FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1925.

PLACES AND PERSONS.

LADY OXFORD'S NEW BOOK.

The Countess ul Oxford an Auth is stilt plain "Margul Naquith" on the title page of her new book, and what is more important still the coronetted pe wrics with just the sante audacious sparkle as before. She remarks in oe place that "the Tennants have no age," and that that is whai makes them "a race apart, and not because they are specially clever, learned, famous, or amusing" And is book bears witness. It is the same hand which wrote down the impressions of America in 1922 or

Some of the comments and re- flections on América are likely to cause an outburst of pained wonderment inthe American Press. Sho writes:

The Americans, while the most friendly people to the world, are too much concerned about each other, and though not personally are nationally vain. They would rather hear themselves abused than undiscussed, which inclines one to imagine that they are suffer ing from the uneasiness of the nouveau. richo.... In spite of their generosity and friendfliess,

was aware of an undercurrent of liberalism and ferocity which amazed me.

There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty that would of Italy in 1924 as that which set not be tolerated in England for a down the story of a little journeyweek.

Perhaps we waste to Egypt in 1891, when "Mr. too much time over grass and Alfred Milner" and the authoress games, but this has encouraged had "memorable talks," and "the a certain aloofness' from other Nile was full of twinkle, reproduc people's doings and produces the ing the sunset with a smile." Just necessary leisure for a cjuiet mind, the same hand and just the same quick eye, and the, same flashing -longue, and the same kind hear.

It cannot be said that this is an "Important" book. It adds little to the store of political gossip which the authoresa gave to the public in her "Autoblography." There is not much beyond casual allusion to home politics in the book, and what there is does not throw much light on the dark places. But here and there one

THE CHINA

STORY OF 'DEVOTION SINS OF THE CHILDREN.

HER LIFE FOR HER HUSBAND.

MAGISTRATE'S NOVEL SUGGESTION.

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At a Streatham inquest on Mrs The novel proposal that parents Lucy Maria Cuznar, 65, wife of the might be sent to prison for fail- Rev. Bernard William Cuzner, aing to train their children moral- Wesleyan minister of Minehead by was put forward by Mr. road, Streatham, 5.W., Brenda J. A. R. Cairns, the metropolitan Capt. Hoplicy MA Cuzner, a daughter, said that Mrs. police magistrale, addressing the Cezner was nursing her husband, annual conference of the National who was very ill and to whom she

Association of Probation Officers. was deeply devoted.

which was continued at Ander-apt. Cam.all

Mr. Cairns said that without the co- Operation of probation officers it. Our Miss. H. Metonite would be impossible to administer Upon golog upstairs Miss Cuzner the criminal law in the light of found her mother enveloped in Christian ideals. As an illustra- names on the landing. With helption of the fight some offenders the flames were put out, but she

put up as the result of something died the same night.

like affection being extended to them, Mr. Cairns told Ef the case

When her clothing caught alightton's Hotel, Fleet Street. at a gas fire she rushed from the room so that her husband should not he distressed at what hid happened to her.

Dr. Kirkland, who stated death was due to burns, said that Mrs, IMPRESSIONS OF MUSSOLINI.

Cuzner had virtually sacrified her The Mussolini interview last year

life for her husband. All she said does not carry the roader very far.to the doctor was: "Does he (the Mrs. Asgalth, according to her husband) know anything about it?" A verdict of Accidental Death own account, began by telling the

was returned. Dictator that she had "both a porror and contempt for all rule by force, and when she went on to Justify this in French she sawho was not listening! No doubt he had heard it all before, and was not impressed. Then he entered upon an elutuent justification of

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an old man of 70, who was continually being charged with being drunk and incapable. His exeuse invariably was that us he. had only one tooth he could not ent food, so he had to drink. Mr. Cairns suggested to him that milk was a better beverage than beer, and since then the old fellow had only once been in court. Some offenders did not respond to kind treatment, and what was to be done with them? He had experimented recently by taking

into his own home, and then he found that neither heredity nor environment had the last word in

and Mrs F.

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Mr G. A. Harriman Rr D. Hasted Sher- Mr. B. Halad

gets a glimpse of the jewelled | force on three conditions: (1) that Diarrhoea Remedy should be in every eight lads who were on probation | Me W. Hoogger

peniard which the wife of the Liberal leader loves to plant though no deeper than the p-in the breast of some faithless col- league who has quinted "her Henry's i Holy shade." Mr. Churchill, for example, It takes nu witch," she writes, à propos to the Westminster by-election, "to apprehend that, at the back of Mr. Churchill's mind lies the damning delusion that he can form a Centre party. These merry-go-rounds do not #ppeal to the British electorate. . I have often noticed that the men who talk of being bigger than party

and prate about patriotism, are without conviction and only thinking of themselves. Liberalism is a kind of religion." Perhaps it is with some peopic: but Lord Morley's dictum was ven better that it Is "a habli of mind.

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THE "GRAND REFUSAL"VI

The authoress says that when Mr. Baldwin was defeated at the General Election of 1923 "her husband-over whose decease every bell had tolled-suddenly found himself proclaimed, the saviour of society. Mr. Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, Str Robert Horne, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Lord Midleton, and many business and City men told me publicly and privately that they were pre- pared to follow his leadership- anything rather than have a Labour Government."- Her comment, looking back, is that "had her husband been foolish enough to take the advice of the first-class brains, Labour would have had a legitimate grievance, and in any future election must have swept the country,' However, that Is conjecture, and nothing more. Mr. Asquith's grand refusal" reduced- his party to impotence, and sent Itim to the House of Lords. Neither result, one suspects, was anticipat ed.

Mr. Lloyd George is not yet forgiven. His appearances in these pages are the reverse of complimentary. When Mrs. Asquith, as she then was, was in Madrid, sorceone remarked to her at dinner that he thought Mr. Lloyd George was" exposed, and was no longer a serious politician." Her reply was that "the word 'serious' had at no time applied to him," That seems open to what Dizzy once said of the late Lord Salisbury-his Invective lacks

it must be chivalresque; (2) that it was like good surgery, gour getur ei non pas pour deiure; and (3)

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- DEATH OF SENÁTOR WHO MADE A BID FOR PRESIDENCY.

ROBERT MIA

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A Routor cable from New York announces the death of Senator Robert M. La Follette, who was a candidate for the American Presidency last year,

polish." In America The was asked that it was used at the right moment, conversationalists she has met, and by a woman interviewer about neither too soon nor too late. After also puts John Burns in the same "England's greatest man."

old her we had so many that I

an hour the Dace began looking select company. "Some of 'the would be grateful if she could in- it something at the dark and of the wittiest men she has known seldom dicate the one she meant.

room, "What are you looking at laughed. "I do not know," she Will you tell me who your i said. "Oh, only at the door," says, "a greater social drawback great men are?" she answered. replled Sigoor Mussolini it is then to be born,with a free-flower.

"Well," I said," we have Hardy, better than looking at your watch," ing smile." And Kipling, Lord Morley, Lord Grey,s his visitor, and quickly rode sagely: A noisy mind is as Lord Buckmaster, and Mr. Balfour." 10 go, "I have an unbeglamoured tiring as a loud voice, and you "Oa, no!" she replied, "I want mind," she writes, "and have seen need something more than high to learn all about Lloyd George." too many pocket Napoleous and spirits to give

"I fear you will have to read public favourites to be easily im about him yourself," I said, "and used upon but I left the Palazzo

vitality." if you can wade through the daily Chigi feeling. I had seen a very columns of films, flippers, murder, rare man." and headlines over here, or anony-

mous gossip about Downing Street, in my country, you may discover what you want to know."

she addi

ather people

for her husband's encouragement Of herself she observes that but she would never have published a line in her life. "I tove writing for my private amusement," she says,

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but I cannot uthoress's American tour, espe sufficiently to suit any pubile,"

modify myselfferent to the moral welfare of his shorter in the skirt and no bigger ally her adventures with Amer This is a

in the neck they certainly won't be. can

good phrase. The newspaper reporters and Countess Is" unmodifiable." More-

much more substantial, her, loathing-which is whole over, she claims, like her busband, earted--of American trains. The to be" Press-proof. In 1891 she harma lies in the indom

odd and described herself as "a mixture comments-real obiter of city clerk or post office woman licta In this case-on men whose and a wandering circus girl," and tames are well known to everyone wishes that she did not set so. thend perhaps most of all in the much store on beauty. Never wa For nor revolation of the writer's own anyone more candid about herself:

character. Lord Crewe will be and her belongings. "I'regret Battered to read that he is "the the writes, "that we have missed

On another occasion, when asked if there was anyone left who believed in Lloyd George, the replied that his absence of political principles, Incapacity of straight dealing, and patheile ignorance of foreign affairs, had brought dazzling career into seclusion."... Decidedly Countess neither forgets forgives,

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