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GREVILLE DIARY EXTRACTS.
The Greville Diary is not new. The edition now under discussion, published by Doubleday Pago and Co., of New York, is interesting be- cause many suppressions made on behalf of highly-placed folk then alive are now added, and the full venom, or accuracy-the reader may take his choice of the diarist is
discovered,
The most interesting portions of the diary are, of course, those which deal with Queen Victoria, whom he apparently did not like, and who certainly was not fond of him. We get a petty little gossip incident like
Paris. "Clarendon anys that the Queen was delighted with very- thing, and especially with the Em- peror himself; who, with perfect knowledge of women, had taken the Burest way to ingratiate himself with her, by making love to her. This, It Booms, he began when he was in England, and followed it up in Paris. As his attentions tickled her vanity without shocking or alarming her modesty, and the novelty of it (for she never had any love made to her boforo) made it very pleasant, his success was com plete. After her visit the Queen talked it all over with Clarendon, and said: 'It is very odd, but the Emperor knows everything I have done and where I have been since I was twelve years old; he even recollects how I was dressed, and a thousand little details it is extra
with.'
JOHN SARGENT.
ARTIST AND MAN-HIS MERITS.
Busy and successful lawyers are not, na a rule, conspicuous for their interest in art. We owe, how- ever, to a distinguished member of the Parliament Bar a recent volume which will occupy a permanent The biography of "John Sargent." place in the history of painting. which has been written by the Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C., discusses with competent knowledge and un- derstanding the professional merits of the most famous of twentieth, century portrait painters, and, at the same time, its description of the man himself will appeal to a think of opening a critical treaties. It contains many entertaining stories of Sargent's sitters, but its
host of renders who would never
He
The author certainly was in the position to know things, being in constant and personal touch with the folk whose doings he set down in this work-a work presumably no' more intended for contemporary publication than that of the still greater diarist Pepys, and this be ing so, there is a certain assump-ordinary he should be acquainted outstanding feaure is its revela- 'Le Coquin! thought Ition of the absorbing devotion of tion of his good faith,
said Clarendon to me. Ho has the artist to his art. He was care- evidently been making love to her." less about money, he could never Greville has a good word for the be made to understand even the Prince Consort, whom he describes most obvious differences in rank. as "very intelligent and highly and he read no newspapers.
had eo little appreciation of sultivated," and "with a thoughtful mundane affairs that when he was painting Sir William Osler he objected to the red of the Oxford gown and seriously proposed that Osler should get a Dublin degree in order to improve the picture. "The war might have been oa an- other planet," says his biographer, for all the impression it made on his mind." When he was carrying out a commission to paint battle pictures in France, he remarked one day to General Feilding, "I suppose there is no fighting on Sundays."
this:-
Trapping Jeams.
news-
mind."
"The Princess Royal Is
very clever, strong in body and mind: the Prince of Wales weaker and more timid, and the Queen'says he is a stupid boy, but the hereditary and unfailing antipathy of Sover eigna to their Heir Apparent seems this early to be taking root, and the Queen does not much like the
The Prince Consort and Queen... had suspected a certain footman of giving information to the papers, and they laid a trap to dig- cover if their suspicions were correct. At dinner, when this man was waiting, they Kaid they had no idea of geing, and the next day they found this project an-
But, after all, her severity was nounced in a paper. So then they were sure of the culprit, and dia-only for his good, for we read:- missed him. Nothing could be more ritliculous.
It hardly measures up, to one's idea of Kingly and Queenly dignity, but it is splendidly natural.' It was natural, too, that the "horror of Queen Victoria surpassed the re- Rources of language" at the edition, expurgated, as it was, which stirred England in 1874: "a scurrilous journal," she called it"very offen-
and disloyal sive Sovereigns he served."
Greville, of course, wrote as a
towards the
very great patrician of an ancient line of folk whom he regarded as a little bourgeois. "King William IV.," he writes, "if he
had been born in a private station would have passed through life unobserved like millions of other men, looked upon As possessing a good-natured and affectionate disposition, but without either elevation of mind or bright- ness of intellect.... He resided at Bushey with Mrs. Jordan. and brought up his many children with very tender affection; with them and for them, he seemed entirely to live. The cause of his separation from Mrs. Jordan has not been ex- plained, but it probably arose from his desire to better his condition by a good marriage, and he wanted to
child."
Hi. Mother's Letter,
Sargent's absorption in his work. "London, November 4, 1858: I was by no means due to selfishness, hear the Queen has written a letter for he was extremely kind and to the Prince of Wales announcing generous, and constantly denied leng to him his emancipation from himself in order to help his
fortunate competitors. The turn- parental authority and control, and ing-point in the career of Hellou. that it is one of the most admirable the famous dry-point etcher, came letters she has ever penned. She when, as a struggling student in tells him that he may have thought the depths of despair about his the rule they adopted for his educa- prospects, he was set on his feet tion was a severe one, but that his hy the practical encouragement welfare was their only object, and given him by Sargent. Mr. Char- well knowing to what seductions of teris aptly applies to Sargent the flattery he would eventually be ex-words of. Degas at the grave posed, they wished to prepare and Corot: "The artist will be replaced strengthen his mind against them, that he was now to consider himself
his own master, and that they would never intrude any advice upon Him, though always ready to give it when he thought fit to seek it. It was a very long letter, all in that tone, and it seems to have made a pro- the Prince, found impression on and to have touched his feelings to the quick. He brought it to Gerald Wellesley In floods of tears, and the effect it produced is a proof of the
wisdom which dictated ite position."
And so we commend the diary to those who would read further. It is not all scandal; there are in it an acuteness of observation and an intelligence, and, as a rule, an
with difficulty, the man never."
STORIES FROM BOOKS,
some
of
sense of
marry Mise Wykcham, a half-crazy impartiality which is admirable. One of the individuals at the party woman of large fortune on whom and that will make it of great use he afterwards conferred a peerage." to the historians of our own time.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE..
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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punishment
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mother 23-Conjunction 24-Elongated fish 25-Race official 26-Cinttered 31-Celestial bady (pl.) 30-Encumbera 33-Appendage (pl) 87-The dough for ons
baking
41-A kind of fĩnh 49-Covered with water 45-Japanose sach 40-A group of felande
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49-Ons who employs 61-Plots of closely mawn grass 52-To
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63 The lowest possible
point |55-Lowers the
temperature of 157-Apparatus for
making signals 68-Worn on the foot [50-Now Information
VERTICAL
2-An éxclamation
(lana)
3-Used for shopping
wood
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7-A pratender 9-A kind of tree
10-A small drum
or fusion
17-Performs 20-Dregs
2-Geometrical term 27-Initials of famous
U. 8. president 20-Preposition 30-One of the tenacs 33-Flaps
34-Forelan 35-Maasure of weight
(*bbr.) 86-Magcatio 37-A muslost
Instrument 83-Preposition 83-Woops
40-A group of cattle 41-Porlad of time 42-A corone!
43–A crank used as a
handle
44-To decide
60-Reckless
62-A ball of yarn
11-That is here present 64-Latin form of "Cad" 12-Perspiration
14-To give up
56-Metal In its original
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The notorious Arthur Orton as a consequence was laid up for must have had humour: "During the Roger Tich-several weeks: "When restored to who was health, he wont forth again on the borne trial a spinster present in court threw a piece of mended tricycle, accompanied by paper at the Clairaant. on which his friend George Chawner, sur-
written 'Sinner, repent.* Was Picking it up, he threw it across vey the scene of the disaster. 'It that it to the Judge, saying: "I think this was just here,' he said, is intended for. Judge Hawkins, happened. I was merely doing com-and not for me." Anther aner-
like this.
'His recollection dote concerns the late Sir Frank Lockwood, one time Member for was doubtless accurate. Over went York, Solicitor-General, and Re-the tricycle again, and three weeks corder for Sheffield: "He was hav-more in, bed were the result." ing luncheon one day with a party of men at some hotel or restaurant.
proved to be a bore, as he could not speak without bringing in the
the dukes Kindly to William.
names of "Never," goes on
and big-wigs he had known the genial In her entertaining book of re- or said he had known. Pro- diarist, "was elevation like that of miniscences entitled "Joys of Life," sently Sir Frank said: "Do you King William IV. His life had "A Woman of No Importance," as know General Stores?' 'Oh, yes, been passed in obscurity and the author describes herself, tells replied the bore. He's a rare good neglect, in miserable poverty, sur- a good story of the late Sir John | sort.' "Ah,' said Lockwood, he rounded by a numerous progeny of Cowans, of whom Lord Kitchener į lives over there'-pointing to the bastards, without consideration of said that he was "the finest Quar- other side of the street, where there friends, and he was ridiculous from termaster-General this country had was a large emporium with a huge his grotesque
ways and little ever seen." When stationed at the board over it bearing the words meddling curiosity....
Rifle Brigade Depot at Winchester, General Stores,"" Sir, John left all social matters for ..... Princess Victoria was "a short, his wife to attend to. "and she vulgar-looking child upon her first used to tell him when
With the day
Nixon, the redoubtable appearance at a drawing-room." arrived what functions he was "arguments were begun with every The tale of how the Queen booked for, be it ball, luncheon, appearance of the strictest method, manoeuvred Palmerston's dismissal or any such engagement. One which, however, under the stress is full of conviction. And how he day she reminded him that he was of aupervening ideas, ench reject- hit back. Prince Albert was the going to a ball with her and a ed in favour of the next before any whipping boy. The press urged on All right, but did not ask whose rather quickly.
party that night. He replied, had found expression, broke down "Very well, then. by Palmerston, gave the "angel party it was, so that when they let's go into it thoroughly. Take husband" a very bad time. The arrived at the house of the giver the case of a man named Forbes mest extraordinary rumours went of the ball' and they were beingor, no, better, perhaps, take the received by their hostess, an old case of a man named Smith, who brother officer of Sir John's came says-stay, though, that wouldn't forward expressing pleasure. at do-No, of course not; I have it. seeing him again. General Cowans Suppose forget, though! no, Well anyhow. exclaimed, Helle, old chap! what there again. are you doing here? Not much in
such was the exordium, as your line is it? I don't mean to we thought of it. The combative people found credulous and foolish stop long. The look on Lady spirit in him was strong. You ask enough to believe it, it only shows Cowans' face gave a faux pas of ed whether he did not approve how much malignity there is some sort. He had been addreas some proposal. "Certainly net! among the masses, which a pro- ing his host!"
Why, just think (a sharp clearing fligate and impudent mendacity can
of the throat to gain time; then, stir up."
still searching for an objection), what did you say? The notable reply: Yes, a thousand times yes- no, was one of his reported oratori- or rather-No, a thousand times
esi flights."
abroad:-
"It was currently reported in midland and northern counties, and actually stated in a Scottish paper, that Prince Albert had been com mitted to the Tower, and there were
He Knew Women, Even Queens cannot resist flat- tery: On August 21, 1855, the diarist.tella of the Queen's visit to
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