgehill (Fig. 4)
and to Sir Thomas
Fairfax after the
Battle of Naseby
(Fig. 6). It is to the period of the Commonwealth
that we owe the first regular war medal issued to
all ranks. This is the medal (Fig. 7) voted by
Parliament to Cromwell and his army after the
victory at Dunbar in 1650. The obverse bore, in
spite of his protest, a bust of Cromwell, and the
legend : “ Ye word at Dunbar, the Lord of Hosts,
Sept, ye 3rd 1650 ” chosen by Cromwell in allusion
to his watchword that day. The Commonwealth’s
war with the Dutch gave us the earliest naval
medals issued in any numbers. Of these, the
most famous (Fig. 8) is the medal awarded to
Admiral Blake and his officers for their defeat
of Van Tromp in July 1653. The medal has on
the obverse a representation of the battle, sur¬
rounded by a border of naval trophies, and on
the reverse an anchor and cable with the arms of
England, Scotland and Ireland. Similar medals
(Fig. 9) in silver, with a special inscription, were
given to those members of Blake’s flagship, the
Triumph, who remained on board after it had
been set on fire.
Of the numerous medals commemorating the
naval battles of the late seventeenth and early
eighteenth centuries, one of those struck on the
victory of La Hogue in 1692 was ordered by Queen
Mary to be distributed among the officers and
seamen who were found to have done any signal
service. Queen Anne presented medals to the captain
and boatswain of the Torbay for acts of particular
bravery in the Battle of Vigo. In June 1742
Captain Callis entered the harbour of St. Tropez
and burned five Spanish ships there. A gold
medal (Fig. 10) was awarded him by George II.
for this exploit, and specimens in silver were given
to his officers.
The Battle of Culloden gave the Army the
first distinguished service medals it bad received
since the Battle of Dunbar. The fine and rare
medals with the bust of the Duke of Cumberland
and Apollo slaying a Dragon on the reverse (illus¬
trated on this page), were awarded after this battle.
The exceedingly rare bronze badge (Fig. 11) with
the Duke on horseback and a battle in the back¬
ground was also awarded for Culloden. The
Naval Gold Medal was instituted in 1794 for the
By Courtesy of the British Museum.
” glorious first of June ” and awarded until 1815
to the higher officers of the Fleet. It may be
said to begin the modern series of distinguished
service medals. The Davison Medal (Fig. 12) for
the Battle of the Nile, and the Boulton Medal
(Fig. 13) for Trafalgar, were private issues given
with the Government’s permission to every parti¬
cipant in the battles. It was not till fifty years
later, in 1847, that the survivors of Trafalgar
were rewarded with the Navy General Service
Medal. Here, however, we are dealing only with
meritorious service medals. The first medal since
the Battle of Dunbar to be officially issued to all
ranks was the Waterloo Medal, which standardised
the shape and size of such awards, although re¬
cently there has been a tendency to revive the
old oval shape.
The instances we have so far given have all
been exceptional issues, and the institution of
medals for special services, as distinguished from
medals awarded to all participants in a campaign,
may be said to date only from the reign of Queen
Victoria. The oldest of such medals is the
Meritorious Service Medal (Plate 14), authorised by
the Queen on Dec. 19, 1845, “ to afford a greater
encouragement to the N.C.O.s and soldiers of our
Army who may have distinguished themselves.” The
obverse of the medal, which is of silver, bears the
Royal bust. The ribbon is crimson for the Army
and deep blue for the Marines. In December 1854
the Distinguished Conduct Medal (Plate 8) was
instituted by the Sovereign in recognition of the
distinguished service of the Army in the field in
the Crimea. It is awarded only to N.C.O.s and
men, and till 1862 carried a gratuity with it. The
Naval counterpart of this medal is the Con¬
spicuous Gallantry Medal, instituted eight months
later (Plate 9). This is awarded to petty officers
and seamen, and to sergeants, corporals, and
privates of Marines.
The Victoria Cross was instituted in 1856, to
be awarded to officers and men who have performed
some signal act of valour or devotion to their
country in the presence of the enemy. The idea
was Queen Victoria’s own, and the Prince Consort
is believed to have influenced the design. This
most coveted distinction is a Maltese cross of
bronze, 1 \ inches square, made from captured guns.
On the obverse is the British lion above a crown,
below which is a scroll with the words ” For
Valour.” The ribbon, inches wide, is dark red
for the Army and dark blue for the Navy (Plate 1).
The Distinguished Service Order (Plate 2), in¬
stituted in 1886, is bestowed on officers who have
been specially mentioned in despatches for merit¬
orious service in
war. It is a gold
cross pat6e, 1 5-8
inches square,
enamelled white,
having on the
obverse the Im¬
perial crown on
a red enamelled
ground within a
green wreath, and
on the reverse the
Royal monogram.
The Royal Red
Cross (Plate 3), an
Order instituted in
1883, is given to
ladies who have
distinguished
themselves in at¬
tending the sick
or wounded. The
badge is a crimson enamelled cross edged with gold,
having on the four arms the words ” Faith,’'
“Hope,” ” Charity,” and the date ” 1883.” The
reverse has the Royal monogram. The ribbon,
dark blue with red edges, is in the form of a bow.
The Distinguished Service Medal (Plate id) was
the first of the new medals awarded for the recent
war. It was instituted on Oct. 14, 1914, to reward
petty officers and lower ranks in the Navy, and the
corres pond i n g
ranks in the Ma¬
rines, for bravery
in the presence of
the enemy in cases
which did not
justify the higher
award of the Con¬
spicuous Gallantry
Medal. The ribbon
is dark blue with
two white stripes.
The Distin¬
guished Service
Cross (Plate 4),
another naval de¬
coration dating
from 1914, is not
exactly a new
award. The Con¬
spicuous Service
Cross, created by
King Edward VII.
in 1901, for petty officers in the Navy whose ser¬
vices had been mentioned in despatches, was dis¬
continued in 1914, and the same cross—a silver
cross pat£e, with crown and monogram in the
centre—was bestowed as the Distinguished Ser¬
vice Cross. Its award was extended to certain
junior commissioned officers, so that it corre¬
sponds to the Military Cross. The latter (Plate 5),
instituted on the last day of 1914, is awarded to
Army officers of the rank of Captain and under
who have rendered distinguished service in¬
sufficient to justify the award of the D.S.O.
The Military Medal (Plate 11), instituted in
April 1916, is awarded to N.C.O.s and men for
acts of bravery in the field, as the inscription shows.
The ribbon is dark blue with three white and two
crimson stripes.
On June 3, 1918, four silver decorations were
instituted for the Royal Air Force. These were
the Distinguished Flying Cross (Plate 6), for
officers and warrant officers, and the Distinguished
Flying Medal (Plate 12), for N.C.O.s and men,
awarded for acts of gallantry when flying in
the face of the enemy. The Air Force Cross
(Plate 7) and the Air Force Medal (Plate 13) are
awarded to officers and men respectively for acts
of courage when flying, but not in the face of
the enemy. J. Allan.
FOR THE NAVAL VICTORY OVER THE DUTCH
OFF LOWESTOFT ON JUNE 3, 1665: CHARLES ll.’S
“ DOMINION OF THE SEA *' MEDAL, AWARDED TO
OFFICERS OF THE DUKE OF YORK’S FLEET.
WITH ANOTHER HEAD OF THE MERRY MONARCH. AND
A SEA-FIGHT: CHARLES ll.’S NAVAL REWARD FOR FLAG
OFFICERS AND CAPTAINS AT THE BATTLE OF LOWESTOFT
ON JUNE 3, 1665.
BESTOWED BY JAMES II. FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AWARDED AFTER THE LAST BATTLE FOUGHT
REBELLION OF MONMOUTH AND ARGYLL: A NAVAL AND IN BRITAIN: ” BUTCHER” CUMBERLAND’S GOLD
MILITARY MEDAL OF 1685. MEDAL FOR OFFICERS AT CULLODEN, 1746.
By Courtesy of the British Museum.
LONDON NEWS,
April 16. 1921.— 509
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VU.1UKIA CROSS (OBVERSE).
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER (OBVERSE).
ROYAL red CROSS, 1st CLASS (OBVERSE).
(NAVAL) DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS (OBVERSE).
MILITARY CROSS (OBVERSE).
(OBVERSE).
6 DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
7. AIR FORCE CROSS (OBVERSE)
8. DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL (REVERSE).
9. (NAVAL) CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY MEDAL
VERSE).
The Victoria Cross, the highest of all our military decorations, was originated by
yueen Victoria in 1856 after the Crimean War. The Distinguished Service Order,
instituted in 1886, is “a Naval and Military Order of Distinction” for officers.’
e Koyal Red Cross, a decoration for women, dates from 1883. The Distinguished
ervice Cross, for junior Naval officers, instituted on October 14, 1914, superseded
the Conspicuous Service Cross of 1901. The Military Cross, for Army officers,
was instituted in 1914. The Distinguished Flying Cross, for R.A.F. officers and
warrant officers, was instituted on the King’s birthday in 1918, for gallantry in
war, and the Air Force Cross (at the same time) for officers, warrant officers, and
10. (NAVY AND MARINES) DISTINGUISHED SER 1
MEDAL (REVERSE).
11. MILITARY MEDAL (REVERSE).
12. DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL (OBVERSE)
13- AIR FORCE MEDAL (OBVERSE).
14- MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL (REVERSE),
civilians for courage and devotion to duty when flying, though not in war
dat Tm th r dUCt ^ 3nd thC C ° nS P icU0US Gallantry g Meda for the N
,n OctT War ‘ ThC Anguished Service Medal was fill is
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Military Medal was instituted in 1916 for NCOs and men n f a
Distinguished Flying Medal is for N.C.O s and men of T RAF
L;- and . the A,r Force Medal for courage and devotion to duty when fit)
instituted""! TsaTfor . J he A Meri,0ri ° us Serv ‘« Medal, for N.C.O.s and men, 1
instituted ,n 1845 for the Army and ,n 1849 for the Royal Marines.
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The future of the Navy, and especially the vexed question of the utility of capital ships, has been very anxiously discussed since the war. Public interest in ^
vital matter was again stirred by the recent debate on the Navy Estimates, and the statement thereon by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Lee
Fareham, who recently succeeded Mr. Walter Long. He said that the Government’s naval policy was to maintain a “ One-Power Standard,” and not to enter ^
competitive building programmes against other Powers. “ But,” he continued, “ it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of the Admiralty to allow
efficiency, training, or moral of the Royal Navy to deteriorate through neglect to provide it with mattriel which is equal to the best. ... No capital ship l> as
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BRITISH
H. Mason, R.B.A.
TYPES OF
MODERN
SHIPS.
NAVY - INTERESTING
SMALLER SHIPS OF THE NAVY : A FLOTILLA LEADER, SLOOP, AND TRANSPORT.
THE CO-OPERATION OF SEA AND AIR FORCES : AN AEROPLANE-CARRIER.
laid down and completed since 1916, and as the Fleet is reduced in numbers, the ships of which it is composed must be of up-to-date type and of the highest
efficiency.” The Estimates, therefore, provide for the commencement of certain “ re-placement ” ships, among them four battle-ships of an improved “ Hood ” type,
to be laid down this year, with a submarine and a mine-layer embodying new and experimental features. Sir J. Craig, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, said
>n Parliament that the Naval Staff and the Admiralty still considered that “ the necessity for the capital ship had survived the test of the Great War,” and that
a similar investigation in the United States had led to the same conclusion. "—[Drawings Copyrighted »'n the United States and Caruuia.]
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SMOKED GLASS, FILMS, PAIL AND PINHOLE: OBSERVING THE ECLIPSE.
DRAVN BY STEVEN SPURRIER, R.O.I. j INSET PHOTOGRAPH BY COURTESY OF THE PATHS FILM CO.
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS DURING THE RECENT ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN : A FAMILY PARTY OBSERVING
THE PHENOMENON WITH HOMELY DEVICES-(INSET) A PIECE OF CINEMA FILM DISTRIBUTED IN LONDON.
The solar eclipse on the morning of April 8 provided a pleasant interlude from
discussions of the coal dispute, and the weather was ideal for watching it." The
eclipse was of the annular type, the complete ring of the sun’s edge left round
the moon being visible in the north of Scotland. From London the ring was
not complete. Thousands of amateur astronomers conducted improvised observa¬
tions, using various simple devices to mitigate the glare of the sun. In the
family group here illustrated, the father is using a piece of smoked glass, while
the mother has one of the pieces of film given away to Londoners by the Path£
Film Company, and bearing the following instructions : “ To view eclipse, look
at the sun through the black portion of this film. Hold close to the eye.”
The little boy has an ordinary photographic negative, and the little girl two pieces
of paper, the upper one pierced by a pin-hole, through which the eclipse is pro¬
jected on to the lower one. The maid is observing the eclipse reflected in a
pail of water. [Drawing Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.]
514_THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 16, 1921.
PRESCRIBING these two photographs of the Kilauea
crater, Mr. L. W. de Vis-Norton writes, from
Honolulu, on March 12 : “ No. i [the upper illus¬
tration here] is a view taken from the north-eastern
rim of the inner crater, looking in a westerly direction
to where the clear-cut slope of the great volcano,
Mauna Loa, looms up, on the extreme right of the
picture, against the sunset sky. In the left centre and
background appears the towering mass of the summit
of the lava column, which has risen within its pit from
unfathomable depths, until it now stands high above
the rim. This mass is largely red-hot and is giving
off poisonous fumes and gases in great quantities.
The foreground is occupied by one of the five lava
lakes at present (March 1921) in existence, its white-
hot waves and fountains gnawing and tearing at the
opposite bank or terrace at the base of the main mass.
The lava is eating in under the bank, which is gradually
being demolished, and glowing stalactites are very
clearly visible along the whole line of melt. A heavy
splash of molten lava lies on the higher part of the
bank, and is just commencing to solidify.
No. 2 is a closer view of the fountains and fiery spray
in the first picture. The photographer has made his
way along a narrow ledge separating two of the lakes,
and has reached a point almost directly opposite his
former position. It is a post of real danger, for lava
is uncertain in its habits, and should a splash be flung
in his direction he would not live long enough to know
what hit him. The picture gives a wonderful idea 0/
the spectacle of the great fire-lakes in action at night.
Through the curtain of fire-spray the full extent of
the lake can be seen, and high in the background rises
a great flaming cone, whose roar is distinctly heard
several miles away.”
Another description of Kilauea, “ the House of
Eternal Fire," appears elsewhere in this number, from
[OnAwm/ IN 1.
A LAVA LAKE WITH “WHITE-HOT WAVES AND FOUNTAINS GNAWING Affi TEAM
OF KILAUEA SHOWING THE SLOPE
41 »& 1 !
WHERE A CHANCE SPLASH OF LAVA WOULD HAVE KILLED THE PHOTOGRAPHER: “THE GREAT FIRE-LAKM 1^
SEEN IN THE UPPER PHOTOGRAPH, FROM A “POST OF REAL
HAUNT OF THE FLAME-HAIRED GODDESS PELE: “THE HOUSE OF ETERNAL FIRE"
These wonderful photographs, the obtaining of which, as may well be imagined, was a perilous task, were token by Mr. K. Maehara, of Hilo, Hawaii, on o(
during an abnormally high level of the lava column in the crater of Kilauea near the great Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa. We are enabled to publish them 7
Sr;
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16, 1921.—515
zr zr.".z.zn,-r ■— ~————' — - - - - — —
I the pen of the famous woman traveller, Mrs. Rosita
Forbes, whose recent daring journey into the Sahara
to the fastnesses of the Senussi aroused so much in¬
terest. She has visited many parts of the world and
described them vividly. Writing of Kilauea, she says :
“ Sharp-cut volcanic crags tower out of the seething
black substance which everlastingly breaks and recedes,
in oily black waves, against the circular walls of Pele’s
home. Flame gleams in fiery serpents from rock to
rock. Hissing demons of light curl up to the watching
cliffs, and the golden hair of the goddess is blown in
stray gleaming wisps along the crater’s edge. In
reality it is fine-spun shreds of lava, but even the most
sceptical must admit that it is fairest corn-colour in
the sunlight and meet tresses for any divinity. He
who would actually see the goddess must wait till the
moon rises triumphantly above Mauna Loa, and her
cold silver mixes with the vermilion fires of Kilauea.
Then the whole crater bursts into rivers and pools of
flame. The demons ride fantastic races in the whirling
smoke-wreaths. In agony and wrack the heart of
the earth gives up her gold. Light, colour, storm,
blaze and thunder round the central crags, and surely
the wildest flame is the scarlet robe of Pele and the
yellow fumes are her unbound hair ! ”
Mauna Loa (Great Mountain) is the largest volcano
in the world, and is still active. It is over 13,600 ft
high, and extends at sea-level about 75 by 50 miles.
Its eruptions have consisted mainly of quiet discharges
of lava in enormous quantities. Kilauea, a hiU about
16 miles to the south-east on the eastern slope of
Mauna Loa, has the largest active crater in the
world, over 8 miles in circumference. Another
Hawaiian mountain, Mauna Haleakala, has the
largest extinct pit-crater in the world, covering
an area of about 19 square miles. Mauna Loa
was in eruption in 1907.
IGHT ” A CLOSER VIEW OF THE FOUNTAINS AND FIERY SPRAY
^ OST DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE FORMER POSITION.
(f Ma Rvellous new photographs of the inner crater of kilauea.
Mr - L - W. de Vis-Norton, Secretary of the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association, Honolulu. Our readers will remember that we have in previous numbers given several other
^ °gr»p , of equally remarkable interest, from the same source. In this connection it may be noted that Vesuvius was reported the other day to be displaying unusual activity.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Atril 16, 1921.—516
(Sun Kruarkari.k Photographs this Issva.)
O NCE a week an old tramp steamer threads its
way in and out among the misty Hawaiian
Isles. It labours in the swell of the great Pacific
rollers, and with each pitch it diffuses the well-
known odour of the Southern Seas—copra. One
cannot get away from it. Wherever there is a
palm-tree, there also is the stench of the white
oily substance that is made irom the cocoa-
nut flesh. The white hotels of Honolulu, with
memories of far-famed pine-apple cocktails, fade
away to port. The towering ridgeJof Nuana Pali,
scene of King Kamehameha’s last great battle for
his island freedom, dwindles
to a shadow on the horizon,
and a score of barren rocks
surge out of blue waters at
the bows.
The lesser Hawaiian Isles
are sparsely inhabited by a
primitive race which treasures
the stories of its ancient
royalty, whose chiefs still
wear the marvellous feather
robes made of the breasts
of a myriad flaming birds.
They have never seen a
horse or a cow. They offer
the rare traveller soft-voiced
welcome in a hut of rustling
grass. Their food is “ poi,”
a glutinous, starch-like paste
made of taro-root and served
in the half of a dried gourd.
The men earn a scanty
living by fishing with home¬
made spear and net. The
women crown their dark
hair with flowers, and hang
garlands (‘‘lais’’) of sweet-
scented frangipanni over
bare brown breasts and
swinging skirts of straw.
Here, when the softest
winds in the world shake
out the perfume of the
datura (the death-flower),
may be seen the real hula-
hula. A ukelelc throbs from
some dim corner. Old men
beat out the rhythm of the
dance on rattling gourds
filled with dry seeds, jerk-;
ing themselves into strange,
distorted postures. Lazily
out of the shadows come
the grave-eyed girls with
long, drooping eyelashes and
quivering finger - tips. One
leads the dance in memory
of an ancient privilege of
the Hawaiian Queen. The
others follow slowly. It is
typical of the spirit of a
race doomed to extinction
by the force of Western
vitality that even their
dances are grave and mirth¬
less. A shadow of super¬
stition and fear hangs over
all their gatherings. Always
their simple festivals end
with a cry to Pele, dread
goddess of the “ House of
Fire ” — she whose breath
shakes the mountain, she
whose wrath has destroyed
whole villages in the wake
of her burning lava !
The creaking tramp wal¬
lows phlegmatically from
island to island. It touches at Molokai, where
Father Damien sacrificed his life to the care
of the leper colony, ( which still exists among the
lonely defiles of the northern shore. It passes a
few lazy hours at Lahaina, where one may break¬
fast happily on papaia, whose fat pink flesh tastes
like soft soap, and striped barracuda fish, with sour
orange-juice and olives thrown in as relishes. It
puts in at Wailuku, where one sleeps m fear of the
giant, hairy centipedes which leave a red scar
wherever they crawl across bare flesh ; and then
it plunges into Hilo Harbour, shaking every
loosened board and bar with a sigh of relief at its instantly stopped, and Christianity was looked
journey’s end. upon with infinite scorn !
It will be seen, there¬
fore, that the mountain is
at once the centre of the
island life, its mainspring,
and its doom. From the
white cottages of Hilo one
may drive long miles over
the worst road in the world
through forests of giant
tree - ferns, whose shadowy
umbrellas meet over one's
head till the golden green
and the intolerably sweet
scent of all tropical flowers,
together with the scarlet
flame of the hibiscus, are
wiped out by the black
lava. From fairy glades one
emerges suddenly into the
bleakness of utter desola¬
tion. Even the sunlight
can do no more than glint
steel - white on the ebony
wastes. Great valleys and
gorges, devoid of vegeta¬
tion, are carved out of the
blackness. Sulphur fumes
weight the air. One trudges
for miles over this aching
country, the thin crust
breaking beneath one’s feet.
Great waves of hot smoke
are borne down upon one,
shutting out the ridge of
Mauna Loa.
Cloying scent of oleanders and wild white
ginger meet one far out at sea. The great bulk
of Mauna Loa looms up behind the tiny fishing
village which was almost destroyed some years
ago by a river of lava which flowed relentlessly
down from the living crater of Kilauea. The
churches on the mainland prayed in vain for relief,
so the Princess Ruth was hastily fetched from
Honolulu to offer sacrifices to appease the anger
It is not so long ago that crueller sacrifices
were enacted to appease the angry goddess. Pale
Hawaiian girls went with music and song to their
voluntary doom. Stalwart youths left their sails
and spears to offer themselves to the mountain.
Quite lately, when a river of lava threatened to
overwhelm a whole village on the further side of
the island, a dismal little procession, old and
young, men, women, and children, started up the
mountain side intent on
flinging themselves into the
boiling pit. Fortunately, the
death-song which they wailed
was borne on the winds to
less superstitious islanders,
and protest came forth from
Hilo. The sacrificial vic¬
tims were forcibly prevented
from fulfilling their purpose,
and, luckily, the eruption
ceased the following day.
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SUBSTANCE ’’
SWINGING
SHARP-CUT VOLCANIC CRAGS TOWER OUT OF THE SEETHING BLACK
THE CRATER OF KILAUEA, ON MAUNA LOA, BY DAY.
THE WOMEN . . . HANG GARLANDS OVER BARE BROWN BREASTS AND
SKIRTS OF STRAW”: BELLES OF HAWAII.
SURELY THE WILDEST FLAME IS THE SCARLET ROBE OF PELE. AND THE YELLOW
FUMES ARE HER UNBOUND HAIR l”: THE CRATER OF KILAUEA BY NIGHT.
Photographs by Mrs. Rosita Forbes.
of Pele. By this time the black molten mass was
within a few hundred yards of the village. A
little platform was built at the edge of the flow,
and thereon the Hawaiian Princess, weighing
some seventeen stone, was hoisted by the
terrified priests. Chickens were brought to her,
and she cut their throats to offer their blood
to Pele. Pigs were killed round her feet amidst
the prayers and lamentations of the crowd.
Then the ancient lady held out her arms to
the smoking crags of Kilauea and prayed to
Pclc to spare her children. The lava flow
Then quite suddenly one
finds oneself standing on the
edge of the crater above
the ‘ House of Eternal
Fire. ” Sharp - cut volcanic
crags tower out of the seeth¬
ing black substance, which
everlastingly breaks and re¬
cedes in oily black waves
against the circular walls of
Pele’s home. Flame gleams
in fiery serpents from rock
to rock. Hissing streams of
light curl up to the watch¬
ing cliffs, and the golden
hair of the goddess is blown
in stray gleaming wisps
along the crater’s edge ! In
reality it is fine-spun shreds
of lava, but even the most
sceptical must admit that it
is fairest corn-colour in the
sunlight, and meet tresses for the head of any
divinity f He who would actually see the goddess
must wait till the moon rises triumphantly above
Mauna Loa, and her cold silver mixes with the
vermilion fires of Kilauea. Then the whole crater
bursts into rivers and pools of flame. The demons
ride fantastic races in the whirling smoke-wreaths.
In agony and wrack the heart of the earth gives
up her gold. Light, colour, Storm blaze and
thunder round the central crags, and surely the
wildest flame is the scarlet robe of Pele, and the
yellow' fumes arc her unbound hair !
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
APPEALING FOR IRISH TRUCE AND CONCILIATION: CHURCH LEADERS
iBSTKI
to, “ Mkthoo
THE BISHOP OF CHESTER.
THE BISHOP OF
SOUTHWARK.
*JN opening the latest discussion on the Irish situation
the Archbishop of Canterbury __
against the deplorable practice of indiscriminate
irregular forces of the Crown,
the absolute unlawfulness of the
and provocative, by
protest we,
further,
to say that
rise to the whole reprisals policy,
outbreak of wanton criminality in the
behind them a long-cherished and deep-seated
has been aggravated and inflamed by
concessions of the new Irish Government Act
Hence Dai! Eireann’s quarrel with Great Britain and the
fraught with intolerable distress and humiliation
In these circumstances we join our voices with those who
sides for the adoption of a different line of policy,
to arrange, if possible,
agreed solution of the Irish difficulty. It
until it has been seriously and patiently tried we
native course of action,
the Empii
the House of Lords,
took occasion once more to protest strongly
and unauthorised reprisals by the
He did so on the highest of all grounds-namely,
attempt to overcome wrong, however flagrant
means of further and equally indefensible wrong. With that
the undersigned, desire earnestly to associate ourselves. And we go
Whrle not entitled to commit our respective Churches, we feel constrained
cannot regard the cruel and detestable outrages which have given
authorised and unauthorised alike, as a mere
ordinary sense. Notoriously there lies
sense of political grievance which
many untoward events, and which the
have altogether failed to appease.
emergence of a situation
to every lover of his country.
appealing from many
We plead with the Government
genuine truce, with a view to a deliberate effort after an
may be that the attempt will fail ; but
cannot acquiesce in any alter-
The present policy is causing grave unrest throughout
and exposing us to misunderstanding and the hostile criticism even
of the most friendly of the nations of the world. Admittedly it affords no prospect
of the speedy restoration of law and order. Nor can we believe that it leads to
the end all must desire—a peaceful and contented Ireland. On the contrary, its
heaviest condemnation perhaps lies in the deepening alienation it is steadily
effecting between this country and all classes of the Irish people. A method of
government attended by such consequences cannot be politically or ethically right,
and ought, we submit, to give place without delay to a policy of conciliation.
What form this should take we do not presume to sav. Various
DR. WALPOLE
(Bishop of Edinburgh.
MR. S. WILCOX STOCKER
(Wesleyan Methodist ;
Scotland.)
MR. HENRY BROWN
(Congregational Union ;
Scotland.)
DR. ALEX. MARTIN
(United Free Church of
Scotland.)
MR. W. A. HINDLEY
(Independent Methodist.)
MR. ROGER CLARK
(Society of Friends.)
PRINCIPAL GARVIE
(Congregational Union.)
The appeal for an Irish truce and a policy of conciliation that is printed on this
page has been sent to the Prime Minister and the Secretary for Ireland. It was
published on April 6, and is signed by those leaders of the Churches whose
portraits are here reproduced. Mr. Gillie is President of the National Council of
Evangelical Free Churches. Principal Garvie is Chairman of the Congregational
Union. Dr. Wardle Stafford is President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference.
Mr. Davison is President of the Primitive Methodist Conference. Mr. Hindley is
President of the Independent Methodist Conference. Mr. Macgregor is Moderator
of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of England. Mr. Clark is
Clerk (Chairman) of the London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends.
Dr. Martin is Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Free Church of
Scotland. Dr. Robberds, Bishop of Brechin, is Primus of the Scottish Episcopal
Church. Dr. Walpole is Bishop of Edinburgh. Mr. Henry Brown is the Chair¬
man of the Congregational Union of Scotland. Mr. Paterson is President of the
Baptist Union of Scotland. Mr. Wilcox Stocker is Chairman of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church, Scotland District
518— THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 16. 1921.
i
ICONS UNDER THE RED FLAG: RELIGION FLOURISHING
MOSCOW UNDER THE BOLSHEVISTS: A HUGE THRONG AT A RELIGIOUS
The photograph shows that the religious faith which is so deeply rooted in the Russian soul has not been eradicated by Bosherism, but that the Orthodox Church pursues its
course very much as under the Imperial regime. Sacred icons and banners, it will be seen, are still objects of veneration to large numbers of the people in Moscow, sod
PROCESSION. WITH ICONS AND BANNERS. OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN.
borne in public procession through the streets past the eery walls of the Kremlin, accompanied by a thronging multitude, in which the men have bared their heads as a
M * n of reverenc *- The whole scene shows that the old spirit of Russian piety is far from dead.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 16, 1921—519
EVEN UNDER LENIN’S RULE, AS UNDER NICHOLAS II.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 16, 1921.—520
By J. T. GREJN .
Photograph by Fouhham and Ban field. Ltd,
IN A BIG THRILL AT THE LITTLE THEATRE:
MISS SYBIL THORNDIKE AS CATHERINE, WITH
THE DOGS. IN "THE KILL."
Catherine’s lover is caught by her husband in her room and, having
fainted, is thrown by him through a window to his savage and hungry
boarhounds.— [Photograph by Stage Photo Co.]
will help. Nor need there be any risk on your side ;
we will guarantee both funds, theatre, and com¬
forts. Will you be our friend across the sea ? ”
I heard harps in the air and buckled to. As
I write, Mr. Davidson is collecting interest and
sinews as fast as he can, the English Colony in
Copenhagen is agog ; here I am on the eve of con¬
cluding pourparlers with a theatre where the cult
of Shaw and Galsworthy is {he mainstay of its
programmes, and, if the authors are agreeable,
there will sail early in May a dramatic ” May¬
flower,’’ manned by the young generation, with a
cargo of three one-acters
by Barrie, *’ Candida,”
by Shaw, and ” The Fu¬
gitive,” by Galsworthy.
She will drop anchor
at Copenhagen's lovely
Dagmar Theatre, .whose
director, Mr. Rose, is all
for English art, and en¬
thusiastic to co-operate.
Of course, there is al¬
ways a 'twixt-cup-and-
lip, but both Barkises
are so willing that I
have reason to feel san¬
guine. And thus I hope
that, thanks to The
Illustrated London News,
our friends the Danes
will become better
acquainted with our
drama and our his¬
trionic power.
Well, at the Little, there is the usual
liberal supply of shockers. ” Seven Blind
Men ” is a harrowing study of the terror
of benighted eyes when the fire alarm
sounds. It is in Descaves’ strongest vein,
as cruel and as real as the scenes of his
famous, now obsolete, book. ” Sous-Offs,”
which sent a shudder through France. The
acting was magnificent—the vacant eyes
of Russell Thorndike will haunt me like a
wraith. The other goose-flesher—“ The
Kill,” by Maurice Level (he has written
a volume containing stories enough to
fill ten Guignol programmes)—is so awful
and so obvious that one feels inclined to greet the
devouring of the lover by a pack of dogs with an
“ Oh, death, where is thy sting ? ” I infinitely
preferred Miss Thorndike in Frederick Fenn’s
and Richard Pryce’s feeling, but somewhat laboured
little play, ” The Love Child.” Miss Thorndike’s
horizon is steadily widening at the Guignol ; every
new part unveils a new aspect of her versatility.
Of the half-dozen plays that turned two hours
into a whirligig, ” Dead Man’s Pool,” by Victor
and T. C. Bridges, was British and best. It was
an expression of the sportsmanlike spirit that
More international
amity. When anon
Mile. Gachet, the French
producer at our Royal
Academy of Dramatic
Art, proceeds to Paris
with her prize pupil.
Miss Joan Swinstead, there to enjoy a week
of French dramatic art — at the Fran^aise,
the Od6on, the Op^ra, the Vieux Colombier, the
Theatre de 1 ’CEuvTe—they will be piloted by the
Our only puzzle was, which of the four actors—
Lewis Casson, Richard Carfax, Sydney Pease, or
Sherlock Hawkins—deserved the salmon.
Before leaving the Guignol, I would not fail
to pay a tribute to Mr. Jos6 Levy for the perfection
of his little ensembles, and even more so for the
great care which is bestowed on the production
of each panel. Here, with the simplest means.
A ROMANTIC DRAMA OF SPANISH BRIGANDAGE AT THE APOLLO THEATRE: THE UNMASKING
, OF THE VILLAIN IN “DON Q.”
Don Caesar, accused of a murder committed by Don Sebastian, escapes and becomes the brigand, Don Q. Finally he brings
the crime home to the culprit, and wins the heroine. From left to right the front figures are : Mr. William Stack as Don
Sebastian, Mr. F. J. Nettlefold as Don Caesar (Don Q). Mr. J. J. Bartlett as Colonel Matsado, Mr. Vincent Sternroyd as
General de Vayo, Mr. Cecil A. Melton as Robledo, Mrs. Maud Nettlefold as Lola, and Miss Dorothy Dix as Dolores, the heroine.
H ERE is a primeur which goes to prove that
The Illustrated London News is a potent
factor in the cause of the amity of nations. Last
week I found a letter addressed to me at the office
from Mr. A. H. Effron Davidson, a leading citizen
in Copenhagen, saying in effect: ” As a reader of
the I.L.N. 1 beg to ask you—cannot you prevail
upon an English manager to send an English
company to Copenhagen? The Com6die Fran-
9aise is celebrating triumphs here ; Moissy, of
the Deutsches Theater, has full houses night
after night ; but we, whose King’s daughter is
your beloved Alexandra, want to knit closer the
ties between Great Britain and Little Denmark.
We want English plays, we want Shaw and Gals¬
worthy and Barrie ; we shall welcome you with
open arms, and I feel sure the British Embassy
A MODERN CINDERELLA: MISS RENEE KELLY AS
SALLY SNAPE IN “THE HEART OF A CHILD,”
AT THE KINGSWAY.
Sally begins her career in a jam and pickle factory (as here
seen), turns actress, and ends, as many actresses do, by
marrying into the Peerage. —[Photograph by Stage Photo Co.]
the right effect is achieved, and there is not a
detail of scenery or ” props ” which is neglected.
Indeed, so graphic are some of the settings
that as an album collection they would be of
great use to aspirant producers, as well as a
souvenir.
famous leader of the last-named, the pioneer of
Maeterlinck and all that is famous in universal
drama, Lugn6-Po£. It is a tribute to our Academy,
and an honour to the student, that a man of such
erudition and influence will act as mentor and
guide on an expedition which cannot but bear
on the whole artistic career of the young actress.
May I, then, on behalf of the Academy, Mr.
Kenneth Barnes, and myself, thank M. ^ugn6-Poe
for his gracious aqd immediate adoption of the
proposal that he should consider himself to be host
of the occasion. It is an event which should impel
us to reciprocate, for international knowledge is
an inevitable equipment for the young generation.
Before dealing with Mr. Jos£ Levy’s latest
savoury sandwich, I must relate a little story.
It was at a famous club where ladies and
gentlemen foregather for tea, tattle, and
tango. Between the brass blares, the
conversation turned on Grand Guignol.
There was a French wag in the party,
and he whispered to his neighbour, ” Bet
you that not one of them knows what
guignol means.” So his English friend,
with a bland face, chimed into the parley:
” Apropos, what does guignol mean ? ”
Pause. Great expectations. The general
answer was, ” Well, you know, the sort
of little theatres they have in Paris.”
The Frenchman chuckled, but — he lost
his bet. The youngest of the company,
a flapper just back from the finishing
touch of Lausanne, piped blushingly:
” Why, you duffers, guignol is French for
Punch and Judy.”
pervades the nation. It is all about a ” com-
pleat ” angler, a convict, a warder, and a salmon.
The moral, that sport is the league that binds
the nation together, is strangely stimulating.
A young actor asked me once what he should
do to get on, and I replied : “ It is not so much
that which matters as the ‘ don’ts.’ ” Here
they are :—
DON’TS FOR THE ACTOR.
Don’t think yours is a place in the sun—remember the
German Emperor.
Don’t believe that there is no world beyond the theatre.
Don’t look at the audience (they are looking at you).
Don’t boast that you don’t read criticism—for you do.
Don’t ta’k about .yourself—let the others do it.
Don’t talk shop—it only interests the small minds.
Don’t believe in finery ; the finest birds are of simple
plumage.
Don’t belittle your fellow-
player ; one day he
may prove the better
fellow.
Don’t strut; that is the
peacock’s privilege.
Don’t swank, swagger, or
put on side—you are
judged from the other
side.
Don’t trust the flatterer—
he is the lime-lighter
of life.
Don’t be haughty — re¬
member that once you
were a petitioner (and
may be again).
Don’t value applause as
sterling ; it is merely
a bank of engraving
note.
Don’t forget that Fortune
is a fickle jade.
Don’t abuse your employer
if the Ghost walks re¬
gularly.
Don’t run down the show
because you dislike
your part.
Don’t kow-tow; remember
“ I am I.”
Don’t say he or she ” have
had their day ’’—
yours will come.
Don’t trust in “ It will be all right on the night ”—to
learn the part is Chapter I. of the contract and of
your Art.
Don’t only read the lines—read between them.
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LADIES' NEWS.
A COMBINATION of Wyndham with Tennant
should mean something brilliant, and the Hon.
Stephen Tennant, who will attain his fifteenth birth¬
day on the 2 ist inst., has had a show of singularly
clever drawings at the Doricn Leigh Galleries, Crom¬
well Place, and thus given promise of brilliant artistic
attainments in future. He has. of course, been reared
in a thoroughly artistic atmosphere. The Glenconner
residence in Queen Anne's Gate has a gallery of
pictures which is generally considered very fine. The
late Lord Glenconner opened it to the public on
certain afternoons. Lady Glenconner had a tea-
party and private view at the Galleries. Mrs. Asquith,
aunt of the youthful artist, was there in a black-and-
white wide-checked suit, a black hat. black shoes, and
white stockings. She was chaffing her nephew, who
chatled back. He is a perfectly natural and charming-
mannered boy. The Dowager Lady Leconfield was
there ; and pretty Lady Lytton. with pretty children.
It was quite a cheery party. Mr. Anthony Asquith
went also to see his cousin's drawings.
That the Prince of Wales was chewing gum before
he rode his steeplechase at Hawthorn Hill was
described as a habit he had acquired from America.
No doubt it originated there, but during the Great
War it became fairly general with our warriors and
officers. They found it the greatest help to them if
they had long marches, exhausting tasks, or if their
rations did not turn up. The Prince was not in that
case at Hawthorn Hill ; his Royal Highness was,
however, manifestly nervous—not about his riae, but
over the great demonstration in his favour—and. if
chewing gum was a comfort to him, it was one very
innocently acquired. The Queen looked very white,
and had to clasp her white-gloved hands to stay their
trembling. I stood quite near when the Prince rode
in winner, and never saw a more thankful and
relieved lady than the first in our land. Tears stood
in the Queen’s eyes, but were not permitted to do
more, and it was with the sweetest of smiles that she
patted her son's shoulder.
The Textile and Dress Exhibition at the Agricul¬
tural Hall, Islington, was a sheer delight to me.
There were certainly costumes for everyone, some more
remarkable than pretty, others quite charming. I
loved the bathing-costumes, and the women's smoking
coats and caps. The latter are quite pretty enough
to be worn without reference to nicotine. Stockings
were a study; there were birds on some, beetles on
others; snakes even were roped into use for leg-
decoration. These. I imagine, will he more remarked
upon than admired, or even worn. There were, of
course, very pretty stockings in refined colourings and
designs that will appeal to possessors of symmetrical
lower limbs. Millinery was a revelation to me. 1
had never before been to a Trade Exhibition, and feel
THE LATEST FROM PARIS.
Reminiscent of the days of the Second Empire is this dr
with its frilly full skirt.— [Photograph by GJ*^.)
that henceforward the coming season can have few
surprises for me in dress. There w'ere fruits and
flowers in wonderful colourings and out-of-the-way
materials. Some I loved and some I loathed ;
doubtless those that T loathe other women will love —
so runs the world of dress around. What most
amazed me was the unlikeness of the models to those
I had seen at the mannequin parades in the West
End. yet I presume all are in the latest manner of
the Mode. It takes a lot of women to make a season
go. and it takes a multitude of models to make the
women happy ! I think had women generally been
admitted to this Exhibition they would have enjoyed
it very much ; I know I did.
The Earl of Cranbrook comes of age this week
on the 14th. We have had a number of eligible
young men reach manhood recently, including Prince
Henry and the Marquess of Worcester. Lord Cran¬
brook has had nearly a six-years minority, and he
is nephew to the Earl of Glasgow, his mother having
been Lady Dorothy Boyle. Major-General the Hon.
John Gathome-Hardy, an uncle on his father’s side,
married the Earl of Derby's only sister, and they
have one daughter, who will be a debutante this
season, or possibly next, as she will not be seventeen
until August. As a rule, however, when there is
only one child, she enters Society early, as mothers
are keen to have the companionship of only girls.
Lord Cranbrook is the great grandson of the eminent
statesman who was first Earl of Cranbrook.
We are not alone in profiting by falling prices
for our dress. A friend has her two boys home from
Harrow, and asked me to go shopping with them
and her. It was rather fun ; the boys were full of
pranks and so glad that they were to have a new
school outfit. They said they had waited for prices
to fall, but if they had been made to wait much
longer their clothes would have fallen, like the sere
and yellow leaf. We went, of course, to Charles
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 16. 1921 —524
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS.
N OW is the time when our summer birds return.—
the cuckoo, the swallow, and the host of smaller
and less conspicuous birds, like the warblers, wheat-
ears, and wagtails, to name but a few of the legions
whose arrival on our shores is so eagerly awaited
and recorded. From whence have they come ? And
why do they leave us with the fall of the leaves ?
Our forefathers were not greatly troubled about
these matters. They had an answer ready. The
cuckoo, they insisted, changed itself into a sparrow-
hawk for the winter, while the swallows easily
evaded the rigours and inclemency of this season by
hibernating in the mud beneath the waters of horse-
ponds ; or, according to other authorities, like their
congeners, the martins, and the land-rail, they found
protection in the bowels of the earth, where, clus¬
tered in masses, for warmth, they awaited the
trumpet-call of spring for their resurrection. And there
were not wanting faithful witnesses of these events.
We are wiser to-day. We know that our truants
have come back to us from their winter resorts in
Africa; some of them from its farthest confines.
But what we do not know is why they leave us, and
why, having found quarters so much to their liking,
they return. For the journey out, no less than the
journey back, is full of peril. Speculation on this
theme has produced a rich crop of theories, each of
which, in its turn, found its supporters. Nevertheless,
the riddle is yet unsolved. Careful study, however,
may afford us some very valuable clues.
To begin with, all our returning wanderers are
indubitably British birds. That is to say, they were
each and all of them bred and bom on British soil,
as were their ancestors, for un-numbered thousands
of years. The little chiff-chaff one saw yesterday
in a Sussex copse was not hatched last year in
Saxony. It has returned to breed, not merely to
England, or to Sussex, or even to the same village,
but to the identical copse in that village. The order
of migration moves with machine-like precision.
Every bird, on reaching our shores, proceeds at once
to its destination. Were it otherwise disaster would
result. For precious time would be wasted in hunting
for suitable nursery sites, and while some areas
would be overstocked, others would be tenantless.
Since, then, they show’ such tenacity of purpose in re¬
turning, year after year, to
the same spot, to fulfil an
unquenchable yearning for
a mate, one naturally asks
why it is that, the home
area proving so attractive,
they ever leave it.
A careful survey of the
evidence bearing on the
rearing of the offspring on
the one hand, and on the
character of the autumn
migratory movements on
the other, seems to show
that our native birds—and
for that matter all migra¬
tory birds--arc very sus¬
ceptible to long-sustained
extremes of temperature.
In the autumn, our home¬
bred woodcock and thrushes,
for example, leave us for
more southern retreats, and.
as they depart, their places
are taken by other wood¬
cock and thrushes, which
were bred in regions further
north. Each is unable to
stand the winter of its birth¬
place. Each is driven north¬
ward to breed because it
would be unable to with¬
stand the summer temper¬
ature of the winter re¬
sort. This much seems clear
from the fact that on sultry days one finds brood¬
ing and nestling birds alike displaying every’ sign
of real distress, sometimes bordering on collapse.
If, then, an English summer can at times be so trying,
how much more so would be the African summer
for our British birds, or our own summer for the birds
which come to us for the winter.
But how comes it that these periodic movements
have evolved ? For it is to be remembered that
there are hosts of birds which never migrate, which.
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indeed, could not migrate, such, for example, as horn-
bills, toucans, and parrots. This touches a very
important aspect of this problem of migration and
its causes ; but I have already reached the limit of
my space. I must complete my story*, then, on another
occasion. YV. P. Pycraft.
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR
_ . . _ .... The Motor Cycling Club, which
Trials Conditions. ., ^ ** . j,
promoted the recent London-
Land’s End trial and carried it out so successfully,
has been rather severely criticised for having restricted
the car class to vehicles with a Treasury rating of
12-h.p. It is said that there is only one proper basis,
and that is the one of cylinder capacity, and in justi¬
fication of this point of view it has been pointed out
that the conditions barred certain cars with a capacity
of 1373 c.c., while admitting others of 1500 c.c.,
which is the limit capacity of the light car class. I
agree with the criticism, but I imagine that the manner
of drafting the regulations was due to an oversight
on the part of the committee.
The Wolseley Company, by intro¬
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has taken a course which I wonder
a number of others in the trade have not taken before.
This new car—it is not really new, however—is
simply the “ ten ” shorn of electric engine starter,
lighting set, and one or two other items of luxury-
equipment, which enables it to be sold at a price
substantially less than its better - equipped proto¬
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the engine starter is not an absolutely essential fitting
to the car of less than 15-h.p. It is not at all a bad
thing to have, of course, but I do not think it is a
wise policy on the part of manufacturers, now that
cars cost so much more than they did in 1914, to
overload their prices by listing as standard fittings
such details as starters, which add anything from
£50 upwards to the selling price. The light car section
of the trade has offended particularly in this direction.
Small cars, which sold at £200 before the war, have
been elaborated by the addition of totally unnecessary-
equipment, until their prices have risen above the
£500 mark and the market has been restricted to a
corresponding extent. It is far better, to my way of
thinking, to do as the Wolseley Company has now
done, and as has been done by another well-known
firm for some time past, and to say : " This is our
standard production, and it costs so much. You can,
if you prefer, have it in a more luxurious form, fitted
with starter and lighting set. and all the rest,
but that will cost so much extra." Then the
purchaser can decide whether or not it is worth
his while to pay for all these extras, but by-
making the fully-equipped car the standard
model the price is often made prohibitive,
anil loss of sales results. I am very strongly
of opinion that all the concerns in the
light car section will have to follow the
Wolseley lead if they want to keep their
share of the business.
Giving the Buyer
a Choice.
c . Now that the Ministry of Trans-
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of sign-posting the roads, the A. A. is dropping out.
It has issued a notification that, as from April yo,
the fund which was created for the purpose of erecting
and maintaining road signs will be applied to the
general expenses of the Association. Members who
subscribed to this fund are requested to communicate
with the Secretary if they do not approve of this
course being taken. I am given to understand
that most of the subscribers have already agreed
to the proposed application of the moneys in hand.
While it is, of course, the business of the authorities
to undertake the proper sign-posting of the roads,
it is a pity that private enterprife should be dropping
out in this w-ay. I doubt very much if we shall
get as good service from a Government
department as we did from the R.A.C. and
the A.A. W. W.
LONDON TO LANDS END TRIALS: ONE OF SEVEN
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THE PLAYHOUSES.
“BULL-DOG DRUMMOND.** AT WYNDHAM’S.
' "THICK-EAR drama "—Mr. Gerald du Marnier's
i own description of his latest venture at
Wyndham’s, “ Bull-Dog Drummond *'—is a new label,
surely, for the melodrama of crime. There are signs
that Mr. du Maurier’s patrons ask for nothing better
than a plunge into such transpontine fiction, and
the company displays any amount of earnestness and
gusto. The forthright acting of Mr. Gilbert Hare,
Mr. Alfred Drayton, and Miss Dorothy Overend in
the “ crook ” roles, and the breezy performance of
M . du Maurier as hero of the adventure, whose
spirits seem to rise the more nearly he is submerged
by the tide of villainy, a.e thoroughly enjoyable.
A NEW BILL AT LONDON'S GRAND
GU1GNOL.
Five one-act plays and one two-act play provide the
new Grand Guignol programme at the Little Theatre.
Sewell Collins's “ Gaspers ” affords comic relief from
horrors. It contains bright talk, but not much more.
Again. " Dead Man’s Pool,” wherein convict and pursu¬
ing warder forget their respective roles in their British
love of sport, is just an amusing trifle happily worked
out by its authors. Victor and T. C. Bridges. More
notable is Frederick Fenn’s and Richard Pryce’s
" Love Child,” a genuine study of low life in which
Miss Cicely Oates gives a remarkable picture of silent
and uncomplaining misery. “ The Chemist,” from
the French of Max Maurey, is chiefly of account
because in the part of a little half-witted slattern who
returns a bottle of poison, so saving the chemist from
an awful blunder, it allows Miss Sybil Thorndike to
exemplify afresh her wonderful versatility. It is hard
to conceive that the representative of this sixteen-
year-old girl and the actress who portrays different
phases of emotion in “ The Love Child ” and ' The
Kill ” are one and the same person. ” The Kill "—in
two acts, from the French of Maurice Level—is a tale
grisly enough. In this work the thrill comes off—but
scarcely in the case of the other "shocker,” Lucien
Descaves’s " Seven Blind Men.”
The result of the recent excavations at the Stone-
Axe Factory at Graig Iwyd, Penmaenmawr, is pro¬
bably the finest series of specimens illustrating the
manufacture of a stone axe ever found. Anyone in¬
terested in prehistoric discoveries should make a point
of going to see them when exhibited publicly at the
Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, from May 23
to 25. Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S.,wiU read the
report on the excavations carried out last year at the
Royal Anthropological Institute, 50, Great Russell St.,
on April 19, and a number of specimens will be shown.
CHESS.
and find it hardly up to our standard of publication. We shall
be glad to receive further specimens of your skill.
H S Tooth (Cachar).—If Black play *. K to K yd, then 2. Kt to
Q 4th (chj, K takes B; 3. Q mates.
P N Banerji (Benares).—In your problem, after Black plays 1. R takes
Q, there is a triple threat by Kt takes Kt (cb), Kt to Kt 7th (ch),
and R to Q 7th (ch) : this, of course, is a delect.
Solution or Pkobun No. 3835.—By Keshan D. Dk.
WHITE BLACK
1. Kt to Q 4th K takes Kt
a. Kt to Q 7th P moves
3. B to K 3rd (mate).
H Black play 1. P to K 3rd. then a. Kt to Q 7th (ch). etc.
PROBLEM No. 3857.—Bv H. F. L. Meyer.
BLACK.
^1 A^§
m&A mlA
1 « mm
Correct Solutions or Pbonlem No. 3836 received from Lion Ryhki
(Belfast), W J Adams (Snit ter field), Richard C Ourell. J C Stack-
house (Torquay). H Grasett Baldwin (Farnham), C H Watson
(Masham). Jar. C O mine 11 (Campbeltown), Herbert Russell (Laces
ter), A W Hamilton Gell (E»eter). J F Hamsun (Manchester!,
W H Krarnan (Wellington College), G StUHngOeet lohiuon •Seaford),
R J Lonsdale (New Brighton), and Albert Taylor (Attereiifie).
CHESS IN LONDON.
Game played in the Championship Tournament of the City of London
Chess Club between Mr. R. P. Michell and Sir C. A. Thomas.
(Queen's Pmum Opening)
(Sir G. A. T4
B to R 6th
B to K 3rd
1 19. K to R sq Q to Q ;nd
20. P to B 4th P takes P
WHITE BLACK | WHITE SLACK
(Mr. M.) (Sir G. A. T.) (Mr. M.) (Sir G. A. Tj
1. P to Q 4th Kt to K B 3rd 17. P to Kt 3rd B to R 6th
2. P to Q B 4th P to K 3rd ' 18. R to K sq B to K 3rd
3. Kt to Q B 3rd P to Q 4th 19. K to R sq Q to Q ;nd
4. Kt to 2 3rd P to 8 4th 20. P to B 4th P takes P
The game is now transposed into {j ^ 5 1°** 5 th
Queen's Gambit Declined. The ' “ * * ***” P
text move is probably Black’s best .A . **°N1 and dashing sacrifice
defence, as it compels White to which proved mote successful than
move his K P before bringing out ds actual merits appear to warrant,
his Q B. The sequel shows the 23. P takes B R takes B
danger of doing otherwise. 24. R takes K B to B 6th (eh)
3. B to Kt sth B P takes P *5- R to Kt 2nd
6. K Kt takes P We confess ourselves unable to
Pillsbury, in a famous game with discover why White giv» up his
Lasker, here plaved Q takes P Q®«n * n “»» lashiou. To the
with no appreciably better results n ‘P*) r °* *5- K *® Kt sq, Black
than in the present instance.
6. P lo K 4th
7. Kt to B 3rd P to Q 3th
8. Kt to Q 5th Kt lo B 3rd
9. P to K 4th
seems to have nothing better than
8 to Kt 5th (ch); 26. K to B sq,
takes K (ch); rj . Q takes B,
Q to R 6th (ch); a8. K to K sq,
Q takes Kt, with a Pawn to the
good but a stubborn tight before
with a pierced centre & R take, B
*• „ , . g \° K “•* *7. Kt takes OP Kt taJcesKt
io.B takes Kt H takes B 28. R takes Kt Q to R 6th
11. B to Q 3rd Castles 29 K R to Q 2nd
12. Castles B to K 3rd y ‘ . ....
13. P to Q R 3rd R to B sq A curious oversight, but White
14. P to Q Kt 4th R to K sq could > scarcely hope to avert daeat
15. Kt to Q 2nd B to Kt 4th struggle.
16. Kt to Kt 3rd P to Q Kt 3rd 29. QtoB8th,mate
The Championship of the City of London Chess Club has been won
by Sir George Thomas with the fine score of 10 points out of a
possible 11. Mr. Herbert Jacobs was second, and Messrs. R. P.
Michell and R. H. V. Scott tied for the third place.
The Championship match at Havana between Capablanca and
Lasker is dragging itself to a conclusion in a weary length of draws.
A mechanical accuracy and an icy cautiousness of pby have robbed
the game on both sides alike of imagination and inspiration, and
public interest is so little excited that our highest living English
authority finds himself compelled to explain, in reproducing one of
the games, that its exalted authorship is the only excuse for its pub¬
lication. In chess, any more than in literature, fat purses and loud-
sung reputations are not found conducive to the attainment of the
wreaths of immortality.
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White to play, and mate in three moves.
Cokeect Solution or Pkoblem No. 3850 received from Bartlett Wells
(Plainfield, C.S.A.); of No. 3852 from E L Lovett (Broughton) and
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CAUSE OF A SPLIT IN THE “TRIPLE ALLIANCE" AND CONSEQUENT CANCELLATION OF THE STRIKE:
MR. FRANK HODGES, SECRETARY OF THE MINERS’ FEDERATION.
The division in the ranks of the Triple Alliance of Labour, leading to the dramatic
cancellation of the strike on April 15, began with the repudiation by some of
the Miners' Federation le«den of a statement made by their Secretary, Mr. Frank
Hodges, to a meeting of M.P.s on the previous evening. Mr. Hodges had said
that the miners were “ pi epared to consider wages provided they are not related
to a permanent settrement on a district basis and are of a temporary character.”
It was because the Miners refused a subsequent invitation of the Government to
resume negotiations that the other two parties to the Triple Alliance- -the Rail-
waymen and Transport Workers—called off the strike. Mr. Hodges offered to
resign his post of Secretary, but the Miners' Federation Committee refused to
accept his resignation, and he withdrew it. He is thirty-four, and a few years
ago was a working miner. Then he studied economics at the Central College,
and later went to Paris, where he acquired fluent French. He made a very
favourable impression on the M.P.s whom he addressed at the House of Commons.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921 —530
responsible only for returns of births, deaths, and
marriages, the rest of the work being done by the
Overseers of the Parish.
The task of analysing and of tabulating the
returns gave the only begetter of the Census
extraordinary trouble, which he bore with heroic
cheerfulness, for the duty was one after his own
heart. His correspondence gives continual glimpses
of his preoccupation with the business which was
to him a hobby. He made a kindly attempt to
employ hopeless George Burnett in the work, but
Lamb’s “ George II." (or " The Bishop *’) gave
his patron great distress because of his " uncon¬
vertible talents." “ He thinks too highly of
himself for common purposes, and God knows he
is fit for no other. Our Population business is so
Coleridge touches the Census in a letter also
quoted in Mr. Orlo Williams’ volume. Under the
date of Friday, July 17. 1812, S. T. C. writes to
Hickman and pays him, albeit with the usual
nebulosity, what is intended to be a very hand¬
some compliment on his statistical work. “ In
whatever part of Christendom a genuine philoso¬
pher in political economy shall arise and establish
a system including the laws and the distributing
forces of that miraculous Machine of living crea¬
tures, a Body Politic, he will have been in no
small measure indebted to you for authentic
and well-guarded documents. The Preliminary
Observations [that is, Hickman’s Introduction
to the Census Returns for 1811] interested me
much in and for themselves; and as grounds or
hints for manifold reflections they were at least
equally valuable." “Grounds
or hints for manifold reflec¬
tions " is delicious as coming
from Coleridge. No human
being’s reflections, even on
Census Returns, could have
been more manifold or extra¬
ordinary had they only been
made articulate ; but he goes
no further, and. had he tried
to give them voice, we know-
only too well into what in¬
determinate mazes of irre¬
levancy his speculations must
have wandered.
T HE Census and the figure One in the date
would seem to have some mystical affinity.
It was in the first year of our era (however differ¬
ently chronologists may arrange it) that the decree
went out from Ciesar Augustus that all the world
should be " taxed,” in which obscure phrase the
translators of the Authorised Version disguise the
taking of that Homan Census which drew Joseph
and Mary to Bethlehem The Event attendant on
that visit has invested the act of numbering the
people with a halo of incomparable romance,
apart from all questions of date. But there is a
minor romance, too, in the curious coincidence
that the British Census is also associated with the
figure One in every successive decade, the reason
being that the first Population Act, passed in 1800,
was put in force during the spring of the following
year. This year’s ceremony,
unlucky in its postponement,
is the thirteenth time of ask¬
ing. Absit omen !
So dry and statistical a
matter as the Census would
not at first sight seem to have
any obvious connection with
literature, yet in the person
of one man this institution
finds a most interesting link
with several English writers
who made the early years of
the nineteenth century illus¬
trious. The Father of the
Census, John Rickman, that
most conscientious public
official, was the intimate
friend of Charles Lamb,
Southey, and Coleridge, not
to mention some minor char¬
acters, amiable oddities such
as George Dyer and George
Burnett. Through the liter¬
ary biography of the period
Rickman floated as a some¬
what elusive ghost, until, just
after the last Census was
taken, Mr. Orlo Williams, in
a volume of Life and Letters,
set the portrait of John Hick¬
man fully rounded before us,
and incidentally made several
notable additions to our know¬
ledge of Charles l-amb.
Rickman served as
Speaker s Secretary for twelve
years, and was Clerk at the
Table of the House of Com¬
mons for twenty-six years.
He <fas chosen to organise
the machinery for taking the
Census of 1801, because in
1796 he had written a paper
entitled " Thoughts on the
Utility and Facility of a
General Enumeration of the
People of the British Empire.”
In that essay Rickman dealt
in a very matter-ol fact way
with the economic advantages
of a Census, and advanced
the view that the population
was probably far higher than
the usual estimate. He held,
too, that it could be easily
deduced from the Parish
Registers. His work was
shown to the future Speaker,
Charles Abbot, who introduced
the Population Bill in 1800, and who. when the
measure became law, offered Rickman the super¬
vision of the returns.
Rickman, whose turn of mind admirably fitted
him for the task, had a free hand with regard to
organisation. He set up an office in the Cock-
Pit off Birdcage Walk, and was allowed to choose
his own clerks. There he devised the first Census
paper, in which returns were asked for under six
heads. Inquiry was made as to the number of
houses, uninhabited houses, and the number of
families inhabiting each house : also as to the
number of persons, excluding soldiers and sailors,
found in the parish on the day of inquiry. The
first Census returns were made solely by the
clergy : but ten vears later clergymen were held
No precious word of
, 1 Lamb’s on the actual Census
seems to have come down
i; to us ; but apart from his
( j friendship with the Ccnsus-
, taker, there occurs what may
11 be regarded as a literary
! link of sorts between Klia
and his friend’s special oc-
j cupation. On l>cccmber 30,
j 1800. the very day that the
! first Population Act for Great
1 Britain passed the House of
Lords, Rickman, then little
dreaming of his future in¬
timate connection with the
Census, writes to Southey,
1 have a very pleasant
neighbour opposite, C. Lamb.
He laughs as much as 1
wish, and makes even puns
without remorse of con¬
science." Rickman speaks
ot Lamb’s lately completed
dramatic piece, " John Wood-
vil,” " the language entirely
of the last century, and
further back.” Rickman
thought he had not seen a
play with so much humour,
moral feeling, and correct
sentiment since the world
was young.
If J. R. found Lamb
a very pleasant neighbour,
the opinion was reciprocal.
I.amb. writing to Manning,
on November 3, 1800, re¬
marks, in the true Elian
vein, " I have made an
acquisition of a pleasant
hand, one Rickman, to whom
I was introduced by George
Dyer—not the most flatter¬
ing auspices under which one
man can be introduced to another This Rick¬
man lives in our Buildings [27, Southampton
Buildings], immediately opposite our house, the
finest fellow to drop in a’ nights about 9 or 10
o’clock, cold bread and cheese time, just in the
wishing time of night, when you wish lor some¬
body to come in without a distinct idea of a
probable anybody ... a most pleasant hand,
a fine rattling fellow, has gone through life
laughing at solemn apes, a perfect man. 5 ou
must see Rickman to know him, for he is a
species in one.” •
If Lamb’s word on the Census itself be
a-wanting, he has at least compensated for the
omission by drawing, in most Lamb-like style,
the portrait of the Censns-taker. J. D S-
THE ARMY'S 'UNIVERSAL PROVIDER'' THROUGHOUT THE WAR: THE LATE GENERAL
SIR JOHN COWANS, EX-QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL.
Much of the credit for the British Army’s success in the war was due to the wonderful organising powers of
General Sir John Cowans, who died at Mentone on April 16 in his fifty-ninth year. He was Quartermaster-
General to the Forces from 1912 to 1919, when he retired to manage a great oil-development scheme in
Mesopotamia. As " Q.M.G.." he was responsible for housing, clothing, and feeding an Army which rapidly
expanded from 200,000 men to over 7,000.000. Towards the end of the war he was spending over £2.000.000
a day on food for the troops, and was sending every day to France 20.000 tons of goods. No army was ever
ro well catered for. His good-humour was unfailing, and he was immensely popular.
From a Drawing by T. Percival Andrrson, M.B.E.
much beneath him that he has not yet con¬
descended to understand it, and does not two
hours' work a day." Consequently Rickman,
writing to Southey, goes on to say that he must
dismiss all who cannot employ themselves with¬
out leading strings, and that Burnett’s unwilling
occupation would cease on Saturday week. About
a fortnight later, however, Rickman, again writing
to Southey, says that, on his expostulation, Burnett
has at length " consented to condescend to under¬
stand our present business ; therefore, of course, he
stays to the end of it." G. B. had declared that
there was nothing to understand, and had carried
his abstraction so far as to ask oftener than once
for instructions what he should do when he had
copied anything wrong. The answer " Scratch it
out and correct it," did not disconcert him at all.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23 . 1921.—531
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PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK: MEN IN
Photockaphh ii v Ki.mott i\ii Fkv, Lafayuttk, Topical, I~N.A., WmitijOcic,
THE PUBLIC EYE.
THE SWEARING-IN OF THE NEW LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AT THE LAW COURTS : (L. TO R., ON THE BENCH) LORD STERNDALE, LORD BIRKENHEAD
(THE LORD CHANCELLOR), AND SIR A. T. LAWRENCE (THE NEW “ LORD CHIEF ”).
THE DEATH OF A FAMOUS ETCHER : THE LATE
MR. WILLIAM STRANG, R.A.
THE NEW LORD CHIEF JUSTICE : SIR ALFRED
TRISTRAM LAWRENCE.
It
LEADER OF THE MINE-OWNERS DURING
THE CRISIS : LORD GAINFORD.
A PRIVATE MEMBER t
IN THE COAL CRISIS :
COLIN COOTE. M.P.
Sir Godfrey Collins, M.P. (Lib.) for Greenock proposed, Capt. W. E. Elliot, M.P
(C.U.) for Lanark, seconded, and Sir Samuel Hoare, M.P. (C.) for Chelsea, sup¬
ported the motion to invite Mr. Frank Hodges to state the miners’ case, after
the owners had been heard, to a meeting of private Members (illustrated elsewhere
in this number). Capt. Colin Coote, M.P. (Lib.) for the Isle of Ely, also took a
prominent part in the proceedings, which led directly to the disruption of the
Triple Alliance of Labour and the cancellation of the strike. - Field-Marshal
Sir Arthur Barrett, recently promoted to that rank, served in the Afghan War,
and has been Adjutant-General in India. Lieut.-Commander William O. Hosier,
brother of Mrs. Winston Churchill, shot himself in a Paris hotel on April 14.-
Sir Arthur Vicars, who was Ulster King of Arms when the Irish Crown Jewels
were stolen in 1907, was murdered on April 14 by a gang of thirty armed men
at his home, Kilmoma House, which they burnt down.-Sir Alfred Tristram
Lawrence was sworn in at the Law Courts as Lord Chief Justice, in succession to
Lord Reading, on April 15. He is seventy-eight.-Mr. William Strang, the well-
known etcher, died suddenly on April la. Only last month he was elected an
R.A. Engraver.-Lord Gainford (formerly Mr. J. A. Pease) is a past President
of the Mining Association, and one of its spokesmen during the coal dispute.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23. 1921.—532
A “TRIPLE ALLIANCE” OF SPORT: LAWN-TENNIS; RACKETS; GOLF.
Photographs by Sport and Gknkrai-
WINNER OF THE LADIES' SINGLES
MISS E. D. HOLMAN.
WINNER, OPEN DOUBLES :
MR. T. M. MAVROGORDATO
RUNNER-UP IN THE LADIES'
SINGLES : MRS. PEACOCK
WINNER, MIXED DOUBLES
HON. F. M B. FISHER.
RUNNERS-UP, PUBLIC SCHOOLS
RACKETS : THE ETON PAIR.
WINNERS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS RACKETS:
THE WELLINGTON PAIR.
WINNER, OPEN DOUBLES
MR. P. M. DAVSON.
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The challenge rounds of the Lawn-Tennis Covered Court Championships were
played at Queen’s Club on April 15 and 16. Miss E. D. Holman won the Ladies'
Singles Championship by beating Mrs. Peacock. The holder, Miss Ryan, did not
defend. The Mixed Doubles went to the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher and Mrs. Peacock,
who beat Mr. Lovibond and Mrs. Chambers. The holders, Mr. R. Lycett and
Miss Ryan, did not defend. In the Open Singles, M. A. H. Gobert, the holder,
beat Mr. W. C. Crawley (challenger). The Open Doubles were won by Mr. P. M.
Davson and Mr. T. M. Mavrogordato, who beat the holders, M. A. H. Gobert
and Mr. R. Lycett.-The final round of the Public Schools Rackets Championship
took place at Queen's Club, on April 17, the Wellington pair, P. N. Durlacher
and L. Lees, beating Eton, R. Aird and H. D. Sheldon, by 4 games to one.
A Ladies' v. Gentlemen golf tournament was held at Stoke Poges on April 18,
the men giving a half. In the ten singles the two teams were equal, with 5 *N-
Miss Cecil Leitch beat Mr. C. J. H. Tolley by 6 and 4. Miss Alexa Stirling, of
Atlanta, Georgia, the American lady champion, who was playing for the first time
over here, was beaten by Mr. R. H. de Montmorency, by 4 and 3. Miss Molly
Griffiths (Sunningdale), whose style is very attractive, beat Mr. C. V. L. Hooman
by 1 hole. The men won all the five foursomes.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921 —533
; golf,
MATTERS OF THE MOMENT: OCCASIONS OF NOTABLE INTEREST.
VICTIM OF HOME-SICKNESS AND U.S. CLIMATE. SOLD FOR THE RECORD PRICE OF £ 10,000 : “HEDGES SECOND SERIES,” THE GREAT “SOCCER” TROPHY TO BE
JOHN DANIEL, THE “ HUMAN ” GORILLA. A BRITISH FRIESIAN BULL. FOUGHT FOR ON APRIL 23 : THE CUP.
THE SCENE OF THE CUP FINAL ON THE 23rd BETWEEN TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR HOW A COAL STRIKE AFFECTS THE LONDON HOUSEWIFE : A LONG QUEUE AT
AND WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS : THE STAMFORD BRIDGE GROUND. ST. PANCRAS TOWN HALL WAITING FOR PERMITS FOR HALF A HUNDREDWEIGHT.
CRICKETERS BACK FROM AUSTRALIA . MEMBERS OF THE M.C.C. TEAM FOR THE TEST
MATCHES ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT VICTORIA STATION.
John Daniel, the famous gorilla, died in New York (where he recently arrived
from London to join Ringling’s Circus) from pneumonia caused by the climate,
and accentuated by abstinence from food, and depression due to home-sickness.
His former owner, Miss Edna Cunningham, had been cabled for to nurse him,
and was on her way to New York.-A British Friesian bull, named Hedges
Second Series, was bought the other day for £ 10,000 by Mr. F. Sykes, from
Mr. Horace Hale, of Kingswood, Findon, Sussex. It was a record price on this
side of the Atlantic.-The final match for the English Cup (Association Football),
THE “WORLDS RECORD” CHESS TOURNAMENT: PLAYERS IN THE 200-A-SIDE
KENT. v. SURREY MATCH AT THE CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER.
between Tottenham Hotspur and the Wolverhampton Wanderers, is to be played
at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, April 23.--The M.C.C. cricket team arrived
at Victoria Station on their return from Australia on April 17. Our photograph
shows, on the left, Waddington, Makepeace, and Hitch ; and on the right.
Hendren and Hobbs, with Strudwick next to Mr. F. C. Toone, the manager (in
dark overcoat). A great chess tournament between teams of 200 each, repre¬
senting Kent and Surrey, took place the other day at the Central Hall.
Westminster. It was arranged by the Kent County Chess Association.
* r »3I—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Anui. 23. 1921.
ACTING INDEPENDENTLY OF THE CABINET: THE MEETING OF PRIVATE MEMBER^ "r A C(
The outstanding pol.Ucal event of the strike crisis was the renascence of the power of Parliament as apart from the power of the Cabinet On Thursday. April M. the ** ^ \ ] hk
that fixed for the strike, a large body of private Members invited the leaders of the coal-owners to meet them in a Committee Room and state their case. Having beard ^ ^
coal-owners, and being dissatisfied, the meeting then invited Mr. Frank Hodges. Secretary of the Miners' Federation, to state the case for the miners (as here illustrate " ^
was at this meeting that Mr. Hodges made the offer to re-consider wages, repudiated by the more extreme leaders of the Miners’ Federation whose refusal to <*** \ fc ^
negotiations caused the split in the Triple Alliance and the cancellation of the strike. Our drawing shows at the head table in the left background (from left to right) Me**
LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921
THE ILLUSTRATED I
Initiative in handling the strike crisis.
Spurrier, R.O.L
\ COMMITTEE ROOM. TO HEAR MR. FRANK HODGES STATE THE MINERS CASE.
• V , A o Marriott MP (Chairman), Mr. Herbert Smith (President, Miners' Federation), Mr. James Seaton (Dozers
J. Robson, J. H. Thomas. M.P., Frank Hodges (speaking). J. A. R. Marriott, n.r. „ p the ^ backgroun d. at the left end of the front bench (from left to
Socretary), and Mr. Percy Hurd, M.P. Standing in the left foreground * r. ne M P Behind Mr. Wallace is Mr. Leslie Scott, M.P. (elbow on desk). On
right) are Capt. W. E. Elliot, M.P., and Capt. Colin Coote, M.P. and fourth from U . j. . • ^ 4nd Sir Samuel Hoare. M.P. (extreme right). Other
the back bench are Mr. T. W. H. Inskip. M.P. -extreme left), Jfiu George Balfoiu.- [Drawint Copyrighted in the lotted States and Catted*.]
Members prominent were Sir Godfrey Collins, Sir Robert Williams, Major
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 23. 1^21—536
Cbe Irish problem CDrougb frencb €pe$:
A REJOINDER-
rely on the ordinary law and failed, and yet
wc are asked to believe that Ireland was, during
those eighteen months, ground down under the
heel of militarism.
Wc come to the period of reprisals, which began
last summer. M. Naudeau condemns them, and
rightly. But he makes no attempt to analyse the
evidence concerning them. For example, he
alleges that sixty creameries have been destroyed,
whereas the actual figures are sixteen destroyed
and eleven damaged. When we remember that
there are over five hundred creameries in
Ireland, his suggestion that the destruction of
these creameries has injured Irish trade is clearly
exaggerated.
He makes no attempt to consider whether
these ** reprisals ” have really been the work of
the Crown Forces, whereas it is beyond ques¬
tion that many of the crimes attributed to them
have been the work of Sinn Fein. Lastly, he
takes no account of the provocation which led
men to break the bonds of discipline. An Irish
priest, not long since, when asked to join in a
protest against reprisals, refused, saying, “ If
you want to stop reprisals, stop the provocation
which begets them."
Very true. If reprisals, committed in passion,
are wrong, assassinations, committed in cold¬
blooded calculation, are worse. Yet M. Naudeau
ignores this. He shudders over the ruins of
Balbriggan and Cork, but says no word of
the murders which inflamed the comrades of
the murdered men to break loose.
Even soldiers and policemen are 1 . uman beings.
When they see their comrades, victims of an
ambuscade, left naked, mutilated, and disem¬
bowelled on the road, is it surprising that
they should see red ? When they read Father
Dominic's account of how six of their officers
were kidnapped and murdered while prisoners
(what of the Hague Convention ?), while
** one of them squealed like a rat," is it to
be expected that they should be unmoved ?
But M. Naudeau’s spectacles are so focussed
THROWN THROUGH THE WINDOWS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN
HOTEL. DUBLIN. DURING THE ATTACK : UNEXPLODED BOMBS BEING
EXAMINED BY AN OFFICER.-lPk*<*r«/>A L.SA.)
that his Trench eyes cannot see these things.
There is more that I could say respecting - *•
Naudcau's opinions on Ireland's right to nation¬
hood and independence, but 1 have already
trespassed too far upon your space. My
object will have been achieved if I succeed
in impressing your readers with the fact that
there is another side of the Irish Pro eni
than that which M. Naudeau has been allowed,
or has tried, to see.
Your obedient servant. Loyalist.
In July 1917 Count Bernstorfl
told the German Foreign Office that
things were moving again in Ireland,
and that the rebels were reorgan¬
ising their forces. They were, he
added, in need of money ; but he
had put that matter right. It was
in connection with this plot that the
repressive measures of which M.
Naudeau coinplains were put in
operation. Men were arrested and
found in possession of military
manuals, maps printed in Germany,
and plans for the destruction of
roads, bridges, barracks, and Govern¬
ment stores. Does M. Naudeau
maintain that England fighting for
her life (and. incidentally, for the
life of France) in three continents
was to ignore this treachery at
home ?
AFTER THE BOMB ATTACK ON A DUBLIN HOTEL OCCUPIED BY
AUXILIARY POLICE: A MEMBER OF THE FORCE LOOKING INTO
THE WRECKED BILLIARD-ROOM.
A daring attack was made oo April II on the L. and N.W.R. Hotel at North
Wall, Dublin, occupied by a large force of Auxiliary Police. The attackers
mingled with dockers going to work in the morning and suddenly began throwing
bombs and firing lerolvers through the windows. Many of the bombs, which
were all of an inferior kind, failed to explode. One knocked oft Major Ryan
the Police Commandant's cap. The police came out and fired on the attackers,
one of whom was killed. Two others and one cadet were wounded.
M. Naudeau, quoting his Sinn
Fein mentors, goes on to say that
** it was only after two years of
suffering, peril, and persecution "
that Sinn Fein proceeded to slaughter
policemen. They say that they only
did it in self-defence, but complain
that they are treated as criminals.
This remarkable asser¬
tion deserves examin¬
ation.
Photograph by L.NA.
doubly so if he be a foreigner studying the poli¬
tical difficulties of a country not his own. Yet
M. Naudeau makes no pretence of having con¬
ducted an independent inquiry. His confession
is ingenuous. Some London Sinn Feiners " re¬
commended me to their Dublin confederates,
and twenty-four hours after my arrival some . . .
emissaries managed to let me have an address
where I would meet some of the chief Sinn Fein .
leaders, who were actually wanted by the police
and on the run."
Following his brief, he traces the present con¬
ditions in Ireland to the action of the British
Government in 1917-18. The argument is as
follows. During those years not a single police¬
man was killed, but innocent civilians were slain,
people were imprisoned or deported, and hundreds
of houses were searched. All this M. Naudeau
reports. But why choose 1917 as the starting
point ? Why not go back to Easter 1916 ?
There was no militarism in Ireland in the pre¬
ceding years ; the country was denuded of troops ;
the Irish had contributed less than their quota to
the war ; they were free from the rationing and
the regulations which bore so heavily on you in
Great Britain ; a Home Rule Act had been placed
on the Statute Book, the main provisions of which
had been accepted by the representatives of the
Irish people. And then, while England was in
dire distress, there came a Rebellion which cost
hundreds of lives and devastated the capital. It
does not seem to occur to M. Naudeau that there
is a connection between the Rebellion of 1916 and
the defensive measures of the two following years.
But if he chooses to start
he silent about the great event
with 1917. why is
nf that year ? He
The war on the
police began with the
shooting of two con¬
stables near Tipperary
in January 1919. These
men were escorting a
load of gelignite, or¬
dered by the Tipperary
County Council, when
they were ambushed and murdered
without warning There was clearly
no aggression by the Government
in this case. In consequence of
the outrage. South Tipperary was
proclaimed a military area. Sinn
Fein issued a counter-proclamation
threatening death to all magis¬
trates, jurors, and other persons
helping the Government, and an¬
nouncing that all policemen found
in the area of South Tipperary
would be deemed to have forfeited
their lives.
With that the reign of terror
commenced. M. Naudeau passes
over it in discreet silence, in order
that he may arrive at the period
of reprisals. But reprisals did not
begin for more than eighteen months
after the murder of the police¬
men just described. The only case
of reprisal prior to the summer
of 1920 occurred late in 1919, at
Fermoy, when a young, unarmed
soldier was murdered as he was
going into church one Sunday
morning. That night his comrades broke some-
shop windows. There was looting, but the Irish
Chief Justice—who is neither a Protestant
nor a Unionist—ascribed it to the hooligans
of the town.
Yet this ante-reprisal period deserves examina¬
tion. It was crowded with horrible atrocities.
The British Government erred grievously during
this epoch, but its error was that it failed to
realise the gravity of the situation. It tried to
To the Editor, lllustraied London Sews.
S IR ,—1 have read with interest a scries of
articles by M. Naudeau with the above title,
and venture to offer some comments on them.
That M. Naudeau should desire to view the
Irish Problem through French eyes is to be wel¬
comed ; that — judging by your extracts—he
should have fortified his vision w-ith Sinn Fein
spectacles is cause for infinite regret. It is
always desirable that an investigator should bring
an open mind to bear upon his subject, but
says much of British repressive measures, but he
studiously ignores the fact that in June every
single prisoner arrested or condemned in connection
with the Rebellion was set free. He says nothing
of the Irish Convention, called t.> formulate a
scheme of Irish self-government, to which even
representatives of Sinn Fein were summoned.
These are grave omissions; but there is another
which is worse. When M. Naudeau speaks of
persons arrested and houses being searched, he
conceals the cause of these measures. Vnd yet it
was a cause which might interest him as a French¬
man. For in 1917 Sinn Fein was
plotting a second rebellion for the
spring of 1918, when it would
coincide with the last great German
offensive.
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TRADE UNIONISTS AT WESTMINSTER: A COAL CRISIS
“ V OU * SPtCI *'' ARTIST. STIVHN SPURRIER. r.q.I.
INNOVATION.
THE FIRST TRADE UNION MEETING HELD IN A COMMITTEE ROOM OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: A CONFERENCE
WHICH RESOLVED TO SUPPORT A TRIPLE ALLIANCE STRIKE AND CONDEMNED THE GOVERNMENT.
A joint conference of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress,
the National Executive of the Labour Party, and the Parliamentary Labour Party
was held on the night of Thursday, April 14, in one of the Grand Committee
Rooms of the House of Commons, used for the first time for a Trade Union
meeting. At the back (seated from left to right) are Messrs. H. S. Lindsay.
J- R. Clynes, M.P., Arthur Henderson. M.P., E. L. Pouho Chairman , C W.
Bowerman, Frank Hodges, and Herbert Smith. At the tables in the foreground
taking the tables from left to right and beginning with the figures nearest the
Chairman's table) are (first table) Messrs. Tyson and Wilson ; (second table) Miss
Bondfield. Ben Turner, James O'Grady, and Ramsay Macdonald ; (third table)
D. Irving, T. Shaw, Robertson. John Hodge, and Frank Rose ; (fourth table
R. Williams, J. H. Thomas, and H. Gosling. [Copyrighted in the Unit'd StaUs and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921.—53»
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
Later, Scott wished to call his novel " Cumnor
Hall," had not his publisher dissuaded him, and it
was entitled “ Kenilworth,” which title graces so
many suburban villas instead o( ” Cumnor HalL”
Messrs. Sotheby, on the 22nd, sold some
valuable tapestries and carpets, together with
some interesting old furniture. From Cobh am
Hall came six old Flemish tapestry panels, de¬
picting scenes from the life of Cleopatra. A
humorous episode finds its place in patient
needlework—
’Twas merry, when
You wager’d on your angling, when your diver
Did hang* a salt fish on his hook, which he
With fervency drew up.
There is nothing new in humour. Here is the
salted-herring joke on the angler 300 years old.
Arms and armour make a cosmopolitan appeal.
Profiteers collect staghorns; the world at large
has the prescience to collect armour. The
collection of the late Morgan S. Williams, of
St. Donat’s Castle, Glamorgan, would not have
been outside the purview of the late Sir Guy
Laking. Together^ with the armour goes a
series of Jacobean oak furni¬
ture of fine character, but
it is overshadowed by the
K armour. The sale is to be
conducted by Messrs. Christie
on the 26th and two follow¬
ing days. One of the ptiers
de resistance is a fine suit
of armour coming from the
Beardmore Collection, and
having been exhibited at the
Victoria and Albert Museum
1 German in origin, it suggests
j affinity with armour by Kolo-
man Kolman, made for Count
Sortneberg in 1508. It is un¬
restored, save the gauntlets,
which are Maximilian in
■HI 7 X TAESPITE prevail-
IwA V H ing conditions
of unrest, the sales of
• , objects of art have con-
k tinued ; but prices have
I" //// not been exhilarating to
v 9 ' sellers, and dealers who buy to sell
again are not wishful to add stock to
their galleries with a view to retaining it unsold
for an indefinite time. Amateurs and collectors
correspondingly are shy to add new pieces to their
collections at a time when art treasures are being
dispersed as too [cumbersome, and when insurance
companies have been busy accepting premiums for
possible risks under a “ riot and civil commotion ”
clause.
Pictures and furniture, porcelain and silver,
periodically change ownership ; the same objects
make successive precedents in the auction-room.
But nowadays all records are broken ; old heir¬
looms come forward, as debutants, for public sale.
There are only two eras in English history when
the disturbance of private ownership was as pro¬
nounced as it is now—the Tudor period under
has the blade trebly
grooved upon each ^
side. To collectors. High-
land dirks and pistols
offer similar rarities. The
Scottish dirks measure
from 13 m. to 15 in in length. A fine
example has the grip of ivy wood
carved with Celtic
once probably a sw
Andreia F'erara.”
in Scotland when
Certain
maces sug¬
gest knob-
sticks of
savage ori¬
gin, in war¬
fare where
the knock¬
out blow was
an end of
things, and
the salades of
steel of the
'fifteenth cen-
tury are the
prototypes
of the steel
hats worn in
the war by
our troops—
in the for¬
mer case to
ward off the
blows of a
present and
he blade was
t is inscribed
bluidy ” days
were carried
safeguard WITH BLADE ENGRAVED IN THE
against an STYLE OF ERCOLO Dl FIDEL!:
invun e foe. ^ 1TALIAN SWORD 0F THE
limes have
changed. An "BASTARD” TYPE, ABOUT U70.
armoury un- This fine sword is included in the forth*
der the ham coming sale at Christie’s of the Morgan S
. Williams Collection of Arms and Armour.
IUer rings The hilt js 0 f bright iron, and the grip
recollections is covered with crimson velvet with an
as it brings overlay of plaited cord. The blade is of
sad mem- superb quality,
ones of man Dy Courtesy of Messrs. Christie , Men son
in conflict. end Woods.
It represents
thoughts tinctured with days of chivalry, but
withal it holds the sinister idea of man in
conflict with man. When is the sword to be
turned into the ploughshare, and when is the
armourer's art to be forgotten ? It is for ma'-
himself to deride.
GERMAN SHIELDS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: ARCHERS' P.AVOIS
D’ASSAUT, OF WOOD COVERED WITH SHEEPSKIN, WITH ARMORIAL
AND DECORATIVE DESIGNS.
These are lots In the Morgan S. Williams Collection of Arms and Armour to be sold at
Christie’s on April 26, 27 and 28.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods.
Henry VIII., when the spoils of the monasteries archer’s pavois
became dispersed ; and the Revolution in the
Charles I. period, when Royalists saw their silver
melted for the cause or looted. The even flow of
interchange has been disturbed in the art world.
A cataclysm of art treasures has suddenly poured
into the market to be whirled to the four winds of
heaven, one quarter of the paradise being America,
where hall-marked rarities from the Old World are
assailed with as much prowess as Drake displayed
when he seized the treasures of the New World.
Removed from a castle — not the Castle — in
Ireland came a fine collection of porcelain and
faience, sold by Messrs. Christie on the 21st. Sinn by Mills
Fein activities possibly confine themselves to stop¬
ping emigrants to America rather than determining
whether porcelain should come here to cross the
Atlantic. Some interesting Chinese enamelled
porcelain appeared at this sale. A Bristol delft
bowl was inscribed " Drink, Drink, whilst ye have
Breath, For there is no Drinking after Death.
T. V. 1756,’’ the year when Surajah Dowlah
captured Calcutta and imprisoned the English
captives in the Black Hole.
In an assemblage of old pictures and drawings
sold on the 22nd by Messrs. Christie from the
collection of F. J. O. Holdsworth. of Kingsbridge,
Devon, and other sources, there was a portrait
in charcoal by Ozias Humphry of William
Julius Mickle, the poet. In an examination paper
on poets there are few who could tell who
Mickle was. Yet he was a great light in the last
quarter of the eighteenth century. Fielding lies
buried in an unknown grave at Lisbon; but
Mickle, the translator of Camoens, was- received
with acclamation when he went as secretary to
Commodore Johnston of the Royal Navy. He
claims further distinction by the love which Sir
Walter Scott bore for his ballads. It is related
that as a boy Scott never tired of reciting the first
four lines of Mickle’s ballad, " Cumnor Hall ” -
The dews of summer night did fall;
The moon, sweet regent of the sky,
Silver’d the walls of cumnor Hall
And many an oak that erew thereby.
specimens, dear to all
s of armoury, of the
The examples here
offered are all German of the fifteenth century,
and are of wood covered with sheepskin decorated
with armorial escutcheons in colour.
Highland claymores have a sentimental and
an antiquarian
value. There are
three examples
which are undoubt- £
edly rare, and dc-
serve to bring a big
price. Cfeymores
have been replaced 1
bombs. *J
and T.N.T. the
modern method of
settling an argu-
ment. But Rhod- W
erick Dhu in his jUs
great duel used a m
Highland claymore, I
as narrated by Scott |H
in his poem. There fiat
is the Scottish fmj
*’ Claidheamh - mor. ** Mi
and here is an e.\- ^B |
ample with drooping ajg
quillons with cin- ^B
quefoil ends, which 19
is said to have be- S
longed to William H
Wallace. The ety- Mt
mology suggests "us- IE
quebaugh,” which »
the Saxon has trans- H
la ted into " whisky. ”
Another example of
the Scottish clay- SUGGESTING ” KNOBSTICKS
more, the blade USED F0R **the KN
stamped upon the From , eft to right the at>ove five
forte with an es- ( 2 ) a French Gothic mace, with :
cutcheon, bears a mace, with seven-flanged head; ( 4 ;
fifteenth - century fifteenth-century English mace, th<
maker's mark; and a wood grip. They are
a third claymore By Courtr.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921.—539
GUARDING, NOT PUMPING:
THE NAVY’S
PART IN THE COAL CRISIS.
“ONLY USED TO PROTECT ADMIRALTY PROPERTY AND ASSIST THE MILITARY IN THEIR WORK OF PROTECTION ”:
NAVAL RATINGS TAKING UP GUARD DUTY AT THE ABERTILLERY COLLIERIES, SOUTH WALES.
The Admiralty denied the reports that Bluejackets were engaged in pumping at
*°me of the coal mines during the strike, and stated that “ Naval ratings are
only used to protect Admiralty property and to assist the military in their work
of protection.” A message from Cardiff on April 12 said that it had been found
necessary to bring Naval men to Abertillery, as the miners at a mass meeting
had resolved not to respect their Federation’s instructions to allow pumping to
be resumed. When the mine management re-started the pumps, Monmouthshire
Police came on guard, and later in the day a draft of 250 Bluejackets arrived by
special train to assist in protecting those engaged in working the pumps. The
Naval men were quartered in a drill hall that overlooks one of the collieries.
540 — THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NKWS. \n<u. 2.;. Uttl.
BEFORE
THE
TRIPLE ALLIANCE STRIKE WAS
Photographs by Sport t
IN CHARGE OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT : LIEUT.-COL SIR WALTER
GIBBONS ION THE LEFT) AT THE MINISTRY OF FOOD.
RAILWAYMEN’S
LEADER DURING THE CRISIS : MR. J. H.
WESTMINSTER IN HIS CAR.
DIVERTED BY WIRELESS TO MALTA
AT DEV0NP0RT. WITH
Every precaution was taken by the authorities during the strike crisis to ensure the distribution of food supplies and the protection of those engaged in that wo
essential services. After the strike was cancelled, orders were issued on April 16 for the disbandment of the distributing centres which had been organised m
demobilisation was under the direction of Lieut.-Col. C. F. Bell, in Hyde Park, and Lieut.-Col. Sir Walter Gibbons, in Regent s Park it naa dcch m«"“ ] or rie* ha d —
as the headquarters of the milk supply. Regent’s Park was to have been used as a clearing centre for general foodstuffs. Three thousand five hundred motor ^ ti
provided for distributing stores from Regent’s Park, and of these two thousand were already
It had been intended to use
isand five
duty there when the situation suddenly changed.
Instructions I
*'‘ 1 *
1 *ifei«sj
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 1921.-
CANci
Precautions for feeding
and
>toprkss, Central Prens, and I.R.
PROTECTING THE PUBLIC.
‘WE TROOPS TO ENGLAND : A TRANSPORT
>ARD WAITING TO COME ASHORE.
A MOBILE WIRELESS UNIT IN KENSINGTON GARDENS DURING THE CRISIS :
LAVING A COPPER-MESHED WIRE MAT IN THE ROUND POND.
DRIVERS FOR FOOD-DISTRIBUTION : A HUGE QUEUE OF APPLICANTS RESPONSIBLE FOR FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN LONDON AND S.E.
* HYDE PARK. COUNTIES: BRIG.-GEN. HERBERT A. JONES (RIGHT).
i be re-opened to the public were issued by the commandant. During the crisis a transport was ordered by wireless to Malta to bring home the 2nd Duke of Corn¬
wall s Light Infantry, various details of Royal Horse Artillery and other units, and a party of Naval ratings. In Kensington Gardens, where troops were encamped, there was
14 wireless installation. In explanation of our photograph (top right) it may be mentioned that, to complete the electrical circuit in wireless telegraphy, it is necessary for the
i mstruments to be connected to the earth. In mobile wireless units, as illustrated above, it is usual to lay one or more mats of copper-meshed wire on the ground ; but a still
i better effect is obtained by laying the mat in water, when such is available.
THK ] I .IJ’STRATKI >
| .ON DON NKWS.
April
>:i. unii—■»»*.»
BANK-NOTES USED AS BEER-LABELS:
AUSTRIAN “FAMINE MONEY.”
r^l'Sr N. i
FUR FUNFZIGHEUER
mwm
heller:
SHOWING THE TOWN AND DANUBE
AN ARNSDORF 50-HELLER NOTE.
KRONSEGG CASTLE (1280) : A
NOTE FROM MITTELBERG.
SHOWING
20-HELLER
6. “ WORK AND DON’T DESPAIR ’’ -A
50-HELLER NOTE FROM ALTENFELDEN.
5. POETRY ON PAPER-MONEY: A 50-HELLER MOTE FROM
POCHLARN, KNOWN IN N1BELUNG AND. ATT1LA LEGEND.
4. SHOWING A FAMOUS ROGK-CLIMB
(SAUSTEIN) : A LAUSA 50-HELLER NOTE.
M R. HERBERT VIVIAN write* : " An Austrian crown was worth
about elevenpence before the war. Now it fetches less than ’
one-tenth of a penny, and has practically no purchasing power. In
Switzerland, an Austrian ‘ beer ’ is still called crown-beer because it
used to cost a crown before the war. Now it costs the equivalent
of 150 crowns, and the sellers have taken to pasting crown-notes
{Illustration No. xz) on the bottles, because they are cheaper than
labels. Why the Government continues to issue them is a financial
mystery. But the Government issues notes for 10, 20 and 50 hellers,
a heller being worth one-hundredth of a crown—say, one-thousandth
7. AN ARCHBISHOP FOUNDING THE CHURCH
A SEEKIRCHEN 90-HELLER NOTE.
T “THE SILVER COMES OFF I "
NOTE FROM WEITERSFELDEN.
4. WITH A JUG, HORSESHOE, t
AN ALTENFELDEN 10-HELLEI
iaikirm«!h
icmrinf'f:
CALLING THE VILLAGE “ A PARADISE
AN EIDENBERG 80-HELLER NOTE.
1 . SHOWING ITS CASTLE : A KUFSTEIN 10
IELLER NOTE WORTH 1-IOOtk OF A PENNY*
r. USED AS A BEER-LABEL IN SWITZERLAND, AS
BEING CHEAPER : AN AUSTRIAN CROWN NOTE.
shows its famous castle ; Eiden
trouble, and accompanies a bai
that the townlet is a Paradise,
makes himself responsible for
pictures of ruins, a castle
palace, flanked by a bishop and
houses reflected in the Danube,
mazy design with the ruins
centre of rock-dimbii
>erg (No. to) exhorts us to trust God in time of
rack-like building with some verses to the effect
Mr Bogg, the Burgomaster of Hofkirchen (No. 2},
no less than 150,000 crowns //J60), providing
>f the year 1541, the market-square, and the episcopal
knight. Arnsdorf (No. 3* gives a view of it*
The hill village of Mittelberg (No. 1) has a
»f Kronsegg Castle (a.d. 1280). Lausa (No. 4), a
exhibits the sheer pinnacles of Saustein (sow-stone)
Seekirchen I No. 7), a pretty lake-village near Salzburg, pictures an archbishop
laying the foundation of her church in the Middle Ages. Altenfelden
(Nos. 6 and 8) combines scenery with exhortations to work—needed in lazy
Austria to-day. The 50-heller note shows a politician in a frock-coat grasping
the horny hands of labourers, with scythe and mallet, bidding them ‘ work and
not despair.’ On one side of the 10-heller note is an almost Cubist picture of
still life with a jug and a horse - shoe and various tools. Pdchlarn (No. 5), one
of the oldest towns on the Danube, with Nibelung and Attila traditions, provides
rhymes about quaffing and laughing and waves that lave its ancient shores."
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, April 23 , 1921.—543
FISH USING LIFTS OVER FALLS: A CANADIAN RIVER ELEVATOR
DRAWN BY w B ROBINSON AFTER AN ILLUSTRATION IN •• FOPULAR MECHANICS.'
. TO ENABLE SALMON AND OTHER MIGRATING FISH TO PASS WATERFALLS WHEN ASCENDING RIVERS TO SPAWN :
AN INGENIOUS LIFT DEVISED BY THE CANADIAN COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES.
To enable migrating fish to pass such barriers as waterfalls and dams when
ascending a river to spawn, an elevator designed by the Canadian Commissioner
of Fisheries was placed in service at a 24 ft. fall in the St. Croix River, N.B.,
as shown in the upper drawing. Guides, or walls, radiate from both sides to
the opposite banks, so that fish are led to it. A cage in whioh they are
trapped and carried to the top of the shaft, where they are automatically dumped
into a sluice-way and discharged into the water on the up-stream side of the fall,
is hoisted by means of a counter-poise tank periodically filled with water from
a supply reservoir surmounting the tower. The cage and tank are secured to
the opposite ends of a cable that passes over pulleys at the top of the shaft.
The elevator can be built to almost any required height, and may be placed a
considerable distance from a fall. A longer sluice-way would then be needed.
By regulating the valves the fish-cage can be lifted at intervals of from a few
minutes to several hours, as desired. The upper drawing gives a fair idea of
the construction and operation of the Fish Elevator. Below is shown a shaft
during erection at a fall. ( Praumg Copyrighted in the ( nited States and Canada ]
544—THE ILLUSTRATED [i| KE"'S.
GUESTS SPRAYED WITH ROSE-WATER AND PERFU!®) WI
Drawn by A. Forest^ mMoal A«i
MOROCCO UNDER THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE: DISTINGUISHED GUESTS A®
Within the old walls of the city of Fez stands the Dar ould Djamar, a beautiful palace once inhabited by a Moorish prince before it became o»
of the Compagnie Ginirale Transatlantique, and was transformed into a European hotel provided with all modern comforts, without losing its old c ^
the occasion of the official inauguration of their North African automobile circuit, the Transatlantic General Company offered to a distinguished party ^ ,
in the Dar ould Djamar a Moorish reception at which were present, together with some French officers, the highest dignitaries of the city of e ^ ^
banquet served, not after the Moorish fashion, but in the style of the best French hotels, the guests were entertained in the gorgeous Moorish se
large drawing-room with native dances, music, and refreshments. Musicians, singers, and celebrated dancing women performed, while sweetened gree^
NEWS, April 23, 1921. — '>45
1 P£ < WITH FRANKINCENSE: HOSPITALITY IN MOROCCO.
i NATIVE DIGNITARIES ENTERTAINED IN THE MOROCCAN MANNER AT FEZ.
P e PPermint, was distributed among the guests, along with Moroccan cakes, white macaroons, and pastries of triangular and pointed shape, called “ gazelle’s
ii horns. Our picture shows in the foreground a guest helping himself to one of these cakes.. Other girls, armed with silver scent-bottles taken from the trays,
began to asperse the guests with rose-water—sometimes in excess of their wishes ! Others passed round the room with incense-burners, and perfumed the dresses
of both ladies and gentlemen with incense fumes. The dancer represented in our picture is the celebrated Chaouia, whose services command high prices, her
daily takings for her dancing being no less than 250 francs. The large opening at the end of the room on the night sky is closed by an ornamental wrought-
i iron grating glass in Moorish buildings being only used for small windows, and then not always.— {Drawing Copyrighted in the Untied Stales and Canada.]
I
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921.—546
I
!
VICTOR OF ESKISHEHR: MUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA,
Photographs (Copyright) by the m Public Ledger,” U.S.A.
NATIONALIST.
M USTAPHA
KEMAL
PASHA came into
prominence after the
Great War, when he
usurped power in
Anatolia, in alliance
with the Young Turks,
or Committee of
Union and Progress.
In July 1919, when
he was sent to Tre-
bizond and Samsun
to suppress brigand¬
age, he refused to
obey the Turkish
Government, and was
made an outlaw. He
then took possession
of many vilayets, and
in October 1919 set
up his headquarters
at Ismid, only forty
miles from Constan¬
tinople. In 1930
Greek and Allied
troops fought against
him with success.
Since the restoration
of King Constantine
to the throne of
Greece, the Greek
Army has been ope¬
rating on its own
account against the
Kemalist Turks in
Anatolia. On
[CnAW ofptttt.
March 28 last the
Greeks occupied
Eskishehr (Dory-
beum), a railway
junction for Angora,
which has been for
some time the seat
of Mustapha Kernel's
administration. The
Greeks, however, were
unable to hold the
town, and after a
serious defeat, in
which they were said
to have lost 4000
men killed and
wounded, they were
obliged to retreat
along their whole
line. It will be
recalled that Kemalist
delegates, as well as
those from the offi¬
cial Turkish Govern¬
ment at Constan¬
tinople, and delegates
from Greece, attended
the Allied Conference
in London on
March 12 for the
revision of the Treaty
of Peace with Turkey.
At that time there
was a cessation of
hostilities, but fight¬
ing between the
Greeks and Turks was
II Wihm btbw .
HEAD OF A GOVERNMENT FOR WHICH “ A DELIRIUM OF ENTHUSIASM " WAS AROUSED BY THE RECENT VICTORY
OVER THE GREEKS : MUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA ADDRESSING THE TURKISH NATIONALIST ASSEMBLY AT ANGORA.
|L
;! UPHOLDING THE POWER OF TURKEY IN ASIA :
|| KEMAL IN HIS OFFICIAL ROOM AT ANGORA.
I! OhWmW )
afterwards renewed. The Allies had pro¬
posed the return of the vilayet of Smyrna to
the Turks (but with a Greek force in the town
of Smyrna) and a modification of the zone
of the Straits. Neither Greece nor Turkey
{Coutmnt.i orrvuu.
THE MODEST
MUSTAPHA
DWELLING OF A FAMOUS LEADER :
KEMAL PASHA’S HOUSE AT ANGORA.
IN ARAB COSTUME FOR DIPLOMATIC PURPOSES:
MUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA.
replied to the Allied proposals within the
specified time, and, in view of the new
situation created by the subsequent cam¬
paign, it is doubtful whether those pro¬
posals still hold good.
Mustapha KemaJ Pasha, the head of the Turkish Nationalists, has at least done
something to maintain the military prestige of his race. The recent victory of
his iorces over the Greeks at Eskishehr changed the aspect of affairs in Anatolia,
and ted to the proclamation of martial law in Greece. In a message from Con¬
stantinople on April 11, a “Times” correspondent said: “Both sides are busy
preparing for a renewal of hostilities, and the Nationalist Turks are hurriedly
transferring their Caucasian Army to the western front Anatolia is in the
throes of war fever, owing to the unexpected success on the western front, which
has created a delirium of enthusiasm for the Angora Government, the popularity
of which is recovering from a bad slump, and is soaring giddily.” A few days
previously it was reported that negotiations with the Turks for the release of
British prisoners detained by the Kemalists had not yet resulted in agreement
I
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921.—547
AN EVENT THAT WAS EXPECTED TO OCCUR NEXT JUNE, BUT, IT IS NOW STATED, WILL NOT TAKE PLACE:
THE PONS-WINNECKE COMET APPROACHING THE EARTH, AS IMAGINED BY AN ASTRONOMER.
The Pons-Winnecke Comet, so named because it was first discovered by Pons, the orbit some ten days before the Earth. The date of perihelion passage is
of Marseilles (in 1818), and later re-discovered by Winnecke, appears about every June n or xa. During that month the Comet will be within a few million miles
5 l joars. It has disappointed the astronomers of to-day, who expected it to of us, but probably not conspicuous. A shower of meteors, however, may fall
become visible in February, and to collide with the Earth in June. Not until about June 27. In an article on a later page, Mr. Scriven Bolton, the well-known
April 10, however, was it located, by an American astronomer, Professor Barnard, astronomer, who made the above drawing, discusses the possible effects of a
at the Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, and calculations showed that there would collision between the Earth and a Comet, such as has occurred more than once
be no collision with the Earth, as the Comet would pass the crossing point of in the history of our planet—{ Drawing Copyrights in On Units SiaUs and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921.—548
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
The lack of a unified command is always a
serious disadvantage, and has often proved disas¬
trous. Captain Peter Wright is correct in attri¬
buting to it the prolonged resistance of Germany-
on the West Front. But he is wrong in suggesting
that the Allied generals—in particular, Haig and
P£tain, were solely, or even chiefly, to blame in
this case. To adapt Stephen Crane’s famous
epigram in praise of the way London traffic is
managed, it was not the politicians who were at
fault. It was not the soldiers. It was the poli¬
ticians and the soldiers. The truth is that we only
get the best leadership in war when statesman and
soldier are united in one and the same person,
1 ’’ At the Supreme
A) War Council " j (Eveleigh
Nash ; 7s. 6d. net), by Captain
Peter Wright, will create as
much stir as Colonel Reping-
ton’s Diary, or even the enraptured reminiscences
of Malice in Blunderland. The author was
Assistant Secretary to the Council, and it is clear
he knows a great deal—it is rather a pity, though,
that Captain Wright was a scholar of the one
institution in Oxford that has evolved its own
peculiar manner, and still perpetuates the intel¬
lectual arrogance of the lines attributed to the
” Jowler ” :
I am the Master of Balliol-
College ;
What I know not is not
knowledge. ^ 3 E 23 BT
I find myself distrusting ' v,r *
the pontifical pronounce- r, • *
ments of this young *’**$**'*.
apologist for the poll- '
ticians, who has not
the slightest doubt that
a few months of secre¬
tarial experience at the
back provide a far
better insight into the
strategy and tactics of
modern warfare on a
vast scale than all the WHK-
experience a generalis¬
simo can gain at the
front. He begins his
argument by stating as BIIHHHlH
a fact—a very doubtful
one, when the wide jTW
margin between “ bay-
onet strength ” and
gross personnel is con-
sidered, and also the V '
all-important point that ■ ^
a large proportion of i/'K-
our men were merely V' Vfc-?
soldiers still in the '"
making—that “for three 'A"'
whole years, from Jan- ty; H
uary 1915 to the end '\... V ’ ' \ V
of 1917, the Allies on
the Western Front were
in a numerical superi¬
ority, which at times
did we not finish outlie
ruthless and concen¬
trated zeal of this Pro¬
fessor at the Conference
table, especially when
one thinks of the man
as now old and broken,
and of the grandiose
dream, which inspired
his reckless enthusiasm,
and is now a small and
impotent mechanism.
Here is Mr. Lansing’s
just criticism of one of
the dangerous phrases
he invented, to lead
the minds of men and
nations out of the path
of political common-
sense into the quagmire
of sheer sentimentality:
The more I think about
the President’s declaration
as to the right of “ self-
determination,” the more
convinced I am of the
danger of putting such
ideas into the minds of
certain races. It is bound
to be the basis of impos¬
sible demands on the Peace
Congress and create trouble
in many lands. . . . The
phrase is simply loaded
with dynamite. It will raise
hopes which can never be
realised. It will, I fear,
cost. thousands of lives.
These words were writ¬
ten in a note dated
Dec. 20, 1918, and in
the countries and among
the races named by
Mr. Lansing the very
troubles he foresaw have
actually occurred. To¬
day the President's will-
o’-the-wisp phrases are
on all rebellious lips,
and the fact that the
shining thereof is the
light that never was on
sea or land, a mystic
radiance visiting the
eyes of a visionary, will
not help those who are
led by it into a sort of
political Irish bog.
Because the Allied gene¬
rals and statesmen did not
understand their business
and were mostly fools, and
obstinate fools at that.
Fortunately, this au¬
thority admits there
were a few exceptions—
Mr. Lloyd George among
the statesmen, for ex¬
ample, and Marshal
Foch among the sol¬
diers. He thinks little
of M. Clemenceau ; if
a tiger, only a stuffed
nursery tiger. Our critic
writes as follows of the
Battle of St. Quentin :
The military student
will come to consider
St. Quentin a model of
what a defeat ought to be,
a sort of classical example,
with a complete perfection of its own, surpassing even
masterpieces . . like Cambrai.
The answer to this taunt is to be found in General
Gough’s history of w r hat the Fifth Army, in spite
of its long and almost shadowy line, did during the
German offensive in the spring of 1918. For Haig
and Robertson Captain Wright has nothing but
contempt. His remarks could only be made by
one who knows nothing of the peculiar relations
between a general and his armies in the field. Just
as modern discipline is best defined as “ confidence
in one’s pals,’’ so the belief of his officers and men
in the character of their general (here, as always,
and in all man’s activities, character is destiny),
magnifies his authority and multiplies their resist¬
ance-power, both their daring and their endurance.
This is perhaps the greatest spiritual factor in war,
and every true soldier knows its vast significance.
FOUND IN THE BINDING OF A. LANCASHIRE LAWYER’S BOOK OF FORMS: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH
PLAYING CARDS—HAND-COLOURED AND WOOD-ENGRAVED.
In the “ Bulletin ’’ of the John Rylands Library at Manchester we read : “ An interesting and important addition has been made
to the Library’s collection of early wood-engravings under quite accidental circumstances. In the binding of a manuscript
volume of legal forms, which at one time belonged to a Preston solicitor, it was found that the binder had used a number of
playing cards to reinforce the cover. These have been carefully removed and mounted. There are seventy-one cards, forming
parts of at least two packs. Some of them have been much cut away, but on several of the picture cards, which have been
coloured by hand, the names of the printers survive. One pack was printed by G. Hervieu at Rouen, in or about 1572, the
other by Jean Gaultier at Paris in or about 1576. They must therefore have been imported into this country in the time
of Queen Elizabeth .”—[By Courtesy of the Librarian of the John Rylands Library, Manchester.]
historic examples being Alexander, Julius Ca-sar,
Cromwell, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon.
In years to come the history of the peace will
be regarded as hardly seccnd in interest and im¬
portance to the history of the war. In “ The
Peace Negotiations : A Personal Narrative ”
(Constable ; 16s. net), by Robert Lansing, one of
the protagonists in the Peace Conferences at Paris
makes a contribution of great consequence to the
former subject. Mr. Lansing differed from Pre¬
sident Wilson on almost every issue, refusing his
adhesion in the all-important matters of the
Wilsonian theory of the League of Nations and the
surrender to Japan of the Shantung Peninsula. In
the American system of governance, the Secretary
of State, great and responsible as his position and
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LAKE-DWELLING A RECONSTRUCTION DRAWING.
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DROUGHT IN SWITZERLAND : PILE FOUNDATIONS OF PREHISTORIC LAKE-DWELLINGS.
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CLASTONBURY LAKE-DWELLINGS A RECONSTRUCTION DRAWING.
The pile-foundations of prehistoric lake-dwellings, believed to be 7000 years old, [
were recently revealed by the sinking of lake levels in Switzerland, caused by an
exceptional drought, which lasted three months, on the mountain glaciers. The
remains of a large settlement became visible at Greng, near the Lake of Morat,
and others on Lake Neuchatel and near Morges, on the Lake of Geneva. The
existence of such lake-dwellings was first revealed by a similar drought in 1854.
They were built on wooden platforms supported on piles driven into the bed of
the lake, the object being, of course, to obtain protection from attack. People
lived in them from about 5000 ».C. down almost to historic times. They were
probably destroyed by fire. A British lake settlement existed near Glastonbury,
in Somersetshire, some 2000 years ago. Its remains were excavated in 1911,
and the above drawings by Mr. Forestier (reproduced here for purposes of com¬
parison! appeared in our issue of December 2 in that year. They bring out the
fact, based on evidence discovered, that the ancient Briton was by no means the
woad-painted savage he was once represented to be, but had considerable skill
in arts and crafts and lived a more or less civilised life. The same is true of
the Swiss lake - dwellers, as the discovery of ornaments and other relics
attests. \ Praisings Cnf>vrigktsd in Iks CnilsJ S/atsx and Canada .I
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April Z\. 1921 —530
POLO-AND SNOW! THE AMERICANS START SERIOUS PRACTICE.
Photographs »y Roicn.
MR. DEVEREUX M1LBURN (CAPTAIN ; BACK:
MR. L £ STODDARD.
IN A SNOWSTORM : AMERICAN PLAYERS CHANGING PONIES DURING A PRACTICE GAME AT SUNBURY.
WATSON WEBB.
MR. T. HITCHCOCK, JUN.
MR. C. C. RUMSEY.
It was announced early this month that the American team chosen to make the
attempt to recover the International Polo Cup at Hurlingham, in June, would
consist of Messrs. L. E. Stoddard (No. i) ; Thomas Hitchcock, Jun. (No. 2) ;
J. Watson Webb (No. 3) ; and Devereux Milbum (Back) ; with Messrs. C. C.
Rumsey and Earl \V. Hopping as Reserves. At the moment of writing, there
seem doubts as to whether or no Mr. Hopping will play. Serious practice began
at Sunbury on April 16. The American team then included Mr. R. E. Straw-
bridge, Sen., who played Back in the absence of Mr. Milbum, who is the captain
of the team, and will finally decide the composition of his side on his arriv
Mr. Stoddard played with the opposing team. Each contest for the Cup, now
held by Hurlingham, is for the best of three matches. The first of these wt
be on June 18 ; the second on June 22 ; and the third—if a third be called or
on June 25. Mr. Watson Webb, by the way, is left-handed. As usual. *
visiting team will be finely mounted, having the pick of fifty ponies, who are
already acclimatised, having been here since the end of last year, and been
housed, at the King’s invitation, at the Royal Mews, Hampton Court.
Dreamland—
a chi/ds Jantasjr.
Jrz page J?>om &\)elyris 2)sar>y.
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tke trees were sticks of rookuk and m tke middle of tke forest tkere
was a pond full of Bird s Custard. Just as I was going to pick sum ^
up in a roobuk leef I woke up. Jokn and Margret larfed wken I
told tkem kut I m going to try and dreame it again to-nigkt only
dreame it quicker so I can kave sum kefore I wake up.
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because this not only softens the health-bringing and tonic qualities of the Rhubarb, but
also makes of it a most refreshing and delicious dish. Bird’s Custard aud Rhubarb agree with
the most delicate digestions, and both children and adults equally benefit and enjoy it.
J Bird's Custard is unequalled in its cream-like qualities, whilst its delightful and
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Amui. 23. 1921.
.>52
By J. T. GREIN.
F orbes - robertson !
behold his sculptural features, to hear his
beautiful voice again—that voice which all the
world over has sent forth the words of Shakespeare,
and still in echo lives in the memories of playgoers
of great cities from Amsterdam to Vienna. For
Forbes - Robertson playing Hamlet on the Con¬
tinent and in the States has done more for the
reputation of British histrionic art than any man
living. Yonder they rank him with the great,
as we revere him as the undisputed leader of his
profession. For some years now, through his
delicateness of health, we have seen less of him
than we desire; but whenever our stage is
under discussion his name crops up as one of
its proudest possessions, as our past-master of
diction, as the standard-bearer of all that is
noble and exalted in dramatic art. Thus, we
rejoiced at the opportunity, given by Gerald
Christie’s Lecture Agency, to pay him homage
at the Wigmore Hall, where, led by Ellen Terry,
that other ‘jewel in our Thespian crown, the
world of art, of literature, of the Press fore¬
gathered to hear him speak of the Bard and
kindle our memory with scenes which in past days
cemented his fame. He began with a charming
picture of Iris paternal home in Bedford Square,
a shrine of Shakespeare’s cult, where, with men
and women of fame around him, Forbes-Robert-
son’s father instilled love of the national poet into
his children. He then plunged boldly into rapid
outlines of " the King’s ” dramas, incidentally
recited with the fervour of youth the speech
of Buckingham that made him famous in a
couple of minutes; drew parallels between
Hamlet and Macbeth, reincarnated his greatest
glory in “ To be or not to be,” declaimed with
pathos and power the Murder Scene in Macbeth,
and sent us home in happiness with two anec¬
dotes—a fitting conclusion, after the Roman
manner, of an evening pregnant with thought,
emotion, and tragedy. And as we went hence
we hoped that these lectures would be a prelude
to his return to the stage, where he is sorely
missed, and where now. as ever, his personality,
his voice, and his diction would—to use his
own modest words —" keep the torch of
Shakespeare’s genius flickering.”
Apropos of ” Up in Mabel’s Room,” at the
Playhouse, I feel tempted to quote one of the
delightful chestnuts which Forbes-Robertson picked
from his rich tree of reminiscences. A manager
received a very bad play from a young author,
and he wrote—
" My dear Sir,—I have read your play. Oh,
my dear Sir 1 "
Oh, my dear Charles Hawtrey — to allow a
renowned artist like you to perform acrobatics
under a four-poster 1 I could have cried with
fine plays—towards the end of last year—the
demand for Shakespeare and intellectual plays.
So hope swelled the manager’s breast. But, lo
and behold! that ugly word “strike” fell — a
bolt from the blue; bang ! went the box-office
thermometer—in some cases perilously near zero_
anil long faces flanked lean receipts. Yet the
cinemas stayed full and the ” pubs ” grew fuller—
there was plenty of desire to drown apprehension
in pictures and in beer, but the theatres were
taboo. Can anyone explain the strange pheno¬
menon ? Are, perhaps, the prices of admission
plus tax at the bottom of it all ? If so, the
managers may be well advised not to disregard
the omen. Oui theatre is the dearest in the
world except Paris, where it is part of the
nation’s life and mission. Does the theatre give
the value ‘for what it takes ? Ask the Gallery
First Nighters, and then reverse the engines
before the cinema captures more landmarks in
the world of the London Theatre. Mene, mene /
I wish to offer no comments on the reappear¬
ance of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, but lay a
wreath of admiration and homage on her
monument of glorious memories of the past.
Let us rejoice that Isadora Duncan has re¬
turned to us with a crown of Titian hair on
a Junoesque figure, and that when she is
herself—in real dance—she still realises the
poetry of motion. For there are two Isadoras:
the one is an artist who knows what is “ great
and good and beautiful ” ; the other is a kins¬
woman of the late Thomas Phineas Bamum, he
who knew so well that mnndus vult decipi, and
that a blare goes further than a whisper. When
Isadora tries to interpret Liszt and Chopin in
contortions of sempiternal slowness and often
of incomprehensibility ; when she has but two
facial expressions—a contraction of pain and
a grin of artificial suavity ; when in mimicking
a hallowed ” Marche Fun£bre ” she fails to
realise the opening of the gates of Paradise
after the elegy of the prelude, I, for one,
who have seen all the great dancers of half
a century, am not to be taken in. It is the
Barnum side of her talent which bamboozles
the uninitiated masses and quand-mime slaves
at her chariot. But when she dances in still
picturesque undulation of arms, in grace of
picturesque 'footsteps, in wafting of veils, designing
beautiful arabesques, in wedding her whole being to
the magnificent piano-playing of Walter Rummel,
then I recall with great pleasure those days when her
appearance in the great cities of Europe provoked
a joyful levolution of choreography, and she taught
the public as well as her pupils that nature has
given us limbs to vie in eloquence with the lips.
To Isadora Duncan's better half, my salaam !
AN ENGLISH COMEDY THAT CHARMED AMERICA AND
AUSTRALIA: (L. TO R.) MR. A. SCOTT-CATTY AS ERNEST,
AND MR. CYRIL MAUDE AS ANDREW BULLIVANT IN
THE REVIVAL OF "GRUMPY,” AT THE CRITERION.
" Grumpy ” proved the most popular item in Mr. Cyril Maude’s tour
in the United States and Australia. Its revival at the Criterion was
very welcome.— [Photograph by Stage Photo Co.]
was the Robert Loraine of the States). Suzanne
Sheldon, still happily with us, leaped into fame in
Brieux’ " Maternity.” Julie Opp went back to
New York. She had a vogue in London at the
St. James's Theatre under the unforgettable
George Alexander: she was a grande dame of
exquisite mien and manners ; as an actress she
rarely obtained general suffrage, but one day by
one line she heralded the promise of great possi¬
bilities. That was in Justin Huntly
McCarthy’s splendid melodrama “ If I
Were King ! ” (Revive it I Revive it!)
At the end of the second act, when
George Alexander appeared in all the
glory of his manhood, Julie Opp, the
heroine, had what the French call the
coup de foudre. She fell in love with
the hero, and the curtain descended
upon the words ” A man has come to
Court. ” These words Julie Opp uttered
with such a dignity, in such exaltation,
with such statuesque grace of pose, that
the audience was electrified. Next day
criticism was a chorus of praise and
promise—but the promise remained un¬
fulfilled. She went home to become
a worshipper and a worthy partner of
her dashing second husband. William
Faversham.
It was good to rage if my sense of humour had not impelled me
to grin and bear it. But pray let us soon have
Mabel's room instead of her company.
Some ten years ago or so, two beautiful women
dazzled the stage of London. They both came
from America, and were great chums. The one
was Suzanne Sheldon, the other Julie Opp, who
has just died in New York. Both made romantic
marriages. Miss Sheldon became Mrs. Henry
Ainlev ; Miss Opp, Mrs. Robert Loraine, and later
Mrs. William Faversham (her second actor-husband
AN ELLEN TERRY ROLE IN A WILLS PLAY REVIVED:
MISS GLADYS COOPER IN THE NAME-PART OF “OLIVIA,”
AT THE ALDWYCH.
Miss Gladys Cooper makes a charming heroine of “ Olivia ”—W. G.
Wills’ dramatic version of Goldsmith’s “ Vicar of Wakefield.” It was
one of Miss Ellen Terry’s most famous parts.
Photograph hv Stage Photo Co.
Some day, when the sea-serpent is
in season and the theatres are closed, I
may write an essay on the mentality of
our audiences. It is a fruitful vine for
the observer, and the last days have
once more thrown a strange sidelight on
it. After the war, the theatre was in
exte/sts—people went to see anything,
even if it were nothing. How often
have I not heard at libraries, hotels,
and district messenger offices the weird
question : ” Are there seats anywhere to
be had ? ” Never mind the play, the
actors, the nature of the thing—it was
just the nostalgia of the theatre that
obsessed the crowd. Then came the
slump, a faint revival, a string of
AN ELLEN TERRY ROLE IN A WILLS PLAY BURLESQUED:
MISS RENEE MAYER AS MARGUERITE IN THE NEW GAIETY
PIECE, “FAUST ON TOAST.”
The Gale y produc ion of “Faust on Toast” (a burlesque of W. G.
Wills’ adaptation from Goethe, in which Miss Ellen Terry creat
the part of Marguerite) arranged for April 16, was postponed.
Photograph by Malcolm At hut hoot.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 23 . 1921 353
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LADIES’ NEWS.
L EAVING one's happy home these days is no light
undertaking, as there is a beautiful uncertainty as to
when one may be able to return. However, we learnt to
carry on in the Great War, so we just carry on now, every¬
one doing the best they can. Many postponements of social
events have been, and are being, made. That of the
wedding of Captain Lord Somers to Miss Finola Meeting
had to do with the illness of Miss Meeting's only sister, as
well as the bridegroom's leave, and was only for three days,
to allow her to recuperate sufficiently to be chief brides¬
maid, and to be sure of the bridegroom turning up. Balls
are being postponed, but some will be held if possible.
That for the Navy League, which was to have been at the
AJbert Hall on the 27th, is among those postponed. The
dance for the Ivory Cross, at the Grafton Galleries last week.
was very successful. The fox-trot
competition proved amusing, and
Miss Megan Lloyd George pre¬
sented the prizes. The King
moved the Court to town about
a month sooner than had been
intended. It is ever his Majesty’s
way to consider his Ministers and
be at hand when there is a crisis.
APPEALING ON BEHALF
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girls. As a war memorial of
the textile trade, a second
school is to be opened at
Addincton, Surrey. Mr.
Richmond is appealing for con¬
tributions towards the £ 30.000
required.
time alone in Berlin, in constant
anxiety about her beloved sons.
Her husband, she knew, would
take care of himself.
No one will, I am certain,
have any feeling of rancour about
the ex-German Empress. She did
not even have the solace of a
peaceful, tranquil close to a life
which could never have been a
happy one. She was last over
here early in 1913. when the
Memorial to Queen Victoria, in
front of Buckingham Palace, was
unveiled. At that time she looked
very well; her silver white hair
suited her, and she dressed
throughout the short visit impos¬
ingly, and made, on each of her
public appearances, a memorable
figure. Her only daughter was
also here—then a quiet, unin¬
teresting girl to look at, and
seeming rather bored. The late
ex-Empress is said to have met
her husband here in England.
She never took any part in
affairs in her own country, but was said to have managed
many matters for her family by exercise of clever diplomacy
with her arbitrary and overbearing spouse. For jewellery
she had a great love, and possessed a very fine collection
of diamonds. During the war she spent most of her
Spring, 1921, as pictured by Harrod’s in their very
attractive, newly issued book, is a vastly delightful outlook
It is calculated to drive from our minds sinister things
insistent as they have been, are, and, it is feared, will be
The book shows the newest and the best of everything in
our world of dress, and the prices are beautifully less than
they were. A suit, tailor-built, plain, neat, and smart, in
fine wool gabardine, for 6J guineas, lined with silk, and having
collar lapels and front bound with fine silk braid, made in
half-a-dozen sizes, in navy, nigger and black, is something
like a pleasant indication of returning to pre-war conditions.
For an afternoon suit there is a delightful one cut on the
new saque lines, and embroidered on the coat with smartly
contrasted colours which are reproduced at the hem of the
accordion-pleated skirt. This suit, a copy of a Paris model,
costs only 124 guineas, and is in several favourite colours
and the finest gabardine. There are many most alluring
pictures of all the things wc
want to wear Four pages have
coats, capes, costumes, blouses,
river and golf clothes, beautifully
reproduced in colour. There are
also pages for school-girls and
for “ lit tier " people too. both
boys and girls. Illustrations, really
good ones, descriptions and prices
of everything women and children
need will be found in Harrod's
“ Spring, 1921.” which wrill be
sent free to intending purchasers,
all of whom will welcome the
great moderation in price of
everything in this book.
ENGAGED TO MR LESLIE
. CWILT: MISS MARJORY'
ASTON-RAMM.
Miss Astoo-Ramm is the
elder daughter of Mr and Mrs.
C. A. Aston-Ramm, of Ash-
lands. Watford. She is well
known in Society and in
theatrical circles.
A DELIGHTFUL AFTERNOON SUIT.
In this uncertain climate it is iust as well
to hare a garment which, while looking
smart, is not too elaborate and flimsy, and
Harrod's have devised the above costume,
cut on the new saque lines and embroidered
in contrasting colours.
The threatened outbreaks sent
many women on quests for
overalls, for they mean work,
and overalls are the things to
work in. Debenham and Free-
body. always ready, have not
only overalls, but really practical
coat frocks suitable for women
volunteers to go to offices in. as
the first - mentioned are f«w
manual work and for canteen service. The big house in
Wigmore Street, which has the real spirit of carrying
on strong in its organisation, has really beautiful spring
clothes on show now, and also, what is of vast im¬
portance to mothers, a large choice of styleful and
practical clothes for school-girls. Their post-Easter outfit
is the most important of the year, and because of
Debenham and Frecbody's great reputation for school clothes,
the mantle of Swears and Wells has fallen on them over
their own, and they are appointed to many of the most
important girls' schools in Britain. A. E. L.
COLOURS there are for every mood. Do you
feel the sudden surging of the blood ? Take you
then, the fierce colours of Spain. Are you in a
dainty mood ? Seek your complement in the
tints of Japan. Colour is your tireless joy.
TAMBORINA, the beautiful lawn for beautiful
lingerie, is made in 25 different shades. A shade
for every mood.
TAMBORINA
J. & N. Philips * Co. Ltd., Advert. Dept.. Manchester
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THE COIT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP
BY FRED J. MELVILLE.
F ROM the new kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and
Slovenes, the land of the Yugo or Southern Slavs,
there is to hand a beautifully engraved set of three
stamps of a charity postal issue. They are sold at a
supplement over their face-value, the extra charge
being collected by the post-office in aid of the fund
for the wounded warriors of the Serb and allied Slav
races. These fine engravings have been printed to the
order of the Yugo-Slav Government
in America, and as productions of
the American Hank Note Company ————
they are well finished, and present
a striking contrast to the crude but
interesting lithographs and typo-
graphed stamps which have been
produced at Laibach and Belgrade
during the past two-and-a-half years.
The io paras carmine stamp is
sold at double that amount, 20
paras, half going to pay the postage,
and the other half to the soldiers'
fund. The design on this stamp is
from an historical painting by
Krstitch, a Serb artist, and it deals
with an incident of the battle of
Kossovo, the Field of Blackbirds.
It was on the plain of Kossovo
that the Turks, under Sultan
Murad I., defeated the ancient Ser¬
bian Empire and put an end, for -
five centuries at least, to the in¬
dependence of the Serbs. That was ^ ew Yuc °‘ S,aT s1
in 1389, and in Serb folk-lore there
is told the story of a young girl who new
went out after the battle to seek her
lover, Orlovic Pavl6, among the
wounded or the slain. In the picture on the stamp
the heroine of Kossovo is seen giving water to a
wounded warrior.
The next stamp. 15 paras sepia (sold for 30 paras),
is an allegory of the exodus of the Serbs from their
fatherland during the great war in 1915. The stamp
• picture appears to have been derived from a statue,
and shows a Serbian soldier clad in sheepskin, with
a staff in one hand and a rifle in the other. On the
base of the statue one can read in microscopic letters
" A travers l’Albanie "—across Albania, the course of
the great retreat.
The third of these stamps is the 25 paras light
blue, which is sold for 50 paras. On this is depicted
an allegory of the new Slav union—a Serb, a Croat,
and a Slovene upholding the royal crown of Serbia.
All three stamps were put on sale at Belgrade on
Jan. 30. the day on which the “ martyr *’ capital was
decorated with the Legion of Honour by the French.
About the same time the Yugo Slavs inaugurated
their new definitive series of stamps, which they have
also secured from America, and which are of a
handsome and well-finished design, embodying on
the low values a portrait of Prince Alexander, and
on the high values a portrait of King Peter. This
:&jSm fes
jlflBHpi
New Yugo-Slav stamps: Nos. 1, 2, and 3—a charity postal issue. (1> 10 paras carmine, showing the heroine of
Kossovo giving water to a wounded warrior; (2) 15 paras sepia, showing a Serbian soldier of the Great War .
(3) 25 paras light-blue, showing a Serb, a Croat, and a Slovene upholding the Serbian Crown No. 4. One of the
new definitive Yugo-Slav series: a 2-para stamp with a portrait of Prince Alexander
Stamps suppiud by Mr. F. ]. MtlvilU, tio. Strand, H.C.i.
on the stamp set consists of fourteen denominations from 2 paras found near (
ng water to a to 10 dinars. All these stamps are inscribed in Cyrillic site is a hug
and in Latin characters with the name of the new diameter, seal
l for 30 paras), State, " Kraljevstvo Srba, Hrvata, i Slovenaca *' iron. It is fx
rbs from their (Kingdom of the Serbs. Croats, and Slovenes). outlying plain
j. The stamp - — ■■ - But for 1
Erom a statue, Among well - dressed men a “ Stetson ” is the defence again:
leepskin, with standard word which stands for durability, beauty matter, life o
'ther. On the and efficiency in hats. The John B. Stetson Company certain factor,
oscopic letters have been known in this country over twenty years. The dama
, the course of The secret of the excellence of their special felt hats collision of a
is simple. . The Stetson Company use only the finest wc know, av
25 paras light furs—North American beaver, South American nutria, particles are <
his is depicted and European hare and coney. the Earth.
IF A COMET STRUCK THE EARTH.
(See Illustration on Page 547.)
T HE question, “ If we struck a comet, what would
happen ? " was again raised by the approach
of Winnecke’s Comet on its return journey to the Sun.
In passing Jupiter it was diverted from its usual path
by the mighty attraction of that planet. If we passed
through a comet’s tail, it is questionable whether wc
should ever be conscious of the fact ; and even if
its properties were of a poisonous nature, no ill effects
would be experienced, owing to ex¬
treme rarefaction. The Earth has
passed through many tails in the
past, and probably through that of
Halley's Comet in iqio.
A collision with the actual head
of a comet would, one would think,
prove more serious. It is, however,
certain that the head is not solid,
but may represent a huge conglom¬
eration of small solid meteoric
bodies, rendered luminous by in¬
cessant collisions between them.
Probably nothing would happen
beyond a meteor shower of excep-
I tional severity. There Is no in¬
dication to show that the Earth
in the past has suffered materi¬
ally through collision with a large
celestial body, although we arc
correct in assuming that it has
— * 1 ~ ■ ~ more than once during all the ages
passed through the head of a
ving the heroine of
of the Great War comet.
No. 4. One of the Incidentally, remnants of a
, n( jer collision supposed to have occurred
about 5000 years ago with a
comparatively small body are
found near Canyon Diablo, North Arizona. The
site is a huge crater, three quarters of a mile in
diameter, scattered for miles around with meteoric
iron. It is 600 ft. deep, the walls rising above the
outlying plain 150 ft.
But for our atmosphere, which stands as a
defence against celestial intruders such as meteoric
matter, life on this globe of ours would be an un¬
certain factor.
The damage -which would be wrdught by the
collision of a comet with the Earth is, as far as
wc know, averted, since the small solid meteoric
particles are dissipated into vapour before reaching
the Earth. Scriven Bolton', F.R.A.S.
BEtTHAMS V
a-rolai
KEEPING YOUR HANDS
SOFT, SMOOTH & WHITE '
in spite of all the Rough j
work you now have to do. j
Rub a little well in each time
you wash them, and thev will i
_J2?_J[y^ J ^ RA TED LONDON NEWS, April 23, 1921 —557
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. A»*kil 23. 11)21-.V*
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
In a letter tt
Motor Users'
the Commercial
Association, the
Taxation Relief
Foreshadowed. D f Transport foreshadows
a reduction in the motor-car tax. 1 he new impost
looks like realising a great deal more money than
was anticipated, and whether it is that the Ministry
has assessed the contribution of mechanical transport
at a certain figure, and does not desire it to be ex¬
ceeded, or whether there is another reason
behind it, there seems to be a probability
that there will be a reduction of the tax
very shortly. As a matter of fact. 1 under¬
stand that there has been a suggestion
under discussion for ejecting a reduction
of no less than *5 per cent, under the
terms of the forthcoming Finance Bill.
Whether anything will come of this re¬
mains to be seen ; but there seems to be
little doubt that at long last the realisa¬
tion is being driven home that a single
form of traffic is being asked to con¬
tribute far more than its share to the
maintenance of the highways. 1 have a
shrewd suspicion that this has come about
as a consequence of the very greatly in¬
creased contribution which the new scheme
of taxation has drawn from the owners of
commercial motor vehicles, whose repre¬
sentatives were responsible in no small
degree for the imposition of the horse¬
power tax. It is quite clear that they did
not foresee how badly their interests would
be hit, or they would not have been so
keen in their advocacy of the tax. Up to
the end of March they paid over 2\ mil¬
lions in taxation, against but a small pro¬
portion of this sum under the old system,
whereby they were taxed at the rate of
threepence per gallon on their petrol, where this fuel
was used. Incidentally, the private motorist paid
up to the same date no less than millions to
the Exchequer.
A Vauxhall ^ the British motor industry is
a . . to hold its own, more attention
AP -" P must ** P^ 1 to the twhnical
training of the workers than has
been given to it in the past. This fact seems to be
meeting with more recognition every day, and now
most of the larger concerns have adopted a scheme
of apprenticeships which will go far towards pro¬
viding the industry with the skilled labour which is
so essential to its success. One of the best of these
is that adopted by the Vauxhall Company in their
works at Luton. There are three classes of appren¬
tices : engineering students from 16 to 18 years old ;
trade apprentices from !<• to 17; and operator-
apprentices of the same age. There is a technical
school attached to the works, which are quite in the
front rank as regards equipment. In addition to
the training given in the wiiks, further instruction
is available at the Luton Technical Institution, so
that there is every opportunity available for the
AT LORD LONDESBOROUGHS SEAT NEAR LINCOLN. A 20-2S-H.P. RUSTON-
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youth who is determined to acquire the knowledge
necessary to fit him for his future career in the motor
engineering industry.
Youths in Class 1 are required to have had a sound
secondary or technical education, and these will go
the round of the shops, and will spend some time in
the drawing office. The training thus given will
fit them to become responsible heads of departments,
works managers, designers, etc. In this class a
premium is charged. The trade apprentice class is
for boys who will ultimately become fitters, turners,
and so forth ; while Class 3 provides for the train¬
ing of boys as efficient operators of machine tools.
Altogether, the scheme is a comprehensive one and
quite admirable in conception. Anyone who may be
interested is invited to communicate with the Works
Manager at Luton.
Motorists ond th. D-riog th. cWs Itoojht .boot by
Strike Crisis lhc thrcats of lhe Tn P le Alliance
to plunge the transport services
of the country into chaos, thousands of motorists
placed their cars and themselves at the disposal of
the motoring organisations to carry out any essential
services that might be required. The general feeling
among these, so far as it was possible to
ascertain it through the conversations
one heard at various centres, was that
the Government, as such, might go hang
for all anybody cared. ' The motorist has
every reason to dislike this Government
for the discrimination which it has ex¬
ercised against a class of the community
which is always among the very first to
rise to the occasion when emergencies
such as that of last week-end have to be
met. He still rankles under a sense of
acute injustice because of the iniquitous
taxation which has been levied upon
his car and its possession, and in the
mass he would do nothing to help the
Government out of a mess which simply
concerned the Administration. In such a
case as the recent strike menace, however,
the question becomes one of citizenship,
and even of self-defence, and on all hand>>
one heard, when the matter was dis¬
cussed at all, that it was simply this
feeling and no other which had prompted
motorists to volunteer their services. It
struck me very forcibly that there is a
point at which patience under patent
injustice can be exhausted, and that this
point has very nearly been reached in
this particular case. In fact, I believe
that the motoring organisations received a small
proportion of very pointed, not to say rudely,
phrased refusals of service in response to their call
for volunteers. Of course, one does not seek to
justify this minority. Quite the contrary, but it is
worth while recording the fact of its existence.
The London Motor Garage, of Wardour Street. W’.,
announce that an expert will be in attendance at the
garage daily for the purpose of effecting minor
adjustments and repairs to cars left for garage, and
to give advice and assistance. This service is
absolutely free of charge, except for material or
accessories used. VV. W.
The UFE RECORDS
of “ Clincher ** Tyres are a deline¬
ation of (he high ideals on which the
manufacturing standards are based.
The factory organisation, the hrsl-
class artisanship. and the effective
check of every form of material
that goes into the “ Clincher ”
store, combine to produce a high
degree of road competency.
The ‘'Clincher” standard of ex¬
cellence proved on the road has
elicited favourable comment and
recommendation ever} where.
The North ftnlnh Ri.hher Co , f./d.,
^ Edinburgh, l.nndoti &*/traHfh» .
\Atn
THE
illustrated
April
“READY FOR
THE ROAD”
THIS IS THE NEW PRICE
OF THE
16 h-p-TALBOT-DARRACO
Hecre A S E D production
Chassis price £55
Complete with : —
C.A.V. Lighting &
Starting;
Five lamps ;
Clock ;
Speedometer ;
4-Speed Gearbox;
Cantilever Suspen¬
sion ;
5 Wheel* and Tyres.
v-^-uperauon oetwcen the various
firms associated with the Darracq
Company; the reduction in
labour costs in the principal
Foundries and Stamping Plant of the
combined Companies at Suresnes;
a heavy reduction in the cost of raw
material, and the whole 1921 out¬
put of the 16 h.p, model contracted
for by agents, added to which the
sales in France have been much
heavier than anticipated. All these
facts have resulted in a further large
series of this model being placed in production,
a drop of £100 in price, amd the further ud-
1 r f 6 i° D P; Ru “ 0n ' H ° rn «by i. essentially a car built for
dation fnT T * 13 TL r °? rriy five-ieater, with adequate accommo-
a i rt T 86 ' Jh dnVCr ’ ? at and thc P«W« "e adjustable,
a feature that cannot fail to appeal to the owner-driver.
TTie engin e U nknt, develop, a foe turn of .peed, and (.remarkably
^ I The ' qu,p ,' n '? 1 C.A.V. lighting nod
starting , the hood lowers into the body of the car.
*'!ll‘ lln0 T lim. of engineer.. R„.ton & HornAy. Ltd..
Theit o^ ^ Grant ^ al ”\ the manufacturer, of thi. fine car.
1 hetr name u a guarantee of high quality of material and workman.!,,p.
WHAT IS THE 1EST
CAB OF THE YEAH T "
“ Daily Dispatch " Xov. 4,
IQZO.
"After the most ex ha us .
trre examination into the
relative * value for money ’
of the numerous cars
exhibited at this rear’s
Olympia motor those, in
tnv considered judgment
the tost model of the
ib-h.p. Talbot• Darracy is
Prompt
Delivery
16-20 h.p. with cont-
pWcquip.jgfigQ
ML25 h.pwith com
^.^£750
•presenting * value for
Catalogues and alt details
from our Hoad Ogtco, and
trial runs arranged.
The same writer slates, in
the " Evening Standard”
Mar. 4 , sqss.
“After nearly 3,000 miles
sctlh the Talbot-Darracq
on the road, however, /
have nothing to take bach
from my original opinion,
that she is the best value
in cars in her class in
Write for Specification—it will interest you.
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The 25 h.p. Talbot is one of the most successful models
ever introduced by the Company. For reliability, durability
and efficiency combined with low upkeep cost (the petrol
consumption under touring conditions averages 18/21 miles
to the gallon) this car is unbeatable. Hereunder we
give prices of the three models for the 1921 season.
The CLEMENT - TALBOT Co, Ltd, have pleasure in
announcing a price reduction in all three models ; the
Little labour —
lasting polish,
The Alleviation of Human Pain. n
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£850
£950
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INVINCIBLE.
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If further interested.
standard work of reference for all Invalids
and Comfort Lovers (600 illustrations).
■’ The pen cor in the murid to cover 19$ miles within the hum ’
CLEMENT-TALBOT, LIMITED,
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ITCHISON & Co., whose
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MISCELLANEOUS.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 30. 1921.—662
T HE little city of fashion, that empire within
an empire, bounded on the north by Oxford
Street, on the east by Berkeley Square, on the
south by Piccadilly, and on the west by Park
Lane, has kinship, not entirely dependent on the
coincidence of its name, with Chaucer’s favourite
month. If May behaves herself, then Mayfair
responds loyally and reveals her most gracious
personality. For this district of fine ladies is
herself a fine lady—that is, a fine-weather lady,
whose beauty expands under the sunshine and
warmth proper to early summer. If May be cross
and chilly, half the charm of Mayfair’s highways
and byways vanishes; her new season’s dress and
her flower-boxes seem out of place and nipped,
more ironically here than in any other region of
London : for Mayfair is, par excellence, the lass
with the delicate air. In proportion to her pro¬
fession of gaiety does she depend upon genial
weather for the full glory of her perfections.
flowers, for sale, and a vivid greengrocery. Another
turn or two, and fashion, with its tall, reposeful
houses, its guarded doors, is again at your mental,
your sentimental, beck, as you pass, weaving your
own romances of a Mayfair dead and gone, yet
immortal, where the Kawdon Crawleys came to
grief, where Becky triumphed awhile, where
Barnes paid that call on Lady Kew, “ in town and
not in town,” where Mr. Jeames de la Pluche rose
to eminence on railw’ay shares, exchanged the
pantry in Berkeley Square for the Albany, saw
the vanity of human wishes, and returned to
happiness and a competence at the Wheel of
Fortune Hotel, chosen headquarters of the Butlers’
Club, near this very Shepherd’s Market you are in.
Or you saunter through Curzon Street and picture
the Mayfair marriage of the beautiful Miss Cunning
to James, fourth Duke of Hamilton, who during
the eponymous May Fair, at half-an-hour* after
midnight, put upon his bride’s finger a bed-curtain
ring, no more costly token being to hand. Easy¬
going Curzon Street ! In his chapel there, the
Rev. Alexander Keith would marry you at one
in Portland Place, and is therefore not strictly a
Mayfair interlude, but it will apply well enough
to what goes on in those curtained balconies a
little further west, where girls are realising some¬
thing that no second Season will ever bring them
again, something that makes their first Season
one continual May Fair.
This year, in spite of certain deficiencies,
those who claim to speak with authority say
that there is to be some sort of a Season after all.
To those whom it may concern, this must be tidings
of comfort and joy, and even an outsider like the
present writer admits a glow of satisfaction on
reading the news. For when the Season goes
merrily, London is more than ever a pleasant
place to move about in, though it be but on foot
from one chop-house to another, thence to an
occasional pit or gallery, and so home to the garret
next the stars.
In May she wakes up, and for a week or two
keeps a freshness and an amiable smile in harmony
with the hour. It is
fleeting, for London
is cruel still, in spite (a - c^» -
of smoke-abatement, (, ■
to new paint and A ■
window curtains ; and y H
if June begins duti- A I
fully to blaze be¬
times — alas, how f I
seldom !—then May-
fair of the tender
complexion betrays B
sooner than her
neighbours that jaded
look which August
will force on all the ft &J
Town. But while we N B
have her at her best, ■
let us, adapting the M B
phrase of Leo X.,
enjoy her, since God
hath given her to us.
And there is always the Academy, perennial
starter of the Season, perennially scoffed at,
perennially thronged,
and this year, they
_ 7 ^=* say, remarkable for
S KV the acceptances of
kj amateurs' work. The
Lj\ oddest thing about
fT all academies,
^ whether of Art or
A Letters, is their quiet
I • coercive dynamic. No
matter how the rebels
may rebel in the first
flush of genius, there
comes a day when
they are found a
L little less intolerant,
fL although they never
£) admit it, and a still
W* later day when, by
some magic unex¬
plained, their work is
• to be found within
the (to them) un-
f hallowed -walls. No
whether
one can say
the rebels have per¬
suaded the Academi¬
cians, for the Acad¬
emical manner does
not seem to change,
and the rebels would
be prompt with proofs
that they, at least,
have not bowed the
knee to Baal by the
merest fraction of a
genuflexion. But
there it is, and with
the passage of years
the convergence be¬
comes more marked,
until at length, in certain cases, it ends in the
full dignity (or is it lasting disgrace ?) of election.
Early followers of the elect may weep an idol fallen,
but the idol takes it very complacently, and has
never been known to commit suicide because of
.the handle to his name. He has succeeded, and
success makes us very tolerant of conventions.
And the former rebel has the comfortable assur¬
ance that his addition to an academical body has
set it just to that extent above convention.
It is the old story of The Mastersingcrs. There
is no getting away from it; the innovator seeks
of luxury, fostered
by playwrights and
novelists, is a super¬
lative of fiction,
quietly laughed at,
perhaps, by those
who endure the com¬
monplace of life in
the favoured quarter.
The Mayfair boudoir,
with its unvarying
outlook on the Park, has become a general ex¬
pression for a particular dramatic convention.
To the gallery and the groundlings it conveys a
delicious sensation of aristocratic intimacy, not
untouched with throbbing and, it may be, even
sinful intrigue, which only a vandal would spoil
by the cold suggestion that Mayfair, take it for
all in all. is most dully respectable, and that
the mtse-en-sdne carries a risk of libel, since a
house in Park Lane is possible only to the very
few. But in play or story it must be Park Lane
or nothing. Not ours be any ruthless whisper
that Mayfair windows, all fabled to command the
Park, are sometimes filled with discreet Cathedral
glass, to veil the dubious beauties of the ever¬
present mews. Petrol, it is true, has chastened
somewhat these old haunts of Jehu ; but they
remain, strange diversifiers of a world laid up in
lavender.
THE LYMPNE "EXCHANGE OF VIEWS" ON GERMAN REPARATIONS: THE BRITISH AND FRENCH PREMIERS
IN A CROUP AT THE VILLA BELCAIRE.
M. Briand, the French Premier, and M. Berthelot, Foreign Minister, spent the week-end, April 23-5, with Mr. Lloyd George at the
Villa Belcaire, Lympne, the residence of Sir Philip Sassoon, the Prime Minister's Parliamentary private secretary. It was arranged
that the Supreme Council should meet for a conference on German reparations on April 30. Our photograph shows, from left to
right in front. Lord Riddel) (in bowler hat). Sir Philip Sassoon, Sir Maurice Hankey, M. Berthelot (behind), Mr. Lloyd George, Lady
Rocksavage (sister of Sir Philip Sassoon, acting as hostess), and M. Briand.— [Photograph by C.N.]
minute’s notice, and no more questions asked than
they would ask down at the ribald Fleet. Nowa¬
days Mayfair has other ecclesiastical vagaries.
The younger fabulists still make play with
Mayfair in the Season, if they reflect its newer
flippancies more than its sentimentalities. The
post-war debutante comes hardened to her social
entry, for she is already a woman of wide ex¬
perience, who does not stand trembling on the
threshold of life. Terrors and shrinkings are not
for her.
Fortunately, the older convention found a
link in fiction with the new, just in the nick of
time. In the very year when the old order was
upset, Mr. Walpole gave us Rachel Beaminster,
a modern in whom certain ancient instincts
survived, amid a conflict of whimsical humour.
Rachel actually feared her coming-out ball, but
after the second dance she " knew for what life
was intended.” Before the evening was out she
was leaning forward to the complete feminist
attitude : ” Uncle John, I ‘m a success 1 I am
really. I can dance, dance beautifully 1 I can
put these young men in their places. They 're
frightened . . . really frightened.” This happened
Here London’s proverbially sudden contrasts
are emphasised in microcosm. There is but a
step from the palace to the region of small com¬
merce. What is there to equal the quaintness or
quick surprise of such a nook as Shepherd’s
Market, with its huddle of town and country
carts ? ” And here, too, there are gods ”—
the illustrated
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PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK:
. .. . .. W - »— -• '.™» >W Co.. Rkvstone Vi-
MEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Co.. Russ*,,, Man urn, Euwrr a„„ Fry. Lafayrttk, and Barratt.
NEWLY COME TO THE FRONT IN
POLO : CAPT. A. H. WILLIAMS.
A POWER IN MODERN EGYPT
ZAGHLUL PASHA.
A FAMOUS ARTIST ELECTED AN A.R-A.
MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN.
A WELL-KNOWN SCULPTOR ELECTED
AN A.RA : MR. W. R. DICK.
A FRENCH AUTHOR S UNTIMELY DEATH
THE LATE M. PAUL LOYSON.
APPOINTED HONORARY DIRECTOR
OF HOUSING : SIR C. T. RUTHEN.
APPOINTED A JUDGE OF KING S BENCH : MR. GEORGE A. H. BRANSON.
Much interest was caused in art circles by the news that Mr. Augustus John,
the famous painter who has hitherto held aloof from academic honours, had
been elected an A.R.A. Other notable elections were those of Sir John J. Burnet,
the architect of the British Museum extensions ; Mr. F. Cayley Robinson, the
painter; and Mr. W. Reid Dick, the sculptor.-Capt A. H. Williams, of the
Central India Horse, may be in the British polo team for the international matches
at Hurlingham.-Zaghlul Pasha has lately been in controversy with the Premier,
Adly Pasha, regarding the coming delegation to London to discuss the future of
K«rpt- m. Paul Hyacinthe Loyson, the well-known French litterateur, died in
Paris on April 19, in his forty-eighth year. His early death is much deplored.
Only recently he was lecturing at the Institut Franfais in London.-Mr. John
Cathcart Wason, M.P. (Co.Lib.) for Orkney and Shetland, died in London on
April 19. He was noted for his great height (over 6 ft 6 in.) and his habit of
passing the time, while waiting for a division at Westminster, in knitting socks
in the tea-room or some other quiet corner.-Sir Charles T. Ruthen, F.R.I.B.A.,
has been appointed by the Minister of Health as Honorary Director-General of
Housing.-Mr. George A. H. Branson has been made a Judge of the High
Court, King’s Bench.-Mr. Francis Charles Philips, novelist and dramatist, died
on April SI, aged seventy-one. His best-known novel was his first, “ As in a
Looking-Glass.” The play was Mme. Bernhardt’s first English production.
il_L
.‘Mil—TH1-: 1U.ISTKA I'l'.h I .ON l K )N NKWS, Ai-un :U>,
THfc ONLY THAMES BRIDGE IN LONDON : AN ARCH OF OLD
LONDON BRIDGE RECENTLY UNEARTHED
ONCE PART
THE FUNERAL OF A GREAT QUARTER
OF GENERAL SIR JOHN
GENERAL:
FOLLOW®
NEWS OF THE WEEK: OLD LONDON BRIDGE; THE FASCIST! WIN 1
Photographs by I.H.. Morix/leI , \
4
A LONDON BOROUGH HONOURS IT5 DEAD: THE MAYOR OF HAMPSTEAD lALDERMAN J. T. FRAZER. J.P
LAYING A WREATH ON THE WAR MEMORIAL
GRAND MASTER OF A GREAT ORDER: THE ?
OF WALES AT ST. PAUL’S. _
BOND BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA SHAKESPEARE THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON, SHOWING SIR SIDNEY LEE AND MR. JAMES K. HACKETT.
iring building ‘""fl,.
ion Bridge the ^
t tendencies, recently ^
■window-slashing; V #J
London windows » **«*> Gu
g the construction of the present one (begun in 1825), was recently discovered during building °f*** ^ w ,
?parently mediaeval, but contains supporting ribs dated 1703. Up to 1738, London Bridge was ,
A whole arch of old London Bridge, which was pulled do
St. Magnus Church on the north side of the river. The j
St. Magnus Church on the north side of the river. The arch is apparently mediaeval, but contains supporting ribs dated 1703. Up to 1738, London Bridge w hfW ,, ^
across the Thames at London. The Roman branch of the Fascisti, an Italian league for the preservation of State institutions against Bolshevist tendencies, „ ^ ^ p
great demonstration at the Capitol, where they took an oath of allegiance and dipped their flags in the fountains.-An extraordinary campaign of “ window-slashing ^ ^
eoing on in London and other cities, causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage. Our composite photograph contains various marks made on London windows 1
'NIK II.LISTKA1 Ml
I j ON DON N KWS. A pril ), 1 i)‘21. ofi
H ? VlNDOW- SLASHING;
THE COWANS FUNERAL;
MEMORIALS.
I ttf • GENERAL: THE GUN-CARRIAGE WITH THE COFFIN
mail FOLLOWED BY HIS CHARGER.
SWEARING FIDELITY TO ITALIAN
INSTITUTIONS : FASCISTl TAKING
THE OATH AT THE CAPITOL.
THE WINDOW - SLASHING CAMPAIGN IN LONDON : TYPICAL MARK?-A COMPOSITE
PHOTOGRAPH FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT WINDOWS
IN WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL : THE REQUIEM MASS FOR GENERAL SIR JOHN COWANS ;
WITH A GUARD OF HONOUR OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT.
S p==== —- —rrnrrr—;:—
U IN THEIR G.C.M.G. ROBES : LORD EMMOTT AND
j_ SIR FREDERICK LUGARD AT ST. PAUL’S.
A
RAILWAY ENGINE AS WAR MEMORIAL: THE G.C.R. LOCOMOTIVE •‘VALOUR," DEDICATED TO EMPLOYEES
OF THE COMPANY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR.
^ districts. - A memorial was recently unveiled at Hampstead to soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the borough who fell in the war. - —The funeral of General Sir John Cbwans,
ex-Quartermaster-General, took place on April 25. A Requiem Mass was held in Westminster Cathedral, where the Gloucestershire Regiment, of which he was Colonel, provided a
^ guard of honour. Thence the coffin was taken on a gun-carriage to Kensal Green Cemetery.-The Shakespeare Birthday celebrations a{ Stratford-on-Avon opened on April 23. - The
Prince of Wales, as Grand Master of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, attended the annual service at St. Paul’s on April 22. He arrived in his uniform as Colonel of the
jt Welsh Guards. - The Great Central Railway has named its latest main-line engine the “Valour,” placing on it an inscription in memory of G.C.R. employees who fell in the war.
566— THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April .*10. 1921.
THE ENGLISH CUP BROUGHT SOUTH AFTER TWENTY YEARS:! THE
Photographs bv Farrihgdon Fuji SroRT a*d
THE HUGE CONCOURSE OF 72,000 SPECTATORS AT STAMFORD BRIDGE : A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CROU^ DUr^
THE DECISIVE MOMENT : THE SCORING OF THE ONLY GOAL IN THE MATCH, BY DIMMOCK, TOTTENHAM'S OUTSIDE LEFT
(IN WHITE JERSEY, THIRD TO THE RIGHT FROM RIGHT-HAND GOAL-POST.)
In spite of the weather and the coal crisis, a huge throng of 72,000 spectators gathered at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, April 23, to see the final match for the Fo0 ‘
Association Cup between Tottenham Hotspur and the Wolverhampton Wanderers. The King, who (accompanied by the Duke of York) went out in heavy rain to ^
hands with the teams, and afterwards presented the Cup to the winners, received a tremendous ovation from the crowd. The “ Spun " beat the “ Wolves ” by ooe C 0 * 1
none, thus winning the English Cup for the second time and bringing it South after an interval of twenty years. The single goal of the match was kicked by D*" 1 ®®**
the Tottenham outside left, and our first photograph above shows the actual moment. Dimmock is the figure (in white jersey) third to the right from the right-hand goal-p®* 1 -
in the front line of players, just over the man seated at the right-hand end of a group of photographen near the line. The ball has just shot past the “ Wolves ” goal-b**P*'
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.—567
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THE “SPURS” BEAT THE “WOLVES” BEFORE THE KING.
POET AND GENEKAL, G.P.U.. C.N., AND TOPICAL.
"FAIR WEATHER"
GREETING THE
KING! HIS MAJESTY AND THE DUKE OF YORK
"WOLVES” TEAM IN POURING RAIN.
THE KING HANDING THE CUP TO GRIMSDELL, THE "SPURS" CAPTAIN, AMID
TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM (THE DUKE OF YORK NEXT BUT ONE TO LEFT).
AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS AT THE CUP FINAL: MEMBERS OF THE TEAM
JUST ARRIVED FOR THE FORTHCOMING TEST MATCHES.
DURING THE CUP FINAL (TAKEN IN TWO SECTIONS, SHOWING TWO DIFFERENT MOMENTS OF THE GAME).
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(who has fallen in attempting to save), into the left-hand comer of the net In the foreground is an ambulance party attending to a spectator who has fainted. The
Spurs" wore white jerseys; the “ Wolves," black-and-gold stripes. The Australian cricketers shown are (from left to right) Messrs. E. R. Mayne, E. A. McDonald, J. M.
Woty, H. L. Hendry, J. Andrews, A. A. Mailey, J. M. Taylor, H. L. Collins (Vice-Captain), and Sydney Smith (Manager). The panoramic view, it should be explained, owing
to the time taken in turning the camera, shows two successive moments of the game, the players in one section moving in a different direction from that in the other. This,
however, does not detract from its value as a general view of the immense crowd and a scene typical of the enormous popularity of football as a British sport The mass of
human heads looks, curiously enough, rather like a vast pile of coal!
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.-508
By J. T. CREIN.
I HAVE tender memories of the gifted writer that
was Frank Danby. Her husband, Arthur
Frankau—immortalised. I suspect, by his son
Colbert in “ Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant,” one
of the finest novels of the day —was a great friend
and supporter of the Independent Theatre. Mrs.
Frankau for a little while helped me in an un¬
speakably uphill task to maintain the enterprise
after the insensate outcry against Ibsens
" Ghosts ”—the self-same " Ghosts ” which in war¬
time was encouraged by
not merely be idolised by the lovers of “ Daddy
Long Legs.” but would accomplish great things.
And ” the cry is still, They come,” the little
theatres of London, the little thidtres <1 c 6 U, which
in one way or the other mean to push along the
Thespian Cart. We have already the Stage-
Society, the Phcemx, the Play-Actors, the Play¬
wrights’ Theatre, the French Players, the Reper¬
tory Theatre, the Hampstead Theatre of Mrs.
the military authorities
as a red light of warn¬
ing against a scourge.
In those days Frank
Danby was famous in
the literary world and
notorious among the
groundlings, for she had
written " A Babe in
Bohemia,” a Zolaesque
picture of life which was
taboo in the libraries.
She often meditated
turning it into a play,
but somehow it would
not shape. She contested
that her dower lay not
the way of the theatre ;
she would have loved to
write plays — she may
have done, for aught I
know, but none of them
saw the light. On the
other hand, her name as
a novelist soared with
every book; and when
at length—as it were, in
reply to critics who said
that she was a cynic and
realist — she produced
" The Heart of a Child,”
a story full of feeling
and human kindness, her
name became a household word. She died
alas ! in the force of her age and power, and it was
left to her son Gilbert, who has inherited all
his mother's gifts and more, and to his accom¬
plished wife. Miss Aim 4 e de Burgh, to lay
reverent hands on the story for stage purposes.
In the process of transformation much had to go
by the board, and the outcome of the engrossing
book is a touching little play of an archaic nature.
For the present, it would
o>ra«3-
BEFORE IT WAS PREPARED FOR A REVIVAL OF THE " AGAMEMNON” AND " CHOEPHORITHE ANCIENT
CREEK THEATRE AT SYRACUSE. WHERE AESCHYLUS PRODUCED HIS "WOMEN OF ETNA" IN 468 B.C.
Bishop, and sundry more from East to West (not
forgetting one or two Yiddish side - shows in
London's Palestine E.) from Chelsea to Covent
Garden. Kensington — rich Kensington, the
Royal Borough- stood hitherto in proud aloofness
from the artistic wave that is flooding the
Metropolis. But Kensington too will be redeemed
from the blame of inartistic indifference. In
a recent Telegraph we read the glad tidings
appear, Gilbert Frankau,
like his mother, is more
at ease in novels than in
stage-craft. Somehow in
transit the story has lost
some of its force and
flavour. There are ex¬
cellent scenes, and a love
episode in the third act
so full of charm and dis¬
cretion that it promises
well for Gilbert Frankau
as a dramatist ; but the
whole play is—I mean it
not in harshness, but in
terseness of criticism—
obvious: a kind of
"Caste” minus the in¬
genuity and the ingenu¬
ousness of Robertson.
Yet it is a pleasant
entertainment, which
touches little souls, and
draws a sob and many
smiles from them, mainly
because Misses Ren£e
Kelly, Fay Davis — one
is glad to see her
back—Aim£e de Burgh,
Anne Russell. Muriel
Pope, and Messrs
Arthur Pusey and C. V.
France play it with sin¬
cerity and in the spirit
of simple human beings
without pretence. Frank¬
ly, it was the first time since many a day that
Miss Renee Kelly gave me real pleasure, because
she often forgot her technical equipment, and
gave us nature instead of craft. I wish that
this truly talented actress would once be dis¬
ciplined by a Barker, a Commiscarewski, or a
Fagan, and be made to feel the difference between
craft and inwardness. Then—and not until then—
1 wager there would arise an actress who would
associate with three or four promising members of
the youngest generation to produce triple and
quadruple bills of selected one-act plays, the pick
of the British and foreign orchard, to give them
a send-off at Leighton House, and thence to
” farm them out ” on Sundays and on week-days
at tea-time, to studios, at flying matinees by the
sea. in drawing rooms after dinner—in fine, wherever
there is demand for a high-class and varied enter¬
tainment. It is a capital idea, and, if it lives
up to its ideal, bound
to succeed. The success
-:-0 of the Grand Guignol
has proved that there
is a great public for
the spectacle coupi ; and
what a charming pro¬
spect it is for hostesses
to fill the evening, not
only with music, but
with a miniature thea¬
trical performance.
Here ‘s good luck to the
Studio Theatre!—and to
Miss May Haysack, the
directress, who is to be
found at I, Inverness
Terrace. W.
1 wonder what was
the matter with my good
friends in the Gaiety
gallery when " Faust on
Toast ” was produced.
Why did they " shoot
the pianists,” who had
done their best ?—the
author, who brought us
back to the good old
times of pantomime
doggerel; the composer,
who very cleverly and
with a sense of humour
musicianly made fun
of the famous tunes of Gounod, adding a few of
his own, which sometimes were level with the
Gaiety standard of Meyer-Lutz’s day ; the lyricist,
Mr. Adrian Ross, the pleasant greybeard who for
ever and a day has added to the gaiety of the
Gaiety (and the nation) with his songs ? Was it
temper or a sign of the time ? For truly this
*' Faust on Toast ” is as up to date as its pre¬
decessor ; and not the least of many pretty
things during the even-
WITH MODERN "SCENERY ” ADDED FOR A REVIVAL OF AESCHYLUS: THE "AGAMEMNON" PRODUCED
IN THE ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE AT SYRACUSE.
It was arranged to produce the " Choephori" of ASachylus — the second play of hi* Oiesteian trilogy — in Italian, on April 16,
17, 20, 24 and 28. in the ancient Greek theatre at Syracuse, where /Cschylus himself produced his " Women of Etna " (since
lost) and other plays in 468 B.C. He was then at the court of Hiero, tyrant of Sicily, for whom the theatre was built, about
480 B.C. It is one of the largest, 166 yard* in diameter, and hollowed out of solid rock, /tschylus died at Gela in Sicily,
in 456 B.C.’ His ** Agamemnon,'* the first play of the trilogy, was similarly revived at Syracuse in 1914.
By Courtesy of Ik* Italian Slate Railways.
ing was the reproduc¬
tion of the palmy days
when the " Bogey-
Man ” haunted town.
That part of the even¬
ing—last and best—was
a thing of joy and
beauty; we were all
under the spell of youth¬
ful enthusiasm. Of
course, during the even¬
ing there were long
weary moments — but
look at the compensa¬
tions : Robert Hale,
and oh ! so hearty, the
very devil of a Mephis-
topheles.and a magician
to boot, who carries his
fifties on shoulders of
twenty (yet he is Bin-
nie's father), a world
of entertainment in
himself; Jack Buch¬
anan. beau-id£al of a
loose-limbed young En¬
glishman, a dancer and
comedian bom ; Maisie
Liay, true to her name,
an incidentally amusing
Martha, excelling in a
parody of " Irene,” that
made us shriek ; Morris
Harvey, driest of extra-
dry ; Rcn£e Mayer, capi¬
tal little dancer, but
of the forthcoming Studio Theatre, with proposed
and befitting headquarters in the poetic Leighton
House, in the Melbury Road. A young actress,
already well known and glowing with ambition.
Miss May Haysack—whose late father was a
renowned professor of elocution, to whom many
statesmen of light and leading and many singers
and actors owe their rise — has discovered the latest
egg of Columbus. Her fascinating idea is to
just a little too terre-dterre to be the Marguerite
of our dreams. And then there was a feast for
the eyes—costumes vying with the beauty of
the rainbow; a kinematown as dainty as the
toylands of a Niimberg box ; girls so shapely
that perhaps Mr. Augustus John would be moved
to the same ecstasy as carried him away in his
adoration of Isadora Duncan. In fine, an after-
dinner menu of choice morsels.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.—569
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FROM A COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING UNDERHILL
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HOMEWARD BOUND.
The photograph shows the U.S. battle-ship “ Pennsyh
Photopkes
THE
ll.USTK \TKI> I .ON DON NEWS. April itO, 1921 .—«> 7 l
PETER PAN YIELDS
TO “PHYSICAL ENERGY”: KENSINGTON’S CAMP.
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TLTITHERTO London has looked upon Kensington Gardens as a haunt of
* ancient peace, despite the proximity of the Magazine just over the
border in Hyde Park, at the comer by the bridge that carries the dividing
road across the Serpentine. Not even the Great War brought the clash of
arms into the domain of Peter Pan, if we except some minor operations of
certain volunteers. The spade-work of patriotic vegetable-growers near
the old Palace was the principal sign the Gardens gave that London was at
war. It was reserved for the menace of civil commotion to turn them into
a Campus Martius. The nurse-maids and the perambulators were banished,
along with the stickleback fishers and mariners of the Round Pond, and into
their walks and grassy pleasances came the tramp of an armed host. The
spirit of Peter Pan yielded to that of his rival, “ Physical Energy,” and the
ii
i --—
groves of the fairies were turned into a tented field. Times change,
and we change with them. This was the place that inspired Matthew Arnold
to sing : “Yet here is peace for ever new ! When I who watch them am
away, Still all things in this glade go through The changes of their quiet
day. . . . Calm soul of all things ! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s
jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.”
That Victorian dream of settled peace, of a social order which nothing seemed
likely to disturb, has been rudely shattered in these later days. How, we
may ask, would his old subject inspire Matthew Arnold if he were with us
now ? If he could soar in an aeroplane, looking down upon this war-like
scene, it is interesting to speculate as to what might be the burden of his
“ Lines written ab«w Kensington Gardens.”
.. ..... .. i
SEEN FROM AN AEROPLANE: KENSINGTON GARDENS AS LONDON’S CAMPUS MARTIUS, WHERE TROOPS
WERE QUARTERED DURING THE STRIKE CRISIS.
Among the photographs given in our issue of April 16, illustrating various phases
of the strike crisis and the precautions taken by the authorities to maintain order
and protect public services, was one showing a regiment of Guards marching into
Kensington Gardens to take up their quarters there. The above photograph,
taken recently from an aeroplane, gives a bird’s-eye view of the transformation
which was rapidly effected in the Gardens. Without undue publicity indeed.
descriptions in the Press have been conspicuous by their absence—lines of tents
arose in the broad avenue and surrounding glades among the trees. In the open
space in the centre may be seen Watts’ equestrian statue of “Physical Energy,”
appropriately symbolic. In the left foreground is a comer of the Round Pond,
with transport lines and horses. Across the background is the western reach of
the Serpentine, showing, on the left, part of the Italian gardens and ponds.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.—572
MINERS’ RECREATIONS DURING THE CRISIS: PIGEON-FLYING; BILLIARDS.
DRAWN By OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, STEVEN SPURRIER. R.O.I.
I. SPORT WITH PIGEONS THAT INVOLVES NO CRUELTY :* TWO SOUTH 2. WHERE MINERS AND MINE OFFICIALS MEET IN AN ATMOSPHERE
LANCASHIRE MINERS OUT WITH THEIR HOMING BIRDS FOR OF GOOD - FELLOWSHIP : THE BILLIARD - ROOM OF A CLUB
PRACTICE FLIGHTS DURING THE COAL CRISIS. ATTACHED TO A SOUTH LANCASHIRE COLLIERY.
Life in the mining districts of South Lancashire, round about Wigan, did not flying and, at certain seasons, whippet - racing. They belong to pigeon-flying
to be greatly disturbed by the crisis, whatever may be the distress in other dubs, which hold periodic competitions, and they frequently take their birds out
coalfields, where, perhaps, conditions are less favourable. In the Wigan mining for practice homing flights. The pigeons are carried dosely wrapped, each in a
district there are many cotton - mills, which give employment to the miners' red handkerchief. The time of their release is duly noted, while the womenfolk
daughters and to some of their sons. The miners’ chief recreations are pigeon- at home have been instructed to note the time of their arrivaL There is usually
[Cmdrmuta
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921—573
THE MINER'S HOME DURING THE CRISIS: A LANCASHIRE “INTERIOR.”
WHERE THE GIRLS, AND SOMETIMES THE BOYS, WORE AT THE COTTON.MILL: DINNER TIME AT A LANCASHIRE
MINER’S HOME DURING THE CRISIS; SHOWING A BUCKET OF QOAL BROUGHT FROM A “DIRT-ROOK.”
to a colliery, with billiard-rooms, football grounds, and other
means of amusement These clubs are provided by the management and the
miners contribute towards their upkeep. Mine officials associate there with the
miners, and thus a spirit of comradeship is established. The dubs are very
wdl patronised. The billiard-room generally contains a bar and a couple of
tables. The right-hand drawing shows a South Lancashire miner's home during
tiie dinner hour, when toe girls cdtne in from the mills. The only sign of scarcity
is the bucket of coal which two younger members of the family have brought
in from a “dirt-rook,” or waste dump, at the pit-bead. An expedition for
obtaining fuel from that- source is illustrated on the following double-page.
574_THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 30 , 1921 .
MURDERING SLEEP: A MOONLIGHT TREK To THE
REPLENISHING THE FAMILY COAL-CELLAR IN A SOUTH LANCASHIRE MINING DISTRICT Du RH
iLhT “ A? r n "T ,h ' ^ »> ’■>»«•€* cued b, . stoppage .orb. denied .0 le* !.*»•>< h.o.^
rtu ■ 7 du 77 l “"v “ S »“ th “ “ dirt-rook, Ol .«« s tu« which conui „ ,o per cent «f
r„«l r. n., b„7 7 "T °‘ ,he ,h “ »> h «■«-' i» etching for col among ,h„e heap* regards of th. foot that, bring .1 ■
bubble matenal, the, are .reguentlp on fire or smouldering. The spoil, are brought home in .11 manner vehicle, and 7 ep,«,es - lornes, cam. truck* .heel* “*
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30. 1921.—5/o
\hE “DIRT-ROOKS” TO SCRATCH FOR COAL
ibvbn Spurrier, R.O.I.
# DURING THE CRISIS: BRINGING HOME FUEL FROM PIT-HEAD WASTE DUMPS AT NIGHT.
bicycles, sacks, buckets, and so on. No horses are used, and the wagons are dragged by hand. The noise made by these nocturnal expeditions, when all else is quiet, with the
i«w clatter of dogs and rumble of wheels, like Macbeth, “ murders sleep ' ’ for the unfortunate neighbours who live on the line of route, and for that reason their operations have
1 ^ ^ad to be restricted. Our illustration shows the return journey from a “dirt-rook” by moonlight. Other drawings on the two previous pages, made in the same district
about Wigan, illustrate some of the miner’s recreations and his domestic life.— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United Stales and Canada.]
**
T HE little district
called the Adel-
phi, in London, now associ¬
ated with the Savage Club,
with the Society of Arts,
and with London's Grand
v Guignol, has borne this name since 1772
from the architects, the brothers Adam,
who signed their architectural drawings “ Adelphi.”
The Adam style is well known. It is found on the
quays in Dublin ; it made Edinburgh " the Athens
SOLD AT THE GREY SALE FOR £1887: A PAIR OF CHARLES II. TANKARDS, WITH
EAGLE FEET AND THUMB-PIECE, BY T. ISSOD, 1671.
ThU pair of Charles II. tankards formed an item in the Grey sale at Christie’s on April 20.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Munson and Woods.
of the North.” The furniture, therefore, of the late ery, just as nowadays the
Mr. Hugo Vallentin, of Adam House, Adelphi, sold ponies in the coal mines ii
by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson on the 22nd, sug- to-date methods of transport,
gested at once Adam furniture by the designers really a pre-Victorian. He m
who founded a school and left their impress on work was rapidly executed. I
many of the arts. But it is not given to all col- the Victoria and Albert Museu
lectors to keep a tight rein on their hobby and tion of his water-colour drawi
become exclusive. In regard to certain houses of unequal artist. In this sale th
particularly defined styles, the owners have lost pieces. E. M. Wimperis, wi
that fine sense of perspective and have brought Chester,” 1888, and “The Wi
furniture and pictures of other periods, fine enough recalls old memories. It wa
specimens maybe, into an environment utterly drove his generation to erect
unsuited. There is a notorious example of this of the Painters in Water Col<
mistake in a manor house near Guildford, one the Royad Academy. He wa
of the treasures of the country, upon which a the old British water-colour sc
monograph has been written as being a choice At his death in 1900, his dn
specimen of English art, now a wreck of its former prices at Christie’s. He is nui
grandeur owing to ignorance. who did sketching and woe
In the sale of the 22nd it was at once seen how Illustrated London News. In
tar afield the late collector had wandered from the were three Turners; but Tun
Adam style. It was a mis-
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
a collection of Chinese embroideries and other
Oriental art work. One example, the property of
Sir Lees Knowles, Bt., exhibited at the Victoria
and Albert Museum, was a seventeenth-century
Japanese Buddhist temple hanging, with phoenixes,
dragons, peacocks, and tree peonies—a remarkable
specimen. Stuart needlework loomed large.
Modern pictures and water-colour drawings at
Christie's always afford something interesting.
The sale on the 29th was a fine selection. To run
through the names one gets a bird’s-eye view of
what passed
into other hands.
It was a good
show, some of
works of known
men whose price
was settled to
a nicety ; some
on the down
grade ; others
coming steadily
onward with
posthumous
honours. There
is always the
margin of un¬
known out¬
siders — dark
horses who may
or who will come
into the lime¬
light.
Sam Bough
is a name, as is
Copley Fielding,
belonging to
CHARLES II. TANKARDS, WITH days just follow-
’ T. ISSOD, 1671 . ing Waterloo,
Irey sale at Christie’s on April 20 . 1825, when there
» and Woods. were riots
against machin¬
ery, just as nowadays the same spirit blinds
ponies in the coal mines in lieu of more up-
to-date methods of transport. Copley Fielding is
really a pre-Victorian. He made a name, and his
work was rapidly executed. He died in 1855, and
the Victoria and Albert Museum has a large collec¬
tion of his water-colour drawings. But he was an
unequal artist. In this sale there were eight of his
pieces. E. M. Wimperis, with his ” Near Chi¬
chester,” 1888, and “ The Winding River,” 1899,
recalls old memories. It was his spirit which
drove his generation to erect the palatial home
of the Painters in Water Colours nearly opposite
the Royal Academy. He was the link between
the old British water-colour school and modernity.
At his death in 1900. his drawings fetched good
prices at Christie’s. He is numbered among those
who did sketching and wood-drawing for The
Illustrated London News. Included in the sale
were three Turners; but Turner is evanescent in
his pigments. If
Ruskin were alive,
that great prophet would
see how clayey were his
idol's feet.
Napoleonic relics have
their charm. Napoleon strode the world
as a Colossus. His character was extra¬
ordinarily complex. The man with a withered
arm attempted a Prussian simulation of his
greatness. He was as Potsdam is to Versailles,
a miserable echo. Posterity will recognise the
kink in his brain, and marvel at an intelligent
people being governed by a monomaniac. Nowa¬
days all the world curses him for disturbing the
equilibrium of civilisation. But one forgets that
Napoleon did the same. Perhaps collectors do
not forget, for they value books and prints, auto¬
graph letters and works of art bearing on the
*' little Corsican ogre ” in Gillray and Rowlandson
ONE OF A SET OF SIX WHICH FETCHED £3100:
A GEORGE II. SILVER SCONCE (16 IN. HIGH) BY
PETER ARCHAMBO, 1730.
The above belonged to a set of six George II. sconces, embossed
with classical subjects, sold in the Grey sale.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Munson und Woods.
terms of opprobrium. As time goes on, and the
Entente Cordiale continues, we forget Trafalgar
and we bury Waterloo.
We turn common eyes to Sedan, and perhaps
some of us remember woe-
cellaneous collection. There
was Dutch metal-work, glass
Nankin porcelain, delft jars
and dishes, old Iraari por¬
celain ; and the furniture
ranged in chairs from Queen
Anne to a Windsor chair
with wheel centre. A Charles
II. oak table on spiral-turned
legs with square stretchers
was noticeable ; and a Chip¬
pendale mahogany square
folding card-table came up
for appraisement. Foreign
furniture included fine old
Flemish cabinets and coffers.
Silver claimed its toll on
the 28th and 29th at Messrs.
Sotheby’s sale of the pro¬
perty of Sir John Trelawny,
Bt., and others. A fine
Chippendale urn by E.
Romer, 1769—the year when
the first letter of " Junius ”
appeared during the great
Wilkes controversy—won the
distinction expected from
connoisseurs. Candlesticks of
the William III. era always
bring a fair price, and the
pair by John Chartier, 1700,
won distinction. A fine old
Irish candlestick by John
Hamilton, of Dublin, had a
character of its own. In the
same sale, on the 29th, tex¬
tiles came forward, including
IN A COLLECTION WHICH ATTRACTED THE QUEEN. AND REALISED £32,149: A GEORGE II.
SILVER TOILET SERVICE BY MAGDALEN FELINE, 1754—SOLD FOR £2000.
t °' 0l<1 /< En ‘ IUh * ilver P Ute °* th « *eventeenth and eighteenth centuries, sold at Chriatie'a on April 20
lor Uthenne Lady Grey and Sir John Foley Grey. Bt , was one of the meet important dUpened for many years.
The Queen was among many visitors who went to see it. The 160 lots realised £32,149. The oval wine-cistern
by Phil Rolles (1701), illustrated in our issue of April 16, fetched £1750.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Munson and Woods.
fully “ Albert says we must
have a strong Prussia,” as
recorded in Queen Victoria’s
" Diaries,” and we wish it
had been otherwise. The
properties of Dr. Silk and
Field Marshal Lord Gren¬
fell falling under the ham¬
mer offer illumination in
a field already covered
with wonderful data. Na¬
poleon at St. Helena is here
illustrated in a collection of
documents and portraits.
A whole library of books
encompass the St. Helena
period, and here it is.
There are a good many por¬
traits here of Napoleon not
well known, including the
pencil drawing by Captain
Marryat of him on his
death-bed.
Caricatures are offered,
including a German one in
the usual bad taste of that
cultured race, exhibiting
Napoleon's war on rats at
St. Helena with an obser¬
vation balloon.
A wide area is covered,
extending from snuff-boxes
and Si vies busts, to Wood
and Caldwell Staffordshire
figures, so that here the
alpha and omega of the
subject is reached.
THli ILLUSTRATE!) LONDON NEWS. April M), 1921”»77
MOONS IN THE MAKING: THE RINGS OF SATURN,
As shown above, that mysterious ring-plane girdling the planet Saturn is now
turned edgewise to the earth. This is one of the greatest events of the year,
occurring as it does only about every fifteen years. When looking at Saturn
one gains the impression that the rings possess a substantial thickness. But
so slender and thin are they—about 50 miles in thickness—that when turned
exactly edgewise to us they are invisible. One would expect still to see the
outer edge illuminated by the sun ; but such is not the case. The disappearance
of the rings began about April 9 and lasts to August 4 next The rings will at
first exhibit faint condensations, as in the bottom right-hand picture, but later on
TEMPORARILY INVISIBLE EVERY FIFTEEN YEARS.
these will probably vanish. One startling fact about the rings is that although
beautifully symmetrical, they are not solid, but represent a huge conglomeration
of particles, probably meteoric matter. As shown above, the particles forming
the inner part of the ring are but thinly scattered, as the ball of Saturn can be
clearly seen through them. The outer dusky ring is now also believed to be
partly transparent. Professor Keeler found that the inner part of the ring
travels at the rate of 10 miles a second, the outer ia( miles. This immense
ring-system probably represents a stage in the formation of a new satellite
or satellites.--f/W-MK Copyrighted in the United States and Canada ]
57S-THF. ILLUSTRATED bJ KE WS. A.
THE BIRTH OF A CIVIL WAR IN ENGLAND: A FEUD OF F
Froh t ™ Pao^^c.ton Vot
“THIS BRAWL . . . SHALL SEND ... A THOUSAND SOULS TO DEATH”: THE ORlGft
Ch-il »» in .hi, country nowadays, if ,„ch an unthinkable calamity could occur, would tend more than .
“ r - -—
a thousand souls to death.” Civil wars arise
when the Wars of the
large
In the fifteenth century,
sections th" ^ ^ ** ^ ^ intUvidual Ud the Z!T
e population. But the result of strife would be the same-a catastrophe to the nation. Our drlwmg 7u7trVes The'qu^rei 7nThe Temple Carden
taking
To-day the source of peril lies in divisions between 1
in Act II., Scene 4, of Shakespeare’s “ Henry VI ” Part 1 it v, * CaUStr ° phe t0 the nation - 0ur drawing illustrates the quarrel in the Temple
has a sp€C,al intercst at this time of year, because Shakespeare imagines the dispute as
•kt.ro,
* N,
Sle(
EWS, April 30, 1921.—5/9
F FACTIONS THAT CAUSED A NATIONAL CALAMITY
4
Jr-
wjp .Yi?s
( .iRIGIN (AS IMAGINED BY SHAKESPEARE) OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES.
^ place about the time when Joan of Arc raised the siege of Orleans, on May 8, 1429, just 492 years ago. Shakespeare begins the scene with the plucking of a
white rose by Richard Plantagenet (the centre figure of the group of three on the right). With him are the Earl of Warwick (in a long robe)—who has just
^ stuck a white rose in his cap and is replacing it on his head—and a lawyer. On the left are the three Lancastrians. The Earl of Somerset is holding up a red
^ rose ‘ Next « the Earl of Suffolk, with another lawyer. At the close of the scene, Warwick prophesies : “ This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction in the
Temple Garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.’ { Drawing Copyrighted in the United staUs and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April
books of the day
“Glimpses of It
Bengal ” (Macmillan ;
ys. 6d. net) being pass- ^ W>
ages selected from the let- ^AVcTYVi'A
ters of Sir Rabindranath
Tagore, give us many an
entrancing picture of the environment whence
have sprung the only Eastern poets that have
mastered the English tongue as completely
«OO cC °PCr.
coracle (like the symbolical craft that navigate
the Ganges) could cross safely from either side.
Yet Turn Dutt. though she died at the age of
twenty could bridge it with a thought or a flash
„1 emotion, such was her wondrous
can only be called psychical mimicry—the power
of entering into the most secret mspirations of
alien and remote peoples. The famous French
critic. James Parmesteter. said of her : Hus
daughter of Bengal, so admirably and so strangely
gifted Hindu by race and tradition, an English¬
woman by education, a Frenchwoman at heart
poet in English, prose-writer in French ; who at
rtm age of eighteen made India acquainted with
,h- noets of France in the rhyme of England.
have given her English poetry the
rss it lacked, and we should then
more of the lyrics like that which
1 ashes of roses ’’ on altars of re-
t now appears, thanks to Mr.
Harihar Das’s careful researches,
that some of the lyrics attribu¬
ted to her are really the work
of her sister Aru. Thus the very
lines quoted by Mr. Edmund Gdsse
to exemplify Toru's early mastery
of English verse—
SU 11 barred thy gates ! The Far East
glows, _
The morning wind wakes fresh and
free !
Should not the hour that wakes the rose
Awaken also thee ?
All look for thee, Love, Ught, and
Song-
Light in the sky deep-red above,
Song, in the lark of pinions strong,
And in my heart true Love-
have the initial A (Aru) against
them in “ The Sheaf.” As Abju,
the only brother, died young, as
his sisters did. and also had a
literary gift, the story of this
generation of the Dutt family is
one of the tragedies of literature.
It is the strength of Toru's verse
shown in such a line as her impres¬
sion of the simuls in blossom—
«o OOOC**’
THE AUTHOR OF " THE GREEN BOUGH ”: MR. E. TEMPLE THURSTON Red _ red> and startling like a
AT THE DOOR OF HIS FOURTEENTH-CENTURY HOUSE. trumpet’s sound—
who blended in herself three souls and three tra- and in the aspect of a weird watcher
ditions, and died in the full bloom of her talent and A baboon sits 8ta tue-like alone,
on the eve of the awakening of her genius, presents Watching the sunrise-
in the history of literature a phenomenon without
parallel.” Yet the charm of personality revealed and in the classical dignity of Savita’s speech as
in “ Life and Letters of Toro Dutt ” (Oxford she addresses I oath—
University Press; 16s. net), by Harihar Das (with L .. . . . ..
a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher. ' U ‘ m ' M world
M.P.), a memoir which is two or three decades nothing "true •
overdue, will even more endear her to posterity j lts shows are
than the literary achievements which gave her a mists unfurled
European reputation when hardly out of her To please and van-
’teens. We have in the letters an entrancing ish. To renew
vision of a woman-child, pure as a mountain rill Its bubble joys, be
and as joyously radiant, loving and lovable, utterly magic-bound
unspoilt by fame, getting up very early in the In *^ y .j s “ et j work
morning to make friends with the horses and i sno tm ^m ^The
rejoicing when they nibbled at the roses in her S ^gl^LmT sound
belt, demanding a mosquito-net for her canaries, 0 f husband, brother,
and still wondering which she adored the most— lriend, is air
little English children or the old Hindu grand- To such as know
mother, who was the embodied tradition of an that all must
elder race. Yet was she also “ the undaunted die,
daughter of desires.” wild with sorrow and indig- An< * that at last the
nation at the downfall of France in the war with time must come,
Prussia, and exclaiming m rhetorical verse that ^o more to'eye
has something of the intonation of Mrs. Browning, And L© ve cry—Lor-
her favourite poetess— this is my sum!
Not dead—oh, no—she cannot die ! —it is her strength
Only a swoon from loss of blood ! I repeat, rather
Levite England passes her by, than the p j erc j ng
sweetness of Mrs.
■ Who shall staunch me the enmson hood ?■■ Browning or Chris-
and, again, so moved by the beauty of a true poem tina Rossetti,
in any tongue, that her dark eyes shone like stars which would have
under the brow between her raven tresses, which been the line of
was like the slip of a new moon in nocturnal advance, had she
storm-clouds. She was equally inspired by the lived. As it was,
delicate French landscapes she described with such she died, as a rose
surprising insight into their beauty, and by the fades and falls, and
scenes in Calcutta, a fine description of which is she is a far and
one of many such vignettes in her delightful fair sister in re¬
letters to Miss Martin. Yet it is clear that all membrance of that
. this tropical loveliness never contents her. As rare and valiant
the retired Anglo-Indian soldier yearns for “the poet-soul, Emily
road to Mandalay,” so she is vexed by a tender Bronte.
THE AUTHOR OF “THE WANDERING JEW," AT HIS OWN HEARTHSIDE
MR. E. TEMPLE THURSTON.
Mr. Temple Thurston has written a new play, "The Passionate Crime,” which is to be pro
next autumn by Mr. Dion Boucicault, with Miss Irene Vanbrugh in the leading part,
novel, "The Green Bough," was recently published by Messrs. Cassell. Our photograp * 0
at work in his attic bedroom and study, in his fourteenth-century house in Ken .
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30 , 1921 —581
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A MUMMIFIED SIRLOIN AND ROAST GOOSE, FOR THE AFTER-WORLD.
WITH THE PECTORAL FASTENED TO THE BREAST I
THE WRAPPED BODY OF AMENEMHET.
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WRAPPED IN LEAVES AND FLOWERS : THE
MUMMY OF AMENEMHET IN ITS COFFIN.
SHOWING AMENHOTEP i. SLAYING CAPTIVES : THE
PECTORAL TIED ON AMENEMHET'S MUMMY.
fr=~ - - -- . .=
DEFORE finding the wonderful models illus¬
trated in our issue of March 26, the Ameri¬
can archaeologists in Egypt made other discoveries
of great interest, in the cliffs of Kumeh, near
Thebes. These included “ funerary meats pre¬
served by some process of mummification, and
wrapped with bandages of linen as a human body
was prepared for burial. They varied from a huge
leg of beef to a very small pigeon or quail. Geese
and ducks were numerous. . . . Wooden cases
had been provided which resembled their contents
in shape . . . stuccoed white outside and coated
with bitumen within.” The bitumen sealed the
two halves at their edges. The chamber had been
robbed of its coffin. Near the same spot was found
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a coffin containing the mummy of the little Prince Amenemhet, whose name was
scrawled on the lid. The mummy was covered with leaves and flowers, and tied
to the breast was a pectoral of thin wood vividly painted, showing Amenhotep I.
(about 1570 B.C.) wielding a battle-axe and grasping two captives, an Asiatic
and a Negro, by the hair—a fine example of the art of the early i8tb Dynasty.
It is thought that Amenemhet was an infant son of Amenhotep I. The body,
that of a child about a year old, had been dismembered by ancient tomb-robbers,
who had tom off arms and head in haste to steal the ornaments, and it bad evi¬
dently been re-buried. The pectoral had apparently been discarded by the robbers
as worthless. This explains the difference in period between the pectoral and
the coffin, which dates from about the 22nd Dynasty. There is not much doubt
that the pectoral had been part of the original equipment of the burial—for it
had no value in the eyes of the robbers—and that it was simply replaced when
the body was buried the second time. 9
• r> ®2—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.
THE COURTSHIP OF GAME-BIRDS: DISPLAY ANI
_ DkA ™ "Th. lurou,
1. A COCK GROUSE CROWING.
2. “BECKING •: A COCK GROUSE'S DISPLAY BY LEAP AND
CROW.
3- SNIPE “DRUMMING ” : A SUDDEN NOSE-DIVE WITH TAIL OUTSPREAD, CAUSING
A BLEATING SOUND.
4 - A COCK PHEASANT CROWING : CLAPPING HIS WINGS WITH BODY BENT BACK-
The courtship of birds is a most interesting phase in the study of natural history. Game birds, as our drawing shows', are no exception, and the various methods of “***
by the males, and the,r rivalries, are very curious to watch. Taking the above drawings as numbered, the first shows the attitude of a cock grouse crowing; the second*
cock grouse becking. During the spnng the cock grouse display by springing up into the air from a stone or hillock, crowing as they do so. The third drawing repre*«>
a sn.pe drumming.” The display of the snipe consists of flying wildly about at a good height in the air, every now and then half-closing the wings and shooting downwai*
or a ew yards at a steep angle ; while so doing the outside feather on each side of the taU is very widely spread, and the curious bleating sound that then ensues u caus
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.—5X3
1\nd rivalry in the mating season.
■^■■n^jndon Nevs” by Georgb E. Lodge.
5- WHERE FINE FEATHERS BELONG TO THE MALES :
A COCK PHEASANT SHOWING OFF TO A
HEN PHEASANT.
6. THE RIVALS : TWO BLACKCOCKS SPARRING AT ONE ANOTHER.
7. DEALING WITH AN INTRUDER : A COCK PARTRIDGE CHASING ANOTHER COCK
OUT OF THE COVEY.
by the vibration of air against these two feathers. The sound produced is exactly like a small goat bleating a long way off. The fourth drawing shows a cock pheasant
immediately after crowing. A cock pheasant crows, and then, immediately afterwards, violently claps his wings, throwing his body almost backwards, with his tail spread against
the ground. Pheasants clap their wings after crowing. Domestic cocks clap their wings before crowing. In the fifth drawing a cock pheasant is seen showing off before the
hen, and in the sixth are two blackcocks sparring. The seventh shows a cock partridge chasing another cock out of the covey. The coveys break up long before nesting time.
In mild seasons partridges begin to pair off in January, and cock partridges may be seep chasing each other about.— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United Slates and Canada.]
584—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April HO. 10*Jl.
“FOR BACKGROUND THE LOVELY ENGLISH LANDSCAPE :
THE BELVOIR POINT-TO-POINT MEETING ON BARROWBY HILL.
KENNELS
PARK
SHOWING THE ARCHWAY TO THE OLD BELVOIR
HOUNDS READY FOR EXERCISE IN THE
THE RAW FEBRUARY SCENE '• : YOUNG DRAUGHT HOUNDS,
COUPLED. EXERCISING IN THE SNOW. FEBRUARY.
MR. MUNNINGS’ SENSE OF BEAUTY IS MOST DEEPLY STIRR* 0
IN HIS PAINTING" : THE CLIPPING HOUSE, BELVOIR-_
“THE UNMATCHABLE BEAUTY OF THE ENGLISH HORSE”:
BELVOIR HUNT HORSES AT EXERCISE DECEMBER MORNING.
THE BELVOIR HUNT —AND
THE GIPSY AT EPSO*M
It. A J.
Munnings, A.R.A., his added to hii high reputation as a painter of sport and the open air, by his exhibition of Pictures of the Belvoir Hunt and 0 ,, j^rt
life, at the Alpine Club Gallery, under the direction of the Chenil Galleries. Mr. John Masefield, whose “Reynard the Fox” end " Rigb* w bt ***
in the sister art of poetry, as the singer of sport, contributes an appreciative foreword to the exhibition catalogue. “ There is nothing more ^ jcrtes,
b,” he writes, “ than the moving of hounds and huntsmen on a mild winter day. . . . And who, of all our many painters who have loved ^ the
movingly as Mr. Munnings ? Who has so caught the rhythm of the hounds going to covert, and the quickening of the soul in the un
BV THE COORTESY OF THE
THR ILLUSTRATED IX)NDON NEWS. April 30, 1921.—5NS
WHO HAS SO CAUGHT . . THE QUICKENING OF THE SOUL IN
IN A FAST FORTY MINUTES ONE OF MR. A.
THE HUNTER ? " CHANGING HORSES
J MUNNINGS' PICTURES OF THE BELVOIR HUNT.
SOLDIERS, POLITICIANS, AND REVOLUTIONARIES WRECK THE WORLD OVER HIS HEAD, BUT HE
GOES ON IN HIS VAN " : THE ARRIVAL AT EPSOM DOWNS FOR DERBY WEEK.
MUNNINGS’ PICTURES OF SPORT AND OPEN-AIR LIFE.
unmatchable beauty of the English hone ? . . . Nearly all these paintings have for background the lovely, various English landscape. Mr. Munnings' seme of it is as fresh
M * primrose. ... I lore the raw February scene of the hounds going out in the snow. Somebody ought to have put all these scenes into poems." Of the gipsy type,
represented in several of Use pictures, Mr. Masefield writes : “ He is in our world, but not of it ; he uses it, as the cuckoo, uses the sparrow, and with much the same spirit
Soldiers, politicians, and revolutionaries wreck the world over his head, but he goes on in his van, with a bright silk round his throat and ear-rings in his ears, to tell people’s
fortunes and sell them a horse at a bargain. * Others abide our question ; he is free.* ”
Gallery ani> the Chenii. Galleries.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30, 1921.—586
RECALLING POTSDAM’S OLD SPLENDOUR: THE EX-KAISERIN’S FUNERAL
Photographs bv Photothek, Haeckel, Clichothek, and Rrrlinkk Bild-Gkricht.
DIPPING THEIR BANNERS TO SALUTE THE CORTEGE : GROUPS OF STUDENTS
IN PICTURESQUE COSTUME ON THE LINE OF ROUTE.
WHERE THE EX-KAISER1N WAS BURIED : THE ANTIKE TEMPEL IN THE
PARK OF SANS SOUCI, AT POTSDAM, COVERED WITH NUMEROUS WREATHS.
MARSHAL MACKENSEN (IN PLUMED HELMET,
CENTRE BACKGROUND) LEAVING THE TEMPEL.
THE EX-KING OF SAXONY (CENTRE) : ONE OF
THE MANY GERMAN ROYALTIES PRESENT.
HINDENBURG AND LUDENDORFF (ON RIGHT),
FOLLOWED BY VON TIRPITZ.
COVERED WITH A PURPLE PALL BEARING THE HOHENZOLLERN ARMS
THE COFFIN OF THE DEAD EMPRESS, SURROUNDED BY GENERALS.
SONS AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: (L TO R) THE
PRINCES EITEL FRIEDRICH, AUGUST WILHELM, ADAL
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Potsdam was thronged by huge crowds and wore something of its former
Imperial splendour when the funeral of the ex-Kaiserin took place there on
April 19 . The coffin, which had rested overnight in a railway carriage at
Wildpark Station, was borne in procession to its resting-place in the Antike
Tempel in the park of Sans Souci. Immediately behind the hearse was carried
a wreath of Marshal Niel roses sent by the ex-Kaiser and the Crown Prince.
Then walked members of the family : first, Prince Eitel Friedrich with the
Crown Princess, and after them Princes Oscar, Adalbert, and August Wilhelm.
Other Royalties followed, including the*ex-King of Saxony and Prince Henry of
Prussia. Next came the most distinguished servants of the old regime, headed
by Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, General Ludendorff, and Grand Admiral von
Tirpitz (seen in the right - hand photograph of the middle row, Hindenburg with
baton in hand). Among the officers following them were Marshal Mackensen,
and Generals von Kluck and von Gallwitz.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. April 30. 1921.—587
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OUR FRIENDS IN FRANCE.
A LETTER FROM AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN PARIS.
- Paris
HE First of May is close upon us, and the German
Day of Judgment is at hand. It is a critical
day. too, for M. Briand and his Government, who
have staked their all upon making the Boche pay,
either by agreement or by much more violent
methods. What will those methods be ? A further
occupation of German territory might be a very
expensive method of enforcing payment. But what
if the German says to M. Briand, " By all means send
your troops into our country and keep order for us.
We should approve of that very much, but it will
not make us a penny the richer or more able to meet
your demands.” What is the next move if military
occupation fails ? M. Briand would fall; probably
M. Poincare would succeed him, and the Senate
would rejoice. But what would M. Poincar6 do ?
Clever critical articles in French reviews are all very
well in their way ; but a great deal more will be
expected from the man who has clearly indicated
that, if he had his way, all would be well.
Topics of this kind are uppermost in French political
salons—which, contrary to the general idea in England,
are far from being extinct or without influence to-day.
True, they are no longer held in the palaces of the
great, where powdered footmen and majestic maitres
d'hotel once ushered the bearers of ancient and honour¬
able names into the presence of some grande dame
de France, and where, from time to time, Ministers
were unmade and the fall of Governments was encom¬
passed. To-day the scenes of these reunions are laid
in less sumptuous surroundings, but their effect upon
the political situation and the fate of Ministries is by
no means negligible. The foreigner, who is occasion¬
ally admitted into these circles as a guest, has the
advantage of seeing his country through the eyes of
others, and of hearing points of view which can rarely
find their expression in official despatches.
One does not always hear the pleasant things that
are written in the Press about ourselves. For
throne of Hungary—they look upon him as one of
the powerful instruments in the band that completed
the downfall of Germany; and a fourth party
declares that nothing but a military understanding
with Kemal Pasha will ever solve our difficulties in
Turkey and Asia Minor. It is always a matter of
speculation as to how much this sort of talk tends
to disintegrate the Union Sacrde between France and
England, the foundations of which were certainly dis¬
turbed when the Treaty of Versailles forbade our
neighbours to annex the left bank of the Rhine, and
A DUCAL WEDDING, WITH ROYAL GUESTS: THE
EARL OF DALKEITH AND HIS BRIDE (MISS MOLLIE
LASCELLES) LEAVING ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER.
The marriage of the Earl of Dalkeith, eldest son of the Duke
and Duchess of Buccleuch, and Miss Mollie Lascelles, daughter
seeds of discontent will bear fruit; but only an ostrich¬
like nation would bury its head and pretend not to
see them.
Living in Paris, one cannot but be impressed by
the many interests that occupy the intellect of the
average Frenchman or woman. Whereas in England
questions of foreign affairs are rarely subjects of
popular discussion, in France they are matter of
everyday conversation. Everyone is a politi cian —
'* a little Liberal or else a little Conservative ”—not
by tradition, but by instinct, and with a passion for
controversy which we islanders do not share. So
with Art. Now that the summer is upon us, and
important picture exhibitions will follow one another
with bewildering rapidity, there will be animated con¬
versations in every cafe from Montmartre to the
Luxembourg on the comparative merits of the various
artists. New books, too, are eagerly canvassed ; and
every play in Paris provides at one time or another
the theme for intelligent debate.
This year the pilgrimage to Paris is quite
stupendous in its proportions ; the city is already
full. Furnished apartments or unfurnished flats are
not to be had for love or money; hotels are crowded.
If any reader of this letter thinks of visiting Paris in
May or J une, there should be no delay in writing for
rooms, and even to bespeak a motor-car, if it should
be required.
As an appetiser before meals, a glass of Corelli,
one of the best brands of Italian Vermouth, is a
favourite drink with those who are particular about
their wine and make a point of getting the best.
Corelli is a delightful old wine, mellow and pleasant to
the taste. It is appreciated by the connoisseur, whether
he be a home diner or an habitui of the more exclusive
type of restaurant. A gin-and-Corelli is also a popular
combination. Anyone unable to obtain it at hotels
or stores should write to Messrs Edward Young,
62-3, Mark Lane, London, E.C., and Seel Street
Distillery’, Liverpool, for the name of their nearest
agent.
“ Bols ” liqueurs are well known to the bon viveur
as excellent titillators of the palate and comforters of
the interior. Some three or four hundred years ago
one Erven Lucas Bols started making “ liquid
velvets,” and the recipes have been carried on, and
the liqueurs produced, by his posterity up to now.
Messrs. Brown, Bore, and Co., 40, Trinity Square, E.C.,
have a whole range of these delectable liqueurs,
including Cura^oa, Kiimmel, and Crfcme dc Mcnthe.
They are not expensive, and, besides their value at the
end of a good dinner, they are indispensable in¬
gredients in any good summer " cup.”
instance, there are not a few who say that they are
” very’ sorry ” for our labour troubles, but they add
that we must expect them if we trade with Lenin
and make our beds with Bolshevists. Others, again,
do not disguise their satisfaction at the recent reverses
to the Greek Army, for the restoration of King
Constantine was by no means popular in France, and,
rightly or wrongly, Great Britain was held mainly
responsible for it. Another group is found condemn¬
ing us for the failure of ex-King Karl to recover the
of the late Major W. F. Lascelles and Lady Sybil Lascelles,
took place at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, on April 21. The
guests included the Prince of Wales, Princess Christian, Princess
Helena Victoria, the Duke of York, and Prince Henry.
Photograph by Keystone View Co.
when, subsequently, the action of the United States
prevented the ratification of the tripartite treaty
whereby America and Great Britain were to assist
France in the event of unprovoked aggression. Of
course, it is devoutly to be hoped that none of these
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LADIES’ NEWS.
T HERE is a piano, piano atmosphere just now
about everything ; we are all going softly and
hoping for better things. None of us ever realised
before that the rule of coal is so absolute. We women
know it in its intimate relations to our domestic
concerns, and as we have had it for the most
part when we wanted it, the present shortage
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was in the library, and it was one of moderate
dimensions. They dined in an oilstove - heated
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class war about this industrial struggle so far as
the well-off people I have talked to about it are
concerned. They want the miners to have fair
play, but their present seat, between two stools,
is far from comfortable, and they are in no way
responsible. Let us hope that when this is printed
there will only be recovery from a hard blow for us
all to think about.
The dates of the Courts are fixed for May 4.
23, and 24. This is giving the dressmakers and
florists a little cheer, and the truth is they needed
it badly, for every woman was hanging back from
ordering, especially evening gowns. The promise
of the Courts, from a dress point of view, is
excellent. Gowns will be lovely, soft, rich, of
superb colours, and embellished with embroideries,
or of brocades so beautiful that to trim them
would savour of that supererogatory task known
as painting the lily.- They will not be the brocades
or the silks or satins dear to two great Queens
of England, whose chief excellence was said to be
that they would stand alone. These are rather
of the character of cashmere and vicuna, that early
Victorians eulogised because shawls of them might
be drawn through a wedding ring. Courts are,
xif course, occasions for imposing displays of jewels.
Most of our great ladies can be depended upon
to make them, and to do so in the most refined
as well as becoming manner. Flowers are a matter
of choice ; no one is required to carry a bouquet. The
absence of train and plumes makes the bouquet the
sole mark of the official and ceremonial character of
the Court. It is therefore seldom omitted from the
ensemble. A fan, however handsome, in no way takes
its place, for a fan is for use, and no one would use
it in passing the King and Queen for Presentation.
Flowers are the real compliment to their Majesties—
the most harmonious and beautiful complement to a
well-thought-out costume.
Dances have been in some instances postponed,
to the great indignation of young people, who declare"
them the most easy and pleasant way of keeping
A FROCK. FOR A DEBUTANTE.
She tits near the lamp as she realises full well that even the most
brilliant light could show no flaws in her youthful fairness and in the
perfection of her pale-blue taffetas dress .—[Pkotogrupk by RttUlingzr.]
warm. They want no artificial heating, they say ;
and as to supper, well, people must eat, and cold
suppers will do for them. It does not occur to their
rapidly working minds that cold food must once have .
been hot ! A good deal of dancing has. however,
been going on, but rather on the simple lines that
obtained during the war. Even the weddings of last
week were quiet, and those most closely concerned
were most anxious that they should be so. A lady
who was in loco nuUris to one bride said, *' I do
not like to think of women shivering with cold, and
poor and hungry, reading of a gay, smart wedding,
lists of presents and smart dresses.” This same lady,
in all her life, has been a generous friend to poor and
helpless, and is no less a one now. Weddings had
been arranged and had to take place, but did so
under the influence of King Coal in no merry mood.
The time is at hand when our gardens, tiny or
great, and our verandahs become our sitting-rooms
and our work-rooms. England has year by year in
the last decade become more and more an outdoor
loving and living nation. Furniture for the garden
and verandah is therefore as important to us as
that for our rooms. On one of the sunny and
warm days which are sandwiched even in a cold
spell, I found a family sitting out sunning them- /
selves and declaring that for an hour or two they
could afford to forget the coal strike. What struck
me was the comfort, strength, and reliability of
their chairs. They were all Dryad, from the Dryad
works at Leicester, and had, they told me. been
several years in use, while they looked quite new.
Often have I been inducted into a garden chair of
whose capabilities I have had such doubts that [
hardly dared to breathe. In the delightfully
spacious depths of a Dryad easy chair I could
comfortably forget that I had a body. Being built
on wood foundations and covered with cane that
does not split and tear clothes, they are substan¬
tial. resilient, reliable and most comfortable.
The Prince of Wales attended the wedding of
the Earl of Dalkeith to Miss Mollie Lascelles. Lord
Dalkeith was a brother-officer of the Prince in the
war, and had for a time been in H.R.H.'s House¬
hold as an extra Equerry. Miss Lascelles was
married from the house of her cousin. Lord Richard
Cavendish. A. E. L
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LONDON
NEWS, April 30 1921—592
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
THE GOLDEN EAGLE WITH THE BABY.
O LD prejudices and old beliefs die hard. Those
of us who imagined that we really hjid heard
the last of the ferocious golden eagle which swooped
down and bore off a slumbering infant to serve as a
meal for its hungry offspring have had a rude awaken¬
ing. For some of the newspapers have just roused
this tired and worn-out story into action again, and
I have had one or two queries addressed to me on
the subject. We may confidently assert that not only
are such stories " non-proven.” but that
they are incredible.
No golden eagle is strong enough to
bear off such a prize, being quite unable
to lift so great a weight. The female
golden eagle, which is somewhat bigger
than the male, does not* it is to be re¬
marked. exceed a weight of twelve
pounds. A two-year-old infant may
weigh anything from 26 lb. to 30 lb.
Now. we have no evidence that any bird
can lift and carry off in mid-air a body
from two to three times its own weight.
Even a six-months-old child is safe.
The food of the golden eagle consists
of grouse, hares and rabbits, and occa¬
sionally the fawns of roedeer. But it
also displays the patrician’s taste for
meat that has been well “hung.” As
a rule, this trait is described as feeding
on " carrion,” which sounds disrespect¬
ful to so fine a, bird. It is this weakness,
unfortunately, which often leads to his
undoing, for the shepherd and the game-
keeper between them, having no love
for this bird, contrive to bring about his
destruction by laying out poisoned meat
for him. But for the owners of deer-
forests in Scotland, the golden eagle
would have ceased to exist as a British
bird. Long ago he was dispossessed of
his other stronghold in the mountains of Ireland.
Though majestic on the wing, the golden eagle is
no match, in point of speed, for the peregrine.
Mallard know this well. When a flock of these birds,
disporting themselves on the water, descry the eagle
they at once take to flight, well knowing that they
cannot be overtaken. But the moment a peregrine
is sighted, all dive, conscious that, while they cannot
evade his terrific rush and lunge of his talons in mid¬
air, by diving and splashing they have little to fear.
Though the golden eagle usually hunts alone, there
are many cases on record where two birds have been
seen hunting together, a hare being usually the prey.
When the victim was started one bird would follow
as near the ground as possible, while the other
remained poised in the air or waited till a chance
for the final swoop presented itself. According to
some of the older writers, even horses and deer were
attacked by similar concerted action and buffeted
with the wings till they were driven over a precipice.
There is probably, however, no more truth in such
stories than in those of kidnapping infants.
To the south-eastern portion of England the
golden eagle has probably never been more than a
straggler—at any rate, within historic times. Though
every year we may read in the newspapers of a golden
eagle being shot by some sportsman or gamekeeper,
such birds almost invariably prove, on examination,
to be immature specimens of the white-tailed eagle.
There is still much in regard to the life-history of
this magnificent bird of which nothing whatever is
known. But perhaps the finest account of its be¬
haviour, from the time of the hatching of the eggs
till the eaglets take their first flight, is that written
by Mr. H. A. Macpherson on “ The Home Life of
the Golden Eagle ” a few years ago. He fulfilled
supremely well the arduous task he set himself, and I
commend his book to my readers. W. P. Pycraft.
• FAUST ON TOAST," AT THE GAIETY.
W ITH the tiresome excrescences cut out, " Faust
on Toast ” is now a bright and enjoyable
entertainment. Mr. George Grossmith’s difficulty
of course, in reviving burlesque is the lack to-dav
of burlesque artists and librettists. It is easy enough
to bring back the rhymed couplet and to set a band
of comedians making fun out of a travesty of the
Faust story, with Marguerite turned “ queen of the
movies ” ; but genuine Gaiety burlesque hit out all
round with its satire, whereas the new sort seems
content with chaffing one thing only—
the cinema stage—and hardly attempts
the topical song or the political skit,
while of the players engaged only one, to
a triumphant extent, shows the burlesque
temperament. This is Miss Maisie Gay,
whose Martha is full of gusto and rollick¬
ing humour. Her song. “ I Want a Man
to Hold Me,” is. apart from the prize¬
fight skit, in which Miss Heather
Thatcher as Valentine shows so amusing
a swagger, the gem among the turns.
Next to Miss Gay, Mr. Hale scores mast
heavily, though at present his Mephis-
topheles is more on musical-comedy than
burlesque lines. It is probably not Mr.
Jack Buchanan's fault that he looks too
dandified a Faust, but his dancing is
always delightful, and in his quiet wav
he is as spontaneous a humorist as was
Mr. Seymour Hicks in his young days.
The petite Marguerite of Miss Renfr
Mayer is rather too child-like for bur¬
lesque. but she sings and moves daintily
enough ; and if we get rather too many
sentimental ditties from Miss Nancie
Lovat's Siebel, we have to admit that
the Marion Hood ballad was always a
feature at the old Gaiety.
To promote the " adoption ” of war-wrecked
French towns and villages bv British boroughs and
districts, admirable work is being done by the City and
County of London Committee of the British League of
Help, 346, Strand, W.C.2. In connection with this
movement, the Mayor of Kensington, Alderman Dr.
A. J. Rice-Oxley, C.B.E., J.P., gave an interesting
lecture (illustrated by lantern slides) at Kensington
Town Hall on April 25, regarding the adoption by
the Royal Borough of the village of Souchez. Among
those present were General the Vicomte dc la Panouse,
Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, Lord Philhmore,
and the Bishop of Kensington.
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cannot be sunk or overturned when lowered into rough water, and that it can carry fuller loads
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 30. 1921.—594
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
The Issue of w ken the Ministry of Transport
Registration forced the 1<oads Act ’ with aI1 its
Books vexatious restrictions, through
Parliament, a great point was
made of the safeguard against theft that would be
provided by the registration book, which was in effect
to be a species of title-deed to the car. I agree that
this document ought to assist in the undoing of the
motor thief, because no careful person would buy a
second-hand car the owner of which was not in pos¬
session of the current license and the registration
book, unless he knew the vendor well and was quite
satisfied of his bona-fides. But if this much-talked-of
safeguard is to be effective, it follows as a matter of
course that the registration book must be duly issued
by the licensing authority. Having regard to the
indecent haste with which the new legislation was
forced through, it is not surprising that a little delay
should have taken place in the issue of the necessary
documents. The local authorities had no machinery
in existence for dealing with the increased work
entailed by the new system of taxation, and, with a
few notable exceptions—such as the L.C.C.—they do
not seem to have troubled themselves in the matter.
So long as they were able to collect the motorists’
money, that was all they cared about. The issue of
the documents could take care of itself.
It is nothing short of scandalous that registration
Car Theft
Still Rife.
AN INDIAN PRINCE AT THE WHEEL: H.H. THE SULTAN OF JOHORE
IN HIS 24-H.P. SUNBEAM SPORTING CAR.
Photograph by Albemarle Press.
books in respect of cars which were licensed and upon
which the tax was paid in January last have not been
issued yet. I understand that some of the County
Councils arc thousands in arrear still, and there seems
little probability of those arrears being overtaken for
some time to come. I can well believe
this, inasmuch as I have not received
the book relating to my own car, on
which the tax was paid to the Surrey
County Council before the end of January.
It took that authority nearly two months
to issue the license, so how long it will
be before the registration books are ready
1 should not like to hazard a guess. The
worst of this official slackness is that it
actually prevents the car-owner from
effecting the sale of his car, unless he
and the prospective buyer are inclined
to go to considerable trouble to verify
ownership.
While it is true that
car - stealing is not
quite so common as
it was, the thief still manages to get away
with a certain number of vehicles, and,
apparently, to dispose of them to his
own satisfaction. It is stated that most
of the cars that are stolen are sent across the Channel
for disposal, and find a ready market on the Con¬
tinent—at a price. Surely it ought to be easy enough
for the Customs authorities to check
this illicit traffic. There are certain
formalities which have to be gone
through by every motorist who
takes his car abroad, and one
would think the Customs people
should as a matter of course
demand production of the registra¬
tion book before issuing the neces¬
sary papers. That would stop the
egress of stolen cars which are
ostensibly accompanying their
owners on a Continental tour,
though here arises the difficulty
of so many bona-fide owners not
having obtained the book from
the licensing authority which has
taken the money for the tax.
There is more difficulty, per¬
haps, in the case of second-hand
cars which are exported in the
ordinary way of trade. Even so,
it should be possible for the
authorities to insist upon proper
proof of ownership before allowing
them to be shipped. As a matter of fact, unless
a car is so old that there is practically no market
for it and it is thus not worth stealing, it is prac¬
tically certain that it has been in use during the
present year. If it has. then it must obviously have
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been licensed, and the documents of the case must be
in existence somewhere, and the Customs authorities
ought to insist on their production at least until this
traffic is stopped.
A Scottish Trial 11 is offidall y announced that the
Next Year Society of Motor Manufacturers
has approved the idea of holding
a trial next year, open to all classes of cars, and that
it will be held under the joint auspices of the R.A.C
and the Royal Scottish A.C. I still think it is a great
pity that a trial for light cars at least could not be held
this year. It would have done endless good to the
section of the industry most concerned, because it
would have shown the public how enormously this
class of motor vehicle has progressed in design and
reliability since 1914. W. W.
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l'HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 7 , iy 21.—598
T HE Centenary and the Sexcentenary com¬
memorated during the current week bring
into conjunction two stars of equal magnitude but
diverse aspect. For the first time, perhaps, the
names of Napoleon and Dante have been closely
linked together, and although the connection is
due merely to an accident of time, it carries with
it a curious significance for an age disturbed like
the present with the consequences of war. and
occupied with problems of Imperialism and with
dreams of Universal Peace. There the poet of
the “Divine Comedy,” inventor of the "sweet
new style ” that won all Christendom, and the
disturber of Europe, whose vehicle of expres¬
sion was the roar of artillery, find points of
contact and of contrast.
The Man of War and the Man of Peace are
strange companions to pass together across the
stage of fleeting publicity. Yet even where
they seem most remote they touch, for the poet
was also a soldier and diplomatist. He fought
at Campaldino in 1289, when he was twenty-
four, saw in all likelihood the surrender of
Caprona, and from a passage in the “ Inferno ”
we may suppose that the officer's whistle was
as familiar to Dante on the fields of the late
thirteenth century as it has become to recent
soldier-poets. Dante's life was one of political
struggle ; his death was hastened by chagrin at
the partial failure of his conciliatory mission to
Venice, then threatening reprisals on Ravenna.
His aim, inrough all the storms that beat about
him, was to seek peace and ensue it.
The Imperialism of Dante and the Imperial¬
ism of Napoleon offer a basis for nice specula¬
tion. Had Napoleon succeeded in his dream of
universal conquest, he would have claimed that
his ultimate aim was universal peace. The
same plea has been advanced by the latest
adventurer for world - power, but both he and
Napoleon stand charged with personal ambition
as their prime motive. Dante's Imperialism
excluded grasping tyranny. It was based upon
recognition of the interdependence of individ¬
uals. But humanity cannot attain this end
without universal peace. In the De Monorchia,
he outlines a world empire to effect what the
present age seeks through a League of Nations.
subject to one prince is most likened to God,
and consequently most conformable to the Divine
intention.” This World-Monarch is to arbitrate
between all lesser princes, who are not excluded
from the scheme, and such an arbitrator is
necessary on practical no less than on ethical
grounds. Obviously the scheme endangers an
ideal equality of States, if one temporal ruler is
supreme over all ; but Mr. Wicksteed gets over
this difficulty when he points out that " Dante’s
Imperialism does not mean the supremacy of one
nation over others, but the existence of a supreme
without war or violence, of which Dante’s world
and Dante himself were already very weary. He
sought not to bring a sword but peace, with his
conception of an Imperial Christendom as the
arbitrator of human destinies. It is written
otherwise, “ not peace, but a sword,’’ at least
until the great millennial reversal, which seems
. still far distant and which no definite expedient
of man can hasten. Yet such dreams and
efforts as Dante’s are contributory to the main
event, however little it can be hurried. In its
ethical bearing his Imperialism is the negation of
Napoleon’s. In what circle, curiosity may ask,
would the Poet have set the Man of Destiny,
and what would he have devised as the form
of his expiation ? To suffer everlasting defeat
even with big battalions at his command, to
know an eternal Moscow of ice and fire ?
More likely something far less obvious and
deeper-thrusting. Or would he have seen in
the cage of St. Helena sufficient penalty;
Inferno and Purgatorio realised and passed in
those six years ? That would be to strain
too much the Dante Theology. There is no
gate from the first region to the second, as
there is from the second to the third of the
“ Divine Comedy.” Even the Concordat would
hardly have sufficed to win clemency for the
instrument that ended, more or less directly,
the Holy Roman Empire.
The influence of Imperial Rome upon Dante
and Napoleon is a subject abounding in al¬
most whimsical paradox. The poet's political
ideal is entirely coloured by his conception of
the Empire, but his knowledge of her institu¬
tions was that of the medievalist, and there¬
fore imperfect. ” He imagined,” says Dean
Church, “that the Roman Empire had been
one great State; he persuaded himself that
Christendom might be such.” His conception
began in misconception peculiar to the age
just preceding the rediscovery of classical
antiquity. Ancient Rome was to the scholars
of Dante’s time a vague and somewhat
distorted vision, worshipful but dimly appre¬
hended. To her language, as the Middle Ages
knew it, he was so loyal that the " Divine
Comedy ” had the narrowest of escapes from
being written in Latin. But, fortunately for
WRITTEN ON THE BLACK PRINCE MS. BY A
FOURTEENTH - CENTURY LONDONER: ” MA JOYE
A SHIRLEY.”
The above words are written on the front leaf of the manuscript,
probably by the hand of Shirley himself, a Londoner who was
a patron of literature in the Black Prince's time. There is a
similar inscription on a Shirley manuscript in the British Museum.
The world, Dante held, could not secure general
peace unless it were governed entirely by one
paramount ruler. He argued from the analogy of
any group of individuals, whose combined action
can be effective only if it be controlled by a
supreme authority. Much more, then, must the whole
human race be guided by one Head. Mediaeval
piety, of which Dante is the last and most con¬
summate exponent, now intervenes with a charac¬
teristic stroke. For this universal empire. Divine
sanction had to be found. The task was not
difficult to a mind trained as Alighieri’s had been
in the methods of the Schoolmen. Here is the
proof in skeleton. ” It is God’s intention that
all things should resemble Himself as far as their
nature will admit—humanity is most like God
when it is most one—it is most one when it is
united in one, which postulates the governance
of one prince. Therefore, the human race when
THE PRINCE OF WALES’S MOTTO OF DUTCH ORIGIN?
THE FRONTISPIECE, INSCRIBED “ ICH DENE," OF THE
BLACK PRINCE MS. PRESENTED TO H.R.H. BY THE
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
The University of London arranged to present to the Prince of
Wales at the Guildhall on May 5, on his receiving the degrees
of Master of Commerce and Doctor of Science (the proposed
dinner was cancelled owing to ihe industrial crisis), a beautifully
illuminated fourteenth-century manuscript telling in Norman-
French verse the exploits of the Black Prince. Those chosen to
make the presentation were Sir Edward Stem, Sir Israel Gollancz,
Dr. Walter Seton, and a student. Its chief interest is in the
frontispiece (here illustrated) showing (above) the Trinity, and
(below) the Black Prince, with his ostrich feathers and the
motto “ Ich Dene.” This confirms Sir Israel Gollancz's theory
that the Prince of Wales's motto is not of German origin (" Ich
Dien "), but of the Gelderland dialect. The Black Prince’s ally,
the Duke of Gelderland, married Edward the Third's sister.
The frontispiece is also the first known association of the motto
and the feathers in the Black Prince’s lifetime.
law that can hold all national passions in check.”
That is what the modern League of Nations is
groping after, and it is much in the same case
as the Poet-Politician, who could formulate the
theory, but could not see where it must. fail. The
crux lies in the administration of this supreme
law. Dante's imagined Monarch could not enforce
the principle ; it seems as if any group of States
must be in a like difficulty.
The world empire of De Monorchia was to
spring from common consent and goodwill: nothing
could have been further from Dante’s thought
than that his ideal polity should arise from con¬
quest by a single ambitious will. He conceived
a State at once spiritual and temporal, in which
the Pontiff and the Holy Roman Emperor should
jointly represent and administer the supreme
law so that mankind might attain the highest
good, both here and hereafter. The ideal world
ruler was to be free of all greed, for the simple
reason that, having all, he could covet nothing.
It was assumed that he could come by his dominion
WITH THE BLACK PRINCE’S ARMS BLAZONED IN
THE INITIAL CAPITAL: THE BEGINNING OF THE
POEM RECOUNTING HIS EXPLOITS.
This shows the top of (he beautifully illuminated first pag* of
text in the Black Prince manuscript, a story of his exploits, w
Norman-French verse. He is described in the opening lines as
“ prince de Gales & d’Aquitaine."
the world, the Poet triumphed over the School¬
man. The first few lines of the ” Inferno were
actually set down in Latin, but Dante changed
his mind, to the great gain of the Tuscan
tongue and of poetry. Even Petrarch coul
not give Latin poems immortality. Napoleons
imitations of Rome were equally foredoomed.
Her history was clearer to him than to Dante,
and he saw in himself another Ciesar. Act
it was but the outward trappings of old I* 0 '
perial Rome, the laurel wreaths, the mystic
monograms, the Eagles, the titles of Consul an
Emperor that he revived for a day. For per¬
manent work the Imperial Poet has beaten him.
not least by his departure from Roman traditionary
speech. The Eagle of Dante’s begetting soars
immortal on the golden wing of the Alighieri.
It availed Napoleon’s Eaglet nothing to be King
of Rome. J *> S
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7, 1021.—599
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A SURPRISE IN THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS: THE FINISH -CRAIG AN ERAN
(J. BRENNAN UP) WINNING FROM LEMONORA AND HUMORIST.
A SURPRISE IN THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS : THE FINISH BETTINA (G. BELLHOUSE
UP) WINNING FROM PETREA AND POMPADOUR.
THE WINNER OF THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS AT NEWMARKET : LORD ASTOR’S
CRAIG AN ERAN, WHICH STARTED AT 100 TO 6.
THE WINNER OF THE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS AT NEWMARKET: MR. WALTER
RAPHAEL'S BETTINA, WHICH STARTED AT 33 TO 1 AGAINST.
VICTORIOUS OVER WOOLWICH IN THEIR ANNUAL ATHLETIC MATCH BY EIGHT EVENTS
TO ONE : THE SANDHURST TEAM.
In spite of railway restrictions due to the coal dispute, there was a good attendance
at Newmarket for the classic “ Guineas,” which were both run on the same day,
April 29, in the presence of the King. In each case the result was a surprise victory
for an outsider. The Two Thousand Guineas was won by Lord Astor’s Craig an Eran,
with Mr. J. Watson’s Lemonora second, and Mr. J. B. Joel’s Humorist third. The
One Thousand Guineas was won by Mr. Walter Raphael's Bettina, with Mr. W.
DEFEATED BY SANDHURST IN THE ATHLETIC MATCH AT QUEEN’S CLUB BY EIGHT
EVENTS TO ONE : THE WOOLWICH TEAM
1 Clark's Petrea second, and Lord Astor’s Pompadour third.--On April 30 the thirty-
j fifth annual athletic match between the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, took place at Queen's Club, West
Kensington. Sandhurst won easily, carrying off eight of the nine events. The
prizes were presented by Prince Henry, and Marshal Foch was a keenly
interested spectator for most of the afternoon.
600—THE ILLUSTRATEP LONDON NEWS, May 7, 1921
TEST MATCHES: THE AUSTRALIAN
CRIC
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MR. H L HENDRY (NEW SOUTH WALES).
MR. W. A. OLDFIELD (N.S. WALES)
A“CENTURY” OF
MR. H. L. COLLINS, VICE-CAPTAIN
(HS. WALES)
MR. J. RYDER (VICTORIA).
THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.
(From an Australian Correspondent.)
I T was to be expected that Australia would send to
England the cricketers who have recently scored
such a decisive victory over the M.C.C. team. With
the exception of Kelleway, all the men who have taken
a prominent part in the long series of successes in
Australia are included in the team. It is unfortunate
that Kelleway was obliged, for business reasons, to
decline the invitation, as his style of batting is often
invaluable when defensive tactics are required, and his
medium length, accurate bowling would have been a
source of strength to a side not as strong in bowling
as many Australians would desire.
Warwick Armstrong will again lead the Australians,
and his appointment has given satisfaction in Australia,
despite his recent controversy with the Victorian Cricket
Association. Some critics would have preferred Collins,
the Vice - Captain, but Armstrong went to England
with the general confidence of the Australian cricketing
public. He is such a genial fellow that he is bound to
be popular in England. He has a smile for everything,
even his own mistakes at the wickets and in the field.
His ponderous figure prevents him from displaying
much agility in the field, but he is useful in the slips,
and his wonderful catch at fine leg off a tremendous
drive from Douglas was one of the outstanding incidents
in the recent series of Test matches.
As a batsman Warwick has lost none of his skill,
and his century in the first Test match in Sydney was
one of the most attractive displays of batting ever seen
on that ground. As a bowler he will send down over
after over of his apparently simple slow balls. With
the wicket helping him he frequently gets a good turn
on the ball, and if he does not always get wickets, he
invariably keeps down the runs. In the Test matches
he was second only to Macartney in the batting averages,
with the fine figures of 7733 ; and he was first in the
bowling averages with 2266. With this all-round
record, the Australian Captain is a source of tremendous
strength to his side. As a skipper he shows excellent
generalship, and he is never averse from consulting
his colleagues.
If his recent form affords any true guide. J. M.
Gregory is likely to prove the greatest all-rounder that
Australia has ever produced, it is a remarkable fact
that, prior to his inclusion in the A.I.F. team, this mem¬
ber of the famous cricketing family gave no indication of
future brilliance. He is generally regarded as the fastest
bowler in the world to-day, and no fast bowler has
probably ever achieved such success with the bat. He is
a tall, powerfully-built fellow, with youth on his side,
but it is doubtful whether, with his particular frame,
he will be able to maintain his pace with the ball. He
puts tremendous energy into his run, and bowls from
a great height. His pace at the end of the recent
tour was not nearly as fast as in the first Test.
Possibly lus successes with the bat contributed 10 tL
A fast bowler who makes a century towards the end d
an innings, and is then called upon immediately after
wards to bowl, obviously suffers a strain on his phvsqtr
which must have its effect.
As a batsman J ack Gregory has improved oat i
sight. He is still somewhat unorthodox in style, btf
he has a wonderful sight of the ball, and his aggressvr
tactics and vigorous strokes will please the EngBA
cricketing crowds. He is now much better in detect
than he was with the A.I.F. team, and has a grate
variety of strokes. His tremendous strides bet»w
the wickets always cause amusement in Australia. U
one Test match, when he had Armstrong as a partner,
he almost reduced his skipper to a state of exhaustioe
It is in fielding, however, that Gregory displays
most his inexhaustible energy and agility. As first slip
he is second to none in the world to-day. He has a
extraordinary reach with his arms. 1 can best df
scribe his movement, when he dives after a ball wtai _
would be out of the reach of most players, by company I
it to the arm of a linotype machine He made no fe*e |
than fifteen catches in the slips in the recent Test matches. ,
and some of them were very extraordinary. He some |
times falls to the ground in his endeavour to reach a ball
but once his large hands have touched it they -rarely
let it go. In batting Gregory had the fine average r
73 66 in Tests, and in bowling an average of
English cricket enthusiasts will be eager to see tS
bowler who caused such havoc to the English batstna
in the Test series. Arthur Mailey is m mteUigen
player, who understands and remembers the *
nesses of particular batsmen. He was helped, nodoo
by the hard Australian wickets, and may not secure
such a turn on the ball in England. He is.
adaptable, and will probably be able to change his
tics to suit the altered conditions. He was cert ^ D _
expensive at times in the Test matches, but w 00
with an average of 26 27 and secured 3b wickets.
is a record for Test matches. None of ‘he Englis
men was ever comfortable in facing those deceptive,
balls, which looked so easy and yet so often heat
The googly bowler was called upon to do a tr ® roc ” ^
amount of work, and bowled nearly 3000 5 ^
matches against the English team and the
matches. He is, however, a willing player, an
that sooner or later he will capture wickets. ^
was his special victim, as the English skippe " ,
to Mailey no fewer than six times. He a ' sf>
the wickets of Hobbs, Hcndren, Makepeace an ^
on three occasions each, and Woolley and
on two occasions. The Gregory-Mailey com ^
was one of the chief factors in the defeat 0> t e ^
side. It remains to be seen whether it
successful on English wickets. Jjjvt
Apart from Armstrong and Gregory. w cnnta io$
already been mentioned, the Australian teatTl ^ ^ t0
eight batsmen any one of whom is as like y
MR. H. CARTER (N.S. WALES).
MR. C. C. MACARTNEY (Hi.
__ Au#*^
The Australians began their tour in England auspiciously by beating Leicestershire, in the match which concluded at Leicester on May 2, by an innings and I 5 2 ruM ‘
Mr Wart®
had made 430 for 7 wickets when Mr. Warwick Armstrong (the captain) declared the innings closed. To that total Mr. C. G. Macartney contributed 177 runs ’ ^
Bardsley 109, and Mr. J. M. Gregory 78. Both the two latter are left-hand batsmen. Mr. Gregory is considered by some the best all-round cricketer in the world- He
f Moecial to*®*
of a famous cricketing family, of whom it has been said that “the Gregorys are to Australia what the Graces were to England.” The present season is 01
mu
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7 , 1921.—601
LIANi
EAM SOON TO MEET ENGLAND FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME.
and General.
^ c make a century in big cricket Macartney maintains
-i. r*hi s potion as the leading Australian batsman to-day.
3tl1 * He was at the head of the averages for the Test matches
5HeE ’ with 86 66, and he also secured the fine average of 75
in the State matches against the English team, and
68 in the Sheffield Shield matches. His two centuries
lW “* in the second match, New South Wales v. England,
and the Fifth Test, were masterpieces of stylish batting.
** His wristy strokes, late cuts, cover drives, leg glances,
and beautifully timed strokes in other parts of the field
proclaimed him as a worthy successor to the famous
Australian batsmen of other days.
Herbert Collins, the Vice-Captain of the team, has
the real Test-match temperament. He usually goes
»>**i in first with Bardsley, and commences his innings as
tbs I* if he had just finished making a hundred runs. He has
been called “ Lucky Collins," and he certainly was for-
tunate in some very badly missed catches early in the
e li recent tour. It requires, however, a player of no ordinary
ability* to make century after century in big cricket,
ptei and although Collins is not so stylish a batsman as
; 8r» Macartney or Taylor, he can usually be relied upon to
titii make runs. The fact that he scored three centuries
oft against the M.C.C. team, and was associated with
i«ti Bardsley in three first-wicket partnerships of over
rtf: a century, indicates his great value to his side,
ifcr Warren Bardsley, the left-hander, is a different
net' type of batsman. Always imperturbable, he makes
r# his strokes all round the wicket. In the Sheffield Shield
t& matches last season, he had the wonderful average of
[i 108, mainly due to two innings of 235 each against
South Australia. He has had previous experience
ltd °f English wickets, and is expected to do better than
g' some of the other batsmen who are more suited to the
Ji Australian conditions.. In the outfield Bardsley is
ijr always safe and sometimes brilliant, and saved a great
,i many runs for the Australian side which would other-
i wise have gone to the boundary.
r Clarence Pellew, the only South Australian in the
rS team, is a born athlete His fielding at cover point
* is a delight to watch. He pounces on the ball with
, extraordinary agility, picks up and throws to the wicket
with speed and precision. He made two centuries in
1 the Test matches in excellent style, and is usually a
dependable batsman
Johnny ” Taylor is a little chap of whom great
things are expected. His charming style at the
wickets reminds one more of Victor Trumper than of
any present-day Australian batsman. He puts great
force into many of his strokes which is surprising from
a man of such small stature. In the outfield he is as
skilful as Hendren in the speed with which he covers
the ground, the clean and rapid way in which he picks
up the ball, and the deadly accuracy with which he re¬
turns it. Taylor is a young man with a great cricketing
future. In the Test matches he had an average of
32 85, in the State matches 118 (assisted by a fine
tunings of 107 not out), and in the Sheffield Shield
84 33 (to which a magnificent innings of 180 materially
contributed).
Of the other batsmen, Ryder can make runs when
he is in form. In build he resembles Russell, the Essex
player. In the field his work has not hitherto been
noteworthy, whilst as a bowler he is useful as a relief
and often keeps an excellent length for a long time.
Andrews is at the top of the Sydney Club averages for
the season with the fine figures of 99 66. He is a steady
bat and an admirable field, especially at cover point.
Hendry replaced Kelleway in the team. He is one
of the younger players of promise, and should benefit
considerably by his experience in England. Tall and
slight, he is second only to Gregory as a slip field amongst
the Australian players. With more confidence he should
improve as a batsman, as he puts much power into many
of his strokes, and an excellent innings of 66 not out
in the second match N.S.W. v. England gave an indi¬
cation of his potentialities in this direction. As a
bowler he resembles Kelleway in style. He never looked
dangerous in the big matches, although he usually kept
a good length and occasionally got wickets.
Oldfield secured his place in the team as a result of
his good " keeping ” in the early Test matches following
his record with the A.I.F. team. He should improve with
more experience, and, like many of his colleagues, has
most of his big cricket in front of him. On the other
hand, this will probably be " Sam ” Carter's last parti¬
cipation in international cricket. In the last two Test
matches he showed that he is just as active behind the
stumps as ever. Two of his catches in the Fourth
Test in Melbourne were remarkable, one of them, in
the opinion of many old cricketers, being the finest
catch at the wicket ever seen on the Melbourne ground.
With two such safe men available behind the wickets
to support the bowlers, the Australian team completes
its efficient representation in every department.
McDonald is the other fast bowler in the team. He
was not successful in the Tests, but the selectors con¬
sidered it desirable that another fast bowler should be
available in case Gregory should be incapacitated.
Few people in Australia know why Mayne was included.
He has shown no recent form as a batsman, he is a poor
fieldsman except at point, and is not a bowler. With
this single exception the selections have met with general
approval. The weakness probably lies in the absence
of a medium-paced left-hander who can get a spin on
the ball. Collins and Macartney are both left-hand
bowlers who may do well on wet wickets in England,
but they have had little success—or, indeed, opportuni¬
ties to succeed—this season. It is interesting to mention
that both Collins and Macartney are right-hand bats¬
men. *whilst Gregory, wffio is a right-hand bowler, is a
left-hand batsman.
The Australian team is likely to be a happy family.
Many of them served together in the great struggle
for Empire and Freedom, and they combine well
together as a team. They are all good sportsmen.
MR. J. M. TAYLOR (Nk. WALES)
MF T. J. ANDREWS (N.S. WALES).
mr. e. a. McDonald (victoria).
MR. C. E. PELLEW (S. AUSTRALIA).
MR. W. W. ARMSTRONG, CAPTAIN
(VICTORIA).
MR. J. M. GREGORY (N.S. WALES).
because England and Australia have now each won forty of the international matches, and the Test Match to be played at Nottingham on May 28 will be a historic occasion,
« the hundredth meeting between the Mother Country and the “daughter ” lands of the Antipodes. It wUl be interesting to see whether the " Cornstalks ” will be as successful
on English wickets as they were in Australia against the M.C.C. team, whom they defeated in all five Test Matches during the season recently past. Of the fourteen members
of the Australian team whose portraits are given above, no fewer than ten hail from New South Wales.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7 , 1921.—602
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
la gloire, so deeply rooted in a thousand years of
stark experience, is the abomination of desolation.
Napoleon’s keen interest in national education,
which caused him to- establish the University of
France, would alone have made him famous as
an architect of social institutions. “ There will
never be fixity in politics,” he averred, " if there
is not a teaching body with fixed principles.
As long as people do not from their infancy
learn whether they ought to be republicans or
monarchists, Catholics or sceptics, the State will
never form a nation ; it will rest on unsafe and
shifting foundations, always exposed to changes
and disorders.” France in Napoleon’s days and
pre-war Germany, even more
manifestly, carried this prin¬
ciple to unwise extremes, but
there can be little doubt that
all State schools should teach
patriotism—and here w’e can
learn something well worth
learning from the mighty con¬
queror we held in so narrow a
prison, for it is the height of
folly to permit even State-
subsidised teachers to preach
internationalism (as many do)
and to provide no specific an¬
tidote in the nation’s schools
to the educational propaganda
now conducted on a large scale
f.y . in all industrial districts by
' . the revolutionary exponents of
-j the Marxian economics.
^ W /7 £/ TpHE great question
1 of the day is the
Af future of Parliamentary in-
stitutions. The alternative
recommended by Treitschkc
in theory and by Bismarck
in practice — autocracy, to wit — has been ruled
out by the failure of the “ German War" to
impose it on the world and by the first stage
of the Russian Revolution, if not by the
second, which culminated in the twofold tyranny
of Lenin and Trotsky, that figure-of-eight spider
in a dark net of shaken circumstance. In
reading " New Chapters of Bismarck’s Auto-
nune of exact in-
formation, but it is
never for a moment dull, (A
since its author has a keen mLA CyT.
eyc for the human interest
that is never wanting for a
moment in either House, and has even been able
to add new and true treasures to our store of
Parliamentary anecdote—an achievement one would
have thought impossible 1 Mr. MacDonagh scofis
at the idea that Parliament is slow and cumbrous
in fulfilling the task of reflecting the nation’s
reasoned judgment in matters of vital importance.
But he does not face the difficult question of finding
remedies for the present weakness of the Hou^r
of Commons w'hich originates in (i) the usurpation
of undue authority by the Cabinet, (2) the in¬
creasing number of placemen in the House, and
(3) its inability to impose its will, through the
Ministers, on the huge bureaucracy which has
grown out of the necessities of the war and tbe
peace with its vast problems of industrial unrest,
and is now far too strongly entrenched to be re¬
duced by any display of high-explosive rhetoric.
But the House still possesses a great store of
intelligent energy, and we can agree with Mr.
MacDonagh in believing that it is capable of
adapting itself to each new set of circumstances—
if only, we must add, its power, at present latent,
can be released and brought to bear directly on
the new problems of administration.
” The Modern Teacher ” (Methuen ; 10s. 6d.
net), edited by A. Watson Bain, M.A., and intro¬
duced by Sir W. Henry Hadow, M.A., D.Mus..
is a collection of essays on the various phases of
modem education by famous experts in the theorv
and practice of teaching. Education is not voca¬
tion—that is the root-principle accepted by all
the contributors, who see that the pupil’s imagina¬
tion must be trained as well as his capacity for
amassing useful knowledge. In the last essay but
one, on “ Citizenship,” Dr. William Boyd em¬
phasises the necessity of ” educating our masters ”
in their duty to the State as well as to themselves,
if they arc not to be tricked and made use of by
THE PATHOS OF THE LAW COURTS INTERPRETED BY A GREAT FRENCH P 1 c t u r-
ETCHER: FORAIN’S “LA SORTIE DE L’AUDIENCE" (ORIGINAL SIZE, esque con-
131 BY III IN.) tribution.
By Courtesy of the ** Print-Collector’s Quarterly ” (see Article on a later page). Lon g a f>°
we gave
biography ” (Hoddcr and Stoughton ; 12s. 6d. back " Orestes to Electra in
net), translated by Bernard Miall, it is not sur- his urn,” but there is still
prising to find that the old statesman, dismissed scope for repentance,
by a young, untried monarch and made the butt
of such pompous imbeciles as the Grand Duke of
Baden (who described him as ” an old driveller ”), _ ,
began to have his doubts as to the future of auto- But thc question for the
cracy (even the limited liability tvpe), though he moment is whether, m t us
still preserved his contempt for' Parliamentari- and other countries, Parl.a-
anism As in a glass darkly, contrasting the ment “ to ^ superseded by-
personality of William II. with the characters of f me form of the Soviet sys-
his predecessors, he had glimpses of the historic tem ’ "* ,ch alread y e * wts ®
truth that autocracy fails as soon as the right 8Uch “ the Natj ° nal
type of autocrat is lacking-a result bound to Lluo * ° f Kailwaymen. which
arrive sooner or later, when the autocrat is sup- can dec,are a s , tnk J e “ that ,s
plied on the principle of primogeniture. war ’ for 11 18 a kind of ulixma
ratio —th#^ rnmmnnitv
This year is the centenary • of the death of
Napoleon, and the new and enlarged edition of
” Napoleon. 1769-1821 ” (G. G. Harrap and Co. ;
10s. 6d. net), by H. F. B. Wheeler, sets us think¬
ing over the character and career of thc greatest
autocrat the world has ever seen. The chief
omission in Mr. Wheeler’s otherwise excellent
example of the ” popular ” history, which is reli¬
able as well as readable, is the lack of a fitting
appreciation of Napoleon's work as an organiser of
civil reforms. Here, as iu the sphere of military
organisation, his grasp of broad principles, mastery
of detail, and capacity for choosing thc human
instruments of his purpose, had full play and were
magnificently effective- The Napoleonic Code and
the other institutions he created, using the Han
of revolutionary- feeling to better purpose than in
the vast effort to realise his dreams of world
conquest, are the bedrock of modem France,
which is far too strong an edifice—stronger indeed
than that Bismarck called ” the granite block ”
of his unified Germany-—to be wrecked and over¬
whelmed by the tidal waves of Bolshevism. That
is why Napoleon’s name is honoured even by the
Frenchmen to whom the national conception of
SMOKED BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH
ON THE SCAFFOLD : A HISTORIC
OUT FOR A STROLL IN LONDON
DURING HIS RECENT VISIT : MARSHAL
FOCH IN MUFTI.
AGAIN WINNER OF THE LONDON-lO-
BRIGHTON STOCK EXCHANGE WALK :
MR. H. B. S. RHODES.
SOLD FOR 2500 GUINEAS : A
FOURTEENTH - CENTURY ARAB
MOSQUE LAMP.
PAINTER OF THE MOST-TALKED-OF j THE NEW SPEAKER OF THE
ACADEMY PICTURE : SIR WILLIAM j— «■ HOUSE OF COMMONS : MR. J. H.
ORPEN, R.A. i WHITLEY. M.P.
OUR IMPERIAL VISITOR FROM
JAPAN : THE CROWN PRINCE
H 1 ROHITO.
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UB fc«S
His Excellency Chu Chi-Chien, ex-Premier of China, was received by the King
at Buckingham Palace on May 2, and handed to his Majesty an autograph letter
from the Chinese President, together with valuable gifts.-Sir William Orpen’s
Academy picture, “ Le Chef de 1 ’Hotel Chatham, Paris ” (reproduced on our
front page), has been bought by the Chantrey Bequest.-Mr. John Henry Whitley,
the new Speaker, has been Liberal Member for Halifax, where he has a cotton¬
spinning business, for twenty-one years.-The Crown Piince of Japan is due
to arrive at Spithead on May 7. He reached Cairo, where he stayed with- Lord
Allen by at the Residency, on April 18, and he has since visited Malta and
Gibraltar on his way to England.-At the Morgan S. Williams sale at Christie’s,
Messrs. Duveen gave 2500 guineas for a fourteenth-century Arab glass mosque
lamp, given to the late owner by the Shah of Persia.-At the Tobacco Trade
Exhibition at the Horticultural Hall, Mr. Alfred Dunhill shows a large pipe of
North American maple wood which Sir Walter Raleigh smoked on the scaffold
in 1618 and gave to Bishop Andrews. Near the mouthpiece is a whistle for
summoning a servant to refill the bowl.-Mr. H. B. S. Rhodes again won the
Stock Exchange Athletic Club's walk from London to Brighton, in 9 hours 16 min.
23 sec., beating his last year's time.-The Earl of Reading, the New Viceroy
of India, and the Countess of Reading arrived at Delhi on April 3.-The
railway restaurant car of Marshal Foch’s train, in which the Armistice was
signed on November II, 1918, in Compidgne Wood, was brought to the Invalides
in Paris on April 28, and placed in the Mus£e de l’Armte. A luncheon was
given in it at which Marshals Foch and Joffre were present Marshal Foch was
recently in London for the Allied Conference on German reparations.
THE NEW VICEROY’S ARRIVAL IN THE CAPITAL OF INDIA :
LORD READING DRIVING INTO DELHI.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN IN EGYPT: H.I.H. (SECOND FROM LEFT
IN FRONT) WITH LORD ALLENBY (FOURTH) AT CAIRO.
LEFT I
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7, 1921.—603
FROM EAST AND WEST: PERSONALITIES AND HISTORIC RELICS.
Photographs bv Elliott and Fky, Japan Press Illustration Co., Stout and Gknerai, L.N.A., G.P.A., and Topical. That op ths Arab Lamp hv Courtrsv op Mi srs. Duvirn
THE
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NKWS.
May 7 . l ‘>21
«04
A COLLEAGUE said to me when we met at
the (. ourt Iheatre: " Is this your eightieth
Othello ? " “.No.” said I ” it is more likely to
be my hundredth, for I began playgoing when 1
was seven, and I have a faint recollection of my
tenth birthday, when the Moor of Salvini excited
my young brain to such an extent that I did not
sleep for nights.” 1 have seen all the great
Othellos of my time—in English. Dutch, Flemish,
Italian, German, including Austrian—and if I were
to-day to “reminisce” on the subject. I should
call Salvini the greatest of them all; in England.
Matheson Lang the most powerful. Lewis Waller
the most picturesque, and Forbes Robertson, in
spite of what other critics
have said, the nearest
approach to the autumnal
lover of the child - wife
Dcsdemona. Now enters
Godfrey Tearle under the
banner of Mr. {ami's
Fagan at the Court, who
splendidly and valiantly
maintains one of the
most glorious traditions
of the nation. From the
point of view of diction
it is a tine performance
His voice sounds like a
bell ; his every word
surges like a wave from
an ocean ; but from my
point of view he is all
too vehement -he is a
roaring lion from the tirst.
and in this great etiort
of force something of the
childish tenderness of the
Moor is lost. This ex¬
uberance is not so much
a fault as an attribute of
youth. Tearle gives us
a juvenile Othello of
leonine figure. It is a
defensible conception, but
it mars somewhat the
dignity of the hero, who
was not only a great
lover, but a leader of men
and a doughty general.
Next comes the lago of
Mr. Basil Rathbone. Here
was something new, some¬
thing original, a revela¬
tion. Hitherto lago has
been generally' played as
a Macchiavelli, ripe of
age. ripe in cunning, a
kind of seTpent in human
form. But Basil Rath-
bone, who seems to have
studied his Shakespeare
well, adheres to the notion
that lago spoke of his
twenty-eight years of age ;
so, instead of endowing
him with maturity, he
created a figure of youth
in whom craft was more
innate than the outcome
of experience. To me it
was an interesting study
of a criminal born, an
lago so overwhelmed by
ego, so prone to rule,
that, to use a Continental
expression. ” he would
tread on corpses ” to
reach his goal. It was a
deeply interesting study,
and it marked the actor as a man of promise.
He has still little mannerisms of smacking lips
and eye-play', but that is a detail. A part of
such magnitude is a great trial to a nervous
temperament. Anon the Cassio of Mr. Frank
Cellier, the performance of the evening, which
by its tremendous force, its enthusiasm, its
magnificence of delivery, lifted me off my feet.
One must know the bitter school of life to value
the conviction with which Frank Cellier delivered
that glorious speech on ” Reputation.” It went
to the heart ; it went to the soul ; it was superb ;
it was human. Alas that 1 cannot praise the
Desdemona and the Emilia I Miss Madge Tither-
adge as Dcsdemona was pale and passive. She
simulated youth, but she did not convey it. Her
speech was sometimes convincing, she had touching
moments, hut one felt that she seemed to
await opportunities which the part did not otter
to her impassioned tempera nont. The Emilia of
Miss Mary Grey, though prepossessing in per¬
sonality, lacked stamina. We had but a glimpse
of the long-suffering woman, not her complete
portrayal. On the whole. " Othello” at the Court,
set by r the pictorial eye of Mr. Fagan in scenes
beautiful in colour, grand in simplicity of diction,
was worthy of the Shakespeare Theatre of West
Ixmdon.
She is quelqu'une ! When Miss Violet Van¬
brugh enters upon the scene there is a presence
impression which makes one long to see this
powerful actor as the real ” petit caporal" ; and the
cunning hero of Mr. Scott Sunderland, who, rueing
that he had tried to capture his lady-love by
stratagem, was a model of restraint, of sincerity
and dignified humility.
“ The Peep-Show ” is, next to “ Jumble Sale,”
at the Vaudeville, the best revue London has seen
for some time. It is a revue and it is a peep-
show. There are scenes galore and many sights,
vet the sights arc so daintily and so discreetly
panelled that in a treasure trove full of happy
thouglits they make a far
greater impression than
more gorgeous displays.
The music-shop in which
we were regaled to all
the songs of the ’eighties
and ’nineties known to
glory was one of those
things which make the
heart jump with joy and
set the whole audience
humming. The Dickens
pageant was a fairylike
kaleidoscope of many
peeps into the novelist’s
works, and it was truly
wonderful to behold with
what chameleonic nimble¬
ness the actors, such as
Stanley Lupino, Mona
Vivian, Annie Croft, and
F'red Allandale, crept into
Dickensian skins. In
Mona Vivian the Hippo¬
drome has found a host
of fun, humour, and
imagination. She does
many thihgs, and does
them all to perfection.
In Stanley Lupino they
have a comedian as clever
and supple as a vanload
of monkeys : and in Fred
Allandale a kind compere
who plays burlesque
character parts with a
mien as if he meant it.
The music is bright; the
chorus girls are fair ; the
text is jolly ; the cos¬
tumes are such a dream
that it is almost dan¬
gerous to be accompanied
by a lady, lest they should
create nostalgia of Pa-
quin and Reville. The
whole thing is gay from
beginning to end.
SARDOU’S IMMORTAL WASHERWOMAN LEARNING DEPORTMENT TO RECEIVE NAPOLEON : MLLE. M1ST1NGUETT
MAKES A GREAT SUCCESS IN “MADAME SANS-G£NE." AT THE PORTE ST. MARTIN THEATRE, PARIS.
MUe. Mirtinguerr has made a great hit in the Pam revival of “Madame Sans-CXne,” as Catherine (ex-washerwoman), wife cf
Marshal Lefebyre. The drawmg shows Madame Sans Gene in Act I., Scene 5. taking a lesson in deportment from M. Despreaux,
formerly ballet-master at the Opera, and now professor of dancine at the Court of Napoleon. Catherine is learning the correct
manner m which to receive Imperial Highnesses. -[Drawn from Life by Ren/ Lelong.)
and an atmosphere. Why, oh why, does so gifted
an actress not find a play worthy of her talent ?
Violet Vanbrugh in an adaptation of ” The Knave
of Diamonds,” by Ethel M. Dell !—-the very com¬
bination jars, and it is but homage to the actress
to say as little as possible about the play. As
it unfolded its weary story I had time to think
what the Continental drama could offer to Violet
\ anbrugh if the Flnglish supply should fail, and
on my fingers I counted not less than a score of
j>lays in which \ iolet Vanbrugh could repeat her
world-famed success of ” The Woman in the Case.”
She did her best w-ith her trite material, but the
opportunities were all too few, and we felt what
power worked here for nothing. Two other
splendid impersonations : the drink-sodden baronet
of Mr.- Townsend Whitling. a Napoleon esq ne
Leon M. Lion scores in
" Count X.” His Bond
Street pseudo - Russian
spoof-saver is a fine pastel
of the late lamented (?)
Rasputin. The third act.
full of spookeries and
satire, is a whole evening
in itself. It is likely to
thrill London as did
” The Thirteenth Chair."
Alas that my editor
cannot grant me a whole
page to enlarge on the firstling of Mrs. Gerald
Montagu, ” Mother Eve,” with which the Play¬
wrights’ Theatre has scored ! It is a play °*
thought and quality, in -spite of technical im¬
maturity. -It pounds the eternal marriage ques-
tion ; it pounds the man who looks upon wedlock
as an eternal honeymoon and not as a union or
two minds, who looks upon woman as the inferior
partner unfit to share his intellectual pursuits; it
hits home in many lines and some scenes; it
deserves more than a one-day’s life. The acting
of Miss Mary Merrall was a thing of beauty an
feeling. She learned the part in three days, ye
acted it as if it were the expression of a y°“ n 6
lifetime. And Miss Edith I-'vans as a *°° 1S tf
mother was as fascinating as Miss Ruth Mac-ay
was flambovant as the “ woman who did.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7 ,
1921.—605
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“ AFLAME WITH BANDS AND BALLS OF FIRE ” : A WONDERFUL SUNRISE PHENOMENON IN THE FAR NORTH OF
CANADA—THE ACTUAL SUN ON THE HORIZON, WITH MOCK SUNS ABOVE, AND AT EACH END OF THE RAINBOW ARCH.
The remarkable phenomenon shown in the picture was seen by the artist,
Mr. Heming, during a journey in the northern wilds of Canada. “ Just before
daylight appeared in the south-eastern sky,” he writes, “the Aurora Borealis
vanished from view. Later, a golden glow, tipping the tops of the tallest trees,
heralded the rising of the sun. Coming out upon a little lake we saw that the
light over the distant hills had broken into a glorious flood of sunshine. Half
over the far-off trees, along the horizon, the sun was shining, and the whole
south-eastern sky seemed aflame with bands and balls of fire. A vertical ribbon
of gradually diminishing lustre, scarcely wider than the sun, was rising into the
heavens to meet a vast semicircle of rainbow beauty arched above the natural
sun. Where the strange halo cut the vertical flame and the horizon on either
side, three mock suns marked the intersection. (That on the horizon to the
right is not seen in the picture.) Above the natural sun and beneath the halo,
four other mock suns studded the vertical band of light. It was a wonderful
sight, and lasted fully twenty minutes. Now the brigade was halted. . . . The
drivers, conversing in little groups, watched the beautiful phenomenon. . . .
Presently the mock suns grew dim ; the arch faded away ; the band lost its glow ;
the true sun rose above the trees.”— (Drawing Copyrighted in the United States and Canada .)
i
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 7. 1921.—606
A HUNTER’S PARADISE: BY CANOE THROUGH CANADA’S NORTHLAND.
FROM A DRAWING BY ARTHUR HEMING.
“IN THESE NORTHERN WILDS ANIMALS HAVE LITTLE
BEAVER ’’: A WOLVERINE
Describing the journey through the far north of Canada during which he made
this drawing, Mr. Arthur Heming writes: “In these northern wilds, animals have
little fear of man, even the usually shy and timid beaver having not yet learned
to recognise his most deadly enemy. . . . When we reached Bear Lake, I found
a hunter’s paradise. . . . Oo-koo-hoo recalled having seen the tracks of a wol¬
verine that afternoon, and was reminded of a former experience. One spring,
while Hunting along a river, he discovered a beaver at work upon the bank, cutting
poplar-sticks to take them, through a hole in the ice, to the under-water entrance
of his nearby house lor ms family to feed upon. But presently Oo-koo-hoo
FEAR OF MAN, EVEN THE USUALLY SHY AND TIMID
MEDITATING AN ATTACK.
discovered another moving object,; it was a wolverine, and it was stalking the
beaver. When it drew near enough to the beaver, the wolverine made a
sudden spring and landed upon its back. A desperate fight ensued. . • •
The beaver, with the wolverine still on his back, dived in. On being sub¬
merged, the wolverine let go and swam around in an effort to get out. But ihe
beaver, now in his element, rising beneath his foe, with one bite of his powerful,
chisel-like teeth, gripped the wolverine by the throat ; then he let go and sank to
watch the wolverine bleed to death.’’ The originals of the drawings are in 'he Soyi*
Ontario Museum, which purchased thtm.—[Copyrighted m the Untied State i and Canada.!
T5(je Illustrated Jsondon flews, May T, 1921—607
V[ A MIGHTY MEMORY HONOURED AUKE BY FRANCE AND BRITAIN: (jL
'*j THE CENTENARY OF NAPOLEON'S DEATH. \v
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PRUDHON’S LITTLE-KNOWN PORTRAIT: THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, NAPOLEON’S FIRST WIFE.
The tragedy of Josephine’s married life was the fact that she brought the Emperor
no heir. In reading stories of her light conduct, it is to be remembered that she
lived in perilous times, like those of the Great War a century later, when moral
standards were shaken, and that she barely escaped the guillotine, to which her
first husband, the Vicomte de Beauhamais, fell a victim in 1794 during the Reign
of Terror. Her maiden name in full was Marie Josephine Rose Tascher de la
Pagerie, and she was bom in 1763 at Trois Ilets, Martinique, where her father
was captain of the port of St. Pierre (destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Pelie in
190a). By her first husband she had a son, Eugtne, who was made Viceroy of
Italy, and a daughter, Hortense, afterwards Queen of Holland and mother of
Napoleon III. Josephine married Napoleon in 1796, and was devoted to him.
He crowned her at his coronation as Emperor in December 1804. Because of
her childlessness, the marriage was dissolved by the Pope in 1809, and the next
year Napoleon married Marie Louise of Austria. Josephine wished to share his
exile at Elba in 1814. He arrived there on May 4, and she died on May 39, at
Malmaison, near Paris.
A Charcoal Drawing by Pri'dhon. Fkom the Collection of M. David .Weill.
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THE GUARDING OF NAPOLEON:
ST. HELENA IN 18 IS-A BRITISH OFFICER’S DESCRIPTION.
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l-l AD Great Britain acted solely on her own initiative
1 in 1815, it is perhaps possible that the once
great Emperor might have been spared the hardships
entailed by banishment to such a desolate speck in the
ocean as St. Helena. Great Britain, however, was
but a single Power in the Alliance which had finally
overthrown Bonaparte, and the disastrous escape of
the Emperor from Elba had justly alarmed that Alliance,
so that, although Napoleon had thrown himself on the
protection of England, the British Government was
yet compelled to intimate to him that the determination
of the Allied Sovereigns was that he must be removed
to St. Helena.
St. Helena had been settled by the British East India
Company as early as 1651, being made by them a port
of call for the supply, more especially, of their home¬
coming vessels, an important function at a time when
all ships bound to or from India had to sail past the
Cape of Good Hope. However, at the date of the
Emperor's imprisonment there the island had com¬
pletely ceased to be self-supporting, although but
thirty years before it had been described, as “ well
stocked with a breed of black cattle, sheep, hogs and
goats, with a breed of spirited little horses well suited
to the rugged roads.” Turkeys, geese and ducks were
also plentiful at that time in the island.
The inhabitants, mostly fishermen by trade, were,
in 1815, from the precautions taken to guard against
the escape of the illustrious prisoner, permitted only
to fish by daylight, and even then were under the
greatest restrictions.
An idea of the elaborate precautions in question is
given in the following extract from a letter written by
an officer of the 53rd Regiment, which had been sent
to reinforce the Last India Company’s slender guard
at St. Helena. In especial he speaks most sarcastically
of the building of a redoubt on Egg Island, in order
to dominate a beach on St. Helena, on which, from his
showing, it would have been well-nigh an impossibility
for an enemy to land:—
“St. Helena, Nov. 5, 1815.
•• We who are sent into banishment with Napoleon
to the most wretched and desolate spot in the habitable
world, have good reason to curse his name ; here we are,
literally starving, or living upon the hard Irish beef
which we git for a ration, in the proportion of 1 lb. a
day, and which is so hard as to be susceptible of as
high a polish as mahogany. The privations we all
endure are very great; and were it not that we some¬
times catch fish (for buying them is out of the question),
I do not know what would becon e of »j? ; five or six fish
regularly every day for dinner and breakfast, and have
continuid to get a mackerel or two each for those meals ;
but you must not suppose them like the mackerel you
get in England, the largest not being half the sire.
It was ludicrous to see the ladies of the 53rd (who
arrived in ' Ceylon * with the 2nd division of the Regi¬
ment ten days after us) asking for the market, and their
astonishment was not small when they found there
was no such thing in the place. They are worse off
than ourselves ; all the officers bate only three marquees
among them, and those four miles from the town.
Foor Napoleon is at a house in the country, or rather hut,
for he has but one room which serves him for bedroom,
parlour, kitchen, and hall; a house at Lnngwood,
about four miles from the town, is preparing for him,
but will not be ready in two months, and then he will
not be much better accommodated for the whole of his
suite (eight persons, independent of servants), as it
.will not furnish a room each. The Generals and their
wives are at present in a house in town, until the one
that Napoleon goes to at Longwood is ready, when
they all go there. Captain Mackav (53rd) lives with
Napoleon, and he never moves without two sergeants
with him, so that there is no fear of his escaping.
Every boat, fisherman’s or not, is moored at sunset
by a naval officer, and reported to the Commander
to be done so. All guards under arms at sunset and
day-break; draw-bridges up at sunset, and as many
precautions taken as if an enemy were actually in
sight of the island ; no merchant ship of any descrip¬
tion is allowed to anchor, and the place exactly the same
as if blockaded most closely. It is morally impossible
that he should escape from the island without having
a ship at a little distance to receive him ; and any
sail can be seen sixty miles off in moderately clear
weather.
“ Two ships have been sent to the Cape of Good
Hope for stock, which are anxiously looked for.
This island supplies itself with nothing but vege¬
tables, and depends entirely on imports for subsist¬
ence. Cutting off all trade prevents any supply to
the inhabitants but what they are allowed to pur¬
chase from the public
stores (the same quan¬
tity as the ration to
the troops); the fishing
boats not being allowed
to fish at night, which
was the best time al¬
together, renders the
situation of the civil ans
worse than ours, and
they murmur not a *
little. I suppose the
population of the island
may amount to 3.500,
including 500 Com¬
pany’s troops. The
state of society here is
much liehind what one
would have expected
in an English Colony.
Indeed, there is scarcely
any society to be
met with except the
daughters of the Com¬
pany’s officers, and they
can say * Yes ’ or • No.'
They are what we call
Yamstocks (natives of
the island). They had
a theatre, which, how¬
ever, was shut long
before we cariie. We
first made it a barrack
and now a hospital.
A library, they say,
they will have in six months. We are all invited to
dine at the Governor’s on the 8th instant. I do not
think many will go. They say be is worth £70,000.
with only a son and daughter; but I think no
niqn with any fortune would ever live here even as
Governor—his name is Wilkes, and he is a Colooel in
the Company’s srtrvice
“ Sir G. Cockburn is now building a redoubt on Egg
Island, about half a mile from St. Helena, to defend a
bay or beach on which in very smooth weather people
may land and get into a cavern, and on which beach
the artillerymen are nearly drowned by the sea wash¬
ing over them, because they could not get up the
rocks out of its way. An enemy with arms and
ammunition certainly might be able to get up better
than many without, who were only trying to save their
lives by escaping from the waves ! Indeed, there would
be great difficulty in landing anywhere on the island
(but just at Jamestown)
from the tremendous
surf. To the north¬
ward of the island it
is always impossible ;
and to the westward,
except James’s and
I/mon Valley, you see
nothing except an
abrupt rock rising out
of the water. The
whole island is nothing
but a number of high
rocks, evidently vol¬
canic, showing even
now a great appear¬
ance of fire, black, exco¬
riated, and as light as
pumice-stone, in many
masses. These rocks
are intersected with
narrow valleys, which in
any other country you
would call ravines;
little patches of these
gullies are cultivated,
and produce Guinea
grass and some vege¬
tables. The following
fruits grow very spar¬
ingly —oranges, peaches,
dates, figs, bananas, lemons, and one or two more
fruits. You see a few coconut trees, but they do
not bear fruit; but these are only seen in the
valleys, the mountains not even having a shrub on
them. The climate is very temperate, and, they tell
us, very fine and healthy. The brown canary-bird is
a native of the island, and has a more beautiful
note than the yellow one. The Java-sparrow, a most
beautiful bird with a very low note, is also found here.
There are pheasants, partridges, some pigeons, and
a number of wild doves, which we are not allow-ed
to shoot yet.
” Between three and four miles of the little village
which is dignified with the title of Jamestown, after
ascending a narrow winding road bordered-with ravines
and precipices, you rc.arh a small plain of about a mile
and a quarter in length, terminated by an abrupt cliff
overhanging, at a considerable elevation, the sea. About
the middle of this plain stands Longwood, which serves
the once mighty Corsican either for a palace or a State
prison, according as his imagination may embellish the
scene. The bouse, which is small, is surrounded at
every outlet by sentries, regularly relieved. Half a
mile in advance of the house stands the lodge, wltere
an officer’s guard is stationed, suffering no individual
to pass without a written order, signed by the Admiral’s
own hand. The opposite front of the house is about
three-quarters of a mile from the cliff before men¬
tioned ; on the one side is an impassable ravine, on
the other an unscaLable mountain. The space within
those limits is all that is assigned to the move¬
ments of the State lYisoner. There is, besides, within
the boundary an encampment for 150 or 300 men;
and on every commanding eminence, at every point
which can serve to keep his movements under view,
sentries are posted, who may be said to form the
interior line of circumvallation, closing in the monster
in the toils. The before-mentioned road to James-
tosvn is tlie only outlet from this certainly not
‘ happy valley,’ but that road has sentries and
picquets posted in regular succession all the way to
the town.
" So much for the securities by land. Those by sea
seem to lie provided with still greater care, to render
the escape of the prisoner physically impossible. No
vessel can approach the island in any direction with¬
out being seen by some of the numerous signal-posts
which are established and communicate with each other
all round tbe island. The moment a strange sail is
seen, signals are made to the cruising vessels, of which
there are two divisions which alternately relieve each
other, in the uninteresting but ceaseless duty of hover¬
ing about this speck in the ocean. They proceed from
the anchorage to a certain distance, and then move
round in one direction or the other, according to the
winds or other circumstances, until they have com¬
pletely encircled the island. If a straggling vessel from
India or elsewhere approaches, they instantly make
sail towards her, carefully overhaul her, and, if neces¬
sary, bring her up for final examination by the Admiral
She is not, however, suffered to anchor unless she be a
King’s ship or an Indiaman, and this latter class are
under very strict regulation. Few of their officers are
suffered to land, and even their Captains are not
permitted to visit tbe interior of the island. As
to the small boats that go out to fish for the supply
of the inhabitants of the island, they are carefully
examined both on their departure and their return,
are limited to a few short hours for the pursuit of
their occupation, and when unemployed are care¬
fully drawn up under the guns of the harbour or
of the iuen-of-war. It is difficult for anybody be¬
longing to the squadron to get leave to spend a
night on shore. In general, all individuals must
come off from the land before sunset, at which time
the drawbridge is taken up and is not let down
again till sunrise the next morning; and during
this interval guard - boats are constantly employed
in rowing round the island.
“ Such are the precautions systematically devised
and employed to prevent a second attempt of this
restless being to create insurrection and disturb the
repose of the Continent. Military and Naval men who
have thoroughly investigated all these arrangements are
of opinion that they promise as much security as the
nature of human affairs in any case can afford against
the escape of the most crafty or desperate prisoner.
THE BEDSTEAD ON WHICH NAPOLEON DIED: HIS CAMP-BED WHICH HE HAD
USED AT AUSTERLITZ (NOW IN THE MALMAISON MUSEUM).
Pried supplied by G.P.A.
DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR OF “MIDSHIPMAN EASY”: CAPTAIN MARRY ATS FAMOUS
SKETCH OF NAPOLEON ON HIS DEATH-BED.
Captain Marryat, the novelist, who was then at St. Helena, made this sketch fourteen hours after
Napoleon’s death, for the Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.
THIS IS MY WILL WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN MY OWN
HAND. NAPOLEON ” : AN EXTRACT FROM THE WILL.
NAPOLEON S AUTOGRAPH : TWO SIGNATURES ATTACHED TO HIS
WILL, MADE AT ST. HELENA.
The autographs of Napoleon given in the top right illustration are dated (from top
to bottom) —left column : 1785 ; Proclamation at Milan, 1796 ; as Emperor, 1804.
Right column : 1793 ; 1796 ; as First Consul, 1803 ; at Tilsit, 1807. The note
to Massena, written in April 1809, reads : " Activity, activity, vitesse. Je me
recommande A vous.” The portrait bears the following note by Theodore Hook,
the novelist, who was Accountant-General of Mauritius from 1813 to 1817 :
" This sketch of Napoleon was made on board the * Northumberland ’ man-of-war
on her voyage to St. Helena, by Mr. Commissary Ibbetson, who gave it to me
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7, 1921.—609
NAPOLEON AS PENMAN AND PRISONER: AUTOGRAPHS; A PORTRAIT
Pb»NTS S( PN.IED av At.GtSTIN RlSCHC.IT*.
“ I DESIRE THAT MY ASHES MAY REST BY THE BANKS OF THE SEINE AMID THE FRENCH PEOPLE THAT I HAVE SO MUCH LOVED“ :
AN EXTRACT FROM NAPOLEON’S WILL, WITH HIS SIGNATURES THERETO.
in that Island.” In his book, “Napoleon,” Mr. Thomas E. Watson writes:
“ In his Will, written by his own hand, he set out an elaborate list of legacies,
including those who had befriended his boyhood, and those who had been loyal
to him in the days of his power, as well as those whose fidelity had been the
comfort of his captivity and dying hours. . . . Only a small portion of the vast
assets Napoleon claimed to have left in Europe could be found by his executors,
and during the Second Empire the State voted 1,600,000 dollars toward the
unpaid legacies.” His handwriting shows swiftness and scorn of pedantry.
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LONGWOOD - NAPOLEON’S
ST.
HELENA
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WHERE NAPOLEON LIVED IN EXILE AFTER 1815 AND DIED IN 1821 : LONGWOOD,
IN ST. HELENA. BOUGHT BY NAPOLEON III. IN 1858 .
WHERE THE BODY OF NAPOLEON RESTED UNTIL ITS REMOVAL TO PARIS IN 1340 :
THE TOMB OF THE EXILED EMPEROR AT ST. HELENA.
The centenary of Napoleon’s death at Longwood, on the lonely island of St Helena, on the evening of May 5, 1821, was made the occasion for many ^ ^
celebrations in France, Corsica, Belgium, and on the Rhine. Those arranged in Paris included a Requiem Mass at Notre Dame, a ceremony at the Invalides w *
of Napoleon was re-buried, after removal from St Helena, in 1840) with an address by Marshal Foch, another at the Institut de France, and on the actual an
great military procession through the Arc de Triomphe, with a salvo of 101 guns. Simultaneous celebrations were planned at St Helena, in which the Bn
was associated with the French authorities. It may be recalled that Longwood and Napoleon’s tomb there have been French property since 1858, when tne
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* ® THE SALON, AND ON THE RIGHT THOSE
Of ^-BEDROOM : PART OF LONGWOOD.
WHERE NAPOLEON USED TO FOREGATHER ON FINE DAYS WITH HIS COMPANIONS
IN EXILE : THE “ TUNNEL ” IN THE GARDEN.
WITH THE POSITION OF HIS CAMP-BED MARKED BY AN
ENCLOSED BUST: THE ROOM WHERE NAPOLEON DIED.
SHOWING (IN THE FOREGROUND) AN ORNAMENTAL BASIN DESIGNED BY NAPOLEON :
THE SOUTH-WEST FRONT OF LONGWOOD, WHEN IT HAD FALLEN INTO DISREPAIR.
S Napoleon III. bought them for 178,565 francs. The place had become much dilapidated, and the room* occupied by Napoleon had been used for a stable. It was afterwards
restored and a custodian was appointed. It was stated recently that a French battery would go to St. Helena, and on May 5 would fire a gun every hour from dawn till 5 p.m.
404 S- 5 8 p.m. (the hour of Napoleon’s death) a salute of ai guns, the number fired when his remains were removed in 1840. It was said also that a British war-ship might
**** part in 41,6 ceremony, and that the British Government had arranged a special commemoration service. An article describing a recent pilgrimage to Longwood, by
Mr. Charles Dawbarn, appears on another page in this number.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7 , 1921—612
NAPOLEON'S ISLAND PRISON:
A PILGRIMAGE TO ST. HELENA.
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S T. HELENA rises a grey barren rock oat of
the sea. Its appearance is particularly un¬
inviting. It seems to express the boredom and
ennui from which Napoleon perpetually suffered.
A padre on board the Grantully Castle told me,
as we approached the shore, that before goats
were imported into the island, green saplings grew
out of the rocks; but such vegetation is now
destroyed ; goat-like appetites have proved destruc¬
tive. Yet first appearances are somewhat decep¬
tive. When I step ashore from the boat in which
coloured men have brought me from the ship, I
find there is more greenery than I expected. The
soil varies in productivity just as does the tem¬
perature, which changes according
to height above sea-level and ex¬
posure to the winds. There are
trees and vegetation of all kinds
growing luxuriantly in the hollows ;
but as we ascend a series of terraces
up towards Longwood, the object
of our pious pilgrimage, we are
struck with the occasional dreari¬
ness of the scene. Giant cacti and
aloes dispute the dry earth with
tumbled rocks. Yet the climate is
delicious. We are in the tropics,
but there is always a movement
of the air to moderate the heat.
And so we found, when, our car¬
riage having rather miraculously
reached higher levels, in spite of the
slippery roads and the starved
steeds, we encountered a refreshing
breeze. From the upper plain we
could see growing crops in the
valleys and groves of mangoes,
peach-trees, and bananas. New
Zealand flax has been lately intro¬
duced and does well. Tempted by
high prices, the inhabitants have
rather overdone the planting, with a resultant
restriction in the area given to foodstuffs, which
have to be imported—a foolish system, since flax
fluctuates in price, and, moreover, the tonnage
difficulty exists.
Nestling in a hollow between two shoulders of
a hill is Jamestown, the capital, a huddled,
irregular-looking little town, with a blind-eyed
appearance as if perpetually in a siesta. The
market-place is alive with sellers, who spread
their wares to catch the tourist: lace, f>ottery,
baskets, and necklaces of red beads. There is the
church containing an entry of Napoleon’s death.
He is described as “ Ex-Emperor of the French.”
The inhabitants knew nothing of his illness, and
their first intimation of his demise was a large order
for black ! His death was of a piece with his life
of melancholy seclusion at
Longwood. During the last
few years, he passed almost
unperceived by the St. Helen-
ians, who used to await
eagerly the arrival of French
and English newspapers by
the ships to ascertain whether
the illustrious prisoner was
still amongst them.
Poor melancholy monarch
surveying the interminable
sea from the Barn Rock, a
little east of Longwood, and
named by its resident " The
Grey Sentinel,” by reason of
its solitary post overlooking
the wastes! Finally we
arrive at the plateau where
the plain - looking wooden
bungalow is placed. It is
in the same state as it was
one hundred years ago. when
Napoleon lived there, ex¬
cept that no stick of furni¬
ture exists within it—nothing
but a visitors’ book, in
which one signs one’s name,
and a black marble head
upon a pedestal which, railed
from the rest of the drawing¬
room, indicates that here
the Man of Destiny expired at six o’clock on the
evening of May 5. 1821. Queen Victoria handed
over the house to Napoleon III., who restored it to
its original state. It had fallen to base uses as a
stable and hayloft after the Emperor had died.
His earthly career had ended ; his restless body,
emaciated by his last illness, reposed in the tomb.
This was in a valley beneath two willow-trees,
where the great Corsican was wont to muse on the
mutability of human fortunes, and slake his thirst.
and possibly cool his anger against his gaoler,
from the stream which bubbles close by. The
simple grey slab which covers the grave where
the body lay is nameless in its dumb eloquence,
but a tablet on a neighbouring tree records the
fact that the coffin was removed in 1840 to France
on board La Belle Poule. Dead, his entry to
Paris was probably more imposing than had he,
living, headed his Guards into the old capital—at
least, there was greater unanimity in his welcome.
French Royalists dared to honour the Imperial
Adventurer in a way which they would not have
done had he been still a menace to their hopes.
Four million lives perished with his ambitions.
and eight hundred millions of treasure went the
same way. Yet his arrival at his last resting-
place was grandiose and impressive in the extreme.
A distinguished audience, including the King of
France, rose as the body was brought in, and a
stentorian voice announced “ L’Empereur ! ” The
majesty of the man and the magnitude of his
genius were at least recognised in his death, even
if the very circumstances of the ceremony showed
that very little remained of his work.
There was no brightening of his existence
during the concluding part of his exile. Tt re¬
mained unrelieved monotony—a dreary absence of
all interests to uplift him from his state. The
Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, was always haunted
with the fear of his escape. He imagined that
he would communicate with the outside world.
though his letters were always closely scrutinised,
and slip through some ravine down to the sea and
disappear mysteriously in a submarine boat. He
was obsessed with the idea of plots, and. on occa¬
sion, would double and treble the guards around
Longwood, as if he feared a sudden eruption from
an enemy, though ships are visible sixty miles
from these rocky shores. The notion of evasion
became his predominant thought. A wretched
officer was instructed to see Napoleon—at any
cost to his dignity—at least once daily, so as to
assure Sir Hudson that he was really there. The
officer’s mission was no sinecure, and his unflagging
zeal brought him the laughter of the French per¬
sonnel and the Chinese gardeners whom the
Emperor employed when he took up gardening
as a distraction from his tormented mind. The
officer would peep into the house to discover
Napoleon, perhaps, in his bath or stropping his
• razor. Occasionally he would see the Emperor’s
small cockaded hat, which he habitually wore,
without being certain whose head was beneath
it. On one occasion, it is said, Napoleon
advanced towards the officer’s hiding place in
" a state of appalling nudity.”
The prisoner took daily rides
during the first few years of his
stay in the island, but this exercise
became intolerable when Lowe in¬
sisted that he should be followed
by a British orderly officer. Finally,
he refused to see Sir Hudson
Lowe at Longwood, and was al¬
ways “ out ” when he called.
There were only six occasions upon
which the pair exchanged words—
words so hot that Napoleon, re¬
fusing to compromise his dignity
further, determined to avoid seeing
his tormentor in future. There¬
after, Napoleon hardly left Long¬
wood, sitting there all day, either
reading or directing activities on
his small estate. When I saw it,
a little more than a year ago, aga-
panthus lilies, plumbago, fuchsias,
and marguerites, were growing
there in profusion. One could
picture in these narrow, common¬
place limits the great Emperor's in¬
effectual anger, his nervous pacing
to and fro. The caged lion longed for the liberties
of action on a great and sufficing stage. Until
the last he dreamed that, somehow or other,
he would get away to America and there
found a state. Curious to think that the line
of Washington and Lincoln might have been
that of Napoleon ! Yet, in spite of remorse
and the bitterness of memories of grandeur
which had been his and could be so no more,
he was wonderfully patient in his exile. There
were occasional fits of anger, but usually he
held himself in. and showed dignity and forti¬
tude. The splendour of his own genius and
the very exuberance of his overflowing per¬
sonality were instruments in his undoing. They
placed him high above his fellows, and they
thrust him down into the nethermost pit—
beneath the feet of Hudson
Lowe.
His conversations and
reflections are known to all
the world interested in the
great career. One of his
striking utterances was:
*' I found the crown in
the gutter and I picked it
up with my sword.” And
he might have added that
with the sword he was
forced to lay it down.
Many of his observations
on the art of war, on
government, on the psycho¬
logy of crowds and the
management of men, will
remain enshrined as gems
of thought, and as singular
witnesses to his acuteness
of vision, as well as, some¬
times. to bis stupendous
egoism. The world’s greatest
military genius, perhaps, he
was also the world’s greatest
law-giver. And the man
had not only unrivalled
powers of mind, but a body
that resisted — like some
legendary hero in the days of
the gods—unlimited fatigue.
He had a stupendous capacity for work. Here in
this lonely island was quenched the formidable
spirit which was the terror of Europe, but which
is still, in many senses, the inspiration of the
world. This was his living tomb for six long years.
And his pathetic and obscure burial in the little
valley close to Longwood contrasts strangely
and significantly with the glory of his last
mausoleum under the gilded dome of the Invalides
in Paris. Charles Dawbarn.
NAPOLEON’S FIRST PLACE OF RESIDENCE AT ST. HELENA: THE BRIARS.
When Napoleon first arrived at St. Helena he stayed at The Briars, the home of Mr. Balcombe,
who, with his wife and two daughters, entertained him until Longwood was ready in 181b.
Print supplied by Augustin Risckgits.
a
r
WHERE NAPOLEON DIED: LONGWOOD, THE HOUSE AT ST. HELENA WHERE HIS LAST YEARS
WERE SPENT.
After Napoleon's death the house fell into disrepair, and for many years was used as a stable.
Print supplied by Augustin Riechgits.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7, 1921—613
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THE NAPOLEONIC LEGEND: PORTRAITS AND HISTORIC RELICS.
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Photographs op the Atlas .
> Cabkiack bv ComTEsv op Mapahp. TrSSALD /
NAPOLEON : A STUDY FROM A fMASK OF THE
EMPEROR, BY PRUDHON, IN BLACK CRAYON.
GENERAL BONAPARTE" AS FIRST CONSOL
A MARBLE MEDALLION BY BOIZOT. 1799.
NAPOLEON’S SECOND WIFE : THE EMPRESS
MARIE LOUISE—A DRAWING BY PRUDHON.
CONTAINING PLANS OF BATTLES DRAWN BY NAPOLEON : HIS CAMPAIGNING
ATLAS, USED FOR SEVERAL YEARS (NOW AT MADAME TUSSAUD’S).
CLEON’S SON, THE LITTLE KING OF ROME, IN HIS CARRIAGE DRAWN
TWO SHEEP : A DRAWING BY BINELLI, ENGRAVED BY CHARON.
|| USED TO CARRY THE COFFIN OF NAPOLEON TO HIS
NAPOLEON’S CARRIAGE AT ST HELENA, WHICH WAS DRAWN BY FOUR HORSES
N FIRST GRAVE AT ST. HELENA, IN 1821 : THE HEARSE.
1
ft J WITH TWO POSTILLIONS : A RELIC NOW AT MADAME TUSSAUD’S.
Napoleon became First Consul after the coup fttat of 1799. In 1802 he was
made First Consul for life, and in 1804 he assumed the title of Emperor. He
married Marie Louise, daughter of Francis I. of Austria, in 1810, haring divorced
his first wife, the Empress Josephine, the previous pear. Marie Louise had one
son by Napoleon, the little King of Rome, whom she took with her to Schdn-
brunn when she left France in 1814, on Napoleon’s overthrow. In 1822 she
married, morganatically, her Chamberlain, Count Neipperg. The atlas shown
above was carried by Napoleon on his campaigns for several years. After the
battle of Montmirail, on February 11, 1814, when he defeated Bliicher, it was left
behind by mistake at an hotel at Chiteau Thierry. This atlas and the carriage
used by Napoleon at St. Helena are now at Madame Tussaud’s. The carriage
was the last he ever entered. He always used it drawn by four horses, with
two postillions, and the front let down. In 1848 it was sold by Major Charles
Sampson, of St. Helena, to Mr. John Blofield, who brought it to Europe, and
its authenticity was certified by General Count Montholon and Count Emmanuel
de las Casas. The St. Helena hearse is in the Mus£e de l’Armie, Paris.
614-THE ILLUSTRATED ^ SE WS
A GREAT NAME IN THE CALENDAR OF MARS: RELICS OF
Photographs ok thk. Relics from Madame Tussaud's Famous ExHurnoi !V
BEDDING ON WHICH NAPOLEON DIED
AT ST. HELENA: THE PILLOW AND
MATTRESS OF HIS CAMP-BED.
Las="r^ -=rrr —
THE VICTOR OF WATERLOO AND HIS DEFEATED FOE: " WELLINGTON VKTW
A PICTURE BY SIR GEORGE HAYTER ( 1852 . T 0|
BUILT FOR NAPOLEON. I'.'JT NEVER OCCUPIED : THE NEW HOUSE
AT LONGWOOD, ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA.
SHAV«G-BR USH<
PERSONAL RELICS OF NAPOLEON FROM ST. HELENA : HIS RAZOR AND i
(NOW IN THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION).
A NAPOLEONIC RELIC FROM ST. HELENA :
HIS FAVOURITE GARDEN CHAIR.
t=^r :,v r- -
Napoleon bequeathed to the world an immense legacy of tradition, anecdote, and reminiscence, and a whole literature has grown up around his memory. A
this time of the centenary of his death at St Helena, on May 5, 1821, anything connected with his exile there acquires a pathetic interest Most of the
relics illustrated here are to be seen at Madame Tussaud’s ; the others—his razor and shaving-brush, spy-glass and one of the chairs—are in the Museum
of the Royal United Service Institution in Whitehall. Especially interesting is the picture by Sir George Hayter of the Duke of Wellington visiting the
effigy of Napoleon at Madame Tussaud’s, remembering the day when “ Again their ravening eagle rose In anger, wheel’d on Europe - shadowing wings, And
barking for the thrones of kings ; Till one that sought but Duty’s iron crown On that loud Sabbath shook the spoiler down.” In the tableau is the camp
/ ami
NEWS, May 7, 1921—615
Mr$. i '
■ t^JoF NAPOLEON, THE “RAVENING EAGLE” OF EUROPE.
STAINED WITH NAPO¬
LEON’S BLOOD: THE
COUNTERPANE OF HIS
DEATH-BED.
WHEN IT WAS USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES : THE ROOM
IN WHICH NAPOLEON DIED AT LONGWOOD, ST. HELENA.
I —-—
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*<ktead used by Napoleon during his six years’ exile, with the mattresses and pillow on which he died. His effigy is clad in his Chasseur uniform, covered
$ rith the cloak he wore at the Battle of Marengo in 1800. The likeness of Napoleon is from the original cast by Antommarchi, an Italian surgeon sent to St. Helena
0 attend him. The figure of the Duke of Wellington was painted from life shortly before his death in 1852. As mentioned under our double page
lustrating Longwood, Napoleon’s residence at St Helena, the house after his death fell into disrepair and was used as a stable, until Napoleon IIL’s Govern-
»ent bought it in 1858. In connection with the centenary, many exhibitions of Napoleonic relics have been arranged in and near Paris—at Fontainebleau,
P '°mpi 4 gne, Malmaison, and Sevres.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May
itm.—eit»
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
emulation of Claude, neglected basic rules en¬
suring permanence physically. His vagaries at
the Koval Academy on varnishing days, with his
lamp-black and his red-ochre, proclaimed his
unthinking eccentricity. The sun he worshipped
destroys him every hour. We who love Turner
wish a thousand things when we see Turner's
dreams vanishing, melting into crude skeleton
shadows of his greatness in colours. The old
masters prepared their pigments to last five
centuries; the modern painters hardly outlive a
century in colour-values.
Hence a fine collection of
engravings after J. M. W. Turner
y ,/y.fc. has a striking value—a value, be
0.^. said, that will grow as the
4 .__ years go on. There are Liber
and trebled shortly. \ Wl;
Porcelain and pot- pj l
tery. on May 5 at Christie's,
ottered just such chances ymK ciji/
as those who are inter- * . y
ested care to take. For y
instance, how many people who \ ' (vj
know English china know Church
Greslev ? But here is a complete service. Burton,
in his " English Porcelain,” has something to say
of this factory neglected by collectors, but here
it is for speculative connoisseurs. Years ago
Lowestoft octagonal plates on powdered-blue
ground, museum specimens that they are, would
bring great prices, but Lowestoft is not in fashion
as it was. The little factory has been relegated
to its subsidiary position.
On the following day. Messrs. Sotheby arranged
to sell porcelain and pottery, including LTbino
dishes of fine character, and one was attracted
by an eggshell plate with turquoise-blue ground,
a ruby - backed eggshell plate of farqilU - rose
design, and a collection of familU-rose examples
dear to the connoisseur.
Chinese art has something greater than Japanese.
It is as old Italian is to French. It claims greater
recognition. Japan seized Whistler and seized
Aubrey Beardsley, and they became instantly
men on a lower plane than if they had studied
Chinese art. All this is inevitable, and posterity
will put Whistler in his right place. Here is
Chinese art in this small sale ; heaps of things
potentially beautiful, exceptionally rare, although
at the present not marketably rare. It was to
be expected that the eggshell examples would
bring good prices, but that many of the others
would, like the sower's seed, fall on barren ground.
The ground is barren because people do not trouble
to think how much Chinese art means. Its sym¬
bolism is superlative, its technique is unexampled,
its insouciance and its native poetry are unequalled
in the world ; for that reason a Chinese gentleman
or a Chinese poet must be fine examples of
humanity. We Westerns have been too arrogant.
All the earth is not ours—the map shows us that.
Let us worship and let us revere the beautiful
' r y'H E sale rooms
selections made from great
iyilvv- houses and great col
. lections. The sieve that
I V /// / a modern auctioneer of
® * * art-objects applies to his clients is
not known. It is he who determines
what is or what is not proper to qfter to the
public, irrespective of family tradition that it
has been this or that. He has to believe so
THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE AT THE TIME OF HER CORONATION ■ ‘ . .... _
interesting < net-
WITH NAPOLEON: A SKETCH BY DAVID. sea ftRures , >f I
Above this sketch are written the words: “ L’lmptratrice Josephine desaine* boys and girls I
d’aprts nature, par David” ; and below: “ Donnd a mon fils Eugene David.” two in harlequin tj I
Jacques Louis David became Court painter to Napoleon in 1804, the year when , j. I
he declared himself Emperor. The pose of the head in the sketch resembles ^ , Un ' e ’ an “ I
that in David's picture of the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine. * helsea figure of ■
Diana. ” hunt-
little and forget so much. Objects that have ress chaste and fair," and another I
been " a hundred years in the family.” but are of John Wilkes, who was neither
palpably modem, disturb his equanimity, es- chaste nor fair. Lovers of cats I
pecially when such dilemmas occur every day. in general, or of cats in pottery I
But, on the whole, things right themselves. As in particular, were able to jump I
to great houses, there is often the desire of at the chance to procure en blo< I
owners to sell on the spot. Hence a sale such a collection of porcelain and
as that conducted by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, earthenware figures of cats, com- I
at Watlington Park. Oxon, the property of Lady prising ninety-eight specimens of I
Winifred Renshaw. Lock, stock, and barrel it Whieldon, Persian. IK*lft, old I
ran, from the outdoor effects to the nursery. Staffordshire. Rockingham. Dres- r
But one must not forget the portrait of Madame den, and other wares.
Ninon de Lenclos, and two interesting canvases All sorts of ideas arc held
by Johannes Storck, 1678. A really fine Chip- about cats. It was Charles 1 . f
pendale chair, with shaped arms terminating in who told Stratford that Parlia-
rams' heads, brought only 88 guineas. A Queen ments arc of the nature of cats. I
Anne walnut cabinet on spiral - turned legs and they grow cursed with age.”
shaped stretchers was another feature. A fine Lovers of cats should read Miss
Louis XV. cartel clock, with ormolu case sur- Kepplier's In the Dozy Hours." .
mounted by an urn, exhibited fine craftsmanship. or grow sentimental with I*ierre
On April 29. Messrs. Puttick and Simpson Loti in his sketch of his two
disposed of old English furniture, several properties cats. Edgar Allan Poe s " Black
including that of Clara, Countess Cowley, which Cat ” is eerie; but Swinburne,
embraced a Queen Anne cabinet of yew wood. who drank the wine of life, has
which was interesting, and another Queen Anne his—
cabinet which had a pedigree as once belonging Stately, kindly, lordly friend.
to Nelson, having been purchased at the Merton Condescend 1 _
Abbey sale in 1805. Here was a piece hall-marked Here to sit by me and turn ~
sufficiently enough to interest American collectors (.lorious eyes that smile and bum, THE E MPRES
of old English relics, which only realised fio guineas. (.olden eyes, love’s lustrous meed.
Lovers of Turner deplore the fugitive character the golden PW I read. T0 N *POLEC
of his pigments. Soon there will be no Turner .
01 uis r'K** v . . . . It is George Wither, not always
visible Little blinds have been provided by the . , .... 7 .
•' . ' the most gay and debonair of poets, who sings -
authorities of the National Gallery. London, to 7 *
shield his water-colour work from the feeble light Hang sorrow ! Care will kill a cat.
which penetrates to the basement where his And therefore let’s be merry !
dreams are enshrined. It was Sir Joshua Key- Old English silver plate was sold by Messrs,
nolds who exclaimed that McArdell and his con- Christie on May 4, the property of the late Countess
temporary engravers in mezzotint would per- of Selkirk, of the Rev. J. F. \V. Woodveare. and
petuate his fame. Turner might have similarly from other sources. Naturally, in regard to the
paid the tribute to his interpreters in black former owner, Scottish silver came uppermost,
and white. Time has laid a heavy hand on Big prices were not to be expected, but discreet
Turner, who. though he wooed posterity with his buyers could obtain fine values, to be doubled
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7, 1921.—617
The Royal Academy of 1921
Notable Exhibits,
THE LADY KATHARINE SOMERSET
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“SIR JOHNSTON FORBES-ROBERTSO]
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c««) by Paul LaA.
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LONDON NEWS, May 7. 1921.—621
forty years of angling.
-THIS is a book-' 1 Forty Years of Trout and
1 Salmon Fishing *' (Heath Cranton, 12s 6d. net)—
which should please all anglers, for the author. Major
I L. Dickie, gives us a full basket of experiences, not
only among salmon and trout, but with other fish, and
tells his pleasant story in a chatty and happy vein.
To read “ Forty Years of Trout and Salmon Fishing,
is the next best thing to being by the riverside, rod
in hand. An enthusiastic and skilled angler, Major
Dickie brought a salmon to gaff when fourteen, and
since those days his lines have been cast m many
waters other than Dee and Don. two of his favourite
rivers—the far-away mahseer m India have bent
his rod, as well as the salmon and trout over the
Border/ and pike and perch in Staffordshire.
Taking into consideration his long experiences in
the haunts of the salmon, Major Dickie’s views on
the time-honoured question as to whether salmon do
or do not feed in fresh water are of considerable im¬
portance. Like many other thoughtful and observant
anglers, his verdict is against the idea held by numerous
fellow-anglers that these fish go foodless whilst in the
upper or angling reaches of our rivers.
“ Forty Years of Trout and Salmon Fishing,' is
a good book by a good angler, and another angler
of the first water contributes an introduction to it—
Mr. R. B. Marston, Editor of the Fishing Gazette.
The book contains interesting photographs, and
a coloured plate of killing lures for trout and salmon.
THE “PRINT-COLLECTORS QUARTERLY"
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which, like all intelligent recreation as well as
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which before the war ran for ten years in America,
and won favour in twenty-three countries. Suspended
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English auspices, edited by Mr. Campbell Dodg-
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claiming him as “one of the great etchers of the
world.” The number also includes illustrated articles
by A. M. Hind on the etchings of G. B. Tiepolo,
by A. P. Opp6 on Alex. Cozens, and by Malcolm
C. Salaman on the etchings of E. S. Lumsden, R.E.
CHESS.
To Correspondents. —Communications for this department should be
addressed to the Chess Editor, 15, Essex Street, Strand, W.C. 2 .
John Doney (Winnipeg).—Your letter with enclosure was at once
forwarded to the proper quarter, and the particulars you mention
will be attended to in due course. If you will send ns a problem
for publication we shall be very pleased to examine it.
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PROBLEM No. 3858.— By the late J. B. Fisher.
BLACK.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
Solution of Problem No. 3856.—By H. F. L. Meyer
WHITE BLACK
1. P to Kt 6th K takes Kt
2. P to Kt 7th P to B 4th
3. P to Kt 8th (Kt) mate.
It Black play 1 P to B 4th, then 2. Q to Kt 5th, etc.
Correct Solutions of Problem No. 3854 received from John Doney
(Winnipeg) and P N Banerji (Calcutta) : of No. 3S55 irom J B
Camara (Madeira). G Dorado (Barcelona), Henry A Seller (Denver,
U.S.A.) and Fred G Dixon (Regim, Canada) ; of No. 3856 from
Aurigny (Guernsey), P W Hunt (Bridgwater), James M K Lupton
(Richmond), H W Satow (Bangor), Acisclo Karag (San Sebastian),
Rev. Armand Der Mcares (Baltimore), F O McKears (HantW™
j B Camara (Madeira), H Hayes (Staunton), M J F
Hill), and E M Vicars (Norfolk). J ^ ^
Correct Solutions of Problem No. 3857 received trora W H StatN.
(Charlton), Uon Rylski (Relfast), C H Watson (Masham) M If
Cre well (Tulse Hill), H Grasett Baldwin (Famham), JaroesMc
Lupton (Rr’ J ‘ ** ' ~
(Bangor), /
Gibbs 1 East I
(New Brighton).
CHESS IN AMERICA.
Game played in the Philadelphia Masters’ Tourney at the Franklin
Cness Club, Philadelphia, between Messrs. Jackson and Winkeu™
[King’s Gambit Declined.)
white (Mr. J.)
1. P to K 4th P to K 4th
2. P to K B 4th B to B 4th
The old-fashioned way of declin¬
ing the Gambit. Falkbeer's Counter
Gambit by P to Q 4th is a much
better defence.
3. Kt to K B 3rd P to Q 3rd
4. KttoQB3rd KltoQB3rd
5. B to B 4th Kt to K B 3rd
6. P to Q 3rd B to K Kt 5th
7. P to K R 3rd B takes Kt
8.0 takes B KttoQsth
9. Q to Kt 3rd
The game is identical so far with
that opened as a Vienna Gambit
between Tchigorin and Pillsbury
the Hastings Tournament.
9. Q to K 2nd
K played Kt takes P
itely lost. In almost
the same position Anderssen.
against Blackbume, played the
text move, but without success.
It raises the question whether
Black’s 8th move is a wise one
5 illsbury n
) and ultin
xi. P takes KP
12. B to Kt 5th
13. R to K B sq
14. P to Q R 3rd
15. B to Q 2nd
16. P to Q Kt 4th
17. PtoQ R 4 th
18. P to R 5th
19. Kt to Q R 4th Kt
20. PtoQB3rd KttoQKt4th
21. B to K 3rd I’ to Q R 3rd
22. K to B 2nd R.oB 3rd
23. R takes R Q takes R
24. Kt to B 5th 0 to R 5th
BLACK (Mr. W.) , WHITE (Mr. J.) black (Mr. W.)
Black has conducted a skilful
defence against considerable dan¬
ger. and now seeks a breathing
space by exchanging Queens.
• Q to B 3rd Kt to Q iid
1. P to Kt 3rd Q to K 2nd
If 26. Q takes R P, the Queen
is lost by 27 R to R sq.
27. BtoKt3rd KttoKBsq
28. R to K B sq P to K Bath
29. Kt takes R P
The beginning of a clever com¬
bination. with just sufficient margin
of strength and time to turn tie
scale in his lavour.
F takes Kt
30. P takes BP P to K 5th
31. P takes KP Q takes P(ch)
32. Q takes Q Kt takes 6
33. B to Q B 4 th
The decisive strike which White
seems to have had in view ui sacd-
ticing his Kt.
33 - K to Kt ml
34. P takes P Kt (Bsq)lakesP
35. B to Q 3rd R to K 2nd
36. B takes K R P Kt to Q 3rd
37. B to K Kt 5th
takes Kt, Black wins hack
the piece with 37. R to K 3rd.
37. R to Q 2nd
38. B takes B Kt to K 4th
39. B to Kt bth Kt takes B
40. K takes Kt Kt to B 4U1 (ch)
41. B to Q 4th Kt takes Kt h
42. R to 63rd KttoR4th
With his Kt thus hemmed in,
Black's game is now hopeless, and
resignation might as well come no*
19 moves later.
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November. He married in Tokio in
LADIES’ NEWS.
Sadako, daughter of Prince Kujo-Michitaka.
Prince and Princess Fushimi were over here t
much lionised. They belong to a collateral h
the Imperial family.
T HERE was quite a spurt in Private Views lately.
I cannot write of that at Burlington House, as it
came too late in the week, being on Saturday instead of
Friday, and there was no banquet, because of the coal
crisis. Things, so far as the Royal Academy is con¬
cerned, were almost back to war-time conditions.
Princess Beatrice, with Miss Minnie Cochrane in
attendance, went to the Grafton Galleries private view,
and stayed there for quite an hour. Her Royal
Highness wore a dark-grey soft satin dress, and a
long black cape-coat with a black, rather large hat of
chiffon velvet with white under the brim. This
Princess has a wonderfully handsome head and a
specially fine profile, inherited by her daughter the
Queen of Spain. The portrait of her eldest son, the
Marquess of Carisbrooke, was probably familiar to her
Royal Highness in Mr. R. G. Eve’s studio, for she was
more interested in other pictures. The new President
of the International Society of Painters, Gravers, and
Sculptors, Sir William Orpen, R.A., has several
portraits hung. None was found so interesting as
that of Colonel Lawrence, the soldier administrator
evolved by the war out of the archaeological student.
Katharine Duchess of Westminster was also enjoying
the pictures; so was the Marchioness of Sligo, with
whom was Lady Edward Gleichen, married to the
only son of the late Princess Victor of Hohenlohe,
who was herself Lady Laura Seymour. Lady Edward
Gleichen, as the Hon. Sylvia Gay Edwardes, was Maid-
of-Honour to Queen Alexandra, and is the daughter
of the Hon. Mrs. Henry Edwardes, who, despite much
suffering and an invalid state, makes her house a
centre of real hospitality and great interest. Mr.
Ivor Ferguson was, as usual, with his mother, Sophia,
Lady Paston-Cooper, to whom he explains every
picture, as she is, unhappily, blind. Quite a number
of well-known people were present. Pictures begin
once again to take their old place in social regard, as
when private viewing at the Academy, Grosvenor
Gallery, and other art galleries called together large
assemblages of most interesting people.
Tennis will be as much played this season as it was
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who can afford them, for they are expensive. So fine
are they that only those who have experience of what
the Shetland knitters and yam spinners can do believe
them made by human fingers. I have seen in Thurso
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knitting priced up to £40 each. They were, of course,
specimens, as the finest of these Shetland dresses are!
and Americans purchased them most freely. I am told
that machine-made fine work approaches very nearly
to hand, but there are many material differences.
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to whom every honour is to be shown. For three days
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There is an aRreeable combination of the apparatus of
the mock-supernatural and the melodrama of detected
roguery in Mr. H. A. Vachell’s new Garrick piece.
’• Count X." Its inventor-hero mav be sickened by
the atmosphere of the stance which in his absence his
silly wife has introduced into his home ; but for the
audience the mysterious voices, the green eyes that
shine out of the darkness, the cigarettes that burn with¬
out the application of a match, and all the patter about
auras and psycho-analysis, make good enough fun for a
starting point of the duel that is obviously preparing
between the charlatan responsible for the properties
and the returned scientist. Hut, as it soon appears,
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intruder ; this Count X, with his purple evening
clothes, is a thief as well as a humbug, and his eye
is after the formula of a new invention locked up in
the grand piano. On the whole, then, there is a fair
amount of excitement in this story, of which a capital
company takes full advantage If Mr. Leon M. Lion
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the support given by Miss Moyna Macgill. Miss Marie
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“MARY." AT THE QUEEN’S.
The feature of ” Mary," the new musical comedv
which has come to us from America, is its riot of
dancing, dancing which goes from climax to climax
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" star ” or “ stars ” dance to the music they have
previously sung ; but this is not enough for " Marv
nor even an ensemble in which the chorus takes up
the refrain. Here groups of dancers one after the
other pick up the air and whirl to its strains with more
and more of a hurricane agility, until the audience is
forced into storms of enthusiasm. There are other
things—the mere wisp of a plot, some delightful
singing on the part of Miss Evelyn Lave, clever
comedy acting from Miss Maidie Hope, Miss Mabel
Sealby, and Mr. Ralph Lynn, and good vocalisation
(especially in the sentimental duets) from Mr. Alec
Regan ; but the dancing eclipses all else—whether
solo dancing as supplied by Mr. Bernard Granville, or
the whirlwind kind contributed by the rival organisa¬
tions of the Maglevs, the McLeans, and the Lorner
Sisters. We have had nothing like this last in London
heretofore in its mechanical precision, its deliberate
breathlessness, and it is pretty sure to take the town.
• A MATTER OF FACT" AT THE COMEDY.
T HE heroine of Mr. Ernest Cecil’s play, " A Matter
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to call on a divorced neighbour, Mrs. Hethcote, the
happily married Lady Marlow flatly refuses, though,
as we soon find out through the visit of a blackmailer,
she has a black spot in her own past. Thereby she
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Hethcote having it in her power to relieve the self-
righteous lady of all anxiety about the indiscretion of
her youth. Our old friend coincidence here bobs
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scenes which cannot help having an artificial ring.
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her husband, who knows all the facts in advance ;
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Mr. Norman McKinnel, by playing the part of the
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GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
An example is No I.L.V -s, Linen Sheets, ready £jlt
n.*rarat*d. s lc 2 x yards, per pair ... ... OO/-
VICHY - CELESTINS.
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Clubs, Cbemisls, Stares. Ac.
Wholesale Agents :
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 7. 1921.--630
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR
burgh, at the Waverley Market House, off Princes
Street, at 7 p.m., after 24 hours on the road. As
London to Each year the Whitsuntide run Mr. W. H. Wells, the captain of the club, leads the
Edinburgh of the ^ Iotor Cycling Club from van on his 30 h.p. Chandler, accompanied by Mr.
London to Edinburgh receives a Bidlake, the official timekeeper, the schedule will be
larger, and moreover a wider, number of entries for strictly adhered to in his case ; but it will be curious
the 24-hours' reliability trial. This will be its four- to see if the ascent of Buttertubs reduces the number
teenth anniversary, and though originally only motor of winners of gold medals given in the competition
cycles were the competing machines, this year the
full-sized cars range from Rolls-Royces down to air¬
cooled Rovers, besides 117 solo motor-cyclists, 90
side-cars, 22 three-wheeled cycle-cars, and no motor
cars of all sorts and sizefe, as aforesaid. Consequently,
Mr. George Reynolds, the starter and timekeeper, who
® will despatch this
crowd from the Old
Gatehouse, Highgate.
on the evening of
May 13, will be busy
from 7 p.m. until
9.50 p.m. giving the
word ** go ” every
half - a - minute for
nearly three hours.
Biggleswade is the
first check, at the
Swann Inn ; Grant¬
ham, the second
halt, where breakfast
will be taken at the
George Hotel, at half
____an hour after mid¬
night, for the first
arrival ; so it is not
to be wondered at
that another halt will
be made at Ukley, at
the Middleton Hotel,
at 6.27 a.m., for a
second breakfast, an
hour’s interval be¬
ing allowed for this, to those whose schedule time is correct at all the
besides the three- checked controls for the 402£ miles travelled,
quarters of an hour taken at Grantham. After
Ilklcy comes the new part of the course for this run,
which includes Buckden, Aysgarth, Bainbridge—
over the mountain road that is known as Buttertubs,
down to Kirkby Stephen, to Appleby, Penrith, and
Carlisle, where the luncheon halt is made at the
County Hotel, as usual. The first competitor is due
here soon after half-past twelve (mid-day). Tea will
be taken at the Annandale Arms at Moffat, about
four o’clock, and the first official car is due at Edin-
Parker Producer Gas Plant, on the Bamber system
of which a demonstration was given recently in
FitzJohn’s Avenue and Xetherhall Gardens, Hamp¬
stead, where an A.E.C. lorry owned by the Great
Western Railway Company, and another lorry owned
by the Parker Company, both equipped with a
Parker’s Producer Gas Plant, successfully demon¬
strated that the vehicles could run on producer gas
made on the vehicle from coke. And an economical
business it is. too, for the consumption of this fuel
worked out at the price of petrol at 7jd. per gallon,
giving 75 per cent, of the full power of the engine!
As it is but seldom that any motor lorry engine is
ever asked to give out its full power, beyond a
slight slowing up on
steep hills, there was
practically little dif-
ference in the run-
ning of the vehicles
under load. wi
vehicles. tractors. A ROMANCE 0F THE C,TY:
and the like adopted M,SS E ' M SAYER - WH0 ,s
this home made fuel * ENGAGED TO HER CHIEF,
gas for their con- MR - A - L WILSON,
sumption it would Say er began her career
leave much more ^ typist to Mr. Wilson, and helped
petrol for the private h ; m !° , buil . d up a great busintss ’
r 1 , of which she is now a Director,
car - owners, and so Shc is aIso a Freeman of the Cjty
would help to re- and a Councillor for the Borough
duce the price of of Holbom.
their fuel. too. In
fact, as the commercial motors use about two-thirds
of the whole of the petrol consumed in this country,
if they no longer were customers to the petrol-dis¬
tributing firms, the latter would have to induce car-
owners to burn more spirit to keep up their sales.
That inducement can be only provided by selling the
fuel cheaper—say, down to is. 6d. per gallon, instead
of nearly 3s. 6d., as it is to-day. I^-oducer gas, made
by passing steam and water over incandescent coke
or charcoal, then washed in water and scrubbed
(Contained rotritaf
TO MARRY HIS CO-DIRECTOR
AND FORMER TYPIST. MISS
E. M. SAYER : MR. A. J. WILSON.
Mr. Wilson is head of the well-
known advertising firm of A. J.
Wilson and Co., Ltd. He was a
pioneer of cycling and motoring, and
founded the Motor and Cycle Trade
Benevolent Fund. During the war
he organised the Hospital Motor
Squadron, which did excellent work.
FARTHEST SOUTH IN ENGLAND: A CROSSLEY 25-30 H P.
R.F.C. TOURING MODEL AT THE LIZARD LIGHTHOUSE.
Coke for During the years that have
Engine Fuel. e,a P sed between 1915 and the
6 ’ present day, producer gas, as a
substitute for petrol, has off and on been mooted.
In fact, one or two inventors have put on to paper
small portable gas plants suggesting that the motorist
should make the fuel for his motor engine while he
goes along the highway. Among these suggestions
a practical application has evolved, known as the
The Aviator-
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Dependable Spark Plugs—
Because — Champion Dependable has
insulator 3450—the insulator that has
three times the resistance to extreme
temperature variation compared
with the best porcelain.
Because — 3450 offers half again as
much resistance to current when
heated. Champion Dependable is
I proof against short circuit.
[ Because — the composition of 3450
offers two and one-half times as much
resistance to shock and vibration as
porcelain.
Because — the patented gasket con¬
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Spark Plugs effectively protects the
insulator from the shocks caused by
explosions within the cylinders.
Champions never crack or crumble.
And that’s why more than half the world’s spark
plugs are Champion Dependable Spark Plugs.
If you demand the same dependability that the
aviator gets, you will insist upon Champions
from the dealer and be sure that the name ia on
the insulator as well as on the container.
Champion Spark Plug Co., of Canada, Ltd.,
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The 25 h.p. Talbot is one of the most successful models
ever introduced by the Company. For reliability, durability
and efficiency combined with low upkeep cost (the petrol
consumption under touring conditions averages 18/21 miles
to the gallon) this car is unbeatable. Hereunder we
give prices of the three models for the 1921 season.
The CLF.MENT - TALBOT Co., Ltd., have pleasure in
announcing a price reduction in all three models ; the
25 h.p, the 36 h.p. 6-cyl. and the 15 h.p. This reduc¬
tion has been made possible by the intelligent and intensive
co-operation between the various Companies associated with
the Clcment-Talbot Company, added to a considerable drop
in the cost of labour in the principal Foundries and Stamping
Plant of the Combined Companies at Surcsnes ; this, in
addition to the heavy fall in the price of raw material, has
reduced production costs enough to warrant the new prices.
CURRENT PRICES
Chassis ....
£795
£850
£950
Catalogues and all details will be posted on application, and trial
at ranged by appointment.
INVINCIBLE
CLEMENT-TALBOT, LIMITED,
BARLBY ROAD, LADBROKE GROVE, Telegrams : " Clemtal Norkens. London.*'
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A gallon goes
the longest way
because the Zenith Carburetter gets the maximum
m ^“es, power and speed from every drop of
petrol. Zenith, the world s foremost carburetter,
also prolongs engine life, assures easy starting!
rapid acceleration, and increased saving all round.
CARBURETTERS
ARE NOW SUPPLIED WITH SPECIAL
ATTACHMENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL CARS.
YOU CAN HAVE ONE
ON A MONTH’S TRIAL.
Write for Booklet and particulars.
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Telephone—-Museum 4812-481 j.
Reduced Prices
Ruston-
Hornsby
&/}e Cor of Quof/fy &lf/uQ
Trade Conditions make
Reductions possible
The charges for certain raw materials and accessories have
been reduced during the last few weeks, and although the
manufacturers of Ruston-Hornsby cars are not yet reaping
the full benefit of these lower costs, they have decided to
give immediately to customers the advantage of the fall.
THE REDUCED PRICES ARE AS FOLLOWS
16-20 h.p. £585
20-25 h.p. £650
The price guarantee it unconditionally withdrawn.
The present high standard of manufacture is maintained, and both
models carry the same complete equipment. For cars of their power,
quality and seating capacity the Ruston-Hornsby is remarkable value.
PROMPT DELIVERY.
For further particulars write to Sole Concessionnaires:
C. B. WARDMAN & CO., LTD., 122. Great Portland Street, London. W. 1
Telephone : Lan,h.» ISM-I_Telegr.m, : ' Ruuxucy W«do London."
25/30 h.p. R.F.C.
Model
Great Reduction in Prices!
CROSSLEY MOTORS LIMITED beg to
announce the following reductions in the
prices of the Crossley 25/30 h.p. R.F.C.
Model. The new prices given below are
effective from April 7th, 1921.
CROSSLEY 25 30 h.p. R.F.C. MODEL
Chassis (including electric starter and lighting set) £800
(a reduction of £250)
Five-seater “ Manchester ” Touring Car - - £1050
(a redaction of £32S)
Four-seater “London” Coupi - from £1325
(• reduction of £300>
Seven-seater “Chester” Limousine Landaulette from £1350
(t reduction of £300)
Seven-seater “Buxton” Saloon - from£1425
(a reduction of £300)
At the above reduced prices the Crossley
25/30 h.p. R.F.C. Model represents the finest
value for money proposition obtainable to-day.
Place your order now and obtain the benefit
of these reductions. Write at once for name
and address of nearest Agent.
CROSSLEY MOTORS LIMITED MANCHESTER
Builders of Qaality Cars
LONDON OFFICE k EXPORT DEPT. 4(HI CONDUIT STREET. W..
£750
“READY FOR
THE ROAD”
-IN THE FULLEST
SENSE OF THE
PHRASE—AND
MOUNTED WITH
T HE FI N F. S T
QUALITY ENGLISH
COACH-BUILT
BODY.
Chassis price £550.
Complete with : —
C.A.V. Lighting &
Starting;
Five lamps ;
Clock;
Speedometer;
4 -Speed Gearbox;
Cantilever Suspen-
“ WHAT IS TIE REST
CAR OF TIE YEAR f"
“ A fter the most exhaus¬
tive examination into the
relative ‘ valuefor money'
of the numerous cars
exhibited at this rear's
Olympia motor show, in
my comiJerrd judgment
the. rqtt model of the
ip-h.p. Talbot-Darracq is
in every respect the car
as representing * value for
money. .. ^ ^ ^ ^
The same -writer states, in
the “ Evening Standard ’’
Mar. 4, jqn.
" After nearly 3,000 miles
with the Talbot-Darracq
on the road, however, /
have nothing to take back
from my original opinion,
that she is the best value
in cars in her class in
THIS IS THE NEW PRICE
OF THE
16 h.pTALB0T-DARRACQ
r)E CREASED production
costs, owing to intelligent
co-operation between the various
firms associated with the Darracq
Company; the reduction in
labour costs in the principal
Foundries and Stamping Plant of the
combined Companies at Suresnes;
a heavy reduction in the cost of raw
material, and the whole 1921 out¬
put of the 16 h.p. model contracted
for by agents, added to which the
sales in France have been much
heavier than anticipated. All these
facts have resulted in a further large
series of this model being pieced in production,
a drop of £100 in price, and the further up¬
holding of the Darracq Company's “ Value-
for-Money" policy, which gives its customers
the IMMEDIATE benefit of the improved
industrial outlook.
Catalog**! and all details
from oar Head Office, and
trial runs arranged.
Value for Money
TOWNMEAD RD., FULHAM, LONDON, S.W.6
Showroom* : 150, New Bond Street, London, W. 1.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May
1921 - 632
BERKEFELD
THE
BRITISH
I SAROINIA
MOUSE
AIMCSWAT
LOKDON
lor cleaning Silver. Electro Plate ac
Goddard's
Sold everywhere 6° I’ -i>
through pebbles to purify it from all its unnecessary
constituents, is made in a producer that, in the
Parker or Bamber system, can be easily adopted
bv any lorry, as it can be clipped upon the dash¬
board, and yet not be outside the body
line of the vehicle. The cost of fitting _
and supplying the plant is about £180. [~jm^
and the reward for the expenditure is in- I
dependence during strikes—as coke seems
always plentiful—and freedom from high
costs for running expenses as regards fuel.
trade ought to be jettisoned for the tune ban*
until the overstocked market of cars, tyres and
accessories has been reduced to a normal level \ n( j
even then, firms outside the bond-signers—like Ford"
for instance—seem to do quite happily
without the bond, though they are baned
^ from Olympia at Motor Show time, as
that, apparently, is the only value given
to the bond - signer : a chance to exhibit
there, and in Scotland, \y, \y
not business hard enough to get without worrying
people about bonds and price maintenance, and
goodness knows what else, when receivers and liquid¬
ators are in evidence galore, even in the big firms,
t'hess enthusiasts will have noted that
the match between Messrs. Capablanca and
Lasker came to an abrupt termination
After suffering his fourth defeat without
any compensating success, Lasker resigned,
pleading as his excuse the prejudicial effects
of the climate of Havana on his plav.
Pleasure cruises to the Baltic have been
inaugurated by the l nited Baltic Corpora¬
tion. consisting of a series of holiday trips
to the more important Baltic ports. The
cruises are of about fifteen days' duration,
and include the Kiel Canal, Danzig, Libau,
and Rcval, at which ports time is given to
visit places of interest. Passengers may
To the sleep and dine on board while in harbour
and thus avoid hotel expenses on shore.
Further particulars may be obtained of
the United Baltic Corporation. Ltd., 158, Fenchurch
Street. London, or of the usual passenger agents.
i iiiu mu iiuuri, j.
Bonds VV,lson ' has announced his
impending marriage with
Miss Councillor Saver, his co-director and
partner in so many enterprises concerning
motors and their accessories. Both are
pioneers in their respective fields of busi¬
ness, and congratulations are rightly being
showered upon them, to which l should
like to add “ A life-long happiness to them
both in their closer partnership.” In the
same post that conveyed to me the news
<>f these banns of marriage came a protest,
from those responsible for the second-hand
motor show at the Crystal Palace, that
the Society of Motor Manufacturers and
Traders had reminded some of the ex¬
hibitors there of the bonds they had
entered into concerning only exhibiting their motor
wares at exhibitions authorised by the Society. Is
MOTORING PAST ENGLAND’S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN: A " WOLSELEY FIFTEEN”
BY THE SHORES OF WAST WATER. NEAR SCAFELL AND GREAT GABLE.
In the right background is Scafelt (3210 ft.), the highest mountain in England.
left, in the distance, is Great Gable, a favourite haunt of rock-climbers.
because of the turnover not being quick enough ?
Rules that are closely approaching restriction of
There is no car to
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for finish and style
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A T the reduced prices the Vauxhall, as a best-class car eco-
• nomical in upkeep and with a performance-capacity that
satisfies the most critical, is a bargain proposition; and as the
sales show, very many car users have quickly grasped this fact
Quality, guarantee 25 h.p. chassis, fully equipped £800
and free inspection 30-98 h.p. chassis, fully equipped £IOOO
service continue as 25 h.p. Vauxhall-Kington car complete £ 110 O
heretofore. 30-98 h.p. Vauxhall-Velox car complete £1300
Order your Vauxhall now
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THE PRODUCTION OF JAPANESE “CULTURE” PEARLS: WOMEN DIVERS (“ SEA-GIRLS ”) SWIMMING
TO THE OYSTER-FISHING GROUND.
A sensation has been caused, both in the jewel trade and the world of fashion,
by the claim of Mr. Kokichi Mikimoto to have at last perfected the production
of “culture” pearls. Other illustrations and notes on the subject appear on
later pages in this issue. Here it is sufficient to quote from Mr. Mikimoto's
booklet, “The Story of the Pearl,” in explanation of the above photograph:
"A large part of the submarine work in the oyster-culture of Japan is ’done by
women divers, or ‘sea-girls,’ as they are called there. This is common in
Agu Bay, and in many other localities of the country. There has been a belief
from time immemorial that women can work better and stay longer under water
than men. The women divers of Ise have often been mentioned in classic
literature. These sea-girls are dressed in tight, thin, white garments. Their
hair is twisted into a hard knob, and diving glasses are worn. They dive without
any apparatus, and stay under water from 60 to 80 seconds at each diving.’
The floating tubs are used to carry the oysters they bring up.
M Miviu/vrr
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Mav 11, 1921.—634
I T is characteristic of the modern woman’s
courage that a woman should have raised the
current discussion on the place of women in the
new social order. She may take it as another
feather in her cap that she has rushed in where
the wisest of the Greeks feared to tread. He only
consented to enter upon the question when he was
driven to it by importunate friends. S<*crates
(or his exponent Plato} knew perfectly well what
lay before him. if he should attempt to determine
woman’s place in the Republic, and you remember
how he tried to get out of it bv hastily including
it among " things which we will pass by for the
present."
Later, when the subject was pressed upon him.
Socrates still fenced. He warned his friends that
they were rash fellows who
ought to have let well alone.
They little knew what a
swarm of questions they were
arousing by this return to
the attack. He himself had
foreseen all that at the time,
and his evasion was intended
to save endless trouble
Glaucon interposed with well-
meant encouragement, but
that did not help Socrates
much. He professed, in fact,
that it hindered him ; for to
broach a theory while one is
still only a doubting enquirer,
is a slippery course beset with
fears. Not that he has any
childish dread of incurring
ridicule, but he trembles lost
he should miss his footing
upon the truth and. falling,
drag his friends down with
him. and that upon ground
where a false step is particu¬
larly serious. Being in, how¬
ever. he puts the best face
upon it, and " the men having
quite played out their piece,"
he proceeds " with the j»er
formance of the women.” He
only prays that Nemesis may
not overtake him for what he
is going to say
The passage of two thou¬
sand years and more has not
greatly changed the situation.
The course is still slippery
and beset with perils, not only
for the doubting, but for the
cocksure enquirer, and even
to-day footing may be missed
very easily upon the truth.
The doubting male enquirer
of Athens would not have
agreed altogether with the
modem feminist, who claims
that women should be re¬
garded, not as a sex, but as
a class. The basic distinction
of sex does not hinder Socrates
from arriving at conclusions
that must be pleasing to the
most advanced advocate of
the equality of women. That
he should have reconciled
his enlightened and prophetic
view with " the natural rela¬
tion which ought to govern
the mutual fellowship of the
sexes,” is a point that, carefully considered, should
help to purge away that regrettable antag¬
onism which too often obscures the issue in this
discussion. Socrates lifts the question to the
highest ground. He, with his unfortunate domestic
experience, might have been forgiven had he
taken an unfavourable view of woman’s fitness
for public affairs, but throughout his argument
he utters no single note of petulance or disparage¬
ment. Until this problem is approached in the
Socratic spirit it must lose itself in bogs and
sands. A common cry, almost a cant, of the
present day, where industrial disputes are con¬
cerned, is " Get together." It applies with equal,
if not greater force, to this controversy of the
sexes. From the very outset Socrates gets men
and women together, with harmonious results.
It need not concern us here that he permitted
community of women and children in his ideal
State. The thing to remark in the present con¬
nection is his handling of women’s fitness for
public work.
He held that none of the ocoqwLtions which
go to the ordering of a State belong to woman as
woman, nor yet to man as man ; but natural
gifts are to be found here and there in both sexes
alike, and, so far as her nature is concerned, the
woman is admissible to all pursuits as well as
the man. He adds, ” though in all of them the
woman is weaker than the man." This qualifica¬
tion need not damn the philosopher in the opinion
of modern women. It was made simply because
A GRAND OLD MAN OF JOURNALISM : MR. C. P. SCOTT. WHOSE JUBILEE COINCIDED WITH
THE CENTENARY OF HIS PAPER, THE “MANCHESTER GUARDI AN.’’
Mr. C. P. Scott, the governing director and editor of the " Manchester Guardian." celebrated his fiftieth year
of journalism on May 5. along with the centenary of the paper. He joined it just after the Franco-German
War of 1870, after being a year on the " Scotsman," and became editor in 1872. From 1895 to 1906 he was
M.P. for the Leigh Division of Lancashire. Mr. Scott has received a message of congratulation from the King,
who spolce of his " courageous and high-minded guidance" of the paper which " has secured for itself a
position of such eminence and esteem in the world of journalism."
he was out to discover truth, and he knew' that
a degree of physical disability was a hard fact :
it did not prevent his going what may be con¬
sidered ■' the whole hog. ’’ He found in the admitted
weakness no pretext for the exclusion of women
from public affairs. “ So far as the guardianship
of a State is concerned, there is no difference be¬
tween the nature of the man and of the woman . .
then we shall have to select duly qualified women
to share in the life and the official labours of the
duly qualified men, since we find that they are
competent to the work and of kindred nature
with the men.”
" it docs not touch our purpose,” he says ; but he
does not therefore set up any distinction of class
for men and women in their relation to the State.
His scheme is far broader, as we have seen—" so
far as guardianship of the State is concerned,
there is no difference between the natures of the
man and the woman." Here he foreshadows
the only solution, the most perfect, loyal, and
liberal alliance between man and woman for the
public good. Class breeds dissension : sex is not
incompatible with harmony. Nowhere does he
betrav the faintest concession to antagonistic or
separatist feeling. But, for all that, a distinction
remains, and it is simply the old one of sex, which
enables him to effect the ideal marriage of man
and woman in the service of the State, man remain¬
ing man and woman woman, the essential condi¬
tion of union. Now'here does
Socrates intend any obliter¬
ation or denial of sex in his
guardians. Otherwise he could
not have pnx'ceded to formu¬
late his scheme of eugenics.
Among his women officials he
found his most perfectly
equipped mothers.
< >n the education of women,
the Platonic doctrine leaves
nothing for the most advanced
of modern feminists to desire.
In some respects it is ahead
of them. The women who
showed special aptitudes and
abilities were to be trained
equally with men in medi¬
cine, music, gymnastic, or any
study suitable to their talents.
They were even to be taught
and to practise the military
art, a provision that rather
outruns the recent contention
that women are the non-
fighting sex.
If Socrates had his private
views, formed on observation
of Xanthippe, as to the dead¬
liness of “the female of the
species,” he kept them to him
self. His scheme of women
soldiers was merely the logical
concomitant of his throwing
open all careers to the female
half of humanity, and it is
not likely to lie fiercely de¬
manded even by tht* most
militant of present day pio¬
neers. They have, in fact.
disavowed any such inclina¬
tion, and the disavowal has
drawn fire from controver¬
sialists who have not vet
quite risen to the lofty im¬
personality of the Platonic
argument, and who saw a
chance to recall and rub in
certain incidents of what w
now ancient history.
Since those things hap¬
pened, women have made so
admirable an appearance in
public affairs that the pretty
follies of an infant movement
are best forgotten. It «
time to lift the problem of
woman’s place in the new social order into e
It is true that Socrates deliberately sets aside
mere sex difference as affecting political capability ;
serene and impartial atmosphere of the Repub ic.
That dream, as its author admitted, was not to
be realised in an imperfect world, but ** **?
not useless, as it pointed the way to the i &
which would be attained only by the co
operation of both sexes alike. To that ua
unity Socrates was jealously loyal. When, a er
in the argument, he was complimented or
finishing his portrait of the leading men »n a
style of faultless beauty, his correction an re
proof sped arrow-like—-" Say leading women •
Glaucon, for my remarks apply no less to wome
than to men." Here again, on the
question, Plato’s by-plav is as illuminating as^
formal doctrine.
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ILLUSTRATED 1.0N1X)N NEWS, May 11. 1H2L—<Kf>
THE BIRTH OF THE “CULTURE”
PEARL: A JAPANESE SEA INDUSTRY.
AN ENTERPRISE WHOSE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS HAVE CAUSED A STIR IN THE PEARL MARKET :
WORK AT A PEARL - CULTURE STATION IN JAPAN : AND ITS PRODUCE.
At the Mikimoto Pearl-Culture Station there are two seasons, one in early summer,
when new oysters are cultivated, and the other in winter, when the pearl crops
are gathered. The method of cultivating pearls is, briefly, as follows : When
the spats, or young oysters, are three years old, they are taken out of the sea
and a scientific stimulus is applied to them. They are then planted in the sea-
beds and remain there for four years, during which the pearl is formed. If the
oysters are attacked fas in 1905) by the Red Current, an accumulation of micro-
1 scopic organisms, the work must start all over again. Other deadly enemies
against which they have to be guarded are the octopus, star-fish, and sea-weed.
Among the foreign substances that enter an oyster and cause the growth of
natural pearls are sand grains, parasitic worms, crabs, sea-weeds, and small
fishes. A “ blister ” pearl is one that is attached to the inner surface of the
shell and is flat on one side when removed. The “culture” pearls illustrated in
the left-hand centre diagram above are shown in their actual sise.
636—THE ITUSTIiATED LONDON' NEWS. May II 1021
THE GREAT PEARL CONTROVERSY: JAPANESE «SEA-GIR|| yiN
By Cmh kowchi
WITH THEIR FLOATING TUBS FOR COLLECTING THE OYSTERS: WOMEN DIVERS A
The controversy that has arisen in the pearl trade is due to the claim recently put forward by Mr. Kokich. M.kimoto that, after many years of experiment, he had •»
succeeded in producing “culture" pearls closely resembling the natural article. Opinions differ as to the effect of the claim, and many experts have declared that »«
of natural pearls will not be endangered, though of course there has been a good deal of anxiety both among jewellers and the women who possess “ pearls of P* 1
Mr. Mikimotos enterprise has been established for many years and his methods are well known. The pearls he produces are in no sense “fakes." He cultivates
his oyster-beds by inserting an irritant a tiny piece of nacre or mother-of-pearl into the oyster, and then replacing the oyster in the sea, leaving it there for some four
■H,
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921.-637
E '^ING FOR OYSTERS AT A PEARL - CULTURE STATION.
>RK AT THE MIKIMOTO PEARL-CULTURE STATION OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN.
ig which a pearl grows round the irritant in the same way that natural pearls are formed. Thus the process is merely an artificial stimulation of nature. Women divers,
,n 15 “sea-girls,” are employed to retrieve the oysters, as described under another photograph on our front page in this number. Mr. Mikimoto has been experimenting
pearls since 1879, and the Mikimoto Pearl-Culture Station was established in 1890 on the island of Tatoku in Agu Bay, Province of Shima, Japan. It supports a flourishing
>7 of several hundred inhabitants. The oyster beds now extend for fifty nautical miles in the Bay of Agu alone. There are also branch farms in the Bays of Gokasho
Hasama, in the province of Ise, Omura Bay in Kiushiu, and Ishigaki Island in Okinawa. The total area is over 10,000 acres.
t>38— THE 1LIX STKATK D LONDON
NEWS, May
14, 1921.
OLD SLEEPERS USED AS FUEL FOR A C.E.R. ENGINE :
AN EFFECT OF THE COAL SHORTAGE ON THE RAILWAYS.
THE NEW REGIME . IN IRELAND : VISCOUNT FITZALAN (FOURTH FROM LEFT W
THE LORD LIEUTENANT, AT A DUBLIN GATHERING.
lows were smart*- ^
Mr. W. Friese Greene, who died suddenly while Addressing a meeting o i the cinema trade in London on May 5, was the inventor of the moving-picture camera,
him neither money nor recognition. He lost £20,000 in experiments, and was once in prison for debt and had his home sold up.--A “ riot
night of May 7. said to have been instigated by “ Bolshevists.” The ringleaders were in uniform. Shops in three streets were looted, and 53 windows were M
Mohamed Bey Hassanein accompanied Mrs. Rosita Forbes's expedition to Kufra. He is the son of a noted Sheikh el Alim, of the famous Ashar University *» ^ ^
prestige of his name helped to smooth the path of the explorers among the religious fanatics of Libya. Educated at Oxford, where he won a fencing half-blue, ^ ,
represented Egypt in the World 's Fencing Championship. He is an inspector in the Ministry of the Interior with a prominent career before him, and to his ° r ‘F D ^
with the Senussi. gained in the Italo-British Mission of 1916. of which Hassanein Bey was a member, much of the initial success of the expedition was due.
TOPICS OF THE
WEEK
ILLUSTRATED: NOTABLE EVIND
I'lmmriRAPHs RY P P.P., Photothrk (Btturt. s '
THE ORIGINAL OF ORPENS FAMOUS ACADEMY POR¬
TRAIT: •‘CHESTER" AT HIS GRILL IN PARIS.
EMY POR-
PARIS.
MALTA GRANTED SELF-GOVERNMENT : BUGLERS AT THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE HERALDMG
HIS PROCLAMATION OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
"THE FATHER'•
THE LATE MR.
3F THE FILMS :
FRIESE GREENE.
ALDERSHOT AFTER THE " RIOT " ; THE PRINCIPAL STREET WITH LOOTED
SHOP-WINDOWS BOARDED UP.
sTTfT mamm
THK ILI.rSTKATEI) LONDON
NEWS, Mav 14. 1921 —639
PROMINENT PERSONALITIES AT HOME AND
C.N.. Vanovk. AM) Newspaper Illustrations.
ABROAD.
WELCOMED BACK TO LONDON WITH
FERVOUR : KREISLER, THE VIOLINIST.
IS POLISH LEADER IN UPPER
Silesia : m. korfanty
THE UNION JACK IN
THE IRISH HOME RULE ELECTION :
IN COUNTY DOWN.
A STREET PROCESSION
THE ULSTER UNIONIST LEADER WHO RECENTLY MET MR. DE VALERA, THE
SINN FEIN LEADER, IN DUBLIN : SIR JAMES CRAIG (CENTRE, FRONT ROW).
CAMBRIDGE “RAG”: UNDERGRADUATE MEMBERS OF THE “PAVEMENT
CLUB,” WHOSE RULE IS TO SIT ON THE GROUND.
THE DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY :
THE LATE DR. F. E. RIDGEWAY.
Ihe leader of the Anti-German Polish insurrection in the Upper Silesia plebiscite area, where fighting has taken place.-Irish election meetings in Co. Down hare been held
■xler armed guard.—-—Herr Kreisler, the famous violinist, was rapturously received on his recent reappearance in London, at Queen's Hall.-It was questioned whether Sir
RUiatn Orpen's portrait of a Paris chef, bought by the Chantrey Bequest, conformed to the rules by having been “ entirely executed within the shores of Great Britain." Sir
William has stated that he took only rough notes for it in Paris.-The Letters Patent granting self-government to Malta were read by the Governor (Lord Plumer) on April 30.
he Constitution comes into force on May 16.-The London Diocesan Boy Scouts held their annual Church Parade on May 7.-The Right Rev. F. E. Ridgeway, Bishop of
disbury, died on May 4.-The new Viceroy of Ireland, formerly known as Lord Edmund Talbot, was recently created Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent--Sir James Craig, the
Ister Unionist leader, met Mr. De Valera, the Sinn Fein “President" in Dublin on May 5. with a view to settling the Irish dispute.
- - .
HIS FIRST PUBLIC
WREATH OF LAURELS.
.. .. LU«X»: THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN MAXINC A DEEP OBEISANCE AT THE CENOTAPH AFTER HIS
PALMS, AND CARNATIONS. RED AND WHITE (THE JAPANESE COLOURS,. HAD BEEN LAID UPON IhEPUHTH
“A COURIER OF FRIENDSHIP”: FIRST OF HIS LINE TO LEAVE JAPAN.
THE FIRST HEIR TO THE THRONE OF JAPAN TO VISIT ENGLAND : THE CROWN THE CROWN PRINCE'S ARRIVAL AT THE CENOTAPH : GREETED BY GEN MACDOMACH
PRINCE. WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES. ON THE JETTY AT PORTSMOUTH. AIR-MARSHAL TRENCHARD (NEXT TO LEFT). AND ADMIRAL OLIVER
AFTER LANDING AT PORTSMOUTH : THE CROWN PRINCE
INSPECTING THE NAVAL GUARD OF HONOUR.
THE PROCESSION IN LONDON : THE CARRIAGE CON¬
TAINING THE CROWN PRINCE AND THE KING.
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military uniform. «hore. They travelled to London JecilTtrl^.nd^at
N : THE CARRIAGE CON- GUEST AND HOST : THE CROWN PRINCE OF
ftlNCE AND THE KING. DRIVING WITH THE KING TO BUCKINGHAM
Victoria the Crown Prince was welcomed by the King, accompanied by the
of York and the Duke of Connaught. The King was in Field-Marshal s ur
Large crowds, including many Japanese, cheered the Crown Prince with
enthusiasm as the procession drove to Buckingham Palace, where the
and Princess Mary received him. In the afternoon, after calling on
Alexandra, he visited the Cenotaph and the grave of the Unknown Warri
Westminster Abbey. He arranged to visit Windsor on the ioth and the C
the nth. The King has made him a G.C.B.
* i‘
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921.-641
THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN: MALTA; SPITHEAD; AND LONDON
DRESSED WITH FLAGS : THE •• KATORI ” (WITH
THE PRINCE ON BOARD) ARRIVING AT SPITHEAD.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN AT MALTA: H.l.H. (BETWEEN LORD AND LADY PLUMER) WATCHING
PRINCE GEORGE PLANT A TREE IN SAN ANTONIO GARDENS TO COMMEMORATE HIS VISIT.
WITH THE JAPANESE FLAG REPRESENTED IN THE •• IRON DUKE " : WAR-SHIPS
AT MALTA ILLUMINATED IN HONOUR OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN.
NOT AN •• IMPASSIVE *’ FACE : THE CROWN PRINCE PHOTO- ^
GRAPHED IN THE “ KATORI " AT SPITHEAD. S
LENT BY VISCOUNT LASCELLES FOR THE USE OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF
JAPAN DURING HIS STAY IN LONDON: CHESTERFIELD HOUSE, MAYFAIR.
HIS FIRST OFFICIAL FUNCTION IN ENGLISH WATERS : THE CROWN PRINCE
INSPECTING A GUARD OF HONOUR IN ADMIRAL MADDENS FLAG-SHIP.
The Crown Prince of Japan arrived at Malta, in the Japanese battle-ship “ Katori,"
accompanied by the " Kashima,” on April 24. Lord Plumer, the Governor, and
Admiral Sir John de Robeck, from the “ Iron Duke," went on board to greet him.
He then landed, and drove with Lord Plumer to the Palace at Valeria, receiving
an enthusiastic welcome from the crowd in the decorated streets. In the afternoon
the Prince attended a matinee of " Othello " at the Opera House. At night Lord
Plumer gave a State dinner at the San Antonio Palace, the guests including
Prince George, who is serving in the “ Iron Duke." The Crown Prince, who is
of about the same age, was delighted to meet him. Prince George later planted a
tree in the Palace gardens to commemorate the Crown Prince’s visit. The
Japanese crews ashore were hospitably entertained by the British. The next day
the Crown Prince visited the graves of Japanese sailors killed in the war, in
the Naval Cemetery at Bighi. The Governor gave a garden party, and the Crown
Prince a dinner on board the “ Katori." All the ships were illuminated. The
“ Iron Duke " had the Japanese flag represented in lights amidships and an
Admiral’s flag at the masthead. There was a great searchlight display.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921 —642
SLgS&aa.
BOOKS OF THE DAY
) Y far the most im¬
portant of recent
biographies is “ The Life
of Whitelaw Reid " (Thorn¬
ton Butterworth ; 2 vols. ;
52s. 6d. net), by Royal
Cortissoz, the famous diplomatist's lifelong friend,
who, like himself, has been intimate with the
makers of American history for several generations.
It is a pity that Whitelaw Reid did not live long
enough to follow the example of his predecessor
in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and write his own
memoirs; for, as his letters show, he had a gift
of pithy and picturesque narration which must
have made them one of the few famous American
autobiographies. As it is, his friend's biography
will always be regarded as a document of first-
rate importance by American historians who are
tracing the emergence of the United States from
By E. B. OSBORN.
authority of party " bosses ” would have pre¬
vented him from ever receiving the nomination,
even if such may have been the end of
his ambition. As a diplomatist he served his
country admirably. He was popular and effective
as Ambassador to France ; he was an invaluable
member of the Commission which signed the
Treaty of Peace with Spain at Paris; and he closed
his diplomatic career with seven successful years
as the representative in England not only of the
U.S. Government, but also of the American people—
the latter a function which a succession of American
Ambassadors have fulfilled with singular felicity,
all of them dispensing that “ semi-detached
literary criticism ’* which is one of the chief privi¬
leges and responsibilities of a unique position.
As diplomatist he belonged to the old school of
courteous secretive specialists, with a genius for
avoiding friction; and you get his point of view
by reading between the lines of the delightful
comparison of Wolf-Mettemich and Marschall von
Bieberstein he sent to Secretary Knox by way
of official information—-
This spring we all
resemble Meredith's old
farmer whose waggon - load
of thoughts (mostly about
crops) had a “ bit o’ cricket M
at the bottom, and volumes
of cricketing reminiscences should be particularly
popular. In " A Few' Short Runs ” (Hodder
and Stoughton ; 16s. net), by Lord Harris, the
DANTE IN LATER LIFE: THE PORTRAIT BY
ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO. IN THE EX-CONVENT OF
SANT’ APOLLON I A, FLORENCE.
a self-centred isolation into a position of ever-
increasing consequence in world-politics. Bom in
18^7, Whitelaw Reid was at the storm-centre of
events during the period of incubation of the
Civil War, and no other journalist had a clearer
understanding of the tendencies that made the
final struggle between North and South inevitable.
When hostilities began he became a correspondent
at the front in the intervals of supporting Lin¬
coln’s policy with a pen that was deadlier than the
sword of any of the earlier generals on his side,
and his descriptions of some of the crucial episodes
of the War are rightly accounted as indispensable
evidence. He was a great moral asset to the
North, for, unlike his journalistic chief, Horace
Greeley, he did not quail at the first unlooked-for
disasters, and he saw that the North must not
only win the War, but also the Peace that followed,
sternly exacting the fruits of victory so that the
Union might be consolidated and any further
attempt to create an imperium in inipeno rendered
for ever impossible. But travel in the South and
residence there as a cotton-planter gave him a
more sympathetic insight into Southern character
and the problems of reconstruction than was
possessed by any other Northern publicist, and
from the first he understood the criminal folly of
the regime of the ’’ Carpet-baggers.” As editor of
the Tribune he was a notable figure in the creative
age of American journalism, and before his entrance
into diplomacy (as Ambassador to France in 1889)
many sound judges saw in him the stuff of which
Presidents are wrought. He was of Ulster origin,
and Ulster, as every' student of American history
knows, has given more statesmen to the great
Republic than any other section of the mother-
islands.
For the Presidency many are called, but few
are chosen, and it may well be that Whitelaw
Reid’s sturdy independence and contempt for the
A greater contrast between the old Ambassador
and the new could hardly be imagined. Mctternich
bad the bearing and dignity of an accomplished man of
the world and of the old diplomatic school. Marschall,
but for a certain dignity of bearing, might be mistaken
for a prosperous tradesman, or even butcher. . . .
His looks bear out his reputation in the Far East as a
man accustomed to push diplomatic points with a
strong hand and with the rattle of the lYussian sabre
behind him.
This change was one of many omens which pointed
to a fateful alteration in German policy, and were
all noted and weighed aright by one who regarded
the Anglo-French Entente as the crowning achieve¬
ment of King Edward's peculiar and personal
genius and as a strong guarantee of the world's
peace. It is surprising how accurately he judged
the protagonists of European politics and its
underlying motives during the years in which he
was engaged in adding to the fund of Anglo-
American good feeling—a task which he looked
upon as the most vital of his innumerable tasks
as a living link between the Old World and the
New. He read the character of Wilhelm II. like
an open book, and could see there were influences
behind him which might in the end compel him
not to be content with mere sabre-rattling. More¬
over, he had a sure grip of the intricacies of
British politics and of the strength and weak¬
ness of our leading politicians, and, what is even
more remarkable, he saw the great subterranean
dangers — the growing restlessness of organised
labour and the Government extravagance which,
consciously or unconsciously, aimed at corruptly
suppressing it—more clearly than any British
observer of the signs of the times. He did not
foresee the Great
War—but he fore¬
saw the industrial
difficulties which
were to follow it !
And, while he
watched the symp¬
toms of danger at
home and abroad,
he play'ed a bril¬
liant part in the
social and intellec¬
tual life of I^ondon
which, had he lived
to carry' out the
work he reserved
for the unofficial
years he antici¬
pated, would have
been the theme of
the liveliest and
most human pages
of his reminis¬
cences. He died
in harness, and the
then Prime Mini¬
ster’s . apposite
phrase : " We re¬
gard him as a
kinsman,” and the
use of H.M.S. Natal
as his floating bier,
touched the heart
of the American
people. So that,
even in death, he
was able to con¬
tinue his life-long
task of strengthen¬
ing Anglo - Ameri¬
can friendship.
DANTE IN HIS YOUTH: THE PORTRAIT BY
GIOTTO, IN THE BARGELLO, OR PALAZZO
DELLA PODESTA, AT FLORENCE.
guiding spirit of M.C.C. affairs, we have a most
entertaining account of cricket in partibus, in¬
terspersed with personality sketches of famous
players of the past and amusing anecdotes. One
would like to have had a special story of the
Test match of 1884, when England, under Lord
Harris’s leadership, beat the Australians in an
innings. It was a famous victory, and I was
told the inner history of it a short time ago
when watching Mr. Armstrong's men practising at
Lord’s and admiring the fine, free follow-through
which is a characteristic of their batting ’ style.
THE SEXCENTENARY OF DANTE’S DEATH: DOMENICO DI MICHELINO'S PICTURE
(1465) OF DANTE. FLORENCE. AND THE THREE REGIONS OF THE “DIVINE COMEDY.”
Celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the death of Dante (on September 14, 1321) began in Florence
on April 27. continue through May and June, and will be resumed in September in association with
those at Rome and Ravenna. In London a Dante exhibition of books, MSS., and so on, has been
opened at the British Museum. We are indebted for our photographs to Miss Dorothy Nevil Lees,
author of ” Scenes and Shrines in Tuscany.” “ The picture of Domenico di Michelino,” she writes.
’’ is set in the walls of the Duomo (the cathedral at Florence), close to the spot where the works of
the poet used to be publicly expounded.” It represents the city as it was in 1465, with the completed
cupola, campanite, and Palazzo della Signoria. The Palazzo was begun in 1299, but Dante never saw
its splendid tower .—[Photograph by the Data At titan.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921.—643
THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO REACH KUFRA, THE SENUSSI FASTNESS, ACROSS THE LIBYAN DESERT:
MRS. ROSITA FORBES, RECENTLY RECEIVED BY THE KING.
Woman’* place in the new order is by no means restricted to sheltered and
stay-at-home occupations : witness the achievements of Mrs. Rosita Forbes, whose
adventurous journey into the heart of the Sahara has placed her in the front
rank of British explorers. She travelled from Benghazi across the Libyan desert
to the oasis of Kufra, the headquarters of the Senussi, never before visited by a
white woman, and only once by a European (Rohlfs) over forty years ago. The
joumey was one of great hardship and danger, due chiefly to the fanaticism of
the Zawais, a native tribe who hate strangers. More than once Mrs. Forbes
was in peril of her life, and escaped in disguise. From Kufra she made her
way to Egypt, having gathered information of great value regarding the political
conditions and commercial possibilities of the country. On May 3 she was received
at Buckingham Palace by the King and Queen, and told their Majesties the story
of her wonderful experiences, showing them also the 150 photographs which she
took by stealth in a land where the camera is regarded as anathema. On
May S3 she is to speak on Kufra before the Royal Geographical Society. A
series of articles by Mrs. Forbes will be published in “ The Illustrated London
News " almost immediately, and the best of her photographs will be given for the
first time in the pages of this journal.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 14, 1921 —644
Cromwell Inside Charles I.! A Remarkable Statuette Discovered in Geneva.
WITH JACKET “ BUTTONED UP "’ : AN IVORY STATUETTE OF CHARLES I.
PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY.
WITH JACKET "UNBUTTONED/’ SHOWING CROMWELL DISSOLVING
PARLIAMENT : THE STATUETTE OF CHARLES I. OPENED.
We illustrate above a curious ivory statuette of Charles I. which has been
presented to the Library of the House of Commons by Major Morrison Bell, M.P.
He picked it up in a second-hand shop in Geneva. The peculiarity of it is, as
shown in our photographs, that the King's body can be opened like a cupboard,
disclosing within a carved representation of Cromwell dissolving Parliament. It is
I evidently .the moment when he said, " Take away that bauble,” for a man i>
j seen about to remove the Mace. In the background, apparently, is the Speake
i being hauled out of his chair by a soldier. The inner sides of the King's jacket
[ contain two other panels, forming, with the central one, a triptych. The inscrip¬
tion below is in French : " Dissolution du Parlament ( sic ) par Oliver Cromwell."
Demeter and her Plaster Nose:
The Restoration of Ancient Marbles Controversy.
BEFORE THE RESTORATION : THE HEAD OF THE DEMETER OF
CNIDOS, WITH BROKEN NOSE AND LIPS.
Controversy regarding the restoration of mutilated ancient statues was aroused
recently by a strongly-worded letter to the " Times ” from Mr. Jacob Epstein,
the well-known sculptor, denouncing the action of the authorities at the British
Museum. In particular he protested against what he called “ the incredible
crime of ‘restoring’ the Demeter of Cnidos,” alleging also that "the whole
face has been scraped and cleaned, thus destroying the mellow golden patine of
centuries.” This latter charge has been denied, and it is explained that the face
AFTER THE RESTORATION : THE DEMETER OF CNIDOS, WITH A NEW
NOSE AND LIPS OF PLASTER.
and the remainder of the figure are of different colours because they are c * r ^
in different pieces of marble. As to the "restoration,” it merely consists m
addition of a plaster nose which can easily be removed. It would be a di
matter to restore with marble, as was formerly done. It has been said
“ the most dignified figure in marble becomes ludicrous when it loses a " ose ’
and for the majority of visitors to the Museum the addition enhances the eW
of the statue. There are many examples of restoration done by FI ax man.
pHOTOT.KAPM ‘IN' THK I. KIT MV CoiKTESY OK Till! BRITISH Ml SKI M : TIIK. OtHEK BV FaKKINCDO.N PhOTO. Co.
THli ILU'STKATKD LONDON NEWS, May I I, 1 * 121 - til.i
THE DOOM OF THE EXPORTED HORSE: STAGES OF HIS JOURNEY.
DRAWINGS BY OUR SPFCIAl ARTIST. LIONFJ EDWARDS.
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WHERE IT IS •• A NOT UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE FOR HORSES TO BE BOUGHT FOR SHIPMENT ABROAD " : A HORSE SALE AT THE BARBICAN
REPOSITORY—SHOWING THE AUCTIONEER IN THE RIGHT BACKGROUND.
WHERE THE TESTING ARRANGEMENTS ARE WELL CARRIED OUT : A VETERINARY EXAMINATION BEFORE EMBARKATION AT CUSTOM HOUSE
QUAY—TROTTING A HORSE IN ORDER TO DETECT ANY UNSOUNDNESS.
Th« traffic in old horses for export to the Continent, where most of them are he writes, “ I attended a sale of horses at the Barbican Repository, it being a not
killed for food, has lately come again under discussion. The conditions have been unusual occurrence for some horses to be bought there for shipment abroad,” and
much improved under the Act of 19x4. As Mr. Lionel Edwards points out in he goes on to give particulars of the animals and their prices. Describing the
hi* article on the next page, the regulations against the export of unfit horses are scene on the quay, he says : “ The majority of the animals were trotted on thft
satisfactorily enforced, at any rate, in our southern ports, though not always in stone setts -a severe test, as even a suspicion of unsoundness must become a
the north. " Before going to see the horses embarked ” (at Custom House Quay), certainty on such hard ground.” -{l>raictng Copvngkud in tkr t'mUJ stairs ami Canada \
1 'HE I LLl'STKATEI> LONIMJN NKWS, May 11 , 11 ) 21 - 646
Old friends Bound for tbe foreign Butcher:
THE FATE OF THE EXPORTED HORSE.
In our issues Jor January n, iyo8, and March 5,
lqio, we gave illustrated accounts of the traffic
in worn-out horses to the Continent for slaughter,
in order to draw public attention to what was then
a grave scandal. We are glad to note, from the
following article by Mr. Lionel Edwards, whose
opinion is unbiassed, that the conditions
of the traffic have been greatly improved.
were mostly big horses, is to be found in the
Government statistics. These show that out of
2420 exported from England to the Continent
during January’ 1921, 2029 were slaughtered for
food and 391 only released for work.
After examination each horse is led on to the
Q UESTIONS recently asked in the House
of Commons with reference to the ex¬
portation of worn - out horses have
again brought this subject into prominence,
and the following brief notes on the traffic
may be of interest.
The Exportation of Horses Act provides
for the examination of all horses shipped to
the Continent by a veterinary surgeon. The
latter is appointed by the Ministry of Agri¬
culture and Fisheries, and is required to see
that every animal is not only fit to travel,
but to work. This would seem to ensure
that horses sent over must be workably
sound; but that the Act has been evaded in
individual cases was more or less admitted
by Mr. J. Parker in replying in the House of
Commons to Sir John Norton-Griffiths. He
stated that the services of certain officials
had been dispensed with, as a result of
special enquiries which had been made with
regard to the trade.
On Saturday, April 23, 1 visited Custom
House Quay, to see animals which were to
be shipped abroad examined and embarked.
On that occasion 72 animals arrived for embarkation.
They were first placed in a dry, well-ventilated
TYPICAL OF THE MAJORITY SHIPPED AT CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY:
AN OLD CART-HORSE. - [Drawn by Lionel Edwards.]
stable, and tied in rows. From these quarters
they were led out one by one for veterinary
examination. The majority of the animals were
trotted on the stone setts—a severe test, as even
a suspicion of unsound ness must become a cer¬
tainty on such hard ground.
Some of the animals were aged,
some very aged, but there were
surprisingly few unsound ones.
1 saw only five, in fact, that
I considered not " workably
sound "—in plain English, very-
lame. Of these, the vet. put
four on one side, and I do not
doubt he knew best about the
other.
The majority of the horses
were of the cart or van type,
and most were in good condition,
as regards both flesh and skin.
There was one light horse, a
black of thoroughbred type, who
was shod, 1 noticed, with leather
pads. He went pretty sound,
however, and as he was in good
condition and rugged up. he was
presumably going to a good
home. One rather good-looking
horse arrived clipped and with¬
out a rug, and I was glad to
notice the inspector refused his
embarkation until a rug was pro¬
vided.
Although most of tbe horses were aged, they
were, on the average, in distinctly good condition,
and a few were even fat. I only saw three thin
horses, in fact. The reason of this, as well as an
explanation of the circumstance that the animals
"THE MAJORITY OF THE HORSES WERE OF THE CART
OR VAN TYPE”: AN OLD VAN-HORSE.
Drawn by Lionel Edwards.
quay and placed in a box, and then lifted by-
crane direct into the main deck of the waiting
steamer, where
he is taken out
and tied up in
his standing.
The horse-
standings are
all on the main
deck, forty-two
aft and the
remainder for¬
ward. The fit¬
tings are good,
being the exact
width a n d
length of a
horse, and it is
thus impossible
for the animal
to be thrown
about if the
ship meets with
rough weather.
Moreover, the
individual
horse is saved
from contact
with his fellows, as the partitions are built up
on each side, instead of a single plank sufficing.
This is an improvement on the way- remounts
were carried during the war, for space was then
so valuable that horses had to be carried not
did not see this done, but understood it had beo
done before my arrival. The dealers bring the
food for their horses (hay) with them, and this is
distributed on board, the animals being fed before
the ship leaves dock. This I saw done, and there
appeared sufficient, considering the shortness of
the voyage — thirteen hours (of which only
seven are actually at sea). The ration is
13 lb. of hay per day, which is more thin
cavalry allowance for the same period, hot
minus the oats. Incidentally, the animals u
better without the latter, for horses suffer not
a little from mal-de-mer. The Government
inspector is responsible, I understand, for
the feeding arrangements.
The horses are watered when on 1
ship by the crew; for the first time before
leaving dock, again at night, and on the
following morning : i.e., three times between
12 noon Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday. 1
also gathered that the crew consider water¬
ing horses a soft job, so that there is no
danger of its ever being neglected
Before going to sec the horses embarked
I attended, on the previous day, a sale of
horses at the Barbican Repository, it being
a not unusual occurrence for some horses to
be bought there for shipment abroad. The
animals in the catalogue were as varied as
the prices they fetched. A number of ex¬
cellent nearing draughts made prices to match,
whilst some “ lights of other days" were
bought at prices varying from £3 to £30. 1
took particular note of the low-priced animals,
expecting to see them appear at the docks for
export ; but in this I was agreeably disappointed,
CANDIDATE FOR A CONTINENTAL SLAUGHTER-HOUSE: AN OLD HACKNEY.
Drawn by Lionel Edwards.
only in the main deck, but in pent-houses, and
also ’tween decks, where they were inevitably
crowded together in darkness and stifling atmo¬
sphere, and, moreover, were at sea for long periods.
The horses are watered before embarkation. I
NEVER MORE TO SHARE IN THE JOYS OF THE CHASE:
AN OLD HUNTER. [Drawn by Lionel Edvards. 1
as I only spotted two on the quay the following
day. This was easily to be understood, as these
worn-out animals would not have passed the stnet
examination given. It is surprising to learn t«
prices which dealers give for animals which are
sent abroad—the majority
human consumption. One anim
which 1 had seen bought for £4°
went overseas, and, in view 0
the high proportion of anin ~*
slaughtered which is recor
in the statistics already q uotea
one must presume he was in
tended for conversion into food.
Now the cost of transit is roughly
£5, which makes his value £45 00
arrival. It would be interesting
to have authoritative information
as to the price paid for ires -
killed horseflesh on the to-
tinent. If my information 0
the point is correct, it ™ a **
much the same price as ro
meat, and 1 am told the retail
price is somewhere about »
12 francs (Belgian) to the
The present rate of exchang
is 52I Belgian francs to the i
sterling. This would n»* e
horse weighing 1 3 °° ,b . 1
average weight for a sma
draught) yield a profit °t
and. presuming that this has
- - - and butener,
split up between dealer, middle man, ~ y
each of these would net £20 profit per he •
these figures are fair estimates, one can ^
understand why the majority of tbe anim H t j 0 D.
ported are heavy draught and in g°°^ ter
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HIS LAST VIEW OF ENGLAND: AN OLD HORSE’S EMBARKATION.
_ PRAWN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST. LIONEL EDWARDS.
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" LIFTED BY CRANE DIRECT INTO THE MAIN DECK OF THE WAITING STEAMER ”: A HORSE BEING HOISTED
ON BOARD THE “BATAVIER III.’’ AT CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY, FOR EXPORT TO THE CONTINENT.
The inspection and embarkation of horses at Custom House Quay for export to
the Continent are described by Mr. Lionel Edwards in his article on the opposite
page. “ After examination,” he writes, " each horse is led on to the quay
and placed in a box, and then lifted by crane direct into the main deck of the
waiting steamer, where he is taken out and tied up to his standing.” The
Exportation of Horses Act (1914) forbids the export of animals worn-out and
unfit for work. Yet most of those exported are bought for food. Out of
2420 horses sent abroad from England to the Continent last January, no fewer
than 2029 were slaughtered for the butchers, and only 391 were released for
work. In order to save the unfortunate creatures the added suffering of sea¬
sickness, arrangements are being made by the Ministry of Agriculture for the
slaughtering to be done on this side. The French authorities hare already agreed
in the case of horse-flesh destined for France, and negotiations are pending with
Holland and Belgium. [ Drawing CopvrighUd m tt* I mud Stain and Canada.]
648—THE ILLUSTRATE!,,
OVER 57,000 BRITISH HORSES SHIPPED ABROAD FOR
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“ON THE MAIN DECK”: A TYPICAL GROUP OF BRITISH HORSES BOUND F° R
The conditions under which old horses, sold in this country to foreign purchasers, are shipped to the Continent have been greatly improved since the Exportation^
Horses Act was passed in 1914. Every animal sent abroad must be not only fit to travel, but also to work, so that the former scandal of “ traffic in
horses ” has to that extent been abolished. Inspectors appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture examine the horses and arrangements for their voyage
of embarkation, and, although cases of neglect have occurred at some northern ports, the work on the whole appears to be properly performed. The fact r ^
however, that most of these horses are sold to be slaughtered for butcher’s meat in countries where hippophagy is practised. It was officially stated that ^
March 12 , 1920, to March 12, 1921, there were 64,128 horses exported. It has also been stated that 90 per cent, are killed for food ; that is, * total 0
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YEAR: OUR TRIBUTE TO HIPPOPHAGY
IE CONTINENT, WHERE 90 PER CENT. ARE SLAUGHTERED FOR HUMAN FOOD
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
atmosphere, the glorious inheritance of the great
water-colour artists. A Claud Hayes is always
a fine possession. To-morrow it will have to be
reinsured in regard to its risen value. An Orpen.
1904. is noticeable to students of the progress of
Sir William Orpen, H.A. It is the portrait of a
gentleman in riding costume. It is early work of the
man whose “ Chef," the picture of the year, is to be
bought from the funds of the Chantrey Bequest.
Sir William Lavery, R.A., had two 1884 subjects—
A Day in Midsummer ” and " An October Even-,
ing.” But nowadays Lavery paints portraits; such
is the march of time. We notice Sir Philip Burne-
Jones’s portrait of Lady Diana Manners as “ The
Prado Infanta," which was exhibited at the Royal
usually convivial. n. pH
This was dated 1625. Kj
On the 10th, Messrs. ‘A
Christie sold decorative
furniture and tapestry i,
from various sources. Two \Vv\ ti
fine Flemish panels of the seventeenth \ ^ (*j
century attracted notice. One repre¬
sented the Entry into Jerusalem, and the other
was woven with . Tobit and the Angel, with
emblematic figures and military emblems. Two
Audenarde panels, early eighteenth century, with
views of a ch&teau in woody landscape, were
marked " I.K.,” probably Jean Robyns.
On the 11th, at the same rooms, water-colour
drawings and m<xlem pictures were
I up for inspection. A head of Robert
Louis Stevenson by ('«. Nerli, 21 j in.
by 17! in., was ottered after much
sjteculation as to what Steven-
sonians would value it at; and
America, too, had to be reckoned
with. It is a charcoal drawing,
the property 0/ Mr. F. J. Hitch,
for whom it was executed at Samoa,
and whose family still possess the
receipt from the artist, dated July 11,
iqii, but no published record can
l>e given as to the amount paid
In a miscellaneous sale at Messrs.
Sotheby's on the 12th and 13th
jewellery, miniatures, bronzes, china*,
and furniture came forward. Sun¬
dials and watches formal alluring
items, French and German examples
of pocket sundials of the early eigh¬
teenth century being remarkable.
There was a Louis XIV. memerU»
tnori watch by Baili, Paris, in the
>f small size,
/ nr* I IE spring always
L opens in the
London sale-rooms with
gloriou!
__ promise. This
year has been no cxccp-
” /'/ tion. M essrs -
W ' ' Christie dispersed as fine a collection
of armour of archaeological interest as
has come into the market for several years. The
two-days’ sale of the Morgan Williams armour
realised £3.1,687 ; and the third day, devoted to
early English oak furniture and tapestry, brought
£13,620. One item, a fourteenth - century Arab
mosque lamp (illustrated in the I.L.N. last week),
sold for 2300 guineas ; and the grand total of the
three days’ sale reached £43.307.
The impulse of spring was felt
all round On April 30, at Messrs
Robinson,
Fisher, and Harding’s
sale at Willis’s Rooms, a carved
ivory model of a frigate, made by
a French prisoner of war in Napo¬
leonic days, brought £90. The
rising of the sap in the markets ex¬
tended to Edinburgh, for in Messrs.
Dowell’s rooms in that city a copy
of the first original Kilmarnock
edition of the poems of Robert
Hums, printed in 1786, sold for
£503. It was of exceptional in¬
terest as having copies of original
verses of Burns, thirty-three pages,
in the handwriting of Mrs. Dunlop.
The collection of silver sold by
Catherine Lady Grey and Sir John
Foley Grey, Bt., rich in George II.
examples —perhaps richer than am
collection for many years—realised
£32,130 at Christie’s in April; 370s.
per ounce was the highest price
paid for a toilet service by Isaac
lager, 1728, which brought £1350.
But there is other silver ahead,
which will ” summon envious com¬
parison and win with perfect art."
We had thought that all armour
had been exhausted, but w’e have
yet to reckon with the Earl of
Pembroke’s armour, which comes
shortly into the market, from Wilton
House, Salisbury, a famous seat
where fine trout lie pendulous in
the waters.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on
the 6th, came into the arena with c
furniture, old Chinese and English pore
textiles, and Persian rugs. There wei
suits of velvet (Spanish, eighteenth ce
lowing silk waistcoats embroidered wi
of French origin, of the same period,
colour of the
male is the
colour of the
male in nature.
T h e h u m a 11
female h a *
usurped t lu-
natural colours
In-longing to tin-
other se.\. We
realise the cha¬
grin of old IVpys
when he feared
the eclipse of his
camclot waist¬
coat and liis
velvet and silk
buttons by
‘ the young and
pretty ladies
dressed like men.
in velvet coats,
caps with rib¬
ands. and with H
laced bands, just
like men."
At Christie’s, CWYDYR CASTLE A
on the 6th, pic¬
tures and water- This fin* panel
colour drawings
came up for pre-
cedental valuation. Perhaps Ernest Croft
form of a silver
finely modelled — a gruesome re¬
minder of the march of time which
was oucc the vogue. Mary Queen
of Scots had a similar example of
an earlier period. A Cromwellian
clock was ascribed to Tho. Tom-
pion, I-ondon, and was of small
size, only 8J in. A piict de resist¬
ance was a fine Elizabethan gold
chain of ninety-five oval hollow
beads formed of four spiral panels
of filigree work. The pedigree of
this piece is complete from 1660,
when it was bequeathed in a will,
and later in another will. A fire in 1817 destroyed
twenty-eight links. It is quite an archaeological
example, and is well known. Charms which ladies
wear nowadays were represented in a sixteenth-
century prototype of a gold wheel - lock pistol,
3 1-8 in. long. I he pistol was finely modelled.
WITH EXQUISITE TUDOR CARVING AND PANELLING, AND AN EARLY SPANISH
LEATHER FRIEZE: THE OAK PARLOUR AT CWYDYR CASTLE. WHICH IS TO BE
OFFERED FOR SALE.
The centre panel of the magnificent overmantel bears the date 1597, with the arms of the Wynns
and their motto (" Nec timet nec tumet ”), and supporting figures of ** Julius" and “ Augustus."
This room and the dining-room (illustrated in two photographs on the opposite page) will be
dismantled and sold separately at a sale to be held in the Castle grounds by Messrs. Ward Price,
on May 24 and 25, unless the Castle has been purchased as it stands when offered for sale at
Chester on the previous day. [Photograph by Courtesy of " Country Life."]
Academy in 1912, and attracted attention then as
it realised attentive regard on its changing owners
now. The portrait of Mrs. Pettie, the wife of John
Pettie, R.A., 1865, has been exhibited from 1867
to 1911. It was reminiscent of old tunes long for¬
gotten, the lavender perfume of days evanished.
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TH, ' : 11-l.l’STRATED LONDON NEWS. May II.
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A TREASURE-HOUSE
OF TUDOR OAK: GWYDYR
CASTLE FOR SALE.
Gwydyr Castle, on the River Conway, near Llanrwst, a famous and historic
mansion full of beautiful old Tudor carving, panelling, and furniture, is to be
offered for sale by Messrs. Ward Price at the Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, on
May 23, as it stands, with the estate and “ all panelling and fixtures except two
carved panels. Failing a purchaser, the contents are to be offered separately,
including the panelled oak parlour and dining-room, by the same auctioneers at
a sale in the Castle grounds on May 24, 25 and 26. It is greatly hoped that
the dismantling which would thus be necessary may be avoided. The dining-room
is considered to be the work of Inigo Jones, who was a friend of the Wynn
family, ancestral owners of the Castle and descendants of the royal Welsh
Princes. The first known owner, Howell Coetmor, served under the Black Prince
at Poitiers, and his son, Dafydd, sold it to Meredydd ap Jevan, great-grandfather
of Sir John Wynn, the historian, who was made a baronet jn 1611. Meredydd
rebuilt the Castle about 1480. Later, the estate passed to the first Duke of
Ancaster, who married Mary Wynn, and in 1895 »t was bought by Earl Carrington.
The house to-day looks practically as it was in Jacobean times.
THE ILLUSTRATE!'
LONDON NEWS, May VI. 1921.—652
n
THE
•VrC
WORLD
rf vsy
OF THE
THEATRE.
I #
By J. T. CREIN.
G IVE me the playwright of ideas, and I will
forgive him shortcomings of craft. Here is
a new man, Ernest Cecil; in private life Sir Ernest
Cecil Cochrane, of gingery champagne. He feels
the vocation of playwriting ; he fancies a bold
subject — the county-lady, narrow to the
fault of refusing to meet a divorcee, yet
with a distinct blot on her own escutcheon,
a son begotten without benefit of clergy.
He forges ahead, and in sight of port he
cuts the Gordian knot instead of disen¬
tangling difficult skeins. In other words,
Ernest Cecil, unconventional up to a certain
point, becorru , conventional when he does
not know what to do with the love-child :
he kills it off. C’est magnijique, mats ce
n’est pas la guerre. The real postulate was,
what would have happened to the narrow
county-lady if her child had lived ? So we
were not quite satisfied, nor did we approve
of all the methods of the new author. He
may or he may not have heard of the
French author Dennery, whose centenary
draws near ; he may or he may not have
grown up with the melodramatic school
with " cry of the heart ” and the blushing
mother facing a young stranger, after
much tribulation, with the words : "I am
your mother ” (tableau ; tears ; applause).
For aught I know he may have derived
all these munitions of the theatrical arsenal
out of his own head. But there they
are, and they mar a work which has great
qualities of thought, of language, of ideas
which reveal a promise to be fulfilled
when the practised hand will show him
when he is right and when off the rails.
There was the stuff of a good play in “ A
Matter of Fact,” but it did not materialise
because the author is as yet trammelled by
theatricality and unfamiliarity of technique.
In France they would have received his
play d correction — that is to say, they
would have moved amendments and got
them carried before production. Miss Eva
Moore, much praised in all quarters, did
not, in my opinion, help to humanise the
play. She, too, played d la Dennery. She
acted, perhaps, to perfection, but real life
did not vibrate in her performance. She
whined long and often ; she grovelled on
the floor. Dennery’s ” Two Orphan Mothers ”
did that : mothers of IQ2I are of sterner mould.
Some of the young ladies acted without in¬
spiration. Miss Auriol Lee alone held her own :
she has spirit and power of characterisation.
Mr. McKinnel may be thanked for giving a hear¬
ing. to a newcomer who has something to say.
"THE 'UMBLEST PERSON GOING”: MR. STANLEY LUPINO AS
URIAH HEEP IN "THE PEEP-SHOW" AT THE HIPPODROME.
One of the most delightful scenes in the new revue at the Hippodrome,
" The Peep-Show," is the Thirteenth Peep, " Down Dickens Street," in which
various Dickens characters make brief appearances. Mr. Stanley Lupino plays
Uriah Heep. Scrooge, and Sam Weller; Miss Mona Vivian, Oliver Twist, Little
Nell, and Poor Jo; and Miss Annie Croft, Nancy and Dolly Varden.
Photograph by Stage Photo Co.
Silence about ” Love Among the Paint Pots,”
by G. E. Jennings ! It is an error of a gifted woman
who excels in one-act
plays and has not yet
mastered the secret of
expansion. There was
some humour in the
dialogue and collateral
characterisation, but
there was more horse¬
play humour of music-
hall and revue facility.
It was painful recently
to behold Charles Haw-
trey clowning under a
four-poster ; it is even
more painful to see an
actress of comic genius
caprioling on a window¬
sill (three - and - a - half
minutes, watch in hand)
like a Grock at his
piano. Nor did we like
Owen Xares wasted on
a r 61 e”nf no consequence
of a penny-novelettish
nature. To me the
most interesting part of
the evening was the
contemplation of Basil
Dean’s, typical stage
picture. He is a pro¬
ducer of rare observa¬
tion.
Granville we make the acquaintance of a dancer
whose humour is as nimble as his limbs and feet.
In Miss Evelyn Laye we have a dreamland-girl—
a Neame (with intelligence) in aspect, a charm
in manner, a little squirrel in grace, a little song¬
bird in voice; anon she will adorn the
mantelpiece of every self-respecting boy of
eighteen—and more. One does not criticise
such pleasant entertainments ; one sips them
like a liqueur. I felt as if 1 were under a
gentle treatment of massage, physical and
mental. It was excellent relaxation after a
day's hard work in a coal-starved world.
To whomsoever the credit may belong,
there was a master hand at work in the
arrangement of the Shakespeare Festival at
the New Theatre, organised by Mr. Matheson
Lang and Mr. Bronson Albery on behalf of
the Shakespeare Association. First a pageant
of Shakespearean characters, gay, grave,
sorrowful and passionate, passing before us
in rich and sombre colouring, with gleams of
gold and clang of steel, and then—the climax.
A single figure, scarlet - robed, stepping
modestly on to the empty stage, to hold us
all spellbound, as of yore, by her voice, by
her inimitable charm, by her womanliness
and her whole wonderful personality—our
Ellen Terry ! No Doge was there, no re¬
vengeful Jew or tortured Merchant, but just
Portia alone. And yet she conjured up the
whole scene for us with a few words, and
then moved us to pity for the Merchant and
to admiration for the young advocate by her
rendering of " The quality of mercy is not
strain'd.” No wonder the house rose at
her! Ours was not a tribute to age, for
Ellen Terry seems to possess the secret of
perennial youth ; nor to past glories, for
glory enhaioed her as she stood there before
us, smiling and alert. It was the spontaneous
enthusiasm aroused by a really great actress.
From the shifting scenes that went before
many figures stand out—the touching and
truly dignified Katherine of Sybil Thorndike,
the debonair Benedick of Matheson Lang, the
two Henrys, old and young, of Frank Cellier
and Basil Rathbone, and Arthur Bourchier s
robust Shylock. But besides these there was
so much admirable good work done in honour
of the Bard, such tuneful ditties sung—especially
by Mr. Hayden Coffin, whose voice, as fresh as ever,
THE GIRL WHOM BILL SIKES MURDERED: MISS ANNIE CROFT
AS NANCY IN THE DICKENS SCENE OF "THE PEEP-SHOW."
Photograph by Stag* Photo Co.
Mr. Norman McKinnel tried to efface himself
in the secondary part of the husband, yet he
is always a dominating, arresting personality.
“ Mary,” at the
Queen's, is capital fun—
a feast of dancing, of
pleasant tunes (one of
them of quality) and
perfect stage drill. There
is nothing like it in
town. It is a com¬
bination of musical-
comedy, operette, and ballet which never flags,
never allows breathing-time, but is always pretty,
often bright, and never vulgar. In Mr. Bernard
• ASKING FOR A SECOND HELP OF GRUEL: MISS MONA VIVIAN
*AS OLIVER TWIST IN "THE PEEP-SHOW” AT THE HIPPODROME
Photograph by Stagt Photo Co.
should surely be heard more often—that I should
have to quote the whole programme in order to
do justice to an afternoon full of fine achievement.
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921._653
v A NEW TYPE OF AERIAL “O-PIP": THE PETROCZY HELICOPTER RISEN VERTICALLY TO 120 FT. BY THE UPLIFT
OF ITS SCREWS, DURING TRIALS ; (INSET) A DIAGRAM OF THE MACHINE.
The problem of inventing a heavier - than - air machine capable of ascending
vertically and hovering has been solved by an officer of the Austrian Army
Balloon Corps, Lieutenant Stefan von Petroczy. Our photograph illustrates a
successful test of his new captive helicopter, which rose to a height of 120 feet.
Describing it from information published by the United States Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, the “ Aeroplane ” says : “ It consists of a three-armed steel-tube
framework, each arm carrying one 120-h.p. Le Rhone engine, all three driving
two oppositely rotating air-screw shafts. ... In the observer’s cockpit is stowed
a large parachute ( mechanically ejected) sufficient to allow the whole machine to
desqend safely without aid from the air-screws.” This is the first helicopter in
the world to remain hovering for any time after ascent. It was controlled by
three cables (attached to winches on the ground), which were paid out as it rose,
and by which it was hauled down against the upward pull of tht screws. So far,
a descent with engines stopped has not been attempted. The letters in the inset
diagram indicate: F F F. the tube frames; M, one of the three motors; R,
radiator ; B B B, small landing buffers ; L B, large buffer ; P P , propellers ; O,
observer’s turret. For artillery observation the helicopter is less conspicuous than
a balloon, can fire upwards, and, having no gas, needs less field equipment
654— THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921.
NESTS OF OUR GAME BIRDS: THE POLYGAMODSKASA^
Specially Drawn for “Thi
BRITISH GAME BIRDS-THEIR NESTS AND EGGS: (1) GROUSE; (2) WILD DUCK; (3) SNIPE: (4) GREY
■. G. E. Lodge give* the following notes on the breeding habits of the birds he has here illustrated : “(i) Grouse pair early in spring, and the hen bird makes * ^
Both p*** 00
egg* 1
Mr.
among heather, and lays eight or ten eery handsomely marked eggs in April, the eggs being cream colour with profuse blotches and mottling of rich red brown,
are assiduous in their care of the chicks when hatched. (a) Wild ducks are early breeders, the hen beginning to incubate her eight or ten pale greyish-green ^ ^
middle of March. The nest is a fairly bulky structure, and is lined with down plucked from the breast of the hen. The nest is not necessarily near water, ^ #tJl€r
found in hedgerows, plantations, heather, and so on ; not infrequently the eggs are laid in trees, either at the top of a pollarded tree or in the deserted nest o ^ ^ ^
bird. (3) Snipe nest in April ; the eggs are always four in number, and are placed normally in the nest with the points meeting in the centre of the nest. oncefl tr»ted
generally made in a tuft of grass or heather in a more or less marshy situation. The eggs are greenish in ground colour with dark-brown blotches, as a rule co
towards the large end of the egg. (4) Black-game are polygamous, the blackcock taking no interest in either the eggs or the chicks ; therefore upon the grey
all the trouble and responsibility of looking after the welfare and safety of her family. The nest is a slight structure on the ground, and the eggs are creamy ^ ^ (h(
all over with small orange - brown spots. (5) Pheasants are also polygamous ; therefore much excuse must be made for the hen pheasant if she fails always to r
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14 , 1921.—65o
AND THE MONOGAMOUS
Lodge. (Copvwght.)
PARTRIDGE.
1,1 (5) PHEASANT: (6) RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE; (7) WOODCOCK; (8) PLOVER; (9) PARTRIDGE.
* Of her rather numerous family. Hen pheasants will often lay their eggs in another pheasant's nest, and also in partridges’ nests. Occasionally the eggs will be laid in an
°est up a tree. The eggs are pale olive in colour, and the clutch varies from eight to twelve in number. (6) Red-legged partridges are monogamous, and lay their eggs
■milar situations to those chosen by the common partridge. The eggs are from twelve to sixteen in number, and are yellowish-white in colour, with small reddish dots
' Ter them - The T will frequently lay their eggs in nests of common partridge. (7) The woodcock is an early nester, the eggs being sometimes laid in March. The eggs are
in number, and the site of the nest is among the dead leaves on the ground in woods. (8) To most people plovers' eggs are more often seen on the dinner-table than in
natural surroundings. Any kind of open country will suit a pair of plovers for their nesting operations. Pasture, arable, moorland, 1 brek ’ or swamp is equally suitable,
In 8 as the country is open enough for the sitting bird to have a good view for possible danger, so that she can steal away from off her eggs before taking to flight.
^ are annually destroyed by farming operations, especially by horse-rollers, but the birds will always lay a second clutch. (9) Partridges lay more eggs than any other
‘rd, frequently up to nineteen or twenty. They nest later than either grouse or pheasants, and, both parents taking charge, they very frequently bring up their whole
1 suc ««fully. The cock bird is very gallant in defence of his chicks, and has been seen to beat off a sparrowhawk that was attempting a raid on the family.”
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921—656
LADIES' NEWS.
M OST of our news this week is of postponement.
Happily, tennis, polo, and cricket can carry
on without light, and heat is supplied actually or
vicariously by the participation or interest in the
games ; also, the outdoor season is at hand. The
Court is, I am sure, postponed, not cancelled ; about
those fixed for later *in the month nothing has been
said. It would not be at all surprising if all three
were held on afternoons when the weather is warmer.
Pictures have come into their own again, and private
views become quite fashionable. It is now long since
that at Burlington House, which was more remark¬
able for quantity than for quality as far as the
attendance was concerned. There was, of course, a
large flavour of distinguished personages to leaven the
lump of ordinary individuals. Dress was under the
influence of coal black economy, and was, save for
some hats, dull and unremarkable.
It would almost seem that a wave of recklessness
was passing over every class and each sex. Women
have raised the red cap of liberty in the form of a
perfect epidemic of red hats of all sorts and sizes, as
the Irish fishwife said of her wares. So universal is
the craze for red hats that their becomingness, or their
suitability, is little considered. I saw a lady bent
with the burden of years and wninkled with the
ravages of time gallantly wearing a bright-red glissfe
straw hat trimmed with gay little clusters of red-
currants. It was a daring deed. When red is kind
to a complexion it is very kind ; otherwise, it is cruel
in the extreme. Fashion in hats has ruled lightly for
many years, and now it is go-as-you-please with regard
to millinery.
Much is said in these days about the prevalence
of make-up on young and pretty faces. Men vote it
simply ridiculous, but women know how the habit
grows. It begins with lack of proper care of a good
complexion. Life is lived at such a rate that the
very first and most important consideration for keep¬
ing the skin clear and healthy is forgotten, and the
modern girl, in her own phrase. “ uses any old soap."
Soon her skin complains visibly, but she remains
heedless. Then, instead of sending for such a cele¬
brated tonic for the skin as Knight’s beautiful, velvety
lathering Castile Soap, super-milled and deliciously
fragrant of lavender, which permits the skin to breathe
pure air, they use make-up which calls for more and
more every time and eventually becomes a mask.
A WALKING COSTUME.
The dress, which is embroidered in white silk, is of dark-blue
serge, and has a cape of the same material.
Photograph by Talbot.
and the complexion beneath is ruined. Knight’s
Castile Soap, procurable anywhere, is the skin's best
friend, rendering it clear and healthy, and preserving
a good skin, not painting over it.
Pictures are now the fashion, and an Exhibition
Modern Flower-Painting and impressions of Corkjl.
’Ethel Wright, R.O.I., and of decorative designs f,
the stage by Guy de Gerald, opened this weekittk
Brook Street Art Gallery until the 31st inst
interest many art-lovers. There are very few artutj
who devote themselves in any adequate measure to
flower-painting, yet of all pictures those really repn-
sentative of favourite flowers are the most decorative
and the most satisfactory to settle down with. Eftf"
Wright is a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy
and very successful with portraits. She is now much
taken up with flowers.
Pearls will have to have pedigrees; there i» to
doubt about it. The Japanese, the cleverest and
most thorough imitators on earth, have pressed the
oyster into service and produced pearls so perfect
that it is said that the only possible way to prow
them the work of the coerced oyster rather than of
the free bivalve, is to cut them in two, and ao halve
their value. The only way, therefore, to make ay
lady secure that her pearls are like Casar'i wile, a
to have their pedigree in their passage through family
archives. Receipted bills are of little use, since enor-
mous sums are said to have been paid for these arti¬
ficially produced gems. Every well - known jewtfltr
who has pearls for sale knows where they camt
from, and can give fair histories of the gems. So ]
beautiful are pearls that they will always be favourite
jewels, and the possession of their pedigrees will makt
them specially interesting.
There are some elegances and graces without
which refined women would find life hardly worth
living. Among these is a good, reliable, dainty and
delicious series of toilet requisites. If, when one
emerges from a bath in which have been some of
Morny Fries’ salts of, say, the hauntingly elusive
“ Nocturne ’’ set, soap of the same kind being used,
one dusts with Morny " Nocturne ’’ dusting-powder,
continues the use in " Nocturne ” toilet water and
other necessaries, and finishes with a few drops ol
the perfume, the day is entered upon delightfully.
The woman of taste and charm finds moTal support
from such a toilet. It is more quickly performed
than in Georgian days, when hours were spent in the
process of dressing. It is refreshing and it is har¬
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feeling fresh and comfortable, ready for anything
not, as her Georgian ancestress, afraid to move
quickly or naturally lest she injure the effect so
laboriously acquired by the careful and losurely
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TF Miss Gertrude Jennings could only spin a plot as
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stage-work we should get from her ! As it is, we have
always to be content with something less than a full-
length play, with a
scheme that is con- •—___
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holes and shows obvious
signs of padding. Take
her latest effort, “ Love
Among the Paint-Pots ";
it has moments of the
richest fun, it contains
at least half - a - dozen
low - life types which
have quite a Dickensian
comicality, and much of V|
its dialogue is irresistibly
droll; but, alas ! there
must be a story, and
sentiment too. and a C*! ./- i/f
sentimental hero, if Mr.
Owen Nares is to figure
in it, and there Miss Jen- y/JBf
nings’s weakness shows
itself. She can devise
the most screaming situ¬
ations for a comedienne
of Miss Sydney Fair-
brother's quaint type: a wjf
watch this artist in the |
role of a woolly-brained _
spinster scrambling „p, CAL 0F
through a window or „
diving under a table in ° F DEVAS ™TION SCENE
search of a lost cigarette- L h “ ***" done towards re
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' '. ® t * examples of wrecked houses,
ing a tno of excited
listeners in an attempt to explain a mystery, and you
will shriek with laughter over her acrobatics in the
one scene and her triumph of fatuity in the other ;
and it is Miss Jennings who has given her this biggest
opportunity in her career. The playwright can even
hit off the modem flapper to the life—you will like
Miss Joan Maclean in the part, notwithstanding a
little too whining a note. But when it comes to
creating a hero, the author's resources will not run to
the job. Her young Arthur has a mania for self-
sacrifice, for taking other persons' crimes on his •
shoulders, and so has always to be telling his forward
little sweetheart that he cannot explain who he is or
what he has done. A sad business this for the dashing
Mr. Nares ; his Arthur's kisses come too late to save
him from seeming ridiculous. Fortunately, there are
the paper-hangers, to whom Mr. Edward Rigby and
Mr. Roy Byford give full-blooded humour ; for¬
tunately, Miss Dora Gregory and Miss Mary Brough,
as village " cats," have a delightful quarrel scene,
TYPICAL OF THE HAVOC TO BE RESTORED IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BATTLE-AREAS: A COMPOSITE MODEL
OF DEVASTATION SCENES IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS—SHOWN AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE WAR EXHIBITION.*
Much has been done towards reconstructing the devastated areas in France and Flanders, but much still remains to be accomplished,
a ve m , ra l e Imperial War Museum's Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, does not represent any single town, but shows typical
examples of wrecked houses, churches, bridges, and factories .—[Imperial War Museum Official Photograph. Crown Copyright resen-ed.\
xplain a mystery, and you rendered with infinite gusto. And, of course, there moves them for her in o
ver her acrobatics in the are the " turns ” of Miss Sydney Fairbrother, worth fable has a delightful ai
‘ atUlty , m the other; going miles to see. Let us be grateful for the good seem nature : Miss Cat!
has given her this biggest things. with her part, and gives
The playwright can even t r - ° hich
to the life—-you .-ill iik. SWEET W 1 LUAM." AT THE SHAFTESBURY. ‘L^e TuTy put, aria
™> twlthsta nding a There are sufficient turns of humour in the scheme Miss Susie Vaughan lend
liut when it comes to and sufficient wit in the dialogue to make Mr. Keble to the aunt and Miss I
s resources will not run to Howard’s " Sweet William." fantastic story of sen- style wins many a laugh 1
ur has a mama for self- timent though it is, a very agreeable entertainment, charwoman.
and it certainly has the recommendation of bein?
beautifully acted. The author, there is no denying
makes heavy claims on his audience’s capacity for
make-believe ; those who are to enjoy his play must
be prepared for " love at first sight " proceeding to
most extravagant lengths. A chance encounter with
a girl at his studio door is enough to fire the armless
hero, after a single call on her aunt, into storming h«
bed-room and commencing a courtship as ardent
as Romeo’s; while the girl herself, in the midst
of discouraging remon-
■““'“■“““““"“““■““““I strances, outdoes Juliet
by telling the young
madman where he can
find the ladder which
^ , , V , r . will bring him to her
,, -'j; t j I % i Aj deed, is not only the
i aptest of pupils in the
3 becomes an ardent pre-
selyte in Love’s service,
) f cousin almost on her
pjfc-to ^ throw
v. hearted a votary of
__ Cupid deserved that
any obstacles to the
progress of her own
---— i — J romance — to wit, lack
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pk. Crown Copyright reserved. \ be promptly removed,
and the playwright re¬
moves them for her in one magnificent sweep. The
fable has a delightful actress to make its artifice
seem nature : Miss Cathleen Nesbitt does wonders,
with her part, and gives life and an air of sincerity
to every scene in which the heroine figures. Mr.
George Tully puts ardour into his love-making;
Miss Susie Vaughan lends quite a lot of character
to the aunt; and Miss Pollie Emery’s broad comic
style wins many a laugh for the sallies of the artist’s
charwoman.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921 —658
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14, 1921 —660
THE FATE Of EXPORTED HOHSt.S.-lConUmmaJ from ,.
As the Government restrictions ensure the animals
being reasonably sound, it seems that the phrase
“ VNorn-Out Horse Traffic ” is a misnomer.
Personally, I am of opinion that the humane
conduct of the traffic entirely depends on the integ¬
rity and competence of the Government inspectors.
U rests with them whether any cruelty is possible in
the export trade—at any rate on this side of the water.
Judging from the official Report made by Mr.
Peacev (Veterinary Inspector) to the
Secretary of the Ministry of Agricul- _
tv-i«. and Fisheries, the condition of
horses landed at Antwerp and Rotter-
dam in February’ last was only fairly > f 2 j
good. Making due allowance for
kicks and other accidents in transit,
there w’erc some bad cases from the | f [M Wlfl
northern ports, such as Hull and kBEXHI
Goole, and, as he remarks, " any 1 ^ 0^403
cause for horses having to be
slaughtered immediately on their
arrival should be eliminated at Eng- J
lish ports—namely, grease and skin,
trouble—because, until the real reason
is understood, it is apt to create a
wrong impression or cast a slur on
the standard of fitness adopted by
the veterinary inspectors at English
ports.” The Report further states
that at Rotterdam the testing of ani¬
mals for lameness is not usually
carried out, and the process of select- _
ing animals for slaughter is based
only on physical appearance. This
would not appear to be of great
moment, however, as oo per cent. _
are slaughtered for food within a few
days of arrival. No - 1 For .< he
Judging from what I saw at the Tabl ^ E
Custom House Quay, there is little jntp x centlm(
chance of doubtful cases going from provisional star
southern ports, whatever may lie the overprin
case in the north, and l am of opinion,
after some years' experience (as Remount Officer) of
embarkation and transport of horses by sea. that as
regards the veterinary examination, the horse-sheds
and ship fittings, and the feeding and watering
arrangements during transit, the arrangements are
satisfactory.
In conclusion. I might add that in the six months
Sept. I-’, 1920. to March 12, 1021, no fewer than
39,893 horses were passed for shipment abroad. It
is, 1 think, agreed that everywhere the export of
old horses has been improved, as regards condi¬
tions, to an extent scarcely yet realised, although
(to quote the Report again) " there is undoubtedly
scope for raising the standard of horses shipped
from the northern ports.” The conclusion arrived
at is that, ” if this were done, it would be difficult
for any society to attack the Ministry on the
charge of cruelty’. The whole case would then
resolve itself into trading in working horses as
permitted by the Act of 1914, but it would not
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Office • (left to right) the 5 centimes green. 10c. carmine, and 15c. brown, converted by surcharging
into 20 centimes stamps.-No. 5. A Dutch stamp surcharged: the 4!,c. lilac converted into a 4c.
provisional stamp.-Nos. b. 7 and 8. D'Annunzio stamps used up at Fiume: three of the sixteen
overprinted " Govemo Provvisorio.'' \Slamps supplied (>v F. J. Melville, 110 , Strand, lf’.Ci.l
t Officer) of stop the slaughter of working horses for food by surcharging
sea. that as the Belgians.” Lionkl Edwards. wasthoughl
horse-sheds " - -- Fiume afte
id watering Now that the cricket season is in full swing, there would
;ements are devotees of the game will frequently need to turn of his reger
for information to that old and trusted oracle, ” John up the stoc
: six months Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack.” The new edition trait by can
fewer than for 1921, edited by Sydney H. Pardon, includes tion of the
abroad. It scores and bowling analyses of all important matches reads “ Goa
e export of played in 1920, and a portrait of Mr. P. F. Warner. to sixteen c
THE CULT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP
BY PRHD J. MELVILLE.
T HE stamps of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force,
used by our British administration in Palestine
during the latter part of the war, have been con¬
tinued in use under the new regime with a tri lingual 1
overprint reading ” Palestine ” in English, Arabic, and
Hebrew. These have already been illustrated and
described in these pages, but the same E.E.F. stamps
have also been over - printed for the new State
of Trans - Jordania. A few months
ago some British political officers were
sent across the J ordan to establish a
provisional Arab Government east of
Palestine, and it is in connection with
this embryo State that the E.E.F.
stamps have been over-printed with
I an Arabic inscription signifying “ East
of Jordan.” Post offices have been
established in this territory at Irhid,
Ajulan, Es Salt, Amman, Madeba, and
■ ^ . *** Kerak. There are eleven values from
1 millifcme to 20 piastres, and the over¬
print is in black, except for that on
wrjrjgri the 1 piastre indigo stamp, which is
Uljjl 1 a silver over-print.
The Belgian post office having large
quantities of the recent Olympic Games
issue left over, and finding a heavily
increased demand for stamps of 20 cen¬
times denomination, have surcharged
the commemorative set. The original
issue comprised the 5c. + 5c: green,
ioc. -F 5c. carmine, and 15c. + 5c.
brown, then being sold in each case at
5 centimes over their postal franking
__ value to raise funds for the Belgian
wounded. Each of these three stamps
mp overprinted has heen converted into a 20 centimes
he Belgian Post stamp by means of surcharging. The
by surcharging * y .... , .. ,
rted Into a 4c surcharge is in black on the 10c. + 5c.
ot the sixteen carmine, and in red on the other two
IV.C.2.1 values. A provisional 4 cent, stamp
has been issued in Holland, created by-
surcharging the 4JC. lilac with a large” 4C ” in red. It
was thought that when Gabriele d’Annunziasurrcndcred
I'iume after the celebrated battle of Christmas last,
there would be an end to the quaint issues of stamps
of his regency. But the autonomous Fiume has used
up the stock of the stamps bearing d’Annunrio’s por¬
trait by cancelling the poet’s effigy with the superscrip¬
tion of the Provisional Government. The over-print
reads ” Governo Provvisorio,” and has been applied
to sixteen of the stamps of the d’Annunzio issue.
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
The Price of " e are now b** n 8 treated to an
Petrol. object - lesson in the practical
application of Sir Marcus Samuel’s
famous dictum that the price of petrol is what it will
fetch. By a severe process of experiment, the petro¬
leum "combines ” have arrived at an exact appreciation
of the price the motorist can be induced to pay for
his fuel, and apparently the price has been fixed in
accordance with the discovery, and looks like remain¬
ing as the one stable thing in the midst
of instability. There is no reason in r~ ——
the world, save the greed of gain, why
the price of petrol should not be
substantially reduced forthwith. The
Motor quotes some rather interesting,
not to say almost startling, figures
bearing on the cost of the motorists’
fuel—figures which are well worth
keeping in mind. A fortnight ago, the
price of Diesel oil fell from £10 to £o
per ton, and bunker oil, used for
steam-raising, was reduced from £7 to
£4 tos. per ton. At the end of last
year, the price of Diesel oil was £16-
£17, and of bunker oil, £i3-£i4 per
ton. That is to say, while the prices
of the heavy oils have been reduced
by 60 per cent, to 70 per cent., the
cost of petrol to the consumer has
remained unaltered since the end of
last year. I suppose that if the com¬
bines were seriously tackled about the
profiteering they are undoubtedly
carrying on at the expense of the
jietrol-user, they would have some -
iron or less washable excuse ready to ECONOMY II
hand. But on the figures there seems
to be no conscionable reason at all for The subject of
maintaining the price of petrol at its Messrs. C. H.
present inordinate figure. I am afraid " Senspray ” C<
that nothing will have effect but the “ Atco ” M
healthy competition ; but where that possessing an a
is to come from is not at all apparent. Withm an hou
ILLUST RATED LONDON' N EWS, May 11 , Htt
the Motor Owners' Petrol Combine, which owned
certain wells in Galicia, used a solution of cochineal
1 for colouring its petrol. So far as 1 know, no ill
1 effects resulted from its* use, though it might quite
s possibly be different if aniline or mineral colouring
1 matters were used. Even the concern 1 have men¬
tioned was not the pioneer of coloured motor spirit.
1 Before 1909, the Austrian Government used a pink
r colouring matter—probably cochineal—to differen-
n tiate between free and taxed petrol. In those days,
spirit used commercially was free of duty, while that
ECONOMY IN LAWN-MOWING: A DEMONSTRATION OF THE ATCO MOTOR MOWER
IN REGENTS PARK.
The subject of our illustration is a new and extremely simple motor lawn-mower, the production of
Messrs. C. H. Pugh, Ltd., the Birmingham firm of motor engineers, and manufacturers of the famous
■’ Senspray ” Carburetter. The idea of applying motor power to a lawn-mower is not new. but certainly
the “ Atco ” Motor presents many new features, and at a price that brings it within the reach of anyone
possessing an area of lawn no larger than a couple of tennis courts. Its design embodies twelve patents.
Within an hour or so it does work that would take two men and a horse a day or two, and is very
easy to operate.
_ , , D . - What extraordinary ideas some
people evolve ! One of the latest
daily newspaper discoveries is that in future all our
petrol is to be of some distinctive colour or other,
in order that we may be able to see at a glance
whether we are getting the grade we are paying for,
or whether the wicked garage-keeper is trying to
swindle us. As a matter of fact, the idea is not at
all a new one. Before the war, a concern known as
used in private cars was subject to tax ; so, as the
easiest way out, the Government decreed the use of
the pink dye.
As an abstract idea, there is something to com¬
mend itself about the use of dyes, particularly in
view of the growth of the bulk-storage system. The
motorist is very much in the hands of the petrol
seller when he obtains his supplies from the kerb-side
pump installation, and though I should say that by far
the greater percentage of traders are perfectly ho&est ■
in their representation of what the tank contauu, I
there is a sufficiency of unprincipled dealers to mah I
some safeguard desirable. If that safeguard is to bt ■
found in coloured petrol, by all means let it U ■
adopted. I
Special Cars in T. hcre haS *** a '<* * I
Competitions. d j sc ? sslon atcly on the sub )ttt |
of special cars in hill-climb ■
and competitions, mostly apropos the sensational I
performances of a certain air-cooled cycle-car. The I
question of freak cars in compeh- I
■ ' tions has always been a vexed m, I
and one for which it is difficult to I
find a satisfactory solution, li H I
were thoroughly and generally under- 1
stood that certain cars which achieve
marvellous speeds on the track or
up well - known hills were radical
departures from their maker’s stan
dard practice, all would be well, and
nobody could object to their being
driven purely as a matter of sport.
The trouble, however, is that a verv |
large section of the public is allowed,
by implication at least, to rest in the
belief that some of the startling per¬
formances are actually made by cars
which arc standard productions.
Cars are purchased on the faith
of freak performances, and much
disappointment naturally results. Of
course, the purchaser has himself
to blame, because it ought to be
perfectly obvious to him that no
standard car is or can be capable
- of doing what these freaks habitually
)TOR MOWER achieve.
It has been suggested that the
ie production of clubs promoting sporting events
s of the famous should confine their entries to abso-
:w. but certainly lutely standard vehicles. This I do
reach of anyone not bold to be a practical solution,
s twelve patents. because of the tremendous difficulty
wo, and is very that must arise in defining the precise
meaning of ” standard.” Strictly and
literally, it means a car exactly as it is delivered by
maker to purchaser; and if we are going to restrict
all sporting events to such cars, we shall not be able
to take entries at all, for the reason that nobody
who takes part in sporting events runs his car as be
received it from the makers. He adds a " gadget ”
here, and takes away something there, until, although
the essentials remain unaltered, the car is not strictly
"standard.” W. W.
NEW PRICE UST SENT ON APPUCATION.
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“ CLINCHER ” TYRES
Clincher Cross
Covers
815 x 105
820 x 120
880 x 120
895 x 135
Prices
Oct. 14. 1920
£11 8 3
12 14 9
13 16 9
16 1 9
New Prices
April 3ft, 1921
£7 15 3
9 6 3
10 1 9
11 7 6
The consistent reduction in the selling prices of
Clincher Tyres consequent upon the decreased cost of
raw materials is one of the leading factors in the
reduction of motoring costs.
Progressive improvements during 50 years practical
experience have resulted in the high degree of road
efficiency proved everywhere to be the outstanding
feature of
NORTH BRITISH
Motor TYRES
_THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 14. 1921 —663
THIS ENTHUSIASTIC LETTER ABOUT THE
h.p.
BRISTLES WITH POINTS OF IMPORTANCE
FOR PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS:-
„ I . , , . MARCH h 1921.
1 leel l must wnte to tell you how pleased I am with
the 8 h.p. Rover 1 bought from you some months ago.
It has been in constant use, and is running at present
better than when new. The consumption of petrol
works out at about 45 rn.p.g., while its hill-climbing
properties on top gear are simply astounding ... it
does not overheat ... It is undoubtedly the best
value in its class ...”
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12 H.P. COUPE .. .. £875
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I HE ILl.lSTKATELL LONDON NEWS, Mav 14 , 1921.—664
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THE HORSE AS COMRADE AND FRIEND
T HE general reader who happens on " The Horse.
as Comrade and Friend ” (Hutchinson), by
Mr. Everard K. Calthrop, will make a great mis¬
take if he puts it back on the shelf with the idea
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with the fullest detail, his method of handling and
training young horses. The love of them, and success
m breaking them in, has been, he tells us, the posses¬
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ranting him in the belief that his own powers are
hereditary. Lord Lonsdale, in a prefatory page or
two, endorses his views on breaking, and the late
In Messrs. Harrods’ advertisement of Stainta
Steel Sheffield Cutlery that appeared in our issue ^
April 30, the Electro-Plate Spoons and Forks »wt
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AT THE GATE TO THE UNKNOWN : ROSITA FORBES ON CAMEL-BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MYSTERIOUS
KUFARA —IN THE DISTANCE THE SALT LAKE AND MOUNTAINS OF BUSEIMA.
Rosita Forbes has the distinction of being the first white woman to penetrate to I together with an article from her pen, and a map of the approximate route she
the mysterious home of the Senussi in the oases of Kufara, far in the heart of J followed. The above photograph was taken beside the salt lake of Buseima, an
outlying oasis of the Kufara group. Here she was at the gateway of the unknown,
for Kufara itself lay beyond the mountains seen in the background. The full
story of the adventures of Mrs. Forbes is to be published in “Cassell’s Magazine."
PHOTOGRAPH SUPPLIED BY Mbs. K 08 IT A FoKUES. (S«H OTHER PACBS IN THIS ISSUK.)
the Libyan desert. Her daring and hazardous adventure has won for her recog- i
nition as a leading explorer, and a personal interview with the King and Queen. 1
On several later pages in this number we illustrate incidents of the journey ; |
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21, 1921 t>t>6
W HILE being what many would call a fanatic
for the French alliance, 1 cannot bring
myself to admire the suggestion, recently made
in some journalistic quarters, that we should alter
such names as that of Waterloo Station, out of
delicacy towards the French. If once the memory
of a national victory is to be regarded as an inter¬
national insult, France herself would have to apo¬
logise to nearly every country in Europe. There
is scarcely a city on the Continent the French
have not entered in triumph ; there is scarcely
a flag in the civilised world that the French have
not hung on their temples or their triumphal
arches ; there is scarcely a kingdom or a province
that has not the name of a French victory that
might be or is the name of a Paris street. If
such a reminder to the victors is a reproach to
the vanquished, England, as well as Europe, has
a right to complain of the monuments of France.
Every statue of Joan of Arc is a memorial of
English defeat. 1
am not sure, on the
same principles, that
we might not com¬
plain of the sneering
insolence of our
American friends, in
having dared to give
their capital the
name of Washing¬
ton. There is, at
the same time, a not
uninteresting differ¬
ence between Wash¬
ington and Water¬
loo. Washington is
rather like Wash¬
ington ; and Water¬
loo is not in the
least like Waterloo.
Washington as a
city is conceived in
a classic spirit, still
full of the eight¬
eenth century and
the great gentleman
of the Revolution.
By deliberately ex¬
cluding the com¬
mercial elements of
America from the
political capital of
America, the Ameri¬
cans have really suc¬
ceeded in planning
out a place that is
not unworthy of
such a name. I can
imagine an Ameri¬
can walking in some
of those stately
avenues, or w’here a
gTOve of trees, I
fancy, once bore the
great name of Jef¬
ferson, really feel¬
ing spontaneously
something of the
spirit of the Fathers
of the Republic. I can less easily imagine a
tourist, waiting for a train in Waterloo Station,
spontaneously feeling his soul uplifted with all
the trumpets of the last charge at Waterloo.
The emotions which most of us have felt, when
waiting for a train, were not invariably and ex¬
clusively intoxicated with the madness of patriotic
vainglory. The particular architecture of Waterloo
Station has never inspired me personally with
the fiery ecstasy of the laurel and the sword.
I do not think it does any harm to the station of
Waterloo to give it such a name as that of the
field of Waterloo. Whether it is quite fair to the
field of Waterloo to erect to it such a monument
as the station of Waterloo might be another
question. In short, if we, the English, did really
desire to glorify the memory of the battle, it
would seem that we have adopted a rather dingy
and ineffectual way of doing it. We have never
L^ei. verv fortunate with our public monuments,
and this would certainly seem to be one of the
le.i<t Miritious. The great figure on the Colonne
de Vendfiine can afford to smile at the artistic
effort
Br G. K. CHESTERTON.
But there is another reform, connected with
the same set of ideas, which l would very respect¬
fully urge as a substitute. 1 fear it is a much more
radical and even revolutionary reform than the
alteration of a name connected with the defeat
of Napoleon. It is that we should leave off
talking nonsense about Napoleon, and especially
talking nonsense against Napoleon. It is. that
instead of bothering about whether a large rail¬
way shed is named after the battle of Waterloo,
we should actually try to learn something about
the battle of Waterloo, and about the real merits
and demerits of the European adventure which
finally failed there. So drastic and even dramatic
a change in our historical habits is certainly more
of an undertaking than the alteration of a lug¬
gage label from Waterloo to Stockholm or Brest-
Litovsk, or some name which our Pacifists might
prefer. Men will certainly not forget Waterloo
any more than they will forget Napoleon ; and, since
we cannot forget them, we are almost driven back
on the desperate expedient of understanding them.
In looking over a large number of English
articles and essays touching Napoleon and the
recent celebration of the centenary, I was aston¬
ished to find how insular, and even ignorant,
our national tradition still is on the subject. So
far as moral atmosphere is concerned, nothing
seems to have changed. Bonaparte is still Boney.
Nobody denies his genius now ; but nobody
denied it then. Even those whose very natural
emotions at the moment made them insist that
he was a great tyrant, a great murderer, a great
monster, did not dispute that he was a great
man. But what he was doing, what he was
driving at, why he was what he was, and what
the whole terrific business was all about, none of
us seems to have had any notion then, and none
of us seems to have any notion now. What is
wanted is not glorification of Napoleon, still less
glorification of him as a demi-god. which is even
worse than denunciation of him as a demon.
What is wanted is a calm and candid consideration
of him as a historical human being, and of thr
things he stood for, which were much more im¬
portant than himself. This is the one thing that
nobody will u» for Napoleon ; and the trick by
which his reasonable fame still suffers is simple
enough.
The trick consists of first artificially attiring;
him in all the terrors of a superman, and on that
ground denying him the rights of a man. Some¬
body said the devil was a gentleman ; and some¬
body else said that Napoleon was not a gentleman.
The trick consists in expressing surprise that he
•was not a gentleman, when we have settled-to our
own satisfaction that he was the devil. But if
we need sanity touching Napoleon in his personal
aspect, we need it much more in his public aspect.
For the things for which Napoleon really fought
were the very contrary of those cloudy aDd
fatalistic things with which his legends have been
clothed. If ever a
man stood for the
strong southern sun
against the clouds
and the confusing
twilight, it was he.
What Napoleon
stood for was com¬
mon • sense — It bvn
sens franqais. That
French common-
sense can sometimes
be cruel, but never
fatalistic. It de¬
spises dooms and
omens and heredi¬
tary curses and
chosen races, and
all the superstitious
necessitarianism of
the North. In short,
he stood for French
freedom, and in this
sense for French
free thought. But.
if there was another
thing he stood for.
it was French re¬
spectability. He re¬
presented a msfss of
customs and con¬
ceptions of which
his English enemies
seemed to know no¬
thing and his Eng¬
lish admirers to
know less. His laws
cannot be under¬
stood without the
French key of do¬
mesticity. All bis
legislation and social
reform revolved
round the very thing
which all our legis¬
lation and social re¬
form are seeking to
destroy—the family.
It was the very- re¬
verse of what we call grandmotherly legislation, but
it might in one sense be called legislation for grand¬
mothers. The central figure of its family council
was that terrible person the French grandmother.
If Napoleon was not always a Christian, he was
always a pagan, and what paganism would call a
pious pagan. He understood the thing that so
many French poets express, the veneration of the
soil and the invocation of the dead. In all this he
was doubtless merely the leader of Latin culture .
and all the more because all forms of that culture
are rooted in the form we call agriculture. It
desires the human family to stand on its own feet,
within the frontiers of its own land. With that
object it was revolutionary. With that object it
is conservative. And if we had no other Tcason
for understanding all these ideals, of which that
Southern soldier was merely the instrument, it
might be worth our while to discover why at this
moment France alone speaks in as firm a tone *°
Russian anarchs as to Prussian autocrats. * c
French Revolution cannot be understood, till we
realise that it is exactly where the Jacobins , *’ rut
that the Bolshevists cannot follow.
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WEARING THE RIBAND OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH: THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN AT THE GUILDHALL.
REPLYINC TO THE CITY'S ADDRESS.
On May 11 the Crown Prince of Japan, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, drove in state from Buckingham Palace to the Guildhall,
where he was presented by the Lord Mayor with an Address of Welcome in a gold casket (illustrated on another page). He replied
in Japanese, reading from a great white scroll, and Count Chinda translated. Behind him, to the left, are the Lord Mayor and Lady
Mayoress. To the right of the table are seen in the front row (from left to right) the Prince of Wales, Prince Kan’in, the Duke of York,
and the Duke of Connaught. Afterwards the Crown Prince was entertained to lunch at the Mansion House.— [Photograph bv AI fieri.)
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INCIDENTS.
THE NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR S ARRIVAL :
MR. HARVEY ON BOARD THE " AQUITANIA.”
THE “ D’ANNUNZIO " OF POLAND: M. KORFANTY (CENTRE), LEADER
OF THE REVOLT IN UPPER SILESIA.
DENOUNCER OF " THE WORLD CONSPIRACY " :
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
KORFANTYS IRREGULARS IN UPPER SILESIA: AN AMMUNITION PARTY, TYPICAL
OF THE FORCES OF THE POLISH INSURRECTION IN THAT COUNTRY.
THE SITUATION IN UPPER SILESIA WHICH PROMPTED MR. LLOYD GEORGES
SPEECH : KORFANTY S MEN PREPARED FOR A STREET ATTACK.
IRISH ELECTIONS : A D.M.P. INSPECTOR READ- A "ROUND-UP" BY THE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY: SUSPECTED
1NG LISTS AT THE COURT HOUSE, DUBLIN. MEN BEING INTERROGATED IN A QUARRY IN THE WICKLOW HILLS
The new United States Ambassador, the Hon. George Harvey, who recently
arrived in the " Aquitania,” was received by the King at Buckingham Palace on
May 12, when he presented his Letter of Credence. Mr. Harvey, who is well
known and popular in this country, is heartily welcome here, and gives every
promise of maintaining the high traditions of his office. Like many of his
predecessors, he has had literary associations. - The Duke of Northumberland
made a strong speech at a meeting at the House of Commons recently against
the international Communistic movement, whose chief aim, he said, is the
IRISH ELECTIONS : (L. TO R.) FATHER LYNCH,
MISS O’CONNELL, AND MRS. GIFFORD WILSON,
destruction of the British Empire. In particular, he denounced the policy of the
Miners’ Federation. - Mr. Lloyd George’s recent speech on Poland and Upper
Silesia caused disquiet in France, and it was expected that the Allied Premiers
would shortly meet again, at Boulogne or Lympne, to discuss the question. The
Poles in Upper Silesia, It may be recalled, revolted under the leadership of
M. Korfanty, the dismissed member of the Plebiscite Commission. M. Briand,
the French Premier, has expressed strong opposition to any suggestion of
Germany’s being allowed to use troops to restore order.
tittt THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Mav 21. 1921
OLYMPIA RE-ECHOES THE WAR-THUNDERS OF 19 | ( |bL 0 W
Drawn by ou» Speoai. .*j
Spu««
THE ROYAL ENGINEERS FIGHT THEIR BATTLES OVER AGAIN: DESTROY^
AN EPISODE IN THE R° YA
It was arranged to open the Royal Tournament at Olympia on May 19. One of the most striking and realistic episodes is a representation, by the Royal Enginee^^
incident that took place during the retreat of 1914 —in the early stages of the war—the destruction of a bridge orer a canal near Soissons. The enemy attacked
wor |t was completed, and the Engineers laid their charge under protection from the infantry guarding the crossing. The demolition was successfully carried out.
When
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21 , 1921.--669
DWING
Spurrirr, R.O.I.
UP A BRIDGE IN THE
ROYAL TOURNAMENT.
A CANAL BRIDGE NEAR SOISSONS DURING THE RETREAT OF 1914-
TOURNAMENT AT OLYMPIA.
British rear-guard troops had retired over the bridge, it was blown up just as the enemy were attempting to rush' it. and our barrage fell among the German troops. In the
tf 1 illustration, a British shell .is seen bursting in the foreground among the enemy. On the extreme left in the background is seen the rear-guard of the British force retiring
^ *fter the destruction of the bridge.— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.]
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21. 14121.—670
POLO AS A CROWD-COMPELLING GAME: HURLINGHAM RIVALS LORD’S.
Photographs hv Topical, C.N., avt* I..N.A.
SUBSTITUTE FOR LORD ROCKSAVAGE AFTER HIS INJURY:
MR. TRAILL (CENTRE) OVERTAKING MR. HITCHCOCK.
J RIDING WITH A SHEEPSKIN SADDLE-CLOTH : MR. J. A. E. TRAILL |» ^
• ! ON THE RIGHT) TAKING THE BALL FROM MR. C. C. RUMSEY. j*
,_«j ™ E HURLINGHAM TEAM: (L. TO R.) MR. BUCKMASTER, MAJOR |ii__ g
■ BARRETT, MR. TRAILL, AND THE DUKE OF PENARANDA. j*
A NOVEL METHOD OF CHANGING PONIES : THE DUKE OF PENAR- ^
ANDA TRANSFERRING FROM ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT ALIGHTING. ;S~
«_• BEF0RE ™ e START OF THE MATCH (AGAINST THE AMERICANS, i«_ #
• IN WHICH HE BROKE HIS COLLAR-BONE : LORD ROCKSAVA GE. j*
Hitherto, watching polo has been an amusement for the few, comparatively
speaking, but the great crowd at Hurlingham on Whit Monday, when the new
stands were used for the first time, indicates that the game bids fair to rival
cricket and football in its capacity to draw the multitude. The event of the
day was the defeat of the American International team by a Hurlingham team,
by 3 goals to 2 . The result was considered significant, as Hurlingham had been
beaten by the English team by 6 to 4 on the previous Saturday. An unfortunate
accident took place in the second period (or chukker), when Lord Rocksavage
collided with Mr. Milburn and, falling heavily, broke his collar-bone. He plucki y
played out the period, but was unable to continue, and his place was taken 1
Mr. Traill. The teams were as follows : America—Mr. C. C. Rumsey, No. 1 >
Mr. T. Hitchcock, No. 2 ; Mr. J. Watson Webb, No. 3 ; Mr. D. Milburn, b»<*.
Hurlingham—the Duke of Penaranda, No. 1 ; Major F. W. Barrett, No. 2 ; Mr.
Buckmaster, No. 3 ; Lord Rocksavage, back (replaced by Mr. Traill).
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NEWS. May 21, 1921.—u,*
OUR BUSY PRINCE: HIS JAPANESE GUEST; AND MANY VISITS.
I’hotot.rm-hs bv C.V., SruRT ,»vn Gkvkk.m. »vi> Sikm«.ht
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT SANDHURST: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS TAKING THE SALUTE
AS THE COMPANIES OF CADETS MARCHED PAST.
HIS FIRST VISIT TO CHRIST'S HOSPITAL AS ITS PRESIDENT : THE PRINCE
OF WALES WATCHING A MARCH-PAST OF THE “ BLUE-COAT ” BOYS.
A SYMBOLIC GIFT TO THE PRINCE FOR A CORNISH IN HONOUR OF DEVON’S 11/00 DEAD : THE PRINCE OF WALES AT EXETER, STANDING BEFORE
MANOR : " DOROTHY "—ONE OF A PAIR OF GREYHOUNDS. THE MEMORIAL CROSS WHICH HE HAD JUST UNVEILED ON ST. MARY MAJOR S GREEN.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT EXETER : H.R.H. (IN CENTRE) ON HIS WAY TO THE
CATHEDRAL AFTER RECEIVING AN ADDRESS AT THE GUILDHALL.
The Prince of Wales is indefatigable in the keeping of his multifarious engage¬
ments. On May u he gave a dinner at St. James’s Palace in honour of the
Crown Prince of Japan. - On the 12th he visited Christ’s Hospital at Horsham,
of which he is President, and lunched with the boys. With the Headmaster
IMr. W. Hamilton Fyfe), he watched a march-past of the school to the dining-
hall.-On the 13th he dined with the Crown Prince of Japan at the Japanese
Embassy.-On the 14th the Prince of Wales visited Sandhurst, where he
ENTERTAINING THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE GUEST : (L. TO R.) THE CROWN PRINCE OF
JAPAN, THE PRINCE OF WALES, PRINCE KAN'IN, AND THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.
inspected the addition made to the old chapel as a memorial to 4000 cadets
who fell in the war.-On the 16th he began his tour in the West Country,
as Duke of Cornwall, with a visit to Exeter, where he unveiled the war
memorial in honour of 11,600 fallen Devonians. It was arranged that at
Launceston, on May 25, instead of an address, various gifts symbolic of service
should be made to the Prince, including two greyhounds presented by Sir Hugh
St Aubyn for the manor of Elerkey (Veryanl.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21, 1921.- 672
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
else clamours for certain works, the
room reflects such clamour, But, as ;
is sober and adamant, unless reputa
marketable. In the same sale a J
Bosch, signed 1786, landscape with
and cattle at a stream, came up in
tion with a De I-outherbourg, more
than ordinary, with cottage, and cattle
at a stream. It is here, where cosi
points of view meet in the auction-rc
collectors grow wise in selection. H
came Richard Wilson, \
with his “ Woody
Landscape.’’ with figures
resting by a stream, to com¬
pare with foreign rivals.
Perhaps if the Royal Academy V
admitted foreign contemporary pic¬
tures. the public would learn to value coni
porary art. In the sale-rooms there are
rules excluding foreign competitors. H(
Christie's. Sotheby’s, and the rest
emporiums where the laurel wreatl
# placed on unrequited genius. The i\
* hammer is a severe test to modern
putations. but in the end great worl
recognised.
On the 13th. Messrs.
Simpson sold engravings and
formerly in the collection of .
Wollaston Franks, and some choice
ing aquatints.
Puttick and
etchings
Sir A.
? sport-
A portfolio of earlv title-
pages, some by W. Hollar, and a'collec-
were alluring,
was Constable’s
twenty-two plates
open letter proofs,
colours of London
by M. Dubourg after J. Pollard.
As to pictures, the statistics of the
sale-room outrival those of Copthall Court
in some of the startling jumps under the
hammer. There is the history of the two
Franz Hals pictures sold almost simul¬
taneously at public auction, the canvas
at Sotheby's and the small panel at
Christie’s, which together brought ^15,000,
bought back by the Dutch. It is in¬
credible to think that the Sotheby Hals
was bought in 1884 by Sir Russell Bailey
for something under five guineas.
tion of Tradesmen’s Cards,
In mezzo-tint, there
English Landscape,”
by David Lucas,
Four aquatints in
markets
were desirable. Ward’s "Thoughts on
Matrimony, after J. R. Smith, in colours,
and a set in colours, “ Shooting," by
Sutherland, after Westenholme, in aqua¬
tint, which were rare, obtained a fair
price. Perhaps collectors were too nig¬
gardly in regard to a set of Rowland*
son’s drawings. ” Plymouth,” ” Green¬
wich. ’ etc., and Blake’s drawings, in¬
cluding illustrations to” Rowley’s Poems, ’
deserved a better price. An eight-day
sale, commencing on May 25, by Messrs.
Sotheby, of the library of Sir John Arthur
Brooke, Bt., of Huddersfield, offers four
Shakespeare folios, and many rare works
on English poetry and literature. The
portions embracing Erasmus, Milton, and
Sir Thomas More arc noticeable, and cer¬
tain details of Mary Queen of Scots,
Henry Prince of Wale , the elder brother
of ( harles I., and of Charles I. and the
Stuarts in general, are noteworthy. ’’ The
Alphabet of Mary, Duchess of Burgundy,”
a series of finely executed drawings of the
letters A to Z in pen and ink, arc of
Gothic design, with figures of men and
women and animals introduced. Of
fifteenth-century work, presumably by the
hand of the Duchess of Burgundy, these
drawings form the first letter of a sen¬
tence in old French, in the same manner
as our modern children’s books—” A was
an Archer,” etc. With its contemporary
binding, this forms an alluring item. Of
comparatively modern volumes, Orme’s
” Collection of British Field Sports,
1807-8.” with its coloured plates, offers a
desirable acquisition. It is a rare sport¬
ing volume.
In restless times, in changing markets,
with the flotsam and jetsam of Continental
art floating into the London sale-rooms,
the collector is wise in his generation in
again coming in ” on the ground floor,”
as the stockbroker tersely puts it, when
he is on a good thing.
The promise of May in the sale-rooms
has not been unduly disappointing in a
sensitive market. The remaining sales
offer fine things. Messrs. Puttick and
Simpson, on the nth, sold modern pic¬
tures and water-colour drawings, the pro¬
perties of Clare, Countess Cowley, the late
Mr. H. S. Sutton, of Neath, and others.
A small water-colour drawing of Ely
Cathedral, signed by Girtin, only 4J by
7 in., was worthy of the name. Among
the older masters, a Dc Louthcrbourg, a
classical landscape, with waterfall and
figures in the foreground, was decorative.
It represented the acme of the classical
vogue—the ruined temple and the brown
tree which Turner inherited and killed
w’hen he visited Italy and found its land¬
scape as gloriously realistic as the Dindon
sunsets in a mist. But London, with her
fogs, made Turner the poet, and Italy
widened his outlook. ” A Madonna and
Child,” by J. Van Cleeve, sold for
^283. The Cleeves, or Clecfs, were an
artistic family. Joost Van Clcef has his
portraits at Berlin, his own portrait in
Lord Spencer’s collection at Althorp, and
the artist with his wife at Windsor. These
are all of middle sixteenth century. Jan
Van Cleef, a century later, followed De
(Taneyer, and approached the colouring
of vandyck. A signed Louis Verboeck-
hoven, a seascape representing Dutch fish¬
ing-boats, was an interesting canvas. " A
Hilly Landscape,” by J. Linncll, depicting
a passing storm, with a herdsman in smock
driving- cattle, brought the English school
into competition. John Linnell has never
really come into his own in landscape,
although his ” Noonday Rest ” hangs in
the Tate Gallery'. One- forgets that he
engraved in mezzotint after Varley and
Collins. Linncll digd in 1882. He has
his " Woodcutters,” and ” The Windmill ”
in the National Gallery, I.ondon. This
establishes his fame. In the sale-rooms
there is competitive cosmopolitan art, back¬
wards and forwards; it is pell-mell, *' here
and there a lusty trout, and here and
there a grayling.” Chronological order is
nothing around the baize tables. It is
simply the present monetary value of art,
without prejudice and without advertise¬
ment. It is just the exact stroke of the
pendulum as to outside demands. If
the public, or the art critic, or anybody
The Amherst collection of Egyptian
gods and Oriental antiquities occupies
five days in a sale at Messrs. Sotheby’s,
commencing on June 13. Egyptologists
arc agog at the dispersal. Museum autho¬
rities look askance at their thin purse.
American bidders are to the forefront.
This collection has been gathered to¬
gether, almost without price, by the late
Lord Amherst and his daughter, the late
Lady William Cecil. It is not the col¬
lection of a tyro, for in 1861 Lord Am¬
herst (then Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst)
bought the collection of the Rev. W.
Leidcr, of Cairo, of two hundred speci¬
mens. Since that date he and his
daughter have carried out extensive ex¬
cavations. The Amherst collection is
therefore noteworthy. Of Swawabti figures
there is an example only 9 in. high, but
exceptionally fine, as representing the
New Empire Theban art. Among a
wealth of rarities is a fine model of a
funerary boat, Thothmes II., in wood,
painted, with flying goose for figure¬
head. Here is a collection which, by
reason of its enthusiastic and wealthy
owners, has absorbed others, and stands
pre-eminent as a landmark in the
auction room.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 21 . 1921.—673
EDUCATION THROUGH THE EYE : FIGURES IN COSTUME USED AS PART OF
THE EQUIPMENT OF A JAPANESE SCHOOL.
THE CATERING SIDE OF JAPANESE SCHOOL LIFE : THE DINING-ROOM OF A GIRLS’
HIGH SCHOOL IN TOKYO.
THE CROWN PRINCE’S LITTLE COMPATRIOTS: YOUNG JAPAN AT SCHOOL
COMBINING ART WITH NATURAL HISTORY : GIRLS AT HOW JAPAN CULTIVATES ARTISTIC TASTE : A FINE REALISM IN THE LIFE CLASS : A MALE MODEL IN
A FTNh ART SCHOOL IN TOKYO DRAWING BIRDS. ART SCHOOL AT TOKYO STUDIES OF FLOWERS. A CLASS FOR GIRLS AT A TOKYO ART SCHOOL.
SITTING ON THE FLOOR AT A LOW TABLE.
HIGH SCHOOL AT A LOW TABLE BY AN OPEN WINDOW.
The visit of the Crown Prince of Japan to this country has stimulated interest
in everything connected with the island empire of the East. In a country which
has made such enormous strides in progress during the last half - century, the
subject of education must be of paramount importance. The above photographs
afford glimpses into the class-rooms of a Girls’ High School and the Fine Art
School in Tokyo, and, in comparing them with those of our own land, points
both of resemblance and of difference at once suggest themselves. There is a
general air of brightness, artistic taste, and airy spaciousness. It will be noted
that, in the High School, instead of desks or benches, the girls sit on the floor
at low tables. “The educational system,’’ says Mr. E. Bruce Mitfbrd in his
book, “Japan’s Inheritance,’’ “comprises the three orthodox grades, elementary,
middle, and higher, the commencing age in each case being 6, 12, and 17.”
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21, 1921.—674
By J. T. GREIN.
M Y great - grandfather, the renowned Dr.
Leonard Davids of Rotterdam — friend of
Jenner, along with whom he successfully fought the
battle for vaccination against small pox—was,
before Leipzig and Waterloo, Napoleon’s physician
in the Netherlands, and many were the tales which
1 heard from my grandfather, Dr. Thomas Davids,
the *' English doctor of Amsterdam.” In those
days, Talma, the great French actor, was Napoleon’s
constant companion ; he dragged him along in the
car of victory, and coerced the good people of
Saxony to listen to the heavy guns of ponderous
plays in verse of which Julius Caesar was the hero.
For Napoleon I., like his nephew Napoleon III.,
who wTote the great Roman’s life, doted on Caesar;
he pursued the cult to the degree of achieving
personal likeness, and countless were the jests
of cartoonists and rhymesters at the expense
of the Caesarian forelock. Talma, as every¬
body knows, was the son of a dentist, and
record hath it that when the father practised
in London, the son, the tragedian of the
future, learned the gentle art of pulling teeth.
Napoleon always remembered this, and at the
beginning of their friendship, when Talma
had scored in a play by “ Pixer^court "—a
Caesar play, of course—the Emperor went up
to him, embraced him, and quoted the famous
classic saying, ” Quel homme, quel dentiste—
pardon, artiste ! ” Talma frowned, and the
Emperor, feeling his gaffe at the wrong
moment, exclaimed ” Papperlapappe ! ” and de¬
tached the Legion of Honour from his breast,
pinning it on Talma’s. Henceforth these two
became fast friends, and Napoleon took lessons
from the actor in deportment and elocution, for
Napoleon was conscious of his angularity and
his raucous Corsican voice, and he envied the
actor his regal demeanour. One day Talma,
putting him through his paces, said somewhat
petulantly to him : " Your Majesty is very
clumsy to-day.” And Napoleon, whom every¬
body except a grenadier approached in fear and
trembling, simply replied : 4 ‘ You are forgetting
yourself, but then, even an Emperor must grin
arid bear it when the ‘ forceps ’ come near him.”
And he did his best to do exactly what Talma
wanted.
Another interesting detail anent Napoleon was
handed down by my grandsire. Soon after
Napoleon’s death, the leading actor of Holland,
Jelgerhuis, appeared in a tragedy of which the
Petit Caporal was the hero. The scene was laid
in th“ <*arlv days of the New Empire. Jelgerhuis
portray.- n.'m as a grand figure without a smile—
r best he allowed the hero to curve his lip in that
•.percilious manner wh ; ch ever since has become
the sole attribute of humour in Napoleon-charac¬
terisations on the stage. Even Guitry, Bouw-
me .ster, and Irving never
permitted Napoleon to
smile like an ordinary
human being. But Dr.
Davids knew better. He
went on the stage (for he
was also physician to
the National Theatre)
and said : ” My dear J.,
capital, capital ; but for
God’s sake smile !—the
great Napoleon had a
sense of humour and the
smile of a child. Don’t
you know that it was
that smile of his which
captivated Marie Louise
when she saw his picture,
and prompted her to
defy her father, the Em¬
peror Joseph, when he
opposed the match of the
Hapsburg daughter to
the upstart from Corsica ?
‘ H a le beau sourire,’ said
she, ” et je l’accepte.”
Jelgerhuis after that cul
tivated that " beautiful
smile ” ; but, as he him¬
self was a very stern per¬
sonage, accustomed to
heroic verse, classic poses,
and lionising by all
around him, the Dutch
nicknamed him "Napo¬
leon with the vinegary
smile ”—tejftually, " Na¬
poleon who smiles as if
lie were sipping vine¬
gar.” But the tradition
survives, and the world is still waiting for a
stage Napoleon w'ho does not grin, nor wear a
forelock, nor clap his hand at all times in the
lapel of his coat.
When Mr. Keble Howard avoids being sancti¬
monious, as in the absurd scene of the second
A WIFE WITH A GUILTY SECRET: MISS EVA
MOORE AS LADY MARLOW, AND MR. NORMAN
McKINNEL AS SIR PHILIP MARLOW, IN "A MATTER
OF FACT," AT THE COMEDY THEATRE.
Lady Marlow has refused her husband’s request that she should
call on a divorced woman, although, as it turns out, she has
a blot on her own past. Under pressure of blackmail, she
confesses to Sir Philip, who, unknown to her, has already
discovered her secret
Photograph by Stage Photo Co.
act of ” Sweet William,” he is most amusing.
The author of that parochial little classic of
suburban humour, ” The Smiths of Surbiton,”
has an observation of a peculiar kind, and a way
of expressing his ” vistas ” of life which is irre¬
sistible. You cannot quite describe his humour;
it is not exactly coruscating, nor is it germane to
epigrams and play on and with words. It is just
cosy, with a merry twinkle of mockery at middle-
class people and ideas in the comer of the eye.
So ” Sweet William ” is a delightful play, delight¬
fully acted by that fine comedian, George Tully,
who ran to fame in “ General Post,” and pleased
every good Englishman by his grit, power, and
restraint, and every woman because he is at once
so male, so well-mannered, and so natural. I
wish I could bum the same incense before Miss
Cathleen Nesbitt, who, for some reason, ever
since her d6but has been the spoilt child of some
critics, who can do no wrong. There is a great
deal of talent in Miss Cathleen Nesbitt, but I fear
it is not always rightly applied. I know at least
one play which for me was spoilt by Miss Nesbitt.
That was ” The Romantic Age,” when she suc¬
ceeded Miss Barbara Hoffe—who was all fairy¬
tale and charm—and portrayed the girl on
the lines of the enigmatic young lady of
“ A Grain of Mustard Seed.” Miss Nesbitt,
apart from the fact that she has yet to learn
to stand and move unforcedly, cultivates a
smile a la Baudelaire (she may have never
heard of him) which pleases the high-brows,
and irritates the normal mind ; she displays,
in a simple little character like the girl in
” Sweet William,” a certain preciousness—
which again captivates her admirers, but
seems to jar when wedded to a very simple,
human text. To put it all in a nutshell,
Miss Nesbitt must neither play Shakespeare
(oh ! her Jessica !) nor light little plays of
our even-minded middle-class as if they were
fraught with deep meanings, problem plaj-s
with a vengeance and veiled in mysticism.
Let her be her owp young, girlish self, and
she will disarm criticism, which in these days
too often is mere “ adjectives and lather.”
Michael Orme is putting the finishing touch
to her adaptation of “ Femina,” the Dutch comedy
by Doctores van Rossum and Soesman, which,
after a phenomenal run in Holland, had the dis¬
tinction of being accepted by the leading theatres
of the principal Continental countries, and rejected
by at least ten managers and stars in London.
So it will be a case of “ wait and see,” when
Miss Gwladys Morris presents it at a matinee on
behalf of a charity to be selected by Dame Lloyd
George. English by birth, Miss Gwladys Morris,
after much excellent work at home, made her
name in America, at the Little Theatre of Boston,
where she created most of G.B.S.’s heroines.
Shaw thinks highly of her work, and as Femina
(three characters—three
AN ETHEL M. DELL MELODRAMA AT THE GLOBE: MISS VIOLET VANBRUGH AS LADY CARFAX,
MR. E. A. WALKER AS DIMSDALE, THE BUTLER, AND MR. TOWNSEND WHITLING AS THE DRUNKEN
HUSBAND, SIR GILES CARFAX, IN “THE KNAVE OF DIAMONDS."
Sir Giles Carfax, who has taken to drink, beats his wife, and goes mad. He is seen (in hunting dress) struggling with the
butler and two men-servants. Later he is removed to a nursing-home, and dies. Meanwhile, his wife has two lovers, and
the rest of the plot turns on these entanglements .—[Photograph by Stage Photo Co.\
acts 1) will fit her like
the proverbial glove, the
dramatic world is full
of expectation.
Grandly Mrs. Virginia
Compton, the wife of
the unforgettable Edward,
and the mother of a
famous race, upholds the
standard of her husband’s
heritage. Her Repertory
Theatre at Nottingham
has become a permanent
institution, and when
Shakespeare’s birthday
drew nigh, she would not
allow London and Strat¬
ford to have it all their
own way in the homage
to the National Bard.
Her Shakespeare Festival
lasted no less than six
weeks—six weeks ! Oh 1
London ! — and with
stupendous effort her
company performed
” Romeo,” “ The Merry
Wives,” “ Measure for
Measure,” “ Much Ado,
“ Othello,” and “ Twelfth
Night,” to rousing cheers
of full houses, and p®ans
of praise in the Press.
It is a mighty effort
that may well prompt
the West End of Lon¬
don to pause and reflect.
THE PALM HOUSE IN WHICH ROSITA FORBES WAS LODGED
AT BUSEIMA
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21, 1921.—675
MRS. FORBES IN THE LIBYAN DESERT: PALM HOUSES; WASHING; MEALS.
Photographs Supplied by Rosita Forbrs.
The remarkable journey of Mrs. Rosita Forbes through the Libyan desert to
Kufara, the home of the Senussi, and thence by a new route to Egypt, is of
extraordinary interest, and entitles her to an honourable place among British
explorers. She was the first white woman, and the second European, to reach
Kufara ; during her travels she was frequently in danger from hostile tribes,
starvation and thirst ; and she obtained valuable information on the geography
of the country, its political condition and commercial possibilities. Her photographs
on this and the following pages afford picturesque glimpses of desert life. Of
the places illustrated above she writes : “ The Kaikaman at Jalo received us
enthusiastically, and slaughtered a sheep in our honour. The whole town came
out to greet us. At Jalo we were on the edge of the Cyrenaican plateau, over
200 miles from Benghazi (the starting-point) and with the Libyan desert stretching
before us. . . . The palm groves (at Buseima), which extend for about eight
miles, are famous for the best dates in Libya.”
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HOW THE WASHING CAME BACK AT JALO : AN INCIDENT AT A
TOWN ON THE EDGE OF THE DESERT.
3
OBSERVING THE CONVENTION OF THE INEQUALITY BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN : MRS. FORBES (IN THE LEFT BACKGROUND) STANDING APART
WHILE MEN OF HER CARAVAN TOOK THEIR MEAL DURING THE DESERT JOURNEY.
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21. 1921.—67f>
a)
4 r J “Cbe interrogation mark ot the Sahara”: l \L
PK| KUFARA. /*>
•]? ytf A?* f S 7 V S
A N ancient Tuareg legend tells of a mysterious
white race, fair-haired and blue-eyed, whose
women live unveiled with their men, dwelling in
the centre of the Sahara. French, Italian, and
British penetration has left so little of the great
desert unexplored that fable has connected the
unknown oases of Kufara with the birthplace of
this imaginary race. Thus a touch of mystery
has been added to the charm of the far-off towns,
whose names were
whispered by travel¬
ling merchant and
sheikh.
To the geographer.
Kufara offered the
enigma of her lakes
and mountains in the
midst of many hun¬
dred miles of un¬
broken sands. The
historian was inter¬
ested in the traces
of the ancient Tebii
sultanate, which ex¬
isted in Taiserbo two
hundred years ago.
The politician might
well speculate on the
extent of Senussi
influence throughout
North Africa, and
consequently on the
possible importance
of the confraternity's
headquarters at Kuf¬
ara. To the adven¬
turous there was the
joy of discovering a
new route, and al¬
most a new people.
Thus, ever since the
days when Henri
Duveyrier crystallised
into print the wide¬
spread fear of the
mystic confraternity,
whose doctrine then
spread from Nigeria
to the Hedjaz, from
Morocco to the Com-
alis. Kufara has been
the interrogation
mark of the Sahara.
In 1879 a notable
< h*rman explorer, Ger¬
hard Rohlfs, took an
expedition across the
labyan deserts. He
had won fame^ in
many hazardous jour¬
neys through hitherto
nnexplored districts
of North Africa, and
he deserves much for
his exploit among
the Zouias. Having
crossed two hundred
and fifty miles of
waterless desert in a
little over four days
in August, when the
heat must have been
intolerable, he passed
through Taiserbo and
Buseima to the
eastern end of the
Kufara Valley. Here,
unfortunately for
science, he was be¬
trayed by a treacherous sheikh, most of his
instruments and notes were lost in the attack
which destroyed his camp, and, after several
weeks' imprisonment among the hostile Zouias,
he was obliged to return to the coast. Neverthe¬
less, the gallant Teuton brought back enough
• The full story of the adventures of Mrs. Forbes is
to be published in Casseirs Mai>azitu.
By ROS/TA FORBES•
geographical information to stir the interest of
every Saharan traveller.
Kufara, then known as Tarraz, was the
original home of the Tebus, who came from
Tibesti—a primitive negroid race clothed in
sheepskin, fighting with flint-headed arrows, eat¬
ing a paste made of locusts and wild dates.
Ruins of their houses are still dotted over the
salt marshes bordering the Kufara lakes. These
houses are like large mud ovens, round, and
made with such hard mortar that the saltstone
walls are polished like pottery.
Some two hundred years ago, the Tebus were
conquered by the Zouias, a renowned warrior
tribe, who, in their destructive easterly progress
from their birthplace in the Fezzan, over-ran
most of Cyrenaica and Libya. Under their rule
Kufara became the centre of brigandage in the
Sahara, and the Bedouins still tell stories of
wanton murder and sudden attacks emanating
from the Zouia stronghold. Meanwhile, a greater
force was growing in the north, for the Algerian
Sidi Ben Ali es Senussi, after years of vagrant
preaching, had founded the ascetic religious con¬
fraternity destined to play so large a part in the
history of the penetration of Africa. The super¬
stitious Zouias went
to the new Holy
Man at Jarabub to
ask him to lift a
curse placed on them
for the massacre of
a wealthy Sherif
travelling through
Kufara from Wadai.
and were so im¬
pressed by his wis-
dom that they
finally offered him
the allegiance of their
tribe. This entailed
a grant of land in
Kufara, and from
that day (1856) the
power of the Sen¬
ussi has been firmly
established in this
remote group of Lib¬
yan oases.
Kufara is the
centre of the Saharan
trade world — the
spider at the heart
of the web. All the
caravans of the East¬
ern desert must stop
to get water in the
valley. North to
Cyrenaica, east to
Egypt, west to the
Fezzan, south to
Darfur and Wadai,
the old trade routes
used to go and every
passing merchant
paid a tithe to the
ruler of Kufara. The
founder of the Sen¬
ussi confraternity died
three years after his
order had acquired
this new territory,
but his son, Sidi
Mohamed el Mahdi.
fully realised the stra¬
tegic possibilities of
the desert oases, and
the link they pro¬
vided with the ne¬
groid races of the
south. He therefore
moved his head¬
quarters from Jara¬
bub to Kufara and
in a few’ years he
transformed the valley
from a wilderness of
wild palms and woven
huts into the self-
supporting, self-suffi¬
cient' centre of civil¬
isation which it is-
to-dav. Unfortu¬
nately, however, fol¬
lowing his lifelong
policy of avoiding all
open contact with European Powers, he chose to-
isolate himself in the most rigid seclusion, acces¬
sible only to the brothers (Ekhwan) of his order,
whose number was rapidly increasing. The natur¬
ally suspicious and distrustful character of the
Zouias lent itself to this enforced reserve, and a
fanatical hatred of the stranger, be he Christian or
Moslem, became an inherent part of their religion.
[Conti**** •* Po<‘ 6So -
1. BEFORE CHANGING TO ARAB DRESS AND CAMEL-BACK: MRS. ROSITA FORBES ON HORSEBACK. AS SHE
ARRIVED AT JEDABIA.
2. BETWEEN TWO SLAVE-GIRLS: MRS. FORBES IN THE LIBYAN DESERT.
3. A TOO SWIFT DESCENT I MRS. FORBES ALIGHTING FROM HER CAMEL WHERE A CAMP IS BEING PREPARED.
CAMELS ENJOYING A WELCOME CHANGE OF DIET FROM TORN-UP BAGGAGE-5ADDLES AND STRAW MATS : THE FIRST FODDER FOUND ON THE WORST DAY
OF THIRST, RELIEVED (AFTER TWO DAYS WITHOUT WATER) BY THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNCHARTED WELL, EL HARRASH.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NEWS, May 21 . 1021.—677
WITHOUT WATER IN THE DESERT: THE PERIL OF THIRST IN LIBYA.
Pw>T<H~.R.\ MHS Sll-RUFI. MY MkS. KoSIT X KoRRV*.
At one period during her journey to Kufara, Mrs. Rosita Forbes and her party
were in danger of dying from thirst in the desert. Leaving the border town of
Jalo, they had made, first, for the wells of Buttafel, and thence there lay before
them a seven-days’ journey to the next well, in the oasis of Taiserbo, which was
wrongly charted on the map. Their guide lost his way, and, after seven days’
wandering, the water they carried with them gave out. To feed the camels they
had to tear up baggage-saddles and the straw mats of the Bedouin members of
the party. Mrs. Forbes then changed direction, and at length, late on the ninth
day, they were lucky enough to strike an uncharted well called El Harrash.
From a hillock they could see Buseima mountain, which they reached in two
days. Some of the camels dropped exhausted on the way. After leaving
Buseima they passed a group of human skeletons, travellers who had apparently
died of thirst not long before. At this time they were delayed by four camels
foaling, and were threatened by attack from a hostile tribe. Furthermore, the
guide, who went on ahead to Taj with their letters of introduction, plotted to
have the whole party massacred, to prevent his failure to find Taiserbo trom
becoming known, but his amiable design was frustrated. Mrs. Forbes’s dress
included white and green narrow trousers, crimson cloak, veil, and yellow slippers.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Mav 21, 11)21.— 678
A SALT LAKE IN THE LIBYAN DESERT: MRS. FORBES AT BUSEIMA.
PlIOTfK-.IIAPMS St'FPLIKn nv Mas. Rosita FakRFS.
CAMELS LADEN WITH FODDER, WATER, AND A MINIMUM OF FOOD AND
BACCACE : “ THE ARRIVAL OF OUR CARAVAN."
A WELCOME FIND AFTER THE STORE OF FUEL HAD GIVEN OUT
“ OUR FIRST FIREWOOD," IN A HAT!A NEAR EL HARRASH.
IN THE OASIS OF BUSEIMA, WHICH MRS. FORBES WAS ALLOWED’ TO EXPLORE AFTER APPEASING HOSTILE NATIVES WITH A FEAST
A VIEW OF THE FIVE-MILE-LONG SALT LAKE.
BOUNDED BY A MOUNTAIN CHAIN OF BLACK NUBIAN SANDSTONE MIXED
WITH IRON AND MAGNESIAN ’’ : THE ENTRANCE TO BUSEIMA WADI.
WHERE MRS. FORBES'S CAMP WAS PUT IN A STATE OF DEFENCE
AGAINST HOSTILE NATIVES. THE VILLAGE OF BUSEIMA.
When Mrs. Forbes's caravan lost the way to Taiserbo and (as described on a
previous page) their water store failed, the firewood they carried also came to an
end. It was therefore a welcome discovery to find, near the uncharted well of
El Harrash, some dry, brittle wood that could be used as fuel. When they
reached Buseima they had to stay three nights to rest The population was
hostile, and they prepared to defend their camp against attack ; but after giving
a feast to the natives Mrs. Forbes was allowed to explore the oasis, which is
bounded by a chain of mountains of black Nubian sandstone mixed with iron and
magnesian. She found that the oasis contained a salt lake, about five miles long>
and one spring of fresh water. The palm groves, already mentioned as being
noted for producing the best dates in Libya, extended for about eight miles.
There were two villages, and ruins of Tebu buildings, of which photographs are
given on a succeeding page. A hatxa (shown in the top left photograph) is »
shallow depression containing hummocks covered with brushwood and fodder.
THE U.l.rSTRATEI> J.ONIXJN NEWS, May 21 , 1921 — 67 '*
WHERE MRS. FORBES EXPECTED ATTACK: BUSE1MA-1TS TEBU RUINS,
A TYPICAL CAMPING-GROUND : AN INCIDENT OF ROSITA FORBES'S
JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIBYAN DESERT.
BUILT BY THE TEBU TRIBE, THE BERBER ABORIGINES OF LIBYA
A GROUP OF RUINED HOUSES AT BUSEIMA.
THE POPULATION WAS HOSTILE, AND AS AN ATTACK WAS THREATENED WE MADE OUR CAMP A DEFENSIVE CAMP
AT BUSEIMA BETWEEN THE NATIVES AND THE ROSITA FORBES PARTY.
THE DEAD . . . SITTING ROLLED IN
TEBU HOUSES AT BUSEIMA.
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At Buseima, as previously mentioned, Mrs. Rosita Forbes and her party met at
first with a hostile reception. They encountered there a lawless family known as
the Fakrun, who make a practice of attacking caravans, but, says Mrs. Forbes,
“ our numbers overawed them. ’ ’ She gave a feast to the natives, and was then
allowed to explore the oasis with the Sheikhs Mohamed and El Madeni. They
found a number of ruined forts built by the Tebu, the original Berber inhabitants
of Libya. These people wear only sheepskins (with the wool inside) and eat a
mixture of powdered dates and locusts. The men carry long spears, and the
women have date-stones stuck through a hole in the nostrils. The houses are
also used as graves, the dead being buried in a sitting position rolled in sheep¬
skins. The Arab dress is very different from that of the Tebu. The Zouia wear
long white “jirds,” which envelop them completely, with boots of scarlet or
yellow. In the lower photograph on the right, part of the salt-water lake at
Buseima can be seen in the background.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21, 1921 — 680
KUFARA - [Continued from Pag* 678.]
This almost maniacal loathing of innovation
in any form, together with a jealous determination
to preserve their country intact and uninfluenced
by European progress, has proved the greatest
barrier iii the path of the would-be explorer.
Nature appears to be in league with the Zouias,
for she has surrounded the oases with her most
impenetrable defences. As the crow flies, Kufara
lies some 500 miles inland from the Gulf of Syrte,
and after the first 150 all traces of human habita¬
tion are left behind. Any caravan starting from
Jalo, the most southerly outpost of Arab civilisa¬
tion, must carry water for seveh days’ march,
together with all necessary
fodder and fuel, for it will
have to travel more than
250 miles across an incon¬
ceivably barren desert de¬
void of stick, stone, or
blade of grass. It is im¬
possible to describe any¬
thing so featureless as the
great plain which surrounds
the Kufara oases. I re¬
member our guide used
to point out wholly im¬
aginary depressions or rises
as landmarks, but they
were completely invisible to
the European eye. When
one talks of a route in
the Sahara one means a
direction, for there is not
a mark on the flat brown
waste till the mirage breaks
the hori2on into tantalising
islands and seas. To go
to any charted spot a com¬
pass is of much more use
than a guide, for the latter
is apt to " lose his head,”
just as much a disease in
Libya as influenza in London ! Our guide did
even worse, for, having completely lost us, so
that we suffered agonies of thirst for three
days till we came to an uncharted well, he
planned to destroy the whole caravan in order
to obliterate the memory of his mistake. For¬
tunately, the exceeding generosity of the Emir
Idris, the present head of the Senussi (a most
enlightened ruler, a friend of Italy and England
and indeed of all modern progress), had pro¬
vided us with two of his most trusted followers.
Therefore we were able, after a series of some¬
what melodramatic adventures, to defeat the
machinations of our crafty guide. But let no
one attempt to travel in Libya except under the
direct protection of the Senussi family, and armed
with their written passport. We were provided
with a most hospitable document, permitting
Ahmed Bey Hassanein, my Egyptian friend, and
the Lady Khadija, Moslems working for the
good of Islam, to travel where they would, and
requesting all Government officials and tribal
sheikhs to entertain them lavishly on behalf of
the Senussi Sayeds. Nevertheless, we should
many times have been in difficulties had it not
been for the tact and eloquence of my inde¬
fatigable companion and the loyalty of the two
Ekhwan who accompanied us.
Even with all these advantages, we had the
greatest difficulty in exploring the valley of Kufara.
for the Zouia sheikhs could not be induced to
believe that their adored ruler had really given
permission to the hated strangers to penetrate
their jealously guarded frontiers.
From the first belt of wells which breaks the
monotony of the awe-inspiring southern desert,
it is a day-and-a-half’s journey across the dunes
to Buseima, the most northerly oasis of the
Kufara group. For nearly the whole way one
can see its black Nubian - sandstone mountain,
which borders an intensely blue lake fringed with
feathery palms, the whole jewelled picture set in
a wide Circle of dunes, coral-coloured from the
dust of the hills. Another four days' labouring
in heavy sands separates Buseima from Kufara
proper, and after we had passed Hawaii, the out¬
lying village where we suffered so much at the
hands of the fanatical tribesmen and where our
expedition nearly came to an abrupt end, expect¬
ation rose to breaking-point. Not till one is
within a quarter of a mile of Kufara does one
realise that the rough expanse of stony banks
and hillocks is suddenly broken by an immense
cleft, some 68 kilometres long and 30 wide,
surrounded on all sides by amber cliffs. On
the very edge of one of these is perched the
sacred place of the Senussi, the headquarters
of their religion, where is buried Sidi el Alahdi,
father of the present Emir, and the most
revered personality of all the confraternity, the
fame of whose miracles is spread far and wide
by the brethren of his order.
This sacred town of
Taj is built of the black
stones and red sand that
surround it. No green
thing grows within its
precincts, and no living
animal may enter them.
Its narrow sandy paths are
deserted, for its dignified
Ekhwan are cloistered in
the aloof reserve of their
windowles?-houses. Its wells
are 120 feet deep, and it
depends .for its whole ex¬
istence on the valley below,
from which armies of black
slaves carry up food, fuel,
and other necessities ol
life. In Taj is one of the
most famous Senussi Zawias.
In olden days these build¬
ings were training-ground
and market - place, judg¬
ment-hall and asylum, offer¬
ing hospitality to the traveller
and a neutral meeting-place
where tribal disputes could
be settled by the supreme
and unbiassed authority of
the sheikh. Nowadays they are colleges, but three
days most generous hospitality is still given to
all wayfarers.
From the cliff on which Taj is built one looks
down into a red-gold valley, dotted with metallic
blue lakes, emerald of palms broken by feather}'
tamarisk, and silver-grey of olive and fig, with
little dark-walled towns dotted here and there,
looking like long, low fortresses. Survey depart¬
ments will now report on Kufara as “ a broad,
shallow depression, where the natural underground
water-supply comes to the surface,” but after
500 miles of the dreariest desert in the world,
the traveller will always look upon it as a magic
valley and fit home for the legendary white race
of the Tuareg fables !
(To be followed by otlur articlet.)
AN INTERLUDE ON THE DUNES NEAR BUSEIMA: MRS. FORBES (CENTRE) RUNNING A RACE
WITH THE GUIDE (LEFT).
SHOWING A HILLOCK BEHIND WHICH MRS. FORBES TOOK HER MEAL APART, ACCORDING TO CONVENTION: SULEIMAN BU MATARS PICNIC AT TAj.
Owing to native conventions, Mrs. Forbes took ber meal apart from the others, behind the hill seen in the centre background.
1921.—681
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LIBYA RE-MAPPED BY ROSITA FORBES:
DRAWN BY W. ROBINSON.
A 1000-MILE JOURNEY.
ROSITA FORBES’S TRAVELS IN LIBYA : HER GREAT JOURNEY TO KUFARA AND THENCE BY A NEW ROUTE TO EGYPT—
(INSET) A MAP SHOWING THE CORRECT POSITION OF JOF (UNDERLINED) AND THE WRONG POSITION BEFORE CHARTED.
The report of Mrs. Rosita Forbes’s expedition made to the Egyptian Surrey
Department states : “ The estimated total distance travelled from Jedabia to Jarabub 1
is 1009 miles. This was covered in thirty-six days’ actual marching. The
most important geographical results are : (i) The principal oasis of the Kufara
group ... is found to lie considerably to the south-east of the position it has
hitherto been supposed to occupy ; (a) The oasis of Ribiana (‘ Erbehna ’ on
existing maps) lies nearly south instead of south-west of Buseima, considerably i
farther east than was formerly believed ; (3) A number of hitherto unknown
wells east of Taiserbo, extending in a belt nearly across the direct line between
Jalo and Buseima, have been located ; (4) Vegetation in the oases of the Kufara
group is ascertained to be far less extensive than indicated on existing maps
from the statements of Rohlfs. ... A fifth result of the journey is that the
practicability of a direct route from Kufara to Jarabub is proved." Mrs. Forbes
is to lecture on her journey before the Royal Geographical Society on May 33.
The above map gives an approximate idea of the route which she followed
through the Libyan desert.— [Drauntig Copyrighted w» the United States and Canada.]
G82-THE ILLUSTRATED ^ jJEWS,
ROYAL RIDERS IN THE ROW: THE KING AS HO
THE KING IN ROTTEN ROW: HIS MAJESTY, WITH PRINCESS MARY. THE D uK
A photograph like this makes it easy to understand both the personal popularity of the Royal Family and the success of the British Monarchy as an ins ^ ^
We are a sport - loving people devoted to all forms of healthy exercise and open-air life, and we look for a lead in these matters from those who are ^ ^
us. King George and his fine upstanding sons represent all that is best in the tradition of English outdoor pursuits ; they ride, hunt, and shoot wi ^ ^
and they lose no opportunity of encouraging, by their presence and interest—at cricket and football matches, race-meetings, boxing contests, and so o ^
form of sport and physical recreation. The Prince of Wales, who was also in the Row on the occasion illustrated, though he is not seen in the P 0
WS, May 21. 1921.—683
4, WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND TWO OF HIS SONS
YORK (CENTRE BACKGROUND), AND PRINCE HENRY (RIGHT). IN HYDE PARK.
“ a first-rate rider, and has won laurels as a point-to-point steeple-chaser. Princess Mary, too, in the feminine sphere, sets a similar example. She also is an
accomplished horsewoman, and by her association with the Girl-Guide movement, and in other ways, is a model to English girls. Small wonder, therefore,
•’ that with their personal geniality the members of the Royal House endear themselves to the heart of the nation. On the political side, too, a scene like this has
' its significance. The supreme head of the greatest Empire known to history rides out in a public park, like an ordinary gentleman, without the least pomp or
ostentation. It is typical of the spirit of our Constitution, that perfect compromise between democracy and kingship which is the wonder of the world.
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684—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Mav 21, 1921.
“ THE NAMELESS EXHIBITION ” : REPRESENTATIVE BRIflfl A f
Photographs by Courtesy of Messrs. P. and D. Couaghi 1
FISHING.
FOOTBALLERS.
T" 1 HE introduces
^ to the oti-
logue of the Nirt-
less Exhibition up
“ The orgoniwn..
had no desire tt -
spring a mine unde _
the reputation of
the critics, wbov
identification el '
many ol the ortirs
is a foregone con-
mystify the public
nor to start i
guessing g»n«
Their object
to confront the spec¬
tator with each pic¬
ture as quickly u
possible without
allowing his judg¬
ment to be dis¬
turbed by all the
overtures of praise
or blame which the
A CANAL SCENE.
A DUTCH FAMILY.
THE LADY IN WHITE.
BRETON LANDSCAPE.
-WHAT’S IN A NAME?” PICTURES REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACADEMIC. INTERMEDIA
For more than a century owing to the divergent creeds of different artists, and their division into independent schools and societies it has been impossible to gather into a
exhibition representative specimens of all varieties of contemporary British painting. From 1768 to 1805 the Royal Academy was the sole exhibiting society, but i» «* “
year the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours came into being, and in 1806 the British Institution, both of which have their independent shows. The manage®®
the “ Burlington Magaxine ” recently decided to arrange a representative exhibition, including all the conflicting schools and Messrs Colnaghi offered the Grosvenor Gall®«
the purpose. Mr. Charles Sims. R.A., Professor Henry Tonics, and Mr. Roger Fry were asked to select the pictures. ’ They gave their services free, and neither they nor
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21, 1921.—685
Native
'“'■uRT SUBJECTED TO THE TEST OF ANONYMITY.
Grosvknor Gali.krirs. (Copyrights Rrjskrvrd ry thk Artists.)
•THE VISIT.'
“THE WATER-CARRIERS.’
" VIGANELLO.
“THE SfcVRES DISH.”
* BEACON HILL, ELLESBOROUGH.’
author s name often
brings with it. We
all tend to be over¬
sensitive to the
social judgment of
our kind. It is ter¬
rible to suppose that
we might be caught
in the wrong atti¬
tude towards a book,
a picture, or a
theory. The present
exhibition is likely
to create a good
deal of such social
nervousness, but it
also will provide an
admirable oppor¬
tunity for social
courage. Let every
one form his own
honest unaided
judgment without
fear of the con¬
sequences.’’ It is a
piquant situation.
AND MODERNIST GROUPS, SHOWN ANONYMOUSLY AT THE GROSVENOR GALLERIES.
. c : n th4 , venture. For the purpose of the exhibition they divided British artists into three groups, the Academics, the Intermediates, and the
Modernists, «d “ch chosT from the school he represented what he considered the best works available. The artists -ponded with goodwill, and jt ^
exhibition will become an annual event. In order to make the comparison of such different works as fair and unprejudiced as possible, the organisers deeded further to show
the pictures at first without the artists’ names. It was arranged to open the Exhibition on May 20. The names will be divulged on Ju.
game,” says the preface of the catalogue, “the more likely we are to derive aesthetic pleasure from the Exhibition.
16 .
686 - THE ILLUSTRATE!! LONDON NEWS. May 21. 1«2L
WITH KNEES AND TOES TURNED IN: THE MUClpiSCUS
affruveD (WITHOUT
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“SHIMMY" AS PERFORM® A
n A THE
The danang world has been agitated of late by a
P*ns, especially, has been greatly exercised on the subi^^JT^f "Shimmy-Shake,’’ the latest addition to modern dances of
banned by the Danang Academy. Another French organ'isa^n hlJe^ *7 FT'* “ “ «"“** *"*•«. *—* and immoral.” and —
or shake, which was the chief cause of objection After carefull a’ Um ° n °* DanC, " K Prof «*>re. decided to sanction it in a modified form, without the
which no objection could betaken by the most punct^. ** —- * * »-« “ TjTZi
ong with the Tango, in their authorised list. It was reported that most Pans danceo •«***
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ROFESSORS IN FRANCE. BUT BANNED BY THE DANCING ACADEMY:
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lh « “Shimmy ” and the jazz band have had their day, but that provincial dancing masters urged that their pupils insisted on learning the “Shimmy/’ The particular dance here
/illustrated was at the Restaurant Laurent, in the Champs Elysdes. It cannot be said that the turned-in knees and toes, and the crossed legs, look graceful. Of course, the
(♦character of the “ Shimmy,” like any other dance, depends really on the way in which it is performed. Even the valse might be danced in a style that could be considered objectionable.
*The artist, M. J. Bast* is a brother-in-law of M. J. Simont, whose work is so familiar to our readers, and has something of the same style. M. Bast* draws for many
French and Spanish papers, and has produced some sensational coloured posters.-- {rhmt-in< CopyrifkuU in the I'mud Stales and (anode ]
t<
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21,
tCUSSED “SHIMMY” AS DANCED
PARIS.
THE IU.1STKATED LONDON NEWS, May 21
1921.—688
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Mr. Max Beerbohm’s new exhibition at the Leicester Galleries—the first he has
held for eight years — contains, besides numerous hitherto unseen cartoons and
caricatures, a number of very interesting “ Doubles." (See our “ Books of the
Day" page.) The inscriptions to the above examples are : (l) “ SI VIEILLESSE
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21 . 1921—602
was taking place, the nerves and
in the movement of the uninjured parts of it a tmS2
or became weak from disuse. Rubbing with,
brocation, massage and the rest all went toward
givmg these uninjured parts the movements tW
required to keep them in health ; Lut how could the •
be applied without disturbing the injured ones > '
Electricity, as in so many other problems, supplies
the answer. Every muscle has what are now called
motor-points on the skin, and a current, such as
produced by an induction coil, passed from one to the
other of these produces immediate contraction of the
intervening muscle. Hence, any one
muscle can theoretically be picked out
by any operator possessing the requi¬
site knowledge of anatomy, and made
to perform its functions to the ex¬
clusion of the others. But here comes
in a practical difficulty. Although
electricity as such has nothing to do
wi >- the cure, the contraction being,
so to rpeak, mechanical, the passage of
the currti.produces, in most cases, a
certain, if slight, amount of pain; and
this, in its turn, causes involuntary
resistance or twitching of the injured
limb. This is now got over by using
a specially wound coil with a second¬
ary current of very low voltage and
a perfectly regular break, while the
intensity of the current can be regu¬
lated aa before by the pushing in
or out ol the coil of the soft iron
“ core." Ac the writer who describes
this in the May number of our con¬
temporary Discovery remarks, there is
now no reason why one who is laid
up for three weeks with a sprained
ankle should find on recovery that
the muscles of his leg and foot have
become so weak that he develops
" flat-foot."
Another excellent discovery is that of an apparatus
for the cure of “ foot-drop," caused by injury by
gun-shot wound or otherwise to the nerve supplying
the toe-raising muscles. If the limb be merely im¬
mobilised, the heel gets more and more drawn up
until the muscles of the calf permanently shorten,
and the patient may become lame for life. By pro¬
viding a rigid gaiter encircling the leg below the knee,
from which depends a plate provided with springs
which raise the toe without voluntary effort on the
part of the patient, this can be avoided. And these
are only a few of the great improvements in the
minor surgery of the lower limbs which have come
into being as the direct result of the war. F. L.
was generally unsuspected by him. This difficulty,
however, once overcome, the rest of the treatment
was sensible enough. Nature could always be trusted
to heal the tom fibres if they were left alone and
with the ends in place, but, like the Greek gods,
she sells us all things at a price. Hence, if the
w-hole limb was kept motionless while the repair
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
O F all the injuries received by our men in war,
few have left behind them more discomfort
and incapacity for civil life than .hose to the limbs.
Wounds in the head or trunk were always attended
to on the field by preference; the diagnosis was
simpler and the after - effects could generally be
foreseen. With those in the limbs—and especially
the legs and feet—the procedure was much more
summary, and when the immediate danger from
loss of blood, gangrene, and the like
was arrested, they were but too fre¬
quently left to treat themselves with¬
out that concern as to the sufferer’s
use of the limb after convalescence
which would have been shown had
the injury occurred in civil life.
Luckily, the bane brought with it its
antidote, and the experience gained
by the profession in the after-care of
the wounded far from the seat of
war has led to a crop of small dis¬
coveries which have brought relief to
thousands.
Apart from the greater surgical
operations, such as resection of the
bones and the re-breaking of badly-
set fractures, the discoveries which
have an interest for us all are those
which relate to what the laity' call
” sprains." Nearly everyone sprains
his or her ankle at some time or
other, and every trainer, fencing-
master, and teacher of athletics be¬
fore the war had his own remedy
for the injury. Tight bandaging (so
as to make the movement of the
limb as little as possible), violent
rubbing with or without embrocation,
and massage were among these, and
although often successful, sometimes were productive
of more harm than good. For a " sprain ” nearly
always means the tearing to a greater or less extent
of the fibres of some ligament or muscle, and it must
be plain to anyone that the torn fibres were the less
likely to unite the more they were disturbed. Hence
it is plain that the first thing to do is to find out which
particular ligament or muscle is tom, and to take
care that in all treatment this is left to unite without
disturbance. Yet this needs a knowledge of anatomy
seldom found in the amateur, and the use of the
X-rays, which has become more general since the war,
has shown that the problem was often complicated by
the fracture of tiny' bones, of which the very existence
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LADIES’ NEWS.
A t a time when social life is fairly held up, polo
and tennis and cricket still go gaily, and really
do keep the ball rolling. The American polo team
made a fine show at Ranelagh, and convinced those
who know best that it will take our team all its time
to keep the Cup over here. The Duke of York and
Prince Henry saw the first game at Ranelagh, where,
despite a wet afternoon, a large crowd and a smart
one assembled. The Prince of Wales was playing
at another club, and is delighted with the game.
Prince Henry shapes very well as a player. There is
one woman player who has an official handicap and
who has played abroad for years. Constance Duchess
of Westminster used to play at Eaton Hall, always,
of course, riding astride. I remember attending a
ladies’ polo match at Ranelagh years ago, perhaps
ten or more, when the players used side saddles and
wore habits. It was so slow and solemn that it
actually did prove the funeral of polo for women
after that fashion.
Prince Hirohito, Crown Prince of Japan, has
impressed everyone favourably by his good manners,
his smile, and his intense interest in things, almost
as keen as that of our own Prince of Wales. His
official visit proved a great success. He is now at
Chesterfield House, placed at the disposal of the
Government by Viscount Lascelles. It is a really
fine mansion. When in the possession of the late
I-ord Burton and his wife, now the Dowager Ladv
Burton, it was a centre of great hospitalities. King
Edward and Queen Alexandra were guests there on
several occasions. Our present King and Queen
were there more than once during the Duke and
Duchess of Roxburghe’s tenancy. It was from there
that the fourth Earl of Chesterfield wrote some of
his celebrated “Letters.” He was a great figure,
holding several State offices. He married a natural
daughter of George I. who was created Countess of
Walsingham and Baroness of Aldborough. He had
no children and was succeeded by a kinsman. Much
of the wealth of the Chesterfield peerage passed at
the death of the seventh Earl to his sister, mother of
the present Earl of Carnarvon. The Japanese Prince
says he is delighted with England, strange as its
ways must appear to him, and curious as we must
look in his eyes. Small and neat are considered the
characteristics of the highest breeding in Japan.
The guest entering a Japarese social assemblage
bends and rubs the knees, smiling merrily the while
Postures and gestures which we find fantastic, such
as turning the toes in towards each other, and placing
A RESTAURANT GOWN.
It is made of black satin and trimmed with heavy black-and-
gold lace, and comes from Redfem. The sash is of printed
black-and-white silk .—[Photograph by Talma.]
the arms in angular positions, the Japanese consider
very pretty. Always when in society they smile
that being part of their social obligation towards
others, taught them from early childhood
■ , , , . ” 13 lu uave some queer
when he does his tour in his Duchy a JT?
mantle does not sound a princely garment, but h r u
is to have one, also a salmon spear some vi H
some roses, and some greyhounds. Gifts of thf.
ranter are historically interesting rather tC £
sonally pleasmg. but our Prince will, i, hi. i~°
way. find them both. Part of the Prince s ^
quertng charm is his unfeigned interest in the
experience he has. A great student of mannen «
me the other day that the Prince of Wales’s alertn
is killing the nil admiran, rather lackadaisical
that the young men of the day assumed before^!
war and resumed after it.
111 t ! , , eSe ., d f yS ° f stress and stri fe. which, when
over, will still leave long tracks behind, we all rettrrt
coal as black diamonds, and conserve it in even
possible way. One way which is not only posahh
but also pleasant, is to have viands from St Ivel
Yeovil. Somerset. There is Lactic cheese, which jj
very toothsome and also very' good for one • cream
butter, veal-and-ham pies, sausages, potted meats and
fish, crimes and consomm*—all St. Ivel, therefore all
pure, wholesome, and nourishing, as well as nice
Out-of-door life calls for easily eaten and easily
earned meals ; St. Ivel’s things fulfil suc h require-
ments in the best wav.
The Queen, who bought a robe for Princess Mary
from Lady Inglefield last week at the Royal Amateur
Art Exhibition, is much interested in that lady's
scheme for teaching crippled women and girls lace
making. One girl, after twelve lessons, is making a
neat and pretty edging. A woman with crippled
hands, who has not been able to do any work for
years, is now quite a good lace-maker. The school,
under the supervision of the Medical Department of
the Board of Education, is at n, Love Walk, Denmark
Hill, in winter, and in summer migrates to Old Court
House, Long Crendon, Bucks. Lady Inglefield is
President of the Bucks and Beds I .ace Association,
and works this scheme with it.
Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll is going to stay
from the 24th to the 28th at the Fife Arms Hotei,
Banff, a Trust House adjoining Banff House grounds,
where Pnnce and Princess Arthur of Connaught stayed
last year. There is good fishing in the Deveron, near
the Fife Arms Hotel. Princess Louise and her suite
will have an opportunity of testing one of the
houses of the Trust, which is playing such a part
in making hotels and inns real temperance reformers
rather than promoters of promiscuous and excessive
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Mav 21 . 1921—696
THE PLAYHOUSES.
"HUNKY DORY." AT THE KINGSWAY.
T HE success of " Bunty Pulls the Strings,” on the
one hand, and of " The White-Headed Roy,”
on the other, has shown that there is no prejudice
among our plavers against what may be called genre
comedy as a form of drama ; all they ask from an
author is that his provincial types should function
in a story that is not too glaringly conventional, or
far-fetched. Here is where Mr. Macdonald Watson
has come short. He has managed his characters
happilv enough, and he and his fellow members of
Mr. Cecil Barth’s “ company of Scottish players ”
can give them all the value of correct dialect,
accent, and pawkiness ; but the fable written round
his characters, with its motif of blackmail, is too
childish for hearty acceptance, too lacking in any
sustained dramatic interest. The playwright cannot
keep it up, cannot connect his series of conver¬
sations with each other, or make them help to work
out an intriguing plot. Regarded, however, as a mere
succession of sketches and duologues, it has not a
little to recommend it in the way of humour and
quaintness ; and it is acted by the author himself
as a " sarcastic ” plumber, by Mr. Walter Roy, in
the title-role ; by Miss Frances Ross-Campbell, as the
widow'; and by Miss Nell Barker in a variant on the
” Bunty ” sort of
heroine, with wel¬
come gusto and
command of Scot¬
tish diction.
"PINS AND
NEEDLES." AT
THE ROYALTY.
From the spectac¬
ular point of view,
there are at least
two scenes in the
new Royalty re¬
vue. ” Pins and
Needles,” which
are out of the ordi¬
nary : one is " My
China Maid,” a
thing of beauty
never bettered in
a I>c Courville pro¬
duction ; the other
provides a dazzling
display of the
‘‘Vagaries of Fash¬
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CREATED A K.B.E.: SIR RAMON
DE LA SOTA.
Sir Ramon de la Sota was gazetted
a Knight Commander of the Most
Excellent Order of the Bntish Empire
recently. He is the senior partner of
the well-known firm of Sota and Aznar,
of Bilbao, London, New York, etc.
various periods. The revue is also lavishly supplied
with passages of humour—both Mr. Alfred Lester
and Mr. Edmund Gwcnn showing capital form ; while
there is also good work done, especially in the way
of dancing, by Mr. Jack Morrison and Miss Edith
Kelly Gould. But what lends the revue distinction,
and will probably draw the town, is a Grand Guignol
sketch, in which figure a returned sailor, his sweet«-
heart, and a rival swain. The last-named stabs the
girl to death, and the sailor, to throw the police oil
the scent, dances with his sweetheart’s dead body.
The acting of Mr. Gwenn and Miss Billie Hill in this
of chances for charm¬
ing her admirers ; in
everything the viva¬
cious Mr. Clay Smith
does there is the same
appearance of spon¬
taneity ; while Mr.
Bert Coote has lost
none of his engaging¬
ness to diners-out in
search of light amuse¬
ment. “Puss! Puss!”
can be well re¬
commended
THE LION-GUARDED CATE
OF FLANDERS: THE BADGE
OF THE YPRES LEACUE.
THE CITY'S GIFT TO THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN: THE
GOLD CASKET CONTAINING THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
The casket is of 18-ct. gold, with beautifully enamelled panels. The
inscription reads: “ Presented by the Corporation of the City of London
to His Imperial Highness Hirohito Shinno, Crown Prince of Japan. Guild¬
hall. London, II May, 1921." The left panel shows H.I.J.M.S. "Fuji";
the right, the Royal Naval College. The casket was designed and manu¬
factured by Messrs. Mappin and Webb. Ltd., 2, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.4.
Photograph by Alfred Craske and Co.
episode was worth all the other turns in the enter¬
tainment lumped together.
"PUSS I PUSS!" AT THE VAUDEVILLE.
The enthusiastic welcome which, true to the London
public’s traditions of gratitude to old favourites, the
Vaudeville audience accorded last week to Miss Lee
\N hitc and Mr. Clay Smith, on their re-appearance
after their Australian tour, was earned afresh by these
popular artists in their latest entertainment of the
revue intime order. Miss Lee White herself linds plenty
It is fitting
that the im¬
mortal de-
fenceof Vpres,
by the Bntish Army, at a cost of over 250,000
lives, should be kept in remembrance and
form a bond of comradeship among those
who served there and their friends. Such is
the general aim of the Vpres League, recently
formed, with the special objects of preserving
at \ pres a Roll of the Dead, compiling battle¬
field charts, and securing the erection of an
outstanding Memorial of the Defence. The
League is under the patronage of the King
and the Prince of Wales ; the President is
Lari French, and the Vice-Presidents are Earl
Haig, Lord Plumer, Viscount Allenbv, and
Viscount Burnham. All who served .it Ypres,
or lost a relative or comrade there, are in¬
vited to communicate with the Secretary' of
the League, Major H. E. Murat, 23. Henrietta
Street, Cavendish Square, W.i. The badge
of the League, here illustrated, was designed
from-that stirring poem “The Wardens of
the Gate,” especially the lines: "For the
youth who died for England Kept the foeman
from this city In the heart of ancient Flanders;
Veterans of the Bloody Salient, Wardens of
the Gate to Calais.” The lion guarding the
gate represents the British Army.
Her Majesty the Queen of Norway has
honoured Messrs. Jays, Ltd., costumiers and Court
dressmakers, Regent Street, by granting them a Royal
Warrant of appointment to her Majesty.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 21 , 1921 . 698
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
In the Matter A stron 8 deputation representing
of Taxation the Motor Legislation Committee
was received by the Minister of
Transport recently, the purpose of the deputation
being to discuss matters arising out of the new system
of motor taxation. In the first place, it was again
believe that the fuel tax has fewer disabilities and
injustices than the impost on rated horse-power.
A BOON TO THE DISABLED: THE MOTOR-ESECO TRICYCLE—
A NEW TYPE OF MACHINE.
This machine is a standard model hand-propel led tricycle, fitted with a petrol
motor, manufactured by Messrs. Carters, the well-known invalids' appliance
makers, 125-9, Creat Portland Street, W.l.
pointed out that the method of levying the tax on to s
possession and not on use of the roads is unjust and ing
inequitable. On this point Sir Eric Geddes was Min
quite obdurate, and said that he was as far apart give
from the deputation as ever. For my own part, I the
do not profess to be able to appreciate this attitude tion
of mind. It will take a great deal to convince me pos;
that the horse-power tax is a fair and equitable means kno
of raising revenue for highway upkeep. When it sibh
can be shown to be just that the owner of, let us say, a fu
a 20-h.p. car, paying a tax of £20 a year for a mileage beei
of 15,000, should not be mulcted in more than the agai
owner of an identical car which only does 5000 miles ,,
in the year, then I shall begin to understand the idea
underlying the present system, but not before.
Of course, the real reason for the change of system whii
is that the horse-power tax is easier to collect than the tatii
tax on fuel; but I have again to be convinced that a duri
question of official convenience should be allowed to able
weigh against equity. Agreed that no conceivable that
scheme of taxation is without its anomalies, I still the
D . . .. In the matter of a reduction of
S. * he e ' ,s,,n « ">«* o f “>*• the
Minister of Transport was dis¬
tinctly more sympathetic, and definitely promised
to see if powers could be taken in this year's Finance
Act enabling the Ministry of Transport to
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collected should exceed anticipations. He
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if he were called upon to pay more than the
amount actually budgeted for, and altogether
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in which he dealt with the whole subject.
As a matter of fact, the question of re¬
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consideration for some little time—ever since
it became obvious that the yield of the tax
was likely to exceed anticipations by as much
as 50 per cent. It may be that the campaign
of the A.A. in connection with recent by-
elections has not been without its influence
upon the official mind. Without exception,
every candidate who has
been approached has
given it as his opinion
that the only equitable
manner of taxing the
* tro motor vehicle is through
its fuel. Every unofficial
candidate has promised
to support legislation for revert¬
ing to the petrol tax, while even
Ministers seeking re-election have
given their opinions in favour of
the fuel tax, with the reserva¬
tion : "If it is administratively
possible." As to the latter, wc
know it is administratively pos¬
sible, since petrol was taxed for
a full seven years, and what has
been done before can be done
again.
“Day to Day ' Another
Licenses. ma,ter °‘
importance
which was raised by the depu¬
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during which licenses are avail-
able. The point was made Mr Norton „ Managing
that the present system makes his name . His machine
the motor trade a seasonal broke the world s records
business, because a great many people rriusTlTlir
delivery of new cars until the beginning 0/ a T
licensing period. The obvious remedy for this
was urged, is to make licenses run from date?
date. Sir Enc Geddes admitted the force of £
contention, and promised to look into the mtto
with a view to seeking a way to meet the desrJoJ
the deputation. One member of the latter snmJ
that the Departmental Committee might be able to
find a way of giving effect to the idea, and this n,
approved by the Minister. The subject seems to t*
a rather difficult one, because of the scheme of
identification by the colour of the license card both
ought not to be incapable of solution. Apparently
the deputation did not raise the question of tfc
excessive extra charge on account of quarterly licenses
which is a matter that certainly requires looking
into without delay.
On the whole, however, the result of the depot*
tion must be said to have been highly satisfactory
Instead of the former attitude of non possum
adopted by the Ministry of Transport in all mat-
ters affecting motor taxation, the spirit displayed
by the Minister was eminently reasonable and not a
little sympathetic. yy y
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CHESS IN LONDON
(Btrf* Opening., U
"“JI 1 -' 1 - 1 J WH,TB (Mr.j.) **«(*. j
,0 k K< 11 3rd j £ Kt to B fth R
> k 3rd 33- Kt to K 5th KtoK^ btt
34- K to Kind KKloksiT
not without 15. R takes R R takes R
36. KtoK 3 ni
1fd SlniRgh bw( ®« aiMst*
xss ^vsa.'sn
■ so much White is stn*^ ^
vhtwe King is too cfeu«i
any service.
37-PfoKt^th P to K 4jf 1
38. R to B 8th (ch) K to K 2nd
39- R to B 7th (ch) B u. Kt jnd 1
to. Ij takes Kt Kluksl’id)
4l.KtoKtjrd P lakes |W
4J K takes P B Pukes it a
43- Kt takes P
The game again look* like ,
draw, but Black should kite
brought his Kook into actwn wit
effectively, cither bv R to R „
R to Q B jib. "
. R to K Kt 7th
, ... B to K 3rd K to Kt 3rd
45- R toII 6th(ch) K to R 4tb
Fatally entangling himsek. K
to B and was sale.
V~.1+C. P to R 3rd B toQ 8th
- skill, | 4?. K to Q 6tb B lakes Kt
point he gradually 48. K lakes P (ch) K to R jd,
" ,n hK lavour 49- P takes B R ukes P (ch)
Q Kt 4U1 50. K to H jth K to Kt 6th
- — ” 3‘.h 3t. R to Kt 5th B to B sq-
R to Q Kt sq i 52. R to Kt 3rd K to R jth
53. B to B 2nd (ch) Resigns.
1 The ending has been acefbUt
handled by White.
but you might apply to the Secretary of the British
To Correspondents —(
addressed to the Ches
>«s /or this depsrtment should be
tssej Street, strand, W C.2.
Problem No. 3857 received from F R Sutton
amara (Madeira).
Problem No. .5858 received from C H Watson
Ule (New Brighton), T Thompson (Bourne-
(Bangor), J 1* Waters (Nc*wcu»i[e-on*T vur)
n (twatord) H Gn.sett Baldwin (Famf^m ),
ol). and Albert Taylor (Atlerclifle).
L—We noticed the dual in your problem, but
luch impoi tance. We are glad its publication
ommuniculi
» Editor, is
iter).—We do not know where you gathered your
our attitude towards *• en passant ' play, but
!t»xl many specimens of it from time to time tor
solution. In the present instance your proposed
oive 3857.
411ITE (Mr. J.) BL
P to K 3 rd I> t
P to K B 4th Kt
Kt to K B 3 rd P U
P to Q B 4 th
’ Q Kt 3 rd is
ie merit.
solution
PROBLEM N<
3859.—Bv G. Stilungfleet Johnson.
BLACK.
5. Kt to B 3rd Castles
o. P to Q t th F to B 4th
The opening has now rcsoh
itself into a form of the Queei
Gambit Declined.
7- B to K ind Kt to B 3rd
8. P takes gP K P takes P
9. Castles P to Q Kt 3rd ,6.
10. Kt to K 3th B to Kt 2nd
11. B to B 3rd P takes P
13. Kt takes Kt 11 takes Kt
13. P takes P Q to B 2nd
14. P to K Kt 3rd K R to K sq
15. B to Q 2nd Kt lo K 3th
16. Q R to B sq Q to g 2nd
17. BtoKsq CJ R to U sq
18. Bio B and P to £3 4 th
19. R to K sq B to K 2nd
20. B to K 3rd P to H 3rd
21. Q to Kt 3rd K to K so
2?. K to Kt 2nd P to Q Kt 4th
23. R to K 2nd P to Q R 4 th «3-
24. P to O K 3rd Q to Kt 2nd
25. B to Kt sq R to Kt 5th
26. P takes P Q takes P
37. Q takes Q P takes Q
The positions are fairly equal.j .6 p
and it says much tor White’s f li " 1 - •*
that from this f—t he —
tunis the game in his lavour.
;8. Kt to K 2nd 13 to Q Kt 4:
29. K R to K sq B to B 5th
30. Kt takes P n - ~
31. P to Kt 3rd
Well played, keeping eentrof of
the board still in his own hands.
it entirely
recognition
WHITE.
While to play, and mate in two moves.
Solution or Problem No. 3837.—By H. F. I.. Meyr.ii
WIItTK B! ACK
x - U 10 £t J nd P to K 5 th
2. B to R 6th Any Dlove
3. B to Kt 7th mate.
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BOLSHEVISM IN AN ESSEX CHURCH: THE “RED” VICAR OF THAXTED PREACHING-(ON THE LEFT) A MIXED CHOIR
(INCLUDING GIRLS IN COLOURED VEILS) AND THE FLAG OF ST. GEORGE.
The Vicar of Thaxted, the Rev. Conrad Noel, combines Bolshevism, for which he
claims to find sanction in the Gospel, with incense and elaborate mediaeval vest¬
ments and ritual. He hangs the Red flag and the Sinn Fein flag in his church,
and issues leaflets, called the Thaxted Tracts, one of which contains an appeal
“ to help the Catholic Crusade to shatter the British Empire, and all other
Empires, to bits.” In a recent sermon he said that the object of the Catholic
Crusade was a Workers’ International. On May 21 a meeting of 500 parishioners
condemned the Vicar’s action as ” outrageous and an insult to sensible .and law-
Di aivn nv mi Special Arum. Steven Spurrier. 1
abiding citizens.” The Bishop of Chelmsford wishes all Church-people to know
j that “ the deplorable affairs at Thaxted are engaging his most earnest attention.”
! Describing the service there on Trinity Sunday, our artist says : “ The choir is
J a mixed one and sits in the nave. The girls wear veils of different colours and
j materials. The congregation was largely composed of very young men and
girls. The Union Jack has been banished from the church as an emblem of
‘Snatch, grab and brag’ and ‘Might is right,’ and the flag of St George sub-
I stituted as representing ‘ Right is might.’ ”
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THK ll.I.l’STRATKIJ I.ONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921. 702
f'±.
W E have been told often enough that organi¬
sation means efficiency. It would be far
truer to say that organisation always means
inefficiency. This does not in the least mean that
we should not organise. Sometimes the organi¬
sation is inevitable, and then the inefficiency is
equally inevitable. Organisation necessarily creates
a chain of human or living links on which every¬
thing hangs ; the chain cannot be stronger than
its weakest link, and it will have many weak
links. To say that organisation means inefficiency
is only to repeat, in the more pedantic modern
language, the old proverb "If you want a thing
done, do it yourself.” If a peasant can grow a
cabbage himself, cook it himself, and eat it himself,
he has so far attained the maximum of efficiency
and certainly the maximum of economy. Organi¬
sation means that he must trust the cabbage to
strangers on a train, strangers on a trolley,
strangers in a shop, until by infinite financial
complications he can get it exchanged for a turnip
or a cauliflower; and at every one of those stages
it is in danger from every one of those strangers.
'I am not saying
that he should
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
were twenty, or even that the twenty were ten.
But, curiously enough, the truth now everywhere
admitted about schoolmasters is now everywhere
reversed about schools. While a teacher is con¬
sidered enlightened and even advanced if he firmly
refuses to teach more than five and a half babies
how' to dissect a dandelion, a system of teaching
is also considered enlightened and advanced if it
can boast that 5,000,000 05 babies are all dissect¬
ing exactly the same sort of dandelions at exactly
the same instant of time. While the individual
teachers express a longing to be allowed to get
nearer to their individual pupils, the systems of
teaching actually brag and boast of not being
individual. And. of course, the first is modern
and must be right, and the second is modern and
must be right ; and if they contradict each other,
each must be right without the other being wrong.
I see that Mr. Wells was lamenting the other day
that our school systems were not sufficiently
systematised. _ He did not use the word ^system-
atised ; he actually used .the word stereotyped.
He said he wanted certain lessons stereotyped.
not change his
cabbage for a
cauliflower. or
that the ex¬
change could l>e
made without
some organisa¬
tion. What 1 sav
is that if there
is some organisa¬
tion there will
be some ineffici¬
ency ; and if
there is more
orga ni sation
there will lie
more inefficiency
The only fault¬
less and final
piece of effi¬
ciency. full and
rounded like the
turnip, is that in
which the same
turnip or cab¬
bage passes from
the peasant's
kitchen - garden
to the peasant’s
kitchen, and
from the pea¬
sant’s kitchen to
the peasant’s
inside. With
every man you
add to that pro¬
cess you do, by
inevitable logic,
increase the
chance of the cabbage being lost, of the cabbage
being stolen, of the cabbage being sold at a loss,
of the cabbage being kicked about in the dirt till
it is no more than a cabbage-stalk. I do not
object to the peasant purchasing and eating the
cauliflower as a variant on too continuous a diet
of cabbage ; but I say he should all the more value
and even venerate the cauliflower because of the
dangers it has passed, the myriad chances of
destruction it has evaded, in threading its way
through the deadly jungle of organisation. It has
had a hundred hairbreadth escapes, for it has
passed through a hundred human hands. That
luckless vegetable has been lost in a forest of men
as trees walking : of men of the sort summarised
as mostly fools ; of human trees which are at
least tolerably green. It is almost a wonder that
the peasant does not preserve the vegetable in a
shrine instead of putting it on a dish.
I cannot count how many vital and valuable
human institutions have been sacrificed to this
one simple and silly idea—the idea that by making
a thing large we make it orderly ; whereas making
it large is obviously more likely to make it loose.
It may be necessary to send forty little boys to
one schoolmaster, because it is practically difficult
to provide one schoolmaster for one little boy.
But any practical and conscientious schoolmaster
will tell you that he had rather the forty boys
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ia the winner." Following is a youth with the prize — a crown and a lar*e tripod. The design is a
British Museum.
notably the chemical experiments, which he
wanted fixed for ever on a film, to avoid the expense
and bother of conducting them with a jar or a
piece of wire It would certainly have its advan¬
tages. For instance, it would conceal the fact that
the real experiment often fails, or (with even
grosser impropriety) proves the wrong thing.
Behind the figured film, like the embroidered veil
of Isis, the august secrets of science can be pre¬
served. Of course. I know that Mr. Wells merely
meant, in all innocence, to give efficient chemical
instruction in the most economical manner ; but
1 think there is a certain irony in the innocence
which is not without its application to scientific-
infallibility. The point is here, however, that,
whatever it is that Mr. Wells wants stereotyped, a
considerable scluxfl of current culture wants every¬
thing stereotyped. It wants all the pupils in the
school to be exactly the same, and all the schools
in the country to be exactly the same. It admits
that many little mistakes have been made in the
past, and pointed out in the past. It wants to
make the next mistake on a really large and
magnificent scale, with nobody to point it out.
This is the great modem ideal of organisation,
of which the ideal would be too tight and the
reality would be too loose. It menaces both
England and America, but both in America and
England there are many more or less submerged
but very stubborn national instincts tyt i a
against it. in England it is resisted by th>
English eccentricity 0/ moods and humours It
America it is resisted by the American fire au
fighting spirit, and a certain fine levity abet:
obedience to the law. In the peasant dero.
cracies, like France or Serbia or Ireland, it cai
never get any real foothold at all. There tk
fundamental truism about wanting a thing vei
done and doing it yourself is instinctively aid
universally understood. This does not mean thai
a moderate amount of organisation is not good in
peasants, or is not desired by peasants, or is not
done by peasants. The point is that the pro
portions between primary and secondary thing;
stand 6olid in the mind. The primary fact is Aa:
a man can support himself, and thus only can goven
himself. The secondary’ fact is that he wishes to
enrich and vary’ experience by various form d
experiment and exchange. To these secondary
social activities are loosely attached a brgt
number of more or less legitimate figures of speed
and symbolical summaries, such as that wild
compares the
community fo 1
ship or a tree <r
a single mar,
Hut the theorists
of modem anal
carnation amplr
lived by a mm
phor. and gesrr
ally a miwi
metaphor.
Nothing 11
really organised
except an «gan
ism. We natar-
a 11 v use the
terms of it is an
easier and mu«
extensive fash¬
ion, just as tlx
same word
“ organ," which
is applied t»
the heart « the
stomach, may
also mean a bar
rel organ nr a
church organ
But we should
be misled if w
expected fro" 1
the barrel-organ
the peculiar an
tics of the man
or even the
monkey. Tbf
organ cannd
invent a tuW
any more than it
can grow a tail
And such things cannot be done merely by a social
machine any more than by a musical machine. "
church the largest and most elaborate organ must
still depend upon the smallest and most minute
organist And. just as mistakes may be made
the organist because he is a man. mistakes may
be made by the organiser because be i* » m *"
The social organiser is not organically c ° nDCC ^
with society. He cannot raise a forest as hera 1
a finger, nor can he cast a city down mere >
he puts his foot down. Though he may thm
self a giant, his limbs do not really elongate
selves along all the roads of a continent, '
though he is very frequently a fool, his e >“
not in that sense in the ends of the earth. .
only reach out to all these remote things
a long scries of intermediaries, general \ 1® 1 ^
enormous numbers, as in the case o * ^
organised labour. Other men must pla
forest, and they may strike. Other me®
bombard the city, and they may mutiny
This is something like the sinister P°*^° ^
which our craze for complex organisa
already brought us. 1 will not attemp j
cast here the issue of. such a problem , ^
think it well for us to re iember the f “ n ^
and forgotten fact—that the one an^ ^ , eft
tvoe of efficiency is the turmp-bea
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
effect that "The horse of Dusaeiketo*
copy of one on a Greek vase in the
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28, 1921 -703
NOTED BY THE CAMERA: NEWS OF THE DAY BY PHOTOGRAPHY.
Photo C
THE LATE EARL OF
SHREWSBURY.
EX-PREMIER OF PORTU¬
GAL :SENHOR MACHADO.
THE LATE SIR MELVILLE
MACNAGHTEN.
A HEW PEER : VISCOUNT
LONG OF W RAX HALL.
CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADUATES REMOVING THE RED FLAG FROM THAXTED CHURCH
A PROTEST AGAINST THE VICAR’S BOLSHEVISTIC TENDENCIES.
THE CURATE OF THAXTED: THE
REV. JOHN BUCKN1LL (LEFT).
THE PIT PONIES “ST. LEGER " AT DONCASTER: A UNIQUE RACE MADE
POSSIBLE BY THE COAL CRISIS.
PRINCESS MARY’S INTEREST IN THE WAIFS AND STRAYS SOCIETY
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS AT CHURCH HOUSE, WESTMINSTER.
CHOOSING THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM TO PLAY THE AUSTRALIANS
(L. TO R.) MESSRS. SPOONER. FOSTER, AND DAN1ELL.
Lady Bancroft, the famous actress, wife of Sir Squire Bancroft, died at Folkestone
on May 22, aged eighty.-The late Earl of Shrewsbury was a pioneer of hansom
cabs, and the first to run cabs with noiseless tires in London and Paris.-The
late Sir Melville Macnaghten was Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department
from 1903 to 1913.-A military coup took place in Lisbon on May 21, when
the Premier, Senhor Bernardino Machado, and all his Ministers were arrested.-
The Rev. E. M. Blackie, Vicar of Windsor, has been appointed Precentor of
Lincoln Cathedral and Archdeacon of Stow, in place of the Rev. John Wakeford.-
Mr. Walter Long, who was recently raised to the Peerage, has taken the title of
Viscount Long of WraxaO.-The Red Flag removed from Thaxted Church by
Cambridge undergraduates was sent to the Bishop of Chelmsford. The Curate
of Thaxted wears a costume that is not markedly clerical.-- A race meeting"
called the Pitmen's St Leger was held at Doncaster recently in aid of funds'
for feeding miners' children.-Princess Mary received purses on behalf of the
Church of England Waifs and Strays Society, at Church House, Westminster, on
May 19. The Bishop of London and Dean Inge are seen in our photograph.-
The English cricket team for the first Test Match was chosen by the M.C.C.
Selection Committee, Messrs. R. H. Spooner, H. K. Foster, and J. Daniell.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28, 1021.—701
FAR AND NEAR: PRINCELY VISITORS; EVENTS IN EGYPT AND IRELAND.
Photographs bv Topicai , Smuk (Edinburgh), Lafavbttk, C N , V’anuvk, and L.N.A.
THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN AT EDINBURGH : H.I.H. GREETING THE
CITY’S YOUNGEST “WOLF CUB,” AT A REVIEW OF BOY SCOUTS.
THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE SCILLY ISLANDS : H R.H. (CENTRE BACK
GROUND) IN A GROUP AT STAR CASTLE, A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BUILDING.
' QUELLING RIOTS AT ALEXANDRIA : GEN. F. S.
j MONTAGUE-BATES, COMMANDING TROOPS THERE.
MURDERED, WITH HER HUSBAND, IN THE
BALLYTURIN AMBUSH : THE LATE MRS. BLAKE.
MURDERED, WITH HIS WIFE, IN THE BALLYTURIN
AMBUSH : CAPTAIN AND DISTRICT INSPECTOR BLAKE.
IRISH ELECTIONS : THE HON. H. MULHOLLAND SPEAKING AT A
UNIONIST MEETING AT BALLYWALTER, CO. DOWN.
THE UNION JACK IN BELFAST : SHIPYARD WORKERS MARCHING TO
ULSTER HALL TO INVADE A SOCIALIST MEETING.
During his visit to the Scilljr Islands, the Prince of Wales took lunch at Star
Castle, which dates from 1593. and commands a wide view of the islands. The
photograph shows, from left to right (standing) : Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey,
Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Sir Godfrey Thomas, Major Dorrien-Smith (Governor
of the islands and the Prince’s host), the Prince, Lord Glasgow, Mr. Walter
Peacock, and Mr. W. T. Jeffery (the Duchy Agent) ; (sitting) Miss Fergusson,
Lady Keyes, Mrs. Dorrien-Smith, Lady Fergusson, Master D. Jeffery, and
Mrs. Jeffery.-The Crown Prince of Japan on May 21 witnessed a review of
Scottish Boy Scouts in the King's Park, Edinburgh. Our photograph shows him
greeting the youngest of them, a Wolf Cub named Walter Ross.-It was stated
on May 24 that British troops under General F. S. Montague-Bates had occupied
Alexandria, where riots occurred in which 23 people (including 5 Euro P eW>5
wtr * killed and 130 wounded. No British casualties were reported. District
Inspector Blake and his wife, with Captain Cornwallis and Lieut. McCreery, both
of the 17th Lancers, were murdered in an ambush on Sunday, May 15.
gates of Ballyturin House, near Gort, Co. Galway. Mrs. Blake was pierced by
twelve bullets.-At the Unionist election meeting at Ballywalter, Lords London¬
derry, Castlereagh, and Dunleath were on the platform.
BOUND FOR CRANMERE POOL : THE PRINCE OF WALES (2 nd FROM
LEFT) STARTING FOR A TEN-MILE WALK OVER DARTMOOR.
PASSING UNDER THE DARTMOOR TIMBER TRANSPORT CABLE : THE PRINCE LEAVING
PRINCETOWN FOR A RUN WITH THE LAMERTON FOXHOUNDS.
WITH A FOUR-FOOTED FRIEND IN THE SCILLY
ISLANDS : THE PRINCE AND “ GIRLIE.”
FINDING YOUNG SEA-GULLS ON ANNET : THE PRINCE
ON AN ISLAND INHABITED ONLY BY BIRDS.
A FLORAL TRIBUTE FROM A SCILLONIAN : THE PRINCE
RECEIVING A BUNCH OF FLOWERS FROM MISS JACKSON.
BEARING 46 NAMES, INCLUDING THE GOVERNOR'S SISTER : THE SCILLIES' WAR
MEMORIAL AT OLD TOWN, ST. MARY’S, UNVEILED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES.
AT AN OLD DEVON BOROUGH LAST VISITED BY ROYALTY IN 1644 :
THE PRINCE LAYING A WREATH ON BRADNINCH WAR MEMORIAL.
After leaving Exeter, where his Western tour began, the Prince of Wales motored
to Bradninch, a little town in the Devon hills with a proud past—it was once a
borough and returned two Members to Parliament. Many arches of welcome
had been put up. Here the Prince laid a wreath on the war memorial and opened
a recreation ground. Thence he proceeded through Exmouth, Dawlish, Paignton,
Teignmouth, Torquay, and Dartmouth, where he visited the Royal Naval College,
to Princetown, on Dartmoor. On May 19 he had a run with the Lamerton
Foxhounds, mounted first on Mr. Clarence Spooner’s Satan, and later on Commander
Davey’s Jupiter. After visiting his tenants at Femworthy he took a ten-mile
walk over Dartmoor to Cranmere Pool. Next day he crossed in a destroyer,
H.M.S. ‘‘Wallace,” from Devonport to the Scilly Islands, whose landlord he is,
and stayed at Tresco Abbey with the Governor, Major Dorrien-Smith. The Scillies
were part of the ancient earldom of Cornwall before 1337. At Old Town, on
St. Mary's the Prince unveiled the island/ War Memorial. He also went out
in the lifeboat, and visited the other islands of St Martin's, St. Agnes, Bryher,
and Annet, the last a haunt of sea-birds with no human population.
706 THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28, 1921.
THE FIRST TEST MATCH AGAINST THE AUSTRALIANS '
Portraits bv C.N., Sport and General, and
their terrible bowlm* b«
where are the sticky ridm
bowlers ? Armstrong ha
yet to prove himself om
for his best work has bees
done on fast or easy
paced wickets. Gregory
and MacDonald, with thor
long run, will find it M
easy matter to obtain i
foothold, and, methinb,
their deliveries will cot
through. Mailey infinitely
prefers a pitch with hit
in it. Collins seems to
have lost all his spin, and
Macartney, great enterprising batsman though he
is, can hardly be compared to a J. V. Saunders,
Hugh Trumble, or Bill Howell. Hendry, a capital
cricketer of much promise, has to justify himself
as a bowler. In the last series of Test Matches,
MacDonald averaged 65*33 per wicket; Ryder,
5®'33 » Collins, 42 00; Mailey, 26 27 i Gregory,
24*17; and the genial skipper, 22*66. To cut a
long story short, it is only a certain section of
the Press that has " boosted ” up their bowling
to the skies, not themselves. They know they are
not an extraordinary power in attack. Here, then,
is a second negative to invulnerability.
We can claim one distinct advantage over the
Australians, which, as cricketers, we would gladly
dispense with. We have a “ twelfth man" o
our uncertain climate. It is not cricket, but. all
the same, it is an important point that cannot
be overlooked. It must be reckoned with. There
can be no doubt that our visitors are as much
affected by our murky atmospheric conditions
as we are by their almost tropical heat.
The Australians are devoid of nerves. Their
temperament for Test cricket is proverbial. They
have a remarkable personality* and a bom leader
at their head Perfect harmony and esprit it corps
exists in. their camp, and this is a matter of vital
importance with a touring side. No happier
team has ever visited these shores. If they beat
us, we shall acclaim their victory with three-
times-three, and only those silly little people,
W. RHODES ; YORKSHIRE. (AGED 43 ).
E. TYLDESLEY ; LANCASHIRE. (AGED 32 ).
11 H. HOWELL ; WARWICKSHIRE. (AGED 30 ).
ENGLANDS CRICKET TEAM.
By MAJOR R. O. EDWARDS. O.B.E.
T ^HE members of the Selection Committee have
deserved the sympathy of sportsmen through¬
out the country during these past few* weeks. At
the outset their task was a difficult one, for no
arrangements had been made to play any trial
games, and the memory' of those five decisive
matches in Australia was not calculated to inspire
an unduly optimistic feeling. Added to all this,
misfortune persistently hindered their work, and
warped their deliberations.
Mr. H. K. boster, Mr. R. H. Spooner and Mr. J.
Daniell treated their responsibilities seriously, and
they have had a very busy time in acting the part
of private detectives on this ground and that,
searching for the wherewithal to build up a con¬
vincing eleven, and one that was likely to cause
Warwick Armstrong s coalition perturbed slumbers.
Now, these same selectors have earned our utmost
thanks and unqualified praise for the splendid side
they have chosen to represent England in the first
of the Test Matches at Trent Bridge. Handicapped
by the injuries to Charles Fry and Hobbs, and the
widely deplored breakdown in health of J. W.
Heame, they have managed to solve an exceedingly
complicated plot with every credit to themselves,
and to the satisfaction of an overwhelming majority
of cricketers, not to say a vast array of uninvited
team-suggestors, amusing and otherwise.
Whether the men of their choice are capable of
defeating so fine a team as that sent over by
Australia is, of course, an open question ; but it
STRUDW 1 CK; SURREY.
(AGED 41 ).
T. L. RICHMOND ; NOTTINGHAM¬
SHIRE. (AGED 28 ).
E. H END REN ; MIDDLESEX. (AGED 32 ).
Enormous interest has been taken in the first Test Match of the season against the Australians, arranged to open at Nottingham on Saturday, May 28. The choice of
English team was entrusted to Messrs. H. K. Foster, R. H. Spooner, and J. Daniell, as the M.C.C. Selection Committee. They are seen at work in a photograph given elsewh^
in this number. By May 22, after long deliberation, they had chosen only eight of the team, and there was considerable doubt as to filling the remaining pUc«. * “
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May
THE ENGLISH TEAM; AND THE SCENE OF THE CONTEST
Photograph of Trent Brihci: by C. F. Shaw
who think England must
never lose, and when she
does, proceed to hurl
mud at her representa¬
tives, and bleat about
the decadence of English
sport, will grouse. They’
don’t count in the great
big world of cricket.
What our men have
got to realise is that no
cricket team is unbeat¬
able ; and this cheery’
Australian crowd is in
no sense an exception.
They must curb the
English cricket nature for being too impetuous.
Let them play themselves in quickly but thor¬
oughly. In the field they must be on their toes
to every ball, and the bowlers inculcate the keen¬
ness of Gregory and MacDonald.
A word or two in conclusion upon the chosen
ones. J. W. H. T. Douglas is a captain with
rare fighting qualities, who has the ability to
command and the skill to play; possessed of
iron nerve, and a reputation to come off in big
games. At his right hand stands England’s most
experienced Test-Match cricketer—Wilfred Rhodes,
the only Englishman who has scored over 1000
runs and taken ioo wickets in England v. Aus¬
tralia matches. Although now forty-three years
of age, he is still our principal slow’ left-hand
bowler, and for the last two seasons has topped
the English averages. He has taken more wickets
in first-class cricket than any bowler in the world.
He has gone in last , for England, and more fre¬
quently first. His fielding even won us the Old
Trafford match in 1905. A trusty cricketer, good
at need, and deservedly popular everywhere he
plays.
Donald Knight, of Malvern, Oxford, and
Surrey, is perhaps the most stylish batsman to-day.
Here is no gamble by the Committee. They
know what he can do. They have implicit faith
in him, and he will win his spurs before many
days. First-wicket down is his place, so it seems
to me. He is a holder of unconsidered trifles:
MR. V. C. W. JUPP ; SUSSEX. (AGED 30).
F. E. WOOLLEY; KENT. (AGED 34).
>n the slips when Howell is on, and dependable
anywhere in the field for the others.
Next we have that nonchalant man of Kent,
Frank Woolley. Modest to a degree, as all great
cricketers are. Tall, loose-limbed, with a free-
swinging bat, and additionally useful in being
left-handed. Like Rhodes, he sighs for a sticky
wicket, and what a deadly pair they will prove
the day that happens. Australia will be there,
or thereabouts !
!* Patsy Hendren is an enterprising batsman, who
has developed by gradual process a sound defence.
He can get runs quickly, or put his tongue in his
cheek and defy the best bowlers for hours at a
stretch. Brilliant field in the deep, square-leg.
or in the slips, he now covets Hobbs's monopoly
at cover. Must surely be booked for all five Tests.
Percy Holmes, possibly the most reliable first-
wicket batsman next to Hobbs in the country,
is an admirable choice, who will not let the side
down: possessed of every conceivable scoring
stroke, which he makes to perfection, and a cast-
iron best Yorkshire defence: even more famous
as an outfield, in which position Cecil Burton
tells me he has never dropped one for Yorkshire
yet. He crosses the ball at third man in a style
reminiscent of David Denton in his best days.
He owes much of his present position to the careful
nursing and encouragement of his County captain,
whose faith in him would fill a ten-acred field of
mustard.
Richmond should cause the Australians much
anxiety, more especially at Trent Bridge, where
he knows every blade of grass by name. A bowler
of the “ googly ” type, with a better command
of length than most. A most willing cricketer,
as the writer can testify, but not w’orth many runs
this side of the Millennium.
One has had opportunities of speaking to
several members of the M.C.C. Team since their
return, not to say Australians, and one gathered
that “ down under ” Howell bowled with extra¬
ordinarily bad luck. At Nottingham, he will have
all the slips he wants, and may Dame Fortune
smile on him ! He can bowl all day, if necessary,
but is a “ tail " bat.
The remaining three places are being filled by
V. C. W. Jupp, E. Tyldesley, and H. Strudwick.
The first is a very capable all-round cricketer;
and the Lancastrian adds strength to the batting.
Roth are brilliant in the field. Jupp will no doubt
be our cover, vice the absent Hobbs. Tempera¬
mentally fitted for strenuous test cricket, each is
sure to give of his best. Strudwick is forty-one
years of age, and has long been famous.
(AGED 33).
tut pr j
tminst
TEST MATCH. FIXED to BEGIN ON MAY 28 :
GROUND ON THE RIGHT ACROSS THE RIVER.
TRENT
interesting to compare the different ages of the men playing, as given under their portraits. The famous Trent Bridge Ground at Nottingham has been the scene of many
historic matches. Our photograph (hitherto unpublished) shows it in the right background. The road to the left of it leads to Newark and the road to the right (nearest to
the far side of the river) to Leicester. In the left background is seen a comer of the Nottingham Forest football field. No change in the English team is likely.
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, May 28,
1921.—708
FANCIED FOR the DERBY:
Photogbapiis
HORSES THAT
KotiH and Spout and Gexkkai..
HAVE WON FAVOUR.
MR. J. B. JOEL’S HUMORIST.
SIR J. BUCHANAN'S ALAN BRECK.
LORD ALLENDALE’S GOLDENDALE.
MR. JOSEPH WATSON’S LEMONORA.
LORD ASTOR’S CRAIG AN ERAN.
This year's Derby, to be run at Epsom on Wednesday, June i, promises to
be well up to its predecessors in interest and excitement. The records go back
to 1780, when the race was won by Sir C. Bunbury’s Diomed (S. Arnull up).
During the war years (1915 to 1918, inclusive) the Derby was run at New¬
market, over the Suffolk Stakes course. The 1918 race was memorable for the
first win by a woman owner. Lady J. Douglas, whose successful horse was
Gainsborough. The first post-war Derby, in 1919. was won ^7 ^ or< * ^* an *~ e
Grand Parade, and last year’s race by Captain G. Loder’s Spion Kop.
horses illustrated above include those which, at the moment of writing, haT *
won most support for the coming event ; but prophecy is dangerous, and, dealing
with the subject in advance, we cannot tell whether all these horses will be
still in the running by the time these lines appear.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921.—709
V
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S
ENGLAND’S “BIG FOUR”: OUR POLO TEAM AGAINST THE AMERICANS.
Photogiipm^ nr Roc* *.
NO. 3 (AND CAPTAIN) : MAJOR V. N. LOCKETT.
Till* will be Major Lockett’* third encounter with the American*, as he
played back in both the 1913 and 1914 teams. In 1913 we were beaten,
but only by a very narrow margin, and if it had been played under English
rule* as to scoring, it is possible that we might have won. In the 1913
team the name* were : Captain Cheape, 1 ; Captain Noel Edwards, 2 ; Captain
(now Colonel) R. E. Ritson, 3 ; and Major Vivian Lockett, Back. In 1914,
when we won, our team was Captain (now Colonel) H. A. Tomkinson, 1 ;
Captain Cheape, 2 ; Captain Barrett, 3 ; and Major Lockett, Back. This
year Major Lockett has elected to play No. 3, a position in which he has
played with his own regimental team, that famous 17th Lancer combination
which swept all before it in the Indian Inter-Regimental before the war,
and also won the Hurlingbam Inter-Regimental last season here. Major
Lockett, in some people's opinion, is a better back than he is a “3,’’ but
he is brilliant in both positions, and there is no better O.C. defence than
he in the whole world.
NO. 2 : MAJOR F. W. BARRETT.
He first learnt his polo in India with that first-class polo regiment, the
15th Hussars, who for so many years were cocks of the walk in the land
of Ind. In 1913 Major Barrett was tried for England v. America, and
went out to America with our team. He did not manage to fit himself
to the ponies assigned to him, and Colonel Ritson, who skippered our team,
decided not to play him. We lost by a very narrow margin. In 1914,
in conjunction with Lord Wimbome, Major Barrett organised an expeditionary
force for the recapture of the Cup. and they sallied forth followed by the
misgivings of many, but with the blessings of all. When the wire came
over that they had beaten America’s “ Big Four " 8J to 3, people could
hardly believe their eyes ; but it was soon proved that this team had well
got the measure of the enemy, for we won the next match 4 goals to 2|,
and brought home the Cup. Major Barrett is one of the most brilliant
performers of the day, a wonderfully good horseman, and possessing a know¬
ledge of the game second to no one in the world.
NO. 1 : LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. A. TOMKINSON.
He was our No. 1 in 1914, and his selection to play in the same position
in 1921 is eminently justified, for he is exactly the kind of forward that is
needed to tackle such a formidable defence line as that which is opposed
to us. In 1914 he made America sit up and take a lot of notice, for,
with another forward of much his own type, poor Leslie Cheape, behind
him, it is not difficult to understand that our attack was formidable.
Colonel Tomkinson’s regiment is the Royals, and he now commands them.
In India the Royals were never quite out of the top drawer where polo was
concerned, but they possessed one or two very brilliant individual players.
Of these none was ever better than “ Mouse ” Tomkinson, and though,
when he was selected for England in 1914 *>T Major Barrett, some people
doubted whether he was class enough, he quickly justified his skipper’s
opinion. He has since then improved, if anything, and, despite a severe
bullet wound in the arm, plays better than ever. “Mouse ” is also a very
good cross-country gentleman rider, and has won a number of races.
BACK : LORD WODEHOUSE.
Lord Wodehouse, who plays back for England, is the back of the famous
Old Cantab team who won the Championship last year, beating the 17th Lancers.
On that form he is certainly entitled to first consideration for Fn gi»m i
and has entirely justified the Selection Committee’s decision. He is not the
most brilliant back in England, as that honour unquestionably belongs to
Mr. John Traill, but next to him, and as Major Lockett has elected to play
No. 3, Lord Wodehouse undoubtedly has first claim. He has been in
practice with this team both last season at Hurling ham and at Tid worth,
where our ponies were wintered, and where the pr elim inary games took f'vt
early this year. Lord Wodehouse is a very imperturbable player, very certain
and sure, and just the man to defend the “ last ditch ” against the per¬
tinacious invader. It is very certain that we shall need someone who is
not given to getting flustered to stand up to the Americans ; and, for the
matter in hand. Lord Wodehouse is undoubtedly the right man, in whom
England’s supporters may have complete confidence.
This year has witnessed a very remarkable public display of interest in polo, and
a game that was once caviare to the general is increasing in popularity with
astonishing speed, thanks, in part at all events, to the facilities now offered to
those who would watch it. That great crowds will witness the International
Test Matches against the Americans goes without saying. The present team,
which plays the first Test on June 18, at Hurlingbam, is the same which won
the Cup at Meadowbrook in 1914, with the exception that Lord Wodehouse has
succeeded the late Leslie Cheape. It was in that year of the beginning of the
European War that England and America last met in a tussle for the International
Polo Cup. The contests began thirty-five years ago, when the Westchester Polo
Club, of Newport, presented the present trophy. The “ Big Four " whose photo¬
graphs we give were selected last week : a change is not likely.
LONDON NEWS, May 28 , 1921
710—THE
GREAT GOLF MEETING AT HOYLAKE: THE AMERlj
Photographs bv Topical, Spoh
SUCCESSFUL AGAINST MR. "CHICK ” EVANS U THE SBQB
MR. C. J. H. TOLLEY PLAYING OUT OF A BUttER.
VICTORIOUS OVER GREAT BRITAIN BY 4 TO 0 IN THE FO
SINGLES : THE AMERICAN TEAM.
CAPTAIN OF THE AMERICAN TEAM : MR. W. C.
FOWNES, THE VETERAN OF HIS SIDE.
A STRONG AMERICAN PAIR : (L. TO 1
OUIMET AND MR. GUILDFORD.
« and fire out of &
Hoylake has been the scene of some stirring golf of late. On May 21 the American team beat the British very decisively, winning all the foursomes ^ Guildfo*^’ ^
singles. The names of the American golfers in the top left-hand photograph are, from left to right (back row) : Messrs. Francis Ouimet, F. J. W g pt, 0 togr»P b ’ ^
“Chick” Evans; (seated in front) Messrs. J. Wood Platt, W. C. Fownes, Bobby Jones, and Dr. P. Hunter. The British team shown in the top rig L-C.
_ _ 117 ** Y
from left to right (back row) : Messrs. T. D. Armour, J. Gordon Simpson, R. H. Wethered, R. H. de Montmorency ; (seated in front) Messrs. Guildfo^ t** 1 ***'
C. J. H. Tolley, and C. C. Aylmer. In the foursomes, Mr. Evans and Mr. Jones beat Mr. Simpson and Mr. Jenkins by 5 and 3 ; Mr. Ouimet and Mr.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28, 1921
EAM VICTORY; AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP PERSONALITIES,
L.N.A. Drawing bv Charles Ambrose.
A FOURSOME : (L. TO R.) MESSRS. TOLLEY, OUIMET (U.S.A.
GUILDFORD (U.SA.), AND HOLDERNESS.
DECISIVELY BEATEN BY THE AMERICANS IN AN INTERNATIONAL MATCH AT HOYLAKE
THE TEAM THAT REPRESENTED GREAT BRITAIN.
ONE OF THE AMERICAN TEAM : MR. FRED
WRIGHT, WHO PARTNERED MR. FOWNES.
ONE OF THE BEST AMERICAN PLAYERS, WITH
A GREAT DRIVE: MR. JESSE GUILDFORD.
AND (L. TO R. BEHIND), MESSRS. J. L. LOW, H. H. HILTON. JOHN BALL, H. S. MALIK, BERNARD
ROBERT HARRIS, AND R. H. WETHERED.
a. &
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 2H. 1921.-712
A TASK FOR BRITISH
TROOPS: THE UPPER SILESIAN IMBROGLIO.
Phot'igikM»H* t nv Willi Rrr.c, Rrkmv.
Ill THE DISTRICT TO WHICH IT WAS DECIDED TO SEND BRITISH TROOPS, AND WHERE SERIOUS FIGHTING BETWEEN POLES AND GERMANS
WAS RECENTLY RENEWED : REMOVING A WOUNDED GERMAN ON A MOTOR-CAR AT OPPELN. IN UPPER SILESIA.
BLOWN UP BY THE POLISH INSURGENTS : A DAMAGED RAILWAY BRIDGE
AT OPPELN BEING REPAIRED.
THE EXODUS FROM UPPER SILESIA INTO GERMANY : REFUGEES OBTAINING
PASSES AT AN OFFICIAL BUREAU.
May 23 it was announced that the Cabinet had decided on the early
itch of a British force (about four battalions) to Upper Silesia, possibly the
. troops who were there before, drawn from the Army of Occupation
ioloene. It was reported in a message of May 22 from Oppdn, a centre
ie disturbed district, that serious fighting had again broken out between the
»ns and the Poles. The Germans had been preparing an offensive for the
k! on the aist they attacked from the bridgehead which
they held at Krappitz, on the Oder, with infantry, cavalry, and artillery, driving
the Poles about five miles towards Gross Strehlitz. Several local German land-
owners bad raised troops to defend their property. The Inter-Allied Commission,
it was said, was powerless to restore order. The Poles meanwhile strengthened
their positions in the industrial area, and sought to get control of the important
railway centres of Gleiwitz and Kattowitz. A train was run daily from Oppefn,
under the Polish flag, with supplies for the insurgents.
THK ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 2H. U01.—713
THE SILESIAN PROPOSITION: THE U.S. “OBSERVER” AT THE COUNCIL
PMf*T 06 ««m BV Vavdtk.
“THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GREAT DEMOCRACY OF THE WEST”: MR. GEORGE HARVEY.
Mr. George Harvey’s first public welcome to this country as United States
Ambassador was given to him at a dinner of the Pilgrims at the Hotel Victoria
on May 19, at which the Duke of Connaught presided, and among those present
were the Duke of York and the Prime Minister. The Duke of Connaught, in
proposing his health, said that “ Mr. Harvey was no stranger to England: this
was his thirty-seventh passage across the Atlantic.” Mr. Lloyd George, in
support, hailed him as “a man who knows Europe ... a whole-hearted
American . . . not merely the new Ambassador to the Court of St James's, but
the representative of the great democracy of the West in the Councils of the
nations of the world.” This last phrase referred to an important announcement
by Mr. Harvey in the course of his brilliant reply. “ This day,” he said, ” I
was authorised and directed by my Government, in the event of a meeting of
the Supreme Council being held to consider the Silesian proposition, to represent
in that meeting the President of the United States.” Mr. Harvey's eloquent
speech was of the happiest augury. Subsequent reports from Washington
stated that, as regards Silesia, be would act only as an observer.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921.—714
ENGLISH MUSIC ABROAD. By Edward j. dent.
] T is a collection firmly ingrained in the minds reckoned the best in the world. The house of
of most foreigners that the English have no Broadwood presented pianofortes to Beethoven
aU except . that whi « h foreigners bring and Chopin, who accepted them as royal gifts
comes in Tot l 1 En ^ mao who ^uld any English pianoforte-maker nowadays
comes contact with music-lovers abroad finds think it worth his while to present one of
this conviction extremely hard to dispel. When he his supremest instruments to the most dlstin-
h h musicians there are in England guished composers abroad, whoever they may be ?
who have the universal reputation of such men as Y y
Strauss, Ravel, or Puccini, he may timidly venture _
to name Elgar. The foreigner, if he is more than
usually polite, may suggest the name of Cyril
Scott, who for some curious reason has become
almost as representative of England abroad as
Lord Byron. Within certain limited circles,
among those few who in every country like to
cultivate international interests, there is at least
some curiosity, if little actual knowledge, in the
matter of English music. German musicians,
cut off first by the war and then by the rate of
exchange from almost all non-German music of
the present day. hear with amazement and envy
that London has for years been thoroughly fa¬
miliar with the works of Moussorgsky. Stravinsky’.
Manuel de Falla. Turina, as well as of innumerable
French and Italian composers. They have heard,
too. that there has sprung up a new generation of
music-writing Englishmen, but they have hardly
ever heard their names or seen a note of their music.
It is something new to find that this curiosity
exists. It
might be
gratified, and
foreign musi¬
cians might
even perform
in their own
country the
works of
the once- A WELL-KNOWN VIOLINIST: M. BRONISLAV
despised En- HUBERMAN.
glish compo- M - Huberman has fiven several most successful n
ser. All that recently. He will also play at the third (and last) Ri
need be done Festival Concert at the Queen s Hall.
is to send The first step towards solving the problem
copies of the not so much with the publishers or the corapt
music to the as with the performers. I was made to re;
right people this by the observations of a German friend
abroad. But a great many years ago appeared in Londor
here there a singer, and has always preserved the most ai
presents it- tionate memories of those English people
self a diffi- encouraged him as a young and struggling ar
culty which * Of course. Germans get the impression that ti
CONDUCTING THE RUSSIAN FESTI- *? tHe f ° f ' ,?? English musicians,” he said, “ beca
VAL CONCERTS: M. KOUSSEVJTSKJ eigner se «ms English musicians never come to the Contin<
M Kjussevitski « we.. L™7 inexplicable. Just before the war, Germany, especially Ber
m. roussevitsjci is well known to music- Most of th*» was j . , , r r “
lovers in this country as a most brilliant k~! L,™ perfectly mad about foreign musicians. <
conductor. He is conducting the Russian l? 8 * I " oder " °' vn P eo P ,e complained bitterly that they had
Festival Concerts, at the Queen’s Hall, English chance because any foreigner, however bad
the first of which took place yester- music is not performer, could always make a success Peo
day (May 27 ). The other two will be on printed at came from Holland, from France Italy Rus-
June 3 and 10. all. A work or the Balkans, but no English’ people cat
h . v , , , . whlc ^ ma y ° ne cou Id only draw the conclusion that th
have been heard several times in London or were no English musicians to come ”
elsewhere, and accepted with genuine
admiration by the leaders of musical
opinion, will be found to exist only
in a single manuscript copy. The
composer would be only too happy to
get it performed in Paris or Berlin,
but he cannot afford to have an in¬
definite dumber of manuscript copies
made, and no publisher will under¬
take to print it. Or perhaps, as
sometimes happens, a publisher may
undertake to print the work and
then keep the manuscript locked up
for two or three years on the pretext
that he cannot find engravers to
prepare the plates. When a work is
printed, the composer has to pay out
of his own pocket for such copies as
he wishes to give away, and the
publishers can barely be induced
to 6end out copies for review, even
in England.
The publishers are not altogether
to blame. Even a good review in a
foreign paper will not sell many
copies, for foreigners are little in¬
clined to pay English prices for I
English music. There has always
been a curious want of Continental TO G,VE THREE RECITALS IN JUNE: M. BORIS HAMB
enterprise amongst English publishers. Aft * r a lon * *"«• this country, M. Boris Hamburg, the ’cellist, broth
Foreign publishers establish branch 3/11 UrK ’ ^ . reappearance at the Wigmore Hall on the evenin
houses in London, but no English K,ve two roore recitals later on .-[Photograph by AyUt,
firm thinks it worth its while to open a branch It is absolutely necessary that English ner
abroad. Yet it is barely a hundred years since formers should go abroad with English m ’
English music-printing and English pianofortes were whether to Germany or to any other country
CONDUCTING THE RUSSIAN FESTI¬
VAL CONCERTS: M. KOUSSEVITSKI.
M. Kjussevitoki ia well known to music-
lovers in this country as a most brilliant
conductor. He is conducting the Russian
Festival Concerts, at the Queen's Hall,
the first of which took place yester¬
day (May 27 ). The other two will be on
June 3 and 10 .
A WELL-KNOWN VIOLINIST: M. BRONISLAW
HUBERMAN.
M. Huberman has given several most suocessful recitals
recently. He will also play at the third (and last) Russian
Festival Concert at the Queen’s Hall.
The first step towards solving the problem lies
not so much with the publishers or the composers
as with the performers. I was made to realise
this by the observations of a German friend who
a great many years ago appeared in London as
a singer, and has always preserved the most affec¬
tionate memories of those English people who
encouraged him as a young and struggling artist
' Of course. Germans get the impression that there
are no English musicians,” he said, ” because
English musicians never come to the Continent.
Just before the war, Germany, especially Berlin,
was perfectly mad about foreign musicians. Our
own people complained bitterly that they had no
chance because any foreigner, however bad a
performer, could always make a success People
came from Holland, from France. Italy Russia
or the Balkans, but no English people came.’
One could only draw the conclusion that there
were no English musicians to come.”
an , T ° ? VE ™ REE REC,TALS ,N JUNE: * BORIS HAMBOURG
After a long absence from this country, M. Boris Hambourg the 'cellKt , « .
Hambourg. will make his reappearance at the Wigmore Hall on the’evening “of
He will give two more recitals later on.-[Photograph by AyUtf] J
Of because it is the force of personality that to the
_en great majority of listeners drives home the messa«
Fts. of the music performed. A generation J 0
Zf th ag r Cr Th BrahmS Were thc two composers whom
of the English musical public had taken to its heart
m- Their popularity was due almost wholly to the
e? influence of Richter and Joachim, who paid us
annual visits, and established themselves firmly
as essential factors in our English musical life
And they were able to establish themselves not
merely because they were great artists, but still
more because they were human beings who made
themselves personally beloved. With English
musicians on the Continent there has been little
preservation of balance as regards the question
of nationality. A few have paid flying viats
just to give a few concerts and secure a few Press
notices. Others have settled down abroad and
have, for a time at least, become musically de¬
nationalised. They have, perhaps, become mem¬
bers of a stock opera company, singing the stock
repertory in the language of the particular country
that they happened to adopt, and have done nothing
m the way of propaganda for thc music of their
own. One cannot blame them ; they had to earn
a living, and probably had no time to give recitals
of English songs.
How’ever much it may shock some people, I
maintain the conviction that at this moment the
most favour¬
able foreign _
soil for the
seed of En¬
glish music
is (iermany.
In the first
place, most
of the best
modern En¬
glish music
* >s cham¬
ber - music.
Thanks
* largely to the
s generosity of
> Mr. W.' W.
1 Cobbett, our
1 young com¬
posers write
quartets or
other music
of the kind, I .
and our
chamber A NEW AND BR,LL1ANT PIANIST:
players are M ’ POUISHNOFF.
willing to 0f M - Pouishnoff it can truly be said that
perform their he came ’ was heard( and cohered- A
works The few months the great majority of con-
_ cert-goers had not even heard of his name,
gams at ion and now he is classified amongst the truly
Ot concerts, great ones. His last recital will take
and e s p e- place on June 2 , at the Queen’s Hall,
c i a 1 1y of
chamber concerts, is more developed in Germany
than in any other country.
Another thing that is of thc greatest
importance is that the propagandists
of English music should consider the
national tastes of foreign audiences.
It is absurd to suppose that a singer
who can fill the Albert Hall will
necessarily draw an equally large
audience at her first concert in Rome
or Madrid. Popularity on that scale
depends on varying factors in different
countries. The artist who goes abroad
with a genuine belief in English
music will do far better to begin
quietly and hope to find a small
audience of cultivated people. Gradu¬
ally, by dint of repeated visits, such
an audience can be enlarged, and it
is the cultivated few in every country
who are in a position to spread in¬
terest. People who work quietly and
persistently on a small scale have
much better chances, too, of finding
out in personal conversation what
phase of English music makes thc most
sincere appeal to foreign listeners.
The process must of necessity be slow
G and long. It can only be carried
Mr. Mark ° ut genuine artists, by people
f ju^ 2. who wi ^ 1 take English music abroad
not just in the hopes of financial
profit, but because they honestly
believe in its beauty and want to share that
beauty with everyone who is capable of entering
into the spirit of it.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921.—715
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THE MOMENT OF THE CENTENARY OF NAPOLEON’S DEATH: CARDINAL DUBOIS PRONOUNCING ABSOLUTION.
An impressive ceremony was held at the Invalides in Paris on May 5, the
centenary of Napoleon's death. At 5-49 P-m., the time when be died, the Arch¬
bishop of Paris, Cardinal Dubois, went to the balustrade and pronounced the
Absolution over the tomb below. Before the High Altar, on a table guarded
by two involutes, may be seen the sword of Austerlitr, which Marshal Foch held
while delivering his discourse. There are two keys to the ebony coffin of
Napoleon. One is in the keeping of General Niox, Governor of the In valid es.
The duplicate is treasured by the grandson of Edouard le March and, who, as
Court cabinet-maker to Louis Philippe, made the coffin in 1840. It lies beside
the cross of the Legion of Honour won by Marc hand at Waterloo. At the
instance of Victor Hugo, the word “ Napoleon ’’ was lettered on the coffin in
gold instead of copper.
ini; by UaoaoKs Scott. CorvBjcitTSD in the
Fbom
Dbawi
United States and Amebic a.
THE
ILM T STRATKI> UfNDON NEWS. Nhv 1M2I.—71t»
J
BOOKS OF THE DAY
-
By E. B. OSBORN.
ETTEKS to 1»a-
HtL ” (Cassell
and Co. ; 21s. net], bv Ixrd
Shaw ol Dunlcrmlinc. is one
ol the most delightful auto¬
biographies that liavc ever
been written. The letters were actually written to
the author's guardian daughter at the places
and on the dates they bear, so that the easy,
spontaneous style, ranging trom gay to grave
without an effort, could be kept up throughout.
And the spirit of it all is as fascinating as the
letter lor he whom we remember better, per¬
haps. as Mr. Thomas Shaw. M.P.*, is free from
political rancour and repining, and, though he still
thinks that all political truth is contained within
the lour corners ol the Kadical
creed, has nothing but the
kindliest thoughts lor his old
opponents in Parliament His
views have widened, to In¬
sure—to be worth}’ ot the
noble vista seen trom the
loggia at Craigmyle. where
many of the letters wen-
penned . . “ Cnder an arc
ol crystal air the scene, serene
and splendid, stretches out :
horizoned by Mounts Batten
and Keen, by Lochnagar, by
Morveh, and away west by lar
Hen Avon—seventy miles from
point to point.” There is no
finer prospect in all broad
Scotland, and the constant
sight of it, in various moods
to fit the seasonal vicissitudes
would inspire the leanest soul
to magnanimity and a sense
of the immortal meaning of
mortal destinies. In Lord
Shaw’s case it makes a poet
out of a lawyer, a statesman
out of a politician—and so we
see the essential patriotism at
the core of Radicalism (even
the philosophic kind !| which,
if it is slow*to see the neces¬
sity of fighting for Hritain.
yet anxiously aims at making
Britain better worth lighting
for.
Looking back on the tar.
high horizons beyond the blur
hills of Time (’tis Meredith'
phrase, not my owni tin*
kindly letter-writer has many
a quaint or pathetic recollec¬
tion. Nothing could be more
alluring to the reader than the
memories here rehearsed of a
Scotland that some say has
vanished for ever—the kind of
cynical critics who declare that
ultra-modern Scotland is not
a country but a trade union,
which I, for one, utterly re¬
fuse to credit. Lord Shaw
gives us many a glimpse of
Scottish men of letters of the
nearer and further past. We
hear how K. L. Stevenson
failed at the Bar. Then wx*
meet the author of ” Kab and
his Friends,” and listen to his
story of the thrice - married
tradesman who, when asked
how his wife was after the
Ol the ftolitical personages introduced, Glad¬
stone is the most imposing : as usual he maintains
an Olympian dignity, and addresses an individual
as though he (or she, if not a Margoti were a public
meeting. Once or twice, however, he unbends ;
as when he regrets that Zachary Boyd's transla¬
tion of the entire Scriptures into Scots verse has
never been published, and quotes from memory
one of its most exhilarating stanzas- -
Whin Jonah’s whaul began to spew.
Thinks Jonah, what’s adae the noo ?
Here’s nather room for coal nor cawnle,
There’s nacthing but fish-guts to haunle.
Also we learn from the same august source that
the largest heads in our island are at Aberdeen,
and that a certain hatter, when a customer with
THE SCENE OF A DANTE SEXCENTENARY CELEBRATION IN PARIS: THE CHURCH OF
ST. SEVERIN, WHERE HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE WORSHIPPED.
As part of the celebration* of the sexcentenary of Dante’* death (in 13211. a *acred concert was recently giren
:n Paris at the Church of St. Severin. The Archbishop of Paris presided, and a panegyric 00 Dante was
pronounced by Monsignor Batiffol. Tradition, based on definite statements by Villani and Boccaccio, relates
that Dante visited Paris after his banishment from Florence, studied at the University, and worshipped at the
churches of St. Severin and St. Julien-le-Pauvre. Balzac made the story the subject of his novel. " Les Proscrits.”
Some critics doubt whether Dante ever went to Paris, but there is no proof that he did not.
Dr1n.1t by Henry Cktffer.
death of his third, replied : ” Dr. Broon, the fact
is, I’m just oot o wives at present ” ! Better
still, we are vouchsafed fresh impressions (from the
lips of a witness wfio worked at his trade of bell¬
hanging at Abbotsford) of Sir Walter Scott him¬
self. " He used to come in and out among us,”
said this witness to our author. ” hirpling here
and hirpling there upon a stick ; and his blue
bonnet had a bit of heather in it.” As ” Shirra,”
he was not very popular, liecausc he was hard
on the poachers, and their friends- clodded him
as he went down the brae, and some of them got
twelve months’ imprisonment for the horrid offence
of ” murmuring Judges ” But the Laird ol
Abbotsford would always forgive anybody who
disturbed the peace of the great house by singing
or fiddle-playing, if he would give him ” The
Flowers o’ the Forest.” And, as we read these
reminiscences of a plain matter-of-fact man.
nearer and dearer yet is seen the figure of the
greatest gentleman of letters that ever lived.
a very large one presented himself, would call out
to his assistant . ” Jimmy, bring me the Aberdeen
site.” Among the subsequent statesmen Sir
William Harcourt (who tells an amusing story
of his first success at the Bar) and Sir Henry
Campbell Bannerman (to whom the proverbial
saying : ” Fair and fause as a Campbell ” was
never applicable) are the most human and enter¬
taining. Indeed. ” C.-B.” is the lovable creature
wc all remember so well out of politics, with his
partiality for a word or two ol the Doric when
talking with intimate triends, and that secret scorn
for the English preference for the genteel tongue
which caused him to observe on one occasion :
” I suppose the Jerusalem Pharisees would have
their fashionable joke about the Galilean accent."
” C.-B.'s ” letters are among the pleasantest
things in the book. The late Andrew Carnegie is
too self-satisfied to be pleasing ; the complete
story of his £2.000.000 donation to Scottish educa¬
tion is here told for the first time Finally. Ijord
Shaw- defines himself
in Parliamentary terms
as " a front-bench memlicr
with a back - bench mind.”
which is as good a defini¬
tion as one could get for
one who tempers egu with me in every page q(
a fascinating self-revelation.
Il you wish to know what a chaos has been
createtI in non-Russian lands bv the destruction
of the Tsarist regime, read "is Denikin's Kvssia”
(Collins Sons ; 10s. 6 d. net), by C. E. Hechhofcr,
who describes tile as he saw it in South Kunu
and tlic Caucasus in the winter of 1919 and the
spring of ryzo. and to show
it in relation to the principal
events which have taken place
there since the rise of Lenin
and Trotsky. Mr. Bechhofer
had exceptional opportunities
tor discovering the truth, by
virtue ot his privileges as
a British correspondent, kis
knowledge of the Russian lan¬
guage. his previous experience
of the countrv visited and
its ‘peoples, anil the quality
of his mind which prevent!
him from arguing from the
particular to the general, and
being deluded by all the bi?
talk about ” ancient cultural
traditions.” the “ right* of
small nations,” the ” voice o(
the working masses,” and all
the other sliibbbieths which,
to the man on the spot are
so obviously bluli or hypo¬
crisy, or both — ij., propa¬
ganda. The kiss of thr firm,
but kindly, government hghtlv
im|K»scd by the old Russian
Empire, with its genius—a*
tolerant as ours —lor colonial
enterprise, lias created a
culturcless wilderness where
the dailv quest lor enough
luod and reel to maintain
existence leaves neither time
n«ir energy for the arts ol
living. A strange variety ol
racial leuds have blazed up
aneyv in the absence of am
power strong enough to re¬
press them, and the onjr
universal lactors at yvork are
tvpbus and fear of the Bol¬
shevists--indeed, one is in¬
clined to believe that these
evils are one and the same
thing. Mr. Bechhofer"s book,
which Is full ol human in¬
terest. is in the main a study
ol demoralisation — the de¬
moralisation. through the col¬
lapse of governance, ot a
great people, and the equallv
ruinous demoralisation ol small
peoples, such as the Georgians,
owing to ephemeral and mean
ingless triumphs. But the
reader’s gloom is dissipated
noyv and again by incidents
that seem to belong to of>era
bouftc — for example, the
Georgian invasion of the Ba-
tum Province, then occupied
bv British troops, which resulted in the Georgian
" army of liberation ” being confined to barrack-
bv two voung British subalterns and half-a-dozen
sepoys ! ' The lack of continuity in the British
polity here, as in other debatcable lands, *
destroyed the prestige wo acquired by our victory
in the Great War. And dismal indeed are t*
fruits here and everywhere else of the
determination " which Mr. Wilson prescribed a*
a remedy for all historic evils. Mr. Lansing as
pointed out the mischief wrought by this contagion*
catch-word, and in ” The Passing of THE *;
Freedom ” (G. H. Doran Company ; New- \or ^
by James M. Beck, one of the staunchest and most
statesmanlike of our American friends, the j®*
of the tragical egotism which bred all these wi
o'-the-wisp phrases is admirably anatomise •
Now we, like the Americans, must go back to t e
older conception of freedom which makes it se
discipline for the benefit of others as much a*
self-determination for ourselves.
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
May 28, 1921.—717
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The square-rigged sailing-vessel,” notes the artist, “is fast disappearing, and it is probable that the last of these beautiful sea pictures will go m our ^ to son*
only somewhere about one hundred British-owned sailing-vessels. None are being built ; nor have any been for some years.
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the age of mechanical propulsion was doing to supersede these craft, the war rapidly assisted ; for numbers were sunk by German submarines, until now there are
some extent by the fore-and-aft schooner, with auxiliary engine, but this cannot be said to replace the old timer, with her beautiful lines and spread of canvas.”
M WILKINSON. R.I. (COPYRIGHTED.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28, 1921.—720
The Story of Nature’s Bull? Storage : No. 2.
JUST BEFORE ADAM
C OUNTLESS days of steamy, clammy heat—and
deadly silence. Such was the Palaeozoic Age.
An Age through which the luxuriant foliage was
steadily absorbing the sun’s energy in the form of light
and heat. An Age in which ugly reptiles lived.
Vast chemical actions have wrought upon the vegetable
and animal matter marvellous changes which resulted in
the formation of hydro-carbon.
Two hundred million years ago started Nature’s great
laboratory in which the petroleum we use to-day was
produced. Vast geological changes have imprisoned it
in the Earth’s crust.
Can you now conceive what romance is contained in
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THE illustrated
LONDON NEWS. May
*i. 1921.—721
CHEQUERS FROM THE AIR, THE PRIME MINISTER'S SEAT.
ARMS hi Tut/ It...,. .. . *
THE
PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICIAL
COUNTRY SEAT AS VIEWED FROM AN AEROPLANE :
AMID A SMILING BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LANDSCAPE.
CHEQUERS, NEAR PRINCES RISBOROUGH,
WHERE THE PROBLEM OF THE BLACK COUNTRY HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN A BOWER OF GREENERY : ANOTHER AIR-VIEW OF CHEQUERS,
WITH ITS GARDENS AND TENNIS COURT.
Some of the informal “conversations ’’ on the coal dispute, recently held between
the Government and representatives of the two sides—owners and miners—took
place at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s official country seat in the Chiltern Hills.
It must be difficult to visualise the Black Country and its needs in such a bower
of verdure, whose idyllic surroundings are so well shown in these interesting air-
presented to the nation, as a rural residence for the Premier of the day, by Lrfrd
and Lady Lee of Fareham. Mr. Lloyd George entered into occupation of it on
January 8 last, and gave a “house-warming ” week-end party, which was illus¬
trated in our issue of January 15. At one time there was a tendency to speak
•f Chequers as “the Chequers,'’ a mistake which Lord Lee corrected. “'The
Chequers,' ’’ he pointed out, “ is a favourite name for public houses, particularly
in Buckj-;*- L: “, — J ! * — : ght lead to regrettable mil—■*— 1 — ” - * “ -
regards location and the habits of Prime Ministers."
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921.—722
By ROS/TA FORBES .t
I F Kufara be the centre of the political and of dunes, between ioo and 150 miles wide,
mercantile organisation of the Senussi, Jaghbub which borders the northern edge of the great
some seventy years ago was the nursery and the Libyan Desert. These dunes run in immense
training ground of this confraternity. It may well chains north and south, with stretches of deep,
be imagined that when Sidi Hen Ali, at the height soft sand and occasional wavy-crested cross ridges
of his power, moved inland from the Gebel Akhdar in between. For this reason, when Sidi Ben Ali
in Cyrenaica to avoid contact with Ottoman sent his four missionary Ekhwan to convert the
curiosity and Ottoman interference, he made his inhabitants of Kufara to his ascetic doctrine, they
headquarters at Jaghbub not only the religious went via Jalo and Taiserbo, along the route by
court of North Africa, but also a nucleus of social which Rohlfs went in 1879 , and which we attempted
and military propaganda. Yet it is difficult to to follow last winter. It was not until Sidi el
believe that it ever had the importance ascribed Mahdi had removed his headquarters to Kufara
to it by Henri Duveyrier, who writes of it thus : that anyone attempted the direct route between
" Jaghbub is organised as a small capital, and at the two holy cities. Then the brother of the
the same time as a university. This convent con- Senussi saint, having had water stored along the
tains well-equipped stables and an arsenal con- way in specially prepared cisterns, went -south' with
taining, with quantities of guns and stores of an immense caravan and succeeded in reaching
powder, fifteen cannons bought in Alexandria. Hawari safely.
There are, among its outbuildings, workshops Since then the route has been two or three
specially designed for the upkeep and repair of times traversed by Saved Ahmed es Sherif, but
arms, and, it appears also, for the manufacture of generally with disastrous results. On one occa-
powder. Moreover, the masters of Jaghbub, have sion his water went bad, his horses died, and
they not, 240 kms. to the north, the best port on he was obliged to leave all luggage and stores
on the way and return
speedily to Jaghbub with
such camels as could face the
journey. A famous Senussi,
Ekhwan Sidi er Kiffi, made
a prophecy that disaster
would overtake any stranger
who travelled by this route,
which was to be reserved
entirely for the Sayeds of
the order and their im¬
mediate followers. Yet the
worst tragedy of this desolate
country is connected with
one of the confraternity,
who, having surmounted all
the difficulties of the seven¬
teen-day journey from Kuf¬
ara, twelve of which are
“THE BROTHER OF THE SENUSSI SAINT HAD WATER STORED ALONC without water, died of thirst
THE WAY”: WATER-CISTERNS NEAR JAGHBUB. within seventeen yards of the
• well he just failed to reach,
the northern coast of Africa—Tobruc ? " This At either end of this route the wells are marked
writer estimates the population of Jaghbub in 1880 with groups of camel skeletons, and it should
as at least 2750 , of which more than two-thirds never be attempted without forty or fifty camels,
were negro slaves. At the present moment I Having regard to the difficulties of the way
doubt if there arc more than 200 people in the and to the prophecy concerning it, it is not
whole semi-circular “ wadi,” which is like a vast unnatural that no stranger, -Christian or Moslem,
natural amphitheatre surrounded by uneven sand- has ever attempted the journey. Yet if water
stone walls, its sandy floor broken by abrupt could be stored at the Mehemsa dunes this would
tabular ridges and scattered groups of palms. The be the. natural route by which the trade of Wadai
main block of palms lies at the northern end and Darfur would come north through Kufara to
underneath the high Zawia walls, while to the east Siwa and the Egyptian markets. When it is
the “ wadi ” disappears into the distorted country considered that a tanned and scarlet dyed
mass of two-storeyed, flat-roofed buildings crowned
by the broken arcades of Sidi Idriss’ house. Though
no European had hitherto entered the Zawia, an
Italo-British mission had camped a quarter of a
mile outside its walls, and one of its members told
me that the sound of the midnight chanting,
sonorous and triumphant, beat across the rocky
valley like the waves of a turbulent sea, to the
detriment of • the mission’s well-earned repose.
During the war the light car patrols pushed their
Fords up to the
edge of the es¬
carpment over¬
looking the
Zawia, the geo¬
graphical posi¬
tion of whose
dome was fixed
by a distin¬
guished member
of the Egyptian
Survey Depart¬
ment, Dr. Roger
Ball, F.R.G.S.
Below the great
college is a thick
belt of palm
gardens, culti¬
vated by the de¬
scendants of the
negro slaves
whom the Mahdi
freed when he
removed his
headquarters to WHERE “THE SOLEMN SHEIKHS
Kufara. They ARE GREY-BEARDED AND MOVE
were given, in PONDEROUSLY”: MRS. FORBES’S
perpetuity, the H0ST AT jaghbub.
lands they had
worked on, and their children exist to-day as
a curious little isolated, self - supporting com¬
munity, living by the products of their gardens,
which they sell to the sheikhs and students of
the Zawia.
Perhaps if one arrived at Jaghbub in an aero¬
plane from Siwa, one might not grasp the peculiar
mentality of the place, but after a 500 -mile journey
across one of the most terrible deserts in the
world, one cannot fail to be impressed by this
self-sufficient religious community, who pass most
of their time in prayer and in study of the Koran,
untroubled by the affairs of the outer world.
Here are no political cross-currents to ruffle the
placidity of Moslem routine, no mercantile interests
to provide a link with East or West. " We are
poor men who live to pray,” say the Ekhwan in
their flowing white robes over grass-green and
of sandstone mounds and hillocks, with scattered hide costs fourteen shillings in Kufara and a
lakes, marshes, and ” hatias ”* on the way to Siwa. pound of ivory about five or six shillings, it
It is a matter of some bewilderment why the will be seen that commercial possibilities are
founder of the Senussi confraternity chose to considerable.
establish himself in one of the most desolate Jaghbub, at the moment, however, is entirely
regions in Libya, when so many more fertile and aloof from all such temporal problems. It is
pleasant oases offered themselves
on all sides. In 1854 , when the _
Zawia at Jaghbub was built, there r
was only one bitter well in the
“ wadi ” (valley), and no palms or
other cultivation. It is possible
that Sidi Ben Ali was influenced
by the religious associations of the
district, for the neighbouring oasis
of Jupiter Amon (Siwa) was re¬
nowned before the days of Chris¬
tianity. Hercules, Alexander the
Great, and Cato are all supposed to
have visited the sacred spot, and
thousands of years ago the decrees
of the priests of Amon in Libya
were more formidable than those
of the Vatican to - day. When
Christianity swept along North ^
Africa in the wake of Roman
conquest, a temple of the Virgin . -***
rose in the sacred oasis, and at
least one writer suggests that the - “ ~ *
old name was probably Saumaria ** __
instead of Sautariah, as it is
marked on Stielcr’s map of the “OUR TRIALS WERE NOW AT AN END": A MEAL AFTER 1
Mediterranean. WITH AN EGYPTIAN FRONTIER CAMEL CORPS PATROL BETWI
Thus the neighbourhood of AND SIWA—MRS. FORBES ON THE LEFT.
Jaghbub. having been famous in
the ecclesiastical history of many centuries, not really a town. There are but two or three
“OUR TRIALS WERE NOW AT AN END": A MEAL AFTER THE
WITH AN EGYPTIAN FRONTIER CAMEL CORPS PATROL BETWEEN
AND SIWA—MRS. FORBES ON THE LEFT.
indigo-blue ” kuftans,” and the instant one enters
the wide, sandy courts, with their uneven walls
pierced by rows of low doors, behind each of
which lives a student, one is caught by a spirit
of simplicity and peace. In all Libya, it was the
only place where we found a complete absence
of intrigue. Jaghbub is not old,
as our European cities go, yet it
- gives one the impression of most
venerable age. The solemn sheikhs
are grey - bearded and they move
ponderously, slowly, swinging
the great wooden keys of their
houses. The students, grouped
round the well before the main
door of the mosque, may be
young in years, but there is no
mark of irresponsible youth in
their grave, pale faces and vision¬
ary eyes.
After leaving Jedabia, we had
somewhat lost sight of the re¬
ligious side of the Senussi con¬
fraternity, yet it was only as
an austere and ascetic religious
order that it was founded. The
1 merchants of Jalo, the diplo¬
mats of Taj, had talked to us
of a world only bounded by Con¬
stantinople, the Hedjaz and Delhi,
but. in Jaghbub we found again
MEETING the basic elements of the confra*
JAGHBUB ternity s inception—a resolute de¬
tachment from any outside in¬
fluence, and an utter disregar
of all but the original principles of the Koran.
was well fitted to foster the growth of a large white houses built of mud bricks outside ^ ^ ^ w ,**// publish a further article and
great religious order. Moreover, it is situated the walls of the Zawia. This great college is quite fhot^g^phTb, dealing nith the fecfU and cmUw "
on the very edge of the formidable barrier an imposing structure viewed from a short distance <•/ Kufara and the tu rnmnding dittrict. ___-
• A .. batU " U a shallow depression containing hummocks awa y- The white dome oi the tomb of Sidi t The full story of the adventures of Mrs. Forbes is
covered with brushwood and fodder. Ali in the really beautiful mosque rises above a to be published in CassclTs Magazine.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28. 1921.—723
ROSITA FORBES AT UNKNOWN KUFARA: THE CITIES OF THE SENUSSI
THE “ LONDON ” OF THE SENUSSI : JOF, THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, A LARGE MARKET TOWN IN THE KUFARA
OASES, CONTAINING A ZAWIA (CONVENT) INSTITUTED BY THE FOUNDER, SIDI MOHAMMED BEN ALL
The culmination of Mrs. Rosita Forbes’s journey into the Sahara was her arrival
at Taj, the sacred city of the Senussi, in the oases of Kufara. The party entered
on foot, for no one is allowed to ride in it Here she was hospitably welcomed
and lavishly entertained by the Kaimakaan, and was lodged in the house of the chief
of the Senussi, Sidi Idriss, whom she had met at Benghazi (her starting-point), and
by whom she had been provided with passports and credentials. At Taj she
lived for nine days the life of a veiled Arab woman, and visited the holy kubba
(the tomb) of Sidi el Mahdi, a former head of the order, the most sacred spot
of the Senussi. It was he who moved the headquarters from Jaghbub to Taj
in 1894. No t far from Taj is the large market town of Jof, which has been
called the “London 1 ’ of the Senussi, while Taj is their “Windsor." Mrs.
Forbes, we may mention, will lecture on “ Kufara : the Secret of the
Sahara,” at the iEolian Hall en June 2. On May 18 she gave a lecture on
the Senussi before the Central Asian Society.
724— THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921
THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA REVEALED \
WHERE MRS. FORBES AND HER PARTY WERE IN PERIL OF MASSACRE THROUGH
THE TREACHERY OF A GUIDE : THE VILLAGE OF HAWARI.
I. ... toorrod I., an Englishwoman » unooil 0.. «« .1 Ku/.ra, d>, mjHori.n. homo .1 >h. toms*. Mrs. Row. F.rbo, „ u.r nisi mmw » har. "mb* *
EurOP ““ h *' 1 h,r - °"« **» C “™> ~Ptoor Rohlls, .ho won, tbilher in 1879. but moeh to. .1 U,. plao. tlun Ni« d* »*
cm,, -0. Ml to mttommls dmtt.,.8 b, hotoo nahtto. and ho » hop, capd.o lot mm,, woot.. Snail, ostmptng tt, Bonghto. Th, .thor ... . Frmeh P™«“
.ml to Kuiara b, Sa,od AhmoA M„ Forbm U "™dl, tocribml boo to, aim, Kul.ra. -Ho tut m whi oh 0.0 ralle, llos hiddon appoto .uddonlT i» ““
0, to monotonous to-nso «< <■>«<!«« • ■ • ■» «»n>tis«, .„« look, down into m-t. olio, .1 oerdur. on. an*,, „„d surrounded b, purpl. and rod »•<.»«
BH.,0 on. ho spread ,hroo mtoto, bin. to. toto. a „«, to, mtoh, tods .1 bto„, who., and miUo, and pardon oogeublos " Kul.ra, sho o^tata. *
* * dill 1
^ Pwa
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 28, 1921.—725.
REVfy WOMAN: KUFARA AND ITS SALT LAKES.
Sr^iENUSSI SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. IN THE
IN " A STRANGE LITTLE CITY OF WINDOWLESS HOUSES BUILT LIKE FORTRESSES ” :
__ 'RS. FORBES.
Jith ft.
THE ZAWIA (CONVENT) AND HOUSE OF SAYED AHMED SHERIF, AT TAJ.
JFARA BEFORE MRS. FORBES HAD HIS CAMP
JIBED TEBU FORT IN THE FOREGROUND.
*
SHOWING MRS. FORBES ON THE EXTREME RIGHT : THE ZAWIA (CONVENT) AT TAJ, THE
SACRED CITY OF THE SENUSSI WHICH SHE WAS THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO VISIT.
; separate oases, with one or two ruined villages and castles of the aboriginal Tebus. Taj she describes as “ a strange little city of windowless houses built like fortresses.” It
•n a chfl bnw, and contains only houses of important men, a zauia (convent), and holy kubba and mosque. All supplies are brought up by slaves from the valley. Jef, on
lower ground, is the principal market town. Hawari is the northernmost village of the Kufara oasis. It was here that, on their arrival, Mrs. Forbes and her party were
* threatened with massacre owing to false reports, spread by a treacherous guide, that they had planned to seise the country by means of magical instruments (really a compass,
' binoculars, and aneroid barometer). An envoy was sent on to Taj to explain the situation to the K ai m a ha a n , and brought back a permit to proceed. Later, it was from
Hawaii that they started on the homeward journey by a new route to Egypt
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921.—726
AFTER 1000 MILES OF DESERT: AT THE CRADLE OF THE SENUSSI.
Photographs Sippi.ikd hv Mrs. Rosita Forbes.
SHOWING THE WHITE DOME OF THE TOMB OF SIDI BEN AU,
FOUNDER OF THE SENUSSI ORDER : JAGHBUB.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE SENUSSI TILL THE MIGRATION TO KUFARA
IN 1894 : JAGHBUB-ANOTHER VIEW OF ITS BUILDINGS.
NEVER BEFORE ENTERED BY A EUROPEAN : THE ZAWIA (COLLEGE) AT JAGHBUB, WITHIN WHICH MRS. FORBES LIVED — SHOWING A WELL
INSIDE A WALLED COURTYARD, WITH A GROUP OF YOUNG STUDENTS.
WHERE MRS. FORBES WAS INSTALLED DURING HER VISIT TO JAGHBUB:
A TWO-STOREYED HOUSE, BELONGING TO THE EKHWAN, INSIDE THE ZAWIA.
' ’ ■
1
I
At Jaghbub, Mrs. Forbes was nearing the end of her great journey. She had
travelled 550 miles from Benghazi to Kufara, and thence another 500 miles
“across one of the most terrible deserts in the world,” to the place which was
the original home of the Senussi order. It was at Jaghbub that the founder,
Sidi ben A!i, first established himself. There stands the beautiful mosque, with
the white dome of his tomb, rising above a mass of two-storeyed, flat-roofed
buildings. The great college known as the Zawia was built in 1854. Forty years
later Sidi el Mahdi removed the Senussi headquarters to Kufara. Jaghbub is no*
really a town, as there are only a few houses outside the college. Mrs. Forbes
was the first European who had ever entered the Zawia. She lived there in »
house belonging to the Ekhvcun, and in her capacity as a Moslem was shown
over the buildings. An interesting account of Jaghbub is given in her artide
another page in this number. The full story of Mrs. Forbes’s adventures in
Libyan desert is to appear in “Cassell's Magazine.”
£ 3
THE CAUSE OF OUR RECENT
ECCENTRIC
WEATHER ?—SUNSPOTS,
SPECIALLY DRAWN FOR “THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
A SOLAR CONVULSION WHICH CAUSED A MAGNETIC STORM ON THE EARTH AND DISORGANISED TELEGRAPHS:
THE RECENT SUNSPOTS—HOLES IN THE SUN’S SURFACE, EMITTING ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES.
“A terrestrial magnetic or electric storm,” writes Mr. Scriven Bolton, “usually
denotes the p/esence of a spot on the sun. That both magnetic storms and
sunspots have one common source of origin, and are the effects of some great
solar cyclone originating beneath the visible solar surface, is now well established.
This mighty force, which creates sunspots, changes or increases the amount of
earth magnetism. A typical example of the kind has been recorded during the
present month. On the 7th inst. the sun's axial rotation carried round into view
a large group of spots, which are depicted above. When they approached the
centre of the disc on the 13th, the needles of the magnetic instruments exhibited
unusual oscillation. On the evening of the following day earth magnetism again
became violently disturbed, and continued thus until midnight, being accompanied
by a brilliant display of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. ... In many
localities the telegraphs were completely interrupted. The magnetic influence
existing between many of the largest spots and the earth is explained in the
following way. A magnetic storm is due to electric currents passing through
the upper strata of our air, accompanied by induced currents within the earth.
Emanating from disturbed areas indicated by sunspots, this energy, in the form
of confined streams of electric corpuscles, enters the outer layers of our atmo¬
sphere, and renders it electrically charged and ionised. This ionisation creates
abnormal electricity in the atmosphere.”— [Copyright*i im Ou Untied StoUs tmd C*muU.\
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
were selling Chinese porcelain, decorative furni¬
ture. and Persian rugs, the property of a lady of
title and others. A Canton enamel vase showed
the cloven hoof — a Chinese landscape with
European figures. How the glory of the East has
departed ! Some Chinese glass of the Ch’ien-lung
period was superlatively beautiful in its technique
and artistic achievement. There were seated
figures of ladies, wistful and elusive, as only the
Chinese can depict the poesie of aloof, nebulous
modesty. Cups and bowls and dishes, opaque
white, ruby, dark-blue, amber, and purple, charmed
with their colours, which Murano has not excelled.
Canton enamels, Soochow lacquer, soapstone
carvings, and necklaces of coral and green jade
with aquamarine and jade pendants, the equip¬
ment of some mandarin, made up an interesting
series of items. In the porcelain, a pair of
and others. From \ y TON)
the Mayor collection r J
came some drawings—
Fra Bartolommeo, “ The
Madonna and Child En- ^
throned ” and the " Ma- th
donna Seated with the Infant Saviour " ; > \ y
Jan Brueghel, ** The Watering Place,”
with horsemen and market carts. Four allegorical
figures, one representing Pluto, by Giulio Romano,
were formerly in the collection of Earl Spencer.
<>f portraits, that of Warren Hastings seated in an
arm-chair, by J. Wright, might have won more
enthusiasm. We are glad of any shadows of our
great men. Hence Richardson's portrait of Alex¬
ander Pope, seated holding a quill pen, surely
dipped in venom, was a rarity. Pope, great as he
was, was not an ideal subject for a portrait-painter.
He required a man every' day to
— help him to put on his breeches
and to lace his puny body in
£ corsets. But he wrote stinging
i letters setting his generation by
the ears, and he was a clever
| versifier with eighteenth-century
platitudes in Chesterfieldian
manner which sound sonorous
The same painter’s portrait of
Matthew Prior, the poet, in
brown dress with white cravat,
seated in a chair, is equally of
value. " Any representation made
bv a faithful human creature of
! that face and figure which he
saw with his own eves," says
Carlyle, " and which I can never
see with mine, is now valuable
to me and much better than
none at all.” We catch a pass
(1807). and his ” Peter Bell ” ^
• Hiq). W. B. Yeats was repre-
sented by many firsts, including
" The Wanderings of Oisin ”
(1880). "The Secret Rose” W '
(1807). and ” The Shadowy ^ 'j-
Waters” I1900L Robert Lotus ( aJET*
Stevenson had " The Strange ^
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde” (18801. and several
others ; and Rudiyard Kipling *
was represented by ” Kim ”
(1901) and his "Jungle B<x»kfv” * ‘ -V
Joseph Conrad is a modem j-i-?.-' w
author who sees his first edi ’ ' **
tions collected and wrangled Ux • •
over, and even spurious first edi-
tions put forth. One item here
of his, ” Youth ” (JQ02), brought Q
i*> .ss. mtrm-
At Willis's Rooms on the
19th Messrs. Robinson, Fisher, 1
and Harding sold a collection BMI
of pictures and drawings, signed l
proof engravings, and prints.
Among some of the most notable
a W. Half canvas. "A Basket
of Fish,” brought £'57. and a
J. 1>. de Heen— ‘ Ixthsters.
Fruit, and Yegetables ” sold f)
,or i,I5 ‘
An interesting little collec- J
tion of books gathered a cen- [
tury ago was sold by Messrs. tk
Puttick and Simpson on the
ioth. There was a second folio of ^* Aw
Shakespeare (1632), and another
item was the New Testament, >^5
Wycliffe’s English translation,
revised by John Pui^ey, manu- ^
script on vellum (7 5-16 by
5] inches), with twenty - eight
illuminated initials, English early ^■J9 b£
fifteenth century; it brought
£380. Two desirable items were At
the" Contes et Nouvellesen Vers,”
by 1-a Fontaine, with plates
after Risen, the ” Fermiers-
Gen£raux edition, 1762, sold for WmM
£92, and Moli&re’s works, with
plates by Moreau (1773). sold
for £50. Concerning costume.
volumes dealing with bygone
fashions made an appeal. Moth L - .
and rust have corrupted clothes- A NEW p
closets. A collection of ’cos¬
tumes is a somewhat tatter¬
demalion array suggesting regi- "Buckle. ’• »r»
mental colours tarnished and J . '
faded. The brilliant colours they f or example-*
wore in the heyday of their glory Th e buckles and
have melted into greys and A.D.; (C) Freiv
browns. In books of old cos- century; (F) Thi
tumc, delicately coloured, we shank ; (I) Fifieei
have the gaiety that is not dead. fifteenth century
It still sparkles and illuminates “" mry
the pages of past history. 4,1
” La Belle Assemble, ” from the
commencement in 1806 to 1837, an interesting
period, brought £30. It embraces the George IV. era,
when dandyism was at its height. There is, too.
Heidelofl's *’ Gallery of Fashion,” 1794 to 1803,
with 219 coloured plates of ladies’ costume. If one
wanted real literature, perhaps one would have
snatched Gay's ” Fables,” with seventy plates by
William Blake, or Andrew Marvell’s works in three
volumes, pubhshed in 1776.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson on the same day
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LADIES' NEWS.
T HESE are days of moving about. Our own people
spend few or no week - ends in towns ; visitors
from abroad are pouring into our island intent on
exploring its beauties and on making pilgrimages to
the great fields where the modem Crusaders captured
the Shrine of Freedom. Travelling is so different now
from what it was even ten years ago that different
equipment for it is essential. Such a great British
firm as that of Mappin and V.'ebb are the first to
recognise this, and, as they have led the world in the
past in the matter of fitted cases and bags for
travellers, so they lead with a wonderful variety of
this necessary equipment now. Lead not only in
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workmanship—all essentially British—the greatest
compactness, the fulfilment of every requirement, and
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From £i~ 10 s. a woman can buy a fitted morocco
leather case; the fittings are silver mounted and
Louis XVI. in design. There is a strong double¬
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richest silk. There are ten toilet fittings of African
ivory, glass, and silver. From that the purchaser
can suit herself, through a complete range of beautiful
cases and bags up to any sum—those with tortoise¬
shell fittings inlaid with real gold are in special favour ;
they look so splendid and need so little cleaning. If
a woman cherishes her own brushes, combs, and hand¬
glass, Mappin’s will make a very handsome bag to
take them, and supply further fittings to match, so
that an imposing possession need not mean a corre¬
spondingly imposing cost. In these days it need not
be pointed out that we want compact little fitted
hand-bags for motor trips. These are simply irre¬
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as one wants, serve as vanity-cases and also at the
toilet, eliminating the necessity for carrying bulky,
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which by special construction is kept light enough to
be easily carried proves a great favourite. Visitors to
town are eagerly seeking directions to Mappin and
Webb’s, either at 158 , Oxford Street, 172 , Regent
Street, or 2 , Queen Victoria Street, to fit themselves
out with the proper implements to enjoy their play
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The extended hip-line is the most marked feature of this
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lace on the skirt, and tiny sleeves of it too.
Photograph by Shcpttone.
Powder condensed into a pink cake of dentifrice.
When the lilliputs have learned all about the ivory
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sphere created by the handsome, harmonious, pm*
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department inside out. He is attended by apq
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and half-hose, dressing-gowns, fancy hosiery, hats a
caps, leather goods, sports wear, jewellery and with
books and stationery, marine pictures—Gievo i
everyone knows, is a sailors' shop-and m\
photographic section. When a man diva a
Gieves’ he does business there, depend upon it,ifc
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921 —732
SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
THE MIGHTV MITE.
T HE annual Conversazione of the Royal Society
is an event to which 1 always look forward
with keen enjoyment. For on these occasions the
savants of science meet together to display the latest
results of their several fields of research. Not every
year, of course, can one expect “ thrills,*’ in the form
of some epoch-making discovery, but one may be
sure of gaining enlightenment on many themes, more
especially in such as concerns one’s own work. This
year, perhaps, the exhibit
which interested me most
was that of my friend
Dr. Rennie, who showed
a number of microscopic
preparations illustrating
the results of his investi¬
gations into the cause of
the disease which has
wrought such havoc among
hive-bees in this country
since about 1002 . Known
as the Isle of Wight bee-
disease, it was supposed
to be due either to a very
virulent Protozoan para¬
site, Sosema apis —a lowly
and extremely minute
animal — or to some un¬
known bacterium.
Dr. Rennie has now
conclusively shown that
this formidable scourge is
due to the invasion of
the respiratory system by
a minute species of mite,
Tarsonemus woodi. which
invades the air-tubes of
the fore part of the body
supplying the head and
thorax. Here all stages in
the life - history of this
Acarine were found—eggs,
larvae, and adults. Not
only do they cut off the
supply of the life-giviqg
oxygen, but they perforate
the walls of the tubes, in
order that they may bat-
teu upon the body fluids
of their hosts—or rather,
victims. But. quite apart from this sapping of the
victim's vitality through the drain upon its tissues,
the mere blocking of the air-ways is sufficient to
cause death. This much was proved by experi¬
ment. The first spiracle—the external aperture of
the air-tubes—of one or both sides of a healthy bee
was closed by melted paraffin-wax. At once the
power of flight was lost, and presently, within a week,
the wings became dislocated and death followed.
Where both spiracles were closed, the bees developed
a reeling gait within forty-eight hours, and died on
or before the .third day, with all the symptoms of the
Isle of Wight br-e-diseasc.
How the invader gains entrance to the spiracles,
and why only the first pair are selected, yet remains
to be discovered. And we are as yet quite in the
dark as to preventive methods, or a remedy. Until
these problems are solved, bee-keeping in this country
will be but an unprofitable venture. Curiously
enough, the disease sceins to be confined to the lives
of Great Britain. Experiment may show that it will
be possible to evacuate the mite by some form of
“REAL" TENNIS AT PAU: THE VICOMTE DE VAUFRELAND PRESENTS THE CUP TO CAPTAIN R. K. PRICE.
The Vicomte de Vaulreland. who served during the war at the Headquarters of the British Fourth Army, is seen presenting the
Pau Tennij Cup to Captain R. K. Price, holder of the Cold Racquet and the Paris and Bordeaux Cups, who beat Mr E. A. Noel,
the Hon. Sec. of Queen's Club, in the final. Pe’er Latham is shown leaning against the post on the right. Other players in the
group are: M. Laurent d'Andurain, a most promi.-mg local player; Captain W. W. McClean ; M. Counouilhou, winner of the Silver
Racquet, 1920: M. A. Loubet ; and Baron R. de Cab rot.
fumigation which will not destroy the bee, after the
method of clearing the chicks of pheasants and
poultry of gape-worms. Less seems to be known of
Tarsonemid mites than of any other family of this
order, buf till now they had been regarded as em¬
bracing only vegetable feeders. The common cheese-
mite will afford a good idea of the general appearance
of this tiresome parasite. But the cheese-mite is a
beneficent creature, as all lovers of Stilton cheese will
admit. Most other specimens of mites are harmless.
But there are several other species which have
become veritable scourges of the human race. j llt
for example, the case of the Japanese " Harvey fe u ,
(Murotrom bidium akamuski), which is the earner
the Kedani, or river fever, peculiar to certain ^
along the banks of the rivers of the main utand
Hondo. This is very fatal, the mortality avtnot,
about twenty-seven per cent, of the persons a StaJ
Our own " harvest bug " is nearly related p, ^
species, and, as many of us know to our cost, mu"
gives rise to great irritation, lasting for many dj
It is worth remembering that a little ammonia ap ( 4 ,>
to the wound affords speedy relief Oil 0 f atronti*
applied to the hands u*
legs, in infested areas jj.
fords a valuable means <i
protection. Flowers ofsul
phur rubbed over the Ito
and ankles, or into the
underclothes and stocking
from the knees downward*
is also recommended.
Many different kinds
of " itch ” and rnanRc m
due to the bites of the*
tiny scarlet pests, and the
pain they cause is
more severe than that in-
dieted by either sand
mosquitoes, or ants. The
great, repulsive - loolnu
ticks which may often k
found attached to dome*,
ticated animals are nearlv
related to the mites, and
the bite of some spear*
Is much dreaded. Thw
is an Australian spears
of Ixodes which frequently
causes paralysis amonj
dogs and children. Mam
cases, indeed, are on re¬
cord whore the bite has
proved fatal Cases nf
" tick paralysis ” from the
bite of a nearly related
species have also been re
corded from America. The
Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever Tick (Dermauxta
vemtstus) is not only well
known, but much dreaded.
The virulence of the disease
varies in different localities,
from seven per cent, in Idaho to seventy per cent, in
Montana. Verily the small things of this world con¬
found the great. W. P. Pycraft.
Those visiting the Continent may be glad to nott
that, from June 1 , passengers to Germany by the
Folkestone-blushing route will be able to travd in
through carriages from Flushing to Cologne and
Berlin. There will be a restaurant-car from Flushing
to Osnabruck in which breakfast and lunch may be
taken in comfort.
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MAKESFEETFEEL
AS IF
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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, March 19. 1921.
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Tar on Roads. In view of a recent High Court
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^ whether * Te
equally hable for damage done to cars by wet tar
To begin with, there is no need to use Ur It all The
a^vtadv n gn .t d °“ n ° dama K e '» anything or
h a a8 buT ently **“ • Seen ,n K -hampto°n
the west of London Sy for J ^he r0 ^ u t 0 h S. ‘ j™ 8
for the whoHf^width^juid'top^marod
gravel. Not the in-»* P are8se d with coarse
it was don” Zt T. ""T **">"' » f that
immediately before th w>. Kastcr ' an d then again
»hm 5 s *
amount of damaee wo»ih nd the maximum
hheto ?tlm , t e U f ea r o " , n d t ^ “»««<• 1 *— ■*
'atter. but it must have run into
many thousands of pounds if The
total depreciation of body-work
caused by the wet tar could £
^eZ Worthing Road has
recently been in the hands of
the tarrmg contractors for i arge
Portions of its length In some
£•? £ ho„S
^EW:srjrr
»hote of the highway h aS
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granite chips laid down 8 Pass¬
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1Hb bTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28. 1921.—734
A STIFF CLIMB IN LAKELAND: A WOLSELEY
" FIFTEEN ” ASCENDINC RED BANK. GRASMERE-
ON A GRADIENT OF 1 IN 33.
ZT e 4 >rar fOF the roads - »d I think we
who m th 8nCVaf l Ce a « ainst h 'ghway authorities
adopt these methods of rendering their roads
1 h r
JJjr ! r-rti r
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TOR ™ E «> H.S STAFF: A FU*T
The photorraph UPPUED BY “ESSRS. HARRODS.
cars near the statue of Richard C<*ur de Lion outside the 1
Photograph by P.PJ>.
dustless. Whether thcrtiTTZ^ZZr^ -'-
another matter ; but. in view m law «
I have referred, it would riu°« «w^‘r h to wb “"
■ng organisations would look imo , he "
Angus-Sanderson 1 ara ver Y pleased indeed to knm.
Reconstruction. that the Angus Sanderson car »
financial trouble. .h""tat“Elr
responsible (or its production. I £vT!L5'J r "
copy of a letter sent out by the receri^r a
announced the fact that a satisfactoV^hlme f “
construction has been arrived at and unm^H ! ° f re '
are being taken for the re establishment of
on a permanent basis. Owing to thclvl ^
of maintaining the factory a 8 Birtley itT“i!!!!!!
decided to adapt the works of Messrs Tvlor wh
responsible for the engine of the Angus-S^de^t
the construction of the car as a whole InTh.
time, a certain number of cam are to hT I m ” n '
at Birtley. but as soon as possible these works will h!
vacated and production centred at New Southern*
1 understand that the price of the tourin^X
been fixed at £>45• The Angus-Sanderson L
*J™ C . k . mC “ a car wh,ch embodied a sincere effort to
f d^nrt m n PU -r b K C “ VChiClC f ° r Which thw
finJn f That is a P art altogether from the
financial methods which led to the liquidation of the
?"?• H W ” u,d havc ***" a very great pity if manu-
facture could not have been continued, just when all
the inevitable troubles attending
the production of a new car had
been satisfactorily surmounted.
A Rolls-Royce Kolls " Ro >’“,
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on the record of its predecessor it
ought to do very well—W. W.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. May 28 , 1921.—736
E. Kae, and the voluble landlady of Min Drusilb
Wills have their droll moments.
violet ; io pfennig, orange and blue-black ; 25 pfennig,
green and carmine ; 40 pfennig, carmine ; 80 pfennig,
ultramarine ; 1 mark, red and grey-black ; 2 marks,
deep blue and olive-green ; 3 marks, deep violet and
green : 5 marks, blue-black and carmine : and ro
marks, grey-green and yellow brown
A new set of aero-stamps has also appeared this
month, to replace the temporary set of three Gorman
Danzig stamps overprinted with biplane and winged
posthorn emblems. The
new stamps, d signed and
printed in Danzig at the
same works as the set
'C* 4 V described above, show an
, I aeroplane h >vering over the
■V city of Danzig, the skyline
' * B?' w ^ich is effectively shown
in silhouette in the lower
pari of the stamp. Thecom-
plete set of these stamps,
^ for use on mail sent by air
posts, consists of these five
|H values : 40 pfennig, green ;
V 60 pfennig, purple 1 mark
■K fF^I crimson ; 2 marks, brown ;
*K ^ 5 marks, blue. The first
V Jr four of these stamps are
3 K*L iliLu I perforated 14; the 5 marks,
^ which is of a lai ge ob-
- ’** rouletted 13$.
THE CULT OF THE POSTAGE STAMP
BY PRHD 1. MELVILLE.
THK latest issues of stamps for the free city of
1 Danzig provide some interesting novelties for
the collector. As most of my readers -are aware,
this Baltic city and the surrounding territory consti¬
tute a free city under the protection of the League
<»f Nations, with a British High Commissioner.
We have received from Lord Brayc a letter
which he notes that we made an erroneous statement
under the portrait of the /Impress Josephine publish^
recently in The Illustrated London News. He write,
“ This was in the text beneath the cartoon-portrai
of Josephine, stating that the marriage with Napoleon
was * dissolved by the Pope.' What Napoleon wanted
was a decree of nullity (not divorce) from the Holy V
the pretext for his petition being, I believe, his want
of internal assent to the contract at the time of th.'
marriage -a pal|>ablc falsehorxl. The Pope could m,i
give a decree for such a plea But the text in question
states that the marriage was dissolved on the ground
of the sterility of Josephine. This is not admitted in
the Church as a ground for decree of nullity. Further
no Pope has anj r power to dissolve a marriage j'
validly contracted and consummated. 1 should dm
approach you to beg you for a correction 0/ the text
except that it is most important that such a power
ful paper as yours should not start a wrong idea of
such a fundamental tenet 0/ the Catholic Church, I
should say ‘ confirm ' the idea rather than * start it,
because, alas f it has been ' started ’ centuries ago in
England, and Protestants still imagine that the Holv
Sec can give divorce. It has no power to dis
pease with Divine Law ^>nlv with Church laws
“ EMMA.”
AT THE
ST. JAMES’S.
N«w stamps Issued by the Free City of Danzig : Nos. I to 4.—Four of the five smaller size, with
a full-rigged war-ship of the Hanseatic period. No. 5.—One of the five mark values in the larger
sue, with similar design. Nos. 6, 7, and 8—Three of the new set of five aero stamps, showing
an aeroplane hovering over Danzig. (All fully described, with details of colouring, in the accom¬
panying article ).—[Stamps supplied by Mr. Fred J. Melville, no, Strand, H'.C.a.)
Since last July the citizens have been provided with
special stamps, at first of a provisional character,
the ordinary German stamps overprinted “ Danzig ”
in Gothic, or in flowing script lettering. These have
already been illustrated in these pages.
At last the provisional stamps have been replaced
by a series of ten stamps in two special designs, the
central feature of each of which is a full-rigged war
vessel of the Hanseatic period, which figures in the
arms of the city. There are five pfennig denominations
in the small size depicted, and five mark values in
the larger format. On each stamp is the date,
15. xi. 1920, the issue being intended to commemorate
the establishment of a Constituent Assembly, as
provided for in the Constitution of the free city.
The 6tamps were designed and printed locally in the
printing works of Julius Sauer, of Danzig ; they are
not perforated in the usual way, but are rouletted
with a series of zig-zag rules which cut into the paper
and weaken it, so that it acts like a perforation in
separating the stamps from a sheet. The full set of
values and colours comprises : 5 pfennig, brown and
OME three
1 years ago
Mr. Herbert
Thomas knocked off a lively little
sketch the humours of which turned on
a man’s breach - of - promise case, and
" Stopping the Breach,” as this Gilbertian
trifle was styled, proved very popular
with variety theatre audiences. The
author has had the idea of expanding his
sketch into a full three-act play, the re¬
sult being " Emma,” matinL-e perform¬
ances of which arc now being given at
the St. James’s ; but Mr. Thomas’s first
two acts are not written in the same key
as the court scene, which comes last, and
robs us of its surprise. If Mr. Thomas
had not already given us highly interest¬
ing stage-work, as in ” Sinners Both,”
we might find it hard to forgive him.
His players do their best. Nobody could
make Lady Emma Jones intelligible, but
Miss Amy Brandon Thomas makes her
amusing ; while the facetious judge of
Mr. Horton, the gruff policeman of Mr.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June *4, 1921—738
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
C ERTAIN- casual considerations have crossed
my mind in the pleasure of reading the
last book by Mr. H. G. Wells. It i6 called ” The
Salvaging of Civilisation,” but it might well be
called ” The World-State,” being largely a plan
for avoiding wars by a cosmopolitan common¬
wealth. I do not pretend to review the book
here, or indeed anywhere. It is the glory of
Mr. Wells's work that it would always need a book
to review the book. But I would suggest one
criticism : that Mr. Wells is hardly enough of a
nationalist to reconcile the nations. Such a
peacemaker tends inevitably to talk to them too
much as if they were savage tribes being told to
bury the hatchet. Now, if
savages can bury the hatchet,
it is because it is something
like a stone hatchet. It is
primitive and brutal ; but it
is another matter to ask a
nation to bury the sword,
which heroes and judges have
borne, not in vain. A man
might fling it away in a mys¬
tical moment, as Sir Bedivere
flung Excalibur. But even
Sir Bedivere hesitated thrice,
and the nation may hesitate
longer. But suppose, while
he was hesitating, a critic
came and told him that the
magic gems were all paste,
and the Round Table all
rubbish. 1 think he would
not throw it away, but hit
the critic a great swipe with
it. Now, all this international
idealism tends inevitably to
the depreciation of nations.
To avert national quarrels,
men minimise national mem¬
ories. It almost amounts to
insulting a man in order to
make him feel more friendly.
The truth is that all this
is a misunderstanding of the
very nature of friendship, and
espe ially of reconciliation. If
two business men, Mr. Brown
and Mr. Robinson, arc rivals
who hate each other, you do
not unite them by merely
mentioning an imaginary firm
of Robinson and Brown. Still
less do you do it by inventing
a new portmanteau word, and
calling them both Brobinson.
It is useless to press upon
them eagerly all sorts of
printed handbills and pro¬
spectuses, in which the names
of Brown and Robinson figure
in a sort of monogram, in-
terwreathed with decorative
hearts and flowers. Even thi6
will not remove all irritation.
In short, in the case of any
two men thus disunited, it is
bad psychology to thrust in
their faces an arbitrary pro¬
phecy that they will both be
partners in a Utopian business
that does not exist. If you
really wish to bend yourself to
the heroic and saintly task of reconciling two
men who had a genuine and bitter quarrel, you
would be wiser to begin at the very opposite end.
It would be well to begin, for instance, with the
fact that each man has a family, and that even
his public irregularities are sometimes directed
by his private affections. The only palliation of
the pettifogging pedantry which is so regrettable in
Robinson is to be found in the unconscious faces
of the nine little Robinsons. The only excuse
for the gambling recklessness which we all lament
in Mr. Brown is the persuasive charm which we
all recognise in Mrs. Brown. These are the things
which might conceivably and truly make men
forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate
to love by understanding what are the things
Brobinson. we must have learned to see Robinson
as Robinson Crusoe.
For we cannot in commonsense expect to
succeed by bustling about with negative novelties,
and telling the English that Nelson is all non¬
sense, or the Scots that Wallace is a myth, or
the French that Jeanne d’Arc is dead and done
for, or the Americans that Bunker’s Hill is not
worth bothering about, and, by thus insulting
every nation, arrive at the mutual love of nations.
Whether or no the thing can be done at all, it
cannot be done like that. Whether or no we are
to have a world-state, it is certain that we shall
never get it so long as its
exponents despise the deepest
sentiments of the most de¬
mocratic States in the world.
History will never deny that
republics have been even ex¬
cessively patriotic; and, what¬
ever can be said against
patriotism, no one will deny
that it is popular. Chauvin¬
ism was a charge brought as
much against ancient Athens
as against modern France;
and Mr. Hannibal Chollop
was by no means too proud
to fight. The cock can crow
with a red cap as well as a
red crest ; and the imperial
eagle is not the only sort of
spread eagle.
That, this narrow national
bragging is dangerous I do
not deny ; but I do not think
that the cure is to read the
internationalist literature. I
think it is to read the nation¬
alist literature—of other peo¬
ple. If I wanted to teach
English people to be friends
with the French, I would
teach them to read Rostand
and not Holland. It would
be far better for an English
boy to learn to understand
" L’Aiglon,” and follow the sad
flight of the eaglet in the track
of the great eagle, rather than
to follow that very dismal
dove of peace which migrated
to the Alps in order to say it
was ” above the m(Ue " A
boy ought not to be above
the mflte but in the tnUir,
only it might be of a more
chivalric sort worthy of the
tradition of its mediaeval
name. It might be a rntUt
in which the men calling on
St. George had some notion
of what was meant by the
other men calling on St. Denis.
Now, men haul this understand¬
ing, more or less, in mediaeval
war ; they have only lost it in
modem war. No French knight
denied that St. George's cross
was a cross, or set lance in rest
against it in exactly the same
spirit as if it had been a cres¬
cent. No English archer actu¬
ally wished to turn St. Denis into St. Sebastian.
That narrowness has come with what is called the
wider emancipation ; with journalism and its ee
lances, not to mention its long bows. And it
will generally be found, I think, that modem wars
have been ruthless in proportion as they ha\e
been rationalistic. It was not a love of Germany
that excited the Germans to aggression; it was a
universal scientific theory of the anthropology
value of Teutons, and the economic necessity o
empires. In our efforts to get a world-state,
we are only too likely to get half-a-dozcn wor
states, with half-a-dozen world-philosophies,
would really be more practical to have a com
prehension and recognition of nationalism , or, >
the onlv sane sense, a league of nations.
that men have loved ; nor is it necessary to
ask men to hate their loves in order to love
one another.
And just as two grocers are mo6t likely to be
reconciled when they remember for a moment
that they are two fathers, sc- two nationals are
most likely to be reconciled when they remember
(if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.
Just as Mr. Robinson can plead a sense in which
he was a good father when he was a bad citizen,
so at many a time during the past centuries the
same Mr. Robinson would have had to plead
that he was a good Englishman though he was a
THE PROPOUNDER OF THE NEW THEORY OF RELATIVITY TO LECTURE IN LONDON:
PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN.
Professor Einstein, the German physicist, whose Theory of Relativity has made so much stir in the scientific
world, has arranged to visit this country on his return from America, and tc deliver a lecture at King’s College,
Strand, on or about June 9. During his stay in London he will be the guest of Lord Haldane. Professor
Einstein, who is not much over forty, was born at Ulm, in Bavaria. At one time he was engineer in a Swiss
Patent Office, and later a Professor successively at the Universities of Zurich, Prague, and Berlin, where he
now lives. Apart from science, he is noted as a Pacifist and a Zionist. He is also a keen musician.
Photograph by Martin Hdhlig, Berlin.
bad European. I do not at all under rate the
necessity or desirability of turning Mr. Robinson
into a good European. I have dedicated a good
many odes, addresses, petitions, invocations, and
hymns of supplication to Mr. Robinson, in the
patient hope of persuading him to be a good
European. But I am sure it cannot be done by
ignoring his feelings as a good Englishman, or the
reasons for his strong internal conviction that a
good Englishman is a good thing. On the con¬
trary, I believe we must see the intrinsic value of
the nation before we see its international value
to other nations. We must see the man as lovable
in his loneliness, as all the more individual for
being insular. Before we see Robinson, as in a
vision, in any haloed and transfigured form of
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4 , 1921 ._ 739
WQ2EEEI
■.t DERBY ROAD-CONTROL FROM THE AIR BY WIRELESS
R33 ” OVER EPSOM
ROAD-TRAFFIC TO EPSOM ON DERBY DAY CONTROLLED BY AERIAL OBSERVATION : ROUTES FOR VARIOUS VEHICLES—
(INSET) MAJOR BENNING TESTING WIRELESS APPARATUS IN A LORRY BY THE GRAND STAND.
A very interesting innovation was tried this year in controlling the road - traffic
to Epsom on Derby Day, which it was anticipated would exceed all previous
records through the reduction of railway facilities owing to the coal stoppage.
It was arranged that the airship “ R 33 ” and some aeroplanes should fly over
the road routes and report by wireless to the traffic controller (Lieutenant-
Colonel P. R. Laurie, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police),
at his office in the grand stand, any points on the roads at which congestion of
traffic occurred. Colonel Laurie himself arranged to go up in an aeroplane at
12.15. Certain roads were assigned to different types of vehicle. There were 1800
special police on duty, and a flying squad of 200 in motor-cars, with a car-
ambulance, to remove any broken-down vehicles. The road-plans are indicated
on our drawing by various arrows according to the key in the left-hand lower
comer. Others show points on Epsom Downs where banks were removed for vehicles
to turn off the road into parking grounds.— [Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.)
740—THR ILLUSTRATED LONDON XKWS. J.»si: 4. IH2L
WHEN THE UNFINISHED “BARRIE” WAS GIVEN”: THE PR|| £
Drawings bv our Spriial Artist. Stfvkn Spurrier, R.O.r
,0F
PLAYED BY PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY BEFORE THE PRINCE OF WALES
OR, WHO IS A.B.W. ” — A STUDENTS’ MEDLEY.
J OPENING THE
PLAYED BY A
"STAR CAST
FIRST ACT O!
BEFORE THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART :
SIR I AMES BARRIES NEW PLAY. “SHALL WE JOIN THE LADIFS ? *
The Prince of Wales visited the Royal Academy oi Dramatic Art in Gower Street on May 27, and opened its new theatre. In the course of a short sp*« h he ^_
of the Academy as "the home of a great national traditionSir Johnston Forbes-Robertson reciteth a poem--written for the occasion by the Poet Laureate. Dr. ^
Bridges. Then followed a students’ medley called “ The Man in the Dock, or, Who is A.B.W. ? ” played by present members of the Academy. Next came the fast ^
Pinero's “ Trelawney of the Wells,” played by ex-students, and finally the first act of Sir James Barrie s new and unfinished play, “Shall We Join the U<fas
the right-hand top photograph are (left to right) Miss Viola Tree as Imogen Parrott, Mr. Ion Swinley as Tom Wrench, Miss Athene Seyler tin front)
Mr. A. Scott-Gatty (behind her) as Ferdinand Gadd, Miss Meggie Albanesi as Rose Trelawney. In the left-hand lower drawing, in front (left to right*
i Avow*
: Mr. fa*'
: “ THE MAN IN THE DOCK, ;
......j
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4 , 1921.—741
^ F WALES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART.
/ THEATRE : THE
-LES SPEAKING
PLAYED BY EX-STUDENTS OF THE ACADEMY BEFORE
OF PINEROS
THE PRINCE OF WALES : THE FIRST ACT
TRELAWNEY OF THE WELLS.”
THE “STAR ” CAST AND THE COUNCIL OF THE R.A.D.A. BEING INTRODUCED TO THE PRINCE OF WALES BY SIR JOHN HARE : U
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS SHAKING HANDS WITH MISS MARIE LOHR.
,-5)
Key*, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Mr. Dion Boucicault, Sir J. Forbes-Robertson, Miss Sybil Thorndike, Miss Irene Vanbrugh (seated), and Mr. Leon Quartermaine. At the back
(left to right) are Mr. Norman Forbes (as the policeman), Lady Tree, Mr. Cyril Maude, Miss Fay Compton, Mr. Charles Hawtrey, Miss Marie Ldhr, Mr. Gerald Du Maurier
(standing behind), and Miss Madge Titheradge. In the right - hand lower drawing are (left to right, in left foreground) Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Dion Boucicault, Miss Irene
Vanbrugh, and Sir Arthur Pinero. In the centre is the Prince of Wales greeting Miss Marie Ldhr, on whose left is Mr. Norman Forbes. In' the right foreground (left to
right) are Mr. Nelson Keys, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Mr. C. M. Lowne, and Miss Fay Compton. Beyond the Prince (left to right) are Mr. Kenneth Barnes, Sir John Hare,
Mr. Charles Hawtrey, and Miss Sybil Thorndike.—( l>rawings Copyrighted in the United State* and Canada.]
742—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4, 1921.
THE HUNDREDTH
TEST MATCH:
ENGLAND BEATfiu
Photoguhb 1
BOWLED BY MR. GREGORY:
FOR A
i. HENDREN (MIDDLESEX) OUT
'* DUCK."
THE HIGHEST SCORER FOR ENGLAND IN THE FIRST INNINGS : P. HOLMES (YORKSHIRE
BOWLED (BY MR. MACDONALD) FOR 30.
KEEN AUSTRALIAN FIELDING : THE MEN IN THE SLIPS TRYING TO CATCH RHODES.
WHO GOT MR. MACDONALD AWAY TO THE BOUNDARY.
The first of the five Test Matches arranged for this season during the tour of the Australian cricket team in England began on Saturday, May 28, on the Trent Bridge f” 113 „
at Nottingham, and ended on the Monday in a win for the visitors by ten wickets. England batted first, and reached the disappointing total of 11a, the highest s
score being 30 made by Holmes. Only three other batsmen got into double figures, and four were out for “ duck.” Australia’s first innings resulted in 23*. of 1
Mr. W. Bardsley made 66. . In the second innings the home team did slightly better, but left the result a foregone conclusion. A nasty accident happened to Tyldesley, the Un» ,
shire bat. A fast long hop from Mr. Gregory rose and hit him a stunning blow on the head. He had to be helped to the Pavilion, and only later heard that the b»U
e ,): struck his wicket, so that he was out England’s total in the second venture was 147, to which Mr. D. J. Knight contributed 38, and F. E. Woolley 34. The Australians
needed only 28 to win, and Mr. Bardsley and Mr. C. G. Macartney hit off the runs without the loss of a wicket The bowling honours on the Australian side fell chiefly to
jj Mr. J. M. Gregory and Mr. E. A. Macdonald, and on the English side weie fairly evenly divided among Woolley, Colonel Douglas, Richmond, Rhodes, and Jupp. It should be
noted that the above illustrations are from telephotographs, taken from the Pavilion, and that the effect of the distance is slightly to distort the relative positions of the players,
and to show them nearer to each other and to the spectators than they were in reality.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 1 , 1021.—744
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THE BURNING OF LOYALISTS’ HOUSES IN CO. CORK : FRANK- ^ A GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL SEN- ’ ATTENDING THE LEIPZIG TRIALS : SIR ERNEST POLLOCK,
FORT HOUSE, MONTENOTTE, SIR ALFRED DOBBIN S RESIDENCE. ' TENCED : KARL HEINEN (RIGHT). SOLICITOR-GENERAL, AND THE BRITISH COMMISSION.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, V.C., died on May 25, aged 79.
He won the V.C. when serving with the Naval Brigade at El Teb, in 1884.
In 1912 he retired after 57 years’ service. Miss Olive Clapham was the first
of several women law students who recently passed the final Bar examination.-
Miss M. A. de Czaplicka, Lecturer in Anthropology at Bristol University, died on
May 27. She went with the Oxford Expedition to Siberia in 1914*15, living for
a year within the Arctic Circle, and wrote several important books.-Mrs. Zetton
Buchanan lately described iin the “ Times ”) her terrible experiences last year
in the Arab rising in Mesopotamia. She was with her husband, the late Captain
E. L. Bucnanan, when he was killed at Shahraban, and was a prisoner for four
weeks in Arab hands, until a British relief force arrived. Several houS *^ ° s
loyalists in Co. Cork were burnt down on May 24, including Sir Alfred
residence, Frankfort House, Montenotte, overlooking Lough Mahon. ,h
of German war criminals began in the Supreme Court at Leipzig ® n ^
before Senatprasident Schmidt. The photograph of the British
there shows (left to nght) in front—Sir Ellis Hume-Williams. K.C.. • ’ ^
Sir Ernest Pollock, Solicitor-General ; (behind! Mr. J. B. Carson lof ***« . ^
Embassy). Mr. R. W. Woods. Mr. Vernon Gatty, and Commander H. W. c ^
M.P. The Crown Prince of Japan, who has since left this country,
Eton College on May 27. The boys greeted him with shouts of Banzai
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Artisan Player and Son of a Professional: The New Amateur Golf Champion.
PUTTING DOWN HIS THIRD TO WIN THE SEVENTH HOLE : WILLIAM I. HUNTER,
THE NEW AMATEUR CHAMPION.
IN THE RUSHES APPROACHING THE SEVENTH GREEN : ALLAN j GRAHAM,
WHO WAS DEFEATED BY W. I. HUNTER.
WATCHING THE FINAL : THE AUDIENCE CROWDING ROUND THE NINTH GREEN
AT HOYLAKE.
Mr. William I. Hunter has created a record by winning the Amateur Champion¬
ship. He is a telegraphist and sorting clerk in the Deal Post Office, and the
son of Harry Hunter, the professional at Deal. This is the first time that the
Championship has been won by an artisan player and the son of a “ pro.”
Hunter was never taken further than the sixteenth green in any of the seven
RECEIVING HIS MEDAL AND CUP FROM MR. G. STEWART, M.P., THE CAPTAIN OF
THE CLUB : W. I. HUNTER.
matches he had to win to reach the final, and in his thirty-six hole match
against Graham, he broke two records. He won by twelve up, and he led at the end
of the first round by more holes than any champion has before put to his credit.
The failure of the American “ invasion ” made this year’s Amateur Championship
of special interest.— [Photographs bv S. and G.]
English and American Women Champions at Turnberry: The Leitch - Stirling Match.
SHOWING THE HOME GREEN : TURNBERRY, THE SCENE OF SENSATIONAL MATCHES
IN THE WOMENS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.
SHOWING THE BUNKERS BY THE FIRST GREEN : A VIEW
OF TURNBERRY.
DEFEATER OF CECIL LEITCH IN THE IN- DISCUSSING PROSPECTS WITH TOM FERNIE : THE AMERICAN CHAMPION,
TERNATIONAL MATCHES: JANET JACKSON. MISS ALEXA STIRLING, DEFEATED BY MISS CECIL LEITCH.
THE BRITISH OPEN CHAMPION WHO BEAT
THE AMERICAN CHAMPION : CECIL LEITCH.
The great match between Miss Cecil Leitch, British Open Lady Champion and our
most famous woman golfer, and Miss Alexa Stirling, the American Champion, took
place in the first round of the Ladies’ Championship at Turnberry, for, by a strange
turn of luck, in a field of 113 entrants, these two famous players drew each
other in the first round. The sensations of the meeting, however, began before
this match, for, to the surprise of everyone, in the international matches, which
open the Women’s Championship meeting, Miss Janet Jackson, the Irish Champion,
beat Miss Cecil Leitch by two and one. The Leitch-Stirling match did not begin
till late on Monday afternoon, and resulted in a victory for Miss Cecil Leitch
by 3 and 2. [Photographs by S. and G., and L N.A
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June I. 1921 —746
By J. T. GREl TV.
I T was just my luck that I arrived in London
in 1885, when the Bancrofts officially ended
their reign of glory and bade farewell to the World
of the Theatre. To be candid, I had not come
to these shores with high ideas of the stage in
Shakespeare’s land. Abroad the British stage
was frankly laughed at: " No plays at all (except
' Caste ' and ‘ Our Boys ’), bad acting, ranting,
pantomime." How- well I remember these ignor¬
ant gibes in days when travelling was the excep¬
tion rather than the rule. But 1 soon found out
that the theatre of England was not as black as
it was painted; that it was in a transition period;
that it was a case of " Barkis is willin’ ” as far
as the public was concerned, and inefficiency of
most managers (have we changed all that ?).
When I had seen the Bancrofts, Irving, Hare,
the Kendals, Wilson Barrett, I became a
wiser and a better-informed man, and never
shall I forget that evening at the Haymarket
when the Bancrofts took leave to plant their
cabbages and write their memoirs amidst
thunders, shrieks and tears ; then I felt they
were great—she great in comedy mingled
with pathos; he great as that beau-id£al of
manhood—an English gentleman—which he
still is on the stage and off, and long may
he be spared 1 Alas that the crown of his
'eighties, conferred but a few days ago in
sunshine and showers of congratulations, is
dimmed by Lady Bancroft's sudden departure!
It came as a shock, for she was a landmark,
a milestone in our dramatic w-orld. Of her
one thought, as of him and Sir John Hare,
as perennials. Well, she is gone, and she
will ever be remembered as an artist whose
smile w’orked wonders, whose words electrified,
whose characterisations are indelible. When,
in the ’nineties, for once she could not resist
the temptations of the stage, and at the
Garrick told us the famous tale of the cock-
a doodle in Sardou's " Peril," there rustled
through the audience a feeling of indescribable
enjoyment. For this great actress was in
cosy form the incarnation of that priceless
British possession—a sense of humour of her
own. Smiles were hers to command, and to listen
to her was the caress of harps in the air !
I have come back from Holland and Bel¬
gium, and I am rubbing my dazzled eyes.
For I saw there in a week what in intellectual
enjoyment was equal to a year's playgoing
in London. 1 began at Antwerp at the
Royal Theatre, as the sponsor of Francis
Hutchinson's " Right to Strike," exquisitely
" Flemished " by that grand master of
Flemish criticism, Louis Krinkels. The pro¬
duction of Director van Kcrckhovcn’s gifted
wife, Philomdne Jonkers, was an exact rep¬
lica of Leon M. Lion’s memorable London
performance. Everything was correct, to the
men’s ties and the Tommies’ khaki; but for
the difference in tongue, 1 could have im¬
agined myself at the Lyric The acting, too,
was all that could be desired : the old Doctor
of van Ryn was a foil. nay.
even more touching than our
excellent Mr. Holman Clark
There was a feeling of entente cordiale in the air,
and I grasped it by the forclocl^. Director van
Kerckhoven, in gratitude to Lion for the loan of
the piece, at once proffered a cordial invitation
that the Garrick Company, with " Count X,”
should come over in June. We approached the
Municipal Council, and the reply was a hearty
" Welcome." Brussels, eager to vie with Antwerp,
followed suit. After two performances at Antwerp,
Leon M. Lion and his henchmen go to the Royal
Flemish Theatre at the bidding of Director
Poot and the Municipal Council. And both
the British and American Ambassadors, Sir
George Graham and Mr. Brand Whitlock,
will grant their patronage. Nous allons
dancer, mes amts /
Then I went to Amsterdam, saw
THE PREMlfi.RE HASS ELSE OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET AT
THE PRINCES THEATRE: MME. LYDIA LOPOKOVA (IN
" PETROUSHKA”).
London was delighted to welcome again Mme. Lydia Lopokova. who is
appearing at the Princes Theatre in M. Serge DiaghileH's season of
Russian Ballet. It opened on May 26 with "Children’s Tales,” "La
Boutique Fantasque," and “ Les Sylphides." During the same week were
also given " The Good-Humoured Ladies," " Carnaval,” and " Cleopatra.”
Camera Portrait by Hoppe.
Shakespeare at the Royal Theatre, was carried away, and
prevailed upon Director Dr. Willem Royaards to let us
see at the Garrick how the Bard is understood in Holland.
About this, more anon.
On went the rush to Brussels. I saw my dear old
friend " The Two Orphans,” by Dennerv, and savoured it
as a classic melodrama (revive it !); saw the Grand Guignol
in l*a Matson des Hallucinations, and shuddered—when
French plays arc bad, they are very bad. yet interesting:
saw at the Monnaie, at a packed matinee, ** La
Fille de Madame Angot," as I never saw it befoie—
a feast, a joy, a triumph : saw " Arlequin ”; saw—
but why continue to make your mouth water?
Artistically. Brussels is the hub of the universe
next to Paris, and I am not so sure that Petit
Paris does not come first.
If in these days of theatrical depression you
want a perfect evening, go to the Every man
at Hampstead, and savour
the delicious, delicate,
and distinctly Irish humour
of G. B. S.’s play, " Man
and Superman." Never
was it so fresh ; rarely
was it so well acted. One
of these days, when the
managers of London are
awake, they will discover
Muriel Pratt. Some of us
have done it long ago, when,
as leading-lady of the Liver-
pool Repertory Theatre, she
gave so fine a performance
of Zola's " Th6r£se Raquin ”
that Paris talked about it.
London, however, remained
mute, and so she ploughed
on until, at the Everyman,
she became famous in Hamp¬
stead. C'est magnifique—
but Hampstead is a proud
suburb, and the Metropolis
knows but a tithe of its
doings. So she will have to
wait for a Columbus. Her
Ann Whitfield is all that it
should be, and more human
than Lillah McCarthy's. It is
young ; it is fresh : it is arch ; it is coy; it is
wholly unaffected. Nicholas Hannen, too,
made a life-like Tanner. In cloth, in gait, in
beard, ay, even in the slouch hat, he wa6 the
reincarnation of the auburn G. B. S. of the
'nineties. Splendid too, the Chauffeur of Brem-
ber Wills ; the young Malone of Felix Aylmer;
the Violet of Hazel Jones (another trouvaille !);
and the setting by Norman McDermott was
well worthy of the romance. By gad ! if I had
the shekels would I not pilot this little craft
across the sea and show the Continentals how
a small side-theatre worships at the shrine of
Shaw—and understands liim, too I
In the midst of strike the latest Theatre-
*’Chief," Faraday, produces a strike-play.
Incredible, but true 1
A MARK TWAIN FILM AT THE ALHAMBRA: "A YANKEE AT THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR "—THE TRIUMPH OF LASSO OVER LANCE.
It was arranged to produce a film version of Mark Twain's whimsical story, "A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur,” at the Alhambra on April 30, with three performances daily The
phororriph shows the victory of the Yankee, "Sir Boss" (Mr. Harry Myers), over Sir Sagramore (Mr. George Seigmann) by means of the lasso- \By < ourtesy of the Pox E*bm C< H
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4 , 1921.—747
THE PRINCE-AND “GALLERY
ON A CORNISH GOLF COURSE,
drawn by s. begg.
WHERE THE SAND-DUNES ARE STEEP: THE PRINCE OF WALES’S VISIT TO THE GOLF LINKS OF ST. ENODOC,
OPPOSITE PADSTOW, DURING HIS TOUR IN CORNWALL.
After visiting Newquay on the morning of May 24, the Prince of Wales motored
to Wadebridge, and from there went on to the golf links at St. Enodoc, which
lie among the sand-dunes at the mouth of the River Camel, opposite Padstow.
Numbers of people who came across in boats, and others from the country round,
gathered on the golf course, through which there is a public right of way,
to see the populai “ Duke of Cornwall.” The Prince lunched at the club¬
house with the committee, and walked over the links, expressing disappointment
at not having time to play a round. The figures in the middle drawing, coming
down the steep sand-dune, are (from left to right) Mr. R. W. Dana, captain of
the club ; the Prince ; Col. C. R. Prideaux-Brune, president of the club ; Admiral
Sir Lionel Halsey ; Major Campbell ; Sir H. M. Durand ; Col. Le Marchant, and
Mr. F. A. Glover, hon. sec. of the dub .—[Copyrighted in the United States and Canada.]
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4. 1<>21.— 74X
BOOKS
-
OF THE DAY
' wif
By E. B. OSBORN.
)ERIODS of war¬
fare on a great
scale seem to occur at inter¬
vals of from forty to fifty
years, which gives time for
the actual eye-witnesses of the
horrors of the former dispensation to die out, and
for an inexperienced generation to take control
and stand on tip-toe with expectation (as Thucy¬
dides said of all Hellas before the Peloponnesian
war began half a century after the life-and-death
struggle with Persia) in romantic wonderment
as to what a great war is like. In 1914 it was
the Germans, inspired with hopes of creating
a world-state administered by themselves as a
superior race, who were the war romantics—■
among them had arisen anew the conception
of warfare as the natural, healthy condition of
mankind, a part of the endless struggle for
existence which is Nature’s plan. One of the
omens of the coming of a great war era is in¬
variably the appearance of writers who glorify
fighting as man’s best activity.
A great war era, again, is invariably followed
by efforts either to mitigate the horrors of
future wars by quasi-legal methods, or to formu¬
late plans for establishing a permanent state of
peace throughout the world. Hence the forma¬
tion of the League of Nations, now dwindling
into a secretariat. Hence, also, the appearance
of such books as " The Salvaging of Civil¬
isation ” (Cassell and Co.; 7s. 6d. net), by H.
G. Wells, in which it is proposed to establish
a world-state by persuasion in order that we
may all be peaceful and happy ever afterwards.
Mr. Wells thinks that, if war cannot be abol¬
ished, the improvement in weapons due to
scientific discovery and invention will sooner or
later involve the irretrievable ruin of civilisation.
He has long been obsessed by this idea—we find
it worked out in " The War in the Air **
(Collins Sons ; New Edition ; 2s. net). In a new
preface to this thrilling romance, he says that,
behind the catastrophe of the Great War others
are marching on us to-day—“ the steady deterio¬
ration of currency, the shrinkage of production,
the ebb of educational energy in Europe, work
out to consequences that are obvious to every
clear-headed man.” But pessimism of this
kind is always uppermost in sentimental minds
after a period of war on the great scale. It was
so after the Napoleonic wars, when the havoc
effected in Europe was greater, proportionally
to the existing population and wealth, than what
we see to-day, and the process of reconstruction
was long and laborious, even in this country, as
a study of English social history during the
ti^nty years after Waterloo shows with startling
cogency. Again, Mr. Wells’s other basal argument—
that the increased destructiveness of weapons may
cause war to lead to the virtual annihilation of
of a great war. It follows, then, that the premisses
on which Mr. Wells bases his arguments for a
pacifying world-state cannot support them, so
that the whole glittering superstructure of his
rhetorical persuasion collapses at the first touch
of the logic of circumstance.
Moreover, supposing the foundation is assumed
to be well and truly laid, his plan i:> as impracticable
PREHISTORIC SURGERY IN BOLIVIA: A TREPHINED SKULL, WITH
ROUND INCISION.
By Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, Hew York.
civilised humanity—is contrary to the facts of mili¬
tary history. There is nothing in modem warfare as
destructive of life as the old hand-to-hand battles
(Cannae, for example, saw the annihilation of a
great army in an area about the size of Lord’s
cricket ground) or the wars of extermination
waged by the Mongolian conquerors. It is a
demonstrable fact that the percentage of battle
casualties decreases with the improvement of
weapons, which also tends to shorten the duration
PREHISTORIC SURGERY IN PERU: A TREPHINED SKULL,
WITH SQUARE INCISION.
The prehistoric tribes of South America were skilled in surgery, and per¬
formed the operation of trephining, or removing part of the cranium to
relieve pressure on the brain caused by a fracture, such as would be often
sustained in fighting with clubs and slings. Incisions were made with
implements of copper and bronze, or knives of stone and obsidian. Of
some 1200 skulls found on one expedition in Bolivia, about 5 per cent,
had been trephined. Bolivian medicine men still practise trephining
to-day, applying coca to produce insensibility. In prehistoric times
splints and bandages were also used. In the Peruvian Hall of the American
Museum of Natural History in New York are many skulls showing arti¬
ficial deformation. The heads of infants were deformed by bandages
and pads, or by binding the head to a board. The skull was thus flattened
at front and back in degrees that varied with different groups or clans.
By Courtesy of the American Museum of Satural History, New York.
as any of the Utopias evolved from Wilsonism.
He aims at abolishing the sense of nationality
everywhere. His plan for extirpating the idea of
nationality so deeply rooted in the very souls of
Britons, Frenchmen, Italians, even Americans, is
the use of a systematic propaganda, in which the
chief instrument of persuasion is to be a new
" Bible of Civilisation.” The new Genesis and
hi s torical
Books have
already been
given to the
world, I sup¬
pose, in Mr.
Wells's " Out¬
line of His¬
tory.” every
section of
which, even
the scientific
part, has been
exposed by
the qualified
experts as in¬
accurate, ilia-
gical, and
warped by the
author’s poli¬
tical predilec¬
tions The
sad truth is
that Mr. Wells
knows no his¬
tory, does not
even know
what history
is ; and, worse still, he does not know he knows
nothing about such matters. Other sections of the
new ” Bible ”— e.g., the ” Book of Freedom "—
are to be a mosaic of literary purpurei panni,
such as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Henley's
well-known defiance of destiny :
I am the Master of my Fate,
I am the Captain of my Soul.
This interesting scrap-book, which seems to in¬
fringe a patent of Mr. Frederic Harrison and the
Positivist brethren, will
not do much to help on
the Millennium, I fear. And,
after all, no propaganda of
lectures and literature and
moving pictures can prevent
an organised race from attempting to attain
supremacy in the way Rome did—the only way,
as history shows, in which a world-state has ever
been evolved. I am writing this criticism of
a brilliant and well-meaning idealist on the eve
of Empire Day, and wish I could persuade
Mr. Wells to make a beginning of the serious
study of history by reading “ The Imperial
Commonwealth ” (Cassell and Co.; 12s. 6 d.
net), by A. P. Poley, which is a very readable
and reliable account of the evolution of the
British Empire (which stands for equity as
Rome stood for law), a true world-state owing
its growth and inexhaustible strength to self-
discipline as much as to self-determination.
On the scientific side, Mr. Wells’s books
are unsatisfactory because, though he often
makes a parade of the names of ultra-modem
scientists, it is clear he knows little or nothing
of the latest advances in the study of life-^
for example, he seems quite unaware of the
offensive that is being conducted on a wide and
fluctuating front against the Darwinian Theory
of Evolution, which, was only a “ working
hypothesis,’’ after all. * (Evolution, as now
accepted, does not guarantee the development
of homo sapiens into homo pact ficus.) The careful
study of living creatures, such as birds and
insects, has certainly demolished some of the
deductions — e.g., the Theory of Instinct—
from the Darwinian hypothesis. In ” Some
Birds of the Country-side ” (Fisher Unwin ;
12s. 6d. net), by H. J. Massingham, who
practises the disinterested methods of Fabre
with distinction, a new meaning is given to the
old terms—as when the author observes that
" the ‘ survival of the fittest' is nothing less
than the urge and pressure of God knocking
sense into hippopotami, men, water-lilies, blue-
tits, spiders and roses.” Those who take up
some branch of this fascinating study of nature
should acquire ” The Country Day by Day "
(Holden and Hardingham ; 12s. 6d. net), by
E. Kay Robinson, a picturesque calendar
of Nature’s year. These books enable us
to appreciate the profound truth expressed
in Mr. Massingham’s phrase, ” The Art of
Nature,” and never to forget (as the labora¬
tory workers do) our fellowship with the creatures
whose wistful eyes appeal to us against an age¬
long servitude :
That liquid melancholy eye,
From whose pathetic, soul-fed springs
Seemed surging the Virgilian cry,
The sense of tears in mortal things.
ARTIFICIAL DEFORMATION OF THE HEAD AMONG PREHISTORIC SOUTH
AMERICAN TRIBES: A FLATTENED SKULL FROM BOLIVIA.
By Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
This quotation from the poem by Matthew
Arnold (who yet denied immortality to ' Geist,
his faithful Dachshund !) was recalled in read¬
ing the new edition of ” Beast and Man in
India ” (Macmillan; 7s. 6d. net), by the late
J. Lockwood Kipling. C.I.E.. who is the only
sociologist of animal life I know of an
wish Mr. Wells’s sociology was based on as
shrewd a faculty of observation and as sane a
passion for the exact truth.
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REBEL ARSON IN DUBLIN:
THE DESTRUCTION
Photographs by L.N.A., Topical, and C.N.
OF THE CUSTOMS HOUSE.
WITH ITS COPPER DOME MELTED; BUT THE FIGURE
OF HOPE STILL STANDING : THE CUSTOMS HOUSE
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SHOWING HOW THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING WAS COMPLETELY GUTTED :
ANOTHER FRONT OF THE BURNT CUSTOMS HOUSE AT DUBLIN.
HOLDING THE BLUE ENSIGN WHICH ONE OF THEM RESCUED FROM THE ROOF :
OFFICERS AND AUXILIARIES; WITH A HEAP OF CAPTURED REVOLVERS.
A WOUNDED CUSTOMS HOUSE OFFICIAL WHO RISKED HIS LIFE
TO RESCUE A TYPIST : MR. FREDERICK COLIN SALVING RECORDS.
WITH THEIR HANDS UP: MEM AND WOMEN WHO WERE Dl THE CUSTOMS
HOUSE AT THE TIME OF THE OUTRAGE LEAVING THE BUILDING.
A CASUALTY AMONG THE AUXILIARIES : A WOUNDED MAN ON A STRETCHER
RECEIVING ATTENTION ON THE PAVEMENT NEAR THE CUSTOMS HOUSE.
The Customs House at Dublin, the city's finest building, was raided at i p.m. on
May 85 by a, large body of Sinn Feiners, who set fire to it with petrol, cotton
waste and bombs. While they were at work, a force of soldiers and Auxiliary
Police arrived, and fierce fighting ensued. Several of the rebels were shot as
they came out in sorties. An official statement on May 26 gave the number of
killed as 8, wounded 9, and arrested 127. Some of the Cadets were wounded.
and one was reported to have died later. While the Customs House was being
fired, other Sinn Feiners held up the fire brigade at various stations, so that the
firemen were too late to save the building, which continued burning through the
night. At 3 p.m. on the 26th the copper dome of the clock-tower melted and
collapsed, but the symbolic figure of Hope remained standing above. The whole
interior was gutted, including records and documents of great importance.
750—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4, 1921
THE BATTLE OF
THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AT
DUBLIN: E
Photogia*.. Ic
SHOWING A DEAD SINN FEINER : SOLDIERS AT LIBERTY HALL
(TRANSPORT WORKERS AND IRISH LABOUR PARTY HEADQUARTERS)
UA
SOME OF THE 127 MEN WHO WERE ARRESTED BY TE
BURNING OF THE CUSTOMS HODS
TAKING WHAT COVER WAS POSSIBLE OR LYING DOWN IN THE OPEN : A SCENE OUTSIDE THE CUSTOMS HOUSE WHILE THE
AUXILIARIES WERE ATTACKING AND SINN FEINERS FIRING FROM THE WINDOWS — A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN UNDER FIRE.
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After the fighting in Dublin on May 25, the Irish Office issued the following statement : “ Three tenders carrying Auxiliary Cadets, accompanied by an armoured car, *PP
hile revolver fire was opened on
them f«®
the Dublin Customs House shortly after 1 p.m. to-day. A number of bombs were flung at the tenders from the railway bridge, 1
the windows of the Customs House, which was occupied by a large force of Sinn Feiners. The Cadets dismounted from their tenders under a heavy fire ana su “”^ e j ron i
Customs House, which was seen to be on fire. Fire from the Auxiliaries and the machine-guns on the armoured car was poured into the windows of the Customs ^
which the rebels replied vigorously, and a series of desperate conflicts took place between Crown forces and seven or eight parties of rebels, who rushed from w0iul dfd
the building and made dashes for liberty, firing as they ran. The first party to emerge from the building consisted of three men, one of whom was killed and two
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4 , 1921 ._ 751
DEAD BODIES IN THE STREETS; TROOPS AND PRISONERS
Topical and C.N.
DURING THE FIGHTING AT THE CUSTOMS HOUSE IN DUBLIN
A SEARCH IN PROGRESS.
MILITARY ON SUSPICION OF BEING CONCERNED IN THE
A LORRY-LOAD OF PRISONERS IN DUBLIN.
SAID TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY AUXILIARIES JUST AFTER HE HAD THROWN A BOMB FROM A BRIDGE NEAR THE CUSTOMS HOUSE
THE BODY OF A SINN FEINER KILLED IN THE FIGHTING ; AND PEOPLE PASSING WITH HANDS UP.
By this time smoke and flame were pouring from the building, and the official staff, including many women, who had been held as prisoners by the rebels, came flocking out
with their hands above their heads and waving white handkerchiefs. While these defenceless people were leaving the building the rebels continued to fire from the windows.
The staff was taken to a place of safety by some of the Auxiliaries. As the staff was leaving the building the rebels made their last sortie, and of this party, consisting of seven
men, only one escaped, the rest being killed or wounded. Some of the Auxiliaries then stormed the blazing building, where many of the rebels surrendered. Some of them
were found to be saturated with petrol which they had been pouring over the floors, and several of them were probably burnt to death before the Crown forces entered. ... At
the conclusion of the fighting dead and wounded rebels lay about on all sides. . . . Four Auxiliaries were wounded, 7 civilians were killed, n wounded, and over too captured."
752— THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4. 1921.
IRISH EXTREMISTS’ METHODS: THE SHOOTING OF MRS
Drawn by W. R. S. Stott from Exclusive Infom*,,.
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THE ATROCIOUS MURDER AT BALLYTURIN HOUSE: (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) LIEUT. McCR^ Caj
BEHIND THE CAR. BEYOND WHICH FELL
(also of **
District Inspector C. E. N. Blake, R.I.C., and his wife, Capt. F. W. M. Cornwallis, M.C., i 7 th Lancers (great-grandson of the fifth Earl ** **
17th Lancers), and Mrs. Gregory, of Coole Park, (widow of Major Gregory, RAF., son of Lady Gregory, the well-known I rah wnter), spent the BUk* ** |
with Mr J. C. Bagot, at his home, Ballyturin House, near Gort, Co. Galway. After playing tennis till about 8.30 p.m., they left to a Fo • ^ ^ approach*
the wheel, on the left side, with Mrs. Gregory beside him. Behind were sitting, from left to right. Captain Cornwalhs, Mr. McCreery, and ^ Cornwall*^
park gate leading from the winding drive into the road about half a mile from the house, they noticed that the left half of the gate wune point. ***
^ to open it. As he was pulling it inwards a shot came from bushes on the right, with a shout of “ Hands up ! * Two other shots followed
coi
the
h»
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4 , 1921.—753
nBLAKE, HER HUSBAND, AND TWO 17th LANCERS OFFICERS.
Photographs Taken on the Spot.
> 1 -
^CAPTAIN BLAKE. AND MRS. BLAKE AMBUSHED AND SHOT DOWN; MRS. GREGORY ESCAPING
jfCORNWALLIS. OUTSIDE THE RIGHT HAND GATE.
. the wind-screen. Mr. McCreery and Mrs. Blake scrambled out and took cover on the left of the car, Captain Blake and Mrs. Gregory following. Intense fire was then opened
'^ by about ten men (some masked with white rags, and others with blackened faces), who gradually worked round to the front and left of the car. Mrs. Gregory then got
round to the back of the car, but Mrs. Blake refused to leave her husband. After three or four minutes the firing ceased with a heavy volley at close range. Captain and
•frs Blake and Mr. McCreery were all dead. While their bodies were being searched, Mrs. Gregory was allowed to go. Captain Cornwallis (not seen in the drawing) had taken cover
*■,. outside the wall to the right of the gate, and was killed by a shot in the back from the house opposite. For five hours the assailants had waited in ambush. After killing them, they searched
* their pockets for papers and arms ; and took a purse, but overlooked Mrs. Gregory’s gdld cigarette-case (seen in the foreground), which she had dropped .—[Copyngjtud in US. and Canada.)
754-THE ILLUSTRATE!) ^ NEWS,
{urtber
The incendiaries who destroyed the splendid Customs House at Dublin inflicted a grievous injury on the architectural beauty of the city, ^ in( ^g na tion.
harm to their political cause. All Ireland was shocked at the outrage, and moderate Sinn Feiners are said to share the general feeling o ^ ^ 18H'
Customs House, which was one of the finest buildings in Ireland, was built in 1785 at a cost of £397,232. Further expenditure was incurred
NEWS, June 4 , 1921.—755
OF THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AT DUBLIN, ON MAY 25.
making the total spent on the building £546,353- Its form was an oblong quadrangle, 374 feet long by 205 feet deep, and there was a large amount of wood
in the construction. The architect of the building was James Gandon. The above photograph was taken while the fire was in progress, and before the copper
dnme melted, as shown in an illustration on another page. A fire-hose is seen in the right background playing on the building -{.Photograph by L N.A.~\
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June
4. 1921.—756
A LL that is mine is thine." is the Arab wel¬
come to a guest, and in Libya this generous
phrase is not merely a manner of speech.
the moment we arrived in Jedab.a untrl the day
when, a little sadly in spite of all our Roubles
and adventures, we left the Senussi country, wc
were lavishly entertained by all Government
officials on behalf of the Emir Idriss and his Wakil.
Saved Rida. At Jcdabia we first made the acquaint¬
ance of the form of Arab house that varies little
AN 0 FF 1 CAL OF THE SENUSSI: THE KA 1 MACAAN AT KUFARA
(ON THE LEFT) WITH HIS M A.D.C."
throughout Libya. There was one exceedingly
long and high room running the whole length of
one side of a big, mud-walled court. This is bed¬
room and reception-room alike, for in the daytime
the sleeping apparatus of the Arab disappears
altogether, and nothing remains but a row of
long, hard cushions against walls decorated with
texts from the Koran. Beyond the first court
was a second and larger one, with rows of rooms
opening out of it and a well in the middle, but
everything was bare and unfurnished
until the next morning we woke up to
find cooks and a bell-tent kitchen, a
horse for me to ride, a complete retinue
of slaves, and every known form of food!
At first we were overwhelmed with the
hospitality showered upon us. We used
to try and slip out unobserved to buy
our few necessities in the market, but
this was considered a distinct breach of
etiquette on our part. Arab rule gives
three days' hospitality to the stranger,
and, during that time, everything, from
his clothes to his candles, is provided
for him, even though he be not living
in the house of his host.
At Jedabia we dined in European
fashion in the houses of Sayed Rida and
Sidi Hilal, the sole difference being that
we drank only water (for the Senussi law
forbids all form of alcohol), and that we
ate perhaps a dozen or fifteen courses
instead of five or six. Often six or seven
of the dishes would be mutton cooked
in different ways, though the pttcc de
risistance might be sheep roasted whole,
and stuffed with rice, eggs, almonds and
raisins. As it is very bad form not to
partake of every dish, it was a joyful
moment when the appearance of little
painted glass cups of tea denoted that
the banquet was at an end. As we went
further south, the ceremony of tea drink¬
ing liecamc more and more elaborate,
till at Kufara it was almost a mystic
ritual. The green-robed Kaimacaan, with a
shawl of many colours over his snowy turban,
would stop all conversation while he measured
tea and sugar in an amazing proportion of one
teaspoonful of the former to four of the Utter,
into a pale blue teapot, heated on a brazier set
in the middle of his best Persian carpet. With
meticulous care three glasses were measured for
each guest, the first merely sweet, the second
scented with rose-water or amber, and the third
flavoured with mint, which latter is a
courteous dismissal. At Kufara. though
we stayed nine days in the house on
the cliff at Taj. we were never allowed
to get anything for ourselves. I be¬
lieve we did once induce Mohamed to
buy some eggs in the market, but
they were never cooked I
Arab custom ordains that whoever
visits the stranger newly arrived in
the town must afterwards either enter¬
tain him in his own house or send him
presents of food. Chiefly, I imagine,
because it would have troubled the
dignified Ekhwan of Taj to have met
feminine fingers chasing the same piece
of meat through the savoury contents
of the common bowl. Hassancin Bey
and I were daily conducted by an
ebony sUve to the house of Sidi Saleh
el Baskari, where we found an im-
. mensc brass tray laden with a dozen
bowls of meats and vegetables and a
score of loaves of bread, so that after
we had performed our final ablutions,
we were obliged to take long consti¬
tutionals, at a dignified and slow pace
to avoid suspicion, before we could
comfortably return to our house, where
very often two or three other large
meals, sent by as many different hosts,
awaited us.
One of the most noticeable things
in Libya is the exceedingly strict way
in which the women are secluded. In
all Kufara we never saw a woman in
the streets, except perhaps a few-
ancient black slaves, and when feminine
patients came to me to be doctored,
they would rarely show me their faces.
They kept their heads bowed under
the considerable weight of two or three voluminous
barracans.
One is used to the transparent veil of Egypt.
In Syria one may catch a glimpse of silk stocking
above a high-heeled shoe. In Morocco dark-
lashed eyes, grey-green from Circassia perhaps,
look at one from between white woollen folds,
but in Libya the women enter and leave the towns
by night, and their whole life is spent between
the blind mud walls of a court some few yards
square. When they travel they are shapeless
bundles who mount their camels in some secluded
spot, sit silently, motionlessly, in a shrouded
THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF THE SENUSSI:
SIDI OMAR, A LITTLE PRINCE AT KUFARA
heap all day long and at night slip down to crouch
by their luggage, remote and aloof, till their tent
is put up. I used to wonder what the two slave-
girls who accompanied us thought, or if they
thought at all.
When the sheikhs inquired after my health,
they always used the plural tense, implying that
the inquiry was general and not personal, and,
though a host might converse with me at length,
he would carefully look in front of him the whole
time with never a glance at the muffled figure
beside him. In one direction the stem Senussi
code is lenient to women, for to them are per¬
mitted the jewels and gold denied to men s uae.
A woman may adorn herself richly in order to
keep the favour of her husband and thus ensure
a large progeny to Islam, but a man may only
make use of the precious metals for the decoration
lOWiw*/ PfT ftp
■'TEACH INC THE FAQROON FAMILY THE USE OF FIELD-GLASSES ”: MEMBERS OF A FIGHTING CLAN AT BUSEIMA
"At Buaetma,” writes Mrs. Forbes, “we encountered the Faqroon, a lawless family which habitually attacked caravans, but ■■
ever-awed them. . The population wa* hostile . . but when we had given a feast to the natives. I was allowed to explore
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 4 , 1921.—757
WHERE MEN ARE VEILED AND WOMEN STRICTLY SECLUDED: KUFARA TYPES.
Photographs Supplied by Mrs. Rosita Forbes.
In the group of six oases which bears the general name of Kufara, Mrs. Forbes
found that the population consisted of about 3000 Zouia Arabs and 300 Tebus.
Their dress is a great contrast. The Zouia wear long white jerds, with scarlet
or yellow boots ; the Tebus are clad only in sheepskins, with the woolly side
inward, and their women have date-stones fixed through a bole in the nostrils.
There is a Tebu village of grass houses outside Jof, the commercial town of
Kufara, and many ruins of Tebu dwellings and forts are dotted about the oasis.
As Mrs. Forbes mentions in her article on another page describing Arab life, the
women of Libya are kept in strict seclusion. But “ in one direction the
stem Senussi code is lenient to women, for to them are permitted the jewels and
gold denied to men’s use. A woman may adorn herself richly in order to keep
the favour of her husband and thus ensure a large progeny to Islam, but a man
may only make use of the precious metals for the decoration of his sword-hilt,
since his weapon is ever ready for a holy war.”
-THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS, June
4 , 1021 .
GREETED BY THE WHOLE MALE POPULATION: \ KAIN
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HONOURED BY THE KILLING OF SHEEP: ROSITA FORBES AND AHMED BEY
TO BE “SERRIED RANKS OF TRl
m their starting ^ U*
When they arrived at Jalo, on the borders of the Cyrenaican plateau and the Libyan desert, Mrs. Forbes and her party had travelled 200 miles ^ p te th« • 0 the,
Benghazi. Wishing to honour the guests of his prince, Sidi Idriss, Chief of the Senussi, the Kaimacaan of Jalo had called out the whole male popu a
the welcome generally reserved for native royalty. Sheep were killed in their honour, a house was lent them, and every kind of gift was pressed upo house* of ® ^
the drawing follow the description given by Mrs. Forbes in her article on another page. “ Once we, as guests of the Sayeds, received as royal a welcom ^ng the r°*^
one of the villages of Jalo, stand on a low hill, and when we approached it at sunset there appeared to be an immense long white wall stretching ng
i
*ho it
Aha<d
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4, 1921 —
%
*. AIM AC A AN’S ROYAL WELCOME TO ROSITA FORBES.
'""'‘VjUPPLIHD BV MKS. ROSITA FoRBES.
ARRIVING AT JALO-APPROACHING THE “LONG WHITE WALL” WHICH PROVED
N THEIR CLEANEST WHITE JERDS.
Ik'
the last building to the edge of the nearest palm grove. As we drew nearer, the whole wall suddenly rose higher, and we realised that it consisted of serried ranks of tribesmen
*'in their cleanest white jerds, ranged in military precision, row behind row. The wall did not break even when we came up to it, and the Kaimacaan stepped out to receive us
• and initiate us into the hospitable custom which killed sheep in our honour, and afterwards asked us to select gory fragments unknown to English dinner tables.” Mrs. Forbes,
* who is the right-hand figure of the two in the centre, bore during her travels the Moslem name of Sitt Khadija. The left-hand figure, walking before her. is her fellow-traveller.
^ Ahmed Bey Hassanein. The full story of Mrs. Forbes’s adventures in Libya will appear in “Cassell’s Magazine.”— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United States and Canada .1
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NE WS. Jun e 4, 1 921 —760
GUESTS OF THE SENUSSI
{CentiHUtJ fmm /Jgt 7}*).
of his sword - hilt,
since his weapon is
ever ready for a
holy war.
One rather
quaint marriage
custom prevails
among some of the
Libyan Bedouins.
The bride-to-be is
mounted upon the
swiftest camel of
the tribe, and
the bridegroom is
obliged to catch
her within a cer¬
tain time. If,
however, there is
any danger of her
outriding him alto¬
gether, most of the
young men join
in the pursuit. To
marry the daugh¬
ter of a Bedouin
sheikh the suitor must pay anything between
ten and forty camels, but among the Senussi
Ekhwan, whose creed entails equality, brother¬
hood and simplicity, twenty five mejidies (rather
less than £ 4 ) will cover the whole cost of a
wedding.
Religion is the keynote of Libya, and one may
study Islam at its best among these fervent desert
ascetics. In olden days, the head of the con¬
fraternity used to veil his face as too holy to be
looked upon by humanity, and to this day its
leaders set an example of austere self-denial to
which it would be difficult to find an equal in
Europe. ^
Sayed Rida, for instance, is devoted to operatic
music, but since the veneration of his Order
considers him beyond the need of any such
relaxation, he contents himself by occasionally
playing “ Samson and Delilah ” on the gramo¬
phone at midnight when Jedabia is asleep. “ We
may not see dancing or hear songs,” he once said
to me, " yet I love music—the sad tunes best—
but our people would not understand. We must
not go out much either, and I like travel.” Per¬
haps they are recompensed, these Senussi Sayeds,
when they do make a journey to Jalo or Jaghbub,
for the men of every village come out to meet
them, slaughtering sheep in their path, touch the
hem of their garments to their eyes and their
foreheads, while the Bedouins still fling them¬
selves in the dust to kiss the footprints of their
rulers.
Once we, as guests of the Sayeds, received as
royal a welcome. The houses of El Erg, one of
the villages of Jalo, stand on a low hill, and, when
we approached it at sunset, there appeared to be
an immense long white wall stretching right along
the road from the last building to the edge of the
nearest palm grove. As we drew nearer, the whole
wall suddenly rose higher, and we realised that
it consisted 0 f
serried ranks of
tribesmen in their
cleanest white jerds,
ranged in military
precision, row be¬
hind row. Tb e
wall did not break
even when we came
up to it, and the
Kairaacaan stepped
out to receive us
and to initiate us
into the hospit¬
able custom which
killed sheep in our
honour, and after¬
wards asked us to
select gory frag¬
ments unknown to
English dinner
tables.
I said that re¬
ligion is the key¬
note of Libya, but
though the Bedouin
bows himself in
prayer five times a day, however tired or hungry
or thirsty he may be, though he would mas¬
sacre the infidel to keep his land untouched
and his faith undimmed, he is not above a
few interesting superstitions. He believes in
Djinns, and talks of the Hawaish Mountains near
Kufara as being haunted by these mysterious
creatures, much as we say that Regent’s Park
is full of grey squirrels.
A gift of green makes a journey lucky.
When a traveller comes to a well at the begin¬
ning of a route to be traversed for the first
time, he must slaughter an animal or he will
meet with misfortune. To our having omitted
to do this at Bir Buttafal, the whole retinue
attributed the disasters of our Taiserbo journey
and our narrow escape from death by thirst.
If a woman wishes to keep the love of her
husband during his absence, she sets an empty
jar on the roof so that it catches the wind, and as
long as sound throbs in it, so throbs the heart of
her lord for her.
In Libya there is one final resort for every
ill—Sidi Idriss. If a camel be ill,,and the usual
remedies fail, its owner sits down with the
utmost calm and calls upon “ the influence of
Idriss.” When my camel hearly fell down a
steep dune the Bedouins made no attempt to
stop it. They merely called on the name of
every Sayed living and dead. They swear
by ” the truth of Idriss," or “ May I never see
my Zawia again if I do not . . The philo¬
sopher begins to wonder, it being true that unity
is the first national necessity, whether Libya
may not still weave her thread into the tangled
web the principle of " self-determination" is
making of North Africa. Rosita Forbes.
The full story of the adventures of Mrs. Forbes io
Libya is to be published in CasselTs Magaxvu.
WHERE MRS. FORBES WAS GREETED WITH THE
WORDS—“WE CARRY YOU ON OUR HEADS": AN
OIL-CARRIER AT AUJILA.
When Mrs. Forbes arrived at Aujila (on the way to Jalo)
and produced her credentials, the sheikhs recited the formula.
“ We carry you on our heads, for you are the guests of the
Sayed." at the same time putting the letters to their lips
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LADIES’ NEWS.
-THE great Flower Show of the Koyal Horticult^al
T iodety suffered nothing through the coal cm.^
i u a Kirn? tell Lord Lambourne that it was
I heard the King d hi Majesty
«h» ^ The Queen anTwncesi Mary' did
° U f h, uS Tspeat » Q eTe» their delight; their
“ M s^ke for^hem. Of course, they did say how
-h\C riz:z
"ghf but eo was everything, and the S«>»pi"8J*^" d
Xa.se Never had I seen so many orchids together.
Experts^were excited over two new ones-one rose-
colour, and one white Z^Z'r.
hole which must have been presented by a grower,
for his Royal Highness does not affect button-holes
X Je Sir (Lrge Holford. after he had been
round the show with the Duke of Connaught an
the Duke of York, went off to examine the orclud
growers’ exhibits. Lady Holford did not accompany
him Sir Jeremiah Colman. another great orchid
lover—whose show was, as usual, superb and took a
gold medal—did tear himself away from his favourites
and gave attention to other less exotic blooms. Lady
Colman showed barely a bowing acquaintance with the
magnificent display from Gatton Hall. The Duke an
Duchess of Wellington, great garden lovers, were for
over two hours at the show the first morning. The
Marquess of Lansdowne, leaning on his wifes arm,
was delighted with the lovely blooms. The Dowager
Marchioness of Tweeddale expatiated on the per¬
fection of some opening buds of an Ophelia rose ; and
a whole crowd of people clustered round the mag¬
nificent exhibit of Allwood carnations, the hardy as
well as the house varieties. That the exhibits arrived
by motor transport was all to the good for their
freshness and beauty.
Mrs. Tennant, who had herself planted and
arranged a herbaceous border of ordinary flowers such
as bloom in any garden, was presented to their
Majesties, and made a tour of the show in the royal
entourage. The Hon. William Ormsby Gore, with his
handsome wife, .Lady Beatrice, went about note book
in hand looking up requirements for their garden.
Viscountess Northcliffe was on business bent, with her
gardener in close attendance. Nothing was guarded
in cages at the show. The strawberries hanging npe
from their vines were, to my mind, much more tempt¬
ing than the pollen from the rarest orchid. I should
have known what to do with the former, and the latter
ILLUSTRATED LONDO N NEWS. June 4 . 1»21
would only have served to powder my nose The
Duke of Somerset, in a summer suit of light & Y
tweed and a jaunty looking light grey hat looked less
Z “ a venerable Peer,” as I saw him described at
to wedge in
between his
Manchesi. r.
great flown
i beauty and
It was, ol
see a Show,
was another
A BLACK EVENING DRESS.
The sparkle of crystals and the shimmer of paillettes are
enhanced by the subtle veiling and long trails of tulle.
Photograph by Shtpstoru.
the Opening of Parliament, than a boyish-looking man
in robust middle life. His Duchess was in dark-blue and
white foulard. Lord Lambourne wore the very largest
red carnation in his button-hole I have ever seen.
The Crown Prince of Japan managed
a two hours’ visit to the Flower Show
arrival from Scotland and his start to
His Imperial Highness, is, I am told, a
worshipper, and his astonishment at the
the variety of our flowers was great,
course, a unique opportunity for him to
Lady Wilson, wife of our Chief of Staff,
lady busy with her gardener.
The engagement of Lady Morvyth Ward, the
Earl of Dudley's second daughter, to Captain C. E.
Benson, D.S.O., is an interesting one, each of the
engaged pair having many friends Lady Moryvth
is a handsome girl, and much more devoted to the
country and open-air games and sport6 than to the
social round in London. She is a successful salmon
and trout angler and has killed some fine fish. She
is also quite efficient with a rifle or gun, and spends
some weeks each autumn in the Highlands with her
father and sisters. She is the second of Lord Dudley’s
large family to marry. Lord Ednam, her eldest
brother, married the Duke of Sutherland's only sister,
and they have a son, now in his second year, who is
a godson of the Prince of Wales. The bride-elect's
twin brothers are about fifteen, and 6he has another
brother in his twenty-first year. Two sisters com
plete the family ; the youngest is a god daughter of
Queen Alexandra and of the Duke of Connaught.
King Edward and King George were respectively
godfathers to the twins, and Lady Honor, the bride’s
elder sister, had King Edward as her sponsor No
other family, I think, boasts such an array of royal
god-parents. Captain Benson is the third son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robert Benson, brother of Lady
Wake and nephew : of Sir George Holford, and of
the Dowager Countess Grey. He served in Gallipoh,
and was wounded and mentioned in despatches and
won the D.S.O. Since then he has served asA.D.C.
to Sir George Lloyd in India, and has not been very
long home. He has retired from the Grenadier
Guards. The wedding will, I believe, take place in
the autumn.
The country is looking its loveliest and its charms
are being greatly enjoyed. Motor care of alll sorts
and sizes are the means of exploring it, and Kodak
cameras are the methods of chronicling it. and of keep¬
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on horseback or on foot, always a Kodak is the
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the road, and to keep them green in one^s own
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
THE CONTROL OF DISEASE AMONG CHILDREN.
T WO opposing laws,” said Pasteur, at the opening
of his famous Institute in Paris, “seem to¬
day to be in conflict ... One puts one human
life above all victories ; the other sacrifices hundreds
of thousands of existences to the ambition of a single
man.” And he went on to declare that the anti¬
septic dressings devised in accordance with his
theories might save the lives of thousands of soldiers.
How true this was the late war has shown, when
tetanus, gas gangrene, and other horrible complica¬
tions arising from wounds inflicted in war between
civilised peoples were grappled with effectively
INCLUDING ONE IN GOAT-SKINS: CORNISH TENANTS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES
AT LAUNCESTON, WITH RENT IN THE FORM OF GREYHOUNDS, SPURS, CUMMIN.
A SALMON SPEAR, FAGGOTS, AND A ROSE.
A picturesque mediaeval ceremony was revived at Launceston on May 25, when the Prince of
Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, received from his tenants outside the ancient Castle gifts in kind
representing “rents, customs, and services” for various manors and holdings. The above photograph
shows, from left to right. Sir Hugh St. Aubyn, with a brace of greyhounds; Sir Trehawke H.
Kekewich with gilt spurs; Captain Stanhope Rodd with a pound of cummin in a silver dish;
Mr. Edmund Lyne (aged 90) with a salmon spear and bundle of faggots; Mr. B. Hutchings, clad,
as prescribed, “ within a goat-skin mantle,” and Mrs. Christine Marguerite Saunders with a pink
rose. On receiving the dues, the Prince gave each tenant a white rod, confirming them in
possession. The Town Clerk of Launceston (Mr. C. H. Peter), as Bayliff, read the proclamation
summoning the tenants .—[Photograph by C.JV.J
almost as soon as they appeared. Yet this, valuable
as it was, is really nothing compared to the saving
of life which Pasteur’s other discoveries have made
possible. Epidemics, that before his day used to
rage through armies or among the civil population
like a destroying angel, are now met with and driven
back directly they can be diagnosed, and might be
stamped out altogether if preventive inoculation
could be more effectively enforced. As was said
the other day by a medical man of great distinc¬
tion, typhus’ typhoid, and small-pox are now
under perfect control (he might have said, except
in Russia) and of zymotic diseases only scarlet ,
fever holds out. Inoculation with serum of one j
kind or another has proved effective with them
all, and, if all tales be I
^ true, w r e are now within I
yk measurable distance of III
the time when the same \\
thing may be said of tt
tuberculosis. ^
This is the more a
subject for congratula¬
tion because it is the
saving of life at the
right end. Children are,
as the Psalmist has it, like
arrows in the hand of the
giant, and the life of the
young is, in the long run.
and taken in the lump, far
more valuable to the State
than that of the old. One
of the most terrible things
about diseases like typhoid
is that it attacks by pre¬
ference young and strong
men herded together in
camps and cantonments,
I and, as is well known,
until Pasteur’s discoveries
__ 4 / was often more fatal to
armies than the enemy.
THE PRINCE OF WALES go> too> with the scar let
OUNDS, SPURS, CUMMIN. fever which( ^ has been
ROSE. said, still evades treatment
lay 25, when the Prince of by serum or vaccine, and
ancient Castle gifts in kind i s not only a disease of
[dings. The above photograph childhood, but is specially
;reyhounds; Sir Trehawke H. fatal to children. Some
< cummm m a sdver dish; statistics that have lately
jots: Mr. B. Hutchings, clad, ,
luerite Saunders with a pink been published in Norway,
ite rod, confirming them in where it seems to be
ayliff, read the proclamation markedly prevalent, show
at.] that it exhibits no sign of
dying out, and that the younger the patient, the more
likely is a fatal termination. Fourteen per cent, of the
cases under one year when attacked die, as against
A BRACE OF GREYHOUNDS FOR THE MANOR OF
VERYAN: SIR HUGH MOLESWORTH ST. AUBYN REN-
DERING KNIGHTLY DUES TO THE PRINCE OF WALES
AS DUKE OF CORNWALL— [Photograph by C.N.]
from one to five per cent, of those during the next
four years, while after five the mortality sinks to two
per cent. This slaughter of the innocents prevents
the arrival at maturity of thousands of citizens, who
would not only be the parents of generations yet
unborn, but might turn out among them a few
benefactors of humanity as great as Pasteur himself.
Until some remedy is discovered, the only effec¬
tive treatment of diseases like scarlet fever seems
to be isolation ; and this, as the Norwegian men of
science say with reason, is very difficult to arrange
for under present conditions. Overcrowding in towns
has at least the benefit of making inspection and
notification easier, but in the country', or where the
population is sparse, the difficulties are enormously
increased. Moreover, the diagnosis of diseases like
scarlet fever in its first stages requires considerable
skill and experience ; and unless our homes are to
be chiefly given up to State espionage, we have to
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BUSK IX
TN THE glorious golden sunsets of Egypt— |r1
I intense blue of the Mediterranean—in the wild
i medley of colour in the bazaars is expressed an
emotion that neither tongue nor pen can describe.
IT IS just colour, wonderful colour, but it goes to the
heart and lifts the soul to a joyousness delightful in its
serenity. Colour is love. Colour is bate. Colour is
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trust chiefly to voluntary notification. How many THE PLAYHOUSES,
mothers, whether in cottages or farmhouses, would
send for the medical officer of the State directly her
year-old baby developed a rash — and how many
would consent to the infant’s immediate transfer to
an “ institution," if the resulting diagnosis were
unfavourable ?
This is one of the problems which the new Ministry
of Health will have to tackle ; but in the meantime
there are other children's diseases which we have
come to look upon as inevitable, but which might
on better investigation turn out to be as controllable
as typhoid or small pox. As Professor A. V. Hill,
of Manchester University, has just asked in his
Inaugural Address, is it really in the nature of things
that all our children should go through a regular
course of whooping-cough, measles, and mumps ? This
subject probably only wants the application of the
patient investigation which made Pasteur’s discoveries
possible, and it is work which the new Ministry might
undertake without setting up any new and expensive
departments. Will they see to it ? F. L.
PRESENTED TO THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN BY SIR W. C. ARMSTRONG.
WHITWORTH AND CO.: A TEN-FOOT MODEL OF THE JAPANESE BATTLE-SHIP
" KASHIMA.” HIS ESCORT TO THIS COUNTRY.
While at Manchester on May 25, the Crown Prince of Japan visited the engineering works
of Sir W. C. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., at Openshaw. The managing-director, Sir
Glyn West, presented him with a finely finished model of the ** Kashima," which escorted
the Prince to this country, and recalled that the firm built the first war-ship for the Japanese
Navy, in 1882, and had since supplied it with threo battle-ships and eleven cruisers.
Photograph by Central Press.
“THE GIPSY PRINCESS.” AT THE PRINCE OF
WALES’S.
T HE convention of Viennese operette seems to have
undergone little change since the days of “ The
Merry Widow." The waltz remains the basis of its
musical score, and that score is largely made up
of passionate duets between lovers who leap over
obstacles of rank, quarrel as impetuously as they kiss,
and are reconciled after little storms of misunder¬
standing and defiance. Champagne helps to make
the sentiment hectic ; dancing—sometimes languorous,
sometimes fast and furious, keeps the atmosphere
electric; and amid a whirl of fancy dress, uniform,
and illuminated spectacle, there is just enough fun
to prevent the erotic scenes from being cloying. What
pleased in " The Merry Widow " still pleases in “ The
Gipsy Princess ” ; and though E. Kalman’s music
is far less ambitious than that of *' The Chocolate
Soldier." and is not so ingenious as other Viennese
scores in its concerted numbers,
- still there is plenty of haunting
melody, and it is agreeably and
skilfully orchestrated ; while the
dancing interludes are full of
vivacity, the humour is unforced,
and costumes and scenery have
claims to beauty as well as
opulence. It is enough to say
of the plot that it is concerned
with the love of a prince for
a cabaret girl. The Serbian
tenor, Mr. de Jari, has a good
voice, and shows abundance of
abandon in the part of the
prince. Abandon, unfortunately,
is just the one thing missing in
Miss Sari Petras’s gipsy heroine ;
she sings pleasantly, dresses
daintily, looks a picture, and
has both grace and distinction,
but never conveys the idea that
she has got hot blood in her
veins. Very welcome are the
W G ARMSTRONG. brief appearances of Miss Phyllis
WESE BATTLE-SHIP Titmuss ; so clever and piquant
rRY an actress, with so easy a style
tte engineering and *> attractive a stage pre-
maarging direeror. Sir deserves to have more
shima,” which escorted opportunities. The fun is quite
ir-ship for the Japanese safe in the hands of Mr. Mark
»nd eleven cruisers. Lester, a quiet but experi¬
enced comedian with a gift
for whistling, and Mr. Billy Leonard, who in a
“ siUy ass ” role is delightfully appealing; his dan¬
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SIR JAMES BARRIE IN PRODIGAL MOOD
The opening of the new theatre of the Academy of
Dramatic Art in Gower Street took place under most
A TRIBUTE TO WARWICKSHIRE HEROES: THE
UNVEILING OF DUNCHURCH AND THURLASTON
WAR MEMORIAL.
In the historic village of Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, on
May 15, the Dunchurch and Thurlaston War Memorial was
unveiled by Lady Waring, wife of Sir Samuel Waring, Lord of
the Manor, and dedicated by the Rev. C. T. B. McNulty,
formerly Vicar of Dunchurch. A very interesting address w»
given by Major-General Sir Frederick Poole, K.B.E.
Photograph by G. A. Dean, Rugby.
auspicious conditions. The Prince of Wales conducted
the inaugural ceremony with one of his happiest
speeches, and a wonderful " all-star" cast gave a
performance of a first act of a new Barrie play which
went counter to all the traditions of such occasions,
being perfect in its ensemble. Everybody recognises
that Sir James Barrie is a magician, but here he was
veritably prodigal with his magic. On this first
act of '* Shall We Join the Ladies ? " which he will
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as to technique, all the wit, and sense of drama
that we expect of him at his best. In this dinner¬
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PROBLEM No. 3860.—Bv A. M. Sfari
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 4 , 1921.—770
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
Next Year’s The re & ulat *ons for the Inter-
Road Races national Tourist Trophy car race
and for the International “ Fif¬
teen Hundred ” Trophy car race, to be organised by
the R.A.C. next year, have now been issued. The
probable dates of the races are announced as June 20
and 22, 1922. They are to be open to cars manu¬
factured in countries represented in the International
Association of Recognised Automobile
Clubs, which still, presumably, in- ■ ■ --
eludes the automobile clubs of late
enemy countries.
The distance of the Tourist Trophy
race will be about 300 miles, and of
the “ Fifteen Hundred ” race about
250 miles. In the first the engines
of competing cars must not have less
than four working cylinders, and a
cylinder capacity of not less than
2500, nor more than 3000 cubic centi¬
metres. The minimum weight must
be 1600 lb., including everything but
the driver and mechanic. For the
" Fifteen Hundred ” race, engines
must also have at least four work¬
ing cylinders, the capacity of which _ |b'. _
must not exceed 1500 c.c., while the
minimum weight of the car, ready for
the race with the exception of driver
and mechanic, is to be 1000 lb. The
following regulations apply to both
races: The cars must have four
wheels ; the body is not restricted as
to shape ; a fuel tank or tanks of any
size may be carried, and only liquid
fuel, which includes, inter alia, petrol
and benzol, may be used, no aids to
combustion being allowed. There will
be only one replenishment and re- 1 -
placement depot on the course; and ROLLS-ROYCE
no spares, oil, fuel, or water may be fiY THE GR(
taken up at any part of the course
other than at this one point. The
entry list will be open at the R.A.C. on July 1 next.
I am told that already two prominent firms have
announced that they will enter three cars each—three
being the maximum number allowed to any one
entrant.
To most people I imagine that the principal in¬
terest will centre upon the “ Fifteen Hundred ” race,
which is designed to give the popular “ tens " and
“ eleven-point-nines ” an opportunity of showing
what they can do in the matter of speed. In this
connection I should be willing to take odds that
the small car race will not be run at any slower speed
than that for the Tourist Trophy, if the races are
held on the Isle of Man circuit, as seems most
probable.
D Many old-time motorists are ag-
Numbe r r * rieved by the altered registra '
tion regulations, which insist that
a new car shall be registered in the area in which its
111 m !f
ROLLS-ROYCE CARS FOR AN INDIAN PRINCE: THREE OF THE FOUR (WITH BODYWORK
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uly i next. owner resides. This means that when a new car is through dr
firms have purchased, the number from the old one, which may ing, with 1
each—three be a cherished possession, cannot be transferred to cubicles wil
to any one the new vehicle. I know what this means to those a repair she
who began motoring early and were fortunate to for paid dri
principal in- secure certain very low numbers, and I fully sym- The idea
dred ” race, pathise with the grievance. I myself was once the location pre
‘ tens " and happy possessor of the number " P.S. 1," which I There is a g
of showing prized greatly. It was transferred to several cars, in London, 1
but, finally, when I sold the last car on which 1
used it, the purchaser made it a condition that
the number should go with the car. I felt so
badly about it that I nearly refused to sell ! The
question of altering the regulations to permit of
transfer ought to be a fairly simple one if the
Ministry of Transport is inclined to change them
on purely sentimental grounds. Knowing something
about the ways of this Department, I should say
there is very little hope of alteration.
- A Good Nowadays, when
Electric Horn. * here 18 80 much
heavy traffic on
the roads, an electric horn is really
an essential part of the car’s equip¬
ment. The worst of this type of
warning signal is that, as a rule, it
possesses an offensive, raucous note
which is calculated to rouse the mo6t
peaceable citizen to fury. I have
on my car an electric horn which
avoids this objectionable character¬
istic. It is known as the “ Graham,”
and while the sound is penetrating
enough, it is not offensive. The in¬
strument itself is well made and has
the desirable quality of taking a small
amount of current to operate it. It
is the best device of the kind 0/
which I have had experience, and I
can recommend it with every con¬
fidence.
A Huge Garage ? is <“
for London. ( ° r «*
tion of an enor¬
mous garage on an island site in
HfeipL the Euston Road. If it materialises,
a nine-storey building, with accom¬
modation , for about 800 cars in
■ separate lock-up cubicles, will be
l BODYWORK erected. Every cubicle is to have its
NAWAB OF 0wn draina S e ' water-supply, bench,
lockers, and exhaust-fumes disperser.
Provision is made for a straight-
through drive from front to back of the build¬
ing, with four lifts to corridors on to which the
cubicles will open ; while at one end there is to be
a repair shop, vulcanising shop, and accommodation
for paid drivers.
The idea is good, but it seems very doubtful if the
location proposed is quite as suitable as might be.
There is a great need for more garage accommodation
in London, but it is wanted in the centre of the West
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End more than anywhere. At present, it is a matter
of extreme difficulty to find any place to leave a car
when dining in town or visiting a theatre, but I am
afraid the Euston Road will not help over much. It
would be almost as easy to take a taxi from home
and another back as to drive from outer London up
to Euston, take a taxi from there, and then have to
return to get the car after leaving the theatre. I
wonder why somebody has not built a big garage on
the site of the Id Hippodrome 6tables. There is a
situation which is worth while. I have no idea what
The Nationality
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Morris Car.
is being done with these buildings, but in any
case there is a lot of small property just about
there which could well be replaced by something
really useful.
A statement to the effect
that Morris-Oxford and Morris-
Cowley cars are American
types, has been circulated
somewhat freely of late amongst the buying pub¬
lic, and several letters desiring information on the
subject have been received at the-d/owley Works
of Messrs. Morris Motors, Ltd.,
who desire us to state that both
Morris-Oxford and Morris-Cowley
models are manufactured wholly
and entirely in this country, and
that the material used is entirely
British. The sale of the Morris
car at the present moment aver¬
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demand shows signs of increasing
rather than diminishing.
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having regard to the current prices
of crude oil and the favourable
exchange movements, the reduc¬
tion ought to have been at least
double that announced. W. W.
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from this station to the Eiger Glacier. The Jungfrau is 13,669 feet high.
Photograph by Wehrli KUchberg-Zurich.
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Escartin, Count of Llzarrago, who opened the Exhibition.
Photograph by Gamissans, Barcelona.
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responsible for its tactical success at Cambrai. His army held the line north
of the Somme in March 1918, and he participated in the big successes of the
summer, which ended in the Armistice. In August 1919, Sir Julian Byng
resigned his commission and became Chairman of the United Serrices Fund.
He was created G.C.B. and raised to the Peerage as Baron Byng of Vimy and
Thorpe-le-Soken, receiving the thanks of Parliament and a grant of £30,000.
Lord Byng married in 190 a Marie Evelyn, only child of the Hon. Sir Richard Charles
Moreton, K.C.V.O. He is the seventh son of the second Earl of Straflord.
1 eral Lord Byng, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., will succeed
K.G., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., as Governor-General and
Dominion of Canada, was made on Saturday, June 4.
the greatest satisfaction in Canada, as Lord Byng
^orps in France after his return from Gallipoli. He
and shared the merit of the Canadian achievements
, and in the storming of Vimy Ridge in 1917. He
I Allen by in command of the Third Army, and was
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921.—774
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
T HE relations of England with America are
occupying many conscientious minds at
present, but the difficulty seems to me rather
diliercnt from those commonly discussed. The
first difficulty is, I thinjc, that neither England
nor America is really accustomed to having any
relations with anybody. That is what was meant
by the splendid isolation of England, or the natural
neutrality of America. Perhaps this is the one
respect in which the two great peoples really are
alike. The two are said to resemble each other in
all sorts of things in which they do not resemble
each other in the least. The American and the
Englishman are said to be both democrats, which
is far too high a compliment; they are said to be
both Anglo-Saxons, which is far too harsh a con¬
demnation. But what is really
true both of the average Eng¬
lishman and the average Ameri¬
can is that neither of them is,
in the true sense, enough of a
man of the world. They have
not been near enough to the
central controversies of civilisa¬
tion. The foreign policy of
America was confined to a single
doctrine—the Monroe Doctrine.
The foreign policy of England
was confined to a single group—
a particular and more or less
patriotic sort of aristocrats.
The average man was provin¬
cial ; and he thought, as the
provincial always thinks, that
he is the pivot of the world.
Here is a remark I read
a moment ago, uttered by a
very worthy nobleman on his
favourite subject of Empire Day.
It is a phrase like a hundred
others, and it is the whole point
that it would probably pass un¬
noticed as a platitude. “ The
Great War was waged with the
sole object of destroying the
British Empire.” Now. as a
matter of fact, this leaves out
the whole meaning of the story,
which is to us a highly honour¬
able story. It is tolerably cer¬
tain, no doubt, that Prussian
insolence would eventually have
attacked the British Empire, as
it would eventually have at¬
tacked the United States. But
it is almost equally certain that
Prussia did on that occasion
count on the neutrality of the
British Empire, almost as much
as she counted on the neu¬
trality of the United States.
Prussia, so far from seeking
directly to drag down Britain
by the war,
keep Britain out of the war.
Nobody will forget the abrupt
and quite abnormal explosion
of anger and astonishment whiclv shook the pom¬
posity of the Prussian diplomatic pose, in that
dramatic scene which gave us the phrase about a
6crap of paper. It seems to me common-sense
that, if Prussia had the sole object of destroying
the British Empire, she would have confined
herself to the sole policy of attacking the British
Empire. She could surely have found some
colonial quarrel that was more likely to isolate
England than an attack on Serbia in the very
heart of Europe. It was hardly necessary, in
order to destroy the British Navy, to bring into
the field millions and millions of Slav enemies
from Riga to Montenegro. Surely even Germans
were not so stupid as to think that the French
Army would make no difference. They would
have tried to keep the other allies neutral, as
they did, in fact, try to keep us neutral. The war
was waged to make Prussia supreme in Europe—
a district of which it is well to remember the
existence, even upon Empire Day.
Now, I suppose there is a sort of patriot who
would Iw pleased if we said. " The Crusades were
inaugurated with the sole object of getting
Richard I. out of England, so that John might
pave the way for Magna Charta and the British
Constitution.” I suppose it would flatter some
people to write, " The Thirty Years’ War was
waged with the sole object of training Prince
Rupert and Sir David Leslie to prove the supreme
genius of Cromwell.” I suppose there are fashion¬
able historians who might tell us, " The French
Revolution was impelled by the sole motive of
enabling the Duke of Wellington and Bill Adams
to win the Battle of Waterloo.” But I do not
think these are very practical patriots or very
reliable historians. And ju6t as England got more
than enough glory out of the Crusades in the fact
that Richard of England was one of the most
glorious of Crusaders, and more than enough glory
out of the French revolutionary wars in what was
really done by the ships at Trafalgar or the squares
at Waterloo, so I think England has got more
than enough glory to satisfy any Englishman out
of the war which she entered to vindicate her own
plighted word and just interests after the invasion
of Belgium.
It is not necessary to prove that every¬
thing happening in the world has its origin in
this island, any more than it is necessary in the
other cases to profess that England invented
Christianity or founded the first pagan republic of
antiquity. And a study of those old republics,
and even of that old religion, will leave anyone
with the suspicion that a good many other things
were involved in the Great War which had nothing
to do with the English imperial position, and are
even ignored to a great extent by the English
intellectual attitude. Such a student will come on
the traces of all sorts of other trifles, such as
the Roman Empire, the Byzantine civilisation,
the civic memories of the Mediterranean, or the
chivalric nationalism represented by Joan of Arc.
Many of these forces had been fighting the bar¬
barians for some time before we fought them, or,
perhaps, had any reason to fight them. It,was
against these things that Prussia had for some
time been dealing damaging blows, and was now
prepared to deal a death-blow. And I think the
truth worth noting just now, if only because it
may temper one particular type of arrogance that
menaces our understanding with America. If
there are really any Americans who go about
saying that they alone *' won the war," I am
content to leave such idiots to say what they like.
But there is a more subtle sort of idiocy on the
other side, which is equally bad history—and,
perhaps, equally bad manners.
Some Englishmen were fond
of saying that America was
three years late in joining the
struggle against Prussia. I
wonder how many years late
England was in joining the
same just and necessary strug¬
gle. If England had resisted
Prussia just before Sedan, or
even just after Sedan, there
would probably have been no
Great War. If England had
resisted Prussia before Sadowa,
or even after Sadowa, there
would probably have been no
Sedan. If England had resisted
Prussia in the disgraceful affair
of the Danish provinces, there
would have been no Sadowa,
and no alliance of the two huge
Central Empires to overshadow
the world. If England and
everybody else had protested
against the partition of Poland,
there would probably have been
no Prussia. There would have
been no Prussianism, no pessi¬
mism, no militarism, no crush¬
ing load of debt and conscrip¬
tion, no panic of increasing
armaments. A real League of
Nations might have come long
before its time, when liberal
ideas really ruled the mind of
Europe. But if we did not
understand the problem of
Prussia, it was not because we
ourselves were Prussian, any
more than the Americans were
Prussian. It was because we
did not know anything about
Europe, any more than the
Americans knew anything about
Europe. Mr. Gladstone was not
a pro - German in 1870, any
more than Mr. Wilson was a
pro - German in 1914. They
were simply men who did not
know what was happening;
and most of their countrymen
did not know either. All we
can say is that England woke up before it was
too late, and America woke up before it was
too late ; and once having woken up, they bot
proceeded to show, under the most hornbe
strain in history, mental, moral, and military
qualities which proved they were exceeding y
wide awake.
Another reason may perhaps be added for
avoiding that style of mentioning the Great War,
as if it had been solely due to the greatness 0
Great Britain. It was the systematic style of
German propaganda. It was the Prussians w 0
longed and laboured to prove that it was only a
duel between our Empire and theirs. They 1 ha
two very obvious motives. First, it buttressed up
their own barbarous fad about all force commg
from the Teutonic race, so that the only rea
rivalry was between two giants supposed to
of their own blood. And second, it tended «>
wash away the memory of all the murders an
treacheries they had committed against the ot r
Christian nations, and against the eternal con
science of Christendom.
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did her best to
It was arranged that the first Parliament of Northern Ireland should be opened in Belfast on June 7,
and that Sir James Craig, as Leader of the House, should be requested to form a Government. The
election of the Hon. Hugh O'Neill. M.P., as Speaker, was expected to be unanimous.-Miss Kathleen
Alexanders Wright, an art student at Trinity College, Dublin, daughter of the Rev. E. A. Wright,
Vicar of All Saints, Brixton Hill. London, was shot dead at a cricket match at Trinity College Park,
Dublin, on June 3. It was believed that the shots were fired through the railings. She was twenty-
one, and engaged to be married.-Mr. Will Crooks, the late Labour Member for Woolwich, who recently
retired owing to illness, died in Poplar Hospital on June 5. He was universally esteemed and respected.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 11 . 1921.—775
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Photographs by Sport and General, Alfieri, C.N., Photopress, Farringdon Photo Co., and Topical.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO PLAISTOW: (L. TO R-, IN CENTRE) THE MAYOR OF WEST «MERRIE ENGLAND ** IN HYDE PARK: A LEAGUE OF ARTS OPEN-AIR
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DONOGHUE OFF TO PARIS BY AEROPLANE.
WINNER OF THE " CALCUTTA SWEEP,” AND THE FRIEND
WHO SOLD THE TICKET : CAPT. JONES (L.) AND MR. HUSSEY.
THE FIRST BRITISH TROOPS TO MARCH THROUGH AN UPPER SILESIAN TOWN :
THE ARRIVAL OF OUR FORCES AT OPPELN.
The King and Queen visited on June 4 the. Y.M.C.A.’s new Red Triangle Club
established in Greengate Street, Plaistow, as a war memorial. Their Majesties
were admitted to a trade union meeting.-The first of a series of Saturday
open-air entertainments organised by the League of Arts took place in Hyde
Park on June 4, a performance of Edward German’s opera, “ Merrie England,
by members of the Northern Polytechnic. It was arranged to give “ The Blue
Bird ” on June is, and on the next occasion Purcell’s “ Masque of Diocletian.”-—
Steve Donoghue, the jockey who rode Humorist, the Derby winner, flew to Paris
on June 4 from the Croydon aerodrome, by the Instone Air Liner “ City of
Newcastle,” to take part in the Sunday races and return by air that evening.-
SCOTTISH BAG-PIPES IN UPPER SILESIA: PIPERS PLAYING AS THE BLACK WATCH
ENTERED THEIR BARRACKS AT OPPELN ON THEIR ARRIVAL.
The authorised costume for women students at Oxford when attending examinations
includes white blouse, black tie, skirt and coat of “subfusc hue,” and black-
and-white parasol.-Capt. T. Alban Jones, D.S.O., an official of the Union
Castle Line, won the £69,000 Calcutta Sweepstake bn the Derby with a 14s. ticket
bought from his friend, Mr. J. A. Hussey.-The British troops sent to Upper
Silesia comprised one battalion each of the Black Watch, Middlesex Regiment,
Durham Light Infantry, Royal Irish Regiment, Connaught Rangers, and Leinster
Regiment. The advance party from the Rhine reached Oppeln on May 26, the
bulk of the force following later. General Heneker arrived to take over the
command of the British troops on June 2.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 11, 1921.—776
OPENED BY THE KING, WITH A GOLDEN KEY: NEW SOUTHWARK BRIDGE
Photographs hv C.N. and Ckntkai. Akrophoto Co., Ltd.
The King and Queen on June 6 dtoye to the City, where his Majesty opened
the new Southwark Bridge, built, without expense to the ratepayers, at a cost
of £375,00°, out of the trust tunds managed by the Bridge House Estates
Committee of the Corporation. The architects were Messrs. Sir Ernest George,
R.A., and Yeates. The work was begun in 1913, but was interrupted in 1917
owing to the war. The new bridge, which has five arches, is 55 feet wide.
For the opening ceremony a pavilion of amber and purple had been erected
at the northern end. Replying to an Address, the King spoke of the bridge
as “ not only a contribution of high value towards the solution of the traffic
problem, but also a noteworthy addition to. the architectural features of th«
City. Our ancestors,” he said, “for many centuries could rest content with one
bridge, because they regarded the river, not as a barrier, but as the main
highway of the City.” His Majesty then opened a mahogany box with *
golden key, and the action immediately raised the twin arms of * barrier.
The King and Queen drove across the bridge, and after receiving Addresses in
Southwark, returned to Buckingham Palace by way of the Borough and West¬
minster Bridge, heartily welcomed by the people all along the route. By the
King's own wish Southwark Bridge retains its old name.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921. _ 777
WHERE ONE-THIRD OF THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IS CONTROLLED: THE NEW OFFICES
OF THE PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY IN TRINITY SQUARE.
In designing the new offices of the Port of London Authority, in Trinity Square,
Mr. Edwin Cooper has added to London’s landmarks a splendid example of modem
architecture. A writer quoted in the “ Architect ” says : “ This is one of the
few buildings on a really grand scale that we hare seen in the present century.
The building is of Portland stone, and, briefly, its plan consists of a square, with
one angle, facing the river and seawards, truncated and forming the principal
facade, over which rises an immense composition of sculpture and masonry.”
The tbwer is pyramidal in form, finely proportioned, with a flat top. In the
Central niche above the portico stands a colossal figure of Neptune with the
trident, and at the sides of the tower are other groups of appropriate statuary
The Port of London comprises all the tidal portion of the river below Teddington
Lock, and in it is carried on one-third of the whole commerce of the United
Kingdom. The value of the port’s trade in 1919 was £819,875,330. The Port
of London Authority was established in 1909, and to it were transferred the
powers of the Thames Conservancy, as well as several dock companies. The
present Chairman is Viscount Devonport.
778— THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 11 .
A WEEK’S DOINGS: ULSTER’S PARLIAMENT; CANADA’S NEW
Photographs by Topical, Elliott and Ftv. r C s ^
WHERE the PARLIAMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND WAS
THE CITY HALL, BELFAST.
BISHOP OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY AND
REV. DR. A. A. DAVID, HEADMASTER
COMMANDER
FRY (HAMI
THE TEST MATCH :
P. MEAD (HANTS).
LIFE-SAVING AT SEA BY AIRCRAFT: AN INFLATED DETACHABLE
SLUNG BENEATH AN AEROPLANE—A DEMONSTRATION AT SWAB-
BRIGADE, WITH THE AID OF TROOPS
FACTORY IN DUBLIN ON FIRE.
SAVED BY THE DUBLIN FIRE
THE NATIONAL SHELL
The City Hall at Belfast was gaily beflagged for the opening of
the first Parliament of Northern Ireland, which took place there on June 7. The Rer. e ti
,ty J* l . Dei ‘7Jr 7 Ruirbv has°been appointed to succeed the late Dr. Hodgson as Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Dr. David was formerly_ Fir# broke
David, D.D., “ ™ portrait of Lady Byng on our front page, General Lord Byng is to succeed the Duke of Devonshire as Governor-General of na .
Clifton.— -A* stated ’ t L\anks of the Lifiey, near Ph«nix Park, on the evening of June 3, but was checked by the promptitude of thej.r ^ ^
out at the a o cficket team f or the second Test Match with Australia, beginning June n, includes six players who did not take part in ... ij
assisted by troops.- .
their portraits above.
-The English cricket team
The interesting photograph showing the Queen of Spain at a religious ceremony in Madrid has' only just readied us
with the laconic title. C * paU
Corpus en Palacio," and no further information. In English the title means : “Chapel of the Corpus (Christi) in the Palace.”-A patent safety raft (attached to an aeroplane),
invented by Mr. Austin, of Swansea, was successfully tested in Swansea Bay recently. It is’ inflatable and can be folded up and slung beneath the aircraft’s body, from which it
can be easily detached and dropped into the sea. It might be very useful in saving life from disabled ships (which an aeroplane could reach long before a lifeboat), or as a
means of escape from the aeroplane itself if it fell into the water.-Princess Mary went to Birmingham on June 6 for the first time, and attended a scenic fair in aid of a
nurses’ club, accompanied by Mrs. Austen Chamberlain. She also inspected Girl Guides, and visited an infant welfare centre, where she took a sympathetic interest in the
numerous mothers and babies who were present.
l'HE illustrated
LONDON NEWS, June 11 , 1921 —780
THE KING’S BIRTHDAY :
PHOTOGRAPHS
Ei.liott and Fry,
Portrait or
people prominent in the honours list.
Swaine. Rl’S-SELL, LAFAYETTE,
Sir Douglas Alexander from
Vaxdyk, Topical,
the Painting by
Hugh Ceciu and
A. T. Nowell.
Miles and Kaye.
MR. EDMUND H. VESTEY (BT.)
SIR MARCUS SAMUEL, BT.
(BARON).
Public and national services.
THE REV. ARTHUR C.
HEAD LAM (COMPANION
OF HONOUR).
Regius Professor of Divin¬
ity, Oxford.
SIR E. A. CORNWALL, BT. (PX.)
Deputy-Chairman of Wayi and
M.C0TTS(BT.)
| SIR JOHN M. FRASER (BT.) j
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^ SIR ARTHUR M. SUTHERLAND
1 Services in Devonshire House i
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! Fund and R.N.A.5. during war.
Shipowner, newspaper owner.
The Birthday Honours list includes • Marquisate for Earl Curzon of Kedleston ;
a Viscounty for Lord Birkenhead ; and Baronies for the Right Hon. Sir Henry
James Dalziel, Bt., for twenty-nine years M.P. for Kirkcaldy, and controller
of newspapers, including the “ Daily Chronicle ” ; Sir Ailwyn Fellowes ; and
Sir Marcus Samuel. Further, there were a Privy Councillor ; sixteen Baronets ;
three Companions of Honour, including Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Editor
of the “ British Weekly ” ; and forty-nine Knights Bachelor. To these^
be added the Irish List ; and appointments in the Order of the Bath, the ^
of India, the Royal Victorian Order, the Order of the British Empire, ^
Foreign Office List and the Colonial Office List. Sir William Cotts
the Utter. Sir Sydney Russell Wells is a well-known heart specialist
largely responsible for the University of Londo n ’s new degree in I
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11 , 1921 ._ 781
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AND RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES.
The continuance of the coal stoppage gave a great impetus to the development
of oil fuel for raising steam, both in stationary and locomotive engines. All the
important railway companies have taken up the subject. The Great Eastern has
fifty engines running on oil ; the Midland has converted 29 ; and the South
Western 6. The North Western has for some time past used oil on a main-line
engine, the “James Watt,” running between Euston and Glasgow. Other companies
following suit are the Great Northern, Great Central, Metropolitan, South-Eastern
and Chatham, North Eastern, and Highland. Oil is easier to store and handle
than coaL Oil fuel has also been adopted for electric railway and tramway
power houses. Works and factories which would otherwise have had to close
have been enabled to keep going on oil. One of many types of oil-burners is
illustrated above. In the lower drawing, part of the locomotive is cut away
diagrammatically to show the oil burning inside. The object in the centre is a
firebrick, fixed to guide the flame.— {Copyrighted in the United States, and Canada.]
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, June 11 . 1921.—782
art in the sale rooms
by ARTHUR HAYDEN.
painted at the period of his masterpiece. "The
Harvest Moon." now the property of the
nation. A portrait of " J- E* ° f
Drum, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, by
Raeburn, was another notable item. Five can¬
vases by Leader brought acclamation for that
popular painter, and eager eyes grew envious
at the passing of Cazin’s " A Sunny Morning
a Cazin where he finds poetry in greater
warmth than his usual mysterious tones of even¬
tide at that still, hushed moment just when the
sun has gone down.
Some choice old engravings in a two days'
sale on the 7th and 8th conducted by Messrs.
Sotheby saw fine connoisseurship in the col¬
lection of the late Henry William Bruton, of
Gloucester. The collection of mezzotints after
Rembrandt was considered to have few equals
for completeness, and consisted of some seventy
choice items. Superb proofs, and rare and early
states were in abundance by the finest exponents
of the burin in the eighteenth century. They
included " Regnier Hansloe and His Wife, by
Josiah Boydell; and John Dixon's Rembrandt’s
" Frame Maker ” (this from the Holland and
Theobald collections). James MacArdell had Rem¬
brandt’s " Mother Reading," and " Tobias and
the Angel." Pether’s remarkable " Rembrandt’s
Wife as a Jewish Bride ’’ and " The Jewish Rabbi "
were noticeable. Nc * " ’ ’ "
rarities and splendid
impressions. S. W.
Reynolds was re¬
presented by the
glorious mezzotint of
Rembrandt’s ‘ ’ Mill, ’'
and be it said that
not only one, but
two or three states,
all rare and each
finely illustrating
the progress of the
mezzotinter’s art,
were offered for the
delectation of con¬
noisseurs and for
the information of
students in the great
art of scraping cop¬
per in la maniire
anglaise, introduced
into England by
Prince Rupert and first expounded by John
Evelyn the diarist.
In the second day’s sale, Abraham Blooteling's
" James, Duke of Monmouth," after Sir Peter
Lely, won distinction, and a fine MacArdell por¬
trait, " Mary, Duchess of Ancaster,” after T.
Hudson, a brilliant proof before all letters, and
years will evince to
in America she has laid a
broad and strong Founda-
tion on which to erect the .
most beneficial and certain ' T
Commerce, with the greatness and \\
Stability of her Empire. The Glory
of Britain was never higher than at present."
This was in 1763. Shortly afterwards Franklin
changed these views, as history records. Sir Walter
Scott tells
David Wilkie,
who was about
to pay him a
visit in 1817,
" I assure you a
I have some
sub- fJ|
jects for you.”
We are. there-
the' novelist^
grows senti- 4 sandalled foot from tbu
mental “I EL amarna: a sculptors triai
* ' .. PIECE. WITH MASTERS CORKECTlOf
have halt a OF THB UTrI . E TO b in black ink
Mind to lay
by the Work for ever. A very little Induce
ment will make me resolve to do so. Ek
mFy \ / aN echo from
Cja A the past great
wars a century ago came
* to hand at Willis’s Rooms
, in a small ivory frigate
carved with original full-
L // ' rigging, only 7 in. long, a delightful
model made by the French prisoners
on the hulks at Portsea Harbour during the
Napoleonic Wars. It went for a bargain, just
nineteen guineas, a tiny poem from those im¬
prisoned spirits coming straight through a de¬
scendant of a warder to Colonel Onslow, grand¬
father of the late owner. Relics must have
indisputable ancestry, and this was of fine pedi¬
gree. Prisoners of war, but not brutally ill-treated,
these Frenchmen left touches of their artistry.
It is a tribute to our ancestors’ custody of these
grace when
the soul is
crushed out
of them.
At the same
sale, a little
writing - table
(3 ft. 6 in.)
with tam¬
bour cylinder,
fetched forty
guineas, and
ten wall panels
painted with
birds and
flowers sold
for ;£ioo. But
we preferred
the little
French fri¬
gate. Edmund
Bristow, an early nineteenth - century painter,
who only exhibited once at the British Gallery,
had a number of his animal subjects at Willis’s
Rooms. ” The Butcher Boy ’’ and " The
Wrecked Vegetable Stall" brought ^109, and
three others went for £50. His canvases are
at Windsor in the Royal Collection, as he
resided at Windsor and died at Eton. He is
beginning to attract attention in the sale-room.
At Christie’s on June 3, water-colour drawings
and modem pictures changed owners. A Peter
de Wint, " Falls of the West Lyn at Lynmouth,”
competed with a Birket Foster, " Arran and Bute."
and the latter won easily at 155 guineas. In
FROM THE AMHERST COLLECTION:
THE HEAD OF AKHENATEN ON A
LIMESTONE SLAB - AN EGYPTIAN
8 CULPTOR *8 TRIAL PIECE (ABOUT
1400 R.C.f
THE QUEEN'S MOUTH AND
NOSE: A FINE FRAGMENT
OF AKHENATEN ART FROM
TELL EL AMARNA.
the pictures, " The Black Mantilla," by Augustus before the inscription space was burnished
E. John, brought 32 guineas, and a pastoral," The clean, made an impression on buyers.
Woods," by Sargent, 140 guineas. One could
compare Ten Kate’s " A Council of War ” with
Edgar Bundy’s canvas of the same title. J.
Israels had " Waiting for the Boats,” and T.
Housseau " Vue sur la Plaine." Etty’s " The
QUEEN NEFER-TITl WORSHIPPING THE ATKN-RAYS.
PART OF A SCULPTURED LIMESTONE STELA FROM
THE “TEMPLE OF THE SUN” AT TELL EL AMARNA
(ABOUT 1400 B.C.I
All the object* illustrated on this and the facing pages are
from the Amherst Collection of Egyptian and Oriental
Antiquities, to be sold at Sotheby’s on June 13, 14. 15, 16,
and 17. We reproduce them by courtesy of Messrs Sotheby,
Wilkinson, and Hodge.
Model ” recalled his glorious nudes at the National
Gallery, London. Frank Brangwyn had a strong
subject, " The Tug Boat,” and that great genius,
Cecil G. Lawson, had a canvas. " In the Moonlight,"
Fine old English plate came up on the
8th at Christie's, the property of Lieutenant-
Colonel R. R. Crompton-Roberts, D.S.O. An
Elizabethan silver-gilt tazza, with bowl em¬
bossed and chased with portrait of a lady,
the border and stem and foot engraved with
fruit and strapwork on a matted ground, was
in date 1583, the maker’s mark being a snail,
of pre-Armada days, and just prior to Sir
Walter Raleigh’s first colony of Virginia.
Some early English spoons, apostle, maiden¬
head and seal-top, of the late sixteenth and
early seventeenth' centuries, completed a
notable dispersal.
A two days’ sale on the 9th and 10th by
Messrs. Sotheby included books, autograph
letters, and drawings by Rowlandson, from
the Bruton collection. Dickens was strongly
represented with one of the finest known
copies of the " Pickwick Papers " and some
rare Dickens pamphlets. Books illustrated
by Cruikshank, and a series of publications
by Thomas Bewick exhibiting that craftsman
in his supremest moments, books that in¬
spired Ruskin to write poetical rhapsodies
on the subtleties of his white line and the
rugged English strength of his technique in
comparison with the subtleties of Holbein.
Autographed letters always have a human
interest. A collection sold by Messrs. Puttick
and Simpson on the 2nd had some worthy
touches illuminating the biographical side of
history. There are Elizabethan sign manuals
relative to Sir John Perrot becoming Presi¬
dent in Munster, an Englishman to be Bishop,
of Cashel and Emly, and of the rebellion in
Connaught. There is a Benjamin Franklin
four-page letter, where he says : " Never did
England make a Peace more truly and sub¬
stantially advantageous to herself, as a few
EGYPTIAN ART OF THE I8TH
DYNA 8 TY: A BEAUTIFULLY
CARVED WOODEN STATU¬
ETTE OF A LADY <»J IN-
HIGH INCLUDING PEDE 8 TALI
FROM THE AMHERST COL¬
LECTION.
JTHER EXAMPLE °F
5 FINEST l*' M DYNASTY
fPTIAN ART: A WOODEN
TUETTE (» IN- H'OMJ
WHITE.
WITH FLYING GOOSE FIGUREHEAD, HAWK AT STERN, AND THE KING
AMIDSHIPS: A MODEL FUNERARY BOAT OF THOTHMES III. (1530 B.C.)—27 IN.
QUEEN AMENARDES (ETHIOPIAN PERIOD, C. 700 B.C.) IN GREEN BASALT (8) IN.
HIGH); (RIGHT) A KING, PERHAPS PSAMTEK I. (C. 666 B£.), 4 Dl. HIGH.
FROM THE SERAPEUM AT SAKKARA : A RARE MUMMY HEAD OF AN APIS BULL,
WITH INLAID EYE, WRAPPED IN LINEN^ 19 th DYNASTY (14th CENTURY B.C.)
(LEFT TO RIGHT) PTAH (C. 600 B.C.) ; SEKHET (C. 600 B.C.) ; AN ASIATIC (NEW
EMPIRE PERIOD) ; A CAT (PTOLEMAIC) ; OSIRIS-LUNUS (C. 900-800 B.C.)
STATUETTES, 15th AND 14th CENTURIES BJC. : (LEFT) A VIZIER (6| IN. HIGH)
(RIGHT) A 19th DYNASTY KING GRINDING CORN (7* IN. LONG).
The sale of the famous Amherst Collection of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities
begins at Sotheby’s on Monday, June 13, »*>d continues for five days. It was
formed by the late Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A., and his daughter, the late
Lady William Cedi, and preserved at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. They carried out
extensive excavations in the Nile Valley, notably at Tell el Amama (the aty
built by Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV.), the “ Heretic,” who transferred his capital
thither from Thebes about 1420 B.C.) and at Assuan. The above objects range
in date over thousands of years, from the model boat shown in the top left
photograph (ist-3rd Dynasties, c. 44<x> to 3900 B.C.), to the figure of a cat in
the lower right photograph dating from the Ptolemaic period (304 B.C.).
Thothmes III., whose funerary boat is illustrated, was an 18th Dynasty king, who
reigned about 1530-1500 B.C. • The 19th Dynasty began with Rameses I.,
about 1370 B.C. The Ethiopian domination, to which period Queen Amenardes
belonged, lasted from about 750 to 660 B.C. Thebes was then sacked by the
Assyrians and restored by Psamtek I. (c. 666 B.C.) the first King of the 26th
Dynasty. Amenhotep III. (c. 1455 B.C., 18th Dynasty), whose Vizier, Kha-em-hat,
is probably the left-hand figure in the lower left photograph, was the Memnon of
the Greeks. Ptah, husband of the goddess Sekhet, and Osiris were Egyptian gods.
784—THE ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921,
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A DIVERSION WHICH KING COAL RESTRICTED IN LONDON: A *
Danci^ in .hi, country ha, twen ra „ch r«h irte d, a. any .... a, regard, public ball, on the grand ecrUe, owing «o the economies in lighting »
Ma, uL C °h rr*- u Z r' ‘ 0rtU “ te ' “ d big ,h ~ « “ «*«. On, drawing iUustrates the first of four grand balb, »
o gnac, at t e Theatre des Champs-Elysees, on behalf of charities and redoration works at Rheirm. They began with the “ Noir e< t,
Drawn .v R-* I—'
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Junk 11, 1921.—785
AND WHITE" BALL IN PARIS. FOR THE RESTORATION OF RHEIMS.
'' and White), followed by the “ Coucher de Soleil ” (Sunset Glow), “ Clair-de-Lune ” (Moonlight), and “ Arc-en-Ciel ” (Rainbow). The lights and decorations were
j in keeping with the different titles, and in each case produced most brilliant and artistic effects. Among the institutions in Rheims to be helped is the
* , very deserving Red Cross anti - tuberculosis dispensary for invalided soldiers.
the United States and Canada.)
the illustrated
LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921.—786
democratic
royalty : QUEEN W1LHELMINA AND OUR PRINCE.
p„OTOC.RArHS «v Kkvstoxk V,«w Co. and L.N.A. _ ===========
THEIR ONLY CHILD,
THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND TOURING THE COUNTRY WITH PRINCE
PRINCESS JULIANA (PUNTING).
GOING AMONG HER PEOPLE BY BOAT
SMILING HIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AN EX-SOLDIER S SALUTE : THE PRINCE OF WALES LEAVING THE PADDOCK AT EPSOM,
WITH MR. SOLLY
Royal personages of to-day go about among their people with an absence of
ceremony which would have astonished some of their predecessors. It is the demo¬
cratic spirit, which helps enormously to create feelings of sympathy and goodwill
between rulers and ruled. It was King Edward especially who set the example
of genial mingling with his fellow men, so admirably followed by King George
and the Prince of Wales. Of the latter it might be said that he is “ equally
JOEL (ON THE LEFT). of M
at home with king or costermoriger, ” and, in particular, the friendliness-
soldier, whatever be the coat that wears it, is a sure passport o ^ j»y,
Our photograph shows an instance that occurred at Epsom on -
when spectators gathered to greet the Prince as he emerged from e t j, roU gb her
The upper photograph was taken during Queen Wilhelmina s ^ twelve-
dominions with her Consort Prince Henry and Princess Juliana, no
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 11. 1921.—787
THE AIR-PATROL AND ALL-ROAD DERBY: AN AERO VIEW.
Photograph bv Aekofilms, Ltd.
THE GREAT “ ROAD ” DERBY SCENE AT EPSOM PHOTOGRAPHED FROM AN AEROPLANE: A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE
COURSE, WITH THE GRAND STAND, WINNING POST, TATTENHAM CORNER, AND MOTOR “PARKS.”
The dominant feature of the scene at Epsom Downs on Derby Day this year
was the enormous number of motor-cars and other vehicles, caused by the fact
that practically everyone had to go by road owing to the effect of the coal
stoppage on the train services. In the above photograph, taken from the unusual
view-point of an aeroplane, the arrangements for parking the vehicles are clearly
visible. Long rows of them were drawn up to the right of the Grand Stand road.
Others were taken on to the downs at specially constructed crossings over the
course. The Grand Stand is seen in the right background, with the winning
post opposite, round which the crowd is very thick. Police are clearing the
course, and at certain points are the tracks by which pedestrians could cross.
Part of Tottenham Comer, round which the horses come into the straight for
the final struggle, is shown in the left foreground. This year one or two aero¬
planes, as well as the airship “ R 33, ” observed the road traffic and notified to
the police by wireless any points of special congestion.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11 . 1921.—788
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
in important affairs—that he could always find
time to take on an additional task, however com¬
plex and exacting ! After all. the observations of
his intimate friends, which are here quoted, define
the man picturesquely enough. “ What he says
that he will do. he will do ; and what he says he
will not do, he will not do "—such was Lord
Rosebery’s description of “ T. A. B." when intro¬
ducing him as a young man. with his own ideas
"-C3. to the free and independent electors
and the definition remained true to the
The brief Foreword which Lord
an excessive belief in
the American business
maxim that success is a (A
kind of virtue in itself. The \ Ay *T
Puritanical touch in Mr.
Bok, especially when ex¬
pressed in the pathos which has been defined as
moral wet-rot, is at times irritating to a degree.
A flagrant example was the campaign he started
to save the poor innocent American soldiers from
the temptations of London. Paris, and other
European cities—temptations that are as obvious
tivitics made him fax more
useful to England and to the Empire than many
so-called statesmen who stand year after year in
the full glare of publicity. In spite of his con¬
tempt for popularity, however, there were signs
that the world was beginning to discover the true
value of his sincere, straightforward, unselfish and
untiring personality when, a year ago, he was
fataMy injured by a motor-car—failing to notice it
coming as he walked with head thrust forward, and
with the curious loping gait that enabled him to
get within a few inches of that mighty miler,
F. J. K. Cross, in one of the most sternly contested
races ever seen at Oxford. In athletics, as in the
ampler affairs of after life, his tremendous tenacity
of purpose caused him to achieve what his best
friends regarded as impossibilities, and there can
be little doubt that, had he lived, he would have
been a powerful and beneficial influence during the
whole period of reconstruction. “ T. A. B. : A
Memoir of Thomas Allnutt. Second Earl
Brassey " (John Murray; i6s. net), by Pre¬
bendary Partridge, is too “ facty " to give a dear
impression of the charm of the man-in-himself
a charm noted by his first tutor ("m'tutor ”) at
Eton, who described him in a report as “ a most
pleasant and amiable little lad, whom one can
no more repress than a cork in a bucket." Irre-
pressibility, and a share of the Oxonian quality
best called " casualness" (the willingness and
ability to take life as it comes, even if it fits the
American humourist's definition of “ one damned
thing after another"). combined with absolute
reliability, were his abiding characteristics, as I
remember well, having had the pleasure of his
acquaintance at Oxford and afterwards. The
official biographer, however, must be excused for
his failure to attain the personal touch, for it was
his first duty to present a complete record of the
works and days of one who was so busily occupied
about politics, 1
of Epsom, a..^*
close of his life. -—
Milner, another very intimate and lifelong friend,
contributes to this biography, provides a key to
his character in public life. “ He was in the
broadest and truest sense of the word,” writes
Lord Milner, "a patriot. Public service was the
very breath of life to him. I never knew any man
in whom the corporate feeling was so strong. . . .
It was always some Body, small or great, of which
he was a member—his school, his college, his
club, his county, his Territorial regiment, his
country, the Empire—for, which he was slaving.
And, as an employer, he also lived up to the
same patriotic and unselfish ideal—
Even in the conduct of his private business—for
be was a genuine “ captain of industry ”—it was the
social side which chiefly interested him. He loved to
feel that he was building up a business which would
give a large amount of employment and raise the
standard of living through a whole district, for he
had the right conception of the role of the employer.
The head of a great industrial enterprise was the com¬
mander of an army. He was bound to maintain dis¬
cipline, and was entitled to a reasonable reward. But
he was not morally justified in absorbing all the
material benefits of success.
In business he lived by, and for, the honest
and humane tradition of "no scamping and no
grinding ” established by his father and grand¬
father. The grievance which is at the root of
much that is called " Labour unrest "—the feeling
that the individual worker suffering from a sense
of injustice " cannot find a man to have it out
■with ” — never affected his relations with his
A DRAMATIST WITH A "DOUBLE EVENT" ON THE
CURRENT STAGE: MR. JOHN GALSWORTHY.
Mr. John Galsworthy has two new pieces now running on the
London stage. One is " A Family Man," produced by Mr. Norman
McKinnel at the Comedy on June 2 . The other is "The First
and the Last," a grim little one-act play given at the
Aldwych, at matinees on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
along with “ The New Morality," by the late Harold Chapin.
Photograph by E. 0. Hoppe.
and even more devastating in the great American
centres of population. But he did a good deal to
raise the literary standard of journalism in the
United States, and famous authors and states¬
men in every part of the English-speaking world
accepted his cheques and his friendship. Mr.
Gladstone, it is true, escaped becoming a con¬
tributor to the Ladies' Home Journal —but he had
to die to do it 1 As a repository of quotable
anecdotes, the book is excellent.
In ” Edward Bok : An
Autobiography *’ (Thornton
Butterworth ; 2is. net), which
has an introduction by Vis¬
count Northcliffe, we meet
a very different character—
one of the modern impresarios
of journalism, for whom re¬
clame is the very breath of
their nostrils. The under¬
lying likeness, however, is
there all the time—in Mr.
Bok’s loyalty and practical
kindliness to all who served
him well and enabled him to
” get there " in the engaging
task of creating a journal
which should be all things
to all women and number its
subscribers by the million.
This autobiography, which
is written in the third jier-
son to mitigate one's im¬
pression of its whipped ego¬
tism, presents a personality
even more irrepressible than
the cork in a bucket of
“ T. A. B.'s ” tutor. The
cool audacity with which,
even as a lad, he rifled the
privacies of any current cele¬
brity, in his quest after
autograph letters, was as
colossal and impressive as the
sky-scrapers of New York or
the tall tales of the West,
which represent the Eliza¬
bethan hyperbole ripe and
running to seed in a new
soil. We do not find it easy
in all cases to tolerate his
moralisings ; in such passages
there is too much Smiles
for smiles to be possible,
Americans are more intrigued by the romantic
side of industry-building than we are who have
nothing equal to their histories of the Comstock
Lode, the Californian placer-mines, the cattle and
sheep ranches of the West, etc. Yet. as it happens,
this week has brought me two admirable chronicles
of little-known phases of Empire-building^in the
wondrous wildernesses of the Far South. From
Robertson ;
W| _ powerful and
of the Broken Hill
of thirty-five
Silver to Steel ” (Melbourne
31s. 6d. net), by Roy Bridges, a
picturesque writer, is the story o» -
Proprietary, which, in the space
years, has yielded I73.45i.°37 ounces of silver,
1,279,334 tons of lead, and 102,857 ounces of gold
a record only exceeded by that of the Comstock
Lode, the greatest ore deposit of the American
Silverado. An even more compelling book 0
the same kind is “ Tutira : The Story or
a New Zealand Sheep Station " (Blackwood
and Sons; 42s. net), by H. Guthne-SmitL
which shows the difficulties that had to
overcome before the wildernesses of the No
Island could be conquered and made to sup*
port profitable flocks of sheep and the white
pioneers who owned them. Mr. Guthrie-Smith »
a master of Maori history, of botany and
the other open-air sciences, and of the com
plex economics of sheep-ranching, and never or
a moment is his book lacking in human interes .
Those who read this many-phased story o a
single episode of the making of New Zealan ^
will understand the intense love of the Maori
landers" for their country which repeats on
_1 _ nnr own nassion lor
DANCER OF THE "FARRUCA” IN “ CUADRO FLAMENCO": MME.
MARIA DALBAICIN. A BEAUTIFUL SPANISH GIPSY AT THE PRINCES
THEATRE; ALSO SEEN IN " THE THREE-CORNERED HAT."
The Andalusian dances under the title " Cuadro Flamenco.” introduced by the
Russian Ballet at the Princes Theatre,
by a cal6-concert party from Seville,
by Mme. Maria Dalbaidn,
Cornered Hat.
made an immediate hit. T 1
One of the most attractive
since seen with the Russian Ballet
[Photograph by Count Hehbindtr.]
790 the lui-snaa^ SE \vs.
COUNCIL
THE FIRST ULSTER PARLIAMENT: THE HISTORIC
The first Parliament of Northern Ireland was inaugurated in the City Hall, Belfast, on June 7, «u> a picummo.; — — - ^e
June 22. His Majesty was represented by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord FitzAlan, who read the Royal Proclamation and to0 ic the
time. Major the Hon. Hugh O’Neill, M.P., was unanimously elected Speaker, and retired to assume his robes and wig. Returning,
sute by the »”* "
preliminary to the formal openmg » «* w |„ .
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5[ 1BER OF THE CITY HALL. BELFAST, AFTER THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY.
the Mace was placed on the table, and the Members were sworn in. All the 40 Unionists were there, but the 12 Sinn Fein and Nationalist Members did not
attend. The Prime Minister, Sir James Craig, is seen (in silk hat) sitting just to the left of the table. The procedure followed in the main that of Westminster,
I with one or two exceptions, such as the presence of “strangers,” both in the galleries and on the floor of the House.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921—792
ROYAL, PRESIDENTIAL, LITERARY, AND SPORTING: NOTABLE OCCASIONS.
Photographs by LN.A , Alfif.ki, 9port j
» General. Keystone View Co., G.P.A., and Photopress.
TAKING THE SALUTE : THE KING (RIGHT), BETWEEN THE PRINCE OF
WALES (LEFT) AND THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.
LEADING IN THE OAKS WINNER: MR. J.
WATSON AND “LOVE IN IDLENESS” (CHILDS UP).
A FAMOUS INDIAN POET LECTURING IN BERLIN : SIR
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (ON LEFT, WITH BEARD).
MME. CURIE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: THE
GREAT SCIENTIST WITH PRESIDENT HARDING.
LESS GORGEOUS THAN THE GUARDS IN THEIR FULL-DRESS UNIFORM:
FOREIGN ATTACHES AT THE TROOPING OF THE COLOUR.
FROM AMERICAN WOMEN TO MME. CURIE FOR “ TRANSCENDENT j
SERVICE TO SCIENCE”: ONE GRAMME OF RADIUM, WORTH *80.000._j
THE LADY GOLF CHAMPION : (L. TO R.) MISS LEITCH (WINNER), MISS JACK-
SON AND MISS SCROGGIE (SEMI-FINALISTS). MISS WETHERED (RUNNER-UP).
Of the foreign military attaches at the Trooping of the Colour on June 4,
three were in khaki and several in horizon blue.-Mr. J. Watson’s “Love in
Idleness,” ridden by J. Childs, won the Oaks at Epsom on June 3. Sir Rabin¬
dranath Tagore is shown above outside a lecture hall in Berlin. Mme. Curie,
the great scientist who, with her late husband, discovered radium, was presented
by President Harding, at the White House, Washington, on May 20, with one
gramme of the precious substance (about r’30 oz.), worth about £ 80,000, on
behalf of the women of America. The radium was contained in the ten tubes
seen in the centre of the lower right-hand photograph, which shows the st
and lead container (on the left) with ten holes into which the tubes fit, 40 *
mahogany box for the whole. An inscription states that the gift is > n ltC °^
nition of her transcendent service to science and to humanity in the
of radium.” The other photograph shows Mme. Curie, on the Presidents
descending the steps from the White House to the lawn after the ce '[ emon * . tch
In the final of the Ladies’ Golf Tournament at Tufnberry, Miss
the champion, retained her title, beating Miss Joyce Wethered by 4 an
fin
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921.—793
Guards in Scarlet and Gold, with Bearskins: The Trooping of the Colour .
WITH A CAPTURED GERMAN GUN IN THE FOREGROUND : THE KING’S BIRTHDAY PARADE HELD ONCE MORE AT THE HORSE GUARDS.
The Trooping of the Colour in the King’s Birthday Parade at the Horse Guards
on June 4 was a brilliant pageant, for the Guardsmen wore their full-dress
uniforms of scarlet and gold, with bearskins, as in pre-war days. The troops
taking part in the ceremony were provided by the Life Guards, Grenadier Guards,
Scots Guards, and Coldstream Guards. The two great German guns, camouflaged
Pmototr/
in mottled drab and green, that stand before the Admiralty wall, gave a grim
reminder of the war, in which the Guards took so brilliant a part Last year,
it will be remembered, the ceremony was held in Hyde Park, owing to the
presence of huts on the Horse Guards Parade, but these having since been
removed, it was possible to revert to the customary scene of the occasion.
by L.N.A,
A “Fourth” without Fireworks, Owing to the Coal Stoppage: Etons Great Day .
THE FOURTH OF JUNE CELEBRATIONS AT ETON :
Although the Fourth of June celebrations at Eton this year were subject to
certain restrictions, owing to the industrial crisis and the need for economising
light and fuel, there was no diminution in the high spirits or success of the
occasion. It had been announced by the Headmaster (Dr. C. A. Alington) that
there would be *10 entertaining, so the Provost’s luncheon party was cancelled,
THE CALLING OF “ABSENCE” IN THE QUADRANGLE.
I as also was the fireworks display in the evening. There was a great gathering 0 i
relatives and Old Etonians, who mostly came by motor-car, and the food problem
2 was solved by the hampers which they brought “ Absence ” was called in
I Weston’s Yard at noon, and in School Yard at 5.30. The events of the day
l included speeches, cricket matches, and the time-honoured procession of boats.
Photo* - .raph by I.R.*
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11 . 1921 .— 704
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA.
DAINTY ROGUES IN PORCELAIN: FIGURES FROM
The Illustrated London News.
Miss Gwendolen Parnell, the Chelsea Potteries.
FILCH.
THE HANGMAN
MR. PEACHUM.
MRS. PEACHUM.
POLLY PEACHUM.
MACHEATH.
Thoe dainty figure* in Chelsea Cheyne Pottery, representing characters in “ The
Beggar’s Opera,” are the work of Miss Gwendolen Parnell, of the Chelsea Potteries.
The whole set of thirteen pieces is now in the London Museum at Lancaster
House, St James’s, and we have been enabled to photograph them by courtesy
of the Keeper and Secretary, Mr. F. A. Harman Oates, F.S.A They are of
CT pfial interest just now for the purpose of comparison with the living figures
in the successful Hammersmith revival of Gay’s delicious satire, some tceaa of
which are illustrated on the facing page. With their picturesque costume •»»
formal eighteenth-century air, the subjects lend themselves very appropriat 7 ^
treatment in pottery, and in fashioning them Miss Parnell ha* had scope or ^
exercise of her delicate art at its best Most of the characters can 7
identified in the photographs given opposite.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 11. 1921—795
STAGE ROGUES IN FLESH AND BLOOD
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA.
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HIGHWAYMEN IN THE
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PEACHUM, MACHEATH (RECAPTURED), LOCKIT. AND MRS. TRAPES.
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the Lyric, Hammersmith, celebrated its first anniversary on June 6, being played
for the 416th time. Miss Nonny Lock, Mr. Alfred Heather, and Mr. Arthur Wynn
were seen on this occassion in their original characters. The acting throughout
is admirably finished. Mr. Frederick Ranalow appears as Macheath, Miss Elsie
French as Mrs. Peachum, Miss Katherine Arkandy as Polly Peachum, Miss Violet
Marquesita as Lucy Lockit, Miss Beryl Freeman as Diana Trapes, Mr. Tristan
Lawson as Lockit, and Mr. Arnold Pilbeam as the Beggar. The part of Peachum
has been played at different times by Mr. Arthur Wynn and Mr. Frederic Austin.
The central photograph shows the finale, when the Beggar, as author (seen oh
the extreme right), suddenly stops the execution of Macheath by introducing a
reprieve in deference to the popular taste for happy endings. It is interesting to
compare these characters with the pottery figures opposite. A feature of the pro¬
duction is the device by which the same scene, with, slight alterations, does duty
for Peachum’s house, a street, a tavern, and Newgate Prison. A model of the scene
was given as a souvenir to each member of the audience on the anniversary.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921.—796
A WEEK OF BACH RECITALS. By edward j. dent .
M OST pianists put one piece of Bach into
their recital programmes, and it is gener¬
ally a piece of Bach transcribed by somebody
else — Bach-Tausig, Bach-Liszt, or Bach-Busoni.
It comes at the beginning of the afternoon, a
concession to historic antiquity, balanced by the
concession to virtuosity at the end in the shape
of a Liszt Rhapsody. The body of the pro¬
gramme, the main dishes of the feast, may be
either a Beethoven sonata or a group of Chopin,
possibly something quite modern. Whatever the
style of the pianist may be, whether he belong to
the nineteenth century or to the twentieth, it
never occurs to him to draw upon Bach for those
items that are to be expressive of his own most
concentrated personality, or to thrill and charm
the audience at the moment of their keenest
receptivity. Occasionally a player will present
a whole programme of Beethoven, of Chopin, or
even of Liszt; but a recital of nothing but Bach,
let alone of Bach unadulterated, is more than
most of them would ever dream of attempting.
Mr. Harold Samuel has plunged boldly into
not a single Bach recital, but a set of six, on six
consecutive days. In going to this extreme he
has shown his wisdom as well as his minute know¬
ledge of Bach. For when I looked at his pro¬
grammes my first feeling was one of disappoint¬
ment • there are so many things which I should
like to hear Mr. Samuel play that find no place
on his list at all. He gave us only two of the
Inventions, only one of
the English Suites, a
mere fifteen preludes and
fugues out of the " Forty-
Eight." Where were the
Italian Concerto and the
Capriccio on the Depar¬
ture of a Beloved Brother ?
The fact is, that Mr.
Samuel ought to have
given us a fortnight of
Bach, or even a month.
There are many differ¬
ent ways of interpreting
Bach, but if we were to
listen to Bach for a week
on end, Mr. Samuel’s way
is certainly the best. A
few years ago Mr. Samuel
was hardly known ex¬
cept as an accompanist,
and he was the best
accompanist in London.
Singers began to grumble
when he asked to play
a solo in the middle of
a song-recital. When he
gave up playing accom¬
paniments altogether,they
grumbled still more. If he lived m Germany in¬
stead of England he would probably be still an
accompanist, and the best accompanist in Germany,
for as a solo player he is too self-effacing and too
scholarly to make a sensation m a land of wonder¬
ful virtuosi. In England we appreciate the virtuosi .
but we have a peculiarly English breed of pianists
whom we regard with a more intimate affection.
It is characteristic of all English art that it is
‘domestic. The English painter, as a general rule,
paints not for the public gallery, but for the
private house.
The concerts that give us the keenest
pleasure are those which make us forget that we
are in a concert-room. It is Mr. Harold Samuel’s
peculiar gift to take us out of the atmosphere
of the public hall. His six Bach recitals showed
how valuable and beautiful this gift of his is.
It was only his scholarship and self-effacement
that made them possible. There are other
pianists who might have played Bach in a far
more overwhelming style. Mr. Samuel never
overwhelms ; he would not wish even Bach to
overwhelm us. He took us through Preludes,
Fugues, Partitas and Variations like a connoisseur
exhibiting a priceless collection of Diirer engrav¬
ings. When we “ encored ” him. it was not
with the uncontrolled emotion of the vulgar
herd ; it was a polite request — “ Would you
be so kind as to let us look at that last one
again ? " It was a privilege, one felt, to have
been admitted to the examination of such ex¬
quisite workmanship.
A DISTINGUISHED
BRITISH COMPOSER:
MR. EUGENE GOOS8ENS.
A PLAYER OF BACH: MR. HAROLD SAMUEL.
With regard to our photographs, it should be noted that
Mr. Goossens is well known both as composer and conductor.
Last Tuesday he conducted at a most interesting orchestral con¬
ceit at the Queen’s Hall, when Stravinsky’s ’’ Sacre du Prin-
temps” and other modem works were given.-Admirers of
Mr. Spivakovsky will be glad to hear that he is giving another
recital at the Wigmore Hall on June 18.-Miss Ethel Frank
gave her final concert at the Queen's Hall last Thursday evening,
assisted by the Queen's Hall Orchestra. She has a voice of rare
purity, and her diction is excellent.-On six days of last week
Mr. Harold Samuel gave a series of remarkably interesting Bach
recitals at the Wigmore Hall.
Photographs by Alvin Langdon Cobum, Sirs Fisher -Schneevoigt,
Foul sham and Hanfuld Ltd., and Hatley Bacon.
tance between his forte and his piano, between
his andante and his allegro, is small, but within
that range every note is exactly graded to its
due value of length or loudness. A monumental
performance of Bach is all very well for one
item" in a mixed programme, but for a series
of Bach recitals the colossal style would
be unendurable. The reward of sacrificing the
colossal style is that it becomes possible to
hear a number of beautiful things which the
colossal players never touch, or at least never
touch in public.
After a performance by one of the giants,
people often come away—professional pianists
among them—feeling that they never wish to touch
the pianoforte again. When Mr. Harold Samuel
plays, even the amateurs go home making good
resolutions to practise and to study their Bach
a little more thoroughly. For Mr. Samuel’s
programmes were full of the things which people
can play for themselves at home. And in play¬
ing them, as he does, quite simply and unaffectedly,
yet with a complete understanding of their
subtlest beauties, he is contributing more to the
musical life of this country than the great virtuosi
can ever do. He has no desire to be taken for
a wonderful pianist ; he has no desire to make
us think Bach wonderful. He makes his audience
feel Bach to be beautiful, and beautiful in a quiet
and intimate way, that permits the ordinary
humble music-lover to come into the closest con-
A* YOUNG PIANIST:
MR. JASCHA SPIVAK¬
OVSKY.
body can learn something: one proof of it
is that professional pianists go to listen to
him. But he is completely free from the
vices of the didactic pianist. There are some
players of the scholarly spirit who cannot play
the classics without presenting the appear¬
ance of giving a lecture on them at the same
time. They unroll an ’’ instructive edition ’’
before their audience. The didactic pianist is
in most cases a mediocre performer. The
didactic manner is really a mask, like the
ultra-emotional manner, put on in the hopes
of concealing an inefficient technique. It is
very easy to underrate the value of Mr. Samuel’s
technical skill, because for him technique is, as
it should be, the servant of expression. It is all
so quiet and so delicate that one never notices
the perfection of it. And another proof of his
high accomplishment is the fact that one can
listen to a whole series of recitals without ever
finding Bach monotonous, or a single concert
too long. Mr. Samuel would no doubt wish
us to give the credit to Bach, and it is true
enough that he is a composer of infinite variety,
even when we limit him to his harpsicbor
music alone. But it is the high technical s
of the player, directed by the knowledge o »
sensitive mind, that makes us realise this w
of varied inspiration writhin the narrow him
a restrained and delicate style. Mr. Samu .
Bach recitals have brought a new spin
our London concert life, and no one can
listened to them without deriving from
a deepened sense of musicianship.
tact with him. The
ordinary humble music-
lover is apt to be fright¬
ened by the Forty-Eight
Preludes and Fugues, es¬
pecially when he hears
stories of people who at
the age of twelve could
play them all, and from
memory, too. Mr. Samuel
shows him that there is
at any rate a fair num¬
ber of them which are
within reasonable reach,
and shows too that a
fugue is not a dry, in¬
human thing, but a living
organism; one, too, that
is not incompatible with
sentiment or even humour.
He has a charming way
of playing fugues, so that
they seem to become
conversations. Some
pianists make the piano¬
forte sing; Mr. Samuel
makes it talk.
Mr. Samuel is a
pianist from whom every-
Mr. Samuel's Bach pieces resembled a set of
engravings not only in their exquisite workman¬
ship, but in their small range of emotion and
colours. He takes Bach exactly as he finds
him. He makes no absurd pose of playing Bach
as if the pianoforte were a harpsichord, though he
knows what a harpsichord is, and a clavichord
too. But he also makes no pose of monumental¬
ising Bach as if the mosf magnificent of concert
grand pianofortes were hopelessly inadequate for
the glorification of his genius. The actual dis-
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11, 1921.—797
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DRAVN BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, STEVEN SPURRIER, R.O.I.
WITH A FOOTLESS “DANCER” AND PICASSO DfiCOR: AN ANDALUSIAN TRIO—(LEFT TO RIGHT) MME. MARIA DALBAICIN,
MATE EL SIN PIES, AND MLLE. LA RUBIA DE JEREZ, IN
The new group of Andalusian dancers introduced by the Russian Ballet at the
Princes Theatre quickly became the talk of the town. They give eight dances
under the general title of “Cuadro Flamenco,” amid bold and appropriate
Jicor by Pablo Picasso. The performance takes place on a raised platform—a
small stage within the stage—giving the impression of a gathering in an old-
fashioned Spanish country inn. The performers sit in a circle strumming and
dapping, taking the floor by turns in various dances, while one of the women
every now and then breaks into plaintive song. The whole effect is rather akin
THE GARROTIN GROTESCO, AT THE PRINCES THEATRE.
to an at fresco coster jollification. The particular dance here illustrated is the
“ Garrotin Grotesco,” by Mme. Maria Dalbaicin (left), Mate el Sin Pies (the
footless "dancer”), and Mile. La Rubia de Jerez (in white). Mme Dalbaicin,
a portrait of whom is given on our " Books of the Day " page, has since appeared
with the Russian Ballet in " The Three-Cornered Hat ’ ’ The seated figures are
(left to right) : Estampillo, Rojas, La Lopez, El Sevillano (guitarist), La
Minarita (singer), El Martell (guitarist), La Gabrielita del Garrotin, El Tejero,
and El Moreno.— [Drmeing Copyrighted in the United Stoics and Canada.]
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members of the Royal Family will be present. It sill
be like old times to see the great wagon-roofed Adam
Ball-room, sometimes called the Sculpture Gallery,
filled with a brilliant company. I have seen it 10
many times—usually for political receptions. It has
not been used since before the war by Lady Lans-
downe. The two weddings there of her grand¬
daughters to Captain Ivan Cobbold and to Mr. McMillan
required only the inner and outer halls, the library
LADIES' NEWS.
Derby Day was wonderful! When one remembered
that there were no trains, it seemed little short of
marvellous ; and on all sides came the same informa¬
tion .of quite easy transit by motor from town. The
big air-ship policeman was busy aloft, with a wicked¬
looking little lead-coloured ’plane fussing about too;
and their earth-bound brothers in blue, on horseback
and afoot also, spent a busy time resulting in quite a
triumph. I had never seen the Queen in the day¬
time in black—save in complete mourning. The dress
was of draped charmeu6e, with a chemisette and high
collar of creamy lace held with a diamond and pearl
brooch. Her Majesty wore ear-rings to match, and
some rows of pearls. For motoring down, a beaded
coat in black and silver was worn. Princess Mary
looked very pretty in cornflower-blue chiffon, bodice
and skirt finished with a pretty red-and-blue embroi¬
dery. Her wide-brimmed blue straw hat was prettily
touched with red. A. E. L.
innovation. Queen Elizabetn is a ve
little lady who thoroughly understan
dress from her own individual stj
rives small attention to fashion, and y
out of the most up-to-date picture,
one of the lucky people who look just
a faculty that has been given to a very
of heroes.
It is rather silly for people to say
lose their popularity with women bee*-
culture of pearls has vulgarised the
pearls, because there is no gem me
fine skins and because no other gem
rtoa
had more to do with money.
noTan eating commodity, albeit a very
nne The other day I was lost in
on ®l f mne of beautiful pearls worn
iTmy real. origin* nigM wore
wuty „f wiring them cveryjay ^ ^
me out. so they ar ^ re it was . her husband
tiful dears are C>ro._ ghc ^ {ar
- —/ that pearls will
because the Japanese
m. We all love
>re becoming to
_is in itself more
would be vulgarising
Travellers to Belgium and the Ardennes will be
interested to learn that the Great Eastern Railway
Company will inaugurate on July 2 a new service to
the Continent between Harwich and Zeebrugge. The
S.S. Roulers, with every comfort for passengers, will
sail from Harwich every Monday, Wednesday, and
Saturday, travellers booking their luggage through to
Belgian towns; and there will be through con¬
nections to Cologne, other Rhine towns, and to BMe.
The service from Zeebrugge to Harwich will be on
Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. Pullman, dining,
and breakfast-car expresses will connect with the
steamers. The train will leave London, Liverpool
Street Station, at 8.30 p.m.
of mind into which
1, because they have
and mone ^ f ‘® THE CRAZE FOR LACE.
' "a If you cannot have an all-lace dress. Paris has decreed that the
b affluent next best thing is to have one well trimmed with it.
I " These are Photograph by G.Pjt.
the responsi- Qne q{ the TOOSt brilliant events of this season will
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It will be for Queen Alexandra’s Nurses Fund, and
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MARVELLOUS TESTIMONY
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June
11
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
WHITE WHALES.
J EWSPAPER reports, wherever matters relating
to natural history subjects are concerned, are
notoriously inaccurate, and not seldom, on that
account, mischievous. I am reminded of this fact by
a statement in my newspaper this morning to the
eflect that the French Navy is to
wage war on whales in the neigh¬
bourhood of Brest. Crews of fishery
boats, I learn, have been ordered
to open fire on any white whales
sighted on patrol, and the Admir¬
alty has been requested to instruct
destroyers and scout ships in these
waters to assist in destroying
whales, to prevent their ravages
among sardines.
Now. if only white whales are
to be fired upon, no harm will be
done, nor will any ammunition be
wasted. And this for the simple
reason that white whales never by
an y chance wander so far south
as Brest ! The white whale, or
Beluga, is confined to Arctic waters,
though on rare occasions stragglers
have been recorded from Scotland
and off the eastern coasts of North
America. Only the adult—which
attains a length of from sixteen
to twenty feet—is white. The
colour of the young animal is
blackish. As it approaches ma¬
turity it becomes mottled, then
yellowish, and finally snow white.
Though essentially a marine animal,
it will ascend rivers—mainly, ap¬
parently. in pursuit of salmon. It
has been said to ascend the Yukon
Kiver for a distance of seven hun¬
dred miles. But. besides fish,
cuttle fish and Crustacea are also
largely eaten, and these are hunted
at great depths in the ocean. There
is one other fact about this whale
that is worth noting, ’ '*
“ pilchards " of the Cornish fisheries. The small fish
sold in tins as sardines are young pilchards, and are
taken by the French fishermen during the summer.
They are the " sardines de rogue,” so called because
salted cod's roe. or " rogue,” is scattered in the
water to attract the fish before the nets are shot.
They could be similarly taken by our Cornish
fishermen, who, however, seem to prefer to confine
THE WINNER OF THE DERBY: MR. J. B. JOEL’S HUMORIST.
Mr. J. B. Joel's colt Humorist (by Polymelus-Jest), trained by Morton and ridden by S.
and this
concerns have failed to find any pne-
deformation as to the nature or volume of the
sounds Rutters, but they are sufficiently = cuous
to have earned for the animal, among whalers, the
name of " Sea Canary.” „ .
So much for the ” white whales of Brest
now a.to the “ sardines.” Theee to
Derby on June 1. by a neck, from Lord Astor’s Crai* an Eran. Mr. J. Watson s
lengths behind. Sir J. Buchanan's Alan Brock came in fourth, and Mr. W. E. Whineray’s
Photograph by Sport and General.
their attentions to the adult pilchard, known to
the French fishermen as ” sardines de derive ”—
drift sardines, caught by drifting with the net with¬
out bait.
What, then, are the ” whales ” so remorselessly
condemned to be shot at sight ? Probably the
smaller cetacea grouped under the terms porpoise and
And
the
dolphin. The fishermen are evidently convinced that
these animals, which travel in large ” schools," levy
too heavy a toll upon the sardines. No evidence,
however, is apparent that any sort of investigation
has been made to discover whether the fishery’ is. as
a matter of fact, really impoverished by such nuds.
The accused should at least have been put upon their
trial, even though the trial must begin, French fashion,
by assuming guilt till innocence
is pioved.
Wild animals in every quarter
of the globe have been and
are being wiped out of exist¬
ence at the behest of real or
imaginary commercial interests.
This state of affairs is lament¬
able. For the extinction of one
species after another is doing
incalculable harm to science
and the scientists of the future,
and commercial enterprise itself
suffers.
Evidence of this is at the pre¬
sent moment very forcibly brought
home in the case of the whahng
industry. The Scottish whaling
stations have had to be closed
down this year for lack of whales.
Over-fishing has similarly closed
down the whaling stations of the
Cape and the Antarctic stations.
This is a really serious matter,
and is due to the refusal of
those concerned to listen to the
warnings given repeatedly during
the last few years by men of
science who were anxiously follow¬
ing the remorseless slaughter which
improved methods of fishing have
made possible.
Over - fishing destroyed the
Basque " Right - whale " fishery
and the Greenland Right - whale
fishery. It now looks as if the
Rorqual fishery will immediately
follow. Yet, properly conserved,
each of these fisheries might have
been run as a profitable enterprise
for generations yet to come. How much longer
will the man of science be ignored ? How long
will it take the " Captains of Industry ” to dis¬
cover that it is not wise to kill the goose that lays
the golden egg ? They are masterful people, these
" Contains ’* vnrniniF “ sentiment ” — and also
W. P. Pycjuft.
Donogbue, won the
s third, three
Leighton was fifth.
’ Captains,” scorning
' common-sense.”
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Bat you always have to ask
for Mackintosh s.
1 can’t say which 1 He best.
Can you ?
Mackintosh’s Toffee is sold by
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and loose by weight.
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be issued. Naturally
i good start over the
>me months too late
peared in the Colony
and it is only now
Thus the Bermudans
on sale concur-
__wonders if the
to which is the better,
the post-office to buy
they have to specify
stamps or the
nine stamps in each type
the Governor's stamp had got .
local one, but even it was *
for the intended date. It ap]
at the beginning of this year,
followed by the rival desl 8®. ,
have two distinct senes of stamp*
rently at their post-offices, and on
colonists have taken sides as
and whether, when they go to
stamps for use on their letters,
whether they want the Governors
"^’’^Tn/irtwo designs shows the King's
was wrecked ear,y^n
House
IL T OF THE POSTAGE STAMP
by PBSD ). MELVILLE.
°Th« Mony met at St. George, and the
tided that it would b. •*£**£■“
te the tercentenary last ye
* of representative institutions m Ber
other measures for marking
1 it g was decided to issue a special sene
Vhe Governor in Council took the usua
Jing for the stamps to be prepmd an
The House of Assembly fel
is a°matter for the exercise of local talent
own a keen interest in the preparation
ie Last June there was a lively debat
, e on the subject, and the
which had been prepared by a local art
" to the one which was being prepare
Kodak
RECORDING HOLIDAY MEMORIES: THE KODAK GIRL-
A NEW POSTER BY MR. CLAUDE E. SHEPPERSON
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All new supplies sent out to the colonies for some
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 11 , 1921 —S 04
WITH THE EARTH EYES AND THE
BLACK AND WHITE BLOODS.
O VER three Provinces there is fear of the
" Mantsz," the wild men of the hills, who burn
and murder and take into captivity. On the cul¬
tivated south side of the Yangtse, in that part which
faces the jungle of the Nosu on the north, the Chinese
have dotted towers against the raiders, and many a
blood-freezing tale they tell of them. The Nosu still
strikes on occasion, knowing that dread of him is the
only thing that keeps his enemies from overwhelming
him, as they must and will one day, for he is in¬
dependent amidst a myriad ” aliens."
Yet Mr. Pollard, aided by a sense of humour,
clerical garments which led the tribesmen to dub
him " The Man Black Bear," healthy respect for his
camera and telescope Munchausened into machine-
guns, and a childish interest in his magic-lantern, not
only penetrated into the mystery land, but found
friends among the dwellers therein, was adopted into
the Nhe clan, as Nhe-jah-jah, and was offered a pipe¬
smoking young lady to wife !
Under such conditions, it is not surprising that he
learnt much that was new to him and that the result¬
ing book, " In Unknown China ” (Seeley, Service,
and Co.), is of more than usual interest.
The ground he covers is very considerable—the
position of the Xo6u in relation to the Chinese, their
domestic life, superstitions, characters, and so forth,
and, in a particularly fascinating section, the feudal
system under which they live.
“ At the head are the Earth Eyes, or Earth Con¬
trollers, corresponding to the Chief Barons in the
European Feudal System. Next to these come the
Black Nosu, often erroneously called the Black Bones.
It would be more correct to call them Black Bloods.
Lower than these are the White Nosu, also en-oneously
named White Bones. Then follow on the slaves, who
are usually, but not always, white Nosu who have not
gained their freedom.”
Needless to say, the Earth Eyes own most of the
land. They retain part for their own use. let part to
tenants, and apportion the rest, at a very nominal
rent, b? the Black Bloods, who have to render fealty
for it and can be called upon for service at any time.
" When any fighting has to be done, they must bring
their men properly armed and provisioned, ready to
defend their Earth Eye from attack, or to make attack
on his behalf. . . . White Blood retainers . .
again have portions of land assigned to them, and
pay for this land in personal service. ... I visited
some of the slaves’ homes, and saw, hung on the wall
of each house, weapons and a bag of oatmeal. In the
bag are also a thin copper basin and a spoon. The
weapons must always be in readiness and the bag full.
When there is trouble or the overlord needs help in
fighting, the ram’s horn is blown from the lord's castle
or residence, and as soon as the warning sound is heard
the retainer seizes his bag of oatmeal, ties it over his
shoulder, takes his weapons in his hands, and hastens
to the sound.”
The wizard and his ways are dealt with, too ; and
it may interest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Rev.
Vale Owen to note that to the Chinaman " Hades is
just another world, a replica of China, a subterrestrial
Celestial Empire. ... In “The People’s Paper,”aver-
nacu ar daily published at Yunnan Fu, the issue of
March 28, 1912, had a most remarkable journalistic
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year the kitchen god had gone up to heaven Z
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Ch i na ™ ^ 5U ! Va £ tageS The met together
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Chinese Pantheon, to start a republic.” The poten
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Lao-tsz was elected President, and formed a Cabinet
'■ In addition to the Cabinet there was formed a
Board of Consultation, a kind of advisory board to
help guide the policy of the new government Thu
Board was composed of two Buddhas, the Goddess of
Mercy, the head of the Taoist sect, and Jesus ’’!
Of such is Mr. Pollard’s book. It will be read
and enjoyed by very- many.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 11 1921 —806
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
The Problem of ^^J***™*? °[ Tran 1 fP°^ t
the Car Thief saddled the motonst with its
new licensing scheme—and, inci¬
dentally, with a vicious and totally unwarranted
tax—the one meat the scheme appeared to possess
was that it might add to the difficulties of the car
thief when he came to dispose of his booty. It is
common knowledge among those who have access
to semi-official information that it was mainly due
to pressure from the police authorities that the
registration book and the displayed license were
insisted upon, the reasons given being that they would
tend to discourage theft, and to render easier the
work of the police in tracing such thieves as per¬
sisted in their evil ways. At the time, I thought
this was likely to be so, but recent happenings have
led to a considerable modification of that view.
Only the other day a man was charged at one of the
London Courts with stealing a De Dion car, and,
after a remand, the police confessed that they had
been utterly unable to trace any owner for the car,
and proposed to offer ,no further evidence against
the accused man. There was nothing for the Bench
to do but to discharge the latter ! If this is the best
the new system of registration can do, then I think
it is certainly being purchased at far too high a co6t.
Of course, this is an extraordinary case, but there
is no doubt that car-stealing is still rife. Every’ day
there are advertisements in the newspapers offering
rewards in connection with stolen cars, yet one
seldom sees any record of the thieves being brought
to book. While it is possibly a little early to con¬
demn the registration system on this account, it
nevertheless seems to be falling very far short of
anticipations as a safeguard against theft. I suppose
the fact of the matter is that there is no conceivable
scheme that will defeat the combination of clever
thief and willing receiver. Still, one would like to
hear what the Minister of Transport and the police
have to say now in defence of their wonderful system
Difficult Starting. ° ne hears a11 60118 complaints
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have quite well, and will start with the first swing.
On another occasion it will not start at all until 1
have taken out a couple of the sparking plugs, poured
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petrol into them, and burnt it so as to warm them
up. The trouble seems to be condensation of moist¬
ure inside the plug body, leading to a short circuit¬
ing of the electric current, though examination fails
to detect any sign of such moisture. If this is indeed
the trouble, I am at a loss to account for it. The
detachable head gasket is perfectly tight, and there
is no sign of the slightest water-leak into the cylin¬
ders. so that the whole thing remains a mystery.
But the trouble persists, and the procedure 1 adopt
now is to try starting in the ordinary way. and if
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THE Ill.rSTRATEP LONDON NEWS, Junk 11, 1921— 808
THE PLAYHOUSES.
“A FAMILY MAN." AT THE COMEDY.
M ODERN as :s the problem which Mr. Galsworthy
handles in his newest play, " A Family Man,"
he cannot be said to treat it in its most up-to-date
aspect. Iu countless British households, no doubt,
youth is self-assertive to-day, but it is so with the
easy going tolerance of its elders. Mr. Galsworthy
takes a case more characteristic of the immediate past
than of the present. Here and there, probably
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Some who have used them say they
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aver that they do all that is claimed
for them. 1 cannot say I have any
extensive experience of the use of
these compounds but 1 have tried
one quite lately. This is Johnson’s
Carbon-Remover, which I must say
1 used with considerable doubt as to
the result, since I have unpleasant
recollections of using one such com¬
pound which did no good at all,
but entailed taking down the engine
to get rid of it. I should not like to
say that the Johnson compound ac¬
tually removed all the carbon from
pistons and combustion-head, but it
did effect a marked improvement in
the running of the engine.— W. W.
WITH THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL CREST ON THE DOOR: THE CROWN PRINCE’S
DAIMLER CAR USED DURING HIS VISIT TO ENGLAND.
The Crown Prince of Japan used his Daimler extensively in this'country, and it was afterwards shipped to
Paris for his Continental tour. It is a ” Saltley ” type limousine, painted royal blue with black mouldings.
Since last autumn six Daimlers have been delivered to the Japanese Imperial Household, including a limousine
for the Emperor.
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enough, may be found autocratic parents such as
John Builder, but surely in these post-war days
any clash between older and younger generations
is not quite so harsh and unlovely as Mr. Galsworthy
makes it. Not only are Mr. Galsworthy’s less agreeable
characters presented in too repellent outlines, bis inci¬
dents appear sometimes purely farcical. John Builder's
philandering with his wife’s French maid is one of
these incidents (would such a wife ever have had such
a maid ?) and his assault on a policeman and its sequel
are others. It is the author who makes John do
these things, not John's own temperament. So that
" A Family Man " proves a lively entertainment
brilliant satire, rather than a convincing comrJv
Mr. McKinnei acts like a hurricane, and obtains from
Miss Auriol Lee as the French maid. Misses Sibell
Archdale id Agatha Kentish as the daughters, and
Miss Mary Barton as the wife, the cleverest and
most satisfying of support.
“THE FIRST AND THE LAST." AT THE ALDWYCH.
Yet another Galsworthy drama was staged last week,
as part of the matinee programme of the Reandean
management at the Aldwych. It
was given in association with the
late Harold Chapin’s delightful light
comedy. " The New Morality," now
at last put on for a run. "The
First and the Last.” adapted from
one of Mr. Galsworthy's “ Five
Tales," is a tragedy in which two
brothers figure, a success and a
failure ; but the latter, though a
scapegrace admittedly guilty of
murder, is made to shine at the
expense of his respectable and dis¬
tinguished barrister brother. But
I-arry the failure, learning that a
tramp may be hanged lor his
crime, prefers suicide with the
girl he rescued to safety at
the cost of another man's life,
and leaves a confession which his
brother, soon to be a Judge,
deliberately destroys, with the re¬
sult, of course, that an inno¬
cent person will be executed.
Now this little drama is intensely
poignant, and gives to both Mr.
Owen Nares, too long condemned
to puerilities, and to that ex¬
quisitely natural actress, Miss
Meggie Albanesi, opportunities for sincere and
beautiful acting ; but, so far as the K.C. is con¬
cerned, it does not ring true. Mr. Galsworthy's
humanitarian instinct, his sympathy with the
under-dog, his desire to show that weakness may
have its strength and. strength its weakness, have
made him load the scales too heavily against his
example of respectability. Our Judges, whether on
the bench or in the making, are fashioned of sterner
stuff and have a nicer sense of honour than his
incredible Keith Darrant.
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THE FIRST POST-WAR CONTEST FOR THE INTERNATIONAL POLO CUP: THE LEADERS OF THE RIVAL TEAMS
REPRESENTING ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
The international polo matches, resumed this year for the first time since 1914,
begin at Hurlingham on June 18. They have aroused enormous interest. Major
Vivian Lockett, the English captain, known to his intimates as “ Slackett,”
played back against America both in 1913 and 1914. He is also a brilliant
No. 3, in which position he has played with the famous team of the 17th Lancers,
t* which won the Hurlingham Inter-Regimental Tournament last year and carried
^ Photoukahis
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He played for America at polo in 1909 at Hurlingham, and in 1911, 1913 and
1914 at Meadow Brook, U.S.A.
uv W. A. Roich.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18 , 1921.—810
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
I T is already a tragic commonplace that we were
told last week that Will Crooks had died ;
and that, even then, to talk of Mr. William Crooks
was like talking of one who had never lived. And
in his case the popular prefix was appropriate in
more ways than one, and in some ways that may
not be immediately realised. It may be noted
that it is not given to Labour leaders of the more
pedantic and denationalised type. I never heard
anybody refer to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald as Ram.
I gravely doubt whether anyone thinks of Mr.
Philip Snowden as Phil. These men, whether for
good or evil, keep about them all the dry dignity
of what is called the educated class. But it arises
inevitably in connection with Labour men who,
whatever their other qualities, have something
about them that is representative in the real sense ;
men who are not merely English representatives,
but also representative Englishmen. No two men
in the world could well be more different, con¬
sidered as individuals,
than Mr. Will Crooks
and Mr. Ben Tillett.
But it seems quite as
unnatural to talk of
Benjamin Tillett as of
William Crooks; and
the nearest we can get
to the reason is that
there was a certain sim¬
plicity in their source of
inspiration. Tillett is
by temper a revolu¬
tionist, and was never
more so than when he
lent his patriotic energy
to pull down the in¬
solent imperialism of
Prussia. Crooks was by
temper a conservative,
and never more so than
when he tried to con¬
serve the livelihood and
decencies of the poor
amid the anarchy of in¬
dustrial capitalism. But
what was common to
both of them was that
the original movement
in their minds was one
which could be ex¬
pressed in simple terms,
like the words of a song
or a prayer. It is true
that the song of Mr.
Crooks would probably
be a hymn ; and the
most famous prayer of
Mr. Tillett was of the
nature of a curse. For
the former was a good
Christian of the Non¬
conformist tradition :
and the latter would
view the relations of
religion and vengeance
more rather in the
spirit of Alan Breck.
But the point is that the primary motive was,
in both cases, of the direct and human sort that
simple men everywhere can understand. One was
angry with tyrants, and the other was sorry for
slaves ; and these are sentiments that can always
be put in plain words. Now, the theoretic prefer¬
ence for a certain sort of Socialist State cannot be
put in plain words. It is generally put in prepos¬
terously polysyllabic and pedantic words. To
suppose that the mass of hard-working men all
over the world have spontaneously developed an
onward spiritual hunger for '* the assumption by
the State of all the means -of production, dis¬
tribution, and exchange,” is quite wild. It is to
suppose that a crossing-sweeper is always talking
about his "assumption " of a broom and a badge,
that an agricultural labourer invariably refers to
the " maximum production ” of his kitchen garden
in the matter of turnips, or that a rat-catcher in
a village public-house is careful to call for the
•• adequate distribution ” of five pots of beer.
popular simplicity. To make the central govern¬
ment the owner of everything, or (as half of them
would probably put it) to give all the land to the
King, is an idea that might easily have strong and
special reasons to recommend it, but it would never
be in the true sense a popular idea. It is not simple
enough ; its benefits are not sufficiently obvious ;
its traditional terrors very great. It is much more
likely to be imposed by a despot, and even by a
wise and well-meaning despot, upon a democracy,
than really to be demanded by a democracy for
itself. There is a strong case for it in social
science, considered as a system ; but the plan of
Collectivism has always about it something of the
plans drawn on paper by officialism and even
militarism. I do not mean, as some do, that it
could never be possible ; I mean that it could
never be popular. It could never be popular in
the immediate, human, unhindered way in which
a man like Will Crooks could be popular.
But it is not only the language in which the
idea is clothed, it is the idea itself that is, whether
it be right or wrong, equally remote from this
LECTURER ON “THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENT POSITION OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY."
AT KING’S COLLEGE: PROFESSOR EINSTEIN; WITH HIS WIFE AND LORD HALDANE.
The greatest interest has been taken in the visit of Professor Einstein to this country. A special correspondent of the “ Times ” describes
him as follows: “ The dominant impression made on on by Professor Einstein's personality is that of a gentle serenity. His theory has
been described as revolutionary, but. however wild and subversive it may appear to the more staid exponents of Victorian physics, the
man himself has nothing of the crank in his manner or appearance. ... He is a man of medium height and solidly built,
but although his frame conveys no impression of weakness, he appears much older than his forty-three years. His plentiful hair
has many grey streaks in it, and his eyes, with a hint of tiredness in them, are surrounded by many and deep lines. It is
the face of a man, as one is immeaiately aware, who lives very much in his mind .”—[Photograph supplied by C.V.f
Moreover, there was another note in this use
of a name with the levity of a nickname, and that
was the national note. Crooks was enormously
English, one might say incredibly English, in
strength and weakness ; and in nothing more than
in thus disarming satire by despising dignity. The
poor are the most national part of every nation.
And he really did represent the English poor in
this—that he was so humorous as to accept humour
as the atmosphere of life, as the medium in which
men moved, like fantastic fishes in a clear sea of
irony. There was nothing classical about his ideal
world ; it was altogether a Dickens world, in which
there could be nothing better than to be a good
man like Joe Gargery or Captain Cuttle. And he
was himself so good a man that he could really
stand in public in this unaffected posture, admitting
his own amusement and even his own bewilder¬
ment. To listen to his speeches in public, or his
anecdotes in private, was to walk into a world
really too comic for satire. If I might criticise a
splendid satirist, who is usually as exact as he is
extravagant, I think Mr. Max Beerbohm has lately
been less successful in making fun of labour than
he has always been in making fun of luxury. But
nobody, on such occasions, couH have made fm
of Crooks ; he was too funny. Max himself would
have appreciated him far too much to wish to
draw him ; and certainly would never have drawn
him as a bumptious Bolshevist. Indeed, Max and
Crooks, at the extremes of fantastic contrast in
type and fashion, were both alike in a certain
conservatism founded on amusement; and I ai
much more of a Bolshevist than either of them.
That he stood for the pathos as well as the
humour of a sort of Dickens tradition is also
admitted ; but we hardly draw the right moral
from the admission. The truth is that the Urge
humanity of Crooks was a good deal wasted on
an apparent political alternative, in which one sdt
was inhuman in the moral and the other in the
intellectual sense. He had apparently to choose
between Capitalism and Collectivism; and, like
most other humane men, he preferred Collectivism,
though in a healthy
and hazy fashion. But
his real interest was not
so much in the demo¬
cracy’s small amount of
public life, as rather in
its gigantic private lilt.
And what was regarded
by many as his senti¬
ment, or even senti¬
mentalism, might realty
have been the basis of
a new sociology,
might have been a so¬
ciology that was really
democratic, in being
distributive. It might
have established homes
with a small ” h ” in¬
stead of Homes with a
large one. It
have prevented wedding-
rings being pawned, in¬
stead of merely allowing
Duchesses to be di¬
vorced. He understood
the whole thing in
practice, but he never
covered it with a
theory. He was far
from being merely a
sentimentalist; he was
rather a realist; but
that alone will not make
a man a revolutionist.
We talk a great deal
of the need of con¬
struction, social or ser¬
vile ; and a great deal
of the evil of de¬
struction, revolutionist
or militarist. But what
the educated classes
have not realised is
the vast amount of
destruction, in detail,
of the domesticities and
dignities of the poorer citizens, that has inces¬
santly gone on ever since capitalist industn
ism began, at the beginning of the nineteen
century. A man realising this does not see mere)
the success of a few great Trusts, or even gw-
Trades Unions. He sees the failure of innumerable
small shops. He does not merely see the g
politician granting reforms, or even the
politician refusing reforms ; he sees the bad pa* 11
broker bullying women and the bad money'*
selling up sticks. He does not lament for t e
Member out of
of some Bill in Parliament or some J
5 for the
Parliament half so much as he laments
loss of grandfather’s clock or grandmothers
pot. For him, in short, the real modern tra ? ■
is the ceaseless destruction of the private P ro j*-
of the poor. It is not that the working
have not gained some public good they have n
had ; it is rather that they have steadily
private goods they had before. l T P° n that re
tion a drastic democratic reform might have
raised. It would always have needed a
theoretic idealist as well. But the mi
might have provided the right knowledge, :
right passion, has passed away.
man «»"
i. and lb-
4
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 18, 1921.-^11*
A TOPICAL MISCELLANY: TROPHIES; “TINO'S” FOES; “MAY” WEEK.
IWoc.ra. iis Su tliri, ,.v Messrs. Gakrarp. I..N.A.. am. I.H. ; Ti S. rjects O
THE ASCOT GOLD CUP, 1921 :
A 16TH CENTURY DESIGN.
THE ROYAL HUNT CUP, ASCOT, 1921 :
A SILVER TWO-HANDLED VASE.
THE KING'S GOLD VASE, ASCOT, 1921 :
A FLAXMAN DESIGN.
TESTED AT HURLINGHAM.
acar*
ia 13*1
cr. ia,
.\ac»a«
arasi
km at
at r it s
ytcyi ti
TURKISH NATIONALISTS AND THEIR REPAIRED GUNS: [A) NEW PARTS MADE BY TURKS; <J5) CAPTAIN DJAVID BEY, ARTILLERY REPAIR OFFICER, WITH REPAIRED GUN ,
(Q KEMAL PASHA (CENTRE) ; (D) A TURKISH MILITARY HOSPITAL, ESKI-SHEHR ; (E) ISMET PASHA, CHIEF OF STAFF, COMMANDING ON ESKI-SHEHR FRONT.
tr t ; "
WEEK AT CAMBRIDGE : A GAY SCENE ON THE RIVER DURING ONE
OF THE BUMPING RACES.
SALVATION ARMY WEDDING-: “ GENERAL "
SON, “CAPTAIN" BERNARD BOOTH, TC
BRAMWELL BOOTH MARRYING HIS
“CAPTAIN" JANE LOWTHER.
The Ascot Gold Cup, the Royal Hunt Cup, and the King's Gold Vase for this year
were all designed and made by Messrs. Garrard and Co., Ltd., Goldsmiths to the
Crown.-The International Polo Cup, which is the original trophy, was first won
by England in 1886, regained by America in 1909, and "on b T England again in
, 9I4 ._After the Armistice, Turkish artillery in Anatolia was dismantled by the
British, who removed breech-blocks, range-finders, and other essential parts. These
parts have been re made, in railway machine shpps at Eski-Shehr, by the Turks
under the direction of Captain Djavid Bey, artillery officer. The first photograph
(A) shows some of the new parts, and in ( D) the new breech-block of the gun
and other new parts may be noted by their shiny appearance. Ismet Pasha,
Chief of the Nationalist General Staff, commands on the Eski-Shehr front.-The
May Races at Cambridge ended on the nth.-The wedding of “ General " Booth's
elder son, “ Staff-Captain " Bernard Bramwell Booth, to " Captain ” Jane Lowther,
took place at the Central Hall, Westminster, June 11. “General " Booth officiated.
812—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18. 1921.
THE GREAT POLO
TESTS AT HURLINGHAM:
June IS. Each team, of coune, tonu.lt ol 1 “' ^
reserve. Chan,*
The first of the International Polo Test Matches in this year’s contest has been fixed to take place at Hurlingham
The larger portraits above show those selected on either side at the time of writing, while the smaller photographs are of available players in- ^ ^
may possibly be made at the last moment. Portraits of the two captains, Major Vivian Lockett (England) and Mr. Devereux Milburn (America), appear on our ^ ^
t .L-:._» Of tha nthar Americans Mr. Louis Stoddard rame to England ae a "nun ” in toon and olaved in the Second intern
at Meadow Brook ; Mr. J. Watson Webb is left-handed and very tall ; Mr. “ Tommy ” Hitchcock is the youngest member of the team, and an
Oxford underF * 131
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 18. 1921.—813
INTERNATIONAL TEAMS, WITH
C.N. AND ROUCH.
AVAILABLE
RESERVES.
ENGLAND’S BACK : LORD WODEHOUSE.
ENGLAND’S NO. 1 : LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
H. A. TOMKINSON.
ENGLAND’S NO. 2 : MAJOR F. W. BARRETT.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C.
F. HUNTER
(Possible English Reserve).
ENGLAND’S NO. 3 : MAJOR VIVIAN LOCKETT
(CAPTAIN).
his father, also an Oxonian, captained the first American international polo team in 1886 ; Mr. Earl W. Hopping is a well-known New York business man ; Mr. C. C. Rumsry, who is
a sculptor, has played with Mr. Milbum since they were boys together at Buffalo. Of the English players, Major Barrett captained the victorious English team in 1914 ; Lord
Wodehouse is the back of the famous Old Cantab team that won the championship last year ; Lieutenant-Cclonel Tomkinson was England’s No. 1 in 1914 ; Captain E. W. E.
Palmes was a reserve for England in 1911 : he had won distinction in Indian tournaments with the 10th Hussars ; Lieutenant-Colonel Melvill is in the 17th Lancers, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter in the 4th Dragoon Guards.
811—THE ILLUSTRATE! > LONDON NEWS. Jvsr 18. 1021.
A POPULAR EVENT OF THE SEASON: THE RICHMOND ROYAL
Photographs bv \V a. R 0 -
WINNER OF TWO PRIZES : MISS BARRY WITH HER HACK,
NICOLETTE.
WITH SIR HOWARD FRANK'S CHAMPION HACK, LIGHTHOUSE:
MISS DOREEN FRANK.
CAVALIERS AND LADIES GALLOPING PAST THE ROYAL BOX : A COSTUME
ON THE DAY OF QUEEN ALEXANDRAS VISIT.
EVENT
PRINCESS ALICE, LADY ATHLONE, PRESENTING THE KING’S
CHALLENGE CUP TO P.C. BROWN (MOUNTED POLICE).
WINNER OF THE COACHING MARATHON FOR PRIVATE COACHES :
WITH HIS TEAM OF BLACKS.
WINNER OF THE COACHING
MARATHON FOR ROAD COACHES : MR. W. A.
DRIVING HIS •■VENTURE.”
barro*
The Richmond Royal Horse Show, which opened in the Old Deer Park on June 9. proved as attractive as ever. One of the chief events of the first day was the Drivioi ^
Marathon, which started from the Powder Magazine in Hyde Pa.k. Lord Ludlow, who took first prize and special prize for carriage and equipment, was the first to orri« i
Miss Barry’s fhcolette was second in the class for hacks under 15 hands and third in that for ponies of 14 hands 2 inches and under. On the second day Queen Al«*a^ r3
was present, and the Lord Mayor, Sir James Roll, established a precedent by driving his own four-in-hand from the Mansion House, with a team of dark browns. He is a
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18. 1921—815
HORSE SHOW; INCLUDING THE COACHING MARATHON.
WINNER OF THU DRIVING MARATHON PAIRS : LORD LUDLOW,
WITH LADY LUDLOW, DRIVING HIS CHESTNUTS.
MASSED TENT-PEGGING IN ARAB COSTUME : A PICTURESQUE DISPLAY BY MEMBERS
OF THE MOUNTED POLICE.
THE LORD MAYOR S ARRIVAL : SIR JAMfcS ROLL WITH HIS OWN FOUR-IN-HAND i
WHICH HE HAD DRIVEN FROM THE MANS ON HOUSE.
member of the. Four-in-Hand Club. Sir Howard Frank's Lighthouse took three firsts and the Hack Challenge Cup. Miss Mary Putnam’s Playful won the first prize for ponies
ridden by children under fourteen. A fine display of horsemanship, in which the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry took great interest, was given by the Metropolitan Mounted
Police Patrol. The King’s Challenge Cup for the best trained horse was won by Xi2, ridden by P.C. Brown (X Division). Princess Alice. Countess of Athlone, presented the
Cup. Mr. Claud F. Goddard won the Coaching Marathon for private coaches, and Mr. W. A. Barron that for road coarh*«
THE. ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, June 18, 1921.—816
__ Tur WFEK • AND A BRITISH WAR MEMORIAL.
personalities the week , 1 AN. ....
DINNER OF THE 1000 - GUINEAS GOLF TOURNAMENT
AT GLENEAGLES : ABE MITCHELL.
COMMANDING GERMAN TROOPS IN UPPER SILESIA :
GENERAL HOFER, WHO LOST AN ARM ON THE SOMME.
RUNNER-UP IN THE 1000-GUINEAS GOLF TOURNAMENT
AT GLENEAGLES: J. H. KIRKWOOD.
_ _
THE PASSING OF A GREAT LABOUR LEADER: THE FUNERAL
OF MR. WILL CROOKS IN EAST LONDON.
A TRIBUTE TO OVER 13,000 BRITISH OFFICERS AND MEN: THE MEMORIAL
TO THE 25th DIVISION UNVEILED AT BAILLEUL.
AN AMERICAN SPORTSMAN WHO FOUGHT FOR BRITAIN :
THE LATE MR. C. T. GARLAND.
THE DEATH OF A FAMOUS HOAXER : THE LATE
"LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT.”
THE NEW “ ANTI-WASTE
WESTMINSTER: MR.
” MEMBER FOR ST. GEORGE'S
J. M. M. ERSKINE, M.P.
In the final of the One Thousand Guineas Golf Tournament at Gleneagles, on
June it, Abe Mitchell beat J. H. Kirkwood, over thirty-six holes, by seven holes
up and six to play. - General Hofer is the commander of the German “ self-
defence ” forces in Upper Silesia who has shown a defiant attitude towards the
Inter-Allied Mission.-The funeral of Mr. Will Crooks on June 9 was the
occasion of a great demonstration of popular sympathy. The procession went
from All Saints, Poplar, to Bow Cemetery. - A memorial to 625 officers and
12,663 N.C.O.’s and men of the British 25th Division who fell in the war was
unveiled by General Sir Alexander Godley in Bailleul on June 7. * . o the
pseudo - explorer “Louis de Rougemont,” known as Louis Redmond, ‘ e Henri
Kensington Infirmary, aged eighty-five, on June 9. His real name was_
Louis Grin, and he was born at Gressy, in French Switzerland, in 1 * ' y j
Mr. J. M. M. Erskine (Ind. Anti-Waste) defeated Colonel Sir H. M. ^ ^
in the bye-election at St. George’s, Westminster, on June 7. e
Mr. C. T. Garland, who died suddenly, was a well-known American millionaire
horse owner and polo enthusiast. He joined the British Army in 19 * 4 -
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18. 1921.—317
A RECONCILER IN IRELAND: VICEROY “AT A GRAVE MOMENT.”
_ F "° M ™ E PORTRA ' T BV T ‘ PB “ C,VAL AN ’ DERSON - M B F - Copyrighted ,h the U.vited States a*d Canada.
THE CATHOLIC LORD LIEUTENANT WELL RECEIVED IN ULSTER: VISCOUNT FITZALAN, THE KING’S REPRESENTATIVE
AT THE PRELIMINARY OPENING OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND IN BELFAST.
Viscount FitzAlan, who (as Lord Edmund Talbot) was recently appointed Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland and was subsequently made a Peer of the United Kingdom,
represented the King at the preliminary opening of the Parliament of Northern
Ireland in Belfast on June 7. The State opening by the King in person has
been fixed for June 23 . Lord FitzAlan, who is a Catholic, made a favourable
impression during his visit to Ulster, by his personality and his plain speaking
on the Irish situation. Before leaving Belfast he received addresses from
25 public bodies, by whose representatives he was heartily cheered. “This is
not the time,” he had said to them, “to indulge in light hopes or prophecies.
We are come together at a grave moment in Irish history. . . . But I know
that you will join with me in an earnest prayer and in an active hope that the
change in the Constitution of this country, which has now reached so critical a
a stage, may be turned to the advantage of Ireland and may find its issue in
Irish peace, in Irish prosperity, and in Irish happiness.”
818—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1921
A GAME IN WHICH ENGLAND IS NOW MEET1!
Ground 300 by 200 y«>
Umpire
GoalI
>4 8v»W>oe|
back 4
BACK
30 YARDS Lll
30 YARDS UNE
lr two PLAYERS ARE W U
RIDING FROM DIFFERENT
DIRECTIONS TO NIT THE 6ALt>^< v tH
THE PLATER IN POSSESSION OF THE BALL M0<
Diagram of ground with players in position reaoy to start
THE CAME.
A FREE BIT AT THE BALL <
FROM A SPOT 50YARDS FROM
tHE GOAL LINE OF THE SIDE,
FOULING. OPPOSITE THE CENTRE
OF GOAL. OR FROM WHERE
THE FOUL OCCURRED-
Duration of play :
SEVEN PERIODS OF EIGHT
MINUTES,WITH INTERVALS OF
THREE MINUTES AFTER EACH
PERIOD.
A Player may
ride our AN
antagonist.
No PLAYER SHALL CROOK AN ADVER!
STICK. UNLESS HE IS ON THE SAME
OF AN ADVERSARY^ PONY At THE
OA IN A DIRECT UNE BENINO .
A PLAYER MAY
INTERPOSE HIS PONY
BEFORE HIS. ANTAGONIST.
*0 AS TO PREVENT THE LATTER
REACHING THE BALL .
S^^Should f
V Vf BROKEN, HE *
y *PLACE WHERE STIC
TAKE ONE.
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST DURING THE FIRST POST-WAR INTERNATIONAL P®®
NOW immensely pop^
r?L.' n . te n, ‘^’ n * 1 ,™°. b " W “ n E “ gl *" d “ d «*• year hove been orronged begio Hurli„ghon. on June The poH"*
“ f give r,7bl7 \! ' 7 “"’ d0 “ bU '“ > h »“*» d * °< -P" -»■ -.oh .be conung eo„«t In order L h.lpthen, ,0 Mto. •» g
was held at Newport Rh d II T • ” so *' *** ,nteresting to reca11 here the results of the previous international polo contests since their commencemen g
was held at Newport. Rhode Island, in ,886. when England won the two matches played, the first by ,o goals to 4 , «d the second by ,4 » * U ^
1
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1921.-^819
Edvards.
THE GAME IN PROGRESS
N®3 IN'SUPPORT INTERFERED
WITH BY OPPOSING N*2.
ERICA: POLO—THE PRINCIPAL RULES ILLUSTRATED
I (white) rides out back
N°2. BRINGS on THi BALL
interfered WITH by opposing N ?3
Opposing NT 1
marking back
In the event of a stick being
DROPPED HE MUST PICK IT UP HIMSELF
A PLAYER FALLS OFF HIS PONY. THE UMPIRE SMALL NOT
OP THE GAME UNLESS HE IS OF OPINION THAT TH* PLANER » INJURED
THE CASE OF A PLAYER BEING DISABLED BY A FOUL, PENALTY A GOAL IS GAINEO WHEN A BALL PASSES
’i„ bttw.in the cow. posts
THE SIOE FOULING,WHO SHALL RETIRE FROM THE CAME.
GAME SHALL BE CONTINUED WITH THREE PLAYERS .ASIDE.
AND OVER THE GOA*. LINE
ATCHES: DETAILS SPECTATORS MUST KNOW TO APPRECIATE A GAME
lj ) A SPECTACLE.
irlingham, England won the one match played by 8 goals to a. In 1902, at Hurlingham, England won two out of the three matches. America won the first by 2 goals
,.. 1 ; England the others by 6 to 1 and 7 to 1 respectively. In 1909, again at Hurlingham, America won the two matches played by 9 to 5 and 8 to 2. In 19x1, at Meadow
.00k, U.S.A., America won the two matches played by 4} goals to 3 and 4} to 3J. In 19x3, at Meadow Brook, America won the two matches played by 5I goals to
^and 44 to 4$. In 1914, at Meadow Brook, England succeeded in regaining the Cup, winning the two matches played (on June 13 and 17) by 8} goals to 3 and
y to 2f respectively.— [Drawing Copyrighted in the United Slates and Canada.)
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18 , 1921.-820
BOOKS OF THE DAY
WrKji \ CANNOT ima 8 ine
1 anything more in-
teresting for the young his-
*7f® l)/ torian than a study of Revo-
lution through the ages. It
would have to begin with
the " Servile War ” begun by Spartacus and
with the truceless struggle waged by Carthage
against her mercenaries, the horrors of which are
the substance of Flaubert’s “ Salammbo,” certainly
the most brilliant " reconstruction ’’ we have of
an episode in ancient history. It would go on to
the many peasants’ revolts in Europe during the
later Middle Ages—more especially the horrible
Jacqueries in France, of which the rising of Wat
Tyler was but a comparatively mild and colourless
imitation. It would trace the history of the
secret societies and nocturnal assemblages which
celebrated the Black Mass, and were sometimes
attended by as many as twenty thousand persons
(including high-placed personages and even knights
who had worn the Crusader's scarlet cross) in certain
districts of Southern France. Michelet (in ’’ La
Sorci&re,” an indispensable guide to the sub¬
terranean history of his country*) and other French
historians have to some extent investigated this
perplexing yet fascinating subject. Yet the full
and complete history of Revolution in Europe
before the famous explosion in France at the
end of the eighteenth century remains to be
written, and I commend the task to some young
Oxford or Cambridge historian who wishes to add
a work of permanent value, such as Bryce’s " Holy
Roman Empire," to our literature of knowledge.
Hitherto English historians have looked upon
the French Revolution as a picturesque manifes¬
tation, somewhat marred by the recrudescence of
the beast in man, of mankind’s passion for freedom ;
they have even excused the Terror as an inevitable
result of the intolerable sense of centuries of cold
and calculating oppression. Carlyle’s point of view
has coloured their preconceptions, and only Lord
Acton—who was so infinitely learned that he
dared not try to decant his learning into books—
ever lifted a comer of the red curtain to see how,
and by whom, the great affair
was actually engineered. And
he said that the most appalling
thing about the French Revo¬
lution was the evidence of
design —the certainty that, so
far from being a spontaneous
rising of long-oppressed poor
people, it was a movement pre¬
meditated. prepared, and carried
out in set stages by unseen
persons, probably a small group,
whose motives and purposes
were undecipherable at first
sight. If Lord Acton had not
suffered from a life-long reluct- ^
ance to write down his conclu-
sions from any set of historical /'y'*
facts or even formulate them to
himself, he would none the less
have shrunk from re-writing the il
epic of blood and irony called ' )
the French Revolution, which
was in fact the greatest calamity
that ever befell the French work¬
ing classes Had he done so.
he must have been accused of
assisting the cause of Clerical¬
ism—a charge which he would 1
have done (or left undone) any- v
thing to avoid incurring. And \
so the task has been left to Mrs.
Nesta H. Webster, who has the
merciless intelligence and keen
logical faculty of the French -
rather than the English histori¬
cal school. Her " French Re- /
volution ” admirably sums up
the scientific conclusions, based ,
upon a disinterested collecting
and collating of facts, of the
modem French historians (such
as M. Lenotre), who have proved
beyond all reasonable doubt
that it was a vast conspiracy
for the destruction of the exist¬
ing social order in France and
the absolute negation of any-
scheme to better the lot of the BOTTICELLI’S
French proletariat. Mrs. Web- PIP _ _ 1U _ .
ster has added much of her
own, in the spirit as well as the Botticelli s illustr
letter to the results obtained by Zl!n. 'ijrf
French investigators, and it is .
By E. B. OSBORN.
true to sav—as has been said by another reviewer
of her latest work —that she brought about
revolution in the history of Revolutions.
In " World Revolution : The Plot Against
Civilisation ’’ (Constable ; 18s. net), she con¬
tinues her inquiry down to the present date,
THE AUTHOR OF "WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS”:
MR. JOHN RUSSELL.
Mr. John Russell’s volume of short stories, “ Where the
Pavement Ends” (Thornton Butterworth, Ltd), has attracted
much attention, and is being widely read. He takes the reader
to the South Seas, and other remote and little-known places.
dealing with the tumults of 1848, the Commune
of 1871, and the Russian Revolution which has
taken place under our very eyes and, like a stone
dropped into a pool, has sent waves of revolu¬
tionary feeling throughout Western civilisation
and even through certain regions of the Orient.
In all these cases the evidence of design, the
BOTTICELLI’S ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE " DIVINE COMEDY,” LATELY REPRODUCED FOR THE
FIRST TIME: AN EXAMPLE—BEATRICE EXPLAINING TO DANTE THE LIFE OF PARADISE.
Botticelli’s illustrations to Dante’s" Divine Comedy ” were done between 1470 and 1483. Some of the originals
Library; others, including several portraits of Dante, in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum at
Berlin. Three of them were reproduced, probably for the first time, in ” LTllustration ’of June 4. The other
two are given on the opposite page.- (PVrfogr„pAj obtained by Professor Paolo Zani.\
sequences of phases,
and the methods of the
revolutionaries
small group)
Revolution, and it is impos¬
sible to avoid believing that the underlying
motive (which is certainly not a desire to give
freedom to the masses and a higher standard of
living, for the immediate result is to bind them
more strictly in heavier and tighter chains) is
some ancient and malignant hatred of civilisation
as it exists to-day. The same ideas are, and have
always been, the stock-in-trade of all revolutionary
groups. In order to elucidate this matter, Mrs.
Webster compares in parallel columns five docu¬
ments, four proved and one unproved : the archives
of the Bavarian Illuminati captured by the Elector
of Bavaria (1776-1786) ; the secret letters of
Piccolo Tigre to the Haute Vente Romaine (1822*
1848) ; the principles of the Alliance Sociale as
formulated by Bakunin ; the official writings of
Lenin and other leading Bolshevists; and the
" Protocols ” published by the Russian Nilus in
1906. The similarities are startling in the ex¬
treme ; in all five cases the same procedure of
moral corruption in all its bearings is proposed, and
it is impossible for me to doubt—having made
a study of Satanism particularly in its mediaeval
manifestations—that the end in view has always
been the destruction of religion and of all insti¬
tutions based thereon. It is a hideous task in
which the deracinis of all religions are eager to
co-operate, as indeed we can see, and they may
succeed in bringing about this world-revolution
if we do not take steps to prevent their propaganda,
which consists of Socialism, Sexualism, and Satan¬
ism in equal parts. On a vastly larger scale
they are preparing to contract out of Christian
civilisation as the Albigenses did centuries ago.
It is at times when a new orientation of
thought is taking place, when humanity’s ideals
are in the melting-pot, when old institutions—
such as the Ciesarism which becomes Kaiserism
here and Tsarism there—have
been overthrown, that the
■—““"“■“““I revolutionary spirit is most
dangerous. We have reached
such a period, and one of the
proofs that it is so is the criti¬
cism of old forms of mathe¬
matical certainty which has
culminated in Einstein’s Theory
of Relativity. There is no in¬
tellectual short cut to a real
understanding of this complex
hypothesis, which was so bril¬
liantly vindicated by the ob¬
servations of the deflection of
light rays during the last total
eclipse of the sun. To com¬
prehend it all you must know
the mathematical language, a
system of symbols of quantities
m and processes, in which such
' - % . matters are lucidly and briefly
_ expounded. But you can ap-
'■ ( prehend its nature, if you make
a careful study of the chapters
’ ( ’(/ dealing with it in " The Reign
S ) of Relativity ” (John Murray;
« > 2 is. net), by Viscount Haldane,
who has been working for forty
years at his survey of modem
philosophic tendencies. The
great value of his book is this.
he shows us that anew"thought-
shift ’’ has been proceeding which
is as far-reaching and profoundl)
significant as that which, cen
turies ago, ousted man from
his supposed position as centre
of the cosmos and God’s all-en¬
grossing care. The age of New
ton gave us a block-universe, a
colossal and intricate mechan¬
ism built up of eternal elements
and operated by eternal laws.
The age of Einstein gives us a
universe which is a living or
ganism, always in a state 0^
- change and flux, for even ts
DUCED FOR THE elements are dissolving[.• « a
tivitv then is a revolutionary
' , — ;«rc e y ; i n“ i .depr,v«c,.ed ! »
Wr ™ SL-o”.^a Mi .v
822 —THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1921
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LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1921. — 824
THE prince OF WALES AS UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR:
----- Photographs by Akrophoto Co., Ltd., Topical, and C.N.
AT CARDIFF.
SEEM FROM THE AIR
university college,
CARDIFF.
IN HIS CHANCELLOR'S ROBES : THE PRINCE^ WITH
HIS TRAIN-BEARER, LORD DAVID CRICHTON-STUART.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT CARDIFF :
THEIR COLLEGE “YELL” ACCOMPANIED BY A STOOPING ACTION:
_ STUDENTS HAILING THE PRINCE OF WALES.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS (IN NAVAL IINIFoovh i
the.™ ph^ol^v bu™ V ” rc UN,VERS,TY —.
DONOR OF THE NEW MEDICAL
SCHOOL : SIR W. J. THOMAS,
BT., AND HIS SON.
At Cardiff on June 8, the Prince of Wales was installed u Chancellor of the
University of Wales, and then conferred a number of degrees, including one upon
Mr. Balfour. The Prince wore the gold-embroidered robes of a Chancellor, and
his train was carried by Lord David Crichton-Stuart, son of the Marquess of Bute
The ceremony took place in the University CoUege of South Wales and Mon¬
mouthshire, shown above in a photograph taken from the air. It is one of the
constituent colleges of the University, others being at Aberystwyth and Bangor.
health and school of preventive ° * tone ° f the de P* rtment ol P uWic
Institution presented to the ri • ed,cine . * nd °P ened the new Physiological
to him the deed of gift *** Wi,,iatn J* me * Thomas, who handed
of femur bones held Ifoft b^medic^ bui,dinBS under *" Wch
a balcony, and was greeted bv * tud «nts. Uter, he addressed them from
both by men and women student ** y#B '” with frett « nthusi " m
THE
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1U21.—825
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THE PRINCE IN THE
WEST : BOTH SHORES OF
Photographs bv I.B., Topical, and C.N.
THE BRISTOL CHANNEL
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S PICTURESQUE ARRIVAL AT NEWPORT :
| THE ROYAL CAR CROSSING ON A TRANSPORT BRIDGE.
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GREETED BY GIRL GUIDES AND “ BROWNIES ” : THE PRINCE ON HIS
WAY TO A REVIEW ON THE ATHLETIC GROUND AT NEWPORT.
WHERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS GREETED BY 40,000 SPECTATORS : A GREAT PARADE OF TROOPS
EX-SERVICE MEN, AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS, IN CARDIFF ARMS PARK.
The Prince of Wales arrived at Cardiff on June 6, and during his visit was the
guest of the Earl of Plymouth at St. Fagan’s. On the 7th he drove to Newport,
where he inspected ex-Service men, Cadets, Girl Guides and “ Brownies,” and
Boy Scouts on the Athletic Ground. On the 8th took place the ceremony at
University College, Cardiff, illustrated opposite. On the 10th a great review was
held on the football ground in Cardiff Arms Park, where 40,000 people assembled
to greet the Prince. There were 5000 men on parade, including ex-Service men,
two battalions of the Welsh Regiment, the 82nd Brigade R.F.A., nurses and
land girls, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. After the inspection the crowd surged
round the Prince, and it was with some difficulty that a passage was made for
him back to his car. He thoroughly enjoyed the scrimmage. On June 10 he
visited Bristol, and spent a strenuous day. Within five hours he received the
freedom of the city and of the Merchant Venturers, reviewed ex-Service men,
laid a hospital foundation stone, and visited the University, the Academy, and
the cricket-match between Gloucestershire and the Australians. After his return
to town the Prince left London for Windsor Castle on June 13.
ILLUSTRATE!
ROYAL ASCOT: THE KING AND QUEEN IN
SHOWING THEIR MAJESTIES UNDER THE CANOPY
YORK: THE RC'tA
NEAR THE CEJNTKC
THE DUKE OF YORK:
:r p T sions aione ,he r-z
Their Majesties and their suite took their places on the canopied dais in the Centre cTtoOZ Ti m SCarl " and gol,J ' SiX 0th “ “"“*“^.0- j '*«
drive was arranged for the 16 th. To the right (just beyond the staircase' will k . * Enclosure ' as seen in the photograph. The second /
beyond sta.rcase) mil be recogn.sed ex-King Manoel of Portugal (the second figure), and a » l **
WS, June 18, 1921.—827
ILION AT THE GREAT SOCIETY RACE - MEETING.
D, AND (FURTHER TO THE RIGHT) EX-KING MANOEL, PRINCESS MARY. AND
C AL PAVILION AT ASCOT.
Dng Princess Mary, next to the Duke of York. As at the Derby, most of the visitors to Ascot journeyed thither by road, and there was a great pilgrimage of
otor-cars and other vehicles. The airship “ R 36 ” acted as scout, in wireless communication with the police, for the purpose of traffic control, and everything
ent smoothly in that respect. Society was there in force, and as usual there was a brilliant display of fashion. Considerable alterations and improvements to
. ie stands have been made since last year, and the original stand, erected in 1839 , has been practically rebuilt.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
ART IN THE SALE ROOMS
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
exquisite colourings. Every range of glorious opal
effect has been used ; mainly four or five fire opals
are used in each brooch, and the sizes are appre¬
ciably large, being equal to the natural insect.
The patient collecting and skilful matching of
these took the late owner a lifetime. As artistic
modern jewel work in precious stones, they ex¬
hibit completed craftsmanship. Some cameos in
opal are equally interesting. One has the figure of
Aurora in relief, and another the figure of Am-
p hi trite rising from the sea. The natural colourings
of selected opals have been used to obtain colour
effects, and as bases of design : from the green
waves, or the striated effect of the rising sun,
graduated tones in drapery melt into the lines
of the outstanding figures. This sale, on Alex¬
andra Day, is to be completed by an interesting
event. A bouquet of roses is being sent by Queen
Alexandra from the gardens at Sandringham,
and will be put up for auction. The Mayoress of
Chelsea sent roses similarly last year, and the
sum of ^iooo was raised by Christie’s clients
for the hospital funds. On this occasion it is
to be hoped that this record will be beaten,
was theirs within \ J
the confines of their N.
technique. Initial letters
and borders have a poetry
of design unequalled. How
"Lancelot du Lac,” a ’%
vellum manuscript in three volumes. ' v\ '
is of the thirteenth and fourteenth ^
centuries, and the third volume fifteenth cet,
tury : the miniatures and illuminations decorate
the story of the Arthurian legend before the
version of Thomas de Malory, carried on by
Tennyson in his " Idylls of the King."
Brilliant prices are expected from this superb
collection. The smallest manuscript and the
latest, in date 1530, is contained in a little
case of gold decorated with enamel and pink
stones. It is a devout creed of profession
of the Catholic faith (" Credo or Protesta-
cicn del Emperador ”), and is associated with
Charles V.; hence its rarity, and the pages are only
1 in. by 1 j in. A pretty bauble of great historic
interest.
Armour claims respect when it is collected
But at the sale ol
_the Wilton House
~ armoury, the pro-
M| perty of the Earl
of Pembroke, we
have armour worn
ICgy / npHE skilled col-
—q y I lector can win
distinction if he pursues
his hobby thoroughly,
and has the means and
* ///I the time to become ex¬
's© ' • hausiive. The Bruton collections
exemplify this. The late owner’s spe¬
cialisation was remarkable. He made a collection
of Cruikshank works, and sold them well in
1897. He took up eighteenth-century mezzotints,
and amassed many of the choicest examples of
portraiture. His Dickens first editions, just sold
by Messrs. Sotheby on the 9th and 10th, prove
his industry in another field. ” Nicholas Nickleby,"
" David Copperfield,” ” Dombey and Son,” and
others, were in parts as issued in the original
wrappers. The “ Pickwick Papers ” brought /910.
Rowlandson, the caricaturist, had sixty-eight
original drawings made during a tour to Spithead
to view the wreck of the Royal George, in 1782.
The delicate pencil and Indian-ink drawings
washed with colour are a picture gallery repre¬
senting village streets, inns, coffee-rooms, and
scenes in the days of
the post-chaise. Row- _
land son's “ English j -
Dance of Death” T
offered eighty- ^
THE GREAT VOGUE OF OLD ARMOUR: A FINE SUIT FOR MAN AND HORSE IN THE PEMBROKE SALE.
The above is an important lot in the sale of armour from Wilton House. Salisbury, belonging to the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, to
be held at Sotheby’s on June 23. The man's armour is of the type known as splinted harness, or ” anime.” It has bands of gold decoration
on a russet ground. The helmet is a Burgonet. The horse armour is also russet and gold, similarly decorated, and consists of chanfron, crinet,
peytral and crupper piece. Armour is having a great vogue among collectors, and huge prices have lately been realised. Thus, at the recent
Morgan S. Williams sale at Christie’s, a large suit of armour fetched 46C0 guineas, while 2200 guineas were paid for a horse’s chanfron and crinet,
and 2950 guineas for a fifteenth-century Italian sword. Many other lots brought from 500 to 900 guineas each.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge.
even although " the time is out of joint,”
and purses have grown lean.
The Yates Thompson illuminated manuscripts,
some sixteen in number, come up for sale by
Messrs. Sotheby on the 22nd. But what is
number " when excellence outweighs all due
accompt,” and fifteen early printed books make
up the sale to fill a summer afternoon ? And the
illustrated catalogue of these rare treasures of
scholarship of collecting sells for a guinea, and
they pass under the hammer to great bibliophiles
and to Transatlantic libraries. In glorious pro¬
cession they have made pilgrimage across Europe,
have weathered tumultuous storms of heretic
vandalism, have lain perdus but not forgotten.
Joyousness, piety, patient craftsmanship went to
these illuminations. The clerks of yesteryears,
forerunners of those who sit immured nowadays
on more mundane transactions in a complex
civilisation, were as a caste apart, cloistered and
secluded from wars and commotions, harried only
when fire and rapine devastated their domain.
Before Caxton they quietly carried on the written
of vertical gold bands sunk below the sur
of the steel and finely engraved, is of ex c *P"
tional interest. The original owner married e
famous Mary Sidney, sister of Sir Philip Sidney
from whom the Earls of Pembroke descend. e
epitaph on this lady runs—
Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse.
Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother.
Death ! ere thou hast slain another,
Learn'd and fair and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Hence Jacob the Armourer and Ben Jonson
the poet join hands in hall-marking for posten >
this suit of armour. In the gorgeous days 0
pageantry, it was Sidney's sister, now undern J*“
the sable hearse, who saw her lord ride fort
jousts and tournaments in this glorious sui °
armour. We have in the Old Country muc ^
interest American visitors, and our auction room
afford perennial delight. There is nothing 1
it in the New World, and very little like it in ur0
_ t of the world
Messrs. Christie, on the 22nd, offer a collection
of unset stones, including remarkable sapphires,
2384 specimens, exhibiting every known shade
and tint, arranged in a colour scheme in case,
by the late Herbert C. Maxwell Stuart, a collec¬
tor of unerring judgment, who devoted many
years of his life to the patient search for these
stones. A sapphire is blue to the man in the street,
but these sapphires embrace black, green, orange,
mauve, blue, red and yellow, and as a collection
have no equal. A fine series of specimen opals
mounted in gold, as butterfly brooches, offer
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, June 18 , 1921 —829
DESIGN AND FINISHED WORK: A 15TH-CENTURY
C " , "' T “ V <* *""*"■ a.. Ha«*. That op th. A„nW. 1 ,„a»,„„ at
OP THE Victoria and Albert Museum.
PEMBROKE SUIT.
Kind Permission of the Director
WITH UMBRIL DIFFERENT FROM THAT IN THE DESIGN ON THE 7^
LEFT IN THE ARMOURER’S DRAWING (ADJOINING) : THE BURGONET.
T HERE is a difference in the shape of the burgonet. where the umbril (bi.’m) starts,
between the drawing and the actual helmet. The umbril in the drawing L.-rves
up and out; in the actual helmet it turns out at a sharp angle. At the back is a plume-
holder, and above it are two holes for a lace to fasten it. The actual tailing buff (the
lower part of the helmet, to be attached to the burgonet) has ten slits for sight and
breathing on each side, while in the drawing (to tne left of the full figure) there are only
six a side. The ocularium (eye-space) was formed by the interval between the umbril
and the top of the buff The breastplate had on its right side (left in the photograph)
five Urge staples (one is missing) for holding the lance-rest. In the lower centre is a
square hole for fixing on the extra placate for the joust. Among the decorations are the
George and Garter, supported by an engraved representation of a chain, the George being
on the upper part of the wide central band, which consists of interlaced strap ornament,
trophies of arms, and shields. Similar decorations occur on the high comb of the bur-
gonet, which has interlaced scrolls and groups of trophies, Roman breast-plates, drums
and flags : in the centre is the George, surrounded by the Garter, and surmounted by a coronet.
Old armour now commands enormous prices in the sale-room, as witness the £30,679
realised in the first two days of the recent dispersal of the Morgan S. Williams collec¬
tion. Th* suit illustrated above, made by Jacob the Armourer for Henry Herbert,
Earl of Pembroke (c. 1534-1601) is included in the sale of armour from Wilton House,
Salisbury, the property of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, to be held at
Sotheby's on June 23. “ Much of the importance of the suit,” says the sale catalogue,
“ is derived from the fact that the drawing for it (reproduced above) is included
in the famous album by Jacob the Armourer, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In Lord Dillon’s reproduction of that book ... the Pembroke suit is followed
by a plate of extra pieces. None of these extra pieces survive, except the burgonet
and falling buff which now accompany the suit in place of the closed helmet shown
in the drawing.” The closed helmet does not exist, and may never have been
made. The burgonet and buff are shown on the left side of the Armourer's drawing.
On the right are extra tassets. The actual suit otherwise follows the drawing very closely.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18. 1921.—830
By J. T. CREJN .
B EWARE of the Great Unacted, brother
critics ! He is an ungrateful dog. He sends
you coaxing letters to read his play, as if it were
a critic's business to be a doctor as well as a
judge. If you decline because your time is your
money, as well as other people’s ; if you tell him
that you charge heavy fees, to discourage the
practice of encroachment, but that you are ever
ready in the cause of authors who are unendowed
with the world’s good6—he answers your
urbanity often with insult, thereby disgracing
himself and destroying the chances of the
next comer. I have had many bitter experi¬
ences in this direction, and the offenders
deserve the pillory which I will spare them,
leaving requital to their own conscience.
What a fortnight ! Sometimes two a
day, and, curiously enough, better material
than often during a month. First of all,
the revue at the Vaudeville, " Puss ! Pu6s ! "
a charming multum in parvo quite worthy
of its predecessors, as delightful as a bab¬
bling brook, graced by that fine artist
Miss Lee White, whose wonderful per¬
sonality and husky voice fill the stage and
the auditorium. Then there is Clay Smith,
her husband, a perfect foil, the man whose
dancing is as rhythmic as his diction—and
others full of fun. And skits galore ! With
a cigar or cigarette to match, it is the
very thing to make a happy evening.
Albert de Courville, with " Pins and
Needles,” at the Gaiety, has once more
come home. What I like about him is
his daring and his unlimited horizon. He
sees greatly, and he often sees beautifully—
in the blending of colours, in the evolu-
'tion of ideas. Who could forget the lamp¬
shades—who could forget Dinard ? In fact,
how many of the twenty-five scenes are not
melodious, witty, and sarcastic ? Edmund
Gwenn is the undisputed hero of the occa¬
sion, and I would class him a twin brother
of that other little geniuS, Nelson Keys.
Hithe.to we have known our Edmund as
the British Guitry ; now we may have to
hurry and add he is also a kinsman of the late
lamented Germain, that protean comedian, who
like the snake could shed his skin and always
emerge a new being. To see Edmund Gwenn
dance, to hear him
named, and to a chorus which for beauty, charm,
and distinction is unrivalled on the operatic stage of
the Metropolis. Especial word of praise should be
given to Phyllis Titmuss, who does many things
and does them all well, and is one of the most
bewitching figures in the realm of the lighter muse.
If there is one man whose work ’
speaks, as it were, from my heart,
love, who
who looks
” CHOUT,” AT THE PRINCES: M. THADEE SLAV1NSKY AS THE
BUFFOON AND MME. LYDIA SOKOLOVA AS THE BUFFOON'S WIFE.
“ Chout ” (The Buffoon), a Russian legend in six scenes, has been added to
the., repertoire of the Russian Ballet, at the Princes Theatre, and has
aroused much interest. Its scenery and dress are Futuristic; the music,
by M. Serge Prokofiev, is ultra-modern.
Photograph taken at the Repetition Generate by Walter Benin [ton.
upon the world with great power of observation,
with deep knowledge, and with the godly gift
of imagination—that man is John Galsworthy.
We have seen two plays of his in one week—-
sing, to behold him im¬
personating a kind of
Methuselah greeting a
prodigal daughter, is
a feast for the gods
and the groundlings.
And besides him there
are Mi66 Maisie Gay,
Mr. Jack Morrison, and
Miss Billie Hill, another
twin, this one, of Mi6s
Binnie Hale ; and then
there are those blonde
Siamese, the Sist ers
Duncan, who, with
their bubble and their
squeaks, took our hearts
by storm. The Gaiety
is itself again, and
gaily flies the pennant
of Albert de Courville.
More cheers ! This
time for a Dutchman
and an Englishman.
David de Groot, the
maestro of the Picca¬
dilly, and Claude B
Yearsley, who have had
the 'Courage to import
a charming Austrian
operetta, " The Gip6y
Princess,” by Kalman,
and two foreign artists,
M. de Jari, favourite
pupil of De Reszke,
and Sari Petrass, who
from Budapest to the
coast of Holland is
looked upon as a star
among the Btarlets.
« The Gipsy Princess ” was an instantaneous suc¬
cess, thanks to the swing and lilt and tune of the
music, thanks to the voices of the two singers
PROKOFIEV'S "CHOUT"
" COOK ”
WITH FUTURISTIC SETTING: THE BUFFOONS DECIDE TO TAKE THE
AWAY WITH THEM.
The Buffoon plays a trick on seven other Buffoons, by pretending to kill his Buffoon Wife, and then whipping her to Hie again.
Entranced by this, the seven Buffoons buy the magic whip, kill their wives, and then proceed to whip them, to restore them
to life. As they have actually slain them, needless to say, they are not successful I Thereupon, they decide to make an end
Of the Bufgpon. They seek him out, but fail to find him, for he has hidden his wife and disguised himself as a woman cook.
As cook, he fascinates the Buffoons, and is taken into their service. Further, a rich merchant chooses him as wife I In the
end, after various fantastic complications, the Buffoon and his wife are left in enjoyment of the wealth brought by the whip.
Photograph taken at the Repetition Generate by Walter Benington.
on " The First and the Last ” I rubbed my tyts
in wonderment. How can one call this painful
but human story Guignolesque ? How can one
compare 6uch humanity to thrills of horror? Is
not this short act in its three scenes a cogent
defence of the Magdalen preserving her heart un¬
spoilt by servitude in a wicked world ? Does it
not with tragic force indicate how an innocent
man by circumstantial evidence may become
enmeshed in dile mma and peril ? Does it
not convey in miniature the message that
love is the great redeemer ? All this may
be debatable, for Galsworthy is bold, with
strong opinions of his own; therefore the
play may not be accessible to all; but on
those to whom it is, it leaves indelible im¬
pressions. And now, besides the beautiful
acting of Miss Meggie Albanesi, actress of
temperament, of insight, of power, we dis¬
covered what we believed to be lurking in
Mr. Owen Nares. Here was no longer the
darling of the gods, the charming young
man of somewhat precious speech ; here was
a human being, suffering, shaken by emotion,
true in all he had to convey. He may safely
launch into Hamlet ; he will succeed.
Not less than the playlet did the greater
play, ” A Family Man,” at the Comedy,
carry me away. Some people said that it
was hard ; that it created pity for the man
instead of for his surroundings; that there
were not such great egotists in our midst
who would sacrifice wife and children in
their desire to dominate. Those who say
that do not know England, do not know the
man of the North, do not understand the
parochial spirit. It is the story of thousands
of homes, where the man’s dictate, like
another William’s, is sic volo sic jubeo, and
all the rest can go to the devil. These sub¬
ordinated wives, these children living in fear
and trembling, in vain rebellion—they are
all true to life. And to turn the X-rays on
to us so that we may understand such human
misery hidden from the world is not only
bold but beneficial.
I have heard people say that this was
a play of propaganda — what they call
Tendenz in Germany ; for the life of me, I cannot
see it. If a man is no longer allowed to repro¬
duce a phase of life as he finds it, relieved by
pure and natural humour ; if he is not allowed
to* use the stage for
something more than
mere entertainment —
well then, God help the
British drama! And
whoever should not ap¬
preciate Galsworthy in
his candid Galsworthi-
ness, let him recall that
lovely note at the end,
when the lone man,
bereft of family, honour,
pride, suddenly sees the
wife whom he has
driven hence re-enter
the room, mix his
night-cap, tender her
hand, take her reticule,
and sit by the fireside
knitting, as if the world
went as it went before.
Here was an organ tune,
and I for one came
away deeply moved.
Beautiful acting by
Mr. Norman McKinnel,
a player of force; by
Miss Mary Barton,
pathetic in her efface-
ment; by two un^
known young girls,
Sibell Archdale and
Miss Agatha Kentish;
especially by Mi* Aunol
Lee—the most fascin-
atnstypeof »F«.cb
maid ever impersonate*!
by an Englishwoman-
concluded a memoraWe
There will he
" The
one in three scenes and one in three acta—and
both of them occupied my thoughts for days.
When I read the opinion of some of my brethren
Family Man,” and I
evening.
a race between ^
Skin Game” and' *
for one believe that
'A Family Man,” with its note of
may be, if not the favourite, vet the wi
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1921.—831
TEST MATCH CROWDS TURNED AWAY: THE HUGE PRESSURE ON LORD’S.
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THE GAME IN PROGRESS ; AND SOME OF THE 30,000 SPECTATORS.
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SHOWING PEOPLE IN THE STREET UNABLE TO GAIN ADMITTANCE : A PANORAMIC AIR VIEW OF THE TEST MATCH
AT LORD’S, TAKEN DURING ENGLAND’S FIRST INNINGS.
Lord’* Cricket Ground proved far too small to accommodate all those who wished as a spectacle has made our old playing-grounds inadequate, and there is a call
to see the second Test Match, which opened on Saturday, June «i. Although for a national cricket ground on a great scale. In the first innings England did
30 ooo people were admitted, many thousands more had to be turned away. better than in the first Test Match at Nottingham, thanks mainly to F. E. Woolley
When the gates were closed it is said, the queue of would-be spectators was and Colonel Douglas, who made 95 »"d 34 respectively of the total of 187. The
nearly a mile long Such was the pressure that even many of the ticket-holders Australians, however, passed this score with the loss of only three wickets. Their
had to wait a long time before they could get in. The great popularity of games first innings closed for 34a, giving them a lead of 155.
M 2 -THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18 , 1921 .
WITH NOISY SPECTATORS, MIRRORS, AND STARTLE p(
Lion*
“BY THESE MEANS THE HORSE IS ACCUSTOMED TO ALL SORTS OF UNUSUAL 1
AT COLONEL RODZIA^ 0
rtidt ofl tfc*
Show jumping is a special branch of horsemanship requiring special methods of training both for horse and man. As Mr. Lionel Edwards points out in his a ^ ^ **
on a later page, the Continental (or Italian) riding seat, which has brought success to so many foreign competitors at Olympia, is better adapted to ^ tru®"*
English hunting seat, excellent as the latter is under the very different conditions of cross-country riding. Mr. Edwards proceeds to explain the Contmen ^ ^ 14**
show jumpers as used in Colonel Rodzianko’s riding school at Sefton Lawn, near Windsor. Colonel Rodzianko, who, with a team of Russian officers,
^ AND SOUNDS ": REHEARSING SHOW CONDITIONS IN THE TRAINING OF JUMPERS
0 RIDING SCHOOL AT WINDSOR.
Cup three years running (in 191a, 1913, and 1914), studied under the late Captain Caprilli, Chief Instructor of the Italian Cavalry School. Describing Colonel Rodzianko'
* ^ system, Mr. Edwards writes : “ The double-page drawing will show, better than any words can explain, the peculiarities of this riding school. The walls are covered not only
1 with familiar advertisements, but with Cubist and (what are often even more startling) cinema posters! There are several mirrors, a gramophone, and a box (shown on the right)
* in which spectators sit and applaud noisily. By these means the horse is accustomed to all sorts of unusual sights and sounds ."—[Drawing Copyrighted w the United States and
1HE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18. 1921.-833
POSTERS: REALISM IN TRAINING HORSE SHOW JUMPERS
Lionel Edvards. *
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18, 1921.—834
HORSE SHOW JUMPING: CONTINENTAL SUCCESSES * REALISTIC TRAINING
By LIONEL EDWARDS.
T HE preparation of jumpers for the Inter¬
national Horse Show may be not without
interest at the present time. In earlier days a
clean sweep was made of the principal events by
the Continental officers, and, although honours
are now somewhat more evenly distributed, the
majority of cups stiU go to foreign nations.
I seem to remember that each year writers in
the Press have offered the same explanation or
defence of British methods, and their want of
success. Roughly recapitulated, these are the
claims: firstly, that foreign officers do not hunt,
or play polo to any great extent, and their only
mounted sports are show jumping and steeple¬
chasing ; secondly, that re¬
peated success in any form
of sport or athletics is en¬
tirely a matter of concen¬
tration in one direction ; and
thirdly, that specialisation is
not desirable in the interest
of 6 port as a whole. There
i 6 a certain amount of truth
in this, especially in the last Aw
sentence, though the question
raised is too large to enter
upon here.
But the fact remains
that: (i) in show jumping
Continental methods arc
wonderfuUy successful ; ( 2 )
that Continental military
authorities believe show
jumping to have practical . -
value, and include it in
military equitation, so much Q t
so, indeed, that the modem JLS ]
military seat and methods V
on the Continent are to a j \
great extent moulded on - -
show-ring riding; ( 3 ) that
apparently there is some
belief in these methods even TWO METHODS OF
in British military circles—at AND THE H0)
any rate, there would not
appear to be any official hostility, but rather the
reverse.
Personally I do not wish to touch on the
matter in a controversial fight, but I cannot re¬
frain from remarking that because a system of
riding (or, indeed, anything else) has been found
good for one particular thing, it does not follow
in any way that its adoption is necessary or even
desirable for other or general purposes.
The Continental methods of training horse and
man are very thorough, and, as far as the horse
is concerned, extend over a considerable period.
Thanks to Colonel Rodzianko—wlfo, it may be
remembered, carried off, with a team of Russian
officers, the King Edward Cup in 1912 , 1913 , and
1914 —I was lately enabled to see something of
this training, and also to have the theory on which
it is founded explained to me. I only trust that
I have digested it correctly ! Colonel Rodzianko
was originally a pupil of James Fillis, icuyer en
chef to the Tsar. Fillis was a pupil of Bauer (I
think)—in any case, these two riding masters
were both at the head of their profession, but
rather ran to extremes both in the theory and
practice of haute icole. After going through a
whole course under Fillis, Colonel Rodzianko had
his confidence in this system rudely shaken by
seeing the riding of the Italian competitors at a
Concours Hippique, and by his experience of
hunting in Rome. The result was that he applied
for permission to be attached to this Italian
Cavalry School. This was granted, and Colonel
Rodzianko was there initiated into the system
taught by the late Captain Caprilli, chief in¬
structor of the Italian Cavalry School. Whatever
our opinions may be of this system of training, it
is to be noted that it was sufficiently well-taught
to be immediately taken up by the Russians,
HARD-MOUTHED
WITH THE RIDER’S WEIGHT FURTHER BACK: THE ENGLISH HUNTING SEAT-
A DIFFERENT STYLE FOR A DIFFERENT PURPOSE.
ONLY MADE POSSIBLE BY HIS TREMENDOUS IMPETU
HORSE: A 'CHASING SEAT.
Drawings by Lionet Edwards
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
YELLOW FEVER AND THE BALANCE OF POWER.
E VERYBODY knows by this time that malaria,
yellow fever, dengue, and other tropical diseases
are attributed to the bite of the anopheles
mosquito, or of one of her relations. I
say “ her," because so far as can yet be
ascertained, it is only the female of the
species whose bite is poisonous, and who
transmits the poison to her descendants, the
male apparently playing the part of a drone
in a hive. How she acquired this property
is also fairly plain. It is not due to any
special gift of Nature, like the poison-fangs
of the snake or the sting of the scorpion, but
to the actual infection of her own blood by
feeding on a human or other patient already
suffering from the fever, to which she hence¬
forth acts as carrier. If, therefore, we could
annihilate the mosquito, we should, so to
speak, cut the telegraph wires, and in time
could suppress the fevers named in the same
way that we have suppressed smallpox.
Now, the best way of effecting this
which has* yet been adopted on a large
scale is to shut in the houses in a fever
area with wire gauze, so that the mosquito
cannot penetrate to her human prey, and
also to pour paraffin into all swamps, pools,
and marsh}’ places in their neighbourhood.
The rationale of this process is that the mos¬
quito lays her eggs in stagnant water and
that the larv*. on hatching, rise to the
surface. If this be coated with an oxvgen-
less fluid such as petroleum or paraffin, they
die for want of oxygen, and there is thus
an end to their fatal activities. But Pro¬
fessor Kudo of Tokio University is now
said to have discovered a more excellent
way. By careful research he has found a
certain microbe, minute and filter - passing,
which attacks both the mosquito and her
eggs and causes the death of either within a
very brief space of time. He has succeeded
in making cultures of this microbe on a
large s^ale, and he finds by actual experi¬
ment that a small dose of these cultures if
poured into a mosquito - haunted pool will
not only kill off all the mosquitoes, but will
cause all their eggs to be infertile. A tea¬
spoonful of culture will therefore have the
effect of a gallon or so of paraffin, and, as it can
be either made on the spot or carried thither in
small bottles, saves the expense and labour of
transporting paraffin from one of the few oil - pro¬
ducing centres to the fever-haunted swamp.
Such is the story now appearing in the non¬
technical Press; and in view of the well-deserved
fame of the Japanese men of science as bactcri-
THE LAUNCH OF H.M. LICHT CRUISER ' EFFINGHAM": TAKING THE
WATER—(INSET) ONE OF THE SHIP’S ANTI-TORPEDO “ BLISTERS.”
The "Effingham" was launched at Portsmouth on June 6. She is the fast of her class;
has a length of 565 ft., a breadth of 65 ft., and a displacement of 9750 tons. Her
engines are designed to give a speed of 31 knots. Her fuel capacity is 800 tons of
coal and 1420 tons of oil. She will carry seven 7’5 guns; six 3-in.; four 3-in. anti¬
aircraft guns; and two 2-pdr. “ pom-poms .”—[Pkoiografik by C.M.]
ologists—it was a Japanese who discovered the microbe
of rabies—it has every appearance of truth. Only-
prolonged and careful experiment can determine
whether the Kudo microbe can be depended anon t.
do his deadly work with unfailing efficiency, or whether
there are countervailing disadvantages attending ha
employment. But if all this turns out satisfactorily
one may be permitted to think what effect it win
have in increasing the part of the earth’*
surface in which life is possible to civilised
man, and how far this will affect the dis¬
tribution of the different races. It has lately
been the fashion among historians to attri¬
bute the gradual extinction of the Greco.
Roman culture in the East to the weakening
of the Latin and Greek races by malaria
and, although the present writer venturer
to think that the perpetual wars with the
Persian power went for much in the afiair,
there is undoubtedly some truth in this view!
If, therefore, the Greeks could have either
paraffined their marshes or treated them
with the Kudo microbe, the Persian power
might never have recovered from its sub-
jugation by Alexander the Great, and the
Roman Campagna might have remained as
habitable as it probably was in the earir
days of the Republic. Or, to come nearer
home, no one can read the novels of
Marryat and Michael Scott without noticing
how the West Indies deserved the name of
the " White Man’s Grave " which they bore
during the American and Napoleonic Wan,
and what effect it might have had on the
future of Europe could we have preserved
the regiments of our best and bravest
youth who died there of yellow and other
tropical fevers.
Professor Kudo’s discovery may there¬
fore have a far-rcaching influence on the
future of the white races. These have
already found the Old World too small for
them, and have even begun to be incon¬
veniently crowded in some parts of the
New. If. however, the fever-stricken parts
of Africa could be made habitable by them,
and they could expand southwards into
some of the smaller States of South and
Central America, there might easily be room
for such an increase of their numbers as
would leave their present supremacy assured.
So would end the visions of a Black Fenl
which periodically float before the eyes of
our Transatlantic cousins; for the Negro, for
some reason at present obscure, does not
sulier from malaria, and the snuffing out of the fever-
breeding mosquito would not therefore make for any
increase in his numbers. F- L-
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LADIES’ NEWS.
T HE latest should be from Ascot, our great annual
dress show. I cannot get it in time for this
week's issue, but hop*, to give it next week, as I am
going for at least two days. Trains from Water¬
loo are “ napoo ” for quiet folk; there will be a
scrimmage for such accommodation as can be
offered, and no pre-booking is allowed. The
King and Queen have a house-party at Windsor
Castle, of which, as I write, it is still hoped that
the King and Queen of Spain will be members.
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was before the war. All that is wanted to
make the week brilliant is fine, warm weather,
and, to the disgust of farmers and gardeners,
rain seems far off.
Secrets are always fascinating: that of the
success of Harrods is particularly so, when it is
disclosed in a beautifully illustrated and well-
produced booklet such as has just been issued by
tha 1 famous house. The author gives the secret
away in the first paragraph. I will not divulge
it, for the booklet is worth having, and will be
sent to clients, or would - be clients, of that
great firm on application. It tells all about
Harrods, and the principal departments are fully
illustrated in a most refined and elegant way.
These beautifully printed pages provide a real
romance—in these days one of the most thrilling
kind of romances—the evolution of a mammoth
business. The educational and recreative plans
for Harrods' helpers are particularly interesting.
“ The Secret of Harrods ” will be found real live
and arresting reading.
Some of us go far afield for the best things
to make the best of our hair, complexion, and
teeth. It seems good in our sight to have
French preparations, or some claiming to hail
from the Himalayas, or the Steppes of Siberia,
or some other odd corner of the world, while
they probably never knew the outside of our
own Metropolis. Then these foolish ones wake
up to the facts, long proved, that old friends
are best, and that nothing beats British, and
go thankfully for Rowlands’ Macassar Oil, to
preserve and make soft and bright our hair;
Rowlands’ Kalydor, which makes and keeps the
skin healthy, soft and fair ; and Rowlands’ Odonto,
a marvellously good preparation to keep teeth white
and strong, to arrest decay, and to make the breath
fragrant and sweet. These preparations can be
obtained at any chemist or stores, or from Row¬
lands, 112, Guilford Street, Grays Inn Road. The
length of their services to the public, and the way
it ever turns and returns to them, is the great guaran¬
tee of the efficiency of Rowlands' preparations.
A NEW OPERA CLOAK.
The pattern of the cloak is that of the rising sun, but its colour is midnight
blue, and of jet at that. In utter contrast to its scintillating surface, the lining
is of matt georgette, though of the same colour as the jet.
Photograph by Shapstoru.
Exceptionally pretty were the deep, velvet-petalled
crimson roses used for the decoration of the church
and for the bridesmaids’ bouquets at Miss Jean
Hamilton's wedding to Mr. W. J. Buchanan Jardine.
The bridesmaids’ dresses were all white and
The bride is. on her mother's side a great **
daughter of Lord Edward Fitrgerald theT
patriot, and his wife. " Pamela.’’ She U a tall
very good -looking girl, and looked graceful T
charming in her pretty bridal attire. * t
The engagements announced of late h
been few, and still fewer are of first-rate '
terest. It would be unfair to blame directivl
coal trouble for the slump in matrimonial t
tures which has undoubtedly occurred h
is popularly believed to be a warm 'taZ
and to create its own fires. Indirectly the
dispute has affected the question of marnage W
some, because of its grip on finance, and *
uncertainty it has engendered about the facr.
What, however, has probably had the peatr .
part in causing a ” slump” in weddings j, * f
“ 1)00111 ” in divorces. Young men and
women, also those of middle age, who dot!fe
up on the smallest provocation during the «.•
are far more careful now. They have seen i*
are seeing so much of married-in-war divorcedt
peace that they decide that further marriages i
peace shall be made with caution—as, in peace
couples see so very much more of each other'
Four weddings of general interest are, hot
ever, coming on. The first is that of the young
American millionaire of nineteen, Mr. Leeds, ^
is to marry in London, probably at the chape:
of the pre-war Russian Embassy, Pnncess Xem
of Russia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George
and of the Grand Duchess George of Russia,
was the Greek Princess Marie, and Mr. Leee
mother is now the wife of the Greek Pnna
Christopher, brother of the Grand Duches
George. There will be the wedding of Mr Gn
Benson, nephew of Sir George Holford and of
Dowager Countess Grey, brother of Lady (Hm
ward) Wake, with Lady Elcho, widow of tfe
late Lord Elcho, second daughter of the Dab
and Duchess of Rutland; also the wedding d
his youngest brother, Captain Constantine Benue,
to Lady Morvyth Ward, second daughter of tit
Earl of Dudley (this will, I am told, not take
.place until the autumn) and the fourth weddur
to-be is that of Viscount Windsor and Lady Ire*
Corona Charteris, youngest daughter of the Eari
and Countess of Wemyss, and sister-in-law d
Lady Elcho. The Duke of Marlborough’s weddw
will probably be in Paris, and quiet, and the Hoc
George Coventry’s wedding with Miss Donne Phife
is to take place in Wales. A. E. L
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' W&C////A OCARETTLS
al£xahoer bocusl a vsxy rro
SJ. P/CCA0/LLV. IV.
Messrs. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON AND HODGE
Will hold the following Sales by Auction at their Large Galleries, 34 and 35, New Bond Street, W.l, each Side
(except where otherwise stated) commencing at 1 o'clock precisely.
JUNE 29-30.—A COLLECTION OF PER¬
SIAN WORKS OF ART, including Early
Pottery, Enamels, Lacquer, Miniatures, Em-
bioideries, and Carpets, the property ol SIR
WALTER TOWNLEY. K.C.M.G., formerly
Minister at Teheran.
Illustrated Catalogues (6 plates), price 2 S. 6 d.
Each Sale may be Viewed two days prior.
Plain Catalogues of all Sales may be had.
J UNE 22.—THE THIRD PORTION
THE MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS P
EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, the
of HENRY YATES-THOMPSON, I
JUNE 23. -ARMOUR from WILTON HOUSE,
SALISBURY, the property of the RT. HON.
THE EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONT¬
GOMERY; also the Famous Early English Tilt¬
ing Helmet, the property of CAPT. HARRY
LINDSAY, Sutton Courtenay, Berks.
Illustrated Catalogues (8 plates), price 10s. 0 d.
perty
Note .—This Sale commences at 2.30 p.m.
Illustrated Catalogues (44 plates), price One Guinea.
JUNE 24. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FUR
NITURE, TEXTILES arid WORKS OF ART,
including the property of HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OI GRAFTON ; of THE RT. ^
HON. LORD O’HAGAN ; of COLONEL A
E. C. AYSHFORD SANFORD, CMC., E;
Nynehead, Somerset ; of HER GRACE £
THE DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON ; also T
some EXTREMELY FINE GEORGIAN fc
FURNITURE from Raynham Hall, Nor.
folk, forming part of the TOWNSHEND £ ^
HEIRLOOMS, etc.
Illustrated Catalogues (12 plates), price 5*. g|
JUNE 27.—VALUABLE OIL PAINT- 4#
INGS, the property of HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OF GRAFTON : of THE
RT HON LORD WILLOUGHBY DE ft
BROKE; of THE RT. HON. LORD DE ®
L ISLE AND DUDLEY ; of the late
BY A GREAT SCOTTISH MASTER: THE PORTRAIT OF ft
CHRISTINA THOMSON, BY SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A.
In the SaU of Jun* 27.
A CHARLES II. ARM-CHAIR: A FINE EXAMPLE OF
STUART FURNITURE.
In the Sato of Jam 24.
(3 plates), price is.
Illustrated Catalogi
the national conscience
should be disturbed at the tragic
figure of over 3,000,000 cases
of Cruelty and Neglect deah with by the NATIONAL SOCIETY for the
PREVENTION of CRUELTY »o CHILDREN m .is 36 year* existence. The
work ol the Society itself ,» a bright record: phys.c.1 and moral J*™*22
kind are redressed through its efforts. No less than 241 , " 8 P®®* : 5 >P8 ®
always on the watch to Prevent and -protect.
\ A CHIEF CONSTABLE WRITES
" My interest and sympathy with the Society is as fresh and green as iteoer has
keen, and that mainly because of the enormous amount of good it is doing, not
only in cur district but all the country ooer. 1 bow of no organisation more
j deserving of the encouragement and support of the commumtu than this. .
WILL YOU LEND A HELPING HAND?
YOU CAM BRING- MAPPINGS* TO LITTLB
CHILDREN BY 8BNOINO A OOMATIOM TO
Central Offices. Leicester Square. W.C. 2
Director. Robert ]. Parr, O.B E.
These series of
Pens neither scratch
spurt. They glide over
.-aghest paper with the
^^^^^ease of a soft lead pencil. Assorted
W Sample Boxes, iojd., to be obtained
f from all Stationers. If out of stock, send
,oJd. in stamps direct to the Works. Birmingham
124, NEWGATE STREET, E.C.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 18. 1921—840
HOtSE-SHOW JUMPING.—C tmUmmt d fr,m M, U4.
been got moving sideways and slightly to the rear he
will soon of himself go straight to the rear when asked.
This lesson, when repeated a few times mounted,
brings the horse back to his bridle when required,
and counteracts the complete liberty of action he has
otherwise acquired.
With the actual method of getting a horse to jump
high obstacles I have not space to deal at length
here, but, roughly explained, the Italian theory is
that the rider can enormously help the horse by his
position, and consequent distribution of weight in the
saddle. I think I am safe in saying no practical
horseman denies this theory, or its application to
show-ring jumping. An examination of the illustra¬
tions will show the difference between the exaggerated
show-ring seat, the Italian seat, and the English hunt¬
ing seat. The exaggerated seat speaks for itself—it is
simply an overdone copy of the Continental method.
In the Italian seat (to be regarded now as the almost
universal Continental seat), it will be observed that to
help the horse to lift its quarters in clearing high ob¬
stacles, the saddle is placed rather forward. The seat
In the English hunting seat the weight is placed
further back, and the man sits in the saddle. His
weight is on his seat and his thighs, his grip at the
knees. He leans slightly back when landing over a
fence, and his hold on the reins is a trifle more
decided. These two different styles have different
objects in view. The show jumper has to negotiate
certain obstacles, most of them high, which give on
contact, and consequently must not be touched if
prizes arc to be won, though the danger from them is
of no great moment. The ground he travels over is
sound, and he is fresh and untired when he meets
the obstacles. On the other hand, the hunter meets
obstacles less alarming to look at, but more serious
to negotiate. If he touches them lightly it is no
matter, but if he hits them hard he falls, not the
obstacle. He has many more jumps to negotiate,
and the ground is anything from grass to bogland,
varying also with the changes of the weather. More¬
over, he is often tired as he comes to fences. Therefore
a rider’s weight carried forward must be detrimental to
him when he lands in heavy ground, and most apt to
convert a peck into a
- . ■ — fall. It appears to me
that the two scats are
excellent for their rc-
spective purposes, but
are neither applicable
Q|' for universal use. Logie-
H. ■ ally speaking, methods
should be changed ac¬
cording to the purposes
we propose to achieve.
AT NEW ZEALAND’S CENOTAPH ON A
A GREAT TRIBUTE OF WREATHS. INC!
FROM THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN
On Amac Day (April 25), the anniversary of the Ai
in Gallipoli, there was a great gathering around 1
OUT TO WIN" AT
THE SHAFTESBURY.
npORTURE
by means of syrens, tantalise him with accouati: ]
delicate dishes and wines they are sampling wtu!-. .
starves, and only keep him alive on crumbs of tan I
and drops of water so that he may go on safe j
Apart from this, and the introduction ofabx l
clergyman and two Bill-Sikes-looking spies, it.. 1
motor-car chase of the Drury Lane type, Her I
Pertwee and Calthrop’s drama of would-be trj j
turns largely on the competition between twopao!
of financiers—one group fiendishly criminal—to sec?
a secret concerned with radium; and it must besu
that, even on its own plane of sensationalism, it c
not hold a candle to “ Bull-Dog Drummond." I
George Tully acts the parts of the hero ini-
tortured double cleverly enough. Mr. C. V. Fw
and Mr. James Carew present real contrasts in rillir
Mr. Fred Lewis, Miss Hilda Bayley, and Mis Ec
Evans arc also in the cast.
scenes
T always seem ille¬
gitimate in the theatre,
whether their inventor
is Sardou or some lesser
luminary, and the scene
of torture Messrs.
Roland Pertwee and
Dion Clayton Calthrop
supply in their "crook”
drama, “ Out to Win,”
is no exception to the
rule. Surely it is a
queer taste that can
get pleasurable excitement out of the spectacle of a
man's being driven nearly mad by lack of food and
sleep ; that can enjoy the cruelty of brutes who, to
wrest a secret from the poor wretch, stop his dozing
AN ATTRACTIVE SOLUTION OF THE HOUSE PROBLEM: ONE OF MESSRS. BROWNE
AND LILLY’S PORTABLE BUNCALOWS.
Many house - hunters do not realise how easy it is to obtain a country home. Messrs. Browne and
Lilly, Ltd., of Thames Side Works, Reading, provide portable bungalows which can be erected at any
desired spot in a short time. The buildings are strong and handsomely designed. The firm also makes
all kinds of other portable buildings, notably portable motor houses, which form an ideal home garage.
of the rider does not touch the saddle, his weight
(and grip) is forward at his knees, and his back is
hollowed. The horse has only the lightest of pressure
on its mouth—in fact, has almost complete liberty.
DAVID CARLAW & SONS LTD.,
51, Plnnleston Street,
GLASGOW. 1.
12th April
Mr. Richardson,
Messrs. The Dunlop Rubber Co.Lid.,
65, Bath Road,
GLASGOW.
Dear Sire:
With reference to our conversation re¬
garding Magnum Tyree, we would like to state
that we have had considerable experience with
this particular tyre on various maohlnes, sap
eolally the . and find that
there is no other tyre on the market, in our
opinion, equal to It. It is quite impossible
to make the oar skid when fitted with these
tyres; and one would think that ths machine
had something special about it to prevent it
from skidding. When fitted with any other
type of tyre it la Just like any other oar, it
must be driven carefully on greasy streets.
Yours faithfully,
DAVID CARLAW A SONS LTD.,
R.D.Carlaw,
DIRECTOR.
Handsome is
as Baldness isn’t
The “ thin-on-the-top ’’ man cannot
be handsome, and poor straggly
hair sadly mars a womans appear¬
ance. Cruel but True I Your hair
is not the ideal you feel it might
be—but ROWLAND’S Macassar
Oil is waiting for you, a sane
natural method of providing the
nourishment your hair lacks, to
regain its pristine health and
beauty—curly, thick, and youthful.
Rub in this famous old Oil daily
because it nourishes dry, falling,
scurfy — starving hair, stimulating
feeble growth. Get one of these
sizes to-day—3/6,7/-, 10/6 at your
Chemist, Stores, or Hairdresser.
ROWLANDS,
/« Guildford Street,
LONDON, W.C.t
LLOYD’S '"tubes,
THE OttlOWAL EUXESIS
. ™ LON ^ NEWS ' J UNE 18. 1921—841
MANY years of experience and
close research have been
devoted to making the Humber
” r . a perfect specimen of engine-
efficiency and luxurious body-work.
It possesses qualities of speed and
comfort hitherto reserved for much
higher - priced cars, whilst its
economical upkeep and low running
costs come as a revelation to even
the most experienced car-owners.
May we send you illus¬
trations and specifications )
Improved Humber “Ten"
(R.A.C. Rating 11.4 h.p.)
£700
I h;umber;l tj>„
I COVENTRY. Jj|
Laatoa: 32, Holkara VUdoct.E.C.
1 ^rrict Depot; Caattrkor y Ri,
Kilbarm. N.W.L
1 So.tko.pto. : 25 * 27. Loodo. i
| Rood. 1
E Denters everywhere
— —
VTEDGES Sl BUTLER,Ltd.
** Wine Merchants to H.M. The King.
SHERRY BURGUNDY S4/- OI ‘
^ORT - . 72/- CHABLIS- . 48/-
CI.ARET . 42/- MOSELLE - 48/.
8AUTERNE 48/- CHAMPAGNE 144/.
BRANDY. WHISKEY. RUM. GIN. eta.
Now Wine Lists on application.
153, *»GENT STREET. LONDON. W. 1
Brighton and Bournemouth.
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By the “O” Steamers
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18 . MOORGATB STREET. LONDON, B.C .2
A NATIONAL
FAVOURITE
S HARP'S SUPER.
KREEM TOFFEE h«
won supreme national favour by
sterling merit. Its unquestion¬
able purity, entirely wholesome
and nourishing qualities, and its
fascinating flavour make it the
most delicious sweet ever pro¬
duced—that is why its popularity
is ever increasing. Young and
old alike find Sharp's Super-
Kreem absolutely irresistible—
its charming goodness makes
you long for more —it speaks
for itself.
8 H Sold loose by weight or in
* 4-lb. decorated tins—also
in I/-, 1/6, and 2/9 (ins.
If unobtainable in your
PCr district kindly send post¬
il ||^ card, giving name of
your confectioner.
E. SHARP & SONS, Ltd., MAIDSTONE
SHARPS
SUPERKREEM
TOFFEE
VIGHY
(France)
First-class Thermal Establishment.
Season from May till October.
The Vichy Waters are prescribed for Gout, Rheumatism, Gravel,
Diabetes, Congestion of the Liver, Stomach Troubles, and Affections
of the Digestive Organs, Kidneys, Bladder, &c.
Vichy is situated at the foot of the Auvergne Mountains, surrounded
by charming country, and the Establishment is considered to be the
finest in the world. Casino, Golf, Tennis, Horse Racing, and the
lovely district furnishes endless opportunity for enjoyable excursions.
SIX HOURS FROM PARIS BY DIRECT TRAIN
THE LEVISTA.
The I.F.VISTA is indispensable where
high power is the first consideration—
for Big Game Shooting, Nature,
Siuuy, Deer Stalking, Travelling and
Exploring. It is not intended for
ordinary touring or racing, as the
power is too great: glasses of lower
power for these purposes are do-
scribed in our catalogue.
Specialists on the Eyesight.
Expert sight testing at all
our branches.
The most powerful
PRISM BINOCULARS
ever manufactured
6REAT REDUCTION IN PRICES.
Falling prices and the using up of parts left
over from our war contracts have enabled us
to produce these remarkable glasses at the
prices shown below. We arc the only makers
of Prismatic Binoculars giving a magnification
of 25 diameters.
Price, with eer‘ral semv focussing, as illustration:
> 16 Magnification . £ 16 10 0
s 25 Magnification . £19 10 0
AITCHISON & Co., Ltd.
(Opticians to British and Allied Governments),
428, STRAND, W.C.2.
281, Oxford 5L. W. I ; 121, Ckeapud*. E.C.2.
The Cigar with a distinctive ilavour
CRITERION
Ask the man who
smokes them — j
he knows
Manufactured from the
choiceat leaf. CRITERION
Cigars will appeal to all
lovers of a good Cigar.
UNIFORM IN QUALITY
MODERATE IN PRICE.
SAMPLES OF
CEDAR WOOD CABINET
BOXES of 25.50 and 100
Of all High - Class Tobacconists
and Stores.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 18 , 1921.—842
THE CHRONICLE OF THE CAR.
A Trial of the Whatever may be the opinion of
. . . the individual in the matter of
“Fort *’ which is the world s best car—
y ' if there can truly be said to be
such a car to-day—I doubt if there is anyone who
would deny the Lanchester in its latest expression
very high rank among, let us say, the first five or six.
I know there is much room for the personal equation
in judging this question. O-e will hold that a par¬
ticular car has no equal, while another pitches his
choice upon a different vehicle among the group
which includes those aspiring to be known as " best."
This simply means that it is to some extent a matter
of controversy, and I, with certain recent correspond¬
ence on this very subject in mind, decline to be drawn
into argument. But this I can say with perfect
safety—that the Lanchester “ forty " is well up in
ROUNDING THE FIRST “HAIR-PIN” CORNER ON
OUR "CHRONICLER'S” TEST OF A LANCHESTER
front, and that any car which claims to be better, or
even as good, must be excellent indeed. These re¬
flections are simply the result of a recent test which
I made of this very fine car, the trial extending to
some 200 miles in Surrey and Sussex not a very severe
test, it is true, but one which was quite enough to
enable me to take a line through comparative
performance.
The first real test was the climbing of Box Hill.
Any reasonably efficient car will climb this hill at a
good speed, but in the case of the Lan¬
chester we surmounted the whole gradient
on top speed, accelerating all the way up.
There are cars which will do the same, but
I do not know one that will do what the
Lanchester did. At the second hairpin
comer we just failed to get round, and i
had to bring the car to a standstill and
drop back a few feet in order to clear the
bank on the near side. After straighten¬
ing out, the car picked up with perfect
smoothness without a change of gear, and
accelerated to 45 m.p.h. on the stiffly
rising gradient. This I
I regard as being a
very fine perform¬
ance indeed, the
more so as it was
certainly not due to
the car being under¬
geared, for on a
favourable stretch
of level road she
proved capable of a
speed of * over 70 WATCHED
m.p.h. The engine MESSRS. 1
pulled wonderfully
well and was quiet at all speeds,
while the epicyclic gears are as
quiet on the lower speeds as on
top. Incidentally, one test to
which the car was put was the
engagement of the reverse gear
while we were travelling at 40
m.p.h. I need not say what
would have happened to the
conventional gear-box in such
case, supposing it were possible
to engage the reverse ; but the
Lanchester epicyclic gears per-
_ mit of this kind of thing being
done. The rest of the trial
BOX HILL: simply consisted of an ordinary
" FORTY." touring run down to the coast,
during which the car ran most satisfactorily, and
behaved like the aristocrat it is. I formed a highly
favourable impression of its general running, with par¬
ticular reference to silence and ease of control.
Th. Efficiency of " ,s ra ‘!“ r m ‘ ere “ mf: to
,h. Smell Motor. the P 01 ”'
will be reached by the designers
of the small engines which have been called into being
by the taxation formula adopted. by-the Treasury.
When this formula was first introduced it was laughed
WATCHED BY OVER 6000 SPECTATORS: THE ANNUAL SPORTS CF
MESSRS. HUMBER, LTD., AT COVENTRY—PART OF THE CROWD.
at as being utterly futile for power-rating purposes,
since it took no account of piston stroke and rated all
engines having a similar cylinder diameter as being
equal in power output, which is, of course, absurd.
When the Treasury adopted it, the natural consequence
was that designers began to pay attention to securing
high efficiency from small-bore engines running at
high speed, and they seem to have succeeded beyond
the wildest dreams of the automobile engineer of ten
years ago. Whether the limit has been reached I do
not pretend to say, though it seems on the face of it
impossible to get more out of these little engines than
is being obtained now. as witness the records recently
set up by Hawker, of cross Atlantic flying fame.
Driving an A.C. at Brooklands, he covered a flying
half-mile at the astonishing speed of 105-14 m.p.h.,
and this with an engine of 69- by-100 mm. bore and
stroke, rated by the Treasury formula at 119 h.p.! I do
not know the brake horse-power output of this engine
of Hawker’s, but it is certainly somewhat higher than
its rating ! And yet I understand that the makers
{Coutinhfd tverlraf.
9
Cjr
ddERk
qA°/ advantage
^3 vf /° TO THE PUBLIC
( Approximately)
IS SHOWN IN THE LATEST
REDUCED PRICES OF NORTH BRITISH
“CLINCHER” TYRES
NEW PRICE UST SENT ON APPLICATION.
The North 'British Rubber Co., Ltd.,
Edinburgh , London & Branches.
Clincher Cross
Covers
815 x 105
820 x 120
880 x 120
895 x 135
Prices
Oct. 14, 1920
£11 8 3
12 14 9
13 16 9
16 1 9
New Prices
April 30. 1921
£7 15 3
9 6 3
10 1 9
11 7 6
The consistent reduction in the selling prices of
Clincher Tyres consequent upon the decreased cost of
raw materials is one of the leading factors in the
reduction of motoring costs.
Progressive improvements during 50 years practical
experience have resulted in the high degree of road
efficiency proved everywhere to be the outstanding
feature of
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Every motorist who has
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test of the fuels he. u se s
eventually sticks to B.P.
It is an essentially ‘clean*
spirit that ensures perfect
combustion, and conse~
quently maximum power
and mileage.
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The Aristocrat of Medium-Powered Cars
'* The JKCotor,” Feb. 2nd, 1921, says :—" In' brief. Ibis new 15-hj>.
TALBOT, while possessing all the good features which built up such an
excellent name for its prototype, is a much refined and greatly improved
edition. It should attain a position among modern cars similar to that
held by the old 15 h.p. model — one of greatly respected repute."
"THE NEW “ FIFTEEN,” which h« been .o
1 well received by the motoring Press, has been
fittingly named “ The Aristocrat of Medium-
Powered Cars,”and is. both from the point of view
of design, efficiency and finish, one of the finest
products of the famous Clement-Talbot factories.
Write (or particular! at the 25 h p. model, ao succet*-
(ul la*t aeaaoo. the petrol consumption of which,
under touring condilioot, average* IB/21 m.p.g., * d it-
renowned tor iti reliability, durability and achievements.
Any Car taken in part payment for the 25 h.p. or
36 h.p. models.
T HE BACKBONE of any firm is its trading policy.
The policy of the Darracq Company is “ value for
money.” It is the simple, honest principle of the “square
*“ 1 deal,” and its very simplicity has successfully carried the
Darracq Company down the years and placed it in its present sound
positron. It has paidtbe Company because it has paid the customer. As in the early days,
so n 1921, at I with the introduction of the new models (or this season there exists the same
feeling of confidence that any examination and comparison of these models will but justify the
5*5 *° having fully maintained a trading policy which has made the Darracq known the
world over as the value-for-money M car.
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"WHAT IS THE BEST CAR OF THEYEAR?" " Daily Diopatch "
Nm 4th, J920- • • ... “After the mnst exhaustive examination into t\e
retail:ie VALUE-FOR-MONEY' of the numerous cars exhibited at this
Stow, tn my considered judgment the 1921 model of
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VALUE-FOR-MONEY: .” W. il. Berry.
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of another light car are not at all unhopeful of even
bettering this wonderful record; so that it would seem
we have not reached the limit of the capabilities of the
1500 c.c. motor.
A Novel Use The motor-car seems to have
for a Car rendered good service in many
directions during the present
shortage of coal. The VVolseley Company have sent
me a letter from the owners of a Stellite, in which the
latter say that “ in the present coal crisis it has been
of great benefit to us. Being unable to secure enough
coal, we looked round for ways and means of keeping
some of our printing presses going, and thought we
would like to experiment to see if the Stellite car
would do the work. It was somewhat difficult to
arrange things, as it was impossible to get the car in
our press room. Moreover, the drive having to go
through a door, it was only possible to place the
driving belt on one of the back wheels. This little
car has done really wonderful work, having driven
four presses for the past fortnight. It has gone along
splendidly from 8 in the morning until 5.30 p.m., with
only } hour rest during the day, and on two occasions
the running time has been from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.,
with a break of three-quarters of an hour at mid¬
day and an hour at 5.30.”
The " Slum ” ^ >ne ^ ears a 8 reat deal about the
in*Motoring. s ' um P m °‘ 0 " ng now : bu *
* it is difficult to believe in it
when the A.A. announces that its membership has
recently risen to over 160,000, and is still growing.
I believe this figure shows that the membership has
just about doubled since the end of the war.—W. W.
LORD DUNSANYS * IF." AT THE AMBASSADORS.
E VERY man, Lord Dunsany seems to suggest in
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romance in his heart which might burst into flame
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Mr. Ainley's personations, and even more sense of
character and exhibition of temperament in Miss
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A POLITICAL “BONE OF CONTENTION”: THE RIGHT HON. CHRISTOPHER ADDISON, M.P., M.D., P.C., WHOSE APPOINTMENT
AND SALARY AS MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO HAVE BEEN DEBATED.
The Prime Minister fixed Thursday, June 23, to open a debate in the House of has been associated with the manifesto signed by about 170 supporters of the
Commons on Dr. Addison’s appointment as Minister without Portfolio, at a Government in Parliament, threatening opposition to expenditure not authorised
salary of £5000 a year, which has been the subject of much controversy. It may by the House. To show that there is no personal animus against Dr. .Addison,
be recalled that Dr. Addison was appointed to the post on April 1, after he a dinner in his honour is to be given on June 29, with Lord Carson in the
vacated the Ministry of Health. A few days before the debate in the House it chair. Mr. J. A. R. Marriott, M.P., has pointed out that during the nineteenth
was reported that he had resigned, but he at once denied the report, stating that century there were only three Ministers without Portfolio—Lord Lansdowne (1855-8),
he did not intend to resign unless desired to do so by the Premier. The matter Lord Carlisle, and the Duke of Wellington—none of whom received a salary.
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THE IU.lSTK.Vm> LONDON NEWS, Jim 2T>, littl. XU*
Jfiei^rnt^
E VERY BODY has noticed by now that the
top-hat has again come into fashion. Prob¬
ably I was the very last person who noticed it.
Almost certainly I shall be the very last person to
wear it. My interest in it at the moment is of a
historical sort, like the interest in a Grecian helmet
or a mediaeval mitre. For the almost abrupt re¬
appearance of the hat is almost like the resur¬
rection of the old generation. It is as if the hat
acted as a wishing-cap and wafted us l»ack into
the Victorian Age—always supposing, of course,
that we do wash to be wafted back into the
Victorian Age, about which there is a great deal
to be said on both sides. In any case there does
seem-something almost magical about so complete
a symbol. We feel that Victorian side-whiskers
might suddenly grow cm the gentleman who is so
rash as to put on the Victorian hat. Perhaps it
will be but the beginning of the gradual rebuilding
of some elaborate and forgotten Victorian costume.
We repeat, more truly than we generally realise,
that the need of the present moment is in the
word reconstruction. Perhaps we shall gradually
reconstruct peg-top trousers or Piccadilly weepers.
Perhaps the fash¬
ions might for
convenience be
combined. Possi¬
bly the whiskers
may he sold with
the hat: aitificially
attached to the hat.
Possibly not
Hut the top-hat
is a historical sym
bol in a much more
serious sense. It is
a historical symbol
especially in this
rather singular fact
—that it seems to
us like something
at once formal and
familiar, but it is
really something
highly fantastic. It
is an evtraordiniiry
thing which we
have- all come to
regard as ordinary.
It is an extrava¬
gance. in every
sense of the word
w-hich we have yet
come to regard as
a sign of respect¬
ability, in the most
tame and even
timid sense of the
word. Considered
in the light of
eternity, considered
under the clear sky
of the abstract, it
is one of the most
amazing erections
that ever rose towards the stars. It is to be
classed with the monstrous mitres of the ancient
Persians, with the bull’s horns and eagle’s wings
on the heads of the gigantic barbarians, with
the strange spires on the heads of ladies in the
last riot of the Middle Ages ; in none of these
fantastic fashions has a more insolent horn been
exalted. And it differs from all of them in one
entirely new audacity, one might say, in an artistic
sense, one atrocity. Most of the others j>oint in¬
wards like a pyramid ; but this actually leans out¬
ward like a precipice. It may truly be called a
top hat in the sense of a toppling hat ; and it is
toppling because it is top-heavy.
And in this curious combination, of being
fantastic as a fact but familiar as a fashion, it is
really a historical .ummary of the Victorian Age.
The peculiarity of the period in which most of us
were bom, and in whi<h certainly most of the
modem tendencies were bom, was that it really
h.id a sensation of comfort, and yet it was really
m a situation of crisis. It had a sincere belief in
o/dinary things, but it was in itself a rather extra-
i -niii . v thing It was doin'- a number of things
tii.it i. i never been done before, and which it was
By G. K. CHESTERTON.
by no means certain could be done at all.: but the
attempt had lasted long enough for men to grow
accustomed to the attempt as if it were an achieve¬
ment. Just as getting inside a top hat reminds
us of getting inside a comfortable house, like the
bouses of our fathers and uncles, so using the
political and scientific language of the nineteenth
century gives us the illusion of dealing with some¬
thing steady and safe. Hut, as a matter of fact,
that experiment was not even altogether steady,
and it was certainly the very reverse of safe.
The most obvious example, of course, was
turning England into " the workshop of the
world,” or. in other words, making nothing but
tenpenny nails, in the hope of being always able to
exchange them for twopenny loaves. It is obvious
that, in driving ahead with industrial development,
and producing great populations without pro¬
ducing the food to support them, the English were
treating their economic theories rather in a spirit
of fanatical faith than ordinary- prudence. The
Englishman was like an eccentric gentleman who
should lie very careful to wind up all his clocks.
or keep all his pocket-knives in his pocket, or see
that all the knives and forks were carefully locked
up, while he had left his lunch in an open field,
or his loaf or leg of mutton at the top of a tree.
The Englishman has left his loaf in the Argentine
Republic, and his leg of mutton in the Australian
Continent. The balance of argument might be in
favour of his action, but it must always have been
obvious, surely, that he was running a great risk.
If he were cut olf from these things he would die ;
unless, by that evolutionary- principle of adaptation
to environment (to which he was so earnestly
attached), he could develop the faculty of eating
clocks and pocket-knives.
There is something amusing about the old
meaning of the word Free Trader. For a Free
Trader used to mean a smuggler. There is some¬
thing pleasing about the picture of all those men
with top-hats and side-whiskers rolling kegs of
rum into a romantic cave. There is something very
satisfactory about the image of John Bright in a
rod cap with pistols at his belt, or Cobden swagger¬
ing in sea boots with a cutlass in bis teeth. But in
sober truth the red cap would be even more appro¬
priate than the top hat. The Free Traders really
were quite as reckless, and therefore as romantu
as the smugglers. They were really running a risk
and running it for an ideal which was a sort nf
romance. They did propose, in that sense, to turn
our island into a sort of pirate ship, provisioned
only with pikes and knives, or at least only with
iron and steel ; and trusting to pick up their ration-
from other ships, not indeed by fighting, but by
bargaining, which might be almost as uncertain
as fighting. Whether they were right or wrong,
it is extraordinary tlvat any-body should haw
regarded them as merely humdrum and prosaic
Their whole political theory was poised on the
edge of a precipice, a precipice that leaned out¬
wards. like the silhouette of their symbolical
top-hat.
This is only one example ; but in everything
they had the same strange combination of con
sciousness of their own comfort with unconscious¬
ness of their own audacity. And half the pressing
problems of our own time arise from our inheri¬
tance of this paradox. We cannot realist that
industrialism was a crisis, because it is just old
enough for us to 1
have accepted it
as a convention
We talk of our own
time as being full
of ” unrest,” as if
the time of our
immediate fathers
had been one of
rest. But in truth
it was never rest,
even when it was
regarded as pro¬
gress. It was not
a rest but rather
a race. It was a
race of competition,
of commercial ad¬
ventures, of scien¬
tific inventions, and
one which was run
not only boldly but
blindly; by men
who shut their eyes
to all the other
realities — to agri¬
culture. to art. to
religion, to the
romance of firing.
But above all they
shut their eyes to
the one thing which
demanded most at¬
tention in a demo¬
cracy, or anything
attempting to be a
democracy. They
shut their eyes to
the distribution as
distinct from th
accumulation of the
wealth. They said
that Birmingham
was growing richer when they- meant that one man
in Birmingham was growing richer, and ten men
were growing poorer. They would not see that their
machine of capitalism was not creating capitalists
but proletarians, was not making merchants but
beggars. This sort of blind logic had its sublime
side. The Spartan discipline, the Spanish In¬
quisition. the Terror in the French Revolution,
were founded on certain ideas and are quite capable
of defence. But the defence always had in it
something of defiance. Anybody who inherited
a regime of that sort, and imagined that it had been
a normal regime, would be puzzled by the reactions
against it. That is what is puzzling so many p<-opk
to-day. They imagine that the capitalism of the
nineteenth century was a natural and ordinary
thing, and they cannot understand the revolt
against that condition. It was not a condition ,
it was a crisis. It was an experiment, and appar¬
ently an -experiment that has failed. We may
diftcr from this or that solution, as I differ from
the ordinary Socialist solution ; but the vital thing
to realise is that nineteenth century industrialism
was not normal at all. We might as well suggest
that everybody from Adam to Adam Smith mus
have worn a top-hat.
TO GO TO AUSTRALIA UNLESS TEN THOUSAND CUINEAS CAN BE FOUND: MILLAIS'S FAMOUS MASTERPIECE.
"CHRIST IN THE CARPENTERS SHOP. NOW IN THE TATE GALLERY.
Millais's famous masterpiece has been hanging in the Tate Gallery for ten years, but it was only on loan, and the owners have now
had an offer for it. Unless 10,000 guineas can be found, at which price the Tate Gallery authorities hold an option until July 18, the
picture will be sold to the Melbourne Gallery, Australia. The National Gallery have made a special grant of £1000; the Tate Gallery
have offered £750, and the executive of the National Art Collections Fund have decided to contribute £2500. Further subscriptions are
invited by the Secretary. National Art Collections Fund, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W.l. It is to be hoped that the efforts
of the Fund, which has done so much in saving other masterpieces for ti e nation, will again be successful. The picture was painted
in 1850. and represents the Pre-Raphaelite movement in its early enthusiasm. Its realism was disparaged then, even by such a realist
as Dickens, ]Photograph by Courtesy of th* Witiorutl Art Collations Fund.]
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THE lU.rSTRATF.D I .ON DON NEWS,
PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK: PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
FAMOUS DESICNER
EAD : MR CLAUD
LOVAT FRASER.
A WELL-KNOWN COLLIERY OWNER
DEAD : SIR THOMAS WRIGHTSON.
AWARDED THE ALBERT MEDAL PROF.
]OKN AMBROSE FLEMING, F.R.S.
A WOMAN WRANGLER AT CAM¬
BRIDGE : MISS S. E. B. SMALE.
WOMAN WRANGLER AT CAM-
BRIDGE : MISS M. J. LANFEAR.
A NAVAL APPOINTMENT
ADMIRAL FITZMAURICE.
I FOUND BURIED IN A GARDEN
MR. WILLIAM GOURLAY.
AN EX-LORD MAYOR DEAD
SIR ALFRED NEWTON, BT.
AWARDED A GOLD MEDAL
SIR EDWIN LUTYENS. R.A.
A WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR DEAD
MR. W. WARDE FOWLER.
ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT
ADMIRAL SUETER.
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The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for 1921 has been awarded to the serrice as a clerk. He is only forty-four. Rear-Admiral Maurice Fitzmaurice
Professor J. A. Fleming, in recognition of his many valuable contributions to has been appointed Director of the Naval Intelligence Division of the Admiralty,
electrical science and its applications, and especially of his original invention of The Due de Broglie, a distinguished French physicist, has been granted an honorary
the Thermionic Valve, now so largely employed in wireless telegraphy. Mr. Claud degree of Doctor by Oxford University. During the war he represented France
Lovat Fraser, who has just died after an operation, made a great name as a on the Admiralty Board of Inventions and Research. Admiral Sueter has been
designer, particularly for the stage. He was only thirty-one. Sir Thomas elected to Parliament for Hertford as an independent “Anti-Waste” Member.
Wrightson, Bt., who has also died, was a notable captain of industry, and the Sir Alfred Newton, Bt, died in his motor-car outside Harrods’ Stores, of which he
author of a new theory of hearing. For upwards of thirty years he was closely was Chairman. He founded the C.I.V.'s when Lord Mayor of London in 1900.
identified with the public Ufe of Stockton and Thomaby. Mr. Felix J. C. Pole, The large wedding group in the centre of the page is that of Princess Margrethe of
who has been appointed General Manager of the Great Western Railway, entered Denmark and Prince Ren* of Bourbon, which took place on June 9, at Copenhagen.
WIMBLEDON NOTABILITIES: I. DR. A. H. FYZEE ; INDIA, ; 2. T. M. MAVROGORDATO ; 3. F. T. HUNTER ,U.S.A) ; 4. A. J. GERBAULT ; 5- «
,3. C. P. DIXON; 14. Z. SHIMIDZU (JAPAN), , 5 . MISS RYAN (U.S.A., ; 16. MRS. SATTERTHWAITE ; , 7 . A. E. BEAMISH; 18. MRS. McNAIR ; *9- A.
24. R. LYCETT ; 25. MANUEL ALONZO ; 26. MLLE. LENGL
The World's Lawn-Tennis Championship Meeting, the lorty-first of the senes, opened at Wimbledon on Monday, June 20. It may be the last meeting held on the
ground in Worple Road, for a new ground is being prepared in Wimbledon Park, to be used next year or the year after. The fortnight’s events began with the first r
the Men's Singles. One of the most interesting matches was that in which Colonel Kingscote (fancied as challenger to Mr. W. T. Tilden. the present champion) beat Nr. f
THE GREAT
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TOURNAMENT AT WIMBLE
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 25 , 1921 .--849
P. M. DAVSON ; y. W. H. LAURENTZ ; 8. MISS K. McKANE ; 9. ARNOLD JONES (U.S.A.) ; 10. F. G. LOWE ; II. A. W. GORE ; 12. H. ROPER BARRETT ;
'• W. T. TILDEN (U.S.A., WORLD’S CHAMPION) ; 21. MAX WOOSNAM ; 22. MRS. MALLORY (U.S.A. LADY CHAMPION) ; 23. COL. A. R. F. KINGSCOTE ;
iAMPION OF THE WORLD) ; 27. A. H. GOBERT ; 28. F. M. B. FISHER.
Fisher. Others who survived were Dr. A. H. Fyzee, the Indian; Mr. Z. Shimidzu, of Japan; and SeSor Manuel Alonzo, the Spanish champion. Mr. Arnold Jones, who is only
seventeen, is the boy champion of the United States. There was a large number of entries—128 in the men's singles, 64 pairs in men’s doubles and mixed doubles, 56 in the
women’s singles, and 23 pairs in the women’s doubles.
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MINENT PLAYERS IN THE 41st CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING.
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THE HORSE SHOW; AND OTHER EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
PlIOTCXiRATMO IIV I.F.SSKI.S, Toi'ltAL, I.H, A\l> I..N.A.
SET FOR THE COMPETITION FOR THE KING GEORGE V. CUP IN THE PRESENCE OF THE KING : THE ARENA OF THE HORSE SHOW AT OLYMPIA.
WITH THE ROYAL PARTY UNDER THE BIG CANOPY IN THE CENTRE ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE.
AN UNUSUAL VIEW OF A CROWDED CITY DURING DAYLIGHT:
BELFAST AT CURFEW TIME.
Th« International Horae Show opened at Olympia on Saturday. June 18, and on
Monday, the 21st, the King was present at a gala performance to watch the
jumping for the King George V. Gold Cup for international jumping by Army
officers. For the first time in its history the Cup was won by a British officer.
Lieut.-Col. Geoffrey Brooke, 16th Lancers, on “Combined Training.'’ Colonel Brooke
was reported killed during the March retreat in 1918. and “Combined Training ” was
A COLORADO TOWN THAT WAS SWEPT BY FLOODS : A GENERAL VIEW Or The
SCENE OF DESTRUCTION IN THE MAIN STREET OF PUEBLO.
with him in France and won jumping prizes at horse shows held “ behind the
line.”-The bottom picture on the left-hand side shows Castle Junction, the
leading thoroughfare of Belfast, at curfew time on the eve of the royal visit.
The picture on the right-hand side at the bottom shows havoc in the town
of Pueblo. Colorado, which was almost totally destroyed, with great loss of lif*»
by a cloud-burst, accompanied by the bursting of two great dams.
TOPICALITIES OF THE WEEK: NOTABLE INCIDENTS AND OCCASIONS.
THE FIRST MOTOR-CAR BUILT IN 1891 TO PLY IN PARIS : THE ABBE
CAVOIS' “ L’ANCETRE," WITH AM ESCORT OF MODERN CARS.
ROYAL POLO PLAYERS : THE PRINCE OF WALES AMD KING ALFONSO RIGHT)
READY FOR A MATCH AT ROEHAMPTON.
M.P/S EMBARK FOR A TRIP IN " R 36 ” : CLIMBING
IN AT THE TOP OF THE MOORING-MAST.
SHOWING PASSENGER MJVS CLIMBING THE LADDER
INSIDE THE MOORING-MAST: " R 36 ” AT PULHAM.
WITH VENTURESOME SPIRITS OUTSIDE : M.P. S
CLIMBING THE MOORING-MAST OF •• R 36."
SINN FEIN ATTACKS ON LONDON SIGNAL-BOXES: THE BOX AT
BARKING AFTER THE FIRE, SHOWING THE DAMAGED ROOF.
THE OUTRAGES AT IRISH COASTGUARD STATIONS : BURNT-OUT RUINS AT MALAHIDE.
ONE OF SEVEN ATTACKED.
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*he first motor-car, built in 1891, to appear in the streets of Paris, known as
“ L’Ancitre ” (the Ancestor) recently entered the Porte Maillot and passed along the
Avenue des Champs Elystes, escorted by modem cars. Us owner, the Abbe
Gavois (seen at the wheel), arranged to sell it for the benefit of priests in the
devastated areas ruined by the war.-The Prince of Wales and the King of
Spain played in a polo match, Rugby v. Roehampton, at Roehampton, on June 18.
The Prince played for Rugby and King Alfonso on the other side. Rugby won
by 4 goals to 3.-A party of about fifty M.P.'s went for «n hour’s trip in the
airship “R36,” at the invitation of the Air Ministry, on June 17, from Pulham.
The first to climb the mooring-mast was Capt. J. B. Watson, followed by
Mr. G. H. Roberts and Sir H. J. Mackinder. One Member came down when
half-way up, but the rest embarked safely. They flew over Lowestoft and Great
Yarmouth.-Seven Irish Coastguard Stations—at Malahide, Skerries, Lough
Shinny, Portmamock, Donabate, Rush, and Rogerstown, Co. Dublin, were set on
fire in the early hours of June 18.-On the night of June 16, Sinn Feiners
attacked a number of London railway signal - boxes.
nj.rsTK.vn-i> London xhws. Jvm
1 *121.— 852
IN AN OXFORD GARDEN; AND POLO IN BRONZE.
TWELFTH NIGHT
BADE ME COME SMILING AND CROSS-GARTERED TO YOU": MALVOL.O AND OL.V.A IN THE O.U-D.S. OPEN-AIR PERFORMANCE
OF “ TWELFTH NIGHT ” AT OXFORD.
PERPETUATING THE VIGOUR OF THE GAME IN BRONZE : A GROUP
ENTITLED “POLO," SHOWING A PHASE OF “RIDING OFF.”
AN INTERNATIONAL POLO PONY : ANOTHER INTERESTING STUDY IN BRONZE,
SHOWING THE POINTS OF A FAMOUS MOUNT.
The O.U.D.S. (Oxford University Dramatic Society) gave a delightful afternoon i
performance of “ Twelfth Night ” in the gardens of Wadham on June 18. Olivia j
(left) was played by Miss Kitty Ashton, Viola (right) by Miss Laura Cowie, and
Malvolio (centre) by Mr. G. W. Sich, of Magdalen.-The portraits and groups j
of horses in bronze by Mr. Herbert Haseitine, which are being exhibited at
Messrs. Agnew’s Galleries, Old Bond Street, are exceptionally interesting just now
in view of the International Polo Tests at Hurlingham. Moreover, the proceeds i
RIDING OFF : A STRIKING POLO STUDY WHICH RECEIVED HONOURABLE MENTION
AT THE PARIS SALON IN 1906.
of the Exhibition, to which the price of admission is only one shilling. w '**
devoted to the Marchioness of Carisbrooke’s “Totally Disabled Soldiers m r01 ^
Industry.’’ Mr. Haseitine was with the American Embassy in Paris U ![ inE f j can
early stages of the war, and when America came in he joined the
Army, and was one of the first organisers of the camouflage section. e ^
exhibited at the Academy, the Salon, and several international exhibitions,
executed bronzes for the late King Edward and the King of Spain.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Junk 25 , 1921 —853
ROYALTY AT HURLINGHAM: THE SOCIAL SIDE OF THE POLO TEST.
Photographs by C.N., L.X.A., a»d Vandyk.
HEADED BY A SCOUT CARRYING THE UNION JACK : THE ENGLISH PONIES
PARADING BEFORE THE START.
HEADED BY A SCOUT CARRYING THE STARS AND STRIPES : THE AMERICAN
PONIES PARADING BEFORE THE START.
SHOWING THE KING AND QUEEN. THE PRINCE OF WALES. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. AND KING ALFONSO IN THE FRONT ROW: THE ROYAL PARTY
AT THE INTERNATIONAL POLO MATCH.
TWO ROYAL POLO-PLAYERS CHATTING WITH THE TEAMS : KING ALFONSO (LEFT)
AND THE PRINCE OF WALES (WITH MAJOR VIVIAN LOCKETT).
The defeat of England by America in the Polo Test Match, at Hurlingham on June i8,
was watched by the King and Queen, with many other royalties, and a great gathering
of society. In the middle photograph, in the front row, from left to right, are
seen the Prince of Wales (second from left), the King (fourth). Queen Alexandra,
the King of Spain, and Queen Mary. Behind the Prince of Wales is the American
Ambassador, Colonel George Harvey, between Princess Mary (at the left end of
the second row) and Princess Victoria. Behind the King is the Princess Royal.
THE •• VISITORS " INTRODUCED TO THE KING BEFORE THE MATCH : HIS MAJESTY
TALKING TO MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN TEAM.
Other members of the Royal Family present were Princess Louise Duchess of
Argyll, Princess Beatrice, Princess Alice Countess of Athlone, the Duke of
York, the Duke of Connaught, and Lady Patricia Ramsay. King Manoel was
also there, with Queen Augusta Victoria. Both the teams were presented to the
King before the match, and King Alfonso and the Prince of Wales, themselves
keen polo-players, had much to say to them. A double-page of photographs
illustrating the match in progress appears in this number.
854_THK lLI-l'STKA fhl) 1
.ON DON MANS, .K’NE 2.
A GREAT POLO CONTEST BEFORE
10,000
SPECTA
FI
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Photographs bv C.N.. K
r.
„„ cn,.o r^Ai< DURING THE MATCH. OF WHICH LIEUT.-COL.
TOMkZhX 5 .; £ RESPONSIBLE FOR THREE, AND MAJOR BARRETT ,NO. 2, FOR THE FOURTH.
a americj
HATCH.
PLAY IN MID-FIELD: A
PLATE
RUN UP THE FIELD: A PHOTOGRAPH FULL OF MOVEMENT. GIVING A VERY GOOD GENERAL IMPRESSION OF FAST PUT.
THE WONDERFUL SAVE BY MILBURN : THE GOAL WHICH ENGLAND CLAi
BUT WAS NOT ALLOWED. _ ** o t
The first International Polo Test Match at Hurlingham, on Saturday, June 18, ended disastrously for England, who were defeated by H 10
IN THE MOUTH OF THE GOAL : A SNAPSHOT
OF THE BALL BETWEEN THE POSTS.
This ** tb *
on Saturday **
that the score in an International match has run into two figures since 1886, when England won by 14 goals to 2. The scene at Hur mg out _ponied and
brilliant one, the King and Queen and the Prince of Wales, and King Alfonso of Spain being amongst those present ; but the British team were M . |burn th< ‘
by the Americans. In the fourth “ chukker ” they showed something like their real form, but went to pieces almost immediately afterwards. r -
Milburn, 1
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 25 , 1921.—855
1 %
OrlE FIRST OF
- 5TRATIONS BUREAU. AND TOM AlTKKN.
THE
IT I c
AN AMERICAN AND A BRITISH
MATCH.
AMERICA SCORES : ONE OF THEIR ELEVEN COALS, OF WHICH MR. T. HITCHCOCK (NO. 2 ) WAS
RESPONSIBLE FOR FOUR, MR. WATSON-WEBB- (NO. 3 ) FOR SIX, AND MR. MILBURN (BACK) FOR ONE.
INTERNATIONAL TEST MATCHES.
f * A M&L&E . A STRUGGLE BETWEEN MR. MILBURN, ON THE RIGHT, AND TWO OF HIS ADVERSARIES, MAJOR BARRETT AND MAJOR LOCKETT.
BY THE SIDE-BOARDS : COLONEL TOMKINSON (NO. 1 ), MAJOR BARRETT (NO. 2 ), LORD WODEHOUSE (NO. 3 , A THRILLING MOMENT : A TUSSLE IN THE
ON LEFT), AND MR. WATSON-WEBB (NO. 3 , IN WHITE). VICINITY OF THE GOAL,
the American team, who nas been described as the finest back in the world, played a brilliant game, in spite of the fact that he was in the doctor’s hands owing to a
severe strain, and up to the eleventh hour it was very doubtful whether he would be able to play. Mr. T. Hitchcock, who is only twenty-one, and Mr. Watson-Webb, who
plays left-handed, also gave a brilliant display for the Americans, and Lord Wodehouse played magnificently on the English side. It was arranged that the second Test Match
should take place at Hurlingham on Wednesday, June 22.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 25 , 1921.—856
^ OME remarkable
collections are
being sold this season,
and new owners found
for heirlooms that have
been in families for gen¬
erations. It is one of the incidents
of the sale-room to see the sound
connoisseurship of a man's lifetime dispersed
to a hundred buyers. Often a complete collec¬
tion. symmetrical and well-balanced, which as
a whole has no equal, is disintegrated into its
component parts, which will never again come
together in
their entirety.
Sales nowa¬
days appeal
to such a cos
mopol itan
audience that
it is not too
much to say
that our old
treasures are
being scat¬
tered to the
four comers
of the earth,
and American
buyers arc for¬
midable an¬
tagonists for
what is really
fine.
Old English
furniture from
Raynham
Hall, Norfolk,
forming part
of the Towns-
h c n d h e i r-
looms, was sold
by Messrs.
Sothebyonthe
24th. A col¬
lection of
Staffordshire
Toby jugs and
figures, mostly
by Ralph
Wood, at the
same sale, was overshadowed by the importance of
the furniture. A fine set of eight George I. chairs,
carved in walnut, with claw-and-ball feet, had the
arms of the armchairs terminating in eagles' heads.
These were in date 1720 to 1730. when Townshend
was Secretary of State in W'alpole’s Ministry.
Walpole, the hard-riding Norfolk squire, was in
the Ministry of Townshend. his brother-in-law,
but when he took the helm he resolved, as he said,
that the firm should be Walpole and Towns-
hrvid, not Townshend and Walpole,” and these
chairs come from the old Norfolk seat, and belong
to the days when the Earl of Mar proclaimed the
Pretender as James VIII. of Scotland and James III.
of England, when Bishop Atterbury of Rochester
FROM THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S
COLLECTION: AN OLD ENGLISH
LACQUER ARM-CHAIR OF CHIPPEN¬
DALE “CHINESE" DESIGN.
A sale at Christie’s on June 30 includes a
set of eight old English lacquer arm-chairs
(of which the above is one), the property
of the Duke of Beaufort. The backs and
arms are pierced with key-pattem in black
and gold, and the borders decorated with
Chinese landscapes and characters.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, M anion
and Woods.
DECORATED WITH CHINESE LANDSCAPES IN BLACK AND COLD: AN OLD ENCLISH
LACQUER KNEE-HOLE TABLE FROM THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT'S COLLECTION.
Like the other articles here illustrated, to be sold at Christie’s on June 30, this table comes from
Badminton, the Duke of Beaufort’s seat in Gloucestershire.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie Manson and Woods.
BY ARTHUR HAYDEN.
was convicted of correspondence with the Pretender
and deprived of his bishopric and banished.
The Chippendale items in this sale were re¬
markable. Two settees and a set of thirteen chairs,
including six large armchairs, were carved with
Chinese frets, and the under-rails pierced. A
remarkable mahogany commode was offered of
double serpentine form, beautifully carved with
scrolls, foliage, and flowers in high relief ; another
mahogany commode, with serpentine fronts, came
forward at the same time, and a pair of rare Chinese
Chippendale wall cabinets, the tops with pierced
pagoda roofs. It was a wise choice for English
craftsmen to turn to China for inspiration. The
first stage, however, was a slavish imitation of a
genius in symbolism not wholly comprehended.
Some important pictures are to be sold by
Messrs. Sothcby on the 27th. Two canvases by
Philibert Louis Debucourt depict the festivities
of Arlequin and Scaramouche; both interiors,
with these two heroes of fantastic burlesque
and ballet feasting and dancing. They were
exhibited in the Yussoupoff Palace, Petrograd,
in 1912, and at the Musee des Arts D6coratifs,
Paris, in 1920. From the collection of the late
Sir Robert White-Thomson comes a Raeburn
portrait of Miss Christina Thomson, painted in
the artist’s last years. Included among the
portraits sent by Lord De L’Isle and Dudley
are several from the collection of Charles I.,
one by H. Van Steinwyck, of the interior of a
palace. This is on an oak panel, and is branded
with the initials “ C.R.” and a crown. There
is a ” Virgin and Child,” by Luini, and there is
an interesting still-life subject, by the sixteenth-
century Spanish painter Juan Labrador, of a
copper bowl filled with pears, several brass and
other utensils, and grapes and birds. When
Charles I. was on his journey in Spain with
the Duke of Buckingham, it is recorded that
he bought a number of Labrador’s works.
Some fine full-length portraits come from the
collection of Lord Willoughby de Broke, by
Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, of Queen Eliza¬
beth, Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham,
and Lady Elizabeth Howard ; and Paul Van
Somer has another portrait of the latter.
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth exhibit a
variety and magnificence of costume unparal¬
leled in any other individual. Even in her
sixty - fifth year this remarkable woman, as
recorded by Heutzner in his ” Journey into
England." was ” very majestic.” resplendent in
her crown, clad in silk shot with silver threads,
and glittering with necklaces and collars of
gold and pearls. There is a certain conven¬
tionality in her portraits. The portrait of the
Queen here offered has the same pose and is
similar to the canvas, at the age of fifty-nine,
at Ditchling, in the possession of Viscount
Dillon. This great royal queen-bee, around
whom spun courtiers and poets-Shakespeare
with his ” Midsummer Night's Dream,” and
Spenser with his " Faerie Queene ”—daughter of
Henry VIII., shook Europe with her "l know I
have the body but of a weak and feeble woman,
but I have
the heart and
stomach of a
king — ay, and
0 of a King of
' England, too."
Marcus Gheer¬
aerts the elder
has his portrait
of her at Burgh-
ley House, and
he in .no way
mitigated the
wrinkles and
signs of age.
This destroys the
popular belief
that she desired
always to be
made beautiful.
Gheeraerts the
younger, his son,
has his portrait
of Elizabeth,
signed " M.G.”,
in the Duke of
Portland’s col¬
lection. The
auction room
carries on no
personal feuds.
If ” misery ac¬
quaints a man
with strange
bedfellows,” the re¬
cord of posterity in
the auction catalogue is
similarly no respecter of
persons. Queen Eliza¬
beth would turn in her
grave to be vis - A -vis
Countess of Nottingham.
Guelph Exhibition in London in 1890, belong¬
ing to the Thynne family was a gold sardonyx
ring, which is held to have been the ring
which Elizabeth gave to the Earl of Essex after
his condemnation, with the request that if he
sent it to her it was a symbol to implore
her mercy and pardon. He did send it, but it
never reached Elizabeth. On her death-bed the
Countess of Nottingham, whose portrait is here
to be sold, sent for Elizabeth to ask her forgive¬
A DRAGON-GUARDED BEDSTEAD: A FINE EXAMPLE
OF OLD ENGLISH LACQUER IN THE CHIPPENDALE
“CHINESE” TASTE.
The Duke of Beaufort’s old English lacquer furniture to be sold
at Christie’s on June 30 includes this bedstead “ in the Chinese ’
Chippendale taste." The canopy is surmounted by a gilt dragon
at each comer, and In the centre by a bunch of foliage in gilt
metal. The whole is decorated in black-and-gold lacquer.
By Courtesy of Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods.
ness for suppressing this token. Transported with
rage, the Queen shook the dying Countess in her
bed, exclaiming, ” God may forgive you, but I
never shall.” At the same sale the Duke of
Grafton has a Reynolds portrait of Richard Stone-
hewer, the friend of Thomas Gray, the author of
“ An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard," and
two delicious Paul Sandbys, signed and dated
1767, of the Town Gate and the Norman Tower,
Windsor Castle.
Messrs. Christie, on June 30, dispose of old
English lacquer and French furniture, the property
of the Duke of Beaufort and the fifth Marquess
of Hertford. English lacquer was at best an
echo of Oriental glories, and a parallel imitation
of Dutch and French efforts to emulate the East.
It is doubtful if this art can be conducted success¬
fully in a climate such as ours. Even cinema
photography finds clearer atmosphere necessary.
However, a series of old English lacquer commodes
stands for the ” Chinese taste,” with landscapes
where ” lawless grotesques under the notion of
men and women float about, uncircumscribcd by
any element, in that world before perspective.
An interesting item in the Cressent manner is a
Louis XV. parqueterie commode of serpentine
shape ; it should appeal to modems by reason of
its Cubist design, really and literally a cube pattern
of various woods. Mounted with ormolu escutcheon
borders, and comers chased with foliage, it is a
fine piece, stamped “ J. Schmitz ME.” A wonderful
lacquer bedstead in Chinese Chippendale taste
(here illustrated) the back pierced with Oriental
lattice work, and having a pagoda top. and the
canopy surmounted by four flying gilt dragons,
suggests the Arabian Nights and dreams of
Chinese necromancers. It is as un-English a bed
as anyone could imagine. It* restlessness of design
would wake the dead.
THE ENGLISH HOME OF WASHINGTON’S ANCESTORS: SULGRAVE MANOR.
LAID OUT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LADY SANDWICH AND SIR REGINALD
BLOMFIELD, R-A. : THE GROUNDS OF'SULGRAVE MANOR AS RESTORED
this GREAT SHRINE OF INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP
THE SOUTH-EAST, AFTER THE PICTURE BY STEPHEN REID.
WITH ORIGINAL WASHINGTON LETTERS, AND A PORTRAIT PRESENTED BY THE
EMPIRE STATE SOCIETY : THE ROOM OVER THE PORCH.
Bonds of sentiment, invisible but stronger then steel, unite British and American
hearts in a common veneration for the old home of George Washington's
ancestors, Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, which was bought in 1914, by
the British-American Peace Centenary Committee, to commemorate a hundred
years of peace between the two nations. In order to use it as a shrine of
pilgrimage and a concrete symbol of Anglo-American amity, the Sulgrave Institution
was founded both in Great Britain and the United States. For Tuesday, June 2r,
was arranged the formal dedication of the house to this high purpose by Colonel
George Harvey, the new American Ambassador, Chairman of the British branch
CONTAINING SOME OF THE FURNITURE PRESENTED BY PROMINENT AMERICANS,
INCLUDING LADY LEE OF FAREHAM : THE CHIEF BED-CHAMBER,
of the Institution, with the Chairman of the American branch, Mr. John A.
Stewart, of New York, as chief spokesman of the presentation committee. The
house has been restored by Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A., the well-known architect,
and the beautiful gardens have been laid out under the direction of Lady
Sandwich. The aim is to make the building a museum of documentary, pictorial,
and other records. The Sulgrave estate was bought from Henry VIII. in 1539
by Lawrence Washington, Mayor of Northampton, who built the house. Its
subsequent history and the family descent to George Washington are told in a
pamphlet published by the Sulgrave Institution (t, Central Buildings, Westminster).
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON' NEWS, June 25, 1921.—8.58
ASCOT FROM THE AIR:
A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF COURSE AND CARS.
Photographs nv Airofii.ics, Ltd.
I. THE MOTOR ASCOT : THE MASSES OF CARS LIKE LOCUSTS ON
THE GREEN SWARD ON GOLD CUP DAY.
Royal Ascot this year was remarkable for its road scenes and its romantic racing,
most of the big races being won by rank outsiders. Favoured by glorious weather,
patrons of the royal meeting were not troubled by the absence of trains, as our
pictures show, the journey from town being made by myriad motor-cars and
motor-coaches. From a social point of view, the meeting was quite as brilliant
as any in pre-war times. Honoured by the presence of the King and Queen
and other members of the Royal Family, the scenes in the Royal Enclosure were
2. ASCOT’S BEAUTIFUL SETTING : AN AIR VIEW OF THE COURSE
AND THE COUNTRY BEYOND.
wonderful, the weather affording the ladies every opportunity to display their
latest frocks. Many notable people came down by the democratic motor-coach,
and the parks of motor vehicles of every description were one of the outstanding
features of the gathering. The top photograph of the two above shows »
bird’s-eye view of this great concourse of motors, looking like a swarm of locusts
settled on the green sward. The lower photograph gives a fine idea of th e
beautiful setting in which Royal Ascot takes place, the surrounding scenery being
r ’ u -CHtiHUtd
the 11-LUSTRATED
LONDON
NEWS, June 25, 1921 —859
JUST BEFORE PERIOSTEUM PASSED THE POST:
Cntin am/. |
clearly seen. The Grand Stand is in the centre of the picture on the left, with
the Royal Enclosure and the Paddock further on. The large photograph
reproduced above shows a bird’s-eye view of the course whilst the race for the
Gold Cup was being run. The horses can be plainly seen opposite the stands,
just before the winning post was reached. At the bottom of the photograph on
the right is the Paddock, then the Royal Enclosure, and next the stands. Opposite,
on the public side of the course, the parks of motor-cars are again seen. The
AN AERIAL “SNAPSHOT” OF THE BIG RACE.
racing romance of the meeting was the victory of Periosteum in the Gold Cup.
This horse, who is owned by a Peterborough farmer, Mr. B. Irish, who hitherto
has not taken a conspicuous part in racing affairs, was bought as a yearling
for 285 guineas, and did not win his first race until a year ago, when he took
the modest Walmer Plate of £ioo at Folkestone. Happy Man, who ran second in
the race, once changed hands for 15 guineas. On the other days of the meeting
“outsiders” took nearly all the big prizes.
B
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 25, 1921.—860
BOOKS OF THE DAY
By E. B. OSBORN.
f T is far too hot at
the moment of
writing to read profound
literature, even if there were
anything new of consequence,
and I rejoice at finding in
the queue of books for the most part without
distinction, nay, even indistinguishable, the best
collection of golfing memories that has been, or
ever can be, written. It is a piece of literature,
moreover, and worthy to be set alongside Nyren's
chronicle of the Hambledon worthies, which might
have been -the work of a rustical Sir Thomas Browne
with a taste for village cricket—an impoverished,
yet blithely contented descendant
of the learned and fantastical
Norwich physician, who had fallen
from high rank (after the fashion
of Mr. Hardy's Priddles or Para-
dells and Durbeyficlds or D’Uber-
villes) and the contemplation of the
antres of eternity and shadows
of a magnitude, and so regained
touch with the sweet, homely soil
without losing a touch of his es¬
sential nobility. And to purify
the stagnant yet hectic atmo¬
sphere of Fleet Street at mid¬
summer, it brings in the quick,
sea-fragrant airs of a little grey
city far away in the North, the
bitter but wholesome breezes of
the links of the Royal and
Antient, even on “a very cold
day just like eating snowballs all
the way round.” In a ballad'- of
musical and tantalising conceits
Henley prescribed thoughts and
images to while away the long,
languid moments of a torrid afternoon—
Dark aisles, new packs of cards,
Mermaidens’ tails, cool swards,
Dawn dews and starlit seas,
White marbles, whiter words—
To live, I think of these.
But the whitest and coolest word of all is St.
Andrews, for who that has ever been there at
midsummer — especially if he be a
golfer who knows well how to make
the wind an ally in his long game—
can forget that there was always a
rhythm of coolness from the sea
on the hottest afternoon ?
Beyond all shadow of doubt
" Fifty y ears of Golf : My
Memories ” (Unwin ; 12 s. 6d. net),
by Andra Kirkaldy of St. Andrews
(Ben Sayers once addressed a card to
him thus: “ Andra, Hell Bunker,
St. Andrews ”), is the best golfing
book that ever happened. The
words of the second greatest Fifer
(Field Marshal Earl Haig is the
greatest, at any rate outside the
circuit of the golfer’s mind) have
been transcribed by Mr. Clyde Foster
(as, perhaps, Nyren’s were by Cowden
Clarke), but the familiar intonation can
always be overheard. Andra’s stories
have gone out into every part of
the world where golf is played;
some of them have at times re¬
turned to their only begetter so
changed that he could not see why
people laughed at them. Here are
the authentic originals, and also
many which have not yet been told
in England. An example of the
former kind is the story of the Bishop
of London and Andra in Hell Bunker,
which is almost always wrongly
narrated among the Sassenach. The
Bishop’s ball lay there in an almost
unplayable position, but he hit it so
deftly with his niblick " that it
sprang up in the air like a bird in
the direction of the hole.” And
Andra said : “ You got out of Hell
very well, Bishop. When ye dee,
mind and tak’ yer niblick wi’ ye.”
A gloss on that story (though some
authorities insist it is the original
version) is that of the minister who
said to his caddie : “ Shall I play
in the line of yon steeple ? " and
received the reply : " Na, na. ye manna dae
that. If you play on the U.P. Kirk, ye '11 get
into Hell.” It is so clever as to be manifestly
a corollary—and you cannot even smile at it,
any more than at Swift’s pretty play on
Mantua and . Cremona or my own adaptation
of a Virgilian line—
Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem,
when asked to lecture on Burns at the capital of
what were then the North-West Territories after
almost being ” clodded ” (only there were no
clods handy) at a Bums dinner the year before
for quoting some of the conclusions of Henley's
ITALIAN EMERGENCY “MONEY": ADVERTISEMENT DISCS OF LIGHT METAL
ENCLOSING A STAMP ON ONE SIDE UNDER A TRANSPARENT MICA COVER.
The scarcity of small change in Italy caused the use of postage stamps, which became much soiled
in circulation and indistinguishable from stamps that had passed through the post. Commercial
firms ingeniously issued light-metal discs lettered with advertisements of their business and enclosing
on the other side a postage stamp (in the above cases, 10 centesimi) under a transparent mica cover.
These proved readily acceptable. The two here shown were issued by (left) Messrs. Pirelli, Milan,
advertising rubber heels, waterproofs, and so on : and (right) the New Mercantile Bank of Milan, with
the design of a ship and Latin motto, “ Navigare necesse est ” (It is necessary to sail).
Terminal Essay. The Bishop is his genial self
in Andra’s narration, and this story and others
of celebrities of the day show what a levelling
influence golf can be. A Liberal friend of mine
once said—with an air of one who was fearful of
falling into blasphemy—” I cannot somehow con¬
ceive of Gladstone playing golf—no, it is beyond
my powers of imagination.” But it is not really
difficult to think of
Gladstone, or even
Disraeli, toiling through the
links, losing their tempers
or even their temperaments
in abysmal bunkers, and
even being contumeliously rebuked by caddies,
whose attitude towards the amateur golfer is
that fof an Abernethy towards a rebellious
patient. Mr. Balfour stands the critic ordeal
better than other political personages, such as
Mr. Asquith. “ Botheration,” Andra tells us,
was the limit of Mr. Balfour’s safety-valve
language, and the richness of his voice made
it sound like a benediction. " I
_ never knew a gentleman with
such a rich voice as Mr. Bal¬
four,” says this G.O.M. of pro¬
fessional golf in a character¬
istic little personality - sketch.
" When he would say * Good
shot ! ’ to me, it was like some¬
body ringing a bell in my ear;
and his smile at a good shot
of his own was a grand thing
to see. He always seemed to
play golf for the good he got
out of it, and his lorm was for
that reason most consistent."
But the greatest man of all
among golf - playing celebrities
was, in Andra’s opinion, Earl
Haig, who would talk to him
in ” braid Scots,” as became a
fellow Fifer, and receive with
fitting humility the warning that
he must not expect to be as
good a golfer as he was a soldier.
Andrew Lang was another and
earlier friend, and we are told how he used
to say that golf should make men live longer
lives and better lives, provided they enjoyed the
game and did not go round in a bad temper
because they could not beat ” bogey ” or
suffered from bad luck. No doubt there is
too much psychology in golf as it is played
to-day by anxious votaries. Caddie’s sarcasm,
at its richest and raciest among
the ancient satellites of St. An¬
drews, was a bitter medicine for
the vain and incompetent player
who kept his eye on his ego rather
than on his ball. " What line
shall I take ? ” asked one of these
gentry, and the crushing reply of
his caddie was : ” The North British
line home. Sir, I think.” The caddie
who warned his employer not to
give up the hole (after ten strokes
wasted in a bunker) on the score
that his opponent might ” drop
doon deid ” before holing out, was
a dour, Covenanting type.
These are specimens taken hap¬
hazard out of a thousand-and-one
anecdotes, all of which are worth
their space. Very pleasant are the
appreciations of Andra by old and
young professional friends, which
are given at the beginning of the
book. Alec Herd, who has known
him ever since, as a small truant
boy, he lived up to the cheery,
golf-nurserv lines—
Gowffing a* the day,
Daein’ nae wark ava,
Rinnin’ aboot wi’ a bag o’ sticks
After a wee bit ba’—
recalls the days when Andra and
he used to write love - letters to
the lassies and read them over to
each other. Abe Mitchell remem¬
bers him saying he should ” follow
the siller like every wise man,
Harry Vardon say's “Andra looked
at everything and everybody wit
his own eyes, and he never called
a spade anything but a spade
PAINTER OF THE COLOUR-PICTURES OF DOGS REPRODUCED IN THIS NUMBER:
M. LEON DANCHIN, THE FAMOUS FRENCH ANIMAL ARTIST.
M. Lfon Danchin’s recent exhibition at the Calerie Devambez in Paris has had an immense
success, and established him, in the eyes of Parisians and foreign visitors alike, as an artist
who will achieve world-wide repute. He was bom at Lille in iS37, became a pupil of the
sculptor Jacques Merculiano, and at seventeen gained admission to the Salon with two works
which already showed thus early his talent as a delineator of animals. He served throughout
the war. and trench life restricted him to the use of the pencil, so that he was diverted
from sculpture to drawing and water-colour.
and J. H. Taylor, in a
tone of
elegance touched with emotion (he
writes as well as he speaks) sums
up the many manly' qualities of one
who is an honour to his beloved
game and has the affectionate
regard of all true golfers all the
world over.
1
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, June 25, 1921 —861
POPULAR DOGS PAINTED BY A FRENCH ARTIST: BORZOIS AND SETTERS.
From the Pa.nt.ngs bv Leon Danch.n. By Courtesy or the Art.st and
USED IN ITS NATIVE COUNTRY FOR THE NATIONAL SPORT OF WOLF-HUNTING : THE BORZOI, OR RUSSIAN WOLF-HOUND,
RATHER RESEMBLING OUR GREYHOUND EXCEPT FOR ITS ROUGH COAT.
IINFOITAIIFD AS SPORTING DOGS FOR THE GUN: A BRACE OF ENGLISH SETTERS (LEFT AND RIGHT), WITH AN IRISH SETTER
UNtyU (IN THE CENTRE)—A PAINTING BY LEON DANCHIN.
Rr>r7oi known on the Continent as the Barzoi) or Russian Wolfhound, although gun, it has no superior, and it is certainly doubtful whether it has any equal. The
lot extensively 1 ^ept or shown in this country, is a most attractive dog. As its Irish setter, like many other breeds, has been somewhat spoilt its sporting instincts
in its native country it is used for the great national sport of wolf- having been subjugated to its show points. Nevertheless, there are a few sound
b, truly said thft, o, , sporting dog tor ,h, konnols of sporting dogs loft in Ir.fdnd. wboro ,h, working dog non bo st.i, found.
862-THE ILLUSTRATED u^g KE' f5 ' JC
THE DOG-LOVER’S NEW FAVOURITE: THE ALSATIAN WOLF -HOU
From the Painting by Leon Panchin. Bv Courtfsy or Tm Alr(Cr AW ..r th?
A BREED THAT HAS JUST HAD A SHOW IN LONDON: ALSATIAN WOLF-HO^ d5 A 1
M. Leon Danchin, three of whose charming studies of dogs we are enabled to reproduce in this number, may be described as a modern French ^ n ^ #0|e . It w
portrait of him, with some particulars of his career, is given on our “Books of the Day” page. “The Alsatian Wolf Dog,” writes Lieut.-Col. J- ^ up s
Brabazon, Hon. Sec. of the Alsatian Wolf Dog Club, “ is a dog that of all animals is the most international. Its origin is very old, and there is evi^ ^ ^ ap,*
it existed as a species 500 years ago. It must have arisen from the crossing of a wolf with a sheep dog. . . . Much of its development is «r 0 ,
Germans. - . Prior to the war it was little known in this country.” It then had no distinct name, being variously known as Chien Loup, at t
Sheepdog, Loup de Lorraine, Police Dog, or Malinois. The club’s first care was to establish a standard designation. In Germany, owing to its
NEWS, June 25, 1921.—863
AT),
F-HOUND, IMMENSELY POPULAR
ANn OP THP MAISON DkVAMBFZ, PARIS. WHO PUBLISH ProOKS.
HERE SINCE THE WAR.
\ PAINTING BY LEON DANCHIN. THE WELL-KNOWN FRENCH ANIMAL-ARTIST.
intelligence and powers of tracking and scent, the Alsatian Wolfhound was used by the police for hunting criminals, in which capacity it was extremely successful.
'? It was extensively bred and used both in France and Switzerland for similar purposes, with equal success. In England this handsome breed has not been taken
up so far either as a sheep dog or as a police dog, but its rise in the dog fancy is remarkable, and at the present-day shows it draws very full classes. In
appearance it somewhat resembles the wolf, its clean well-cut face, excellent coat, keen yet kindly eyes, well-set ears, and its perfect carriage, make at once a
strong appeal to all lovers of the “friend of man.’’ Its popularity is shown by the fact that, for the Alsatian Wolf Dog Show arranged to be held on June 24
at the Horticultural Hall, there were 450 entries.— [Copyrighted in the United States and Canada .1
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THE BUTCHER AIDS THE BABY. WEEK MOVEMENT.
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WEIGHING BABY IN A BUTCHER’S SCALES: AN IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT IN CHILD WELFARE,
DIFFICULT TO FULFIL IN OUT-OF-THE-WAY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
One of the most important things in connection with child welfare is the regular
weighing of the babies, a requirement which is a little difficult to fulfil by visitors
in out-of-the-way places. Here an obliging butcher comes to the rescue with
the scales from his cart. The National Baby Week Council, of which the Queen
is Patron and the Prime Minister President, has organised the fifth annual
celebration of the National Baby Week, to be held from July i to 7. Its object
is to promote the welfare of the nation’s children by holding shows and dis¬
seminating knowledge useful to mothers. In aid of the Council's “Save the
Babies ’’ Fund, a variety entertainment and thi dansaiit was arranged for June 24,
at Claridge's Hotel, by Mrs. Cyril Tankerville Chamberlain. Among other artists
who promised their services were Miss Violet Loraine, Miss Suzanne Sheldon,
Mr. Nelson Keys, Mr. Leon M. Lion, Mr. Basil Rathbone, and Mr. George Tully.
All information regarding the Child Welfare movement can be obtained from
Miss M. S. Gray, 5, Tavistock Square.—! Drawing Copyrighted in the C.S. and Canada.]
866—THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS, June 25, 1921.
A SURVIVAL OF REGAL SPLENDOUR IN ASIA: IMPERIAL.M
Photographs Supplied by i
Agiscj
SIGNING DOCUMENTS WITH BRUSH-PENCIL AND RED
: THE EMPEROR OF ANNAM.
THE EMPEROR KHAI-DINH AS SPORTSMAN : THE IMPERIAL RULER OF ANNAM
IN SHOOTING COSTUME, AFTER WILD DUCK.
WITH DIAMOND-STUDDED BELT AND HELMET •
THE EMPEROR IN MILITARY UNIFORM
fc AMID SURROUNDING S OF TASTEFUL MAGNIFICENCE : THE EMPEROR OF ANNAN
Si.._ GIVING AUDIENCE TO ONE OF HIS MINISTERS.
With the downfall of the Chinese monarchy and the annexation of Korea by laoa ,h r
of regal splendour as developed among the yellow races on . * J ^ Court at Hu *. the capital of Annam, was left as practically the -
China and Tonghing, i, under the protection 0 f Franc" 2< LZT \1 “ ^ ^ — Annam, on the east side of Indo-Ctuna, ^ ^ !
m the affairs of Annam,*' say, the " Statesman *s Year Book ” •< h - ! 1 ^ emp, ° Ted ** the Fr «»cfc on the Western Front during the Great War. •< Freocb
ear Book, which began as early a, W( terminated in . ^ ^ on Jun< 6> ^ ^ ratifi ed .« «* *
the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 25, 1921-S67
,f NNAM —ITS FIRST EMPEROR TO
omique de l’Indo-Chine.
BE
PHOTOGRAPHED.
SUPPORTED BY THE •• FOUR PILLARS OF THE EMPIRE ” : THE EMPEROR, ON
A GOLDEN THRONE, WITH HIS MINISTERS, IN ROBES OF STATE.
THE YOUNG CROWN PRINCE OF ANNAM :
HIS HIGHNESS VINH-THUY.
ON A LAKE COVERED WITH BEAUTIFUL LOTUS: THE EMPEROR OF ANNAM
IN HIS BOAT, HUNTING WATER FOWL.
CONSORT OF THE EMPEROR KHAI-DINH :
THE EMPRESS OF ANNAM.
ua, 7 *3. 1*86, by which a French protectorate has been established. The King Khai-Dinh, who succeeded to the throne in 1916, governs the country, assisted by a
icU of Ministers, in accordance with the wishes of the French Government” Annamite functionaries, under French control, administer all internal affairs. The four
Ministers are known as “the four Pillars of the State.” Our photographs are said to be the first that have been taken of an Annamite sovereign, no previous Emperor
ever consented to face the camera.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 25, 1921 —868
LEARNING ITS “A,B,CA SHOW JUMPER AS ITS OWN INSTRUCTOR.
DCATN BY LIONEL EDVARDS.
OBTAINING
“NATURAL BALANCE” BY CLEARING LOW BARS OF IRON PIPING: A SHOW JUMPERS EARLY TRAINING
IN COLONEL RODZIANKO’S RIDING SCHOOL AT WINDSOR —WITH A MIRROR ON THE WALL.
Colonel Rodzianko’s methods of training show jumpers were fully explained by
Mr. Lionel Edwards in his article in our issue of June i8, where his double-page
drawing illustrated the general appearance of the school, with its mirrors, posters,
gramophone, and noisily applauding spectators, to accustom horses to the show
ring. “ The horse, after being taught to obey its instructor’s voice, teaches
itself by jumping low obstacles. It learns in this way, not to jump, but to
obtain what the Colonel calls natural balance. This is done by lunging the
horse (riderless, of course) round its instructor over a series of obstacle* *
18 in. to 2 ft. high. As the horse is travelling in a circle, he must (
negotiate the obstacles at an angle, and the obstacles being of uneven
and differently spaced, he must keep his attention on what be is ut
continually change his balance and shorten or lengthen his stride. ^
he will bang his legs, and, as the obstacles are iron piping, he will n ot ^ °
Oftener than he can help ! "—{Drawing CopyrighUJ in tke SUiUs and Canada.
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Jdne 25, 1921.-S69
Cjarden talk —
Jl hat John wanted to grow
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m
M
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*jf~hge 2 Jr>om & Jelyn s ^Diany.
® wk Father sed we was to look after the flower garden cos he's jusy growing
pertatos and things to eat. We was each to have a little patch and grow
what we liked best. Margaret chose marigolds to match her hair and
I chose pansies. Little John was a long time thinking, then he sed he d
grow Bird s Custard. \Ve did larf, and he cried, hecos he only little,
but Mother patted his head and sed he was a good judge of a good thing.
good at all times, is never better than with the fruits in season.
“ The best fruits taste better when served with delicious Bird's Custard,” says
a great Chef— “and they certainly look better !” What, for instance, is more inviting
than stewed Cherries, Gooseberries, Raspberries, or Currants in their luscious juice
mingling on the plate with golden Bird’s Custard ?
Bird’s Custard replaces cream with advantage at infinitely less cost, and it modifies the fruit
acids in the same beneficial way. Bird’s is rich, yet never disagrees. Being made with milk it
forms a splendid liquid food in which the nourishment of the milk is increased by 25%. ^
The well-known nutritive value and delightful flavor of Bird’s /7 ^
^ Custard bespeak purity , and distinguish Bird’s from all imitations . /i &
THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, June 25. 1921.—870
A FESTIVAL OF BRITISH MUSIC.
Photograph by J. Sydney Loeb.
T HE British Music Society is in the midst of
its annual congress as I write. Its opening
concert on June 14 was thinly attended, but it
was a remarkable illustration of the modem
musical movement in this country. The pro¬
gramme took nearly three hours, which is much
too long for any concert; but, as it was, there
were various complaints that certain people were
left out who ought to have been put in. When I
look back to the International Musical Congress
of 1911, and recall the monstrous exhibition of
English music that was offered to our foreign guests,
I can only con¬
gratulate the selec¬
tion committee of
the B.M.S. on their
discretion. It was
an exhausting con¬
cert ; the pieces
chosen were all
works which might
well provoke ener¬
getic discussion ;
but it could never
have been con¬
sidered a tedious
concert, and
hitherto there has
been only too good
reason for the very
generally held be¬
lief that English
music is tedious.
Those concerts of
1911 often made
one feel more ashamed than proud of English
music ; the fact was that the committee of that
occasion was determined not to let itself be
captured by any one clique, and the result was
that it was captured by a number of composers
whose works ought never to have been heard at
all. In those days there was a certain feeling of
suspicion, if not of hostility, towards the younger
men. Those younger men are now middle-aged,
and some of them figured on this year’s programmes.
The whole festival, indeed, has taken little notice
of the composers who are under forty. But in
these days we have much more confidence in the
young ; it is the middle-aged who are in danger
of being forgotten. Youth was represented, and
brilliantly too, by the conductors, Mr. Eugene
Goossens and Mr. Adrian Boult.
There is a general vague impression among
musicians that Mr. Josef Holbrooke and Mr. Cyril
Scott are composers to whom justice has never
been properly done. On such occasions as these
There is something of the same unearthly
remoteness about Mr. Holst's symphony, " The
Planets.” Mr. Holst is at this moment the most
problematic of our native composers. " The
Planets ” and “ The Hymn of Jesus.” whether one
likes them or not, are works of overwhelming force
and originality. Mr. Holst is one of those com¬
posers who see things on the colossal scale. He
has certain affinities with Gustav Mahler in this
respect, although the materials of his music and
most of its intention are quite different. But both
composers revel in the employment of gigantic
orchestras and in
the handling of
daring and novel
orchestral effects.
Both of them are
attracted by vast
and more or less
mystical ideas, ex¬
pressed in terms
of ponderous
and overpowering
rhythms. They
differ absolutely in
their musical mate¬
rial, for Mahler’s
work is deeply
rooted in the
Viennese tradition,
and Mr. Holst has
taken the greatest
trouble to eliminate
from his music as
far as possible all
trace of tradition.
Nevertheless, he has
his musical ancestors. He still owes something to
Stanford and Parry, to the short-lived folk-song
movement, and also to “ L'Apprenti Sorrier "—a
work which is one of the notable landmarks in the
history of music. I remember how when I first
heard it—I think in 1898—an old lady sitting near
me remarked pathetically, “ But it sounds alt
wrong ! ” It is one of the most remarkable
things about Mr. Holst's music that, whatever
incredible combinations of notes he chooses to write,
they never by any chance sound anything but
perfectly right and logical. He is, indeed, rather
like Maeterlinck's ” Destiny ”—I quote from an
erratic memory'—inexorable, ineluctable, indigest¬
ible, unendurable. . . . Unendurable, that is, in
a quite serious sense, in the appalling violence
of his emotional vision. They are sometimes
very gruesome realities that he sees, but there
is no getting away from them. One has simply
things.” So they are given their chance, and
their reputations remain much the same as before.
I incline to think that the best thing would be for
them to go into partnership, for each has qualities
in which the other is lacking. Mr. Holbrooke
appears to be quite out of touph with the modern
world. He still writes a language derived mainly
from Wagner and Liszt, but he justifies it by the
extraordinary vitality and energy of his music.
It is often clumsy and ill-balanced ; lucidity,
scholarship, elegance are qualities of which he has
no conception whatever. But, apart from certain
works which seem to have been written mainly in
order to annoy or to poke fun at certain people
whom it would have been more dignified to ignore
entirely, Mr. Holbrooke’s music has nearly always
a force and flow which compels attention. The
Prelude to his opera ” Bronwen,” which headed
the British Music Society's programme, certainly
represented him at his best.
Mr. Scott’s pianoforte concerto is described by
the composer as conveying ” impressions of Bach
THE COMPOSER OF “ PETROUSHKA ” : M. IGOR
STRAVINSKY.
The musk of M. Igor Stravinsky is well known to Londoners.
Have they not heard and admired it in “The Fire Bird,”
“ Petroushka,” “ The Rite of Spring,” and in the “ Symphony
for Wind Instruments “ ?
A VERY FAMOUS PIANIST:
M. BENNO MOISEIWITCH.
A recital by M. Moiseiwitch is invari¬
ably a pure delight, as whatever com¬
poser he plays he always reaches a
degree of perfection that is attained
by but few pianists.
PLAYER AT THE RUSSIAN
FESTIVAL CONCERTS: M.ALEX¬
ANDRE BOROVSK1.
The manner in which M. Boronki
played the piano part of Scriabin's
” Prometheus ” will remain in the
memory of all those who were lucky
enough to be present at that concert.
A DISTINGUISHED YOUNG COMPOSER: M. SERGE
PROKOFIEV.
M. Prokofiev is a modem of modems, and his musk may well
be said to be caviare to the general. His ” Chout ” was pro¬
duced by the Russian Ballet the other day.
Photograph by Sydney J. Loeb.
it is felt that they ought to be given their chance.
Generous-minded people say of them, when some
particular work is mentioned, “ Oh, you mustn't
judge him by that 1 He really has done far better
on a supposed journey to China.” Whether it was
Bach or Mr. Scott that made, or was supposed to
have made, the supposed journey to a supposed
China does not very much matter, since Mr.
Scott’s learned biographer, Dr. Eaglefield Hull,
considers the concerto to bear more resemblance to
Handel. The casual listener might find himself
reminded more of Grieg, of Delius, and of the
Rhine-maidens in their matur> years. Perhaps it
was the ” Chinese *' elemen. which Mr. Scott
derived from Bach, who was himself the composer
of a ” Chinoiserie.” In any case, the concerto was
a very effective bouquet of glittering fireworks,
and brought an agreeable air of frivolity into
a programme which for the most part pre¬
sented British music in an extremely severe and
strenuous mood.
The spirit of Delius was again apparent in a
work of very different temperament—Dr. Vaughan
Williams’s Romance for violin and orchestra which
takes its title from Meredith's poem, ” The Lark
Ascending.” Miss Marie Hall’s coldly beautiful
style was exactly the right interpretation for
its serene and remote sense of contemplation.
” Tranquil and everlasting movement,” *' The
intense stillness of mountains, lake, and trees ”—
such are the ideas expressed in Mr. Goossens’s
symphonic poem, ” The Eternal Rhythm.” Are
we to see here a definitely English outlook
in music—to feel that the English quality in
music consists not in the employment of local
types of melody or rhythm, but in the attitude
of our composers towards music itself and to¬
wards music as the expression of their attitude
towards life ? Here, at any rate, were two works
that at once linked up their composers with
another of the same spirit.
THE MUSICAL CONDUCTOR OF THE RUSSIA
BALLET: M. ERNEST ANSERMET.
For several seasons M. Ansermet has been the ® usic *' 1
ductor of the Russian Ballet, and he has fulfilled that
task with rare ability and distinction.
Photograph by J. Sydney Loeb-
to face them and choose definitely w ^ e ^ t
one wishes to belong to that world o
if horrible infinities, or to sit and nibble supp« 9
Celestial candies with Mr. Cyril Scott.
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-NEWS, Juni: 25, 1921.—871
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LADIES' NEWS.
T T was a charming Ascot; everyone seemed almost
as much astonished as delighted to find it so.
It would be ungrateful to our old friends, the Ascot
special trains, to say we did not miss them ; so un¬
grateful we must be—we did not ! The Royal Pro¬
cession never looked better, the country never was
seen so far and so clear, and be it said, with thanks
to all the little plaster-of-Paris gods whtf give us
our fashions, never were the dresses prettier, more
graceful, or more free from vulgar sensationalism ;
nor have hats ever been so delightfully varied in
size, shape and style, and yet so generally becoming
to their wearers. Nothing makes people pleasanter
than feeling they look well, and everyone seemed
to be at their very pleasantest at Ascot. The direst
uncertainty about winners had no power to daunt
the man or woman who was certain of the success
of their own clothes.
I think the Queen is a very beautiful Queen, and
that whichever dress she wore it admirably suited her.
The pearl grey, with its touch of jade green, on the
opening day. and the soft white satin broch£ of Gold
Cup day were my favourites. It struck me that
in the Duchess of Northumberland we have a lovely
woman, one of whom we can be justly proud. All
the more is this the case, because I am sure that it
never occurs to her Grace to think about her own
lovely complexion, exquisite blue- eyes, and bur¬
nished bright hair, or her own height and dignity.
If one were a Duchess, her Grace of Northumberland
is the kind of Duchess one would like to be. Her
dresses at Ascot were simple and lovely. Lady Haig
also set me thinking as she passed me with the man
that the British men who fought and wrought so
love. Her graceful accordion-pleated dress was of
grey georgette, and at the back was slung a long
black pleated cloak of black crepe de -Chine, a black
hat trimmed with a white and a yellow water-lily
was worn, and yellow tulle forming a scarf. She
looked as simple, as graceful, and as harmonious as
her clothes, into which outward and visible sign
some women do manage to impart some of their own
inward sweetness and grace of character. Mrs.
Rosita Forbes I saw, looking quite at home in Ascot’s
Royal Enclosure, so that one could hardly believe
she had traversed a trackless desert. Lady Astor
went to see her husband’s horse after its win, but
did not pursue her privileges so far as to lead him in.
Ascot over, and talk about it died down, we turn
to other things. One of these, and one of first im¬
portance, is that Marshall and Snclgrove begin a
summer sale next week. The opportunities for making
LUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. June 25, 1921 —872
such real bargains as appeal to the dress-loving, but
necessarily economical woman at this sale are not
to be neglected. The season has not been a favourable
A STUDY IN GREY.
Pale-grey georgette pleated from yoke to hem, and a broad
sash of the same material. The yoke is made of two layers
of georgette in order to give it the same shade as the pleated
section below .-[Photograph by Shepttoru.)
one for business. Marshall and Snelgrove have always
a large stock of the very best of everything, and
enterprisingly give their clients the full benefit of
their own loss in having to distribute such! -•
things at a sale. Therefore all ye who want d.4
gowns, for the holiday season, suits for the tr] J
and rivers, hats for all occasions, dressy f ; , m
for Ostend, Trouville, Deauville, and home SM*
foreign spas, and our own smart seaside places W/
ye who have stocking, glove, and other departn**
of - your wardrobes to refurnish; all ye who
wraps, whether fur or fur trimmed, or of ligT^
character ; and all ye who have to repair the rav !■
of a most dusty time, do not neglect to visit Ma V
and Snelgrove’s sale, whereat 1 can assure yoi P
you will find many things greatly to your advan. %
There is apparently to be one Garden Party 'j
month at Buckingham Palace, instead of the If }
Courts which would have been held but for the
dispute. Everyone summoned to these Courts wU
invited to the Garden Party, and attendance the
will be considered equivalent to presentation at C< i
It would be idle to say that this announcement
not caused deep disappointment. Dresses ordered I!!
Court nowadays can always be used for evening w ^
After a Garden Party there is no newspaper annoui
ment of presentations, as supplied by the Court newsmf 1 "
and so no way of letting friends know that so import!? 1
an epoch as this formal launch in Society has been pai
When a house, with a reputation of many long yl ]
of thoroughly satisfying an enormous clientele, haM!
enlarged that clientele that a complete alteration
premises to secure more room has become necesarfi*
while everything has been done to put business on
most up-to-date basis, that house secures the appro 01
which means success. Such an establishment is Har J?
Nichols, of Knightsbridge. and the fact that a sumi £
sale opens there next week is one to make a note r
There will be reductions in the really reliable and sti t
ful clothes of all kinds of this first-rate house, wb m
will delight womankind. Whether smart millinm k
wanted, business-Jike well-built suits, lovely eveni *
frocks of all kinds, from surperb Paris models toamj
dance, river, tennis or beach costumes, jumpers of ew
character, the many things that make up the adder .
to dress, sports coats for the holidays, smart stocking
excellent and beautifully-cut gloves and boots, luxnno 1
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Holidays and laundresses have some natural afifimt
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Muffs, 14 guineas.
AFTERNOON GOWN in rich quality char-
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well-cut tunir skirt daintily finished with
gold or oxydised embroider. in navv,
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SCIENCE JOTTINGS.
THE HIND LEGS OF THE HUMPBACK WHALE.
TRUST I shall be forgiven if 1 return again so
soon to the subject of whales. But an event has
just come to light in regard to these animals which is
so uncommon that I cannot resist the temptation to
discuss it here and now. Though all whales arc con¬
cerned, it touches particularly that most remarkable
creature, the Humpback whale (Megaptrra nodosa). An
eminent American student of whale's. I)r. Roy Andrews,
has just published a short account of an individual
of this species which was captured on the west coast
of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and when
hauled up for flensing was found to possess hind limbs
no less than four feet long. Now whales, as every¬
body knows, possess but a single pair of limbs, which
are really the fore legs transformed into “ flippers."
movable only at the shoulder joint. But vestiges of
this is an exceedingly small relic of the tibia, or shin
bone. Till now no larger remnant of the hind limb
has ever been found in any whale whatever.
Thus, then, the appearance of a pair of hind legs
four feet long in this particular humpback is indeed
an event. Though the creature has been slain in’
thousands during recent years, no such legs have Ireen
seen before. The femur, shin bone, ankle bones, and
a small relic of the foot bone are all present here,
though the foot bone—but one of a possible five--
is recognisable only from its position attached to what
must be called an apology for an ankle joint. In
embryos of this species minute vestiges of these legs,
projecting from the body in the form of small papilla,
have occasionally been found, and one might from
this fact have ventured to prophesy that some day
external evidence of hind legs would turn up in an
adult. But prophesying is dangerous work, and he
would indeed have been
a bold man who had
COACHING WAYS IN MOTORING DAYS: A NEW TY”E OF VEHICLE. COMBINING
ANCIENT AND MODERN, SEEN AT ASCOT - [Phaioftapk by Topical.]
the hind limbs, attached to an equally vestigial hip-
girdle, arc to be found in quite a number of species. In
the rorquals only the femur, or thigh bone, is found—
a mere nodule of bone no bigger than a chestnut, and
not unlike it in shape. But in the Right whales the
thigh bone is several inches long, and at the end of
The story of the
waning of the pelvic
girdle, which forms the
support for the hind
leg. is no less remark¬
able. To-day this girdle
is represented by a pair
of bones like a pair of
very attenuated triangles
widely separated one from another, and embedded in
the lower part of the body wall. Their only function
now is to afford support to the genital organs. But
time was when these two bones were attached, one to
another below, and to the vertebral column above.
The embrace of these bones was so firm that the
dared to forecast a pair
of legs dangling down
to a length of four
feet ! The great in¬
terest in this occurrence
lies in the fact that it
is so contrary to our
experience, which leads
us to regard vestiges
of whatever kind as
persistently diminishing
quantities, though the
diminution cannot be
measured in a hundred
generations. This sud -
den " flash in the pan "
is at present quite in¬
explicable.
vertebra; caught between them lost their mobility
and became welded together to form the solid nuis
known as the " sacrum.” In the whales of today
there is no "sacrum.” In some mysterious way
sacral bones have not only ceased to fust toilette
but they have —
in common with
the manatee and
dugong — lost
their identity,
so that when the
vertebral column
is viewed as a
whole, one can
no longer say of
them. " These
are sacral
leones."
But the
whale - tribe are
teeming with
vestiges. All the
w h a 1 e b o n <
whales, as em¬
bryos. possess
teeth. But these
arc absorbed be¬
fore birth, when
in their place the
whalebone ap¬
pears. Many of
the “ toothed ”
whales have lost
their teeth. At
most a pair ap¬
pear in adult
bulls, as in the
case of the bot-
tlenose whale and its kindred. But if the jam of
these animals lx* carefully dissected, minute teeth cu
be found along nearly the whole length of the jw.
The narwhal, in the matter of its teeth, offm i
parallel case to that of the humpback and its hind
legs. The bull narwhal, it will be renumber*!
carries a single tusk of great length, and spirally
grooved. This is always the left tusk, the nght
remaining within the gum, a mere vestige, through¬
out life. But every now and then individuals appear
with a pair of tusks, the latent right tusk ft*
some -inexplicable reason suddenly breaking forth
to rival its fellow. But we can neither explain
this nor the sudden revival of the hind legs of
the humpback. W. P. Pyceafi.
A FAMOUS FRENCH ORGANIST
HEARD IN WESTMINSTER ABBET:
M. JOSEPH BONNET.
M. Joseph Bonnet arraneed to tire a
organ recital in Westminster Abbt? a
June 21, a collection being taken art
of disabled seamen of the Freni ni
British Navies. The programme inched
four of his own compositi'ms, aorta :j
three seventeenth-century French crpi-
ists—Du Mage, Francois Couperin, ai
L. N. Clerambault, with others by Pond.
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-THE WRONG NUMBER, ” AT THE DUKE OF TOITS
O F three farces produced during the week, un :
proved far and away the best. In “ The Wron*
Number.” its Canadian authors, Harriet Ford and
Harvey O’Higgins, have a good idea. It sets the hu>
band of a wife who cannot keep her servants ringing
up a detective establishment in mistake for a servants
agency and letting himself be persuaded into engage
detectives to do domestic service. Naturally, such
attendants cannot resist the temptation of spying and
nosing out possible scandal, with the result that their
employer is driven half-crazy with jealousy over the
copy of a love-letter which it turns out he wrou
himself before marriage to his piquant wife. As
Miss Yvonne Arnaud is the heroine, it can be imagined
with what mischievous and demure humour the scene
actc d in which the truth is made gradually to dawn
on the raging husband. Mr. C. M. Mtad ft»
mock-scriously ; Mr. Sam Livcsey Miss Clare Greet
and Mr. Campbell Gullan have all three got fat
narts and up-to-date juvenile relief is furnished
pleasantly by Miss Joan Barry and Mr. Jack Hobbs
t the post-offices, as a surprise and a
f fan » last, to mark the happy e^ent
of her Royal Highn«a.
can desire in a stamp design the
_ only criticism that can be offered
is that the figure of denomina¬
te . is not sufficiently bold to be
readily distinguished in the rush
of postal work.
Three high - value stamps,
which form part of the new issue
bear interesting views of the
country. On the i franc red
stamp is a view of the ruined
Chateau de Vianden. one of the
many interesting relics of the
feudal age of the Grand Duchy
On the 2 francs blue is depicted
the great factories of Esch, and
on the 5 francs purple is a view
of the town of Luxemburg, show¬
ing in the foreground the graceful
OF THE POSTAGE STAMP.
by FRED J. MELVILLE.
Duchy of Luxemburg to. made
a new series of postage » h
. of considerable ' Tm,
tistic view points. It mil
delighted at the prospect of the
t of the Prince of Wales nest
Harrogate is
forthcoming visi
uxemburg’s first series under the n<
b Vianden; (2) 15 centimes, one of
ss Charlotte; (3) 2 francs blue, sh(
Luxemburg and the Pont Adolphe.
10 ore reprinted in green, showing
"of Northern Slesvig with Denmark; (6) T
correspondence, changed to gree
strand IV.C.l.
mps: Nos. 1, 2. 3 and 5.
rith a view of the Chateau
portrait of the Grand Duel
; (5) 5 francs purple, wit!
revised postal tariff ; (4) •
rating the reunion o.
10 Ore for Government
SUmps supplied by F. J. MdvtlU
daughter of the late Grand
who reigned during the war,
and was succeeded by
who reigns to-day as
inly during the past few weeks
i bearing her portrait
A few. however, were
report from
Germany that
some of the current Luxemburg
stamps have been overprinted
•• Poste Fran9aisc.” which might
indicate something more than the
economic union with France, for
which the Luxcmburgers voted
after the war. Nothing of the
overprint is known in French
philatelic circles, however, so it is
possibly a canard.
In connection with the readjust¬
ment of the postal tariff in Den¬
mark, the io ore stamps are now
being printed in green instead of
rori Two of these are to hand.
bered that the eldest daughter
Duke, Marie Adelaide, v-
abdicated in January 1919. ;
her younger sister Charlotte,
Grand Duchess. It is 01
that the first of the new stamps
have been put into regular use.
during
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ILLUSTRATED LONDON
the chronicle
he clubs and or-
jncerned in the pro-
iU-c limbs and other
to compel
heir vehicles
ations of the
in the entry
at Brook- |)
ions which —
the danger W
The *
Certain of u
d ” CarS ganisations coi
etitions. motion o{ hill
ns arc taking mcasun
, declare whether or nol
^ the standard *’ speci
The Motor Cycling Club.
race meet
.•arching series of q«
intent of eliminating
cars entered as standard^
_■ ' South Harting -
a most comprehensive de-
all but the “ racing
Others are doing
vas time. The car-
lisled for quite long
made by the
comp* tit
entrants
conform to thc^
makers. I..~ *
form for its forthcoming
lands, puff
have the obvious
of having racing- ,
Junior Car Club, at last Saturday s
hill-climb, extracted
claration from entrants in
and “ sporting " car classes.
"he same, and not before it w.
i* «*» -
bv the implication conveyed ; but «h™. ■« — every
would-be purchaser who knows that th.
of ditierence between the car which «
a world s record on the track and the
one he is being offered. 1 think the
clubs are going on the right lines in
establishing a strict censorship over
the cars they allow to be entered in
their sporting events, and l would
offer the suggestion that classes for
•• aJiy type of car ” should be abol¬
ished altogether. Let us have two
classes only—the one for “ standard
and the other for “ racing ” machines.
Moreover, it should be made a condi¬
tion of acceptance of entry that the
entrant should undertake that, m
advertising performance, the class in
which the record was made should be
dearly stated. Then there could be
no complaint that anybody has been
misled by freak performances set up
by freak designs.
Under the present
Main Road sc heme of taxation
Toll Bridges. thc molo rist is be¬
ing mulcted to the extent of between
ten and twelve millions a year for his use of the roads.
For the most part the main roads arc in none too good
condition, and in the course of many thousands
another point in connection with these
khich might well lie looked into. As a
; maintained with the strictest economy,
resulting state of abject dilapidation-
[o carry the traffic. I have in mind, as
the bridge over thc Adur on the mam
rthing Road, just outside Shorcham.
This is decorated with all sorts of
warning notices conveying that the
bridge is unfit for its work. When
you pay the toll you are handed a
ticket, apparently issued by the West
Sussex County Council, setting forth
that you use the bridge at your own
risk and that if it collapses under
vour car. the County Council will ac¬
cept no liability. Is this good in law.
I wonder ? ..
One result of the
The Benzole coa \ strike has
Shortage. been that ben role
is next to unobtainable, and there will
be a distinct shortage for some time
to come. Those who. like myself, P«-
it as a fuel will have to make shift
R IN SINGAPORE. A CHARM-
W1TH THE OWNER AND HIS
Z. MODEL CROSSLEY.
this year, I cannot say I have
>al in the way of effort on the
TALBOT DARRACQ. vinced me tnat k
to petrol as a mot
gives more power,
ob- the engine, and more miles per ga
i to only one precaution to be taken, a
one- none but a branded spirit is accej
A HANDSOME 16-H.P. FOUR-CYLINDER
Photograph bv Albemarle Press.
A TOURING CAR L>E LUXE
«In conclusion, I need hardly tell you that am
more than delighted with the car, and my Rolls-Royce
exceeds the high estimate I had of the car when the
order was placed. I have had a good many large
cars through my hands, including one or two
advertised as good as Rolls-Royce, but I hope I
shall never have any other car but your make.
T7/>< original of this testimonial
may be seen at our showrooms by
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"IN A CLASS BY ITSELF ”
It it evident that the writer of the following
letter finds motoring to he a delightful
experience. Own a car similar to his and
you would he able to write a similar letter. IO/5/*2l
‘ I want to tell you how very pleased 1 am with my new car
( I 2 h.p. Model). As you know, I Ve had many 4 Rovers/ but this is
in a class by itself, and I am delighted with it.
“ The finish, both of the body and the chassis, is exceptional, and
the body in particular gives one the impression of a high - class
specialising coach-builders’ job.
The car causes a small sensation wherever it goes.”
MODELS AND PRICES : For complete Specification write
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SUNBEAM
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A Perfect Car.
Pari* 11/11/14
“. . . . I thought it might interest you to know of the wonderful
efficiency of this perfect little car during some very hard trials she has
been put to since I left England's shores for a trip abroad. . . . Alto¬
gether I have driven very nearly 6,000 miles in less than or just about,
three months, and i can state with very much pleasure and satisfaction
that l have had no engine trouble whatsoever. The engine is running just
as sweetly and noiselessly as when I bought her, and she has not lost her
power one atom. . . . People 1 have driven in France and Holland
were astounded by her speed and power, which are really extraordinary.
" . . . . The petrol consumption is equal’y astounding ; I have known
the car to do 28 miles to the gallon !.In one word,
the SUNBEAM is a really perfect car.”—H. de-S.
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black
Any move
Problem No. 38;
white
p to B 4th
Mates accordingly.
PROBLEM No. 386:
BLACK.
CHESS IN AMERICA.
. Major Tournament of the Boston Chess Club
Mr lTl C^or and Major Mitchell.
*{Falkbeer Counter Gambit.)
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to K 5th 14. P takes Kt Q K to B sq
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• to B 3 nl K to Q 3rd B to B 4th (ch)
isfactory reply 28'. K to B 4th ^, to ( V^^ h S!
oke. It com- 29. K to Kt 4th Pto<Jil4 th (ch)
White’s centre 30. K to R 4th B ^
te unsoundness 31. R takes Kt R takes K
White resigns.
i f> ,nd The finish b handled with
In our issue of May 21, we gave a double-page
of reproductions of twelve of the pictures in the
Nameless Exhibition at the Grosvenor Galleries, in
which typical examples of all schools of contem¬
porary British painting were shown for some weeks
anonymously. As arranged, the names of the artists
have now been divulged. The list of those we gave
is as follows, with the catalogue number and artist's
name added in each case 8. ' Fishing.” W. G. de
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White,” John Wheatley; 7. ” Breton Landscape,"
Koger Fry; 53. ‘ Beacon Hill, EUesborough,"
John Nash; 16. “The Visit.” Vanessa Bell; 21.
" The Water Carriers,” Duncan Grant; 100.
- Kitty,” Oswald Birley ; 51. ” Vigancllo,'' F. J.
Porter"; 109. ” The Sevres Dish,' J. J. Shannon, R.A.
The Exhibition will be open until July 2.
WHITE.
White to play, and mate in three moves.
received from H F Marker
of No. 3856 from
Correct Solutions or P*
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roaslerly skilL
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